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BANDON........................... OREGON
New Xork is Justly proud of its sub
ways. but the city's biggest bore is its
bonded debt.
Will the formation of that big lum
ber trust bring about an advance in
the price of breakfast food?
Another boy loses out in the at
tempt to keep up a record of 54J cigar
ettes a day. The coroner wins.
to bring Ida friends as he would. The
mother, having explained affairs clear
ly, told the ehlldcpn that they could
invite their friends as they had always
done, but to very simple meals, with
no desserts and meat but once a day,
or they could have the usual table and
—no friends.
The children decided
unanimously for their friends. Such
a family will master the fine art of
living under any conditions. "Yes'm,
'tig so,” a poor woman is said to have
explained to a friend. “I believe In
economizing as much as any one, but
I figger it this way: A body can’t afford
to be too poor.” It was sound phil
osophy. It remains only to define pov
erty.
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Do women hurt the churchj He Is
Let us pray that Europe will not a bold man who dares say so. yet here
accept Aunt Carrie Nation as a poi>u- are the words of Rev. John Balcom
Shaw, of Chicago, in tiie columns of the
lar tyi>e of American womanhood.
Homiletic Review: “Men are natural
General Nord Alexis remained Presi ly democratic. Left to themselves they
dent of Hayti for six years and got out seldom draw sharp sts-ial lines or In
alive. He must have broken all records sist upon conventional distinctions.
What do we find in the one sphere
for Hayti.
where the are supreme—the political
John W. Gates is going into the world? How much class distinction
circus business. Somebody must have exists there? Not so with women.
offered to bet a million with him that They are more gregarious, but at the
he wouldn’t.
same time more conventional, is not
fashion their standing incrimination at
Emperor William proposes to publish this bar? If rich, they are tiie more
a diary which he has been keeping exclusive; if p<s»r, the more sensitive.
since he ascended the throne. Bun, Social lines existing in tiie world with
Buelow, run!
out they have extended into tiie sacred
inclosure of the church, until to-day
Glaciers in all parts of the world there is no more conventional body
are said to be receding. Isn't it about among us than the well-to-do Christian
time for the gulf stream to change Ils church. Nothing hurts us so much as
course again?
this one condition, ami for Its exist
ence I hold our women almost exclu
Fifteen thousand fourth-class post sively responsible.” Such reasoning
masters are ready to agree that the conies with a shock to those who have
outlook tor a continuance of good times been brought up to believe that women
is very encouraging.
were the main support of the church,
that they carried it forward when men
A Kansas City preacher says the were too lazy or too indifferent, and
majority of people who marry for love that the church was purely democratic,
make a grievous mistake. He must, patterned after the universal brother
expect the price of living to remain hood doctrines of Christ. Yet, not so
pretty high.
long since, tiie wife of one cabinet of
ficer at Washington quarreled with the
I’u-Yl has been crowned as Emperor wives of other officers over social pre
of China under the name of llsuan cedence. The woman of the tenement,
Tung. He seems to have got badly mix proud In possession of a new feather
ed In his efforts to Inaugurate spelling for her bohnet, boasts over her next-
reform over there.
door neighbor. Fond mothers approve
Mr. Archbold admits that the Stand their children trying to establish a
ard Oil Company makes chewing gum secret society aristocracy in the public
as a by-product. We are assured, how schools of Chicago. Is the church ex
ever, that it has no connection with empt from human nature? If not,
then perhaps Dr. Shaw is right, after
the cigarette-making Industry.
all, and another childhood illusion has
Many centuries hence historians may perished.
set up the claim that many of the re
BIOGRAPHIES IN BRIEF.
markable stories concerning actors and
actresses of the present day were man
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon was clerk
ufactured by hired press agents.
in a grocery store.
United States Senator A. J. Beveridge
“Little Boy” has been elected captain
of
Indiana was a farm boy and “lumber
of the Carlisle Indian football team.
Jack.
”
Appropriately to his name he tips the
John Mitchell, the world-famous
scale at 190 pounds and has the mo
mentum of a young locomotive in ac leader of mine workers, began life as
a mine boy.
tion.
James J. Hill, the great railroad
In Oetolier the tide of immigration man of the northwest, was in early
turned. For the nine months ending life a laborer on the docks at St.
September 30th, departing aliens num I’aul.
bered over four hundred thousand, and
George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of
arrivals numbered less than three hun
Treasury, began bls career as a stenog
dred thousand. In October the arriv
als were forty thousand and the de rapher at the age of 20; and he Is only
4<i now.
partures thirty-five thousand.
Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota
School authorities in a Massachu clerked in a grix’ery store and also de
setts city have apfiealed to the parents livered laundry from his mother’s
of high school pupils for supi*ort in washtub.
Theodore 1*. Shonts. president of the
combating the extension of secret fra
tend)les. It ought to be taken for Interltorough lines of New York city,
granted in any American community was a water boy on a construction
that parents will approve any projier train in Iowa.
measures of school discipline deter
W. II. Truesdale, president of the
mined on by the school commit tee.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Railroad, began by clerking in a
The recent growth of Japan along western freight house.
lines of occidental civilization lias not
Oscar G. Murray, president of the
been healthful, physically or morally. Baltimore & Ohio, was a ticket agent
The spread of leprosy among her peo on the Galveston. Houston & Hender
ple— so great already that the govern son Railroad, In Texas.
ment takes every precaution to conceal
William C. Brown, senior vice presi
tiie facts of its exlshmce—is becoming
dent
of the Vanderbilt system, was a
known to the outside world. The phy
sical endurance of her soldiers, so often section hand on the Chicago, Milwau
cited as an argument In favor of vege kee A St. Paul Railroad.
Frederick J. Delano, who won a rep
tarianism, is found on investigation to
be slight. It Is true that the Military utation as president of the Wabash,
and hospital work in the field at the was a Journeyman machinist on the
tune of the Russian war was wonder Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail
fully efficient and praiseworthy, and road.
George B. Harris, who rose to be
gave rise to the Impression that the
Japanese forces lost a remarkably president of the Chicago, Burlington A
small percentage by disease; but for Quincy road, was a clerk to a pay
eign experts residing In Japan report master on the Hannibal A St. Joseph
that the Japanese have very little re road.
cuperative power, and that the ravages
Self niauraced.
of disease resulting from that war have
In
Boston,
as every one knows, the
really beeu enormous, though long de
symphony concerts are viewed in the
ferred.
light of sacred ceremonials.
In this
It Is often tiie very jioor who reveal connection the story Is told of two lit
the perception of the relative value of tle girls of a certain family who re
things which lies at the bottom of every turned from 'the music hall “In a state
art. Misery dwells with them, a thous of mind.” One of them carried an ex
and forms of wretchedness; yet, often, pression of deep scorn, the other an
too. kindness, sympathy, zest in living air of great dejection.
“What is the matter, girls?” asked
—treasures too often cast away by
those who descend to poverty from some member of tiie household. “Was
easier circumstance—nre their frequent the concert fine?”
“The concert was all right,” respond
guests. "Hard times” force upon ninny
a life a s'ern test. What is cast over ed Eleanor. “The trouble was with
board first that the ship may weather Mary. She disgrace«] herself.”
the storm? Amusements? Dress? The
“Dlsgra<e<l herself?”
fine house? The pew In church? Are
“Yes; she sneezed In the middle of
hospitality and charity luxuries to be the symphony”—Philadelphia Ledger.
abandoned, or necessities to lie kept at
ny an lrrcapnaalbla.
guy cost? Are l>ooks and magazines
“An authority on style attempts to
part of the vital stuff of life, or mere
ly i<lle adornments? Occasionally one tell how some fashions were started.”
“I think some of them must have
Is rejoiced to find a family where the
test is not only met quietly and calm been started In tiie dark.”—Birmingham
ly. but made to reveal the true riches Age-IIerald„
of life, as In the case of the mother
Don't manage a picnic; there Is sure
who, when hard times came upon the to be someone in the crowd who will
family, talked the whole matter over look at you as if to say: “Where is
with her children, and made them de the good time you promised?”
cide their share of the problems. The
How fathers mpst scold! Ws uro i
family had been one of <>|>en-hearted
hospitality, where every child was free always bearing about *it
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Whether William II. Taft will be the
greatest of the Presidents remains to
be seen; but one thing is certain, he
will be the biggest. The chair of the
chief executive of the nation Inis sus
tained ninny men of many weights, but
none of such tremendous bulk as Taft,
Buys a writer in the St. Isiuis Globa-
Democrat. This fact suggests a phys
leal eoiiqmrlson witli the presidents
who have gone before. The biggest
men of the presidential line—big in
set rather forward on his shoulders,
and, bis neck being long, it habitually
protruded when he was walking or
talking.
MadlBon, the father of the constitu
tion, was physically unlike any of his
predecessors. Below tiie average height,
lie was small of frame. Throughout
his long and eminently useful life he
was a semi-invalid, and it is a singular
fact that the two Presidents who lived
to the greatest age were in early life
convinced that death was constantly
waiting Just around the corner for
them.
John Adams was for many
years morbidly anxious about his
health, but during the last half of his
ninety years of life lie was exception
ally hale and hearty. Not so with
Madison. From extreme youth to his
death at 85 he was feeble and sickly.
James Monroe was “rather more
than six feet high, broad and square
shouldered an«l raw-boned.” He was a
man of great physical strength, but
awkward in his movements.
John Quincy Adams bore a strong
personal resemblance to his father.
John Adams, although perhaps a
little taller and a little more bald.
His successor, Andrew Jackson, had
the physical characteristics, but not
tlia mental, of Thomas Jefferson. He
stood six feet one in his stocking feet,
and was very slender. Jackson's suc
cessor, Martin Van Buren, was the
second of the little men to occupy the
¡»residential chair. “Little Van” was
the nickname ids ¡»olltical enemies ap
plied to him. lie was below the mid
dle height ami slender, but erect. lie
was fond of the elegancies of life, and
was always immaculately attired, a
trait which magnified to tiie point of
dandyism in his son, “Prince John.”
William Henry Harrison was a large
man and his frame was well knit and
inured to physical hardships by many
campaigns against the Indians.
Tyler is described as a “tall, thin.
1672—A monthly post was established
betwren New York anil Boston.
1775—British under I.or<l Dunmore de
fvated by the Americans at Norfolk,
W. Ya.
1777—Washington's army went into win
ter quarters at Valley Forge.
1787—Pennsylvania (the second State)
ratified rhe federal constitution.
1789—The first circulating library was
established in Salem, Mass.
1804—New York Historical Society in
stituted........ Simin declared war
against Great Britain... .Two-score
of houses on Wall str«*et, New York,
destroyed by fire.
1807—An unusually large and brilliant
meteor was seen in Connecticut.
1811—Americans under Gen. Harrison
left the battleground at Tippecanoe
on their return to the United Slates.
181(1—Indiana admitted into the Union
as the nineteenth State.
"HOW BIO WAS AI.EXANDEK, PA?”
1817—Mississippi admitted to statehood.
height us well as in breadth—.were
1830—National Republiran party, at Bal
Washington,
Monroe, Buchanan, Gar
timore, nominated Henry ('lay for
President.,. .Tiie first locomotive field and Arthur. All of these men
built in the United States was fin were six feet and upward and large
ished and tested at the \Vest Point of frame. The heavyweights of middle
(N. Y.) foundry.
height were John Adams, John Quincy
1833—The House of Assembly in Jamaica Adams, Fillmore, Johnson, Grant and
Roosevelt. In the “dumpy” class, short
passed a bill abolishing slavery.
1S35—Patent office and postoffice in and stout, might be ¡»laced Zach Tay
lor, Cleveland and McKinley. The list
Washington burned.
184(1—Tiie first regiment to fight against of tall and slender Presidents includes
Mexico was organized in Pittsburg.
1854—United States and Great Britain
THE FIRST FOUR PRESIDENTS OUT FOR A STROLL.
concluded a treaty of commercial re
ciprocity.
1856—Christ church, Montreal, de
stroyed by fire.
1864—Gen. Dix issued an order for re
prisals on Canadians because of the
St. Alban's raid ; order annulled later
by President Lincoln.
1866—French occupation of Rome ter
minated.
1868—All disputes between Mexico nnd
tiie United States settled by treaty.
1870—J. R. Rainey of South Carolina,
the first negro ever elected to the
House of Representatives, sworn in.
1872— Eleven servant girls perished in a
fire in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York.
1873— New England celebrateil the cen
tennial of the “Boston Tea Party.”
1891—Sir Oliver Mowat, Liberal prime
minister of Ontario, issued an ad
dress declaring vigorously against
American assimilation.
1893— A provincial plebiscite in Prince
Edward Island supitorted prohibition
of the liquor traffic by an overwhelm
ing majority.
W ASH INGTON, A DAM S. JEFFERSON, MADISON.
1894— E. V. Debs sentenced to six
months’ imprisonment for contempt
of court during the great railroad Jefferson, Jackson, Folk, Pierce, Tyler, fiat, clean-shaven man, with a beak
William Henry Harrison and Lincoln. like Roman nose and a prominent Ad
■trike in Chicago.
1898— Gen. Galixta Garcia, noted Cuban The featherweights of tiie line were am's apple that was in constant play.”
Madison. Van Buren and Benjamin Folk was hardly so tall as Tyler, but
ltxtder, died in Washington.
1899— —Maj. (Jen. Leonard Wood appoint Harrison, all three being below the av he also was slender, with an erect
erage height and slender. Harrison, figure and a handsome, scholarly face.
ed military governor of Cuba.
1900— Mgr. Montngniui, secretary of the however, broadened out after he be He was never a strong man physically.
Papal Nunciature, expelled from came President, and Van Buren after His successor, for a brief time, Zach
France by the French government.
I he retired.
Ilayes was of middle ary Taylor, was short and stout,
1902— Germany and England joined in a : height and thin.
“dumpy,” ns the popular expression
Washington was tremendously boned puts it. Fillmore, who became Presi
naval demonstration against Ven
ezuela.
I nnd muscled. but there was not an dent upon Taylor's death, was one of
1903— William I. Buchanan appointed ounce of superfluous flesh on his body. the big men of the presidential line.
United States minister to Panama.
Ills weight was 200 pounds. He wore Although under six feet in height, lie
1906— The new law separating church
wm broad, erect. He was what would
and state went into force in France.
now be called “fine-looking.” Franklin
1907— Norwegian Parliament conferred
Pierce, who came after him, was taller
the Nobel prize upon President
probably, than Fillmore, but he was
Roosevelt in recognition of his ser
rather slender. Pierce was tiie hand
vices in ending the It usso-.Ia panes«
somest man who ever l><>caim> Presi
war.
dent, it has been raid, and his graces
Justice C. B. Elliott of State Supreme
Court o|s-n«sl the second annual conven
tion of the Minnesota Academy of Social
Sciences at the University of Minnesota.
Other addresses were delivered by Judge
C. L. Brown. Attorney General E. T.
Young and Prof. II. J. Fletcher of the
law school. The discussions all related
to renditions in Minnesota.
The overwhelming defeat of Nebraska
by Carlisle, together with Carlisle's de
cisive victory over St. Louis, goes to add
to Minnesota’s glory. Carlisle beaten by
Minnesota defrets two western teams sup
posed to be of strength approximating
Minnesota's. This lifts Minnesota's vic
tory into its true proportions and shows
how well the Gophers played in defeating
the husky Indians. Carlisle won from Ne
braska by a score of 37 to 6. Minnesota
beat Carlisle 11 ta (5.
Many agricultural colleges sent exhibits I
to the live stock show in Chicago this j
week, among them Minnesota and Nebras
ka. Students from most of the leading ’
agricultural colleges participated in th*
Judging rentesta.
In the Judging contest» at the Chicago 1
live stock show, a farmerN son—J. G. I
Troutman of Manhattan. Kan.—pitted
his practical knowledge against the theo
retical ex|>erence of the college students
for the J. Ogden Armour agricultural
scholarships, amounting to $5,000, whiiit
were to be distributed for ths most effi-
«lent work in tbs event.
TALLEST AND BIGGEST PHLSIDENT.
No. 13 boots, and his hands were so
large lie was obliged to have his gloves
piade to order, while his finger Joints
were so prominent that they were con
sidered "genuine curiosities.” He bad
a large, thick nose that always turned
scarlet u|*»n exposnta to the wind. Ills
hair, in middle life, was a chestnut
brown and his eyes a light blue, some
times apnroacliing gray.
John Adams' figure was "large anti
round.” Jefferson was half an inch
taller than Washington, hut of long
frame, thin and spare. -His bead was
of manner were no less attractive.
Buchanan was tall and large of frame.
He habitually carried ids head with it
lean to one side, and he had another
physical peculiarity that was even more
unusual—one of his eyes was hazel,
while the other was light blue.
Lincoln was one of die few Presi
dents whose physical characteristics
are popularly known, but his own de
scription of them is worth repeating
here. "I am,” he wrote to an inquirer
in 1859, “in height six feet four Indies
nearly; lean in flesh; weigh, on aver
age, 16o pounds; dark complexion,
with coarse, black hair and gray eyes;
no other marks or brands recollected.”
It may be added that he was the first
President to wear a beard, as Grant
was the first to wear a mustache. AB
the Presidents who preceded Lincoln
were clean-shaven, as to lip and chin.
Of those who followed him no more
neetl be said tlinn has been already
snid in tiie comparisons with Mr. Taft.
They are so recent that few of us have
any mistaken notions in regard to their
¡»ersonal appearance.
Thirteen of the twenty-five chief ex
ecutives of the nation have been above
the average In height an«l most of these
have been In the neighborhood of or
above six feet. If one cannot be great
perpendicularly the matter of girth
must be sedulously cultivated. Though
not above tiie middle height, the two
Adamses. Johnson. Grant and Roose
velt, and even the still shorter ones.
Tayldr, Cleveland and McKinley, could
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son of their weight. The little man,
the man who Is both short and thin,
has a mighty slim chauee of getting
into the White lloust*.
ALBERT B. CUMMINS,
Iona*«
Governor,
Who
Surceoda
William 11. Allivon in the Senate.
Albert B. Cummins. Governor of
Iowa, has been elected to fill th«» place
of the veteran Allison in the Unitetl
State« Senate. Perhaps It would I m
more accurate to say that Senator
Cummins will fill ¡»art of th«» ¡»lace left
vacant by Mr. Allison. No man with
out many years' exfierlenee in national
legislation could ho|»e completely to oc
cupy the sh»M*s of such a man as Alli
son, wliise brilliant mind and vnst ex-
perience mad«* him a ¡»ower in Washing
ton. Ills experience was almost unpar
alleled ami his Judgment was actmrata
Moreover, Mr. Allison had only friend!
in the Senate. Mr. Cummins will b«
handicapped in a nu*asure because som!
of Allison's friends will not readily for
give him for trying to secure Allison’!
s«*at while that veteran was still alive.
They reason that the veteran’s services
to ids country were so great that I m
should have been ¡»ermitted to retain
Ids place without fighting for it.
Mr. Cummins is a man somewhat of
the La Follette stamp ami is exi»ected
to Join forces with tin* Wisconsin re
former. On the matter of tariff 11«
says: “'File time has com? to quit talk
ing tariff reform ami take action. Re
vision must come quickly ami we rnusf
get th«* best we can.”—Utica Globe.
NEW LAW OF HEREDITY.
Certain Qualities Appear Incapable
of Iteatruction in Stock.
Some time ago an English scientist,
W. Beach Thomas, contributed to th«
English press an article on Mendel'!
great discovery concerning heredity in
plant and animal life. “The scientific
world,” lie said, “is on the point of
giving full recognition to a new, strange
and deep-rooted law, and it is a satis
faction to know that in a few month«
some of the most striking of its prac
tical results will be published by a
body of English scientists.”
Briefly, the law, which sdbms to
touch the ultimate mysteries of hered
ity, is this: When pure stock or strains
are cross«-«!, it is found that a certain
list of qualities remain, so to speak,
indestructible, and aplicar uncontaml-
nated in a definite proportion of tba
offspring of all generations after th«
first.
Some concrete examples will best
show the practical effect of the law,
says the Technical World Magazine.
When th«* tall variety of sweet pea and
the short variety of sweet pea are
crossed, the first generation art all tall.
Tallness is the dominant quality over
shortness, which is called recessive. But
in the second generation it is found
that just one-quarter are dwarf, and
not only are they dwarf, but they wilt
refnaln ¡»ure dwarf, without any rever
sion, and when crossed with dwarf will
never again show signs of tallness. The
other three quarters will be tall, and
of these tall again Just one-quarter will
be ¡»ure tall, and never again allow
signs of dwarfness. The remaining two-
quarters will be Impure, but again
when crossed with their like will give
both pure tails, ¡»ure dwarf and mon
grels In due proportion So (lint w«
find in all grandchildren, so to speak,
of pure strains, the proportion 1:2:1
has a mystic application—that Is. one-
quarter of these grandchildren will I m
exact or ¡»lire reproductions In one qual
ity of their grandmother, one-quartet
will l»e ¡aire reproductions of their
grandfather, and two quarters, though
resembling one grandparent, will hav!
latent In them the qualities of both.
Cure for lllpnonannla.
Flesh food Is the chief cans«* of dip
somania. When men are proi»erly nour
ished upon non-in flu in ma tory diet that
Is rich In proteld and nerve and tls-
sue-bulhling Substance—such ns nut*
of all kinds nnd their products, cereal
foods (wheat men), oatmeal, macaroni,
rice, etc.), legumes (haricots, lentil»
and ¡a*na), fruits of Overy sort nnd
dairy produce (cheese, milk and eggs)
—they do not crave for strong drink,
nor nre they In danger of tnklng alco
hol to excess.—London Health Record.
Tn the Dime Mnaeam.
“What did you do with my ther
mometer?” demanded the doctor who
had been call«*«! in to attend one of th!
freaks.
“I swallowed It, doc,” answered th!
glass enter. ’Thought It was my medi
cine.”—Pittsburg Press.
A shabby coat may'cover a fat purs«|
but tiie combination isu't alwuys a *af«
one to bet on.
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