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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1907)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER C T. SOULE. Publisher TOLEDO ORB JON Naturally a man would rather part bUJialr than part with It After hearing some men talk you are surprised at the small hats they wear. Russia has had an earthquake, but It failed to shake any of the grand dukes loose. Always be polite to everybody. But don't let that Interfere with your get ting your fair share. Rejiorts from Cuba say the treasury Is full to bursting. It will be well to keep a sharp eye the revolutionists. The blood-is-thlcker-than-water sentl meut doesn't seem to apieal very strongly to Englishmen of the Swetten-mun-Slr Alfred Jones type. Dr. Wiley says cold meat Isn't good after three mouths. Some of the cold meat served at boarding-houses doesn't taste good after three duys. The man who says blondes will dls apieur In COO years has perhaps over looked the fact that the drug stores ex pect to be working right along. A bank Is now issuing $23 bills, but as they will be Just as scarce as all other kinds, the change does not appeal to the average breud-wluuer. A western political club Is said to have adopted the strawberry as Its em blem. Then the members ought to know each other by their strawberry marks. It may be true, as scientists allege, that the man of the future will be tall-, er. But the man of the present who dabbles In futures usually finds himself shorter. Germany Is becoming aroused to the necessity of putting a stop to robberies tin railway trains. Is the train boy equally piratical and unconscionable over there? Some of the people of Porto Rico are talking of "winning liberty with sword and gun from the servitude Imposed by the United States." It may be neces sary for Taft to pack his grip again. The secret of Senator Beverldge's great Interest In children has been dis covered. Somebody who has been dig ging Into his record has found that Mr. Beverldge was cyice a child himself. The Chicago university is said to have received from Sir. Rockefeller, lu round numbers, alout $10,000,000. The least It can do to show its grati tude Is to discover an elllclent hulr restorer. The circus freaks are reported to be forming a union. The word "circus" will, of course, bur from membership a good many people who nre going up nnd down this country posing as reformers. British merchants proiose to demand Indemnities for the losses they expect to sustain through the suppression of the opium tralllc In China. The British merchant continues to regard It as an outrage when an uplift of any kind In terferes with his profits. gaged In the same kind of work. To a certain eitert this may be true; that Is, women do feel that they are still serv ing an apprenticeship In undertaking work that has been the exclusive field of men for generations. But as wom en have been housekeepers since the world began and as they are as faith ful and steadfast in this profession In the present time as they were centuries ago It seems safe to argue that a similar thing may be said of them years hence in commenting on their success in business. Alfred Mosely, the English philan thropist, Is a warnl friend of America, lie has shown bis appreciation of this country In a number of convincing ways. He has sent several special commissions across the water In order that Englund might be Improved by reason of. the advances made In Amer ica. He has given added Impetus to the schools of England by sending many teachers to the United States to ob serve and learn. He himself bus studied this country from many points of view, and studied It not from the standpoint of a hostile critic but from that of one who seeks to know In or der to improve himself. For these rea sons the opinions of Mr. Mosely are entitled to greut respect, and when he expresses his belief that the high stand ard of living Is a real peril to Amer- n It is worth while to consider the abject. This high living often ap proaches ruthless extravagance, he snys, the luxuries of yesterday being Counted the necebhiUes of to-duv. A re action Is bound to come, and when It does It will be attended by disaster. o one can doubt that Americans, as a rule, live well. But they can afford to. home of them nre spending all they make, some more than they make, but others have accounts lu the savings banks to show that they are not un mindful of the possible "rainy day" ahead of them. There are .some fea tures of present American social con ditions which are distinctly gratifying and which are working directly against the dangers which appear on the sur face when a foreigner looks at some particular phase of life. The danger from the high living does not seem so Important as the other suggestion that American prosperity is leadine to in efficiency and corruption. "In bvgone years," Mr. Mosely notes, "one was im pressed with the thorough way in which everything was done and every detail thought out, but the same is not true to-day. On the contrary, ' there are signs that everything Is becoming slip shod. Work Is Inefficiently done and Dncuy nnlshed." That Is a common charge brought by foreigners against American methods. It Is said that we do not build for all time but for a few years only. It Is said that our prod ucts are not comparable for nicety and precision with the output of the manu facturing establishments of the old world. We have been fairly content with the results when American made goods have come Into competition with those of other nations, and yet even this good record should not blind us if there is such a marked deterioration lu workmanship that It Is noticed by a careful observer. Mr. Mosely thinks everything overdone and overcrowded. Everybody appears to be in too great a hurry, so that in the race for success and wealth many of the former eood characteristics of the country are dis appearing. But the same things have been noted by travelers for a hundred years. Americans have always been In a hurry. A committee of English and Ameri can admirers of the poets Keats and Shelley have purchased the house In Rome In which Keats died, In 1821. Shelley, who occupied a house oppo site, was drowned In 1822. It Is plan ned to make the Keats house a memo- rial of the two poet, and to gather In It a collection of books, . manuscripts and portraits relating to them and their works. The memorial association also purposes assuming the care of the graves of the poeta at the Trotestaut cemetery In Rome. The proposition of President McCrea to Increase the age at which men may enter the employment of the Pennsylva nla railroad to 45 years Is recognized as the result of the scarcity of labor. It would be correct to recognize that the scarcity Is In Its ratio to the demand. There are more lnborers, skilled and unskilled, In the country thon ever be fore, but the demand for their sen-Ices lias Increased In greater projwrtlon than the supply. We need not claim that there Is not much Improvement yet to be sought But It Is certainly the historical fact that the competitive era lias, as one of Its chief results, wrought en immense Improvement In the com pensatlon of labor and Its Industrial liberty. Someone, discussing the ways women In business recently, says partial explanation of their success many callings Is due to their thinking they are still on trial, which leads them to take a great deal more pains t( please their patrons than do nn en NEW STAB ON THE FLAG. The War Department has ordered the alteration of the flag made nec essary by the admission of Oklahoma Into the Union, now on aggregation of forty-six States. The department has also fixed on the spot for the new star, and now flagmakers are hard at work preparing new banners with an addi tional star lu the lower right-hand cor ner. It Is now In order for every patri otic Anierican either to provide himself with a new flag or to add a star to the old one. An Anti-Third Termer. Judge You've got a bad record. You've already served two terms In the penitentiary. What have you got to say why sentence should not be passed upon you? Prisoner My constitutional rights, Judge. It's the unwritten law that no man should have a third term. Kan sas City Times. When a woman raises her sons In what she considers the right way, It Is never with a view to making good bus bands of them. REV. nR. HILI.IS. JUSTICE THE NEED OF THE HOUR. By Rev. Newell Dwlght Hlllls. Among the dark problems of life we must make a place for the Injus tice that noble men sometimes suf fer. Long ago Jerusalem crucified Its Saviour, Athens poisoned its mas ter, Florence burned Its hero, but to day every town and village holds at least one martyr to cruel and unjust judgments. Ours is a world In which the clerk suffers In the finan cial failure of his employer ; where the officeholder Is ruined by the political mistakes of the narty leader; where the child Is destroyed by the sins of the father. Employers sometimes suffer grievously by reason of economic events over which they have no control ; some times the citizen suffers through the sensational press; sometimes the author or editor suffers through cruel criticism over events for whose evil consequences he Is In no wise responsible. This problem of unjust judg ment and this bearing of injustice in silence Is one of the hardest problems that man experiences. Injustice public men have to endure In silence. The need of the hour Is for justice and truth In Judg ment. The full faetB are perhaps never before any of us. But In general men are far better than they are bejjeved to be. The good In the world outweighs the 111. The prophet saw man ss part gold and part clay, but the proportion of gold Is more and more and the clay is less and less. The world has hnd too many teachers pois oned unjustly. Too many reformers martyred without cause. Too many heroes who are victims of malignity, jealousy and hate. There Is too much good In the worst men and too much bad In the best men to leave any place for Injustice, harshness or cruelty. THE MATTER OF FIRE INSURANCE. By F. W. Fitzpatrlck. Since 1SG0 e have paid In Insurance pre miums $3,022,000,000, or Just In the last ten years, $1,G10,88T.,0U0. In 1305 we carried Into the Insurance companies, over $196,000,000 In premiums and got hackin paid losses the sum of $95,000,000, which was supposed to console us for the loss of about $180,000,000 In smoke and fully that much more for fire departments and other alleged "protection." San Fran cisco offers the latest Illustration of how much Insurance reully does protect. Property to the value of fully $350,000,000 was destroyed; the city and country suf fered a business loss by the fire In that city of nearly a billion dollars; It will take at least $12,000,000 to clean up the city,, and undoubtedly $400,000,000 and twenty years' time to rebuild it. For all of that terrific loss and cost the citizens will receive from the Insurance companies $132,000,000, a goodly portion of which sum they themselves contributed. It Is late In the day, but at last people are beginning; to, learn that of all "Insurance" the best Is to build prop erly In the first place, to construct so that Internal fires or conflagrations can Inflict but the minimum of damage. And It can be done so easily and at such sjlgbt additional cost above that of the most flimsy construction. Why, take for Instance, the Board of Underwriters' laboratory In Chicago, the most perfectly fireproof building In the country, with all the "frills" and accessories that we have been clamoring for for years to make buildings more thoroughly proof against fire, and, in spite of all that, It has cost but a trifle over 10 per cent more than If It had been built In the usual shoddy way. Consid ering Its longevity! freedom from repairs, and the elim ination of Insurance, or, nt least, the payment of heavy premiums, and that building within a few years of Its erection means an actual and great economy to the Indi vidual, and from the day of its completion a godsend to the community. PURE FOOD IS GREAT TRIUMPH. By P. M. Hannev. Well and properly administered, the pure food law cannot fall to work an immense Im provement In the condition of the general peo ple, to elevate and dignify the tone of the nation. It Is indeed high time for It to come, for bullous and plesoiug Is tlie lieud of IU If there Is one thing In the world that needs looking after and repairing It is the American stomach. It has lone been the most nhnnwi and outraged of organs, with the result that we have almost become a nation of dyspeptics. It has been the victim of legalized wholesale poisoners before whom the Borgias of Italy and all other Infamous toxlcologists of history fade Into utter Insignificance. There Is no more ominous and appalling sight in the world than the In numerable red lights that flash from the drug stores of American cities; they are the danger signals that tell every citizen of the continual menace to health and life that lurks In his dally food. ' The world keeps moving, and the march of science and civilization goes on over shams, frauds, and humbugs of every kind. Without reviving the days when every man smoked his own bacon and grew his own cabbage, we are getting so that every man may obtain genuine' and wholesome diet, be he carnivorous or vegetarian, that every ninn may know what he is eating, even If he be newly married and his wife does the cooking. The era of the wooden nutmeg Is gone, the era of the painted strawberry is going. The clouds of gastronomic doubt and danger drift away behind; the sun of health and digestion glows In front; and soon, according to the signs, we may reach the happy period when the food color artists cease from troubling and the adulterators are at rest. GOLD MINING. IN SIBERIA. SIBERIAN PEASANTS WORKING THEIR OWN MINE. Siberia Is phenomenally rich lu the precious metals and has developed a system of mining peculiarly its own. A curious feature Is the way the ground is prospected and opened up by the peasant "trlbutors," as they are called. Permission Is readily granted to sink shafts wherever they like, subject to the conditions that they can only go" down as far as water-level, usually about sixty feet, ond that all the quurtz extracted must be treated nt the mill of the ground landlord, and all gold extracted sold to him nt a rate previously de cided upon, leaving a fair profit for the peasant and an extra good one for the landlord. There is no philanthropy about the transaction, and the peasant Is In no way bound to accept the terms. No charge whatever Is made for the use of mill. The field Is. thus practically developed for nothing rich reefs which would probably remain undiscovered are opened by up "trlbu tors." who frequently make fortunes out of rich strikes. The mine owner is thus continually In touch with all that Is going on, and duly records the results of the operations for his own benefit In the mining operations women as well as men do their share of the work. NOVEL CURES FOR SNORING. Cane of Ofl'endlnir Policeman 8ug resta Remedlea (or DUeane. Very many of oar readers will be Interested In the ultimate fate of the unfortunate snoring policeman who has been banished from bis fellow sleepers and caged ut night in sound-proof quar ter. Perhaps the dreadful Infirmity, now that It has the official recognition of his superiors, may call for some suitable scientific treatment If so the great army of snorers can covertly watch the outcome with all the cunning ond complacency of undiscovered trans gressors. We are glad we can make the start with a perfectly fair case, for convic tion of the nuisance Is always most dif ficult to obtain. The culprit must be caught with the snore on him and In the presence of reliable ear witnesses. No one has ever been known to ac knowledge his fault coluntarlly. On the contrary, one of the surest signs of the confirmed malady Is his persistent denial of its existence. He is not satis fied to plead lack of premeditation and absence of accountability, but openly Impugns the motives of his clamorous accusers. The worst of it is that on ull other matters he Is perfectly reason able. This makes it extremely diffi cult to obtain his consent for treatment of any sort. We speak now of snorers as a class The only easy way Is to tackle them when they ennnot resist. There are various approved methods not only in genious but effective for temporarily arresting the sonorous, rasping and vi brating respiratory spasms. The most popular, perhaps, Is the elbow thrust In the ribs. Next comes the gentle pinch of the nose, whereby part of the wind current is shut off. Some have ad vised that the nose be clasped by a clothespin even before retiring, but un fortunately the subject of the experi ment almost invariably demurs. Others have recommended sitting on the chest, but this Is rather a hazardous proceed ing for both parties, ana so also is a temporary twist of the windpipe, un less performed by skilled manipulator. But no mntter what ts done the dis ease Is well known to recur indefinite ly. In most instances death appears to be the only common relier for the peace disturber and his surviving relatives. But the end should never lie listened. The poor policeman for the present can be safe In his cupoln. but how long re mains to be seen. Twice last summer the place was struck by lightning. The main hope now Is that man nnd cupola may both niter their batdts before It be too late. Meanwhile the neigli'iorhood must plug Its ears and wait New York Herald. . Odd Habits of Pheaaanis. There Is some curiosity as to how many English pheasants will be raised in Kansas this year. The average num ber of birds raised by each pair of par ent birds Is sixty. With 2,000 In the State this would mean about 7,000,000 birds In two years. The woods and fields would be overrun with them nt this rate. However, there nre many foes of the birds nnd they nre killed every year In great numbers. The sleet storms nre particularly hard on them, as the water freezes on their long plu mage and they nre unable either to fly or run fast. When In this condition they pre easy prey to dogs and wolves. One of the queerest habits the birds have is to migrate In the late winter thirty-five miles. It Is claimed that the birds always migrate exactly thirty five miles nnd always to the south. The young never stay where they were hatched, but make this move as soon as they nre large enough. Naturalists have never been ablo to explain this. The only theory advanced Is that tho birds know If they stay where they were hatched the country would soon be overstocked with them. Kansas City Journal. Over a Million Arrivals. The total number of cabin and steer age passengers landed at the port of New York during the year 1900 by all the trans-Atlantic steamship lines was 1.159,551. In 1005 992,005 were landed, which gives the year just ended the rec ord by a margin of 167,480. You can live way off on a lonely farm, but trouble will come to you out there. A critic Is a man who couldn't hav dons It Wmselt.
