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BANDON RECORDER Issued tach Week BANDON...................... OREGON The tornado season Is "on," and countless roofs are off, in several West ern states. No doubt there are a lot of inen who think a great deal of the theory that lazlnees Is u disease. I ever was 1 All the learned specialists, with all their intricate formulas, may fall to help you, and a brief clasp by mother nature, close to her heart, may make a new man of you. All the medi cinal baths, even at the furthest end of the earth, cannot equal a plunge at dawn Into an Ice-cold pool direct from a hillside spring. All the dieticians cannot prescribe a. more healthful breakfast than eggs and milk fresh from the farmyard. All the physical directors cannot devise a better exer cise than a brisk walk In the bright sunshine along a country road. Mrs. Hetty Green's f ice may require What would Dr. Johnson have sail beauty treatment, but the face vnlue of If he could have foreseen that within her notes needs no pomade. two hundred years of his time those whom he aptly characterized ns A clergyman has placed a ban on woman's big hats. Everything else was “wretched unldea'd girls" would de velop to the point where they could placed there by the makers. gather in a single city nearly a thou Let nobody say the cottonwood Is a sand of their sex, each of whom bore useless tree. It has been tapped and the time-honored degree of bachelor of arts? If the gruff old critic could have found to contain natural gas. been in Boston at the recent assembly The man who swallowed a check for of the Association of Collegiate Alum $150 must have some personal knowl nae, he must have amended Ills sav age comparison of a woman’s preach edge of undigested securities. ing to a dog’s walking on Its hind legs Those night riders have been In the —not well done, but surprising In that saddle long enough by this time to It should be done nt nil. For these be bow-legged, so that detection should learned ladies spoke well, presided with dignity and fairness,debated wi^i be an easy matter. courtesy, and got through a vast deal Alfred G. Vanderbilt admits that his of business and pleasure In the week income has been reduced to $890,000 of their meeting. The association com a year, but lie Is keeping a stiff upper prises the women graduates of twen ty-five selected colleges. It numbers lip and hoping for the best. thirty-six branches and about thirty- The man who led a double life on a five hundred members. It has an in salary of $1(1 a week must seeui like a terest in every problem of education wizard to the men who find It hard to and sociology, and is full of a warm good-fellowship. The subjects of dis live a single life on double that. cussion at this twenty-fifth anniver The "Itev.” Billy Sunday makes a sary of the association were numer proper protest against the man who ous ; but two facts In regard to the guzzles champagne. Down with the meetings struck an Impartial observer. man who guzzles anything, especially First, tlie women were not anxious to do all the talking themselves. They soup 1 called to their platform a large num The New York Evening Post quotes ber of men wise in counsel, who gave an article by Dr. Otto Freiherr von of their very best to the large audi der I’fordten from the Naturwissen ences, of whom certainly nine-tenths schaftliche Wochenschrift. Itlsenough- were alumnae. In the second place, tostaggerhumanity. the' note of the meeting was In great contrast to the radicalism which mark There is nothing new in the an ed similar conferences ten years ago. nouncement that war has been de The conservative woman had her say clared against the house tiles. Our and won her praise. The educated wife grandmothers used to tight them from and mother was recognized as the morning till night. finest product of civilization. The teacher—the foster-mother of society— After the country’s standing timber was given the glory too often denied has been exhausted by a wasteful peo her. In short, there wns good cheer in ple the Missouri river will furnish a these alumnae meetings for every girl practically inexhaustible supply of who wants discipline and knowledge snags for the use of the wood pulp Just that she may use them to make trust. * herself a better daughter, friend, wife and mother, and an uplifting and re The story is told of a Texas couple generating social force, In whatever who walked ten miles through rain station It has pleased God to cull her. and mud to get married. Until some couple walks that far, under similar THE SICKROOM. conditions, to got a divorce, we're go ing to remain optimistic on the sub flow to DlMlufect It Thoroughly ject of marriage. After Between the birth of the famous General John A. Dix. in 1798, and the death of his noted son, the Rev. Mor- g-* Dix, this spring, every President of the United States Ims lived. Wash lngton did not (lie till 1799, when the elder Dix was more than a year old. These two men, father and son, lived In three centuries, and were ornaments of two. American natlonnl songs have been frequently criticized severely. The music has been objected to as having been borrowed, the words as not poetic. On the other hand. Dr. Walsh, the Scottish preacher, who lately visited the United States, remarks that “America” has one noble merit: “It Is the least bellicose of national hymns.” America has offended some of Its profoundest European critics by its chronic optimism. What an American philosopher calls the religion of liealthy-tnlndedness flourishes in tills country more than in any other; our determined good cheer and faith in prosperity make the sad-eyed world shake Its wise head. The same critics will no doubt find another example of our Incorrigible shallowness In the Na tional Prosperity Association, recently formed in St. Louis, anil will think Its motto, “Give us n rest and sunshine," hopelessly silly. Hut underneath tills campaign of optimism is some hard American business sense, and boards of trade and other business organiza tions all over tile country have Joined In an application of mind-cure to the financial depression. Poor, blind, foolish creatures that we are, we seek through the whole world for remedies, and seek In vain, forget ting that God In Ills goodness has placed them right before us. The city m*n, sick and tired of the noise, the confusion, the dirt, the smoke, the un ending bustle and rush and roar and rattle, yearns for surcease and for balm. If he will^follow the true dic tates of his soul lie will cut out the trip to Europe, or to a watering place, and go to the good green country. It will save him much money, and maybe his life. Here may his weary heart find peace complete In miracles of col or, In spicy, subtle odors, in sounds, firm, deep, tumultuous. Here may he be waked, fresli and bright, by the Boh White's whistle on the dewy dawn, to dream through days that are long spun threads of gold linked by starry nights of silver. Here may he drink, through every quickened sense, the cup that Na ture fills for us—a happy, draught, un mixed with pain. Solitude, plain food, pure water, fresh air, clear sunshine and the good old earth, all roofed in Uy the sky—the best sanitarium that (.’oil tagiouN “CHILDREN'S EVANGELIST.” Mini« Gamlln, Wh<l«O Work Amunr the Younis Is Very Succesntul. Opinions of Great Papers on important Subjects. THE NOISELESS MAXIM GUN. GREAT and terrible responsibility rests Ujain the shoulders of Hiram Percy Maxim, son of the inventor of the machine guns, according to a recent writer, who says: He has patented a gun which will kill a limn with no more noise than the hissing of a snake. Armed with this silent weap on, a murderer could shoot down his victim without at tracting the least attention, nnd only on examination would the cause of death be revealed. On the other hand, a single policeman using the noise less gun could disable every member of a gang of bur glars liefore they recovered from their surprise. It Is an invention which may lend to the re equipment of the armed forces of the world and the revolutionizing of modern methods of warfare—will perhaps even hasten the happy day when there will be no war, for the very best safeguard against war Is the Invention of weapons of such terrible power that armies will never dare to stand against each other. “War,” said Bismarck, “Is the greatest enemy of war and will eventually be put out of existence." In the next great war skirmishers may use noiseless rifles, enabling them to creep along an enemy's front and shoot down the unsuspecting pickets one after an other, and not until their bodies were discovered would the alarm be given. The extended front of a whole army, concealed in the underbrush or behind rocks, could work terrible havoc among the opposing forces before Its position could be located. To the big game hunter the silent firearm will open new horizons.—Utica Globe. MENACE OF THE RED FLAG. HE red flag of anarchistic revolution Is not native. It is of foreign birth and the prop aganda has been imported with our mil lions of Immigrants. We have not only Imported the agitators, but we have im ported the masses for them to work on. It: America the movement Is almost entire ly confined to the cities, because there are clustered the working people. Each has its alien branch or branches, and aliens coming from portions of Europe where enor mous military establishments alone repress revolt against notorious oppression, both political and economic, are rl[>e for foment. They know but vaguely wliat their changed conditions are. They are bewildered by the dis play of wealth, predatory or fairly earned, that they see about them, not realizing that here, as never In Europe, any one of them who has the ability can become a rich man. The local center of each dispersion of the leaven of revolt will thus be found among the aliens or among people who have caught It from the aliens, save as It has begun to permeate our colleges and universities, and even there foreign professors and translations of foreign books have been the cause of Inception. The actual leaven of revolt when first Imported Info DiNeaMCN. Thorough disinfection after contag ious diseases means the burning of such things as carpets, mattresses, comforts, blankets and curtains unless it is pos sible to subject them to the action of steam. With the room stripped of all draperies, etc., wash all the furniture with bichloride of mercury in solution. To make the solution pour a gallon of boiling rainwater upon four ounces of the salt, stir It till dissolved, let cool and dilute it one-half. After washing with It thoroughly, rinse in tepid water and rub dry. When the things are outside wash the paint and walls with the same solution; also put plenty of it in the water for washing windows, if there Is a closet wash it all over inside and afterward fill any cracks with soft putty. Wash the floor, slopping it free ly with the bichloride first, as danger lurks in every grain of dust, says the Delineator. After the washing—not sooner—open windows from the top and let stand a few minutes. Shut them tight, and paste paper over the cracks about them; also over any cracks In the wall anil a double sheet over the fireplace. Tack n strip of tin nrouhd the Inner edge of the door, so that when the door shuts the till will close the crack. Next put a big iron pan in the middle of the floor, set an iron skillet In the middle of it, and put into the skillet a pound of flowers of sulphur. I’our an ounce of alcohol on the sulphur, stick in a short fuse, light it and go outside, shutting the door. In five minutes look Inside to make sure the sulphur is well afire. It will fill the room with thick, stifling smoke. It will also bleach out and de stroy any colors on walls or ceilings. Leave the room shut for twenty-four hours, then open and air well. Remem ber that bichloride of mercury is dead ly poison. , How to Save Tronaern. To save men's trousers cut a broom stick so It will fit under the lowest shelf In the clothes closet, cover with cotton batting iilsnit three or four thicknesses, then with black cambric, and sew this down tight. Make a loop on either end. - Tack two tacks on the shelf In the closet so the stick will linng about three or four Inches down. Fold men's and boys’ trousers by creases, and they will look like new every time by hanging them across the covered stick. Him It W m . Jinks (in surprise)—Moving again? Just when you were settled? Bink*—Yes; our Willie whipped the Janitor's boy.—Puck. What has become of the married woman who looked In a superior way at the old maids? “I don't say It reproachfully at all, because I know you can’t help it and It's something that you are overcoming all the time,” Bakl the cashier. “You're not In the least to blame, my boy, but you are very young. You can't deny <t.” “I’m not going to,” said the bill clerk. "It's far from my intention. What's more. I'm glad thnt I am very young anil I'd like to keep that way If I could. If you think I’m ach ing for a bald spot and a pair of nose glasses you’ve got another guess." "Tut, tut!” said the cashier. “Why thiB heat?" “Oh, I'm not hot,” said the bill clerk. “But I'll tell you, my venerable friend, some of you back numbers need calling down good nnd hard. Most of you are useful only as horrible examples." “Precisely,” agreed the cashier. “That is our unselfish alm. We wish to warn the rising generation to avoid the errors into which we fell during our own unreflecting age. We point out the pitfalls and the snares that beset your path and wherein we left more or less cuticle. We confess our youthful fol lies nnd vices, even.” "You brag of 'em," said the bill clerk. “If you didn’t have any you invent ’em. You haven't got the snap to get Into any particular trouble now and so you try to make out that it’s be cause you know better. I’tn wise to you stiffs, all right. I don’t have to be a hundred years old to know you, either." “I'm surprised nt you, Johnny,” said the cashier. “You don't need to be,” said the hill clerk. "You may have known some thing one time, but you've forgotten It. You think you’re alive, don’t you? Well, you ain’t. I'm living, myself. I’m right out among 'em with my eyes open, stirring around. You’re covered with moss and all you can do Is to look back and try to remember. Then you come around nnd give me good advice. I like vour nerve.” " 'Young folks think old folks are fools, but old folks know young folks are fools,’” quoted the cashier. “It's all right about that.” sold the bill clerk. "If that's so the young folks have got the sense to keep their opin ions to themselves. That's what makes me sore. When n man's bend begins to push through Ills hair nnd lie takes a fifty-two inch belt he looks at a young fellow ns if It was a shame to allow him to run loose. If he hasn't got any thing fresh to say nbout a chap lie looks It. If a fellow's Just holding down a salaried Job the man with the tlie United States found lodgment In St. Louis and Mil waukee among the brewery colonies. In Cincinnati und Chicago among the stock yard employ s, and in New York among the brewery men nnd dock laborer». This particular bit of leaven has never ceased to ferment, though many thousands of men whom it then affected, as they got Jobs and homes and began to prosper, forgot it and would now be ashamed of the ideas they once held.—-Cor. Broadway Magazine. The Children's Evangelist Is the ti tle bestowed upon Miss Alice Miriam Gamliu, of New York, the su|>erintend- eut of the evangelistic department of the State Sunday School Association. She has made a special study of evan gelistic work among children and has met with remarkable success. She has simple but direct methods of reaching boys and girls. To even the careless ■ and Indifferent child she seems to be 'able to make the truths of the Chris tian religion attractive. She brings be fore the children the beautiful Idenls nnd the wealth of wisdom which are SHOULD DOCTORS TELL THE TRUTHP N New York the other day a physician told his patient that death was sure within a few hours, whereupon the patient cut his throat. This unexpected action brought the case to public notice nnd awakened much discussion as to whether the phy sician was justified in telling the patient what he thought was the truth. We should say that he was not. Aside from the ques tion how much truth physicinns really know, the power of suggestion, which only of late years has come to be understood, must be taken Into account, its force was shown by the patient's suicide ; but, even If he had not violently killed himself, the probnbillty is thnt he would have died. A fixed idea In the mind of a sick man has enormous strength. If the physician had told the patient that he would get well, the power of suggestion might have enabled him to throw off Ills disease. Christian Science docs such things every day. But. even if this had not been so, the patient's last days would have been made happier. The physician’s duty is not to tell all the truth, as he understands it, but to cheer as well as to heal.—Des Moines News. FARM STILL OFFERS OPPORTUNITY. HAT Is needed among our farm boys Is a better knowledge of the possibilities that lie at their very door. Raised as the farm boy Is, with n chance to become a keen ob server in a business that speaks success, if industry Is applied and economy followed, there Is a wonderful opportunity to become successful In i farm work ‘hat promises an Independent livelihood. Why leave the farm? Stick to the farm. Never lose sight of the fact that, with brain and brawn back of you, the best investment on earth for you to make is in the earth Itself. The shi res of the commercial stream are strewn with wrecks of bright men who sought to get rich quick In the cities and wear a boiled shirt and kid gloves while doing it. If they had remained on the farm and later engaged In farming, saving and living within their means, their life would have been marked with success, with a competency for old age. Again we repeat: Stick to the farm.—The Successful Farmer. whiskers thinks lie's a dub that won’t never amount to shucks. If he goes up to the house, papa glares at him like he’d just broke out of Jail. Why? Be cause a guy has nil his teeth nnd doesn't have to go to sleep after din ner. It’s something fierce the rind I've got. walking around without a cane and reading a paper without putting on two pairs of spectacles to do it. ain’t It? Think of my nerve being able to play tennis t?>r a whole afternoon at a stretch! And what do you think of me wearing n red necktie and keep ing my shoes polished? Isn't that the gall?” “I certainly think that a less obtru sive color iu a necktie would be prefer able,” said the cashier. “Of course you do,” said the bill clerk. “And if I made a remark on any subject you'd stare nt me ns if you didn't know whether to kick me or laugh nt me. I haven't got any busi ness to have any opinion nbout any thing when there’s anybody around with white whiskers and a big bay window.” “Tell me Just one thing,” said the cashier. “Well, what Is ft?" asked the bill clerk. “Has he got anything against you be sides the fact thnt you’re calling around to see his daughter?" "Sure,” replied the bill clerk. "Ain't I telling you? I'm very young, conse quently I haven't got n grain of sense and I ain't worth my salt nnd never will be. You think you're awful foxy, don't you?"—Chicago Daily News. THEATER BUILT BY A PIRATE. flavnna’N (»rent I'layhoiiNO Founded Seventy Yearn A««» l»y Marty. The history of the Tacon theater of Havana is very Interesting. In the year 1835 Francisco Marty, who was then tlie leader of a band of pirates which infested the Island of Cuba, nnd who liifd a price of $10,000 on his head, was captured and ordered to be put to death. Seeing there was no hope for him, he asked leave to see General Tacon, who was then governor general of Havana, nnd told him if Ills life was spared he would denounce his entire band and assist him in ridding the Island of the number of pirates which Infested It nt thnt period. Accordingly General Tacon gave him two weeks’ parole anil Inside of a week Marty had denounced Ills fel low pirates and turned them over to the government. For this service he was pardoned. In 1836 Marty naked for the conces sion to build a national theater on the site of Barque Central. It was granted to him. General Tacon went further nnd allowed him the privilege of the use of forty convicts who were then confined in Morro cnstle to assist him In the work, each convict receiving the sum of 20 cents a day. In 1838 the theater was finished and Marty, as a proof of the gratitude he felt toward General Tacon for sparing his life named it El Teatro Tacon. During the Insurrection In Cuba many exciting Incidents took place here. In one Instance a regiment of Cuban in surgents barricaded themselves In the theater and held It against the Span iards for three days. Finally they were starved out, and as they wore making their escape all were shot. The theater is built of white stone with decorations of marble and facing Central I’ark, being in tlie center of the fashionable district of Havana. It Is one of the largest theaters In the world, seating over 3,000 persons.— Cuban Review. FIERCE DUELS ON AN ISLAND. Thirty Thousand Sheep and Goati Flight Dully on Son Clemente. MISS ALICE M. GA.Mt.IN. contained in the lessons of the Bible In a manner which always appeals to them. Miss Gamliu is a native of Worces ter, Mass., nnd went through a course of thorough training to fit her for the work In which she Is engaged. Five of her seven years In this branch of re ligious work have been spent hi New York. All during the summer season she conducts meetings in tlie metropolis in tents, which seat from 300 to 500. She is a woman of great natural abil ity and of wonderful personal magnet- A college youth is rarely ns old as be talks. All the world's a stage, and most ot us are In the gallery. The things we turn up our noses al are the things we can't understand. A girl may make a sweeping asser tion without knowing how to handle a broom. Strawberries come and go, but It» boarding house circles the prune is per ennial. A man has to have a mighty good disposition to be willing to admit he hasn't. Engaging manners are an asset It. filler circles besides the matrimonial market. If a woman can’t find any oilier way to enjoy herself she will do it by hav ing the blues. The reason women have so few bad habits is they have such queer ideas of what fuu Is. There's nothing makes a man so proud of Ills brains as for someliody else in tlie family to have them. A girl always has an Idea that If she knew any dukes most of them would want to marry her.—New York Press. Mile after mile of sheep ready for shearing, not to mention mile after mile of goats for butting, was tlie sight that greeted Superintendent Zimmer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, when he visited San Cle mente, from which island he returned recently, says the Ix»s Angeles Times. Next month the sheep and the goats will be separated; not in the old bib lical way, but in modern style and af ter an exciting round up. Tennis Rackets. San Clemente island Is twenty-eight miles long, and to Mr. Zimmer it seem What most affects the life of the gut ed as if he saw twenty-eight miles of In a lawn tennis racket is dampness, sheep. He wns not there on business, says the New York Sun. Nowadays but us the guest of the owners of the rackets are strung so tight that the island, Robert and Charles Howland strings break with even greater fre nnd Mrs. Howland. Where lie couldn't quency than before. Tlie idea is that see sheep he spied goats. There are tight gut sends the ball with greater nearly 23,000 of the former and 4,000 force from the very tense surface. The of the latter. The goats are an unmiti dampness gets right after these very gated nuisance, because they kill so taut strings. A lawn tennis man was many sheep, and are being hunted. explaining recently what precautions It takes a long time to round up the have to be taken In sending racket* sheep. Mr. Zimmer says they seem to abroad: know when the attempt Is to lie made. "When first we began to semi them Just now it Is easy to get near them, to Bermuda, for Instance,” he said, but ns soon ns they see a number of “we put thorn merely in waterproof horseback riders and other Indications covers. Greatly to our surprise we that they are about to lose their wool, learned that the entire first shipment they get down into the gullies and hide, had arrived with strings broken. We and It takes strenuous efforts to cor tried the same packing again, with the same result. ral them. “Then we realized what was the Far wilder tlinn the sheep nre th« goats. They stay in the canyons nnd trouble and packed tlie rackets In tin usually won’t mix with the former, but boxes. Each box was carefully soldered when tlie fancy seizes them they charge up nnd that made them airtight nnd down on the flocks nnd butt the lambs damp proof.” to death. _ I The lawn tennis man explained n In formation the Island is very like new wrinkle of players. At the end the rolling country around Snn Pedro. of a season some of them have all the It Is believed to have been the burial gut cut out of n favorite racket. Thl» ground of giant Indians who inhabited Ls done because If the gut were left in tills const in early times. Mr. Zimmer a string might break in the winter nnd says thnt from a place 500 or 600 feet put the strain nil on tlie side of the square a number of skulls of the orig frame, warping It. "With a favorite racket they think inal native sons have been taken. The Indications nre that the giants were It better to pay for rest ringing them than to run those chances,” said he. buried in rows. “It doesn’t hurt n racket to restrlng A grouchy man may not be agree It; really it helps nnd improves it” able. but he is a Joy In comparisov Even an empty-headed muu ls cap» with the facetious man. ble of getting full.