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o 4 » Ö D ? «• O ■ —I ■ O ■ ■■ ■■ I ■■■■■ ■ ■— ■ BANDON RECORDER teu.4 r«h Week BANDON......................... OREGON The Gomez«*!« seem to be the Smith« of tropical 'America. * " _■—........... ’ — —•"* A London paper publishes an article entitled: "Why Clever Girls Don’t Marry.” They frequently do. A Michigan uian has been sent to Jail for stealing a 2-cent stamp How that man must be despised In Pitts burg I The girls who get married this year will be able to hold their heads up proudly, knowing that they are free from suspicion. Champ Clark says the average price of a woman's hat is $5. And yet it would never do to refer to any wom an’s hat as an average one. Now that Mark Twain Is a trust he should have himself Investigated and «how Henry Rogers what a real hu morist can do on the witness stand. Count Boni de Castellane declares that he doesn’t waut any mofe Gould money. Can It be possible that he had the foresight to save up wins of it for the rainy day? A Pullman official says it Is the self ish who tip the porter. Then It must be the unselfish who paj’ -him $25 a month, one-half of which must go for meal« on the road. It'« all right for Boni to withdraw bls demand for $(10.900, but If he gets the custody of bls sons without an al lowance we’re nfratd there will be a new child-labor scandal In France. Another county lias gone dry and Emperor William announces he will never drink again during the remain der of his life. The temperance move ment Is making some mighty strides. Some of the prophets are predicting that the Atlantic will tie crossed by balloon during the present year. If John W. Gates can be Induced to bet a million on it the matter will be set tled. clety wa« treated by Mrs. Charlotte | Perkins Gilman, one almost expects] some Judge to ask the poor home whether it has anything to say before sentence is pronounce«! against It. As a matter of fact, tlie modern home need not hang its bead in shame sorrow, and Is in no danger of demnatlon. It has done very well ■Iderlng its prehistoric and even torlc past, and It goes on Improving. With all Its imperfections—and these It shares with other human Institu tions and with human nature Itself— It manages to put to the front millions of tolerably healthy, tolerably moral and tolerably intelligent men and wom en to do the work and carry on the civilization of the known world. It Is true that extreme poverty, like Idle- ihmw In luxury and parasitism, is bad for maternity, nnd It Is true that in too ninny homes the provisions for child culture are still sadly inadequate. But it Is not true that we have reached the parlous state where “the woman re fuses to go back, the home refuses to go forward, and marriage waits.” Few of us would 'send woman back to slav ery’ and abject dependence If we could, and most of ns understand that we couldn’t If we would. Revolutions do not go backward, and the progress of woman Is assure«!. As to the home, It never has been so unreasonable as to refuse to advance. It advances slowly, to be sure, but this shows wise conservatism and a due realization of its solemn responsibilities. The home knows that not everything is advance which is so described in formidable volumes and at sociological meetings, and it wishes to be certain of the next stop before taking It. Industrial, edu cational and social conditions are re acting on the home as on other basic Institutions. Our various problems are interdependent, and no sovereign rem edy for all our ills Is in sight. Society Is struggling, developing, making ex periments. accumulating knowledge. It cannot give its entire time and atten tion to the future, for the simple rea son that man does not live by high thinking alone. We must use such light as we have to make the modern home a fit place for all who dwell In It. To Improve education, to eliminate unnec- esary poverty, to remove unjust In equalities. to disseminate Intellectual moral and aesthetic culture Is directly and Indirectly to raise the morale and ennoble the atmosphere of the home. PHOSPHATE IN SOUTH SEAS. •• Quinti ill iffi if i if l T * “ “i TTTT t TTVT v TT v I v if if vh *-0-0-0- 0-.0-.0-.0- **-.*_ ■. vttttttttttttttt • ’ BOW FIGS MtE MARKETED. Tree* Gr«» Vtld >|<| FrAlt 1* Dr«*4 in «Be Snn. • I MT0R1A1S 7 Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. 4-4-4-4-4-4-J-»-4<-+4-4-b-l-+4+4-4-4-+4-4-+4-4-4«*.4-t4-h44.M-4 WHO SUPPORTS THE FAMILY f N thirty States of the Union a mother has no ownership In her own children, and the husband can collect every dollar of their enruings. Is the wife who bstags up a fam ily of children, under such conditions as these, not a self-supporting member of the community? Who supports the family, any way? In the days of our grandfathers the husband paid for a bariel of flour and the wife made that flour into bread. Converting raw material Into a manufactured product Is usually more expensive than the raw mate rial Itself. The cash value of the wife’« contribution to the broad might have been more than the value con tributed by the husband to provide the flour. Would she, then, not be as self-supporting as her husband? All this balderdash about the necessity of economic independence for women is a pretty poor tribute to the Intellectual ability of the female reformers who are re sponsible for so much trouble and unhappiness. Is tho woman who draws a salary from the mere man who employs her in his office more Independent than the wife who is comfortably cared for by her husband? Or can the wage earner of either sex be considered as econom- ically independent? There is no sex to brain power of itself. And in this free country there Is no more obstacle to a woman at taining economic Independence than there is to the man. Stop arguing, sisters. There is no room for argument. Time flits and opportunity fleets. If economic independ ence is your sole object, roll up your sleeves and dig In. —Chicago Journal. DEATH BY VIOLENCE. EARLY 11,000 persons committed suicide tn this country last year. This Is probably the largest number of suicides In any single year in the history of the country, statis tics showing a marked and steady increase In late years In the number of cases of self- destruction. Other deaths due to personal violence numbered 8,952, which, with the 100 cases of lynching rej>orted, make a total of 19,904 cases of death by personal violence In a single year. These are star- tling figures. Of the Illegal hangings or lynchings, the South con tributed ninety-seven and tile North three. California had one case and Illinois two. There were ninety-two legal executions In the country, thirty-six of which were In the North and fifty-six In the South. Two persons executed were Chinese, forty-four were blacks and forty- six were whites. Of the suicides, 0.34 arose from busl ness losses and failures, nnd of this number thirty-one were barkers and brokers. Among profosslonal men, physicians furnished tho largest number of suicides Seven thousand, eight hundred sixty-four males anil 2,USS females destroyed themselves, a ratio of nearly three males to one female. These figures tiiat tell of the violent deaths of 20,000 people yearly, bei-ause of crime or Inability to eojie suc cessfully with the controlling forces of life, ought to awaken profound and Bober thought and lead to serious inquiry as to the best ¡wsslble way to end this needless and wanton wuste of human life.—Milwaukee Sentinel. WATCH CANADA. N the Canadian Northwest the railroads arc laying out new towns by wholesale along their new lines. On the Grand Trunk Pacific, the Canadian Northern and the Ca nadian Pacific 220 new villages will be plat ted within the next few months. The rail road authorities believe that to locate such trading places and rutlway stations not more than eight or ten miles apart, along their extensions westward ami northward, will facilitate the settling of the farming country between and promote the development of the entire territory. It Is expeeteil that settlers from the United States will furnish a large part of the population required to fill up a great region, far north of the boun dary. Canada has seen immigration from this country rise to 00,000 a year, with signs of a still heavier move ment, and the plans of the Canadian railroad companies are on a generous scale, accordingly. It is solid, en during, fruitful growth which will add Immensely to tl»e productiveness and wealth of America, on both sides of the international frontier. The Dominion is moving forward at a great rate. In all of the vital elements Of national life anil progress. Its future will surely far outrun all that its past has known. As we have said before, “Watch Canada."---CJeveland Leader. WATER WAYS AND PEACE. HE use of common waterways has always proven a prolific cause of Internationa wrangling. The Joint navigation of such waters, the joint control of water power, the regulation of fishing rights und the determination of the use of water in navi gable streams having their rise in one Jurisdiction and their outflow in another have led to in terminable dispute. Iaiter Inventions, especially the use of water power for the development of electrical energy, have only served to increase the possibilities of dissen- sion. There has been a continuous unsettled water- ways debate between the United States and Great Britain from the time of the colonies. It is therefore of most happy augury for the future that a treaty has been successfully negotiated by Secretary Root and An* bassador Bryce providing for amicable adjustment by a Joint high commission of all future waterway and boundary difficulties.—Philadelphia Record. ÍT An organization has been formed to tench farmers* wives how to cook. 1. nrgeat Known Deposit* of High Grade Phosphate. What farmers’ wives would really like The Islands of the Pacific ocean con to know la how they can get rid of about half of the cooking they have to tain the largest known deposits of high grade phosphates. A London company do now. t'l ■ ' ' XX controls the deposits in Ocean and A married couple in Montclair, N. J., Pleasant islands, in the Gilbert group. •«•parated because of incompatibility. The deposits on these Islands are es- He was an Inveterate tobacco chewer ‘tlmated at 50,000,000 tons, of which ed her in a foot race If he would pay APPLES’ PLACE IN STORY. and she had a habit of kissing the scarcely 1,000,000 tons have been mar with his life If he lost. Suitors ran eat Cautious persons will be careful keted. By the employment of a large Greek« Knew of tlie Fruit nnd My- and lost until Hippomenes volunteered In bestowing their sympathy In this number of Chinese, Japanese and na to try. Venus heard his prayer, and tlioloffy Has Reference to It. eass. tives the company Is now marketing from her temple, in iter own islantl of 2. VmoO to 800,000 tons a year, of which The apple is mentioned In fable and The girl who has neglected to pro 100,000 tons go to Japan. 80,000 to Aus history more than any other fruit. It Cyprus, brought three golden apples, pose during leap year and find« her tralia and the remainder to Europe. played a part in the downfall of man, which she gave to the young suitor, self still alone and unsought may l>e Europe also receives yearly 100,000 tons for had not Eve been tempted by Sa with Instructions how to use them, For a time the two racers ran even- expected to begin agreeing with the of high grade phosphate« from Christ tan, who, in the guise of a serpent, poet that ‘‘of all «ad words of tongue mas island and more than 100,000 tons offered the first woman fruit from the ly. Theu Atalanta forged ahead. I lip or pen the saddest are these, ‘It might of lower grade phosphates from Tunis tree of knowledge, an apple tree, and )M>menes threw nn apple in front of had not Eve yielded the father and her. She stoopeil to ¡tick up the prize bars been.’ ” nnd Algeria. and In stooping lost ground, She re Notwithstanding the very large de mother of the world would not have Can the proposition that the mini posits owned by the London company, jjeen driven from the Garden of Eden, doubled her efforts and soon overtook Hippomenes. Again he threw an apple mum salary for an unmarried Episco the mining of phosphates pay« «o well says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. palian clergyman In the diocese of New that not only that company, but va The Greeks knew the apple, and to one side, and again the girl fell be York should be $1,200 and for a mar rious other Investors, have been, ami many of their fables are stories on the hind in stooping to pick It up. Venus ried clergyman $1,200, with a suitable are, innklng constant efforts to discover luscious fruit. According to Homer the Impelled the girl to pick up the third place to live In, or $1,500 In money, be other phosphate deposits, and in many apple was one of the causes of the apple when it was thrown, an«l Hippo menes shot across the goal a victor. taken as an offidnl statement of the ex Islands deposits, small in quantity and Trojan war. The two lovers were so full of their act cost of a wife? Homer says that at the wedding of poor in quality, have been discovered, own happiness that they forgot to do as In the Ffjls. Recently, however, Peleus and Thetis, two immortals, all Mme. Curie, co-dlscoverer with her phosphate of goal quality hns been dis of the gods were invited except Erls, honor to Venus. That goddess was pro- husband of radium, has l>een promoted covered on three Islands In the French or Discord. Enraged at her exclusion yoked at their Ingratitude nml caused to full prof'MWorshlp In the University colony of Tahiti and dependencies. the goddess threw a golden apple them to give offense to Cybele, who of Pari«. A woman who can discover These islands—Makatea, Matnhlva and among the guests, with the inscription, changed Hippomenes to n lion and new truth Is certainly qualified to Nfau—He in the northwestern part of "For the fairest.” Thereupon Juno, A taianta to a lioness, and yoked them teach it, and the young men in the uni the Tuamotu archipelago of eighty Venus and Minerva each claimed the to her chariot. William Tell, the Swiss spy, was a The decision was left with versity can afford to sit with respect atoll islands. It Is also probable that apple. at the feet of this remarkable woman deposits exist on other Islands of this Paris, n beautiful shepherd. Minerva noted crossbowman, and when Gesler, the Austrian governor, had his hat of science. group. The deposits in Matahlva and promised him glory nnd renown in placed on a pole on the market place war if he would yield her the prize; Nlau are small, but the high grnde de The general express business of the posits In Makatea are estimated at Juno promised power nnd riches, and and stationed a sentry to make the country Is controlled by six companies, 10,000,00 tons, with many million more Venns assured him the fairest of wont- Swiss bow to the hat, Tell refused and although the Bureau of the Census re tons of an Inferior quality. The qual- en for a wife. Paris decided in fa- was arrested. Gesler told him he would be freed If he would shoot an ports thirty-four such companies in op tty of this deposit rnnges from 73 to vor of Venus. eration. This Is largely owing to the 80 per cent. The Island has an eleva Under the protection of the goddess npple off the head of his only son. fact that the six big companies are all tion of 230 feet—the highest of the Paris was hospitably received by Men Tell, threatened with imprisonment If that do business In more than ten group—and an area of six to eight elaus, king of Sparta. Helen, the fair he refused to undertake the test and States. Nineteen companies do busi square miles. Although many others est of her sex, was the wife of Mene urged by his son to try, shot the apple ness In one State only. The companies are interested in these deposits, they laus. but Paris, aided by Venus, per- from the boy’s head. oi>erate on friendly terms with the rail will be worked by a French company, suaded her to elope with him and car- TESTED SPINELESS CACTUS. roads, and agree to charge at least 50 just formed in Paris for that purpose. Tied her off to Troy. Paris was the per cent more than the freight rate mi As Makatea Is surrounded by coral son of Priam, king of the Trojans, and all article«. Indtsd, the railways are reefs and has no harbor, the phosphate was welcomed by his fatber and l>r. I.nndone Prove* It* Notricloa* Value. The Greeks gathered an part owners of some of the independ- wllj have to be loaded at deep sea court. The attention of medical t?ientlsts ent express companies. This partner moorings outside the reefs. On ac army, and in n siege that taste«] for ship arrangement may ultimately re count of the expense Incident thereto years finally succeeded In entering the all over the world, Just now, Is cen sult In the absorption of the exp.ess it will be some time before the com city by a stratagemand totally destroy- tered on Dr. Ltjon Albert Landone, of eompanle« by the railroads themselves pany can make any considerable ship ed it. The story of the siege and of I/>s Angeles, Cal. He has demonstrat I ed not only a new principle In food ments, but In the course of a few years the subsequent adventures of one of theories—that organic salts are al»so- There Is more and more recognition It Is considered that the capacity of the besieged are the themes of tho two among enterprising church denomina the works will be 200,0G0 tons per an greatest poems and antiquity, Ho lutely necessary for the preservation of the body—but has proved, despite mer’s “Iliad” nnd Virgil's “Aeneld.” tions of the fact that mere doctrinal num. the statements of government chemists, The search for the golden apples of abstractions or dogmatic discussions do As Makatea Is so near Papete, the not deeply iuterest young folks. The commercial center of this colony, the the Hesperldes was the most difficult that Luther Burbank's spineless cactus Imaginative and luminous mind of working of tho phosphate deposits on of all the twelve adventures of Her contains all the elements neeessnry to youth needs the poetry of things, tome- that Island will add largely to the busi cules. The apples were the ones that sustain life. This last demonstration what of Its own flavor and kindred. ness and prosperity of the colony.— Juno had received at her wedding is of extreme importance, b«K?ause it from the goddess of the earth and was to save the lives of «cores who The kernel none the less still continues Philadelphia Record. which- she hml Intrusted to the keep yearly perish on the American desert to l>a the truth though enveloped In ing of the daughters of Hesperia. After that Burbank undertook his marvelous • ttractlve guise. What should be the EnKlnnil'a Old*** Canal. exact limit of such attractiveness will The oldest canal In England was various adventures in his search for I task of eliminating the spines from the always be a matter of discussion. That originally a Roman cutting—the Fosa the apples Hercules found Atlas, a gi desert cactus. Dr. Landone says: "The test lasted two weeks. Dur It may—and very readily—be carried dike—running its 11 tulles from I.ln- ant, who held the sky on his shoul ing that time I continued my ordinary ders, nnd Atlas promised to get the ap to excess Is obvious. Among preach coin to the Trent, near Torksey. Deep ers. as nmong laymen, there will al ened In the time of King Henry I.. It ples If Hercules would suport the sky work, which is considerably in excess ways be those incline«! to the sixx'tac was allowed to decay until 1840. when while lie was gone. Atlas secured the of the work of moat men. At the end ular anti the eccentric. Latitude, with the Edinburgh Stevensons both wlden- apples for Hercule!*, took up his bur of the flrat five days I bad lost one den reluctantly and let Hercules re and a quarter pounds, but at the end these, menus occasional wide flights of ed and deepened It. turn with the apples, his task com of the 14 days I had regafneil thia and fancy, excessive Intermixture of senti When a woman «ay« to her husband: plete«!. had added two and three-quarter ment. display and moral principle, and "You know I haven’t a bit of Jealousy Atalanta, said the Greeks, was a pounds to my weight. The record 'usufficlent devotional exercise. In my nature, but I would like to know, maiden whom the gods had warned showed a continual gain in strength, etc.,” look out for storms. must not marry. Terrified by the ora and at no time was there any decrease In view of the excessive severity of the arraignment of the modern home There Is more or ,ess of the grafter cle. she fled the aqelety of men, and of energy or endurance. Tn fact my to persistent suitors who fopnd her strength Increased. It was shown con to which the American Sociological So- in tbs average man. Voluutsred to marey the man who best- clusively that cactus TeaJ is decidedly •• nutritious. I understand thnt the gov ernment Is drafting a bulletin statlug that the thornless cactus Is not fit food for mon but I am quite positive that the experts have not tested tho Luther Burbank cactus as I have. Another result of Dr. Landone's ex- pertinents Is the fact that it is much better to preserve the tissues with green-leaf foods, containing organic salts than by their constant destruc- tion as the result of a diet In pro- telds, and tile consequent necessity for the production of an immense amount of extra energy to rebuild the tissues. He paraphrases the old maxltn, by say ing. ‘‘An ounce of preservation Is worth a pound of repair.” Dr. Landone now proposes to do for children what Burbank has done for plants. With a corps of 20 assistants, trained by himself, he has begun the scientific training of children, Thls work promises a revolution in the methods of child-culture. Ills pur]M>se Is to develop the conscious, discrimina tive, functional life of the child by training the senses, the mind and the motor organism; and bis methods are in line with the advanced scientlflc thought of the day. Recently he ex plained his methods in a lecture to a hundred of the most influential of the club women of Tzis Angele« and won their hearty support. HI* Menaure. ‘‘A few friends," relates James Molt In the Draughts World, “were chatting with Wyllle, the checker champion, in a club after one of his days of exhi bition play in Glasgow, when a youth, slightly under the influence of John Barleycorn, threatened to monojmllze the conversation, blowing his own horn and giving out In no uncertain lan guage thnt he considered himself the equal of Wyllle. The old man took no notice of him for a time, but, occu pying the usual five minutes In consid ering the move, quietly asked the youth to remove his hat (not more than a six and a half size), then substituted his own—which was a large one nnd went well down over the young brag gart’s nose—and. casting his eye around the company, said scornfully, That’s his measure!’ The company enjoyed the retort so much that the youth was glad to make a hurried exit." Tty* fig tree grows alaioet wild and requires little cultivation, safs the Pre mier Enquirer. Although certain vacie- tl«'s are gyown in various parts of the .world, those of Asiatic Turkey, com monly called Smyrna figs, for the rea son that they are packed and shipped from Smyrna, are the b**st. The grow ing district is in the province (vilayJt) of Aidin, the plantations extending from Ayassoluk to Ortachi, a valley over 100 miles long, spreading far on both sides of the line of the Ottoman railway, which runs through it, afford ing direct trans{>ortation from the in terior. The tigs ripen by the beginning of August. They nre not picked, but when they reach a certain maturity they be gin to dry and consequently they drop on the ground. In the morning every body on the plantations goes around with buckets gathering the fruit, which they carry to a certain place where the ground is covered with dry leaves and straw (sergei), and on which they spread the fruit, exposing it to the sun, allowing it to remain there from two to three days. Fig packing Is one of the principal industries of Smyrna. Thousands of people find employment during the end of August and the months of Septem ber. October and part of November, more than $500.000 being paid in wage« during that time. The demand for figs has increased considerably during the last two years. Some years ago a crop of 75.000 to 80,- 000 camel loads was considered large and difficulty was found in disposing of the gotais. With the Increased de mand new plantations have been start ed and the crops of the last two sea sons have l>een enormous. In 19CM reaching 120,000 loads. Notwithstand ing this, the goods find a ready mar ket and, with the exception of very short crops, at higher prices than were ever realized before. The Laplander can travel about 150 miles a day on his skates. The annual fire loss of New York 1« nearly double that of London. The foreign trade of Great Britain has shown no signs of revival. Japan's fishermen represent a huge Industry. Last year the total value of the catch was estimated at $43.032,188. Peanuts, or ground nuts, as they are locally called, form one of the largest crops over a large part of'the north ern provinces of China, and are one of the articles of native export enter ing heavily into both the China coast and foreign trade. A delicious sweetmeat Is made in Santo Domingo from ripe bananas, cut Into slic«*s about a quarter of an inch thick. These nre sprinkled with sugar and plac«*d In the sun several days, being turned occasionally, and each time dusted again with sugar A scientific labor of the utmost im portance and Interest Is nbout to be commenml from Shanghai. This 1« a magnetic survey of China, and Dr. Ed wards, of the Carnegie Institute, Wash ington, who Is to carry it through, 1« at present in Shanghai preparing for the work. Second In Importance to the expor tation of china from the Limoges dis trict of France Is that of “English” walnuts. The walnuts nre exported either unshelled for use as dessert nuts, or in nut kernels—generally in halves The proportion Is about one- third sent unshelled and two-thlrda shelled. For some days there has been in a glass case on the mantelpiece of Messrs. Sotheby’s In Wellington street a quill pen such ns you enn buy for a penny. This particular one. however, brought 4,680 pence, or £19 10s. It had belong ed to Charles Dickens and Is said to be that which was used at fhe last when he was writing “Edwin Drood.” It was taken from the novelist’s table at Gad’s Hill by his eldest son.—Lon don News. Caviar Is the roe of the sturgeon prepared as a tnble delicacy. As a dish too rare to be known by the gen erality of p«*ople, and the flavor of which would not l»e relished by an un educated palate, fchakesjieare makes Hamlet speak of It. In describing a play which was too fine to be appreci ated by ordinary minds. “’Twas cav iare to the general’’ (meaning the gen erality), says the Prince of Denmark. Too Previn«* A Richmond woman has in her en» ploy a little dnrky, Miff Cole. One <!ay Miff txs-ame confidential and told bls mistress he whs “goln’ to the cimltery next Sunday.” "But, Miff, that’s a long walk. You The Servant and the Factory Woman Much ns I loathe the factory system, know it is more than five mile«.” “Oh, missus, I ain’t goln* to walk. It scores In some respects above scul- lerles. In factorles, at any rate, 1’« goln’ to ride.” “How 1« that. Miff?” women meet with their kind and have "I’« goln’ in a kerridge t’ my nncle'a Intercourse with many varieties Of human nature. But, chained up in funeral." AH’ day Saturday Miff could talk of sculleries and kitchens, with tether Just long enough to reach the stocking nothing but the approaching affair. to be mended and no longer, their lives ! Sunday his mistress excused him, and are bare nnd starved an the picked she expected that on Monday ah« bones that they put in the pots.—Lon would be regaled with a full account of the funeral. But Miff turned up don Woman Worker. • with a most melancholy face. In an After a country woman has visited swer to her inquiry he «aid: In Qie city for a couple of yveeks she “I didn’t go, missus. He ain’t dead begins to call her hired girl a sewauU ylt."—New York Herald ■ • • • •
