LINCOLN GOUHTY LEADER
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TOLEDO.,
.OREGON
Cuba wants new blood. It ought to
be a few degrees cooler than the home
brand.
The President's action concerning the
Twenty-fifth Infantry has become a
study In black and white.
Summerfleld, Ohio, has a boy 15 years
Of age who weighs 488 pounds. lie may
be Secretary of War some day.
If, as Prof. Lowell says, the people
of Mars are our superiors, we suppose
It will be In order for us to look up to
them.
Pretty hard on Count Bonl being cut
off from all those millions, with the
cost of living higher than It has been
for twenty years.
A wealthy Chicago girl Is going to
marry a baseball player. Bet he won't
pinch her and stick her with pins, like
a count or a duke.
Mrs. Russell Sage finds It difficult to
give away $80,000,000 so as to make It
do the most good. Her husband would
have found It Impossible.
A Nebraska woman Is seeking her
third divorce from the same man. blie
is simply practicing what that "trial
marriage" advocate Is preaching.
"We have enough railroads now," de
clares E. II. Marrlwan. Mr. Harrlman
may have enough, but there are millions
of us popr people In the country who
don't own a single railroad.
The Buffalo Tliuee tails of a boy who
took several ounces ef rough-on,-rati
without suffering any evil affects; but
It appears that he worked 1b a 4rag
tore and took It to a customer.
lost, If It has not been lost already ; and
that so the best part of a college edu
cation will be forfeited. The definite
charge, by a writer In a recent number
of the Outlook, that In one college at
least this condition has already come to
pass, brought out some Interesting cor
respondence. One woman mentions a
professor who not only knew all "his
boys" while they were under his In
struction and helped them by personal
advice and friendly social Intercourse,
but has kept In touch with every one
of them since they were graduated.
Once a year he sends them all a letter,
and nearly all of them reply. The at
mosphere Is almost like that of one
great family. The misfortune of one
Is the concern of all, and all help to
repair It Other correspondents cite
other colleges and other men to show
that Intercourse between faculty and
students Is growing more Intimate In
stead of more remote ; and no one has
considered It necessary to cite for
every one knows the definite system
which most of the colleges have for
bringing all the students under the di
rect personal Influence of some of the
professors or other Instructors. Candid
graduates of forty or fifty years ago,
If they are familiar with present col
lege conditions, nearly always admit
that the relations to-day are simpler
and more familiar. The old-time pro
fessor, however beneficent his Influ
ence, was too orten a man or austere
dignity, which made him unapproach
able. His modern representative may
be regarded with less awe, but not
with less affection. One thing must be
remembered : It takes two to form a
friendship as well as to make a quar
rel. The student must meet advances
half-way. If he does, there Is little
danger In any college, large or small,
that he will go through the coarse
friendless .or without the helpful lnflu
enoe of close' contact and acquaintance
with "praeses et professores."
If
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New York's board ef edieatleai has
put Itself on record la opposition to. the
new kind of spoiling. Tkls fart will
oause Brander Matthews to teeall the
Id proverb concerning fee saj not La
bis own country.
If they can be discovered fbe mm
wha made a drunkest man la Hew Terk
sleep with a pig are to be punished. Bat
will the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals take no aetlon In
behalf of the ether pig?
According to President Roosevelt, a
80-cont lunch In a Panama restaurant
Is good enough fox anybody. It Is Just
possible, though, that the lunch set be
fore President didn't look as much like
30 cents as the one served to the aver
ago patron.
"Story hour" Is a new feature oj li
brary work among children which bus
had marked success at the Carnegie Li
brary of Pittsburg. Children come to
the building at stated times and listen
to stories told by a skilled narrator. In
Boston the centennial of the birth of
Hans Christian Andersen was cele
brated last year by a gathering of a
large and Interested audience of chil
dren at the Public Library, to whom a
ludy to.ld Andersen stories. It Is an
expedient for providing wholesome en
tertainment for children which ml gut
well be adopted by all cities and large
towns.
Iceland Is now connected with Europe
by cable, and the King of Denmark Is
In direct communication with his sub
jects on the northern Isle. Cables are
built so fast that It Is difficult to keep
track of them. There are about two
hundred and fifty thousand miles of me
tallic connection under the seas of the
world, the average cost of which has
been about a thousand dollars a ml! '.
A quarter o,f a billion Is a great sum of
money, yet It Is a small price to pay for
communication between continent
which send to each other an estimated
total of six million messages a year.
At Intervals of a few years we har
that England Is scraping the bottom ef
her cl mines and that In a relatively
shert nine her fool supply will be ex
haustod and she will nave to go out ef
the manufacturing business. Still, En
gland continues to mine coal In suffl
eient enantltr fer her needs. LaMy
however, the prophets have been In
latent In their auguries ef woe, and
the mare asserted that this time there
ean be mistake. The exhaustion ef
the Infllsa teal supply is In sight.
Provident appears still to temper the
wind te the shqrn lamb, however, for
coincident with these gloomy outgivings
comes the statement that new coal
beds have been discovered near Dov-r
whose value Is money Is estimated at
$5,000,000,000. Leading geologists My
that the discovery Is the most Import
ant since the Norman conquest. Thm
England Is granted a respite. Her man
ufactures will not beconie extinct for
lack of fuel not for a while, at least
Still, the prophets of evil continue to
prophesy. They calculate that not only
the coal supply of England but of the
whole world must within a certain time
be exhausted and they demand to know
what will become c,f humanity then
The question Is Interesting, but hardly
of contemporary importance. The anx
lous ones concede that there will be
years to come and we muy Justly ns-
sume that we shall not be personally
Interested In occurrences that far In the
future. But even If we expected t
live until all the coal and wood hid
been burned we should still decline to
be alarmed at the prospect We have
great faith In the resources of the hu
man Intellect. Poe said that the In
genulty of man could not devise
cipher or crypttr&Ph which the In
genulty of man could not solve. Wi
hold the same opinion with respect to
any emergency that may confront th
human race. Man rises to the necpn
sltles of his existence. When the fuel
that we now have is exhausted substi
tutes will be found for It The resources
of nature are Infinite and they are at
the disposal of men acute enough to
utilize them. The harnessing of the
tides alone would produce enough pow
er transformable Into heat to supply all
humanity ten times over. That Is only
one resource ; there are a dozen others,
That May morn
ing, eight years
ago, when Dewey
w- wltn hls fleet Bal1"
fcMN ,s ed Into Manila
T " harbor' tne Unlted
states entered tne
Japanese "sphere."
From that moment
Japan naturally
has continued to
watch with Inter
est the American
expansion In the
Pacific. The an
nexation of Ha
waii by the United
States proved to
be a blow to Japa
nese ambitions to
the mastery of the
great western
ocean, and the bat
tle of Manila Bay
completed the discomfiture of Japan's
pretensions.
These well remonibered Incidents un
doubtedly are responsible for much of
the prophecies of a future war between
the United States and Japan. There
are other factors, of course, but the re
membrance of the Japanese protest
gainst the annexation of the Hawall-
n Islands, In which action Russia was
usually regarded as a kind of abettor.
nd the generally believed report that
the "Bushis" had offered the American
government 1200,000,000 for the Philip
pines before the Paris Peace Commis
sion had drawn un the treaty with
Spain, have undoubtedly prejudiced
opinion ta favor ef a coming conflict
Mar Faraatall a ChiI.
If Japan really I a toads to draw the
United States lnte a war which will
eelde the supremacy ef the Pacific.
It Is a foregone ceneluslen that the Ml-
kade's government will force the fight
ing before the completion ef the Pana
ma oanaL To picture the Jami
Young men who are wondering what
opportunity the world holds out t)
them when they leave college may be
Interested In some figures given In the
latest published report of the Unitnd
States Commissioner of Education. The
commissioner says that since 1890 there
have been created an average of about
a thousand new college professorships
every year, and more than thirteen
hundred new positions In the high
schools and academies. Thus about
twenty-three hundred new teachers
have to be found annually, without
making any allowance for the retire
ment of many hundreds of ethers on uc
count of age or other disability. It Is
apparent that the man who wishes to
live the scholarly life has ample oppor
tunity In these days of popular education.
By those who have watched the rapid
growth of the colleges and universities
fear are often expressed that personal
contact between president and students,
between professors and pupils, will be
Identity Marks.
They were riding through Indiana.
"That man across there is from St
Louis," said the observer.
"How do you know?" asked the
drummer.
"He constantly looks In the mirror
to see If bis face Is dirty."
The drummer looked around a bit,
and, tapped the observer upon the shoul
der.
"There's a man from Pittsburg," he
said, indicating a passenger two seats
behind.
"How can you tell?"
"Ills face actually Is dirty." St
St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Started In (or Htmaelf.
Acquaintance Were you ever bun
koed?
Skinflint W as 17 Why, I was bun
koed so many times that It taught me
the game. Detroit Free Press.
A man's honesty may be due to
smallness of the bribe offered,
f the Vnitbd States
and Japan should go to War
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of Japan and V.o-
seud against It Russia's Vladivostok
fleet was regarded as a powerful fight
ing machine, but one or two engage
ments, principally by Japanese torpedo
beats, made It quiescent
Waal riht In the Baat.
A eenfllet between Japan and the
United Statu. In all probability, would
have Its scene In the Far Cast This
would mean that, as In the last two
Eastern wars, the "Bushls" would be
within easy distance of their base,
while tbelr epponoat would be at the
disadvantage of lighting thousands of
WOULD 19 A VAT AX WAM.
the
waiting until the lnteroceanlc water
way Is completed Is to underestimate
their character in a manner Inconceiv
able In view of recent events. At the
present time the United States would
be In a position analogous to that of
the Russians when the Japs suddenly
flew at their throats.
The Russian Baltic fleet was about
12,000 miles from the seat of war at
the beginning of the late conflict in
the Far East, and the Atlantic fleet
of the United States would be even far
ther removed using the Sues Canal
as the shortest route were It now call
ed upon for similar service. The Jap
anese navy Is now fifth in rank of the
navies of the world, and the United
States practically ranks as third, and
at the end of the year 1008, according
to present programmes, It will be ex
ceeded In size only by that of Great
Britain.
A strong American squadron is main
tained In Asiatic waters; yet. In the
light of experience, this fleet could
hardly hope to engage successfully such
a powerful battle line as Japan could
miles from his base. As Inconvenient
as this state of affairs would prove to
the naval -arm, It would be almost par
alyzing to the military arm. The diffi
culty Russia experienced In transport
ing her armies over a slender railroad
6,000 miles long would be easy, com
pared with the problem of sending at
least half a million men by transports
across the Pacific. Great Britain sent
over 200,000 men to South Africa to
fight the Boers, who had no navy to
Interrupt communications, and many
months were occupied In the taBk.
Transports of troops from the United
States to the Far East during the ex
istence of a war would of necessity
have to be convoyed by an enormous
and powerful fighting fleet, which
would be a drain upon our naval force.
Philippine Attack Flrat.
At the outbreak of such a war the
Philippines naturally would be the Ini
tial point of attack. Unless sufficient
tune for preparation could be had, It Is
to be conceded that the Islands would
soon fall Into the hands of the attack
lng force. It la also entirely probable
that simultaneously the naval base at
Hawaii likewise would be captured,
and the cable Island, Guam, midway
between Honolulu and Manila, gathered
In with ease and celerity. Assuming
such disasters to have taken place, the
passage of either fleets or transports
across the Pacific would be porlkms.
One general naval engagement, how
ever, might change the whole charac
ter ef the prospect
The part China would be sailed
upon to play In a war of this ekarae
ter, in view of the regeneration and re
awakening which Is In progreoo la the
Celestial Empire, la a far more ques
tionable natter. In two years more
China will have an excellent military
system. An army of 000,000 will then
be organized In a modern manner and
put upon an active service footing. It
Is true this military force, for some
mysterious reason, has been raised only
In the northern provinces. That the
Japanese have been Instrumental In
building up this military power Is an
open secret But what Is the purpose
of this big and efficient army? It Is
not to be believed that the Japanese
have erected a monster to devour them ;
yet It Is agreed the Chinese do not, as
a people, look upon the Japs with
any kindly feelings, and rather resent
their officlousness.
Japan' Shrewd Tactic.
It has been charged that the Japan
ese Influenced the organization of the
Chinese army In the northern Dro-
vlnces In order to use It to repel any
descent of the Russians .Into Manchu
ria while the Japs were exploiting that
rich region. The fact that the south
ern provinces are unprotected and have-
no army organization has been attrib
uted to a shrewd move on the part of
the Japanese to leave open a door by
which, when the opportune time ar
rives, they may conquer their neigh
bors. While China has been encour
aged to form a powerful army, she
appears to have been actually discour
aged from building a sultnble navy.
Clearly China Is more or less dependent
on Japan. If any conquests are to be
undertaken, the Land of the Rising
Sun Is to take the Initiative and man
oge the undertaking.
What position China would take In
the event of a break In the harmonious
relations between Japan and theUnlted
States can only be left to conjecture.
The progress of such a conflict un
doubtedly would have some bearing oa
the case.
A glance at the present financial
condition of Japan shows that the
plucky, little country cannot afford the
luxury of a war. If It Intends to go
to war with either China or the United
States it must postpone the evil day
for some years. By that time the
whole complexion of the situation In
the Pacific may be changed by th
opening of the Panama Canal. When
that great work Is finished, It will
require a strong nation to dispute the
mastery of the western ocean with
America.
It Sem that War.
"Say, pa," asked Willie, "what Is a
'nonagenarian,' anyway?"
"A nonagenarian, my son," replied
Willie's pa, "Is usually a man who has
or has not used tobacco all his life."
Philadelphia Press.
From the present prospect, the wo
man with a new fur coat is going to
get more enjoyment out of life this
winter than she did last