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
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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