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1 •* 9 ItNDON RECORDER BANDON ....OREGON ■si Mae Woods seems to tie the latest •iitlui of the get ri -h quick mania. Strange that most p«“ople have a kind of contempt for those who agree with their opinions. Skin grafting, by the way. was prac ticed to a considerable extent by the early fur traders. At the age of 21, a young man thinks he is smart. At the age of 40, he knows that other people kndw he was lot. Persons who have watched the pre dictions made by scientists will observe that not one of them has ever foretold anything pleasant. A Methodist bishop, though occupy- Ing ordinarily his own proper location, has the po«-er to move clear aiross the religious chessboard. If the Rev. Sam Jones' celebrated willipus wallapus Is a more fearsome thing than this year's mosquito it must be something terrible. What would life be worth without an official assurance from somebody every two or three days that "Japan does not want war?” The murderous idiot who shoots at balloons is the latest peril of the aero nauts, A peculiarly drastic law should be enacted to fit ills case. An eastern clergyman announces that he will devote the remainder of his life fo suppressing gossip. It l,s a grand and noble work, and it will keep him busy. John D. Rockefeller declares that “his pictures always look terrible when taken Lu the sun.” Do you recall hav- lug seen a picture of Mr. Rockefeller taken in the shade? We begin of upkeep" by owners polite «-ay Imposed for to suspect that the "cost of which so much is said of motor cars is just a of referring to tlie fines violating the speed laws. Alfred Vanderbilt will not be per niltted to marry again within il ve years; but he needn’t worry. He will probably have enough left at the end of that period to be still quite attrac tive. “if it be true that the Emperor of Japan has on bls household pay roll sixty doctors, what’s the answer?" asks the Buffalo Courier. One answer seems to be that while he may be short of funds the Emperor is determ ined to be well healed. “not brutal books, not ludeceut ■ hooks, but truthful busks.” American mothers may learn from French mothers wflat girls should and should not read. They must also learn how to make a pro hibition effect without Its being either irksome or suggestive of disobedience. A’heu a girl once discovers that her un ther's book fits her no better thau her mother's bonnet, it will be a gain for girlhood and for literature. Th« United States commissioner of education rejmrts that there are G22 Institutions of higher education avail able for the men of the country. In 114 of these the enrollment of male un dergraduates exceeds 200. In seventeen the numtier Is 1,000 or mure, five of them having more than 2,200 and five j others following closely with over 1.500 each. The figures are for undergrad uate male attendance and take no ac count of graduate or professional en rollment. A good deal has tieeu written of late about the feminizution of the colleges. The eagerness with which women have been availing themselves of the opportunities afforded them in a day of popular coeducation lias led many people to think that the number of male students has been decreasing These statistics, designed to show the contrary, tell their own story. If the women were counted there would tie need of rearrangement of the figures. But, counting them or leaving them out, the facts are clear that the United States is a country of colleges. There never was such an army of students In the world as that which throngs Amer ican colleges, whether supported by public grant or private endowment. When this fact is remembered, the large amounts of money given in a year for educational puri>oses are better un derstood. Another Inquiry has brought out the statement that during the last twelve months more than $23,000,000 has been given for the cause of higher education in the United States. The largest amount received was by the University of Chicago—$4,300,000. The smallest amount reported was $10,000. Between these two extremes generous gifts of varying sums have enriched the schools. As a rule the older and bet ter endowed institutions have been most favored. The pressing throngs of students have demanded more instruct ors, more courses of study, more labor atories and dormitories, more equip ment. In many eases colleges have been seriously embarrassed tiecause of the demands made upon them. There is no longer a search for students. The real problem is one of handling proper ly those who present themselves for in struction. And when it Is recalled that the institutions of the collegiate type represent only part of that general edu cation to which the United States is pledged, there is occasion for Just pride on the part of the American people. “A species -if cerebral commotion and stirring of some hitherto dormant association centers by an appropriate affinitive impression” Is the diagnosis of love—to be exact, first love—as re cently given by a famous English phy sician nnd man of science. Yet the Self-made men need an awful lot of disease does not always seem so se- repairs all the time. rious as that. A woman knows she has a soul be A New York paper, describing the cause there Is no proof of it. visit of Andrew Carnegie to Lehigh Grand opera is so as to make you University, to which he has Just given enjoy the change to vaudeville. a dormitory, says Mr. Carnegie was It makes a girl awful ashamed to sit "met by the student body with the in a man's lap without saying she won't. university band, composed of students, A mother is afraid that her child’s a large number of alumni and the fac mind is so active that It will stunt Its ulty." It is doubtful If any other body. American university could muster such One reason so many men get married a hand, even though such newspaper is they don't intend to, but the girl English is common enough. doys. Self-control Is being able to cuss he Diplomacy, In spite of the frankness which ts supposed to characterize it in fore the children without letting them modern days, still has Its amusing hear It episodes, When Italy desired to open Most people want to save money on postoffices In five Turkish cities, the the necessaries so they can waste it on Porte not only refused permission, but the luxuries. said that the opening would be pre It's better to have wed and been dí vented by force if necessary. When vorced than never to have imagined Italian battleships appeared the re- you have loved at all. quest was granted, "not as a right, What flatters a man about being a specially acquired,” the Turkish am- cynic is the disagreeable things he ex bassador took pains to remark, "but as pects always coming along.—New York an expression of the unshaken sentl- Press. niftits of sincere friendship” between Tlie worst about women talking scan the Sultan and the King of Italy. Signor Tittonl, on behalf of Italy, re dal Is not what they do that way, but marked, somewhat dryly, that the the things at home they neglect while friendly sentiments of the Sultan were they are doing it. fully reciprocated. An All-Hound Book. Í »5» Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. T7 THE HOPELESS BANK CLERK. 1RECTORS of banks are notoriously parsi monious in respect to salaries. There are a lot of young men who go into a bank looking upon it as uffording a genteel po sition likely to lead to something good very rapidly. As a fact, there Is perhaps no class of expert workers so poorly paid and none where the resjionslblllties are greater. A young man works at a meager salary which is slowly increased until he gets grny-halred. He handles millions in money or accounts and absolute accuracy Is demanded. Banks are usually profitable Institutions, especially national banks. They pay uo interest on deposits and pile up large surplus accounts as a guarantee against trouble after paying handsome dividends It would be n much better guarantee if the employes were given living wages, if they were awarded Increases according to ability and length of service. No man wants to steal—unless he be a degenerate—but the temptation is great where poverty dwells, and the opportunities are large in most cases There is no excuse for dishonesty, and there is no excuse for parsimonious greed on the part of bank directors. It is time for a reform all around.—Philadelphia In quirer. , MATRIMONY BY MAIL. MINING CAMP in a Western desert re cently witnessed the loathsome end of a woman who, a few years ago, was the chief of a "matrimonial syndicate” which in Eastern cities fooled many credulous seek ers of wealthy wives. Ou the same day that her death was reported the country was horrified by revelations of the doings of a woman in the Central West who, after advertising for “well-to-do bachelor” husbands, not only robbed but murdered the Strangers who sought her hand. Both women found their victims through "matrimonial agencies,” most of which agencies publish papers contain ing what purport to lie descriptions of a “young man of 25, salesman, good salary, seeks blonde wife, with so cial gifts," and of a "widow, comfortably situated, aged 85, who would like to find congenial life companion,” and others, to suit all tastes. Some of the cases are genuine. They embody natural hopes and longings that grow up in lonely surroundings, or that are not easily expressed by shy natures outside the shelter of a false name; and many responses to the appeals are equally genuine. But the fact that a man has honest intentions, and therefore credits them to others, makes him the easier dupe of an adventuress, and the trustful good faith of a friendless woman by no means Insures her against the wiles of a scoundrel. Young girls sometimes answer such advertisements “for fun;” but the very freedom with which girls write Increases the danger that they will be entrapped and blackmailed by scoundrels who batten on innocent indiscretion. A man who stands high in public esteem once declared a The publisher who advertises "books The book agent had spent a discour aging morning, and when lie had an for all ages” tacitly recognizes that opportunity to scan the face of Eli the seven ages of man call for differ Hobbs at close range, he felt that there The pictures ent Intellectual food. and fairy tales for children anil the philosophy and criticism for serene old age are accepted as a matter of course. But the debatable land is that between sixteen and twenty-five, and this espe cially for girls. It Is highly umleslr- able for Mary that she should read everything at hand, It Is equally unde- sirable for the mnn of letters that be should lx* restricted In his produce to the book suitable for the sweet girl graduate. As life opens before her she should have books which will Interpret It to her. Meantime, for the men and women who are In the midst of life's actual struggles, there should tie other books no less delicate though cover- Ing a larger field, The demand of ma tin»- men and women xi-ho rely upon tlie Imaginative writer Jo Help them in their relnAons with other folks is not for xvti ked iMMlkS. Nothing could lie less to their pur¡H.se A clever novelist bus Q-ventlj said (hat our time M .* was small chance of making a sale. However, he had more than one meth od of suggestion. “Sitting out here on the piazza after noons with your wife, this would be the very book to read aloud,” he said, lu gratlatlngly, to Mr. Hobbs, taking tile other rocking chair and opening the large red-covered volume. “1 don't read and I haven't any wife,' replied Mr. 11 obi«, dryly. “Dear me!” said the book agent. “Well, if your wife Is dead, perhaps then* are children. Now. children find this book—” "There are no children,” Interrupted Mr. Hobbs. “There's nobody but my self and my cat.” . “Well," said the book agent,- "don't you ever want a good heavy book to throw nt her. just to ease your feel ings?" Most of us conkl do a lot of worl while trying to dodge It. "It was Just too sad for anything. said the woman In brown, "I don't anything affect know when me so." “It must have been sad,” said the tailor-made friend. I meant to have gone up there myself, but that was the day I went to the Kenyons' luncheon, I had to go; but it was an awfully stupid affair. Was Mrs. Brent there?” "All the family were there except Mr. Brent. I don't see how they could tiring themselves to do it. but they did. I'm sure it was sadder than a funeral. I could have cried, though of course I didn’t know them very well. Yes, Mrs. Brent and Dora nnd Edith and the two boys—what are their names? I always forget. I thought at first they were intending to bld in some of the things, but they didn't.” “Did they sell everything?” "Everything. Wasn't It too bad? Just imagine how you would feel see ing all tlie things you owned going nway to strangers! You know I'm so attached to everything I have that I can't bear to throw away so much as a chair when it gets broken. It's fool- lsh. but I'in afraid I always shall lie a little sentimental. I send everything up to the garret as fast ns it gets worn out and sometimes I go up there and sit for hours Just thinking about the happy days they are associated with. Mr. Dlmsy laughs nt me and says I he’s going to throw them all out into the alley some day.” "Wasn't ft too bad?" murmured the tailor-made friend. "I just wanted to wee-p, I felt So miserable," said the one in brown. "Poor, poor things! 1 just know how they felt, exactly, A lot of strangers coming in and fingering over all your possessions and tlie auctioneer making Jokes about them and all! As I say, It's worse than a death. They've had those things, or a great many of them, ever since they were married. When 1 thought of the memories that must have lieen connected «Ith »one of them------ "She was very, very brave about lt, nnd the girls were, too, but once or twice I could see tluy pretty nearly broke down. I wonder what they will do now.” “They're going away to Ftoe Pacific const. I heard." "Oh. of course, I knew that. 1 jneant I wondered how on ehrth they would get along, Everything will be so different for them nfter being In •u.-li -’•nnf'-rtal-le i-jti um*tan>-e*. ! feel «bxF meet* fl» iMU'.-b ¿iltp for aiQ- •• • • *• c • • i . • • • % THE THREE "R’S” EVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX teach ers from the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades in Chicago public schools have formally advocated more time for reading, writing, arithmetic and spelling in those grades. A committee of the Board of Educa tion asked tor opinions from fifteen hundred teachert in tlie upper grades, Some of the answers are almost startling. Forty-five teachers report that they give no time at all to writing, and nearly 350 give less than fifty minutes weekly; 345 teachers give between twenty-five and fifty minutes weekly to spelling ; nearly 500 said they make no effort to teach children «ords outside of their natural vocabulary. One teacher, a little bolder than the rest, writes that children should be drilled in rapid addition, or letter- writing, or spelling, or cultivating a taste for good books, "instead of using precious time in making paper furni ture.” Other teachers complatu that the courses are overcrowded. Nearly (JOO teachers express dissatisfac tion with the result of the spelling courses. These comments are from those who should be ablt to Judge the results of their own work. They harmonize closely with the judgment of those in the outside world who are constantly confronted with glaring deficiencies of public school graduates in reading, writing and arith metic. Even high school courses do not remedy these fundamental deficiencies.—Chicago Journal. CANADA SIFTS HER IMMIGRANTS. F Canada selects ull her citizens as cau tiously as her immigration commissioner in London, England, is now doing, the North ern Empire may some day be what its na tives often dream of—the Utopia of the Anglo-Saxon race. The Canadian govern ment is not only opposing most effectively the Influx of ! Southern and Eastern Europeans and Ori- entals; it is making the English themselves pass a stiff examination to prove their desirability. Fifty prospect ive immigrants whom the Salvation Army had arranged to send from London hovels to Canadian farms have been belli back until the Canadian authorities have investi gated each member of the party. It will be Interesting to see how long the government can continue this mi nute and scrupulous control in the face of a growing demand for unskilled labor.—New York Tribune. with misfortune of that kind. It really hurts me. I suppose they will have to go into some poky little house in a poor neighborhood and tlie girls will have to go out and work at something. Mr. Brent's salary won't amount to any- thing, mj’ husband tells me—not enough to support them even In the most modest way. All they have in the world Is what they got out of the sale.” "Did the things bring much?” "Mercy, no! They didn't bring any- thing hardly, Not half what they were worth. That lovely colonial heilsten J sold for $rt.” "You don’t “Yes, my dear, that's all It brought, If I could have found room for It I should have bld $2 or $3 more on it, and I think I should have got it. I know you couldn't buy a bed new like that for less than $45 or $50. I'm sorry now that I didn't bld more, for I couid have disposed of one of mine. I did buy’ the Daghestan rug that was in the library aild four pairs of curtains. I bought that dainty little Doulton tea set, too. Nobody bld against me, so I really got the mat my own price, Wasn’t I perfectly lucky?” "I told Mr. Dlmsy that I wouldn't sell my bargains for five times what I gave for them and he said, 'You’d be a fool If you did,’ and when Mr. Dimsy admits that anything Is cheap you may be sure it Is. I was awfully pleased. I believe If I'd bid less than I did I could have got them just the same. That’s always thought. Isn't News. BEHIND IN HUMANE WORK. Berlin Affords n Fine Model In I p- to-l)ate Ambulance Service. Ambulance service In this country is poor, chiefly because tlie need for it does not appeal personally to the aver age citizen, nnd there is no general de mand upon officials for its betterment, says Leslie's Weekly. What has been done has been accomplished through the efforts of physicians and humanely inclined persons of wealth and public spirit. A good example to pattern after is that of Berlin. A private or ganization, the Rescue Society, made up largely of surgeons, looks after emergency cases, and does It well. It Is considered an honor to be a member of the society, and only surgeons who have practiced a number of years are eligible. Each Taiember takes his turn riding the ambulance, for which he gets no pay. This does away with the rep rehensible American practice' of in ternes. and others seeking experience, practicing upon street victims. The Rescue goclety has nine emerg ency stations, fitted with all the facili ties of a fire-engine house for getting out quickly. Tlffse Rescue society atn bulsnces nre co-operated with by at lea»t one ambulance from each of the sixteen large hospitals. Several times each day the director of the ambulance service is notified how many empty beds there are at each reception hos pital. thus preventing the complication that frequently arises in tills country of a dying man being taken to a hos pital only to find that there Is no place for him. They also have test runs in Berlin. At the pleasure of the director any or all the ambulances are called out unexpectedly, their time noted, and their condition Inspected. Berlin Is the only city where tills practice prevails. A well-maintained ambulance service increases the demand for attention from the really needy. Berlin, virtu ally the same size as Chicago, responds to four times as many calls. St. Louis, half as large, has more calls by several thousands than Chicago, owing to the better service and the familiarity of the citizens with it. Persons in city streets are thrilled by the clanging of the ambulance gong and fascinated when the horses gallop by. A feeling of horror Is oftentimes fol lowed by one of some comfort at the thought that, In case of accident to himself, one speedily would be taken care of. In a majority of instances tills feeling of comfort is not justified, If you don't believe it, watch some one try to get nn ambulance In a hurry. Order of the G olden Horseshoe, How many persons have ever heard of the Order of tlie Golden Horseshoe, the first order founded lu America? In 1724, when Virginia extended from the Atlantic into the unknown West, few of her colonists iiad cross- ed the Blue Ridge or the Alleghenies. So full of dangers from savages and wild beasts and so full of natural diffi culties was tlie passage of these terri ble heights, that Governor Spotswood, setting out to discover a p iss, looked on the expedition as so lia .ardous that he took with him a guard of "soldiers, gentlemen, and pioneers,” armed and carrying provisions. These scaled the pass with great hardships and perils, and returned after the Governor had cut tlie name of King George in th« rocks on the highest peak. He then constituted the society, o» order, of the Golden Horseshoe, Each man who had scaled this high pass was made a member of It, and to each on« he presented a golden horseshoe, On the side was Inscribed In Latin : "So It pleases him to cross mountains.” I.oveliemt of Pri license». Any men thereafter who could prow Princess Andrens of Greece, daughtei that be bad read with his own eye« of Prince Louis of Battenberg, and the name of the King on the height was therefore first cousin to the Queen <>t entitl :ed to become a member of this Spain, Is now hailed as the most beau order. tiful princess In Europe, says tlie New- Det Ion* I oil it i t I oikm . York World. Like all the Battenbergs, Prine» Colic: The only thing that will Ixiuis is an exceptionally handsome tackle a baby without first considering man, and also exceptionally capable. the consequences. He Is an admiral In the British navy. Chimeras: Tlie food of indolent the Princess Andreas has the advantage orists. of Queen Ena In figure, ns she is di Humor: An anvil upon which to vinely tall and majestically graceful. crack n smile. Queen Ena's defect Is that her neck Matrimony: The sea that swamps Is unduly short, like her mother's. This many a courtship. is a Guelph characteristic—Queen Vic Sympathy: A convenient thing for toria of England had no neck nt all. a silent partner. In coloring both are dazzling blondes, Miser: One of the things that will with the purest pink and white i >m keep in any climate. plexlons and violet eyes. Dude: The excrescence of insuffer able conceit. A Triple (olnrlilmct, An almost Incredible triple colnci- deuce was noted in France some years ago. In 1NG4 the deputy for the Ar- denni s was M. Ferry; for Loir et Cher. M. Brisson, and for the Vosges, M. Hugo. In 1793, 101 years earlier, each district had been represented in the chamber by a mnn of exactly the same name. Incompleto SljrnalJi. The Ingenious Cbnrle»ton News and Courier suggests that tlie new spring hats would gain in distinction if they sported a neat two-foot flagstaff. And right away somebody will want to suggest a sign language for the flag tn the bat. Of course the flag at half mast We do not Intend to buy an nuto- might Indicate that Its owner was a mobile; we are waiting until the air widow, and a reversed flag would mean that the Indy was In distress.—* ship Is perfected. Cleveland Plain Dealer. It Is believed that every tltue a f>U* quiet cooking lesson beats two makes a kick on bis £• amide leasoLi*. a reduction. © Q © 'J I • that he never wrote a letter which he would fear to have posted on a bulletin board In front of the city ball, lie lias, perhaps, established a standard above the reacts of the average impulsive mortal. But persons of ordinary intelligence, who read the newspapers, ought easily, henceforth, to resist the appeal of the "matrimonial” ad vertisement ; for recent events have shown that it is frequently u lure tu ruin, if uut to deuth.—Youth’» Coin- panlou. Messrs. Palerno and Cinngolonl, the inventors of "tachyol" (fluoride of sil ver). an antispetlc employed in surgery, have found that a solution of 1 part la 500,000 of water will destroy all germs, including Itacillus subtilis. its germici dal effect being much greater tiian that of chlorine, bromine or ozone. To lessen risk of loss of submarines, torpedoes used in uaval practice and other objects liable to sink in the sea, a French oceanographer attaches a ves sel of oil having a long and short time tube one-tenth of an inch In diameter. When submergence softens the gum seals of the tube, oil rises from the long one drop by drop, locating the sunken object by the film on the wa- 'er's surface. The German government more than a year ago imjaised what seemed to be a moderate tax on railroad tickets. The result of it lias lieeu a diversion of travel from the higher to the lower classes, to such an extent that a de- crease of about $2,500,000 in the pas- senger earnings of tlie Prussian state railroads alone is attributed to it. Nearly at the same time a new schedule of charges for passengers and baggage was Introduced, which on the same railroads reduced earnings about «1,500,000. But this was expected. Dr. II. C. Stevens, of Seattle, reports recent experiments which show that objects seen by indirect vision ordin arily appear larger in tlie right half of the field of vision than in the left. With a smaller number of persons this is reversed. From these facts he de duces a i>ossible origin of right and left- handedness. Right-handedness, or its reverse, develops at about the age of seven months. Dr. Stevens suggests tha-t they may be due to the phenomena of vision just described. By a reflex ••ffect the infant reaches after the ob jects best seen with the arm nearest to them. In his book on the great veld of German East Africa, Herr C. G. Schil lings gives a vivid description of the shimmering, undulating sea of light which bathes that country, causing light-colored objects often to appear black, and making distances so decep tive that when but a few hundred paces away it is sometimes Impossible o distinguish a rhinoceros from au ostrich or a termites’ nest, Water ou this veld is often the greatest of lux uries, "as precious as life itself, eves when obtained from small mud ixxds.’ Yet the country, when viewed from hill tops or from tall trees, exhibits a won derful panorama of wild life. Elephank there are not dependent upon grass but will strip trees of their bark oi branches when hard pressed, and thej are sometimes found in company witt giraffes. In some of tlie small lakex of the Kilimanjaro region hippopotami may be watched by a concealed ob server nt ns close quarters as in r zoological park. • • • » •• • • s • • • • • • • •• 9 • • • • • «. • « • • • • • •• • • •
