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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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-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?
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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.
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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.
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