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busfneM rival. left ti« to four Mi!l<Jr«ti Geoigw GuuM. oldest, married an » tie.-» •!*<» turue-J out to 1« i* splendid wife and mother, and he has handled his property with out dishonor and his home »» with OREGON BANDON out S'andal Helen Gould remains single and is using her wealth in a Minister Wu Ting Fang believes in way that makes it a bh-asing for every nomen's suffrage But not In China. one. Howard Gould also married an actress who was rapidly dissipating Dreadnoughts at $10,000,000 a piece his fortune, and the domestic scandals are almost too costly to expose to the of his home filled the columns of perils of war scares. newspapers not very long ago. The two wives of George and Howard dem A scientific authority says every onstrate that it ie not the profession living creature is of some use. How but the woman who makes a home about the cimex lectularius? or wrecks it. Anna Gould has gotten rid of more of the Gould millions on The musician who has written an dissolute Fien< h noblemen of decadent “Ode to Discord" is merely franker families. So honors are even in the than some of his contemporaries. Gould family, as to the benefits and evils of Inherited wealth. It only The "quiet” divorces ought to be shows that it takes character to with suppressed, even though it is a bless stand the temptations of too much ing not to have to hear about them. money that has not been worked for, and in too many cases character is Even if communication with Mars lacking The lack of it creates what were established it would be 1 nipos- is known as the "smart set” in New Bible to negotiate a loan that way. York society. These yearly events in the house- The spirit which makes a wedding hold of King Alfonso cost his maj- an occasion for rude practical joking esty heavily in the matter of cigars. and boisterous horse play has long caused the judicious, even those who How time flies! Only a few years are endowed with a sense of humor, ago there was something in the pa to grieve. Why should a man and pers alxjut James llazen Hyde every woman who have just taken upon day in the week. themselves a relationship, momentous .in the eye of the law and sacred in Doubtless one reason the Wright that of religion, be regarded as fit boys have been able to accomplish so subjects for annoyance and persecu much is that they do not do much talk tion at the hands of their friends and ing for publication. neighbors? And why. above all. should it be thought funny to annoy and One reason why there are so many persecute them? Not infrequently failures in the world is because there serious injury has resulted front the many men who are punctual are so rough antics of the wedding clowns, ouly at quitting time. who are, of course, too ill-bred to con sider anything so intangible as the Life la losing all Its picturesque qualities. No Texas bank robber has dignity and happiness of their unfor worn chaps, spurs and a sombrero tunate victims. But cheering intelli gence comes from Kansas. A chart for many months now. vari party in a town of that state re France has decided td abolish lot cently dragged an unwilling bride and terles. Is tile government more virtu- groom up and down the main street ous or does it need the money which of the village in an open wagon. In- it sadly sees flowing into other chan cldentally they ran over a boy and broke his leg. Now the town must nels? pay the boy exemplary damages. The Poor Mrs. Gould! Victims of mis- Kansas Supreme Court has decided fortune who think $100 a day is a that the exuberant humorists who large Income will be sure to weary pulled the wagon constituted a law her with hard luck tales and applica less and violent mob, winch the police officers of the town ought to have dis tions for help. persed. That the mob was "good-nat A Harvard professor announces that ured” and "meant no harm” does not flirting has a social utility. Really, render the town less liable for the it's Just like a college professor to harm the mob actually did. So it spoil our pleasures by discovering how seems that the law is able effectively to encourage common sense and de useful they are. cency in this direction. If the prln Why has it never occurred to the clples laid down by the Kansas court paragraphers to remark that the de- become generally understood, there posed Abdul Hamid must be an ex- will be less public toleration of this cellent husbandman to keep all those particular sort of nonsense. wives on a single farm. BANDON RECORDER WHERE TO BUILD A chef is not an artist under our immigration law. He may produce works of art, but they can lie eaten as well as admired. The danger is that the chefs will begin to produce things that can’t be eaten. A traln on the Grand Trunk Tall way in Canada a few days ago ran into a swarm of files so thick that it clogged the engine and the train came to a dead stop. This probably will hold you while waiting for the sea serpent story now almost due. If England could only apply that 130,000,000 which America is going to enjoy from the corporation tax in the building of additional Dread- noughts it's a safe bet that there would be the strongest possible aentl- ment on the continent for lnterna- tlonal dlsarmament. There are some places where agita tion for Increased woman's rights Deems justified. A Ixtuislana judge has Just decided that under the Code Napoleon, the system of laws which the state Inherited from France, a married woman does not own even her clothes. They belong absolutely to her husband. "He endeared himself to guardfans, visitors, inmates and staff, and his beautiful Christian demeanor, con stant cheerfulnes and good temper made him beloved by all.” is the epi taph of the Huddersfield. England, guardians upon a pauper who. after spending twenty years In the parish workhouse, recently died there at the age of 94. "Even in a palace life may be lived well.” says Matthew Arnold; but most people find it quite as hard, if not harder, to maintain a blameless character in a workhouse. It is, of course, easy enough for a woman with ample means, who be lieves that “It is bad form to wear a gown twice tn one place,” who bows to Dame Fashion's decree that she enust change her costumes three times a day and spend $40.000 a year on her apparel. But the women who make a lasting impress upon the world —in the home, in the arts and in lit erature- the women who give distinc tion to "society" in the best sense of that term, the women who have the most elevating Influence -maintain their sway and dress "properly" with out spending a fortune every year on their wardrobes. Rocky Site« No Longer Advfwetl— Gravel the Ideal Soil. Strange as it may seem, after 2,000 years of talk and song about the ad vantages of founding one’s house upon a rock, one of the very things that modern builders tell us to avoid in selecting a site is a rock. That is principally because of the great cost of excavating a cellar in rocky soil. Another objection to rocky soil is that water will not soak through rock and so runs down it. Some of this water would be almost certain to leak through the cellar walls, making the cellar dam;), or it might undermine the foundations. Again, rock often contains springs. If a spring were opened during blast ing it would have to flow through the cellar or be deflected—a costly opera tion. A house built upon a rock also vibrates during thunder storms. day is perhaps more to be avoided than rock. Clay collects water and spreads under pressure. It expands in wet or frosty weather and contracts in summer. Frozen clay clings to brick or stone and often causes dislo cation of cellar walls and piers. Also It is Impervious to water. Thus an underground layer of clay will prevent the proper drainage of rain water and leave the soil foul and sodden. Finally, It is extremely cost ly to excavate. Undesirable for build ing purposes also are made land, sand and silt, Made land is not always sta ble. Gravel ls the Ideal solí for building purposes, It is porous and drains per- fectly. At the sanie time it Is snffl clently stable to support foundations. A gravelly elevation is the ideal build ing site. Depressions or levels between rocks are likely to retain water, even though the depression is slight and the eleva tions distant. The ground water thus retained stands at a level. Small gravelly elevations form islands, as it were, in a subterranean lake, and upon them houses may be built ' with perfect safety. The cellar floor will be above the ground water level and no rain water will drain into the i cel- lar.—Circle Magazine. Whnt Delayed Him. "You're an hour late. What delayed you ?" "Some unlucky cuss dropped a dol lar In the gutter, and I was getting it out.” "Why did that take you so long?" ”1 had to stick around till he went away before I could get it."—Cleve land Leader. Inherited wealth may do good or evil to those who Inherited it and to all others. Russell Sage's millions In- We confess that we like to see a herlted by his widow are being used farmer coming to town with two mule for l>enefleent purposes everywhere, and It Is evidently the purpose of Mrs. colts following his team. Page to disburse It all before her Don't be surprised If you are turned death and leave very little to be de- down while waiting for something te Vlved by will. Jay Gould, his gf^at turn up. i TRUMPET CALIS. 4» « ■ • <• «OK l'Æ < f i J I « 1 V ■' <1 " 1 4 A * V5 Opinions of Credi Papers on Im portant Subjects. AMERICAN FIRE WASTE. OME impressively unpleasant figures, bear ing upon the enormous annual fire waste in this country, are given in the report of the National Board of Underwriters, re cently made public. The ordinary fire losses, apart from such exceptional and largely non-preventable disasters as that at San Francisco, are more than $200,000,000 a year. In the first three months of 1909 they were $53,000,000 —an average of nearly three quarters of a million every day. The aggregate loss tn five years is more than the amount of the national debt. American city fire departments are recognized as su perior to those of European cities; and although in this country a much larger proportion of the buildings consists of Inflammable wooden structures than is the case in Europe, that does not account for the fact that our fire losses are from ten to thirty times greater than those of Europfan countries. The National Board of Underwriters declares that the real cause is "carelessness and recklessness here. as against the care, forethought and wise supervision in Europe.” More disheartening still is the fact that American fire less Is steadily increasing year by year. It is annually nearly two and a half times as great as in 1880, and the rate of increase is almost twice that of the increase in population in the same period. The widespread movement for the prevention of un necessary waste in natural resources and in raw mate rial is most commendable, but it is even more desirable to check waste by fire. When buildings are burned there is more lost than the actual money value of the buildings themselves, for business is usually interrupt ed and the communuities are deprived of taxable prop erty. The problem of preventing this waste, since so much of it is declared by experts to be preventable, is one which may well engage the serious attention of the American people.—Youth's Companion. RECRUITS FOR THE MINISTRY. OMPLAINT comes from various sources that a steadily decreasing number of young men are entering the ministry. The theological seminaries show a dwindling attendance, while the engineering colleges are overflowing with eager students. There are, doubtless, a number of causes entering into the growing reluctance of young men to devote themselves to the pulpit work of the churches. One of them, we fancy, is the fact that the young minister is about the hardest-working, poorest paid citizen in the average small town. He is called to a struggling church, and upon his young shoulders is laid the impossible burden of making that church a success and of living, meanwhile, on almost nothing And yet the church members, individually, may be do ing the best they can. The point is, that there are not enough of them; or, rather, that their religious energies are divided up among too many organizations. While they are holding fast to comparatively unimportant dif ferences of creed, and are clinging desperately to de- nomlnationalism, the real work of the Master goes un done, The average small town is supporting in hand-to- mouth fashion half a dozen struggling churches, where there ought to be but one or two. Pride of denomina tion alone stands in the way of setting up in such a town a single sacred shrine, where all may worship 4 J together in peace and amity, where one shepherd may be entrusted with ths guidance of the flock, where personal differences of belief as to minor things may give way to the general good. Consider what a strong and useful place in the community the pastor of such a church could take. Consider how, with a salary sure to be paid and large enough to relieve him of financial worryment, he could be one of the leaders in all good works The chasm of creed between some of the denomina tlons is perhaps too wide to be bridged In this way. But those of the Protestant churches known as evan gellcal, are near enough together to make the plan practicable as, Indeed, it has already been proved in some communities. If the denominations want to re cruit their ministries with young zeal and new blood, they must do something of this sort. The world wide success of the non-denomlnatlonal Christian Endeavor movement shows that the time is ripe for it.—Minneap oils Journal. MERCHANTS AND SOLDIERS. IR EDWARD MOSS, on his way home to England from the far East, repeats the familiar statement that as business men the Chinese are thoroughly trustworthy, while the Japanese are so tricky that dealings with them are unsatisfactory and unprofitable. This comparison of the two races has been made so often that it can be taken as having at least a foundation in fact, and yet, of the two, the Japanese are undoubtedly the nearer to our sympathies and comprehension, the readier to accept what is called civilization, and the likelier both to teach and to Imitate the occidental world. The apparent lack by the Japanese of commercial honesty has been well explained by the circumstance that until recently their trading class was a low and despised one, while the flg'ntjng man was highly hon ored and naturally developed the virtues that are as much the effect as the cause of general respect. In China the conditions were reversed, the merchant being there the noble and the soldier the pariah. Soon the Chinese soldier will learn that It is shameful to run away from the enemy, and the Japanese merchant that it does not pay to break contracts.—New York Times. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. YOUNG Dartmouth graduate not long ago murdered a college girl because she would not marry him. Why then, should the murderer of the Sigel girl by an Ori ental, whose passion for her had been aroused through an intimate association unwisely permitted by the girl’s mother for religious reasons, be regarded as exceptionally ab- i ormal ’ The case does not prove that the Oriental la per se more dangerous than the Caucasian; It simply shows that he is subject to the same passions and furle; as the white man. In France, or Germany, there could be no Sigel case, for the simple reason that only in America would a wife and daughter successfully defy the more worldly husband's aud father’s well-known wishes concerning the daughter’s friendships among young men. To this extent the New York tragedy ts perhaps peculiarly American, as the Berlin commentators avow, and there is good reason for the social shock which the affair causes.—Springfield Republican. A out the use of Iron or steel. Her beams IRCNLESS SHIP BUILT TO SURVEY THE WORLD. and planks are held together with Destined for a fifteen-year cruise to all accessible parts of the world, the non magnetic yacht, Carnegie, recently launched in Brooklyn, N. Y., is expect ed to become a prominent figure in the maritime hall of fame. Built for use In a magnetic survey of the earth, the Carnegie is expected to encounter experiences such as no other vessel has been through. She will wrestle. probably, with ice packs I n the Arctic, and may meet terrific typhoons yphoons off the Asiatic coast. Her crew may shorten sail before the storm king of Cape Horn and whistle for breezes in the sultry Sargasso sea. Even In her construction, the yacht differs from other vessels. No steel of iron has entered Into her construc tion, except about 600 pounds neces- sa ry for certain parts of her machln- •ry. She will be nearer nil wood than than any other modern craft afloat. It Is hoped that the voyage of the Carnegie will bring not only fame to herself, but lasting benefit to all the great multitude who go down to the sea In ships. The scientists to sail In her l ope to discover, among other things, the location and characteristics of the North magnetic pole. The Carnegie institution of Wash ington. which built the vessel about five years ago. undertook to make a series of systematic surveys. There was o I a depart nent of re- sAin-h In terrestrial nng ietlsm, which was placed In charge of Dr. L. A. Bauer, who was formetly In charge of the magnetic survey of the United States tinder the coast and geodetic survey. Since then valuable work has been done in the Pacific Ocean, the yacht Galilee making three voyages aggregating 60,(100 niutl al miles I: i- he hi - ■ oi t e ■■ -collar char ac'er of the v ot k for which she ts in- *• . . v<. ■ e! w as built with- J9 the exception of thin cast-iron linings in the engine cylinders and the steel cams necessary for operating the valves, magnetic materials were ex eluded altogether. While sails are to be relied upon mainly, auxiliary power is necessary for maneuvering in harbors or for use in calms at sea. For this power It was decided that steam would not do. because the boilers and engines would be highly magnetic. It would not be practicable to use gasoline dr oil, be cause of the danger of carrying such large quantities as would be needed in exploring faraway waters. The dif ficulty was solved by Installing a spe cially constructed marine gas pro ducer. using coal, in connection with a bronze internal combustion engine. The Carnegie Institution is not con fining Its magnetic survey work to the seas. It has had several land expedi tions at work two In Africa, one in Asia Minor and Persia and one in China. It has also worked over part of South America. Central America British America and Greenland. wooden treenails, and spikes and bolts of copper and bronze, Her engine and other machinery are of brass and bronze, and even the propeller Is of manganese bronze. Those of us who recall our early history lessons remember, probably, the statement that at one time on the great voyage of Columbus his sailors mutinied because the compass needle I failed to point to the North star. Such j eccentricities of the compass have bothered mariners ever since. Perhaps they did before. It is a well-known fact that the compass in certain parts of the earth does not remain true to due north. On some localities the variation may be several degrees. Off the coast of Oregon and Washington the variation is as much as twenty to twenty-five degrees. This variation is found on land as well as on the ocean. There are a number of lines along which the comiwss needle always points due north. One of these lines of “no variation" begins In the east Sprinkled Hep C om I If- Hat. ern part of Lake Superior, runs Miss Victoria Harrell, one of the through Ohio, about midway between Cincinnati and Columbus, through most prominent society girls in this eastern Tennessee, cuts through South city, and who Is well known in mu Carolina and strikes out into the At slcal circles In this city. Little Rock and Memphis, recently sustained the lantic near Beaufort. On the east side of this line the loss of a $60 basket hat because the compass needle is drawn by some piece of headgear so much resembled a pot of flowers. Miss Harrell sang mysterious force to the westward; at a fashionable wedding in this city west of the line It is drawn to the several nights ago and hurriedly re east. On the upper coast of Maine turned home to enjoy an auto ride the needle gets as much as twenty-one with friends. When she reached her degrees west of "true.” residence on W. 6th avenue, the party The geographic north pole is not the war In waiting and Miss Harrell magnetic pole; just where the latter is placed her hat over a Jardiniere in remains as much of a mystery as the which were Borne small ferns and pole Peary is seeking. And another which was hidden from view in a cor strange thing about ft. the magnetic ner of the front porch. After Miss pole Is not stationary; It is continu Harrel rode away with her friends ally moving, although very slowly. It her mother, Mrs. C. F. Coe, came out has not been discovered in what direc of the house and proceeded to sprinkle tion the magnetic pole is moving. the flowers Of course the covered When the magnetic pole shall have jardiniere came In for a share of the been located and its various phenom "wetness," and when Miss Harrel re ena ascertained, many of the existing turned she found the hat and its cost problems of navigation will disappear. ly trimmings wilted and ruined.—Pine To solve these riddles will be one of Bluff Cor Arkansas Gazette. the tasks of the scientists aboard the Carnegie. When a man who boards Is Inviten i In building the ship some puzzling out to a great many meals, does it questions had to be solved. The boat 1 mean that he is popular or a good had to be virtually non magnetic. For manager? that reason iron and steel could not 1 A firecracker after the Fourth enter into its construction. It was to ' be the first vessel In which such ma sounds as lonesome as the losing poli I terials «trs not to b« found. With tician after election. Ham’« Hnrn ««»undo to the 1 h Wnrulug ><»(> lu the meadow where the artUt catches a glimpse of heaven the farmer sees noth ing but hay. The I.ord has never been able to do very much for the man whose re ligion is all iu his wife's name. One of the things the Bible always puts in italics is backbone. There is no surer way of wasting time than by hair splitting about any thing. Don't loan your money to the man who treats hi» dug better than he does his wife. Some of the biggest tilings upon which angels look are never mention ed in tlie newspapers. The devil must feel very much at home when he finds himself In the co m pa ny of eome men. The only reason why we don't see the face of truth everywhere is be- cause we live too !low down. The preacher wl o never helps a salut or makes a sinner mad, has probably mlsumlctstood the Lord. The man who crawls under the bed when it thunders and stays there un til the sun comes out again, is not likely to have a very big niche in any hall of fame. One reason why it takes the mil lennium so long to come is that so many of us are more concerned about the mote in our brother's eyee than we aro about the beam in our own. DON'T NEED TO DROWN. If liuther« lit Trouble I we Coitiinou Smaie There I m Little Danger. Ninety-nine times in 100 drowning is the result of fright and frenzy, Bays a writer in the New York Press. There is a public horror of cramps. Not one ease of cramps in 1,000 is dangerous if the victim knows what to do and does it. Every long distance swimmer entering a race expects to ge» cramps, yet he doesn't drown and he doesn’t stop swimming, either. He keeps go ing until his legs are in knots; still, he doesn't sink. He plugs along until there isn't another kick in hl.m, and even now he doesn't go down. Instead of that he rolls over on his back and waits for the boat to pick him up. It may be a minute or it may be an hour, but until the boat comes the expert will be floating around like a ship. When you catch a cramp In your arms or legs don't get excited. You may yell, but keep yourself under con trol. Don't exert yourself, for it takes little or no effort to keep afloat. Stretch out your arm or leg, as the case may be, until you are straining to the utmost. Then strain a bit. hard er and watch the lumped muscle go down. The dangerous cramp Is In the stomach. When that takes you your breath goes, and you’re not able to shout for help or even to articulate a sound. I have known of Just two cases a.mong hundreds of thousands of swimmers. When you get that kind of cramp you may as well say your pray ers, but you won't get it if you don't eat for two hours before going Into the water. Professional swimmers go hungry half a day before entering a race, and they never know of such a thing as stomach cramp. If a bather in trouble would use common sense he never would drown. The belief Is general that three times under water for the drowning person means crape and flowers, it’s true, If you make the mistake of taking water for air. Hold your mouth shut when you are under water and you’ll keep going down and coming up all day. Don't exhaust yourself struggling. Re lax every muscle and don't move a hand. You'll find that you'll never sink lower than your ears, and that in a few seconds you'll rise up until your shoulders are dry. You can keep on doing this indefinitely, but, of course, if you drink water you'll be weighted and down you'll go. Made it Difference to Him. A well-known scientist was lecturing on the sun's heat, and in the course of his remarks said; "It is an estab lished fact that the sun is gradually but surely losing its heat and in the course of years it will be exhausted; consequently this world of ours will be dead and like the moon, unable to support any form of life.” At this Juncture a member of hit audience rose, in an excited manner, and said: "Pardon me, professor, but how many yearB did you say it would be before this calamity overtakes us?” The Professor—Seventy millions, sir. "Thank God,” was the reply. "I thought you said seven millions."—« Success Magazine. The < rating for tugar. But there Is this fundamental dif ference between the craving for sugar and that for "sours," acids, vinegar, pickles, etc., alcohol, and for other keen flavors and highly attractive lux uries, that ft is a real food of very high food-value and very promptly and readily absorbable, which none of the others are. except In small degree. Aa we have seen, this violent craving for sugar, leading to excess, largely dis appears in children when their healthy demand for it is supplied by a proper mixture with their foods; while no child yet has ever inherited or been born with a taste for alcohol. pickles, tea, coffee or tobacco.—Success Mag- azlae.
