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BANDON........................ OREGON
Many a man goes down trying
keep up an>earances.
to
War scares are cropping up In odd
corners of Eurojie. I toes any one know
where Hobson la?
How Inevitable it la that the rail
road cut rate is to the town where
you have no call to go.
N«w plea for the prisoner at the
bar; “Judge, I'm as innocent as the
Standard Oil Company.’*
King Edward is said to be "aging
rapidly.” Even a common man does
this after he gets old.
Miss Mary Garden, It appears, has
taken advanced ground against tiie
overdressing of women.
Our national income Is ample. It is
our natloual outgo that many people
consider foolish and wasteful.
We are sorry to learn from the doc-
tors that King EM ward is soft and
pulpy, Is»t him try the strenuous life
for It.
It Is to be hoped that the Puke of
the Abruzzi* Is behaving properly now
that nobody considers It worth while
to watch him.
We feel sorry for Ideut. Shackelton
if he came within 100 miles of the
south pole and had to stop on account
of the bad roads.
Kir Thomas I.lpton Is becoming ln-
tereated in airships, in case he de-
tides to build one It will, of course.
be called The Shamrock.
There Is only one adequate punish
ment for the kidnaper who steals a
child and holds it for ransom. Yes, it
is the one you have In mind.
Another English lady novelist has
arrived In this country. We have not
learned the title of the naughty story
which she Intends to lecture about.
nw» any miui a living until he ha«
earned It.” ’Certainly not! But sup­
pose------ Suppose that we had to have
straw before we . .mid make bricks, as
was th» case In Egypt In the time of
Pharaoh; and thnt bricks were the only
thing we could live on ; and that tome
fellow that got there first had all the
straw, and wouldn't let us have any.
so we couldn't make bricks, and there-
fore couldn’t make a living. Wouldn't
the fellow that hogged all the straw
merely because he got there first, and
therefore had the power wouldn't that
fellow owe us a living, if he had the
property from which we could collect
a living? It would seem Just that he
be made to support the men he had
duced to starvation, wouldn't It. If
was solvent? Of course. If the men
could get straw elsewhere, or If they
could make a living In any other way,
ft would be different; but In the case
Just mentioned, wouldn't s nneone owe
the disemployed a living? Well, there
Is one thing that a man mist have tie-
fore he can earn a living an oppor­
tunity. Opportunities for self-employ­
ment are pretty well fenced up In this
world now. The big fellows that got
here first have hogged the straw for
our brick*, and all the natural oppor­
tunities of self employment, “It was
says our esteemed
a wise provision.
contemporary, “that a man shall earn
his broad by the sweat of Ids own brow
A very wise pro-
Instead of another's.
vision! But the difficulty Is thnt tiie
fellows that got here first nnd hogged
the opportunities of sweating for one's
self, charge us so much for the privil­
ege of sweating on their jobs thnt they
live by the sweat of our brows and If,
the "labor market" happens to be slow ,
we must go Idle and be denied the
privilege of sweating for ourselves or
anyone else. There’s the secret. The
world owes no man a living, but ft owes
him a chance to make a living for some I
monopolist who does nothing. And if]
any large class of men are divorced |
from opportunity to work, if the world
does not owe them a living, what is
their predicament? They are not to
blame. Where Jobs are plentier than
men, tiie unemployed class gradually
disappears. What about the fellow
who Is crowded out of the ranks of
workers? I toes anyone ow e him a Ifv
Ing? Or do we all owe him a living?
Last year $3O,( •<)<),< MM) was spent for
automobile tires, Which, we take it,
is pretty reliable evidence that the
American people have been "going
some."
The Secretary of Commerce and La­
bor has decided that a trained nurse
is not a laborer. But when one con­
siders some of the patients who have
to tie nursed, even the beneficiaries of
this decision will agree with the con­
tention that labor Is about the right
term for the work Involved.
Thia Is an age of combination and
consol illation, and It Is the big corpora-
tlons that are golng to do the big things
of the future, In their massing of re-
•ourcea Is formidable power for good <>r
•vtl ; but there Is reason for believing
that the truth that the sowing of evil
means the reaping of disaster has been
taken to heart, and we may expect an
•ra of fair business dealing with an
Increase In the safety and security of
all concerned.
The lowest rate of mortality from ty-
phofd fever reported In Borough of
Manhattan for many years was that of
last year, when there were only four­
teen hundred and fifty five cases and
two hundred and fifty-six deaths. The
health department ascribes the result to
the distribution of Information con­
cerning the prevention of disease and
to the almost constant examination of
the Croton watershed. The explana­
tion Is reasonable. To check the spread
of communicable disease, not only must
people preserve cleanliness in their
homes, but officials must not l>e per­
mitted to leave open the source« of
contagion.
If amateur photographers could af­
ford such a machine for printing their
pictures as is used by h large stereo­
scopic view company, they would get
more pleasure than now out of the use
of their cameras The company rune a
machine which will print at the rate
of fifteen hundred photographs an hour.
It Is so arranged that when the length
of the exposure needed for a given
negative has been ascertained. It can
be set to run at that rate, and will con
tinue to run Indefinitely
The sensl-
tlzed paper Is carried to ths negative
by a auction disk. Is exposed to an elec
trie light, and passed on to a receiving
box. It Is then delivered to a devel-
oping machine, from which It emerges
ready to be trimmed and mounted.
Thus the drudgery of photography is
4one by machinery.
The esteemed Philadelphia Public
ledger com luffes an editorial with the
olsMrvail 'U
•"iue Wot d do*« uuk t
( henlnii ami ”H ulililnu" l.nr«ely
Practiced lu the -Mill luun«.
EVILS OF OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.
By Dr. IV. Hutchinson.
The first condition of th* modern educa-
t ional sysiem which 1 would criticise I* the
confinement of the child In a stuffy room for
the or six hours a day. lie must begin by
following defined precise methods and must
not even wiggle in his seat. Then the school
to-day does not tenth the things which are
of most importance to the pupil. The child
is taught to draw lines to represent the coasts
of Europe, and the Instructions given In hygiene are
ludicrously inadequate.
Another criticism is that a
great deal of time is wasted teaching tiie child things
that lie would barn by instinct, A child would grow to
read and to write, and if lie were allowed to run about
long enough he would grow to cipher. A boy with rea­
sonably intelligent parents and surroundings will make
his own start toward his mental development.
We trv to get tiie child to express ideas that we are
not at all certain lie lias to express. We would get far
better results by developing tiie health of the whole body
than by dltectlng all our energy to the one efid. and the
wrong end at that—the top instead of tiie base.
WHY SOME WOMEN CAN'T GET WORK.
By Winifred Black.
Mrs. Bindley, the woman who killed Son-
a I or Brown In Washington some time ago.
is in trouble. She can’t get work, she says.
Mrs. Bell, a Colorado woman, who rau away
from her husband with another man, is in
trouble, She can't get work, she says. A
woman 1 know came to see me. She is in
trouble, She can't get work, she says. The
woman I know held quite a responsible and
well-paying position with a prominent firm until about
a year ago. Then she fell in love with a married man.
and the married man's wife came to the office and made
acenes and the woman I know lost her position. "I
can't get a thing to do,” she said to me. "Everywhere
I go they ask me where I worked last, and then they
telephone mid find out all about my trouble and I don’t
get tiie place.”
How cruel tiie world is to a woman who has made a
mistake. And yet, somehow. I'm afraid I cannot, for
my part, sited many tears worrying over the world's
cruelty to woman who have shown the world Just ex­
actly what sort of weak creatures they are. If two
women come to me for employment in my home. I
cho< >se the woman with tlm best record, don’t you? Per
haps I am cruel Io want to know what the woman who
w lshes to work for me did in the last place where she
worked, Perhaps I ought to look upon her as a brand­
now iiumni being with a brand-new record but I don't.
Country Highways are
Roads To Health for
t., e».
A Missouri judge has decided that a
woman may paint and powder without
being subject to divorce. Since getting
the ruling In her favor It Is probable
she won't eare to paint and powder.
WHO USES SNUFF NOWADAYS?
I>o you? 1 don't see why the world should smile upon
women who haven’t cared enough for the worlds opin­
ion to keep n good reputation, It's a good deal of a buy
and sell proposition—this living business, We pay for
what we want or what we think we want, not for what
the person who Is trying to sell us the goods wants us
to want.
I know two sisters, both of them clever, both pretty,
both Indvstrlous and both extremely good business wom-
en. One of them has a bank account, small, but safe, a
good Income and a lot of sincere, true hearted friends.
The other, equally capable, is in debt, has two frocks to
her name and is half the time out of a position. The
world isn't trying to get even with the second sister—
it's Just paying her in her own coin for her own work.
She's light-beaded and vain, and she gets herself talked
about in every office where she works, 'Phen she won­
ders why her sister, who attends strictly to business
and keeps her name free from even a whisper, gets along
so much better than she does. 1 don’t see anything won­
derful about Jt, do you? It's lots of fun running bills—
but it Isn’t so much fun when the collector begiqs to
come around.
The world treats women Just about as the particular
woman in tier particular place has treated the world.
I wonder w hy there is anything particularly pathetic
about that?
REST CURE OR WORK CURE I
By Prof. Llewellyn F. Barker.
c,
While we must protect our minds by avold-
ing any lnjury to our nervous forces, still
we must actively exercise our minds if we
are to strengthen them and lead them to the
fullest development of which they are capable.
A brain and its corresponding mind will be­
come weak if it 1» not used, Just as surely
ns a muscle will waste and weaken If It has
no exercise. Our inlnds should have suitable
occupation and proper work to do. Many of the people
who apply to physicians for a rest cure really need a
work cure more. Properly ordered work does not hurt
the mind, but liflps it.
There is, however, such a thing as overexertion ;
it Is by no means uncommon among our high strung,
ambitious and overconsclentlous people, and leads to
nervous exhaustion and all the physical and mental evils
which this condition carries in its train. Our efforts to
strengthen the mind by exercise ara defeated If we think
only of the work and neglect proper nutrition and suit­
able Intervals of rest and diversion. The strong mind
is not made In haste, but results from a long, slow and
sensible training. Good sleep at night, restful recreation
Sundays and holidays, enjoyable exercise in the open
air. tiie essential to it.
1
Count Zeppelin can laud Ills airship
In most cases
without a platform.
people wiio land from air ships would
prefer good thick feather beds to plat
forma.
Occasionally we run across some
back page item of unimpirtant news
such as that from Buffalo stating that
the Standard Oil Company has been
fined $20,000.
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FEARFULLY AND W ONDERFULLY MADE
Women. InWalkingtheLan
euki and Listless May ting
Abounding Vitality andjfi
Heightened Spirits. £3^
The blessing of good eyes is univer-
sally conceded in the abstract, but in
the concrete It Is inadequately appre-
elated If one may Judge from the lack
of care taken to preserve It.
The eye Is a wonderful organ, but
singularly unfitted to cope with the tre­
mendous strain which the present read­
As a pleasant and healthful recrea-
ing and writing age puts u|ioii it. it
may seem to be an extreme statement, tion cross-country walking was discov-
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yet it Is safe to say that not one edu­ ered only recently. With the exception
of
a
few
energetic
physical
culturists.
cated reading person In ten has a pair
who went about it with an air of this-
r
1
of eyes which can be called perfect.
may kill-nio but I’ve got to do It,
those
The most common defect Is astigma­
tism, that is to say, an irregularity In who walked did so only because they
hadn’t the price to ride. City residents
the refracting part of the eye which
The makers of freak millinery are bringing forward some “fearfully
who were unable to maintain pleasure
focusing of what
Interferes with < orr<
vehicles saw the country through car and wonderfully made" models of headgear. The woman of conservative
Is looked at. What ought to be seen
style will wait n bit and use a little salt on these confections, There Is no
windows or not at all.
as a point Is registered on tlie retina
laist summer, however, numbers of doubt about it, however, the inverted bowl Is to be “tiie thing.” Coarse
ns a short line. The result of tilts Is
persons
previously stationary realized straws known as "rough and ready will be very popular, and we are sure
that the myriads of points of which
to see lots of stiff curved quills, long nnd feathered algrets. soft satin chons,
every object is composed are seen as that they were possessed of legs nnd scarfs, and bib buckles. The latter will often be made of straw or the same
that
these
legs
were
capable
of
locomo
­
lines, and there is therefore a greater
tion. Whereupon there was a decided satin used In the trimmings. Big ornamental buttons are also to be In favor.
or lesser blurring.
stir and more dust was kicked up by
Custom prevents the recognition of
foot power than ever had l>een seen on nnd rain are the best cosmetics yet dis pleasanter than walking alone. Tramp
this im]tcrfeet vision, when the defect
country roads. And. strange to say. covered.
Ing through an Interesting countrysfdi
is slight, but tiie fault is seen at once
English women long since Earned the Is like going to see a good play—it li
many of these converts to pedestrlan-
when one looks through a glass so
Ism were women, generally believed to lesson of walking for profit ns well as pleasant to have someone at your elbow
ground as to compensate for the Irreg­
be totally devoid of any perpendicular ' pleasure. And their robust health and to nudge when something particularly
ularity In the eye, for then the image
clear complexions always have been the good Is seen.- Kansas City Star.
Is perceived with a distinctness and
despair of their Inactive American sla­
sharpness of outline that is a revela­
Com In if Down F.niy,
ters
The distance an Englishwoman
tion.
Inquiries after the welfare of Pat
will walk on her dally "constitutional"
This astigmatism Is often the cause
1« amazing to femininity in other lands. rick Conroy were nnsweted by his de­
of headaches, dizziness and other trou­
She thinks nothing of a six or elght- voted friend, Terence Dolan, who wns
bles which are unexplained and un­
mlle tramp, and on occasion can do fif­ at the Conroys' In the double capacity
cured until the oculist corrects the eye
teen <>r twenty without “turning a Of nurse aril cook. “No, he's r.-f d:i"
defect by pro|>erly titled glasses.
hair." And no condition of weather gerous hurt nt all,” was Mr. Dolan's
It would be well if every child who
stops her wet or dry. snow or blow, reply to a solemnly whispered ques
Is backward in school, who shows a
tion at tiie door.
rain or shine, she goes dally.
dislike of reading, or who complains of
"We heard lie had a bad fall, and
The reason for the Englishwoman's
frequent headache, were taken to the
fondness for icy baths lies In her supe­ was all broke to pieces," whispered
oculist for an examination. It would
rior vitality, perfect circulation and the neighbor.
be shown that many a "dull” child has
“ TIs a big story you've heard," said
strong heart action, dm* to walking.
a good brain, nnd that ids disinclina­
The most beneficial exercise Is that Mr. Dolan, In his cheerful roar.
tion to study Is nature's effort to save
taken
under
enjoyable conditions. "Thrue. he fell ofTn the roof o' the
his eyes front overstrain.
“Physical culture,” practiced as a dally Brady stab'es where ho was shingling,
The eyes, like all other organs, suf­
routine, frequently become distasteful and he broke hfs lift leg. knocked out
fer when the body Is exhausted, and
drudgery and ns such does little good. a couple o' teeth nnd broke his collar
when one Is fatigued the eyes should
Walking. intelligently practiced, Is al­ bone.
not be used for close work. Reading
ways enjoyable
Constant change of
"Mind ye. If he’d have fell clear to
on a car or railroad train is bad. for
s one nnd the buoyancy communicated the ground, It might have hurted him
( HOSS-COL NTBY WALKI.NO.
the constant oscillation puts a great
by light, atr anil the fresh smells of the bad. but sure there was a big pile of
strain <yi the muscles of the eye which
open country give a sugar coating to shtones and old lumber that broke his
attitude for a distance greater than the medicine.
regulate accommodation.
fall.”
When reading or writing by artificial three blocks.
But there Is a secret or two in walk­
The Last Henort.
light, a shade oxer the eyes la to be
Along with the discovery of walking ing not In the how. but in the where
In answer to the returned summer
recommended. In the daytime the light as a recreation came a partial appre­ and the distance. Walking, like other
should fall on book or paper from be­ ciation of Its benefits. With the enjoy- physical exercise. Is harmful, rather ifsltor's question ns to the welfare of
hind and a little to the left, to prevent ment of the visits to the fields and than beneficial, if overdone. A wise Mr Macomber and his whereabouts,
shadows. One should never read or woods came a realization that there walker will reach home pleasantly, not Mr. Davis replied that "Jake" was
teaching at the little red schoolhouse
write for a long time continuously, but was a resultant Improvement In health painfully, fatigued
The lieglnner at
should look up occasionally, across the and spirits a shaking off of minor Ills I walking fi r recreation should attempt on Bowen’s Hill.
"But I thought----- "
room or out of the window, to relax if mind and lady.
no record-breaking tramps hut should
"Well, be is,'* admitted Mr. Davis,
the strain on the eye muscles.
Walking in tiie open air Is the best accustom herself gradually to the exer­
Symptoms of eye strain are an un­ Known cure for ailing women, and the cise. And to enjoy it one must walk to understanding^, "an’ he gets more 'n‘
comfortable feeling, leading to repeated only effective modi ine that nia.v bo self’ somewhere, not tramp Idly about with more muddle-headed al) the time. But
winking of rubbing of the eyes, secre­ administered without professional ad­ no objective point. There may be some what else could we do? We had to
tion of tears, redness and itching of vice. If all women walked for pleasure pleasure In walking merely for walk­ put him In schoolmaster to keep him
the lids, sties, falling of the lashes, a as much ns they should (and no-more) ing’s sake, but the real relish lies in off the town.
"We ain't goln’ to pauperize a man,”
bloodshot condition and even headache. there would be no cases of “nerves,” carrying out a planned excursion to
Bathing with cold water containing chronic llstleasness. unsightly oliefllty some spot of Interest. Ender such con he added, loftily, ' If we can find any­
a pinch of salt will often give relief to n<>r embarrassing • scragglnesa.” For dltlons the attention Is fixed ahead nnd thing for him to do."
•‘tired eye», but If tin» tiredness Is per- I an irregular heart, weak lungs or a not under one’s feet.
Actressea, unlike other women, do not
•latent, It I*
that glasses are torpid liver, walking Is the most effect-
Walking with a companion, even If quit having thdr picture« ..takeu w U ab
tie vf cures. And Irish air, »uushlne th« cisii.pauloti is only a d<<. Is much they get married.
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Year by year with never a set back,'
the American Snuff Company has
steadily increased its business. Its divi­
dends and its surplus, while the un­
initiated continue to ask. Who uses
snuff nowadays? The company's an­
nual report for the fiscal year ended
Dee. 31. 1908, shows net earnings of
$3.474,818 compared w ith $2.170,585 for
1907; a net balance applicable to divi­
dends on common stock of $2,154,318,
a surplus for the year of $1,214,080
and a profit and loss surplus of $50,-
388,310. After paying dividends on
the preferred stock at the regular rate
of 6 per cent, quarterly dividends at
vaiylng rates each quarter, amounting
to 14 per cent for the year, were paid
on the common stoi k, says the New
York Commercial. A 5 per cent quar­
terly dividend has been declared on
the common stock payable April 1 to
stockholders of record March 13. This
puts it on a 20 per cent basis.
The American Snuff Company was
formed in 1900 to take over the snuff
properties of tiie American Tobacco
Company, the Continental Tobacco
Company, and some smaller allied con­
cerns. It lias outstanding $12,000,000
of preferred stock and $11,001.700 com­
mon stock, with nssets valued conser­
vatively at $31,341,«42.
An official of a prominent Boston
wholesale house which distributes the
products of the American Snuff Com­
pany through New England yesterday
explained the mystery of what be­
comes of all the snuff in these day«
when the habit of taking snuff Is gen­
erally supiHised to have died out. He
said that snuff is no longer snuffed to
any considerable extent; but the habit
of chewing or "rubbing'' snuff has been
Introduced Into the mill towns through­
out all the Eastern States.
The
strength of tiie position, from a busi­
ness standpoint, lies m the fact that
the women in the mills tire as much
addicted to tiie practice as the men.
Tills man, who is an expert in the to­
bacco trade, attributes the Introduction
of tiie snuff-chewing habit to the
Swedes, and lie says that tiie Ameri­
can Snuff Company has found It neces­
sary to manufacture special brands of
tiie class of goods imide in Sweden to
satisfy this demand
He says that
very little snuff is snuffed in the oil’
way.
ON AN OCEAN LINER.
It Iloesu't Pny to l.et Haughty with
tiie Stewards.
"Never, oh. never, speak harsh words
of rebuke to a steward on an ocean
liner," declined a Congressman of New
York.
"One summer I journeyed over to
tiie other side. The first day out, at
meal time, I found that I had to em­
brace the table leg to get near enough
to operate with my knife and fork.
For my unpleasant scat I lulled the
steward to account. Most Imrsh was
my criticism. Then I told him I would
have my meals served thereafter in the
upper cabin.
“The next morning the cabin stew­
ard told me of a better room, and thnt
I should get It immediately. It was
more costly and elaborately furnished
than the one 1 occupied with my trav­
eling companion. Then, too, It was on
tiie main deck. I looked over tiie new
room and decided to change. I had my
luggige. with that of my friend, moved
below. When my friend found the new
quarters he gasped with horror. ‘.Man
alive!’ lie said, 'this is tiie worst hole
on the ship. You and I are in for a
great big seasick.' We got every jar
of the ship and good and seasick, too.
“The day I landed the dining room
steward met me on the deck. ‘Much
obliged for changing.' lie s i Id. ‘It was
at my request that the cabin steward
got you to move. The gentleman ahead
of you In that cabin and who wanted
to move gave me $75 to fix the deal.
I thank you for what Is a most glori­
ous tip.’"- Washington Post.
Teddy's I ricini« In
Africa.
"Say. ma. cnn I oat this horseshoe?"
"Yes. my child, but be sure and re­
move the nails. I'm so afraid of ap­
pendicitis."
lie
Hill
II.
"I refused Jim and he swore he'd
do something dcseperate."
"Goodness 1 \\ by. lie proposed to ine
yesterday.”
'The dear boy! So he kept his word,
after all."—('leveland Leader.
A ii
I n * I n ii ii (i o ii .
The daughter of her mother was do­
ing a stunt at the piano.
"My daughters music," said
the
proud parent, "cost us a lot of money.”
"Indeed!" rejoined the visitor. "Did
some neighbor sue you?” Boston Post.
About all tiie future some people
have left is longing for spring when
it is winter, and longing for summer
when It Is spring.
A . ..... I maul |..... p e i.eiiev« that to
know a lot
contemptible g'wslp, I*
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