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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1908)
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER RE COLLINS, Edfcar r N HAYDEN, Maaacar TOLEDO OREGON The tongue or a gossip never grows reary. Most of the things we do for fun are anything but funny. What a lot of lying we all do when our guests Bturt away. And It's sometimes easier to earn a living than It Is to get It It's easier to be a college graduate than it Is to earn a living. Bo careful when It comes to lending money or borrowing trouble. Lots of men are unable to reform be cause they haven't the necessary ma terial. "Chew your steak longer," says one doctor, who has a friend who Is h dentlat. No, Alonzo, a girl isn't necessarily a manicurist Just because she likes to hold hands. No poverty-stricken aristocrat ever considered a plutocratic heiress too rich for his blood. Somehow the average girl Just can't help loving a young man whom her mother doesn't like. Commander reary has started on an other of his Justly celebrated trips al most to the north pole. There Is something wrong with the girl who would rather read about love making In a novel than try it herself. Every time a young man sees a pret ty girl purse her His he wonders if there Is anything in the purse for him. A new book, advocating starvation as a cure for all human aliments, Is out. We assume that it was written by the author of prunes. "I Take This -Man" Is the title of n new play. The author is probably anx iously waiting to learn whether It Is to be for better or for worse. The Mayor of Tlmpson, Tex., receives a salary of $1 a year. Even with the most rigid economy no public man can lay up much money on that -f ' ToBHlbly Minister Wu has determined to live 200 years In order to read that Chinese history about to be issued lu 432 volumes. Or is it 042 volumes? "Have you figured out why a man wears suspenders with a belt?" asks the Pittsburg l'ress. No; but we can Im agine why he wears them with his trousers. The New York Tribune Is disturbed because of the discovery of a flying va riety of clmex lectularlus. Let us go on bravely hoping. Perhaps wo can have screened-ln beds. "Mother Eve at any rate never wore a sheath gown," says the Birmingham Age-Herald. No; nor a Mother Hub bard, nor a bustle, nor hoopsklrts, nor n long list of other things peevish man has been finding fault with. The Czar Is learning how to get along with his parliament He told the president of the Duma the other day that he approved Its action In rejecting the naval program of the ministry, and sympathized with Its championship of the cause of the university students. Not only does the Czar seem to under stand the Duma, but the Duma Itself Is doing the business for which It was established with remarkable success for a body eonioBed of nien without previous legislative experience. "Wind Tom," noted a generation ago as a musical prodigy, died recently in the home of the daughter-in-law of his old master, for he was born a slave near ColumbuH, Go. When a boy he amused the household by Imitating the cries of birds and the sound of the wind and rain. He had a marvelous mem ory, and could play any musical com position which he heard. It Is said that he could play one melody with his right hand, another with his left, and whistle a third at the same time. Yet with all his musical gifts, he was In tellectually a child, and lived In the care of guardians. Although men as they run are per haps lnuseularly stronger than women, their inability to withstand the ele ments and their reliance upon clothes places them considerably below the so called weaker sex In the matter of un- clotlied toughness. Women wear clothes for ornament; men use then as a protective covering. A group of men marooned clothesless on an Island la the temperate tone might be expect ed to die off in a month from draughts and colds and rheumatism. The health of women similarly placed would suffer little from the enforced exposure. The fact appears to be, therefore, that In everything but muscle Jn vitality, ruggedness, character, disposition, brain power, etc. woman la the tougher, not the weaker, sex. ( When railroad trains first smoked across the plains, the Indians used to shoot at them. More recently a farmer here and there has taken the old shot gun down from the hook' to welcome the Inconsiderate motor-car. There was a little excuse for the Indian and for the farmer whose chickens lay dead in the road ; but it 1b hard to see whnt led a man to shoot at a balloon, and narrowly miss sending the balloonist to death. The Judge made art example of the offender, on the ground that aerial navigation Is becoming more common, and that news of the Bentenee will spread abroad and protect aeronauts, who do no one any hnnn, and run risks enough without additional danger from rifle-shots. Commander reary Is off for the North Pole again. He may not reach It, but he Is more likely to do so than ever before. Each failure has had Its useful lesson for him. If he were to retain his physical vigor for a few dec ades there would be little question of his ultimate success, but If he does not get to the goal this trip It is not likely that he ever will make another. Some other man, profiting by his experience, and probably following In his footsteps, will gain eternal fame as the discoverer of the North Pole. There are many who do not care whether it is discov ered or not, who can see nothing prac tical In these Journeys to the frozen North, and who think it folly for men to risk their lives Jhere, but who at the same time would like to see Peary win. They admire his pluck and per tinacity and think them deserving, of the reward he covets. So, indeed, they are. Even If Peary shall not achieve success, he Is entitled to It Other men have gone out on the same errand, but none of them has stuck to his work as Peary has. If he does reach the pole, It will not be owing to luck, but will be the result of Intelligent persistence. If there be any possible route to the pole the one he has selected probably Is It. In a few weeks Peary will be lost to the world for a long time. If no news shall come from him within three years there will be no alarm. He has learned how to live in reasonable com fort on the shores of the Arctic ocean. That knowledge eliminates much of the suffering which wns the lot of the early explorers. The only real danger to which he will be exposed will be In traversing the drifting Ice fields be tween his point of departure and his destination. If he can escape those dangers he and his companions should bo able to get back home In safety, to bo welcomed with unfunded enthusi asm If they Blinll have succeeded. Even the Americans who look on the search for the North Pole ns a waste of ef fort would Iks delighted to have one of their countrymen get there first. Mnmhnl Yonr Force.. No mind, no Intellect, is powerful or great enough to nttract wealth while the mental attitude is turned away from It facing In the other direction. One of the greatest problems of mod ern science Is to discover means by which the great energies or forces which nre going to waste all about us may be utilized. It Is a well-known fact that the finest locomotive yet made has succeeded In utilizing only almut lft per cent of the energy of Its fuel. Eighty-live per cent of the sun's force stored np In the coal Is lost. Great forces of nature nre everywhere going to waste because man does not know how to control them, to marshal them, to harness them to his uses. On every hand we see great human ability doing the work of mediocrity or running to waste; splendid possibllltes in rags and hovels; men of quality and talent living shiftlessly In narrowness Hnd squalor; thousands of men and women, who have renched their gray halr period, having still seventy-five, eighty, or ninety per cent of their abil ity undeveloped, untouched. They are small, mean, and pinched, when, had they discovered themselves and de manded the best of themselves, they might have been large, broad, full, and complete. Orison Swett Marden, in Success Magazine. Not Up In Art. "Did you ever see the Venus of Milo?" "Eh?" "The Venus without arms, yon know ?" "Oh, the armless wonder? Yes, I seen her In th' side show when I was a boy. She was golii' under another name then,, but I s'pose It's th' same one." Cleveland Plain Dealer. The wedding presents you give are usuully worth more than those you re ceive. Some people derive a lot of satisfac tion from thinking that they are thinking. GARDEN OF THE GODS Colorado Wonderland, Where Nature Displays Her Most Fantastic Moods.' One of the world's greatest natural wonders, the famous Garden of the Gods In Colorado, has been presented Dy v. a. Perkins, who has been Its own er for a quarter of a century, to Col ' orado Springs to become a part of the .city's 3,000-acre park system. It Is a I notable acquisition and the people of I Colorado' Springs are to be congratu- lated In thus securing a feature that has caned forth the admiration of tour ists from all over the world, who have invariably grown enthusiastic In their praises when beholding the scenic beau- uro unu quuiui conceits or ronn with fa Wi.YJSA lSa,toi - THE SIAMESE TWINS. which nature has so lavishly adorned this Colorado museum. The garden comprises an area of 940 acres. The titanic forces of nature eon spired to make it one of the ruggedest yet most beautiful spots on earth. It has attracted tourists by hundreds of thousands from nil parts of the world, rivaling In this respect the Yellowstone National Park Itself, and Its fame has done much to build up that region as the playground of the republic. The Garden of the Gods Is remark able for the strange forms which the red and white sandstone rocks here as sume. Besides grotesque shapes, to which various naiqcs have been given, there re spires, minarets, cones and cathedral towers, and masses of a stal actite form. Transcontinental tourists always In clude the Garden of tho Gods, In their Itinerary and It Is safe to say that sev eral miliums of visitors have been at tracted to the spot since the railroads made It easy of reach. Colorado, orig inally famous for Pike's Peak, has gath ered more fame from the Garden1 of the Gods than any other single feature. The State has profited lu large measure from the possession of the place, and Colorado Springs would not to-day be the city It is werejt not near this spot. At the entrance of the Garden of the Gods one begins to see marvelous things Indeed, before entering. The so-called Gateway Is an Imposing formation, be ing two great masses of red and white sandstone rocks rising 900 feet with a narrow passageway between. From a distance, the Gateway Is not particular ly Imposing but on nearer approach, It Is seen that nature has here performed a miracle. After passing through, the tourist Is prepared In a measure for any further wonders that may confront him. All through the Garden of the Gods, red and white sandstone formations abound In the most curious shape. Gro tesquerles are everywhere. There are most peculiar rocks resembling birds and animals, some of them so cloBely that the . visitor may doubt the evidence of his own eyes and expect the titanic monsters to awaken out of their sleep and spring at him. There are mluarets and spires, cones, towers, overhanging fret work, filagree In rocks, beautifully colored velnlngs and strata, balancing stones, tables, and everything concelvnble and some things that are not Imagination ' ' n tm. -x- a GATEWAY TO THE GAItDEN OF THE GODS- could not run wilder riot than la here seen In reality. The photographs shown with this story give the reader, a fairly good idea of some of the formations. Cathedral Spires, one of the most peculiar group of rocks in the entire Garden, is so- called from Its resemblance to a church. At near view, the resemblance Is lost, but from a distance, at certain angles, one may readily believeif he did not know to the contrary, that he is looking at a beautiful cathedral and would ex pect to hear the echoes of the chimes borne faintly to him on the breeze. Near to the Cathedral Spires Is Eagle Rock. The rock Itself has no resem blance to the bird after which it Is named, but If you look at the very sum mit you will see a formation which Is an exact duplicate of an eagle. This Is one of the most remarkable sights in the whole section. The stone bird perches himself at the very top of the rock and there he sits as he has set for ages, looking , out over the other wonderful things that were created at the same time he was. The Flying Dutchman Is a grotesque pile of stones nearly 400 feet high which bear a de cided resemblance to the Dutchman of the stage with his funny cap on his head. The Siamese Twins are so named because they are close together, each being practically a duplicate of the other. Balance rock is a stone nearly 300 feet In height which stands on Its point almost like an egg. It Is so perfectly bnlnn"ed fn nnnthpr stone that It sonnv times sways in a heavy gale, but appar ently there Is no power on earth thRt can bring It to the ground. How many thousands of years It has stood there connot be told; neither can any one know how It was made to assume its, peculiar position. It is the opinion of geologists that the masses of rocks, in their strangely garish colors, the sedimentary strata that once lay horizontally upon the mountain's breast but that some gigan tic convulsion of nature threw them Into their present perpendicular atti tude, with their roots, as it were, ex tending hundreds of feet underground. The erosion by water, when the region was part of the Gulf of Mexico, Is be lieved to account for the quaint and astonishing shapes of the various for mations, though since that remote pe riod there has been such a change of levels that the celebrated Garden is now nearly 0,000 feet above the sea. On the first rock' as one enters the massive portals is to tie seen the perfect outline of n stag's head, with antlers laid back and nose high, as If startled by the baying of the hounds. A few yards further on Is a huge stone of 200 tons' weight perched like a spinning top upon the shoulder of another. It is so nicely balanced that every passing breeze seems to threaten Its stability, and yet it has stood like that for cen turies. Still further on one sees a duck, complete In every outline, and as de- MUSHHOOM TOPS. mure as though about to finish the hatching of a brood of ducklings. Then conies an alligator stretched out at full length and so natural that one Involun tarily wonders If the gigantic saurian Is not waiting for a meal a small one off the duck. Further advance Into this museum of wonders reveals new sights 4 to charm or Impress the beholdeN X)t these there may be mentioned the red sentinel that guards the north portals of the Garden, flanked on either side by cathedrals and fortresses of amazing: size, and aflame with brilliant coloring. There are thin slabs of sandstone stand ing on edge and lifting their heads hun dreds of feet high, on which the gods or wltchea have sculptured images of birds and animals; and many strange shapes such as needle rocks. Several '-' ttt v . ' V VV(V. f.Urf ' J- J 4 ft ' other localities In the mountains near the Garden of the Gods afford similar wonders. SOME STATISTICS OF CRIME. Figure 0f pra0n Population that Furnish Food for Thought. A bulletin Issued by the Census Bu reau contains some statistics of the prison population of the country that are startllngly suggestive, says the In dianapolis News. The statistics are of June 20, 1904, when the total popu lation of the country was estimated to be 81,301,848. At that time the coun try had 1,337 penal institutions, includ ing four United States civil prisons, sixty-seven State prisons and State and county penitentiaries, fourteen reform atories for adults, seventy-one munici pal prisons and workhouses and 1,181 county Jails. At the date named these various prisons contained 81,772 in mates, an average of 100.0 per 100,000 of population. The average seems ap pallingly large, but it shows an im provement over 1890, when it was 131.5 per 100,000 of population. There Is some consolation In the fact that, appalling as the aggregate of crime appears, the percentage of crim inals to population is not Increasing. This might be due to remissness In the enforcement of law, but we are at least permitted to hope that It Is not the case, the moral trend of the times being townrd stricter instead of laxer enforce ment of law. It appears that of the total number of prison Inmates on June 30, 1904, 77, 209, or 94 per cent, were males, and 4.503, or 5'j per cent, were females. As there Is no groat difference in the num ber of males and females In the coup try, the figures indicate clearly that crime Is much more prevalent among: men than among women. On June 24, 1904. there were in the t'nlted States ninety-three Institutions for Juvenile delinquents between the ages of 7 and 21 years. These institu tions, Included reformatories, reform schools, truant schools In fact, all kinds of prisons, places of detention nnd religious agencies for Juvenile de linquents. At the date named they con tained 23,034 Inmates, of whom 2,50 were In tho Catholic protectory at Westchester. N. Y. The number of Inmates In all kinds of institutions for Juvenile delinquent. Increased from 14,840 on June 1, 1890, to 23,034 on June 30, 1904. This wns a gain of 8,188, or 55.2 per cent. On Its face, this Is not encouraging, though It may be due to the fact that there were more Institutions for juvenile de linquents In 1904 than there were In 1900, and more activity In arresting and confining them. Speech and Action. "Which Is better?" Inquired the young ( pntriot. "To bo a sllver-toneued orntor or a practical politician?" It depends," answered Senator Sor ghum, "on -your personal amhltlnna Some people desire the last word and others are concerned solely about the nrst Dauot." Washington Star. Thank (or III Money. Weeklo So Sllpnsv Is n llufniiUor eh? . . Deekle So they Bay. Weekle Bv Georpo! t i, ...... dered why he said "Tllank you" so pleasantly every time I made a depos itBohemian Magazine. Tell of a man who has done a good deed, and few show curiosity to know who he Is. How much farther money would gv It It didn't travel so fast