LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
RE COLLINS, tailor
r N HAYDEN, Manager
TOLEDO : OREGON
Lord Tweedmouth's name Is now pro
nounced with the acceut on tlie last
.yllable.
Sir Oliver Lodge says he has really
talked with spirits. Spirits make lots
of men talk.
The New York magistrate who sen
tenced two youngsters to Sunday school
evidently has grim recollections.
An expert geologist says that Ni
agara Falls may disappear if the pow
er companies are not checked. Tumi
where will the bridal couples go to?
The prediction that the Panama Ca
nal will be opened in 1915 ought to
prove an Incentive to live that long, if
possible, just to see if it's a good guess.
A Boston hodcarrler has become a
knight Good hod carriers may be re
lied upon to rise in this world, though
not so swiftly as elevator conductors.
One man has thrown np a $250,000
a year Job Just because of ill health.
It looks a bit strange that a man mak
ing all that money finds time to get
let
The Shah of Persia fooled the would
be assassins by riding in a carriage
some distance back of the royal auto
mobile. It must be a gay life that he
leads.
A Boston policeman arrested a man
for flatting while trying to whistle the
wait from 'The Merry Widow." But
why should the policeman have waited
until the whistler flatted?
Two thousand errors were found in
the books of a California bank by the
examiners. The. bookkeepers in that
Institution must be in the habit of
playing baseball during the summer.
It was very unkind of Hudson Max
im to announce his Invention of a tor
pedo boat which will revolutionize
naval warfare, Just when the Navy
Department. Is asking for four new
battleships.
The pathos of the situation In which
the 18-year-old King of Portugal finds
himself has been nowhere better indi
cated than in his own remark the day
after the tragedy: "Yesterday I was
taking music lessons; how can I be
king to-day V
Young men in certain part of Wash
ington State are charged with under
mining the foundation of our liberties,
the public schools. The authorities
Import school mistresses, and the bach
, el on capture them for wives. The
young men ought to pay the school com
mittees for their service a matrimo
nial agents.
.. Gov. Hughes of New York, discuss
ing the need of enforcing the constitu
tional provision against race-track
gambling in that State, remarked the
other day that opponents of the propos
ed reform have had much to say about
Improving the breed of horses, but
that he was In favor of doing all that
be could to Improve the breed of men,
He does not think that the best way to
develop a first class man is to teach the
boy to bet on horse races.
The Insect pest appears sometimes In
the rather attractive role of a prompter
of enterprise. "The chlnchbug brought
flax to Missouri," we are told, and In
the same way the grasshopper helped
to introduce the castor-bean. Flax and
beans are foods that the Invaders, re
spectively, refused to eat The net
gain seems to be on the side of Mis
souri, which earned it, of course. Oth'
er communities have had like experi
ences. Whenever It comes to a point
where either the bug or the man must
go hungry, the biped generally climbs
out of his rut, puts on bis thinking cap
and successfully plans bard times for
the Insect
It is not denied that there should be
divorce laws in the country. It seems
innuinan to compel two Dersons
maintain a nominal state of matrimony
when they are wholly estraneed.
the two persons were alone concerned
there would be little objection to the
most liberal laws. But there are gen
erslly children to be considered and ai
all times the general state of society.
Property Interests and the general w
fare are affected by divorces and they
hould only be granted when there is
sufficient reason. It Is because of the
Tast and complex Interests which a
or may be Involved that a federal law
on the subject Is to be desired. There
are many titles to property In this
country clouded by reason of our many
and varying State laws on the subject
Society Is based on the marriage rela
tion and it should be kept ns Inviolate
J la possible. When the bonds must
be severed It should be done openly
and with full knowledge of all of the
circumstances. And If so many people
did not marry thoughtlessly there
would be fewer cases in the divorce
courts.
An Immigration law with restrictive
features was apjiroved March. 4, 1903,
and another Feb. 20, 1907. Both of
them, forbade the admission of anar
chists as well as of various other class
es of persons. According to the records
of the Immigration commissioner one
anarchist was debarred In each of the
fiscal years 1904, 1905 and 1900. No
anarchists were debarred In 1907, but
almost twice as many aliens were re
jected in that year as in the year 1904.
We give the record for four years:
1904,- 7,994 ; 1905, 11,879-; 1900, 12,432 ;
1907, 13,004. The number of persons
returned within three years after land
ing was : 1904, 479 ; 1905, 747 ; 1900,
615; 1907, 025. A statement for the
fiscal year 1907 will Indicate how the
causes of exclusion operate. The
largest number of persons debarred
come under the classification "paupers
or likely to become public charges."
The total for the year was 6,800. Oth
er classes follow: Loathsome or dan
gerous contagious diseases, 3,822; con
tract laborers, 1,434; convicts, 342; In
sane persons? 189; under provisions of
Chinese exclusion act, 160 ; without
passport, 60; Idiots, 29; prostitutes,
18; polygamlsts, 10; persons who pro
cure or attempt to bring in prostitutes,
1; accompanying aliens, 134. As we
Lave betsii liiele Were UO anu!.ulsi3 &ud
there were no assisted Immigrants. In
noting the increase of exclusion be
tween 1904 and 1907 it should, of
course, be rembered that there has
been a large Increase of Immigration,
but the rate of Increase Is larger In
the former case than in the latter. We
should Judge, therefore, that earnest
efforts bad been made to enforce the
restrictive "features of the laws. As
regards anarchists there Is now an
order from the Secretary of the De
partment of Commerce and Labor
which directs immigration officials to
confer with the police of their respect
ive jurisdictions with the purpose of
securing "their co-operation In an effort
to rid the country of alien anarchists
and criminals falling within the law re
lating to deportation." Special atten
tion is called to the fact that the per
sons indicated are amenable, to depor
tation within three years after they
enter the country.
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PUBLIC OPINION AND THE PRESS.
By Charles J. Bonaparte.
The press makes each community
acquainted with its neighbor. And,
as we know other men better, we
recognize the more thoroughly and
readily their likeness to ourselves,
and, as a consequence, the universal
application of underlying moral laws
amidst all diversities of national or
local custom or prejudice.. It Is the
exercise of this common moral stand
ard which qualifies the press for its
highest and most useful function.
After all. the most effectivo
ment of coercion possessed by society against Its dan
gerous members is the Influence of public opinion.
The, first duty of the press Is to hold up before the
people a faithful mirror ; if it display distorted pictures
It fatally betrays Its trust No worthy end was ever
accomplished through deception, whether of ourselves or
others. If we are threatened by overshadowing dangers,
to escape them we must first see them, and see them as
they are. Americans can say with confidence : "We will
know the truth and the truth shall make us free."
C. J. BONAPARTE.
A.
J3H0ULD A WOMAN GENIUS FAIL IN LOVE!
By inurgucrliv G. BSgeiuw.
Nowadays, when many of our brightest and
best women are refusing to marry, evidently
preferring artistic and professional work, there
is a great hue and cry raised that education
has made women less loving, that to be bril
liant and widely useful to society is to be un
womanly, and that to love art makes It im
possible, to love a man.
No woman of real eenlus and iwwr vor
refused love for art, and no man ever did. -The men of
genius have been men of love, and will be always. It Is
equally true of women. Only the false lights guide ns
Into barren and dark depths of lovelessness. The ques
tion of a choice between them should never have been
raised either for men or for 'women, and never would
have been save for the mandates of tradition, and these
mandates were of course founded upon an economic ne
cessity aud social pressure that no longer exists. There
will never be a woman of lofty genius who is not also a
woman of lofty love, and when she comes who Is able to
speak tho great and as yet unspoken woman word to
all mankind, she wlll.be the truest woman of us all.
And when the woman spirit and the woman love are met
with the man spirit and the man love. In the persons of
one man and one woman, we shall have songs and pic
tures, poems and creations manifesting the huge genius
of the universe, publishing it in all perfection for the
good of ull.
SHOULD WOMAN SUE FOB BREACH OF PROMISE?
By ,R. E. Noble.
What are the motives that usually Inspire
the girl jilted in love to seek consolation for
her disappointed feelings In a breach of prom
ise action? Briefly, they range themselves
within the threefold division of pecuniary
greed, revenge and vanity. The main object
which the law has in view in permitting this
class of case Is no doubt to obtain pecuniary
comDensation for the oersonal affront offered
by a promise which has not been redeemed.'
In a breach of promise action the law is but vindi
cating its right of enforcing a contract; and a privilege
afforded throughout the world of commerce in every
other, form of contract ought not to fall in the matter of
love. This is to be prosaic on a matter of sentiment,
but the law is adamantine and no respecter of persons
or feellnga
Some shrewd observers have declared that the fact
that plaintiffs almost always seem to belong to the middle
class society Is proof conclusive that there is a jrMt 1"
of dignity in bringing such an action.
It is well for human nature that natural pride comes
to the rescue In heartaches. On the whole, it Is probable
that with advance In general refinement and the spread
of education these actions will become fewef In number.
TOO MANY COLLEGE PROFESSORS, (
By Prot. Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard.
The American student has, to an extraordi
nary degree, all the elements of mental com
position necessary to most scholarly achieve
ments, lie has the brightness, the steadiness",
the keenness, the patience, the energy, which,
taken together, would make the most magnifi
cent contribution to the scholarship of the
world. One of the greatest evils from which
our American universities suffer i tan crrpfi i
an abundance of men.
As soon as an institution gets some money the first
thought Is to add more men to the faculty to outdo some
neighboring institution. Every one of our American unl
versltles would be nearer to the Ideal if It would kit
two-thirds of Its Instructors and professors.
Anything bnt Cook-Stove.
In the early days of the settlement
of New England the custom of sending
packages by nelghlwrs who journeyed
to different parts of the country was
an established one. The note-book of
Schoolmaster Hawley, of Northampton,
Massachusetts, when be started on nj
trip to Boston, Vas filled with such
varied items as: "Captain Partridge, a
dial, and a dish kettle," "son Joseph,
speckled red ribbon, whistles, buckles
and fish books," "a shilling worth of
plumb and spice," "2 psalters, a bason
and a quart pot" In "Old Paths and
Legends of the New England Border"
Katherlne M. Abbott says that it was
the same even as late as Judge Lyman'
day; his daughter, Mrs. Lesley, writes
of it In "Recollections of My Mother'
There were no expresses then, and so
when It was known in the village of
Northampton that Judge and Mrs. Ly
man were going to Boston and they
always took pains to make It known a
throng of neighbors were coming In the
whole evening before, not only to take
an affectionate leave, but to bring par
cels of every size and shape, and com
missions of every variety.
One came with a dress she wanted
to send to a daughter at school; one
brought patterns of dry goods, with a
request that Mrs. Lyman would pur
chase and bring home dresses for a
family of five. And would she go to
the orphan asylum and see if a good
child of ten could be bound out to an
other neighbor? Would Mrs. Lyman
bring the child back with her?
The neighbors walked Into the li
brary, where the packing was going on,
and when all the family trunks were
filled my father called out heartily,
"Here, Hiram, bring down another
trunk from the garret, the largest you
can find, to hold all these parcels!"
A little boy came timidly In with a
bundle nearly as large ns himself, ami
"would this be too large for Mrs. Ly
man to carry to grandmother?"
, "No, Indeed. Tell your mother I'll
carry anything short of a cooking
stove."
"Another trunk, niram," said my
father, "and ask the driver to wait five
minutes."
Those were the times when people
could wait five minutes for a family so
well known and beloved. Our driver
had only to whip up his horses a (Jttle
faster.
KILLED BY A "BARE."
Safe.
Eloper (In a loud whisper) Are you
sure the rope ladder Is firmly attached?
Eloperess Oh, yea . I won't fall.
Papa and mamma are at the top hold
ing it Cleveland Leader.
You can't blame a dressmaker for
wanting to work on pay trains.
Orthography plays a larger part in
the universe of literature than Is per
haps admitted. A child's artless at
tempts at spelling are refreshing and
enjoyable to the mature mind, jaded
with monotonous accuracy. ' A little
variation rom the accepted mode Is
refreshing. ' Bad spelling which Is
studied and deliberate is, however, sel
dom amusing because it Is so obviously
the result of an effort; but such spell
ing as distinguishes the journal of Ja
cob Fowler, written In 1821, Is so spon
taneous and natural that It provokes a
smile even when used to describe a
tragedy.
While we ware Picking grapes a
Gun Was fyered off and the Cry of a
White Bare Was rased. We Ware all
around In an Instant and Each man
Run his own Cors to look for the des
peret anemal.
The Bare lay Close until they Ware
In a few feet of it When it Sprung up
and Caught Lewis and Pulled Him
down. In an Instant A large dog
which belongs .to the Party atacted
the Bare with such fury that it left
the man. be got up and Run a few
steps but Was overtaken by the Bare.
I was my Self down .the Crick and
Heard the dredfull Screems of the
man. nolng the distance W as so grate
I Cold not get there in time to Save the
man It Is Easier to Emaglne my feel
lings than discribe them But before I
got to the place of action the Bare
Was klled.
It appeers the mans head Was in the
Bares mouth at least twice and When
the monster give the Crush that Was
to mash the mans head It being too
large for the Span of His mouth the
head Sllped out only the teeth Tore
the Skin to the bone.
The Wounds Ware Sewed up as well
as Cold be done Hsvelng no Surgon.
the man still held his under Standing
but Said I am klled I heard my Skul
Brake, he spoke Chearfully on the
Subject, he lived till the third day.
after doing all We Cold for the man
We turned our atentlon to the Bare
and found HI in a large fatt anemal.
SPEAKS FORTY LANGUAGES.
Wl Colton Woold Have Been "It"
t Tower of Ilnhel.
Miss Elizabeth S. Colton of East
hampton, Mass., has returned to this
country after a year's absence In Indln,
She has achieved the honor of being
known as the champion linguist of the
world.
Miss Coiton's fattier, the late Rev.
A. M. Colton, was pastor of the First
Ooncregatlonal church at kasthampton
for more than twenty-five years. Whenj
a. young woman Miss Colton went
abroad to study vocal music and later
was teacher of this branch at the
Farmlngton (Conn.) seminary tor girls.
uuring this time she first became In
terested in oriental lanenaees tlhroueh
contact with several pupils from the
rar East This Interest soon became
a passion, and she has since devoted
most of her time to the acquisition of
the different tongues. She has been
for many years a fluent user of the ro
mance languages, such as Italian, Span
ish and French.
Her elementary training In the east
ern languages was obtained In Yale
college and she was looked upon as a
MISS ELIZABETH 8. COLTON.
prodigy there. During her studies at
Yale she became acquainted with Prof.
Frank K. Sanders, dean of the theolog
ical seminary, who had spent three
years In India, and while In Berlin
studying Miss Colton was Invited to
join him In a trip to India to engage
In the study of Sanscrit and other east
ern languages. They have been In the
mountains on the borderland of Afghan
istan, where the first articulate speech
is supposed to have originated.
Miss Colton speaks .forty languages
fluently, Including the most difficult in
the world to learn, such as Chinese
Pall, Avestan, Sanscrit, Hebrew, Syri
an, Assyrian, Arabic and Persian. No
other linguist bas ever been known to
speak more than thirty-three tongues.
For Mother.
Don't forget that yoii are, or ought
to be, your children's Ideal of all that
is perfection, and that" it is your duty
to live up to their Ideals in every pos
sible way. Not an easy task, but won
derfully Inspiring.
People grow so suspicious with years
that If a man bears that a brother ho
has not seen In twenty years Is coming
to see him, he says, "Now yhut does he
want?"
Novel Uaea of lee.
A government expert has devised k
novel method of keeping a car or com
partment comparatively warm In zero
weather; not by fire, but bv th ioni
zation of ice, says the National Provi
sioned A well Insulated car Is fitted
each end with four galvanized Iron cyl
inders reaching from the floor to the
top of the car. In summer these cylin
ders are filled with ice and salt to
keep the car cool. In winter they are
filled wth Ice to keep the -contents of
the car from freezing.
Ice Is nominally at a temperature 01
32 degrees Fahrenheit and Is a sub
stance that changes temperature reluct
antly, being a poor conductor of heat
or cold. Consequently when zero
weather prevail outside the cylinders
of relatively warm Ice prevent the es
cape of heat, in other words they main
tain the temperature within the car.
Another method whereby ice Is em
ployed for protection against cold con
sists In throwing a plentiful stream of
water on the car when the temperature
Is near zero point, which freezes at
once and forms a complete coat over
the car. The action of this Ice Is the
same as In the- case of the cylinders
filled with Ice. A similar plan Is fre
quently ndopted in the transportation
of bananas, a fruit particularly sus
ceptible to cold.
He Met Shorty.
Nicknames are sometimes deceptive
things, and they are oftentimes ex
tremely funnny. I was In a small town
not many miles south of Boston, and,
asking for a certain piece of informa
tion, I was Informed by several that
"Shorty" could give It to me, and he
seemed to be the only man who could
Not knowing Just who "Shorty" was
I made further inquiries, and was told
that he could be found In the store
Just across the square.
"Just ask for 'Shorty,'" I wns told.
"Anyone will show him to you."
I went over to the itore as directed
and looked vainly about for some on
who might answer the name. Only one
man was present, and be was almost a
seven-footer, After looking about
moment I started to leave.
"Lookln' for some one, stranger?" he
observed.
"Yes, I'm looking for 'Shortv'" T
told him. i
A broad grin overspread his face,
"Guess you've got him," he mur-
mured. "I'm your man." Boston
Traveler.
how
Setting Him Right.
He Tell me, confidentially,
mucn aid tne iwnnet cost you?
She-George, there Is but one way In
which yon con obtain the right to In.
spect my millinery bills.
He popped.