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BANDON RECORDER iMed tack W*«k BANDON........................ ORBGON When trouble goes to sleep don’t Mt th* alarm clock Women and newspapers should never be judged by their wrappers When you want to find out which is the shady side of the street the best way is to ask a loafer. When a young married man gets sick his mother always imagines it is due to his wife’s cooking Some pessimist has made the discov ery that the holes in the doughnuts are much larger than usual. One man advertises for a wife who He must have taken the mother-in-law jokes seriously. has no mother. By this time next year very few people will care to take the time to look at an airship that is going by. Learning to ride an airship is some what like it used to be to learn to ride a bicycle—with a longer and harder fall. Being a driver in an automobile race may be a trifle less exciting than going over Niagara in a barrel, but it is a lot dustier. It was no great sacrifice for Prince Miguel of Braganza to renounce the Portuguese throne, which he had no prospect of attaining One of these days the nations of the earth are going to quit building Dreadnoughts and devote their time to the construction of fighting aero planes. One of the experts gives it as his opinion that the late Colonel Snell was crazy over women. We are Inclined to regard the opinion as being extreme ly conservative. A California young man is going to marry "a very wealthy and an ex tremely beautiful” East Indian prin cess. We are willing to believe that she has money. A dispatch from East Africa says Kermit Roosevelt has “bagged a cow hippo.” After which performance we suppose he slung her over hii shoulder and toted her into camp. Sex plays a great part in the "Chris tianizing” of the Chinese in this coun try. Since American girls have ■topped teaching In the missions the pupils have deserted them also. One hundred and fifty Boston girls recently kissed the mayor of that town. We hasten to assure our read era that the young ladles did it in a perfectly prim, proper and prudent manner. The physical condition of children Is in some measure responsible for their wrongdoing, think many doctors. It is one of the advantages of living in a ¿naterlal age that material causes for evils are sought and removed. FASKING OF TH* EVENING LAME ' nitloa by th» p**| to •$ 0to ..-t ftfMl of the corporation This is an an- nouncement of a - >uo 1 lu ■tit- poration manag* id it should receive the thoughtful consideration ■’! railroad " • r u tlon. The public will be fair if it is treated fairly. When It is persistent ly hostile there are always reasons -or it* hostility, and it would be id * b contend that either the great transpor tatlon lines of the country or the street railways of our cities had live, up to the program that Mr McAdo proclaims. They have often Ignore*: just complaints and have introduce, improvements only under pressure though they should have experts a work to anticipate the needs of th public. Where there wae a propet pride In the business and a proper sense of its obligations we should no' have to wait for protests and sugges tions from without. As soon as a ba condition began to develop a remedy would be sought for it before th* people had been put to an endurance test. As It Is there Is too great an insistence on rights without .much re gard for justice or of the ultimate benefits to be derived from a broad, lib eral and progressive policy. ( I hie («inly HORSES AND AUTOMOBILES. LTHOUGH no monarch, however precart ous his tenure may be in these uncertain days of kingship, has recently offered his kingdom for a horse, the old reliable ani mal is still an indispensable adjunct to human welfare. Only a few years ago Jhe machinist who had become enamored of automobiles predicted that the horse was doomed to extinction at an early date. He said the same thing when bicycles came into use. But the horse is still do ing business, and the bicycle has gone so completely out of general use as to make people wonder what they ever saw in it. Our horse population, taken over the fifteen years in which the automobile may be said to have been an ef fective competitor, has risen almost continuously, and especially in the past seven years. There were 15,893,- 318 horses in the United States in 1895, with an average value of $36 a head. There are now, according to the figures of the fiscal year just closed, 20,640,000, with a total value of $1,974,042,000, or an average of $95 a head. In the same period the horse’s plebeian but use fui relative, the mule, has nearly doubled in number, or from 2,333.108 in 1895 to 4,053.000 in 1909, and more than doubled in value, as the average mule which was worth $47 in 1895 is now worth $107. If the automo bile were going to exterminate the horse, such figures as these would be impossible.—Wall Street Journal. Not the least among the legal scan dais of the day is the inquiry into th* sanity of Harry Thaw, recently in progress in New York. It is a mere commonplace to say that if this young criminal had been a poor man h* would now be where the wicked cease from troubling, but surely the fact of his wealth and social position should be no excuse for making him one of the permanent institutions of the country. In these matters of crim Inal insanity we might do worse than adopt the English system. The mur derer who Is saved from punishment on the ground of insanity is confined in a criminal lunatic asylum "during his majesty’s pleasure," and it is his majesty’s pleasure that he shall re main there for the rest of his natural life. He never emerges again and there are no judicial inquiries to pro vide fat fees for attorneys or sensa tions for society. The idea that a man who committed a savage murder two or three years ago, and who was then morally innocent on the ground of in sanity, may now have recovered his sanity so as no longer to be a terror to his associates is too puerile for con sideration. Equally ludicrous is the idea that a judge, or indeed any hu man being, can determine whether or not he has so recovered his moral re sponsibility. The man who has once committed murder under the stress of insanity may do so again, says the San Francisco Argonaut, and it is hard to resist the popular opinion that the inquiry in New York was merely one of the preliminaries to this yoeng man’s release. The attempt may be unsuccessful this time, but one day we shall awake to the unpalatable fact that Harry Thaw is once more at lib erty to wreak his vengeance upon whomsoever he will. ABANDONED FARMS IN ENGLAND. NOLAND is worried at present over not only a decrease in ltB farm population, but a shrinkage in the number of acres under cultivation. It has 1,500,000 acres less under cultivation now than ten years ago. A commission which investigated the subject ascribes this situation to the Impossibility of ownership by the tenant, leading to slack methods which render farming unprofitable, and recommend giving the tenant a chance to purchase, or at least the benefit of enhanced value due to better care and more scientific tillage. Land in England has become too valuable to return i profit by farming methods prevailing in the United States, and the commission plane to rejuvenate English agriculture by a multiplicity of small farms well tilled and soil properly nurtured. England must always de pend upon outside sources for a large portion of its food supply, but it could be made to produce every thing needed except grains and meat, and the amount of these produced at home could be greatly increased if all the arable land were under plow.—Omaha Bee. RAISING THE STANDARD. HE approach of the new school year brings out the announcement that several of the leading colleges and universities are adopt ing the policy of ridding their classrooms of no-account students. The Chicago Uni versity alone has dropped one hundred students because of failure to make satls- factory records In scholarship. As we understand it, the student who makes honest effort to make his grades, and makes progress, even though slow in advancement, will be given proper encouragement to continue his work. Any other course would be brutal, but the smart Alec who goes to college just because "pa" Is rich and T SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONS By Clarence L. Cullen. Man wants but little here below, and his wife gets most of it. Man’s work is from sun to sun. but he has no regularly specified hours for Prince Miguel of Portugal is to being worked. Why is it that the woman who can marry an American girl and several millions of good American money, a afford to pay $28 for her corsets will large part of which is to be paid in show ’em to your wife? advance We wish Mr. Aldrich would Does it ring exactly on the level in devise a tariff scheme to keep these your ears when you hear a middle- titled ones out of the American mar aged wife “sweetheart” in public? ket. You have observed that the woman Another child shot by a revolver with a mission usually is foxy enough which he and a boy companion found to snag a husband first in order to be lying about the house and which they there with the missionizing sinews. The acuteness of feminine intuition began tossing about. Ignorant of its death-dealing powers. Is there no Is Illustrated by the fact that a girl way of legally reaching the vacuous- generally ends by marrying the ¿nan minded owners of firearms who persist for whom, at the first meeting, she in leaving them lying within reach of forms an "intuitive" dislike. The nearest thing to a boy with his children, fully loaded and actually in viting death and injury? first pair of suspenders is a woman with a new red morocco-bound check Managers of charity bazaars in Lon book wherewith to draw upon the $100 don have lately been selling "Immu which her husband has put in the nity tickets” of admission. The ticket bank for her. entitles the holder to enjoy the social Are you acquainted with the woman and spectacular features of the bazaar who saves up her regular weekly with Immunity from constant request "good cry” until Sunday, the only day to buy this, that or the other trifle on which her husband might other at an extravagant price The amount wise have a chance to enjoy a little charged for the tickets depends on the home comfort? good nature of the managers. Church fair promoters in America might copy May I.nae Pnlntlng. the London invention. A famous painting,' The Last Spike,” which pictures the scene of the driv What shall be done to bring men ing of the last that marked the into the church? The question is completion of the* Central Pacific rail more easily asked than answered road and its junction with the 1’nlon Much depends, of course, upon the Pacific, may he lost to San Francisco. minister The trouble with too many John Washburn, son-in-law of the preachers Is that they do not attempt late Thomas Hill, who painted the pic to appeal to men. Indeed, ft will be ture. is negotiating for its sale to an found that where ministers possess Eastern man for $10,000. An effort is manly traits they do not have occa making to arouse the people of San sion to worry over the emptiness of Francisco to raise $10,000 in order to pews. If their sermons are virile and save the painting for this city, says attractive, if they deal with the dally a San Francisco correspondent for the problems of life. If they help men In New York Herald. Should the effort meeting and conquering the tempta to preserve the picture to San Fran tions which constantly beset even the cisco fail the descendants of the men most moral, they will find plenty of who built the first transcontinental masculine auditors. road will endeavor to procure the pic ture for themselves. In a speech at the opening of the, Among those who have taken up Hudson and Manhattan tunnels Will negotiations with the estate are Mrs. lam G. McAdoo said: "We believe In Whitelaw Reid, wife of the American ’the public be pleased’ policy as op Ambassador to Great Britain; Wil- i posed to that of ’the public be d------d’; Barn E Crocker. D A Mills, Mrs. we believe the railroad Is beet which Charles B Alexander and George serves the people best; that decent Crocker, of New York; Mrs Collis P. treatment of the public evokes decent Huntington. Princess Hatzfeldt. for- ' treatment from the public; that rec merly Miss Clara Huntington; Mrs. ognltion by the corporation of the just Mountenay Jeppson. of London, and rights of the people results In recog- I Mrs. J. Sloat Fgssett, of Elmira, N T, because all the other guys go”—this element is no longer wanted by those institutions which make a spe cialty of scholarship. The proposed change ts one of the most wholesome which has been considered in educational circles in a long time. The age demands men who are prepared for its activities The dullards and the indifferent ones are rapidly being crowded aside. Their fate may be an unhappy one, but in the race of life It is the fittest who survive. The young boys of to-day should get their eyes open. In this vacation time, if they resolve to throw away that crooked pipe stuck between their teeth, which really adds not one element of respecta bility, and embrace the opportunities of the next school year with all the vigor which they can command, they will be far happier a twelvemonth hence and be able to surprise themselves and their friends at th* «xtent of the progress made.—Des Moines Capital. WHY HARD TIMES DON'T LAS’. HE chief reason why this country has emerged so promptly from the slough of financial and Industrial depression is found in the latest report of the Depart ment of Agriculture. The value of this year’s farm products, as estimated by Sec retary Wilson is $8,000,000,000, an increase of 5 per cent over the great record of 1908. The corn crop will reach 3.161,174,000 bushels, the spring and winter wheat crops will total 663,500,000 bushels, and there will be 692,933,000 bushels of oats, 183,923,000 bushels of barley, 31,928,000 bushels of rye and 11,250, 000 bales of cotton, not to mention the immense aggre gate of the lesser crops. These figures are almost too stupendous to permit a proper realization of what they mean. Farm methods are becoming more scientific, and, therefore, more effi cient every year; the average acre will soon be pro ducing what the average five acres used to produce, and there seems to be no limit set upon the possibilities of developing and Increasing the productivity of the soil. The country's potential agricultural resources are be yond comprehension. Add to them the untold wealth of our mines and our fisheries, and it is easy to see why actual hard times cannot last for long.—Ohio State Journal. TAXATION OF DEADLY WEAPONS. CONGRESSMAN SISSON of Mississippi in troduced a revenue proposition of merit that might have prevailed had it been ad vanced earl'er in the session. Much can be said ir. its favor. It proposed a tax upon evety deadly weapon and every car tridge manufactured in this country. This Is the practical way of securing the revenue, and on the theory that the consumer always pays the tax, the bur den would be widely distributed. The schedule calls for a specific tax of $2 on pistols, dirk knives, sword canes, stilettos, brass or metallic knuckles, and similar weapons, with the addition of 25 per cent ad valorem. On cartridges of 22-caliber or under it proposes a tax of one-eighth of a cent on each cartridge, and on car tridges over 22-caliber the rate proposed is one-fifth of 1 cent each. Weapons or cartridges sold to the Federal government or to the various State governments for the militia are exempted from the tax.—Manchester Union. t ELECTRIC POWER FROM SUN. Generator Gather» Solar Electricity and Make» It Do Work. combustion, requiring inconceivable masses of fuel of some kind to main tain it, and surrounded on all sides by an Immensity of ethereal space of so low a temperature that any radia tion of heat from the sun must neces sarily be absorbed and neutralized as soon as it should leave the body of the sun? Why, if heat comes from the sun. Is It as cold on the top of a mountain In the tropics as in the frigid zone? Now 1 have come to the point where I must explain where the seem ing heat in the sun’s rays comes from, if not from the sun Itself. It comes from electricity. Light is the omnipotent force. What is light? Who is there that knows? We understand that the Creator, in directing that light first of all should Innumerable reasons might be given for belief that there is no heat in the sun, but the strongest is based upon the experiences of aeronauts. They always remark that at great altitudes the thermometer ceases to mark any variation of temperature. Certainly a man so high In the air that the earth Is barely discernible is nearer to the sun than we are. If the heat be In the sun Itself, why does he not feel it more strongly than those on the earth's surface? The tendency of heat Is always to ascend Into the atmosphere when It Is derived from combustion on the surface of the earth, or from radiation within It The flame of a candle points vertically upward when the air is still. Notice a room In which there is a hot stove. Is not the upper part of the room vastly hotter than near the floor? The effort of heat Is to depart from its source with a rapidity proportion ate to the Intensity of combustion. This Is a repellant force; at the same time, from its being associated with positive electricity, it is attracted to the upper atmosphere by Its negative electricity, which is always associated with cold. The diffusion of heat, laterally or downward. Is Inconsiderable, as Is manifested in a room where there is an open fire, the fire emitting little heat below the grate and part* of the room being imperfectly heated. From these simple facts I am forced to com lude that the sun. If it had any calorific rays, ■could not possibly send LOW POWtlt GENEBATOB. them to the earth below it through a «put* of 92.00D,000 miles, having, as ■dentists declare, a temperature of be made. Intended to constitute a force superior to all other forces. minus 142 degrees centigrade. Light, then, Is the great source of Then. too. If the sun possessed heat, and could force it downward to the terrestrial electricity, magnetism and eirth. there <ould be no clouds, as the heat. Whatever moves is matter. The hu partides of atmosphere known as clouds would bo so expanded and at man mind can conceive of nothing tenuated by the absorbed heat that • else. Neither can it conceive of mo tl ey could never attain definite shape ' tion without associating It with the On the proven hypothesis that the Idea of an object to be moved. Hence, sttn Is a magnet, ft cannot he an In lig t. which moves, is matter. candescent body, sine« magnetism is Light thrown upon the sun is re destroyed by heat. The moon, we know, flected to the earth with a velocity Is a reflector of light without the of 186,000 miles per second and re emission of any accompanying heat. quires about 8 16-35 minutes to reach If ve thus get our nocturnal light un the earth. Whatever may be the com accompanied by heat, why should we position of the space intervening be Insist uj>on violating the' well estab tween the earth and the sun, It must lished laws of heat In Its radiations be matter, as nature abhors a vacuum and declare the sun to be an Incan- ' Ol It Its ''oc a '■ ■.■* .•*■<? form and descent boJy, continually in active ( * all It ethtr, it is still matter. Light passing through this with marvelous speed must produce every where enormous friction, and with It electricity and magnetism. Electric ity. by the junction of its opposite polarities, evolves heat, and also im parts magnetism to all substances that are capable of being invested with It. It is electricity, then, that causes heat, and not. as has been thought for ages, direct radiation from the sun. Although my theory, when Anally worked out, satisfied me admirably, it was not until I had completed my generator and proved it that I felt justified In speaking of what seemed to be a ruthless uprooting of all pre conceived ideas. Believing that the sun's rays produced electricity, I evolved a simple apparatus for utiliz ing ft, and I did this so successfully that It is possible to store In a battery the electricity from the rays of light —New York World. A W 11*1 of Other Day* < liati Soiu* D| ph w *>.u*k«. Mrs Holland was a your.; ; < rwn with progressive ideas, but her hus- band was M times a great, although affectionately endured, hindrance to her wishes. "1 wish you could hear him talk about the old kerosene-lamps they used to have when he was a boy,” she remarked to her sister in law one day. "D.d you like them so much?" “Couldn't abide them, my dear,” was the prompt and gratifying reply, “but men always like a lamp. I can remember the way ours used to smell when it was on full blast, of a win ter evening, and how father would wriggle in his shair and look over his shoulder, then slap his (taper down and attack the lamp. ‘Isn't there any oil In this thing.' he’d ask. 'or does the wick need trimming?' Of course James has forgotten all that." "Yes, Indeed," and In spite of her self a smile began to creep round th* corners of Mrs. Holland's mouth. “He ho n-trticubirlv remembers the atmosphere of that old sitting room, .... and peacetul it always a as, aud last night, when 1 handed him a copy of the Happy Home Mag azine. he turned away from the front page, where there were two highly tinted young people with heads close together and shoulders overlapping, to gaze at an advertisement on the last page. “ 'See that!' he said to me. 'Father, mother, grandmother and four chil dren all gathered round that table, reading something. That's a good old kerosene-lamp! Do you suppose they go trapesing out nights—twitch a button or two and go. leaving a pitch dark house? No, ma'am Tliat lamp's filled and trimined for a long home evening. You see there are still some families who've held out and kept their old lamps Suppose they were sitting round under electric bulbs— would they look like that—or feel like that? No, they wouldn't!’" "Poor James!" said the sister-in- law. smiling. "But the thing I didn’t dare tell him,” whispered Mrs Holland, as if her James might be close at hand, “was that the group round the table was looking at an advertisement of the Light-All Electric Company! He hadn't his reading glasses on, so he didn’t see the fine print. Poor James!”—Youth's Companion. fl A v WHALE STRANGLED SELF, From Seattle Comes a remarkable story, brought into port by the cable repair ship Burnside. The Burnside had been sent north along the coast of Alaska to repair the cable, because during the last winter difficulty had been experienced in sending and re ceiving messages. The vessel picked up the cable con necting Valdez and Sitka a few miles off Cook inlet not far from Sitka. The crew never had such a time hauling a cable on board as they did that day on the Alaska coast. Finally the cause of the great weight was found. Some time during the winter a whale, feeding on the bottom of the ocean, with wide-open mouth, collided with the wire rope. Unable to shake the big wire from the mass of whalebone in Its jaws, the big fish "turned turtle.” rolled over once, turned round, rolled again and dived. In these few movements the fish proved himself his own hangman, for th* cable was twisted tighter about the head of the whale than any mortal could have twisted it with the most powerful machinery. The whale drowned and the carcass was devoured on the bottom of th* ocean by other fish. The crew of th* Burnside hauled up an immense load of whalebone, and found a great twist in the government cable that had been the cause of the unusual diffi culty to and from either end of th* rope. Animili Farm. M. F Kendrick, of Denver, Colo has a farm equipped for the rearing and sale of wild beasts. The enter prize bears the title of the Kendrick Pheasantrles and Wild Game Associa tion. It grew out of the novel ex hibit at the City Park in Denver, which Mr. Kendrick maintained en tirely at his own expense, because of his love for wild game. Many thou sands of dollars yearly went to the development of Mr. Kendrick's hobby. What was a fancy has become a sub stantial business institution. For the first few years only animals native to North America will be reared but eventually lions, tigers, and even elephants will be bred. The farm Is now stocked with deer, elk, antelope, bears, mountain goats, etc., afld 16 acre« of ground are utilized in the venture. Mr. Kendrick says that it does not cost any more to produce a pound of buffalo or elk than it does of cattle or sheep. Buffalo meat sells at from 50 cents to $1 a pound, elk meat bring Ing nearly as much. The association will not lack a market at these prices If zoological parks and game preserves do not take the entire output. The United States government Is taking great Interest In Mr. Kendrick'« i farm. It will co-operate with him by telling him how to cure or prevent any disease with which he Is not fa miliar.—Success Magazine 'I he Joy* to tome. Now In the grove beside the stream, where Nature seems at rest. The Thousand-Legged Worms prepar* a greeting for the guest; For peek-a-l oo and open-work the gay mosquitoes train, And thoughtfully the caterpillars plan for their campaign. Longing to gladly mix It with the but ter and at least Give a fair imitation of the death'« head at the feast; The tired river's yawning for th* fool who rocks the boat. While In a nearby meadow, where th* sun most cruelly shines, The bull who'll break the party up 1* practicing his lines; The great elm tree Is waving Its fo liage ox erhend—■ The one where they'll "seek shelter" just before they are "strucll dead." Thu* Nature, who seems so quiet, la tolling the whole day long That the hilarious picnic party may be sure to get in wrong. —Boston Traveler. VV lien llumasc» Flees, When a woman can meet one of he» husltand's former sweethearts and treat her courteously or kindly, it la a sign that the former sweetheart has either grown very stout or has faded terribly.—Chicago Record-Herald. C'hlokenologg. Worms are becoming larger every day; finally they may become as large Th* chicken* that bloom in th* sprint» tra la, Ar* auppoaed to be tender pickin’. But many a boarder has found, alas. There Is also th* st*«l spring chic*» •n. as lUagons and carry off peopl*. —Kansas City Tim**
