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I» o I « • •e q OC • • BANDON RECORDER OREGON BANDON It needs no Imqpgtor to locate the unsafe mln« 1 after the calamity has happened. By the way, do you know any IDA II whose wife got him by proposing dur- ’ng a leap year? A newspaper advertisement brought a uiun gl,850.(MM>; that’s not the tirst time It has been done, either. “What sliall we do with our boys?" ■ska an «¿change. I»et them grow up to be men and the women will do the rest. Men have their little jokes about the amount of talking the women do, but down deep in our hearts how we lo love to hear them. A Philadelphia scientist asserts that birds show their emotions in their faces. This may explain why sparrows ’ose their heads when served ds quail. “Self-conceit,” says one writer, “Is the consolation prize God gives fools.” But what consolation Is there for the people who are daily thrown In the •«nils’ company? Cuba has a population of 2,028,284. Inasmuch as It has taken Cuba so long to get that tilg, there Is no reason why anybody down there should be inclined ‘o form a Three Million Club. One of the magazine writers says our battleships are floating death traps. He may have been looking at them from the standpoint of the man who Is to- be on the other side tn case of ‘rouble. The valued New York World seems to entertain a long and double-leaded suspicion that there may tie times when limiting a President to two terms is not a “wise custom." Whither are we drifting? “If two-thirds of the girls who go on the stage would go to the kitchen Instead, there would be a whole lot more happiness In this world,” says the Birmingham Age-Herald. But not if their cooking Is as bad as their acting. « Anyone acquainted with hotel em ployes will realize why it was neces- •nry for the Philadelphia woman who gave Bibles to the Atlantic City bell boys to “make a few remarks inform ing the recipients that the books were more valuable than gold.” The Prince de Sagan says he would ha ve challenged Count Boni de Castel lane to tight a duel if the count had •truck him with his glove in the face. As Boni merely knocked him down anil kicked him Into the gutter, the prince considers the count to lie unworthy of notice. We cannot Iielp regarding the prince as the world's leading uncon scious humorist. « The attempt of the Methodist Church to make one thousand dollars the mini mum salary which any of its ministers shall receive may be followed by a sim ilar action on the part of the Congre- gationalists. The Itev. Dr. George A. Gordon of Boston. In commenting on the matter recently, called attention to something which is frequently forgot ten, namely, that conditions of life have changed, until now. instead of churches somewhere nearly equal in financial resources, there nre some very rich and powerful churches, and •ome very poor and weak ; and what is needed is a general sustentation fund which shall put the poorer churches more nearly on a pur with the richer ones. Doctor Gordon says, probably with justice, that It is fast becoming an imjMissibility to get self-respecting young mon. even among those who fol low an ideal, to work for such small salaries ns many churches pay, and therefore the churches suffer from the lack of the kind of preachers most needed. An English manufacturer who found himself going behind calle«! together tils men. stated his situation frankly, and warned them that he might be forced out of business! A nlmble-wit- ted workman who realized that half, n loaf is better than no bread suggest ed that If the factory «xiulil be kept rniining. in the h«i|«»*of better times, lie nnd his urates would consent to a reduction <ff wages. Th«» offer, heart ily sis'onde«!. was thankfully accept«»«!, and everylxxly turned to with fresh courage. Twelve months later the sums xvitl|tn'hl from th«» nifti had been made up to them, the original wage-rate was again In forix», and there was promis«» of an advance. A Ixindon periodical tells the story, which relates to an old "family Industry" employing now the grandsons of th >se who were «tn- ployisl at first. Tin* semi-paternal re lation that grows up under su<’h condi tions between th«» hea<! and th«» ha nils Is almost Incomprehensible to an Amer ican who works for a corporation. II«» knows his Immediate superior; “head quarters" seem« a worhl away. Yet man ami management lire always fe inted In Interest, ntul the English In cident shows how they might help each otlwr tele over a jsTlo.l if depression. Tlw dull tlm<> ia th«» tilin' for an cm ploye to work harder, to Inere.is«» Ids output, to try to reil* »» the exjiense account. •<> "talk up" tin» business as If be owned It. It would l>e bnd man- eptTtr tn etnrw an* shops, failed to tri umph over adverse conditions. On the ? PRESIDENTIAL CAM- other hand, it is the time for the e<n- i PAIGNS SINCE 1856. p!oyer*to deal fairly, which is frankly, with a iuu. whose wages must be cut Oood Thing to Cut Out — to give xtn an Idea of the perplexi and Save for Reference. ties ts-settlrig the situation. That man would appreciate the show of confi dence. and the thought that he was National Gathering There have been thirteen campaigns by trusted might suffi<,e to awny him from Republican the Republican and Democratic parlies, Alone Will Determine Who dangerous discontent to energetic loy llepubllcun < andldate*. alty. Always a winning force, indeed, Candidate 1« to Be. 18.14 k—Fremout and I layton. loyalty is never more so than when the 1841O--Lincoln und Hamlin. wheels of trade move slowly. 18(14—Lincoln and Johnson. 18(1.8—Grant and Colfax. Whenever legal luminaries meet it. GREAT 1908 CAMPAIGN NOW ON. 1872 Grant und Wilson. county, state or national convention or 187«—Hayes and Wheeler. at th»> banquet table they grow elo 1880—Garfield and Arthur. 1884—Blaine and Logan. quent on the nobility of their profes 1888—Harrison and Morton. sion and tlie high standards which In the Democratic Field, Washing 18! >2—Harrison and Reid, ton Political Observers Think characterize It. Whenever disbarment 1896—McKinley and Hobart, proceedings are found neressary Bryan Is a Certainty. 1900—McKinley and Roosevelt, against a low trickster or very offen 1904—Roosevelt and Fairbanks. sive shyster, the prosecutor similarly Democratic < audlilatea. Invokes, with impressive earnestness, 1850 — Buchanan and Breckinridge. the “high standards" of the bar. There Washington correspondence : 184»—llouglas and Johnson.* HIS city will is more oratory than dry truth in these 18414—McClellan and Pendleton. the center of the fine effort«, more Imagination than 18418—Seymour and Blair. great | political reality, says the Chicago Record-Her 1872—Greeley and Brown. campaign w Idoli ald. But ordinarily no one cares to 187(1—Tilden and Hendricks. will rage from Introduce the note of skepticism, am! 18841-—Ilanixx'k and English. California t o everything passes off beautifully. A 1884—Cleveland and Hendricks. Maine until the 1888-—Cleveland and Thurman. dlstlngulstuxl Massachusetts judge, 1892—Cleveland and Stevenson. ballots of next however, has recently seen fit to make 18!H>—Bryan aud Sewall. November deter- an exception to the rule. Perhaps his 1900—Bryan aud Stevenson. mine tile people's known Interest in the large social prob 1904 —Parker and Davis. choice for Presi lem«—in probation, charity, l»*gal re •By the northern Democrats and Breck dent. From now form, social redemption—accounts for inridge aud luine by the southern Dem on until the SUC- ocrats. his unconventional remarks. A motion cessor o f M r. for disliarment against a lawyer was Electoral Vote». Roosevelt Is cho- being argued, and the attorney who The number of electoral votes received sen there will not by the two parties in these contests and representi»d the prosecution Indulged In be nil instant’s in the pluralities are shown here: the familiar observations regarding the termission iu the Plu. De tn. . Rep. “high standards which,” etc., etc. I 00 D 174 1850....................... .114 Judge I>e Courcey listened patiently din of political battle. 108 R •72 Secretary Tnft stands sharply in the 18« U)....................... .180 for a while, and then threw this “bomb 191 R 21 shell” at the able lawyers in court: "I limelight and his friends are redoub 1S«H....................... .212 80 134 R 180.8....................... .214 ling their efforts In his behalf. The feel that the bench has tolerated, if not 223 R 1872 .286 63 recognized, lower standards; and I feel fact that he is the candidate of the ad 1870....................... 185 1 R 184 ministration Is sure to have the effect that especially when I sit In the crim 59 R 155 1880....................... .214 inal and divorce courts—more especial of keeping Washington on tlie jump to 1884....................... .182 37 D 219 05 It 108 ly the latter. If this high standard watch every move. Senators Foraker 1888....................... .233 132 D 17« [of which the eloquent lawyer had and Knox and Secretary Cortelyou, also 1892....................... .271 95 R 17« spoken] were upheld a majority of the locate»! In Washington, will help to 1890....................... .271 137 R 155 1900 ....................... ke«*p the jxilltical pot furiously boiling 292 attorneys would be disbarred.” Ex 19« R 140 traordinary words, but refreshing and in the capital. New York will get the 1904....................... ,33(1 •The electoral vote of the Breck in- wliolesome ones. Thoughtful laymen height of Its excitement from the fact have often wondered at the sort of j that Gov. Hughes seems <l«‘stiii«-<1 to be ridge-lame ticket of the southern Demo- crats; the Douglas-Johnson ticket of the methods and standards which the a factor of no small moment in the line northern Democrats received 12. judges tolerate and the bar associations up of the contestants in Chicago. Vice President Fairbanks nnd Speaker Can condone or encourage. Cheap subter Nebraskan’s undoubted fuges, flimsy technicalities, bathos, so i non, presiding officers respectively of magnetic phistry, delays for the sake of delay, the Senate and House, must inevitably strength In his party. Six months of contention must take wrangling and billingsgate, Pickwick keep these bodies embroiled In the ian motions and pretended surprises stress growing out of their candidacy, place before the two parties place their and shocks—who has not again and and their home States of Indiana and standard bearer« In the field, the Re publicans at Chicago, the Democrats again observed such things in the trial Illinois are likely to feel the heat. Between these men, Taft, Knox, at Denver. Meantime the nation's of important case« by men of repute and standing? Who has pot been dis 1 Hughes. Foraker. Fairbanks anil Can business will be swayed and moved by gusted and nausented by legal chicane non, the convention at Chicago Is re every new boom, by every straw, by and humbug from sources that suppos garded an open chance. All are pow every Indication. Capital, sensitive edly stand for “high standards” and erfully backed, all will push their cam- above all things of which man has regard shysters with holy horror? PHEW! ITS GETTING HOT. There is need of more such anti-cant talk as that to which the Massachusetts judge so unexpectedly treated the law yers of his jurisdiction and State. All That Was Left. A young married couple took a late train for Washington, Intending to «pend their honeymoon iu rumbling through the corridors of the capitol. Congressional library and other public buildings. The porter was awakening passengers at an unsually early hour that morning, and long before the train reached Baltimore he had them up. The groom told his bride that he would leave his coat and hat and re tire to the smoking Compartment of the train. He went out and met a friend, who asked him back into an other car In order that he might meet a friend of his. Soon the conductor be gan making Ills rounds and taking up tickets. Tlie young bride referred him to the smoking apartment, where, she said her husband would be found. A moment later the conductor returned and inforimxl her politely that bridegroom was not to be found, other passengers were startled by a loud shriek. ‘‘My husband ! Oh. my husband !” “Don't be alarmed, madam," said the conductor, reassuringly. “Nothing has happened to your husband He Is probably in Baltimore. We dropped two sl<M»pers at that point." And that was why friends of the young couple I who went to the station in Washington I to meet them saw only the bride cling Ing to an overcoat and a silk hat and wailing, "This .is all there Is left Of him:“ A llntinted Library. One of the most curious "hauntlngs* occurs in a northern castle of great antiquity where Mary, Queen of Scots. reste»l when she was being conveyed a prisoner through England, It Is Lian I- tested in the library and takes the form that the books cannot t>e kept in order. They move about or are moved about from shelf to shelf. If you ar- range the works of Shakespeare In correct order on one shelf, by next morning the volumes are scattered any how on different sh<»lv<»«. This lifts gone on for years. At different times the library has b«‘en searched and lock ed. watches have been set all night, s»*rvaiits have come and ¿one. but th«' mysterious occurrence' goes on and Is vouched for not only by the family.1 but by th»» guests who have stayed in the house. There is no legend to ac count for it.—Lomlon Modern 8och»ty. z » •• « • ' o o « . V ••» » • .. e o • o • • * • For D*m<x»racy««tt»n 1«»boun4>.fc> t* tjke U«| figure, whether it the can didate or not. No man matches him In the popular kln«l of eliwiue*»»', an»! his fine voice, baud some face and mag netic l*iiHng give him a phenomenal power to »way audience«, If Bryan Is the nomln»»e It lx probable that the country will tie stirred by another spet»ehmakli>g tour similar to the mem- orable on»» of 18Hfl. And after the turmoil has subsided, and business, collecting its scattered wits, gets together at the tieginning of 1941) to try to make up.the ground lost in a wasted year there will be new ad- vocates for a bill Introduced Into Con gress wently by the venerable Sena tor Cullom of iilinnfs, which provides for an amendment to th«» »«institution making the term of tlie President six years, limiting each Incumbent to one term, and thus decreasing 54> per «■ent the recurrence of the year of politics. TIE WEEKLY « HISTORIAN INDUSTRIES ARE REVIVING. 1253—The Alhambra, a famous Moorish by pnlaee near Granada, founded Workers of All Kind« Are Reported Mohammed I. in Great Demand, 1051—First school opened in New Ens Business throughout the United land for instruction of Indian ch il- States, both commercial anti indus- dren. trial, is reviving, according to Ter 1731 First issue of the” South Carolina ence V. Powderly, chief of the divF Gazette at Charleston. slon of Information, bureau of Irnmi- 17.10—George Washington married to- gratlon. The division of information Martha ('us tin. was created by Congress as an agency 1705—Stamp act passed the British Par to divert immigration from the larger liament. cities, and find places for the unem 1775—First provincial assembly of South ployed alien. The functions of tlie Carolina met at Charleston. division have been enlarged. Inasmuch 1777—Elizabethtown, N. J., evacuated as Chief Powderly Is endeavoring to by the British. provide work for Americans as well 1779—Lafayette saihxl from Boston to as aliens. aid France in her war with Eng From July 1 last until early In Oc land. tober 200,04X1 requests were made upon 1781—French attack on Jersey. Chief Powderly to supply various 1789—First national election held in th* forms of labor for factory, railroad, United States. farm and industrial enterprises of all 1791—Vermont adopted the Constitution. descriptions. About the middle of October, when the financial disturb 1793—First balloon ascension in Amer ica made by Francois Blanchard. ances became acute, many of these 1800 Cape of Good Hope taken by the applications were canceled, corre English.... Public funeral in Lon spondents stating that Instead of neeil- don to Lord Nelson. Ing labor they were putting off men. 1809—Congress urged drastic measures and that everything pointed to a pro to enforce embargo act. long»«! period of depression. 1811—New Orleans militia called out to Recently there has been a renewa. suppress negro insurrection. of the demand for labor. Chief Pow j 1815—British defeated at battle of New derly says that this demand comes Orleans. from every section of the country; 181«—Safety lamp, invented by that It calls for mechanics, mill oper Humphrey Davy, first used in atives, factory hands, railroad bulllers, mine. and farm laborers. From the agricul 1820—Large part of Savannah, Ga., de- tural States have come notice that In strayed by fire. the spring hundreds of thousands of 1840 Henry I). Gilpin of Pennsylvania farm hands will lie needed, and that became Attorney General of United every effort should tie made by the gov States. ernment at this time to see to it that IMS—Insurrection nt Messina. an adequate supply of labor Is provided In the regions where It will be urgently 1852— I .aval university at Quebec open ed. • required. 1853— The Victoria nugget, weighing 28 “An Investigation has developed.” pounds, sent by Australia as a pres said Mr. Powderly, “that, while the ent to Queen Victoria. unusually large exodus of foreigners 1801—Jefferson Davis of Mississippi during the past few months was the di spoke in justification of secession... rect result of disturbed financial con Mississippi seceded from the Union. ditions. It wns not due to the closing 1803—The Alabama sank the United of mills or factories or cessation In the States steamer Hatteras. progress of public works. The great 1867—Movement to impeach President majority of those who returned to Eu Johnson began in the House. rope were not turned out of employ: 1S70—Postcards first introduced into tnent. They were alarmed by the out England. look and decided to go back. Th«» tide 1872—Congress arranged to issue 1 cent will begin to turn early in the spring, postal' cards. and I have no doubt that the increas 1874—Statue of the prince consort un ing demand for labor that our reports veiled in London by the Prince of indicate Is nt hand will be fully met Wa les, by the supply In this country amplified 1SS3—United States Senate passed a by an enlarged Immigration.” presidential succession bill. Many lives lost in terrific' snow TERRORS OF ‘FRAT" INITIATION. IS88— storm in the Northwest. 1891 International monetary conference Sorority Ceremonies Shatter Nerves met at Washington. of Novitiate and Arouse Mothers. 1893- Last spike driven in Great North u»hn«« paigns with that energy for which the American politician is famous. For them will be expended limitless elo quence. and in their interest the quiet work, which appears little on the sur face, but which menus so much in the final result, will keep forces of trained men busy from now on until the nonii- nation is made. F.or the first time in twenty years the Republican convention will see a real txittle. The gathering that nomi- rated Benjamin Harrison In 1888 was an open tight much similar to the one that promises for this year. In 1892 the renomination of Harrison was a fore gone conclusion; in 1890 the movement against free silver hail fixed on McKin ley In advance «if the convention as the man to lead the tight; and in 1900 not a shadow of opixisitlon' developed against his renonifnatlon. Similarly Roosevelt outranked in popularity every name suggested for the Republican nom ination. Ruf this year the quadrennial upheaval will be made still mor chaotic by the sharpness of the Republican bat tle. llrmiHTRIIc Fisht Different. Tito i»emocratlc fight Is a little dif ferent. There is no mixed field with the hojies even. It Is everybody against Bryan. In opposition to the Nebraskan will be welded nil the fon-es that contend that his two defeats for Th«» average woman has a superior the place eliminate him, but though way of saying: "I nevcf gossip with Judge Gray, Gov. Johnson of Minneso ta. Chatiler of New York, and Hoke my servants.’’ ----------- M - W----------------------- Smith have been tentatively mentioned, Our Idea of a brave man is one who there is no evidence of any boom pow- luiMtt tkat, backed by «*eb a tiuwrkw more than unv« * ••’ul enough to prevail against the é • « You see a lot of farmers carrying babies on the street. but it is a colder day than ever comes In thia climate when you see a town man carrying a baby on the street. • • • u o a * ** • knowledge, will rejoice or tremble ns this man or that seems to gain the ascendancy, anil gigantic projects will hang fire pending the nominations, And when the men are In the field, far from helping the situation, a new ami even worse upheaval will take place. Frenzied stump speakers will tramp up and down the country, paint ing In horrible phrase the terrific ex periences that confront the nation in the doleful event of the success of the opposition party. Platforms will be torn to pieces in this delirium of ex hortation; men's lives, alms and char acters riddled; the constitution of the country will b«» both invoke«! and con demned; the giants of business will on the one hand be extolled, on the other savagely condemned. The campaign will last four months, and In that time both parties will call on the biggest guns they have; the star speakers will be drafted to present the opposing arguments. As n forensic struggle the fight is bound to be more than ordinarily Interesting, Each siile baa orators of the first rank, veterans who understand the art of stirring au diences. Leading the Republicans may lie Roosevelt himself. For him to speak In a campaign while holding th»» office of President would be In violation of precedent, of course, but the chief np*s tie of the strenuous life has never bothered much about slavish daferenc»* to custom, anil as his policies are like ly to be under fire throughout the cam paign It is entirely possible that he may be wrought up to one of hie char acteristlcally Huut epee« be«, The nerve racking, even though fancied terrors of an initiation. into a Greek let ter society of girl students in private and preparatory schools in New York City caused a meeting of twenty angry mothers at tlie home of Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, Their first purpose is to break up the local organization of the Sigma (¡am mil Society, and their second is to st a rt a campaign throughout the country against secret societies among school girls. It was tlie story of Julia Mills, not yet 17, as told by her to her mother, that caused Mrs. Mills to take the first steps. Miss Mills, according to her story, was summoned to appear at the Moore home. When she was ushered in she was led into a dimly lighted room between two col umns of black robed, black masked fig ures. up to the high priestess. “This will bi- a test of your fortitude, of your fitness to be n sister. You nre ordered to thrust your hand into a small caldron of molten lend, which you see be fore you. Ready ! ( they orders !*’ Miss Mills dashed her hand into the liquid and sank to her knees in fright. After she recovered her composure in part «lie was surprised to note that the caldron was filled with mercury. Suddenly the lights wont out. Miss Mills felt the floor give way beneath hor and she felt herself go down, down, and then land on the pillows. Tlie candidate was ordered to grasp the hand, for which she could only fool. Shud dering. she Involuntarily drew bnck her arm when she felt the clammy fingers. She had grasped a wet chamois skin glove filled with sand. Again she was led forth, this time to drink a nauseating liquid out of a skull, which liquid “would serve to make her of one blood with her other prospective sisters." Revolting nt each gulp, she was com pelled to drain the skull. TOLD IN A FEW LINES. In an attempt to rob the Citisens National bank at Ixmg View, Tpxas. Alex Walker, n negro, was shot by Sheriff Lit tle and probably fatally wounded. The new whitehead torpedo developed a speed of thirty-one and thirty-two knots in tests off Newport, II. I., of a consign ment recently purchased abroad. Senator Jeffersoh Davis of Arkansas said. "I don't believe any mat on earth ever made a million dollars honestly’’ in an address before a mass meeting of the Progressive Democratic League iu Cooper L’njor. hall. N«r Yuri. ern extension to the Pacific Coast. Woman First In K*ypt. An Egyptian pafiyrus over 2.4MM) year, old, which has been brought to the Toledo | (Ohio) Museum of Art with other nn- I tiquities. is found to be of exceptional im portance, ns it establishes the date of the 'reign of a Pharaoh hitherto unknown nnd throws light on the condition of woman in the fourth century, B. Tlie name of the writer who signs this papyrus is found on another docunienut iu Strasburg university,' which bears a definite date, consequently his reference to the Pharaoh Kahahhasha .places the reign of that Pha raoh in the year 341 B. <’. It also con firms the statement of the Greek historian Diodorus, of the first century B. say ing that women were more important in tlie social scale of Egypt th..n men nnd that they formerly dictated terms in mar riage. Sime Diodorus no evidence had '■pen found suhstnntiating his statement. New Illset.sr of Horses. A new and destructive disease of horse* —new, that is, to this continent—has been discovered in western Pennsylvania. It is epizootic lymphangitis, and the State veterinary department is taking every [s>s- • ilde means to .stamp out the disease be fore it has caused great loss to horse owners throughout the State. This disease lias been known for a long time in India. China. Japan and lite Philippine island*, and more recently in South Africa. From South Africa it was carried, after the Boer war. to England »nd Ireland, where,the British Board of Agriculture has been coinbating it active ly for several years. When or by what agency it reached Pennsylvania has not been discovered. About 40 horses deemed incurable have been destroyed. The others are in quar antine. The disease is a dangerous one atid hard to combat. Success nt I'arolln* lloys. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at New York r«r- ports that 89 per cent of the 1.497 boy« and girls accused of various offenses and paroled during 1907 have mended tbiir «ray«. The Failure« of 1IMI7. D ud '* Agency reports a total of 11.72.1 commercial failures during 1907, repre senting $197,385,225 «f indebtedm-s d<*. faulted, as compared with 10,08'2 failure* In the xecediug year and $ 1iff,201,51 J liabilities. 0 • C • • • a • • « * cs • O $
