3AXD0N RECORDER
B asdon
ORZGON
»••a anytsaty know whether the mot
to has been put back on the coins?
The worst things about being bold
are the hair restorers of one’s friends.
The Czar is said to have a dozen
crowns. Hi» head lies uneasy enough
with one
Turkey imported 6.000,000 pounds of
soap last year. Turkey is getting there,
all right.
“All In favor of apple dumplings
please rise,” says the Baltimore Suu.
The ayes have it.
One of the Western colleges has given
the degree of "B. 8.” to a woman.
Does this mean "Bachelor of Silence?”
Teddy, Jr., earned S3 cents on his
first day's work. This will enable him
to live the simple life with a venge
ance.
One could hardly tell whether that
youth who had to pay $ 1.89 for kiss
ing a girl got a bargain until one saw
the girl.
A Denver man has been sued for
>1,400 for hats worn by bis wife and
daughter. We warrant he is madder
than the hatter.
A >30,000,000 department store has
been opened in Berlin. What enterpris
ing American lias gone over there to
start a branch?
The forest preservation society ought
to do something to make it harder than
It is at present for reckless persons to
get possession of matches.
We should think, in view of the lack
of troubles that come to Switzerland,
a lot of other small European States
would try their luck as republics.
The Ohio State Journal notes the
misprints look much funnier to the ed
itor when they’re in some other palter.
Yes, but they look atiout ten times us
big in his own paper.
The Crown Princess of Germany has
been made a colonel in the imi>erial
army, where her husband is a major,
Looks as if the net result is to re-
duce him to a minor.
A Chicago man is accused of filing
six petitions in bankruptcy in nine
years. He seems to have been guilty of
gross carelessness In not filing some of
them somewhere else.
Turkey Imported 6,000.000 pounds of
■oap last year. Young Turkey's appar
ent determination to wash the grime
of centuries from its face will com
mend itself to the considerate Judg
ment of mankind.
A Berlin doctor says that most men
might with advantage study the man
ner of eating by the giraffe, which
masticates every mouthful 117 times
before swallowing it. But look at the
long neck he hns 1
A bright woman has established a
ship-shape shop in New York where
bachelors can get their clothes mended
at small cost and Just ns mother used
to mend them. If the girls work it
right, every one of them ought to mend
well enough to land a husband in no
time.
An automobile ran over and killed
a dog. It was an unavoidable accident;
but instead of hurrying away, or even
making a careless offer of a bank note,
the owner stopped the car, had in
quiries made, mingled her tears with
those of the children who had lost their
pet. and when she returned home sent
them a sympathetic letter, together
with a valuable dog of the same breed
ns theirs. The Incident happened in
England, and the woman who gave to
motorists this lesson In courtesy and
good feeling Is the Princess of Wales.
It Is the universal testimony of
American street car men that a Inrge
portion of the women passengers get
off the car facing backward, and many
accidents are due to the practice. No
nmount of warning or remonstrance
having cur<>d the habit, a car-barn ru-
perintendent in Chicago has equipped
forty ears with a new form of door
handle, so placed that it Is difficult for
any one to alight In the wrong way
who uses the handle ns a support; and
all other supports are removed. Some
of the women who have used the new
enrs are said to regard them as very
inconvenient, and to be indignant at
♦he loss of a time-honored privilege.
Paper can he made from cornstalks,
Such is the declaration of the govern*
ment chemists who have been nt work
on the problem of finding n satisfac
tory substitute for wood pulp in this
lm|»>rtnnt manufacture. If the results
of tlie exjierimentatlon nt Washington
are shown to be practical ones the
whole world may profit from the ? dis
covery. The ancients went to tile
river bntik for their papyrus, The
moderns may go to the fields for their
I
paper supply. There has been a i good
deal of well grounded anxiety over the
rapidly decreasing areas of forest
lands containing trees from which
wood palp can he made
The paper
trust has -been nccustsl of cutting and
•U shiny'the «place trees until R* dr
»tractive work ha» alarmed who?* sec
tions of the east The scarcity c * the
supply of raw material has beei. its
plea in Justification for hgh prices
charged for Its product, if every r>rn
stalk in thousands of fields is shown
to have value for paper making pur-
poses there will be no need of congres
sional acti—i on wood pulp and no
vote getting effectiveness in party plat
form utterances on the subject. The
problem will settle itself. The giving
to the firmer of an opportunity to
make money out of a by-product will
mean much to him. The oppression of
a trust will be curbed through tb<
bounty of nature. The fears for the
forests will be lessened. The constant
search for methods of using more ef
fectively earth's products will be en
couraged. The Importance of chemis
try in its relation to dally life will be
heightened. The discovery of a new
source of supply for paper making Is
the prime thing, of course. But the
attendant results of such a discovery
must uot be overlooked.
PROVIDING HOT MEALS IN TIME OF WAH.
Tea is a germicide according to a Bos
ton physician, who claims it is an es
pecially rank enemy of the typhoid
bacillus.
Missouri led tn the production of
lead In the ünlted States in 1907. push-
Ing Idaho, the leader in 1906. back to
second place.
Although the house fly lays eggs, the
flesh fly, better known as the “blue
bottle." produces living larvae, about
fifty at a time.
A $10,000 plant for the production of
ozone by electrolysis, the largest in the
world, has been completed at a Pltts-
burg hospital.
A Norwegian factory receives power
for six turbines from water that falls
3,2.87 feet through a tunnel from a lake
seven miles away.
It is not easy for Americans who
Peru has officially adopted as
have grown up in an atmosphere of re standard time that of the seventy-fifth
liglous freedom to understand, much meridian, the same as "eastern' time
less to sympathize with, the feeling of in the United States.
intolerance which still survives in Eu
The electrical equipment of the Cu-
rope.
Religious liberty prevails in nard liner Mauretania Includes over
England, and freedom of worship is 250 miles of cables, and more than
MOTABLE KITCHEN OF 11IE GERMAN ARMY.
allowed to believers in all creeds. But 6,000 16-eandle-power lamps.
that
an
nrmy
marches on its stomach selves are being driven from place to place at full speed
The
statement
there still remains unrepealed a section
Three parts by weight of boracic acid
of the Catholic emancipation act of to one of powdered borax makes a good
Is recognized by the German nillitury authorities as and each kitchen can provide tlire hot meals a day for
300 men. The contrivance was tested during the recent
1829, which imposes a fine of £50 for compound for brazing steel. It should
containing much truth, and thus have come into being maneuvers with much success, and was inspected by the
every Roman Catholic convicted of ex be applied as a paste with water.
the portable field kitchens of the type Illustrated. Meals Kaiser, who tasted some of the food cooked In it and
ercising any of the rites of his relig
On the west coast of India is found
can
be cooked in these kitchens while the kitchens them- pronounced it excellent.—London Illustrated News.
ion or of wearing the habits of his or a species of oyster. I’lacuna placenta,
der save within a church or a private whose shell consists of a pair of rough
one who uuderstands as you uuder- even against Katlileen herself—came
house. The law has for years been dis ly circular plates about six Inches in
OCTOBER.
stand!”
regarded, aud it has recently been com diameter, thin and white. At present
into his heart.
"Ah!”
mon to have open-air processions in tlies«' oysters are collected for the pearls
So it was all a put-up Job, was it,
Beneath
the
tender
autumn
sky
you see,
the country on Sunday afternoons in which they often contain, nithough few I Silent the hills and woodways lie.
lie thought. A reconeilation over the
of you 1
honor of what is called the Blessed Sac are fit for the use of the jeweler. But
Half folded in their robes of mist;
soup and declaration of eternal affec
who in the world should?”
And o'er the mass of turning green,
rament. The host, the consecrated in the early days of English rule In
tion after dessert. He would see him
Beyond the hyaline, serene
The picture of Kathleen flashed self somewhere first. If they came to
wafer of the communion service, is car India the shells were employed for
The clouds in tint of amethyst.
across his mind; Kathleen in a blue gether again they should come together
ried in the procession. According to window-panes. Cut into little squares,
frock which matched her eyes, Kathleen In his own way and not at the time and
the Catholic faith, the wafer has, by they produced a very pretty effect, ad
The crickets sing about our feet.
with the blush rose cheeks and laugh place dictated by well-meaning friends!
the sacrifice of the mass, been trans- mitting light like frosted glass. When
And there's a gleam of winter wheat
ing lifts that challenged and provoked
Then they went down to dinner. And,
formed, and has become the real body the Bombay cathedral was built, at the
Far down the hill, in mellow beams; his frequent kiss. Not even Kathleen
though she was as beautiful as ever,
of Christ. Such a procession was ar beginning of the eighteenth century, its
In fields, and dells, and sleepy woods
understood as Adela did, but then— she failed, in some Intangible, elusive.
ranged to close the recent Eucharistic windows were pant'd with there oyster
A very heaven of stillness broods—
well, Kathleen was just everything Indefinable way, wholly to please his
Congress in London, but so vigorous shells. In Goa they are still thus em
Till life seems on a sea of dreams.
that Adela could never be!
critical eye. But how she failed he
a protest was made against displaying ployed.
—Woman’s Home Companion.
But lie put the picture out of sight, was utterly at a loss to discover.
the holy wafer in the streets that the
Prof. Arthur O. Lovejoy, as the re
turned its face, as it were, to the wall.
Then, hating Kathleen’s voice. he
premier advised that the ancient law sult of an inquiry into the origin nnd ft
N\
“Have you, then, made an exhaust tried to lose himself in the contempla
be respected. The advice was followed meaning of “fire cults,” so common
ive study of your servant?” he ques tion of her beauty, to watch the pleas
under protest, for although the proces among ancient nations and among mod
tioned, searching her heart with feign ant lights in her blue eyes, eyes which
sion was held, the consecrated wafer ern savage and barbarous tribes sug
ed humility.
were, it seemed, always gay. They were
was not taken from the cathedral and gests that many races conceived the
"Always! Always!" she answered. too gay, he thought. Adela's eyes could
the ecclesiastics did not wear their “sacred fire,” not as a practical con
The sincerity, the look, the self-aban be gay; but then he loved their sadness
ceremonial dress, The streets were venience or an ancient custom or a
don that underlay every word which is'st. But, of course, though in a way
thronged, but there was no disorder means of frightening demons, but as
led to an agitation a vehicle of life, or magical energy,
The incident has
I
“Are you quite sure?" asked Adela. she spoke killed the last germ of com he was very fond of Adela, he could
punction in him. To-day was to-day: never love her as he had loved—and
for a repeal of the old law and a the prosperity of the household or tribe
“Absolutely sure!” answered Dick,
guarantee of freedom of worship to depending in part on th«' perpetuity,
lie leaned over the back of the chair to-day with its great moments, such as could still love Kathleen.
Still at 10 o'clock next day he went
persons of all I creeds. Of the Catho- vitality and purity of the fire. It was In which he sat, and let his long thin he loved. They should live the present
lie countries of Europe, the restric thought of ns subject to a tendency to hands frame her face, with the fingers hour, at any rate. To-morrow he would to see Adela.
write what he could not bring himself
She saw him come up the short drive
tion on Protestant worship prevails grow old and weak, like all natural, locked beneath her chin.
to speak.
as she sat writing
only in Spain, where worship must be forces—hence the custom of periodical
"Absolutely sure!” he repeated.
So for the next half-hour he made window, and she,
in private, and no symbols of the faith ly renewing it. 'fills conclusion is based
His tone convinced himself, but left
may be exhibited In public. Although partly upon the statements made by the Xdela a little doubtful still. The care love to her out of the ripe fullness of door to him.
his own experience. And bis philoso
"Is anything the matter?” she asked
there is nominal reliigious liberty In Iroquois Indians and the Maoris
less, almost furtive, kiss with which he phy was as the Spaniard’s. To-mor a little
anxiously.
Russia, all but adherents of the Greek
Dr. Robert E. Coker, writing to Sci sad brushed her lips a moment ago, was row, to-morrow, always to-morrow—
How
soft her voice sounded—and
church find it difficult to worship un ence from Lima, advocates the protec not the kiss of which she had dreamed
disturbed or to enjoy the political free tion of the guano-producing birds— the —had dreniaed through times of tens which means the completest plucking how different from Kathleen's!
“Quite a lot!” he answered. But he
dom secured to the members of the “guanae,” a species of cormorant, and and twenties up to and beyond her last, of to-day.
Then he met Kathleen Steele at a smiled.
State church. Intolerance there, as in the “alcatraz." a species of pelican - her thirtieth birthday. For he was,
She turned towards the study with a
many other parts of the world, is due In order that the Peruvian deposits of ami always had been the only man tor dinner party.
Katlileen was there, not fortuitously. gesture. As he followed her the quiet
more to the temper of the people than this valuable manure may be In part, her; though she. for him, bad remaiued
but by design. For she had found out neatness of her dress and hair gave
to the laws.
renewed. The great ancient deposits Just one of the many women to whom,
him a sense of perfect taste. Every
he says, are now almost non-existent under various disguises, discreet, re
thing about her was, be felt. Just right,
Tn St. Petersburg.
drained,
but
always
artistic,
love
could,
Only the lower grades of guano are left
impossible to better.
The Grand Duke—What's the latest But the birds annually make fresh de at pleasant intervals, be mude.
Inside the study she shut the door.
won-
posits on their nesting grounds, nnd If
report from the plague? Speak, man.
“And are you happy, dear?”
“Now,” she said, courageously but
The Aid—I regret to announce that they were properly protected. he b«»- dered.
with fear cold at her heart, “tell me
the disease Is spreading.
lieves that the annual supply of fresh
"Of course!” he fervently
all about it!”
The Gtand Duke—Send for the lead deposits would be largely Increased without pausing to analyze
emo-
For answer he walked up to her and
ing sanitary engineer of the empire.
The birds, he says, should no longer tions.
took her in his arms, and kissed her
The ak — He was driven out of Rus be treated as wild animals. They should
And his hands caressed the brown
passionately upon the lips.
be regarde«) as valuable domestic ani smoothness of her hair.
sia last month, your highness.
“You never kissed me like that be
The Graud Duke—Call up the city's mals. At present they ar«' decreasing
fore!” she marveled, as lie held ll er
Then, in the quiet half-light of th«1
in number, but this decrease could be February evening, his thoughts ran
best plumber.
away from him to look into her eyes.
The Aid—He was sent to Siberia. checked. They are also driven from away with him and gave the silent lie
"Perhaps not. dear I" he admitted.
their haunts during the season when to his words. They carried him back
your highness.
But now !”
The Grand Duke—Summon the chief they should be allowed to remain there to the dance at the concert hall three
And he caught her in his arms again.
When driven away by the presence of months ago, when he had quarreled, ir
authority on epidemics.
“What is it that you have to ask?”
The Aid—lie is a fugitive, your high man during the nesting season, they revocably qunrrehd, with Kathleen
she presently ventured
ness. The secret police have lost all spend a large part of their time upon Steele. He had not seen her since—
Then, since the crowning wisdom was
the water, or on small Islets and cliffs, dear, fluft'y little person that she was.
trace of him.
come to him lie answered gravely;
The Grand Duke (after a pause) — whore the deposits are either lost en with Illg blue eyes Which he used to
“1 want you to marry me imme-
Well, go out and order the seizure of tirely or are rendered less available.
dlately 1"
think foolish before they learned to
three newspaper offices and the arrest
And for once, perhaps for the first
sparkle for him. She, conquered as all
Gathering Roa«*».
of forty suspected revolutionists.—
time in Ills life, be knew bls own mind.
IS ANYTHING THE MATTER?
I’ve gathered roses and the like In his captives were more by th«1 intense
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
many glad and golden Junes, but now, sympathy which he exhaled than by
A Lemon limtrnd.
as down the world I hike my weary my physical or facial charm, had prom how much she cared for him. and. in
D Inert in in nt Ion.
"Do
you
know," a pretty bride of
ised
to
marry
him
as
soon
as
lie
could
capable of hiding lier emotions, had
hands are filled with prunes I've gath-
Wilden Woolly—Ilow much to Shy- I ered roses o’er and o'er, and some were save enough to furnish the little house worn her heart quite openly upon her I three months said to a friend the oth
caggo?
white and some were red. but when I and studio somewhere near Regent's sleeve. So people were trying to bring er day, "I think all these Jokes about
Ticket Agent—Eight dollars.
tcok them to the store the grocer wnnt Bark. And now lie was here in tills them together again, and the dinner young wives having so much trouble
Wihhn Woolly—And how long does ed eggs Instead. 1 gathered roses long big. proper. mnny-hand-maidened su- party was a ballon d'essai.
with butchers ami grocers and being
It take?
age, in other days. In other scenes, ami burban villa, engaged to Adela—Adela
As he went into the drawing room cheated and all that is just too fool
Ticket Agent—Nine hours.
people said. “You ought-4o go and dig Wint, to whom In* had come for conso she was the first person who caught ish.”
Wilden Woolly—Nine hours! W’y. the weeds out of your beans." A million lation in that trouble. Just as he had his eye. Ills heart hammered at his
"Then 1 presume you are getting on
out In Nebrasky we've got roads you roses bloomed and died; a million more come to her for consolation ever since ribs and a swift desire to take her, till right with yours, dear?” her friend
kin ride on a whole day for >8."—Bal will die to-day That man Is wise who be put on his first dress coat.
then and there, in Ills arms came upon Inquired.
timore American.
“Why. of course I ami Anybody
And lie realized that he wasn't happy him. He shook hands with his hostess
lets them slide and gathers up the bales
at all—and half a hundred other things in a dream, looking over her shoulder would If they would Just deal at a re-
of hay.—Emporia Gazette.
Ilnppy Inononlly,
besides.
to where Kathleen sat with half-avert liable place.” the young wife declared.
♦moping t'l> the Wrrcknit«.
"There's one advantage In being col
"Tell me." »aid Adela, "tell me you ed head; and. the barest civilities ex “Now there is my grocer,” she conttn
The owner of the racing automobile love me, Dick!”
or blind, anyhow.” said one marked by
changed. he walked straight across to ued. “he Is just as obliging and thought
was a novice at the sport. Naturally,
this visual peculiarity.
where she sat. She was talking to ful ns can be The other dav I ordered
“
You
know
I
love
you,
dear!'
he
said,
he felt rather mystified when the ex
“What's that?”
another man—but that didn't matter to a dozen oranges, and when they came I
knowing
that
he
lied.
“Why, all I know of the red necktie pert driver handl'd him the following
found there were but eleven in the bag,
him.
“Why do you ask?" he went on.
is bas»d on hearsay."—Philadelphia bill on the morning after the race;
so I went to the store again and told
“Kathleen !" he
"I
wondered."
she
explained.
"1
just
Gasoline, $60; repairs to ear. $70; cut
Ledger.
wondered whether It wasn't the need
She put out her hand« He took It liim so.
ting expenses. >1,000.
'“Why, yes. ma'am,’ he said. ‘I know
for
sympathy
that
made
you
ask
me
with
a new surprise at Its comparative
Pumps.
"What the deuce," said the amateur
there
were. I had put In a dozen, but
to
marry
you!
And
that
you
thought
limpness,
which
he
never
remembered
“Women," declared she. “have bigger owner, “Is the meaning of this item.
I noticed that one of them was spoiled,
you
were
1»
love
with
me
tiecause
we
having
noticed
before.
intellects than men."
‘Cutting expenses?'"
were beautifully in tune together and
"How d'ye do, Dick !” she began with and. of course. 1 wouldn't send you any
“I won't dispute It." responded he
"Oh. that." observed the chauffeur
ill-acted coldness. "It's ages since I've but the best goods, so I took ft out.’
"A man can't wear footgear that has carelessly “represents the surgeon's fee because I was nble to console you!”
"Now. don't you think that was nice
She was right; as always, so won seen you!”
to be kept on by mental power alone."— for renovating my mechanic.’—Judge
Somehow her voice Jarred upon him. in him to. bo so thoughtful and hon
derfully right. They had been, as she
Kansas city Journal.
Setting It Riaht,
put it. so Iwautifully in tune together, There was a curious quality in it— est?” she concluded—Harper's W«*ekly.
Wh«r« Illa Treisanr« Was.
“In your paper thia morning, sir, you and he had got carried away by his but what that quality was lie couldn't
Otherwl«« Ible.
"When they take women away from called me a 'bum actor.’ I want an ■onfoumh d teni|>erainent and the neces quite detect.
Calvert Jr.—Tolsoy must use white
sity for putting an artistic finish to
the co-educational college." said the explanation."
lie took an oblong piece of cardboard ink
"I shall be happy to explain, young th«' episode.
spenker. "what will follow?”
from Ills pocket nnd »bowed it to her.
Baity Moore—Ilow so?
"I will,” cried a voice from the audi man. That word 'actor' was inserted
For the moment he paused in conflict
"I'm to take you in to dinner I" he
Calvert, Jr.—He Is said to have been
by the proofreader, who thought I had with himself. Honor nnd honestly told her.
ence.—Success Magazine.
“writing on the Russian government.”
omitted It accidentally. I shall take warted with Indecision nnd weakness
"Really?" she asked with brows de and dark ink wouldn't show on a black
Considering the number of hair do care that it doesn't happen again."— Then honor and honesty lost the day. lightfully ar lied. "Really?"
surface.—Baltimore American
tngs n woman takes off at night, and Chicago Tribune.
Her surprise was so obviously spu
betrayed by the too-notlceable absence
the number of pastes and lotions she
rious that it gave him the key to the
A woman gets more enjoyment out of
A turkey is never tough because he of chin whtcH s[s>fled his face.
puts on, firemen who are expected to
“There’» no one quite like yon. whole situation. And a certain dull a good cry than a map does out of a
Is
so
good
be
is
never
allowed
to
be
fescue her .in nnse of fire, should N*
Adela!" be truthfully assured her. “No resentment agilnst bls hostess -and hearty laugh.
I come old.
psld larger salaries.
The One and Only
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