Lincoln County leader., November 06, 1908, Image 6

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
R f COLIINS, rdltar
r N HAYDEN, Manager
TOLEDO OREGON
ray ai you go, but try to ut enougn
to got back on.
Somehow, the majority of oar good
habits nerar got found out
Can you nam tlx seven candidates
tor Vic President without going to tha
newapaier files?
Kino thousand tailors go on strike
In New York, thereby adding 1,000 men
to the arniy of the unemployed.
When a girl Is not sure whether she
loves a fellow or not It means that
there Is another one hovering near.
Nothing has been beard lately con
cerning Mrs. Hetty Green. The proba
bility is that she has gone to saving
her money again.
Few sea serpents have been seen this
year. This may be due to the prohibi
tion movement which has been spread
hig across tho land.
C'nruso says he Is glad his wife hns
eloped, as alio was not "up to expecta
tions." He Is evidently a convert to
the trial marriage idea.
Add highly technical decisions to
technical statutes, and the way of the
transgressor becomes a path of pleas
antness and comfort.
It Is Idle talk of coming trouble be
tween England and Germany. Don't
King Edward and tho kaiser kiss each
other whenever they meet?
Castro regrets that there are not
more nations to quarrel with. Thut
day Is dull which does not bring him a
new complication with the powers.
The rule forbidding tourists In the
Yellowstone Park the right to carry
weapons ought to be broadened and ex
tended so that It shall apply to baud-Its.
Mrs. Jack Gardner surely Is old
enough to know that tho mukers of
rare old tapestries iu this country
should be protected from tho rulnouB
competition of old world artisans.
Illehard Harding Davis has started a
campaign to keep waste paper from
littering up the streets. Which shows
that some authors, at least, have n
proper sense of their responsibility to
the public.
A London shop girl crossed the Atlan
tic, remained in New York thirty min
utes and then hurried back to London.
Probably she did not like to keep the
customer waiting any longer for the
change.
A New York waiter has refused a
liberal tip on the ground that he did
not need the money. His fellow wait
ers threaten to expel him from his local
for unethical conduct. He might have
given the money to charity or started a
fund for an old waiters' home.
"Vodka" bottles in Russia carry the
fmperlal eagle on the labels the "vod
ka" trade Is a government monopoly
but a commission of the Duma, ap
pointed to consider the drink evil, has
lately recommended that the eagle be
removed from the lalwl. and a skull
and crossboiies be put In Its place, with
appropriate warnings against the use
of the poison.
Israel Zangwlll, the British novelist,
has added a novel problem to the wom
an Buffrnge question. Mrs. Humphrey
Ward op loses votes for women. Mr.
Zangwlll finds that the reason for tills
Is that as a novelist she has discovered
and analyzed tho weakness of her sex,
and he replies that as a male novelist
be has learned the "boundless vanity,
selfishness, and hysterical emotional
ism" of men. He concludes that his sex
Is utterly unfitted to be trusted with
power. A question Is raised here which
readers of novels may answer for them
selves. Do male writers Idealize wom
en, and do women flctlonlsts Idealize
men? Did not Thackeray expound tho
vanity of woman as well as worship, his
saints In muslin? And did not George
Eliot make Maggie Tulllver more of a
hero than Tom?
From the days of Herodotus and
Marco Polo, travel has been recognized
as an educative and civilizing experi
ence. A year on the Continent of Eu
roie is considered the best jxissible
"finishing" course for English and
American youth whose pareuts can af
ford It ; but It Is not so commonly per
ceived that a great and valuable ad
vance Is steadily going on In this coun
try by virtue of the Interchange of vis
itors between North and South and
East and West. It Is a commonplace
that the United States presents great
diversity of climate, and that It has
been peopled from many different na
tions, of widely varying habits of life
and thought Such a diversity of ele
ments united In one national entity
would be a great source of weakness
were It not for the constant travel for
which Americans are noted. Much of
this Is due to the annual conventions
of national organizations. The Chris
tian Endeavor Society, the National
Educational Association, the Grand
Army, and many other bodies meet once
a year, each time In a new place ; and
special railroad rates Induce large num
bers to visit cities which they might
otherwise never see. The local pride of
those who act as hosts Insures a full
appreciation of whatever Is of Interest
in the surroundings; and the Inter
change of hospitality draws people from
the different sections more closely to
gether, and gives them an opportunity
to 'broaden their outlook and get new
points of view. In a smaller way, hun
dreds of trade associations and frater
nal orders are doing the same thing for
their members. The influence of it is
probably greater than any one can see.
It has demonstrated the fact that hos
pitality Is not the exclusive possession
of any one section ; that communities
which differ widely in their views on
many matters may each have good rea
sons for the faith that is in them ; and
in the end It will greatly help to form
and foster a feeling of national solidar
ity. Even the gain In mere geographi
cal knowledge Is something. "I have
seen wonderful crops of corn and wheat
In my country," said a recent Western
v'sltor to the New England coast, "but
this Is the first time I have ever seen
rocks growing out of the water."
ZVC
PLENTY OF WORK ON THE FARMS.
By Secretary James Wilson.
The productiveness of the United
States along agricultural lines Is not
keeping pace with the growth of e-ur
population. Meats are. dear because
the slaughtering animals are falling
behind the population in relative
numbers. Labor Is scarce on the
farm, and labor Is dear on the farm
because the factory, the forest, the
mine and the railroad are taking
away the farmer's workers through
wages fixed at rates which the farm
er cannot afford to pay.
The population of the United
States Is growing both by reason of
the natural Increase of the families domiciled iu America
and by accretions through immigration from abroad.
But the immigrants do not reach to the farm. The farm
ers who do come to us from foreign countries do not find
their way to the farms of the country ; and the Immi
gration laws prevent American farmers from going to
foreign countries and selecting there the prospective im
migrants whose services could aid them.
At no period of our history has the American farmer
needed help so much ns he needs It tills rear. There nre
said to be hundreds of thousands of idle men in the
United States, all of whom could secure employment on
the farms employment affording food, shelter and living
wages.
6ECBETABY WILSON.
According to a New York literary
Journal, a leading American publisher
who has always had a fair number of
first-rate and successful novels on his
lists of new books has this year decided
to exclude fiction altogether from his
plans for the coming season. He holds
that as au art fiction Is nearlng ex
haustion and death, and that not only
the discriminating public but the nov
elists themselves are conscious of this
remarkablo fact. The publisher Is
quoted as saying that the trouble is not
ns some have thought, with the ninte
rlal 'available. Life Is rich and full of
possible plots, and, ns'a matter of fact,
novelists never had as much to say ns
they have Just now. Only, "they have
never said It so dully" and Inartlstleal
ly, and, therefore, readers will weary
of sociological treatises In the form of
novels, of psychological analysis, of
clinical realism and minute description,
and give up the modern novel entirely.
In other words, fiction ns nn "art form"
Is In a decadent stnte and doomed to
extinction. This agrees with an equally
gloomy and seinl-phllosophlcal, "evolu
tional" view which a French critic put
forward some time ago. No art form,
he said, was permanent. The essay Is
practically dead, although futile at
tempts are occasionally made to revive
It ; the sonnet Is dead ; the poetic drama
Is dead. What reason Is there, then,
for assuming that fiction Is eternal?
For his own part, he did 'not hesitate
to predict Its early disappearance. He
contends that method, restraint, form,
beauty, respoct for tradition have been
dlsenrdinUby the novelists, and that
their work, with few exceptions, Is cha
otic and nondescript, containing a little
or everything but hardly anything that
can be called art. In such pessimistic
and sweeping talk much depends on the I
definition of "art" or "form." We have
heard that modern music is not art,
and it Is not strange to hear that pollt-
ical, social, psychological, analytical
novels are not "art." But is not the j
conception of fiction, of .art In fiction,
undergoing a change? Was not Shake
speare called a barbarian by tho strict
artists of his day? Was not Ibsen told
that his poetry was not really poetry?
If novelists claim greater freedom, are
they not justified by the world's inter- ,
est In their treatment of the questions
that earlier novelists considered alien
to art? As to the alleged dullness of i
modern fiction, what will tho admirers
of Mrs. Wnrd, of Mrs. Wharton, of
James, of Ilowells, of Conrad, of Hew
lett, of Miss Sinclair, of a score of oth
ers, say of the change? The general j
reader finds plenty of charm, of inter
est, of stimulation In tho higher branch
es of contemporary Action, and is not
he the court of Inst .resort? It is a
safe guess that a generation hence fic
tion will be as vital and popular ns It
now Is which Is saying n good deal.
UNREASONABLE DELAYS OF OUR COURTS.
By William H. Talt.
One reason for unreasonable delay In the
lower courts Is the disposition of the Judges
to wait au undue length of time In the writ
ing of their opinions or Judgments. I speak
with confidence on this point, for I have
sinned myself. Iu English courts the ordi
nary practice Is for the Judge to deliver his
opinion immediately upon the close of the
argument, and this' is the practice which
ought to be enforced ns far as possible in our courts of
first instance. '
It Is a great deal more important that the court of
first Instance should decide promptly than that It should
decide right. Such practice of deciding cases at the
close of the hearing makes the Judge very much more
attentive to the argument during its presentation, and
much hiore likely to decide right when the evidence and
the arguments are fresh in his -mind.
In the Philippines the system has been adopted of re
fusing a judge his regular monthly stipend unless lie can
file certificate, with the receipt for the money, in which
he certifies on honor that he had disposed of all the
business submitted to him within the previous sixty days.
This has bad a marrelously good effect in keeping the
dockets of the court clear.
One of the great difficulties with the profession of the
law, whether the members are Judges or advocates, if
the disposition to treat the litigants as made for th
courts and the lawyers, and not the courts and lawyen
as made for the lltltants. And as It Is lawyers who In
judicial committees of the legislature draft the codes of
procedure, there Is too frequently not present in as strong
Impelling force as It might be the motive for simplifying
the procedure and making the final disposition of cne?
as short as possible.
OUTRAGE OF CHILD LABOR.
By Dr. P. W. Qunsaulus.
The American hand Is a very valuable
Item for industry and skilled achievement;
you cannot have a good American band by
taking the little American child and over
working that child in handiwork or making
him a part of a great machine where his
band is permitted, to perform monotonous
labor. The American, head is more Impor
tant than the American hand for planning
and adding thought to hand labor; and you cannot have
u good American head by taking the child from school
auu sunning menial growl U by making the child a cog
In even the finest machinery of what is called civiliza
tion. The American heart Is still more Important than
the -American head, and no State can ever prosper in
the higher things aud the lower things always get their
value from the higher things which persistently permits
the Incursion of greed over the heart of childhood.
No federal Interference Is so terrible In my eyes as
the permission upon the. part of the nation that little
children be practically enslaved to mere money making.
The needs of the families of the poor must be relieved
In some other way than compelling or allowing children
to dispose of their childhood, with Its freshness and
dream, In order to maintain any system or institution
or business whatsoever.
EXCLUDE CHINESE COOLIES ONLY.
By Seth Low, President of Columbia.
1 am In favor of the purpose, but not the
form, of the Chinese exclusion act. It is
an insult to an old, wise and proud race
such as the Chinese to exclude , their stu
dents and great men from our shores. I am
in sympathy with the great object of the
Chinese exclusion act to keep the Pacific
coast free from the numerical preponderance
of an Asiatic population. If there ever was
a matter of public policy in which the "undesirable citi
zen" doctrine should be enforced to the limit, it is the
Immigration question.
' .Tw 1
!
rThe Cratitude
of a iScruaw
JuM Like the Itlrh Folk a.
"Marshall Field, Jny Gould and Pot- I
ter Palmer habitually carried only
small amounts In their pockets," said
the man who has a taste for the odd. j
"Well," responded his' friend, "when
I am gone you can truthfully say the
same about me." Washington Herald
The Leaaer Evil.
"Of course," the tragedlnn was say
ing, "In the theatrical business a short
run is bod " ,
"But," Interrupted the critic, "a good
long walk Is worse, Isn't It?" -Exchange.
When a man walks nloug tho street
between two women, he hns every ap
pearance of being under arrest
"There, Bobby!
There. Kitty! Pa
pa has played long
enough. Run away
now, or we won't
have any wood to
burn next winter."
And, clapping his
hnt on his head
and seizing his axe, Mr. Joiner started
for the forest, on the edge of which
stood bis little home, far down In the
southern pnrt of Alabama.
Bobby ran after him shouting: "Pa
pa, papa, let me go wlf you. I'll be a
good boy."
"Come nloix; then," answered his fa
ther, "but hurry now, I'm very late."
And off they went, Bobby carrying his
toy hatchet over his shoulder as his
father carried his axe.
Bobby played about hnpplly for a
long time, now trying to. cut down lit
tle trees with his hatchet, now hunt
ing for wild grapes, and now peering
into holes after rabbits; but at last,
growing tired for he was only four
years old he said:
"Pupa, I reckon I'll go home now to
see ninmmn and goi somcfing to eat
I'll carry her some fat llghtwood to
kindle her fire wlf." And filling his
arms with small sticks of pitch pine,
Bobby started off.
Ills father watched him a moment;
but, seeing that he wns In the right
pnth to the house, he went on with his
work until the horn cnlled him home
to dinner. Kitty rnn to meet him, but
Bobby was nowhere to be seen.
A few questions nnd answers told
the father that he had not been home,
and, without waiting for his dinner,
he turned back into the forest. He
soon reached the spot where he had
last seen the child as he trudged to
ward home, nnd he began a search
among the trees on either side. After
a time he discovered the tiny armful
of llghtwood which Bobby was carry
ing home to his mother flung on the
ground, evidently by an older hand and
longer arm than Bobby's; but no other
track or trace could he find. The
ground all about was covered thickly
with soft pine needles, which would
not only deaden the sound of footsteps,
but would mnke no impression of
them. He kept up the search, how
ever, until darkness came upon htan,
when he returned home, hastily snatch
ed a little food, and started for the
home of his nearest neighbor to ob
tain help In his search.
Days and weeks passed. Neighbors
and friends for miles around had
hunted for the lost boy, but could find
not even a clue to his whereabouts,
nnd hope of ever seeing him again was
well-nigh abandoned. Cold weather was
close at hand, and Mr. Joiner had gone
to his wood-chopping.
Mrs. Joiner was busy In the kitchen
one forenoon when a shadow darkened
the window, and she glanced up to see
an Indian squaw looking In upon her.
She held a pappoose In her arms in
stead of carrying It in the customary
way upon her bnck, nnd her eyes wore
such a troubled look that Mrs. Joiner
went nt once to the door nnd beck
oned her In, first making sure that the
door Into the ledrooni where Kitty
nnd the baby were sleeping wns closed.
"Me got sick pnppoose," said . the
squaw, stopping in the doorway. "You
make her well?"
"I'll try," answered Mrs. Joiner.
"Let me see the baby. What Is the
nintter with him?" and she pulled
aside the blanket covering the pnp
poose. "Hlm'bery sick. Him choke. Him
no href," said the mother, anxiously.
Mrs. Joiner took the baby Iu her
arms and listened to his labored breath
ing. ''It's not croup." she said at last,
"though It soon would have been If you
had not brought him to me. May I
put him Into a warm bath?" For the
poor little wretch was dirty to the last
degree.
Gaining the mother's consent, she
stripped the baby, put him Into n hot
bath, nnd, when his breathing seemed
easier, she wrapped him In warm, clean
flannels belonging to her own children,
rubbed his chest, with goose grease,
nnd administered medicine and food.
The little poppoose slept until near
ly night, and when, on his waking, his
mother would have taken him and de
parted, both Mr. and Mrs. Joiner in
sisted that she should remnln all night
and sleep on the kitchen floor.
"Your baby will be sick ngnln if you
tnke him out now," said Mrs. Joiner,
"nnd he may die. Stay here to-night."
And she stayed.
In the morning the little Indian wns
bright nnd lively, laughing nnd crow
ing like ony healthy, happy bnby.
Mrs. Joiner cuddled nnd petted him
until the squaw said :
"You like my boy? You got no
boy?" I
"No," answered Mrs. Joiner. "I had
one, -but he got lost last summer, and
we never could find him."
The woman started, then said:
"How old you boy? What like him?
Got blue eye? Curls on head? Walk
straight head up?"
"Oh, yes, yes," answered Mrs. Join
er. "Where is he? Do you know?
Can you take me to him? Quick!
Quick !
"I find he. You make my boy weli.
I find yours. I go, but I come again
soon. ' Trust me." And the squaw
went swiftly Into the forest carrying
her pnppoose on her back, nnd leaving
Mrs. Joiner almost wild between hope
and fear.
A week pnssed, and the squaw had
not reappeared ; but toward night,
near the end of the second week, she
came silently Into the kitchen door,
leading by the hand the lost boy. With
a shout of joy he sprang into his moth
er's arms and burled his face iu her
neck.
In the joyful tumult which followed,
the squaw turned aud was stealing
away ns silently ns she had come,
when Mrs. Joiner ran nfter nnd de
tained her.
"Wait!" she said. "You must have
food and stay the night with us, and
you will tell us where you found our
boy."
The woman shook her head. "Me nt
tell," she said. "Great chief kill me
If he know I steal the boy. He like
boy. He want make him big chief. Me
no tell. You good to me and my pnp
poose, nnd me tank you. Me get your
boy, but" and, slinking her head In
a meaning wny, she swiftly disappear
ed In the forest, and no one in the
neighborhood ever saw or heard of her
ngnln. Every Other Sunday.
Rubber In Hawaii.
The rubber in Hawaii is still In tha
experimental stage, but experts believe
the opportunities for profit are going to
be large. Preliminary experiments by
the government indicate a high yield
from even young trees. Over 400.000
rubber trees have been planted In the
Islands, and still other plantations are
being established.
The Retort Conrteona.
Miss Homely Ills conversation was
so ridiculous I could hardly keep my
countenance.
Miss Flip Why did you want to?
Baltimore .American.
You can become quite popular witb
some people by letting them alone