Lincoln County leader., June 21, 1907, Image 2

UKGOLH CQUNTT LEADER
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TOLEDO
ORBGON
Sven Iledln reports the discovery of
gold In Thibet. That settles It The
country must be civilized.
Frank Rockefeller, John D.'s "bust
ed" brother, might adopt the plaintive
motto, ."Charity begins at home."
Remark by the conventional old set
tler of the future: "I remember, when
I was chief engineer of the Panama
canal," etc. , .
The first soda water fountain has
Just been set up In Australia. And we
have been Importing our ballot sys
tems frohi that benighted country!
The Agricultural Department has
found a milking machine that will
work. Rut how unromantlc It will be
to simply touch a button, sir, she said.
The late William A. Procter, soap
manufacturer, did much to make his
countrymen a clean people. Incident
ally he cleaned up $20,000,000 for him
self.
Ontario has a man who looks Just
like John D. Rockefeller. But no doubt
he can prove a case of mistaken Iden
tity by simply producing his bank book
If he has one.
. The Prince of Wales Ms reported to
have been badly squeezed In the stock
market Eveu a priuce Is likely to get
his fingers hurt when he fools with
the teeth of the buzz saw.
A Russian admiral's life was saved
when the bomb aimed at him dropped
In the snow and refused to explode.
Guess he thinks the poet who wrote,
"Beautiful Snow" was all right
' Spiritualistic medium says Mars Is
angry because her signals are being
Ignored by the earth. Business must
be dull on Mars when she goes so far
out of her way to pick a quarrel with
her neighbors.
A Western doctor says that after
reaching the age of 100 years one be
gins to grow a new crop of hair. But
the man who becomes bald at 40 would
get so accustomed to It In sixty years
that he wouldn't care for a new crop.
A young man who beat his mother to
death with a stick 'of stove wood Is
"believed to be Insane." Of course he
la There was not only a violent brain
storm but a furious muscle paroxism.
That Is, If he has money enough to fee
the high-priced alienists.
Soon after the "coronation of King
Edward there was published a photo
graph which showed him at a modern
otliee desk with a telephone stand at
his elbow. Still nore striking Is a pic
ture recently printed of Cardinal Mer
ry del Val, Papal Secretary of State,
seated at a desk before an American
typewriter.
Leading business men of Chicago
have petitioned that the time of the
elghteen-hour trains between Chicago
and New York be raised to twenty
hours. They are the kind of men in
Whose Interest the "fliers" have been
run, and they prefer safety and rea
sonable speed to maximum speed and
maximum danger. This Is one of the
requests from patrons "which the rail
roads can afford to heed.
Throughout a century and a quarter
the tendency of the nations of the
world .has been toward diffusion of the
governmental powers. For the first
time evidence of a reactionary dispo
sition to trust all to the one strong
man appears In nearly all the larger
nations at the same time. We see no
more than curious coincidence !n the
nnhapplness of these present days In
all the parliaments of man. Democra
cy Is not dying anywhere. The only
moral to be drawn Is the1" happy one
that Individualism Is not moribund
either. The nations know and trust
their strongest sons. There is no
"man on horseback." He only Beems
mounted to little men because his head
Is high above the crowd. '
Doctor Tamakawa, who was formerly
the president of the Imperial Univers
ity of Tokyo, Japan, recently offered
to present to a primary school In Ja
pan the portrait of some distinguished
person. The three hundred and forty
three children were asked to ballot for
the person whose picture they would
like to have placed on the walls of
the schoolroom. Although lit waa when
the nation was much excited over the
treatment of Japanese pupils la San
Francisco, these boys and girls atUl
honored the great men of America.
George Washington stood first In the
list with 09 votes, and Abraham Lin
coln second with 53. Next came Ad
miral Togo with 28 votes, followed by
Japanese philanthropist of olden
time. The fifth place was taken by
another American, Benjamin Franklin,
with 21 votes. Others for whom, pref
erence was expressed were Florence
Nightingale, 13; Marquis Oyama and
Nelson, 11 each; General Kodama, 7;
Bismarck, 5, and Napoleon, 4. There
were also scattering ballots for Presi
dent Roosevelt Galileo, Socrates, Pe
ter the Great and others. Probably the
vote was Influenced by stories that the
pupljs, found id their reading-books,
and If the question bad been asked
them whether they considered the for
eign heroes greater men than those of
their own country, It Is not likely that
they would have answered In the af
firmative; but the 'desire to have the
portraits of such men as Washington,
Lincoln and Franklin placed on the
wall Is one Indication of the feeling
with which the United States bas'long
been regarded In Japan.
A good deal has been said lately
about the power acquired through re
pose, the value of absolute relaxation
and the desirability of letting go of
one's self. Undoubtedly there Is truth
In the contention that an overwrought
mind and body ought to release the
tension before something breaks, but
let It not be forgotten that If power be
acquired through repose, growth comes
through wiggle. Observe the baby, be
fore it can walk, stand or sit What
does It do? It -wiggles. Body, arms,
fingers, legs, toes. The baby bird does
the same. If you will look closely at
the nestling stretching its neck for
food Its parent brings, you will ob
serve that not only the head and neck,
but the Incipient wings and the little
legs and claws are all working vigor
ously. In both baby and bird, wiggle
means growth and soon the one can
walk and the other can fly. But as
soon as the child learns to walk, he
doesn't walk; he rims. The run is
the natural gait of the child.' He finds
It difficult to go more slowly. Even
when he stands or sits, he isn't stand
ing or sitting. He Is wiggling. His
arms sway, his legs swing and his
body writhes Into many positions. Par
ents, ask, "Why can't that child be
still a single minute?" But the child
Is growing and wiggle means growth.
Roughly speaking, a Child more than
doubles Its weight the first year, and
more than doubles It again In the next
two. It would make us grown-ups wig
gle some to do that, wouldn't It? As
the child grows older, it gains repose
slowly, but grows less, and when full
growth is attained, wiggling largely
ceases. The same phenomenon holds
true of the mind. The first few months
the mind Is Inactive and grows slow
ly. But as soon as it gains control of
Its tools, when It has learned to dis
tinguish sounds, to focus its eyes, to
use Its hands to grasp objects and Its
feet to carry It to them, and Its tongue
to Inquire about them, how the mind
wiggles! It flashes from one subject
to another, Its Inquiry Is constant and
endless and Its hold upon information
tenacious. You and I can sit down and
look at whatever Is In view and feel
no particular curiosity. Not so the
child. It must know about this, that
and the other thing which It sees, and
though Its questions seem simple, they
are astonishingly searching. "What's
that momma?" asked a 3-year-old. "A
vault" "What's In it?" "Dead folks."
Quick as a flash the little mind leaped
at the deduction. "Oh, Is It Heaven?"
In the space of a couple of years,
the baby mind acquires practical con
trol of a difficult language, learns the
uses and relations of thousands of
strange objects, and, most remarkable
of all, learns how to handle the people
of his world and to match his tiny
strength and Intelligence against their
years of study and experience. Com
paratively speaking, he rarely makes
a mistake and still more rarely re
peats one. Suppose your self trans
ported to a strange planet, could you
do as well In so short a time? You
might if your mind had enough wig
gle. But has it On the other hand,
observe how perfectly a child sleeps.
Its position la one of ease and aban
don, It breathes all the way down, and
you can pick It up and lay It down and
scarcely disturb It . The lesson seems
to be that when you repose, you should
repose, but when you are awake, you
should wiggle! Whatever your aim In
life, wiggle, for wiggle Is growth.
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Father of Tree.
The oldest tree in the world Is said
to be the famous dragon tree of Ten
eriffe, which Is estimated to be from
4,000 to 6,000 years of, age. This won
der of the plant world was seventy feet
or more in height until the year 1810
when during a terrific storm one of the
large branches was broken off, A sim
ilar storm in 1807 stripped the trunk
of Its remaining branches and left the
trunk standing alone. This tree de
rives its common name from a reddish
exudation known aa dragon's blood,
found In the sepulchral cave of the
Gauches, and supposed to have been
used by them In embalming their dead.
-Tlt-Blta.
Woman Doctors la America.
It Is estimated that there are 20,000
women In America who possess medi
cal diplomas, f i
THE MIDDLE-AGED HAS.
DbII HIa Life . Hlfbt Seem to the
Yoanar, bat It Ylelda Eajojrmeat.
"I find as I grow older," said the
middle-aged man, "that I am v more
and more a creature of routine.
"When I was a young man routine
Irked me and I liked variety, but now
It Is change that irks me. I like now
to do my appointed , work In the regu
lar way, always the same, and to spend
my leisure hours in like manner.
I "My work Is routine, and I would
not have It varied If I could; a fact
varying It would upset me more or
less. As It Is, I work along through
the day by regular, successive stages,
coming always to the same things at
certain regular hours and minutes, and
at night I go home at a fixed hour
always by the same train to get off at
the same station, and to make my way
thence homeward always by the same
route, past the same buildings, the
same show windows, the same signs,
the same everything, to my home.
"Tiresome? Quite the contrary.
Sometimes somewhere along my route
they put In a new storm front or some
one sells out and a new tenant comes
In and a new sign goes up, and really
these things Interest me very much, be
cause they happen In my streets. Real
ly these things seems quite like events
to me, but they are all the events I
want V.
"And then when I get home I do
enjoy my dinner for that matter, In
I my way. I enlov everything and after
dinner I like to sit down, always In
the same chair, and smoke and read,
and here, again, I confess I don't like
to be disturbed.
"I get my mind fixed and my enjoy
ment started on whatever I am read
ing, and I don't like to be Interrupted.
i Somebody speaks to me and I turn to
I the speaker, but It must be with a llt
I tie vagueness ; certainly I don't fully
understand what the speaker has said.
And when they see that look they say,
good humoredly:
"Oh, let him read.' .
"Whereat I politely protest with now
every evidence of attention; but they
say kindly: ,
" 'Oh, go on with your reading,' and
they mean I shall do so, for at my age
I am a privileged person.
"Sometimes they try to get me to go
to the theater. Now, I like the thea
ter. Mat I don't like to go, because the
going breaks In on 1 my routine ; and
then they laugh at me and call me an
old fogy and leave me home ; and real
ly that suits me best, because I do like
to get to bed comfortably at my regu
lar hour and get my regular night's
sleep. . ; . , '
"So a routine life suits me best
True, If all men were like this there
would be no progress; but let the rest
less young people attend to that
"A narrow view, this? Perhaps so,
but I scarcely think selfish ; and the
older I grow the more do I think that
nature Is Very kind to us In letting us
And within such narrow but friendly
limits very great enjoyment" Wash
ington Post '
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BEAUTY AND THE SPECIALISTS.
It la Hard Work Following; Advice
of the "Expert."
"I am really and truly In a predica
ment to preserve what I. call my beau
ty," said a woman who can count thir
ty years If she be willing to a New
York Press writer. "I would like to
know whether each of the many per
sons who profess to have studied that
subject with care has passed an exam
inationlike a doctor's, say. I am told
by one man to take a great deal of
sleep. I do, and what Is the result? I
wander about like a person In a daze
because I have slept too much. Oh,
yes, despite this I am told that I look
well. I may look rosy and fine, but I
feel the reverse. '
"I then try more exercise and less
sleep and find that I am feeling better,
and some obnoxious person comes along
and tells me that I have aged ten years
In the last ten weeks. That Is just
the time I have been taking the stren
uous exercise. Well, I feel that I do
not want to go on the stage as a 'strong
woman' and therefore reduce the exer
cise and take more sleep, and somehow
or other there is a something that In
terferes, and again I am told that I do
not look up to the mark. In sheer des
peration I vow that I will live the
comfortable life and I sleep .while I
have time to and as much as I want
I avoid meeting critical friends and
going anywhere near the beauty doc
tor's establishments, but unfortunately
I discover In the mirror that I am look
ing tired. So I have given It all up
and have resolved that those who wish
to look beautiful . must be unhealthy
and those who Wish to be healthy must
forego the pleasure of good looks. The
only hope I have for rest from the tor
ments of the agents of the beauty cul
ture Is to pretend that I like my own
style."
THE GREATEST OF THESE.
By Henry F. Cope.
. And now ebldeth faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest of these
Is love. I. Cor. xlil., 13.
A man's character is the best com
mentary on his philosophy. If you re
member that the one who rises to the
sublime heights of this song of love was
not a singer of sweet sentimental dit
ties, but a great, Impetuous soul, who
through years of perilous toll spent
himself In service for humanity, you
begin to see what he meant by love.
Love Is not an emotion ; It Is not In
Itself a passion. It Is a principle, a
law of life . and service which bears
fruit in emotion, which becomes a domi
nant passion. It consists not In the
way we feel toward others, but In the
relation we determine on maintaining
toward them. It Is not a matter of
your sentiment for men, but of your
service for them.
The love that blindly follows the
emotions and the passions may be so
essentially selfish as to sweep one on
to rtojrartntlnn ; the love that definitely,
perhaps In apparent coldness, deter
mines upon the service of others, the
gift of the life to others, lifts the soul
to the fact and the heart to the like
ness of the Most High.
This love is self-giving. . The great
Teacher could call on men to love one
another, even as he loved them, be
cause the one great and significant fact
of his love was that he was ever under
the moral and spiritual Impulse of the
conviction that he was giving his life
to the world. There remain to us no
emotional love phrases from his Hps;
there remains the picture of love in
action, going about ever done rood.
r Out of the principle of love, the adop
tion of this philosophy which regards
life as one grand oroortunltv to be of
service, regards every other being as
an opportunity to help or cheer, grows
the real Joy of living, springs emotions
divine and heaven born. You cannot
love in this way without becoming love
ly. I
Eyes of love transfigure all the crea
tion. Only the selfish become cynical.
It Is greed, the philosophy of getting
and gaining, that makes the world seem
empty, cheerless, a tomb of blasted
ambitions. But to those who seek the
good of others, the flowers of Joy and
kindness, the beauties of hope and hu
man faith, all things that are good
abound more and more.
Love Is born of faith ; it is the child
of hope. It gives whatever we have to
humanity in the faith that it Is worth
while. It sow's the seed of kindness.
gentleness, courage, aspiration,' in faith
that the seed will bear fruit to the fu
ture; It scatters pearls of wisdom, be
lieving that men are better than swine.'
And out of faith In men, hope for them,'
and service and, self-giving to them,
rise the satisfying emotions of life.
Love becomes a pnssionu. Where Is
there greater enthusiasm, stronger evi
dence of compelling motives and domi
nating impulses, than In those men and
women who have tasted of the Joy of
serving their fellows, giving their lives
in lowly or In lofty ways that other
lives might be the richer? There Is
more eternal power and sublime poetry
in the giving of one cup of cold water
in the name and spirit of the Master
of Love than in all the love sonnets
ever written."
The true and full self Is found only
through love's service. Never Is the
mother nobler than when love leads to
the lowliest service. Never do we find
tire glory of life until jve are willing
to embrace Its shame, if only our loved
ones, our kin or friends, our race or
world, may be enriched and saved. The
secret of making the most of yourself
lies In this divine principle of love;
the secret of saving the world lies here.
We need not wait for the mighty Im
pulse of some great affection, some
overpowering emotion. We need not
wait for the hour In which we may do
some great, world attracting deed. Love
gives Itself to that which lies nearest;
Its service never halts for opportunity!
The least thing done In this spirit of
self-giving unlocks the door of love's
Joys and blessings and makes Us part
ners wjth the Lord of Love and Life
- . Oatclaaaed.
"Did some one boast of many lives?"
Said the peach crop to the cat
And Tabby humbly slunk away
Without a meow or spat v
-Kansas City Times,
IN MEMORY OF ALMIGHTY.
By Rev. Dr: Falk Vidavei
In everlasting remembrance shall the
righteous be held. Psalms xl., 6.
Man lives not only In the present,
but also In the past The days of his
childhood belong to him even though
his hair has turned fprnv on1 tm
; o-"V uu uibj VjVtt
are closed. Heaven has endowed man
with the faculty of memory, which is a
striking intimation, a foreshadow of
Immortality. It enables him to behold
scenes long vanished, forms that for
years have ceased to be corporeal, to
bear sweet voices long hushed In death.
The world has a memory wherein It
treasures up the lives and deeda of
great men and women who have been
Its lights and ornaments. The world
has a memory for those who proclaim
ed freedom to the oppressed, for its
scholars and poets, for Its philanthro
pists and benefactors. The memory of
such persons shines forth brightly like
stars of the first magnitude forever.
Every Individual has a memory, and
In It live a vast number of dear forms.
They emerge, from far distant Isles.
They start up from heaps' of ruins
which once were cities They rise from
battlefields, from the bottom of the sea.
In every family circle and beneath
every domestic roof there are Invisible
forms the stranger cannot Bee, yet are
present to the mind's eye of the house
hold. The dear father and kind mother
never cease to live In the heart and
soul of their survivors.
Since the Almighty has blessed man
with this faculty to raise the dead and
to recall the goodness and righteous
ness of his departed ones, is It not rea
sonable to believe that He will preserve
these good souls and retain ' them In
His remembrance forever, as It Is said,
"in everlasting remembrance' shall the
righteous be held"?
Comparatively few live In the great
world's memory and have their names
engraved In marhle and Iron or writ
ten down on parchment Yet we all
may find consolation In the fact that
we are not perishable. For "In ever
lasting remembrance shall the right
eous be held." Every good and right
eous man or woninn Trt" !" la t.
emplary, devoted to godliness and holi
ness, will be held In everlasting remem
brance will live In the memory of Him
whose existence endureth forever.
Therefore, it doesn't matter if the
world does not know us or hear of us.
It matters not If everybody else forgets
us If we are remembered by the Al
mighty, i
To live In His memory Is to live In
peace, In Joy and delight forever. . The
world may grow old, languish and die,
nevertheless the righteous will live and
flourish In God's everlasting remembrance.
DRAWS PARALLEL OF WOMEN.
By Rev. William B. Leach.
Vashtl was a woman pure, true and
simple. She would not be exhibited for
show at the behest of wine or fashion.
There are women
to-day who use up
most of their living
for show, at ball
and opera, and
then too often -la
Immodesty.
Too many of our
woman reformers
and club admirers
say position first
woman ' second.
Now, Esther Is the
tool of a certain
good man, Mordecal. If a woman Is a
tool to a man I like the man to be
good. A great purpose Is behind her
every move.
. Talk of sacrifice. Our churches, our
great reforms are carried on the weak
shoulders of woman. These women
who are in the temperance and mission
ary and aid society of the church are
the Esthers, the Vashtis who glorify
womanhood and cast around It the halo
of the Son of God.
BEV. W. B. LEACH.
TERMS SOME PASTORS JONAHS.
By Rev. A. E. Bartlett
The story of Jonah has more fiction
than fact In It, but that should not
lessen Its spiritual value. The book
of Jonah has long been the enigma of
the Old Testament, but from the many
grotesque, absurd notions that are
heard we must believe most people have
spent very little time studying It For
its size this book Is the most beautiful,
the most tender of all the books of the
Old Testament The ereat leason la
concerning the wldeness of God's mer
cy, mere are some Jonahs occupying
pulpits who take unto thmtxwiTOa th
keys of heaven and ordain themselves
to render God's Judgments for all eter
nftys Short Meter Sermons.
Kindness la the sign of dlvlnn kin.
ship.
You cannot knit the .souls of men
with soft sawder. A'
Your credit In heaven depends on
earth's debts to you. .
To attempt a great work is to be
come a great worker."
The practice of happiness does much
for the power of holiness. v
Living In Itself Is the irreat lesson In
making a life.
There la no profit in the friendship
that knows no investment of the self.
No man ever found this world
weary place who bad a worthy work to
uo.
It's no use talklnn about the roiitrW
In your heart If it la not visible In your
noma,
Life Is to be measured not hv its
rewards in things, but by its reach and
vision.
When the pulpit sees no good in any '
one the pew la not likely to seek the
good anywhere. :
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