: f r. one by Mr. Endecot, one by Mr. Stileman. one by John Woodbury, and one by Mr. Verrin. and would b‘> a bad-presl 4 h .« tach Week dent to keep hous alone.” The prece­ dent has fared hardly at the hands of BANDON.......................... OREGON posterity. What large, empty places would be left to-day in the life of vil­ A good many distinguished people lage and town if the maids—old and are becoming parents this year. young—who keep house alone were "warned out" after the fashion of our We don't hear much about appen­ stern forefathers! The saint of the dicitis any m< re Have the appendices town is almost sure to be a spinster. She is the dispenser of cookies and all been removed? maple-sugar to her youthful admirers Three people are walking across this She does up the hurt fingers and wipes continent. Most of us prefer to stay away the tears of dis: ppolntment from childish eyes. She is th« first to be at home and work. told of the lovers' happiness, and is The Detroit Evening News accuses the most desired consoler in the house the ex president of shooting “rhl- of mourning. We cannot know ex­ nocerl." This Is worse than nature actly what Detora Holmes did with faking. her four bushels of corn, which must have been a poor substitute for a home King Edward Is now 67 years of age of her own. But one might guess that and should be allowed whatever she planted ft cn some sunny New creases In his trousers he Is pleased England hillside, and that it sprang to wear. up in a rich crop of kind deeds and wise words and loving thoughts, which A $6,000,000 Judgment against a Cin­ Debora passed on to all her maiden cinnati man has been sold for $150. sisters for the cheer and comfort of Such a transaction must make a man mankind. feel terribly unimportant. XRUMPET CALLS. 8IND0N RECORDER The American men unanimously confirm Mrs. Elinor Glyn's statement that they didn't try to flirt with her while she was in this country. When shooting a giraffe always aim at the heart of the beast, if it is shot in the head it may not And out for a day or two that It Is dead. "There is nothing like bable3," says Mme. Schumann-iieink. "to Improve the voice.” Yea, and there is nothing like babies to Increase the number of voices. Whiskers may well be dispensed with, but as long ns most men’s mouths are what nature made them, it Is as well to hang on to the mustache in some instances. The canned beef of Chicago Is to dis place the rdftst beef of old England In feeding the British soldiers. A Chi cago beef packer has lately secured a contract to supply the army for three .yean. _______ The deaths of Algernon Charles Swinburne and George Meredith with­ in a month have deprived England of her greatest modern poet and novel­ ist, but Alfred Austin and Hall Caine will hardly be willing to believe it. A girl who arrived at New York from Europe a few days ago refused to land until she could be assured that she would not become a white slave. A fine reputation our police forces are establishing for us abroad! A New York man has recovered $650 for the loss of a little toe. He proved to the satisfaction of the jury that it was the only little toe he had on his right foot and that the loss of it imposed too much work on the other toes. A question which has puzzled a good many persons has at last been settled A prominent woman’s rights advocate says that a suffragist is one who tries to convert women, and a suffragette one who tries to convert men. Evi dently It is not. as some had thought, a national or racial matter. The national House of Representa­ tives has decided th remodel the chant her In which It sits. The hall will be reduced In size and chairs will be Substituted for the desks. The hall is so large that members have diffi culty In making themselves hear 1. and the speaker finds it hard to keep his scattered flock in order. American missionaries have been ac cused of encouraging the Koreans to rebel against the Japanese govern ment. Prince Ito, in answer to a let­ ter of the American ambassador. Mr. O’Brien, says that there Is no truth in the charge, and that the mission arles are cooperating with the gov­ ernment in Its work of educating the people. Missionaries have no motive for meddling in politics in countries where the government does not hinder but assists their efforts. It Is said that one of the depositors In an American savings bank will ac­ cept no Interest, for he Is a Mohamme dan. and his religion forbids it. It is a part of other ancient religions, the JewfBh among the rest, that interest is not right. "Usury” has come down to us with a bad sense, not because it originally meant excessive interest, as it does now. but because our ancestors disapproved all payment of premium for money lent. Antonio, In "The Merchant of Venice," was not an ex ceptlonally generous man in lending money without Interest, but merely followed the custom of hts time; Shy­ lock, on the other hand, even If he had exacted only a low rate for hts loans, would have been regarded from the point of view of an Elizabethan as a social outcast. The business of banking was chiefly In the hands of the Jews In the olden times, until the whole Western world came to what we regard as a more huslnesslike and ra tional view. A living death is a life without In centive. The man or woman who li purposeless, has no responsibility, li producting nothing, is merely feeding the physical senses. Is missing th« meaning of existence and forfeiting the real joy of living. The quickest and surest way of tiring of the world is to concentrate thought on self Those who have nothing to think of but self carry a wearisome burden In the news columns dally we read of the disasters that befall purposeless people. Every city every day has its quota of suicides from this cause The bunion of mere self becomes sc heavy men and women take their live« to escape it. To temporarily free their minds of the stress of irresponsl bilitv others drink themselves Into th« gutt< r. There is a deal of wretched ness from this cause. "The world 1« full of such a number of things that 1 am sure we should all be happy as kings," the poet sang, and very truly For one has only to look about with seeing eyes to find things to do that are worth while doing. Evasion ol responsibility is rank cowardice, and makes for an empty life. If time weighs heavily upon you. get busy! Adopt a baby. Go conservatively Into debt. Interest yourself In the strug gle of some fellow worse off than you are. Get married. Devise some means of affecting an equitable tariff Discover a new star. Find a cure for cancer. Scheme a plan by which the graft danger may be eliminated from municipal ownership of public util­ ities. Discover a substance which will prevent teeth from decaying Write something which will make men think less of selfish gain and more of brotherly love. These are suggestions —and "the world Is full of such a number of things" that one need not think long before discovering an agreeable hobby. Do something and be happy. BAD PARROT A PRISONER. Profane Pird Hauled Ont of n Tree by a Policeman and Arrested. Ham*« Horn Sound« a Warning Mota to the I a redeemed. a WHERE LAWLESSNESS BEGINS. T the last session of the Ohio Legislature an act was passed making illegal the or­ ganization and maintenance of secret so­ cieties in the public schools of that State. The law was the result of a general and growing belief that secret societies—Greek- letter fraternities, or sororities, as they are commonly called—are a menace to the wholesome­ ness and democracy of public school life. This opinion is held by the more intelligent and better Informed peo­ ple of all the States. But now the pupils of the public schools who are members of secret societies, or desire to be, have revolted. They are reported as determined to fight the new law, and as having raised a fund to pay counsel. In other States, notably in Massachusetts, there have been similar revolts against authority, in these cases the authority of the school committee rather than the Legislature; and discipline has not always been maintained. In all these cases something is at stake which is far more important than secret societies. It is the whole question of respect for and obedience to the law. The parents who do not see this are blind to their duty. Children in this country are too eften permitted to dis regard municipal laws and police regulations, and are not even rebuked for their lawlessness. But pupils in the public schools can do nothing In defiance of the laws of State, city or school committee unless they are aided and supported by their parents. It is time there was right thinking and plain speaking on this matter, and that responsibility be placed where It belongs.— Youth s Companion. THE USEFULNESS OF OLD MEN. RESIDENT ELIOT surrendered his duties as the head of Harvard University the oth er day at the age of 75, but Levi P. Mor­ ton, aged 85, rode in the ordinary smoker from his country home to his New York office, and made his share of the smoke eu route. The fact that Mr. Morton has a decade the start of President Eliot does not seem in the least to disturb him. Another incident to add to these Is that James F. Hyde, at the age ot 95, has just been re-elected treasurer of the city of Lincoln, Neb. The young men are not running everything in tills age. The youth of 62, known as Edward H. Harriman, is quite active in business life. James J. Hill is "getting around" at 72. Those fledglings, Rockefeller, Morgan and Car­ negie, while not so active as either Harriman or HUI, do not admit that they aje out of the game. There seems never to have been an age of the world when men who have wisely digested their experiences and observations were more in demand than now. The aged treasurer of Lincoln not long ago published a pam­ phlet on the science of accounts that is full of sugges­ tion for the youth who already knows it all. At 75 years President Eliot, out of the fullness of his expe­ rience with books, has set himself the task of selecting a three-foot library whose study will give any man a liberal education If there is an irreverence about the time, it should be corrected by observing the character and attainments of these and other old men, mighty in GERMAN AND BRITISH CANARIES < hnracterietlcs of < hkl * COST OF WAR PREPARATIONS. HE cost of a great battleship complete is about $10,000,000, and the effective life of one of these floating fortresses is about fifteen years. Figures of this sort acquire their greatest significance by comparison. It is somewhat startling to be told that the cost of a great battleship equals the valuation of all the land and the 100 buildings which Harvard University has accumulated in 250 years, plus all the land and buildings of Hampton and Tuskegee ln- stitutes. According to Bloch, the writer on war, the cost of one shot by a big cannon, including the deterioration of the weapon, is $1,700. This amount would send through college a boy who could get along on $425 a year, as many do. It would pay for an ordinary workingman's house. Taking the average figures as given in the sta tistical reports, this sum is equal to a workingman's wages for three and two-thirds years. It is as much as the salary of the average school teacher in this coun try for five and one-third years. Our governments, national, State and local, are con­ tinually importuned to do more for social betterment in one way and another, especially for education. Refusal is based on the lack of funds. When it is remembered that one battleship represents an outlay sufficient for the establishment of a university, the possibilities from the reduction of expenditures for military purposes loom large. Think what could be done for education, for Irrigation, for reforestation, in providing better housing conditions for the people, and in many other ways of like significance with the expenditures made necessary by the fear of war!—Chicago News. WIRELESS ELECTRIC LIGHTS. HE marvelous lighting of 4,000 Incandes cent lights at Omaha by current sent thiough the air from a generating wire­ less plant five miles distant marks another new era In electricity. The first telegraph line in America was opened between Wash ington and Baltimore May 24. 1844. To­ day the United States has more than 200,000 miles of line, comprising more than 1.250,000 miles of wire, in the operation of which 30,000 persons are employed at an annual salary of more than $14,000,000. The first telephone line went into commission in Boston in 1877. To-day the United States Is talking over 3.400,000 tele­ phones, or one for every twenty-three inhabitants. There are 40,000 telephone operators, and their annual total wage income is $11,000,000. With what amazing rapidity will every available wa­ ter power be harnessed, since the Omaha expert has fouid a way to send electric power by the same air route? The wonderful accomplishments of the last half century may read like fiction, but the greater possibilities of the near future actually smack of Aladdin and his won derful lamp.—Chicago Journal. GRAND STAND TURNED INTO APARTMENT HOUSE. Hird Which In More N u in er ou n than Cat. Charged with resisting an officer The canary Is nowadays the cage using profane language, being a dfs bird. He Is first, and all the rest no­ orderly person, causing a crowd tc where. He is, perhaps, more numer­ collect, trespassing on park lands pro ous among us than even his natural hibited by law, and being disrespect foe, the cat. He is equally popular on ful to a policeman without cause, o the Continent, where Germany pro­ parrot is a prisoner in the offices ol duces singers famed the world over; the Essex County Bark Commission in and when In India I found that the Newark waiting for its owner tc Chinese were breeding and exporting square things with the authorities, ac thither a cheap and serviceable brand of canary for the delectation of our cording to the New York Times. When Sergeant Wilson passed a tree subjects and their rulers; for the Hln- in Branch Brook Park he noticed a I doo, although the records show that he crowd gathered around the foot of it was a skilled bird fancier when the He hastened to the spot and was In­ inhabitants of Britain were savages, formed by a boy that some one was has never risen to the higher flights of up in the branches “swearin’ awful.” agriculture in breeding his cage birds "Here. you. come down out of that," for himself, a writer tn a London ex- yelled Wilson. “You're violating th« change says. law.” The German breeders have concen­ "Oh. you bonehead! You ham fat!’ trated their attention on the bird's came the answer from the new and song, as might have been expected from their national love of music; thick foliage. "I'll give you a minute to come hence the song of a good "German" down. Then I'll pull you down.” said Is a revelation of long-drawn sweet­ ness to those who are used to the rath­ the angry sergeant! "Robber! Help! Take him out! er ear-piercing efforts of the English Bonehead! Strike one!” said the vole« bird. It is a sad fact of avian depravity from the tree. "He thinks he’s at a baseball game,' that it is easier to corrupt a good canary by letting him hear bad notes said one of the crowd. ”1'11 go up and bring him down,' than to teach an inferior performer said Sergeant Wilson, who was con good ones; for though they uncon­ vlnced by that time that he was deal sciously produce musical sounds for ing with a crazy baseball crank. Th« the admiration of mankind, singing crowd admiringly watched him cllmt birds have a poor idea of music them- the tree, and looked at the commotion sel ves. in the branches, there being sounds of Yet they are impressed by each oth­ deep breathing, imprecations, and i er's songs, for it is a common thing struggles. In a few minutes the po for the matrimonial schemes of a lleeman reached earth somewhat rum canary breeder to be frustrated by a pled, but triumphant, with an angry sentimental hen falling in love with profane parrot in his hands The park the voice of an unseen singer, with commission is waiting for a man with the result that she leads the mate arbi­ an extensive baseball vernacular tc trarily chosen for her a sad life until the owner of the “witching voice" is lay claim to the bird. removed out of hearing. The personal Professional Pride. equation counts for a great deal in "I should regret very much to hear* 1 canary breeding. While the Germans hive been thus that anybody has ever offered money developing the canary's voice, they for political influence." "Yes," answered Mr. Graftwell, have neglected his appearance, and. "your hearing of it would indicate consequently, their birds aie little very crude work on somebody's part.” i larger than the wild Canary Island an cestor. and though usually yellow, are —Washington Star. of that pale primrose shade which our The I.aw of Gravity. fanciers call "buff." not the full, bril­ "Silence in the court!” thundered liant tint whbh we usually understand the Judge, and the laughter died away. by canary color. This, in its perfec­ "Mr. Bailiff," continued the instruc­ tion. is only found In English-bred tion* from the bench, "eject the next bird.-, whl-li ?r. pl < in m.- iv breeds, man who defies the la* of gravity ”— much.larger than the ’wild canary, • at aa 1 m larks. Philadelphia Ledger., On the sixteenth day of the eleventh month which was January by "old style"- of the year 1636 there was pre­ sented to the town of Salem, Mass, a petition by Debora Holmes that she might have a piece of land allotted to her in that town. The record of what answer was made to her request runs as follows "Debora Holmes re­ Occasionally a dressmaker ,