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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1909)
THE HARDWARE MAN Fires In Bamboo Forests Are the Fiercest Known. BRIDGE & BEACH Stove», Ranges and Heaters have in them so many excellencies that they are now acknowledged the greatest sellers on the coast and they are growing SWEEP ON A MILE A MINUTE We have the exclusive agency in Bandon for these household in favor every year. and office necessities, and price* range exceedingly modest in either case. TINNING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY. Like the Rear, the Roll and the Rattle of a Great Battle Is the Noise of th* Exploding Stalks That Sometimes Shoot High Into the Air. Our Aaaortment ef Hardware. Tinware and Edged Tool» 1» Most Complete. Hotel Gallier Special rates by Rates $i.oo to $2.00 per day. Sample Room in Connection. week or month. Oregon Bandon W. C. P arker J. E. Y oung YOUNG & PARKER Parkersburgjand Bandon, Manufacturers’of White and Red Cedar Shingles Wholesale and Retail Shippers Local Trade Special JLttention. to K A full line of Confectionery, Fruits, Cigars, Tobacco, Soft Drinks, Etc. NEWS STAND IN CONNECTION BANDON, OREGON Next to Vienna Cafe « 4-J. « jtifjt A llen & D avidson •DFLA.IÆRS IN - — - PROVISIONS LATRD-LOWK BUILDING SHIELDS HLACKSÌIITHM BANDON. OREGON. - KENNEDY AVI» Wagon» of All kinds Made to Order WA<JO.\MAKF.ItM Horseshoeing a Specialty Job Work attended to promptly and all work guaranteed to give satisfa, iction. reasonable. Shop on Atwater Street, Bandon, Oregon. Prices BANDON STEAM LAUNDRY Family Washing a Specialty. Fir«t Class Launiry Work Guaranteed. Special attention given to fine woolen goods. Cleaning* anil pressing Mens’ Suits and Ladies’ fine skirts given prompt attention F. A. BATES, Proprietor Bandon Foundry ROOMS and & Machine Shop LODGING A. Garfield I Mill and Steamboat Work Our Newly furnished large light rooms Telephone Electric Lights SPECIALTIES Rented by single night, week or month SPECIAL MACHINES BUILT TO An Aquatic Outfielder. ORDER Turned Shafting. Cap and Set Screws. Machire Bolt«. Pipe and Fittings, Brass Work INQUIRE AT OFFICE OF The BANDON STEAM LAIDRV GENERAL REPAIRING Pattern Shop in ■ ' Connection The Eldorado BOOTS - AND SHOES You can't expect to get $2 worth for $1, but you can get your moneyworth at B REUE K’S When the forests are afire, when (lie smoke makes dusk at noon and reddens tlie harvest moon a thousand miles away, there Is the measure of a ■ oiifl.'igraticn. When tlie prairies burn, is they us.st to before farms had crept In ti|Hin tlie endless miles of grass, there was 11 flic which ran like mad and left behind It a blackened trail of death. If one could combine the speed of tlie prairie fire with the tumult of tlie blazing forest, that would lit* n lire indeed. Such a combination Is effected wt i he bamboo groves catch fire, The bamboo Is but a grass, a grass with 1 he height of a tree, swaying steins reaching lfio. even 150. feet in air In Cambodia, where the bamboo roves along the rivers cover the space f forests, it is no unusual tiling for tires to break out and sweep all before them for niimv miles. If the summer lias been dry tin* bamboo turns sear and inflammable as any grass. All that is needed is a spark; then ruin runs red. It fs not necessary to rely upon the carelessness of the woodsman to start the blaze. The bamboo can kkidle Itself. I.et two swayirg stalks of dry bam boo be set In motion by the breeze, let one rub across tlie ottier long enough, and the friction will set tlie spark, and the long dry leaves will feed the flame. It Is known that many tires of tlie bamboo forests thus originate. Per haps ft was from observing such a sight that primitive man learned the Promethean secret. That theory has been advanced. As soon as a flame In the bamboos has crept to the level of the tossing tips it spreads like wildfire. The wind curries a sheet of flame along the grove at tremendous speed. Some observers say that such tires have been seen to move forward at tlie rate of more than a mile, a minute. Seen from below, it looks as if she sky had burst into an instant flash of flame. From such a burst of fire there could be no escape. Fortunately it passes high overhead at the tops of. the bam boos. It serves as a warning to the traveler who tnay be making his way along some one of the water courses by which the forest is Intersected. The bamboo itself is almost an obstacle to travel of any sort. It fs well nigh im possible to force a way through it ex cept by tlie slow and toilsome labor of hew ing out a path. Tlie tire in tlie great trunks moves more slowly, and if warning be taken ft may be possible to sink one's boat and throw up wet herbage nnd clay against tlie bank of file stream to pro vide abetter until tlie furnace blast has blown by. Such a fire in the bam boo lias uot only tlie speed of tlie prai rie fire on its sweep overhead, but It has the same volume of fuel as Is found in any forest Are. It combines the two types. Bamboo forest fires have another quality which 13 all their own. They bang and rattle with thunderous crashes, as of artillery fire, without cessation. Tlie stalks of these tree bamboos are frequently more than a foot in diame ter. Near tlie ground tlie joints are close together; in tlie younger grow-th the nodes may be several feet apart. But, long or short as they may be, each joint of the sun dried bamboo is a tightly sealed chamber filled with air. The partitions between the cavities are singularly tough; the outside rind of the stalks is almost pure flint. When thi' blast of the flame sweeps onward the afr in the stalks upon which it is driven is suddenly heated to a very high temperature. The resid num of moisture which may lie in the stems is immediately transformed into steam and at once subjected to super heating, thus becoming a violent explo sive. As the hot breath of the flame becomes hotter these joints burst with loud cannon discharges. Sometimes the force of the explosion near tlie roots is so great as to shoot the stalk like a Javelin high Into the air, where it flashes Into torchlike flame and Is carried by the wind to spread wider disaster. Tlie bursting of the smaller Joints is like the roll and rattle of rifles and mac hlne guns. The effect is that of a battle hotly coutest e<l. Washington Post. Rasmussen Bros., Props. W1NE5, LlQUoR.5 Dealer in Boot* and Shoe«. Repairing neatly and prompt ly done at lowest liv ing prices Bandon CIGAR. 5 AND One day a ship was lying at anchor at Boca Grande when the crew ole served a dolphin chasing a flying fish, both coming directly toward the ship On nearing the vessel the flier arose in the air and passed over the bow just abaft the foremast. As it did so the dolphin went tinder the ship and, coming up on the other side, sprang from the water ami caught the flying fish on “the fly” just as it was curving gracefully down in its descent to the water I’unta Gerda Herald. Missing Opportunities. "I have no patience with a man who makes the same mistake twice," said Armes, rather severely, in speaking of an unfortunate friend. “Neither have I," agreed his wife, “when there are so many other mis takes to make."—Youth's Companion. He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.—Bacon. The Shillalah. The shillalah owes its name to the fact that the tin *st s|ieeluM*us there . used to be grown tn tin* pleasant groves of trees that formerly tloiiri-li ed in the barony of Sllilliihigli. i 1 County Wicklow. Tlie lest shillalah must lie a root sprung sapling, for oar taken from tlie brandies of a full grown tree' would lack the ms< - toughness. Being trimmed and “brought to hand." tlie young sth 1 undergoes preparatory discipline b being placed in the chimney to n i et thus becoming earl) ueelimntizcd 1 tlie hot work In store for il This pari of tin* curriculum finished, it is rub bed until completely saturated will, oil, after wtii h it Is securely wrapped In a stout sheet of brown paper and burieel in a convenient hot lied. At this stage of its development it is an object of unceasing watchful Hess on the part of its proprietor, who to fore stull any detrimental warp in the ob ject of Ills care visits it daily, correct ing any youthful tendency to depart fr< >111 a st might line anil ultimately se curing ns straight a lilt of timber ns heart could desire. New York Trib une. Oakes Real Estate Co BBBWT3 Sä ari.,- on tlit> (’ quille river, clou» to 1! n.don. w itli 1 4 tnile 1 iver front, a snap for 70 acre-adj 1 in** the town of 4? 1 01,000 O £•.( Bari Kit Here« south of I’ond u. ('.in be ent lip into 5 and 10 acre traits. A bargain for O O,<CW 10 acres of film fruit anil berry laud 300 W •• have nine lots that must lie sold in the next 30 davn at SIBO. We have a tin" list of city and country J l< •pct X to Insure vonr fit ill home or Unsinoon Your choice of Hot Scotch. The young wife dipped the ladle Into the porridge and smiled inquiringly nt the overnight guest. "Will you have some hot Scotch. Dash?” she asked Dash laughed. “Hot Scotch? Where Is it “Why. here, of course.’ young wife In a perplexed “Didn’t you know that oatmeal called hot Scotch?" “Er—I”— Dash stammered, and then the young busband taught bls eye. and he Wils silent. “1 didn't know It myself till Inst year." she explnlmsl. "I heard Georre Inviting Ills coti-in over the telepliom ■ o meet him at the ottii e ami have a hot Scot, h I didn’t know what hot -tcoteh was till you told mo, did I. Jeorge?" Georse, very red. answered huskily: “No, my dear." Laughing at her own ignorance, the lady proceeded to serve the thick, pale hot Scotch. New <»rlenns Tinies Dem ocrat. Edward E. Oakes, Manager ::ssar -.““i- ■ OXI, ! l.\ > I Vicissitudes of a Picture. The vicissitudes of Leonardo Vinci’s piit tire, “I.nst Supper,” minds a correspondent of tlie strange experiences of Holbein's “Field of the Cloth of Gold,” which may lie seen anj- day at Hampton Court palace After the downfall of Charles I., Crom well in order to raise funds proposed the sale of certain pictures, this among the number The bargain was already made, but when the would be pur chaser came to inspect Holbein's mas terpiece he discovered that the head of Henry VI11. had been cut front the canvas. He naturally withdrew his offer, and the picture was preserved to the nation. On the restoration a nobleman confessed to having com mitted the theft for love of art and bis country, and he returned the missing head, which now occupies its original The circle position In tlie canvas made by the knife is still plainly visi- tile. - London Chronicle. in - Cold Storage Rats. The attendant came out of tlie cold storage room with an awed look. “Rats are wonderful.” he said, “We thought modern plumbing would abol ish them, lint they live In the $loan light and dryness of the best modern plumbing more comfortably than they did in tlie damp and tilth and darkness of (lie past. We thought (lie modern ship would abolish them, but the sltanin has as many rats as had Columbus caravels. And here”— He made an awed gesture. “And hero I find rats In our COld storage rooms at temperatures that freeze the breath and cause it to fall In the form of snow. To nnd fro they prowl. Their coats are thick and warm like fur. nnd. with frost on their whiskers, they feed heartily on meat nnd gatin' frozen to rocklike hardness. —Exchange. MEATS. PRODLK 'I Fire Terms in Japan. Fires hi Japan arc so common that this destructive agency has established Itself ns a national institution, and ¡1 whole vocabulary has grown up to ex press every shade of meaning in mat ters fiery. Tlie Japanese language lias special terms for an tlx endlary fire, nu accidental fire, fires starting from one’s own house, n fire caught from next door, a fire which one shares with oth ers, a tire which is burning to an end, the flame of a fire, anything for in stance, a brazier, from which a fire may arise; the side from which to at- tnek n fire in order to extinguish it; a visit of condolence after a fire. More Wheat to Come. A Chinese doctor, as a punishment for causing his patient's death. had to pay ton loads of wheat While carry ing the grain he was met by a man who asked Idin Io come anil treat a sick member of Ids family “All right." said the doctor, "I will lie there short ly. but In tlie meantime you may tie getting your barn cleaned out." Scrap Book. 7X oig ntocf. ci v/ell oxiilled. meats New ol< ?an ventilated rooms. tree from odors SMITH BROS The New Laird & Lowe Building. Bandon JOHN L. LITZENBERGER PAINTER & DECORATOR In Oil and Water Colors Also House Painting. Estimates given on kinds of Job and o ntract work. AH work done in the latest designs at a very low figure and posi tively guaranteed. Give me a trial. Leave order» with Judge Geo. P. Topping Nothing. “Nature plans well for mankind’s needs.” “T should say so What c< uid lie more convenient than ears to hook «pectacles fiver?"- Wnslungtob Herald L A. YORK, Propri tor tnppj i‘?-. * - t • ¿xarm or* ■ Ç fur sale. Not particular a' »ut loca. «•’ Wish *0 bc«.r from owner on.v w.-.o < «îeecripHon and state ui.vn p4SM&M08 t. . A J. . <. • - I Ben Red-rfer R Y Our Bread cannot tn JUST LIKE MOTHER USE TO J.____ I I • »
