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BINDON RECORDER BANDON OREGON A burnt child way dread the tire, but one'» old Hawes are always fusel- cat lug. The woman who weds to acquire a bank book soon becomes dissatisfied with her taste iu literature. Nowadays no man Is a face card in the political deck till he gets bls por trait on the souvenir postals. The world may be getting better lu every other way, but it certainly shows a disposition to be aeronaughty this year. In Madrid the police have cleared the streets of ull beggars but the blind ones, who probably see no other way to muke a living. ‘•Beware of the cracked inug !” ad vises the Beaumont (Tel.) Enterprise. Also beware of the line of conversa tion that leads to a cracked mug. I verse Jingoism which tries to fijghten folk v'ith so nebulous a possibility. . The totals of fire loss in this coun try may signify little to the average ndnd, but the comparative figures should mean much. The figures Issued by the national board of fire underwrit ers show that the average fire loss per capita in the United States for the last five years was $3.02, against 33 cents for six Eurojiean countries. Including France, Germany and Austria. It may be objected perhaps that It Is unfair to select this particular period for pur poses of comparison, since both the Baltimore fire of 1904 and the San Francisco fire of 1906 are Included in it. And yet if these two tires, repre senting about $350,000,000, were de ducted from the total fire loss of the country for the five years—which Is estimated at $1,257,710,955—the total would be reduced by but little over a fourth. And the American per capita loss would remain about six and one- half times larger than the European. What is to blame for this great dis parity? Are we so much more careless than Europeans? Are European build ing codes, fire departments and water supplies from six and a half to ten times better than those found In the United States? The deed of that man who shot his Despite the steadily Improving in wife because she didn’t talk enough was shocking, of course; but fortun dustrial conditions, we still occasion ally read of the suicide of some man ately such cases are extremely rare. who has searched in vain for work and Count Okuinn, who has so much to despairs of finding it before his last Bay concerning the probability of a war cent is s;>ent. Such suicides are oftei. with this country, appears to be the due in reality to other than industrial Kicbmoud l’earson Hobson of Japan. causes, but when they are the result of Inability to find employment they It Is claimed that u circus elephant are among the most pitiable facts of at Marion, Ohio, is 212 years old. Pos our national life. Helpless to put an sibly Minister Wu would be glad to end entirely to the conditions that know something of the pachyderm’s bring them about, society must for the diet. great part watch them as one of the symbolic indications of good or bad Every little while somebody swims times. Fortunately the number of out as far us he can and is supposed genuine cases of this kind has this year to be "fooling” when he calls for help. This is one of the most foolish ways been very small. Of late factories that were closed have been reopening their of ending one's life. doors, and others that were working When Emperor William and King part time have Increased their forces. Edward had their pleasaut little tete-a- It is true that the applicants for work tete were the big sticks checked In the under such circumstances are still al cloak-room? Court etiquette would most certain to be more numerous than Beem to have dictated such a pro the places to be filled, but the dispro portion is steadily decreasing. The cedure. statistician of the state bureau of la Our very best aristocrats need not be bor statistics for New York has re Bhocked that one of the German cently given out figures of the extent princes has gone to work. As the ob of lack of employment during the first ject Is merely the elimination of super quarter of the year. Whereas in some fluous fat, there is no real dishonor previous years Industry has been so active that the weather conditions have attached. been chiefly responsible for the idle "The Niagara Falls are 36,000 years ness of such men as had no work at old,” says the Chicago Journal. This that season, this year the closing of is probably true, but every time you factories and reduction of forces have go there you find that the villagers been responsible for many times as have a few new ways of separating much idleness as all other causes com you from your money. blued. That, however, was for th< first quarter of the year. For the It is reported that many chop suey second quarter the compilation of fig emporiums throughout the country ures has not gone far enough to per have recently been closed owing to a mit results In percentages to be an lack of business. This ought to bring nounced, but the returns already show a measure of relief to people who have a very great Improvement The mid been dreading the yellow peril. dle of May was the time when the marked Improvement began, and now What chance has a young man to the Improvement is evident in all lead rise In the employment of a large cor ing lines of industry. The indications poration? is a question frequently all are that the industrial backset was asked. Of course it depends largely on only of a temporary nature, and that It the young man; but according to a will pass away without leaving serious Statement recently sent out by the scars. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, slxty- Beven of the eighty-five principal offi EXPLbsiVES. cers of the company started at the bot tom and worked up. A fact like this is Dangcron* Substance« that Are lu worth many volumes of theorizing on Alnioat Constant L'«e. the subject. Among the many tilings in almost constant use are some that are more or It I b quite true that “cleanliness is less dangerous from their explosive next to godliness, ’ but in tills day of properties, properties often entirely fads and scientific frills the question unknown to their users. is whether we are not getting alto For examples, chloride of potasli gether too afraid of a little dirt. Dirt lozenges if accidentally brought In has been defined as matter in the contact witli an unlighted phosphorus wrong place, and hygiene Is the sci match are dangerous. Bicarbonate of ence of keeping it lu the right place. potash if mixed with subnitrate of bis But we are Inclined to think that we muth, the latter a remedy for indiges are all a little bit too much up in the tion, will explode. air on the matter of cleanliness; a Iodide of nitrogen Is highly explosive little too afrnld of coming in contact and Is often combined with other drugs. with the clean-smelling, kindly earth, Its ti*> by those Ignorant of its danger and are in danger of becoming nasty- is a menace. nice. Sal volatile and chloral hydrate are Widnes, a manufacturing town of under certain conditions, ns dangerous as dynamite. about thirty thousand Inhabitants, Tincture of iron and dilute aqna regia situated on the Mersey, a few miles when mixed, as they often nre lu med from Liverpool, Is put forward by En icine, throw off a highly explosive gas glish papers as enjoying "the world's cheapest gas.” Since the latest reduc which has frequently shattered the bot tion, made in June, the price to ordi tle In which the mixture was kept. One often finds bottles of medicine nary consumers Is twenty-eight cents In which the cork Ims not been tightly per thousand cubic feet; to consumers of more than three million feet a year, pushed minus the latter or lias had a twenty four cents; to all users of gas cork pop out of a bottle while held In for motive power purposes, twenty one's hands without any attempt to re cents. In addition to supplying light, move It on the part of the holder. This heat and power nt these low prices, the always shows that gas Is forcing the gas department contributes ten thou cork out. Danger In combs. sand dollars a year to the borough Every now and then one reads ol cel rates—this sum representing profits. luloid articles, from fancy hair coiffure Denial of the probability of war be combs down, catching fire and serious tween Japan and the United States burns or accidents resulting. It would seem that every one should would be gratuitous If there were not by this time know that celluloid con so much persistent talk about the dreadful | h msibllIty. It may t>e worth tains in its composition gun cotton and while to collect three recent utterances also camphor, Iwtli highly Inflammable. on the subject by persons who know. No woman wearing celluloid combs or A French officer who inis been In Ja hair ornaments should phu-e her head pan milking a dispassionate study of near an uncovered gas Jet or other un military matters says. In effwt, that protected light, as celluloid catches Are Jnimn Is physically incnpable of war so quickly ami burns so rapidly that It with the United States. The American would hnrdly be ]s>sslble to avoid seri ambassador to Japan, Mr. O'Brien, ous burns.—St. Louis Republic. says that war tnlk Is absurd. Marquis Watch the Professor. Katsura, the new head of the Japanese lecture upon the rhinoceros : cabinet, supports hie assertion that Professor—I must beg you to give me Japan Is lasnt on peace by pointing out that the financial problem of Japan Is your undivided attention. It Is al>so- sufficient to engross her for Boms time lutely Impossible that you can form to come. War between this country a true idea of this hideous animal un and Japan Is possible; so Is war be less you keep your eyes fixed on me.— fasen any two natioua. But it la uer Philadelphia Inquirer LOST OPPORTUNITY. • “Tilere is a nest ef thrushes in the glen ; ’ When we come back, we'll see the glad young things,” lie said. We came not by the way again; And time and thrushes fare on euger wings! “Yon rose”—she smiled—“but no ; when we return. I'll pluck it then.” 'Twas on a summer day. The ashes of the rose in autumn's urn Lie hidden well. We came not back that way. We do not pass the self-same way again, Or, passing by that way, no thing we find As it before had ; but death or stain Hath come upon it, or the wasteful wind. The very earth is envious, and her arms Reach for the beauty that detained our eyes: Yea. ft Is lost beyond the aid of charms. If, once within our grasp, we leave the prize ! Thou traveler to the unknown ocean's brink. Through life's fair field, say not, “An other day This joy I'll prove for never, as I think, Never shall we come back this self same way ! —Waverley Magazine. The August outing was decided on In May. "Think of it, Anne!” cried Rebecca, the day the question was settled. "I have never been Inside a big hotel 1 Think of staying in one a whole month!” Rebecca's father puckered his brows. “Yes,” returned he, with a humorous twinkle in his eyes, “ami to think of the bills a big hotel is capable of send ing In! You girls must get enough en joyment out of it to pay costs.” "Indeed we shall 1 We shall!” re sponded Rebecca, enthusiastically. Anne's eyes shone, but she said noth ing. “And be sure,” added Rebecca's fath er, "not to bother sister or make Tom too much trouble.” The girls were to accompany Rebec ca’s aunt, whose son Tom, a Cornell senior, had promised them hls aid in a “jolly good time.” “You see,” Rebecca had explained to Anne, “some of the Cornell sophomores are at the hotel, and Tom will Intro duce them all. Oh, what fun we'll have! But I dread getting ready to go —all the sewing—don’t you?” At that Anne's eyes lost their spar kle, for into the prospective fun her father had reluctantly interjected a certain If to her mother. "We can afford to let Anne go If there are no extra demands for clothes. Business is dull this year.” “No,” returned Anne's mother, “Just a substantial walking suit and a few shirt-waists, which I shall make my self.” And for Anne the matter was settled. Across tlie street she reported to the Browns on the dress question, and Mr. Brown smiled hls relief. “That's good! Neither can I afford to tog Becky here out to any extent; anyway, you're nothing but girls. You don’t need many dresses.” Rebecca and her mother exchanged glances; for Rebecca the matter was not settled. "I can manage, I think,” Mrs. Brown said, with a worried air, after the head of tlie house had gone. "Of course you must go well dressed. We will do the sewing ourselves and begin right away. Your father will not notice what is going on If I ask him for a little money now and then.” Anne wiggled uneasily and coughed loudly, that she might not hear, but Re becca chipped her hands Joyfully. “Summer clothes are not expensive,” she cried, eagerly, “and we can make them look beautiful by putting lots of work on them!” Then she looked coni- mlseratlngly at the uncomfortable Anne. "You know there are all Tom's friends. Couldn't you get a little mon ey at a time out of your father?” Re becca was ns honest and sensible ns her training would allow her to be. Anne rose. There was an indignant ring In her tone, but all she said was, “It's lovely of father to give me the month's outing without the new clothes!” Then she turned to Rebecca, impul sively frank. "Anyway, Becky, I’m not so becoming to pretty dresses as yon arc, so It's easier to go without.” “O Anne!” protested Rebecca, weak ly Reliecca was undeniably handsome, and knew ft, while Anne labored under the Impression that she was “almost sallow.” At least, Hilda always sp<?!te of her younger sister s complexion In that dubious way. and Anne, having great faith in Hilda's Judgment, accept ed tlie verdict. A few days later Anne tqet Rebecca hurrying home with hrr hand* full of thread and Insertion. "O Anne,” she cried, "mother and I are maktflg me the sweetest \llmity for August! Not expensive, you know, but we are going to make it look lovely by putting lota of work on it.” They did, and it proved as lovely as Rebecca represented it. Auue ran across the street to view It a week later. She tried the front door, but It was locked. She rang the bell, but only a distant and curious rumble answered her. The back door yielded to her push, and the rumble became more dls- tin t. "They've taken the sewing machine upstairs,” thought Anne, “where call ers can’t disturb them.” Tucking her tennis racket under her arm, she climbed the stairs, and came on two workers puttlug the last bit of lace on the dimity. “It's a beauty,” declared Anne. "Isn’t it?” Rebecca's tone was rap turous. She whirled Anne round, facing the big mirroy, and held the dainty waist up in front of her. “Why,” ejaculated Anne, In surprise, “it's becoming to me!” Owing to her being “almost sallow,” Anne was al ways surprised to find that dainty clothes looked well on her. “How 1 wish----- " she cried, and then paused abruptly. “Can’t you?” asked Rebecca, under- standlngly. "I know your father would----- ” Anne turned from the glass. Inter rupting gayly. “Yes, to the extent of a walking suit and shirt waists.” Rebecca drew a long breath of satis faction as she looked about the room. “This,” she explained, indicating a white fabric on the bed, "is organdy that we're going to put over that old blue taffeta of mine. Yes, it's got to be all made over, but won't the combina tion be sweet? And this is linen for n suit. And this Is dotted mull for a lit tle afternoon gown. We can't have too many thin things, you know.” “Yes,” said Anne, soberly. She sighed as she crossed the street; but ten minutes later she recrossed It excitedly, the cause of the sigh forgot ten, and burst into the sewing room. “Becky,” she cried. “Will Dunmore says we're going to have two boat clubs and races, and the girls can belong- He wants us on hls side!” “A boat club!” returned Rebecca, promptly. “O dear no, Anne! Withall this sewing I can't waste any time boat ing! Mother has Just decided that I must have a cream-colored mohair for mornings, in addition to the other things." Anne twisted the knob of tlie door and hesitated. “But. Becky, what about tennis? We play the first game this afternoon----- " Rebecca Interrupted with a firm shake of the head. “You know, Anne, we’ll get all that at the lakes, rowing and tennis and golf. Now I can't spend the time; I must sew.” As the weeks passed that expression, “I must sew,” became the only reply Rebecca gave, because the cream-col ored mohair proved but the first of a number of additions to her pretty ward robe. Tennis, croquet, boating, after noon walks, evenings with her friends were all given up. “I must sew,” said Rebecca; and one by one the dainty, filmy garments were hung away fresh and unworn for Au gust and the big hotel. “I must sew,” said Rebecca ; and her cheeks grew hollow, while dark circles came under her eyes, for summer was also overworking that year, July heat prevailing in June and August sultri ness in July. It was one hot afternoon In the mid dle of July that Rebecca threw open the wardrobe in the sewing room for Anne’s inspection, saying, in a tone weary but full of satisfaction. “Only see, Anne, all the pretty things I have to wear!” "Indeed, they are pretty,” assented Anne, heartily. Then her eyes traveled thoughtfully from the contents of the wardrobe to Rebecca's cheeks and on to Mrs. Brown, bending over a shirt waist, on which she was laying insertion. Mrs. Brown's hands trembled nervously ns she worked, and occasionally she paused to press her hand over her eyes. During one of these pauses she asked listlessly, “Have you begun to get your new things, Anne?” Anne still looked thoughtful. "You know all I'm to have Is a walking suit and shirt waists. Mother is working on a shirt waist.” Mrs. Brown bent a compassionate gaze on her, while Rebecca murmured, “I supposed, Anne, that when you came to think hard about going you'd have----- ” She paused. Rebecca had a habit of implying the end of a sentence by a glance or a tone. "No," replied Anne, simply. She walked across the street slowly, and came on her mother also putting Insertion in the front of a shirt waist, and her mother looked warm and tired. "Mother,” said Anne, decidedly, “there's enough trimming on that waist now.” Abruptly she took the insertion out of her mother's hands, adding anx iously, "It's nice now out on the porch.” Then. Irrelevantly, “you Just ought to see Mrs. Brown.” Mrs. Tupper looked up Inquiringly. “Mrs. Brown? Why. really, I've scarce ly caught a glimpse of her all summer. But I suppose she will let her friends see her again after you and Becky go. ’ They started the first of August. Mrs. Tupi>er went down to the station with Anne. They were preceded by an ex press wagon in which a little flat- topped one-story trunk rattled round In conspicuously behind Its heavy, three- story, |ron;bóHt*d neighbor. ' Just as the train drew Into the tlon Rebecca entered alone, bearing fls umbrella and two hat boxes. “Mother has a headache," she gx plained, adding listlessly, “and so have 1.” During the Journey to the northward the owner of the three-story trunk lay back in her seat, a wet handkerchief across her eyes, while Anne, her fresh, eager face In the open window, kept her informed of the varied outside attrac tions. Several days later a wail from the Twin Lakes arrived by mail. It was directed t<f Mrs. Brown, but Mrs. Brown was In no condition to read It. She lay In a darkened room, suffering with inflamed nerves and inflamed eyes. Mrs. Tupper was earing for lier, and it was Mrs. Tupper who raised tlie curtain a trifle and read the wall aloud. “I haven't written much before," wrote Reliecca, “because I'm so tired I can’t write or do anything else except watch the others have a good time— especially Anne. She has the best mus cle of any girl here, and Tom's friends all want her on their side in tennis matches and boating and that sort of thing. She looks so well and happy and active that I hear people say they like to see her around. O dear! I'm so tired I can write Just this one thing more! If I go hway next summer I . won’t kill myself getting ready ! I'm glad, though, that you are well. I was afraid when I came away that you were going to be sick.” There was a restless movement in the darkest corner of the room. “I didn’t write Becky that I am sick be cause I didn't want to spoil her good time!” sighed Rebecca’s mother.— Youth’s Companion. MISLEADING NAMES. Term« In Science that Helle the Products to Which They Apply. There are terms in certain depart ments of science that positively mis name the products to which they are applied. The word "oil” in Its more compre hensive mid indiscriminate uses, is made to Include hydrocarbons, like pe troleum, and also many other sub stances that have an oily appearance, like “oil of vitriol,” which Is not oil at all, but sulphuric acid. Strictly sjteaking, the mineral oils, Including all petroleum products, are not oil, although we speak of “coal oil” tind "kerosene oil.” The best classifications of oils do not include mineral hydrocarbons, like naphtha, paraffin and petroleum, but treat only the two well defined groups —fixed oils and fats and the essentia' or volatile oils. “Copperas” is not copper, but sul phate of iron. "Salt of lemon” has nothing to do with the fruit of the lem on tree, but Is potassium blnoxalate or potash treated with oxalic acid. "Carbolic acid” is not an achl. but a phenol. In structure It is allied to the alcohols and has only slight add prop erties. “Soda water” has no trace of soda. “Sulphuric acid” contains no sul phur. "Sugar of lead” Is Innocent of sugar. “Cream of tartar" has nothing to do with cream nor “milk of lime” with milk. “German silver” is a stranger to silver, and "black lead” is not lead at all, but graphite. "Mosaic gold” Is a sulphide of tin. These misleading names have come down from the vocabulary of an early And Inexact chemistry. As popular science extends the old terms are yield lug to the more scientific nomenclature. SOLVED THE PROBLEM. Th« Simple Secret of Blowing ■ Illi Gloss Globes. the 1765—Riot in Boston on account of th« stamp act. 1775—Continental army under Gen. Montgomery arrived at Ticonderoga. 177(1—British defeated the Americans in buttle of Ix>ng Island. 1785—I »rd George Germain, the irrecon cilable foe of America in the cabinet of Lord North, during the Revolu tion, died. Born Jan. 20, 1710. 1795—French directory established. 1808—British under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeated the French and Spanish forces at Vimiera, in Portugal. 181+—British evacuated the city ot Washington... .The city of Wash ington burned by the British. 1818—The Savannah, the first steam ves sel to cross the ocean, launched at New York. 1819—The I hike of Richmond, governor general of Canada, died of hydropho bia. 1829—Copper discovered at Galena, 111. ....Warfare between Colombia and Peru ended. ... First temperance so ciety formed in Ireland. 183«*—Sir John Gosford, Earl of Col- Isirne, sworn in as governor of Can ada. 1836- Opening of the Buffalo and Ni agara railroad. 1846—Annexation of New Mexico to th« United States. 1847 Republic of Liberia inaugurated. 18+8—Trials of the Chartists began in London. 1851—The yacht America won the new famous cup nt the international re gatta at Cowes, England. 1857— Port Huron. Mich., incorporated a city... Beginning of a financial panic in the United States, which culmi nated in an almost entire suspension of the banks. 1858— First treaty signed between Great Britain and Japan. 1860-—Victoria railway bridge at Mon treal opened by the Prince of Wales. 1865—Thomas Chandler Haliburton, noted Canadian writer, died. Born 17! Ml. 1869—First Confederate soldiers* monu ment unveiled at Griffin, Ga. 1878—The independence of Servia, pro claimed nt Belgrade. 1886 William J. Kendal), clothed In a cork vest, swam through the Niagara whirlpool rapids. 1890— Maj. Gen. Sir F. D. Middleton re tired from the command of the Ca nadian militia. 1891— Decennial census placed the popu lation of Canada at 4.823.344. 1894—A tornado swept the shores of the Sea of Azpf and caused the loss of 1,000 lives. 1897—President Borda of Uruguay assas sinated at Montevideo. .. .Congress of Salvador adopted the gold stand ard....Gen. .1. P. S. Gobin of Penn sylvania elected commander-in-chief of the G. A. R- 1904—Battleship Loifisiana launched at Newport News. 1907—-British House of Lords passed the bill legalizing marriages with a de ceased wife's sister, thus settling a long pending question. Emperor Nicholas wished to illumin ate the Alexander column In a grand style. Tlie size of the round lamps to be used for the purpose was Indicated and the glasses ordered at the manufac tory, where the workmen exerted them selves in vain and almost blew the breath out of their bodies in the en deavor to obtain the desired size. The commission must be executed— that was self evident—but how? A great premium was offered to the one who could solve the problem. Again tlie human bellows tolled and puffed. Their object seemed unattainable, when at last a long bearded Russian stepped forward and declared that he could do Owing to the failure to secure advan it; he had strong lungs; lie would only rinse his mouth first with a little water tageous railroad rntes between Salt Lake, Utah, and Ely, Nev., the proposed bout to refresh them. between Battling Nelson ami Joe Gans, He applied hls mouth to the pipe and scheduled for Labor Day at Ely, has been puffed to such purpose that tlie vitre called off. ous ball swelled and puffed nearly to I the required dimensions, up to them, | Forty-three strikeouts is the record which was established in a remarkable beyond them. game at Buffalo Lake between the horns “Hold! Hold!” cried the lookers on. i team and the fast Olivia team. The con “You are doing too much. And how test was prolonged for twenty innings, did you do it at all?” during which Olivia used one twirler, "The matter is simple enough,” an while Buffalo Lake used two. Olivia won. swered the long beard, “but, first, I At n meeting of the executive commit where Is my premium?” tee of the Central States Rowing Asso And when he clutched the promised ciation it was decided to present the bounty lie explained. grand prize for the highest merit to the He had retained some of the water South Side Rowing Club of Quincy, III., in hls mouth, which had passed thence and the association will have a duplicate Into the glowing ball and then, becom prize made to present to the Mound City ing steam, had rendered him this good Chib of St. Louis. The original prize Is a handsome bronze plaque presented by service. the Burlington Boating association. The Coatiuas. Mr. Ugllmug—This portrait doesn't look a bit like me. Artist—1 know It. I was nfrald to make It exactly like you for fear you wouldn’t take It. Some women break Into the gossip class tiecause they nre unable to attract attention In any other way. A gir) may refuse a man t>ecause she feels sure that he will profstae again, but a widow never takes any chances. Every time you get your own way you muke an enemy. Mount City and the South Side dubs tied for first honors. At the close of the Olympic games in London, the American athletes were cov ered with medals. Queen Alxnndra hand ed out fifteen gold medals to the Yankees at the stadium. These with a tray full of silver nn<l bronze emblems of victory, mad» by far the most imposing array of "jewelry" awarded to any nation. Amer ica's victory. 114 1-3 to England's 66 1-3 was by the bigg-st margin on record. At Athens two years ago the count was 75 1-16 to 41 in favor of America. Th« Americans came within ten points of mor- ing as much as all the other nntions cora billed -