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BINDON RECORDER Each *«<k BANDON................. :. - • OREGON Kidnaper Boyle gets off with a life sentence He ought to be exceedingly grateful. Every time the public succeeds in forgetting May Yohe she up and gets married again. Probably some day an inventive gen tus will patent a scheme for putting cow catchers on tornadoes. Our idea of a true philosopher Is a man who Is able to explain away his faults to the satisfaction of himself When a woman says that all men are brutes, you can make up your mind that she isn’t having her own way with one of ’em. If the young Turks have any respect for old age, they will not Insist that the sultan jump through a hoop for •he amusement of the people. One of the Standard Oil lawyers argues that the concern is not a trust. He must think there is a prejudice against trusts in this country. Being only a human, the weather man cannot always be expected to guess it right, although he has been known to hit it twice In succession. Elinor Glyn thinks the American are too good. The American men should say something complimentary »0 Elinor Glyn in return, if they can. King Edward recently appeared in public with his trousers creased at the sides. Emperor William can attract attention without going as far as that. Historian Ferrero, who found life comparatively simple In this country, visited us when there was neither a moving campaign nor a baseball sea son on. One of the members of the new Turk Ish cabinet is Madmoud Ekrem Bey, minister of pious foundations. They must be determined to have this mln Istry established on rock bottom. government regulation of any descrip I tion will avail but’iittle until father«, over provident, become wiser in their | i’ion and see to It that their heirs are worthy of receiving the for tunes for which they themselves have to’.b-d Although in many Stales deaf mute, and the blind receive special training to enable them to earn a livelihood, others of the handicapped, such as cripples, are not so provided for, and must frequently beg or go to the work- house or starve. But a hundred crip pies were eared for last year by the Employment Bureau for the Handl capped, a branch of the New Yorf Charity Organization Society, which although nut organized until April, re ceived about thirteen hundred applies tio'is for employment, and foun> pla-es for more than half the appli cants. Some corporations and businea houses refuse to employ the physically defective, on the ground that they ar peculiarly liable to accident and in jury; and a careful canvass fa neces sary to find positions which they can fill. But there are such [ 1 ices. There Is no reason why a one-armed man should not be a faithful watchman, or why a legless man should not be vil liable at a factory bench, or why n lame woman should not earn her board and a little more by doing light house work. Although as a rule they receive small wages, it is surely better for them ami for the community that they should be usefully employed and self supporting. In Chicago, as well as In New York, and it may be in other cities, the special problem which these unfortunates present has been taken up for solution, and already with ex cellent results. But philanthropists now raise* the point, and with good reason, that there is no community, large or small, in which a helpful mis sion to the handicapped cannot be car rled forward. A church guild could un dertake it; a charitable association which is organized on reasonably broad lines might branch in this direc tion; even an individual could accom plish much. The need is so imperative that, once it Is clearly stated, money and service will be forthcoming, and many an employer will be glad to find places for the handicapped men, wh'i tftk nothing but honest work. A St. bonis wife has left her hus band and applied for a divorce because she couldn't eat the heavy, sour bis cuits he baked. It serves him right. No man who is a poor cook has any business marrying. The fool killer Is still on the job. A Winchester, Va., man drank a quart of whisky within fifteen minutes and died a few hours later. The f. k. may overlook a few occasionally, but the number is comparatively small. Owing to the fact that a Dread nought might be constructed with the money it would cost to communicate with Mars, it is not likely that Eng land will inaugurate any movement for the purpose of getting on speaking terms with our stellar neighbors. Recent Improvements in the mechan ism for aiming big guns make it pos sible for an officer In an observation tower to have complete control of the battery of a warship. The disappear ance of the man behind the gun will result In a hardship for the poets when the next big war comes on. For the first time since the British began to rule India a native has been appointed as one of the council of six members who. with the viceroy, form the supreme government of the country. This native is a noted Hindu lawyer. The Hindus are naturally pleased, but the Mohammedans demand that they be recognized In a similar way. Every farmer must decide for him ■elf whether he will specialize or raise ■ variety of things. One successful specialist within reach of the markets of New York City raises nothing but celery. To enlarge his sales, he has prepared a little book containing reel pes for about thirty different ways of using celery, and he gives it away to his customers. It Is this sort of com bfnatlon of specialization and advertls Ing that brings success In any bus! ness. Want of occupation will ruin rhe most promising of young men. When a youth sits down in Idleness, with the idea that the world owes him a living. It’s high time that his body was committed to the dust from whence it came. As for his soul, noth ' Ing will ever be known of It. A rec ord of the young men who have been unfortunate enough to have a fortune left them shows that eight in ten never amount to a single atom In the world, and seven out of the eight die bankrupts, financially, morally and otherwise When a father brings up his son In idleness never teaching hint the first principle of economy or the value of a dollar, he commits a terri ble blunder. The father guilty of such a crime generally has to saw- wood for a living In his old age Nine out of ten of the boys with fathers who bring them up In Idle luxury, ere they reach the meridian of life are total wrecks. Money bags tnay, like bladders, keep you above the waters of distress for a time, but puncture them, let their con tents escape, and you sink. Many plans have been suggested for the rem •dy fo the evil of unearned fortunes. Hut siXliUlsiu, inheritance taxes, or for the Gouty. 4» I 4 __ 4 T Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects a WHO OWNS THE AIR? ERE is a vexed question which must one of these days be decided by our law- makers. Houses, barns and human beings require space. Therefore, we own some air. Yet a landholder would simply be ridiculous if he laid claim to the rainfall from a cloud directly above his property driven by the wind onto the grounds of his neighbor. Therefore there is evidently a limit to the distance above ground which may reasonably be fixed as owned by the land. Since law usually defines property as any thing which one is able to defend, atmospheric tenure is somewhat hazy. But aerograms invade the air In every direction. In a few years airships will dash at tremendous speed over land and sea. How shall we regulate all this? Every navigable river and lake and sea is strewn with discarded glassware, yet no mermaid has complained of a scalp wound, but what is going to happen when a care-free airshipmite on an aerial spree begins to dot the landscape with bottles? How close to earth will airships be permitted to travel without trespass? What damages shall be fixed for destroying steeples and chim neys? Where may sky-sailors descend without trespass ing? Will conflicting wireless systems render it neces* sary to restrict the use of air? May not the qualities of air be changed by surcharge of electricity? These are only a few points to be decided by legislation, but even they sufficiently indicate that a serious question is hidden in the problem of who owns the air.—Chicago Journal. THE PHYSICIAN AND THE PRESS. N recent medical conferences the need of closer relations between the medical pro fession and the general public formed one of the leading topics for discussion. The consensus of opinion now is that the era of mystery is past and that the physician should be the public’s guide, counselor and friend. Medicine to-day is largely preventive, and the war on contagious diseases is a campaign for education, cleanliness, registration and wide observance of reason able rules of right living. This recognition of the need and value of publicity not unnaturally leads to a reconsideration of the "ticklish” question of what is indiscriminately called "advertising.” The old fashioned idea Is that all forms of advertsing are prohibited by medical ethics, and that the physician who difectly appeals to the public writes himself down as a "commercial" practitioner of low ideals. A candid treatment of the subject, such as Is found in the address of Dr. Pettit, president of the Illinois State Medical Society, at the Quincy meeting of that body, shows that the old socalled ethical prin ciples are honored In the breach rather than in the ob- servance. There are many Indirect forms of advertis ing which the profession tolerates and which are really objectionable on the score of good taste. There are forms of direct, honest, truthful advertising which are irrationally tabooed. Common sense. In these days of publicity and the all-powerful popular newspaper, can not but insist on a thorough study of the ethics of ad vertising and on proper distinction between the legitl mate use of the press the dissemination of beneficial Information and the abuse of publicity through fraud, exaggeration and flamboyant sensationalism. There 1 evidence that the progressive men of the medical pro fession are clearing their minds of prejudice and cant, and that the relations between the public and the phy sicians are undergoing a significant change.—Chicago Record-Herald. COST OF LIVING IN EUROPE. OVERNMENT8 nowadays conduct sociolog ical investigations. The British govern ment has just published in three immense •volumes its inquiry into the cost of living as it affects the workingman in forty dif ferent English, French and German cities. An epitome of these volumes is presented in the following figures and facts: Wages in France are 25 per cent lower, and in Germany 17 per cent lower than in England. The hours of work in France are 17 per cent longer than in England and in Germany 10 per cent longer. The French workingman pays in rent or for lodgings 2 per cent less than the English working man, while the German pays 23 per cent more than his English brother But if the English workman were to live in France on the same footing, buying the same supplies in the same quantities, his expenses would crease 18 per cent, as they also would in Germany. From these generalizations each man may figure cording to his inclination whether he would rather a German, French or English workman.—Minneapolis Tribune. GEORGE MEREDITH. Bnfflltih llrnder« I li r«»i>u h«»u t Mourn Drath of Xovrllat. George Meredith English poet *«4 novelist, who passed aw r. recently ft» his unpretentious cottage In Box Hill, Surrey, has endeared himself to En glish readers throughout the world for many years. He was born in Hamp shire. Eng . Feb 12. 1828, and was left an orphan early in life. Until the age of 15 he was educated in Germany, and before he was 23 years old he had published poems and a novel. He de voted himself to writing. "The Ordeal jf Richard Feverel,” which was pub lished In 1859, was received with great praise and has been widely read since then. His early life In London was an unceasing struggle against poverty. and he was hampered at the outset of his literary career with pecuniary dif ficulties. Mr Meredith possessed in a marked degree the three grand qualities which are essential to the making of the nov elist analytical power, narrative ca pacity and humor. A notable feature of the genius of Meredith was his power of under- standing women There Is hardly a more lovable woman in any fiction than Diana Merlon; then In "The Ad- [Gl WHAT FASHIONS DO FOR WOMEN. AN laughs at the utterly servile way which all women at the same time put large hats or small hats, loose gowns tight gowns, at the decree of fashion, that unseen god women have raised altars of felt, velvet and feathers, of straw, flowers and fruit, higher than Aga memnon’s hecatombs. In his name they have endured pain greater than hierodule or howling Dervish ever inflicted on himself with knife and torch, But at least it should be recognized that this fashion is a god, the god of democracy. By imposing the same gown, of the same hue, cut in the same way, upon a thousand wom en, the unattractive woman is saved from the peril of being conspicuous.—New York Post. ventures of Hatty Richmond’ we meet with that exquisite creation Princess Ottilia, and in "Emilia in England,” with Emilia herself, the wild child of nature. Mr. Meredith was a serious humor ist. His books ate replete with quaint drolleries, but his fun was the out come of his cynical way of looking at human nature. “Life," he says in "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel," "is a su preme procession with ironic laughter of gods in the background.” The laughter Is not all that of the gods, for George Meredith laughed, too, though there was a spice of sadness in his laughter, as one of who had looked out upon the world and had found little there to cheer him. Nay, Meredith’s humor suggested that he made haste to laugh lest lie should weep, and at best his laughter was charged with bitterness. Mr. Meredith married twice. His first wife was a daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, an English humorist, to whom he dedicated eno of bls first books. After twelve years bls wife died, leaving him one son, and Mr. Meredith married again and settled down at Box Hill, Surrey. His second wife died Sept. 17, 1885, leaving a eon and a daughter. Of late years he lived quietly at Box Hill. He kept himself in almost complete seclusion, seeking recreation mainly In long country walks. He was regarded as the dean of English men of letters, and received from the King the Order of Meritt. On his 80th birthday, Feb. 21. last year, he was honored by the leading literary men of Great Britain with an address of con gratulation. His American admirers also sent their greetings, drawn up by Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, and signed by such men as Mark Twain, Henry James. Richard Watson Gilder, George W Cable and William Dean Howells. business engagements and came right people, we shall be as civilized as any Dr. Haig, of London, wjio has attain over here to talk to you. I don’t care other so-called Christian nation. As ed eminence In the treatment of cer whether I sell a carload of china to the yet, however, the state to the imagina tain diseases, .came to his theory of hotel or not—so long as I keep you tion of the people of Japan Is greater the uric-acid causation of many cases away from that Harry fellow you were than all the gods, The glorification of of so-cdlled neuralgia, rheumatic talking about. Take it from me, you the state Is the Mecca of all our pains, gouty tw-inges and headache as don’t want to make any break like dreams. We take very seriously all a result of oliservation on himself. that. You want a man of experience, matters connected with the state; so During his student and early profes seriously, Indeed, that we have no like me.” "Don’t you ever get tired of stand sional days he suffered horribly from the experl- sense of humor about them, That is "Leave it to you to have periodical headaches, losing an aver Ing behind that case All day?” asked ence!” retorted the pretty clgar girl. the reason why we caricature all of age of one or two days out of every the crockery drummer when the pretty "Anyhow, where did you get the idea our eight million gods In the pleasant- week In consequence thereof. He ex girl at the cigar counter had dumped that I wanted to get married? Noth est of moods in the world, but would on the little rubber perimented with all sorts of drugs and his change down ing like that for mine! I wouldn’t not for a moment permit any one to modes of living, and finally discovered mat. give up my Independence and my little caricature his majesty the emperor. "Oh, yes, I get tired,” said the girl, This also Is the reason why we have that the less meat he ate the less job here for the best man living.” standing behind the no graft in our government finance. headache he had. and he found further "but it isn’t the ! “ Well, you leave me out when you case that does it. It’s the questions that the occurrence of headache was go as far as that," said the drummer, And that saves a lot of money for our some people ask me." marked by a simultaneous excretion sadly, "but I can’t see why a good country. “I didn’t think you’d take a shot at of a large amount of uric acid. looking girl like you wastes her sweet me like that!” protested the crockery GLOVES MUST FIT EASILY. From these two facts he concluded drummer, setting his elbows on the ness on the lobby air. You ought to that the headache was due to the pres have a nice little home of your own One Fn«hlon That Mill He Fount« cigar case and taking a sidelong glance somewhere, with roses climbing all ence of uric acid in the blood, and Never to ( hanire. toward the desk to see If the hotel that the presence of uric acid in the clerk was observing his conquest, I over the front of it and a garden seat Fashions in gloves come and, go, but blood was due to meat-eating. From "Why, I’ve been figuring that you’d for you and me to loll in when I’m in no matter what their length, if gloves this beginning was developed a com throw a fit when I told you I’ve got town. Or else a snug little flat," he do not fit easily, the hands appear went on, "where I could have a few of short and clumsy. The fingers of the plete system of dietetics, having for to go to Milwaukee this evening.” the boys up for a little poker gatjie ! glove should be quite as long as the Its object the exclusion of all urlc-aeid- "Don’t you ever make any bets about contalning foods, since, If uric acid Is me throwing any fits over one of you once In a while and you could fix up fingers of the hand. really the cause of these troubles, no drummers! ” sniffed the pretty cigar the lunch for us and take care of the Besides, tight gloves do not last, Doesn't that listen good to which is an economical consideration, permanent relief can be expected so girl. "Why, there’s a waiting list of rake-off long as fresh quantities of the offend ’em. as long as your arm over there at you, Mabel?" Refined and cultured women nev "You ought to hire somebody to er wear gloves too small for them, and ing poison are thrown into the system the desk.” wake you up when you get one of these many Insist on a glove large enough every day. "That shows how popular you are," Man Is naturally a frult-and-vege- said the traveling salesman. "Every spells.” said the cigar girl. "Besides, to wrinkle, which may be taken off table-eatlng animal, he believes, and time I head for Chicago I'm scared to you’ve been here for ten minutes and or put on in an instant, Kid gloves must return to his original diet as the death because you're likely to have I’ve rung up only a stingy little dime wear much longer when they are prop- only means to his sanitary salvation. been grabbed off by some wise trav In all that time. The manager’s got erly put on the first time. "It Is quite In other w-ords. Dr. Haig is a vegeta eling gazlmbo w-lth a cruel black mus his eye on you. Now he’s coming this a science,” said a charming woman, way.”—Chicago Daily News. rian. but a peculiar kind of one. for he tache and heavenly eyes." “The hand should be perfectly clean, does not allow all vegetable foods by dry and cool, Never put on gloves “Say, you ought to be writing novels GREATEST ASSET OF JAPAN. any means. when the hands are moist or Instead of trying to sell crockery!" Beans, peas and other pulses are for said the pretty cigar girl. "When I’m warm." bidden, since their protein Is readily ready to get married I’m not going to I’copl«- Patriotic E iioiik I i to Give I p First push in the four fingers, leav Thirty Per Cent of Incomes. convertible into uric acid, and espe fall for any traveling man. Believe But the basic answer to the ques ing the thumb out and the rest of the cially does he eschew tea and coffee, me, I 1 ’ve seen too much of ’em around tion, "How does Japan manage to pay glove turned back over the hand, their alkalofdal ingredient, caffeine, this hotel.” her bills?" can hardly be found In the When the fingers are on, thanks to the being practically the same chemically "I suppose not,” sighed the crockery statistical table of her financial an- gentle movements of the other hand, as uric acid. man. "There’s no such luck in my line nual. The greatest asset of our em- draw on the thumb with great care, The diet of one who would avoid be as to coax you out from behind that pire is sentimental, says Adachl Kin placing the elbow on the knee. After coming a subject of the uric-acid dia cigar case and •aid you up In front nosuke in the American Review of Re- this draw back the wrist of the thesis, or who would emancl|>ate him of a preacher. I’ve been thinking of views That our western friends may glove and button the second button, self from the pains of the already ex It, though.” see this fact dearly, permit me to continuing thia all the way up. Then isting condition, must therefore con "You hand out that line of talk to put ft in the following manner: Let return to the first button, and you will Dusty-Khod’ > Is taking . sist almost entirely of breadstuff and every cigar counter girl on your the government of the United States see how easily it fastens without cereals, puddings, fresh and dried ! route." said the pretty cigar girl "Do go to Mr Srnlth in Chicago and Mr. cracking the kid, which often happens much needed recreation at Indian fruits, nuts and the milk products. you suppose I'd want a husband that Brown in Wall street and say to them: if buttoned first, Besides this the but-I Lake. Water is the only beverage allowed | was home only once in two or three "You are receiving $100.000 a year In tonhole will not be stretched, which Quite < lenn. It is a meager diet, and must be more 1 weeks and was flying around the coun come and we want you to give to the is of great importance if one wishes Manager You sa; this is a play of or less monotonous; and moreover, It - try all the time, like you? I should support of the government In one form the glove to look well as long as it the slums. Is it a clean play? is not always efficacious In curing pe say not! When I take the fatal step or another $30,000 a year of your in- lasts. Never pull gloves off by the fin Author—It couldn't be cleaner. The riodical headaches and other supposed I’m going to get Hove-lxivlng Harry, come." Let the German government ger tips, but by the wrists. They will hero Is a white wings an 1 the heroine manifestations of the uric acid diathe the domestic delight." or the British go to their people and thus be turned wrong side out, and is a washerwoman. -Baltimore Amerl- sis. An occasional course of it, and a "Where are you going to And him?" sav the same thing. What would hap the moisture communicated from the habitual more or less close approach ' demanded the traveling salesman, pen? A first-class revolution on the hand be quickly evaporated. When to It are. no doubt, of great benefit to opening another box of c< rk tips "Not spot. they are dry, put them carefully away the general health, but one must not fluttering around this h, t»| lobby! Otherwise they The people of Japan are performing In a proper place. forget that many of the Ills credited to You'll make the mistake of your Ilf“, the financial miracle of giving up will shrink, split easily, and beanie uric acid may be a direct result of eye Mabel, If you tie up to one of those about 30 per cent of their net Income useless. strain. to be relieved more by glasses mamma boys that's afraid when the every day. without saving a word Even In the f:< <■ <>f the kind of hats Tonrhlng, than by diet. about it In other words, the greatest electric lights are turned c.n " they are weiring tills spring, there are "Have yon beard the latest senti .«■mo women wb <• i ,,i they haven’t "Ma’ el!” echoed the pretty cigar asset of the Japanese empire of to- We suppose "Peach" Is the accepted g rl Who cave < i a 1 -n-o to < .ill Pay is the paliiptistn Of h.er people mental ballad?" their "rights." nickname for girls these days beenpse v< Ilin twenty five years, perhaps, at . ".No What’s its title?” . • their mothers bring them up In fear " ’Father Raising Vegetables to Put I . r I the . ? r tig fl;* man fh< rate * conquest weeter* com* and trembling that a frost’ may get lili tn jirtJ.the dextrine ®f tcjl on Mother’s Hat.’"• Birmingham Age- • H * I- • r tbnt ?' i t>’ w/ ”. d’ t' them. ’»i* »2 «*•»■ Staking aaonf eut »•** « . , a aM i . o ' •