LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
R C COLLINS. Edttw
r N IIAYDEN, Msuagu-
TOLEDO.
.OREGON
German wants to uorrow $250,000,000,
but neglects to state whether It wants
It in bills or small change.
Anthony Comstock has put his foot
down on the dlrectolre gown. We may
expect to- hear something rip presently.
cutting, and the Industry In replanting
It Is by no means certain that Japan's
forests are holding their own. If the
preservation of the forests is doubtful
there, it Is evident that depletion must
be alarmingly rapid In other countries
which cut unsparingly and plant very
little. On the other hand, it is encour
aging to see what can be done witn
rough, steep and poor land. The United
States has enough of that kind, with
out touching the rich agricultural acres,
to grow billions of feet of lumber.
It must sometimes seem strange to
David Bennett Hill that absolutely no
body Is endeavoring to drag him back
Into the political arena.
Some of these secrets of long life
would be more popular if they didn't
begin with the advice to cut out nine
tenths of the pleasures.
The explosion of an automobile tire
resulted In knocking the owner down.
It is a treacherous machine that smites
the hand that feeds it gasoline.
One hundred and sixty out of 200
seniors nt Frlnceton admit that they
have kissed girls. The other forty are
irobably giving evasive answers.
In order to simplify matters and save
time will those portions of the country
In which Mrs. Gunness has not been
seen please place themselves on rec
ord?
A new play Is called "Stubborn On
derella." Probably,' like most women,
she declared she could wear the glass
slipper, although It was three sizes too
small.
One Russian citizen accused of being
a revolutionist was acquitted In St. Pet
erslmrg yesterday. Hut we know one
judge who Is going to lose his Job when
the Czar hears of It.
An Ohio man claims to have Invented
an airship that "will stay up for
months." It will doubtless make a hit
with men who occasionally find It neces
eary to dodge their creditors.
Vu Ting-fang visited the Gunness
farm nt Laporte. Probably some of the
mandarins at home wished pointers on
how to dispose of troublesome Individ
uals who have been relieved of their
money.
To an audience of women Miss Ida
Tarbell spoke of "our common enemy
man." Now, that Is the sort of reason
ablcness thnt puts the matter on n high
plane and Is sure to convert the "com
mon enemy."
Great Britain also has Its railroad
problem. A London financial magazine
asserts that "It costs more to transport
n pound of butter to London from Ire
land than from Victoria, Australia, and
meat reaches us from Argentina nt a
lower rate thaii from ' the Scottish
Highlands."
They have a way of looking on the
bright side of things in Oklahoma
When a citizen in the arid district lost
a valuable colt by drowning a while
ago, the local newspaper commented
that It was "a fine thing to have water
enough out on the Staked Plain to
lrown a horse."
The progress of International peace
In Central America is marked. Guate
mala and Honduras are now trying to
adjudicate land dispute that a few
years ago would have been certain
cause for war. If they fnll to agree
on a settlement the matter is to be re
ferred to the Joint court of the re
public recently established. Nicaragua
Is preparing to beat her swords Into
plow-shares and her spears Into prun
ing hooks. Three out of the five ships
In her navy nre to be disarmed and
leased to a commercial company for
the transfer of passengers and freight.
If the problems of International peace
can be thus worked out by these na
tions, why not by the larger peoples of
he world?
in tnese times or great drains on
the timber supply, caused by the hepvy
demand for forest products of all kinds,
Americans may see In Japan an exaiu
pie of what can be done in growing
wimxI on small plots. That country eon
tains twenty-one million wood lots,
about three-fourths of which belong to
prlvnte persons and one-fourth to com
munes. The average size of the plots
Is less than nine-tenths of an acre.
They usually occupy the steepest
roughest, poorest ground. In this way
land Is put to use which would other
wise go to waste, and If unwooded
would lose Its soil by the wash of the
dashing rnlns. From Japan's wood lots,
the yearly yield of lumler is about
eighty-eight feet, board measure, per
acre, and three-fourths of a cord of fire
wood. In many cases the yield Is inuc
higher. More thnn half a billion trees
nre planted yenrly to make up what Is
cut for hnnlier and fuel. Assessment
for taxation Is low, averaging for the
twenty-one minion lots less than a dol
Jar an acre. With all the care In
The success . of Governor Hughes'
campaign for the repeal and amend
ment of statutes under which betting
within race track Inclosures was an
act without criminal penalties In New
York State probably means the end of
the "racing game" as It has been here
tofore played In the United States.
An end has beeu put to a real and
strong effort to make the sport of
horse racing socially respectable to
ameliorate the known evils connected
with it to make It a decent amuse
ment for those who felt that they
cojld afford to Indulge in it. Very
large property values have been nffect
ea. It is estimated that horseflesh
which for the purposes of the game
was worth $20,0(10,000 may now be
worth from one-fifth to one-tenth of
that amount. O titer uses will have to
be found for lands occupied by tracks
and for buildings on them valued for
their recent uses at $27,000,000 and
Immediately worth for other purposes
very much less. The owners of this
property have, of course, no right to
complain. This was a chance they took
when they put their money Into It. It
Is a well established principle of
American law thut when the sovereign
people become of the opinion thnt an
occupation or amusement is dangerous
to public health or morals they may
by due process of law put an end to It.
The people of the State of New York
would seem to have become of that
opinion with respect to a form of sport
which, , Its advocates have contended,
cannot exist unless people are permit
ted to make wagers over it. The ap
peal was made directly to them by
Governor Hughes. Whether or not the
law should be changed was made the
Issue In a district where a special elec
tion was necessary. And every mem
ber of the Legislature was virtually
forced to Inquire and decide how his
constituents wished him to vote. The,
was no "referendum" In legal form,
but there was one In moral fact. Horse
men all over the United States have
received a heavy blow In the New
York law. Kentucky, for example, has
millions of dollars invested in breed-
ng farms for the production and train
ing of thoroughbreds. The New York
lnw strikes this industry directly, and
owners and breeders estimate that they
face tremendous losses in the depre
ciation of their holdings. For with no
racing In New York their principal
WEST WANTS MORE CABINET MEMBERS.
By J. B. Case.
There are certain big things to which I be
lieve the great trans-Mississippi section is
Justly entitled, regardless of party or partisan
politics. It should have either the President
or the Vice President of the United States.
The Secretary of the Interior, whose pur
pose is to deal with the States lying almost
wholly west of the Mississippi river, should
be a resident there, and thus be practically
and personally familiar with the conditions of that sec
tion. .
The Secretary of Agriculture, now a resident of Iowa,
who has' most to do with the country west of the Mis
sissippi river, should continue to be a resident thereof.
Then the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the
Treasury or the Postmaster General should also be a
resident of the trans-Mlsslssippl country. One cabinet
ofllcer should be taken from a Southern State.
This, Instead of making the President's cabinet larje
ly a group of gentlemen' whose homes have been since
youth along the Atlantic coast and whose deepest In
terests are there, would give us In that cabinet practical
men with a thorough knowledge of the conditions and
necessities of the West and South. Such a cabinet would
cany with It the very Influence that we need before the
national Congress, and would enable us to stand on a
level with the rich and powerful East in obtaining these
things that make for real prosimi-Ity and advancement.
FEDERAL REGULATION NOT NEEDED.
By Ex-Attorney General Harmon.
Two excuses are advanced for federal Intru
sion into State affairs. One is that the States
do too little and the other is that some of them
do too much In the way of railroad and cor
porate regulation and other corrective meas
ures. These are not contradictory, as they
might at first appear, because there may be
both too little usid too much public Interfer
ence with the conduct of business,' and both
are harmful, though my inherited and acquired ideas
both lead me to fear the too much more than I fear the
too little.
It is often hard to draw the line between useful regu
lation and harmful meddling, and harder still to have
that line respected wheu politics unfortunately becomes
Involved with questions relating to business, and public
feeling is aroused. A great many tilings are none the
less home affairs because they may be or become re
motely related to commerce among the States, the regu
lation of which Is granted exclusively to Congress. If
the federal authority should be extended over all of
these the States would soon become mere regions.
The pretext for such extension of power is that rail
roads, telegraphs, etc., have brought about the commer
cial unity of the States. Hut this Is no reason at all,
because such commercial unity was the very object in
view In framing the clause which gives to Congress the
exclusive power to regulate commerce among the States;
and as the clause accomplishes the purpose Intended, why
should anybody seek to twist it out of shape by forced
construction? ,
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PROBLEM FOR THE BOY'S FATHER.
By John A. Howland.
That father who at the present time looks
about the prospective fields of specialization
li'. behalf of his young son confronts a situa
tion which is perplexing. Long ago the world
began to prepare for specializing In human
occupations. As the sum of human knowledge
grew the fact obtruded that for one man to
learn and execute a one man's work to the
best advantage he should master a specialty
which would be a linking part in a whole structure in
which many specialists each had a builder's place.
Whatever that arbitrary subdividing may be, how
ever, It will be accepted as economic lnw. To-day no
farmer within reach of markets would depend upon the
old general farming for profit, no matter how his father
may have scorned the introduction of the agricultural
school twenty years ago. In the same manner the doctor
who to-day specializes In diseases of the "eye. ear and
throat" may live to see the Impossibility of his young
son's embracing half so much as a profession. Nor can
this same specialist say with certainty that In the next
Utsuly-flve yearn such illscuoe groups may not disappear
altogether. These are suggestions only. They have a
rightful bearing upon the family and community life as
subjects for thought.
AMERICA NEVER BETTER OFF THAN NOW.
By Former Gov. Odell of Pew York.
Our government, which has ex
isted for over a century and a quar
ter, is Just as good to-day hs it
was in the beginning. Our people
are as patriotic and as capable of
government as ever in cur history,
but we have a genu which induces
men not to commit murder exactly,
but to wallow In a trough of blasted
reputations.
Too much credence Is given rumors
and too little to facts. It requfred
great courage to build railroads
through an unpeopled country; it
required all Hamilton's geulus to
devise laws for the encouragement of industries; It re
quired liberal Interpretations of our constitution to make
our country great, and nothing has been accomplished
without abuse and criticism; ami yet, as history makes
heroes of our forefathers, so will the future give to our
capable captains of Industry other titles than "robber
barons."
EX-GOV. ODELL.
CHICAGO'3 COLISEUM.
Taft
tlon obtains wherever race horses are
bred.
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Unlucky Bnlldlns in Which
Wax Nominated.
Chicago's Coliseum, at Wabnsh ave
nue and 15th street, the building In
which the Republican national con-
vention was held, has been an 111-
"ated structure.
FAULTY. On Auc. 28. 180!). two davs nfter
ihe last of the enormous arched gird
That the general educational system ers of iron had been put into place,
in use in the United States Is faulty"11 of tnei. 12 in number, fell like a
is the belief of President Arthur H.row f 10 P'"s. crushing out the lives
Hadley of Yale University. His posi-of nl,1 workmen and causing property
tion is tlmt the idea of giving all stu-1"""1 of $30,000. The girders,
dents the same kind of Instruction Is which rench from one side of the build
altogether wrong. ln8 to the other and which constitute
"Different men need different meth tne sole support of the vaulted roof.
ods of instruction," says President hnd beon Placed, but not securely fas-
Ilodley. "I would like to see courses
Commissioner Williams ordered the
Coliseum closed on the theory that It
was, at least technically, unsafe. It did
not have frontage on three streets or
alleys, as provided for buildings of
that class. This objection was over
come and the building reopened. Since
thnt time It has been used as the Madi
son Square Garden of Chicago.
Three years before the collapst of
the present Coliseum a high wind blew
down the framework of one that was
being built in GM street to serve the
same purpose. When this first Coli
seum was demolished there was no
loss of life.
some time. We all think' she's Improv
ing.' "I Just meant I hoped she'd drop Iti
some time when there were folks here,
and we were having music. But she
took it that I meant I was sorry she
couldn't hear. Did you ever?
"Well, she up and remarked, verj
loftily indeed, 'I think she's improving,
too, Mrs. Kussell. I was going by this
morning, and heard her plavlng way
out on the sidewalk, and she seemed to
have real touch real touch!"
A Delicate Tonch.
Old Miss Burbee was very deaf, and
very sensitive about .her infirmity.
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JLJh CHICAGO'S GHEAT COLISEUM.
PRESIDENT HADLEY OF YALE.
tened. While the entire forec of men
were nt work nt 4 o'clock In the after
noon the most northerly girder fell to-
; ward the south. It carried the next
of study divided into three groups. I one, and all 12 went down with a crash
would make u scientific, a literary and 't was heard throughout the central
a practical group and assign pupils to business section of the city.
them as their talents suggest." No adequate reason for the fall of
Hadley Is one of the foremost edu t,1(! R'nrs and Its consequent loss of
cators of the country. He Is not ofllfo was given further than the the
the general type of college presidents. orJ' that a traveling crune used for
He Is a small, bearded man, and hasllfllllS ,ron l,,''s hod become loosen
the smile of the good fellow and the e(1 "nrt allowed to pull against the
handshake of the politician. When fll-Ht Brder- Attr the accident the
Hadley begins to talk things education- (filers were replaced and the building
al you see at once why and through was completed s rapidly as possible,
what he achieved distinction. He gets Attcr tlle Irwiuois Theater disaster,
away from beaten paths. He has Ideas tlmt C0Rt ,i0 llveg. In Janunry. I004
of his own, and he Is neither afraid U ',ml "roused the Chicago building olll
express them uor put thein to work. clal t0 unwonted activity, Building
Such was her natural cleverness and
Ingenuity, however, that she usually
escaped from serious embarrassment;
und she always so. vehemently scorned
ear trumpets and devices of mechanical
nature that her friends no longer dared
to suggest them to her. But on one
occasion things went not according to
schedule. v
"She came In to borrow some mag
nzines yesterday," said Mrs. Kussell,
who lived next door, "Just after the
piano tuner had gone. He'd been here
all the morning, making such an out
rageous racket that I felt sure even
Miss BuglxK! would be annoyed. But
she hadn't been, not a mite.
"I said to her, 'Miss Bugbee, I wish
you could hear my daughter Sarah play
Poet, Not Knrtner.
The Farfleld Grange was holding its
midwinter meeting, the topic for dis
cussion being poultry. The president
of the society had prided himself on
having arranged for a large variety of
papers, which, taken together, would
completely exhaust the information of
the community regarding hens. Ques
tions of food, of iortable houses, of
packing eggs and of Incubators had all
been adequately treated. At last the
president announced, "Mr. Ethan Noble
will read a paper entitled, 'An Even
ing in the Poultry Yard.' "
He was a slight young man, ana
there was n little stir of amusement
among the farmers as he rose, for
Ethan's trials with chickens were fast
becoming village tradition.
"There Is no place In the world," be
gan the reoder, "more poetic, and I
may say inspiring, to thoughts that a
poultry yard lu the evening. It Is nfter
the sun has set and the roosters and
hens are all sitting on their nests. The
evening air is deeply scented with dew.
From the river winding in silvery
curves ndown the vlen comes the sug
gestion of repose, of quiet, of the in
finite restlessness of the universe. Now
and then are heard the squeaking of
the chicks In their nests or the scratch
ing of some little one trying to break
forth from her shell. As I lean on the
parapet I reflect on the young, fresh
life about me "
When the rending was over, a sturdy
citizen leaned forward in his seat.
"Ethan," he said, confidentially, hut
loud enough for nil to hear, "I never
knew before why you bought eggs, but
I do now-"
Anatomy.
The Professor Some of you geitle
men are not giving me your closest at
tention. Mr. Biggs, what do you find
under the kidneys?
Future M. D. Toast, sir. Puck.
Some men make both ends meet by
dining on oxtail soup and beef tongue