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•e«./» BANDON RECORDER BANDON OREGON If the people rule, this will be a wild w Inter. Cuba ought not to forget that the next receivership will be a permanent one. The saying, "There Is no fool like an old fool,” always pleases the young ones. One way to become a martyr in aec- tlons where pistol-carrying is the regu lar thing, is to fall to shoot first. The Grand Puke Alexis, uncle of the czar, succeeded the other day In dying a natural death—but not in Russia. The supporters of Gen. Gomez were In the majority in every province. It Is better that that should be so. There is no one part of the island which 1» likely to be the center of digeonteut with and opposition to the government which is soon to be installed. The American officials will step aside. The American troops will be withdrawn, with the exception of the marines at the naval station al Guantanamo. Cui>s will again be ruled by Cubans, and >sis slbly fairly well ruled, at least for th« next few years. There hardly will tn any trouble until the next presidential election. Four years hence, when Gen Gomez may lie anxious to succeed him self and resort to customary Latin American methods to retain power. an- other crisis will tie reached, Some dis appointed rival may raise the cry ot fraud and the standard of revolution If the insurrection could not be put down promptly the United Stat<*s would intervene—for the last time. In thes«' days wealth getting is s< Maybe the woman who walked 1,100 miles to find her husband had some frequently spoken of in connection witli thing In mind she wanted to say to him. suo'ess that tlie two terms have about come to be accepted as synonymous Kaiser Wilhelm Is familiar with sev and conviction Is forced that this 1» eral languages, and It is suspected thnt essentially a mammon-worshiping gen he has conversed too much in some of eration. There probably neyer was n time th the history of this nation when them. the desire and determination to get According to Gov. Hughes’ official wealth were so universal, and when th<i statement his election expenses were popular estimate of a man's worth WHt only (309.65, and his office is worth all so largely made up on the score of hi» of that. Imnk account. Tlie poor man has a very pronounced feeling In these times You are asked to Rpell It “skyology" of “not itelng In it." Outside of the hereafter. When that is clearly fixed president himself, there is not a states in your mind you will be ready for man in America to-day who is half so "flzzyology.” Imiiortant In the popular mind as John Count Boni de Castellane has not D. Rockefeller or J. ITerixmt Morgan. been saying much recently, but we feel And except It be tlie presidency Itself, safe in assuring the public that he is nine-tenths of tlie eager young men now pushing forward to tlie firing line not sawing wood. of the zestful battle of life would pre- Soulmates seem to be able to wield fer to lie such men rather than huve chairs and rolling pins with as much any jiolitical office the nation could color effect as the old-fashloued variety give them. In other countries the men of wealth feel and acknowledge inferi of angered spouse. ority to the great statesmen, tint in this Mr. Wu thinks one of the great needs country our rich captains of industry is a universal language. The golfers look rattier contemptuously down u[*ui and the baseball devotees are doing mere mayors and governors. Judges and Congressmen. We have need of a their best to build one. broader meaning to the word success. A Baltimore man has won twenty We may keep on producing tlie great seven hats on the election. Let us hope est aggregation of money makers tlie the time may never coine when women world ever knew, but if we do not learn will get to betting hats on their favor better to apprix-latc tlie achievements of scholarship, of science, of great ite candidates. work in every department of intellect The premier of England says there ual activity, we shall not produce the should be no talk of “Isolation’’ among worlds greatest writers. Its grentdjt the great powers. Wild lias been boast scientists and its greatest scholars ing of the “splendid” variety of ft for We need to learn, too. the old. old story a great many years? thnt wealth lias Its limitations, anti that there are countless desirable The French are going to reform their things it cannot buy. spelling, and, while they are about it, we wish that they would put a few of TO IDENTIFY POSTAGE STAMPS. those Irregular, not to any disorderly, verbs in straight-jackets. A Chicago Judge has decided that a baby-carriage must have lighted lamps if It is pushed .on public ways after dark. This will reduce the terrible mortality caused by over s|»eedlng baby carriages. Every school in the United States Is asked to have Lincoln's Gettysburg ad dress read aloud on Feb. 12. the hun dredth anniversary of the birth of rhe great president. Every school in the United States cannot do less than com ply. The Postoffice Department has issued Emperor William has raised ills Saughter-in-lnw, the crown princess, to an order under which users of large the rank of colonel of the regiment of quantities of |>oetHge stamps may have which her husband is only the major. them ¡M-rforated with letters to Iden Many a husband readily admits that at tify their ownership and prevent pilfer borne lie Is tlie second in command, but ing. The perforation must not lie over what did tlie Kaiser mean when tie 1-32 inch In diameter, and the perfo fave the princess higher military rank rated letters must not occupy space more than one-half Inch square. Such than that of his son? a privilege. If taken advantage of, will Light has dawned In the minds of make it impossible for office employes •ome managers of the Pennsylvania to steal stamps and sell them to stamp anthracite companies, and they are brokers, or dispose of them In other Mid to be planning to oi>en schools In ways.—Popular Mechanics. which operatives can lie taught by ex- An l n«<Tount»lil« Falling. l»erts how to meet the technical and It was a severe trial to Mr. Harding foreseeable exigencies of their danger thnt his only son's memory was not all ous calling. Better late than never. that could tie desired. “Where in the No discipline, however strict, ran de world he got such a forgetful streak feat the perfect works of Ignorance. from Is beyond me." said tlie exasjx'r- An ounce of prevention In mining, ns nted fattier to bls wife on one ix'cnslon. In everything else, is worth a pound "What has he forgotten now?" asked »f remedy. State supervision of obe Mrs. Harding, with eyes downcast and dience to law Is necessary, but can be a demure expression. diminished in coat and severity by such "The flgun's of the last return from action as in now contemplated. the election on tlie bulletin board.” And Mr. Harding inserted a finger In ills We have learned that the Cubans collar as if to loosen it and shook his have a real national sentiment, not to head vehemently. “Looked at ’em as be ignored either now or in our future he came past not half an hour ago. and relations with the Island. They have now can't tell me. no desire to be anything but a nation. “As I asld to him, 'If you're so stu They do not want to tie a dependency, pid you can't keep a few simple figures and annexation Is viewed with abhor In your h«>ad. why don't you write ’etn rence by the masses. What annexa down on a piece of pajier. as I do. and tion sentiment exists Is limited to the have done all my life, long before I was capitalistic element, which cannot ex your age?’" ceed 10 per cent of Cuba's population. Xot Mndeaty. Ko pronounced Is popular aversion to “ Sometimes," said tlie press humor annexation that only conquest could bring It about. In the opinion of army ist, “I think my Jokes are rotten. I officers on the island who. In the midst s'poee that's my modesty.” "No," explained a friend, “that's your of present activities, have endeavored to store up Information for the future. common sense."—Louisville Courier Thnt there will be either closer com Journal. mercial or political relations between They Certainly Keep It Da»te<1. Cuba and the United States than now Women In all lauds nre the custodi exist is not the teaching of their horo- ans of speivii. They preserve Its ■cope. purity. To them must go much of the credit of the Improvement In American The second Cuban presidential elec English.—New York World. tion. conducted by Cubans, was tainted Kvery Time. with fraud. Ths third, supervised by "Never liked your paper,' the American government, was fair and Growls old Skats; free. There was a reasonably full vote. But he makes a holler The Conservatives went to the polls, When it's late 1 though they did not look for success. —Burmlngham Age-Herald. They may bare done so In order to grt all the seats they could In the house Brides soon admit their husbands of representatives under the proportion hare faults. “We all have," they ox al, or» minority, representation plan. i plain ; "noue of us are perfect." U «•a» ••• HALF DIME BOUGHT FOR $715. ____ teats Alsu llrlav Fabulous Frieee at a New lurk Aucilua. ( RAILWAY TRAMPS. WRITER iu a current magazine describes railway tramps as a grave menace not merely to interstate commerce, but to the suiety of the traveling public. As n rule, a trulu 1 b in charge of five men only -the engineer, the fireman, the conductor and two brakemen. Hoboes riding "blind bag- gnge" on the trucks beneath the cars, or snugly ensconced in the grain iu half-filled freight ears, or even—as some times happens—lying across the hacks of pigs or sheep in cattle cars, cannot only make trouble for the train crews, but by turning the angle cocks can apply the air brakes Instantly, thus causing frequent wrecks and occasional loss of life. It is comparatively easy for a veteran of the road to elude the trainmen in a kind of hide-and- seek game, played in and out of the small doors in the tops of the cars and over the roofs of a moving freight train. There Is hardly an accident that does not include the death of a tramp who was riding the trucks or trav- ellng as a stowaway in the corner of a box car. Very often the cars are set on fire by the matches of these un desirable passengers. The only way to safeguard life and property Is to visit with the sever«*st penalties all infractions of the law Inhibiting trespassing on railroad property. The courts have been t,x> lenient.—I’hlladel phia Ledger. HAZING DENOUNCED. HE practice of hazing has passed beyond all the bounds of law and order. Tlie spirit which indulges in it now is that of the bully, and no more that of the fun-loving boy. The practice was always reprehensi ble. Now that It dares to run in defiant^ of public opinion, when it mocks at law and delights at torture in the guise of a “Juke,” it is no longer to be regarded as less than criminal. The practical Joker was always a nuisance and a fool. The hazer adds to these attributes those of being both malicious and dangerous. If the college authorities are not brave enough or powerful enough to put an instant end to hazing wherever it Is practiced they should apiieal to tlie State mid municipal police. Offenders should be punished without regard to their youth or good Intentions. —Wash ington (I>. C.) Post. HEALTH AND COUNTRY. E live faster in American cities than they do In England. Our men work too hard and our women work too little. . In the country the housewife, her children and the head of the house toil unceasingly, They have bathrooms, which the English country- man d<x*s not possess. The ixiys go to school, play in the open, are learning the laws and rules of hygiene. The dining table contains pure and whole some food. Farmers and the merchants and clerks in small com- niunitk-s do not watch with feverish anxiety the stock w THE SCIENTIFIC FARMER. N any community the progressive farmer may be recognized by the attitude he adopts toward tlie Department of Agriculture. The •coffer may have good crops despite his re fusal to follow the suggestions and take ad vantage of tlie experiments of the govern- eminent bureau, but it is more than likely that he would have better crops If he paid heed to such hints. Indeed, the advantage gained by tlie farmer who rec< gnlzes in the government s enterprise the best avail able advice for Hie agriculturist Is not measured by the material gains alone in crops and stock and in farm eco nomies. He is the broader man for ills communion thus with science, and ills general administration Is improved without reference to the specific details of bulletins or year-books. In fact, the American farmer to-day is a wide-awake, progressive man, and his broadening is due in part to the government's work.—Washington Star. ELECTRICITY AND RAILWAYS. HERE are now In the United States almost 4O.O<iO miles of electrical railways, not In cluding the former steam railways which are using this power at tlie terminals. There ure plenty of men living who re member when there were not so many miles of steam railway in the country. Tlie trolley, which was at first a purely urban institution, lias become a competitor witli steam, and it seems cer tain that a few generations hence electricity will be the great motive power on all railways unless some inven tion of a superior quality is brought out to supplant both.—Philadelphia Inquirer. HOUSEWIVES. MER1CA Is not alone in her distress over a decreasing supply of domestic labor. While gaining 3,000.000 households, Germany has lost 37,000 in her total number of servants. Distaste for what old-fashioned New Eng landers call "housework" grows steadily in classes from which such labor generally comes. We seem to see a distant time when, in the ab- pence of machinery mechanically relieving her, the av erage housewife will have to be her owu “girl."—Boston Herald. HUTS THAT ARE FORTRESSES. RARE OPERATION ON LIONESS. Twenty-flve Pound Tumor <ut of Her Cheat by SurKCona. ticker five and six hours a day. They do not retire at night wondering if another day's sun will find them bankrupt, homeless, in terror of Jail cells. Nor, to be sure, - does everyone in New York so live. We have clean, healthy-minded. fearless and honest young men. us well as holiest, aged men, by tlie thousands. In our America—among our hills and in our valleys—-o nur coun- tryineu are strong, forceful, pure-minded, and are ever ready to fight for the traditions that have made tills a happy and wonderful nation. And our men are strong enough to do it !—New York American. Out Julia, the huge lioness, whose roars and savage appearance have delighted thousands of patrons of the Cincinnati zoological gardens, is no more, says tlie Cincinnati Enquirer. She died yester day morning and was probably the first wild beast of the Jungle that under went an operation of a serious nature similar to that often performed on man beings. Tlie operating physicians say would have undoubtedly recovered for her age, 17 years. Julia was a suf ferer from a tumerous growth, twenty- five pounds in weight, which bad start ed in her chest and would' soon huve killed her. I>rs. Norton Dock J. ITa.nz and Theodore Bange were cant'd in and undertook to perform the opera tion, which was extremely hazardous to the physicians themselves. An apparatus was rigged up that, by a series of moves, gradually Inclosed the snarling beast until she couldn't turn round, She fought against the approach of the surgeons with such wildness that steel prongs had to lie used to prod tier into even half-submls- slvoness. Several of the attendants had narrow escapes from being struck by the great paws, Finally iron bars we:* worked through several holes drilled in the box and Julia roared in a ter- rlfylng manner while she was being pinned down. 1 Ether was then admln- lstered and the liesst sunk down under the paralyzing effects. However, while the surgeons were working on her she revived sufficiently to cause some alarm, but each time she was given more of the anesthetic. The doctors worked entirely with their hands after reaching the tumor and the operation took about a half hour. After the <>|>eration had been |>erformed tlie lioness revived and was given tlie freedom of her cage again. She walk ed around for a time, but finally sought a dark corner. In a short time she died. The body will be stuffed and may be presented to the university mu scum. Inconataney. "There's no doubt that women are fickle." said Mr. Growchcr. "I hope you don't mean me," said Ills wife. "Yes, I do. Here you nre saying tills •canon's hats are perfectly adorable." “Well, they are." “And a year or so ago you were talk ing the suine way about hats which you now describe ns utter atrocities.” — Washington Star. "Banks of flowers" appear« with reg- alnrity In the society columns, but the only pine*» where there are really banka of flowers is not a society ertnt: At u iuueraL BUIuLET PROOF QUARTERS FOR AUSTRIANS. Along the Bosnian and Herzegov s of troops, or bodies of men, in Al- Inlan frontier is a series of irou bullet banla and Montenegro. Each hut is g proof huts which act as barracks for arrisoned by eight or ten men, and the tlie Austrian frontier guards. More posts are found not only along the fr or less attached to these guards are ontler, but in the Interior of Bosnia a number of Herzegovinian and Bos and Herzegovlnia. These miniature f plan spies and scouts. It Is the busl orts are known as “Volcker Barracken," ness of these men—who are, of course, from the name of their Inventor, an o paid by Austria—to report movement flicer.—Illustrated Ixmdon News. Tay Within Cars. "I’ay within" cam. It is contended, are an Improvement on the “pay as you enter" style. Both tlie front and rear platforms are closed when the cars are moving, the doors only being opened when tlie cars come to a full stop at crossings. These doors are operated pneumatically with a lever which the conductor handlea. When the doors close the car steps fold up. making It Impossible for any one to board the car after it has started. When the cars come to n stop the doors nre opened and the step drops into place automatically. There ar* exit« o • • • / SAVING MONEY. Over three thousand school children of Des Moines, la., have been Induced to save money and to start bank ae- counts. More than fifteeu hundred of them, says u writer in the Congress of Mothers' Magazine, have deposits of ibout ten dollars each, The credit of the achievement belongs first to the Mothers’ Congress of Iowa, which or ganized the Penny Provident Associa tion in October, 1901. The plan used in Des Moines is sim pler than that of other cities. The<prln- ■lpal of each building is supplied with stamps and folders, in which fifty one- eent stami*s can be pasted. Every Fri day at a certain hour the principal is In her office to sell stamps to the chil dren. When the child has filled the folder with fifty stamps, he may go to the bank, always on Saturday morning, and either get fifty cents in cash for the look, or o[>en an account, receive a pass-book, and have an account en tered in It. The bank pays him 4 per cent inter est on the deposit after It has remained six months. The principal receives the Stamps and all other necessary printed matter from the bank without any ex pense to the district, and she makes nn accounting to the bank every week for the number of stamps she has sold. Tlie financial affairs are controlled by a board of directors, representing the bank, the school and the Mothers’ Congress. This board meets the first Tuesday In each month, from October to June, to receive tile re|M»rt of the banker and discuss tlie affa 1rs of the association. The principals, as a rule, do not find the work much trouble, for they have only to get a cent for every stamp, and have no accounts to keep with the chil dren. They are even allowed car fare for taking the money to the bunk oh Saturdays. The deposits now amount to nearly twenty thousand dollars. Since Its or ganization the Penny Provident Asso ciation has Induced the saving of about thirty-five thousand dollars, of which less than linlf lias been withdrawn. To draw out his money, the youthful de positor must have the written order of his parents or guardian. Tlie amount of the deposits, however, is of secondary consideration. The ob ject of tlie system Is to establish tlie habit of saving nmong tlie children and teach them a little atiout business meth ods. It has worked admirably, and has educated not only the children, but la many cases the parents as well. The young de[s>sltors nre discouraged from saving merely for the sake of hoarding. Many of the most persistent say their money is to be used to pay their expenses In college after they get through tlie public school. Aa Rga to the Future. "So you don't think well of titase airship*?" "No, sir.” answered Fanner Corntna- sel. "You see, I've got nil my 'rnnge- ments made to run for sheriff. Chauf feurs is bad enough. I don't want folks to expect nie to sit on tlie edge of a cloud to keep aviators from vio lating the speed reggelntlons.”—Wash ington Star. at each end, but eutram-e Is only at the rear of the car. The conductor stands behind a railing which every passenger must pass anil collects tlie fare. It is believed that on this car it will be practically Inijtosslble for the conductor to miss a fare and damnge claims will be reduced to the minimum, for most accidents hnpjien to persons • are. "What would you advise me to get who try to board or leave cars after they are In motion. for trousers?" "A boy.”—Houston Post. We wonder how it feels to b« a The notion that it is only |M>sslble to grandfather, And we wonder bow It sin or act foolish In a saloon, la a feels to have your son lu law live at serious mistake your house. a * ■M An iusignitieant looking little piece of silver rniuted iu 1802 and tor which ’ the treasury officials in Washington i will give only a nickel, was sold re cently for 1715, says the New York World. The purchaser was H. O. ' Grauburg of Oshkosh, Wis., tlie most noted coin collector in the Northwest. ; He got bls prize at the auction of the ! big coin collection of the late James B. Wilson of this city at the Collectors’ Club, 24 West 2<lth street. The coin is a half-dime and, although ltXJ years old, retalus its urigluul lus ter and is the finest specimen of the 1802 half-dime in existence. There are only fifteen other similar coins known and when this numismatic prize was bought by Mr. Wllsou iu 1884 It cost i him 1390. The price paid recently is a new high record for half-dimes uud records for quarters and cents were also smashed. A quarter-dollar of 1827, on which the dute bus been pressed over the numer als '23, brought (355, the largest sum ever paid for a coin of this denomina tion. It was bought by B. M. Braud, a coin collector aud dealer of Chicago. The top-notch price for cents was realized for a wreath coin of 1792 in perfect condition. A cent of 1795, made valuable by the figure 5 merging tn the bust, brought (57.50; another of 1793 with au endless chain of fifteen links, instead of a wreath on the face, was bld in at (50.50, while an identical coin of the same date which had a minute uiek iu the edge, was sold for (2.50 l<ss«. Other high prices for cents not ao rare were (28 for a 1793 wreath cent like the one bringing (81, except for an edge dent; (30.50 for one mint ed ill 1794; (40 for a 1799 cent and F25 for one made two years later in 1801. There was lively bidding for one of the coins on which the date 1799 bad been pressed over the date 1798. It was finally sold fur (50.
