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.
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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.