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BlftOON RECORDER tach W*«k *d a little toddling boy. three years old, and kowtowed and klyled to h'm just as if he had come through a hard campaign and had tieaten bls adver saries by a comfortable majority in the electoral college. All the fuss and feathers attendant upon so notable a ceremony merely went to show that little Pu Y1 had succeeded to the throne of his fathers and had acquired the rule over hundreds of millions of people. It is not supposed that the three-year-old brain had any vast con ception of what all this ceremony meant. He had been carefully instruct ed, as any clever dumb animal might have been, and he walked up the stepH and bowed at the right places and came down Hgaln at the proper moment. And in years to come, when he may be Emperor in deed ns well ns in law, It is possible that not a feature of tills day will be preserved in his memory. Rut wo people of this earth, even of this century, must have our little hu morous ceremonies, whether we are Chinese, Patagonians or Americans We must adhere to our traditions, if we have any, for In many cases tradi tions keep alive a warm flame of sen timent, and sentiment Is a thing in life we can ill afford to lose. What matters ft that the Chinese kowtow to a baby, while wo make our temporary obeisance to 300 or more pounds of ma ture manhood, if the spirit behind it 1s sincere and patriotic? And is it not probable that the adoration cf a child is oftener more honest than the oboe qulousness to a man? FACTS 13 TABLOID FORM Soldiers of Berliu built a pintoon bridge across the river Sprue in forty minutes recently. Thia is aursly a great country, when The most approved design of storm • Poor man can full for 110,000,000. door construction represents an invest ment of no less than $2,400. Thera are increasing indications that ' Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. The famous Lachine rapids of the China may have to be reformed from St. Lawrence are to be spanned by a the outside, after all. bridge aud the channel widened. A $40,000 wireless telegraph plant is Scientists who insist that kissing ; ; - ; / being erected at Newport, which will conveys germs have not caused any huve a working radius of 1,250 miles. ACETYLENE SHELLS FOR GERMAN NAVY. without notice to shippers. If rates are advanced under noteworthy slump in the mistletoe mar An attempt to establish a municipal XPERIMENT8 are now being carried out the present national supervision of traffic charges It will ket brewery in Berlin resulted in a dismal on German warships with aeetyleue shells, be necessary for the roads to show that the Increase Is Probably the most skillful operation failure. It did plenty of business, but which it is believed will take the place of necessary to efficiently maintain the property and give in Castro’s case was his own operation lost money. the electric searchlight »used hitherto by good service. for the removal of himself from \ ene- Shippers are not opposed to the railroads charging warships. These shells contain calciuib As a proof of tiie lasting qualities of reasonable rates for traffic transportation. It 1s admit cuela. carbide and the water can reach it through cypress, a coffin recently was excavated W ■ ,u - g a tube. The shells are fired by a gun built ted that rates must be maintained at a level to defray ut New Orleans which had been buried A Pittsburg girl who eloped took her specially for the purpose. On being fired the shell goes operating expenses and pay reasonable dividends, as since 1803, yet the wood was as sound mother along. This is what the head under the water and then rises to the surface, aud the well as providing for normal depreciation of the proper as when new. line artist might call a "double trag action of the water upon the calcium carbide produces ties. It Is now recognized that the roads are public A new lee cream freezer, by using a edy’’ for father. the acetylene light. Each shell is said to have 1,0)0 carriers and the Interest of the public should be con glass can, claims to do away with the sulted when traffic rates are advanced. The day of arbi candle power and will burn for three hours. The great arduous labor of turning a crank and Barring a boy from Yale on account drawback of tho ordinary searchlight is that although trary rates without due regard to the Interests of ship freezes its contents by packing in of marriage seems like an unnecessary pers who pay the charges Is past, as the roads are not it affords some protection from the unobserved approach crushed 1«* and salt. thrusting into conflict of two forms of of torpedo boats, it yet makes the warship using it an operated as a private enterprise, but in the Interests of the higher education. By placing small cylinders contain* Interstate commerce. Under the Interstate commerce su excellent target. The new acetylene shell referred to ing compressed cartton dioxide, with pervision of the railroad charges shlpjiers can by Injunc will have the great advantage of lighting up a given Progressive Boston has given the su fuse plugs, melting at 200 degrees, in tion restrain the roads from enforcing new rates until space, while the vessel that fires it will be left In dark perstitious a jolt by making thirteen coal bunkers, spontaneous combustion, after they are approved by the commission. The ship nesa.—London Globe. entrances and thirteen exits at the it is said, will be prevented. per is now protected against exorbitant charges by hav main station of Its new subway. ing his Interests guarded by government supervision Of In a once famous tea district of In SHIPPING CHARGES traffic rates.—Goodall’s Farmer. dia, the cultivation of rubber has driv HERE has been a great change in the atti . President Simon of Hayti has made en the production of tiie former to sec tude of railroads toward shippers since no promises concerning his Intentions ond place, nearly 17.000 acres being In the disaster which has befallen OCEAN VESSELS ON THE GREAT LAKES. the Interstate Commerce Commission was with regard to a second term. He has devoted to rubber plantations. the Calabrian and Sicilian cities there HE Idea of the navigation of the Great empowered to revise shipping rates. The probably considered it unnecessary. is that which almost dwarfs the sig One of the greatest leather belts in takes by ocean-going vessels has always rtiads are no longer arrogant and arbitrary nlflcance of humanity. Distance robs the world recently was completed at been a most attractive one, and for over Claus Spreckels came to tills coun in their demands, but recognize the rights a Philadelphia factory. Three ply, it a century It has found many enthusiastic of shippers to enjoy reasonable traffic try a poor boy aud amassed a great the catastrophe of but little of its hor was 150 feet long by five wide, and advocates both In Canada and in tbs charges. The attitude of the railroads is entirely differ- fortune, but he does not seem to have ror even for those who must depend required 300 bides In Its manufacture. United States. It was the basis of CoL been able to die without leaving a will on thoir imagination to supplement the ent from their actions a decade ago. Then the big trans narrative which scantily reveals the The foundation for the recently com Philpott's report In 1840, the raison d'etre portation lines did not recognize that shippers had any qontest human anguish. Of all things which pleted harbor of refuge lighthouse, rights that tiie big corporations were bound to respect in of the International "Deep Waterways Commission" of John D. Rockefeller has a double, bring pain and suffering to men there Delaware hay, is a solid block of con fixing traffic charges. A canqialgn of publicity has near 18l«i and the underlying principle of the early designs but John and the double can alw’ays is nothing which strikes so severe a crete, 18 feet deep, 40 feet in diame ly eliminated the rebate privileges, by which discrimina for the Georgian Bay canal. In more recent proposals, be distinguished from each other by blow as does such a convulsion of nat ter at the base and 36 feet at tiie top. tion the large shipper was given an unjust preference however, it has been recognized that the conditions of an examination of their respective ural forces, wrecking the lives of men navigation upon the ocean are so different from those over his smaller competitor. Tiie unofficial and autiiorized jury as ant heaps are crushed under foot. check books. It la known that 1908 has been a year of small profits which obtain on the Great Lakes that tiie same type of of outsiders lias decided that tiie award The fate of the Italian cities stuns to railroads on account of the industrial depression. It vessel cannot be economlcaly used In both services. The for personal pulchritude among the If Emperor William Is unable with wherever word of the overpowering dis has been a year of loss and decreased profits to every purpose of the Georgian Bay ship canal as now projected eleven governors nnd next governors an income of $10,000,000 a year to aster can be carried, with the fear great industry, but the railroads announced several is to bring the lake carrier to a point where she can is to ite divided evenly between Draper, make ends meet it will have to be ad that the forces which in themselves mouths ago that to maintain efficient service they would transship directly Into the ocean liner. As a result Of of Massachusetts ami I’routy, of Ver mitted tiiat he Is about the poorest make life possible, the very earth be compelled to revise their traffic schedule and raise steady agitation a complete survey for such a project mont.—Boston Record. manager extant. which boars ft, are heedless of it. The was authorized by the Canadian government In 1904 •hipping charges. W. B. Hagglns, better known ns Pea lines which man has drawn across the This procedure is entirely different from the adminis and an Interim report on the survey was laid before tbs nut Bill, has bought a lot in the Ponca A century and a half ago the bitter world and the languages which he has tration of the roads before the appointment of the Inter House of Parliament in July of last year. It is probable city cemetery and had erected thereon quarrel between the Kaiser and King inherited to mark the passing differ state Commerce Commission. A decade ago the only that the final report, giving In detail all results of ths a handsome marble monument to him Edward would have meant war; now ence of nationality all disappear when formality necessary to change the schedule was to call surveys, will be ready for presentation during the oom- self. The only inscription on the monu It merely furnishes material for the such n crushing blow descends on one a meeting of the directors and make imperial changes Ing session of Parliament.—Engineering Magazine. ment is tills simple statement: “Bill professional humorists. part of the human kind. Suffering Hagglns is gone.”—Ponca City (Okla.) which speaks no language and knows Courier. Statisticians inform us that the cost no boundary lines brings home to the to George that he didn't want him THE JOYS OF LIFE. After an active service of more than of living has increased 250 per cent well housed Ohfcngoan, as to the bangin' around, an’ George got mad. I during the past 100 years. Still, it Parisian, the Londoner, the man of told him he didn't need to get mad Case of the Simple-Minded Youth twenty years. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss Who Trundled the Handcart. has resigned the presidency of the will have to be admitted that living Berlin, of Vienna, of Toklo, and of Pe about that. I said I guessed I'd have “ In what Joy conulsts,” said Mr. Methodist Episcopal Board of Home is worth a good deal more than it was king, with equal force the shock of a anybody come to see me that I want 100 years ago. ed. 'But you ain’t patient enough MacWhackleton, according to the Bos Missions ami Church Extension, assign human catastrophe. The little differ with father,' I says, 'If you thought as ton Herald, "dejiendB a good deal on ing as tiie reason ills ill health of the ences of men and nations do not sur Another counterfeit $3 silver certifi vive such disasters, and the flood of much of mo as you say you do, you'd our age, our circumstances and our last year. Bishop Luthi’r B. Wilson cate has been discovered. Why will sympathy and the efforts in relief "I’ve quit goln’ with him,' said the remember that he's my father. If you point of view. I doubt If any of the has been chosen to succeed him. joys of later life are greater than people go to the trouble of making turned toward the cities of Calabria girl with the lop-sided bang. "I guess like me you've got to like him.’ One hundred and fifty different lan counterfeit money when they can open and Sicily with spontaneity and un I ain’t seen him for over two weeks.” “That was when he promised to try. those of early youth. guages are spoken in India, most of "Going along our block last night them unwritten, and this fact frequent • B-cent show almost anywhere and bounded lavfshness prove in its big The girl with the genuine coral But the next time father came right was a youthful grocery boy pushing a ly leads to trouble in tiie courts of that necklace looked amazed. "Is that get rich quick? out an ’ told him to keep away, an ’ gest sense the universal brotherhood handcart and imitating the call of a of man. And millions of men will turn so-o?” she asked. "Why, I thought you George lost his temjier an’ called him cat. He didn't know whether he was Oriental country. Strangely enough, The Crown Prince of Servla ve to certain words to find in them a an' him was goln' to get married. I pig-headed, an’ said that he'd got a Indians frequently drift into that cap hemently declares : "I will fight my closer comfort. "Are not two sparrows was expectin’ a bld for bridesmaid notion to belt him one. That settled rich or poor. If an automobile passed ital who can find no one able to under father, if necessary.” We respectfully sold for a farthing? And one of them 'most any time.’’ George with me, an' I told him so, him he didn’t wish that he could have stand some of tiie litigants and wit refer him to Hon. Jack Johnson if he shall not fall on the ground without “Well, you may get it,” said the girl an' he told me I might go to grass.' ” IL Sufficient to himself, he simply court nor tiie court interpreters under feels that he positively cannot get your Father.” with the lop-sided bang, "but I won't "My! I didn’t think George had regarded ft as a part of the show. He stand some of tiie litigants and wit tie standin' up with George. George is such a mean disposition," said the girl hadn’t come to any of the sorrows or nesses involved in some of tiie lawsuits. along without a fight. setbacks of life yet; he was fearless all right, but I don’t want no feller with the lop-sided bang. Deatrn at >11« Own Gaine. One of the best of Arab characteris That Connecticut man who adver “I didn’t either,” said the girl with and irresponsible; alive and kicking, tics is that of filial piety. Sons and “A few days since," relates a so that's got It in for my relations. I tised that he would for 60 cents re licitor, "as I was sitting with my think if a feller thinks anythin’ of bls the coral necklace. “Anyway, I ain't he enjoyed every breath he drew and daughters of deceased parents take veal a method of "getting rich quick” friend D. In Ills office a man came in girl he ought to be pleasant to her goln’ with him any more.”—Chicago now he was walking along automati upon themselves all sorts of irksome cally pushing the handcart, which had Is eligible for membership in the Ana and said: folks." Dally News. tasks accounted as expiatory of the practically gone out of ills mind in nias Club. His answer to the people "He ain't marry in' her folks, you Mr. W., the livery stable keeper minor faults committed by the departed the thrill of his personal eat calling who forwarded the price demanded tricked me shamefully yesterday, and know,’’ suggested the girl with the THE CHINESE EDITOR. ones during th<*ir lifetime, and dis achievement. for hlB recipe was “Work hard.” coral necklace, I want to be even with him.’ “‘Mfauowl’ he said. ‘MI—au—owl’ charging faithfully every payment or “It’s nil right about that,” said the Him Life-Work lx Not Exactly a Bed "‘State your case,’ said I). obligation left unfulfilled by dead pa of Koxex. Socialist candidates for Congress re long drawn out. ’Ml—an—ow,’ and he " ‘I asked him how much he’d charge other. “George didn't like father, Last year when everything in China ceived votes In 102 districts this year; me for a horse to go to Richmond. He though. He had the nerve to tell me teetered tiie handle of the cart in the rents, for lias not tiie prophet said Prohibitionists in 152 districts. The said half a sovereign. I took the he didn’t. ‘All right,’ I says. ’You hummed with the news of a changing Intensity of ills enjoyment, all wrought that martyrdom even will not atone for strength of the two parties lies in the horse, and when I came back he said don’t have to like him. If you don't order, tiie editors of some of the papers up by tiie sound of ills own effort, an unpaid debt. There are several species of fish, rep North and West, for the South con he wanted another half sovereign for want to like him I can't make you, but played fast and loose with ancient de thinking it fine and wonderful and tiles and insects that never sleep, dur tributed only four candidates out of coming back, and mnde me pay it.’ if you feel that way about it I guess corum. They even criticised tiie gov thinking it nothing else. ernment. That called for action from the total, two Prohibitionists and two "What was tiie tariff bill to him or ing tiie whole of their existence. “D. gave his client some legal ad you’d better find some young indy with high sources. Some yamen in Pekin Socialists. the ne**d of new subways, or tiie earth Among fish it Is positively known that parents that suits you better. ’ That's vice, which he Immediately acted upon, whose province it is to look after quake in Italy, or where the money pike, salmon and goldfish at no time whnt I told him.” ns follows: He went to the livery We do not know that the practice < f tilings of tills sort, sent an emissary sleep; also that then* are ottier mem "What did he say to that!" nsked qll the way to England and Germany was coming from to pay the rent or bers of the fish family that sleep only lying Is on the Increase, but the accu stable keeper and said: ‘How much whether we could afford to go to the will you charge for a horse to Wind the girl with the cornl necklace. sation of lying certainly Is. It appears to study how tiie governments there opera or not, or any of life's cares a few minutes during the course of a "He said he’d try to like him for handled In the most unexpected places. Grave sor?' obstreperous newspapers. and troubles? Nothing. month. Then* tire various species of “ The man replied : ‘ A sovereign. ’ my sake; but lie didn't." lawyers, debating a point of view, sud When all the data was at hand they flies that never indulge In slumber, ''He lived in a world of his own in “Client accordingly went to Wind "What was it lie didn’t like about formulated something new in the way denly discover that ft Is necessary to nnd five species of serpents also that which ho was constantly discovering denounce each other as liars. We fear sor, came back by rail nnd went to the your father?” of press laws. do not sleep. new wonders, and himself learning to “It was the way father acted that he that the habit is spreading from poli livery stable keeper, saying: The publishers, printers and editors do new things, and lately it had como Parliament House. Melbourne, which “‘Here Is your money,’ paying him a didn't like," explained the girl with the of newspapers for general circulation tics into less bellicose callings. It Is to him that he could Imitate the call has been rushed by “the unemployed” sovereign. loji-slded bang. "Father sorter took a mainly the lying politician, or the man must be over 20 years of age according “ ’Where Is my horse?* said W. notion that George wasn't the sort of to the existing press laws; they must of a cat and just now lie was in the of the commonwealth capital, Is the who lies about a lying politician, to “'He’s at Windsor,’ answered the fellow ho wanted me to have, an’ when be generally accepted as of sound full flush of his first ¡»erfeeted power costliest legislative palace In Greater whom popular attention is directed. client. 'I hired hltn only to go to father gets a notion Into his head you mind, nnd none of them may continue In this; and now lie was pushing the Britain. A million tins been expended Pearson's Weekly. can't get it out. I told George lie didn’t ids calling if he has ever served a handcart along, teetering the handle on it, and it is not yet completed. It One of the little tragedies of the Windsor.’ up and down, and with his head belongs to tin* Parliament of Victoria, need to take no noth« of it, but for prison sentence for any crime. Boxer uprising in China has just come A Wide Hnn«e, thrown back, saying at every other but since federation it has been the him to Jos' keep on cornin’. All there to light. The young American woman Each proprietor must deposit se step. ‘Ml—au—ow! Ml—au—ow !’ and meeting place of the Parliament of the When tiie surgeon who happened to was, father ’ d kinder frown when he who painted the portrait of the late curity of his rectitude to the amount finding in it a pervasive and permeat commonwealth, its owners moving to Empress Dowager wrote recently of the be spending a night at Bushby Inn had seen him an’ when George said ’Good of $75 before issuing ills first sheet un ing, a profoundly penetrating delight. a wing of the exhibition building close sittings, and mentions the long finger set the broken leg of the weather beat evenin’ ’ he’d sorter grunt, or else he less he can prove that his publication And what joy could one find greater by.—London Chronicle. nails of her distinguished subject. In en stranger who was the chief victim wouldn’t say nothin' at all. He’d kin» is purely artistic, «•ducntlonal or sta than that?" At tiie recent meeting of the national of an automobile accident the patient o ’ make remarks, too. not mentionin ths hurried flight from Pekin they tistical. A copy of each issue must lie suffrage convention In Buffalo a let were injured, and had to be cut, and looked up at him anxiously. “See names, but George couldn't help know- sent to the yamen in I’ekln, which has He Knew the Way. ter was received from tiie Socialist the artist remarks in a tone which Rug here, doc," he said in a husky voice, In' th«y was meant for him. He said formulated these press laws: Woman's Society of New York urging “ I haven ’ t got much of any money. One result of Crlspflekl ’ s civic bet suthln' one night about neckties that gests a slgli, “They wore only atsiut “Corrections or protests against mis the convention to give its support to Would you take out your fee In trade?" made George hoppin ’ mad. terment agitation was the appointment three Inches long when I painted the statements must be published in the socialism. Tiie letter pointed out that “ Yes. I guess so," said the surgeon, of young Mr. Bragdon, college gradu “ ’ Well,' I says, “ what If he don't like picture.’’ next issue," says this mandate. "In cheerfully. "What Is your trade?" red neckties? You don't need to get case the number of words used In the ate and sociologist, to the office of j both the Democratic ami the Republi can parties had refused to put a suff "Well. I’ve got a number of things sore about it. If I like ’em that’s all The Chinese government's patronage letter of correction forwarded to the town constable. I can do soon as I'm on my feet of thought and ktiowhdge now covers Young Mr. Bragdon entered uj»on rage plank into their platforms, while you need care about.’ editor Is more than twice the number a wide field. Young men are even be again,” said the patient. "I can hang his new duties with rare earnestness, the Socialist party had not only adopt "’Well, I don't want to be Insulted,’ of words used in the original statement ing trained, abroad and at borne, as window blinds, or I can put on light he says. 'I’m goiu' to quit Coinin' a fee of half the ordinary advertise and in due course bis vlgllam*e was ed such a plank, but had appointed a mining engineers and miners, and the ning rods, or I can play tiie cornet, around here.' rewarded by coming suddenly on old committee to work for it. ment rates may lie charged.” “At the sound of tiie shot," says a first atenipts to develop mineral re nnd I can do ’em all first rate, If I’m Cy Keith, stretched across two bench “ That’s your prlv lldge,’ I says. ’Of Secret intelligence of state, criticism writer in tin* Strand Magazine, describ sources Indicate that, although China the one to say It, doc.”—Youth's Com course you don't need to come if you of tiie throne or matter tending to in es in the “Green," and very much the will continue to lie a buyer of copper, panion. don't want to, but father always did flame the public peace of mind or cast worse for drink. Mr Bragdon hauled ing alligator hunting in Egypt, "tiie lead and line. It has Iron In abun act that way with anybody lie didn't odium upon long accepted popular cus him to his feet, and started him for whole of tills bank of the river, over Sound “Tups” on Mayor. the extent of at least a quarter of u dance. enough to sell. In the China of like, an’ I spoae he always will.’ A "striking" ceremony marks the ex tom if printed will render the editors, the lockup In the basement of the town mile, sprang Into hideous life, nnd my old, mining was discountensncsd be piration of the Grantham (England) house. As they were about to turn a " ’I don't like him any better than cause It was believed that demons came mayor s tenure of office. The robe Is he does me. but I keep a civil tongue publishers and printers of ths paper dark corner and enter t>is cell, the companions and I saw hundreds of containing such Inhibited matter all crocodiles, of all sorts and sizes, rush out of holes tn the ground; but ths stripped from him. the chain Is taken in my hend,' he says. 81181**01 to fine or imprisonment for not constable said, kindly: ing madly into the Nile, whose waters new China, grown wiser, per,-elves flint from about his neck, and with a small "Mind that step. ” "Now, what do you know about along tiie line of tiie shore wore lashed ttis only appearances are the tienefleent woden hammer the town clerks taps that? Nerve? Well, I told him he'd less than six months nor mors than Old Cy sneered. two years. Paf*ers may be susi»ende*l agirltes of wealth and prosperity. “Boy," be said, "I knew that step into white foam, exactly ns If a heavy, the ex mayor on tiie head In token of got to take that back, an' he did, but upon repetition of any of the offenses wave had broken. It could be no ex I seen he was sore, an’ the next time stipulated or confiscated altogether. afore you was born." the demise of his authority. aggeration to say tiiat at least a thou They had ah Illustrious time In Po he come he wouldn't hardly sj>eak to sand <>f tin's» saurian» had beet» Girls with pretty MckS dislike high father. Of course that mnde father a tin not long ago All the great men Some people laugh at a good mtuiy Seven out of ten men who call at • • turbed at a »Uqfle ekuL* U*e greet CWwe&c empire approach collars. let Wetss Uauatis Me *urt of blntsd things Ifae/vught tv bt ashamed of. business office are schemer* i BANDON........................ 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