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LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
R C COLLINS. Editor
r N MAYDEN, Manager
TOLEDO.
OREGON
The Slgel case shows that the Chi
Banian's name Is bLIII Ah Sin.
No, the average citizen would not
object to a tax on all Income of more
than $5,000 a year.
It may be set down as a general
rule that the slums are not safe locali
ties for the Elsie Sigels.
Mrs. Gould says she Is very happy.
What! Has she already learned to
dress on les3 than $40,000 a year?
Now It Is claimed that only 10,000
Christians were killed In the recent
massacres In Asia Minor. "Only!"
Robbers have held up the wrong
train. The law In punishing them
will hold up the right men, nevertheless.
Abdul Hamld has become a farmer.
Look out lor the seeds he Is planting;
he may be preparing whirlwinds for
the constitutionalists.
It seems that Count Boni was not
alone in being marked by destiny to
keep the Gould millions from swelling
to dangerous proportions,
Mr. Roosevelt should understand
that when he encounters an African
wild animal Dr. Long's sympathies
are with the wild animal every time.
Cremation Is declared unorthodox
by Russian church authorities. To
cremation of living constitutionalists
there Is no objection on the score of
orthodoxy.
The new sultan of Turkey, Meh
med V., has but two wives. At the
present price of Paris hats this
change at the palace Is an immense
stroke of Imperial economy.
It seems that Howard Gould will
still have to settle a few outstanding
debts contracted by his former wife.
She couldn't possibly be expected to
meet them on her meager income.
A San Francisco astronomer an
nounces that the moon Is not a de
tached portion of the earth, but Is a
captured planet. If this Is true, it
was a lucky capture for the earth.
"We have It from a reliable den
tist," avers the Nebraska State Jour
nal, "that some girls fail to get mar
ried because their teeth need fixing."
We have it from an equal trustworthy
barber .that some men fall to marry
because they don't get shaved often
enough.
It ought not to be necessary for a
man to cease to be religious while on
a vacation, no matter how far he may
wander from church or priest. The
groves were God's first temples. The
man with worship in his heart needs
no pile of brick or stone In which to
express It.
Six sections of the boundary between
the United States and Canada are to
be resurveyed and remarked this sum
mer. The work will be under the di
rection of an astronomer, who will
represent Canada, and an attache of
the Coast and Geodetic Survey, repre
senting the United States. The young
tnen attached to the surveying parties
will pass a pleasant and profitable sea
son In the open.
The rapid decrease In the numbers
of the eider duck has caused a fear
of Its total extinction within a few
years. The reservation of Old Man
Island, off the Maine coast, for the
breeding and protection of these ducks,
with other wild life, will therefore bo
greeted with plensure by all bird lov
ers. The warden who, by the author
ity of the Audubon Society, has charge
of the Island estimates that the col
ony of eiders Included thirty pairs last
ummer, which raised Beventy-five
Toung ones during the season.
It is, however, a plain fact that In
this country women are more cultured
than men; on the average are better
educated. The boys quit school earlier
to go to work and the unpleasant fact
Is that they too often cease studying
bo soon aa their books are closed.
Now there are many highly educated
and cultured men and women In this
country who have never attended col
lege. There are .many opportunities
open for those who desire to Improve
themselves. The unpleasant fact Is
that so few use the opportunities open
to them.
Times are not dull; there Is abun
dance of news, and yet there creeps
Into the papers a rumor of impending
crinoline. It comes from London, from
Paris, from Chicago, from Pittsburg
that is, the rumor conies, but crinoline
doesn't, and won't. The evil doers who
Invent fashions would be glad to dis
tribute any new fashion . that made
women's clothes cost mory nd require
more material, and tha made all
po'iis now In use or in stock look
hopelessly out of date. Fashions are
changed in order to sell goods. They
are changed Just as much and just as
often as the traffic will bear. The fish-
Ion mongers would doubtless be glad to
impose crinoline on the Christian na
tion (the other nations don't bother
much with fashions), but it can not
be done.
People In these days speak and
write very patronizingly of the old
ages of superstition, rejoicing that
they have passed, and that the world
has entered on a wiser and saner
era. But, If the truth be told, every
age has bad Its pet superstitions, and
if some have vanished, they have been
replaced by others quite as Irrational.
In old pagan days, the Greeks and Ro
mans before entering on any import
ant business, consulted the Delphic
oracle, the Cumean Sybil or Virgilian
Lots. Now many persons consult the
clairvoyants and the psychic mediums.
In those old times certain days and
numbers were supposed to be melevo
lent. The Idea that Friday Js a day
of evil omen, comes from the fact that
Christ was crucified on that day, and
the superstition that thirteen Is a
malevolent number arises from the
Incident that at .the Last Supper thir
teen sat down at the table, and one
of them was the arch-traitor. Judas.
To-day many wise people decline to
start on a journey or enter Into nny
business enterprise on Friday. Our
own President McKinley would never
inaugurate any public affair or sign
any important document on a Frldav.
There are kings and emperors whe
sun cherish the same superstition.
Great rulers have been noled for an
absurd faith in omens. Napoleon re
garded the breaking of a looking glass
as a presage or death or dire calamity.
The kaiser is not devoid of supersti
tions, which to people in general seem
absurd. The czar possesses a ring
set with a bit of the True Cross,
which he always wears as a talisman
against evil. Quenn Victoria had an
uncanny horror of cats; so also had
Lord Roberts. The black cat Is an
object of morbid terror to many peo
ple both great and small. Bismarck
had a superstitious reverence for the
numeral three as his lucky number.
The ancient regard for seven as a
sacred and symbolic number still en
dures, and we see this Idea carried out
in church architecture and decora
tions. Many men, sailors and theatri
cal people are noted for their super
stitions. Kipling Is always careful to
avoid seeing the new moon over his
left shoulder. Zola was a victim f
many petty superstitions. 'The use
ot the horseshoe as an emblem of
good luck dates from that remote time
when a device of this shane
blood was placed on the doors of the
Israelites to ward off the
attacks upon their first born.
ncss men who believe Friday to be a
aay or evil omen still cite Jay Gould'B
"Black Friday" as a iustlfiVntinn nf
their belief. Many other superstitions
cnerisnea not only by the Ignorant
masses but by the wisest people might
be mentioned. Many poets, remanc
ers and even scientists and philosoph
ers have been addicted to absurd su
perstitions. People still see vision.
and dream dreams, and attempt to pry
inio mauers not given unto men to
know. But the great rnvsterlen of Ufa
and death, and the hereafter, remain
as unsoivabie to-day is fn the first
days of man's existence upon the
earth.
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BY
THE
PEOPLE
Ilia Rival.
In Turkey It often happens that
marriages are arranged affairs ar
ranged by the parents of the man and
the woman. Such was the case, says
"Demetra Vaka" In "Haremllk," with
Halll Bey and his bride. They had
never seen each other, and at first it
did not look as If the match would be
a good one, since the lady was burled
deep In German philosophies In which
the gentleman had little Interest.
By the time I parted from Halll
Bey's fiancee I was so filled up with
high Ideals that I kept thinking "Poor
Haiti Bey!"
The next morning ' I found Halll
Bey in the garden, very impatient to
hear all about his fiancee.
"Tell me," he cried out, as soon as
we had shaken hands, "Is she beau
tiful?" "Very," I answered; "but, my poor
boy, she Is crazy over Kant and Scho
penhauer." "Who are they?" he bellowed, thun
der In his voice and fire In his eyes.
"Tell me quick and 1 will draw every
drop of blood from their veins."
"I have no doubt," I said, "that In
a flst-to-flst encounter you would have
the best of them, but they are both
dead and gone, and only their miser
able books are left to fight against."
"Oh," he laughed, "Is that all? I
think I can take care of that."
Aa events turned out, he did.
In the Air.
Tom Just saw Miss Welloph on the
street and lifted my hat
Dick And did she respond?
Tom Yes. She lifted her nose.
Boston Transcript
CIVILIZATION MARKS DOOM OF STIMULANTS.
By Ada May Krecker.
There needs no argument to press home the
proof of a decline in the use of liquors. It Is
perfectly evident throughout the country. And
in narcotics a similar change of heart is com
ing about. John J. Hayes, winner of the Mar
athon race in London, confesses in a maga-
zlne article that "No long distance runner
can smoke either cigars or cigarettes and
run. One thing is essential, abstinence from
tobacco in any form. I suggest running as a certain
cure for the tobacco habit to anyone who wishes to
break himself of it."
Go where we will among the savages and we find
drugs powerful and plentiful employed for setting into
action men's powers. It 1b only among the finest types
of the most advanced races that we Bee them discarded
in favor of subtler stimuli. Prof. James, the Harvard
psychologist, urges the superior claims, as excitants, of
.morning air and sunlight and fine skies and mountain
walks and dewy flowers and great thoughts and sweet
aspirations above the frothy hopes of the foaming
glass. They are the natural stimulants of refined or
ganisms. These need no other. No, not even coffee and tea. An
Englishman, E. Baron Russel by name, has been mak
ing predictions for the year 2000 A. D., and he has it
thnt. hy that ttm th hnmnn yf.tem will have bppn
bo refined that tea and coffee will be placed in the same
category that alcoholic stimulants occupy nowadays.
The prohibitionists of that remote hour will be cam
paigning against tea and coffee and teetotalers will sign
their pledges in favor of coffeeless breakfasts and after
noon teas without "the cup that cheers but does not inebriate."
QUESTION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
By Ceaare Lombroso.
In spite of prison, deportation and forced
labor, I argue that the criminals will go on
repeating their crimes for the third or fourth
time. There is nothing left, therefore, for
society to do but to inflict the extreme but
effective punishment of death. Assuredly for
barbarous men whom prisons do not inspire
with dread the death penalty Is the only thing
feasible. Still, this COld-bloaderi flMriiHnn nr.
dered by Judges and not infrequently accompanied by
the gaping of crowds, Is repulsive to the delicate senses
of civilized peoples. It even may frequently be fol
lowed by similar crimes inspired by the law of imita
tion and the executed victim may become the founder
of a criminal cult, so to speak.
Of course, if we place upon life and living things
the most rigorous and most sacred rights, we who are
not God's emissaries have no right or authority over
the life of human beings of our kind. But. then.
neither have we the right to deprive them of their
liberty nor to Inflict upon them any punishment what
ever. To pretend that the death penalty is contrary to
nature means to feign Ignorance of the fact which Is
written in nature's books in large letters, the fact that
organized society is based upon a struggle for existence
followed by the most fearful hecatombs.
The fact that there are born criminals, organized for
destruction, criminals who are living reproductions not
only of the most savage men, but also of the most fero
cious animals, far from rendering us compassionate to
wards them, only hardens and deprives us of all pity
towards them.
There relnalns, therefore, but one excuse for the death
penalty, and that is that of radical elimination ot a
dangerous element But here we must not forget that In
order to attain this desired elimination of a dangerous
class one must kill, not ten or twenty criminals a year,
but 3,000 criminals in Italy and 2,000 in France. This
would be a veritable butchery. And I believe that in
our age, in an age so thoroughly imbued with a spirit
of humanity, not even the most ardent partisan of the
death penalty will suggest such a course.
WHY SHOULD MAN HOLD SUPREME POWER?
By H. C. De Beer
Ethically there is no such thing as the sex
question. Why manufacture one? Are not
man and woman alike, yet different; each
equal, each distinct, absolutely necessary to
each other? Why any antagonism, with In
creasing distrust, disdain, even disgust? One
may understand antagonism from the house
hold tyrant, the pompous bully, the master
of the old school, who will woo a maiden nn
his knees, promising all things, and promptly relegate
her to a position of domestic servility once she has sur
rendered herself. But this antagonism Is not under
standable and cannot really exist among a great ma
jority of thinking good men-, who regard woman as
man's helpmate and companion, the friend in all need.
In France apparently woman has not been subjected
to the position of servility. She la a factor. French
men recognize Id her their natural companion and tho
source of their happiness. The Frenchwoman has not
been forced to descend from her pedestal of womanhood
to enter into the arena against man. In France wom
an's influence Is permanent, and the Frenchmen, who
consider woman a more interesting study than dogs or
cricket averages, realize and appreciate it. The French
mother Is respected, complimented, reverenced. There
are no Jokes at the expense of the French mother, the
higher mentality, more natural humanity of the French
mansrevolts at that being a subject for lampoons.
What has man to show for his undisputed possession
of power during countless ages? Besides certain med
ical blessings his science has given us many interest
ing, perhaps noble discoveries. But what of beauty
and happiness? Oh, that la woman's province.
GRAND OLD MAN GONE.
The Venerable Doctor Hale, Dlatln-
Kulnbed Clergyman and Writer.
One of the ."grand old men" of the
nation passed away in Roxbury, Mass.,
in the death of Dr. Edward Everett
Hale, one of the leading Congregation
al ministers of the country and since
1903 chaplain of the United States
Senate. Distinguished on two conti-
tion of war have been noted. In Wash
ington he was as deeply beloved aa in
Boston, where practically all of his
life had been spent and where he was
held in veneration. The world is the
richer that he has lived and is much
the poorer that death has claimed him,
after a useful, upright and honorable
life of 87 years!
Dr. Hale was born in Boston in 1822
and graduated from Harvard In 1839.
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EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
nents as a clergyman he was also fa
mous aa a story writer and philan
thropist, and some of his stories, no
tably, "A Man Without a Country,"
have been read throughout the world
and stand as classic in the English
language. Hla contributions to histo
rical literature have been valuable and
varied, and his efforts in behalf of
International peace and ot the aboll-
In 1842 he was licensed to preach by
the Boston Association of Congrega
tional Ministers,' after which he spent
several years in ministering to various
congregations, passing the winter of
1844-45 in Washington. His first regu
lar settlement waa in 1846 aa pastor
of the Church of the Unity In Worces
ter, Mass., where he remained until
1856. In that year he waa called to
the South Unitarian Church in Boston,
where he was pastor for 30 years.
Early in life Dr. Hale engaged in
Journalistic work and before he had
attained his majority contributed reg
ularly to the Monthly Chronicle and
Boston Miscellany. While connected
with the Advertiser he began histori
cal studies. For six years he was the
paper's South American editor and
was regarded aa an authority on
Spanish American affairs.
Dr. Hale's Influence was extensively
felt in all philanthropic movements.
His book, "Ten Times One Is Ten,"
published In Boston in 1870, led to the
establishment of clubs devoted to char
ity, which became scattered through
out the United States, with chapters
in Europe, Asia, Africa and Islands of
the Pacific. He also took a great In
terest In the Chautauqua Literary and
Scientific Circle, of which he was one
of the counselors and frequent con
tributor to the Chautauquan. In later
years he edited the Christian Examin
er and the Sunday School Gazette. He
is survived by his wife, who was MIs3
Emily B. Perkins, a granddaughter of
Rev. Lyman Beecher; and four chil.
dren.
An Unofficial Vtmlt.
One should always distinguish be
tween the private and the official ca
pacity of a person. The way of the
policeman may thus be fnade hard be
cause he Is forced to arrest his friends,
sometimes his former comrades. Nev
ertheless, stern necessity demands that
the distinction should be kept. A
writer in the New York Times tells
how the Russian novelist, Tolstoi, is
wont to act when occasion demand's.
Tolstoi abominates sneaks and spies
of all kinds. Mellkoff, a sneak and a
spy, he especially abominates.
One day Mellkoff, suspecting that a
good, deal of revolutionary work was
goisg on at Tolstoi's estate, dropped in
unexpectedly.
"Do you come," said Tolstoi to him,
"officially, or as a private person? If
you come officially, here are my keya
Search. Exemantne everything. You
are quite free to do bo."
"But, count," said Mellkoff, "believe
me, I come to you as a private per
Bon." ,
Tclstoi looked at him in silence.
Then, calling two stalwart muzhiks!
he said:
"Here, pitch this man out of tin
house!"
Notice your average day's work;
how much of It la devoted to actual
work, and how much ot It to needles
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