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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
Subjects of Thought.

The petnon who groans a good deal
about the sins of others will bear
watching.
The public is a baby, depending
largely upon the nature Of the indulg-
euce of its nurse.
Good luck Is the willing handmade Of
upright, energetic character and con-
soientious observance of duty.
There is none made so great, but he
may both need the help and service,
md stand In fear Of the power and un-
kindness, even Of the meanest of NOR
tails.
am glad to think l am not bound
to make the world go right, said Jean
Ingelow, but only to discover and to
do, with cheerful heart, the work that
God appoints.
Because charity begins at home is no
reason that it should be restricted to
that limited sphere; of all the virtues
she Is the one who needs to have the
most constant exercise.
God is in our souls, as our souls are
in our bodies. He never ceases to
speak to us, but the voice of the world
without and the tumult Of our pas
sions within bewilder us from listening
to Him.
The true way TO be humble Is not to
stoop until you are smaller than your
self, but to stand at your real height
against some higher nature that shall
show you what the real smallness OF
your greatness is.
Expect to escape, know that you can
escape from the consequences of hay-
ing been wicked, only by being good
Grave the most perfect mercy. ASK
for the new life as the only real re-
lease from death. SO only can your
religion glow with enthusiasm, ana
open into endless hope.
The truest criterion of a mans char
acter and conduct Is invariably to De
found in the opinion Of his W family
circle, who, having daily and hourly
opportunities OF forming a judgment
Of him, will not fail in doing so. 1t IS
a far higher testimony in his favor for
him to secure the esteem and love OF q
few individuals within the privacy oil
his own home, than the good opinion
of hundreds in his immediate neigh
borhood, or that Of ten times the mum
Der residing at a distance.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
Curious Properties Of Radium.

The properties of radium are ex-
tremely curious. This body emits with
great intensity all of the different rays
that are produced in a vacuum-tube.
The radiation, measured by means of
an electroscope, is at least a million
times nor powerful than that from an
equal quantity Of uranium. A charged
e~lectroscope placed at a distance of sew
eral metres can be discharged by a few
centlgrams of a radium salt. One can
also discharge IN electroscope through
a screen Of glass or lead five or six
centimetres thick. Photographic plates
placed in the vicinity of radium are al.
most instantly affected'if no screen in.
tercepts the rays; with screens, the nc.
ton is slower, but it still takes place
through very thick ones If the ex.
posure is sufficiently long. Radium can
therefore be used in the production of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
The Bootblack's Tenth.

"Have your shoes shined?' sang out
a small boy near the Union Station,
among a group of people just from the
train. A young nan who heard the cry
stayed his steps, hesitating; for he had
not much more money in his pocket
than he had backing on his shoes. But
to hesitate was to fall into the shoe
blacks hands and the brushes were
o o wrestling with splashes Of rural
clay.
When the shine was completed the
young mar handed the boy a dime, and
felt that he had marked his way into
the great city with an act of charity;
for, at his heart, he did not care how
his boots looked. But, as he was pull
ing himself together for a new start,
he saw the boy who had cleaned his
shoes approach the blind beggar who
sits behind the railroad fence, and drop
a dime into his cup.
What did you do that for?" asked
the young man.
Yer see," said the boy, that was
me tenth dime terday, an me teacher
at Sunday School told me l oughter
give a tenth Of all 1 makes to the Lord.
See? An l guess that OF blind man
wants a dime more than the Lord, 80
l give 1t to him. Seer"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

At Pensacola the Alabama made a
record Of twelve hits in as many shots
from the biggest guns in the navy
(thirteen inch, at n target 17x21 in
size, 1000 yards distant, while the
ship was steaming at the rate of ten
knots an hour. Taking the record of
hits by the weight of metal fired, the
Alabama scored 64.S per cent. of hits
out of 49.SSS pounds Of metal fired;
the Indiana GO per cent. Of $4,000
pounds fired, and the Illinois, $50 per
cent. out Of 1920 pounds fired. There
is no waste Of money in target practice
which gives such results as those at
Pensacola. And such practice must
be kept up. The best navy in the world
is the II which has the best gunners
In its service and to attain this eff
cheney much money must necessarily
be fired away at targets.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

In all the complaining of our i'm
ens pensions account, and it has
been both frequent and loud, no one
has ever been heard to intimate that
too much liberality is exercised to-
ward those pensioners who were seri-
ously and permanently disabled by
wounds received in action. On the con
trary, there has long been a practical
ly universal feeling that some Of the
millions going to persons less deserv-
ing should go to them. The cases of
the MANNED soldiers have always APP
pealed to the sympathy of their coun-
trYmen.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

All is well, for all is growing better.
/ have been round the world, and l
tell you there is NJ place on the sur
face of this planet where you cannot
see that all Is growing better all the
time" That Is Mr.. Andrew C~arnegie's
report from London on the state of the
globe. a man worth hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, who Is seeking enjoy
ment in giving them away for the pur-
pose Of doing good, may naturally be
expected TO take a rosy view Of things
in general, but allowing for that, and
for sore spots here and there, Mr.. Car
negie is right. The world Is growing
better all the time. There Is more
money and the things that money will
buy than ever there was, and more
people get a larger share of both.
There is more liberty than ever before.
The power and prestige of kings and
mobiles, Of the privileged classes, is
constantly declining. and the power of
the people increasing. There are a
great many more republics than ex-
listed a hundred years ago. An abso-
lutte monarch has become an anach-
ronism. and his solemn ~pretensions to
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
All the Others Sold.

Mrs. Hauskeep-I want a dozen
eggs, If you're sure they're fresh.
Dealer-Oh, you can be sure they're
fresh, ma'am; we haven't any OF tne
other kind this morning.
Mrs. Hauskeep-No?
Dealer-No'm. You see, there was
m Uncle Toms Cabin" show In tc
opera house next door last night
PHILADELPHIA Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

Such is life! We are brought ne,,
persons we love Dr. who do us good ia,
a time; and then they part from Nd
or we are parted from them. We gaiu
friends and lose them out Of sight; va
have blessings and forfeit them; all h
change; and all this to teach us, amid
all that changes, to trust alone in Him
who changeth not; to use faithfully all
He gives USE. B. Pussy.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

Hope and good cheer are things that
everyone should cultivate. We ought
to make it our business to make sun
shine. Sometimes there are clouds in
the sky, but there Is always sunshine
beyond the clouds. When it is dark
without, It Is all the more necessary
to make sunshine within. When you
look into a mirror, you see the retlec-
ton Of your face, and when you come
into a room where there are many mir
rors, your face will be reflected many
times. Now our faces are like mirrors;
they reflect the joy or gloom which
comes before them. Suppose a per-
son comes in with a very sad face; his
face casts a gloom over us all. An
other person enters, his face shining
with good cheer, and he brings in in
fiuence which you feel striking down
in your heart.
We must think cheerful thoughts as
much as we think of living properly
and behaving ourselves with propriety
before the world; we should consider
it a privilege as well as a duty to dc
1t. But there are many who become
so depressed by disease that they
think there is no hope for them, either
here or hereafter, and they lie down
in the lap of an infinity Of misery and
give themselves up to suffering and
sorrow. l wish to eXhort such to look
up. And why should we look up? In
the first place, there is a Great Physi-
clan who wants to heal every sick per-
son. He made us, cares for us, and
dwells within us. If we are sick. He
is trying to heal us, and is always do
ing the best He can consistently do for
us. H. Kellogg.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
Let the Lower Light. Re Burp,nv.

Uncle Zach, coming into the house
one evening, found it unlighted, and
stumbled against chairs and tables.
"Oh, wait a minute!" called Mollv's
voice from somewhere In the gloom.
II was just watching the moon from
the front window, and | forgot to light
the lamps" she explained.
The old man was rubbing n bruised
elbow, but he looked down Mt her with
a kindly twinkle in his eyes
THE moon is all well enough. Molly
child, but it's up in the sky, We mind.
and the thing we need to make us com.
Portable down here is the lamps light
ed In the house. There's a deol Of
starln' into heaven for illumination
by folks that forgit to keep the lights
burnin' in their own houses. There's
many a stumble and fall for lack Of the
light near by, while the one that should
have tended to it is watchin' for some
great light afar. Don't be one of that
Kind, child. Look up all We like. but
be sure your lamps are lighted. Gods
lights are we'll worth studyin', but IT'S
your own He's biddin' We take are
Of"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

AUnited States consul was sentenced
to a days Imprisonment in a German
Jail. Had the circumstances been re-
versed, what thunderous phllippies
might not the German press have
poured forth concerning what Ameri-
can newspapers regard as a comic
opero episode!
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
Woman'a Rad Aim.

Toni thought he would marry the
widow.
Dick-Oh, no! l believe she didn't
strike him at all.
Tom-Why, l understand she simply
threw herself at his head.
Dick-No doubt that's why she
didn't strike him. - Philadelphia
Ledger.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
Do Your Dutv.

Let us DO our duty, and pray tina
we may do u duty here, now, to-day
not in dreamy sweetness, but in actly,
energy; not in the green oasis of til,
future, but in the duty desert of til,
present; not in the imaginations Of
otherwhere, but in the realities of now
Canon Farrar.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

Whether or not a man may marry
his deceased wife's sister is again agi-
tating English lawmakers. Five thous-
sand women have signed a petition
asking that such a privilege be grant
ed. Wonder If the signers told their
married sisters of their action.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

Great Britain has just put a dab
Of red paint on another 100000 square
miles Of Africa; but 1t does not hide
the much more costly red that paved
the way for the imperial mapmaker.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

Developments in the get-rich-quick
industry demonstrate once more that
no divorce decree is necessary to pro-
cure the separation of a fool and his
money. The prospect Of robbing some
body else constitutes all the induce
ment necessary.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
Or WholeaalinR IL.

Tess-That's Miss Cable, isn't III
Jess-Yes, poor thing, she leads d
hand-to-mouth existence. >,
Tess-Nonsense! she's quite we"
Off.
Jess-I know, but she's forever ~
failing some bit Of scandal.-Phiiaue'
phia Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
Conscripts Are Outlawed.

Twenty-seven thousand and forty.
seven hundred conscrlpts from Alsace.
Lorraine have failed to join the colors
and have been declared outlaws. All
their property reverts to the crown.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

Notwithstanding Mr.. Carnegie's fire.
quent backsets, we still incline to the
belief that it is harder to accumulate
d big fortune than to give one away.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

If the President gets a few more
LII DPS his full name and all his titles
will look like the span Of a cantilever
bridge.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

If you have but one boil your are
lucky. You might have two. Be
thankful you are not Job.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
Converting with God.

Let your heart and desires contin.
ually hold converse with God in heart
felt simplicity. Reflect on Him with
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
A D~iscordant Note

Life is made possible to us BY n
sacrifices Of other people. The wba
would o o. come to a standstiu
there were no unselish love in N
world. When we become so self-c
tered that we think only Of ourselvt
and the qualification Of our own Il,
sires, our lives are a discordant moi
in the harmony Of the universe. w
must be loving and unselfsh to M
back the debt we owe.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

Among the many readers Of this
paper there are doubtless bright-faced,
eager young pupils in the public schools
to whom this is q time of great mo-
ment, the fork in the road, the turn
ing point, perhaps, on which hinges
the success or failure of their future
lives. They are going to college, these
boys. In the high school or the pre-.
paratory school they have proved them
selves worthy Of a higher education,
and they are halting now between
the different courses and wondering
which offers to them the greatest OPP
portunities. 1t is a great problem.
Much depends upon it being answered
Alright. 1t may be that success or
failure hangs upon the answer. 1t is
for this reason, dear boy with the
great hopes for the future, that the
following bit Of history is related:
Two years ago-or, was it three?-
Cornell University graduated a great
class of engineers, civil, mechanical,
electrical, mining, while in the College
Of Forestry there vas a single candi-
date for u diploma. OF the engineering
classes, running into the hundreds,
places had been secured for nine men
out of ten-places at salaries ranging
from So to $40 and $12 a week. There
was a great demand for the young en-
gineers. The great locomotive works
wanted a few, the great bridge build
ing companies, the electrical compan-
ies-the Westinghouse, the General
Electric, the Western Electric and
others-took more. They take them
every year. Why should they not,
when they a get talented and edu-
Gated young men at wages which are
paid to the statesmen and women in
a city store? For the solitary man
who had studied the science of foreS.
try the United States government,
New York State and several other
commemorative, two or three institu-
tons of learning and a number of pri-
vate enterprises were clamoring. One
of the lowest salaries offered to him
vas $1,000 a year, with prospects of
rapid increase. SO great was the de-
mand for men who could make two
trees grow where one grew before that
President Schurman publicly announc.
ed the fact and deplored that so many
young men were c~onslgning them
selves to lives of ill-paid endeavor in
the over-crowded professions when
one full of delightful possibilities was
clamoring for men. There is no need
to point out the moral of the tale.
Boys who are hesitating which road
to take should seek the guides aud
ask them to what ends the different
roads of learning promise to lead. The
universities are turning too many
engineers and lawyers and doctors.
They are turning out altogether toe
many bad preachers. Let our bright
boys seek some less crowded paths on
which life will not be a constant strug.
gle toward the survival of the fittest
and on which they may walk with
less of jostle and sorrow and with
opportunity for more useful and more
profitable and more sa~tisfac Glory &C.
complishment.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

The average man needs a vacation
the most just after he has returned
from one.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

divine right-which once nobody
would have disputed-now excite ridi-
cule.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

Two years have slowly passed since
Mr. Edison announced that he was
about to make the horse go. All, such
a slowness!
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

When a bookkeeper gets a job in
the treasury department at Washing
ton he becomes a fnancier.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

The good woman fares badly at the
hands of the %novelists. She is made
dull and priggish, and she lacks al
together that charm which is her fit
ting characteristic. Becky Sharp Is
better company than Amelia; Agnes
Wickfield and Dorothea and Mirah
Cohen and Marcella are too ~pedagogic
in their attitude toward human nature
to be chosen, If one were seeking a
companion for a year on a desert ISL
and. A little more gaiety, spontane-
ity, impulsiveness, would make such
women better comrades and not less
effective for good works. The truth is
that the writer who wishes to put a
good woman in his book has a task Of
extreme difficulty. The fundamental
Of character. She has no eccentrici-
ties; yet eccentricities are the stock
in trade Of the novelist. They lend
themselves to description and embodi-
ment. They stand out from the page.
They give substantially to the char
acter Of fiction. The reader may hate
the peculiarities, but he acknowledges
that the character who has them seems
a real woman. Beside her, the women
Of well-proportioned virtues seem flat
and vague. There Is, however, one
glorious exception to this rule. 1t is
found, as we might expect, in the won.
derful gallery Of Sh~akespeare's crea
tons. He at least knew how to make
his good women fascinating-Portia
Beatrice, Rosalind, Imogen, Miranda
Viola-each more enchanting than the
other, and each having her individual
grace. 1t is perhaps a subtle compli
ment to women that so few of the
great imaginative writer's have sue
ceeded in depicting the ideal woman
One may seek for her in vain among
the creations Of many great novelists
but when it comes to looking for hel
in real life, it is not hard to discover
that woman who is good, gracious ant
compassionate, and at the same time
amusing, intellectual and achieving.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

Rich men have their country places,
but poor men must be satisfied with
farms.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
!j 3b$|N $ A[ 1884,,

feelings of love and reverence a,
often offer up your heart, with all MI
you have and are, to Him, in spirit a,
In truth, as cordially and sincerely
possible. If through weakness or j
faithfulness you forsake this exerciI
which Is so incredibly helpful al
beautiful, all you have to do so maJ
ly and heartily to begin again: and !
not be weary of it, although in the n
ginning you may not find any ORC,
advantage from it, or make any ran|
progress in 1t. 1t is easy and please,
to the spirit, and become in due fin
like a heaven upon earth. A little n
tience and courage alone are needa
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

France is confronting another crisis.
The prune crop has failed.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

The statement that American makers
Of automobiles have outstripped their
European competitors may be true,
but 1t would sound more natural to say
that they had run over them.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19

CHAs. f. & ADA Il. soULE, Pubs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-27
The Revival Of Bicycling.
From the Chicago Record -Herai,


With the passing of the wheeling craze"
however, there came a more rational use
of the wheel, both as a utilitarian vehicle
and as a means OF enjoying heaithful out
door exercise Thousands Of artisans, la
boring men and professional men In every
city and town in the country have been
using the wheel in a rational way ever
since society" and the faddists cast it
aside. To thousands of carpenters, paint
ers. mechanics. teachers and business men
it has become a necessity. Men who have
to get over the ground quickly from house
to workshop or place of employment have
found 1t invaluable. They no longer re-
gard 1t as a mere pleasure vehicle"
But while the bicycle has become fixed in
our industrial life as a permanent neces-
slty 1t has been gradually coming Into it's
own the best mechanism ever devised
by human ingenuity for obtaining the kind
of outdoor exercise which most men and
women need. By common acknowledgment
OF the medical profession nothing is COM
parable to bicycle riding in the country as
a means of replenishing depleted physical
and mental energies. The motion of the
legs In riding wheel pumps the blood
vigorously through the body. stimulating
sluggish circulation. while the oxygen that
Is taken in through rapid respira ton in
creases the red corpuscies of the blood. in
ducing a mental exhilaration and nerve
tonicity that are scarcely to be attained in
any other form Of exercise.
a great revival Of wheeling are everywhere
apparent. Shops are busy getting the old
wheels into repair, and new ones are being
supplied in great quantities at moderate
prices. And the gratifying feature of the
revival il the evident disposition OF the
people to use the wheel nationally and prop
erly as q means OF strengthening and in
MIGRATING the body instead OF destroying II.