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little, tin the other hand, it Is enco«r- to see what can be done with BANDON RECORDER . aging rough. steep and poor land. The United <Mu«d tuet! Va«k BANDON OMGON States has enough of that kind, with out touching the rich agricultural acres, to grow billions .of feet of lumber. The success of Governor Hughes' German wants to borrow $25<),<MM),<MM*I campaign for the repeal and amend- out neglects to state whether It want« meiit of statutes under which betting It In bills or small change. within race track inclosures was an act without criminal penalties lu New Anthony Comstock has put his foot York State probably means the end of down on the directoire gown. We may the “racing game" as it has been here *xpect to hear something rip presently. tofore played in the United States. An end has been put to a real and It must sometimes seem strange to strong effort to make the sport of David Bennett Hill that absolutely no horse racing socially respectable—To body Is endeavoring to drag him back ameliorate the known evils connected Into the political arena. , with it—to make it a decent amuse- meat for those who felt that they Some of these secrets of long life could afford to indulge in it. Very would be more popular If they didn’t large property values have been affeet- begin with the advice to cut out nine- ed. it is estimated that horseflesh tenths of the pleasures. which for the purposes of the game was worth $20,000,000 may now be The explosion of an automobile tire worth from one-fifth to one-tenth of resulted in knocking the owner down. that amount. Other uses will have to It is a treacherous machine that smites be found for lands occupied by tracks the hand that feeds it gasoline. ami for buildings on them valued for their recent uses at $27,000,000 and One hundred and sixty out of 200 immediately worth for other purposes seniors at Princeton admit that they very much less. The owners of this have kissed girls. The other forty are property have, of course, no right to probably giving evasive answers. complain. This was a chance they took when they put their money Into it. It In order to simplify matters and snve is a well establish«! principle of time will those portions of the country American law that when the sovereign been In which Mrs. Gunness has not people become of the opinion that an seen pV*ase place themselves on rec- occupation or amusement is dangerous ord? to public health or morals they may A new play Is called “Stubborn Cln- by due process of law put an end to it. derella.” Probably, like most women, The people of the State of New York she declared she could wear the glass wonltl seem to have become of that slipper, although it was three sizes too opinion with respect to a form of sport which, its advocates have contended, small. cannot exist unless people are permit One Russian citizen accused of being ted to make wagers over it. The a revolutionist was acquitted in St. Pet I>eal was made directly to them ersburg yesterday. But we know one Governor Hughes. Whether or not judge who Is going to lose his Job when law should be changed was made ♦he Czar hears of It. issue in a district where a special elec tion was necessary. And every mem An Ohio man claims to have invented ber of the Legislature was virtually an airship that “will stay up for forced to inquire and decide how his months.'' It will doubtless make a hit constituents wished him to vote. The with men who occasionally find it neces was no “referendum” in legal form, sary to dodge their creditors. blit there was one In moral fact Horse men all over the United States have Wu Ting-fang visited the Gunness received a heavy blow In the New farm at Laporte. Probably some of the York law. Kentucky, for example, has mandarins at home wished pointers on millions of dollars Invested In breed how to disfiose of troublesome Individ ing farms for the production and train uals who have been relieved of their ing of thoroughbreds. The New York law strikes this Industry directly, and money. , owners and breeders estimate that they To an audience of women Miss Ida face tremendous losses in the depre Tarbell spoke of “our common enemy— ciation of their holdings. For with no man." Now, that is the sort of reason racing in New York their principal ableness that puts the matter on a high market Is abolished. The same situa plane nnd Is sure to convert the “com tion obtains wherever race horses are mon enemy.” bred. George W. Kidd, of Monroe City, Mo., EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FAULTY. ate thirty-six bnnnnns, sixty oranges nnd a pound of candy at one siting. Probably lie blamed the pancakes his wife made for breakfast next morning *t>r hfs attack of indigestion. Great Britain also baa Its railroad problem. A London financial magazine asserts that “it costs more to transport a pound of butter to London from Ire land than from Victoria, Australia, anti meat reaches us from Argentina at a lower rate than from the Scottish Highlands.” In these times of great drains on the timber supply, caused by the heavy demand for forest products of all kinds, Americans may see In Japan an exam ple of what can is» done In growing wood on small plots. That country con tains twenty-one million wood lots, about three-fourths of which belong to private persons nnd one-fourth to com munes. The average size of the plots is less than nine-tenths of an acre. They usually occupy the steepest. roughest, poorest ground, In this way land Is put to use which would other- wise go to waste, and If unwooded would lose its soil by the wash of the dashing rains. From Japan's wood lots, the yearly yield of lumber Is about elghty-elght feet, board measure, per acre, and three-fourths of a cord of fire wood. In many cases the yield is much higher. More than half a billion trees are planted yearly to make up wbat Is cut for lumber and fuel. Assessment for taxation Is low, averaging for the twentyione minion lots less than a dol- lar an acre. With all the care In cutting, and the industry in replanting it I* by no means certain that Japan's forests are holding their Vws. If the preservation of die forests IS doubtful then'. It Is evident that depletion must be alarmingly rapid In other coMttfrlee which cut unsparingly uud pianft set/ • and sailors, honor, lie Were he to would be a nowhere. Another objection to the proposed holiday is the fact that the date is t'io close to those of other holidays. Our holidays are too badly bunched, Against the crea tion of any more holidays, too, is tile argument that business Is troubled enough by tlie holidays that we have already But the best argument of all against such a holiday is the truth that a holiday created in honor of a man should be celebrated to the memory of that man. Let us have no more holidays, which should mean affection ate remembrance, and do mean contemptuous disregard. —Buffalo Express. THE VALUE OF A GENTLEMAN. ANY people love to use beautiful and high- sounding words like "love,” "comradeship’’ and "fraternity,” but are unable to make such words seem retd through the grandeur of their own conduct. We never shall see an era of brotherhood In the world until we have a race of gentlemen. Good man ners Is not characteristic of any btxly of howling reform ers. When one reformer calls another a liar, or refers to the argument of another as "rot," he is very far from that kingdom of fraternity which is said to be the goal of the Socialist It Is often said to the discredit of the Englishman that ‘‘he dearly loves a lord." Thomas Wentworth Higginson, one of the most acute critics among us, has asserted that no matter how radical a Britisher may be in the days of his youth, he is certain to accept dukes at last. But this acceptance of tlie nobility is. after all, nothing more than the homage paid to good manners. The members of the British nobility are usually gentlemen. In all the hundreds of years that the House of Lords lias existed. It is asserted that Lever yet lias there been one unseemly episode in the discussions of that body. Tlie remarkable character of this fact will be most clear ly seen when it is recalled that the lords have no pre siding officer. If tw’o, or a dozen or a hundred peers PRESIDENT HADLEY OF YALE. That the general educational system in use in the United States Is faulty Is the belief of President Arthur II. Hadley of Yale University. His |>osl- tion is thnt tlie idea of giving ail stu- dents tlie same kind of instruction is altogether wrong. "Different men need different meth ods of instruction." says President Hadley. "I would like to see courses of study divided Into three groups. I would make a scientific, a literary and a practical group and assign pupils to them ns their talents suggest." Hadley Is one of the foremost edu cators of the country. He Is not of the general type of college presidents. He Is a small, bearded man, and has the smile of the good fellow andvthe handshake of the politician. When Iladley begins to talk things education al you see at once why and through what he achieved distinction. He gets away from beaten paths. He has ideas of his own, and he Is neither afraid to express them nor put them to work. “An Army Con tract.“ In a street of Edinburgh one day a dusty soldier went up to a little boot- black and told the boy to brush ills boots and polish them well. The lad looked at the big Scots Gray anil shouted blithely to another bootblack: "Haw. Sandy, come over an' gle us a hnund!” with his hands curved round bis mouth to form a shaking trumjiet. "See wha’s here wl‘ me! I've got an army contract" What Man Wanta. “Man wants but little here below,” So some old poet said. Yet he don't close the openings He wears each side bis bold. —Toledo Blade. The life «4 a woman whose husband Us* fit* %*iA tasllu anusi be lather mo • »• « all wanted to speak at once, there would be iio power to prevent them. However, there has never been a debate In Great Riitain's upper legislative chamber where perfect dec- O!um has not been preserved.—Chicago Journal. THE CURSE OF AMERICA. HE curse of America is its luck of disci pline. In tlie family, the school uud the college youngsters grow up to do as they pieuse. There Is u mawkish sentiment which is evidence of degeneracy and which prevents tlie old fashioned, wholesome en forcement of authority among children and youth, not good for society and not good for the individuals, In every family and in every school It Is desirable to have some stringent regulations, If for no oilier reason than having them complied with. The best foundation for character is jhc habit of submission to authority, and file time to acquire that habit is in child hood and youth. None can ever become so competent to wisely direct as those who have first learned to obey. The looseness mid instability in American character itas Its tieginning In tlie looseness and instability of faurtly discipline mid in the insistence of silly, inefficient par ents that the same looseness of discipline shall be carried into the schools, from which it easily extends into the colleges. The fledgling in college will turn out a much more useful member of society if lie is made to behave himself or clear out.—San Francisco Chronicle. T A NOVEL LURE TO CHURCH. NOVEL scheme for attracting men to re ligious services on Sunday has been de vised by’ the Rev. Sydney Goodman, of At lantic City, whose example pastors in gen eral are not likely to follow. Mr. Goodman lias established what he calls the ‘’Men’s Church," and besides preaching a sermon, he provides an entertainment consisting of moving pie tures, stereopticon views and singing by professionals. During the entire proceedings—even the sermon—the men present are permitted to smoke, cigars and pipes being furnished by tlie preacher. Naturally the meetings are so well attended that a larger ball may soon be nec essary. Mr. Goodman is the assistant pastor of a regu lar church, and lie has had to undergo criticism for what savors too much, in the opinion of many of his parishioners, of Salvation Army ways But some con servative church members who at first strongly opposed Mr. Goodman’s methods are said now to have been won over to them.—Leslie’s Weekly. AN AMATEUR READER. Learned How to “Elocute“ but Hail Forattlten How to Head. Magna Chart» signed by King John. 1609—Champlain left Queliee to explore the lake which bears his name. Kilt)—{'hamplain defeated the Iroquois near the mouth of the Richelieu river. 1700—-Madrid entered-by the English and Portuguese. 1741—Alliance between George II. of England and Marie Theresa of Aus- tria. 1745—Ixmisbourg, N. S„ taken by th* British from the French. 1775—Battle of Bunker Hill. 1778—British evacuated Philadelphia. 1793—City of Archangel, in northern Russia, nearly destroyed by fire. 1795—Union College founded at Schenec- tady, N. Y. 1812—United States Congress declared war against Great Britain. 1815—Battle of Waterloo. ’819—-The Savannah, first steamer to cross the Atlantic, arrived at Liver pool....The State of Maine separat ed from Massachusetts. 1820- Thi' Earl of Dalhousie assumed of fice as governor of Canada. 1831—-Reform bill reintroduced ’n th« British Parliament. 1837—Accession of late Queen Victoria on the death of William IV. 183S)—Total defeat of the Turkish army by Ibraham Pasha on the Euphrates. 1840—Montreal nnd Quebec incorporated as cities. 1850—-Steamer Griffith burned on I>aka Erie with loss of 300 lives. 1853—-Termination of the Burmese war. 1850—President of the United States rec ognized the filibuster Gen. Walker a» President of Nicaragua. 1859—Repulse of the French nnd English squadron on the I’eiho. . .('ommodore Tatnall of United States navy, in Chinese waters, made his famous ut terance: "Blood is thicker than water." 1863—Japanese ports closed to European and American traders. 1861—-Alabama sunk by the Kearaarge. 1867 Execution of Maximilian. Emperor of Mexico. ... North German consti tution promulgated. 1868- Mumaita evacuati <1 by the Para- guayans. 1869— Kansas negroes petitioned Con- gress for suffrage. 1870—Treaty of pt-ace between Brazil and Paraguay. 1871—Corner stone for the New York State capital laid at Albany. 1872—Enrl of Dufferin assumed office as governor general of Camilla. 1890—Armenians massacred by Turk» near Erzerum. 1893—Monument unveiled In Waldheim cemetery. Chicago, in memory of tlia “Haymarket anarchists.” 1895—Baltic canal opened by Emperor William. 1 909 -Spain cedi'll the Caroline Islands to Germany. 1903—Regina, Saskatecliewan, incorjto- rated as a city. 1 907—Tl|e French chamber voted to sup press the agitation in the wine grow ing districts by force....The Mayor of New York turned the first sod in the construction of tlie Catskill water Supply.... President Roosevelt signed a treaty wit.li Santo Domingo. "Wasn’t she tine? Wasn’t she dra matic?” one woman eagerly asked an other, as they left the hall. “The things she did with her voice—the way she made it sob and quiver in tlie pn- thetic parts, and get deep and Jerky as if it fairly tore her heart lu the tragic ones, ami then soar up high and ring out like a clarion at the end! Ln u ii dry in hum Markina by physicians and surgeons. Ellen Allerton's little Bessy! Shouldn't The proprietors of laundries The light is car you think her mother'd be proud of often at a loss to provide a satisfactory ried on the head of her?” method of marking some of the articles the wearer, the “Uniph.'” muttered the other, doubt to be cleaned, espe rays being obscured fully. "How's Ellen? Bookish as ever, cially tllOl from the eye, but ami her eyes as bail? Does Bessy read value. In t are thrown on the aloud to her as she used?" ter case a mark object under exam “Oh, no! Bessy's style is hardly cannot be affixed ination, such, for suited to a sick-room, and Ellen's prac permanently in In instance, as the tically an Invalid now,” was tlie reply. delible Ink to the larynx of a pa- “It's rather a pity—but you wouldn't goods, but must be The head want tin' girl’s abilities repressed.” THE SURGEON. tient. done by means of light is attached to a spring dip adapt “I shouldn't. I should want them "marking p 1 n s." ed to fit tlie head of tlie wearer. At educated,” retorted her friend. These are so called tlie back of tlie head is an enlarged “Why, Bessy 1ms been taking lessons IDENTIFIED BY MARRon account of tlleir plate, to which connection can be made In the city—” liegan the oilier. being used ill laundries, dye works and to a convenient electric light socket to “I know; anti site's learned the use anywhere it is desired to identify any obtain the necessary electrical current. of her voice anti unlearned how to given article. An Improved ‘’marking In tlie headlight Is a lens for magni read. At present—Oh. my dear, she pin” of recent invention is very similar fying the rays and by which the light merely elocutes! She doesn't mean any to a safety pin, patented by a Connecti from the lamp can be focused on any thing. She’s concerned with separate cut man. It is shown in the accom desired spot. A reflector is also placed effects, not with consecutive interpre panying illustration, consisting of a in the headlight. tation. When she has really mastered safety pin having a large disc at one This simple and effective headlight iter art, her style will suit a sick-room end. This disc is of sheet metal nnd can be readily applied and removed nnd as well as an assembly-room. is amply large to receive the identify does not interfere in any way witli tlie "A convalescent friend of mine and ing characters. When desired the disc movements of tlio wearer. her sister, who read to her daily for can be removed from the pin and an hours, were once staying In tlie same other substituted. The ease with which .Machine Cover nnd Chair. hotel with a famous actress, One day this marking pin can be attached and A unique device recently patented the tired reader's voice gave out sud detached from the goods Is obvious. by a New’ York man is an attachment denly. and the actress, who was passing for use ill covering the operating parts by along the veranda, saw the invalid's Milite Hack In thè l'inno, of a sewing ma disappointment. and volunteered to go The plano stmlent is not long in ac- chine and having The Chicago Board of Education has on with the story. decided to bar all candidates for |s>»itions cumulating a great amount of music combined therewith "It was one of Jane Austen's novels as teachers in the public schools who ara and thè disposition of this material Is means whereby the She read it delightfully, but Just as over 50 years old. always a problem base of the cover any other person of good taste, voice The Minnesota school for the deaf thia in tlie household of serves ns a support nnd intelligence might have done. Nel- year graduated seven students, each of ordinary propor for a chair, which ther the author, tlie audience nor the whom has learned a trade, In addition to tions. Of course, it can lie us<«d by tlie occasion called for strong effects, and his academic training. Is possible to se operator of the ma she intruded none, She rendered with Contractors are now at work on a the cure by purchase, chine when quiet sympathy a quiet tale. building to be erected nt the Minnesota music racks and cover Is removed. “Once 1 heard Sir Henry Irving de sidtool for the deaf, which will cost close cabinets in a vari COVER AND CHAIR The cover In liver a scholarly address upon the to $50,(MM) and is to be completed this ety of forms and closes the machine when the latter is drama, in the course of which he had year. sizes, nnd among not In use, the seat and the back of President Northrop of the University the devices of tills character there 1« tlie chair folding in front. The cover occasion to quote several dramatic pas of Minnesota notified the students that sages In which, upon tlie stage, he Al tlie combination stool and cabinet. In thus occupies but a minimum space any one having unpaid bills outstanding which a moderate amount of music may and as the chair portions extent! down ways achieved a tremendous effect. Jle at the close of the school year would not be readily stored. But an exceedingly ward tiehind the machine they do not quoted them as nny other sclmlnr be graduated. unique scheme for meeting tills prob detract from the appearance of the might. They were, at the moment, Il At the annual meeting of the alumni lem Is shown In the accompanying cut. machine or Interfere with Its free lustrative points, not acted scenes; and of the Minnesota school for the blind,’ the proper rendering was therefore to held at Faribault, ,I)r. I >orr, superln- which has been .recently embodied In a movement from place to place. apeak them Intelligently, nnd no more, tendent of the school, was presented with patent granted to a Chicago woman. When it is desired to use the sew- “The two arts of rending aloud and « gold headed cane. In this, the panelled end of tlie piano Ing machine the cover Is removed nnd At Reno, Nev., the entire State too* case Is made In the sluijte of an unols the parts folded to form the chnfr. declamation need not and should not truslve door. When this Is ojiened a I’he base of the cover forms a support conflict, nor bar each other; at bottom 1 holiday the other day to celebrate th« nuni ter of shallow receptacles of such for the chair, hooka holding the back they are one. But if I had to choose dedication of the Mackay Schodl of Minsk between them, It Is the fine art of read and the reception of the statue of Mac shape ami dimensions ns to receive the in a vertical position. ing aloud that I should choose, As for kay, ls>th Itelng presented to tlie Stata Sheets. which are usually of standaril a ‘reader’ who has grown so great she and University of Nevada by Clarence IL The Wretch. • • ■ i ,-d The proportions of Mackay and his mother. has forgotten how to read—lint there! this swinging shelf art' such as to ac In revenge for the passage of « prohi The Maid—Do you believe it's un- Bessy is young yet. Another year, and bition law in Alabama, which deprive* th* ct nuiNilate four pockets, each of .which lucky to get married on Friday? she'll know better. maybe.” schools of Mobile city and county of %8o,- '•III hold sixty or seventy pieces of The Abominable Bachelor—CertaIn- • "> annual revenue, the flstb. i^ohibitiow •>im Ic Why should Friday lie an exccp : ly. ’ It must be very discouraging to a ists at a special election, defeated a pro- • tion? ■ Bia k and White. man to be very gallnut to his wffç in posai to levy a special one mill «hool A wise man sortii» over many. public, and have lier look os if sh» tax, leaving the schools without fin support wasn't uçed to XL ■••••4 ■ •• 4 lo’Lili^ot,desiai. {¡plugs U tool A*«er Shirks <4. i They have a way of looking on the bright side of things in Oklahoma, When n citizen In the arid district lost a valuable colt by drowning a while ago, the local newspaper commented that It was “a fine thing to have water enough out on the Staked Plain to drown a horse." The progress of International peace ill Central America Is marked. Guate mala and Honduras are now trying to adjudicate land dispute that a few years ago would have been certain cause for war. If they fall to agree on a settlement the matter is to lie re ferred to tlie Joint court of the re public recently established. Nicaragua is preparing to beat tier swords into plow shares and her spears Into prun ing hooks. Tliree out of tlie five ships In her navy are to be disarmed and leased to a commercial company for the transfer of passengers and freight. If tlie problems of international peace can lie thus worked out by these na tions. why not by the larger peoples of tlie world? TOO MANY HOLIDAYSP HE Governor's veto of the bill making Oct. 12 a legal holiday, to be called Columbus Day, was no blow at Christopher Colum- bus. Were the discoverer of America to come back and see, for Instance, how. far and how generally Memorial Day Is ob served to the honor of our dead soldiers lie would not Hsk for a holiday in his own is sure- of respectful remembrance as it is. have a day to himself early in October, it case of football first, Christopher Columbus • • *
