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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05
AN OAK OF JOURNALISM.
Col. Henry WattersOn, Editor of the
| Louisville COurier-JOurnal.

Twenty-Five years have wrought a
great change in Henry Watterson, as
well as In the occupation to which he
has devoted his life. Marse Henry was
a potent factor In that potential jour
nalism which did more to mold public
sentiment after the Civil War, during
the reconstruction period and even in
the campaign Of 1880, in which Garfield
was saved from defeat by Conkling,
than the platforms of parties and the
utterances Of orators These latter
were but the echoes Of the policies
which the great editors outlined, and
Of these molders of public thought none
was more influential in Democratic pol
itics a quarter Of a century ago than
Watterson, Of the Louisville Courier
Journal. He was giant of the era
of political editors. He was afiame
with enthusiasm when the sanctum was
the heart and vitals of the paper when
the editorial end Of the publication re-
tained an influence in public affairs
which has largely descended to the
counting-room since the commercial
Ism of newspapers has come upon the
land Profit was not the primary con-
sideration with editors Of the Waiter.
son stamp.
| To-day Watterson still writes Now
and then some utterance of his rings
like bugle blast across the country,
and the populace sits up and hearkens.
But the virility which once marked his
editorials has vanished and, as a rule,
they sound like an echo out of the past.
Watterson is still courageous, still pic
turesque, but the age is fast slipping
away from him and the journalism of
our day Is not of his own. Would that
his wit, his Imagination, his emotion
might be perpetuated
| Watterson has been a militant edi-
tor. He was born in politics and rear
ed In politics. His father, Jefferson
ian Democrat, occupied a seat in Con-
gress when Henry was born. The child
was frail, with one eye useless and the
other so weak that much Of the time
he was kept in darkness. His early ed
ucation was obtained by others reading
to him. But as he matured his ply
sique improved and his sight was
strengthened. When he was able to
read he began to devour with avidity
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

the natural effect of physical and men,
tai injury to childhood which it is now
the desire to overcome. Educators
have found that little bodies and little
brains succumb TO the strain the theo-
rists have put upon them and the pub
lie school gymnasium is the result.
Children instinctively resort to the
kind of physical exercise best suited to
them If they are allowed to play cut
in the open air. This is the very best
bodily training they can have. If the
modern educators would not require so
much home study of the children the
latter would not need physical culture
during school hours. But this appears
to be entirely overlooked In present.
day systems.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

which was a unique Institution, 1t was
peripatetic, moving about as the Union
armies came into range. Usually a
covered wagon was the editorial sane
tum, press and composing room. On
one occasion the forms were already
made up, chronicling a Confederate
victory in the engagement which had
taken place that day, when the tide of
battle turned and before the forms
could go to press the Union army was
routing the Confederates. Watterson
abandoned his "office," and when the
Federals rushed in and seized 1t the
artillery used the type which had been
employed to describe Confederate We
tory by loading 1t into their cannon
and firing it at the retreating army.
Type was scarce In those days and 1t
was not until several months later,
when Confederate detachment raided
Union town on the border that Wat
terson's stock was replenished.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

At the end of the war Watterson
went to Louisville and was associated
with George d. Prentice ON the Cour-
ier-Journal, after he had forced that
brilliant product of journalism into
capitulation by establishing a rival pa
per. In those days papers like the
Courier-Journal, the Chicago Times.
the New York Sun and the New York
Tribune were synonymous with their
editors. Prentice, Watterson. Story.
Dana, Greeley and others of their type
were always alluded to when the pa
pers were quoted Prentice died and
Watterson became a greater force. For
thirty years he ran the composing room
as well as the editorial department of
his paper and the politics of Kentucky
at the same time. He was the arch
partisan, the fiery free-trader who
manufactured doctrine for the other
free-trade editors to reproduce in their
columns. He also made many public
speeches on the labor platform at the
dinner table and elsewhere, and al
ways was the spectacular, grandilo-
quent performer. He served a term in
Congress, was influential in bringing
about reconstruction, fought the Ku
klux Klan, supported Greeley and was
the first prominent Democrat to 90 to
Louisiana when hints of fraud against
Tilden were set afloat. He counseled
peace and moderation during that per-
ilous situation and was influential in
preserving peace. He became the chum
of Cleveland, quarreled with him and
called him some of the most memorable
names ever attached to this much
dubbed President. He assailed BRYAN
in 1896, organized the Gold-Democrat
movement, and then turned around and
supported Bryan and Parker in 1900
and 1904.
In his general attitude toward life
Colonel Watterson is an Epicurian. He
lives freely, and cares little for money.
which he spends when he has it and
when he hasn't. His income has al
ways been large, but his savings small.
He can make thousands every season
on the platform, where he is in con-
slant demand, and indeed is one of the
most attractive Of speakers.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05
Bamed but Determined.

While Mr.. Graham calmly and delib
erately opened the morning paper and
ran his eye over the headlines, his
wife looked volumes of reproach and
impatience.
Cant you tell me about that fire
yesterday, before you read everything
else in the paper?" she asked, at last.
Certainly, my dear, certainly" said
Mr.. Graham, when she had repeated
her question. "Er-here 1t is:
"'At 4 80 yesterday afternoon the
great boiler at Staffords burst. The
scene which followed baffled all descrip.
tion.'"
us that all 1t saysT demanded Mrs
Graham, as her husbands eye seemed
inclined to wander over the page.
mo-" said Mr.. Graham; there are
three full columns of description on
this page, and 1t says continued on
page six"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

all sorts of standard literature, and for
years he has been one of the best-read
men in the country in history, biog-
raphy and poetry. He also studied pol
itics and as boy knew every public
man in Washington. At Is he was re-
garded as prodigy, and at IS he be-
came musical critic for a daily news
paper. At 20 he was editing a news
paper in Tennessee which defended the
Union cause, but when the maelstrom
Of the Confederacy engulfed him he
rushed into the Confederate army and
became scout. Even then the lust of
writing was in his blood and he began
to issue a paper called The Rebel.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Tragically appropriate as the climax
to year of appalling railroad mortal
ity was the catastrophe Of Dec. 30,
1905, wherein more than fifty passen-
gers were killed. The explanation was
the usual one, with which the travelling
public Is expected to be meekly con-
tent. The night was foggy and there
was a mistake in the signals. Hence
the collision. The much praised block
system lends itself too readily to mis-
taken signals, with their grim sequel
of lives sacrificed. Safeguards that do
not safeguard are coming to be pret-
ty costly and gruesome farce. "Oper-
ating efficiency" Is braggart word
with the American railroad magnate,
and 1t Is true that, as factories for con-
centrated profits, our railroad systems
have reached a wonderful perfection,
equalled only by their achievements
as universal juggernaut, says Ridg-
ways. with grain rotting on the
ground in the Northwest for lack Of
shipping facilities, with half a dozen
States freezing for coal while cars for
the carrying Of that commodity are
tangled In extricable confusion, with
high railroad officials bawling out ex-
plantations that explain nothing, and
excuses that a schoolboy could excel
for inventiveness, with the slaughter of
helpless passengers going on day after
day, the present methods Of operation
as devised and controlled by the mas
ter minds" of railroading are matter,
not for glorification, but for mourning
and repentance.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

daughters that Thy desire shall be to thy husband
and he shall rule thee and since in the vast
majority of excepting during the period of court
ship and often then, it has been the woman who has
striven hardest to please the man, who has sought
mold herself according his IDEAL to conform his
standard in all things Rudyard Kpling says: Men
speak the truth as they understand it, women they
think men would like to understand then they all
act lies which would deceive Solomon and the result is
heartrendng muddle which half dozen plain. open
words would put straight" "As the husband Is the wife
is OF course, there exceptions, but in the main
there never was truer word spoken.
Among the pungent aphorsms in a clever brochure re-
Gently published About Men. Women Fools" is this:
Never marry man to reform him.
Reform him first, and then don't marry him."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

'' Dn iii1A'' you do not know what man called on
them last night When you find out their view on any
public question you may know what newspaper they
have read ten minutes before There is much foliage at
the top but roots at the bottom They talk fair be-
fore dinner on one side of the question: but after dinner
they talk fair the other side. They the victims
of the last book they read Any faddist come along
and get hold Of their and in hours time change
their religion their politics. their philosophy-ther any
thing! Not advenurer in philosophy religion but
can pick their pockets in five minutes of all the convc-
tions of their fathers.
Great were our fathers-they Puritans We will
not beray their faith their honor their conservation to
liberty and justice Our fathers also scholars They
loved literature founded schools learning enriched H.
brares we will not desert the higher education put
things before thoughts wealth before manhood, posses
sions before life 0, all ye young hearts, fealty
to the faith of fathers Remember that the greatness
of the Victorian epoch in England and the golden era
of scholarship in the republic seriousness of
purpose. 1t is the serious note that lent beauty and
strength to the of Watt to the poems of Tenny
son. the essays Of Emerson and the eoquence of our
statesmen And whenever the serious departs the
glory will leave colleges and halls of learning
The work of this generation must be with the work
of our fathers
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

veterans Of industry" A pretty
phrase and prettily employed. 1t is
what the Danes call the old people Of
good record who are forced to apply to
the authorities for help. No shame at
taches to such application; no ignoble
dependence, corrosive of self-respect,
attends the life which follows. Such
a person enters the home as sort of
government pensioner.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

In the library Of the Navy Depart
ment Is a vast quantity of valuable
documents waiting for the man who
shall write the history of the American
navy. Here are many unpublished let
tiers Of officers and secretaries and all
manner Of technical information about
the growth of the battleship and the
development of naval ordnance. Cap
tain Mahan, the greatest authority in
the world on naval history, has said
that he Is too old to begin the work.
Perhaps 1t will not be begun, perhaps
all that material will lie untouched,
until some one of our young readers
is grown up and competent to do jus
tice to the subject
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Although said to be "richer than
Rockefeller" Mr.. Weyerhauser seems
to be permitted to pursue the even
tenor Of his way, principally because
he refrians from lecturing his fellow
men on how to be happy though strug-
CLING for living.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Some statistician has found that bur-
glars stole from the various banks in
this country during. the past year to-
tai of $4,127. He, of course, refers
only to the thieves whe broke In from
the outside to do their stealing.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Dreadful stories are told about the
Car Nicholas suffering nervous pros
tratlon, but there is not syllable of
well-authenticated evidence that the
numerous assassinations of the Russian
terrorists have amelorated in any way
the condition of the Russian people.
The only effect seems to be the adop-
tion of sterner and still sterner re-
pressive measures. Assassination is
something that people seem to get hab-
ituated to SO that they do not mind it.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

attempting to wear bonnet gown in imitation of her
original But in the field of moneymaking imitation con-
tinues to be the "sincerest hatery," accepted with
smile by the one whose methods to be copied In
general however, the initiated his moneymaking
methods can afford to smile Already he has proved his
Judgment and has reaped the ready upon it. He
may have exhausted the possibilities that particular
line Or ali else favorable to the mtator this success
ful one has wide margin of chance that hurry to
fall into line of imitation the imtator has missed the
true principles at bottom of the speculation.
Take any farming community where the simplest lines
are laid for the local business world In certain Sec
ton perhaps wheat has been years no pota
toes planted perhaps any of crops has been
neglected In the planting until the neghborhood has for
gotten the staple. But suddenly one sets aside
field for of these neglected crops plants it. ONLY
an idle Interest attracted though the planter may have
expended his best judgment upon crop reports markets
and the chances of favorable season. Not till all of
these have been realized in great harvest at top prices
however does the spirit of imitation spring up over the
neighborhood 1t will be too late for that seasons ven
ture but In the following year the advenurng farmer
may count upon scores Of followers in this ne whereas
he himself has dropped the idea for another
In the degree with far greater complications the
mitator Of financial methods in the cities is led astray
Not until some has made some notably successful
venture in a certain line is attention attracted Yet in
all probability before he has made his first move as an
imitator the man whose example he is trying to follow
has switched to altogether different field of opera
tions!
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Don't cheer, boys" plaintively ex-
claims the New York World, poor
thru Is dying!' Still, let us not
mourn. 1t was too feeble and deform-
ed to have withstood the buffetings
Of this rude world.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

King Leopold thinks he is much
abused man. He ought to be thankful
that there is no international whip
pIng-post.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

The man who cut off his right hand
because it offended him, 1t is needless
to say, was Bible reader who accept
ed all statements literally.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Sir Thomas Upton speaks in high
praise of the American hotels. This
may be accepted as sure sign that
he is coming back.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

The Chinese, it is said, make it a
point of honor to pay all their debts
on the first day of January. That's
the day we begin inventing new ex-
cuses for not paying ours
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Even the heroine who by waving her
red petticoat saved the fast express
from destruction has had to give up
her pass. Thus do the sins of the un-
Just fall upon the just.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

A French professor says he Is fol-
lowing up clews that will reveal to him
the mystery Of the creation Of plant
life. He followed up a strong scent
when he chased down the onion.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

A New York man who lived on 80
cents day left fortune Of 100000.
His heirs will doubtless agree that he
Is better off dead.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Is married love an Illusion? Not
so long as the grocer and the butcher
understand that everybody is pros
porous.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

One of the dramatists threatens to
write play around the fuel famine in
the Northwest. 1t is safe guess that
the villain will have beard and be
bald-headed.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

A Cincinnati church congregation has
decided to nay the PASTORS wife a
monthly salary. Hereafter there ought
to be no buttons missing from his
clothes.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Occasionally a woman makes her
husband ridiculous by treating him in
public as a woman treats an only
child.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Never In the history OF education
was there such frenzy among educa-
tors to add courses of study In the pub
lie schools as to-day. That has had
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

stance The woman who marres man, fondy imagin
ing that by Of his love for her she will be able
to mold him according to her ideas, makes in 800
times out Of 100000 great and often disastrous mis-
take. Comparatively few women possessed of hyp
motto power the who in love with
them, and usually man who not only be subdued
but dominated by feminine influence is of unstable
a quality to retain the impression in its strength when
the controlling presence is removed
Tradition and custom since the beginning of time have
prescribed that the shall be the head of family
1t part of the doom pronounced upon Eve and her
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Says a woman: 81 care not who does
the thinking so long as l am permit
ted to do the talking"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

Lincoln Steffens is looking for
model city. 1t is a pleasure to refer
him to the New Jerusalem.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05
W0MAN's POWER OVER MAN OvERRATED
BY Helen OIdfeId

There are few things which more generally
are overrated than the influence which wom-
en- exert upon men, That it is great none can
deny. That in many cases it has changed the
destiny Of men, the fate of nations, is matter
of history. Nevertheless it is not universal,
neither is 1t all-powerful nor yet can it be
depended upon as sure to exist, still less to
endure the vicissitudes Of time and crcum
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05
RISING GENERATION GOING AsTRAY.
By Rev. Newell Dwighf HiIIjs

Society is cursed with young men
and women who are driven by every
wind and tossed. l would as soon
think of anchoring an ocean liner to
fog bank instead of rock as to
anchor a reform, a useful club,
great movement or church to their
lives and leadership. You never
know what their politics is, because
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05
LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
CT. SoULE. Publisher

TOLEDO. o................o OREGON
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05

A woman talks about herself-or
about some other woman.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-05
IMITATORS SELDOM MAKE MoNEl
By John A. Rowland.

Moneymakng is a keynote of the times.
ANY method of any man showing markedly
successful results in moneymaking will COM
mand million imtators in day. In almost
any other world of endeavor imitation Is
frowned upon. The artist and the profess
sional man are frowned upon in moment be-
cause of initiating One woman may be hold
ing a lasting grudge against her friend for
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-08-09

g e II rub / g 0 T..
Store 6orefomiter al tort Grant, ct
for ct ballot Mar tilbage fun0et poa
Dperretsiagferer, MI &onlulatiefre=
ter 8osies @ien0om &nappum / 60
lpr beo 6liien Station. 8ru6ene,
Ser bar Ell leroeles bel6ig @eliggen=
be0, ifal for fort Sis it0en bore
baan0gibet ct itgrre tp1f &oni ortium
for 100000 &rolter, og ser paagaar
for Si0en Hrgbe0rift. 0enne ifal /
BIS e Gage n0pi0es til at omfatte 40
a so Man6, og 9riften oil bi1tnof /
ben 11arn1elte Sis fomme til at ips=
iellutte Ell itprre M%rbei0sitof.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-08-09
n1i$tet
Brusen at en- Arm. Hjertesysdon.
Kunde like spise, sove eller gaa.
DR.. Niles Heart Cure helbredede
fuldstendigt.

"Hvis Diet like havde vxret for Dr.. Miles
Mediciner, havde jeg like vKret island til at
ekf1ve dette Brew. For to Aar siden, sidste
Junt, mistede jeg Brugen at min venstre Arm,
kunde intet udrette med den og kunde kun
bevage den we'd Hjalp at min h5ire Hand.
Nit H5erte var saa svagt, at jeg like kunde
sove ON Natten for Kvalninesanfald. Jeg var
syg helt igjennem og kunde intet spise. Jee
blew saa svag, at jeg like kunde gaa uden at
dingle som en- drunken Mand, og min Huslage
sagde, at han kunde intet gj6re for mig. Jeg
havde saa starke smerter, at jeg blew nasten
Wild. .Jeg kunde like BRUCE Morfn eler OPT
um, da Diet kun gjorde mig varre. Saa kom
5eg til at tanke paa d.. Miles, Heart Cure
og Nervine, og je mere jeg tankte paa det,
des mere 6nskede jeg at fors5ge Diet. Jeg
skrev til DR.. Miles Medical Co. ON Rad, som
jeg fulgte efter Bogstaven. Jeg kan idag siee,
at jeg er glad we'd at jeg gjorde Diet, eftersom
jag er en- frisk Kvinde nu; kan arbeide OF kan
gaa to til tire NIL uden Besvar. Jeg kan oesaa
after BRUCE min Arm saa godt som nogensinde.
De we'd like, hvor taknemmelig jeg er for disse
storartede Mediciner, DR.. Miles New Heart
Cure og Nervine. Jeg tror DR.. Miles, Med.
ciner er de bedste i Verden, og hvis jeg skulde
blive syg igjen, Wide jeg gj6re Diet samme ON
igjen. Medicinerne hjalp ogsaa min Dattef
Vida saa vidunderligt, at jeg burde have skre.
vet for og takket Dem, men jeg Wide wire
sikker paa, at Kuren var varig, hvilket leg
nu we'd er Tilfaldet."-Mrs Frank Loomis,
Allen, Mich.
ALE Apothekere sSlger og saranterer den
f0rste Flaske at DR.. Miles Lxsemid1er. Skriv
efter fri Bog ON Nsrv1htet o. Htertesygdom-
Ina.
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1907-08-09

S tferterne. 9. 10. Suli
lfribes; 0e nDlig ofIntte0e Sorife-
filferier n1aa | set store og &ele to-
get iigeS at bape bragt ct forbolos
big tilfreositillenoe uobptte ioor.
8iih1of er Siifetollet life paa Ianes
.t1ar 1aaet op til, bpab Sc gobe Gn.