Lincoln County leader., August 16, 1907, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
C f. SOULE, Publisher
TOLEDO.
.OREGON
As to millionaires, many are Indict
ed but few are Jailed.
A London paper Informs us that cro
quet U to be popular In England this
year. Mollycoddle I
Married people should so live that
the minister who performed the cere
mony will never ' feel like apologizing.
Now and then some man succeeds In
becoming famous without being made
so by the President; but it is a slow
process. ,
The family Bible Is usually accepted
as an accurate record of a man's age,
but not so. It seems, in the case of
Methuselah.
In Germany a man has been punished
for sticking out his tongue at the
Kaiser. The Kaiser doesn't like to be
mistaken for a doctor.
King Peter of Servla wants to bor
row money; In the event that he can't
do that he would probably be willing to
marry an American heiress.
The United States Supreme Court
has been appealed to to decide the
queauuu, '"iVLul is rt'uloky?" It TV I
never be able to do it by tasting the
tuff.
One of the lawyers who helped to de
fend Harry Thaw Is reported to have
put In a bill for $100,000. It requires
some nerve to charge such a large
price for failing. '
Says the St Louis Globe-Democrat
"While waiting for your prayer to be
answered try to get what you want
yourself." In other words, dust off
your knees and hustle.
When a young woman to whom
man gave hi g seat in a crowded New
York street car said "thank you" he
fell In a fit The probability is that
she will never repeat the rash act.
We may as well understand that !t
will never be possible for Americans to
get Englishmen to consider them re
fined as long as anybody on this side
ays "I guess" instead of "I fancy."
(Count Bonl de Oastellane has ex
pressed a willingness to drop for a
cash consideration his appeal from the
decision of the court that awarded the
countess a divorce. Bonl is such a
elf-Bacrlflclng boy. 1 1
The young heir to the Spanish
throne has practically dropped out of
public sight since his birth. lie may
as well be given to understand at the
start that if he expects to continue to
be famous he will have to keep doing
things with uninterrupted regularity.
Boycott against American goods In
China has been suppressed. The Amer
ican consul-general at Canton reports
a striking punishment for those who
tried to further ic In that province.
The viceroy has compelled the associa
tion which prompted the attempt at
boycott to turn over the money In its
treasury to a public hospital. Thus
money intended to make trouble will go
toward allerlatlng It
The return of the bicycle Is predicted
by those who are interested, in the
trade and It Is said that the business
Is picking up. There Is no likelihood of
a revival of the bicycle fad of fifteen
years ago, but the trade Is expecting
an increasing Interest In the wheel as
a practical means of transportation and
recreation. The expectation seems rea
enable, for It Is noticeable that other
nations have not abandoned the bicycle
to the extent which it baa been given
up In America. It still remains a
healthful and Inexpensive means of
travel and of seeing the country.
The dally prints ere not without am
pie warning that life on the stage Is
not all plaudits and roses. Those who
read understandLngly may know It Is a
hard life, full of disappointments to
most of Its votaries. There Is excite
ment, It Is true, and there are occa
sional rewards. But there is excite
ment In a runaway with horses or
steamboat explosion and probably an
equal proportion of rewards. .While
the public must be amused there must
be someone to amuse It but the hard
fact of the business Is the supply of
amuse rs far exceeds the demand and
the majority of stage-yearning girls
will meet nothing but hardships when
they try to embrace histrionic art or
Its amusing kindred.
The birth of a male heir to the Span
ish throne has for the present slmpll
fled the question of the succession,
matter that has been responsible for
much disturbance In the empire, as well
a in tbo rest of Europe. The trouble
wns acute so long ago as 1700, when
Charles II. of the bouse of Hapsburg
died, childless, after making Philip,
grandson of Louis XIV. of France, his
successor . This first Bourbon King of
Spain was not recognized by the other
powers till after a long war. concluded
In 1713. Philip, known as the fifth of
Spain, proclaimed the Salic law the
next year, limiting the succession to
his male descendants. Ills great
grandson, Ferdinand VII., one of the
royal victims of Napoleon's ambition.
was restored to the throne in 1813.
In 1829 he married his fourth wife,
and abrogated the Salic law In spite
of the protests of his brothers and of
the French Bourbons. Ills daughter
Isabella, born in 1S30, was proclaimed
queen on bis death, three years later,
with her mother as regent Isabella's
uncle, Don Carlos, asserted his claim
to the throne under the Salic law, but
the regent succeeded In maintaining
her daughter's position. Don Carlos'
descendants have ever since been pre
tenders to the Spanish throne. The
present Carllst claimant Is his grand
son. Queen Icabella was driven from
Spain by a revolt in 1868, and two
years later the Spanish succession
caused a fresh commotion In Europe.
The proposition to call to the throne a
prince of a branch of the Prussian
royal house of Ilohenzollern was the
apparent though not the real cause of
the great war of 1870 between France
and Germany. The throne was offered
to Prince Amadeo, a son of King Vic
tor Emmanuel of Italy, but the task of
fcuteluiug Spuiu Yttut two UiUih for him,
and after a few years he abdicated.
Then a republic was set up, but it
lasted only two years, and Alfonso
XII., the son of Isabella, was restored
to the throne without the shedding of J
a drop of blood. On Alfonso's death,
In 1886, his daughter Maria succeeded
blm ,and was queen till Alfonso XIII.,
the present king, was born, a few
months later, the ninth of the house of
Bourbon to rule over Spain. If the
new prince should die, and Alfonso
have no other children, his sister's son
would succeed him, and In the remote
contingency of the direct line of 'de
scent from , Ferdinand VII. becoming
extinct the CarllBt claimant would be
come klne. (
According to a report twelve girls of
the Chickasaw nation have written to
a college president soliciting his aid In
procuring for them Caucasian hus
bands. They have described their pos
sessions with a minuteness that would
charm a fortune hunter, and have made
It clear that they are fully aware of
the Importance of presenting financial
attractions before presuming to make
other claims. While In a flippant mood
this action might be construed as a
girlish jest or a harmless joke, there
Is reason to suspect an underlying pur
pose of seriousness, an earnest desire
to better the existing state and pro
mote future happiness. All authorities
agree that Indians do not make Ideal
husbands. Hiawatha was perhaps an
exception, but Hiawatha must be taken
with more than the usual allowance of
salt and everybody knows that Mr.
Longfellow In far off Cambridge did
not enjoy exceptional facilities for
studying the Indian In his conjugal ca
pacity. The noble red man In song ind
story Is extremely picturesque as he
pursues the flying deer or spears or an
gles for the elusive fish, but his nobil
ity dwindles as he lolls In the. ham
mock while his wife grubs In the fields
and tolls that he may eat it is also
noted by careful observers that how
ever the Indian may rise to eminence In
an Eastern college town and acquire
large fragments of general knowledge
his disposition on returning home Is
to lapse into primitive conditions and
enjoy life as did his fathers before
blm. The Indian girl, on the other
hand, profits more endurlngly by edu
cation. She sees the white maiden
maintaining supremacy over the white
man, and notes with Increasing ad
miration the white wife giving neces
sary orders to a well trained' and obe
dient husband. How natural then that
the Indian girl should wish for herself
so happy a lot and long for a transi
tion that would assure her a position
of Independence and comparative free
dom from toll. The advantages or dis
advantages that might accrue from this
attempted assimilation of races It Is
not to the point to mention here. The
question involved Is merely the tribute
paid to the American white husband,
the reassertlon of the statement that
in the opinion of universal womanhood
be is the best husband In the world.
Individually be may have his faults
and precipitate a divorce suit even
from an Indian bride, but standing as
a shining whole, the expositor of n
widely recognized principle, he leads
all mankind In the estimation of wom
an. Hence the credibility to be attach
ed to the story of the twelve Chickasaw
maidens and the pleasing reflections to
be Inspired thereby. '
Slna Go by Contrarlea.
"It Is a little odd why trunks are
often taken as evidence of the good fl
nanclal standing of their owners."
"Why sor
"Because trunks, themselves are so
often strapped." Baltimore American.
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CHARACTER AND ITS BUILDING.
t By Archbishop Glennon.
The days of school commencements
and song recitals and graduating es
says are days looked forward to with
pleasure on the part of pupils and
their parents, with anxiety on the part
of the teachers and with resignation
on the part of the many friends on
the invitation list. I say with resigna
tion, because the audience is preju
diced, feeling that however honorably
and laudibly the young entertainers
may acquit themselves, there Is and
must be lacking initiative, variety or
novelty In their productions.
Similarly also is the audience preju
diced against the "orator" of the day,
because they realize that bis speecu to
the pupils and the graduates can be
little more than a series of platitudes
which appear and have appeared with
persistent regularity every succeeding
year.
I have .noted specially these later
years the oft-repeated reference to
what the speaker calls "character" and
"character building" as a result of
fholnot!'? training, nnd whllo tho tmh-
Ject is trite I may. be permitted to say
a few words on it to-day, because of
your Interest in education and educa
tional results.
I am glad that the public to-day no
longer regards education In the nar
row, limited way It did some years
ago, when education was looked upon
as something purely mechanical so
many hours spent In study, so many
books to read, so many formulas mem,
orized, so many sciences Investigated
and as a result the pupil so trained
was looked upon as a machine, equip
ped to make money or speeches, oil
some other material task.
The breaking down of the machine
so frequently, and the' utter Inadequacy
In any Instance of these machine-made
scholars to reach out or to lead on, or
even to hold their own, has driven
people to ask for something more than
a mere scientific training, something
that' affects and perfects personality,
and that will set a principle . higher
than a formula, and a man- as more
than his work.
And this is what the orators to-day
mean when they speak of "character."
Of course you will agree with me
that character and character building
should be a considerable feature of the
educational world of to-day; you also
would agree that the young men and
women leaving our colleges and con
vents should bring back with them not
alone scientific attainments, but In a
very marked way consistent noble,
Christian characters. And yet as there
Is no effect without a cause, there can
be no result In the order of character
building unless the principles that make
for It He within the school curriculum,
so that the orator of to-day who would
Insist on character and character for
mation should carefully Investigate how
and wherein the pupil had an oppor
tunity of obtaining It -
If the work of a school is limited to
a purely senior training; If Its curric
ulum excludes the supernatural ; If that
which we call religion and allied prob
lems are Ignored and outlawed ; then
the best the speaker can ask for pupils
so trained Is that as students of nature
they should obey nature's laws; that
as they observe law In nature, and fate
to punish its law's violation; It were
best for them to respect these laws
and obey them; that in fine, all nat
ural virtues should be theirs, and In
their character should be found temper
ance, prudence and all the gentleness
of the flowers and the strength of the
oak tree.
Sometimes fond parents fancy, when
they hear these things exploited, and
glided over by the genius of the speak'
er, that If their children were only to
attain the heights so luminously de
scribed, so eloquently pictured, nothing
more was left for their ide voted ones to
cultivate nor themselves to hope for.
And yet what have these speakers
said to their pupil class that might
not, with equal propriety, be applied
to the graduate of the stock farm? Cer
tainly In both cases nature's laws
should be observed.' and similarly, too,
their violation brings on man and beast
a speedy punishment Nature Is good
and natural law is quite commendable,
yet If we limit education to the nat
ural only, we leave man's truest as
pirations without Interpretation, r and
bis holiest hopes without any meaning,
We waste our energy In gilding tombs,
and spend our time In scattering flow
ers that wither on the sad procession
that leads to the gravie.
He only may speak of better things
to a graduating class who has as
background the broad, liberal curric
ulum of an education to appeal to
where God as well as nature finds i
place; where reason and revelation go
hand in hand to the training of the1
pupil, and where there Is spread out
for the student not alone the "fairy
tales of science," but the entire duty
and destiny of humanity.
Then It Is that character building be
gins to grow, and he who would be
Its prophet could then speak of noble
living and right action. For he could
tell his auditors that little less than
the angels was man created, and as
such must they walk, though with feet
of clay ; yet ever upward, ever onward
to their goal ; that the beacon light to
draw them on streams from out eter
nity, down from the throne of God. In
this character setting of bis all those
aspirations of the soul would have their
recognition and encouragement; every
law, divine and human, Its sanction,
and every worthy act and life Its Im
mortality In God's benediction.
So would you want your young peo
ple situated these commencement days,
that thoughts such as these and princi
ples as noble might be set uy for their
delectation and observance. ,
But such may only be spoken to those
who, through the school year, have
learned with their dally lessons thnt a
wholesome fear of the Lord Is the be
ginning of wisdom, who have been
taught not alone the properties of mat
ter, the principles of science and the
laws of nature, but who also have been
Insistently told and taught that the
whisperings of conscience may not be
Ignored, nor the laws of God rejected.
THE DEVIL OF EVIL SPEECH.
By Rev. Polemus H. Swift.
Many a catastrophe has come to
struggling human life; many a heart
has been made to ache ; many a splen
did plan has been made to fall ; many
a cup of hope has been dashed from
the Hps of yearning mortals ; many a
victory has been turned to defeat ;
many a reputation has been blasted;
many a life has been embittered and
many a borne has been broken up In
consequence of the sins of the tongue.
There Is the devil of falsehood. Ev
ery He Is of the devil. There Is no
bright future for the man who cannot
be trusted. How many forms this
devil takes on I Now he Is the com
mercial liar, who sells goods for one
thing when he knows they are some
thing else. Now he Is the social liar,
who indulges in "white squibs." Now
he Is the slander monger who delights
In circulating false reports because the
circulation will Injure some one whom
he hates. . Now he Is the conscienceless
politician, who persists In repeating
reports that have been nailed as lies
days and days ago, because if the re
port can be kept In circulation It will
make votes for his candidate.
Then there is the devil of gossip.
How many demons of that type there
are In our day. How persistently they
keep at work. How diabolical their
business. The gossip goes about re
peating an ill-founded tale or personal
remark In half confidence which exerts
a diabolical Influence that can never
be taken back or counteracted. It Is
oftentimes just a half criticism, a
slight fling, a suspicious word, a depre
cating sentence, a whispered suspicion,
a half truth or a whole truth that
ought never to be spoken, an Inslnua
tlon that ought not to have amounted
to anything.
There Is also the devil of unkind
speech. How common that demon Is.
You will find him In good homes. You
will meet him In office. He is not a
stranger at your club. Ills face Is not
unknown In your church. There are a
great many people who would scorn
to tell a lie, who would spurn slander,
who could not be charged with gossip,
to whom falsehood Is an utter stran
ger, who are yet guilty of making a
place for the devil of unkind speech
In their hearts.
Is It not strange that we speak thd
nnklndest words to those we love best?
That boys and girls will talk to their
mothers as they would not talk to any
other woman in the world? That girls
will speak to a brother as they would
not think of speaking to any other
girl's brother?
. Short Meter Sermons,
The graces do not grow in gloom.
A growing faith will shatter many
forms.
Dishonest thinking does not lead to
holy living.
It takes a strong man to stop doing
weak things.
Half of success Is In seeing the sig
nificance of small things. '
You must master your own moods be
fore you can master men.
To set a child's face toward gladness
Js to Incline him to God.
A greedy hand never gathered
enough' to feed Its needy heart "
Faith is not built by falling to take
fair account of all the facts. I .
Salvation often means making man
over according to one's pattern. -
Red letter days are not made by
looking on the blue side of things.
Many a preacher says he is seeking
souls when he Is chasing statistics.
The Important thing about a sermon
Is not the impression It makes on you,
but the expression you give to It.
Mop Wrlng-er.
The wringing out of water-soaked
mops which have been used to clean.
the floors Is a disagreeable task that la
objectionable to ev
erybody. To be
able to do this with
out bringing the
bands In contact
with the wet mop
is the object of a
contrivance recent
ly patented by a
Chicago man. As
shown In the Illus
tration, it consists
of a bent metal
WBINOS THE MOP
frame, one section being pivoted to the
other. At the top of each section Is a
revolvable roll. To wring out the mop
a bucket Is slipped within the frame
through the opening In the back, the
top of the bucket being placed beneath
the rollers. 'The wet mop is placed over
the front roller, and by pressing the
foot on the pointed section of the frame
the other roller Is brought Into con
tact with the mop. At the end of one
roller is a small handle, which, when,
turned, forces the mop between the
rollers. Connecting the -rollers Is a
spring, which forces them apart when
the foot Is removed, the mop In this,
way being released.
Cooking; by Electricity.
On one of the largest and most mod
ern of the transatlantic steamers cook
Ing Is done entirely by electricity, so
that there are none of the fumes and
odors of wood, coal and petroleum
clinging to the food when It Is served
a fact sure to be appreciated by trav
elers Inclined to seaslckenBS. In the
kitchen of this boot, says Electric
Trade, the little electric stoves are ar
ranged In rows in a manner somewhat
resembling the keyboard of a type
writer. Each1 stove cooks a certain
meat fish, vegetable, soup, dessert, etc.
The most curious device Is the arrange
ment for boiling eggs. An Ingenious
mechanism automatically pushes the
eggs out of the water as soon as they
are boiled. The success of this appli
cation of electricity to culinary conven
ience and facility, to say nothing of ita
cleanliness, should be a hint to restau
rant and hotel proprietors.
Deviled Lobater. .
Take out all the meat from a boiled
lobster, reserving the coral ; season
highly with mustard, cayenne, salt and
some kind of table sauce. Stew until
well mixed and put In a covered sauce
pan, with Just enough water to keep
from burning. Rub the coral smooth,
moistening with vinegar until thin
enough to pour easily, then stir It Into
the saucepan. The dressing should be
prepared before the meat Is put on the
fire, and which ought to boll' but once
before the coral Is put In. Stir In a
heaping teaspoonful of butter, and
when it bolls again it Is done, and
should be taken up at once, as too
much cooking toughens the meat
Baked Chowder.
This chowder can be made from cold
boiled fish and cold potatoes. Flake
enough of the fish to make two cups
and cut four large potatoes Into dice.
Make two cups of white sauce, chop
one onion fine and mince enough pars
ley to measure one level teaspoon. Put
these Into a buttered baking dish In
layers. Put the sauce In first then the
fish, potatoes, onion, and, last, the pars
ley and a seasoning of salt and pep
per. Make at least two layers of each
kind. Finish the top with sauce, sprin
kle with fine bread crumbs and set In a
hot oven for about twenty minutes.
Snow Cake. ,
Cream one-fourth of a cupful of but
ter, using a wooden cake snoon. nnd
add gradually, while beating constant
ly, one cupful of sugar ; then add half
a cupful of milk and one and ono-hnit
cupfuls of flour, mixed and sifted with
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Beat thoroughly and add the whites of
two eggs beaten until stiff, and half a
teaspoonful of vanilla-; Fill buttered
and floured Individual tins
full of the mixture and bake In a mod
erate oven twenty minutes. This reclpa
makes eighteen little cakes.
Chill Con Cnvnl.
Cut a round steak Into small pieces j
put it into a frying pan with a cup of
boiling water, two tablespoonfuls ot
rice, and a tablespoonful of hot drip-'
ping. Cover closely andslmmer until
tender. Remove the seeds and part of
the rind from two large- red peppers,
cover with a little- water and cook un
til tender, then squeeze out all the wa
ter. Add this to the- cooked meat, and
if the mixture needs thickening add a
little flour. Season, with, salt and onion
Juice and serve.