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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1908)
LUCOU COIM LEADER Rt COLLINS, tdfear -r N HAYDEN, Manager TOLEDO OREGON The head that wears the crown is lolng some more uneasy lying. One great trouble with flying Is that the earth Is such a solid thing to fall on. Buffaloes are quoted at $1,000 a head, lias the beef trust secured control of the buffnlo market? Canndinn author has written a book called "The Dungeon," with the Idea, perhaps, that it will be a good cellar. If those three airships prove their Ibllity to sail across the English Chan nel, where will Britain's "walls of oak" get off at? King Edward, it has been announced, Is out of debt. Like the village bluck uulth, be can now look the whole world In the face. A strong suspicion exists that the lick mfln of Europe never will be well until he packs up and goes over to Asia, where he properly belongs. . Americans, declares Prof. Zueblln, prefer the exclusive to the common life. The man who owns n motor car will be inclined to deny this asse'rtlon. When the Englishmen henr that Chi cago's smoke nuisance is greater than ' that of London th?y will put it down as nothing but another Yunkee boast. Mr. Edison may be taking a phys ical rest, but his imagination appears to be working overtime when he pre dicts that we will fly to the north pole hi forty minutes. A Chicago mnn Is said to bo nfrnld to Inherit $1,0(10,000. He should overcome Ills fears, for even when one has a million the ownership of an automobile Is not compulsory. It Is said there are more blonde criminals than any other.- Still, blondes who have managed for a life time to keep out of Jail need not give themselves unnecessary worry! Mr. Edison thinks the present type of aeroplane will not be the flying ma rhlne of the future. At the proper tlmo Mr. Edison will drop a few guard d hints as to the future airship. In a recent football game between teams representing two eastern colleges eventeen players were knocked uncon clous. Yet there are people who be- hime excited over the danger of war In 'he Balkans. King Edward has paid off all the debts lie Incurred when he was the Prince of Wales. This Is highly cred itable to his majesty, but with a life long Job and a good salary how could he have dono otherwise? The publishers of John D. Rocke feller's forthcoming story of his life Advertise that Mr. Rockefeller does not Indulge In any moralizing or arguing. "He merely tells how It happened," says the advertisement, "and lets the render 'drav his own conclusions." In view of the fact thnt the reader has his conclusions all drawn now, this is proh ti Ily n sensible course for the autoblog- Mplier to take. A year ago, when times were hard, rnstwnrd-bound steamers were crowded with foreigners who had lived for n time In this country, but were return ing to their native land, many of th'om intending to stay there. When the big Cunarder, Luslranla, came Into New York the other day, It had on board even hundred Swedish Immigrants, six hundred and thirty of whom had gone home Inst fall. Many of them had not Intended to come back, but nearly nil sf them, when questioned, declnred that they had returned because they found that they "could not live In the Amerl ran way" on the other side; and thev had become accustomed to the freedom md the luxuries of Amerlcnn life. It will be thirty yenrs In December Unco the death of the woman who Is luposed to have founded the collar In flustry In Troy, New York. As twen ty thousand persons are engaged In making collars and cuffs there, and ns the city produces nearly nine-tenths of the collars and cuffs made in this country, it Is evident that the dlstlnc Hon of starting the business is consid erable. It seems that Orlando Montiv Rue, n Troy shoe manufacturer, was scrupulously neat and that his wife found the labor of washing his shirts burdensome. The Rhlrts of the time had the collars and cuffs attached, as have many fine shirts to-day. To avoid washing the whole shirt when only the collar was soiled, Mrs. Montngue made detachable linen bands tied round the Deck with tapes. Under this arrange ment her husband could put on a clean collar every morning and every even ing without compelling her to spend too much time over the wash tub. Her neighbors followed her example, and the demand for such collars was so great that a Methodist minister, who kept a notion store in town, soon em ployed several women to make them, while he peddled them from house to house. Mr. Montague saw that the business might be profitable, and open ed a collar factory, where his wife's Invention was developed and exploited. Unlike many Inventors, Mrs. Montague, through the prosperity of her husband, profited by her discovery. I Another expedition in search of treasure lost in the Spanish main in the days of the galleon and the free-' hooter has come to grief. This time it was a party of five old Harvard men who blithely set forth in the former cup defender Mayflower, with divers and all the parapherimlla necessary to penetrate the hold of a sunken treas ure ship and recover enough doubloons and bullion to place the gold reserve on an impregnable basis. About the time the treasure seekers set sail It was reported that a swarthy crew of Jolly Rogers who wore the blue of o)A Yale had chartered a low, rakish craft to trail the Mayflower. With cutlasses and pikes, and not forgetting the barrel of rum, these bold pirates planned to let the sons of Harvard perform the hard and dangerous work of recover ing the fabulous treasure; then a shot across the bows, boarders over the side with cutlasses In teeth, five wearers of the crimson wanting the plank, a scut tled Mayflower, and then a scoot to the fastnesses of some West Indian coral bay to divide the booty. But there v ill bo no chance for the amateur Cap tain KIdds and Morgans to carry out their part of the joke; it has been far from a Joke with the original treasure seekers. A hurricane enme up, and the Mayflower Is now a dismantled derelict somewhere In the gulf stream, while the party of five, together with the seven members of the crew who were rescued from the bnttered hulk, to which tl.ej.had clung for forty-eight hours, have been landed nt the port of Baltimore by an unromantic Norwegian trump steamer. Treasure, trove has a seemingly Irresistible fascination for the adventurous. It also excites the cupidity of those who are not adven turous, and a promoter, It was an nounced a few days ago, pro)oses to capitalize that fact by floating a mill ion dollars of stock In a corporation to recover about $50,000,000 worth of gold from a vessel thnt foundered some hun dred years ago at a spot that has been "exactly located." Every school boy knows thnt the ghost of the lamented Captain Kidd stalks to protect his 111- gotteu hidden wealth, for which vain search has been made. Now, It's Just aa certain that the spooks ' of other free-booters and mariners who sailed the Spanish main are ,on guard. They resent 1 the penetration of their senti mental past In this day of steam and gasoline, except by the delvers of the pen, who find fictions most thrilling field In that romantic era; and they make the hurricanes blow ns a warn ing to those who would disturb the mysteries of Davy Jones' locker. If you are not superstitious enough to be lieve It just ponder the net results of treasure seeking In real life. New lawallnn College. The Hawaii Territorial College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts begins work thlp year, according to the New York Tribune. The Institution will start with eleven departments of in struction, and it Is expected tlint Pres ident Gil more, who goes to the Institu tion from Cornell University, will take with him upward of thirty professors In various branches. The new college Is supported both by the territory and by the federal gov ernment, being on exactly the same fooling as the schools of similar name. in each of the states and territories of the Union, which under nn net of Con gress are this year drawing $35,000 for maintenance, which will be Increased by $5,000 each succeeding year until a maximum of $50,000 a year is reached, which amount will remain fixed. Hnwaii's college will tills year be in temporary quarters, but n site has al ready been secured for the permanent location, and it Is expected that by next year n portion at least of the new buildings will have been completed. Hawaii Is Just beginning- to realize the wonderful possibilities of ngrleulture which her soil and climate promise, nnd results are looked for from the scien tifically trained young men nnd women whom the new Institution will turn out Vnenthmiliiatle. "Some of the greatest minds In the country; are now nt work on the prob lem of improving farm conditions." "Yes," answered Farmer Corntnssel, "that's one trouble 'bout farmlu'. Too many of us want to be workin' our minds 'stld r' workin' our laud." Washington Star. Never look backward unless you enn profit by the mistakes you huve made. PUBLIC SCHOOLS LACK INDUSTRIAL TRAINING. By Andrew S. Draper. The length of the school period and the pro ductive value of the citizen are closely 're lated. Industrialism is the 'great basis of a nation's true strength and real culture. Knowing this, we have seen that there Is not sufficient articulation between the educa tional and the industrial systems of the coun try. We have seen the Indefinite expansion of instruction and the unlimited multiplication of appliances leading to literary and professional and managing occupations without any real solicitude about the vital Industrial foundations of the nation's happiness and power. A situation manifestly unjust to the greater number, even unjust to those for whom it has done the most, has resulted. Notwithstanding our boasted universality of educa tlonal opportunity, there has grown up an absurd hiatus In the educational system which denies the Just rights of the wage-earning masses and grievously menaces the 'Industrial efficiency and the material prosperity of the country. There should be an open chance for every American child. The Influences of the schools must not lead boys who might become excellent cablnotmakers Into being' no-account lawyers and girls who might be first class breadmnkers into being fourth-class music teachers. The school system has grown deformed ; it is one-sided ond not broad enough at the base. A GOOD HUSBAND'S HARD LOT. By Louise Satterthwalthe. Sometimes, It seems to me, that worn and worried wives and mothers forget, or at least neglect to remember, thnt good husbands bear their equal half of the burden. A woman who rims a house and cares for children has no sinecure; this Is the truth; but the man who has to find every cent to pay for it all has no easy snap of It, either. A woman's work Is never done, the old saying runs, and where there are children it truly Is, never done; night as well as day the mother forever has the yoke upon her neck ; a thousand trifling duties and exasperations pursue her like a cloud of midges. So, if she sometimes complains, who can blame her? Though there are thousands who never utter one word, but do their best always and cheer fully, so long as they live. But to the woman who be lieves thnt all that husband does is to go dowutowu and there while the hours away till ti o'clock In Joyous free dom I' would 6iiy that I would like her to really know what it means. To many a man it means being virtually a slave. Tho mother, at least while she may be slave to her work, can order It as It suits ber; but the man who Is servant of another. must take what is said to him, obey orders grimy; he must there put In his days and never be found away from there; and let him try ever so bard and work with his best might, always and forever, he is in that Jeopardy that the next day may bring him the words, "Your services are no longer required." Ilis Job may be wanted by the bows for a friend, or It may be decided that what he does Is not paying right. lie 1b at the mercy of any trivial circumstance, and he knows It Does he succeed In holding It down for many years, still when gray hairs come upon him he may get his walking papers and at Inst his lifelong fear be realized. Such is the part and lot of the hard-working, good husband whose only hope is to provide for his family so long as he lives; and while his wife has it hard, she must also remember that be Is bearing his equal share. THE SENSATIONS OF YOUTH. I By Q. Stanley Hall. Young people need to tingle with sentiments, and the appetite for excitement and sensation Is at Its height in the teens. Here Is where the principle of vlearlousuess gives the teach er one of his chief opportunities and resources. Excitement the young must have, for feeling are now their life. If. they cannot find It in the worthy, they are strongly predisposed to seek it in the grosser forms of pleasure. Hence, every glow of esthetic appreciation, every thrill aroused by herolwu, every puise of iciiiuua aa'ii nl'mu weakens by Just so much the potential energy of passion, because It has found Its kinetic equivalent in a higher form of expression. It is from this point of view that some of our German co-laborers have even gone so far as to advocate a carefully-selected course of love stories, chosen so as to bring out the most chlvalrtc side of the tender passion at this age, when it is most plastic and cnpoble of Idealization; while others have advocated theater-going to selected plays, palpitating with life, ac tion and adventure, that emotional tension may be dis charged not merely harmlessly, but In an elevating way.. American Magazine. VOTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR POLITICAL GRAFT. By H. C. Loudenslager. e will never have really pure politics hi America until we devise some means for com pelling voters to perform their duties. At the present rime the percentage of men who shirk their responsibility, particularly at the pri maries, Is enormous. The result is that the political game in America is played too often only by an inferior class of citizens, who could easily be outvoted by good men. These de faulting good citizens who neglect their duty to the com munity are responsible for graft In public life, for boss Ibui In States and cities and for practically every In iquity of American politics., This Is a fact which Is and put pride and in many ca6 principle In his pocket. On such a husband, mta always the haunting J known to every practical illtle!an and to every ninn responsibility of maintaining tile home. He can nevefl who has ever run for public office. If they would do foreot that mother and children look to him and to hlniM their duty we would have clean politics. We never will alone for bread and shelter and food. This burden is no slight one. He must stay for every day In the week In on room at one place, be it bright or dark, clean or bava clean politics until the txerclse of the right of voting is made compulsory by avery person who Is en titled to caBt a "ballot AIDS THOUSANDS 07 MUTES. London Rector Talks to 2,000 tn Hla Chnrch and Gives Needy Help, London has 2,000 deaf and dumb per sons who attend St. Savior's Episcopal Church In Oxford street the rector of' to his congregation, but enables the clergyman to give more Impresslvencss to words and passages than could be obtained from the simple spelling of words on the fingers. Many young men and. women are helped to positions by their ' rector. A T .-: s.y v . -V- -Vx V W ' KUADl.NU 11115 SttUVluE IN llllli SlUAl LiAAuLiAUUi. which is the Kev. F. W. Gilby, who, al though not a deaf mute, is n son of parents thus nfllicted. His congregation Is mixed, including aristocrats and ven bootblacks. He makes his signs ns pic turesque ns possible, which action not only quickens the process of "speaking" They become proficient and are well paid. . The late Sir John BlumTell Maple made it a point to employ as mnny as he could and always paid sdeh appren tices regular wages from the start. In that way he Indulged In a form of prac tical charity, but It was a bit of phil anthropy which Inflicted no wound upon the pride of the beneficiary. POINT IN TYPEWRITING. Why In. Some 'Work the Perloda ana Commaa Sho-nr So 11 lack and Deep. "When in anything typewritten you see the periods and commas punched black and deep," suid nn experienced typewriter to a New York Sun man. "you may know that the work was done by a beginner or by one who had not yet done sufficient work to have acquired a perfect touch. "The renson for the deep punching of Hie punctuation points Is very simple. Naturally enough the beginner nt type writing plays upon nil the kevs with equal force, but ns the types attached to the keys present unequal amounts of printing surface it follows that equal force applied to all the keys results in more or vsa unequal printing on the paper. "For instance, a certain nmount of force npplied to 'the B kev n.l.M.t ,... diu-e of that type a fair impression on the paper, but the same force applied to a period might drive that, a mere point, clean through tthe paper. In fact, it is not unusual for beginners on the typewriter to punch holes In the paper with their periods. "Hut as the learner progresses In her art she conies to realize that some types must be touched more lightly than others and gradually her period's become less black nnd deep, nnd will! further practice she conies Instinctive ly, automatically, to grade her touch on all the letters nnd signs until nt last she Is able to produce- typewriting that Is nothing less than nrtlstic in effect true nnd uniform nud beautiful. ' "It is something fine to see, tho good work' of tho Intelligent, sensitive and truly competent typewriter." Tho Biter Dlt. Hewitt Who was that fellow who in a fit of absent uilndedness tried to light his cigar from the electric llKht? Jewett He's a joke writer who makes a specialty of Jokes about countrymen blowing out the gas. New York Press. One trouble with the mnn who starts out to kill time Is that he kills a lot of time belonging to busy people. Time may wait for no man, yet It managea to get him in tho end.
