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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

The best histories record many things
besides battles and legislation. In ]. F.
Rhodes History Of the United States" "
for example, there are some remark
ably suggestive pages about the physi-
cal health of the American people in
the decade before the Civil War. In
this decade of our own we are so used
to the spectacle of athletic young men
and women, the product or the new
methods in education and hygiene, that
we forget the pit whence we were
digged. Let Mr.. Rhodes remind us Of
it by few Of the contemporary COM
ments he has collected. One of them is
Thackeray's remark in letter from
New York: Most Of the ladies are as
lean as greyhOunds." From the Allan
tic Monthly in 1858 is taken the confes-
sion: "We are nation Of health
hunters, betraying the want by the
search" In the same magazine DIR.
Holmes touches upon the American
female constitution, which collapses
just In the middle third Of life, and
comes out vulcanized india-rubber, II
1t happen to live through the period
when health and strength are most
wanted" Mr.. Rhodes makes a signi-
ticant point In saying that 'the hearty
English salutation OF good morning
had given way to an inquiry about
ones health" not Of perfunctory sort,
but calling for definite answer. Then
follows an amazing array Of excuses on
the ground of i'll health brought for
ward by members of both houses Of
Congress. The causes Of this condition
bad cooking and diet, fast eating,
lack OF eXercise-are shown to have
been fairly national In their scope
Against all this contemporary testi-
mony 1t Is fair to set the consideration
that the historian Of fifty years hence,
noting the frequency Of nervous
breakdowns" in the record of our own
times. may suppose that we are gen.
Grafton of weaklings. 1t is always easy
to generalize too broadly. Yet the fact
remain that Uncle Sam Is gradually
growing from raw-boned, sallow, un
healthy fellow into a creditable spec
linen Of health and manly vigor.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

permitted wills to be so frequently in
validated. He replied: I'VE hold to-
day that father and mother are re-
sponsible for the welfare of the chill
dren they bring into the world, and
that no matter how bad such children
may be they must not be made a
charge upon the community, but must
be cared for by their parents if unable
to support themselves. A recent case,
for instance: A man worth some S2O,-
100000 cuts off a wayward son, his
excuse being that the boy Is incap-
able Of taking care of himself or his
fortune. BY what right does that
father make his own son an outcast
You may safely wager that the will
Is to be broken unless the rest of the
children agree to an equal division.
Young Cornelius Vanderbilt could have
broken his fathers will, and would
have done 1t If he had not married
very rich girl and his brother had
not come down so handsomely. He Is
worth $10,0O0,000 to-day, which is
enough for anybody"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

II ever an institution met a "long-
felt want" 1t is the Technical High
School for Girls which was opened
recently in New York City. A building
designed to accommodate five hundred
pupils was crowded to twice its capac
ity, and upon the opening of an up
town annex, for the reception Of two
hundred and fifty girls, that also was
promptly filed. The new school is
planned to provide two years techni-
cal course for grammarschool gradu-
ates. Special stress is laid upon type.
writing, dressmaking and cooking.
Other practical arts will doubtless re-
ceive equal attention when the inStitu-
ton has had opportunity to measure
its field In the meantime there is
little danger that it will graduate too
many skilled typewriters, dressmakers
aud cooks. The New York experiment
recalls the argument recently advanced
not for the first time-that the prin.
cipal obstacle encountered by working
women seeking to better their condi
iloll, IL tne tpllpclllIOu OI women moi
obliged to work, who accept employ
ment In shops and factories in order tt
escape the monotony of home life OF
to earn money for personal luxuries
Ii that be true. the technical schoo
needs no other Justification, Tor ever,
such agency ror special training viii
tend to lessen the pressure upon oc
equations that call for no long appren
ticeship, and are therefore overcrowd
oil and underpaid. But with the in
direct benefit to unskilled labor goe
direct and lasting gain to the grad
yates themselves. The arts that oual
lfy them to be self-supporting will
whether exercised for money or not
broaden their views of life, strenCthe,
their characters, and place them per
manently outside the class of mo
tional," morbid and self-indulgen
people. To reach corresponding re
suit has already become the educa
tional ideal for boys, and all thing
indicate that the girl whose head an,
heart and hand are disciplined to use
fulness is she who will command tb,
future
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

separation the workngman and the professional
man. the business man. the in any other walk of
life much broader breach than that which separates
him from the capitalist and the capitalists class.
Unfortunately this breach pervades the church. and the
fault the latter The duty of the church is to
out get workngman not merely to passvey wait
for him in and become part Of it. If the church
does not reach workngman, 1t broaden its field
New methods must be made Of which will bring him
within its doors.
Churches and denominations realizing that the stua
which requires vigorous action They grasp
ing the dilemma and already wonderful progress has been
made in overcoming the sentiment which has been grow
ing workngmen in the past that the church has
place for such they The ultimate result Of these
forts reunlte the struggling elements will have greater
effect church and society than most anticipate
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

The American goes To work early,
like the Frenchman; like the French
man, he works hard: like the French
man, he works late; but, like the Eng
lishman, he takes no time to himself
at midday. His luncheon is the
merest smack" 1t is often cooked bad
ly and served worse; 1t ls oftener still.
perhaps, drawn from n paper in his
pocket and not served at all. As for
any intellectual rcpose or mental dis
traction from the grim facts of work
not only is 1t not thought of. but the
very idea would be laughed to scorn
From the moment of setting forth To
the moment of return mind and body
alike are deprived of their proper nour.
ishment and rest 1t Is scarcely
strange, therefore, that Europe should
be rich in elegant American widows
and orphans and the churchyards al
home too full of young mems graves.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

at which he has not caused scene
OF some kind or other. At one of the
great parliamentary riots toward the
end of 1897 the police were called in to
arrest Wolf in the chamber, and free
fight took place between him and about
dozen stalwart policemen, which end
ed In their carrying him out by main
force. The same year he fought duel
with the prime minister, and few
years later met his former friend, Prof.
Seidl, in a duel. His wife alleges
abusive treatment.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

mani He who allows any of these his natural faculties
wher for want of exercise is not and cannot hope s
the successful man! With the perversity of human nature
study only the effect Of success Why not study B
cause? Therein and therein only, lies your chance Re-
member while you talking and moaning the other
man is doing! Don't blame things to luck! 1t is work
work work-faithfu persistent unceasing work that wins
Could you but see the successful produce his sue
cess little admiration and wonder might join and possibly
precede your ire and envy Day after day and far into
the night he tolls with body and BRAIN often putting
three times much work the meanest and most Ill.
paid his empoyes-and does his work when sue.
his eorts2 No! While it means hard
gain success is the less hard work to keep t
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

the Austrian ReichSath. the rowdiest
legislative assembly in the world.
Wolff was the son of middle-class
parents, and studied at Prague Univer-
sity. He failed to take degree, be-
cause he was always occupied with pol
tiles instead of with his books, and
when he left college he ut once entered
political life by way of journalism.
Within a year or two he had become
the most prominent of Pan German
agitators. He and his party advocate
the disintegration of Austria, and the
addition of those Austrian provinces,
In which the majority of the population
are Of German nationality, to the Ger
man empire. The result of this policy.
If carried out, would be to extend Ger
many to the Adriatic making her more
than ever the predominant power in
central Europe.
Wolf propagated this program of
Pan-Germanism on hundreds of plat.
forms and In the press, and organized n
formidable Pan-German party in Bo-
hemia. Some ten years ago he founded
Pan-German daily paper, the Ost-
deutsche Rundschau. In Vienna. and he
was editor-in-chief Of this organ till re-
Gently, when he was forced to relin.
quish the position. In 1897 he was
elected a member Of the Relchsrath,
and since the day he entered that as.
sembly scarcely sitting has occurred
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

tutors of the gentle and graces engaged to teach
his children the very latest fobles in culture Take all
In ALL the petals Of in thick soft prouson
his path while the thorns into the road that
the unlucky ones may tread thereon.
"Luck-thas the thing" you grumble enviously Jeal
ousy rankes in breast and you along cursng
the fates that deal thus fortunately with and
harshly and ungenerousy with another whats the good
of strving? Luck is against you you might
as well give up Down with the rch! you cry striking
the universal chord of the unfortunate Of study
Ing the science of accommodating study the evils
Of accumulated wealth.
Thus you through life benoanng your own fate and
In your heart envyng and hating the man. You
like to tell the story Of Soand-SO the successful man.
who in your boyhood days proud be seen PLAYING
marbles with you; and you wind up dramatically: See
him today. He rch-I poor we are farther apart
than the poles. He His money separates us
The Fates will 1t sov'
AS matter of facthe fates had nothing do with It,
The man of sound mind and body the of will energy
perseverance-the man Of good heart Spirits master
not only of his destiny but destines The qualities
have enumerated the heritage the brthrght of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

politicians p u bic
career to an igno-
minious end. Wolff,
who is now 40 years
Of age, is one of the
few Austrian public
men whose names
are known through
out the world. His
fame, however, has
not been gained for
any deeds of merit,
but for being the
DI,n,x ,,...h - q
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

sven Hedin. the explorer, has Il mot
To FOR his coat-of-arms which finely
expresses the reasons for his success.
hing Oscar selected the motto. "Vol.
untate ct Labore"-"By Wish and by
Work" The conqueror of difficulties
In other departments than that oI
searching out the hidden places OF the
earth Is likely to find that he owes hi.
triumph to love for his work and t,
diligence.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15
,gEFcH BETWEEN CHURCH AND w0RKiNGMEN.
BY Rev. lyman Abbott d. d.

Yhe church and the workingman IN
this country have drifted apart. Inc
breach is due 10 the social conditions Oh
the age. The falling away of the work
ingman has been gradual, until now IT
has reached such proportions that 1t Is
plainly noticeable. The workingman
seems 10 have lost interest In the
church. The same breach that Is be-
tween the workingman and the church
exists between the workingman and
other activities of the age. There is a
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

The woman suffragists should pack
right up and take passage for Ger
many. When the emperor kindly
sends regiment to a town solely to
provide dancing partners for signing
maidens, he surely would not refuse
such comparative trife as n woman's
ballot.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

The recollection that he sat next to
Prince Henry at table last year" COM
plains the Berlin Morgen Post, has
not restrained Admiral Dewey from" "
etc. etc, Such privilege, we must
admit should have made any Ameri.
can Il humble admirer of the German
monarchy forever. Dewey is an in.
CRATE
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

Isaac B. Price, of r>ew York, 1O1
years old, said that his age is due to
the fact that he chews his food prop
erly. My goodness, how can a man
spend his time chewing food In these
strenuous days?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

1t is said that twenty-five per cent.
Of the governors of the various states
are MethOdists. In most respects,
however, the Methodists stand as well
as other denominations.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

The government is going to proceed
against the Rich-Quick fakes with
gold letters on their office doors. Ii
will get so before long that to lose
his money man will have to get out
search warrant for a card sharper
and force the cash on him as a loan.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

A disappointed French playwright
shot himself in the head, but the re.
porter further declares that "he did not
injure himself seriously" He should
have selected vital part If he meant
business.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

The news that the blind can be made
to see and the deaf to hear through
the agency of electricity causes one
to wonder why faith curists never
exerted their energies toward the res
toration of sight and hearing.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

DRY" smoking is recommended as
a cure for insomnia. For persons try
ing to go to sleep 1t can be recon-
mended, also, as being much safer
than real smoking.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

Can 1t be possible mat the day Is
coming when men who hold public
offices will have to earn their salaries
just like other people?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

If gold is as plentiful as reported in
Tanana, Alaska, there will not be room
for the big burying ground that is an
adjunct Of every Arctic mining camp.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

FIND man who receives a great
many apologies, and you will find a
man who submits to a good many in
dignities.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

The wife of Junius Brutus Clay acci-
dentally killed her husband while pig
con shooting in Kentucky. Perhaps she
had been practicing on clay pigeons.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

1t Is one sign of lack OF confidence
in others to enter in an account book
the names Of all who borrow books OF
you, what they borrow, and when.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

A. Pennsylvania legislator has intro
duced bill to provide gold medals for
mothers Of large families. Sewing
machines would be better.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

Thinking twice before listening to
some things is about as good rule as
thinking twice before speaking.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

Only one five per cent. government
bond remains outstanding. Who is the
lucky man?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

There are Cubans who don't care
now whether they ever learn the Amer
lean language or not
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15
No Danger of Fire.

1uest-Any danger of fire in this
hotel?
Bell boy( with his teeth chattering)
-N-not unless yer pay extra fer it,
Judge.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

has either martial glory achieved victories satecra
laures in court of justice great lawyer
great worldly goods or In other way has
for himself path of surrounded himself with all
the comforts Of life If not with vanglory pomp Such
the ordinary view the world takes nowadays
1t is natural for to view this way but our
ideal Of success is wrong Let the proud and naughty
stride with superior tread with aurels of earthly tri
umph on their brows They In final ANALYSIS not
more successful than the owly who patiently bear defeat
but keep on striving Success is by money
The poor man may be far success than the rich
after ALL for he is defeat and his character
made all the stronger
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15
SUCCESS-ITS CAUSE AND EFFECT.
BY Emily EIsnor

When you hear Of successful man, you in
stantly conjure up visions of a pompous, self
satisfied gentleman leaning back in his office
chair AMI toying with his watch chain, while,
complacently. he looks from the high pedestal of
success down on the toling mob at his feet He
entertains royalty, his dinners are the talk of
the town, his wife's gowns and jewels are the
envy Of the women of her set, and the finest
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

One man seeks justice, while an
other man fees from Il
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

the Bible that veritable treasure house Of literature
every page they cannot take children to the from
which the supply is drawn How they to discuss and
interpret the style Ruskn of Carlyle Of Emerson How
are they to teach history the heroes of
dependence many of whom religious in every fiber
their being whose work will continue to bear the
stamp put upon at the beginning utterly regardless Of
what Of religious faith in the interval? How
teach the truth history reveals it unless he teaches
the whole truth? And yet what has happened The
quarreng of religious secs Of churches each claiming
this book for its and denying the truth Of what other
persons find in it. has brought about state of affairs in
which the English Bible, fountain Of English literature
has been practically stricken from the reading of large
portion of the American people.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15
BIBLE KNOWLEDGE DECLINING.
BY Prof. Butler, Pres

BY Prof Butler, President OF Columbia University
knowledge Of the English Bible is passing
out Of the life Of the rising generation, and
with this knowledge of the Bible there Is fast
disappearing any acquaintance with the religious
element which has shaped our civilization from
the beginning. Teachers all over this land are
trying to teach Chaucer and Spencer and Shake
speare, Tennyson and Browning.
How are they to understand men who refer
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

Offices are sold officially in China.
We DO it less ostentatiously in Amer
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15
FOUGHT A DOZEN POLICEMEN.
World's Most Riotous Legislator Near
ing His Political End.

Petition for divorce Which Karl Her
man Wolff's wife has filed against him
seems likely to bring this astonishing
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15
DEFINITION OF SUCCESS.
by John D Rockefeller, Jr

BY John Rockefeller. Jr.
After all, what does fame, glory and wealth
count for in this world If we have not the real.
ization that we are doing something for our fel-
low men? What contrast there Is in the view
of success of life as defined by Christ and the
worlds estimation Of success in the present time.
Humiliation and death itself are the conditions
of success In the career Of Christ, while to-day In
the worlds estimate the successful man Is he who
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

A lawyer of note was asked what
change had come over the courts that
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

hEENE CONDUCTING FROM HIS RED
Inc FAMOUS Wall in uhuo rno,,o . ~
out not too Ill to attend affairs The result m t hs
become hnancial "rnnn,nv
" and conducting controversies Tobor
the bedroom ' P"i' VI the equipment OF
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

TOLEDO. OREGON.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-05-15

cHAs. r. q ADA Il. soULE, Pubs.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-25

Some western cities and towns are
setting good example for all New
England to follow says the Waterbury
Record. 1t is this, advertise the town
and city you live in as you would any
retail business.
The suggestion strikes the Record as a
business like one and, right here in this
section we would enjoy seeing it tried.
a few hundred dollars advertisng-sa
in some of the New York and Boston
ikewise-several magaZines-On
the beauties of Waterbury and vicinity
a5 an ideal place for summer homes,
would be the means, we believe Of
several good investments in real estate
in this section. Once get few summer
homes erected in Waterbury and the
ball is set a-rolling.
The Record has talked upon this sub
ject since its first issue and we hope that
during the fall and winter months to see
a business plan perfected and sufficient
funds at hand to enable, with liberal use
of printers ink, to tell the beauties of
Waterbury the country over. If rightly
carried out the investment will yield a
pleasing result.
Business men of Waterbury and people
interested in the growth of our beautiful
town-study the proposed plan and in
the near future you will be called upon
to express am Waterbury
Record.
board of trade, or committee take it W
this winter. 1t will cost but little tC
advertise the attractions, resources and
business opportunities of this town, and
it will surely pay. Who will start the
ball rolling?