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* « • • . e V • •o .• 1. • • 8 ■ gun down from the book to welcotrfe the luconshk-rate inotor-car. Ther* •as a little excuse for the Indian am! for the farmer whose chickens lay dead Iwued fach In the road; but It is hard to see what led a man to' shoot at a balloon, ami OREGON BANDON narrowly miss sending the ballooidst to death. The judge made an example of The tongue of a gossip never grows the offender, on the ground that aerial ••ary. navigation is becoming more common, and that news of the sentence will Most of the things we do for fun are spread abroad and protect aeronauts, anything but funny. who do no one any harm, and run risks enough without additional danger from What a lot of lying we all do when rifle-shots. our guests start away. Commander I’eary is off for th«1 Ar.d it's sometimes easier to earn a North Pole again. He may not reach living than it is to get it. it, but he is more likely to do so than ever before. Each failure has iiad its It's easier to be a college graduate useful lesson for him. If he were to than it is to cam a living. retain hls physical vigor for a few dec ades there would be little question of Be careful when it comes to lending bls ultimate success, but if he does not money or borrowing trouble. get to the goal this trip it is not likely that he ever will make another. Some I>>ts of men are unable to reform be other man, profiting by hls experience, cause they haven't the necessary ma and probably following In his footsteps, terlal. will gain eternal fame ns the discoverer of the North Pole. There are many “Chew your steak longer,” says one doctor, who has a friend who 1 b h who do not care whether it is discov ered or not, who can see nothing prac dentist. tical In these Journeys to the frozen No, Alonzo, a girl isn't necessarily a North, nnd who think it folly for men manicurist Just because she likes to to risk their lives there, but who nt the same time would like to see Peary hold hands. win. They ndmlre hls pluck and per No poverty-stricken aristocrat ever tinacity nnd think them deserving of considered a plutocratic heiress too rich the reward he covets. So, indeed, they for bls blood. are. Even if Peary shall not achieve success, he is entitled to it Other men Somehow the average girl Just can't have gone out on the same errand, but help loving a young man whom her none of them has stuck to hls work as mother doesn't like. Peary has. If he does reach the pole, it will not lie owing to luck, but will Commander Peary has started on an be the result of Intelligent persistence, other of bis Justly celebrated trips al If there be any possible route to the most to the north pole. I>ole the one he has selected probably is it. In a few weeks Peary will be There is something wrong with the lost to the world for a long time. If no girl who would rather read about love news shall come from him within three making In a novel than try it herself. years there will be no alarm. He has learned how to live in reasonable com Every time a young man sees a pret fort on the shores of the Arctic ocean. ty girl purse her lips he wonders if That knowledge eliminates much of the there is anything in the purse for him. suffering which was the lot of the early explorers, The only real dunger to A new book, advocating starvation as which he will be exposed will be in a cure for all human ailments, is out. traversing the drifting ice fields be- We assume that it was written by the tween his point of departure and his author of prunes. destination, If he can escape those dangers he and hls companions should "I Take This Man” is the title of n new play. The author is ]>robably anx be able to get back home In safety, to iously waiting to learn whether it is to be welcomed with unbounded enthusi asm If they shall have succeeded, Even be for better or for worse. the Americans who look on the sea rch The Mayor of Timpson, Tex., receives for the North Pole as a waste of ef- a salary of $1 a year. Even with the fort would be delighted to have one of nwst rigid economy no public man can their countrymen get there first. lay up much money on that. . •• • * •• « ••• i ? ì f on ttiat; #!<• thoufiit h»w bad it w >uld •> near, It yet seemed as if a king be for a young man to go away so far distance separated them. He was hap —hovr many pitfalls there were likely py yes, certainly but not as happy as Let no poet, great or small, to be. Perhaps it wa* her duty - i* bad expected to be. Say that he will sing a songs But he wag-so different from the He looked at the few lions«-» up au<l For song cometh, if ar all. man «lie had dreamed of ’marrying. Hls down the street, and seeing no one In Not because we woo it long, But because it suits its will. clothes were shabby, his bauds were sight he took Evelina's hand, which lay Tired at last of being still. large and red. He had a good face—a in her lap, and put it to hls lips. face to be trusted—but Evelina saw Evelina gave bis hand a slight an Every song that has been sung only the youthful beard that straggled swering pressure, and smiled at him. Was before it took a voice. over it, and the hair tiiat needed cut- "1 must go in uud get ready the tea,” Waiting since the world was young, ting. she said. For the poet of its choice. Evelina herself was the picture of Jim sat for awhile after she left him. O, if any, waiting be. trimness, from tbs top of her bead to and decided that he was very happy, May they come to-day to me 1 the s«>les of her feet—a pretty, dainty after all. A man must not expect to little creature. I am ready to repeat have the whole earth. She thought with shrinking of Jim's Whatsoever they impart; Summer and autumn passed. Sorrows sent by them are sweet. house and Jim’s housekeeping, and of was a carpenter, and in winter there They know how to heal rhe heart; the two unkempt children, Jim's niece were days when he could not work at Ay, and in the slightest strain and nephew, whom he bad adopted his trade. This spare time he spent in Something serious doth remain. when his sister died. making many little conveniences for Most of all she thought of Jim’s Evelina, and In repairs about the house What ore my white hairs forsooth, ignorance nnd of hls sins against hls He had already painted the outside. In And the wrinkles on my brow? mother tongue; to the prim little the long evenings he and Evelina stud I have still the soul of youth. schoolma'am these were almost worse ied and read together. Try me, merry Muses, now 1 I can still with numbers fleet than drinking or gambling. If he went When spring came, Evelina was al Fill the world with dancing feet. West he would grow still more ignor ways standing at tile door or at the 1388—Earl of Douglas killed and “Hot- spur” taken prisoner at battle of ant and illiterate. window when Jim cauie home at night, Otterburn. No, I am no longer young. At hist Jim broke the long silence. anti smiled when he waved bis hand. 1521—Cortez retook the City of Mexictx Old am I this many a year; “Will you marry me, Evelina?” When he came lu he would draw her But my songs will yet be sung, There was another pause and then to him very gently, and kiss her once, 1588—The Spanish nrumda becalmed be Though I shall not live to hear. fore Dunkirk. suddenly Evelina raised her serious on the cheek, He was very careful of O, my son that is to be, 1687—Prince Charles of I.orrainn de gray eyes to hls. her. She still seemed a person set Sing my songs and think of me! frated the Turks at Mohacz, I-owet “Yes, James, I will.” -Richard Henry Stoddard. apart. to be treated reverently. Hungary. It was more than he had dared to Jim loved her more than ever, but it 1758 -The New London Summary was hope. The tears sprang to his eyes. made him sorrowful to think how far fr published at New London, Conn. and he could not speak, He leaned above him she was. Sometimes he 1778 — Fort Boonesl orough invested by nearer and kissed her reverently, then questioned whether he had not done Canadians and Indians. ... French rising hastily, walked to the window, her a great wrong in persuading her to fleet dispersed in a gale off Rhodt where he stood, pretending to look out, marry him. Island. till he could master Ills emotion. Summer came again. Jim had been 1782—British evacuated Savannah. So, in due time, Evelina became Mrs. married nearly a year and a half, and Jim Foster, gave up her school, and a dull sense of misery had taken pos 1787—First bishop appointed in Novt Scotia. Evelina paused on the bridge and took up her abode in Jim's untidy session of him. lie was convinced that 1794 t—Poles defeated the Prussians al resting her slim little hands on the house. Evelina had never really cared for 1dm. battle of Wilna. ... Battle of Belle- She was a small person of great ex She seemed to dwell serene in a land of rough railing, looked down into the garde, between the French and Span ecutive ability, and the disorderly dreams where he was not allowed to running water of the brook. ish. Jim was looking at her. He had Just rooms soon began to reflect her own enter, nnd he was very lonely. 1803—Agra taken by the British. plucked up courage to ask her to marry exquisite neatness; the soiled curtains Brooding over hls troubles one day, 1S06 Miranda abandoned his conquests him, but she had as yet given him no became snowy white, the glass in the Jim made a misstep and fell from a on the Spanish Main and sailed to windows shone, the grimy paint was high scaffolding. answer. Aruba. Evelina was thinking, She meant to cleaned, musty odors ceased to linger Evelina sat by Jim’s bedside. It was 1807—Trial trip of Fulton's steamboat say no, of course, but it was somehow and order succeeded chaos. "Clermont” was made. evening now. Kindly disposed neigh The two children shared in the gen bors and friends had gone, and the two 1811— The British took possession of Ba very hard to say—much harder than eral regeneration, and came out of it children were sleeping. she would have thought possible. tavia and a part of Java. She depended on Jim. She had de really pretty and attractive. At first Evelina had no inclination to sleep. 1812— The I'nited States troops under pended on him ever since the first year they were a little shy of "teacher,” but The clock slowly ticked away the hours. Gen. Hull evacuated Canada and en she eame to Boxberry and began to their timidity quickly vanished, and Twice she gave Jim the opiate, as she tered Detroit.... I'nited States frig ate Essex captured the Alert, the Grst teach the district school. Jim bad come they hung about her, seeming to like had been directed, then resumed her vessel taken from the British in the to her a few months that first winter. her all the more that she exacted seat. War of 1812....Gen. Brock arrived She was 17 theu, and he had been a When at last Jim awoke the sun bad at Amherstburg to oppose the inva year older. He was such a help to her long since risen, and Evelina was stand sion of Gen. Hull. in managing the other big boys, she re ing over him. There were tears In her 1814—First meeting of the British and membered. Indeed, she doubted if she eyes and her lips trembled. the American commissioners at shouldn't gave given up, discouraged, Jim thought he understood. Ghent, to treat for peace. and gone somewhere else to teach, if it “Don't feel bad, Evelina,” he said 1820 Elisa Bonaparte, sister of Napo had not been for Jim. weakly. “It is all right. I wasn't the leon. died. He did not conle to school after that one for you. You will be better off 1822—An enrthquake devastated a largs one winter, for Ills sister's husband without me, and happier.” part of Syria. died, and Jim had to take care of her “You are not going to die, Jim. You 1829—The Centennial of Baltimore cele Marshal Yonr Force«. will be out in a few days, the doctor No mind, no intellect, is powerful or and her two children. brated. . . .Royalists came Into power Possibly Minister Wu has determined But though he left school, he kept says.” in France. to live 200 years in order to read that great enough to attract wealth while •*rhen why----- ” 1831—Barbadoes swept by a violent hur Chinese history about to be Issued in the mental attitude Is turned away up his friendship with tlie teacher. But Evelina, falling to her knees, ricane. from it—facing in the other direction. Hardly a Sunday passed that he didn’t 432 volumes. Or Is it 642 volumes? bring her something rare or curious or threw her arm about hls neck, and 1846—The One of the greatest problems of mod Smithsonian Institution pressing her face hard against hls, be founded at Washington, D. C. “Have you figured out why a man ern science Is to discover means by beautiful from woods or fields—for Sun gan to sol» bitterly. wears suspenders with a belt?” nsks the which the great energies or forces day was his only leisure day. It was 1851—Litchfield. Conn., celebrated its Jim, with much pain, lifted his free 2<M)th anniversary. Pittsburg Press. No; but we can im which are going to waste all about us Jim who took her to singing schools and sociables in winter, and at moonlight agine why he wears them with his may l>e utilized. It is a well-known skating and coasting parties it was he dience from them, if she was firm, she hand and laid it caressingly on lier I860 -The Prince of Wales visited Char was yet kind ami gentle, and if lessons hair. fact that the finest locomotive yet made lottetown, P. E. I. ♦rousers. “Don't, little wife!” he pleaded. lias succeeded in utilizing only nlmut who put on her skates for her, and in were hard they knew that stories would 1861—Gen. Lyon killed at the battle of “I've been so blind,” she said at last, The New York Tribune is disturbed 15 per cent of the energy of its fuel. sisted on drawing her up the hills on be forthcoming afterward. Wilson’s Creek. Mo. because of the discovery of a flying va- Elghty-five per cent of the sun's force his double runner. He wasn't obtru Jim came home half an hour early controlling her sobs and lifting her head 1864 I—Twelve persons killed by an ex sive, like some of the others, either, but rlety of clmex lectularlus. Let us go stored up in the coal is lost, Great one afternoon. He had been married so that she could see hls face—"so plosion on the steamer "Racine” in on bravely hoping, Perhaps we can forces of nature are everywhere going seemed to divine her moods, to talk several months now. His eyes grew blind and foolish and heartless. I'tn Lake Erie.... Fort Gaines at Mobile have screened-ln beds. bay. surrendered to Farragut and to waste because man does not know when she was Inclined to talk, to keep eager as he approached the house, ami going to confess everything, Jim. I Granger. how to control them, to marshal them, silent when silence pleased her, to go sparkled when he caught sight of Eve married you to save your soul and to away’ when lie was not wanted. Eve lina in the yard. “Mother Eve at any rate never wore to harness them to his uses. improve you—or at least I deceived my 1868—Body of Thaddeus Stevens lay in a sheath gown,” says tlie Birmingham state in the capitol at Washington. When be came nearer be saw that self into thinking that was the reason. On every hand we see great human lina sighed "deeply as she turned from Age-Herald. No; nor a Mother Hub ability doing the work of mediocrity or the brook and continued her walk, Jim she was raking up the twigs and old I—I looked down on you—you, who 1870—Marshal Bazaine appointed com bard, nor a bustle, nor hoopsklrts, nor a running to waste; splendid possibilités by her side. mander-in-chief of the l-'rench army leaves that lay scattered about in the have always been so good and true and in the war with Prussia. long list of other things peevish man in rags and hovels; men of quality and It was a lovely spring afternoon, and young grass. thoughtful anti unselfish, and who were has been finding fault with. Jim's face flushed. miles nnd miles above me! And I 1887— Hawaii adopted a new constitu talent living shiftlessly in narrowness Evelina for the moment forgot her per tion. “This is too hard work for you, little thought I didn’t care very much for and squalor; thousands of men and plexities In rapturous enjoyment of the The Czar Is learning how to get women, who have reached tln-lr gray freshness and greenness and sweetness woman,” lie said, taking the rake from you, but—oh, Jim, if you had died I 1888— William C. Van Horne succeeded Sir George Stephens as president of along with his parliament. He told the hair period, having still seventy-five, all about her, for she was a passioiiate her gently. “Go sit on the steps and should never, never have been happy the Canadian Pacific railway. preaident of the Duma the other day eighty, or ninety per cent of their abil lover of nature. Then the thought of see me do the Job. Where are the again!” that I m - approved its action in rejecting ity' undeveloped, untouched. They are Jim eame, like a cloud. Evelina was kids?” Jim looked at her, and the words he 1893 Charles F. Crisp of Georgia elected Speaker of the House of Represents- the naval program of the ministry, and small, mean, and pinched, when, had very timid, ‘and she reflected that it "They are sitting in the opposite cer could not say said themselves through fives. sympathized with its championship of they discovered themselves and de was to him she owed the delight of ners of the kitchen with tlielr faces to his shining eyes.—Pennsylvania Grit. 1894 Congress passed the Brlce-Gortnan the cause of tlie university students. manded tlie best of themselves, they these peaceful Sunday walks in wood the wall,” Evelina replied tranquilly. tariff bill. Not only does the Czar seem to under might have been large, broad, full, and land roads. She felt so safe with Jim. Seeing Ouraelvea. "Been cutting up?” 1897 Hon. Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian stand the Duma, but the Duma Itself Is complete.—Orison Swett Marden, ili "May I come In too?” he asked, when "Oh, no; I’m merely trying to “The man who can pick out the best premier, received the order of the doing the business for which It was Success Magazine. they had entered the village and reach strengthen their memories and cure picture of himself is a rare bird,” said Legion of Honor from the President established with remarkable success ed the house where Evelina boarded. them of the bad habit of using singular a photographer. “Eveh an author, who of France. Griffin of •« America. ” for a body composed of men ’ without “Yes.” The word came reluctantly, verbs with plural pronouns, and the Is reputedly a poor Judge of bls own previous legislative experience. “I suppose lam the only person here and there was a note of sadness in it. past participle in place of tlie past work, exercises vast wisdom In select 1898 Spanish surrendered Manila to tha Americans. .. .Protocol signed ending who heard ‘America’ sung the first Why couldn’t Jim understand her si tense.” ing his best book compared with the hostilities between the United States “Blind Tom,” noted a generation ago time In this country,” salti the Rev. lence. Why, oh, why must he go and "Oh!” person who tries to choose hls best and Spain. as a musical prodigy, died recently In Ed want Everett Hale, D. D., In an ad- spoil their pleasant friendship? "They are coming out at half past photograph. Every famous man or 1899—Second court martial of Maj. Drey the home of the daughter-in-law of his dress at the Old West Roxbury meeting They went Into the stuffy little par five," she explained further. woman who has been photographed re fus begun at Rennes. old master, for he was Istrn a slave house, “It was on a Fourth of July lor and Evelina seated herself on the “ 'Tis that now,” Jim said. looking at peatedly has his favorite picture. I'su 1907—Opening of the Internationa! Es near Columbus, Ga. When a boy he when I was a boy. I had spent all my hair-cloth sofa. Ills watch, and at that moment there ally It is the worst in the collection. peranto Congress nt Cambridge. Eng mniml the household by Imitating the celebration money and on my way Jim hesitated an instant, then came was a Joyous whoop and the two young It shows him with an unnatural ex- land.... Several persons killed by an cries of birds and the sound of the wind home had to pass Park Street church. and sat beside her, but not very near. persons came rushing out like small pression sitting or standing in an un- explosion of nitroglycerine In the and rain. He had a marvelous mem 1 decided to go into the church, where He did not dare. town of Essex (’enter, Ontario. cyclones. Seeing Evelina so handy, natural attitude. ory, and could play any musical com there was a celebration of the nation’s “I wouldn't say a word long's I they made a dash for her, nnd let off “The Inability to Judge of his best position which he heard. It Is said holiday. Commodity Vrirea Still flif|h. couldn't support a wife,” he said, going some of their accumulated energy in picture must be due to tlie average "There was a chorus of boys and girls on from where he had left off when nearly smothering her with embraces. man's Ignorance as to how he really that he could play one melody with his The Bureau of Labor of the Depart right hand, another with his left, and who sang ‘America’ on that day for the they stopi<ed at the bridge, "but now She smiled, but offered no caress In re looks; or perhaps It can be partly at ment of Commerce and Ijibor has Issued whistle a third at the same time. Yet first time. I don't remember whether I’ve got that contract—and with all turn. Then they rushed ujion Jim, with tributed to a desire to look other than a re;>ort covering the price movements with all his musical gifts, he was In I tried to sing It. Later in life Dr. the buildings being put up here and in a demand- for pennies, which they got, he does. A stout man will swear that for the past two decades, or from 1890 tellectually a child, and lived in the Smith told me how he came to write the the towns round here, I’m likely to be together with permission to go to the the photograph most nearly like him is to 1907. From thio it appears that. In spite of the financial depression of ths verses to the tune of ‘God Save the doing better right along. I know I nenrest store and spend them. care of guardians. the one that makes him look thin, n last six months, prices were higher In King.' ain't good enough for you, but there Jim raked the yard till not a twig or thin man the one that makes him look most lines nt the close of the year than Although men as they run are per “The minister of Park Street church ain’t nobody in God's world would try leaf marred Its green surface, ami then stout, the solemn man selects the Jol- at the beginning. The average price for haps muscularly stronger than women, told him that there was to be a cele harder to make you happy. There he came and sat on the step by Eve llest picture, the Jovial man the most all commodities decreased only a llttls their inability to withstand the ele- bration of the Fourth of July at the couldn't nobody want you as I do. The lina. cadaverous. President Roosevelt is over one point for the period. The whole ments and their reliance upon clothes church and that he wanted Dr. Smith children need you, too, the worst kind.” “It does look better, doesn’t It?” he about the only man whose favorite plc- sale price average reached a higher point places them considerably below the so- to write some verses of a song for It, Evelina sat silent, her face averted. said. “But don’t try to do such work ture Is the one most photographers in 1907 than at any time during the pe riod. The increase In the farm group of calle«! weaker sex In the matter of un and handed to Dr. Smith a number of “Seems as if you was there, I could would pronounce the best, but then ex products was the greatest—namely, 10.9 clothed toughness. Women wear English and German music books and go ahead and be somebody—get to be yourself again, little woman. You’ve ceptional Judgment on his part is ex clothes for ornament; men use thexn told him to find some tune in them nnd more fit for you. I”—he choked a lit only got to say the word, you know- pected all nlong tlie line.”—Chicago per cent. It was 4.6 per cent increase for just touch the button, and let me do food. 5.6 for clothing. 2.4 for fuel, fl.l as a protective covering. A group of fit his verses to the music. tle—“ever since the first day I saw you, the rest.” Inter Ocean. for metals, 49 for building material, 83 “ Dr. Smith looked through the books men marooned clotlieslcss on an Islam! it's been in my mind that—that some for drug«, 6.8 for hoiise-fiirnlihlng goods “ Sometimes, James, I think It would In the temperate zone might be expend and selected the tune, which he had time, perhaps, you'd—I'd come home and 5 for the miscellaneous group. An Emersener. ed to die off In a month from draughts never heard, and which has been sung and you would be there—my wife— lie nice to have the bouse painted,” sug gested Evelina. “ I'm In an awful hurry, judge, ” sa Id and colds and rheumatism. The health as ‘America’ In this country ever since.” Uniting----- ” A Powderleas Gun for War. "So 'twould, and we'll have it done the fair applicant for divorce. of women similarly placed would suffer —Boston Transcript. latest sensation In the realm of The He glanced at her. There was a right away, too.” “These affairs must take a regular mechanical little from the enforced exposure. The Invention is » working modal drawn look alsmt her mouth, and he re Jim looked a different person. His course," responded the referee.” Whit It Was. fact appears to tie. therefore, that in of a powderless gun with a possible dis proached himself. hair was short, Ills face clean shaven. “Well,” she went on, “lie as quick charge of 56 <)00 shots a minute. This “Oh, Joba!” she exclaimed, “now everything but muscle—in vitality, “If you can't—if It ain't to be,” he He was in his shirt sleeves, but the as you can. anyway. You see, tny bus gun. which is also noiseless. Is the In ruggedness, character, disposition, brain thnt you've seen my new bonnet, you power, etc.—woman is the tougher, not simply can’t regret thnt I got It. Isn't said bravely. “I won’t hector you any shirt was Immaculate, and bls boots band has picked out hls No. 2 and I vention of William Patten of New York. more. I’ll take myself away—out West, shone. have picked out iny No. 2 and In case It is fired by centrifugal force. All there It Just a poein?” tlie weaker, sex. Evelina gazed dreamily off Into the of delay were afraid they'l) marry is to it is a big wheel with a crank te "Well, If it Is,” repl let! John, "I guess maybe----- ” It. the-inientor getting his idea from se» There was a startled exjresslon In distance. Jim looked her wistfully, <wch other.” Philadelphia Press. When railroad trains first smoked a proper title for It would be ’Owed Evelina's eyes ns she turned them full He wished be knew what she was thjnk- Ing a big lly wheel burst.- The bullet* ■ a milliner. ’ ” — Philadelphia Press. to •cross the plains, the Indians used to VjH>n him. It occurred to her thnt Box- Ing. but she never'told him her thoughts A word to the wise Is sufficient- If h.. are po t-cd into the'gun and then as rhe •hoot nt them. More recently a farmer When a man Is-glns to make a foil of berry would l>e n very lonely pla<% with and he felt a delicacy about asking. is paying for it at the end of the lou< ««hoc! attains a certain vn[ocity they b*- • pin ’o .»our out in a solid stream of lead fc»r» and there has taken the old shot- himself be is apt to work overtime. out Jim, though she dJdu t stop to dwell, Somehow, though she was his wiie distance te'"” I SONGS UNStfN* BINDON RECORDER Evelina’s Pupil y • • • ■ • • • • « •• a a a a » a • • • »• « a a a • • a • *. a ’ < • t a a a a * a