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BINDON RECORDER tart *■«« BAN DON.......................... OREGON Tiier« !iu't much more to be sain ■bout the new spring millinery. It Is with kidnaping as with other thing«, a man can t drink and make a •ucce* s of It. A cow In Minnesota ate into a bag of concrete. That may explain some of the steak we get Human nature is the same in village • nd city. Father takes Willy to the circus in New York and Thompson s Corners. Mr. Roosevelt is indeed a lucky jour nallst. He gets a good long vacation In less than a month after he starts to work. It may be only a rumor, but a re port comes from Spain to the effect that King Alphonso is trying to raise a mustache. Scientists say that camels originat ed in America, which serves to explain how they happened to get a hump on themselves. Child stealing Is bad enough, but what must be thought of the con- •clencelesa scoundel who takes a dozen good hens ? The first thing Germany knows the English parliament will pass a law making the building of battle ships by Germany a misdemeanor. Fashionable tatlors announce that men will have their hips padded this spring. Anything except the revival of spring bottom “pants." Colorado train robbers recently rob bed a Pullman porter of nearly $15. This porter evidently didn't belong to the Fraternal Order of Train Rob bers. It is proposed in Cleveland to pay commissioners $40,000 a year for over seeing the street car service there. We predict that Cleveland will find It easy to get commissioners. The bee sting as a remedy for rheu matlsm is being revived But if the bee sting is good, why wouldn't the •ting of a yellow jacket, which is sev eral horsepower stronger, be still bet ter? __ One of the German scientists an nounces that whales' milk possesses great merits as a food for man. This being the case, we may expect counter feit whales' milk to appear in the mar tat efteoons. Some New York farmers asked the state commlslon of agriculture in New- York city to undertake to ¡»ersuade families to go from the city into the country for the summer, and work on the land. Even if they had to work for their board and car fare, life In the open would be worth while to ninny growing boys who ordinarily have to •pend the hot months cooped up In the crowded town. The agents sent here by the little nations on the outskirts of the civilized world and their lots rich In heartaches. They are alone among a people to them • lien in speech, customs and Ideals. That is the acme of loneliness. Their power Is negligible, their standing no ticed only by the official happening to be In the State Department when .they call. And their labor is. ns a rule, to beg their countries out of trouble with the offended Fnlted States or to be- •eech the American republic's aid In escaping the wrath of some other big power. Worse than that, there Is usu ally trouble at home, in the treasury or on the throne Itself, acute and keep ing the ministers' nerves on edge When It comes to any danger of Ger man invasion of England, it Is not worth considering. It Is true that Great Britain has in her history been overrun and conquered by the Romans, the Norsemen and the Normans, but under very different circumstances from any that now exist. Such an at tempt on the part of Germany could only be mmle after having waged a successful war on the sea, disabling the British navy, and then it would be Im possible to land a force large enough to be a peril before It would be con fronted by many times Its number and driven into the sea. Englishmen can be trusted to defend their homes If need be. but It is almost Impossible to imag ine conditions under which any Inva sion of Great Britain would be at tempted. There is everywhere a pro found and growing desire among na tions for deep peace, and a realization that the best use to put another coun try to Is not to fight it, but to trade with It. President Gomez seems to appreciate fully the spirit of hla people which Is the source of greatest danger to the national life of Cuba. He furthermore has the courage to apeak plainly re garding it In his message to the Cuban congress, hopliig that the new republic, through self discipline, may curb the characteristic« for which «outhern races in general are unfortunately noted. The Cuban president links the tendency to form and m.'tntaln third parties with the lndlvl<UtaI tendenby toward rebellion against everything wearing the badge of- discipline Of an tburity. Pevtay« th» XpaulfegiaUur of the rebellious tendency is not du« «o much to antagonism to all authority as ft Is to authority directed by another person. The great trouble with many of the Cuban [»eople, those fitted only to t>e hewers of wood and drawers of water, is that they want to be generals or governors. There are others of more or less capacity who ar« natural mar plots. It may seem unbecoming to hurl stones at leaders who place personal ambition above stability of government as long as we have some glass house» In our own country, but ft is a fact that the personal equation finds It» most grotesque manifestations anions our southern neighbors. Thus far thf government of the new Cuba has dealt admirably with the evil tlmt Is recog nized to he the great national ¡»erll The summary treatment of an Incipient insurrection, which tended to Inflatn * the spirit of which Gomez complains set a good example. If there la firn dealing with the chronic malcontent» and at the same time the masses art educated tip to sound Ideas of the oh Ject of government, the Cuban ship of state. It Is to be hoped, will find It» course lying In calm waters. The conn try's finances are In good condition and all that appears necessary to th« republic's success Is a willingness tc work for the prosperity of all and th< cultivation of the true national spirit All true labor Is sacred, and "blesset * Is he who has found his work,’’ sayt Carlyle. An American poet extob labor as life, worship, glory, honor anc other beautiful things While the poets and moralists and makers of saws an«1 maxims unite In the praise of Industry there are hut few who have any goo< * words for Idleness. One of the firs' rhymes taught children Is that "Satai finds some mischief still for Idle hand * to do." The example of the ant anc the busy bee are held up as worthy ol human imitation, and we are gravel. Informed that “though slaves may In dulge In sloth. It Is a most royal thlnj to labor." The Importance of being uj and doing betimes Is illustrated bj such familiar proverbs as “the early bird catches the worm." But all th« while the fact Is ignored that if th« worm were not up and stirring whet he might just as well be in bed. h« wouldn't be caught by the early bird: and we know perfectly well that slaves never can or do Indulge In sloth, and are well aware that the ant and busy bee only work the first half of their lives. In order to lay up a store which will enable them to pass the other halt In eating and sleeping. While agreeing with Carlyle that to have found one'» true work Is blessedness, we need not believe It Is n blessed thing to work all the time. While most people ar« overwhelmed with work, the few whe are overwhelmed with leisure do not begin to derive the enjoyment from It that the busy man obtains from hit little snatches of Idleness. To stand Idle In the market place and cry. “N< man has hired me," is not pleasant tc the starving man. For him the "dole« far nlente" has no delights, but when It come« as the reward of work well done It Is sweet. I)r. Johnson, himself a great worker, said that "all hope some • lay to be Idle They are willing tc toll up the hill of life In their early years in the hope of descending it» downward slope In Idleness. Wouldn't it be better to throw little episodes of Idleness Into one's early life, and not work so hard ns to bring decrepitude Into one's later years? Between labor and fineness there should be a golden mean. WOMEN ACCOUNTANTS. ' gotten. "1 hough he I h not the kind of man one forget«." she added lo her self. ——————————— MEN WIN BY DIRECTING THEIR YOUTH. By John A. Holland. Ask most men of ripened worldly exjterlenee the one thing in their Ilves which they regret. Somewhere you will discover that most of them are nursing consciousness that they did not “find themselves" Boon enough us young men. They let too many young years run away from them. Youth is disposed to have its fling It would need another estate wholly to escape the promptings which come to the young head on the young shoulders. But in these later years especially, when so much of the world's work is In the hands of the young man, it 1 b more than ever devolving upon him to get a line on himself. So many of the world's ways and means are new—so many of the world's art« are to be learned in the Hcientiflc and technological schools—that the young man must be both student and worker. The young man cannot be too alert to the significance of all that he comes In touch with in the life of the outside world. There is no phase of life which may not yield to him under observation, something by which his after course may be directed and shaped, lie cannot too soon learn the face of Opportunity. He cannot too quick ly cast off the non essentials which would clog his prog- 1 resa. MODERN MOTHER MERELY A HOUSEWIFE. By Lady Laren. A Greek philosopher has advised that "If any man has two loaves, let him sell one and buy lilies, for the soul has Its needs as well as the body.” This is the kind of catering for the housewives of the future, to collect the flowers of heart, and mind, and soul to deck the board, so that the breadwinner, worn with the toils of the day, will find more re freshment than In the present monotony of mutton. It Is in such an atmosphere that patriots are raised and noble qualities find favorable soil. What elements in the home as it exists to-day can be dispensed with? The departments sentenced to disappear are many. The basement would be gone, with it« scullery, Its coal cellar and its dust bln. The pantry would be gone, with its redundant knives and forks, napery and plate. The servants' hall would disappear, and, greatest change of all, the troops of servants would be gone. Upstairs the dining room would be gone, and the drawing room •Iso. All the spare bedrooms would be gone, and most of the servants' bedrooms. What, then, would remain? Father’« sitting room would be left. Mother s sitting room would be left. And. best of all, the children would remain, taking their right place In the house, the first place, each with a private room always well warmed and lighted, and designed for rest, meditation or private work, places where young minds would have that space, leisure and solitude which Induce true growth. Women must move the public mind. They must sit WHERE THE COWBOY SLEEPS. A dark, wet gash in the greening plain The cowboy's grave must be—- Unmarked, alone, 'neath sun and rain, Afar from waving fields of grain, Where restless winds blow free— Away, away, o’er leagues of sod Cloud-shadows play and wind-flowers nod. Not sweeter doth the sailor sleep On oceans' farthest sands Than the cowboy ’neath the level sweep Of rhe sea-like reach of grasses deep, On the prairie's virgin lands— In the dnrk, wet gash in the greening plain. Afar from the fields of waving grain. —Leslie’s Weekly. There Are Nnld to ne Twentg-Flv« In the United States. One line of work which women have recently taken up Is accounting There are said to be about twenty five wom en engaged In this work In the United States. They have come into this field within the last two or three years and have met with unexpected success. It 1* hard work, but It is far more remunerative, according to a writer in the Bookkeej>er, than any other of the professions In which women have here tofore engaged, A director In a lead Ing commercial school of New York says : "I know of two women In well known concerns who have mapped out and put into operation a complete new sy»:em of financial methods for their employers and who have ever been In trusted with big funds for profitable Investment and whose advice has been followed In many other Important busi ness undertakings The number of such woman who have proved their ability and liking for th! * responsible and remunerative work Is steadily growing. It offers a splendid field for the woman who Is not loath to accept responsibilities and who has a liking for the hard work It entails and who Is ambitious.” Nearly all the commercial schools show a steady increase In the number of woman etndants over previous years. One of them report * that four-fifths of its students in the regular business course this year, which Includes sten ography, commercial law, banking. English and kindred subjects, are wom en. In the bookkeeping classes there are about as many women as men. A very large proportion of those women, who api>ear to have marked out a busi ness career, are college bred and many others are high school graduates. One reason given for thia tendency is the overcrowding of such profession« as teaching. The Goal The studio was In darkness. Ry the window one spot of red light showed itself in the Intense gloom; it was the lighted end of Ralph Paterson's cigar. It was a cheap cigar, and Its rank flavor struck unpleasantly upon his palate; but Ralph Paterson continued to smoke It. “For my sins.” he said to himself, "ami they are many aga Inst art and against my fellow artists if I am to believe what the world says of me.” Ralph Taterson was engaged In that dreariest of all dreary tasks; he was marshaling to an undesired goal an unwilling conscience; he was explain ing elaborately to himself why It was that the fates hail been unkind when they had thrown him Into the world minus an artistic love of—or patience under—misfortune, plus the artistic delight in painting pictures for his fel low beings, which the great public would have none of, despite his per slstency. There was upon the easel by the window a canvas. Ralph in the dark nees could not see it; but he was in tensely conscious of its presence with him in th« room. It was an old can vas, ten, fifteen years old; one of the last of those earlier paintings of his which hnd won him in his youth a <vr tain fame with picture dealers of a fifth-rate taste—they were the expres •Ion of the Ralph Paterson of fifteen years ago. who had never dreamt any but th« most unexciting dreams of comfortable, homely fame They had been the product of an artist who had seen no life outside the narrowing ar tistic convention» of an unambitious A woman never knows what a man art «chnol in a little manufacturing thinks of her. altluwgh she think« eh« town In the’MIdlnnds. Thl» one of these was a terrible . * d-s thing, or so it seemed to Ralph Pater- I'h'e niesll * * thing d'me bj those se as he sat there in th« black dark d»!ÀA« •Alerts« us. a -------------- —---------- - --------- ........... —- ■■■■ »H h on public governing boards. They must lay their hands on the governing machiner}' of the country, which Is the true way, the legitimate way, indeed, the only effective way of getting anything properly done, even for the home. PAST AGES NOT WITHOUT VIRTUES. By Walter Ba^ehot. « Nation making Is the occupation of men »u K the early ages. And it Is. war that makes Jy nation«. Nation changing comes afterward, end is mostly effected by peaceful revolution, // though even then war. too, play« it« part. f' The idea of an Indestructible nation 1« a mod ern idea ; in early ages ull nations were de structlble, and the further we go buck the ** 5 ^ more incessant was the work of destruction Many sorts of primitive Improvement ar« pernicious to war; an exquisite sense of beauty, a love ot medit« tlon, a tendency to cultivate the force of th« mind at the expense of th« force of the body, help In their re spective degree« to make men less warlike than they would otherwise be But these are th« virtue« of other ages. The first work of the first ages is to bind men to * gether in the strong bond of a rough, coarse, harsh cue tom. And the incessant conflict of nation« effects this in the best way. Ixmg ages of dreary monotony ar« the first fact« In the history of human communities, but those ages were not lost to mankind, for It wa« then that was formed the comparatively gentl« and guldabl« thing which we now call human nature. “ CHARACTER MAIN FACTOR IN SUCCESS. By\ William E. H. Lecky. On« of th« most important lesson« that ex perlence teaches is that on tlie whol« and In the great majority of cases success in life ds pends more on character than on either in tellect or fortune. Temperance, industry, in tegrity, frugality, self reliance and self fe straint ar« the means by which th« great masses of men rise from penury to comfort, and it Is the nations in which the«« qualities are most diffused that in th« long run ar« the most pros perous. Cardinal N«wmau ba« painted th« character of th« per feet gentleman: lie Is one who never inflict« pain. • He carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast. H« 1« tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the ab surd. H« makes light of favor« while he doe« them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled. He ha« no ears for slander or gossip. He has too much good sense to be affronted by an insult. He is too clear-headed to be unjust. He 1« as simple a« he Is forcible and as brief as be is decisive Nowhere shall we find greater candor, consideration, indulgence. ness and called It to mind—but its kind had brought him in a livelihood! There was merit in it, merit because it gave promise of better things; it was that merit that twisted Ralph Paterson's Hi® as he thought upon it. “What Is merit, promise?” he said aloud. lie rose and began to pace to and fro in the darkness. A simple enough feat; for the room was bare of uuglit but the necessities; a bed, an easel, a cheap washstand thrust into a cor ner. a row of pegs behind the door. And he had begun differently! He laughed at the thought of the first few years of comparative nffiuence, follow ing the sale of several canvases, when he had, returning from a strenuous apprenticeship to a new Ideal In the Latin quarter, lived upon hl * small capital and high hopes. Those days wore far enough away now! He tossed the end of his cigar away with an exclamation. He crossed to the window, and stood there looking down ujMin the hurrying crowd below. The night was wet, and a sea of drip ping umbrellas moved past in an end less stream, their owners unseen by the watcher above. Numberless women! Women out on sui’h a night I One, another, and an other, and another! A sea of women, and every one her own distinctive self. Ah, how slight was the difference dividing them from one another, and yet—to him. how great! He was thinking of one woman. • • • He wondered. • • • RUf no. It was inconceivable she could hav« waited for him! Waited, too, for what? He said aloud. “But there 1* on«, this last chance, to sink or swim. To morrow I” Yee. he had come to this that he had staked his all on one last throw ; his future as an artist, the wooer of for tune, fame, applause, rested upon a question of to-morrow's ruling And the contingency wns so remote; the possibility that the picture he had sent In might be hung in the academy She «¡Rd now. nt oinv holding out • hand: "1 can't remember for the mo ment where 1 have met you. but I feel sure that we have s n each other be fore." And then, ns he looked ¡»t her with dawning comprehension, and a certain amusement: ”1 am Marion Sefton, of Sefton Park; perhaps we have met in Hampshire.” But that was improbable, ns they were both aware. None the less. Ralph Paterson's smile came, anil with It a certain reserve of maimer. "We have met—yes. I am Ralph Paterson.” * Hi «mile, she told herself, waa charming, much more charming than in the days before lie had gone away to Paris to lose more than he had gained. She said at once, with ready appreciation of the situation: “Then you heard me call you a lame dog?” “1 was that- until today,” lie said. She looked at him a moment keenly. Then she said softly: "Here cornea Selena. Need I introduce you to her— it Is fifteen years since she last saw you. • • •” He had turned as she spoke, and hl« eyes followed the direction of hers; they rested upon Selena Scarsdale with a certain fierce self restraint in them “No, I think I should need no help to remembrance,” he said. She glanced at him. "They are all very cross with Selena; she is thirty- three and unmarried still! The Scars dale women always marry in their teens; it Is an unwritten law,” she added quickly. "Your picture • • • It is Selena in her teens.” Her eyes asked him a question. He said in answer to It: “She has always been the one woman In the world to me.’’ "And you with her the one man, be lieve that—and do not keep her wait ing." The pair were dose upon them, Se lena and the other. He said abruptly: “Thank you.” When lie turned Selena was holding out her hands to him with a little ex clamation of astonishment and delight; before the expression In her eyes the other woman looked away. Marlon Sefton's voice wns sharp as she said quickly: "He's quite gray, and he has had a bad time that'll mark him for ever; but I'm glad he has got Selena.” And Ralph Paterson was saying to Selena:. "It was an inspiration—stak ing all—on you!"—Philadelphia Tele graph. TIGERS CHARM WOMEN IN ZOO. A Veteran Keeper’« Oliaervn tion of a Feminine Perullnrit y. “One of the most interesting things to me in connection with this Job,” said the veteran keeper in the Bronx Park Zoo to a New York Sun man, "is the peculiar fascination women have for this year. This was bis vow, after for certain animals and their utter years of contemptuous Ignoring of the lack of Interest In others. Of course, exj»ert judgment that had in the past as a rule, men are more interested than thrown his out again, and yet again, women, generally speaking. In wild from among those whose work they beasts. But the masculine Interest lies approved, and he condemned. iu an admiration of physical qualities He was giving himself his last or a curiosity to find out at close range chance! And. meantime! how tlie creature lhes. He dropped the blind and walked to “The woman's feutng. on the other the door. He took down from it his hand, nine times out of ten. Is one of cap. He went out into the wet night. rapt fascination, Impossible to over • »»••• come when she is close to certain crea "It Is really remarkably like Selena tures of the wootls. This emotion never —Selena ten, or fifteen years ago. manifests itself for the eaters of grass. I What did you say was the name of the For the elephant or the deer the aver artist? • • • Ralph Paterson! • » • age woman feels no real interest what Ralph Paterson—why I remember him ever. It Is toward the devourer« of quite well. He painted very nicely flesh, particularly tlie felines, that your when he was a young man, before he wife or sister or cousin feels drawn iu went to Paris or somewhere to gain that Inexplicable way. You must spend technique, or color, or something or days In the lion house in order to ap another he hadn't got. But whatever preciate fully tlie way In which women he gained it wns less than what he stand spelllHuiml before those cages. lost—and he couldn't find a public for But greatest of tdl is the fascination the wretched things he called portrait , * of the reptiles. I have seen women and his sitters called libels—when he become absolutely unconscious of the came back. 1 have heard that he went outer world in their contemplation of under, starved in a garret. We all motionless snakes. A few days ago a thought he had died .Selena, too, for woman stood for more than two hour» she had a kind of liking for him. before the king cobras. She looked like Selena was always like that, always the wife of a workingman who made looking after the lame dogs. • • •” fair pay. I ll bet if you gave her a The lame dogs! Ralph Paterson l»ook on snakes she wouldn’t read 100 turned and looked at the speaker, and words of It.” she, surprised by his sudden uncon scious movement, stared back at him I'nmaile Hlstnrg. a moment with some Interest. She The emancipation of woman having said to herself: "I wonder if lie is the at length worked out« to a logical and author of some of the atrocities I have symmetrical finish, the bride and her been criticising freely for the last half best woman waited at tlie altar, while hour? He looks decidedly wolfish.” the groom came up the aisle on the Sh« watched him with undisguised arm of his mother, who gave him amusement as be moved away, then away. she turned to her companion : "I wish The groomsmen wore crepe de china you would find Selena; she would like and carried groom roses. to see this, I'm sure. I believe she is Three clergywomen assisted at the still in the first room.” ceremony. "This lame dog has done well for The groom's father sat in the family himself, at any rate,” she thought. pew. He was dressed in wine-colored "He has got a good show for his work.” silk, with ropes of ¡»earls. Her restless eyes still raked the room The streets In tlie vicinity of the for the man who had looked nt her so church were packed witli a mob of keenly. "Ills face Is familiar,” she onlookers, mostly men and children, *nld to herself. "I dare say he knew prompted thither by curiosity.—Puck. me." fibs began to move enterprising Rtnnif. ly towards the doorway, where Ralph “I told the man in tlie theater ticket Paterson hud come to a pause, his dark face standing high above the sea of office that 1 would pay him 50 cents extra if he would give me a seat where men and women who drifted pnst nlm. “He is a head above any of them.” he could guarantee there would be no woman with a high hat directly in she told herself with satisfaction. "It simplifies matters when you are look front of me.” “And did you get st>-h a seat?” ing for a person in a crowd like this. "I certainly did. The seat he gave In that way both he and Selena are very obliging pi ople * Indeed. He would me was directly t»eliind ■ po«t.”— Yoo kers Statesman. make a very good pair with Selena, too; I wonder who he la. He has an A« Ksrlz Riser. air, though he Is shabby; but then an “Are you an early riser, Pat?" artist can afford to do ns he likes In “Am I? Sure, I'm such an «art, the matter of dress, and he certainly riser, sor, that I'm «feared some time can't be an ordinary, everyday indi I'll ketch meallf giftin' tip when I'm vidual with that head ” Her Inconse goin' to bed-”—Yonkers Rtateaman. quent thought» ran on, and when she reached Ralph Paterson sh« had de Many« mart imagine« hr * don« aom» cided that she mutt have met him at thing for th« church whan be * «y« • •otue time or another, and ba«« fog- cugh I er f«g bl« ¿ear.
