Lincoln County leader., September 18, 1908, Image 2

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
R r COLLINS, Edttar
f N MAYDEN, Manacw
TOLEDO... OREGON
It's a wise wife who knows her own
husband.
Do not put on style at the expense of
your friends.
Usually the man who believes In pay
Dg as be goes stays at home.
People never help a man blow his
horn because they like 'the music.
If love were Intoxicating there would
be fewer members of the V. C. T. U.
Most of the men behind the bars be
lieved at one time that they were
clever.
,It keeps some people broke dressing
well enough to make others think they
are not.
Getting In touch with men of affairs
is a good thing if they will stand fur
the touch.
When the averoge wotuan has trouble
with ber head she consults a milliner
Instead of a doctor.
A good many men have the courage
of their convictions simply because they
have never been convicted.
As a rule the world doesn't pay much
attention to a man whose wife claims
to have made him what he la
It Is only a matter of five or six
years from perambulator to roller
skates. Thus do we sweetly go the
pace.
If It Is true that a woman must now
be very slender to he fashionable, we
see a great many every day who have
?one out of style.
Another good thing about the weath
er Is that If there weren't any, people
would probably spend even more time
talking about their neighbors.
Tq refer to the killing of one prize
fighter by another In the ring as "an
accident" brings to mind tho fnct that
he English language Is Inadequate.
Brazil denies that she Is building a
navy for Japan, and Richmond Pearson
Ilohson will herenfter look upon Brazil
ns flie destroyer of one of his most
cherished fears.
From Maine comes word of the cap
ture of a sea serpent "with n tale-four
feet long." Must lie a mere Infant, for
most sea serpents' tales are several
thousand words long.
The University of Chicago has se
cured the skeleton of a huge' sea ser
pent which died In Kansas six million
years ago. Can It be possible that the
liquor question was an Issue In the Sun
flower State as far back as that?
Piano dealers have recently agreed
no longer to accept square pianos In ex
change for new ones. The square In
strument has not been manufactured
for several yeurs, and it will soon be
as completely obsolete as the high bicy
cle. Some of the old "square-grands"
are fine Instruments, and continue to
make music In many homes, They
have an honorable association, for
many of tho greatest composers lived
-hen there was no other kind.
Manchuria proved to be the grave of
military reputations, as far as the Rus
sian army was concerned. Stoessel,
who came out as he "hero of Port
Arthur," Is hi disgrace and will never
command again. Kuropatkin Is old
and In poor health ; but, having failed
to make a telling stroke against the
Japanese, he would not In any event be
trusted with high command again In
case of war. Llnevltch. the one leader
of the conlllct who held tho confidence
of his government and of the troops
at the end, died recently nt the age
of 70. Had be lived he would not
have taken the field as a leader, and
Russia would have to trust her for
' tunes to new men. Pcrhnps some mas
ter soldier whose name has never come
to the front was developed in the late
war, for there was good fighting at
Mukden. Llnevltch believed that he
had the Japanese practically whipped
there. He repulsed several heavy at
tacks and suffered but little loss in
doing so. It may be that among his
subordinates on that Ijard-fought field
there was a Stonewall Jacksou or n
Phil Sheridan competent to lead the
rmy to victory when war comes again
Loren Coburn, a poor old millionaire
wiio is fighting for his estate and his
reputation for sanity In the CnilPta af
lied wood City, Cal., says: "I am like
many another man who, after aequlrjng
property iy his own efforts, finds hi
relatives sitting around like a l..r n
vultures waiting for him to nasi awnv
and, when he does not go soon enough
to suit them, trying some othei way of
putting him aside." Coburn Is sane
enough In saying that his case is not
an uncommon one. Many a rich man
does not die soon enough to suit either
his relatives or a large part of the in
directly interested population at large.
Why should riches the power to do
good and to make progress be concen
trated In an old mun lacking in energ
and enterprise and without anything
else save those riches? Why shouldn't
the rising generation covet a hoard that
is useless and an obstacle to progress
and development? Is It at all unnat
ural that the affection of even close
relatives, as well as the regard of oth
ers, should weaken toward one who
exclusively and selfishly possesses ten
times more than all that old age re
quires in the way of necessities and
comforts? Greed the passion foi
great possessions is largely an animal
trait Give one cow of a drove all the
fodder and her very calves will assist
in horning her over the fence. There
Is more than "one millionaire In this
country who will say that, while old
Coburn may be as sane as Solomon on
all other subjects, he has been crazy
as a bedbug to believe that he could
have his millions and the sincere love
of those about him." While he was
gathering those millions, Coburn was
hatching those "vultures" by incubator
heated by envy, and envy and love are
deadly foes. But the very rich men of
our times are learning that there are
several severe penalties that go with
the amassing of great fortunes. A mnu
u liu bus Kpeut his liie piling up one mil
lion on another, whether honestly or
by craft of questionable character, very
often wakes up, in his closing days, to
find not only that loved ones have be
come "vultures" sitting on the fence
gloating over his dying kicks, or giving
him a peck to hasten his dying, but
that he has done a deadly wrong to
those nearest to him, his children, ne
has stunted his progeny. , He has
taught them that happiness lies In pos
session instead of effort, and that de
velopment consists in acquiring more
millions Instead of growth of brain,
heart and character. He has given
them no knowledge of true friendship
and unselfish love, and their whole
journey through life lies between two
rows of "vultures" who are waiting for
them to die, or for the wheel of Fate
to make them helpless vagabonds. At
20 years of age, all luxuries have palled
upon them, and there is nothing new,
rresu, bright and Interesting 'left in
life. .And they become "vultures" to
kill hliu dead legally, If he doesn't phy-
sieally die soon enough to suit. Poor,
miserable old millionaire Coburn!
Nothing but money, and his beloved
vultures" hot after that!
GOING TO SCHOOL IN BURMA. 1
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WOMEN AND COLLEGE EDUCATION.
By President Eliot ot Harvard.
The main object of the higher ed-.
ucatlon of women has not been kept
sufficiently in view. Of course, there
are other objects, plenty of them
training for the professions; train
lug for all the varieties of work
that women are .now engaging In ;
training for all that enjoyment and
usefulness that come with knowl
edge of the fine arts, and with ap
preciation of the artistic spirit, arid
of what the artistic spirit can da
PREsiuiLisT kliot. for the activities of a nation. It
Is woman to whom falls in greater part the training of
the population in the sense of beauty and in appreciation
of the worth of beauty.
Who keeps the flowers blooming in the average house
lot? Who fills the one southern window with plants in
tin cans and broken pieces of crockery? Who engages
the florist to keep the rich house filled with flowers
through all the seasons? For whom are the beautiful ob
jects in the rich home produced and set forta? Always
by and for the woman. Who teaches the little children
to enjoy the beauties of nature and of art? Always, or
almost always, the woman.
I look forward, therefore, to the future of the higher
education for women as a great Influence in the perfect
ing of family life, of civic life, of household Joy and good.
Harper's Bazur.
ADVANTAGES OP BEING EICH.
By Ada May Krecker.
If riches have worth at all' it is in relieving
the mind of thoughts of money. It is in letting
soul and sense freely flower unlmprlsoned. by
paltry pennies. The ignominy of poverty is
the barbarous necessity of interpreting all one's
experience in terms of dimes and dollars; of
counting pennies over food, shelter, amuse
ments, charities, everything; of choosing evil
things for luck of pennies to get the good. It
is vulgar thus to do violence to one's taste, to one's deli
cacy, elegance, ease. ' It is vulgar to solace us with soft
sentiments instead of expressing ourselves with art and
beauty. It is vulgar to starve our souls by denying them
what they require, to chain them to earth when they are
wlngedlto fly to heaven. For piteous as are poverty's de
formities of the body, her ravages on the life of the soul
are sadder. By ugliness and squalor the heart is bru
talized, the sou! scarred. Millions of men and women
1 are crippled, stultified, diseased of mind and morals by
reason of their beggary.
Less Idle, as the world Is now ordered, are the conso
lations of philosophy and religion. There Is no lot, how
ever bose and paltry, but yields fantastically lavish
compensation to an heroic heart.. And there is no soul
so mean but buds and flowers In some beauty .peculiar
to itself, be its environs as they will. When the civilized
man so attunes his life to his surroundings, so har
monizes organism to environment that each responds per
fectly to the other, his pitiful battles for existence will
come to an end. Wealth will abound. Trivial toll will
supply all the gentlo luxuries he needs, and bis superb
mental and spiritual forces will be set at leisure to en
gage in those noble exercises which are their proper and
worthy employment
MISSION OF AET TO UPLIFT MAN.
By Jean Delvllle.
There perhaps never has been a period la
the history of man or in the annals of art
when nature was more beloved and more ap
preciatively studied than by the poets and men
of science and artists of our own time. And
unquestionably this has had a fruitful influ
ence In many ways upon the modern mind and
the sensibilities of mankind as a whole. But
wo are too greatly fascinated by the visible,
too easily led away by their Immediate and objective
side of things, and thus lose sight of their inner mean
ing,, mysterious and divine.
The beautiful, the good and the true are harmonious
in nature, and the glory of art consists in making this
harmony apparent. Left to themselves, the uncultivated
grasp only what strikes their grosser senses; they see
nature under its ugliest and most illusory aspect. It is
the mission of art to make them feel . the indwelling
beauty which, like truth, always has existed. Art is -so
profoundly related to humanity that before knowing what
the art of to-morrow will be we must know what will be
its science and philosophy.
If art does not aim at splrltuallzatlon of thought one
well may ask the reason for its existence. The average
picture has no inspiration for us. Unimaginative land
scape Is one of the illegitimate forms of art but the im
aginative landscape which suggests the cosmic beauty
with which the artist's soul has communed enters truly
into the domain of art and gives us no mere physical
Impression, but a mental vision of nature.
THE THEATER AND THE PUBLIC.
By Otis Skinner.
As is the character of the community and
the age, so Is its theater. It cannot lead; it
must follow, for It reflects life and tendencies
"the very age and body of the time." If the
public selects the trashy play or exposition on
which to lavish its favor, it is because that
portion of tho public possesses cheap and
trashy minds and uncultured tastes.
Find the man who prefers the educated dogs.
the burlesque Hebrew and the impossible Irishman of
vaudeville to a well-sustained, well-acted play, and you
have found one' who cannot discriminate between the
merits of -Raphael's "Madonna" and the "Newly weds"
and "Happy Hooligan" of the Sunday supplement.
We cannot blame them, but we can educate them.
Begin at the beginning in the home, in the schoolroom,
give the men and women of the future a start In the right
direction the result will follow.
Shortly after the native college was
opened at Rangoon, the head, the Rev.
Dr. Marks, says in.the Church Family
pPaper, that-the King of Burma came
to him and asked if he would teach
some of his sons. When he agreed, the
king naked, "What ages do you liko
them at?"
"From twelve to fourteen."
The king turned to one of his assist
ants, and commanded :
"Bring all my sons between twelve
nnd fourteen to me."
Nine princes came in.
Four came to school the next dnj'
each riding on an elephant, and with
two golden umbrellas. Each also was
escorted by forty soldiers. Afterward
the whole nine came. So there were
nine princes, nine elephants, eighteen
golden' umbrellas, and three hundred
and sixty roldlers.
Unlike Mary's lamb, Dr. Murks says,
the elephants stayed outside, but when
the princes came Into the schoolroom
all the other boys threw themselves flat
down with their fnees to the ground
It was forbidden for ony one to stand
or sit In the presence of princes.
Dr. Marks found this state of thins;?
very Inconvenient, and put the matter
to the princes. They talked the situa
tion over, and made up their minds
what to do. '
"You fellows may get up,4' one of the
princes said. "You need not be fright
ened." "After that," says Dr. Marks, "we
had very little dllllculty on the score of
etiquette.
"The king took the greatest interest
In the education of his sons, and they
were among the most diligent and af
fectionate pupils I ever had."
ELEPHANTS' TUSKS.
Soma of Them Are Nine Feet Long
and Weigh 200 Pounds.
Sixty-five thousand elephants were
- killed In Africa last year and more
,than a million and a half pounds of
t Ivory were taken from them and
shipped off to Europe, writes Frank G.
Carpenter. Of this fully one-third
came from Zanzibar, another third was
' from Portuguese East and West Africa,
and a large part of the balance was
from the valley of the Congo.
Cape Colony furnished a hundred
are sometimes snapped off. Ivory tusks
are always sold by weight, and the
traders tell me that in buying them
of the natives they have to be careful
to see that pieces of iron or b!ts of
'stone have not been driven Into the
hollows of the horns to make them
weigh more.
Many of yon have been la the hands
of a dentist and have seen' how he al
most breaks your Jaw In pulling a
molar with a long root The tusks are
really elephant's teeth and it Is diffi
cult to get them out of a dead elephant.
fa Ml m-fik,
IN THE IVORY-CARVERS' WORKSHOP.
It Took Everything.
Naybor Sorry to hear you had scar
let fever at your house. That's a bad
disease. They say it usually leaves you
with something.
Popley JIuh ! It Isn't likely to leave
me with anything, Judging from tho
doctor's bill. Philadelphia Tress.-
OnnosUes Often Wed.
"Miss, you are a hoiden. Nolwdj
will ever care to marry a boisterous
girl."
"Don't worry, mother. I'll find some
nice, girlsterous boy." Kansas City
Journal.
. thousand pounds, Egypt 300,000 poduds,
I and a large part came from the Niger
, territories and Lagos.
African Ivory brings the highest
prices In the markets. It is suirerior
to any other In the size of the tusks.
I have seen some which are nine feet
long, and there are some which weigh
as much as 200 pounds each. The
average weight of a tusk is much less
than this and one of a hundred pounds
Is quite valuable.
In India the average tusk does, not
weigh fifty pounds, but that of the
African elephant is much heavier. Many
of the tusks are broken when they are
brought Into the market. Tho elephants
use them for plowing up roots and tear
ing down trees and also for fighting
their enemies.
The nverage tusk Is .strong and elas
tic; but It can be broken and the ends
They are fitted Into a bony socket aud
the roots go almost up to the eyes.
" A tusk eight feet long may have two
feet of Its roots Imbedded lu the skull,
and if it Is taken away at once the
head has to be chopped to pieces to
get it out
In addition to the tusks, the elephant
has six great teeth inside Its mouth
on each side its jaw above and below
and these are almost as firmly Imbed
ded as the tusks themselves.
The tusks are hollow about half way
up. The smallest forms a big load for
a man, while one weighing 150 pounds
requires four porters to carry it Such
men are paid from three to five cents
a day for their la1)or, so that the cost
of transportation is not heavy.
Tell some men a secret, and they
Immediately hang out a sign. '
TO DRAIN TREASURE LAKE.
Georgia Woman' Husband Own
Water Hiding Boats of 2 Caesars.
Few Americans who come to Italy
fall to see the famous Lake of Nenu,
the "Mirror of Diana." as the ancient
called It, says the Rome correspondent
or tue rsew lork World. The splendid
castle mirrored in its waters, once the
property of the Colonhas, then the
Franglpanis, the Cencls and tha Or-
slnls, is now owned by Don Enrico Rus-
pou, the second husband of an Ameri
can woman, whom he married In Wash
ington six years yeurs ago, Mrs. Bru
tons, whose maiden name was Eugenia
Berry, and whose girlhood home was
at Oak Hill, Ga.
On the borders of tho lake, where
now the strawberry beds cover the
ruins, stood a temple of Diana, once
renowned for magnificence. It was pre
sided over by a priest, whose solo-quall-flcatlon
was that he killed his predeces
sor nnd always carried a sword in his
bund to prevent being served likewise
Deep underneath the strawberry beds
'le famous treasures. When the Or
alis owned the castle they dug up an
flque goblets nnd other treasures val
ued at $100,000. But the list of the
Jeweled plate still exists, and it Is
mown tnat not a little of these have
';oen found. Still lying hidden there
is a famous emerald cup, the goblet
-fashioned fromjmc great stone.
In the lake, half Imbedded In the
:nud. lie the two celebrated villa boats
of Tiberius nnd Caligula, boats which
.ontnlned hanging gardens, temples of
marble, columns of porphyry, roofs of
-edar, - ornaments innumerable of
'.ronze. The bouts are still Intact, vahd
Education Minister Rava has appointed
a committee of Inquiry on which are
Bonl, the famous archaeologist, and
Carrado Rlccl. These gentlemen huve
come to the conclusion that two courses
are open to the government, one to
lower the lake till the level of flu
ter touches the submerged boats, the
wiuvi- ly uiuui mo mice ury. .
Considerate.
Bacon Ahd does your wife have spe
cially prepared food for her dog?
Egbert Oh. yes! She
of giving him anything she cooked her-
sein ionners statesman.
Every man thmks he treats his
"help" better than any other employ
er lu the world