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I BANDON RECORDER. Fires U Itlch Sever Go Out. There i ure domestic tires burning In Engluud today which have never been out fur hundreds upon hundreds of years. At the old fashioned farmhouses In the dales of Yorkshire peat is still burned, Tlie fuel is obtained from the moors, aud stacks of it are kept by the farmers In tlieir stack garths. The country roundabout is noted for Its "girdle cukes," which are made from dough baked in quaint pans sus pended over the peat tires. These tires are kept glowing from generation to generation, and the son warms himself ut tlie tire which warm- <■<1 his sire and his grandsire and his grandsire's sire and which will warm his son and his son's son. There is a tire at Castleton, in the Whitby district, which lias been burn I ig fur over 2< hi years. The record probably is held by a farmhouse at Os- motberby, in the same district. This Are lias been burning for 500 years, and there are records to show that It has not ticen out duriug the last 3n0 years. Could Not I’ hnm the Exit nil nation. A southern woman speaks with pride of the many years of faithful, loving service rendered by her dusky iiouse- keeper, Not only Is “Aunt t'a'llne” valued for her executive ability. but her judgment Is so wise in most caset >■ that her mistress has come to deiiend greatly upon her opinion in certain matters. “Do you think Janies would lie a good man for us to take up into the mountains with us this summer, Aunt Cu'llne?” she asked one day, referring to a bandsome young darky who had been for six weeks in her employ. Aunt t'a'line folded her arms and as sumed her most Judicial aspect. “Missy Kate.” she said firmly, "I done watch dat boy eber since he come hyer, an’ 1 done test him. When I tested him in de ease ob dv spring bed 1 foun’ out dat when it come to liftin’ dat boy was all take hold an' mighty little rnise, Missy Kate, an’ dat's a pore sign ob character, tn my opinions." Like Any Other Man, The following story Is told in refer ence to Mr. Lowell's second marriage; At the time when rumors of the event became current among Ids friends one of them, a stanch admirer of the first Mrs. Lowell and a firm believer In her husband's permanent widowerhood, look it upon herself to deny the gossip every time It met her. Finally, how ever. the announcement came to her from such extremely good authority that her faitli was shaken. She wrote frankly to Mr. Lowell that she hud heard the reports and persist ently denied them, but now began to doubt her right to do so. She begged him to let her know the true state of affairs, whether she was to believe Idin a never to lie-consoled husband or, after all. "Just like any other man." The answer was prompt and brief: “Dear Madam—Yours, like any other num.” With the mouth of Juue comes the flight of the summer sojourners to more pleasant localities than the wind-swept regions of San Fraucisco. There is bustling around aud packing, the study of guiile-lssiks and time-tables, the rush for trains ami the pleasant journey for the Mecca they have selected to pass a few weeks away from ti e din ami uoise, away from the confusion and dust, for getting the duties and cares that bind them for the remainder of the year. Artists aud photographers, students of many languages as well as the many interested in that delightful study, isitany, and whole searching parties for subjects for their natural history, and in the wissls and valleys of < alifor ma they can fl ml enough in a sin gle summer's jaunt to till a menagerie. The other day I met a little lady all ready tor a trip to tlie country, ami she had parapiiemalla enough for two. She was after bugs and butterflies anil the like for some institution East ’I they sending lier some plnceevery sum mer. She was inquiring all about the country traversed by the California Northwestern Railway. Here Polly was right at home, for haven't I si>ent some <>t tlie most deligliIfu 1 hours of my life in enjoying tlie magnificent scenery and noting Hie objects of interest many and varied along tills same road'.' 1 as sured lier tliut site would have to go no further than this favored section of country and tliat she would find herself lingering witli her chosen work when the golden-rod came out to “light her lamps along the road” and the frost kissed tlie linger tipH of autumn caus ing the leaves to blush crimson and turn russet and gold. She would find herself in (lie land of Imps and tlie fields merry witli the pickers as they gath ered tlie daiuty emerald cones. Here she would And the streams teeming witli bnsik trout, planted and replen ished by the California Northwestern Fish Hatciiery. » » » » Do you ever realize how iiiucli liap- ' piness and coiileiitliienl we I omi dav by day by our failure to enjoy the pretMtnl. W» are not sure of tiemorrow, then I w liy not enjoy to-day? This forever and a day hsikiug into tlie future for the realization of our luqs-s and de- pending on someth lug afar off' for pleas ure, wrecks the present fol' us. Still we go blindly on, regietting the past and peering into the future. To-day the de sire of <>u. heart may lie granted. The friends we love are with us, tlie day Is l>erfect, dull care lias taken wings, and there is a ring of pure joy in everyone’s voice. But this is not enough. Sud denly tlie little cloud of discontent a|>- pears. It is not to-day, but the future we are lisiking forward to, some event that must transpire la-fore we can lie perfectly satisfied We ire not con tented. But I hear you say, “we must look into the future or we would lose all our ambition; we would become rusty anil back-numliers, iu fact mere iionothingH.” Yes, I admit tliat, but ill looking into the future we do not have to forget tliat we have something to lie tlimikful for to-dsy. Make tlie most of tlie happiness and mercies tliat have fallen to your portion. Let there lie a song of gladness in your lieart that will show to those around you tliat you are in lune witli the song of birds, the laughter ot children and the merry jest of the fun-loving friends, who believe that there is a time to lie sad, lint til is day is not one of tlie times. We can throw off' a great deal of tills gloomy forelsMlmg by exerting a little will power and cultivating it, too, and by this same will-power we ca’i curb to a great extent t e restless spirit tliat is dialing at something all the time until we are a bundle of nerves and succeed in imparting it to others, causing all tlie soothing restful feeling to take wings. We owe it to ourselves as well as to others to get all tlie enjoyment we can out of tlie present. « « ♦ ♦ ” • "Cyutliia B — Your letter In tlie query-box was laid over last week for lack of space. Many times these queries come in at the last moment and the de lay must follow in answering them. However, they will never go unan swered. You want to know how to go about slipping plants that are difficult to risit by using a grain of wheat. This is tlie way a well-known florist told Polly, and he managed to slip many of his cuttings from roses, etc. Cut the slip to such a length that you w ill have two buds to bury in the ground. Slit the slip to tlie first bud with a very sharp knife ami insert the grain of wheat. Plant in a sandy mold and keep very moist, This florist said he scarcely ever Lest a slip when he tried thisplan mid usually got strong, healthy plants. » » * » FACTS IN FEW LINES NEW SHORT STORIES WASHINGTON LETTER THE HUMBLE HAIRPIN. Yuu Thitnuht You Its Many I ses. but There Are Others. The comprehensive merits of the hairpin are known to all observant Ulen. Its s|ieelal value ill surgery Is asserted by a writer in American Med- lclne. It seems that a Kiirgeou can do almost anything with a hairpin. He can wire bones with it. probe and close wounds, pin bandages, compress blood vessels, use it "to remove foreign bod ies from any natural passage" and "as a curette for scraping away soft ma terial." And no doubt tlie women doctors can do a great deal more with that most gifted ami versatile of hu man Implements. Anthropologists have never done Justice to the hairpin. It keeps civilization together. In the Im mis of girls entirely great it Is much or. for that mightier than the Is the plow matter, tlie plow, forked stick, but a development stick but a and what is the modification of the hairpin? If there was any necessity a woman could scratch the ground successfully with a liairpin now. In fact, there is no work or play in which something may not be aceoinpl ¡sited by means of it. Dullards will tell you that women aren't so inventive as men; don't take out so many patents. They don’t have to. With the liairpin all that is do-able can lie done. With a hairpin a woman en n pick a lock, puli a cork, peel ati ap- pie. draw out a nail, beat an egg. see If a joint of meat is done, do tip a baby, sharpen a pencil, dig out a sliver, fas ten a door, bang up a plate or picture, open a ciln, take up a carpet, repair a baby carriage, clean a lamp chimney, put up a curtain, rake a grate tire, cut a pie, make n fork, a fishhook, an awl. a gimlet or a chisel, a paper cutter, a clothespin, regulate a range, tinker a sewing machine. stop a leak in the roof, turn over a flapjack, calk a hole In a pair of trousers, stir batter, whip cream, reduce tlie pressure in the gas meter, keep bills and receipts on tile, spread butter, cut patterns, tighten windows, clean a watch, untie a knot. varnish floors, do practical plumbing, reduce the asthma of tobacco pipes, pry shirt studs into buttonholes too small for them, fix a horse's harness, restore damaged mechanical toys, wres tle with refractory beer stoppers, im provise suspenders, shovel bonbons, in spect gas burners, saw cake. Jab tramps, produce artificial buttons, hooks and eyes; sew, knit and darn, button gloves and shoes, put up awnings, doc- tor an automobile, In short, site can do what she wants to. She needs no other instrument. If a woman went into the Robinson Crusoe line, she could build a hut and make her a coat of the skin of a goat by means of the hairpin. She will rev olutionize surgery with It in time. Meanwhile the male eliirurgeons are doing the best they can, lint it is not to be believed that they have mastered the full mystery of the hairpin. “From your description it is a place to live in, work in and die in,” she in terrupted, “ami I shall go prepared to tay all summer, and possibly fall or until tbe rain drives me out of this par adise. I shall not lie alone, for I have two or three artists who are to go witli me, and we expect to pitch our tent liy some of your trout streams and then commence to live. These art students are as enthusiastic as I am over tills summer outing, and they expect to slidw some canvases tills year tliat will win tliem not only praise, but money.” When Women Were kilrmiiKHiit. Here was my opportunity again to get Sucli a line and cry us is raised about in a word, and I liad something to say “Dotty Dimple" wants to know why the extravagance of the Women of our of interest to tlie artists. “Tliat re we can't have a “Foxy Grandpa,” or day. and yet at tlie court of St. James, minds me” (this phrase always seems something like that in this paper. Well, i in a dress of velvet embroidered with They Don't Like Rain. necessary to hold tlie Ínteres; until you dear little “Dotty Dimple,” your query I gold, which is said to have cost no less “There's a queer thing about Italian than $1.500, Marie de' Medicis had a can launch iqsiii your theme and gives got in tlie wrong box. The editor of laborers,” said a contractor who em gown sown with 32,000 |«*arls and tlie impression tliat you have tbe right your paper will have to answer that 3.000 diamonds, and her example was ploys a great many of them, “and that is that they absolutely refuse to work of waj and common courtesy demands question for you. followed by lesser personages, who - In tlie rain. Stop a minute and think. tliat you lie given a hearing) “tliat cheerfully expended more than their Did you ever see a gang of them work reminds me,” I continued, “that there incomes on gowns so laden with pre BRIEF REVIEW. ing in the streets, digging trenches or is an artist who lias recently arrived clous stones that their wearers could doing any other manual labor in the from the old country and who lias scarcely move about in them. Mme. Vegetarianism and Divorce. rain? Well, yon never did and proba- grown gray while lie mixed liis eolois de Montespan, the beauty who reigned bl.v never will. Just ns soon as a show- Judge Halsey of Milwaukee, granted at the court of Louis XIV., wore at and wielded his brushes as lie portrayed er sets in, no mutter how sllglit. they one great court festive I "a gown of the scenes tiiat thrilled one in the pic Mrs. Louise Koss a divorce from Theo will scramble for cover, If the rain dore K ohs , a • ¡rove-street seed merchant gold on gold and over that gold frieze turesque Alps, tiie lights and shadows continues, they will soon complain of stitched witli n certain gold which feeling sick and knock off for the day. of London life, the studies tiiat lie made on tlie ground of cruel treatment, the makes the most divine stuff that lias defendant having withdrawn liis an- in gay Faris in bis rooms in the stu One fellow will have a sore throat, an ever been imagined," according to the other will be doubled up with pains in dents' quarter ami the sublime coloring swerand permitted tlie case logo by de panegyrics written by the pen of Mme. ills stomach, and others will suddenly of the copies he made from the old mas fault. One of the charges involved in de Sevigne. acquire severe ailments of all sorts. ters, has just returned from a few weeks this case is tlie husband's insistance It is useless to attempt to do anything spent in tlie hills and valleys and tlie that liis wife should live tlie life of a <11.1 Tinies nt file Capital. with them, and pretty soon they will Ill recalling the lively and pictur fern-clad canyons of the vicinity of tlie vegetarian. “My husband objected se all go trooping home.” — Philadelphia esque incidents which the old timers California Northwestern Railway. ‘I riously to my eating meat,” said Mrs. Record. enjoyed in Washington one is moved K ohs , and when I went out to visit any am going back to a|>end weeeks,’ he almost to tears over the commonplace Living Indelible Ink. said. ‘YVhat is the matter with your friends, sometimes to see my own fam nature of liis own times. John Adams If the shell of the Purpura laplllus be artists who can never rest until they ily, he suspected that I would eat meat used to bathe in tlie Potomac every broken there Is seen on the back of tlie have crossed over into the old world? while I was away. He insisted on my morning at daylight because they bad animal, just under the skin, a slender, getting home at 7 o’clock, under the no bathtub ip the White House, and whitish vein which contains a yellow This is a grand country for the man penalty of being locked out. I was no one ever pulled a kodak on him. who is a true lover of art and they liax ’ e liquor. When this liquor is applied to President Taylor used to walk about linen with a small brush and exposed tile richest of Helds for their laisil* nglit never home later than 8 o'clock, and I ! the town and stop and chat with every to the sun it becomes successively at their door you might say. Look at was locked out twoorthreetimes. I was one he met, like a policeman. A recep green, blue and purple, and finally set your Russian river, now creeping along not a tieliever in vegetarianism. tion ill the White House in these days ties into a brilliant unchangeable crim like some silver riblsiu, then plunging Is relieved of monotony only by the son. Housewives of New England and dashing itself into foam as it tum Uses of Sunflower-Seed Oil. great crush of guests, who trample the have growing abundantly on tlie sea Cottonseed oil according to the Slate clothes off one another's backs. An bles madly over its rocky lied lietween side rocks in tlieir neighborhoods little Department reports, Is soon to find a I other president set up in the east room ts verdure-clad banks. The sky is as living bottles of indelible ink, not rival in oil from the seed of the sun a six hundred |x>und cheese and In to be excelled In beauty or durability blue as forge»-nie-nots, and the scene is vited the multitude to come in and help by any manufactured product, since constantly changing. You don’t have flower. Experiments made by German I Itself, which the multitude proceeded neither acid nor alcohol will affect this eternal spring with the velvety ear- chemist.- have convinced them, it seems to do. Juice of the whelk. |iet strewn with the first wild flowers, of the availability of thischeapraw ma The OrsnK Ontana. liu there comes a change from this terial, and it may become a valuable Mlsseil n Good Dinner. It is a most interesting sight to article of commerce. It is said to be verdant green to the sunburned hills A doctor living in a certain country watch an orang outang make its way town was notoriously fond of good liv witli its lightsandshadows; then comes convertable to many uses, and, besides through the jungle. It walks slowly ing. lie bad accepted an Invitation to your fall with its russet amt gold, tints having possibilités as a lamp oil, may along the larger branches in a semi dine with friends, but as he climbed and autumnal colors. This is a grand lie used for dying and cleaning purpos erect attitude, tills being apparently their steps he smelt venison cooking In country, and you don’t know it. Wait es and will beof service in soap making. caused by the length of Its arms and the kitchen next door. until I return to my own country and the shortness of its legs, it invariably The neighbors being also his friends show tlie pictures I have painted under A phase of tlie tornado’s record is tile selects those branches which intermin lie resolved to drop in on them unex your California skies, and you will hear list of lives and |iroperty destroyed. gle with those of a neighboring tree, pectedly to partake of the venison. on approaching which it stretches out They pressed him to share their In the people rave over them. Here you During eight years of tlie past decade its long arms. and. grasping the boughs formal dinner, but when lie refused would say, ‘bow natural,’ and that the property loss from this cause has opposite, seems first to shake them as to nearly $30,000,000, dis i both soup and tisli his host began to would end it. I want no richer field amounted If to test tlieir strength, and then de apologise for the simple fare. than tliis region I am going into. What trihuted over some thirty states of tile liberately swings Itself across to the The doctor then confessed that lie is tlie matter with your camera eltilis Union, and during tlie same time be- next branch, which it walks along as was waiting for the venison, which lie tiiat they iiave not discovered this in tween two and three thousand people before. It does not Jump or spring ns had smelt ns lie came In. exhaustible source of picturesque and have been killed by these atmospheric monkeys usually do. and never appears “Oh, that venison.” said bls enter to hurry itself unless some real danger magnificent scenery? Why don’t they outbursts. i talner. "we were roasting to oblige our presents. Yet in spite of its apparently go there and camp until liad weather neighbor«, who have a dinner parly slow movements it gets along far Recent investigations made by the drives tliem home? ” next door.”—London Answers. quicker than a person running through Department of Agriculture show that « « « « the forest beneath. The Rlli. mushrooms are about equal to potatoes Right here I could have told him The Living Church quotes this from in the element of nutrition that goes to fie Hcfifloned Wronjj. a Connecticut woman's diary, dated that this part of the country would Is* make flesh and blood, but that, on the “It's all knowing liow to reason,” 1790: “We had ronst pork for dinner, dotted with amateur photographers as other hand, they do not hold much of said tlie Pittsburg man as lie sighed and Dr. S., who carved, held up a rib well as by several experts who bad the fuel stuff required to keep the body in a sorrowful way. on his fork and said, ‘Here, ladles. Is made a study of this lovely pastime, “I owned a house and lot In a town machine running. what Mother Eve was made of.’ ‘Yes,’ In our state and was getting a good but he didn't give me an opportunity, said Sister Patty, ‘and It's from very for he walked out of thensim evidently Hume sjient fifteen years in collect rent for them when a congregation built much the same kind of critter.’ ” a church right on the line. I reasoned disgusted with the<'alifornian’s lack of ing materials and writing his “History It out that the place was spoiled, and appreciation of the land lieautiful. Here of England,” and two years more in re To Show It. when I was offered threc-flftlis of its Bingo Bingo- I'm going to bring my lie was mistaken, however, for he will vising and correcting it. former value I made haste to close the wife round to call on you tonight. doubtless flud many art studentsand deal. I putted myself on the hack over Winterby—That's right; but do me a amateur photographers during hissum- A liad lieginning makes a gissl end that bit of good luck.” favor, old man. Don't let her wear mer’s sojourn in the vicinity of the "And wasn't It good luck?” ing sometimes, but more often it makes her new dress. I don't want my "Not a bit of It. I'm a clean thou California Northwestern Railway this a very quick ending. wife to see it just now. sand dollars out of pocket for reason year. He will find also that this sec Bingo (grimly)—Why, that's what we ing bind end to. The chap who bought tion «* ill lie tilled with campers, and Don't cultivate making enemies; it are coming for. my place bad twin babies, a piano, a the comfortable farm-houses and the isn't pleasant to pass men you don't Mutual Surprise. Addle and a lull-king dog, and the con different resorts will be teeming with want to speak to. She—When 1 married you, I had no gregation hadn't ..... .. that church over four Sundays when it raised a Idea that you would stay away from guests, every bit as appreciative of tlie beauty and wealth of scenery as this purse and Itought him out for twice borne so much. artist from the old country. the value of the place.”- ftoston Globe. He—Wei), neither bad I.—Life. \\ omen are now adopting mice as I pets. Natal was annexed by the British fifty-nine years ago. Onions are a preventive and often times a cure for malarial fever. U. S. Jackson of Boston lias invented a device to secure privacy on tlie tele phone. A H um I oii Peculiarity, When James Kiernan, tlie Tweedle- punch of the "Florodora" cast, was iu Boston recently, the wit of the inhab itants took him unawares, and he bare ly escaped a violent death In conse quence. Emerging from the theater one after noon, Mr. Kiernan decided that he would journey toward the de|s>t and meet a friend whom he was expecting. Not being familiar with the street car facilities, he stopped a newslsiy and in quired what line lie would take to get there. The young man looked up quickly and replied. "Y’ouse go into the sub way and take the elevated.” Kiernan deliberated ns to whether it Would be best to spoil his shine or net. and before lie made up his mind the boy hud disappeared. The comedian walked a few steps and approached a policema n. "(Tin you toll me which car will take me to the depot?" lie inquired. "Go into tlie subway and take tlie elevated." replied the officer, ns though he hud been used to answering the siiine question a hundred times a day. “Then I suppose if 1 wanted n sur face car I would have to go to the top of n skyscraper and come down in a parachute.” ventured the comedian tes tily. "You're too fresh, young man,” de clared the blilecont, grappling his club meaningly. And Kiernan went on Ills ay r without further hesitancy, hesitancy. Later lie I learned that Boston was tlie one city in America where the elevated road was reached via the subway. The Brasilian coast city of Bahia bus about 2O0.U00 inhabitants, who live iu 17,000 houses. Since the art of abbreviation is per fected in America dealers in pineapples call 'em pines. Lead deposits have been found in Sinking valley, Lycoming county. Fa., and will lie developed. Tlie Netherlands rank in importance second only to Great Britain as a mar ket for American flour. Philadelphia now boasts n Wayfar ers' lodge, where tlie hungry may get food in exchange for work. Chicago city council is contemplating tlie establishing of nine small parks for tlie benefit of the "no-room-to live” poor. Tlie Bulletin des Halles of Paris es timates tlie number of horses In the world at 74.GOO.< h ) o mid tlie number of mules and asses at 12,100,<MM). A philanthropic society in Philadel phia peddles ice in tile summer to the poor at a cent for several pounds and pure sterilized milk nt a cent a bottle. A church is to lie erected at Aider shot, England, in memory of tlie Ro man Catholic soldiers mainly Irish men who lost tlieir lives in South Af rica. Telephone wires have been strung through tlie San Gabriel forest reserve, California, for tin- purpose of warning Hume lu II Hole. the rangers of tlie presence of forest In "Scottish Men of Letters" Mr. tires. Graham, the author, relates a story From the census of 1S90 the United showing that though David Ilume was popular among the upper classes in States department of agriculture esti ninteil that we had within our bol qiile of his skepticism and supposed der» 5.5 ihi . ihh ) trolling bred or roadster atheism he was not tolerated by the horses. If one were to swallow a lice or a wasp while eating fruit and tlie little beastie were to sting one in tlie throat, decidedly tlie best tiling to do is to ent a small onion. Tlie Mi<lland Counties (England) Trades federation Ims voiced its opin ion that if works were started with the money tlmt would in the usual way be spent in strikes there xvould lie no strikes to spend money on. The cereals (wheat, corn. outs, rye and barley) raised in the United States during (lie post live years ro-i-'-senl ii value to tlie farmer of SG.25o.000,000, or an increase of nearly I. uihi . ihhi . ooo over the preceding live years. Intemperance in anything brings Its own punishment h.v lessening the pleasure tliat tiling can afford, tine practical lesson appears to be tills: If a favorite odor or flavor is no longei fully appreciated, it should lie foregone altogether for a period. “Mounted on Jet black chargers, with snow leopard skins on tlieir saddles, they are one of tlie smartest troops in India.” writes a correspondent describ lug tlie Imperial Cadet corps, organized In India by Lord Curzon for the sons of native princes. “I’LL DAE NAETHINO FOB YE IF YE D1NNA BAY THE LOHll’S I'HAYEll." In Lisbon, Portugal, a peculiar fea ture of an ordinance-regarding spitting orthodox of the lower class: "Gue dark In public conveyances is tliat the flue night us he walked along a footpath is to lie Imposed on tlie conductor,'who over a boggy ground Ids ponderous is held responsible unless lie can prove frame foil and stuck fast in tli<* mud. tliat lie has informed tlie police of the His calls brought a woman to tlie spot, infraction of the rule. who sympathetically asked. 'Are you Tlie Spanish Society of Dramatic and Hume, the infidel?’ ‘Well, well, good Musical Authors has intimated to tlie woman, Christian charity bids us help ‘I'll due Spanish government tliat it will not our enemies.’ he pleaded. allow any of its plays or dramas to lie naetliing for ye if ye dinna say tlie performed at Madrid unless the gov Lord's I’rayer and the belief, but leave ernment grants a subsidy to tlie new ye where 1 fund ye.’ T he philosopher national theater now in course of con readily obeyed, and the body of the deist was laboriously extracted from struction. No hurtful microbes were found in the mire by tlie Christian.” tlie air of the bouse of commons when it was analyzed. The fact was estnb- lished, bowever, tlmt the atmosphere of the chamber was too rarefied and dead, These defects, due to the meth ods of tiltration and ventilation, are to be remedied. Tlie Paris Academic des Sciences is examining a remarkable theory to the effect that the key to human stature lies in the gland situated in tlie throat under tlie larynx. By artificially stim ulating tills gland it is claimed tliat any child can lie made to grow to maxi mum height. Boston is a shade more foreign than Chicago, It has 35.1 per cent of for eign born, while Chicago has only 34.C per cent, But New York is more for eign than either. The percentage of foreign born is 37 per cent, Tiles* three run a close race for the lead. San Francisco comes in with 31.2 per cent. A device invented by Karl Froscheek for preventing people being run over when knocked down by an electric tramway car lias been tested in Berlin mid found satisfactory. By means of s revolving cylinder in front of the cm tlie person knocked down is gently pushed aside without injury or bruis- Ing. At the present time many valuable species of big game in South Africa are threatened witli extinction. It Is' proposed to establish regulations for tlieir preservation, and it is suggested that camps should lie set apart for the purpose of breeding certain species in order that the country may be re stocked with game. There Is just now mi observable tendency on the part of our foreign population to distribute itself by na tionalities to n certain extent. Two- thirds of the Irish remain in tlie east. Two-thirds of tlie Germans go west. Of 1,000,000 Scandinavians S7o.ooo are in tlie west and northwest. Tlie Rus glans. Poles, Hungarians mid Italians are chiefly found In New Englund. New York and Pennsylvania. The Bohemians and Hollanders settle in the central west. One ot Our I'et I’lirane*. [Special Correspondence.) “Uncle Joe” Cannon was chairman of the select committee which had in charge the refurnishing of representa- tlvt-s hall. Among the other things promised the members for this session was an elaborate system of ventilation by which cold air could be forced up through a series of duets so as to re duce the temperature of the hall and make It comfortable in hot weather. The members have been waiting for the cold air, but so far none lias been felt. Tlie temperature In the house la tlie same as in the senate and In the corridors of the eapitol. Congressman Walson walked over to Mr. Cannon one afternoon when there were more members in the restaurant than there .were in the house. The Indlaiilun'a collar was melted, and his face was beaded with perspiration. " 'Uncle Joe,’ ” lie asked seriously, "where Is tliat cold air we voted money for last session?” "Yes. where is It?” echoed Mr. Can non as lie mechanically mopped bis forehead with his handkerchief. “I told those darned fools on tlie commit tee th.it 1 was not iu favor of buying anything I could not see. but they were bound to do it!” Threatened Boycott Won. The rich Senator Clark wants to put up a flat building in Washington’s most aristocratic and exclusive spot—on Du pont circle, next to the Leiters’ and a couple of doors from the new marble palace of R. W. Patterson of the Chi cago Tribune and only a few steps from the new home of the Wadsworths. A g kinds of excitement! Indignation meetings to protest at tlie impudence of these new rich and to devise ways anil means to block him! So he was told lie would be given the “double cross” in a social way if be did it. Not a dinner of his would they go to. not a dance would their daughters attend, not a card would their footmen leave nt his door, and all their friends—in so far as they could be persuaded—would stick up their noses and say cutting things about tlie senator from Monta na. Tlie threat was good. Tlie site is Mill vacant. The architect was told to call off his plans. Dent ruction of Trees. Representative Lacey of Iowa is a cherry picker, or was when a boy. This does not apply to political cher- ries, but to the real things. "In my native state we used to go out from school to gather cherries,” said Mr. Lacey during a debate on the floor, "(»nee 1 remember wondering why the teacher took along an ax. I soon found out. It was to cut tlie trees down, so Hint we could pick tlie cherries easily. I mil sure there are lots of members here who have had a similar experi ence.” Tlie Iowan’s illustration was to show tlie reckless destruction of trees of all kinds. He Insisted tliat men were in clined to regard trees as tlieir enemies. Tlmt came from tlie pioneer Idea of subduing tlie forests as they had to subdue ttie savages. In these days be insisted that trees were civilized, as well as men, and tlmt tlie fact should lie recognized. To Test I'neuiuat l<* Tube«. Representative Greene of Massachu setts Ims introduced a bill for tlie In stallation of a pneumatic tube service between tlie eapitol and the govern ment printing office. There is a belief at tlie eapitol tlmt if tlie pneumatic tube service is to be inaugurated here in Washington for purposes of demon stration it could better be done be tween tlie capitol and tlie government printing office than between any other two points in the city. The amount ot manuscript mid other copy passing be tween tlie buildings daily is enormous, requiring constant messenger service. The Power* Didn’t Meet. In one of the deep window recesses Just off tlie main entrance to the house Wheeler’s Story on Himself. Mr. Wheeler, the brilliant young is a sort of grumblers’ corner, where Kentuckian, has his domicile in the secretaries to members meet nearly midst of a great tobacco county, a every morning. They exchange griev county tliat has produced 23,000.000 ances there mid in voluble language pounds of tobacco in n year. Mr. discuss the personal characteristics of Wheeler says he has counted in one lheir employers before these employers day 1,800 wagons loaded with tobacco arrive. Sometimes this flow of con ver- right in the chief city of this tobacco <ation becomes as noisy as the chatter ->f a flock of blackbirds. The plain county. Notwithstanding his familiarity with citizens who figure in the opening the growing of tlie weed, a story of his scene of Julius Ctesiii* are not more ■mplmtlc than these clerks at $100 per first law case comprises a joke upper tabling thereto. Coming up to l'aducab month. The other day there was no gathering as a young lawyer, not yet twenty-one, Mr. Wheeler was engaged as attor in tlie grumblers' corner, and one of the facetious doorkeepers posted u sign ney In a quarrel that arose in a toluic co patch. The present congressman on the window: "The powers will not meet today.” waxed eloquent in behalf of liis client, and the jurymen were all attention. President* and AlllKatora. "Why, gentlemen,” declared he, “1 The president held an informal re- know all about the growing of tobacco. ception in bis office the other after- I was raised in the midst of tobacco noon, mid a number of visitors were on my father’s plantation. 1 almost presented to him. One lady introduced grew on a tobacco vine." herself ns from Jacksonville. Fla., and “Then it was,” said Mr. Wheeler at said: the eapitol the other day. “that I saw "Mr. President. I have come all this a smile come over the races of the way just to see you. I have never jurymen. I had slipped. 1 ought to seen a live president before.” have said plant. To this day they Mr. Roosevelt seemed much amused. bring tliat up against me as a good “Well, well,” be said. ”1 hope you joke out In Kentucky." Washington don't feel disappointed now that you Post. have seen one. Lots of people in these parts go all tlie xvay to Jacksonville to Couldn't Saltport the Resolution. see a live alligator. I wonder which Clerk McDowell of the bouse tells a kind of tourist feels the most sold.” story of the Pennsylvania legislature Loud laughter by tbe president. when that body was controlled by the Wew Grace Reformed Chureb. Democrats. They elected a speaker Ground bus been broken for tbe erec mimed Patterson, who did not know tion of the new Grace Reformed church anything of parliamentary law, but at the corner of Fifteenth and O who posed as a second Reed. At the streets northwest, more commonly close of the session one of the Demo known ns "tlie president's church” by cratic members offered a series of res reason of Ills attendmiee there. olutions lauding the speaker for his Tlie new church will stand directly services, but a Republican member op iu front of the small brick structure posed their adoption. now used by the Grace Reformed con "I cannot.” he said nt the close of gregation as a place of worship. It a ten minute speech, during which he will be built of granite mid Cleveland emphasized nil tlie mistakes which the graystoue aud will cost, including fur Democrats had made. “1 cannot in nishings. except the organ, about $40,- dorse a speaker who has the vaultiug GOO. The Interior will be finished off ambition of Napoleon and the intellect In quartered oak in sixteenth century of Blind Tom.” Gothic style. CARL SCHOFIELD. Miiniiulim Joliu. “Did any of tlie inhabitants escape "John,” slie said softly, “have you with liis life?" Inquired tlie mini who been saying anything about me to wants harrowing details. "I didn't stop to ascertain.” answered mother lately?” “No.” replied John. “Why do you the man who Is harrowingly exact. “It struck me that if anybody esenped ask?” "Because she said this morning that without liis life there wasn't much use she believed you were on tlie eve of In his escaping anyhow.”—Washington proposing to me. Now. I do not wish Star. . you to speak to mother when you have The otxs time in a man's life when ht anything of that kind to say. Speak Is satlst'ud to take a back seat is wheD to me, and I'll manage tlie business be goes to church. Philadelphia Rec With mother." ord. And John said he would. Infant I’rodficy. Visitor (to little Freddy)—Let's see wtiat you have learned in your school. Now, can you tell me the difference between B and C? Freddy—Thath’s eatby. A bee Itli a iulbect, an' a then ith full of water.— N»w York Times. Kxtreme* Meet. “Were you positive enough when you told the old man you Intended to marry ills daughter?” "Yes, but he was negative.”—Cincin nati Commercial Tribune.