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BAJTDON RECORDER. WITH THE IMMORTALS. Creator That Sorm Xcver to Die Krum Old Akv. Wandering unconcernedly in the field of view of any high power microscope there may be seen an animal which has probably been living eonllnuouslv ever since life first appeared on the earth and which has certainly never lost an ancestor by death. The creature Is transparent and resembles a drop of slightly more viscid fluid in the thin film of water in which it is coulined. Amoeba is the name by which it ts known to science. Splash a drop of Ink on paper, and you will have an Idea of Its form at any one moment, but It's fori is never the same. Even as you watch it its shape, which had a resemblance to Ireland as It appears on the map. changes. The headlands at the southwest corner are becoming more and more prominent till now they are like the fingers of an outstretched hand of which the palm is rapidly shrinking. The whole creature is flow ing rather than creeping toward a small chain of bacteria, which present ly it devours. There Is no mouth through which they pass. They are simply engulfed as small drops of wa ter may be merged Into a larger. In nn hour or two they will have been digested burned off as fuel to supply the activities of their destroyer. Occasionally amid St ceaseless changes of form amoeba may be seen to be developing a "waist." which grows smaller and narrower until It snaps, and Instead of one large animal we have two small ones, which, wlth Ot even a momentary pause, continue the search for food till, in a few hours, each Is full sized and ready to divide But what has become of the original amoeba? In the absence of anything which could be called his corpse we cannot declare him dead. It must be said that he is still living as the two new amoebae. Now. this splitting into two being the only mode of reproduc tion of the race. It follows that all the previous parent amoebae from which our present two are descended are still living. Of course thousands of the animalculae are destroyed every day by natural foes, but it must be re membered that these uufortunates cannot by the nature of things leave any children and so will never be an cestors, and that so long as any one amoeba Is living none of his direct an cestry Is dead. The conclusion ha forced itself up on biologists that death is n part of the life scheme of these huiii'de crea tures. They are not like u-m:u-hlnes. preordained to run down in a m ire or less certain period of years -but the;, live on Indefinitely till some chance ae j POLLY f 1 believe L said in a recent article that I diil not believe in the whipping post except for wife-beaters. I changer my mind last week when a great burly man not only beat his horse until he raised great welts on the quivering back, but kicked him again and again while the vilest language poured forth from his foul mouth. The horse was nothing but skin and bone and he war- trying to pull a wagon loaded to its fullest capacity up one of the steepest cobble-stone paved hills in San Fran ctsco. The cobble-stones had been worn by the every-day travel unti they were as smooth sis glass. Ovec these the faithful animal pulled am tugged under the rapidly falling lash, with its stinging reminder of ingrati tude for past service well done, only to slip and fall until he was cut and bleed ing. A crowd gathered. Some urgei the horse on, others threatened the driver if he didn't desist, while others merely remonstrated with him for his cruelty, but were repaid with a volley of curses. Men finally put their shoul ders to the wheels, the lash was aj- plied again and the wagon was landed on the summit of the hill. Wet with froth and the blood oozing from the various cuts, the horse stood for a min ute, panting and blowing, then he sank down in the traces, gave one con vulsive shudder and was dead. Free from his inhuman master and free from the blows and the starvation he had received. Xot a person who wit nessed the cruel act but was glad the hor.-e was- dead and sincerely hoped the owner ivould never have money enough to get another horse to abuse. Thi-j was another case for the whipping pot, and for every blow laid on that helpless horse, he should have received one just as iiard. Une application would have cured this monster of any desire to wreak his ungovernable tem per upon a helpless animal. Too bad there is not a law prohibiting any man of his stamp ever owning a horse, dog, cow, or any other animal, for that matter. You ask why he was not arrested, and the answer is simple. In the lan guage of the smaH boy, there was no .op." or policeman around. There seldom is unless there is some poor. tottering individual who ha been guilty of imbibing too much of the cldent cuts short their career. Youth, cup that cheers, or some child that has or, rather. Immaturity, they experience purloined a irille, then you will see from time to time, but old age never:- tjVe or six of the dignitaries in blue Grand Magazine. ,-lntli ;m.l .rib button, with -i n.i'alia - o , ...... --0 .- .if i......i:t.. ... ,..;.. . Turner, the natural:, declares that :l!l1 :l revolver in their pockets for im- he once saw upon the coast of Brazil mediate use in case the culprit starts to a race of gigantic savages whose av erage height was over ten feet, some Individuals exceeding twelve and a half feet. M. Thevet of France In his de scription of America, which was pub usned in Paris in lo7o. says that ho was once present when the skeleton of run before he can be bundled into the patrol wagon. Commenting on the non-appearance of a policeman in the above instance a man remarked that they were never a South American savage eleven feet m 'videiiee until after the danger was and two Inches In height was disin terred. The Chinese have a teeord of several giants between twelve and six teen feet in height which have lhed in the Flowery Kingdom within the last 300 years. Joscphus mentions a Jew who was ten feet two Inches, and Pliny was well acquainted with Ga- bath, the Arabian giant, who was nine feet nine inches in height. Coming down to modern times, we find that John Middleton, who lived in the time of James I., was nine feet three inches and had a hand seventeen inches long by eight and a half broad. Murphy. one. of the celebrated trio of Irish giants (Charles Byrne and O'Brien be ing the other twot, was eight feet ten inches and O'Brien two inches taller. CurioHlty Smlj.fi oil. A woman cycled up to a bub-hcr's shop and went In with a smiling face. "I want you to cut me off twenty-five pounds of beef, please." she said. The butcher was incredulous. "Twcuty-the pounds?" "Yes. please." It was, a big Job, and when he had finished he asked her whether she would take it or have I g-t hurt over. nen tliey were really wanted they were conspicuous for their al- sence. lie said, ".My wile and 1 re turned from the theater the other night to find that burglars had pur loined everything they could from the lower part of the house and were then hi the upper story helping themselves to everything they happened to de sire, lhey had the electric lights turned on full and were going about it as composedly and systematically as you could imagine. .Not only were all the bureau drawers emptied of their contents into the middle of the floor, but the mattresses and pillows had been torn open and the carpet torn up from the floor. Our rooms looked like a cvcione nad strucK tiiem. hen my wife threw open her bedroom door she was looking in the face of a black masked thief and a pistol was pointed directly at her. 'Don't make any fuss!' commanded the burglar, 'or I'll have to kill you. Keep quiet and you won't I am almost through.' And presented to the School Board to stop the practice of cutting up cats and dogs for the instruction of the pupils in the public, schools of that city. Alas for the pet of the househeld that wan dered away from home, for it frequent ly proved to le one of the cats that never came back. Alas! for the stray and homeless cats atul dogs that fell into the hands ofj the vivi-section fiends, as well as the little brown-eyed bunnies, frogs, etc. The School .Board heeded the petition of many indignant pare ts who desired to have their chil dren educated in other lines than the wholesale butchery of animals and de cided that the vivi-section of house hold pets was not lit instruction for mixed classes of boys and girls, and have ordered that this form oTtuitlou shall be no more. During two months of the past term the boys and girls in the Los Angeles High School were al most daily treated to scenes of cutting hearts and intestines out of dogs and cats chloroformed to death solely for what the school "sawbones" said was scientific instruction. At one of these cutting events a big Newfoundland dog was put to death with ether, and then disemboweled and cut to pieces while the scholars looked on and took notes Several girls in the class fainted at the horrible sight, and the idiot who per formed the work lost all patience and said they would simply have to get over that and become accustomed to seeing animals put to death, and then wa'ch while they were cut to pieces, while the warm blood flowed and the intestines were pulled out of the ani mal's carcass. One of the teachers was brought up with a round turn and reprimanded for iiis startling dissec tion of cats and sheep for the alleged instruction of his pupils, ile had sim ply made a mistake in his calling, na ture having designed him for a whole sale butcher. BRIEF REVIEW. Woman Dispatcher Dead. Miss Rebecca Bracken, for forty years chief train dispatcher for the Michigan Central railroad company at Niles, Mich., died there, aged sixty vears. .Miss imicKen, who is said to lave been the pioneer woman tele grapher, was retired by the company on a pension last August, and the re cords in the otlice of the superintend cut of telegrapli show that she had no mark against her in all the years o service, a record which was unprece dented. Miss Bracken was known far md near as the railroad men's "guard an angel," and just after she was re tired a delegation of railway uflicials md conductors gave her a diamont ring as a token of the high esteem in which she w:is held. 1 lie itev. l)r. Lyman A own l .-ays that there are four great vices of Amer icans, as follows: "There is material- m the insane pushing to get a little more for ourselves of the wealth tha Jod has given our country so abitnd antly. There is self-conceit our pride in the fact that we have the greatest country, the greatest rivers, the great est mountains, the greatest men, the greatest wealth and the greatest tnist.- and corporations to control them all. There is lawlessness the theory that liberty consists in every man having the right to follow his own sweet will, that government rests on the consent of the governed, which is even seen in some theories of education that say the child should never be compelled, but only induced to learn. There is the spirit of caste. " TM. POWER TO l-LLAE. A P.l-itl l-'.irior Kor Sm-ci s.i In Anr farcer You Mil)- Adopt. The power to please is a tremendous asset. What can be more valuable than a personality which always at tracts, never repels? It Is not only valuable In business, but also in every field of life. It makes statesmen and politicians; It brings clients to the law yer and patients to the physician; it is worth everything to the clergyman. No matter what career you enter, you can not overestimate the Importance of cul tivating that charm of manner, those personal qualities, which attract people to you. They will take the place of capital or Influence; they are often a substitute for a large amount of hard work. Some men attract business, custom ers, clients, patients, as naturally as magnets attract particles of steel. Ev erything seems to point their way, for the same reason that the steel particles point toward the magnet because they are attracted. Sueli men are business magnets. Business moves toward them even when they do not apparently make half so much effort to get it as the less suc cessful. Their friends call them "lucky dogs." But If we analyze these men closely we find that they have attrac tive qualities, mere is usually some charm of personality about them that wins all hearts.- Success. EARLY DIAMOND BUYING. South Africa's Vlrnt Kind Were Paid I-'or In CidiN. South Africa's first diamonds were paid for in cows. The story is told by Joseph B. Bobinson, one of the wealthy pioneers of that country. In 1S79 he gave eight oxen and u wagon loaded DREADFUL DREAMS. I HE DOG DAYS. fn They Shock the Xervoim Sjulem and Mav Even Cnune Death. People have actual! been killed by dreams. Most persons have suffered from those terrible nightmare visions In which the victim Is pursued by an assassin with upraised knife or Is with sugar and tobacco to a native In trembling on the edge of a fearful ,t is supposed to be unsafe io go in exchange, for a twenty-three carat precipice or is in some other Imminent inhuming. And it is then that, ac gem. "The news spread like wildfire ., .,11i1t ,i torrtlile death. Nirding to the tradition of nmnv ndnlt the Course of Time Slriu .May Itl.se In .Midwinter. Dog days begin, according to the tra litioils of boyhood in certain parts of the United States, when the green scum, algae, begins to appear on the surface of the lakes and rivers. Then THE MAGICIAN'S THUMB. It Ik IUn Worst Kncmy In Sleight of Hand Trick. In everj- sort of magic the magician's thumb Is his worst enemy, says Nina Carter Marbourg In Leslie's Weekly. If he could strike off that thumb and still have its assistance when neces sary ho would be a happy man. In closing the hand the thumb usually bends toward the palm in advance of through the countryside that a white man was giving away wagons and oxen for hits of stone," he says. "I set all the natives who came to work to seek for diamonds on one side of the Vaal river, and 1 brought up my own fifty men to hunt for diamonds among the bushes and scrub on the other side of the stream. I had bought the land on bolh sides of the river, so that I was working on my own property. Next morning at sunrise, when I was having my coffee, I was startled by a loud hullahaloolug, and, looking out. I saw the whole gang of my men rushing toward me in a state of wild excitement. "One of them had found a diamond of good size. They all had come to see what I would do with it. 'What will you give me for It?' said the finder. 'I will give you ten cows,' I replied and sent the man into the herd to take his pick. He marked ten of the best cows as his own. The men had never dreamed of making such a bargain. Ten cows for a bit of stone! off they went again and found dia monds every day. They became rich, and I accumulated a good' store of precious stones. "After we had accumulated a large quantity we decided we would better send them to London. We made a belt full of small pockets, in each of which we placed a diamond. When the belt was tilled my partner girded It about his body and started for Cape Town. He never took off the belt until he reached London. And It was In this the fingers. In this way It many times Is much In the way. and practice is wav the first consignment of African necessary to get a magician's thumb In fliamonds reached Loudon." perfect training. But when he has It sent home. "Oh, I don't want to buy It," she explained. "You see. my doc tor tells me I have lost twentv five pounds of flesh through cycling, and I wanted to see what it looked like in a luuiD. Thank vou so much." Old Thunder ntIoit. The "Prognostication Everlasting of one " Leonard Digges." published hi 155G, tells us that thunder in the morn Ing denotes wind, at noon rain and in the evening a great tempest. He goes further still and declares that "Sun nays tnumler should' bring the death with that he commenced gathering up the things and putting them in a sack. He had a confederate watching at the rear of the house, and r- sentry lie gave a peculiar whistle audi t pping to the window lie dropped thosaek out, then lie scurried after it himself. The next minute we were both screaming, Thief! Help! Murder!' and blow ing a police whistle out of the window, uid I grabbed my pistol out of a drawer they had overlooked ami tired twice into the air. A big crowd gath ered in front of our house in a few mo or learned men, Judges and other-. Monday's the death of women. Tues- meiit.-, but there was nary a policeman days plenty of grain. Wednesday's showed un for over fifteen minutes. bloodshed, Thursday's plenty of sheen hmd then three or four came ioiririmr nml T.-l.l..... . .. . . " .v, ' i iue siauauter of a hilon- together. There wils danger in Tom .Lawson admits he has a few million which belong to the people and which he will give back some day We think it will be when he makes what he can call an honest fortune by squeezing- a few millions out of the Standard Oil Co., when he has it on the hip. He is simply a gambler in stocks, and this is not honest, simply because it is giving something for no equivalent and playing the game with loaded dice. Chips writes this to aid the boys and girls far out in the country who may think they have no chance to become great people. Chips wants to show the children that they have better chances to rise than do children in cities. How do you a-k V Be sensible, grow in wis dom each day, read looks filled with knowledge, aim upward, keep well and strong, shun evil company, take Lincoln and Longfellow for models. great man and other horrible murders, Saturday's a great pestilent plaguJ and great dearth." Mother .Nature hi I. iron. One of the most wonderful thing - Mother Nature does is to teach he children how to accomplish th.ngs with means and appliances that seem en tlrely inadequate for the nurnose. A bird will build an intricate and beauti ful nest with no better tool than her beak (birds do not use their claws for 1,:ul to nm llle gauntlet of disgusted this purpose), a caterpillar can shape a men, women ami children, and then, symmetrical cocoon and bees the sharp although the burglars had been gone angled cells of their combs. These are some fifteen or twenty minutes, every familiar instances of this, but by no one of them had to march pompously means as wonderful as those shown In hntn ii..nc. the air and they had evidently waited for reinforcements. When they did hail in sight the little street gamins jeered and laughed. 'Don't hurry, Cop, take your time, for they have gone to Oakland.' 'You'll catch 'em in tiie good old summer-time, Cop,' called another. 'Don't get excited; you might get heart disease,' cried an other little urchin. The noliconieii Although only 117,()U() workers are employed in the shoe industry in the United .States as against :!!)0,()00 in trie Cnited Kingdom, the Cuited States makes more shoes than any other country in the world. If you are the riyht kind of a boy lie thankful that you are poor and have to rustle and make your own way. This leads to success and useful happy mid dle age. practiced hi the school of magic for some time the thumb becomes so flexi ble that It will bend nearly to the back of the hand. Cards are Invariably the beginning of a magician's education. In handling cards the thumb is especially in the way. and this Is the reason why this trickery with the pasteboards Is se lected for the beginner. To change one card for another in front of one's very eyes and still to have made no percep tible movement of the hand, Is a trick that beginners learn to perform before they have been in the school for any gre-.'t length of time. This, as may be imagined, is o difficult piece of work to bee .une proficient In. and here Is Just the place where determination plays a great part In success. APACHE SHREWDNESS. 'hese dreams are common enough, and nearly always the sufferer awakes, thankful and happy at his escape. But sometimes he doesn't awake. Some times the knife falls or the sleeper in his hallucinations plunges down the precipice. These are the dreams that kill, says the Chicago Tribune. In cases where dreams kill there is a sort of combined action between the dream and the disease through which death Is accomplished. In the first place the dream Is usually the product of the disease. A person may hae heari disease which never asserts it self or allows the victim In any way to know of Its presence until the fact is disclosed in a frightful dream. More over, terrifying dreams are often the first evidence of heart disease. Then the frequent recurrence of these dreams, dealing repeated shocks to the nervous system, aggravates the disease until the heart Is so weak that one more shock Is sufficient to cause death. If a person has had dreams It does not necessarily follow, however, that he has heart disease. Dreams Indicat ing heart disease are usually of a terri fying nature and relate to death. On awakening the sufferer will notice n violent heart pulpitation. Chronic perl carditis is always preceded by horrible dreams, such as that of being thrown Into a lake of fire or being crushed hi a railroad wreck or burned by a vol canlc eruption. The approach of Insanity may also be revealed by unpleasant dreams, or insanity may be hastened by such dreams. There are many cases on rec ord where n person has been driven In sane by a dream. BISMARCK CONSENTED. tie Witu the Final Arhlter of an Kiikt ll.ih I.ove .Match. Wh.'ti the third son of the Duke of Arg.. ie bestowed his affections upon an untit led woman he felt bound to ask the old gentleman's consent. The duke answered that personally he had no objections to the match, but In view of the fact that his eldest son ha l e pou e I a daugh'er of the queen he thought it right to inquire her majes ty's pleasure on the subject before ex pressing his formal approval. Her majesty, thus appealed to, ob served that since the death of the prince cons irt she had bevn In the habit of consulting the Duke of Saxe ("ubiirg on all family affairs. The matter was therefore referred to Duke Ernest, who replied that since the unification of Germany he had made it a rule to ask the emperor's opinion on all Important questions. The e;ise now can.e be.o.e the kaiser, who decided that, as a constitutional sovereign. h was bound to ascertain :he views of his prime minister. Happily for the now anxious pair of lovers the "Iron Chancellor." who was then !n ofiVc. ha 1 no wish to consult anybody and decided that the marriage might take place, and it did. The Indian' Unit IVa Good, hut the White Man Illdn't "Bite." With the Apaches a really brave man does not stand as high In public estimation as does a clever thief. His chief excellence, from an Apache stand point, lies In his ability to outwit the white man. says Mr. Cremony. the au thor of "Life Among the Apaches." I was sitting, says Mr. Cremony, In front of my tent, writing a letter, when a young Apache came up and asked what I was doing. I replied I was talk ing to my friend In Washington. "How can you talk to your friend so far away?" "When an Apache wishes to talk of speed to ii distant friend." I answered, "he s-'iids him a picture of a bird; If he talks of something sweet he sends a picture of a flower. Instead of pictures ill whit' man ha- these little signs which all understand." The Indian took up the letter and scrutinized it carefully. "I do not believe you." he said. "You try to make a fool of me. These little signs are all alike." "I will give you proof. I will write on tins little piece of paper that the sutler is to give you some tobacco. Go take It to the store and see If I do not speak the truth." The Indian snatched the paper and wa off. A few minutes later I saw him slowly coming toward me, a piece of tobacco in his hand and a look of be wilderment on his face. Suddenly h!s expression changed to satisfaction, and he hurried forward. "Did you get the tobacco';" I asked. "Yes. but I do not believe you. You and he had an understanding before so that you might deceive me. Now if you will write some more of those little signs on paper telling the sutler to give me much more tobacco and If he does then I will believe you." But the Indian's ruse failed. I did not "rise" to the occasion. AN OCEAN GRAVEYARD. ELECTRIC BAIT FOR FISH. The XeTT York Aijnarlnnr.H Supidj and Where It In C'lipturcd. The New York aquarium, which is the largest and best equipped institu tijn of its kind in the world, obtains it.; supplies of tropical fishes from the waters of Bermuda. Some of the rar est and most beautiful species are ex ccedingly hard to catch, persistently refusing to take a bait, and on this ac count it litis been found necessary tc resort to a very novel and ingeiii. js expedient to effect their capture, an elect real contrivance which serves to stun the coveted specimen and reduce it to helplessness until it can he made a prisoner. T!;o device in question consists In part of a small and compact storag--battery which is held in a leather po,.ch beneath the arm of the opera tor, who wades as quietly as possible ?1 r.ju ;h the shallows and lnva :cs. with ;;s little disturbance as may be, pools among the rocks. He carries a long hai.iHed dip net, to thg-jumdi;-...!' wiiji a wire is .if fashed. ""I'ffl the m.1 of the wire is fastened a small percussi n cap of the kind used for expbdiug dynamite cartridges. It is the bursting of th" cap that is relied upon to stun the fish. Lr.ckly for the hunter fishes have as mtu-h curiosity as land animals, and even t!t" shi-u one will approach a I ait to look at it. though indisposed to atten pt th. slightest nibble. Accord high ".he percussion cap at the end of the wire is concealed either by some thing eatable or by a bunch of grass wrapper around it. Mr. I':s!i w aiders what it is. ventures near and has in stant reason to regret his imprudence. Tin is well as of boys, dogs most frequent ly go mud. All nations and -races of civilization apparently have had a pe riod during the summer known as dog days when many maladies were sup posed to be common. But the madness of dogs, hjxlrophobin, was never associ ated with dog days by the ancients. Dog days are a rather indefinite pe riod, according to this green scum rule, but there is a disagreement of authori ties as to when dog days really do be gin and end. Accordiug to the diction ary, "dog days are part of the year about the time of the heliacal rising of the dog star, Sirius" that Is, when the dog star rises in conjunction with the sun or as nearly in conjunction ns may be observed. Various dates from July 3 to Aug. 1;1 have been assigned for the beginning of dog days, and they are given various durations of from thirty to fifty days. It seems to have been from the helia cal rising of Sirius that the ancients most commonly reckoned the dog days. Thus at the present time dog days would begin July 3 and will end Aug. 11. Sirius Is the brightest star In the heavens, and It was easy to associate the mutual heat of the brightest star and of the sun with the hottest and most unkindly period of the year. Hip pocrates (4;"0 B. C.) declared the dog days to be the most unhealthy part of the summer. Dog days are continually dropping farther back in the calendar. Now they are twelve days behind the sched ule to which they held In the period of the pharaohs. In time Sirius may rise In the dead of winter. The Egyptians maintained that the first indication of the rise of the Nile took place on the morning of the longest day, when, as they said, the sun and Sothls (Sirius) rose together. They attributed the rise of the river entirely to the great heat generated by this star in conjunction with the sun. Sirius is situated In the mouth of the constellation Cauls Major (the "great dog"). The Latin name of dog days was "dies caniculnris," and from this comes the term "canicular year," which was known among the Egyp tians and Ethiopians. It was computed from one heliacal rising of Sirius to the next and consisted ordinarily of 305 days, every fourth year having 3GG days. Chicago News. BALLOON ASCENSIONS. The Clone of the Day In the Time to Make Them. "Did you ever know why it is that a balloon ascension at a country fair, promised for 2 o'clock in the after noon, never occurs until about GV" asked an expert parachute Jumper. "It always happens, and the explana tion generally Is that the preparations affusion x'Q"1-1 not !u-rw:dc-in time. This is rarely the case, for the balloonist never had any Intention of going up earlier than just toward the dose of day. The reason for tills Is that not only is an ascension at any other time fraught with a little more danger on account of the winds which usually prevail, but also because by these same winds the balloon and para chute are apt to be carried too far away, perhgps so far that injury may befall them before they can be recov ered. "The old and experienced balloonist never makes an ascension except "just at sundown, because with the going down of the sun the winds subside fisherman closes the circuit, the considerably. He can go almost straight Snhlc Helping Him Out. For years Squire Iatham, of whom many amusing stories are told, was a resident of Bridgcwater, Mass., and It was while he was living there that the incident occurred which Is related be low. It Illustrates his habitual coolness and whimsical temper: He was awakened one night by his wife, who told him she thought there were burglars in the house. The squire put on his dressing gown and went downstairs. In the back hall ho found a rough looking man trying to open a door that led Into the back yard. The burglar had unlocked the door and was pulling It with all his might. "It don't open that way, you Idiot!" shouted the squire, taking In the man's predicament Instantly. "It slides back!" I.slmid Is n Mont IlaniceronM I'lnee For Xn vlnnlorx. Sable island, sometimes and not too extravagantly termed the graveyard of the Atlantic, is set among shoal wa ters that afford the best of feeding ground tir the particular kinds of fish that Gloucester men most desire, hali but, cod, haddock and what not. and so to its shoal waters do the fishermen come to trawl or hand line. Lying a! nit east and west, a flat quarter moon in shape is Sable island. Two long bars, extending northwest erly and northeasterly, make of It a full, deep crescent. Nowhere Is the fishing so good or so dangerous as close In on these bars, and the closer In and the shoaler the water the better the fishing. There are a few men alive in Gloucester who have been In close enough to see the surf break on the bare bar. but that was in soft weather and the bar to windward, and they in variably got out in a hurry. Two hundred and odd wrecks of one kind or another, steam and sail, have settled in the sands of Sable island. p.vciis-uon cap is eplo.'ed. an 1 t he victim Is rendered for the m mient life less, though receiving no permanent injury. Promptly, by reversing the dip net. he is gathered In, and a fen days later he finds himself swimming about in a tank. The fishes from Bermuda are carried to New York on steamers, of course, and It is a curious fact that during the first twenty-four hours of the voyage they are liable to become quite seasick. Saturday Evening Bust. If you workand save, be sensible enough to keep lazy schemers from eat ing all that is in your cupboard. You often see one rustler support several idlers. the work of some sea animals that live In shells. SL Nicholas. Sweet :irl. Gerald As it is to be a secret en gagement It would not be wise for me to give you a ring at present. Geral- dine Oh, but I could wear It on the "wrong hand. II In Itecrret. Blobbs Bugglns' wife says he Is a model husband. Slobbs Yes. and he used to be such a good fellow too. Philadelphia Becord. pompously view the havoc wrought, where and how they got in and escaped, etc. Of course we never heard anything of the articles that had been purloined. Weil, we can't help that poor old horse with our sym pathies. He is out of his troubles and I am glad of it. 1 hope that man will get his just deserts yet," he said, as he followed in the wake of the indignant crowd. 'pi... i .. . i . i in; Migeies people are up in arms and various petitions have been Be charitable to persons weakened by disease or troubles for they are not themselves. We all judge the unfort unate to harshly. Let us again ask parents to get their loys interested in history and the lives of great men. It works wonders with youthful minds. Ignorance is the black hat of sorrow that we should all aid in driving from the world. Scolding rteform. It is accepted as a truism among ed ucators that no child can be made per manently good by simply scolding. The overscolded child is made worse by the irocess, and the overscolded politician Of this there is clear and Indisputable s nicely to deteriorate, ami ror me rccoru. ui now many goon vessels same reason, rjven a goon nog win uiai nave neen driven ashore on tne try to earn a bad name if he has it long bars on dark and stormy nights thrust too often upon him. Probably or in the whirls of snowstorms and It would be an exaggerated statement swallowed up in the fine sand before to say that the essential spirit of re- mortal eye could make note of their form In this country Is the spirit of disappearing hulls there is no telling, the scolding parent, but It resembles A Gloucester fisherman needs no tab it too often. George W. Alger In At- ulated .statement to remind him that hint In the bones of hundreds of his kind are bleaching on the sands of Sable island, ami yet of all the men who sail the sea they are the only clas that do not give it wide berth In wlnter. James B. Connolly in Scribner's. The V.vst IluIIdlnc Kronnd. The most healthy ground on which to build a residence is one composed of clean gravel free from clay and effete organic matter and having a porous substratum. The advantages of such a soil are free ventilation ami drainage and a low level of ground water, all essential qualities for a dry and salubrious situation. A sail coin p sed of permeable sandstone and chalk formation Is also good. Bocky and stony situations are usually healthy. Sandy soils may be consider ed salubrious provided they are clear and pure and not water bound by an Impermeable foundation. Clay and al luvial soils are generally unhealthy. up. break away his parachute and come down In the very lot from which the ascension was made. "There is really very little danger in parachute leaping when the man who does It is experienced. The parachute must open and bring him down safely, though he will have a hair raising drop like a chunk of lead for about 100 feet, the distance usually covered before the big bag opens. Then he can guide his descent readily by raising or lowering this side or that In order to spill a lit tle air and thus keep it from drifting. "A balloon can't be guided, but a parachute with a man of experience hanging to It can be controlled as eas ily as a boat, for the reason that by tilting It on one side you can force It in the other direction and thus ma neuver so that if it Is desired you can deposit yourself on the very spot of the ascension. It is ollly the inexpe rienced men who drift or those who fear they may incline the bag too far for safety." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Prepared. A Kansas City druggist says a wealthy west side man came Into his store Sunday morning and. throwing a dime on the show case, said: "Give me two nickels for that. please." "Going to try a slot machine?" nsked the druggist pleasantly. "No," replied the wealthy man. "I'm going to church." Kansas City Times. IUm Own .Self. There Is a time In every man's edu cation i"hen he arrives at the convic tion that envy Is Ignorance; that Imi tation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide uni verse Is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toll bestowed on that plot of ground which Is given to him to till. Emerson. When a man wrongs you and has no excuse for it he sets about to wrong you some more. Ilalr IlalnliiK'. Husband I feel in the mood for reading something sensational and startling something that will fairly make my hair stand on end. Wife Well, here Is my last dressmaker's bill. Wnchlnfjtnii Ufa Patience Is bitter, but Its fruit is sweet. Rousseau. An Odd IMimder. When the British admiralty built the spietKiui naval barracks at Chatham Cxplaln cd. An old Scotch lady who had no relish for modern church tnus'Ie was express ing her dislike of the singing of an an them In her own church one day. when u iiei.miDur miiu. ".. iui .'; old anthem! David sang that anthem Some men work just enough to keep dirty. Every otic wants always to be able to v. ;k, but not always to have to. If you don't like certain persons, how j'oii hate to hear their money rattle! Here is one sign that you are talking too much when your listener tries to pull away from you. After a man. passes fifty It Is impos sible for him to get up any enthusiasm about anything but his troubles. Ever notice how the big files avoid tly paper? It Is the same with the real ly big men. They are seldom caught. You can follow directions in making a cake or cutting out a shirt, but there are no directions that can be followed successfully In managing a man. Some how he Is not like a cake or a shirt Atchison Globe. Behavior. You cannot rightly train one to an to Saul." To this the old lady replied: I i i . - . . . . Weel. weel! I noo for the first time 'r aim maimer except by making him they fitted up one of the largest rooms understan' why Saul threw his Javelin the kind of man of whom that air Is " blie tor court martlals and nt i).lvid when the lad saug for him. uau tourc .Martial" Inscribed on a -t, ,lt: uu Ule tlQor vwieu It EncmiriiKlnjr Her. 3 uuouL io tie used for the first Stationer-What do vou do with all ume tne discovery was made that the u,e lead pencils vou buv, Mr. Smith? ivbiu.muiifj require all naval court mnrtinlM to be held nn the water Soelnl Axiom. "I think I will invite the Bronsous. T know they would be glad to come." "But, my dear, people who would be glad to come are the .very oues you Miouid not Invite." Puck. You average about three a day. Mr. Smith-Oh, that's all right. My wife Is taking whittling lessons. Coinmbus Disnatch the natural expression. Nature for ever puts a premium on reality. What Is done for effect Is seen to be done for effect; what Is done for love Is felt to be done for love. A man Inspires affection and honor because he was not lying In wait for these. The things of a man for which we visit him were done In the dark and the cold. From Emerson's Essay on "Behavior." Sharp tongues, like sharp knives, are Tne man WUQ tr,es tQ hIde Wg hpt to do a grcatxdeal of damage in glou w, S0Qn uave n(me this world. Austin Statesman. couI(1 lio,j