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BANDON RECORDER BANDON OREGON A leading London pnyslclan nas som» out in favor of cannibalism— German preferred. The mailed hand of the law is hav- Ing a lot of trouble in making connec- tlon with the Black Hand. The United States will not permit midshipmen to marry, even If they find wives who can support them. There is no telling how many inde pendence days Cuba may have to ed e- brate at the end of the next fifty vears. "In twenty years from now we will all be flying. ,” says a scientist, But very few people believe all the scien- •ists say. A New Jersey man ate nine plates of ice cream, five pies and a dozen bananas in less than an hour, He thinks he could do better on a bet. Don't judge a man from his every day experiences. Even the grocery clerk may be grand supreme lord high chancellor of his lodge on Thursday evenings. When even Mr. Archbold dies it may leak out that he has given away a lot of money wtlh his right hand without letting his left hand know anything about It. The fact that Mrs Russell Sage has given away >25,000,000 without a pro test from anywhere, is pretty good evi dence that the shades cannot commu nicate with this world. A Chicago pastor told his health class that it is foolish to be tired. So much talk about all these subjects makes people tired. If you are tired. go to work and forget it. “A metaphysical physician now tells mothers not to punish their children for naughtiness, but to play to them on the pniano by way of correcting their faults.” Poor little kids! In the suit of the government to solve the coal combine, one of officers testified that coal must go still higher. The gentleman who invented that sun-heating plant will have to hurry a little. Some people are worrying for fear Mr. Roosevelt may be overcome by the “sleeping sickness" In Africa. If they even catch him napping over there, they will do more than anybody has ever been able to do In this country. Fifty-four hundred dollars was paid recently for a copy of the first edition of Isaak Walton's "The Compleat An gler.” Walton looked to the content of a book, and preached the pleasures of a frugal mind and inexpensive hob bies. Why bother about the canals on Mars and other theories. A North Carolina preacher has won a debate with the argument that if the earth were round and maintained a rotating motion a tomcat couldn't stick to the backyard fence. It Is common to stigmatize the pres ent as the age of commercialism, and America as distinctively the land of the dollar. But there never was a pe riod In history when so many people were working for religious, philan thropic and scientific ends, irrespective of pecuniary returns, as there are to day, and we very much doubt if these higher ends of life are drawing as many persons in the old world as in the new. Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wll- helmina. That is the name of the royal Dutch baby, and each word means something Starting with the last, every one knows it as the name of her mother. Then come the names of her two grandmothers the Grand Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg, moth er of her father, the Prince Consort; and Queen Emma, her mother's moth er. Louise is for Louise de Collgny, the fourth wife of William the Silent, who delivered Holland from the Span ish yoke. Juliana, Countess of Stol- berg, was the mother of William the Silent, and the ancestress of the House of Orange. The little princess will be called Juliana, after many- tlmea-removed grandmother of the six teenth century. 1» responsible fop t?i» growth rice delinquency and crime In the United 'States. «>ccasion*illy court op pfs »or. . statistic» are furnished which fcppt-ar to support the charge. A repoit of 6 special committee on ' lawbreakers” that has been submitted to the Na tional Conference of Charities and Cor rection reaches the conclusion that there has been no Increase in "serious” crime, despite the heavy immigration from unpromising sections of tho world. Whatever apparent increase in criminality the figures indicate is de dared to be due to the tendency to multiply minor or petty regulations and prohibitions, State and municipal. As examples, ordinances against spit ting on sidewalks or in cars, against flipping pennies, giving away or sell ing transfers, buying or selling ciga rettes, are named in the report. The distinction is one that every crim inologist and moralist regards as valid, and the conclusions of the com mittee will challenge attention in many circles. In this connection one notes the contention of one of the speakers at the conference, a Cleveland judge, to the effect that "80 per cent of the foreign-born peraons written into our records as criminals have absolutely no criminal inclinations,” but are merely the victims of ignorance and misunderstanding. There may be some exaggeration in the assertion, but there can be no doubt that a better under standing of American laws, customs and morals on the part of new immi grants, coupled with a better under standing by American judges, prose cutors and juries of the unassimilated aliens, and of their inherited and in bred notions, would prevent many in fractions of our laws and keep down our prison population. Ignorance ol the law cannot be accepted as an ex cuse, but from a higher social point of view it makes all the difference in the world whether in a given class oi offenses moral turpitude and a de praved nature are revealed, or whether unfamiliarity with our legal and moral atmosphere and a temporary conflict of standards and conceptions furnish the sufficient explanation. At any rate, the discussion of the subject of Immigra tlon in relation to crime emphasizes the value of proper parole and proba tion systems, of intelligent administra tion of the laws and of honest and sympathetic "interpretation” of the sentiments of the aliens among CONFIDENCE JUSTIFIED. »aw *Uia Both L=2 CUBA'S DANGER FROM LOTTERIES. HE country could not regard bankruptcy ill Cuba more favorably than Insurrection Precisely what its lawful authority in the case is under the Platt amendment to the Cuban constitution remains to be consid ered, as It doubtless will be, with much care. That amendment binds the Cuban government not to "assume or contract any public debt to pay the interest upon which and to make reasonable sinking fund provision for the ultimate discharge of which the ordinary revenues of the Island, after defray- Ing the current expenses of the government, shall be Inadequate." Stir ly in that there is Implied our rl^ht to restrain Cubs from rushing into bankruptcy or from incurring embarrassing indebtedness. Whether the pro ceeds from a lottery are properly to be reckoned among "the ordinary revenues of the island” is also an inter esting question. Certainly they are a form of revenue which the United States cannot afford to encourage, Indeed, it will be the duty of tills country to seek to limit such revenue to the lowest possible figure; for the promoters of the Cuban lottery probably look for their chief patronage in the United States, and it is certain that our government will employ all legitimate means to prevent such patronage. On the whole, Cuban statesmen would do well to consider whether it would not be best to abandon the lottery scheme, to seek such legitimate and businesslike increase of revenue ns may be practicable, and then to adapt their expenditures to their income.—New York Tribune. WIIAT WOMEN NEED MORE THAN VOTES. HE address of Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin at the Illinois Congress of Mothers contains common-sense, practical advice that should appeal to every sensible woman. Tho waste of money by spendthrift housewives, and this applies with even more force to the wageworker's wile than to the wife of the lawyer, doctor or merchant. Is a large cause of marital misery, This waste is most prevalent in the de- partment of provender, and there is crying need for general distribution of knowledge concerning foods and how to cook them. The tenement-house cooking class is a greater step toward social progress than almost a.‘.y other one sign of the times. The dangers which beset the country girl who seeks to earn her living m the metropolis Mrs. Henrotln rightly considers an impera tive demand upon that section of womankind whidFby concerted effort can mitigate them. A suffragette reader of the Journal takes us to task for lukewarmness on the proposition to enfranchise women. There is not one useful accomplishment which can honestly be claimed as the sole work of women in the four States In which they enjoy full privileges of T A Noiel Hot lie. In furnishing information concern ing Calcutta's supply of the various "soft" drinks. Consul General William H. Michael refers as follows to an improved bottle in use: This bottle is so blown as to contain in the neck a round glass stopper which Is forced upward by the gas In the bottle and holds the gas perfectly. An expert can remove half the contents of one of these bottles, and by a shake force the ball up Into the neck, and thus preserve the remaining half for fil ture use. It ls an ingenious device and In every way superior to the old style corks. In opening a bottle a wooden, cup-shaped device, which fits Into the hollow of the hand and con tains a short nipple. Is placed over and against the glass ball stopper and pressed downward. This causes the ball to drop down Into the neck of the bottle, prevents too rapid escape of gas and foam. and. if only part of the contents is required, the ball may b« forced back Into the position as stopper. RECENT VIEW OF K t---- - -------------------------- =_ - - _ from attendance upon formal functions he dresses plainly. He recently was seen at his ease when at his home on the Island of Corfu, to which he was accompanied by the Empress, their son, Prince Oscar; Miss von Velthelm, Countess Keller. Chief Marshal Count It is impossible to make your con eu Eulenburg and others high In royal duct perfect, but it is easy to mak* 11 favor. I baiter than it has been. the ballot. The Journal Is not opposed to suffrage for women. It believes that whenever the majority of wom en desire to vote, voting privileges will be accorded with out delay. But as long, as the demand for the ballot comes from such a very small percentage of the sex, the suffragette missionary work should be done among women, instead of interfering with public affairs. The lines of work suggested by Mrs. Henrotin offer far more opportunity for immediate results than the soiled and unsexing game of politics.—Chicago Journal. A CALL FOR STATISTICS. E ask in all soberness, is a "revival wave” such as that which swept over Bostou some months ago a good thing for the cause of religion? What are the ulti mate results of a movement which, from its very nature, must appeal more to the feelings than to the reason? During the height of this tide of religious enthusiasm we are told that thousands have been converted, but, unless one took part, can he say that he ever met a revival coo vert? We are Informed that revivals purge the com munities in which they have been held—is Boston to day a purged city? Does that peculiar form of religious fervor have a lasting effect upon many of those who come under its influence, or is its effect but a transitory one upon the few? As Brooklyn is promised in the near future a revival upon a huge scale, these questions are timely, and If there be statistics bearing upon the ultimate results of revivals we should be grateful to anyone who can put them within our reach.—Brooklyn Life. A SEES MENACE IN LOCKS. IE Immeasurable danger which so many engineers see impending In the scheme of locks In the flight at Gatun on the Panama canal is only faintly Illustrated ln the dls- aster to one of the locks of the Soo canal, Such an accident at the top of the ladder of locks at Gatun could have no ending short of- the obliteration of the Panama canal and the transformation of the Isthmus. The thunderbolts of .shipping, water, steel, masonry and other wreckage launched from the first lock down upon the next would sweep it away like paper. Here the awful power would be multiplied Infinitely by the new forces released, and hurled along with the first great battering ram. There would be no earthly power to stop the gigantic instru ment of destruction, swelling as it swept along, until it had leaped into the ocean’s vast mass, after brushing the Isthmus of Panama off the map in a destruction by uncontrollable waters that has never been known since the flood of Noah's day.—New York Press. Women on the Benell. Ilyman Lazarus, for many years re corder of Bayonne, N. J., knew the people who came before him. When a woman appeared to accuse a hus band who had beaten her he said: "If I send him to jail you'll come back here to-morrow in tears and ask me to let him out.” "No," she said, "I will not. I'd like to have him pun ished.” "How much shall I give him. then,” asked Lazarus, "two months, one month, six months?” The wom- Men lls.< H--.il off More avert«»» Vlt-lalil. • eqpl» of t.bf •oFht'a; 1 th of ,«v r-.-o weight * -u • • f.itn» -s *»:li stui ,1'ty. where- a» .often su< U' is uot the ,se They have been to th» shows at country fairs and have seen the'etiese ladies ami the fat men the. t displaying their suiM-rabundant collection .f adipose tissue, and hive gone away uiih the idea that fat people, merely because they are fat, are stupider and more deficient In intelligence than people of average avoirdupois, and this, lu their opinion on the subject, has ex leaded outside of the shows to apply to fat people generally, says Tit Hits. At the present moment William Howard Taft is the second fat man sitting tn the presidential chair and tl-.e first republican of mo’e than av erage we'ght to occupy that position, the first fat man being Stephen Grov er Cleveland of democratic ptrsuaslou. T hese are only two men of the pres ent time, though Cleveland is dead, having a fine Intellect In a body of supernormal weight. Looa'n.; into history we find that some of tho fin est intelligences the world has ever known have been Incased In fleshly caskets pftnnp even to obesity. Na poleon Bonaparte, notwithstanding bls active career, was decidedly stout. Dr. Johnson was inclined to flabbiness, while Boswell. Ills biographer was in ’he same condition. Honoré de Balzac, the great French novelist, was so large that to-day lie might be nicknamed "Jumbo” Balzac; Dumas pere was stout, while Sainte- Beauve had a Falstaffian stomach. In spite of his great corpulency, which lie tried to keep down by drinking vinegar, Eugene Sue wreo “Th® Wandering Jew.” I’osslni, the composer, was so fa» that for six years he never saw his knees, and Jules Janin, th»» prime of critics, broke down all ordini’-y sofas he sat upon, his cheeks and chin pio- trading beyond his beard and whisk ers. Lablache, the Italian singer, was charged three fares when lie traveled Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. Many stories of the late Vlctorien Sardou have been told in the newspa pers of Paris—stories of his poverty in his youth, hjs struggle for recogni tion as a dramatist, his repeated fail THE KAISER A PLAIN DRESSER. uses, his ultimate succeu’ and above all, his enormous capacity for work. When Wlllflnm Doff. Gold I.ace nn»l Appvnr.i n« Private Gentleman. One such anecdote, printed by Le Fi garo, testifies indirectly to the power ! When the German Emperor quits his of Industry to inspire respect and con Imperial palace at Potsdam, in Berlin, fidence in the character of the man he clothes himself In democratic attire and goes about much the same as any who practices it. When Sardou was young he lived gentleman In private life. Gold bul and worked in an attic in the Latin lion, heavy, formidable uniforms and Quarter of Paris. It was in the days great eagle-topped helmets belong to before water carriers were a thing of the army maneuvers In Berlin and the past, and it came about that the other centers of the German empire, Emperor is released poor young man owed sixty francs to but when the peasant from Auvergne who used to carry up his daily supply of water. "My good fellow,” Sardou said to him one day, "I cannot pay you, and I don't know when I shall be able to. I don’t want to abuse your goodness any longer, so I must ask you, until I am in a position to settle with you. not to bring any more water. I will fetch it myself.” But the Auvergnot would not hear of such a thing. "Monsieur,” said he, “I have been watching you for a long time. When I bring your water you are always writing When a young man of your education works as you do, one may have entire confidence in him. He is bound to arrive, I shall go on bring- ing up your water as before, You will pay me when you succeed.” It was not long before the shrewd Auvergnut's reading of Sardou's char acter and abilities was justified. Trudeau's classic experiment points us in the right direction. After lnocu- lating a number of rabbits with tuber eulosis he confined a number of them Indoors and turned the others out- doors The latter all recovered. while the former all died, This experiment shows that a rabbit living upon its natural food and under a natural en vironment, Is proof against tuberculo sis. There is abundant reason to be lieve this equally true of man. In other words, tuberculosis is not a nec- essary evil of human life but Is a nat- ural consequence of erroneous habits Though t f ul. and departure from natural condi- "Algy, dear, ” remarked a young wife tlons. Man Is naturally an outdoor to her husband. "I wish you would animal A mole lives a healthy life In a burrow A man must live In the taste this milk and see If it Is perfect ly sweet. If it's the least bit sour I fresh air and the sunshine. mustn't give any of It to dear little The statement or charge Is frequent Fldo!"- Judy. ly met with t. »it "the-newer immigra tlon.” or' tbe'th.qilng of tresh sources pi the human stream ilo’wiug vesiwirA. Afta JAT j»Eorx.t ertPiDf NOW IT'S DUTCH CAPS. In honor of Wilhelmina’s baby, mothers are making starched and flar ing headgear for their children and here's how to make one: The Dutch cap is fashioned of strips of linen spun and embroidered by the thrifty mothers and joined with exquisite lace knitted or crocheted by the same loving hands. Before It Is worn It Is starched very stiff and the cor- ners are bent back as you see them “Six months, three months, months, a month, quick.” he said, "let us have it.” The woman burst into tears, she and her husband braced, and went out of court joicing. "There,” said Lazarus, you come back I’ll give months each.” The Gi Where are the girls we used know? The pink-frocked girls of the long ago? The little lass with the eyes of blue, And wind-tossed hair of a golden hue? Have the fates been kind to her, tell me, pray, That maid I loved in the bygone day? Whore 1« the maiden that stammered so, The little lady called “pigeon-toe" 7 The plain little miss with the pigtail braid, The shy little girl who was half-afraid To speak to rhe boy that she didn’t know? Where are the sweethearts of long ago? . • O o ZZZ/ZJ .W . ................... In the illustration. It Is tne sweet est frame you ever saw for the little faces. The strips of linen and Inser tion are 18 inches long, with 20 Inches of lace to edge the front. When the strips are joined they must measure 8 Inches at the narrowest and 11 Inches at widest point, Join at the curved seam of the back’. place a nine- Wifely Pride. There is no telling what quaint Inch draw-string across the center turns wifely pride and devotion may back and your little cap Is complete take. Sir Melvlll Beachcroft, says a A One Time Comanche Chief. writer in M. A. P., while waiting In Quanah Parker, one-time blood a tenement house for the occupant of thirsty Comanche chief, was recently the first floor to admit him, chanced elected h< ad of a district school board to overhear two women conversing on in Oklahoma, and his son, a graduate the stairs. of Carlisle school, was appointed One remarked that her husband al teacher. Quanah Parker's mother was ways wore a clean shirt every Sunday a white woman, taken prisoner when morning. a child by the present chief's father. "Well, now,” responded the other, The child grew to womanhood among "1 never cares about Sundays, but I the Comanches, then a wild, wander allays do see that 'e 'as a clean shirt ing, bloodthirsty tribe, roaming the Saturday afternoons, 'cos that's the plains of Texas. The chief made her time 'e is generally drinking, and his squaw and she bore him the son, when 'e does take ‘is coat off to fight Quanah Parker. Not long after she I do like to know ’e looks nice and went back to her white people, but clean.” the Indian life had gained too strong a hold upon her to remain, and she re It Didn’t Work. the outer room of a Wall street turned to her tepee and her chief, the office this sign was posted a few days father of her son. She lived with th« ago: "Please do not whistle; we do 'ribe until her death. all that ourselves.” The messenger Ketlectlnnn on Fame. boys on service in the building evi "People will praise my work after i dently saw a funny side to the notice, am dead,” said the playwright, gloom for within an hour more than twenty ily. of them asked: "When do you whis "Perhaps,” answered the cold-blood tle?” "When does the concert be ed actor; "but isn't it a good deal of gin?” "How much for a ticket?” and a sacrifice for a little praise?"—Wash, similar queries. The sign came down ington Star. ------ —- . ...... after two days, and the manager of Where llr Slept. the office has had it replaced by one AISER AND HIS CONSORT The Pastor —And do you sleep with bearing in aggressively bold letters your head to the north? simply the words. "Don’t whistle." an, who had begun to relent, was The Deacon—Let me s<!e! Which S| i ©chlcSS. “1 î ’11 tell fpll you vnn what tvhat I'll I’ll An do,' ” A church woman's idea of being way does the church stand, anyway? he said. “You come up here and take broad minded Is to keep her mouth —Yonkers Statesman. my chair, and whatever sentence you closed when she hears a member of No woman should give way to grief. pronounce will go.” The woman hes- some other denomination boast Let her keep her hair frizzed, and Rated, but the recorder Insisted, The husband was arraigned before her. Don't argue. That's a bigger fool everything may come around all right. and the recorder In a gruff voice or trick than drinking to» muck lot A man who hopes a great deal will dered her to, jrpuotmt» »entepe». w»tM. not wor* I can see them all in my dreams to-day, Jennie and Marion. Ruth and May, And I wonder often as I look back, Has the world been kind to that merry pack ? Come, tell me, seer, for I want to know, Where are the sweethearts of long ago? —Detroit Free Press. 1