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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

thinking or feeling or doing after one
hundred repetitions.
We need to borrow the force of
habit In the discharge of our religious
duties. Devotion should be q habit.
Prayer should be a habit. We should
have set times for prayer. We should
read the scriptures with system, not
reading ftfully, nov and then, Just as
we happen to feel like it." That is
the surest way Of getting into a state
/ n which we will not feel like 1t at all.
Our benevolence should be a habit. We
should give. not at the impulse Of feel
ing, but in the pursuance Of a habit,
conscientiously formed and persistent
ly maintained.
1t pays to have the habit If doing
right, even though it saves the soul
only once. How infinitely we'll 1t pays
when that soul saved is the mans
own. Joseph's soul was saved by the
habit of doing right. Millions of souls
have been saved in the same way.
There is infinite danger in risking
your soul to any other than q fixed
habit of doing right, which is a fixed
habit of fleeing to Christ In every time
of stress and strain for his divine and
all-pOwerful aid.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

Farmers daughters are educated in
many parts Of Germany in travelling
schools, which go from village to vii
lage to give girls over sixteen years
of age practical lessons In housekeep-
Ing, cooking, the selection Of food,
care of poultry and cattle, the cult
walton Of vegetables, and butter and
cheesemaking. The results have been
so satisfactory that Ii is now pro-
posed to add instruction in nursing.
cooking for the sick, mending and
sewing. The teachers, who are grad
yates Of the schools Of homework. and
have passed government examinations,
carry with them an outfit Of a cook.
Ing stove and the various utensils for
cooking and ironing. The classes are
held in the schoolhouses, the term
lasts six weeks, and the cost Of tuition
is put so low as practically to exclude
nc one.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

Swimming is very good for a girls
figure If 1t is good to begin with.
What a woman likes about a yacht
ing trip is the clothes she has to buy
for 1t.
If a girl wasn't jealous of somebody
it would be a sign she was the only
person in the world.
If a boy is real clever he can &C.
quire a lot Of knowledge at school use.
full to forget afterwards.
The way some women's summer
clothes are made they would look
dressed up If they fell off.
Sometimes it's just as well to &c
home early to make your wife sus.
picious about your health.
II a man had to work as hard tc
get his living as he does to get his
fun he would become an anarchist.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01
SHORT METER sERMoNs

There is nothing divine in dullness.
Sulkiness is only selishness turned
sour.
Many great souls have been lost by
little sins.
Blessed is the sorrow that cures Of
selfshness.
Gliding the wagon does not ease the
springs.
The best place to pray for corn is
between the rows.
The religion that lacks sunshine Is
all m%oonshine.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01
THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL.

THE PROPHETS OF ISRAEL.
BY Rev. John b. hhifford.
Text: Keep We justice and practice
righteousness" Isaiah Xvi.
Brilliancy Of literary power marked
the age Of the prophets, but morally
it was dark and degenerate. Abnor-
NAL wealth and AFFECT poverty, beauty
and ashes, glory and shame, the robes
Of Dives and the rags of Lazarus alter
nately charmed and terrified the imag-
nation. The simplicity of pastoral life
was abandoned. Property once held
in common passed into personal own
ership. Socialism merged into indi-
vidualism. Society reorganized around
the individual. Greed coerced men be-
yond legitimate acquisition into re-
spectacle robbery. Money controlled
the seats Of law and justice.
Dark are the pictures of the age
painted by the prophets. The sins, so
deadly TO virtue and so fatal 10 hap
piness, were common. Fraud, dishon-
esty and robbery prevailed In CONNER
cial life. The weights and measures
were false. Ignoble t%rafickers TAM
pered with the markets and cornered
the necessities of life. Stocks as in
substantial as q mirage were foated
and bubble companies formed. In Wig
orous language Isaiah denounces Iii
cit trusts and combinations. Woe
unto them that join house to house,
that lay field to field till there be no
place, that they may be placed alone
in the midst of the earth"
But notwithstanding the manifold
corruptions Of the age, reaching from
palace to howell, and permeating every
sphere of labor and every venue of
trade, the people were religious. That
they had made lies their refuge. and
concealed themselves under falsehoods
did not interfere with their devotions.
Such astounding inconsistencies were
inevitable. For moral standards had
been falsified. Hypocrisy ruled the
day. True merit and genuine worth
were discounted. Fraud, sham and de-
ception were rewarded.
The prophets were altogether diff
ferent. They were progressive, expan-
sive, upward gazing souls. Their
minds were fluent and flexible. They
were open-eyed and believed in. the
infinite intelligibility of things. They
saw the red streakng Of the dawn OF
Truths illustrious day. In the SYM
phOny Of progress they were the lead
ing performers. They had visions Of
the ideal Man, the ideal Church and
the ideal State. Against arid formal
ism they vowed eternal war, and
smOte the huge ecclesiasticism of
their times as with a mace. They as
serted the supremacy of reason over
tradition.
They were lavish of the light, know
Ing well that all sanitary publication
begins when rooms are flooded with
oxygen and sunbeams. And so it
was their function, not to repress life,
not to clip 1t into mechanical shapes,
but to give it room, to keep it plastic,
green and fresh and growing, until it
reached its attainable perfection.
They cared nothing for the cult and
ceremonial, the changing drapery OF
religion. But they did care for relig-
ion as a life. as an essence unmixed
and pure. And so they became the
leaders and instructors Of the sou
and uncovered peak after peak in the
mountains of the Ideal.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

In the midst Of the pomp and splen-
dor Of the royal wedding at Berlin
there must have been some disquiet-
Ing reflections among the guests upon
the outlook for what Mark Twain has
called 1.-The king business" Many of
the princelings at the wedding have
no love for Nicholas of Russia, yet
they cannot understand that the down,
fall of the Muscovite autocracy would
spell a menace to every throne in Eu,
rope. Once famillarize people with
the Idea of dethroning kings, and nc
monarchy is safe.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01
CHARACTER AND HABIT.

BY Rev. G. b. r. HaHock d. D
Text: Learn to do well."-Isaiah
1:17.
Some one has well compared learn
Ing to do well with learning to swim.
You wade in the water, but not very
far, for fear you will drown. You try
to swim, but sink. You try
again, and do a little better. You
swallow a good deal of water; it gets
into your ears and eyes and nose, but
you keep on splashing, and finally can
swim. SO must we, in the region of
moral things, keep on doing well until
we learn how, and it has become a
habit. Habit is something we have
we have II. That is what the word
means. But as we well know, 1t often
becomes something which has us.
What is habit? 1t has been well
defined as 'the involuntary tendency
to perform certain actions which is
acquired by their frequent repetition
"Habit is second nature" Habit 'is
prevailing dispositions, feelings and &C
tons which are right or wrong"
Habit is moral character" Habit"
says Horace Mann, lis a cable; we
weave a thread of 1t every day, and at
last we cannot break it." What we
have thought or felt or done once, 1t
Is a little easier to think or feel or
do the second time, much easier the
tenth, incomparably easier the TWEEN
tieth, and very difficult to keep from
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

physicians In New York say that
the average New Yorker Is killing him
self by his pursuit Of the strenuous
life. That life, as explained by the
doctors In this instance, Is the mad
chase after wealth which the New
Yorker makes his main object in life.
The great increase in deaths due to
diseases of the heart and Bright's dis
ease, as shown in the mortuary Stats
tics of New York, is the principal foun-
dalton for the doctors reports. From
1868 to 1904 the increase in deaths
from Brlght's disease was 16.47 per
10000 population. In a recent week
125 people died of heart disease, while
the number for the corresponding week
of the year previous was only So. The
fact Is established that the stomach
n the heart are extensively affected
by the boiling of food and by worry
ing. The New York. business man
bolts his food, and he worries, so the
doctors assert that he dies earlier than
was the custom forty OF fifty years
ago. In the face of these figures the
cry that the life strenuous is shorten
Ing the lives of business men would
seem to be amply su%bstantiated. Fig
ures don't lie. But occasionally they
do give out woefully wrong impress
sions. The recorded increase of deaths
due to Bright's disease in this instance
means little. The medical records Of
fifty years ago were kept in a manner
not to be compared with that Of the
present day. They were far from COM
plete. Possibly 80 per cent Of the
deaths were properly diagnosed, and In
diagnosing heart troubles the medical
profession of that time was notorious
ly incompetent. Many men undoubt-
eddy died of heart disease whose
deaths were ascribed to some other
cause. Had the mortuary statistics Of
fifty years ago been kept with the
same care that obtains to-day there Is
great probability that the death rate
in the diseases mentioned would not be
shown to have increased. Everything
tends to make this probable. The
business man of the present day, while
he possibly works harder when he
works, does not work so many hours,
nor so many days each year, as did the
business mar Of fifty years ago. He
takes more vacations, spends much
more time in recreation and amuse-
ment. He works under conditions much
less conducive to worry than did his
predecessors. Telegraph, cable and
rapid mail service permit him to know
the exact condition of his business af-
fairs at all times. Fifty years g a
merchant vas frequently under a con
stant strain for weeks and months at a
time, merely awaiting an important
letter, or news from a shipment of
goods. Now one day will bring the
business mar what he wishes to know
from any corner of the earth. Besides,
the business men Of to-day drink less
than did those who have gone before
So If the New York business man dies
earlier than did his fathers, the reason
is yet to be found. The plea that mod
ern life kills early will hardly hold.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01
RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN.
NV Dew n ~ C.,

Text: And l say into you, many
shall come from the east and from the
west and shall sit down with Abra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom
of Observation-Disclosures viii. II.
What a blessed boon is life, How
much more blessed to know we shall
live forever, and that we shall love
and commune with loved ones and the
holy of all ages in the life beyond!
The desire to live and the longings of
love are the strongest proofs Of both
immortality and heavenly recognition.
Man Is unconscious of mortality and
the animal Of immortality. Instinct
leads each to their God-given destiny.
Klondykers would not load a ship
with gold to sink 1t in mid-ocean. Sure
ly God is as wise as his children. He
will bring the treasure ship Zion into
the desired haven and land It's pre-
cious freight on the eternal shore. An
infidel once said: IF / could be sure
of a'hereafter and know that / should
meet the loved ones gone before, l
would crawl on my hands and knees
from New York to San Francisco just
to gain that certainty" On his knees
before God, every inidel can attain
that blessed consciousness of immor-
tally and loving fellowship with the
holy as light divine flashes through
his being.
Would you live a life of entire holi-
ness freed from every weight and sin /?
Would you look only unto Jesus? Then
look often toward the unseen and
realize that the arms Of loved ones
are around you, pulling you to the
skies; that you are not only a pilgrim
of earth, but an inhabitant Of glory;
and as you gaze, you will exclaim:
Let me be holy, for yonder company
are robed in sotless white" We gaze
too much upon things near us, and
the near view is often dark, dusty and
d~oleful; oh, the beyond! How it lifts
our dropping spirits up and makes of
our earth a heaven! Lift up you eyes
unto the heavenly hills whence cometh
your help.
We are truly a race of travellers,
having no continuing city. Strangers
and sojourners as were all our fathers.
Our days here are a shadow, a HAND
breadth; yonder shines one eternal
day. Death does not end all" it is
only the beginning! Affections are but
for a moment compared to the far
more exceeding and eternal weight of
glory" Separations only mean that
your beloved has gone home to gaze
upon the King in His beauty and
await your coming to the heavenly
mansion. Death signifies that you
have gone to the building of God, the
house not made with hands eternal in
the heavens"
Christian believer, art thou weary
with sorrow, heavy laden with separ
alton, cast down with loneliness; gaze
towards the faces that look back upon
you. See! they. beckon you home
ward. Soon the white-winged mes
sengers will come for your spirit and
will whisper to your soul LET not
your heart be troubled, neither let it
be afraid. In my Fathers house are
many mansions" Come We blessed
Of my Father, Come up higher. That
where l am there ye may be also.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

Don't be afraid Of a little fun Mt
home. Don't shut your house lest the
sun should fade your carpets, and your
hearts, lest a hearty laugh shake down
ONE Of the musty old cobwebs there!
II you want to ruin your sons, let
them think that all mirth and social
enjoyment must be left on the TIRES
bold without when they come home at
night. When nee a house is regarded
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

Since Theodore Roosevelt became
President 1900 government employees
have been put in the classified service
that is, their successors must be APP
pointed under the competitive exam
nation system. Now practically the
only large group of government ap-
pointees still outside Of the classified
service is that made up of the fourth
class postmasters.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01
He Is Bound TO Keen Busv.

Lightning set the bell in a church
steeple ringing recently and Brother
Williams exclaimed: My, my! 1t sho'
has come ter pass dat de devil is ring
in folks ter meetin'v-Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

An English paper is authority for
h statement that Duchess Consuelo
of Marlborough has among her pets at
Blenhelm a number of snakes which
she takes pleasure in twining around
her neck. Well, it's her neck.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01
Anronted Authority.

$50 your wife does not approve of
baseball?"
NO." answered Mr.. Meekton. "Hen-
rietta can't stand it to see any mere
man bossing people around the way
the umpire Decentralization Star.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

Some things about the insurance
companies are coming out that the gen.
tlemanly agents forgot to mention to
you when they were soliciting your
business.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

II King Oscar doesn't like such a
short title he might fill a whole line
on the hotel register by writing this
way: Oscar, King of Sweden and ex-
King Of Sweden and Norway"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

1t Is absurd to say Paul Morton
knows nothing about the insurance
business. Any man who has lived to
be as old as Mr.. Morton and has not
been positively discourteous to the
agents must know a whole lot about
the insurance business.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

President Eliot of Harvard advises
young men to associate with their SUI
periOrs. But how can college young
men do that?
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

A New York department store has
added a hospital department, having
profted by observations taken on bar
gain DAYS.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

Railway travel at the rate of a mile
In half a minute is exciting, but many
of us do not carry sufficiently large life
insurance policies to risk it.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

If Grover Cleveland was hired to sit
on the Equitable safety valve few peo-
pie will expect the old thing to blow
off any more steam.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01
A Famous Ancestor.

Lawyer-You say the mania for
porch-climbing is in your blood?
Porch-C limber-Yes, sir, it's inherit
ed; I'm a lineal descendant Of Romeo
Detroit Free Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

The Cars $6,0OO,00O investment in
the United States does not look so very
big when one considers the wealth he
has deposited in the Straits Of Korea.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

as only a place to eat, drink and sleep
in, the work is begun that ends in
gambling houses and reckless degra-
dation. Young people must have fun
and relaxation somewhere; if they do
not find it at their own hearthstones
it will be sought at other and less
profitable places. Therefore, let the
fire burn brightly at night and make
the homestead delightful with all
those little arts that parents so per-
fectly understand. Don't repress the
buoyant spirits of your children; half
an hours merriment around the lamp
and fireslde of home blots out the re-
membrance of many a care and annoy
ance during the day, and the best
safeguard they can take with them
into the world is the influence of q
bright little domestic sanctum.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

Bright young men are needed in the
country" says Secretary Wilson. In
the country only, Mr.. Secretary
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

That overworked geography class Il
now at work on Scandinavia.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

The object is to avoid contact be-
tween the wheels in the chauffeur's
head and those of the automobile.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

The trouble is that some automobiles
carry too many tanks"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

An automobile is extremely danger
Gus when charged with gasoline and
booze.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-09-01

: Opportunity has an ex~asperating
way of calling on a man when he's
out
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-09-06
Was Taken up in Circuit Court
This Morning.
Judge Reed Starts In With Rush
Police Court Cases Heard
To-day.
COUNTY COURT DOCKET TODAY

The case of Rufe Niece, colorea
for the murder of Jesse Ingram, col.
ored. near Oaks Station last Deem.
Der, is on trial in circuit court to.
day and will likely last through to-
morrow.
Niece shot and killed Ingram al
an entertainment party of negroes
was holding. Niece claims that In
gram approached him with a knife
and attempted to cut him, and that
he, while running, fired the shot,
which killed Ingram.
There are many witnesses in the
case. and Judge Reed this morning
discharged the remaining jurors un-
til tomorrow morning. Neece is rep
resented by Attorneys Campbell and
Campbell and the commonwealth by
Commonwealth Attorney John G..
Lovett and County Attorney f. e.
Graves.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-09-06
THE WESTERN BANK
MAY OR MAY NOT RESUME
MUCH UNCERTAIN PAPER.
Reported That Stockholders Must
Submit TO Assessment of 60 .-3
Per Cent. of Holdings.

Washington, Sept. 6.-Judge Fran
els Oldham. chief of the insolvent
division of the controllers office, who
returned from Louisville, brought
no certain news as to the future of
the Western National bank. II took
to Louisville" said he, "the terms on
which the controller of the currency
will permit the Western National to
resume business as a national bank
| met the president of the bank and
the directors. An effort will be made
to comply with the controllers con-
ditions. and put the bank on its feet
again. Ii would not be fair for me
to say what the controllers condi-
lions are"
DO you think the bank will re-
sume?" inquired the correspondent.
81 will say that it is not impossi-
bic for it to resume. 1t is one of the
most uncertain failures with which |
ever have had to deal. There is so
much paper that We cannot say is
bad, and which cannot be called gilt
edged. Just how this paper Will pan
out to the creditors no one can say.
When you ask the standing of hold
err of this paper you probably will be
told that he has been paying his debts
right along, but still your informant
will admit that he knows of no prop
erty to satisfy the banks claim
against the holder. II is this class of
unsatisfactory and undetermined
loans that makes the banks condition
so uncertain"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-09-06

The people OF the state, even those
with policies In the company, were
not alarmed, and as there was slight
possibility Of our high cockalorum of
the insurance department doing any
more than was already being done, Il
was not apparent how he expected to
accomplish any good in the life in
surance line. The fire Insurance
trust, however, gouges people in ev-
cry city in the state every day in the
year, and ct the insurance commits
sioner never lifts a hand to stop It's
operations. If, Kentucky's insurance
commissioner really wants to do the
people service, he should begin Oh
the trust whose hand is felt in nearly
every home and business in the state.
Many people have. to do without life
Insurance because they cannot do
without fire insurance. If the arbi-
trary rates of the latter were cut
down, people would have more mon
ey to invest in the former.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-09-06
Mrs. Broclwell Sentenced.

Mrs. Mary Brockwell. who at the
April term of court pleaded guilty
to poisoning her three little girls,
and was given a life sentence. was
yesterday afternoon sentenced by
Judge Reed. Her attorneys decided
not 10 have her tried for lunacy. but
to let her be sentenced. The only
reason she gave when asked If there
were any reasons why she should
not be sentenced, was that lit Is too
long a term" The Judge informed
her that he had nothing TO do with
that, as the term was fixed by the
jury. She will be taken to the
Frankfort penitentiary sometime af-
ter the present term of court ends.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-09-06
ASSESSOR HUGHES
Says That Only Eight of the Seven
ty-One Errors Were Made
nv Him

County Assessor John Hughes is
busy on the county assessment.
which he will finish sometime in De-
cember. Assessor Hughes said today
that he had made a thorough inves-
tigation of the errors that the sheriff
reported at the last meeting of fiscal
court were found in the last assess
ment, and that out of the n mis-
takes the sheriff noted, only eight of
them were in the assessment proper.
The other So, Assessor Hughes
said. were made in the county clerks
Office when the assessors book was
copied.