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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1908)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER Rf COLLINS, Editor r ti HAV DEN. Manager TOLEDO.. OREGON why not make "Woodman, Spare That Tree" the national hymn? A harp 414 rears old baa been found In Iowa. Terhaps It Is the one that nce through Tara s halls. We should like to rebuque those women of Dubuque who are forcing uoii uuEiuituus iu icuru 10 cuque. "Lady Subscriber"' Is hereby Inform ed that money which Is carried In a woman's stocking cannot properly be called elastic currency. The New York Tribune heads a hard times story "Corset Factory Feels the Pinch." Fewer of Its patrons, then, must be feeling the squeeze. A South Korwalk (Conn.), man has Just returned home from the civil war. Ills wife certainly Is Justified In sus pecting that he stopped somewhere on he way. G. Bernard Shaw sarcastically refers to us as a nation of villagers. If It Is disgraceful to be a villager a good many of us have hitherto been unaware of the fact Miss Mary Money, an American girl. has applied for a Jockey's license in France. If the theory that "money makes the mare go" is correct, Mary should be a success. Judge Tetlt urges that eiignged cou ples should study the law of courtship, But that would not decide who is to get up and light the fire of a morning six mouths after the wedding. What If the engle on the new $10 told piece does look like a turkey? If the turkey wasn't such a big fool about some things, as a national bird he would be as appropriate as the eagle. "Why do women cultivate a special voice for the telephone?" asks the 'Montgomery Advertiser. Doubtless be cause the one they use on their hus bands would put'the transmitter on the blink. A New York bank teller complains that he finds It difficult to support a family on an Income of $1,800 a year. A good many people have supposed hlthejpto that only millionaires were in any way connected with New York banks. John D. Rockefeller thinks the op portunities for young men are a thou sandfold greater In this country than they ever have been In the past. It niUBt be understood, of course, that Mr. Rockefeller does not Include the oppor tunities for getting along without work ing. Reports from the surveyors who have been marking the line between Canada and Alaska Indicate thaf as originally fixed In 1898 it was six hundred feet too far west. The United States Is to have a strip six hundred feet wide and many miles long, which, until the pres ent survey, the Cnnndlans supposed be longed to them. The proper boundury Is the one hundred awl forty-first me--Idlan northward from Mount St. Ellas. Not long ago the manager of n fash ionable London .restaurant refused to allow an eurl and his countess to eat in the dining-room because they were not attired In the regula tion evening dress. Admission to certain parts of the fashionable I-ombm theaters Is also denied to those not In evening clothes. Such rules are In accordance with the snob bish definition of a gentleman as one who "dresses for dinner ;" but most of us know that It takes more than that to make a man, to say nothing of a gentleman. LilK'i-la has lately lost nominal con trol of imrt of the territory over which the congress of the black republic was supposed to exercise sovereignty. A new treaty with France has been nego tinted, delimiting the boundaries of the republic's country to the advantage of France. The French Insist that In view of the Ignorance of the natives In the Interior of the existence of any In. dependent govern nt on the coast. It Is not' encroachment on an Independent power for the French to push their boundaries seaward. As Liberia Is an Independent power, the protection of Its territory Is a matter for Its govern ment, and not for outsiders. American friends of the country may regret that the experiment of sttlng up a negro re public bus not been more 'successful, but they must fuce the facts. Public confidence litis been shaken by the excessive exploitation not of the proper business of certain corporations, but of their Hocks and securities to ad--ranee the personal chemet of high offl ifct "Gentlemen's agreements" for J doubtful, perhaps sinister, purposes, ' curing possession or a cnain of banks to further the ends of purely specula tive pools and combinations, are among the ulmses of "high finance" revealed during the depression from which we are recovering. The real property of tne country is Intact The mines, the railroads, the mills, the flocks and herds still exist. The land Is produc ing, and will produce, at a tremendous rate. All the elements of abounding and continuing prosperity In office, field and shop are with us. The one thing needful is the elimination of stock wa ferlng and stock Jobbing directors and otner omciais to whom the organiza tlon of our Industries and the conser vatism of the wealth of the country It to a very great, to a commanding, ex tent committed. We shall have gather ed good from our financial Ills If the obligations of trusteeship are more r llglously observed. In 1905 the game of football cosi the lives of 24 players and Injured 20C 'others. That was the worst record tb game has ever made In this country. Coming after several years of high fa tality lists, it excited a movement for reform, which ended in a general,agree- ment that If the rules could not be so revised as to eliminate the Increasing perils of life and limb, and If the worst of the commercial evils of the game could not be removed, then the game It self would hnve to be banished from our colleges and high schools. Colum bia University put forth an edict ol banishment, but most other Institution! contented themselves with a revision ol the rules, from which much Improve ment was hoped. That there has been an Improvement In the moral tone of the business management of the game is certuln, but the statistics of casual ties for this year have been the cause of great disappointment over the work ing of the new rules of playing. Last year the deaths were 14 and the In. Jured 160, and this year the death! number 13 and the Injured 152. Mean time Columbia Is giving the colleges an object lesson In the possibility of nros- perlug without the game. A committed of the faculty Investigated last spring the effects of the retirement from the field of sports, and reported that at tendance at the university had grown, that students took more interest In their studies and that no loss was ob servable. Recently the students have worked up enough Interest In a mock political campaign, wth Drlmarles. con- ventlons and the full machinery of gen uine politics, to compensate them for the loss of the football excitement. It Is certainly Incumbent on the Deonle who still believe In the future of foot ball to meet the present situation and show that It can be played with reason able safety. It Is true that the most fatalities are among high school pupils and other boys not In fit physical con- dltlon, but the colleges cannot escape some of the responsibility for these deaths, since they furnish the Incent ive to the noncolleglate players and since their rules are the rules the oth ers follow. It r mm K5f it JAIL FOR TRUST OFFENDERS. By Attorney General Bonaparte. I have noticed a good many com plaints that criminal prosecutions against trust magnates and sentences of imprisonment for them have been very infrequent, and, in fact, for prac tical purposes, unknown. It is perfect ly true that. In my opinion, at least a better moral effect would be pro duced by sending a' few prominent men to Jail than by a great deal of litigation, however successful, against the corporations they controlled, c. J. bonafabte. But it must be remembered that it is only successful prosecutions which would have a good effect. . Some time since two corporations and their .re spective presidents were Indicted Jointly for violation of the criminal provisions of the anti-trust law. If the cor porations were guilty of such, it would be hard for the lay mind at least to understand how their presidents could be Innocent Nevertheless the Jury convicted the corporations and acquitted the presidents. It is the avowed purpose of the Department of Jus tice to prosecute criminally anyone who Is really re sponsible for violations of the anti-trust law wherever It can do so with any reasonable probability of suc ,0" It docs not care to prosecute mere underling who are known to everyone to have acted under the direct au- thorlty of their superiors. r IA I KINDNESS IN WEDLOCK MAKES HAPPINESS. By Helen Oldfield. The man who has hung upon his sweet heart's words and craved her kisses does not realize the pain which he inflicts when he leaves her day after day without a caress, or at most bestows upon her a nerfunctorv kiss I as he starts out in the morning for bis busi ness. The question is bound to suggest Itself to her: "Is he getting tired of me?" Poor woman! She may worry herself for mnnv on hour with that and Blmilar tormenting queries. He was so gentle and tender when they were engaged; now he bangs the doors all over the house, apparently cnreless of the fact that her head Is aching and her nerves are on edge. He always Is too busy to attend to her, too tired to go out with her in the evening. At one time he could not spend hours enough at her side. Most people who have nny strength of character are obliged to have a temper of some sort, even though It be well controlled. The wife who nags is a curse to her husband ; the man of whom the utmost which can be ex pected is that he shall not grumble nor find fault is scarcely a blessing "to his family. There are refinements of Irritation which are quite as hard to endure as are blows and curses. Social, professional and business in tercourse all demand self-control and courtesy alike from men and women ; but there are unfortunately those who wholly fall to recognize a similar claim In the family circle. PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. By Elizabeth C. Baldwin. Step by step, slowly perhaps but certainly, the public library is following the path al ready trodden by the public school. The ex perience of the one Is almost identical with that of the other. The place now assigned the public library, by general consent, Is that of an Integral part of our system of public and free education. On no other theory has it sure and lasting foundation : on no other the. ory may It be supported by general taxation; on no other theory can It be administered wisely and consistently. A public tax! can be levied for the maintenance of a pub lic library only upon the principle which underlies all righteous public taxation ; not that the taxpayer wants something and will receive It In proiortlon to the amount of his contribution, but that the public wants something of such general Interest and value that all property own er mfiy be nked and retired to contribute toward !U cost. 1 Casting about for a satisfactory sunnlemnnt -plenient for the public schools, we find the public library . iruy 10 mane it possible ror the adult to continue through life the growth begun iu childhood in the public school. Only in this way and by this means can we hope to continue the common American people as the most un common common people which the world has yet known. EVILS OF POLITICAL PREJUDICE. By Prot. Jeremiah W. Jenks. Some writers on sociology take as the basal Instinct on which society is founded the "con sciousness of kind." It is apparently this fundamental Instinct which leads members of society to distrust others different from them selves and which brings about in many In stances conflicts of races, even though there may be no cause often, or reason for these conflicts. In politics, however, we nml t ot.i,i the force of prejudice as well as the force Of reason, and the statesman cannot Ignore prejudice as a motive force. Political speeches, as a rule, appeal to self-interest Men who have sacrificed for the party expect their reward, ,but even most of thoseatvbo are corrunt in nolitii iif would be Influenced if they saw clearly the evil effects ol ineir corrupt action. I Training Him j -H- Ml "Tongue" In business Is at a discount. The modern salesman Is the mnn who knows when not to speak. So of ad vertising, silence Is often golden. Increase your effort as your field nar rows. It is easier to sell $10 worth of goods among a thousand people than to sell that amount among one hundred. If you have oaly a hundred prospects, then work them hard. (;ood advertising cannot be called an expense, for It Is only an Investment, Just as you place your money In a shoo stock or a line of furnishings, and vow get your money out of It Just as surely, and with iwsslbly a better margin on tuo investment No door is thick enough to keen out the newspaper and its advertising; no chamber Is too remote, or too quiet, for the favorite family paper; no surveil lance Is so strict but the newsnanr Is admitted, and It brings Its message of wars, of elections, accidents, marriages, births nnd deaths and advertisements. A Fool Mliclit Bar That the glitter of gold Is better thnn the gray garb of brotherly love. ' That It does not pay to be forelvlnir In a world which so rarely forgives. Iliat the one to whom the laurel In given necessarily deserves It. That the plaudits of the mob are bet. ter tluin the appreciation of those who see most clearly. That a million dollars Is mom tn ho chosen thnn a humble and happy home. nut wnat would you expect of a fool ? Success Magazine. It doesn't take the averairo womnn ono-thlrd as long to mix up a cake and bake It, as It took her to run next floor and. borrow the egg The girl's face wore an exnresslon of tender commiseration and she leaned forward and touched the young man's bowed head with a light, caressing mo tion, In which there was something al most maternal. "I'm so sorry," she said. "I'm very, very sorry." "You'll spoil the part in my hair If you do that," said the young man, looking up, He said it In quite a mat- teivof-faet tone. The girl seemed a little surprised and hurt by his rejection of her sympathy, so that when he asked, her If there was absolutely no , hope her negative reply bordered on snnpplness. "I know you said so," remarked the young mini, leaning back n little In his clinlr anil crossing his legs. "I wanted to be perfectly sure, that's nil. If you've quite made up your mind that I won't do I've got to kind of readjust myself. You see, I've been reckoning on your taking me. Of course, I didn't expect you to unless you thought a great deal of me, but 1 got the Idea that you might somehow. Well, I sup pose that I mustn't take lip your time." "Sit down," said the girl. "I don't wnnt you to go away thinking that I have been trifling with you nnd pur posely misleading you. I do like you, very much Indeed ns a friend. I want to keep you for a friend always, and I'm sure that when you get over this fancy, ns you will In a little while, we shall ,bo ns good friends ns we ever wero. If you feel a little bitter now " "Oh, no," said the young mnn. "I'm not feeling hitter. Why should I? No- liody can get Jnst what he wants In this vale or sin ana sorrow, ah a man can do when w can't got what he wnnts Is to get the best he can nnd make the most of It. As for as neing mentis is concerned, thnt's aft right." "You'll come and see me Just the same, then?" "Well, hnrdly. Why, no, that wouldn't do. I don't say anything about myself, but you aren't going to be the Inst rose of summer left bloom ing alone You'll go with the rest of the bunch and before most of 'em, or I miss my guess. What would the real enndy boy say If he came around and saw me holding down a chair here ten evenings In the week? He'd say, 'Hello! who tola Jonnnyr ana nea go away "i'm not looking mad," protested tije GIRL. and think long, long thoughts. I know I would. When I first began coming here and saw the kindergarten on the front stoop I didn't have any Idea of Joining. It was only after they did the fading act that I came in and began to string beads. You know that I certainly would never want to queer you." "I wish you wouldn't talk so much slang," said the girl. "It was a relapse," said the young man. "I suppose I'll go right back to It, now that you've given up the Job of training me." "You'll find some one else to under take It." "Maybe. I don't know who it will be, though." - "Margaret Swoop would be glad to, I know." "She's competent," admitted the young man. "Still, I don't think it will be Margaret. You're probably mistaken about her being willing, anyway. I know It Isn't everybody that would be. I don't undervalue myself, but know my bluff at being a good fellow doesn't deceive everybody. You can't fool all the people quite nil the time, you re member. I couldn't fool you, for In stance." "You wouldn't fool anybody, as you call It. Any girl In town might be proud to have you." , "I'll give 'em a chance to be nroud. of course," said the young man. "I don't think they are" going to fall all over each other to gather me In, my self. But I need training badly enough aud I've really got to have it" "Try Margaret, then." "I will, If you say so, of course, hut I kind of had an Idea she didn't like me any too well." The girl laughed aueerlv. "Yon talnly don't Intend to lose any time about It," she said. "Why. should I?" asked the younf man. "Here I've been reforming my evil ways and snvlng money and using nice language for the last six or eight months, and I don't want to take any chances of going back to wihat I was before you took me in hand. But what are you looking so mad about?" "I'm not looking mad," protested the girl, Indignantly. "I don't think you are worth being mad at To come up here and coolly talk to me about pro posing to other girls after all you've told me, and " "But I didn't start the talk. You began It." "Of course you would blame It on to me. I should be sorry for any girl who would be foolish enough to let her self care for you. I don't believe you ever enred for me a particle and I wish I d never seen you. Go away this mln. ute !" The young man arose from his chalt and bent over the lounge. "What do. you suppose I asked yon to marry me? for if I didn't care for you?" he asked. "To train you," answered the girl In a voice muffled by a sofa cushion. "Go and get Margaret to train you. I don't care, I'm sure." The young man laid his hand gently on her shoulder, but she shook herself violently nnd he drew back. "Be-besides," said the girl, "I don't believe you meant even to propose to me. If I hadn't " The young man took something from a little case and, possessing himself nt her hand, slipped It on a certain finger. vuat ao you suppose I bought that for, then?" he said. "Now. hike head out of those cushions and look at me." The hand was unresisting, but there was no emergencvj. "P-p-perhaps you were going to see Margaret. You d-dldnt want me to rumple your hair." "Are you coming out?" Nothing more was said for nh,i three minutes. Then what was said was noiwic'. business. But before the went away his hair was beautifully' parted with a side comb. ChIca"o Dally News. The Parting the Way. "Cut out that crying!" cried th ,w perate husband. "We are at the part ing of the ways. Make your choice. Which shall go In the ash-barrel your picture post card collection or your Teddy bears?" But the problem being ton mnoh the wife, she promptly fainted. Puck. How quickly we forget the thin that have made us laugh, and how long we remember the things that havt made MM cry.
