BANDON RECORDER ■ aatdcr . .. Will Mr. Burbank kindly invent « /rust proof peach crop? With the present oAc« off «»ck «off »6» [>o»t from which hs «tarto*! Moff» th«» half off ths 11M are yrsBidsnta, vie« prv»id«wre, and general manager* Who«« !13 -Le«s m«a Mart! N >t «in« off -«reok hssro » miu « of any perticai- ¡ lor not« la bu»in< res hlMovy fu« wealth or high oration. Ovar thirty of them 1 otortol o« Ju«t '1»y»"— o®<«« boya, na­ to» boya, aieBoetitera. «hoy approntlc««. ! «asaai "" 1 , ¡ < ¡ ‘ The Firm of • Girdlestone Th« merchant was hanging \. itn tae tower portion of ilia body in the ) ater. It was but a few Instant», but the old man bad time to think of many an incident in hi« pa»t lifts lie look«-d up app< alingly at bi» son. Ezra saw' that the next wave would lift him right up on to the I *dge. In that case he might be hustled o f. "Leave go !” lie cried. "Help me, Ezra !” His son brought down h s heavy heel u|>on the bloodl«ws hands. The old Afri- can trader gave a wild shriek and fell back into the sea. Looking down. Ezra saw his despairing face g zing at him through the water. Slowly it sank until it was but a flickering wl.ite patch far down in the greeu depths. At the same instant a thi«'k ro;>e came dangling down the face of the cliff, and the young oian knew that he whs saved. f th« najor’s invltatmn, and ore er) one out of • side pew. Then there was the sigulng of the r»»i» tors, and such a kissing aud a weeping and a distributing of fees as never was wen in Castle-lane church before. And Mrs. Dimsdale, as one of the Witnesses, would insist upon writing her name in the space reserved for the bride, on which there were many small jokes pn^ed. and much laughter. Then the wheezy old or­ gan struck up Mendelssohn's wedding march, and the major puffed out his chest and stumped down the aisle with his bride, while Tom followed with bis. look­ ing round with proud and happy eyes. The carriages rolled up, there was a slam­ ming of doors and a cracking of whips, and two more couples had started band in hand down the long road of life which leads—who shall say whither? The breakfast was at Phillimore Gar­ dens, and a very glorious breakfast it was. Those who were present still talk of the manner in which the health of the brides was proposed by Dr. Dimsdale, and of the enthusiasm with which the toast was received by the company. Also of the flowery address in which the major re­ turned thanks for the said toast, and the '«>39- De Soto landed manly demeanor of ths younger man as search of gold. lie followed suit. They s|>eak, too. of 1720 The plugue made its appearance at many other pleasant things said and done Marseilles, resulting in the death of upon that occasion. How Von Baumser I I 50,000 persvift in a few months. ptoposed the health of the little incum­ bent, and the little Tncumbent that of Dr. 1755—Tench Coxe, the father of the cot­ ton industry in the United States, Dimsdale, and the doctor drank to the born in Philadelphia. unpronounceable Russian, who, being un­ able to reply, sang a revolutionary song 1802—Martha Washington. wife of George Umdiington, died nt Mount which no one could understand. \ ery Vernon. happy and very hearty was everyone by the time that the hour came at which the 1805 --Napoleon crowned himself king of Italy at Milan. carriages were ordered, when, amid a pat- | tering of rice and a chorus of heartfelt 1813—Marshal Duroc, one of Napo1t*on*» good wishes, the happy couples drove off most celebrated officers, killed at upon their travels. Reichenbach........ Fort George taken by Americans. The liabilities of the firm of Girdle­ stone proved to be less serious than was 1830—President Jackson vetoed the Mays- at first imagined. After the catastrophe i ville road bill which had befallen the founder of the 1838—Gov. Durham arrived at Quebec. business, there was almost a panic in Fenchurch street, but on examination it 1830—British merchants left Canton, China, because of the opium riots. proved that though the books had been deliberately falsified for some time, yet I 1845—Sir John Franklin sailed on his last expedition to the Arctic region. trade had been so brisk of late that, with a little help, the firm could continue to 1840—Louis Napoleon escaped front the exist. Dimsdale threw all his money and I fortress of llant. his energy into the matter, and took Gil­ 1848—French government decreed ths ray into partnership, which proved to be perpetual banishment of Louis Phil­ an excellent thing for both of them, 'lhe ippe and his family. firm of Dimsdale & Gilray is now among the most successful and popular of all 1854—French squadron arrived at Cuba under Admiral Duqm-sne. ... Build­ the English firms connected with the Af­ ings in Boston draped on the return rican trade. Of their captains there is of a fugitive slave to th«* South. none apon whom they place greater reli­ ance than upon McPherson, whose boat 1856— British envoy to th«- United States ordered to quit Washington. was providentially saved from the danger which destroyed bis former captain and 1857— British troops under Gen. Anson advanc«] on Delhi. India. his employer. What became of Ezra Girdlestone was 1804—Gen. Richard Oglesby nominated never known. Some years after Tom for Governor of Illinois. heard from a commercial traveler of a 1807—Princess of Wales born... .Queen melancholy, broken man who haunted the Victoria issued a proclamation for low betting houses of San Francises), and uniting the provinces of Canada, who met his death eventually in some Nova Scotia ami New Brunswick drunken fracas. There was much about into one dominion. this desperado which tallied with the de­ —Fall of the Paris Commune.... scription of young Girdlestone. but noth- 1871 Bank Holiday act passed by the Brit­ ing certain was ever known about the ish Parliament. matter. And now I must bid «dieu to the rom- 1871—National civil rights bill passed by the United States Senate. pany with whom 1 have walked so long. | I see them going on down the vista of the 1877—I»on Carlos, pretender to the Span­ future, gathering wisdom and happiness i ish throne, expelled from France. as they go. There is the major, as stub- 1894—Illinois militia called out to sup­ by-toed aad pigeon-breasted as ever, brok­ press riots of striking coal miners at en from many of his Bohemian ways, but Minonk. still hill of anecdote and of kindliness. 1896—Emperor Nicholas II. of Russia There is his henchman. Von Baumser. too, crowned at Moscow. who is a constant diner at his hospitable I 1898 — William E. Gladstone buried in board, and who conveys so many sweet» Westminster Abbey. . . . Edward Bel­ to a young ('bitterbuck who has made his lamy, author of “Looking Backward,’ appearance, that one might suspect him died. of receiving a commission from the family doctor. Mrs. Clutterbuck, as buxom and 1899— Rosa Bonheur, celebrated French painter, died. pleasant as ever, makes noble efforts at | stopping these contraband supplies, but 1905—C. ('. Magoon inaugurated as gov­ the wily Teuton still manages to smuggle ernor of the Panama canal zone.... them through in the face of every obsta­ Baron Alphonse de Rothschild died cle. I see Kate and her husband, chast­ ....Mary A. Livermore, American ened by their many troubles, and making author, lecturer nnd advocate of wom­ the road to the grave pleasant to the good an suffrage, died. oi l cle who are so proud of their son. All these I watch as they pass away into the ’. A. < A Chicago elevated road motormaa D«lan keep himself in decent control. “And you really thought we had forgot- In the start. Among theoe were J. C. of foam. When the barque sank in the ' If It Is love altogether, why Is It that Stubbs, traffic director of the Southern hollow these gleaming summits rose as ten you because we were insane enough to ................... 1 stop writing at that villain's request? !" he ... non« of those titled foreigners ever fall Pacific and Union Pacific; John Sebas­ high as her mainyard, and the two fugi­ in love with American girls that do not tian, paaaenger traffic manager of tbs tives, clinging to the weather-shrouds, said, |>atting Kate's pale cheeks tenderly, ami kissing her. have plenty of money? Rock Island system ; William H. Trues­ looked up in terror and amazement at the "I was very foolish,” she said, blushing masses of water which hung above them. dale. president of the Delaware, lack- prettily and rearranging her hair, which The Emperor of Austria has been on awanna and Western, and C. 8. Mel­ Once or twice waves actually broke over had been somewhat tumbled by her nu- the vessel, crashing and roaring down the throne for sixty years, thus show­ len, president of the New York, New the deck, and washing hither and thither 1 merous caresses. ing that a man with a rugged constitu­ “Oh, that scoundrel—that pair of Haven and Hartford, and the foremost until gradually absorbed between the tion can hardly be killed by worry. figure In New England railroading. planks or drained away through the scup­ M-otindrels!” roared the doctor, shaking Sixteen started as telegraph operators. per holes. On each of these occasions hi:« fist and «lancing about on the heaith- rug. "Pray heaven they may catch ’em "One way to trim a hat," says the Among these were Marvin Hughltt, the poor rotten vessel would lurch and before the trial comes off!” Toledo Blade, "would be to cut off president, and M. M. Kirkman, vice ■hiver in every plank, as if with a fore- The good physician's prayer was not •bout a foot all arouiid." Sounds like president, of the Chicago and North­ knowledge of its fate. answered in this case, for Burt was the th« cynical remark of a sad widower. The carpenter came aft. balancing him- only criminal who appeared in the dock. western ; A. J. Earling, president of the •elf as Ijest he could, for the deck WIH Our friends all went down to the Win­ Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and Some of the men who answered Mrs. only a few degrees off the perpendicular, chester Assizes to give evidence, and the Guinness’ matrimonial advertisement 81r William C. Van Horne, chairman "The leak is gainin’ fast,” he said. navvy was duly convicted of the death of are simply going to congratulate thoin- of the Canadian Pacific board of direct­ “The hands are clean done up. There’s Rebecca Taylforth and condemned to ora. He began as a telegraph operator •and on the starboard bow.” selves on their escape and keep qulet death. He was executed some three weeks on the Illinois Central. Only about about the matter. “Keep your heart up!" Miggs shouted, afterwards, dying as be had lived, stolid seven began at posts of any sort of and then crawled along to the Girdle- and unrepenting. An Indiana man recently died from authority. These started as "agents” •tones. “There's no hope for the ship, There is a li ttle unpretending church the effects of a penny swallowed sixty­ of one kind or another. The most con but we may save ourselves,” he said. not far from Phillimore Gardens, in seven years ago. And during that time splcuous of this group Is James J. Hill, “Y’ou’ll have to take your turn at the which a little unpretending clergyman preaches every Sunday out of a very he doubtless often told bls friends that who entered the service aa "local pump«.” “He’s not fit to command,” said Ezra shabby pulpit, It lies in Castle lane, agent” of a little roaa only legally re­ he didn't have a red cent. membered now. There Is a great deal to the mate. "What would you advise?" which ia a narrow- by-way, and the great "We'll bring her round nnd lower the One curious thing In connection with of talk about what "pull” and “Influ­ boats on the lee side. They may live or crowd of church goers ebbs and Hows within a hundred yards oj it, but none the career of "Fighting Bob” Evans Is ence” do to get a young man ahead In no, but it's the only chance for us. Thein know of its existence, for it has never certain amount the world. There is a that no New York life insurance com­ two boats will hold us a' easy.” risen to the dignity of a spire, and the The ship was settling down in the bell is so very diminutive that the aver­ pany has ever offered him $200,000 a of truth In that theory, though not the advance it be- kind which those *ho water so fast that it was no difficult mat­ age muflin man produces quite as much year to become Its president. lleve. The "pull” that counta Is that ter to let the boats down. They only noise. Hence, with the exception of some Some day, of course, the earth's sup­ which the youngster makes for hlm- hung a few feet above the surface. The few families who have chanced to find majority of lhe crew got safely into the their way there, and have been so pleased ply of petroleum will be exhausted, Htid Belf by his energy and sound Judgment. long boat, and the two Girdlestones with the historian of the future will refer We see the truth of this when we look Miggs and four seamen, occupied the gig. with their spiritual welcome that they have return«!, there is a poor and fluctu­ over this list of railway officials of high glibly to the Standard Oil Company as The sun was shining on the rugged preci­ place and great power, and think where pices, showing out the green turf upon ating congregation. So scanty is it that “the glory that was grease." they started. They took the "chance" their summit nn«l a little dark group of the struggling incumbent could very well weep when he has spent the week in Pol­ Visitors who were Invited to Inspect that every boy may take who has the peasants, who were watching the scene ishing and strengthening his sermon, and to see It and the will to grasp it. from above, but making no effort to as­ then finds upon the Sunday how very • flue new hotel In Kalamazoo, Mich., eyes carried away nearly all the portable And that “chance” exists and is Just as sist the castaways. There was no alter­ scanty is the audience to whom it is to be property In the building as souvenirs, wide open everywhere to-day as It was native but to row straight in for the near­ addressed. est point of land, for the boats were fill­ when these men started. "Are we a nation of thieves?" Imagine, then, this good man's surprise ing, and might go down at any moment. when asked to publish the bands of mar­ “ The ship's gone!" Ezra said, as they THE PYGMY EARTH. Harry Thaw says he will work If rose on the summit of a wave. When riage of two couples simultaneously, each of whom he knew to be in the upper cir­ they will let him out of the lunatic asy- Vaat Dimension* of the Sun a* Com- they came up again all looked round, but cles of life, and when informed at the lum. Sotue of the other young men there was no sign of the ill-fated Black pared with the World. same time that the said marriages were who have Inherited fortunes will at A dime held at arm's length from Eagle. to be celebrated under his actually As he spoke n great wave hurled the once decide that he Is really Insane. the eye will much more than cover the boat in upon its broad bosom, and flung it auspices and in his own church. In fullness of his heart he at once bought entire disk of the sun. If it were There is in Ohio a woman who claims placed at the exact point of coincidence down upon the cruel jagg«*«l rocks, which a most unwearable black bonnet with bristled from the base of the cliff. There to have baked 481,000 pies during the and Its diameter and distance from the was a horrible rending crash, and tlie lilac flowers and red berries, which he past sixty-three years. We are not so eye accurately measured, it might be ■tout keel snapped asunder, while a sec­ brought in triumph to his wife, who, good much surprised at the number of pies ns«>d as a means of determining the ond wave swept over it, tearing out the woman, affect«! extreme disiight, and af­ as at the length of time which she con­ sun's diameter, his distance being struggling occupants, and bearing them terwards cut away all the obsoxious fin­ ery and replaced it tn her own tnste. The fesses It took her to bake them. known. The foremost philosophers of on, only to hurl them upon a second ridge stanty congregation was no less surprised beyond, The peasants upon the cliff gave long ago would have Iweti appalltsl at piteous cries of grief ami pity, which when they heard that Tobins ('lutterbuck. The Chicago woman who got a di­ the true statement of both the sun's blended with the agonized groans and bachelor, was about to marry Lavinia vorce on the ground that her husband distance and Its size. screams of drowning mon and the thunder 8« ully. widow, and that Thomas Dims- bad been drunk 3,000 times in ten years The sun's diameter Is about 866,00(» of the pitiless sni p, Looking down they ilale was to do as much to Catherine was well within her rights. No woman miles. It Is Itewllderlng to be assured could see the black dots, which indicated liarston, spinster, They communicated should feel in duty bound to live with the heads of the poor wretches below, di­ the tidings to their friends, and the result a man who gets drunk oftener than that it would take 1.300.000 earths to minishing one by one as they were hurled was a great advertisement to the little equal the sun in volume. If the In­ church, so that the incumbent preach«! every other day. terior of that truly gigantic globe were upon the rocks or dragged down by the his favorite sermon upon barren tig trees undercurrent. Chancellor Day can s«>e no reason hollow and the earth were placed at its Ezra wns n strong swimmer, but when to a crowded audience, and received such why there should be any complaint as center with the moon revolving about he hsd shaken himself free of the boat, an offertory ns bad never entered iato his long as rich men have foolish sons and It at Its usual mean distance of nearly sn<1 kicked away a seaman who.clung to wildest dreams. And if this wns an advertisement to the daughters who, by indulging In Idiotic 240,000 miles, there would still exist a him, he made no attempt to strike out. vacuity betw««en the moon and the in ­ Cnstle lane church, how much more so He knew that the waves would bear him extravagance, return the money to the Prctimfure Obltunrlew. was it when the very pompous carriages people. There may lie some g«xxi points closing shell of the sun of nearly 200,- quickly enough on to the rocks, and he came One of the traditions of the office of rolling up with their- very pompous about the scheme, but Isn't it rather 000 miles. This Is i>erhaps the most reserved himself for the struggle with drivers, all of whom, being married men, the New York Ilcrald has to do with an th,m. A great roller came surging over graphic and Impressive Illustration pos ­ rough on the rich men? sible of the sun's colossal bulk. We i the outlying reef. It carried him in like had a depreciatory nml weary «Mtpressiou editor who was a great upholder of the ■ feather and hurle- “ Why, it's about me. I'm not dead ! ’ was not popular in Tennessee, and the as a newspaper line can accommodate. •us escape, for looking on either side were the bottle-holder nt a prize fight, nnd “If the Herald says you're dead," fic assembled at Buenos Ayres just as it A very comprehensive Illustration of Inscription was removed. The restora­ bi* could not see any break in the sheer f«-are«l that his man might collapse at a sternly replied the editor, “you're dead was reported that various groups of in­ moment's notice. From a second carriage tion of it Is a sign of the passing of old the pygmean dimensions of the earth declivity. surgents throughout the country had b«*n there emerged an athletic, brown-faced But," he added magnanimously, “If you defeated. President Al Coria, in his mes­ feelings and the growth of the new na­ as compared with the sun Is to repre­ i He was by no means safe as yet. sent the latter by a globe two feet In wave had landed him there, another young fellow accompanied bj- a smnll wiz­ don't like being dead, we'll print you/ sage, sai«i lie ha«l never intended ignor­ tional unity. ened gentleman in spotless attire, who birth notice." diameter and the earth by a dainty pea. come as high and drag him away, ing the right of Congress to deal with His attitude was rather different the budg«*t and promised to adhere to ths And yet the little pea weighs more ing down, he saw one or two smaller ones was in such a state of nervousness that Concrete houses are becoming com­ than six quintillion tons. As to the break into spray far below him. ami then he dropped his lavender glove twice on from that of another editor, who, on •onstitution. mon, and concrete ships seem to be on These gentlemen being shown by ti e man most Interested solar surface, it Is some 12,000 time« a second great green billow came rolling Ins way up the aisle. Win-ston Churchill, president of ths the way. Italian engineers have been grouped themselves nt the end of the that the death of the complainant was Majestically towards him. He eyed it as that of our planet. Y«t the sun when working in this direction for ten years it came foaming in, and calculated that it church conversing in low whispers and falsely reported, apologized profnaely British Board of Trad«* in the new cabi­ compared with Its true peers, the etara, would come at least a» high as his knees. looking exceedingly uncomfortable, as is net, who recently was defeated in North­ or more. One of them recently pro- and offered to make It all right. west Manchester, has obtained a decisive posed the use of concrete armor on la not only not of extraordinary size, Would it drag him tisck with it, or could the prerogative of the sterner sox under “We’ll print a correction at once," be victory in the Dundee constituency by a but tn all probability Is only to be such circumstances. Mr. Gilray. who was to» hold hi» own? He bra«-«i himself as warships, and the Italian government plurality of 2.7eams are made of con­ since be t*ought his new automobile? A committee of citizens who ••n‘- then ness has been taken to a charity hospital. • ’ '"t •««•»ti waters with bonnet to match, and the neatest crete. reinforced with round bars of ed to boom Algiers as a health I’enn—Following the horses. resort t,rn i ■ \ilnt« arm shoot up. and little bouquet in the world, for which The <*harg«* is made in connection with Iron, and the skin consists of a single waited upon him. Stubb—Ah. playing the races, eh? gi nsp il ¡4* <•«I«er ¡kxiiseata. giving away th« bride« in the most but In any event It la always commend­ wns refused him. I'll,* model finally soul." I «■•»!! was the space that his clinging fin- o|«en handed fashion. His wife, too. was able—Philadelphia Press. •truck Mr. Ix*nvitt it blow on the head Opportunities of To«!ay, a naw rail­ "Huh! HI* old city •ditor aaya . . •»« toughed Ezra's toss by his side in rear« and purple velvet, with a bludgeon, The artist was knock- way magazine publish«» an Interesting couldn't be I reporter to «sta Thuoe who Jursp at conclqgioufe oftet ed down, but he jujnped up.at once and "There^ no roqei here." ths youn* nwn nnd many other friends and relations, in- U«i of 1W) Important railway official» •usl."— Philadelphia pri ,*»•> brutall/. “Uferdlg ret»* fsr •»." th* two socialista, *ho caasa at tato* t feamblfc defended himself » itU a knife, •• • • • • $ • • •• • •s • • • • • •• •• • • • » • i • • $•• .5 •• * I .• • ♦ • • « >• • • • •• • • « e o e ••