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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1909)
- LINCOLN GOUSTY LEADER RtCOlllNS, editor r N HAYDEN, Manager TOLEDO OREGON Harrying (or alimony meant a lot f publicity. The cotton and woolen schedules are looked upon more or less at a soft thing. It is not the easiest thing In the vorld to convince a boy that work Is good exercise. The average man would be content If he could catch a flab, (or each mos quito bite he receives. By giving away her money at the rate of $2S,000 a day Mrs. Russeell Saga Is establishing a grand record. It Is apparent that women should be careful not to fall In love with Alfred Owynne Vanderbllt He Is a hoodoo. Congratulations to Papa Alfonso of Spain 1 He is a lucky monarch. He wanted a girl baby this time, and a girl It 1b. We now have a society to promote the travel of dogs In first-class cars. Thus does the race march onward and rpwnrrt in Its morel iroal. "Another monster comet with a tre mendous tall Is said to be menacing the earth." Suppose it wouldn't do any good to muzzle its tall? Mrs. Belmont says that most women at the age of 18 hate men. Well, they marry them to reform their bad traits and gradually learn to like them. Think of King Alfonso'B growing family, and reflect upon the possibil ity that a third of a century hence he himself may be the father-in-law of Europe. Yellow Jackets invaded a' Georgia church while services were In prog ress, but If any of the brethren prayed for deliverance they . did it while running. Mark Twain advises girls not to marry to excess. It is good advice, but many ladles will find it difficult, In the absence of specific instructions, to decide Just where excessive marry ng begins. A Judge recently asked a child wit ness, "Where do the liars go?" The child thought it was to a certain place, but others believe they go down to the assessor's office to return their per sonal taxes. Professor Lefranc of the College of Prance says he saw no ugly, houses while he was in America. He must have refrained from looking out while he was passing through the various railroad yards. An automobile chauffeur, who reck lessly ran over a child in New York and killed him, has been convicted of manslaughter and sent to Jail on a long sentence. The possession of power even when it is only applied horse-power carries responsibilities. . United States assay offices will here After decline to buy gold without a full and complete history of Its origin. It Is suspected that burglars have melted watch cases, rings and other Jewel set tings, and sold them to the govern ment. Whether the new rule foils the burglars or not, it relieves the Treas ury Department from the accusation that it Is a "fence" for thieves. Pranking privileges were greatly abused in days gone by. The govern ment employe's friends shared In his opportunities. In a letter written by Wordsworth in 1815 the poet said: "By means of a friend In London I can have my letters free. His name Is Lamb, and if you add an 'e' to his name he will not open the letters. Di rect as below, without anything fur ther, 'Mr. Lambe, India House, Lon don.' " Coleridge, too, saw that a post age saved was a postage earned, and made use of the Mr. Lamb of the In dia House Charles Lamb. Patriotism has become the basis of a great American industry. Because of the amazing increase of patriotic sentiment in this country during the last decade the manufacture of Amer Jean flags has quadrupled. More than ' three million star-spangled banners an nually are made of Bilk and bunting, but these form only a small portion of the total number o( United States flags that are born, that live and die be tween January and January. In re mote (arming districts, where ten years ago the national colors were rarely seen, every suitable occasion witnesses a flag display. The flag has been added to the household gods from Maine to California and from the Gulf Of Mexico to the Canadian line. Bo far as Individual popularity Is con cerned. It ranks with the firecrackers on Independence Day, and outranks all else on that day of national pat riotic observance. May 80. Work is begun on the Cape Cod Ca nal, an engineering project which has been discussed since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers. At its narrowest point Cape Cod is eight miles across and the canal will save sixty-three miles around. The route almost follows an old Indian portage. An attempt is be ing made by the New Jersey railroads to h'ave the old Morris and Essex Ca nal abandoned. Many of the old State canals have been abandoned. The main Pennsylvania Canal over the Al leghanles was abandoned years ago. There should be more water transpor tation. For all heavy freight like coal, lumber, grain and ore water transportation is more economical and suitable than rail transportation. Re lieving the railroads of their heaviest freight, with low charges, would en able them to develop their higher-class freight business and their passenger facilities. It would do much to pro mote industry, as It has in Germany, France and England. The Cape Cod Canal should be the beginning of a protected salt-water route from New England to the land of cotton. That Is rather a hold and sweeping proposition made by the author of a recent book, "Civics and Health," to hitch what might be called free health to our free schools. The tendency for many years past has been to burden the schools with' all kinds of collat eral issues, which some people call fads, some of which are highly useful and some plainly beyond the scope of such Institutions. The danger has seemed to be a breakdown of the pub lic school system from attempting too much; but the zeal of the enthusiastic educator has Its praiseworthy side. It is possibly better for the children that the public and the taxpayers should have to restrain him than that they should have to pod him. Secretary William H. Allen, of the bureau- of municipal research, contends that the pnysical basis of effective citizenship has been too much neglected, and thinks that the health of the country may be brought up to a higher stand ard by a system of school examination and basing promotion from grade to grade upon tests of physical hygiene as well as of scholarship. If the chil dren are found suffering from malnu trition, this must be corrected in some way. If they are tuberculous, proper treatment must be prescribed and en forced; if eyes are defectivethe de fects must be promptly remedied; if teeth are bad, the mouth must be made clean and sound by adequate dentistry. The plan would Include also the en forcement of proper exercise and rec reation. Who is to pay for this, Mr. Allen does not say, but It Is manifest that Borne, If not all, of the cost would have to be provided by taxation. The end to be attained is unquestionably desirable. A sound body Is as import ant as .a sound mind. But the success ful working out of the details of such a plan would seem to be beset by great difficulties. . Artful Young Barney Kehoe. Will ye be for the Gap o' Dunloe, I dunno? Oh! I'm glad o' that same! All the tourists think shame To be mtssin' the Gap o' Dunloe They do so. Now, then, whisper! Mayhap When ye come on the Gap Ye'll be seeln' a lass On this side o' the pass That'll ax for the toll. She's a daclnt good soul, Though the eyes of her twinkle so droll, Well, ye'll pay her the tax An' ye'll wink an" ye'll ax: "Would ye marry young Barney Ke. hoe?" 'Tie a bit of a Joke That the folk love to poke At tHe lass o' the Gap o' Dunloe. An' It's where, whin ye've done wid Dunloe, Will ye go? Ye'll be wise to come back By this very same thrack, Fur there's little that's back o' Dun loe There is so. Sure, the hills are so bare There's no scenery there Like the kind that ye find On this side, d'ye, mind? So, I'll watch for the day Whin ye're passln' this way Jlst to hear what the lass had to say, Whin she made her reply To the wink o' yer eye An' yer Joke at the Gap o Dunloe Is it who may I be? Ye'll And me, d'ye see. If ye'll ax for young Barney Kehoe. Catholic Standard and Times. Ena-llnh Flea for Cltlca beautiful. What England wants Just now is a man, or several, of Infinite ability and ample means, who, purely for the sake of their art alone, will prepare Imaginary schemes showing how and In what way our cities ought to grow If they are to be healthy dwelling places and beauty spots Instead of biota upon our land. English Build ing News. Ir BY THE ii t7?5 TOTt'tviTQjIT KasBatoifiSSLaBV PAINTING'S APPEAL TO. THE DLLETTANT. ' By Mtrcel Prevott. Painting, I believe, Is getting to be the most tempting art (or the dllettant, more tempting even than music. There are more painters than there are musicians, writers, than everything else, almost. There are in finite numbers of them. The most modest banquet of painters reunites hundreds of guests. At every exposition modern paint ings cover a large area of space. And what does honor to these volunteers of art is the fact that no financial bait Induces the greater part of these paint ers to follow this vocation. In Justice to these dilettanti of the brush it must be aid that many of them do not pretend that they will gain either glory or (ortune by their paintings. Less presumptuous than poets, less chimerical than musi cians, many men of talent who hang up their pictures in salons from time to time admit that they paint for the pleasure of painting only. The pleasure of painting is complex. While giving an occupation for the painter's fingers, painting is not exactly a thing to stir the soul of the amateur. The amateur is not required to undertake a number of com positions and to pick out the most difficult. A faithful reproduction of a house at the edge of a stream, and the amateur has gained the name of an artist Painting wWMn tb llrniU in vhloh th fUlottn-it .ttvIhs It ts one of those arts where invention and originality have been greatly reduced. A successful copy of a picture of a great master with them passes for a work of art. The most mediocre painting has a thousand times more of a chance to be seen than a literary masterpiece has the chance to be read. It is for these reasons that can vas and brush stand in no danger of remaining idle. But will art gain by it? That is another question. "OLD MAN" PROBLEM FOE TOTING MAN. By John A. Howland. Young men, middle-aged men and old men have been Interested alike in the problem of the "old man" In business. That specific com plaint of the old man is that he is not want ed. Modern business admits the (act But young men and men in the prime of their lives must grow old. What are the young men and the men of middle age going to do about it? It is not likelv that in future the methods of modern business will so change that the old man, per se, will be more in demand than he is now. Economic jihilosophies are to the effect that in general the man who has grown old ought to have a competence upon which to retire. Cold, hard (acts that are Indisputable show how impossible this is Probably in the vast majority of cases where earnest honest men have worked at a chosen work that old age problem . Is met if, until the end, the worker la privileged to work. To die in the harness is by thou sands considered an ideal ending of an ideal life. Ac cumulated money and idle ease have shortened thou sands of lives at the expense of contentment. For this type of man It is a certainly that ability a'nd oppor tunity to work until the end must satisfy. What, then, shall the young man choose If he can promising him that longest independent usefulness? . Every day In the great cities no keen observer is needed to see thousands of young men risking their whole future in actions that can be only ruinous to them. Not all these actions are positive. The negative stand may be as menacing in a hundrel ways. This working capital is working capital, not idling, careless, time-serving routine, with dissipation sandwiched be tween in the off hours from duty. But even work it self may be blind work. It may be honest work, with only the next pay day in the mind of the worker. Or it may be clear-eyed, conscientious work, that involves a, future more than it contemplates the results of yester day or of last year. "Am I a better worker than I was last year?" is the specific question. "Why am I not better?" is the fur ther question which may need following up and forcing a definite answer. Your working capital has been Im paired If you are forced to answer this second query. What has done the mischief? Your employer, making such a discovery as to his working capital, probably would employ an expert accountant firm to show him the source of such damage. What are you going to do about your own case? MAN'S MIND PART OP UNIVERSAL MIND. ity E. B. Fournier d Ait. We are gradually and Inevitably drawn to the conclusion that mind is everything and matter but an expression of "the universal mind. A table, a house or a machine is the embodlment of some human mind. A stone Is the embodiment of some mind at present inaccessible to us, ot some will at present Inscrutable. Of one thins we mar b cprtnl n n rt tint. verse exists which is entirely unconnected with this of ours. We know that the fruit of our cllghtest act goes thundering down the ages, that nothing Is ever effaced, that everything Ib of infinite and eternal consequence! And if it leaves a permanent mark on the material universe it will affect also all invisible universes. This reflection may give a new zest to our present form of existence. To pierce into the Innermost recesses or nature, to mold natural forces to our will, to make life happy and glorious for ourselves and our kind, to as sert our supremacy over disease and death, to conquer and rule this, universe In virtue of the infinite power within us, such iff our task here and now. The individual Is withdrawn invH th.t . vuctv i.euier u l sentient life where all souls are one with the' great over- boui. wnai mis miure rate may be we need not now inquire. Should it ever become necessary to enter upon and pursue such Inquiry we may be sure that a full acquaintance with the laws ot our present visible uni verse will (orm the best preparation for it And these laws we shall apply with the greater confidence when we know that they suffice to interpret not only our own universe, but the other worlds Just discernible on the horizon of our present faculties. A male gossip is nearly always look ing for a Job. Fever. A clinical thermometer Is probably as matter-of-course a household con venience in most families as is a step- ladder or a broom; and It Is well that Its use and the general significance of its disclosures should be ; under stood by those in authority; but fussi ness and constant resort to It and con tinual discussion of temperatures are to be deplored. The old-fashioned way of Dlacine the hand upon the child's body and an nouncing that it "felt feverish" or 'had a fever." without any reeard to mathematical accuracy as to degrees and fractions, worked Just as well and perhaps better than the new-fashioned way, carried to a nervous extreme. At the same time a rise of temDera- ture always means something, and it moBt decidedly means the calling in of a Dhvsiclan If it does not en rinu-n nf Itself or yield to simple remedies. When the temperature Is taken bv the mouth the thermometer should register about ninety-eight and seven tenths degrees, although this mav vnrv at different times during the day in perfectly well people. When it ree- lsters ninety-nine degrees, or ninety nine and five-tenths degrees, the per son is said to be feverish. Anything below ninety-eight degrees is subnor mal, and anything over one hundred and five degrees is called hyperpy rexia, or high fever. . . In many cases a fever is a sort of blessing In disguise. These are the fevers caused by the toxins of bac teria, .of which typhoid is a type. The whole system is then engaged In a fight against the germs, and the battle Is waged to more advantage, apparent ly, when "the blood is fighting hot." This is why, although the (ever can be beaten down' by the application o( cold and the administration of drugs, It is often poor practice to suppress it In this way. Getting the fever down may be a momentary satisfaction, but it does nothing to help cure the un derlying cause. It is as if a general should Insist upon Bllencing his own guns. At the same time the fever must be watched and kept in check, because this sort of fight is calling for an Im mense outlay from the system, and a raging fever not only burns up bac teria, but It feeds upon tissue and blood and all it can find, as any one con testify who has watched or lived through a convalescence from one. What Is true of the fever of a germ disease is false altogether In the fever of sunstroke. In this case the fever is the disease, ifc la not a regiment of infantry; but a conflagration, and it-must be put out as quickly as pos sible, and by all the means at one's disposal cold baths, ice-packs, ice water, anything that will beat it down. The character of a fever is a great assistance to diagnosis in many caseB, and this is why a physician, should always be asked to sit In Judgment on it. Monkey and Goat. Monkeys are more renowned for mischief than for kindness, but even monkeys can be benevolent M. Mou ton records the doings of one in Guade loupe that surely seemed to merit that reputation. The monkey had a friend in a goat that went daily to the pas ture. Every night the monkey would pick out the burs and thorns, some times to the number of 2,000 or 3,000, from that goat's fleece, in order that the animal might He down In peace. On coming In from the pasture the goat regularly went in search of his light-handed friend and submitted himself to the operation. Strange to say, the tricky instincts of the mon key reasserted themselves after the pricks were removed. He would tease the poor goat unmercifully, plucking his beard, poking him in the eyes and pulling out his hairs. The goat bore It all with patience, perhaps regarding Jt as only a fair price to be paid for the removal of the thorns. London Standard. . No man ever fell in love with a Buffraglst; when you find a man mar ried to a suffragist, he fell In love with her before she became one. Tobacco heart probably kills more people than broken heart BULL CHARGES AN AUTO. An automobile running along the turnpike near Mill City, Pa., was charged and damaged by a plucky Guernsey bull which had broken from his pasture and was browsing by the roadside. In the machine were Dis trict Attorney O. Smith Klnner of Wyoming County, James Dershelmer of Tunkhannock, William Skinner of Washington. N. J., and Leon D. Deck er of Bihghamton, N. Y. They saw the bull, but never suspected its bel ligerent intentions. It watched the motor car curiously as it approached, and when it was thirty or forty feet away the bull bellowed, lowered Its head and charged. The driver put on the brakes, but the bull and the ma chlnevmet with a shock. The bull was sent sprawling backward. He picked himself up with a surprised air, limp ed to one side and gave the car un disputed right of way. The. front of the radiator was somewhat damaged, but the machine was not put out of commission. The Ruling- Paaalon. His clothes said he was a tramp, but his brow was high and his man ner grand. "Madam, may I request the favor of a pair of your husband's cast-off trousers? These are some what passe." This, with a sweep of a tattered hat, brought results in the shape of a pair of hubby's oldest, which were Just about two degrees better than those the tramp was wear ing. . After a critical Burvey of his ac quisition, instead of the polite words of thanks the good woman was wait ing for, the tramp volunteered, with a deep, long-drawn sigh of regret: "Madam, I tee your husband discards from weakne." Punk.
