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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15
WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK.
~OoOONOON~

G2 s John Lowell was leaving his
~ room at the Grand Central, en-
49, route for Washington, he heard
wild, piteous sobbing; looking down
the corridor, he saw n beautiful young
girl, wild-eyed, dashed to n board borne
by two disreputable-looking men, fol-
lowed by n stout female.
Help, help! Oh, sir, in Gods name,
listen! Tell Robert Durham they are
carrying me off again!" cried the girl,
as they hurried past.
poor thing! What a sad sight! So
young and pretty! What name did she
say?" unused Lowell, ON his way to
the station.
The train was speeding along. and
the passengers in the vestibuled car
had settled comfortably for the even
ing, when the door of a s~tateroom
was suddenly thrown open and the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15
THE HOUR,

The slow, sweet hour that shrines the
ssetting sun,
Or that which broods above the summer
Perfect in golden beauty-gone too soon
After Its vanished sisters! Or the one
Long booked for, when the heavy day is
done,
That comes dim-lighted by the rising
moon
And fragrant with the roses born to
June,
To whisper sorrow past and joy begun
Nor this, nor any, do l name the best;
But IL an hour shall come that sees lie
meet,
That brings thee close, thou, all un.
known, yet mine,
Stranger, yet most myself! Above the
rest
Above the one which finds us at Loves
feet
I'll set 1t, token Of the Power Divine.
Century.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

same young girl, en- dishabille, rushed
into the aisle.
VIII no one in this car help a poor
girl? They are carrying me to an
asylum, and l am not mad. Some
one tell Robert Durham! Save me from
these iends"
JUS then the woman appeared, lift
ed the girl in her arms and bore her
roughly into the stateroom.
The passengers crowded around the
conductor. what does it mean?" ask.
ed Jack Lowell.
Its a diabolical thing, that no one
dares to tackle" answered the conduc-
tor. That girl is the daughter of the
rich pork packer, David Drake, of
Chicago. Edith and a poor chap NAM
ed durham got engaged at college, I'M
known to the father. When he heard
OF 1t he vowed If she didn't give Dur.
ham up he'd shut her in an insane
asylum till she came to her senses
Inc girl was as stubborn as the old
man n he did shut her up. She got
away and was on the point of marry.
ing Durham, when the old man lit
down on them and shut her I'D apoin
She got out again, and now .thev oro
taking her back with those toupbs 40
Keepers. No one dares do n fling
Durham is too poor to fight brakes
miiiions-just a struggling Doctor
now 1t will end l don't know"
Its a beastly outrage! Who is the
chap?-decent sort Of a fellowY"
He's all right, only poor. The old
man pays enormously. Bribed the
doctors to swear that she was insane
what can anybody do? Money is DOW.
err, who can fight it,"
Lowell followed the conductor ont
Where's that Durham to be found
BY Jove! l can't sit by and see n tbing
like that going on"
IL lives in Baltimore"
Jack Lowell was a young fel,ov
with money to burn. He spent most of
his time in hunting up novel wavs Of
burning 1t. After this, he might have
been seen constantly going back and
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15
One hundred and twenty.ire yea

One hundred and twenty-five years
ago Colonel Edmeston was compelled
to flee from his home I'm what Is now
the town of Edmeston, New York, to
escape the Indians. He directed n ser.
want to bury a chest of dishes, intend
ing to exhume them when he returned;
but the dishes remained In the ground
until last spring, when the tenant of
the farm unearthed them with a plow.
The plow broke many Of them, but
more than fifty were unframed. The
Supreme Court has recently decided
that the dishes belong to the owner Of
the farm, and not to the tenant who
found them. Inasmuch as six thousand
dollars has been offered for one Of the
dishes, the decision Is of considerable
Importance to the parties concerned.
The incident itself might interest those
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

non-college women of the same social tation II nm.
that the marriage rate corresponds closely between ~n
two classes. In other respects, the odds seem 70 ho N ~
favor Of the college women. OF the college WOMB, vi, -
marry, according to Professor Smiths figures, three.forr+h'
marry college men, a destiny which befalls only one.ha,
Of the non-college women, while 65 per cent of the collIoa.
women who marry, as compared with 81 per cent of tSs'
non-colege women, marry professional men. W
The percentage Of births of children per years Of ~.
riage Is slightly larger among college women than omon,
non-college women Of the same families, and the .forma7
have a larger percentage Of male children than tha lotto"
There is no measurable difference in health between tn
two classes either before or after marriage, or in the heath
or mortality of their children.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

forth from Chicago to Washington.
One day, the conductor stopped him
and said: well, they have managed
to kill that Drake girl. hope they are
satisfied"
you don't say so. Tell me all about
It,"
Taken Ill with diphtheria, and died
In two days. We took the body home
last week. Old man all broke up. l
suppose Durham will take 1t hard"
Il dare say he will. How sad"
One evening, about six months later,
three people boarded the westbound
train.|a handsome young couple and a
handsome young man.
Good evening, Mr.. Lowell; taking
another western trlp?" asked the con-
ductor, while he eyed the young couple
attentively.
ID. Eyes. Let me INTRODUCE DR.. and Mrs.
Durham. I think you have seen the
lady before"
The conductor gasped. 81 thought
carried your corpse home six months
ago!'
Mrs. Durham laughed. at wasn't
mine, thanks to our good friend MI
Lowell"
"And you amt dead! Does your
father know?"
I'VE are on our way to see poor OLD
dad, who is helpless from a stroke.
He forgave us after we were married
"Well, I'm glad it ended all right
said the conductor, as he moved away.
Helpless! Good enough for him!
Lowell's a brick! Greek met Creek
that time" he Observation-Disclosures
Sun.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

On All Souls Church, Oxford, En-.
gland, there is an inscription reading
"Periunt ct imputantur," which means
that the hours perish and are laid to
u charge. There are too many in
the world to-day who sorrowfully real
ize the truth of these words. When it
Is too late they recognize that mans
days are numbered and the night com
eth when no man can work. Time like
life can never be recalled. The only
good that time can do us is the good
that we put in 1t. A bad hour al
new become clean. 1t carries its
stain forever, and it leaves its mark
behind. What 1t deprived us of we
have lost. 1t has gone into eternity
and out of that there is no return. So
it is with the blessing that the good
hour carries. That, too, goes into eter-
nifty and the blessing that is in 1t
abides with us and operates again
and again. The hours are but little
minutes. A bad action seldom lasts
an hour. Evil is rapid in its process.
But the Indifferent actions which Dor
der so closely on bad ones are the ac-
tons that take up minute after min
ute until hours are consumed and un-
less a remedy is applied before the
habit becomes formed, ever weeks.
1t is to them that we should give our
attention. 1t is the spare moments.
which are so apt to be Indifferent ones,
when we are lost for something to do.
that we should transform into good
hours. Success in self-improvement
is rarely the product of genius. More
often. it is the fruit of careful employ
ment Of the invaluable fragments of
time called spare moments" Let
any take one hour in the even
ing away from ~frivolity or vain dream.
ing, devote it to study and in a re-
markably short time he shall have
mastered the intricacies of a complete
science. Let an ignorant man do the
same thing and in ten years he will
have become learned.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

A visitor to Coenties Slip, New
York City, where the canal-boats are
soc losely packed that the children run
from boat to boat, asked a girl of s
where she was going to school this
winter. She could not tell because she
did not know where they would be
"froze up" The women say, 81 hope
We'll freeze up near home" The life
of the canal-boat population is Il pic
turesque feature of our national exist
ence, and the educational aspect Of
the life, with its element Of chance,
is not the least interesting side Of it.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

us this a domestic rug?" said a
tourist to one Of the White House ush-
ers. "Oh, no." was his reply. 1T was
made in New Jersey" The speaker
was not working off an ancient joke.
He evidently had in mind the time
when rug-making was the occupation
of many a domestic fireside during the
long winter months. There is a differ
ence between domestic" and "home-
made"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

because he is a poor advertiser. By systematic honesty
and by exercising Judgment in it's display most young
men will succeed. AS a business quality it has to be built
up, and when proficiency is demonstrated the value Is ere
ated. This is business honesty.
Honesty in motive, word, deed and impulse is the purest
quality in the world. Business honesty is a good policy.
l would advise the young man to take this route. 1t may
be longer and more rocky, but its reward is commensurate
with the labor.
AS to just what the term honesty in business" ex-
presses, that would be hard to say, though 1t clearly does
not involve some branches included in the sentimentalist's
idea of honesty. 1t would take q long time to define the
exact meaning, and then the value of its application would
be doubtful. OF course different men have different codes,
but mine would be based on the golden rule as strictly as
it could be applied to business.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

over, seems to have a tendency to increase. All Of the three
women who graduated in '93 married. Not one of the nine
in next years class welded. In '95 three out of eighteen
married, and the proportion of the succeeding classes was
twelve out of forty-twc in '96, twelve out of fifty one in
"a, seventeen out Of sixty-three in '9S, twenty out of sew
entynine in '99, eleven out of e%ighty-nine in 1900, nine out
of 1O1 in O1, and in '2 nine out of 1913. In considering
these figures several things should be kept in mind-thc
peculiar conditions at the University Of Chicago during
its early years, the number of women who left before
completing the college course in order to get married.
the youth of recent graduates, and the significant statistics
upon the destiny of college women which have been gath
cred by educators and by students Of sociology.
The statistics which Mary Roberts Smith, associate
professor of sociology in the Leland Stanford, Jr., Univer.
sity, collected a short time ago show that the college wom-
an marries two years later in life than the non-college
woman OF her family, and that the age of marriage for
both has been growing steadily later during the last thirty
years. The average age at which the college woman
rnarrles Is ~ and that of the non-college woman "a. From
the same inquiry it was learned that professional life for
women after graduation has had little influence upon tho
marriage rate; before marriage more than one-half of the
college women We're engaged in teaching and nearly three
fourths We're employed outside their homes.
from statistics gained by a canvass among college and
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

If the business Of the people is used
to further the political fortunes of men
1t is inevitable that they will at times
be used to further the financial for
runes Of men. How long will the
great American people permit such u
degradation of themselves? For such
1t Is a degradation of public standards
and ideals, a smirching Of the national
character. We do not meet the case
when we ferret out and punish the
miscreants. Such a thing is temporary
merely; the cause of the disease is
touched and there will be another out
break. 1t is the system.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

Lieutenant Peary says the United
States should extend from Panama to
the pole. Evidently Peary has a grudge
of some kind against South America.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

A New York man signed his love let
tiers "Swak." This, according to the
Lady who got the letters and is using
them as evidence in a suit for breach
of promise, means SEALED with a kiss"
Guilty or not, the man who swakked
should be swatted.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

Berlin physicians claim to be able to
substitute ivory for human bones in
surgical operations. Eventually there
may be some significance to this talk
about certain men having heads like
billiard balls.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

That the growth of luxury in the
United States has not been accompan-
led by social decentralization and de-
cadence is the conclusion to which
Ralph d. Paine, a writer in the
Worlds Work, has come. He finds that
the increase of wealth has brought
about a great but healthy development
Of open-air sport. Twenty years ago
two millions Of dollars were spent in
a year for sporting goods. Last year
the outlay for that purpose was ten
millions. Architecture, both urban and
rural, has improved. There is a finer
taste prevalent in landscape gardening
and interior decorating. There are no
alarming symptoms of idleneSs in lux
ury among the sons of the very rich.
Twenty-three out Of twenty-eight of
the sons of millionaireS whose names
are more or less public property, grad
uated from Yale in recent years, are
working as if they had no other means
Of support. Only a very small percent
age of the rich In this country live in
idleness. Work Is fashionable and
idleness still is deemed ~disgraceful.
The coterie of idle rich people, such as
those that gather at Newport in the
summer, are conspicuous because they
are sc few. Standards are being con-
stantly raised in the American univer-
stiles, and there are no perfunctory
| pass degrees, and yet a fair number
of the o n Of the very rich are gradu-
ated on their merits. The fact that
there is no law Of primogeniture in
this country, and hat estates may not
be entailed for periods longer than life
or lives in being and twenty-one years
thereafter-that being the period of
limitation in most of the States-make
1t practically impossible for the heirs
of great fortunes to keep their wealth
intact without exercising at least Or
binary care, prudence and industry.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

W. are a democratic and modest peo-
pie and therefore merely mention the
fact that the pallbearers at the funeral
of w. l.. Elkins represented $4,000
100000. In some countries given to
ostentation this would be played up as
q feature
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

for them to put the shot, but for the majority of women II
would be enough to hurt them for life.
Boating Is also bad fer women. Women's colleges do
not nave crews to any great extent, but the women who
10 go into boating will not last long in their athletic life.
Women's athletics are a good thing in moderation. but
FOR them to try to do all that their brothers do is a mis-.
take. They can never attain to what the men are doing
and Will only hurt themselves in the attempt.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

A scientist estimated that the earth
will last for 1OO,OOO,OOO years longer.
This will give ma time to look in the
glass once or twice more before start
ing for the theater.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

ants. A twenty-dollar set of dishes of
good design, buried now with instruc-
tons to ones heirs to leave them un-
disturbed for a century, might be worth
several thousand dollars when the peo-
pie of 2003 begin to study the period
of American colonial expansion.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

An eastern millionaire gave several
of his friends presents of houses and
lots the other day. 1t is well to keep
II good millionaire on your visiting
list.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15
ATHLETICS HURT WOMEN.
BY President Eliot OF Harvard.

Women will never compete with the
mems colleges in athletics. l see abso.
lutely no possibility Of that ever taking
place. Women do not seek the com.
petition, and 1t would be of no ben.
eft to them.
Women were not originally intended
for such violent exercises as man., and
some things they go into must strain
them. For a woman to put the shot
Is preposterous. There may be women
living who are made in such a strange,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

A New York m has had half
her stomach removed by a surgical OPP
GRAFTON. This should reduce her living
expenses.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15
He WASH Going.

SWELL" said Mr.. Polk, for the fourth
Of fifth time, 81 must be going"
what a queer deluslon," repleu
Miss Bord; you're really quite SUI
CONGRATULATIONS Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

A literary man who tries to live COM
fortably at the present prices Of gro
ceries, oil, coal etc, is likely to suffer
from writer's cramp Of the p~ocketbook.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

Mr.. Carnegie talks about watered
stock with all the calm of a man who
never ventured into finance without
his o~veTshoes.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

An inch of rain seems to be about 6
foot long to the mar who is caugh'
in it without an umbrella.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15
Cause of 1t.

II haven't quite determined" said
the Charles street father, whether to
have my daughters voice cultivated
here or abroad. What would you sug-
gest?"
"oh," said the obliging neighbor,
ABROAD, by all means" And that's
where 1t all started.-Baltimore News.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

Beware of the man who never did
anything wrong. There's a first time
for everything.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15
BUSINESS HONESTY IS GOOD POLICY.


If a young mar starts out in life
with the determination to be abso-
lutely honest, to be successful he
must know that the people he dwells
with are honest. Otherwise he will
not cut much of a figure in the bust
ness world. At least, he will have to
devise a plan which will insure hon
esty on their part when he is dealing
with them In business this quality
will be valuable. And the most diff
cult step in the progress Of an honest
business man is to continually let his
possession of this quality be general
lv known. Many an honest man fails
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

Sportsman (wishing for fresh fields
to conquer)-I should like to try my
hand at big game. Fair Ignoramus-
Yes, l suppose you find it very hard to
hit these little birds.-Punch.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

But if France should decide to finish
the Panama canal, could Uncle Sam
prevent it.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

A Russo-American wal is predicted
Perhaps, in 2730 A. D.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

A man who is getting bald says 1t Is
the flies he breads, and not the loss
of hair.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15
COLLEGE TRAINING FAvORs woMAN's MARRIAGE.
BY Mrs. 6. C.. Rowland.

The old question Of the relation between col.
lege training for women and the marriage rate
has come up anew, suggested by data contained
in the general register of the University of Chi.
cago. After having revised it I find that Of the
5S3 women who have graduated from the uni
versity in the last ten years only 1O5 have mar
ried. This leaves 80 per cent of them still I'M
welded The percentage of single women, more
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15

Imagination is the stellar system moving on in silen,
grandeur; fancy the transient meteors flashing athwart tbo
SKY Imagination is the eagle soaring on eager wing. the
lark whose song filters down from the skies; fancy is the
humming bird fitting from flower to flower. the butterau
fhttering in a field of fragrant clover.
Religion, clad in holy vestments, with her shining face
lifted to the sky, Is powerless without the aid of this GREG.
1--WE raculty. All conceptions of the divine being, all ideals
or sainthood, all apprehension Of immortal life. all visions
of paradise, are pure products of a chastened and reverent
imagination, rejoicing to become the handmaiden of pietv
and instrumental in assisting man to apprehend and
acnieve MS exalted destiny. AL the flowers of Immortality
bud and blossom in the perennial garden Of Imagination
luminous, with the light that never was on sea or land y
and watered by penitential tears. =
The ideal is lffe's ozone; without it we sicken and per.
ism. But the ideal exists only by virtue of the imagination,
without whose vivifying force life would degenerate into
mere existence. Imagination, in its best estate, is the star
of Bethlehem, guiding the sincere seeker to the ever blessed
manager grading the Christ; perverted, it becomes as lgpis
fatuus, Turing its deluded victim to remediless ruin.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-01-15
IMAGINATION is TIE OZONE OF LIFE.
ny e. b, Sberu,u

. IMAGINATION and fancy were once synonvm",.
II terms, but their meaning has been diferentiatod
This distinction is admirably stated by Emerson.
I"Fancy amuses; imagination expands and exalts
Imagination is the vision of an inspired soul. hnt
as the soul Is released a little from its passion
and at leisure plays with the Resemblance and
types for amusement and not for its moral end
we call its action fancy"
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-09

Any one may give publicity TO
falsehoOd, not knowingit to be false,
and be without blame. But when
any one publishes afalsehOod, know
ing at the time it is false, he becomes
a falsifier, and is as guilty as the one
who originated and gave currency
to the falsehood. We have seen this
laid down as q correct principle, and
we believe is is generally accepted as
such. Tried by such n test, what are
we TO think OF those opposition pa
pers shat keep on publishing as true
the story that Mr.. Taggart is con-
nected with gambling houses in In
diana, when he publicly asserts that
he never owned a dollar in a gam
bling device Of any kind in his life ?
Let them answer.