LINCOLN MUSTY LEADER
R E COLLINS, rdkar
r N HAYDEN, Manager
TOLEDO OREGON
A "good fellow" la usually a man
riLh a lot of bad habits.
The safest automobile race are
those that don't happen.
A man's failure Is always due to the
(act that he didn't succeed.
According to late reports, Mr. Har
ridan's wealth amounted to only $85,-000,000.
A Kentucky negro is reported to
Have eaten five watermelons and died
ihappy.
When a man starts out to make a
fool of himself, he Invariably works
overtime on the job.
How can any one believe either ex
plorer since they both failed to send
home souvenir postal cards?
The average worklngman would like
to be rich enough to enable him to tell
bis boss Just what he really thinks of
blm.
A decade or two hence we may be
listening to another quarrel between
aviators claiming to have been first on
Los Angeles wants California cut In
two, thus making two States. She
thinks It can be done without Injur
ing the climate.
Tou who live in glass houses may
he Interested In learning that the
manufacturers of window glass have
boosted the prices.
Speaking of King Edward, Maxlne
Elliott says: "His majesty Is really
delightful." We are glad she didn't
call him sweet or cute.
A Louisiana judge has ruled that
women do not own. their clothes. He
Is probably a very young and inexpe
rienced judge, however.
The next expeditions won't be able
to see the aurora borealls because of
the number of American flags about
the pole. But the show will be a good
4eal more beautiful.
Fashloanble women are to wear "sim
ple" gowns during the coming winter.
The men will now have an opportuni
ty to become convinced that simplici
ty also may be expensive.
A love letter written 4,000 years
ago has been discovered In Egypt. We
understand that It reads very much
like the love letters written at the
present time. Lovers have no origin
ality. A Justice of the Supreme Court of
New York declares that a wife Is not
entitled to more than half what her
husband earns, but bless your heart,
what account does the average woman
take of the things a mere Judge may
viy?
Instead of throwing old shoes or
scattering rice, society In New York
has decided to speed the wedding Jour
ney of a newly married pair hereafter
with a shower of rose petals. Not to
peak of the fact that flowers are more
poetical than the other things, they
oake less dangerous missiles.
Census-taking Is a difficult business
In Mexico, whore the masses are in
fear that the enumeration means com
pulsory military service or more taxes.
Consequently, the coming census in
that country will be taken by high
officials, priests and men of the great
est local prominence, in order that it
may be more accurate than in the
past. In the City of Mexico President
DIas himself, as well as his cabinet
members and the archbishop, will per
sonally assist In the work.
There were contentions over pri
macy of discovery before Cook and
Peary. Hardly any great discoverer
of history, from Columbus down, es
tablished his fame without debate that
has left plain marks upon carefully
written and authentic history. Henry
Hudson, the tercentenary of whose dis
covery of the river named for him
was recently celebrated, is no excep
tion. Historians decided long ago that
he was not the first white man to en
ter New York harbor. New York City
Is honoring him as discoverer of the
river instead of the bay and the city's
eite. But the debate Incident to the
celebration throws doubt about even
his primacy In that respect, though it
is certain that he explored it farther
up than any predecessor. The real
discoverer of the mouth of the Hud
eon was undoubtedly Giovanni da
Verrazano, an Interesting Italian ad
venturer, half explorer, half pirate,
who was employed by Francis I. to
harry the Spaniards In the new world
as We gallant servants and lovers) of
Queen Elizabeth harried them after
wards. Verrazano coasted the whole
North America continent from Caro
lina to Nova Sootia, making doubtful
discoveries la Chesapeake Bay and
and other places, but certainly enter
lng New York harbor in 1524. 65 vears
before Hudson came in the Half Moon.
The authenticity of this event Is rec
ognized by American historians like
Flake and Winsor and the Hudson
river and adjacent lands appear on a
copper globe preserved In New York
made in 1547, labeled "Verrazano or
New Gallia." The only question is how
far up the Hudson the Italian sailed
and whether he recognized it fully as
a river and not a tidal Inlet. This Is
not important enough to nrevent the
Italians of New York from setting up
a monument to his memory in Battery
Park with the permission of the city
authorities. Here is encouragement to
Dr. Cook that posterity at least will
do him Justice.
Extremists In action often have an
Important work to accomplish In so
cial evolution. They never can ac
complish the particular things they
aim to accomplish, but they jar society
loose from some of its ingrained hab
its which with the course of time have
become harmful and bad. It Is the
same with extremists In belter or
creed. They are all wrong in their
absolute proclamations of what is the
truth, and they are often very offen
sive In their bigotry, but they never
theless are renl contributor to pro
gress. Not the extremists themselves,
however, but the moderates who fol
low them mark the real entrance of
progress. And the appearance of the
moderate views, which embody the
good in the rival creeds while dis
carding only the elements of rash as
sertlveness. Is always welcome. It is
In this way that the views of a speak
er at the conference of the American
Hospital Association In Washineton
are to be welcomed. He gave statis
tics showing the decreased use of
drugs in American hospitals, a really
remarkable showlne. and went on to
discuss the methods of hygiene, sani
tation and mental healing which were
now accomplishing much of what
drugs were formerly asked to accom
plish. The extremists in the use of
drugs were as bad in their wav as anv
extreme denouncers of drugs are to
day. Because some drugs have mark
ed specific beneficial effects, it does
not follow that drugs should be used
indiscriminately, any more than it fol
lows that because there has been a
great abuse of drugs all drues should
be abandoned forever. Without the
extremists In the use of drugs the
many extremists In faith and mental
healing would probably never have ap
peared. To-day we are seeing a move
ment of reconciliation from both sides.
It is apparent in the recognition which
the family practitioner gets, the man
who helps the health of a family as
much from his good qualities as a man
as from his ability as a physician.
it is apparent In the organizations tn
combine faith healing with medical at
tention, each where it is most fitting.
it is apparent in such testimony from
doctors as that which has Just been
quoted. America has had a whirlwind
of extreme creeds and fads in food
and health matters during the last de
cade or two. The world has wondered
at them. Perhaps the result will be
an all the quicker appearance of sanity
and wisdom In the care of health
which the world will unqualifiedly ad
mire.
Quite Ahanrdl
We are eo accustomed to having
things "out of season," and especially
to the cutting and storing of ice for
use In the summer, that it Is hard
to put ourselves in the place of the
simple old farmer told of by a writer
in the Toledo Blade.
In the summer of 1900 a party of
surveyors was working through the
State of Aranksas, surveying- and lo
cating the Midland Valley road. One
day the surveying corps Btopped at a
farm house and shouted for the farm
er. The Arkansan came out, and the
surveyors asked him If they could get
a drink.
"Certainly, boys," he said. "I'll give
you the best I've got, and the best
I've got is buttermilk."
"That will be fine," the surveyors
said, and the old farmer gave each
of the gang a glass of buttermilk.
"It's mighty good," said one of the
surveyors to McLoud.
"Yes, Indeed," McLoud replied, "but
It would be better if we had some ic
to put in It"
Turning to the farmer, McLoud said,
"Have you any IceT"
"Ice!" shouted the farmer, tugging
at his whiskers. "Ice! Who ever
heard of ice in July?"
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Applaaaa.
A friend having declared In Mrs.
Slddons' hearing that applause was
necessary to actors, that It gave them
confidence, "More," Interposed she, "It
gives us breath."
The records show that but few vege
tarians marry grass widows.
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PURITY OF HEART ELIXIR OF STRENGTH.
By Ada May Krecker.
That the mental Influences the Dhyslcal we
long have known. We have known without
the doctor's dictum that we erow Dallid with
fear, flush with shame, laugh with delight.
snea strange little droDs of brlnv water he-
cause we are grieved. If frail little women
we may pine away with unrequited Dasslon.
and, albeit the stoutest of men, we wear to
1 a shadow under severe mental at rARH
Dr. Elmer E. Gates finds that the baser emotions
breed poisons In the blood, and that the higher emo
tions, such as love, hope, and happiness, are elixirs.
He avows that the ptomaines yielded by a two hours'
passion of violent hatred injected Into the veins are
fatal. He terms hatred the deadliest poison known to
science. Anger 1b a poison. Fear Is a poison. Despair
and sorrow and sadness all instill their deadly toxins
Into the blood.
But If we laugh we grow fat. If we hope we have
bright eyes. If we love we are strong. If we are suf
fused with some vast Idea, Liberty, Equality, Frater
nity, we become conquerors. "The Union," the "Stars
and Stripes forever" are words, are Ideas which Prof.
James mentions as having Inspired men to supreme
pitches of valor, hardihood, sacrifice, honor, effort, ac
complishment. Thus the pure In heart, those whose hearts are pure
of thought poisons, pure of hatred, wrath, despair, those
whose hearts are cleanly nourished wth the elixirs of
love, peace, hope, Joy, courage, are strong not only with
their own strength. They are invigorated with the
power attracted to them by their own purity. And
their strength Is made manifoldly stronger.
DEGENERATION THE PENALTY FOR SLOTH.
By Andrew Wilson.
There is no understanding the ways and
works of living nature, unless we take into
account the Influence of degeneration.
First, there' are advance and development,
which tend toward the raising of the animal
or plant in the scale of life. In the second
place, we may find a state of stability in
which the organism rests in statu quo ante.
It neither progresses nor recedes, hut re.
mains unchanged and unchanging through long periods
of time. Finally, there Is degeneration, which operates
toward producing a state of greater simplicity in place
of the complexity which attends evolution, viewed as
advance. This degeneration may be called biological
backsliding. The animal or plant tends to lose the
normal features of its race and to lapse backward to a
condition in which It may, Indeed, part with even all
the essential features of its structure, and exhibit the
wholesale effects of a literal sinking into the slums of
existence.
Thus regarded, a species is either progressing or
standing still or declining. The influence of degenera
tion has left Its mark on whole groups of animals and
plants. It Is, In truth, only through our recognition
of physical backsliding that we can explain the origin
of many typical states and conditions of animal and
plant species. Take, for example, the case of "para
sites." A parasite everybody recognizes as an animal
or plant which lives at the expense of another living
being, animal, or plant, as the case may be. Some ani
mal parasites infest neighbor animals; others sponge
upon plants, to use the schoolboy's expression; while
plants, In turn, may be parasitic either on other plants
or upon animals.
The moment an animal or plant takes to parasitism,,
degeneration sets in. It has to pay the penalty of an.
easy and inglorious life, for the paraBlte has ever been
regarded as the type of all that is mean and low. Na
ture exacts the penalty of Idleness and Indolence in de
priving the parasite In time of Its structures essential
to a healthy existence. If it has no need to forage for
food it will have no need of organs to procure nutri
ment Hence feelers and Jaws will disappear, and as
it may feed on the food prepared by its host for the
latter's own use being a boarder as well as lodger
Its digestive organs will similarly decline. Being fixed
on its host, its legs or other locomotor organs will de
fnerate; end, as it has no need of scnoe orsass, eyes
and ears will vanish away.
TRAINING THE CHAUFFEUR.
By Lewis L. Davenport.
With the gigantic growth of the automo
bile Industry In America and its attendant
increase In the army of "chauffeurs," the
automobile school has sprung into existence.
And from It now go many of the late recruits
to "the men behind the wheels." Approxi
mately six weeks are required to convert a
tyro into a driver. All deDenda on the tn.
J dent's ability. A new dav cIium u fnrmoi
every Monday mornlnz: also a nleht nn nno
beginner advances as rapidly as skill allows. Any one
wua maenme Bnop experience will doubtless finish the
course in a much Bhorter Derlod. thonerh hel
chanic Is, of course, not necessary, as the repairs a
chauffeur is required to make are minor ones usually.
ine pay ior mis new trade Is excellent, depending
entirely on the employer. Seventy-five dollars a month
is about the minimum warn while th hoat r.r .h.nf.
j ' vuw n . W . V. ill. HA
feurs command as much as $2,000 a year, besides hav
ing house rent and traveling expenses. Many are taken
to Europe in the summer, or Florida In the winter. So
iney are mucn Deuer paia and have a pleasanter life
than the ordinary worker.
Flowers for Paula
Paula sat straight up in the porch
hammock, her hands clasping Its edge,
her toes tapping the floor. The au
tumn wind, blowing from behind her,
was doing things to her gold-colored
crown. A fringe of ringlets stood out
like a glorified sun-bonnet brim all
round her rosebud face. Uncle Jim
removed the cigar from his Hps and
looked at her.
He was not a flesh and blood uncle.
Paula had adopted him six years
earlier when he came home from col
lege with her big brother, and he had
been her mentor ever since. It had
occurred to Jim frequently of late
that he was growing young for the
part.
"It was such a mess, Uncle Jim!"
Paula was remarking with emphasis.
"It was like taking friendships and
tossing them Into the lake. I won't
tell you, real names. Call them X,
Y, Z."
"What! So many?"
"Well, one was a girl. But X is a
man and I had promised him to go
to a dance. It's no time of year for
dancing, anyway. Perfectly ridiculous!
When I came to dress I remembered
that awful spot on the front of my
gown and not another thing ready
to wear! It came from pinning on a
bunch of violets when they were wet
and I've had to have flowers to cover
the place ever since.
"Billy tried to help me out like a
good brother. He proposed to lie in
wait for X and let me know the min
ute he got here whether he had
brought flowers or not. If he hadn't,
he was to be punished by having to
wait while Bily dashed out through
the alley after sweet peas."
"Billy has a great head," said Uncle
Jim, with a caressing smile not for
Billy.
"Too great! Just as I was ready,
Billy shot up stairs and told me X
had arrived with a purple box, the
kind violets come In. I wondered why
he didn't send them up, but when I'd
waited as long as I could I wrapped
my pretty cape around me and went
down. There was Jhe purple box on
the hall bench, but X apparently had
forgotten all about.lt. He threw open
the front door and started to usher
me outl
"1 see you believe it was funny. It
was not Think of that horrible spot
on my dress! I couldn't have X see
It he's too. exquisite. Yes, he Is. Why
should that make you cross?
"I had to have those flowers; so I
said: 'Pardon, but isn't that some
thing of yours on the bench?"
"Imagine my feelings when he drew
the door together behind us, and an
swered: Yes; may I leave It till we
come back? It's a package I have to
drop at Prof. Black's.'
"Now, Uncle Jim, stop laughing!
You'd better, if you want me to tell
you!
"All the way over to the hotel I
hardly spoke. When we passed the
florist's on the corner it was all I
could do to keep from breaking win
dows, and when X finally left me at
the door of the dressing room I was
planning to be taken suddenly 111 and
have to go right home.
"Just then I caught Bight of well,
Y. No, I won't tell you his real name,
either, you old tease! All you need
"I WO'T TfcJ.L VOU KKAL .NAMKH.
know is that he'd have gone after the
moon if I hinted tor It. I beckoned
him to the dressing-room door and told
him to run out to the florist's and get
me a bunch of sweet peas."
"Didn't he have a girl of his own?"
"Wait till you hear me. There were
three girls in the dressing room, but
they hadn't seen me speaking to Y,
and one of them Z, you know
pounced on me, first thing. She said
she'd heard lots about a man that was
crazy about me at the lake and how
dreadfully I'd snubbed him, and who
was he anyway, and what did I have
against him?
"I knew she'd heard about Y, but I
was real noble, and didn't tell his
name Just explained that when a man
who was completely and entirely out
of the question got serious I thought
the kindest way was to show him
there was no hope. That made her
wilder than ever to know who he
was, and at last, In a moment of weak
ness, Just as Y came back with my
flowers, I said to her, 'If you must
know, he's the one.'
"And she she gave one squeal, and
said, 'Oh ee! That'B the man I cami
here with to-night!'"
"Ha!" exclaimed Uncle Jim, but ht
checked himself. "And X where wai
he?" he asked Judiciously.
"That's the worsh. When Y handed
me those flowers-he hadn't bought
sweet peas but perfectly gorgeous Toset
X was glaring with all his eyes from
outside the door, and Z, Inside the
door, was looking daggers at us! Don't
laugh It was awful!" Paula dropped
her face into her hands.
Uncle Jim sobered down In a hurry.
"Of course you explained?"
"Explain! Z wouldn't listen. Sailed
off with Y and told him I'd said he
was out of the question. Oh, I know
from the way they acted afterward.
And X Just viewed me with haughty
disdain from the minute he saw me
taking those flowers. He and I parted
Icebergs."
"And you wouldn't explain to htm
even?"
. "Tell him there was a spot on my
dress that had to be covered, when
I'd gone to all that trouble to keep
him from knowing?"
Without warning, Paula hid her face
a second time.
Uncle Jim's chair came down on
four legs. His cigar sailed over the
lawn. Paula was crying.
"Paula," he began in a queer tone
not a bit like Uncle Jim, "do you
do you care urn more for X or Y
than the rest of the alphabet?" '
Her hands dropped from her eyes.
She had never before heard a note like
this In his voice.
"What do you mean?" she faltered.
"I mean " Jim looked embar
rassed, but he spoke up stoutly. "I
mean J!"
Paula Btared. Then the color swept
up to her hair. "Why, Uncle "
"Hang the uncle!"
There were two In the hammock
now.
"Why why why, Jim!" she stam.
mered, obediently. Chicago News.
Chance of Oconpatton.
"His wife was a high kicker when
he married her."
"And now?" '
"She's a high flyer." Birmingham
Age-Herald.
When It Is said of a man that he It
bull headed, it means that he is foolish.