UKOQLN COUNTY LEADER
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TOLEDO.
.OREGON
If the people rule, this will be u uiild
winter.
Cubs ought not to forget that the
next receivership will be a permanent
one.
The saying, 'There is no fool like
an old fool," always pleases the youusr
ones.
One way to become a martyr In sec
tions where plstol-carrylng la the regu
lar thing. Is to fail to shoot first.
The Grand Duke Alexis, uncle of the
czar, succeeded the other day in dying
a natural death but not in Russia. .
Maybe the woman who walked 1.100
miles to find her husband had some
thing in mind she wanted to say to hliu.
Kaiser Wllhelni Is familiar with ser
eral languages, and it is suspected that
he has conversed too much In some of
them.
According to Gov. Hughes' official
statement his election expenses were
only $360.65, and his office is worth nil
of that.
You are asked to spell it "skyology"
hereafter. When that is clearly fixed
In your mind you will be ready for
"flzzyology."
Count Bon I de Castellans has not
been saying much recently, but we feel
aafe in assuring the public that he is
ot sawing wood.
Soulmates seem to be able to wield
chairs and rolling pins with as much
color effect as the old-fashioned variety
of angered spouse.
Sir. Wu thinks one of the great neils
is a universal language. The golfers
and the bnsehall devotees are doing
their host to build one.
A Baltimore man hns won twenty
seven hats on the election. Let us hojie
the time may never come when women
will get to betting hats on their favor
He candidates.
The premier of Englnnd says there
should be no talk of "Isolation" among
the great powers. Who has been boast
ing of the "splendid" variety of It for
. great many years?
The French Hre going to reform their
spelling, and, while they are about It.
we wish that they would put a few of
those Irregular, not to say disorderly,
erbs In straight-Jackets.
A Chicago Judge has decided that a
baby-carriage must have lighted lamps
If It is pushed on public ways after
dark. This will reduce the terrible
mortality caused by over-speeding baby
carriages. Every school In the United States Is
asked to have Lincoln's Gettysburg ad
dress read aloud on Feb. 12, the hun
dredth anniversary of the birth of 'be
grent president. Kvery school In the
United States cannot do less than com
ply. Emperor William hns raised his
flaughter-ln-law, the crown princess, to
the rank of colonel of the regiment of
which her husband is only the major.
Many a husband readily admits that at
home he Is the second in command, but
what did the Kaiser mean when he
gave the princess higher military rank
hun that of his son?
Light has dawned In the minds of
ome managers of the Pennsylvania
anthracite companies, and they are
laid to be planning to open Bchools in
which operatives can be taught by ex
perts how to meet 'the technical und
foreseeable exigencies of their danger
ous calling. Better late thnn never.
No discipline, however strict, cau de
feat the perfect works of ignorance.
An ounce of prevention in mining, as
In everything else, is worth a pound
of remedy. State supervision of obe
dience to law Is necessary, but can be
diminished In cost and severity by such
ctlon as Is now contemplated.
We have learned that the Cubans
have a real national sentiment, not to
be Ignored either now or in our future
relations with the Island. They have
no desire to be anything but a nation.
Tbey do not want to be a dependency,
and annexation Is viewed with abhor
rence by the masses. What annexa
tion sentiment exists Is limited to the
capitalistic clement, which cannot ex
ceed 10 per cent of Cuba's population.
So pronounced is popular aversion to
annexation that only conquest could
bring It about, In the opinion of army
officer on the Island who, In the midst
of pvescnt activities, have endeavored
to store up Information for the future.
That there will le either closer com
mercial or political relations' betwaen
Cuba and the United State than now
exist is not the teaching of their horo
The second Cuban presidential ele
tlon, conducted by Cubans, was inlnted
with fraud. The third, supervised by
the American government, vrna fair and
free. There was a reasonably f all vote.
The Conservatives went to the polls,
though they did not look for success.
They may have done so in order to get
all the seats tbey could in the bouse
of representatives under the proportion
al, or minority, representation plan.
The supporters of Gen. Gomez were in
the majority in every province. It is
better that that should be so. There
Is no one part of the island which Is
likely to be the center of dlsconteut
with and opposition to the government
which Is soon to be installed. The
American officials will step aside. The
American troops will be withdrawn,
with ' the' exception of the marines at
the naval station at Guantanamo. Culm
will again be ruled by CuKnns, and pos
sibly fairly well ruled, at least for the
next few years. There hardly will be
any trouble until the next presidential
election. Four years hence, when Gon.
Gomez may be anxious to succeed him
self and resort to customary Latlu
Amerlcan methods to retain power, an
other crisis will be reached. Some dis
appointed rival may raise the cry of
fraud and the standard of revolution.
If the insurrection could not be put
down promptly the United States would
Intervene for the lat tiuje.
In these days wealth getting is so
frequently spoken of In connection with
success that the two terms have about
come to be accepted as synonymous,
and conviction is forced that this is
essentially a mammon-worshiping gen
eration. There probably never was a
time In the history of this nation when
the desire and determination to get
wealth were so universal, and when the
popular estimate of a man's worth wai
so largely made up on the score of hit
bank account. The poor mnn has a
very pronounced feeling in these times
of "not being In it." Outside of the
president himself, there Is not a states
man In America to-day who is half so
important In the popular mind as John
L. Rockefeller or ,T. Pierpont Morgan.
And except It be the presidency Itself,
nine-tenths of the eager young men
now pushing forward to the tiring line
of the zestful battle of life would pre
fer to be such men rather than have
any political office the nation could
give them. In other countries the men
of wenlth feel and acknowledge inferi
ority to the grent statesmen, but in this
country our rich captains of Industry
look rnther contemptuously down upon
mere mayors and governors, Judges and
Congressmen. We have need of a
broader meaning to the word success.
We may keep on producing the great
est aggregation of money makers the
world ever knew, but If we do not learn
better to appreciate the achievements
of scholarship, of science, of gr"t
work In every department of Intellnct
ual activity, we shall not produce the
world's greatest writers. Its greatest
scientists and Its greatest scholars.
We need to learn, too, the old. old story
that wealth has Its .limitations, anil
that there are countless desirable
things It cannot buy.
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The Postoilice Department has Issued
an order under which users of large
quantities of postage stamps may have
them iKrforated with letters to Iden
tify their ownership and prevent pilfer
ing. The perforation must not be over
l-."!2 Inch in diameter, and the perfo
rated letters must not occupy spnee
more than one-half Inch square. Such
a privilege, if taken ndvnntage of, will
make it impossible for office employes
to steal stamps and sell them to stamp
brokers, or dispose of them In other
ways. Popular Mechanics.
Not Modeafy.
"Sometimes," Bald the press humor
ist, "I think my Jokes are rotten. I
g'pose that's my modesty."
"No," explnlned a friend, "that's your
common sense." Louisville Courier
Journal.
Their Certainly Keep II Duated.
Women in all lands are the custodi
ans of speech. They preserve Its
purity. To them must go much of the
credit of the improvement in American
English. New York World.
Brides soon admit their husband
have faults. "We all have," they ex
plain; "none of us are perfect."
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DO PLANTS HAVE CONSCIOUSNESS t
By Prol. Francis Darwin.
If a sleeping plant is placed in a dark room
after it has gone to sleep at night it will be
found next morning In the light position, and
will again assume the nocturnal position as
evening comes on. We have, in fact, what
seenis to be a habit built by the alteration of
day and night The plant normally drops Its
leaves at the stimulus of darkness and raises
them at the stimulus of light But here we
see the leaves rising and falling In the absence of the
accustomed stimulation. Since this change of position is
not due to external conditions, it must be the result of
the internal conditions which habitually accompany the
movement. This is the characteristic, par excellence, of
habit namely, a capacity, acquired by repetition, of re
acting to a fraction of the original environment
We are indebted to Keeble for an interesting case of
apparent habit among the lower animals. A minute,
work-like creature found on the coast of Brittany leads
a life dependent upon the ebb and flow of the sea. When
the tide is out these little creatures come to the surface,
showing themselves In large green patches. As the rising
tide begins to cover them they sink down into safer
quarters. The remarkable fact Is that when kept in an
nqnnrhim, and therefore removed from tidal action, they
continue for a short time to perform rhythmic move
ments in time with the tide.
It is impossible to know whether or not plants are
conscious ; but it Is consistent with the doctrine of con
tinuity that In all living things there is something
psychic, and if we accept this point of view we must
believe that In plants there exists a faint copy of what
we know us consciousness In ourselves.
ENDURING LOVE NOT EXACTING.
By Helen Oldfield.
The true philosophy of content Is to make
the best of what we have, which usually is
better than we deserve, Instead of arraigning
fate because the gods have not been more lav
ish of their gifts; to live In the sunshine
rather thnn in the shadow, and lu faith and
patience to labor and to wait expectantly In
stead of making the gray day grayer by tears
and repining. It is an error to be too exact
ing with those who love us; the better way Is to ac
cept them as they nre and endeavor to lind and to
strengthen the divinity which the Hindoo vedas tench us
dwells in all men. The coat too straightly cut by our
pattern may cramp and chafe the wearer overmuch,,
and sympathy, love, faith and patience are the surest
keys to thorough understanding of our fellow man and
woman.
Beyond doubt there would be freer matrimonial dis
appointments if all who :uarry would resolve to see only
good In one another and steadfastly live up to that re
solve. People usually find that for which they dili
gently seek, and the fundamental doctrine of the new
thought Is that we invite what we expect; to look for
good is to receive it It is an older thought that cour
tesy and consideration for others are flowers which have
their roots in charity and gocd will to all men.
Nowhere is charity, the love which "thinketh no evil,
which is not easily provoked, which suffereth long and
Is kind." more urgently called for than In the marriage
relation; nowhere is there greater need of faith und
hope as well as of love. There Is nothing which so
draws us to people as the effort to do good to them, and
thus love uuconFclously begets love. To expect the best
of people. If there be any good In them, Is to bring out
that good ; and, thank heaven, there ts much good in
even the worst of us.
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WHAT ARE THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE?
By John A. Hobson.
Good air, large, sanitary houses, plenty of
wholesome, well-cooked fund, adequate changes
of clothing for the climate, ample opportuni
ties of recreation Is there any one of these
things that does not sensibly assist to lengthen
the term of physical life? Yet most, if not
all, of these things would be classed among
comforts or even luxuries for laborers, though
numbers of the well-to-do classes would
readily admit that they were necessaries for thein.
In tracing the historical process of development of
wants and satisfactions each earlier element seems more
important than each succeeding one, the need of food
and physical protection being more pressing and essen
tial than the nteds of "the higher nature.". Logically,
however, or In the order of nature, considered as a com
plete system, not as a process each subsequent ueed
or satisfaction Is more important and more valuable
than the preceding one In time, because It represents a
higher tyie of life. From this latter standpoint the
early functions are valued chiefly as the means or ma
terial hasls of a higher spiritual life.
The higher need and Its satisfaction t he soul-saving
or intellectual education only seems important when
viewed by Itself, torn away from relations and condi
tions which attach it to other nspects of life.
SATISFIED.
My days have Ml been sunny,
My nights all full of dreams ;
My gardens sweet with honey ;
My groves with singing streams;
My house, from floor to rafter,
Delight forever fills;
My life is joy and after
It shall be if God wills.
My friends have all been true ones
And many have I had ;
My thoughts both old and new oues-
Ilave evermore been glad ;
Mj; heart is light with laughter
And song that never stills;
My life is joy and after
It shall be if God wills.
-New York Sun.
After the Wedding
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The maid of honor settled herself in
the carriage with a great Mutter of
laws and chiffon and gave a long sigh.
"Wasn't Cora Just the loyeliest bride
you ever saw?" she demanded breath
lessly of the tall young man who climb
ed in after her.
'She was certainly a winner." admit
ted the young man. "It made me kind
of blue, though, ushering for Tom's
wedding. I tell you! He's the' best
ever and 1 hate to lose him!"
"liose him!" cried the maid of honor.
"I think It's perfectly hateful for a
man's friends to act as If he had been
'Hatched from them eternal ly by a
cruel fate, just because he marries a
nice girl and settles down. It's "
"Oh, I don't mean It that way," pro
tested the tall young man. "I'm not
down on matrimony. I think I was
blue because It wasn't my wedding.
f "
"Aren't you frightfully tired?" broke
In the maid of honor hurriedly. "I am
standing up at that reception for
three hours straight! I can't imngine
why Aunt Mattle went home without
me !"
"I hope," said the young man, stiffly,
"you don't think I forced myself on
you ! Cora's mother asked me to take
you safely home."
"Oh," said the bridesmaid, with equal
haughtiness, "I knew of course It was
something like that! I knew you never
would condemn yourself to an hour's
ride with me unless you simply couldn't
,'et out of It. I'm very sorry you should
lie so bored!"
"Now, Genevieve," said the young
mnn, "don't be so foolish ! You know
perfectly well I'm not bored "
"I suppose," said the maid of honor,
icily, "that was the real trouble my
constitutional foolishness! That was
why you discovered It was all a mis
take." "I!" cried the usher. "If It wasn't
you who broke off our engagement fair
and square I'd like to have some one
point out to me what really happened."
"I thought you wanted It broken
off!" said the maid of honor. "I'm
glad it wasn't announced and nobody
knew It I'd hate so to put you to
any trouble or annoyance. As it Is,
nobody is the wiser. I don't suppose
Cora's mother realized she was picking
out the one girl in all the world you
disliked most for you to escort home.
Isn't It funny?"
"Perfectly killing." said the youna
man. "It makes me feel about as much
like laughing as a funeral would. It's
a shame, too, when the best man obvi
ously was yearning for my chance!"
"Why didn't you give It to him,
then?" inquired the maid of honor,
smoothly.
"Great guns!" breathed the usher.
fill
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"that's all you know about it."
"You don't really care anything about
Tad Klrby, do you? He basu't enough
brains to put In a peanut shell, for all
Ills money. He "
"Yonr temper certainly hnsn't Im
proved nny," broke In the maid of hon
or. "You haven't a particle of right to
object to Tad's paying me attentions If
I choose to let him."
"I'm quite well aware of that!' saldt
the young mau, stormily.
"Well," said the maid of honor, "it
doesn't make any difference to you, so.
it can't worry you much."
"That's all you know about It" said
the usher. "Why if things hadn't gone
to smash we you and I would be
having our wedding Just about now I"
"Think of it!" cried the maid of
honor. Interestedly. "Think what
you've escaped and thank fate I Why,
all your best friends might be sighing
over you as you Just sighed over Tom.
and mourning because they had lost
you! As It is, you are safe and res
cued and entirely free!"
"I'm glad you can be so philosoph
ical," said the young man. "It shows
you really didn't care much If you can
consider the nffalr so lightly. Not that
I exiMHted your heart would be broken,
but I thought possibly you might have
a little tender feeling for what Is past
and for what might have been."
There was a little silence as they
rolled along. Then the maid of honor
spoke casually.
"Neither Tom nor Cora seemed a bit
scared at the wedding," she said. "I
never saw people beam as they did.
They really seemed hnpuy !"
When the young man spoke his voice
was gruff. "Not half," he said, "as
happy as you and I would have been if
things hadn't gone wrong I Oh, Gene
vieve I enn't stand It any longer!
Isn't there a chance for us to go back
to the beginning and start all over
again?" -
The maid of honor was crying Into
her ridiculous handkerchief. "I th
thonght," she gasped, "I'd Just d-dle all
evening, I was so miserable. Do you
really care?"
"Thank heaven, Cora's mother hap
pened to send me home with you,"
murmured the young man, somewhat
Indistinctly.
For the first time the maid of honor
laughed, a choked, hysterical little
laugh. "She she didn't hnppen to."
she confessed. "I asked her to I".
Chicago News.
A Friendly Tip.
"My dear boy," said Enpeck, win,
happened to be In a somewhat confi
dential mood, "you will never know
what real happiness Is until you get
married."
"You don't mean It!" exclaimed Sin
gleton, astonished at such a remark
from such an unexpected source.
"It's a fact," rejoined Enpeck, "but
then it will be too late for you to ap
preciate It" Chicago News.
We have longed all our lives to see
some one shoot off a sky rocket in the
day time, to see what It would look,
like.