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o o SARDON RECORDER W h * BANDON........................... OREGON Well, It's all over for four year»— thank goodness. Comparatively few people at the age of GO have as good a start In life as President Roosevelt. A woman has disappeared after buy ing several new bats and gowns. This is Indeed a mysterious ease. When It comes to aeronautics most men will prefer to learn the trick through a correspondence school. Comfortable on $30,000 a year? Per- ha¡<s not; but the average man would be entirely content to be uncomfortable on it A former federal ink expert has been fined $10,000. It would seem that an Ink expert should lie able to keep bls record clear of blots. It Is wonderful to think that surgi cal science is making it iMisaible for a man with an unsatisfactory liver to trade it off for a lietter one. It Is estimated that the apple crop this year is enough to make 0,000,000,- 000 pies. But for the sake of variety let*» have an occasional dumpling. Mr. Rockefeller says he despises the man whose only deeire is to get money, money, money and more money. But he doesn't go so far as to kick him self. Our English cousins don't know what a “fruzzle” is, don't they? Let their, look at the southern extremities of a hobo’s trousers—If they know wbat a hobo 1 b . Counterfeit $5 bills are In circula tion. The prudent man will scrutinize bls $5 bills before he takes them In, and the truly honest man will look carefully at his before he pays them out A father has recognized In an art ist's drawing the likeness of bls long- lost daughter. He never would have noted the resemblance if it had been a stage photograpb which fell into bis bands. The latest simplified spelling reforms Include "doubt" and "debt" without a “b” and “island" without an "a.” If those learned gentlemen keep on they w'lll soon lie trying to write “society" without a $. A man In St. I xiu I b I s seeking a di vorce from bls wife tiecause, among other things, when he remonstrated with her on her style of dress, she told him to mind his own business. The St Ixiuls man Is not alone In taking this admonition as a serious Insult. Word conies from Elkins, W. Va., that the duke Is to receive $1,000,000 in cash on the day the marriage tnkes place. Why doesn't King Peter wake up? He might, by offering the crown prince, get some patriotic American to pay off the national debt of Servia. It is a very foolish convention which lays down that we are grown ip when we have reached our 21st birthday. The real majority is reached when we begin to earn our own bread and but ter and to bring forth the light which has been fostered In us by the care of others for the last ten or fifteen years. Se'f-dependence and self-reliance— tlut is the real manhood. Persons who do not wish to cross the ocean in the steerage may soon secure accommodations a little less comfort able than those offered to second-cabin Iiassengers and much better than the steerage, as the George Washington, a new steamer of a German line, has first, second and third cabins, besides the steerage. Third-cabin jwssengers may have staterooms, and there will lie a dining room, a saloon for the women, and a smoking room for the men. Organized lawlessness is to-day the natloual shame of the United States. It is a disgrace in the eyes of the peo pie of every other country that pro fesses civilization. We hold up our hands in horror at an outrage In Rus sia or a fanatical mob attack lu China. If an American citizen Is the victim of a mob attack In a foreign country we bristle with an Indignation that brings quick apology and reprisals and the punishment of the guilty as a general rule. We can force a Ralsuli to free an American citizen from a brigand's stronghold in Morocco, but we cannot —or do not—protect the citizen from the organized mob at home. Personal, physical and political fear has oper ated to some extent In preventing the punishment of organized lawlessness. The technicalities of law have been a handicap In other cases, but it Is time that energetic action was taken to dls- '*ourage mob and lynch law. it la to smash ths china. A mother full of the new theory forbids any one to speak to her baby, much less to play with him. Ruch a mother explained to a witty friend that she wished her small son to be “a perfect animal.” "That la all very well, my dear lady,” replied the friend; “but you are at present contriving for him to become I a perfect vegetable!” Somewhere be tween the overexcitement of an emo tional devotion and the overrepresslon of such pseudo-science there lies the happy middle ground of loving welcome for the newcomers to the world. They will find ft cool and silent soon enough. Let them find it warm and tender at first. One who watches an Italian mother knows where the great paluters found their models for "Madonna and Child." Devotion, rejiose. comprehen sion, needing no translation in word or gesture—these one sees in lovely liv ing pictures all over sunny Ualy. Per haps the nervous American mothers may learn from the languorous South ern women. At any rate, they must preserve the world-old fashion of hug ging the baby! Women need to remind themselves that the standards of conduct are ever shiftfug. Babylon and Japan have strange moral codes written in their history. New England record» show punishments more brutal than crini<*s, and college endowments gained from the proceeds of lotteries held with tlie approval of the strictest of Puritan ministers. Public opinion in regard to conduct is so largely made by women that they ought to be well informed in the history of ethics. The discussion of race-track gnmbling in New’ York doubtless rings strangely on the ears of spectators nt the great English races. At Ascot, for example, the course is thronged not only by the wealth and fashion, but by the stern virtue of English society. Men and women bet on the races with perfect frankness. The bookmakers |«ss about among the siiectators as freely ns if they were selling programs or photo graphs, instead of “odds.” A grave, el derly lady lays her wager of a sover eign : a young girl takes her mother's advice nbout her bet of half a crown: mid an exalted personage announces his winnings as he would record his crop of potatoes. Although Americans notice the moderation with which this gambling Is conducted, they are never theless amazed at it. American moral sense does not approve it. This vary ing standard of morals among goal folk teaches two simple lessons. The first is that of an inclusive chnrfty to be practiced by every student of human history. Saint Paul keenly discerned that as a man thlnketh in his heart so is he. The aphorism must not, how ever, be enlarged to Implj- that “as I think so are you." The verdict of the individual conscience is final for its owner—and for no other. Further, in a Christian civilization, the standards of conduct are continually being raised. Now one Christian nation and now an other leads the forward movement. The moral demands of the twentieth century are far higher thnn those of earlier times, and our children's children are bound to carry them forward until mil lennium's dawn. To Father Time. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in thy flight ! Give us an autoless day and a night. Give us a “yellow" satis headlines to scan, A rustleless skirt, and a hustleless man, A liabe teddy-bearless, a microbeless kiss, A fistic fight fakeless, a straight-frontless miss, A giggleless schoolgirl, and—better than that!— A summer-clad college man wearing a hat! I know. Father Time, that I'm asking too much. But turn to a day ere a dinner was lunch. Swing back to an age peroxideless for hair— An «eon ere “rats'* made their rendezvous there— An old-fashioned breakfast without Shred ded Hay, A season when farmers went whineless a day, A burg moving-pictureless—ah, what a treat! A gumless-girl town and a trolleyless street; I'm asking too much, but I pray, Daddy Time, For days when a song bad both substance and rhyme! —The Bohemian. Closing Ills Mouth. A very sensible bit of advice ex pressed in homely language was given by a man not long ago to an excitable and quarrelsome friend. It was In a brickyard, and two of the workmen had engaged in an angry dispute which cul minated in a fierce encounter. In the skirmish one of the combatants was nastily hurt on the head, and the em ployer, who happened to come on the scene of action when the fight was fin ishing and was a man of more temper than discretion, advised the Injured one to get a warrant for the other's arrest. While the matter was being discussed by a numlter of workmen who had gath ered round a big. burly fellow who had heard everything and seen the whole affair made his way to the man with the damaged cranium and said : “You don't want to get no warrant. Bill. You Just go to the chemist's shop and get yerself two pieces of planter— Rome years ago a physician wrote a good big ones—and put one piece on yer pamphlet entitle«!. “Emotional Prodi head an' the other on yer mouth, a*’ gality," in which he enumerated the you'll be all right”—Ixtndon Mull ills of mind and body likely to follow the demonstrative affection bestowed Wclesms. While sin contest on babies, and entreated a calm repres We deem unsightly. sion of the mother's love and the fath All love the guest er’s joy where the infant was con Who lies politely. cerned. The waruing of the doctor has been repeated and emphasized, —Birmingham Age-IIerald. If a man has a wife he always know» until to-day, In some homes. It Is aa bad form to hug or kiss the babv.as- what to do with his money. •• THE REFORMED BRONCHO. May Be Seen Any Day in the Bridle Pat ba ut Central Park. To the general public the word bron cho suggests everything wild and vi cious In horse tiesh. One associates the usefulness of the broncho almost en- tlrely with the rugged West. That this wiry little animal could ever develop the pointe of a good park horse would be received with much reservation by most persons. Yet some ten years or more of cross breeding, says Country Life In America, has accomplished this somewhat amaz ing result. To-day oue cau see ou the bridle paths of Central Park the well- groomed broncho fraternizing as an equal with the blue gruss thoroughbred and his number Is co a.antly growing. To be sure, he Is no longer the ham merhead with a pronounced ewe neck, almost as devoid of flesh as a skeleton. He has developed a flue crest in this up- breeding and can show as fine a neck as any Kentucky-bred horse. His middle piece is no longer distend ed from much eating of grass food, nor is he so loosely Joined to bls quar ters as his prototype. Higher living has rounded him into a strikingly well- proportioned saddle horse. In his new estate be subsists less on the fresh, Juicy grasses, and the new order grows quite a different animal. But through all this transformation he still retains the leg characteristics of his broncho ancestry, perfect in sym metry, rather light in muscle and slen der in bone, but the muscles of strong quality and the sinews very firm. His power of endurance has dimin ished somewhat, but even so, he lias few equals and no superiors. His toughness and grit have changed little in the croM-breeding, and doubtless If turned out to the freedom of range he would give as good an account of himself as did his ancestors in the early days of the West. MYSTERY of ffOVING PICTURES In America maintain thotr own How theimposriblt is made era theater and company of actors, and possible and* fairyland made some of the best picture dramas and real by the ofthe farces now shown have been produced photographic filmsfor Klnef- here. The French manufacturers pro all the kinds of films made tn En- oseopeJ. A wonderful bust- ! duce gland aud America, but they make uess which has fyrowufrom the colored pictures an<l the trick-pic nothing to huge proportions tures lu addition, and on that account their work is more interesting to the in ajewjrears. uninitiated than that of either En glish or American manufacturers. Did you ever come out of a moving fditure show with the feeling that you had been "dreaming dreams?” There is nothing that so thoroughly combines absolute mathematical exact ness with fantastic unreality as the modern entertainment known as a moving picture show. There is noth ing that requires more scientific and artistic skill in the making or more rare and dexterity in the reproducing than the pictures shown by the klne toscope, and there is nothing more mystifying to the tieholder than these game pictures, when they are thrown on the screen in the theater. In the wine afternoon, perhaps, you will see a thrilling train robbery, a prize fight, a dainty little domestic comedy, a scene during a trip of the pres idential candidates, a t^ry - tale of your childhood, and some of the magi cal pictures in which stones roll rap idly up hill, saws and hammers work without human assistance, or a skele ton gradually develops flesh and cloth ing. The commonplace is so mixed with the impossible ttiat while you ure looking at the pictures you find yourself believing it Is uli perfectly real and natural, and it is only after you have left tlie theater that you realize it Is a trick,' an optical illu sion, and you wonder bow it is done. The effect upon your mind is much like that produced by a'dream you have had, only in the case of the cine matograph you try to analyze the process. Behind Some people act ridiculous and then become Indignant because people tell it. No matter how loud a woman dress es, she imagines she is dressed artisti cally. No, a woman doesn't necessarily han dle a broom when she makes sweeping assertions. A duty to be done is a stern remin der, but a duty well done is a pleasant remembrance. He who reads will run against many clever sayings, but be who runs will never read them. A parasol, though invented to keep the sun off, generally manages to in duce some son to come nearer. And it sometimes happens that a man is not fully appreciated by his wife un til she collects his life insurance. Honesty Is a boomerang and Its pol icy never looks better to us than when it comes back again to our own feet. Dress Is said to be woman's strong est weapon. Does that mean there is a dagger bidden in every sheath gown? The recollection of a good act may give us a swollen head, but the knowl edge of a mean one is as a shoe that pinches. About the first thing a woman does after moving into a flat is to look in all the closets to see If the last tenants left any family skeletons. The young man who presents a girl with a pound box of bonbons is her Ideal—until another young man comes along with a two-pound box. The man in the motor car would have mora respect for the pedestrian if he stopped to think how the airship man, in turn, looks down on him. A Text tor a Sermoa. A member of the faculty of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania has had fre quent occasion to reprove his eight year-old daughter for playing with matches. Recently the youngster in the exer cise of her favorite diversion succeed ed in burning her hands. Immediately she was summoned to Judgment. “Clara.” said the father, sternly, "I should punish you for your disobedience. There Is. however, no need to in this case, for God has al ready punished you." “Yes. sir,” meekly responded the child; "but. papa. He let me play with the matches an awfully long time first” —Harper's. Weekly. Deaicnatioaa. Some foreigners and even certain Americans are disposed to stand aloof from what they haughtily term the working classes of the country. It is to be regretted that they could not have overheard the conversation which took place on an East river ferryboat not long ago between a recently Intro duced—shall we hazard it?—wheel wright and shopgirl. “Do you attend In Rarglner's estab lishment?" he asked. “Yes; I am one of the emporium la dles," she replied, with becoming dig nity. “Where are yon engaged?" "I am one of Banks A Co.'s repository for carriages gentlemen." he Informed her.—Philadelphia ledger <Ve have noticed that If you think before you speak, the other fellow guts lu b|y Idke first. « the Scenes. But the process Is unanalysable, un less you are permitted a [step behind the scenes of the business of film mak ing. Once in the film maker's studio, however, you find the making of the pictures far more interesting than the pictures themselves. One moment you laugh at your own stupidity in not guessing "how it worked." The nqxt you are lost in admiration of the clev erness of the film makers In being able to arrange the natural and ordinary means about them to produce such ex traordinary results. And you never see a moving picture afterwards with out remembering how ft, or one like It, was made. Art, the drama, nature, mechanical forces, all have a part in the produc tion of tile pictures that are repro duced all over the civilized world, for the moving picture show has liecotne the most universal of all amusements. Every manufacturer of motion picture films maintains a large company of actors, a theater of bis own with an Immense stage fitted with traps, tanks, lift and other usual scenic accessories, and a larger corps of stage carpenters, scene painters, scene shifters and property men than is thought neces sary in any of the first-class theaters in Europe or America. All sorts of Ingenious methods of producing un usual effects, all the devices for cre ating realistic illusions known to the stage and many that are impossible on the real stage, are employed. Every kind of scenery and stage setting are used. People of uli ages, sizes and con ditions, “the lame, the halt and the blind." as well as tfie physically per fect, take part In the various Beetles Sometimes the actors play their parts on a real stage, sometimes they act in the fields or woods or even on the streets of a city, and sometimes they go partly through a performance in the midst of natural surroundings and complete the play on the stage of a the- nter, or vice versa. It all depends on the subject of the picture and the way the idea Is worked out. Dramatic ability of a high order is necessary in the actors who pose be fore the sjieedlng klnetoscope, for act ing alone must tell the story of the play they are presenting, and many of the subjects are too artistic to admit of mere pantomime as an exposition of their meaning. Trick Picture« from France, The klnetoscope is not a French in vention, but its development along ar tistic lines is due almost entirely to French Ingenuity. In England, and In America till quite recently, it was used merely to record events as they occurred, such as the unveiling of a monument, the inauguration of a pres ident of the United States, a boat race, a prize flglit, a championship baseball game, or a great parade. No attempt was made to create subjects for the machine to photograph, and all fanciful pictures, color pictures, or ottiers that were out of the ordinary were left for the French film makers tc produce, and the result has been throe distinctively characteristic class es of motion pictures. England produces the "current events" films. She sends her klneto- sccpc operators wherever great things arc hap|»ening. She had one in the trenches nt Casablanca, another in Constantinople when the Sultan pro claimed the constitution, another in Australia when the American fleet vis ited that colony. When King Edward ojienu an exposition the entire perfonn- fti:<e is recorded by the klnetoscope, f, d reproduced somewhere else later. V. erica nnk:-s "current events" films. he also makes others. Film mak • • A b Exainpla of the Method. Everybody knows bow a moving pic ture enmera photographs a ball game or a prize fight. The film, which is Just like any other photograph film ex cept In size, passes over the aperture through which the exjiosure is made ut the rate of about 105U pictures to the minute, recording every motion of every object within range of the cam era, while it is passing, and sometimes consuming half a mile of film in a sin gle record. But everybody does not know how the picture of a man who is run over by an automobile and l>oth legs cut off, and who afterward re places his legs and walks away on them is made, nor how the siren who calmly swims about under water dur ing a twenty mluute picture could have remained below the surface long enough for the photographs to be taken. In the case of the man the picture was made by the “arret," or stop. In that of the siren tlie "fundu,” or blend. Is employed. Both of these are French discoveries, and both are uli impor tant in the making of any moving pic ture films that are not strictly record Aims. In the "arret" the machine is stop|>ed at some definite point during the exposure of the film and the shut ter closed so that registration is im possible. A change in some portion of the object being photographed is then made, after which the operation of the machine resumed. The "fundu” is pro duced by a double exposure of one film, or by doubling the film by superimpos ing one film u]>on another for repro duction. The first Is exemplified by the well- known picture, the “Happy Accident." A man falls asleep on the roadside and while he sleeps a motor car runs over him and cuts off both legs at the knee. The motorist discovers his carelessness too late, but stops his machine at once and. hurrying back to the injured man. picks up the severed legs and hands them to him. The victim of the acci dent replaces his legs and after shak ing hands with the motorist walks off up the road. Photograph« of the Inipoaaible. Of course the thing Is lnqiossible. ridiculously so, but the pictures shown on the screen are the reproductions of actual photographs, and the puzzle to every one who sees the film is how enn there lie a photograph of a physical impossibility? The trick is not a diffi cult one nfter the rigid man is found to pose for the photograph. A man who has both legs off nt the knee and uses artificial legs in their place was made up to look like unotiier man with two good legs, aud these two men changed places in tlie photograph. The actor comes on the stage first and goes to sleep by the roadside. The regis tration of tlie film is then stoped and tlie man with tlie artificial legs tak<*s the actor's place, being careful to as sume exactly the same position as the actor. Then the machine Is started again and the picture is made of the nutomobile coming down the road, run ning over the sleeping man. the motor ist getting out and going back and giving the Injured man nis legs. At this point the machine Is again stop ped, the legless man gets out of tlie wny and the actor takes bls place. When registration on the film Is re sumed there is apparently no break in the scene, and the little tragedy is fin ished without difficulty. But the ef fect produced by the two stops is thor oughly startling to the beholder of the reproduction. Fair, Picture«. One way of producing the blend Is doubling the filmland this is the meth od most often adopted when supernat ural appearances or dlsap[>earances are depicted. For example, a fairy ap pears to a child, talks a moment, and then disappears. First, a film of the scene, with the child in the foreground. Is taken, the object being gradually thrown out of focus as the registration proceeds. Next, a film of the scene and the child with the fairy is taken, out of focus at first and gradually brought into focus. Then the two films are placed one upon the other so that they register exactly, and the result is the apparent gradual materialization of the fairy out of nothing. The fairy is, of course, much smaller than the child In the picture. In reality they are about the same size, the apparent difference being due to their respective distances from tlrt* camera. In the cases of apparent defiance of natifral laws, such as stones running up hill and Jumping Into open win dows, or people walking upon the ceil ings, the effect is produced In a dif ferent maimer. The exposures are taken in the usual wny. The stones fall out of the window and roll down the hill, and the people walk on tlie floor like civilized creatures while they are being photographed. But when the reproductions nre made the films are carefully reversed, run backward, as It were, and the result Is the reversal of the action part of the picture. Thia is a simple trick enough, but is hard to understand unless you have seen It done, and is one of the most puzzling e of all the many illusions of motion pic tures. A Girl*« VI s I ob . "The Errand Girl's Dream" shows another way of working a little trick on the audience. In tlie first scene th« girl is shown leaving her home to gu to the «hop where she is employed. In the second scene she is shown at work in the shop aud afterward starting out with a big box to deliver some goods to customers. These two scenes ars shown with their natural backgrounds, having been taken without preparatior in typical sections of Paris. But after the girl starts on her errands the o;>er- a tor of the klnetoscope leaves her aud returns to the theater, where lie Audi an actress made up to look like her and a scene painted to represent ths street through which the girl 1 b likely to pass. In tills scene the actress is saunter ing along the street. 8eeing a bench, she sits down, places her box beside her, and is soon lost in day dreams. Suddenly the box opens aud out of it conn's a party of fairy creatures who bow prettily to the girl, and then Jump ing down, go through a merry dance. There is more to the story, but this shows the trick. When the girl sits down on the bench tlie film Is stopped while the real txix Is removed mid a piece of scenery painted to look like it is uncovered. This Is opened from within in such a way that It seems to be o;>ened by the fairies. The apparently diminutive size of the fairies Is products] by plac ing them 30 or 40 feet farther away from the camera than Is tlie girl, and as they are seen through the opening which the spectators regard us the lid of the box the illusion is complete. Most of thi'se tricks are accomplish ed much as similar illusions on the real stage are produced except that the il lusion is the more perfect In the mov ing picture because of the possibilities of a change of properties which the “arret” provides, but the ability to set the scene and produce tlie effect Is based upon tlie same sort of knowledge and skill that is required in properly staging any theatrical iierformance. MechnnleHl Marvel». Mechanically, the klnetos ■ope Is be coming rather well known. The pic tures nre taken on a sensitized film, IM» inches wide, and varying In length from 100 to 1.200 feet. The Alin pass es in front of an aperture 1 inch by three-quarters of an Inch In size, stops dead still for the fractional part of a second, and passes on, the process be ing so rapid that at the normal rate of speed of operating the machine, sixteen exposures ure made every second of time. When these pictures arc reproduced and passed through tlie machine which projects then upon tlie screen, they are usually shown at exactly the same rate of s|Hi'd at which they were taken, and thus the natural effect is produced. In showing tlie pictures the film, which for reproduction lias been ebunged from a negative to a positive and probably colored In the same way that ordinary lantern slides ure color ed Is passed from one reel to another over an aperture of the same size and shape us that through which the pic ture wus originally taken, and the en largement of the projected picture is accomplished by means of lenses in front of the picture. Light Is furnish ed by electricity and. us In nil stereop ticons, passes through tlie picture Into the lens, where It Is refracted to form the great s|sit of light upon the screen. It is the manipulation of this light that Is the dangerous feature of mov ing pictures. The film Is celluloid and highly explosive, and tlie point of light that falls upon It Is so intense that if Iierinltted to rest for a single instant upon the film, the heat produced will cause an explosion. While the film le moving there is no danger, but ft can not be stopped without danger, unless the machine is fitted with an auto matic shutter, which falls over the nperture as «Min ns tlie crank stops turning. Artistically the cinematograph Is de veloping with amazing rapidity. When moving picture shows were first ojien- ed in the cities of this country they were regarded as a rather low order of amusement resorts. Already they have cllmlied several classes, and the char acter of pictures the best ones are showing now brings them almost on a plane with the first-class playhouses. World*» Output of Metnla. A German metal company bus com piled the following facts and figures nliout the world production of meta's In 1907: The production of copper showed a decrease for the first time In fifteen years, the total tieing 713,000 tons, of which the United States produced 421,- 400. Lead production was about 992.800 tons, of which the United Stutes pro dm ed 340.700. Tin mines yielded 98.700 tons; the consumption was 101,100, of which the United States used 30.700. The production of zinc was 738.400 tons—220.838 from the United States and 208,700 from Germany. The United States also led In the consumption of 220,838 tons. Germany using 174.900 and Great Britain 140,300. The nickel production wns 14.100 tons and that of aluminum 19.800 tons. After a man hns boarded four or flvs years, be takes I he halos off all tbs saints he meets, and piles them on top of anything from soup to pickles tbal is borne mad».
