Lincoln County leader., May 07, 1909, Image 2

LINCOLN COJin LEADER
R C COLLINS, Editor
r N HA YD EN, Manager
TOLEDO OREGON '
The people with the most cheek don't
4o the most blushing.
Many men make the mistake of let
ting their reputation influence their
character.
In seeking the ballet via airships
the suffragettes may be said to have
taken the Wright way.
The Russian Government refers to
Maxim Oorky as "a house painter." lie
Is a rough house painter.
Noted clergyman says "the stage Is
worse than in the days of paganism."
Must be thinking of Salome.
"War is knocking at our doors," says
Ilobson. Gertrude, please go to the
floor and tell War that we are not at
tiome.
A Cleveland man was arrested in
Toronto, charged with using a hatchet
on his wife. lie claims it was axe
dental. How many memlers of tho Nevada
Legislature would be ready to flgtat In
the event Uncle Sam should have a war
r!th Japan?
The United States now owns the
largest war vessel afloat, and yet it Is
not quite ns largo as the State of
. Tlhode Island.
Wilbur Wright gets f (500 a lesson for
Instructions in aeronautics. He doesn't,
however, undertake to teach pupils to
fly by correspondence.
In demonstrating that agriculture Is
all the better for having a good sec
retary and keeping him steadily at the
Job, Mr. . Wilson has scored a great
access.
One of the churches Is to have a "si
lence room." It should be immediate
ly sought by people who have Just rt
membered that they left their umbrel
las In the cars.
No matter whether he continues to
be first In peace and first In war or not,
Washington will be first in the heart
ef every schoolboy as long as the anni
versary of his birth is a legal holi
day. V
In excitement even sane persons do
curious things. It is related that a
bald-headed man was accosted on the
deck of the sinking Republic by a
woman with streaming hair, who, in
distress, wanted a comb. "I looked
at her sadly," the man reports, "then
I took off my hat."
Give the farmer good roads, good
mall service, speedy communications
with the outside world, and he will do
the rest. The Government can help
him, has already helped him in many
ways, but the farmer has a large voice
In the Government, too. lie will take
care of that part of the problem hlm-
eir.
Despite nil the wcll-mennt talk about
It, actual church unity Is probably im
possible, and, if possible, would be of
doubtful desirability. There are now
among the principal denominations few,
If nny, essential differences of faith.
There are minor differences of creed
and of prnetlf-e, organization and dis
cipline. Hut these are Inevitable and
not alogether undesirable accompani
ments of those differences of tempera
ment and tnate which are inseparable
from human nature Itself.
Viewed In the aggregate, the lynch'
ing phenomena are an appalling fea
hire of American social life, and Justl
fy In some measure the strictures
passed upon us by foreign crlticB and
observers. Whether the recurrence of
this form of violence Is to be attrlhut
ed to the faults In the administration
of criminal law In this country, or
, whether it Is a result of the peculiar
nature of the nice problem presented
by the presence of the negroes In the
midst of a white population occupying
a different plane of civilization, it re
mains a stain upon the fair name of
the United States which every patriotic
citizen would see eliminated.
Elizabethan drama seems to show
that three hundred years ago the pub
lic laughed at insanity and madness.
Since then we have come to such a
sympathetic understanding of the In
sane mind that we cannot laugh at its
incongruities. It may be that by sim
ilar growth we shall cease to laugh at
the temporary lnsnnlty of drunken
men. t Mr. Rider Haggard, who bos
modo a scientific study of Inebriety In
England, suggests that one way to en
courage temjierance is to cease regard'
lng drunkenness as a Joke. The two
things will be parallel manifestations
of a general Improvement ; a right-
minded attitude toward all aspects of
drunkenness and a finer sense of hu
mor win be characteristic of the aanM
stag of civilization.
Old age does not seem to Incapacity ts
the English clergyman. The Rev. W.
W. Wing-field, vicar of the established
church in Gulval, Penzance, recently
celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday and
the seventy-fifth anniversary of his ap
pointment to his present living. He U
still able to preach and write with
much vigor. There are half a dozen
other clergymen who have been in
charge of their churches for more than
sixty years, and a tenure of forty
years Is quite common. The longest
service on record Is that of a vicar oi
Rlekmansworth.who held the living for
eighty-one years, from 15S9 to 1070.
Perhaps If the churches chose theli
vicars as the American churches choosr
their pastors there would be more fre
quent changes.
Wordsworth, In one of his finest po
ems, laments that the days of plain
living and high thinking ore no more.
This poem was written ninny years
ago. when according to modem stand
ards, plain living was the rule, even
among the wealthy classes. It has one
notable example in Count Tolstoy, the
wealthy and famous Russian, who has
adopted the peasant's dress and food;
and shares his labors. This, he fan
cies, is to live as Christ lived. The
only educated American who has lived
this life, to Its utmost limit, when
not driven to do so by stern necessity,
Wu Ileui'y D. TWieuu. lie Will
himself a hut on the edge of Walden
Pond, and lived there for two and a
half years at an expenditure of 27
cents a week. This small sum paid
for food, clothing and all other neces
saries. Emerson says of Thoreau :
"He was bred to no profession, he
uever married, he lived alone, he never
went to church, he never voted, he
refused to pay a tax to the state, he
ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he
never knew the use of tobacco; and
though a naturalist, he used neither
trap nor gun." Thoreau was once In
prison for disobedience to a law which
he considered Infamous. On visiting
him In Concord Jail, Emerson said:
"Henry, I am sorry to see you here."
"Waldo, I am sorry not to see you
here,' was Thoreau's reply. The vil
lage of Concord was renowned for its
plain living and high thinking, as the
abode of Emerson, Hawthorne, the Al
cotts the poet Channlng, Thorenu and
others of local, but not national, fame.
It was a noted seat of literary cul
ture. Emerson, the greatest of its in
tellectual lights, was no epicure. Ills
one luxury was pie for breakfnst. This
was a reminiscence of that New En
gland pie habit, which had come down
from the Puritans and which Kipling
satirizes as prevalent in that part of
Vermont which for a time was his
home. "My family don't care for
bread any .more, and so I give them
pie instead," remarked an old-fash
ioned New England wife and mother.
So far as the simple life Is concerned,
it has no fixed standards. What some
regard as luxurious living Is beggarly
economy for others. Dr. Holmes In
one of his humorous poems, soys, that
his wants are very small. He only
wishes a brown stone hut This "hut"
must front on a sunny and select
street, and everything else must be in
keeping. That Is the average Ameri
can idea of the simple life.
AN EARLY FLYING MACHINE.
A Scotchman's invention.
Some twnty years ago a Scotch In
ventor devised the flying mnchlne now
being built, as shown In this illustra
tion. At that time aerial navigation
was considered nothing more than a
wild dream of crazy Inventors. It is
known as a gyropter, and hns two umbrella-like
lifters or propellers which
whirl. The skeleton of the body, and
framework which supports the lifters,
have yet to be covered in. Popular
Mechanics.
No Work for a Ladr.
"Ross, nh's lookln' foh work."
"All right, there's a ton of conl on
the sidewalk that must bo brought
up."
"But, boss, dot's no work foh a
lady; moh wife does washin'." Hous
ton (Texas Post
The Reason.
Mr. Jawback This gown Is not be
coming to you, and it is expensive.
Why did, you buy it?
Mrs. Jawback Recause the clerk
looked as If he thought I thought I
couldn't afford It Cleveland Leader.
"It worries me terribly," we heard
a very, neat woman say recently, "to
think that, after fighting dirt all my
life, I have to turn to dirt when I
dU."
War Commander of Apaches, After
Twenty-one Years Did Not For
give Pale-Faced Captors.
LAST OF THE REDSKIN LEADERS
Only Relenting Warrior Showed Was
When He Bought Some Favor
from Custodians.
The recent death of Geronlmo, the
famous war chief of the Apaches,
which occurred at the Fort Sill mili
tary reservation in Oklahoma, where
he had been held a prisoner for many
years, removed one of the most cruel
and most subtle red-skinned savages
that the United States Government has
ever fought. Gen. Miles, to whom he
surrendered after his last great out
break in 1885, called him the "hu
man tiger," and the characterization
was not too severe. He reveled In
blood and died untamed and unrecon
structed. The famous Apache, who came to
public notice four years ago when he
was permitted to take his band of
warriors to Washington for the inaugu
ration of President Roosevelt, was one
of the few really great fighters that
S.'iV-'
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CHIEF OEBONIMO.
survived of the host of Indian lead
ers of the last two generations. Time
after time during this long period he
outgeneraled, outmarched' and out
fought dozens of regimental leaders of
the United States army, and was per
sonally resjwuslble for the deliberate
rmurder of thousands of helpless set
tlers and the horrible torture of hun
dreds of captured enemies. For the
last nineteen years this old chief had
been a prisoner of war.
He had never forgiven the white
men, and up to the time of his death
he never spoke of the whites as "broth
ers" except at times when the wily old
redskin covered his hatred to pray for
some favor. He had made many at
tempts to get permission to go bock to
Arizona, where he said he desired to
die.
Early in 1908 Geronlmo made a trip
to Washington with a number of his
followers in an effort to interest Pres
ident Roosevelt In his case. The old
Indian was unsuccessful, however, and
to the last Geronlmo was fu,ll of bit
ter hatred for the white man. At the
time of his death Geronlmo was 80
years old. One daughter, Lola, who
lives in Oklahoma, survives the old
warrior.
From the early '60s until Gen. Law
ton, then serving under Gen. Miles,
rounded him up in 1880, Geronlmo was
a living terror to the settlers of Ari
eona, New Mexico and Sonora, Mexico.
Time after time In those days he
swept down upon lonely ranches with a
band of well-horsed, well-armed sav
ages, murdering and burning, then with
the cunning of a snake wriggled back
into the mountains, where the little
companies of cavalry found It Impos
sible to snare him.
Preferred Denth to Capture.
The country first began to hear of
Geronlmo CO years ago, when he was
comparatively a young man. In those
days Cochise was war chief of the
Chiricahua Apaches, an old man of
bestial cruelty. Geronlmo himself was
the son of Mnngus Colorado, or Chal-e-row,
who as war chief of the Warm
Spring Chlrlcahuos made life a bur
den to the settlers of Arizona and New
Mexico. Cochise died in 1875 after a
career of rapine and plunder . that
couldn't be matched except by the rec
ord Geronlmo mode later. Natchez suc
ceeded Cochise and Geronlmo very
shortly succeeded Natchez.
As to how many lives Geronlmo end
ed within the next ' 10 years there Is
no record. His favorite amusement
was to send in assurances of peace to
1 ..-.-vs.
tho soldiers, retire for a few months
to the mountains, and then when the
settlers believed they were In most
security to swoop down on them,
scalping every man, woman and child
who hadn't had time to flee, and there
was seldom much warning before Ger
onlmo's raids. Endless stories have
been told of the almost unimaginable
cruelty Geronlmo displayed toward the
few prisoners he ever troubled himself
to take. More than once ranchers who
knew they were doomed to capture or
death saw to it that their women were
dead before they fell Into the hands
of Geronlmo's Apaches.
Geronlmo never fought when he
could help it. A woman on a ranch
or a mail carrier on his pony carried
as good a scalp as a soldier and was
much safer to slay. When the soldiers
caught up as they sometimes' did
the Indians fought back with every
device they knew. When the pursuit
was too hot their picked men dropped
In their blankets and waited until the
soldiers came upon them, and sought to
shoot the officers.
A Typical Raid. .
The story of one of Geronlmo's raid,
is practically the story of all, and
the biggest of them was In 1881, when
Geronlmo led 500 warriors on the war
path down as far as Chihuahua. They
had many diversions along the road.
On Eagle river they found a herder
with 3,000 sheep. The herder they
threw over a cliff, and as he lay there
broken-legged they burled him with
stones. They punched the eyes out of
the sheep until that grew tiresome.
in Oold Gulch a half dozen caoital-
ists were on their way to examine a
prospect. A small detachment of the
Indians lay in the tall grass alongside
the trail and shot five of the six out
of their saddles. The sixth man got
away. He had retained his rifle, and
they did not follow him.
They crossed the Gila river with "a
lot of horses, killing freighters as thev
found them, and swept across the mesa
near Shakespeare, where they encoun
tered Judge McComa of Silver City,
his wife and their 6-year-old son. They
shot the Judge, felled his wife with a
stone, tortured her to death, and car
ried off the boy to what fate nobody
ever has been able 'to make the
Apaches tell.
When Geronlmo was at the height of
his power as an outlaw his face was
one of demoniacal ferocity. His fury
knew no bounds.. His temper was so
terrible that he frothed at the mouth
when enraged. If a horse did not do
as he wished he killed it, and squaws
who displeased htm were put to
death.
The last death trail in which he was
engaged was in 1883, and in that raid
he killed 76 white settlers. Gen. Miles
conducted the campaign against him
and, aided by the late Gen. Lawton, he
succeeded In snaring the wily chief In
1886. Geronlmo and his fighters were
run to earth at the Junction of the San
Bernardino and Bavlspe rivers, near
the Mexican border, and surrendered
unconditionally. They were gent to
Fort Pickens, Fla., and later to Mount
Vernon Barracks, in Alabama, and
then in 1804 were transferred to Fort
Sill. It Is said that the various cam
paigns waged by the United States
against this murderous redskin cost the
lives of nearly 1,000 soldiers and
$5,000,000 in money.
At one time, to curry favor with the
President that he might be permitted
to return to his native Arizona, Geron
lmo Joined the Dutch Reformed
church. But his habits were so bad
that he was dropped from the church,
and he died without acknowledging tV
white man's God.
A SENATORIAL SEAT.
(When the Suffragists Get In.)
Increased Length of Life.
The statistics of life Insurance peo
ple Fhow that In the lost twenty-five
yenrs the average length of a man's
life has increased 5 per cent, or two
whole years from 41.0 to 43.0 years.
It Is another sign you are growing
old If you feel grateful to those who
like you.
Better a fool friend than a wist
enemy.
. GREAT CTVT0 NEED.
That of Intereatln Children I.
Improvement Work.
, What 1p needed along the line of im
provement work, a phase too often
overlooked. Is to educate and develop
taste in the child regarding civic beau
tifying. When the growing generation
is interested in civic Improvement the
reeults need not be feared. The pres
ent weakness lies In the fact that but
few are Interested, and the vast ma
jority are indifferent through ignor
ance. Oould the first principles of this
grand work be taught to school chil
dren as a body the work of beautify
ing in the future would prove a slmple
and easy tusk. Had the children of
the past generation been educated in
Improvement work there would be no
need now of maintaining a constant.
.never ending fight for street trees and
other features of the work without
which beautiful cities cannot be had.
In dealing with the subject at school
it is not necessary to delve into detail,,
but the pupils should be instructed in.
the fundamentals.
This Interest cannot be created by
the stuffing process, which Is the weak
ness of the present day ominon.
schools, but should be developed in the
chlld, so that he can perceive, appre
ciate nnd discover beauty and excel
lence and the best means to such ends.
The curriculum of the common school
has not been of late years sufficiently
changed to meet the demands of tho
present day development in regard to
public Improvement, and when reach
ing mature years or upon leaving:
school this Dhase of life is to him a
closed book. School training should
aim to irar.art somewhat of culture and
taste, especially during the later years-
of attendance, and this In turn would
be transferred to the home and public
works, so that there would soon be an
army cf protestants against sloven.y
municipal housekeeping that would
prove equally potent In public life with
the Improved methods and condition
brought about at home.
Knicker Did Jones lose control of
his auto? Bocker Entirely ; his chauf
feud won't let him use It at all. New
York Sun.
She (indignantly) You had no busi
ness to kiss me! He But It wasn't
business ; It was pleasure. Detroit
News-Tribune.
"Do you believe In the superhuman?"
"I used to, but I don't any more."
"Why?" "I married him." Chicago
Record-Herald.
"Fleet" cried the girl. "You mean
fly," corrected the lover. "Never mind
what insect I mean," she replied. "Just
git! Pa's comln'."
"There goes the most talked about
man In the community." "You surprise,
me. Who talks about him." "He does.
Chicago Tribune.
She Yes, I admit I am very fond
of dress. He Huh ! Then I should
think you would wear more of It
Philadelphia Press.
Knicker What Is the secret of suc
cess? Bocker Be the fellow your wife
could have married If It hadn't been
for you. New York Sun.
Him How does she manage to keen
her looks? Her Keep her looks? Why,
she can't get rid of 'em, or she would,
I suppose. Cleveland Leader.
"What caused the separation?"
"Oh, he thought as much of himselt
as she thought of herself and as llttla
of her as she did of him." Life.
Maisle I'll only marry a man whose
fortune has at least six ciphers in it
Morton Then I've got a cinch. Mine
is all ciphers. Milwaukee News.
Old Lady (rather deaf) Are yoa
any relation to a Mr. Green? Green
I am Mr. Green. Old Lady Ah ! Then
that explains the' extraordinary resem
blance. Scott I suppose you are saving up
something for a rainy day. Mott
I try to, but my wife mistakes every
bargain sale for a shower. Boston
Transcript.
Colonel What do army regulations
make the first requisite In order that
a man may be buried with military
honors? Private Macshorty Death,
yer honor!
Blobbs Tightwad claims that
when charity is needed he Is always
the first to put his hand in his pocket
Slobbs Yes, and he keeps it there.
Philadelphia Record.
"Now where did I lay my rat I won
der?" fretted Mrs. Trousseau. "Your
er-rat?" said her husband. "Do you
mean that fluffy thing you put on your
bead?"- "Of course 1" "I'm sure I
don't know, my dear; but why call It
a rat? Rabbit would be better it
would sound more like real hare."-
Llpplncotfs.