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3O«E3 F 20'1 Sl’AÎN, BANDON RECORDER to him was one long-drawn-out sprse of getting rich, and there never was a morning after headache; be never lost money. This contrast in human nature has a striking example right in the Sage family. The wealth Russell work OREGON BANDON ed so long and bard to accumulate af fords pleasure to bls wife only ns she The cry baa been changed to "ralss gives it away, which she is doing with ths Maine.” a lavluhness never squalled by any oth er woman, and only surpassed by a few Some people put faith in the ground men of greater wealth. hog tradition simply because it is so foolish. Dr, Clarence W. Wassam In a recen. A Pennsylvania butcher Is “putting study of the salary loan business tn on dog" because bo manufactured a New York City, tells the story of a clerk who, during a period of «lckne-o. sausage fifty-seven feet long. In his family, borrowed twenty-four “Club women are talking too much," dollars. Further borrowing, renewals. •aid a Chicago lecturer. What does he Interest and collection fees dragged him deeper and deeper, until within two think a woman's club la for? years what he had paid out and what The children of a wealthy old man he still owed In return for a hundred always feel outraged when he marries and fifty dollars amounted to eight hundred dollars. The loan shark al A woman younger than himself. lures hfs victims by crafty advertise There 1» reason to lielleve that 1909 ments. His capital is little, hls profits will show a remarkable falling off In are great, and ids losses are alight be the practice of night riding in Ten cause of the honesty or timidity of thu average man in a tight place. The nessee. extortion can be stopped. The Supreme Once there was a groat surgeon who Court of Massachusetts has lately up felt sure he could get along without held the State law which makes Invalid bis colon. His activities have come to any assignment of wages without the « full stop. written consent of the employer ami the wife of the employe. Rut the surest Paderewski, while performing in way to oust the loan shark Is to make New York, split the nail on one of bls legitimate provision for the need which fingers. Our dispatch does not •ay lie fills, the need of the small borrower wliat happened to the piano. of personal Integrity. In home Muro- pean countries savings and credit Little concern is felt over what the unions have flourished for fifty years. spelling reformers will do next, They In Italy alone such unions, a species of can't accomplish anything more tragic co-operative bank, have a membership than the mangling of poor “through.” of three hundred and fifty thousand. The girl In Waco, Texas, who hugged The thrifty and fortunate profit to rea sonable extent by their neighbors’ a teacher so hard that she fractured needs. The man temporarily down bor three of her ribs will always have plenty of admirers among the opposite rows at low rates, and in helped to Ills feet. Instead of being pushed dee|>er sex. into the hole. In a Canadian town of A Nashville editor wants to know If seven thousand persons a people’s bank, we shall all fly soon. Not on your started eight years ago. has drlveu life. There are tens of thousands wbo from the town three loan sharks, who prefer to remain at home and face the were then doing business there. The laws of several States permit co-oper- music. ative banks. For various reasons wide Professor Zueblin has discovered that advantage has not been taken of these the fire departments in this country enabling laws. Building and loan asso are the best, while our building laws ciations which advance money on real •re the worst. Seems to be a ease of estate are numerous and successful. cause and effect. But the little borrower Is still at th« mercy of ths unscrupulous loan office. Carrie Nation has been lined in Eng- land for spoiling cigarettes, If «he would start out to pull down a few hideous signboards even she might be able to secure a measure of public sympathy. yg ByPT TOR A Baltimore professor has Invented a mercury telescope by means of which be expects to make it possible for us to see the people on Mars. What we need la some kind of an Instrument that will enable us to see ourselves as the Martians may be seeing us at this moment The esteemed Washington Herald •rise« to claim that ham gravy is the best. Ths editor of the esteemed Her ald doubtless never ate thickened gravy with steak that was fried in a big skillet over a bed of coals in a fire place. This holds first place among gravies, as apple pie does among pies. Hereafter the steamship companies bringing Immigrants to America must provide about seven cubic yards of air •pace for each ¡lerson. The object of this rule, which was lately enacted into law by Congress, is to prevent the over crowding of the steerage and the conse quent danger to the health of those who have to travel in that part of the ■hip. Few of the younger generation real ize that it was not until after the Civil War that a transcontinental railroad was built, and it became possible to go by rail from New York to San Fran cisco. Previously the Journey was diffi cult, but not quite so long or so hazard ous as that which a German lieutenant Is making by automobile from Dares- Ralaam In German East Afrtca to fiwakopmunde in German Southwest Africa, He started in August, 1997, •nd In December of last year bad '•ached Johannesburg. It Is said that of those who applied for aid under the British old-age pen sions act, which went Into effect Jan uary 1st, nine-tenths were unable to sign their names. If this is so. it is a striking proof that Ignorance and In digence go together. Of similar import was the argument of a recent essay on the conditions of labor In England. The writer, not unsympathetic, spoke of that “multitude of incompetents who call themselves the unemployed " That does not tell the whois story of poverty, for Individual good men have hard luck, and bad times overtake the best, Rut on the whole, the competent man snc- eeds. You doubtless remember that Russell Rage, when alive, had a reputation for stinginess, and believe that he dldn t have much fun In life. Eating an ap ple for lunch, wearing a straw hat two aeaaons. and a suit of clothes uutll ft wore out, doesn't spiral to many peo ple. with or without money, as a part of a good time. Rut when you re- member how many definitions there are for a good time. It seems possible that Russell Sage's life was one continual round of pleasure, What appeals to you muy not suit your friend. Tbs man who admires grand opera may scorn the enthusiasm of the football Russell Rage, perhaps, bad no fan. hobby but making money. If this be true. It was. doubtless. because he en- Jujed sinking money and saving it Life ci»« rettr Habit l.bk-h Over the I niiuil PUBLIC OrFICE NEEDS EXPERTS. By Prof. A. Lawrence Lowell. The administration of a great city cannot be conducted efficiently and at the same time be kept In touch with public needs without a combination of the expert aud the representa tive of outside opinion, and the relation that ought to exist between these two Is plain. The current management and the initiative in the main ought to lie with the expert, but he ought to work under the constant oversight and control of non professional men. Such a relation has grown up spontaneously lu our great commercial and educational bodies, in the presi dent and directors of a railroad or a bank, In the pres ident and trustees of a university or college, for exam ple, and it could be introduced into almost any form of city government, for it is not inconsistent either with the plan of boards of commissioners or with that of a may or’s cabinet. In order to set up the proi»er relation between the expert and the non-professlonal representative of the public it Is not necessary to prescribe their duties by law, but to make the distinction between them perfectly clear, and that distinction must be based upon the essen tial dlffettnce in the functions to be performed. The expert Is expected to make his public work bls career. He should devote his whole time to it, receive a liberal salary and be protected from removal except for cause The non-professlonal Is not to manage his department, but to see that It Is properly managed. He ought not to be expected to give a great deal of his time to It, ought to be paid nothing, or a much lower salary than the expert, and ought to give an account of Ills stewardship by coming up for reappointment or election at fixed Intervals. MEN SLAVES TO THEIR WIVES. By Lilian Bell. Slavery has not been entirely abolished in the United States. There are slaves In plenty who cannot be rescued by any federal or State law relative to peonage. We even know these slaves, you and I, yet possibly we do not rec ognize them as such until we kuow their home life. Then we know that these slaves, all big, strong men, are the slaves of little, round, soft, plnk-aud-whlte women, their wives, who hold tlieir husbands In bondage by an assumed helpless ness which causes men who are Its victims to wriggle with delight, and women who are compelled to observe it, to go out and hit something. But before you get too irritated at the spectacle of the abject slavery to which a email, flufly woman can reduce a 800-pound man, who bullies hls clerks and swears at hls office boy, stop and think how she does it and why. and you will soon calm down. She weeps ■t be crosses her, pretends sickness If he reproves her. plays dead if he scolds her; she can't do a thing fot herself; she runs him into debt, flatters him into a way 'of life beyond bls means and keeps him her slave by making him believe he Is the whole thing and that she couldn't live without him. So that, far from being an object of universal pity, the busband who Is a slave is often the most gullible creature In existence with a vanity It Is a sin not to subvert and a conceit which It becomes u crime not to utilize. Some men are so supreme In their own estimation that not only their own wives but even the wayfaring woman, hurrying to get home, cannot resist the temp tation to pluck him In passing. It Is so easy to snatch a perquisite by an inevitable tribute to what he knows la true of himself. In other words, many of the so-called easy marks among men are not merely big-hearted, good- natured brothers. They are often men of such sublime egotism that a 000-pound woman could faint In the arms of one such, and he would half kill himself trying to carry her all alone because she had often told him hls touch was so gentle and so different from that of most men. OUR NATIONAL LOSS FROM FIRE. By Samuel H. Adams. We hear much, In thia peaceful country, about Germany's burden of militarism. Well, our national bonfire would pay for the Kaisers whole army maintenance and leave a surplus annually of twenty millions for a fireworks fuud wherewith to appease our py romaniac appetite. If Germany 1 b oppressed by wars and the rumor of wars, how much more sorely la the United States oppressed by fire and the evils that attend It! And the worst of It Is that this loss, in great port, Is needless and super fluous; Incredibly and Idiotically stupid and short-sghted Europe proves much. No nation there but would be appalled at such a fire bill as ours. In the forty-five principal cities of Europe there Is less than one lire an nually (86. to be exact) to every thousand inhabitants. In this country we maintain a general average of four nnd a half fires per thousand persons. The per capita loss by flames in Italy is 12 cents yearly; lu Germany, 49 cents; In thirty of the largest European cities, 61 cents, and In 252 American cities the per capita destruc tion averages $3.10. Boston, In many respects the most Bcentlflcally administered and municipally progressive city lu this country, has a yearly bill of a million and a half dollars from loss by burning. The European city of equal size gets along with one-tenth of that sacrifice. Our debit side of the fire ledger sums up a heavier total than the combined losses of any other six civilized na tions in the world. Nothing this side of the sun equals us for combustion.—Everybody's. —■ • ~=r SEALING IN GREENLAND. (celirrw* I.end Plot urevqurne** a« Hunter« Go Forth tn Kayak». Detecting Tuberculosis. In a previous article was noted the difficulty of an early diagnosis of con sumption, and It was shown how nec essary such a diagnosis la, since upon It depends, In many Instances, ability to cure the disease. It was stated also that the old way of detecting consump tion, still used commonly In the case of cattle, had been superseded by other nnd simpler methods. One of these methods Is that called the “ophthalmo reaction,” because the test Is made In the eye. It Is also called the Calmette or Wolff-Elsner test, because It was de vised about the same time by ths one In France and the other In Germany. It consists In the instillation of a drop of dilute tuberculin into one eye. If the subject of the test Is eutlrely free from tuberculosis, nothing follows; but If he suffers from the disease, even In its very beginnings, the eye will, after a few days, become a little red, and jierhaps very slightly Inflamed. Another mode of employing tuber culin Is called the “cutl-reactlon” or cutaneous test. It wan devised by a Viennese physician, and Is made as follows: The delicate skin on the In side of the forearm Is carefully cleansed with soap and water, and then with ether. Then a drop of tuberculin is placed on the skin, and the arm Is scarified ns in vaccination, first in a dry part, then in the center of the drop of tuberculin. At the end of one or two days, If the subject has lnclpl- ont tuberculosis, a small pimple comes at the place vaccinated with the tnber- culln, but not at the other point whlch was scarified at the same time, The skin for a short distance surrounding the pimple may be more or less red dened, and sometimes there are several pimples Instead of one. A simplification of this cutaneous test Is what has been called the per cutaneous teat. Thia consists In merely rubbing the tuberculin on the akin, either the undiluted substance, or an ointment made of equal parts of tuber culin and lanolin. When the reaction Is positive, that Is to say. when the sub ject is In the early stage of tubercu losis. the anointing Is followed within two days by an eruption on the arm of a number of small pimples, which Itch more or less, and are usually sur rounded by an area of reddish or purplish skin. Ater ten days or two weeks the eruption gradually dlsap- pears. None of these tests la absolutely per- feet, for sometimes a reaction occurs when there Is no tuberculosis. Ths two skin tests are about equal as regards reliability. The e.v« test, although fair ly accurate, la beginning to l>e thought dangerous, and will probably soon Iw abandoned In favor of one or the other of ths absolutely safe skin testa» Scaling in Greenland Is both ardous and sportive, the latter compensating the hunters for the hardships which they endure year In and year out, for that Is their principal Industry. Men of several nations, mostly northern and Including the Japanese, are regu larly in the chase for seals in Green land and other arctic waters. The Greenland hunters take to the waters stir In a chair like that Its legs would creak and groan and It would go down with me on It In a heap. “Why ts this, do you suppose? I am not a restless person. 1 don’t twist and turn and fidget In a chair, and yet no chair 6eems to stay togeth er if I once begin to use. I soon sit through a cane seated chair, and I have in time splintered seats of ve- neer. "If I use any particular rocking chair for long I start the back away from the arms, and If I sit in an arm- SPECTACLES SHOW DUST. Near-Sighted M m Moat Aware Fine Particle* In Air. of “No matter where you live and how ever high In the air you always find dust settling on everything every where, but,” said the nearsighted man, “if you want to realize this fact you should wear spectacles and work at some employment that requires con stant bending over. “Fourteen times a day, or as much oftener as you look, you will find your N m * l|»SUt Stair#. Nothing has "been more notable in be social changes of the last few years than the extent to which ths cigarette lias increased tn popular um The modern cigarette seems to have originated in Spain, where, maize or other suitable vegetable envelopes f"r the tobacco lieing unobtainable, a thin sheet of paper was substituted. Thus the clgHr slid cigarette assumed dis tinct forms. A Spanish proverb de clares that "a papelltos (a paper ci gar), a glass of dear water and a kiss from a pretty girl will sustain a man for a whole day.” The dainty, unsubstantial, airy ci garette Is the natural smoke of the Isitln peoples. Its use tn this country dates from only some 40 years ago. In 1M5 an English writer noted that the cigarette was smoked In England by foreign visitors only. The Crimean war of 1854-6 led many English mili tary and naval officer« to adopt this mode of smoking, then common In Malta, the Levant, Turkey and Rus sia. English officers, unable to procure ci gars. and driven by the hardshl|»s of the Crimean campaign to the allevia tion of tobacco, took to the-cigarette, smoked by their French and Turkish allies. Returning, they brought the mode to England, and the cigarette be- came fashionable among clubmen and in the higher circles, Eventually it came to America. SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONS By Clarence L. Cul'en Ever notice what a horribly dead looking tiling your wife's hair “rat” Is as it lies, Inert, bulgy and revolting on her—on maybe your—dresser? What a woman most likes about nursing her husband when he’s sick Is that she can I kiss him around and claim that it's the doctor's orders. Women of a certain temperament complain about their husbands' “lack of Imagination,” forgetting that most lmaglners are perfectly dandy little liars besides. It doesn't necessarily follow that the woman who calls her husband "Pettie” and "Baby-doll" In front of folks Is any crazier over him than less gush- erlno women are of their spouses. Is there any wife, anywhere, who does not cuttingly ridicule her husband after he has, in her presence, exhibited a certain amount of entirely harmless gallantry toward another woman? When a wife becomes so dogmatic and opinionated her husband It liable to develop such a fondness for the game of billiards that he has to stay out late o’ nights to practice new shots. Some women, when they feel that they are going to lie sick abed, are more concerned over the laundering of their lingerie robes de nult than they are over the consequences of their ail ment Here they're pulling that “Wives are slaves” thing as new stuff, whereas every married man since the days of the Hyksos kings of Egypt has heard his sobful wife declare that she was li-n-nothlng b-b-but n s-s slave. While women are singularly credu lous of the most improbable things they see on the stage, they flatly rebel and refuse to believe It when, In a play, they see a husband making vio lent love to the wife he's been married to for ten years. Ever stop to reflect what these “raging, ramping beauties” would look like If they had to cut their hair short, like men’s, nnd abandon millinery and embellishments and fluff-wuffs and so on, and wear men's baggy togs and derby hats and such gear? A husband who Is the victim of a humdrum connublallty can’t help but wonder and mentally Inquire “Why?” when, with attractive male guests at his tnble, his wife chirks up astonish ingly, darts artlessly arch glances, as sumes a forgotten vivacity, nnd takes on generally the charm and grace of the flown years. Almost Concenlrd, FLEET OF KAYAKS IN ARCTIC WATERS in kayaks and as a fleet of these odd little canoes strikes out from the bar ren shores they present a stirring ap pearance. Lending to the picturesqueness of the sight are the Icebergs of various shapes and sizes, more or less a men- a<v to the hunters. BREAKS ALL HIS CHAIRS. Mr. Thri>K«lvl»n Ju*t ('«n’t It, Though He Trie*. Help chair I work the arms loose; and any sort of a chair that 1 sit in for any length of time I am sure to start it at all Its points so that it gets weavy and wiggly; and I am likely to spread a leg or two so that the rungs may drop out at that end. "Honest Injun, I don't know why It is, but I certainly do seem to be hard on chairs.” « Ancient Art. The freight-paying end of the mat rimonial combine had lieen trying to read his paper for an hour, but was frequently Interrupted by his wife's remarks. Flually he gave It up. “I wish.” he said, “that I possessed he knowledge of the ancient Egyp- tlans." "Why?" queried his better half. “Judging from the mummies I have -ceil.” he replied, "they understood the art of making a woman dry up and stay dried up.” "Some men are bard on clothes. It la my misfortune," said Mr. Throggle ton, “to be hard on chairs." “And I am Dot bo heavy either. I only weigh about 175, but somehow I always wreck sooner or Inter all the chairs I sit in. I seem to have some sort of sag or twist or something in ¡lie way which 1 sit In a chair that makes me. eveu when I think 1 am slt- ting nh-eiy and quletly, break or start something. "of course. I never think of sitting Prixnotln« th« <»lnd Eiprr**lo*. d< wn nt al) in a Chip|ietidale or Louis “ Have you done anything to make XVI. or any other sort of slender, spider'egged chair, because for me life more cheerful 1" asked the optimist. * <li a <lia!r might ns well t<e mount- "Have you helped anybody fo Sulls?” "I should say so, I have helped mors I oil hr<K m splints. Men heavier .. hi I could sit in such chairs and |K*>p'e to smile than anybody else in i n l<< tip bn k in them without-doing ie neighlsiFho'd. I'm a dentist.”— ...... rgi ; but if 1 Buuu.d so much as Washington Stur. I •i O I e glasses covered with fine particles of dust. Maybe you don't look, and then maybe some bigger particle, some speck that Is by comparison a verlta- ble boulder of dust. settles there, square In your line of vision, where It may not obstruct your sight, but where it cannot fall to arrest your at tention. And then when you take them off to remove the boulder you find your glasses covered with dust In finer particles, as you would find them, Indeed, however often you might look. “Over such an area as that of De troit, for instance, there are tons of dust floating In the air, as, perhaps without figuring out its weight, many people, such as housewives and store keepers, are aware; but perhaps no body is reminded of this so constant ly as the man who wears spectacles and who bends over at hls work, and on whose glasses, where it Is ever be fore him. dnet la constantly settling.” —Detroit Free Pres An t nrrllaltla Hoa. "Gome right on In. Sambo,” the farm er called out. "He won’t hurt you. Tou know a barking dog never bites." “Sure. boss, ah knows dat.” replied the cautious colored man, “but ah don’t know how soon he's going to st'*p bark- IB'.."-- Success Magazine, e • • 9 A Phoebe And you really think ha loves you? Phyllis--1 know ft. Didn’t he pro pose on his knees? Phoebe—Oh, that's nothing, Many lovers do the same. Phyllis—Yes, but he proposed while strapping on my skates, and his knees were on the ice fifteen minutes.—Now Orleans Picayune. Fxchanited Favor*. It is a curious coincidence that Can ada's greatest railroad man, Sir Will iam Van Horne, is a native of the United States, and that the greatest railroad builder of the United States, James J. Hill, is a native of the Do minion. The I’rodacep. “Does your husband play poker?” “I don’t know,” answered young Mrs. Torklns. "From what I hear he sim ply sits up to the table and enjoys see ing othsr jieople contend for what hs outs up.”—Washington Star. In the Soup, Walter—One order tomato soup. Chef—There's nothing left but con somme. Walter—Well, spill some ketchup In It, you dub—the gent's -In a hurry.-* Cleveland Leader. We would all have our rights if so many things didn't go wrong.
