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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American troops will be withdrawn,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."
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HALF DIME BOUGHT FOR $715.
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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
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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
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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«
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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.
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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.