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
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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
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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
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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
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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