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/
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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
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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.
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■ 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
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