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
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-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.