UEGOLH COUNTY LEADER C r. SOULC. Pablbhcr TOLEDO. OREGON Senators Piatt and Depew must have poor opinion of Senator Spooner. politician In Strathroy, Qnt, was Stepped n fast trotter That was a horse on him. "Ow Ono trouble with an Insanity plea Is that It can't always be stopped at a convenient place. Mr. Ilarrlman says everybody hates successful man. Not if be keeps uis foot off everybody's neck. If Mr. Rockefeller had given his un divided attention to the accumulation of money, however, he might easily hive been a rich man. "Is It wise to let sleeping ancestors He?" asks a Philadelphia paper. The trouble is the wide-awake descendants do all the lying nowadays. There will be some real trouble In this country if two of the panics pre dicted by our great railroad men ever come together In a head-on collision. Americans are said to be the most profane people In the world, but the man or woman who makes that asser tion should be compelled to swear to It Edgar Saltua thinks everything on this earth will be properly adjusted by the year 8000. That's about, the time Elijah Dowle Is due back here, Isn't It? Mrs. Sage's $10,000,000 gift to society 1 to be handled systematically. A great disappointment to persons who hoped It would be a case of go early and avoid the rush. Persia has only one rallroad.'and It Is but ten miles long. If Persia wishes t) secure the services of an able rail road promoter we are willing to lend Harrlman for an Indefinite period. A London preacher says he is "go ing to get the devil down and out of the Bible." The members of the Down and Out Club may as well prepare to tecelT another distinguished member. ' Somebody recently paid $2,000 for the original manuscript of a poem by Robert Burns. It came a little too late, however, to enable Bobby's publshers to make him one of the six best sellers. A Colorado weather prophet who had predicted a blizzard committed suicide because sunshine " came instead. The government would have trouble In the weather bureau all the time If this sort of thing were to become epidemic. An Austrian military officer has writ ten a pamphlet In which he expresses the opinion that it would 1)6 compara tively easy for Japan to smash things on our Pacific coast While It would be foolish to Ignore the dangers to Which our Pacific coast might- be ex posed in case of war, we may as well remember that the Austrians thought Spain would be able to whip us. with , out calling on any of her reserve forces. It Is the atmosphere that makes the sky look blue and the moon yellow. If we could ascend to an elevation of fifty miles above the earth's surrace we should see that the moon Is a brilliant white, while the sky would be )lack, with the stars shining as brightly In the daytime as at night Furthermore, as a most picturesque feature of the spectacle, we should take notice that some of the stars are red, others blue, yet others violet and still others green In color. Of course all of the stars (If we bar the planets of our own system) are burning sung and the hues they wear depend upon their temperature. That we need a national song as an expression of patriotism Is generally agreed, and the time will come that will produce one to answer all the re quirements. What more fitting monu nient to any American composer than a song that would serve such a splendid purpose? Who can sit In an English audience and not be stirred when, as the strains of "God Save the King" float out from the orchestra, every man, woman end child rises In silent trib ute? Or who can witness the demon stration which "Hell dlr lm Sieger- kronz" creates In a gathering of Ger mans without a thrill? Men have gone down to welcome death with the words of "La Marseillaise" on their lips. By all means honor the memory of Francis Scott Key, but let us hall with joy the advent of some genius who will give us a better national song than "The Star Spangled Banner." There are some stories about John D, Rockefeller now going the rounds that are fakes pure and simple. For In stance, a Washington story says that Jba Is planning to give $50,000,000 for the purpose of lifting the Chinese I their own country to the plane of clv illratlon of the American people. A New York story says that he Is soon to give $50,000,000 for educational and charitable purposes in that city. An other story from somewhere says that he Is to will $250,000,000 for education al purposes, etc. These stories are to be discounted considerably. If they are .... , . "l" .'ZZZZ -les are-to be believed he Is going to give It all away. That is not at all like John D. In the second place, when Mr. Rockefeller gives away money he places It in the hands of men whom he knows and whom he can trust His ac quaintance Iri China is very limited. In the third place John D. Rockefeller Is too shrewd a man for a moment to cal culate that $50,000,000 will do very much toward the uplifting of the heath en Chinee. There are about 500,000,000 of them, which means ten cents apiece. Ten cents will not do very much uplift ing. Finally, if John D. Rockefeller wills money for educational purposes, ho will have the care and dispensation of It pretty definitely determined before his death. So far as is known, no one has been approached on the subject. That Mr. Rockefeller may have some plans In his mind is barely; possible. Stories like the above, however, are cir culated without authority, and un doubtedly have very little basis In fact Mr. Rockefeller has given away a large sum of money already, and It might be Just like him to conclude that he has o-veu away enough. In the maxims of a modern British satirist appears the epigram, "Those who can, do ; those who cannot teach." For "teach" might be substituted, In Jus tice to the professional teacher, the words "criticise." "censure." "ohlect" and "obstruct" President Roosevelt developed this Idea In a recent address to Harvard students. He made plain reference to doctrinaire persons who meet In parlors, discuss conditions with no other evident purpose than to deter mine that conditions are bad, and who present to the men entrusted with pub lic affairs no single workable Idea. So few plans are drawn with entire per fection, so few men are completely and continuously competent, that almost any one of mediocre Intelligence can find the faults In greater schemes than the fault-finder could begin to conceive or carry out, can point to the flaws In useful public servants beside whom the critic is a pygmy. The kind of critic that the President oblects to In th habitually destructive kind. Neither the President nor any other man of action objects to the sort of criticism which presents a constructive idea, con ceived In an honest desire to make things better. Such criticism Is helpful. But when small groups of persons who warmly agree with each other issue manifestoes and resolutions which can not guide the most open-minded man in a single act, they are unserviceable, and offensive to those who are trying to do the work of the world. stn Plato and Aristotle every critic of poli tics and art who has enlned lnntln authority. has offered constructive ad vice, plans for doing things rather than strictures upon other men's plans. Lin coln, one of the most violently and per sistently criticised of men. knew this simple test He used frequently to meet unrair critics by asking them to come right to Washington and see what they COUld do. It Is a test the orlHn hm,M be willing to abide. SOME LONG-LIVED PROFESSIONS. Musical Compoaers and Men of Let ter Reach a Soand oil Ae. The Psalmist's "three score years and ten" are not the average man's life, but are named as the average limit of those who arrived at a normal old age. The average life of men In various occupations appears In the ap pended table: Years. Years Rural labs. . . .45.32Stone masons. .38.19 Carpenters . . .45.28 PI umbers ' ... .38 18 Domestic 42.03.MjlI operatlves.38.00 Bakers .02BlackKmiths .".37.00 Weavers ... .41.92 Bricklayers ...37.70 Shoemakers .. .40.87 Printers 30 flti Tailors 89.40Clerks Hatters 3S.91Av. popalation.39.8S The figures Just given cover most classes of non-professional work. Mu sical composers, however, are said to live longer than persons engaged In oth er occupations. In proof of which this eminent list has been prepared : Anber 98Gluck 73 Monslngy 88Piccinl 72 Campra 84Gretry 72 Uherublnl 82Meyereer , 70 Kameau 81 S. Bach 65 Haydn . . . .i . . . .77Salevy ...63 8pontina 77Boildieo 59 Rossini 76 Beethoven 57 Ballerl 70 Daisy rae 55 Handel 74Lulll 54 Paisiello 74Mebul 54 Lesueur 74 With this as a basis, the average age of the musical composer would be about 71 years approximately he biblical al lowance. . Wise men labor while waiting for something to turn up. lis: The ceiling In the hall In the Taurlde Palace, St Pe tersburg, where the Douma meets, gave way and fell Into the body of the chamber. Nearly 200 of the Deputies' seals n'iid coveietl toii.ii pwuika ami piubter and tue line chandelier was completely destroyed. Quite three-quarters of the celling collapsed. . It Is believed that the huge WAITING. Come to the hills, the woods are green The heart is high when love la sweet There is a brook that flows between Two mossy trees where we can meet ; Where we can meet and speak unseen. I hear you laughing in the lane. The heart is high when love is sweet The clover smells of sun and rain, . And spreads a carpet for our feet Where we can sit and dream again. I Come to the woods ; the dusk is here The heart is high when love Is sweet A bird upon the branches near Sets music to our hearts' glad beat Our hearts that beat with something dear. I hear your step ; the lane Is past The heart is high when love Is sweet The little stars come bright and fast Like happy eyes to see us greet ; To see us greet and kiss, at last Leslie's Weekly. H1"I"I"WIIH"H.H" I I 1 Getting Ready Jennie always spoke so casually about the collection towfard her house keeping outfit that every one accepted It as a matter of course. It was when she was only' 16 that Jennie's mother, finishing hemming the last of a dozen new napkins, remarked : "There! Those are ready to o into the chest" Questioning brought to light the further Information that the cheat was to be filled with things for Jennie. "Of .course she'll get married some day," said her mother, "and It's lots handler to be making things along In-. stead of rushing at the last minute. I'm doing table linen now." By the time M'rs. Markham had fin ished the set of kitchen towels and had begun on china every one took It with out comment. When Jennie was 18 the chest was full and a big dry goods box was called into requisition to hold things. Not that Mrs. Markham was anxious for her daughter, to marry and leave her. On the contrary, she often dropped a tear on a completed dolly or bureau scarf as she laid It with the rest of the collection. Adding things to Jennie's store grew to be a, habit Christmas gifts of an, attractive nature were ruthlessly sacrificed to the box. "That'll be nice when you have a bouse of your own," was the requiem Jennie heard sung over numberless things snatched from her before she had a chance to use them at the mo ment ' All her friends knew about her col lection and by the time Jennie left school the older women had begun to say it was lucky that Mrs. Markham had been so far-sighted, for In case anything did come of Ross Whipple's devotion to Jennie all her trousseau ex cept mere clothes would be prepared. Ross Whipple certainly bad a bad case of young love. He haunted Jen nie. All the other girls and boys of their age spoke of them as engaged. Their parents said they were too young, but Ross told his chums with glowering brow that he could wait years If he bad to, while Jennie rehearsed to her en vious intimates the contents 'of the chest It was practically settled that Jennie's store of linen and china and knlckknacks would come In very handy tolerably soon. . ,' ' Then Ross went away to college and 'WEECZ IN PALACE WHERE D0TJMA MEETS. - In six months bis affair with Jennie was Droken off. He had fallen In love with a college-town girl. , Jennie bore up well. Perhaps the fact that young Lauderback was calling frequently assisted her to a satisfac tory state of mlild. Young Lauderback had a high brow and Jennie begac. to read thick books. Also she took .to signing her name "Jane." She said It wag more dignified. Young Lauderback certainly had se rious Intentions, for he brought his mother and slater to call on Jennie and her mother and Jennie frequently was asked to the Lauderback home for Sunday night tea.. Again people re hearsed the contents of the chest and the dry goods box and decided on what extra things Jennie could buy with the money which otherwise she would have bad to spend for a bride's usual linen and household outfit , Nobody ever quite knew what caus ed the trouble between Jennie and young Lauderback. She carried her bead high for a time, while be looked depressed and blue. Before he recov ered she was enjoying Immensely the visit of a young doctor who had grad uated in the same medical class with her brother. He was good-looking and so was she. He bad not been at the Markham home for a week before ev ery one wag talking about how desper ately In love with each other they were. "It was at first sight," said Mrs. Markham- to her best friends. "Of course Jennie has had fancies like' all HEB HOUSEKEEPING OUTFIT. girls, but this is genuine. His father Is rich Not that that has anything to do with It but he won't have to strug gle. And I think that Jennie's outfit is good enough for any home that even he can give her." Jennie was Invited to visit the young doctor's family later and she went She bad a glorious time and came home to find hes mother feverishly hemming a large tablecloth. "I thought you needed another three-yard one," she ex plained. : After Jennie had broken her engage ment to the young doctor because she was tired of writing letters to him she went In for social-settlement work for a year or so. She came near marry- lng a professor of something or other , ventilating apparatus fitted above the celling was too heavy for the beams. Had the accident happened during a sitting only the ministers, a few Polish Deput'.es, some members of the extreme right and the Journalists would have escaped. The accident created a great sensation In Russia. . x who bad classes down there, but sbe changed her mind. When Henry Smith, a confirmed bachelor, took to calling on Jennie Mrs. Markham cheered up again and hem med a dozen more tea towels. But he drifted away without having commit ted himself. "Anyhow," said Mrs. Markham, tak ing new comfort in the thought "there Isn't another girl who has the ouflt you have." The years sped on. Admirers were not so plentiful, but Mrs. Markham occasionally added a doily to the store. The boxes were so full that there was no room for more linen. The friends of the family began to smile pityingly about Jennie's Immense stock of house hold goods. Jennie was nearlng 30. Then of a sudden Jennie married a theatrical man. Now she travels with him everywhere, so she has not the re motest need of the contents of the chest and dry goods box In the attio at home. She lives at hotels the year round. But Mrs. Markham hopefully turns over the pieces of linen and rubs up the china from time to time. She gets a great deal of comfort out of the fact that there's a fine household outfit all ready and waiting for Jennie If she ever should need It Chicago Dally News. s What Word. Can Do. "Any one who swears,'" declared the bishop Of Carlisle. garllness of his vocabulary." The Con- ,t.,J T A-l i . wiu .aura, puis it in this fashion: "People swear because they do not know the possibilities of nlnln Wncr. lish or Jbave not the skill to "at it win yield the amount of fire they want. You can do almost anything with common wnrda matter how tame and lifeless they looKing standing in stupid rows as If they didn't know enough to come In when it rained, they can be made to dance like imps, to frolic like fairies,' to float angelwise on light wings, to glow like fire spirits. They can do things that make the ordinary bits of profanity look like feeble scarcrows stiffened up with a fence stake. The cure for profanity reformers and edu cators please make a note is merely wit enough to handle your words "so that swearing will seem like baby talk in comparison." When Blondln Vu Afraid. ' One of Biondin's favorite Jokes was to 'offer to carry some distinguished spectator across the rope with him on his back. Everybody naturally refused, ,and the great equilibrist with a gen- m. ouiiie, wouia say, "i am sorry you are afraid I should drop you." But be was hoist once with his own petard. He was exhibiting In-Paris and was about to cross the Seine on his rope. Cham, the great caricaturist, had com to make a sketch. Blondln, recogniz ing him, at once Invited him to cross with him. "With pleasure," replied Cham, "but on one condition." "And that is" queried Blondln. "That I shall' carry you on my back," answered Cfiam. '' "Not If I know myself,? answered Blondln. "Ah," triumphantly exclaimed Cham, "this time, M. Blondln, It Is you who are afraid 1" , . . . : A woman Is apt to make some very striking remarks when she has occa sion to hit her husband for a little pin money.