Lincoln County leader., December 04, 1908, Image 2

SEVEN-YEAS PRESIDENTIAL TEEM.
By U. S. Justice Brewer.
Our executive and legislative officials are
rulers, while certain limitations are placed
upon them to prevent any Injurious results
from the exercise aud unwise exercise of
ruling power. The ruler Is subject to re
moval by impeachment or otherwise. But
these are only provisions which the people,
In framing the constitution, deemed neces
sary to limit the extent of his authority '
a ruler. Take the office of President, the highest exec
utive office in the nation. His term is four years, sub
ject to re-election. The idea that flx'ed a short term Is
that of preventing permanent injurious results from the
arbitrary and unauthorized action of some ambitious and
unprincipled President, if ever there should be one such
In office.
It may not be generally known that the convention
that framed the constitution at first prescribed a presi
dential term of seven years, with a prohibition upon re
election ; and only as the convention was nearlng its end.
and so far as the record shows without any discus
sion or suggestion of reason therefor, this was changed
Into a four-years' term, and without the Ineligibility. In
the Judgment of many men, among whom I am one, there
was a mistake In that change.
In the light of history I think It would have been bet
ter to have left the presidential term of seven years,
with an accompanying Ineligibility.
WHY LAWYERS ARE UNPOPULAR.
By Attorney James M. Beck.
The" chief reason for the unpopularity of
the lawyer is due to the fact that men get
their liupreBsioiis of law and of the lawyer
through the medium of Action and not from
any personal observation, and It has always
been, the tendency of the poet, the novelist
or the dramatist to select unfavorable and
exaggerated types to give dramatic Intensity
to their productions. An hnnnmhia
Is too prosaic for literary portraiture. The lawyer is the
greut conservative force in a nation, and is constantly
called upon to defend the Individual against the tyranny
of the majority. He must frequently defy and defeat
public opinion by protecting the Individual from Its un
reasonable demand.
The lawyer must often share with his client public
odium. He must often stand between a relentless public
opinion and Its victim. In defending the rights of the
individual ho must often contravene the Interests of the?
many. This Is peculiarly true of our country and of
the present time, for with popular passion lashed Into
fury by frenzied agitators and with great constitutional
limitations standing as the only barriers to popular ag
gression, the lawyer must frequently thwart the public
will by Invoking the sacred guaranties of the constitution.
WHY NOT LET THE LOVERS ALONE?
By Helen OldSeld.
If Johnny Jones walks home from church
with Susan Smith two Sundays in succession,
he immediately Is suspected of a more than
friendly feeling for that young woman ;
tongues begin to clack; John is rallied on his
fancy for Susan, while she is bantered on
his attentions to her. If Edwin aud Angelina
meet half a dozen times, and he shows the
slightest disposition to talk or dunce with lipr
ever so little more than with oilier girls, some, at least,
of their mutual friends are certain to Imagine matri
monial intent upon his part, and, still worse, to express
the suspicion more or less plainly to the persons con
cerned. The probability is that the young man has no serious
purpose; his attentions merely are the casual conse
quence of a surface admiration for a pretty and enter
taining girl. Humanity Is gregnrlous, and social inter
course with one's fellows is a natural necessity of all
normal men and women.
Undeniably the chances are that one or the other of
the couple some day will find that friendship has de
veloped Into, something stronger and tenderer than any
other love on earth. Where both step hand in hand
into the "primrose path" all Is well, and the two who
gradually have grown together become one in happy harmony.
fhale Dance Koi2dk$-
The whale dance of the Korvaks.
natives of Northeastern Siberia, is an
other case where the host has all the
pleasure. Like the man who mixes the
cocktail, says "Here's to you"' and
drinks it himself, the Koryaks kill the
white whale, or the beluga, cut its
head off, eat its flesh, entertain Its
head as a guest and then set that
member adrift with the expectation
that it will return to its former com
rades and urge them to visit Its hoBts
and be entertained in the same royal
manner. Certainly the Koryaks, not
noted for mental development, have a
peculiar sort of humor or they would
not carry out the ceremonies attend
ing the whale feast without laughing
at themselves. As the diet of the Ko
ryaks is limited to fish, seal and whule
flesh, with Russian brick tea as an oc
casional luxury, the taking every year
of good quantities of beluga, a mam
mal of 12 feet long, Is essential to
their welfare. The white whales are
now very scarce in the bays of the
Okhotsk seas. They are captured in
open fissures in the Ice floes, which
they are obliged to frequent for breath
ing purposes. When an animal Is
caught the festival Is held, the entire
village taking part The Idea under
lying the celebration is that the cap
tured whale has come to visit the set
tlement He must be treated with re
spect, as he, that is his hend, is des
tined to return to sea where he will
tell of the good time he had while be
ing relieved of his superfluous flesh,
how gloriously he was entertained,
and will Induce his comrades, like the
fox In the fable, to go and have their
tails cut off close behind their heads.
Wllllamsport (Pa.) Grit.
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
R C COLLINS, tditor
r N HAYDCN, Manager
' TOLEDO OREGON
The man who can make love and go
fishing at the same time Isn't much In
love.
It isn't polite for even an artist to
bit his soul mate with the potato
masher.
There Is a valuable hint to parents
In the similarity of the words "prank"
and ''spank."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is advocating
perfect children for other people. Mrs.
Wilcox Is wholly unselfish in the matter.
Fewer men would be struggling for a
"principle" In politics if they had no
Interest In a job with salary attachment
An observer who thinks he has
counted 40,000 varieties of the common
fly probably enumerated the same fly
several times.
The 'largest and heaviest battleship
ver planned has JuHt been launched for
Great Britain. It must be about Ger
many's turn next.
It's all right for Peary to want to
find the south pole, but everybody
would be entirely satisfied with him If
he only found the north.
What has become of that new hook
less waist that fastens Itself up the
back when a chain is pulled? We'd
ljke to see how it works.
A man claims that a girl hypnotized
him by telephone. It appears to be im
possible to have a situation in which
Uie man cannot blame It on the woman.
Russell Sage's estnte amounts to $04,
000,000. Had he been permitted to live
another year or two he would have
rounded it out to $70,000,000 without
much effort.
Architects and engineers sny there
Is no reason why buildings 200 stories
In height are Impossible. What insur
ance company will be the first to beau
tify the sky line with a 200-story build
ing? J
The President wants Congress to In
crease the standing army to 100,000.
There is certainly standing room in the
country for a larger army, Just as there
Is water enough to accommodate a larg
er navy.
Anarchist Berkman doesn't have to
work for a living. All he has to do is
to go out and start a revolution in some
room over a beer Buloon, and the au
thorities at once furnish him free board
and lodgings.
. Orvllle Wright announces that It Is
possible to construct an aeroplane
which will carry seven people. It will
not vbo long before our aeroplnnes will
be equipped with straps for the accom
modation of people who cannot obtain
eats.
An incidental phase of the situation
In eastern Euroe which Interests
America Is Illustrated by the report
that Armenian leaders are seeking to
check emigration to the United States
and that already 1,000 men arrived at
Batoum ready to sail have abandoned
Jiat purpose.
The old Idea that a minister should
occupy a place apart from his charge
has In large measnre given way to the
sentiment of n "practical age" and the
so-called Institutional church of - the
cities Is but one manifestation of this
Idea. In the city the method by which
a minister may come most closely to his
people is a complicated matter, for the
people under his spiritual guidance are
of many ot ?upitlons and many activi
ties. In the country the question Is a
more direct one. Here the congrega
tion Is of one mind, of one Hue of
thought.
There Is great hope and great safety
In the campaign methods of to-day. It
la the Intelligence of the citizen that is
appealed to. It is a campaign .of edu
cation and discipline, not one of torch
light parade and a big noise. The
newspaper which educates and Informs
the masses Is the great factor In poli
tics as It Is In other measures educa
tional, intellectual and social. The
old war horses mid the rormcr school of
politics have had their day. They may
have l.eea Ir.dlspeusable for primitive
methods, l.ut their occupation is gone.
We welcome an Intelligence which In
sures a good government and an honest
'Iti.ciiflilp.
There Is no issue in the political
campaign to compare In gravity with
the issue of law enforcement In the
United States' and the rigid and un
compromising march of Justice. The
r'g'it spirit ann-t bo thrust upon the
pcuple suddenly by force of arms.
They must be born and bred to a re
spect for the law; they must be train
ed and educated to a regard for their
country and its institutions ; they must
1e taught by every known agency In
the republic to adopt as a part of their
active, everyday working patriotism
the high resolve to stand for the law
Individually and collectively; to op
pose all who oppose It; to sustain It
even when they do not like it, and to
make "this country a country of the
law," because they are convinced that
the republic's bulwark Is the law; that
society's happiness depend upon It;
that "freedom Is its child, peace Is its
companion and safety walks In Its
steps." The best patriot Is the man
who stands for the law.
The complaints of business men with
reference to the Ignorance and super
ficiality of public school graduates,
even as regards such fundamental stud
ies as arithmetic, spelling and writ
lug. arc strikingly re-enforced by an
Indictment against the school system
of the country drawn by Colonel Lam
ed of the Military Academy. An arti
cle Is contributed by the colonel to the
North American Review, which is
bluntly .entitled "The Inefficiency of
the Public Schools," and which Is
based on the year's eutrance examina
tion papers at West Point. Even now,
after legislation and much effort to
raise the standards of admission, the
examinations at the academy are by
no means difficult, according to Colonel
Lnrned. The subjects are: Element
ary algebra, plane geometry, English
grammar, elementary composition, com
mon school geography and high school
history, general and United States.
The minimum passing mark in any
subject is 00. It seems that 314 can
didates took the examination this
year, and 205 failed in one or more
subjects, 200 failed In two or more
subjects, and 20 In every subject. Ex
amining the failure by subjects, the
colonel shows that 154 failed In alge
bra, 237 In geometry, 129 In grammar,
144 in composition and literature, 73
in geography, 54 In history. Tet the
average attendance of these 814 youths
in our common and high schools was
but little less than ten years, and In
the case of considerably more than
half of the number the study In these
schools was supplemented by private
tutoring or even some college training.
The Inefficiency complained of is "uni
versal," the Eastern and Middle
Western States disclosing quite as
much weakness as the remoter and
sparsely settled regions. The state of
affairs, says Colonel Larned, Is such
as to make the Judicious grieve and
to demand that the educators sit up
and take notice. The educators are
taking notice. There are wide differ
ences of opinion as to the causes of
the admitted lack of school efficiency.
Some Insist on reversion to "the three
Its policy," others ask for more men
teachers and stricter discipline, still
others believe that the children are
overworked and overtaxed In the first
grades, with results physically and
menially pernicious. But there Is a
growing demand for greater efficiency
and for an overhauling of the educa
tional system.
The Head of the Firm.
The Interested parties may not yei
have heard about this flurry In finan
cial circles.
It is stated that not long ago Kuhn,
Tioeb & Company, the New York bank
ers, had occasion to send some bonds
to J: Plerpont Morgan about noon on
Saturday, and as all the other employ
es had gone homo the colored porter
was Intrusted with the errand. lie
was told to go to Mr. Morgan's office
and to Insist on giving the package to
"Mr. Morgan, of J. Plerpont Morgan
& Company, and to no other person."
By continued repetitions of these In
structions to all who stood In his way,
he finally broke Into Mr, Morgan's
presence, where several gentlemen
were In session, and, wiping the big
drops from his brow, blurted out, "I
wants to see Mr. Maw-gln uv J. Feah
pont Maw-gln en Cump'ny."
Mr. Morgan arose and said, "Well,
I am Mr. Morgan, of J. Plerpont Mor
gan & Company. Who are ymi?"
"Who me?" said the porter. "Why,
Use de coon of Kuhn, Locb & Com
pany, and heah's de,doek.vmliits I Vme
brung ye." Success Magazine.
Not n Allnil r.cndir.
"John, do you love me?"
"Yes."
"Do you adore me?"
M s'pose."
"Will you always love me?"
"Ye here, woman, what have you
been and gone and ordered to be sent
home now?" Sketch.
Amply Qnnllfled,
Farmer Honk Hear ye are goln' to
send your sou to college, Eben?
Farmer Bornklcker Don't see any
reason why I shouldu'tg-hc's too duin
lazy to work, has too much hair, and
can yell so's you cau hear him 'most a I
mile. ruck.
A man Is always willing to lend a !
helping hand, but he docs hate to lend ,
money.'
BUYING IN SMALL AMOUNTS.
Problem of the Batcher In Light
Hounekceplnic Neighborhood.
"The man who runs a grocery and
fruit store with a meat market attach
ment In a light housekeeping neighbor
hood is always sure of his share of
funny experiences," said a man who
hns Just this sort of Jab In upper Man
hattan, according to the New York
Sun.
"These light housekeeping customers
take more of our time in proportion to
the money they leave with us than any
other class, but they keep us so amused,
and they're usually so young and pret
ty and Jolly that we never think of
really getting mail at them.
"Buying steak to, fit the skillet is a
light housekeeping proposition we're
often up agalu. What we call Delmon
ico steaks are best for this and they're
favorites with all the women who piny
the light housekeeping game. We take
the bone out and skewer the steak up
so it'll Just fit their pan, and they
go off smiling. One girl brings In a
plate JuRt the size of her skillet, so we
make the steak fit the plate. We get
so used to selling 'just two chops' that
we take a -small purchase like that
quite as a matter of course.
"I remember the day before Thanks
giving a pretty little thing came la
with her tape measure. She said she
wanted to buy a small turkey. The
turkey must be Just the size to fit into
a pan which Just went into her oven,
and she'd brought along the tape meas
ure to make sure. I told her I'd never
seen such a small edition of our na
tional bird and that she'd better com
promise on a chicken. She was a good
deal disappointed, but we found a fine
chicken that went into her pan, with a
couple of Inches to the good. Then she
had me look over a big basket of sweet
potatoes to find some- 'nice, long, slen
der ones,' because she wanted them to
Just fit around the chicken In the pan.
She bought Just four.
"Cheese Is another thing the llgh,
housekeepers always go slow on. They'd
rather buy a few cents' worth every
day than have a crumb left over for a
stray mouse to nibble on. Lots of
stores object to selling less than a
pound, but when a pretty girl appeals
to you for 'Just 5 cents' worth and per
haps to make up for It plunges reckless-'
ly and gets four eggs and a quarter of
a pound of coffee at the same time
who'd have the heart to refuse her?
"These hair-splitting calculations
aren't often necessary on account of
lack of money, but Just because there's
no place to keep leftovers."
Blob a Claxalo Term.
"The mob." an abbreviation of "the
mobile." which represents the Latin'
"mobile vulgus" (the fickle crowd)
.came Into the language about 10S0-OO.
Malone notes that T. Brown In lix
wrote both "the mobile" and "the mob,"
while in Ki02 Dryden ventured the
monosyllable with a sort of njtology for
using It. Addison regarded it as a re
grettable abbreviation, to be classed
with "Incog." According to Maeaulay
In the year lftSO "our tongue was en
riched with two words, 'mob' and
'sham.' remarkable memorials of a sea
son of tumult and imposture."
THE WRIGHT AEROPLANE. SHOWING ITS IMPORTANT I INTENSIONS. '
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