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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1908)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER RE COLLINS. Editor r N HAYDEN, Manager TOLEDO. .OREGON A "lnmb" has escaped from Wall street with $3,000,000. In what? If some one would Import about three million cooks and maids the most se rious market stringency would be relieved. Yes, money talks, and Its talk Is mighty pleasant music, except occa sionally when it saya lu a hoarse whis per, "I'm scared!" King Menellk of Abyssinia proposes to give his people n constitution. The Czar of Russia can see a large batch of trouble ahead of Menellk. Colonel George Harvey, of Harper's Weekly, has taken a firm stand against sweetmeats and cookies. The colonel Is bound to sava us, somehow. If they are going to have a row In the British navy every time the "Ger man emperor visits England It may be expected that William will go over often. A woman wants a divorce because her husband limited her to six new hats In four years. He must have been try ing to beat the record for Inhuman cruelty. Every once In a while the blessings of poverty are made patent to all. A lot of men should be thankful that they didn't have any money to loan to Mrs. Chadwlck. The discovery that Japan Is eating 2,000,000 pounds of whale meat every year may start Ilobson to talking again Bbout her Intention of whaling us in the near future. "In every meeting I have ever held," says Evangelist Torrey, "some one has heard nie and has died the next day." He Is Indeed a bold preacher who will throw a scare like that Into his audience. The young ladies of a church in Chi cago pray twice daily that they may get good husbands. After they have wait ed a reasonable time they may amend their supplication by striking out the word "good." Heirs of George Washington claim that they own the land on which the city of Cincinnati stands. Is there a city In this country which doesn't stand on land which Is claimed by the heirs tt somebody? I The governor of Minnesota says $10, 000 a year should be enough for any man. Most of the men who are get ting many times that amount can no doubt recall the time when they thought the same thing. With Its sharp prow an Atlantic steamer cut a large whale In two the other day and went on Its way as If nothing unusual had happened. If the denizens of the mighty deep expect to hold their own In the struggle for ex istence they will hnve to adapt them selves to the exigencies of modem life and learn how to dodge ocean greyhounds. In the commercial treaty recently made between Canada and France, the Dominion for the first time negotiated fliroctly with a foreign power through Its own officials without the Interven tion of British diplomats. Sir Wilfrid I.aurler, the Canadian prime minister, went himself to Paris and arranged the terms of the treaty. Although of course the treaty is actually concluded by the British government, yet the fact that the home government practically al lowed the colonial authority to make the arrangement . Independently marks an Important advance In the power of 'he Canadian government When river commerce was developed Ay private capital the railways protect ed their business by methods which did not commend themselves at nil. They will be at a disadvantage In competi tion with the nation's Investment, and there will be born a new seetlonnl duration In the rivalry between the East and the Middle West. But there Is no possibility of standing still. Ri valry among ourselves should not ob scure the fact that this Improvement Is one means of keeping for ourselves the trade within our "sphere," which other wise Is offered for competition to Eu rope and even to Japan. The West, which long has been restless under Im provement of our harbors, may easily think It has a fair case for asking the development of Its river ways. A Chicago professor Wants to lecture to school children on the law of chance, lie wants to educate the child so that It will see the folly In the prize pack age, the slot machine, and so that when It grows up It will be armed against the allurements of the bookmaker, the lottery and the roulette wheel. lie wants t make It clear to the child that the oAls are the wrong way. He wants to demonstrate to th.. child's positive conviction that the only man who wins is the man who runs the game. Most men don't believe tills. Or, if they do Relieve It, they take a chance. We jnow a young fellow who watched the play of a roulette table for the first t'tue, and figured a sure system In five minutes. Ten minutes later hla $00 was gone. This wheel, was crooked. But even If it had been straight, and the young man had kept on playing in the end ho would have lost his $00 Just the same. If the Chicago professor is not given his youthful audience, he ought to he able to get a fairly largo class of gro"'"-""i t tM city. I'uless thinna ii.ii,j,v, and very radi cally, the old heartrending cry, "Oh, save us from our friends!" will have to be amended so as to read, "Oh, save us from those who love us!" At first blush this may seem like nonsense, but Just think : Almost every morning we read of some young man killing some young woman because he loves her so. It has got to the point in some parti of the country where the fathers of marriageable young women will not permit the young men who love them to enter the house until they are searched for concealed weapons. How ever, there has always been more or lass of this, so that It will not be worth while to worry over It. But we should take some cognizance of the fnct that the trouble ) not vwflned al together to young lovers, nor does It always result In shooting, but some times manifests Itself In ways which are equally disagreeable and more hu miliating. Take, for Instance, the man who was so fond of a woman that when his admiration was at Its height, when he was gazing at her with rapt en thral iment, Just at the very moment when he seemed to be given complete ly up to adoration of the one woman he loved, he gave her a black eye, simply because she smiled when another man was looking. Now, this Is not good so cial form. It Is as bad almost as that observed by the women who loved her husband so Intensely as he was that when he had his hair cut by the bar her she refused to allow him to enter his home, and has commenced suit against him for divorce. She loved him, alas, not wisely but too well. But the worst example of all Is the case of another husband. He' was so devoted to his wife that he was always anxious about the condition of her health. If she looked a trifle pale In the morning he would go to his work with a heavy heart and be unhappy all day. He was constantly feeling her pulse and look ing at her tongue. Such a solicitous husband nobody ever did see, and the neighbor's wives all used to point him out to their husbands as a husband to pattern after. The other day he came home and thought that she was look ing rather poorly. She protested that she never had felt better In her life. He denied this emphatically, went down to the drug store, boueht some pills which he believed would do her good, and, returning, attempted to force her to take them. She resisted, and so fearful was he that she should be sick and suffer pain that he lost his temper and threw her down a flight of stairs. It Is a wonder that she escaped with only slight Injuries. Now, when those who love us and are anxious about us, and solicitous with regard to us, and admire us, and would do anything for us, do these things to us, what are we to expect from those who do not care anything about us? Really, It Is hard to say. Crab Ham 2, 000,000 Joints. The crab known as the scale-tailed apus was believed to have become ex tinct In Great ' Britain CO years ago, the Inst recorded specimens being taken In the ponds on Hampstead Heath. But now It has turned up again In same numbers In two ponds on Preston Merse, near Southwlck, In Klrkcud hridgeshire. About two and a half Inches long, the apus bears a very strik ing likeness to that remarkable crea ture, the king crab, and this because the fore part of the body Is covered by a great semi-circular shield, or cara-. pace, while, as lu the king crab, It swims on Its hack. In the great num ler of its legs the scale-tailed apus has few rivals, while in the number of the Joints which these share between them no other creature can compare. The naturalist Schaffer once essayed the task of counting them and made Hie magnificent total of 1,802,004. I,ntrelle put down the number nt a round 2,000, 000. London Dally Graphic. NO BROTHERLY LOVE IN BUSINESS. By A. B. Stlckney. I have never seen much of an exhibition of the effects of brotherly love in commercial affairs, and my opinion Is that If the presi dent of a railway should attempt to run It on brotherly love, the road would be sculped bareheaded In thirty minutes, and at the end of the month there would be no money In the treasury with which to pay wages. Probably the largest fortune which has ever been amassed In this or any other country by one man in a single life has been produced In the last forty years In the Iron trade. It has been the direct result of a law of Congress, enacted to benefit labor. Under this law, dur ing the years In which this enormous fortune was accu mulating, the government has enforced the collection of a tax from the other industries of the country, ranging from $27.50 down to $7.50 per ton on his entire output, not one dollar of which was intended or ever did go into the treasury of the government, but every dollar of which was paid to this Ironmaster. In dealing with wages, he stood firmly by the natural laws, never paying a penny more than the law of supply and demand compelled. The law enriched the employer Instead of the employe. The employer has built palaces and bought castles. The em ployes live In the same miserable shanties as before. This act of Congress is still in force, enriching' the greatest organization of capital which the world has ever known. My Judgment throws to the wind all the theories of equitable distribution by brotherly love or by legislation. I believe that In economic affairs the only way to get a fair share Is to be prepared always to fight, and when necessary to fight for It. OUR SOUND MORAL STANDARDS. By Gov. Charles E. Hughes. I believe that the moral standards of the American people were never more sound than they are to-day. Consid ering the tremendous increase in the opportunities for wrongdoing, the se ductive and refined temptation and the materialistic appeals that are In cident to our mode of life and the material comforts which Invention and commerce have made possible, I be lieve that the manner in which the ethical development of the people has kept pace with their progress in oth er directions may falrlv be called ex- WdiBWnrfi 8hocUng nfldeiity to trust and to pub oov. HuanES. llc omlgaton but niore import!lnt than the evil disclosed was the attitude of the people toward it Devotion to duty and strict discharge of hon orable obligation to both Individual and public are not hypocritically preached, but are the sincere and Insistent demand of the American people from one end of the land to the other. Individual shortcomings are many, but the -rrr n if 4 moral judgment of the community is keen and severe In this we find just cause for satisfaction. In a democracy stability depends upon the reign of rea son, and It Is the fact that we are a common people that gives us assurance for the future. Democracy has con stantly to struggle against three abuses. This is Illus trated by concerted attempts on the part of those who find themselves in a strong position to put others at a disadvantage by unfair means. It Is the business of a free government, desiring so far as iKxsslble to give each individual a fair chance, to put a stop to luiproiier prac tices designed to restrict the area of opirtunity. Then there is the abuse of privileges received from the gov ernment itself the misuse of public franchises granted upon condition that they shall be used to benefit the public. It is the business of a free government to se cure the just use of such franchises for the public benefit. There Is also the abuse of the system of government it self by prostituting representative powers to felflsh ad vantage. To guard against these abuses and put an end to them where they exist the people must be constantly alert. DIVINE LAW MAN'S ONLY GUIDE. By Francis B. Moore. In the popular philosophy of our times a fundamental doctrine has been evolved which, teaches that It is a trivial matter what one helieven ; for "we bhall all arrive safo In the better land, though we may hnve traveled by any one of many different roads." This Is ad enchanting notion, and It would be quite sooth ing If It were true; but if It is not, the sooner we discover Its falsity the better for us. So far from there being many different roads leading to heaven, there Is in fact only one viz. : obedience to the divine revealed law. No man may think himself excused from obeying It, and If anyone loses heaven, he alone l to blame. A divine rule of conduct Involving life and death must be the same for all men, it must be unchangeable, and It must he known easily. God might have revealed or made known the divine law personally and directly to eacli individual man In a miraculous and unmistakable man ner if He had wished to do so, but this was not neces sary. What Hetacti:ally did was to make It known to certain men through the teaching of Jesus Christ; these men were instructed by Him during three years, and organized into a teaching society called the church, and He commanded them to "go and teach all nations," prom ising to be with them in their teaching "until the end of the world." Jesus Christ has taught that those who will not accept the teaching of the church are those who do not know what the divine revealed law Is In these plain and un mistakable words : "If any man will not hear the church, let him be to you as the heathen ;" the heathen, of course, are those who have not yet learned the divine revealed law. But God will make It easy for anyone to learn what that law is, and to obey it, and thus reach salvation, If he sincerely and humbly begs the divine assistance. An Exacting Trainer. "Who won the long-distance walk ing match?" "Sprigging." "He did? Who was his trainer?" "His ten-months-old baby." Chicago Record-Herald. Her Note Wai Final. The proprietor of a large drug store recently received this curt and haughty note, wrltteu in an angular feminine hand: "I do not want vasloline, but gllsserine. Is that plain enough? I persoom you can spell." "Would you wear your straw hat down to the office to-day?" asked the man's wife. "By no means," replied the man. "That is different altogether. If I wore my straw hat I'd have a crowd follow ing me. I'm wearing the same hat that I wore last winter, though." "Because It isn't conspicuous. If It made you conspicuous you wouldn't. You know perfectly well that you wouldn't. You'd go straight to a hat ter's and get something that was In style. But you want me to be conspic uous, and I am." "Do you mean to say that sweet lit tle hat you lought spick and span new only last fall would make you conspic uous?" demanded the man. "When every woman Is wearing a totally different style? Certainly I do," his wife replied, In nowise mollified by the implied flattery. "Every woman?" "Every woman." "Every woman wearing those Invert ed, saucer-shaped abominations?" "Y'es, If you want to cnll them that." "Then, I tlilnk I should want to be conspicuous," said the man, decidedly. "You can wear your straw hat, then," retorted his wife. "Of course If you feel that you can't afford to have me dress as other women do I have noth ing more to say. I'll wear a shawl over my head If you think It Is abso lutely necessary. But I think " "Now, don't get excited, my dear," said the man. "You know perfectly well that It Isn't a question of money. I don't care anything at all about that. I was Just arguing that it was absurd to go to the expense when It seemed to be entirely superfluous. When you get the worst of an argument that's the way yon always are." "I don't see that I have got the worst of It." said his wife. "You never will see It," said the man. "I'll show you that you are quite illogical. You say that you don't want to be conspicuous and yet you say that the trimming Is going to cost $15." "If I get the plumes, but then I can use them on some other hat. You said just now that you weren't talking ahrut the expense." "Won't you please wait until I've done talking?" begged the man. "I was going to say that If you didn't want to make yourself conspicuous what do you want to stick plumes In your hat for? Tell me that." "Oh, I'm not going to argue about it," said his wife. "I'll wear my old hat. I suppose that ought to be good enough for me." ' "Don't you think I am right?" "Oh, of course, you are always right." "And that style will go out before the winter is over," said the man. "All these very marked fashions do. They get imitated In the very cheapest kind of materials until the best people the really fashionable people throw them away. You know that Is so. I've heard you say that myself." "Yes. that Is so," sighed his wife. "Well, Isn't It? And that last fall's hat Is renlly as tasteful and becoming as It can be and it wouldn't be at all noticeable." "It's lovely," agreed his wife. "And as far as being noticed Is concerned no body Is likely to notice anything I wear. What does It mntter?" "Don't talk that way," pleaded the man. "You know I want you to have what you want and I don't grudge the expense. But you say yourself that I'm right." "Yes, you're perfectly right," said his wife. "But I want the hat I I want the hatl I want the hat I" . "Then If It's like that," said the man, wisely, "you certainly will have to have It." Great Thing. It's easy for the average man To do great things, you'll find j That Is, it's easy quite for him T do them in his mind. LUMBEB JACKS' UNIQUE FAD. Men from the Wooda Wear Tintype In Gilt Frame on Their Coata. What does a lumber Jack want of a little round tintype of himself In a uear-gilt frame to pin on his. coat? What does an elephant want of a mili tary hair brush? In thfe latter case he doesn't, but In the former he thinks he does. Ask the man who is taking the tintypes down on Bridge square If you want to he doesn't Know. It isn't exactly wise to ask the lumber Jacks, for they aren't feeling any too meek and mild these days, says the Minneapolis Journal. When you have $175 or $200 to spend In two weeks and theaters and clothes and other things are not for you, when you are so constituted that you wouldn't think of wandering above Washington avenue well, maybe that answers the question of what the Jum Iht jack wants with a tintype of him self to pin on his coat. Whether they want them or not, they are buying them. It seems to be part of this year's Initiation ritual Into the ranks of the lumber jacks to wear a tintype tn a near-gilt frame pinned on your coaf In tills cafe the spruce young man with the machine, which looks like a pocket edition telescope, and In which the pic tures are turned out, Is the Initiator, and for his services the unorganized order of lumber jacks pays him on an nverage of 20 cents a minute. For fashion Is fashion, even among lumber jacks, and with tintypes gilt frame and all coming nt 10 cents each they line up and get through with it as fast as possible. But even admitting that they want tintypes in gilt frames, what reason they hnve for holding their hands In front of their faces while the pictures are taken has got even the policemen on the beat puzzled. Ilrallr Not Surprising. f "My goodness," exclaimed Mrs. Kid der, "I don't know anything more sur prising than the way our gas bllls'run up." "Oh, that's not so surprising," re plied 'her husband, "when you consider how many thousand feet they have."- -Philadelphia Tress. When a woman wears a bat for the first time, and her friends say: "It looks rery pretty in the back," la that a ootaDllmtaO
