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i —-------------------------- howling wildern -- Ir. marking up its coal land, the go\eminent doe» wisely. It is t’.ne : r a new policy with rev | . Ml '"*• Bttt *TT—• fatb W«<k it is unfair to UM the v 1 ■' f as a I text for rwr n -• past BANDON...........................OEGON policy of th» govern Wh«n It practical Reports from Panama •ho« tkM in order to ger p. ->;<e on the so.l. Ths success of its po'hy >.- evident in the ball follows the flax wonderful develi pir.cnt of the W est. , Secretary Meyer's parcels post plan H«W n M h of that $ 1 »n icre value «*mt to have been lost in the malls. is due to the fa t ra . • is are ready to carry away the < d from the Anybody who could hit a barn ought Wyoming m ncs? How m'.u h of it is *> be able to pick a rhinoceros off of a due to the fact that th- r ■ are custom limb. ers for coal within a sb >rt haul of the deposits? The price r; t for coal land As an actrees Ella Ginglee Isn’t bad, is low, but It woui 1 have i> ‘en high but she Is several laps behind E. Nes forty years age With nt ra.'.r ads. it bit Thaw. would have been | r '.i ~;t v ■. V- ithout settlers, there wu’.il ! 1- etn no suc Since the stone wall did so much cessful railroads. £o '■ ma; say fair for Galveston the town should call ly that the libera! p. 1 o: the govern itself Jackson. ment in the past his i n th-‘ factor which nlakes its m<re bu .'i ■- v e pol Every experiment proves that the icy of the pit- ir ¡.nd future possible, balloon is only a distant relation to the true flying machine. “Brighten . om> on - vise's life. Cheer so-me one cl.-e's pathway every day. Treasury officials have declared that This is th.- best in - rent that any the $2 certlfwatea are unpopular. We of us in this world can ever hope to know one vote that wasn’t taken. \,, a epeat the name of the man who .aid it. He has an Mr. Rockefeller advises us to nounced that he i > g Ing to seek ob "brighten some one else’s life." He scurity henceforth. Moreover, there refrained from telling us what to do are so many other p- pie «ho both It with. live as he does and talk as he does The value of this year's crop is es that it is not nac< .s:iry to draw the particular man. timated by Secretary Wilson at $8,000,- moral upon the 000,000. No wonder hard times see “Brighten some one el. e’s life.” Tiiat is most excellent advi e. It Is good 23 on the horizon. old-fashioned morality, just as good Mexico discourages revolutionists by to-day as it ever was, and just as good giving them long terms in prison, a for the future as for to-day. However, practice which republics south of it in tlie sense In whi-h it is used it is very imperfect, very partial advice. would do well to imitate. A little active work in brightening It is a highly commendable move to some one else’s life by dire t personal try to keep open the door of diplomat efforts needs to be supplemented more ic preferment to capable American to-day than ever before by indirect citizens who do not happen to be rich. methods of brightening other people's lives, especially through restraint from It Is said that when an author dies creating conditions which have the op his books always pick up in popular posite effect. For many citizens, and ity. There are some writers whom the especially for those who give the world would be willing to boost under "brightening" advice mod freely, the indirect methods of self-restraint are those circumstances. vastly more Important socially than The officials of a Western college the other. When a man adopts a sys have announced that the co-eds must tem of business opera, ions which have have a chaperon. This is one of the as their direct result tire driving of most crushing blows yet administered competitors out of business by meth ods always unfair, and often illegal; to feminine Independence. when he sacrifices families ruthlessly because he is not in immediate con There are indications that the Seat tact with the suffering members; when tle exposition is going to be a success his mechanism of business is so fine in spite of the fact that It is strictly that he can dip his hands in the pock a temperance affair. Are we to have ets of a hundred thousand families no traditions that may be depended and gain wealth so easily that his upon to last? main thought is that he is to be per sonally approved because he takes so Miss Anita Stewart and her mother little, then, Indeed, it is but a poor •re paying $1,000,000 in cash for the compensation that be makes it a point] Portuguese prince that the young lady of directly brightening some neigh is to get. It almost seems as if they bor’s life every day. To one life that might have got him cheaper if they he brightens directly there are thou had haggled a bit. sands that he darkens Indirectly. The new morality will take full account of There are rumors of another hazing such facts at their proper value. scandal at West Point. No sooner does Annapolis succeed in getting the at THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. tention of the public centered there than West Point jealously comes for ward showing that it, too, can be very foolish. The contest seems to be in terminable. SEED OF THE VIOLET. BANDON RECORDER An illustration of the difficulties met by those who seek to raise the social standard comes from London, where a borough council recently erected forty little dwellings for the poorest class, •ach with a bath room. An investlga tlon a few months later showed that in thirty-six of the forty houses the ten ants used the bath tub wholly for the storage of fuel, clothing and general rubbish. In life, in literature, there is no magic charm like that of personality, but politicians are afraid of it in their business. Of this they sedulously cul tivate the Idea that it must be con ducted by committees and parties, ••ver by Individualities. Everything ia collective, nothing personal. In trigue and subterranean management •re the prime forces, and the old prac titioners of the art are always aghast when some man of native vigor comes forward with open methods and direct •p peals. Individually, as all travelers testify, the Chinese are an exceptionally hon est people, but in the official life of the empire there has long been systematic corruption and wholesale pilfering •uch as few other lands have ever known. Of special significance, there fore, is the recent removal of a Chi nese viceroy on the charge of corrup tion When the viceroy was suddenly confronted with the charges, he was •o amazed and confounded that he suf fered a stroke of apoplexy. Such • thing as interfering with the plunder ing of the poor by a public official was unheard of. The Incident is welcome evidence that China Is really waking up. The Department of the interior has been valuing the government’s lands on which coal exists, and. Instead of selling them at the old price of agri cultural lands, is marking them up as coal lands In some cases, the price has been put as high as $500 an acre. These coal lands were classified and restored to entry tn June. At the old rate, they were worth $7,500,000. Un der the new plan they are held at $18, 500.000 The principle involved, the Chicago Tribune declare», is much More Important than-the amounts, and it ad<la: ‘‘If this principle had been ptrt in practice many years ago,’many • fraud it; on the cnirnment would tare been preven tod.” And many a prairie, now cut up tn farm» and dot 1*4 wikfc tillage«, Would «till be a Flower Blooai» Tn ice In a Sen.»« - ■ Ina un F.kplo.ive Pod. - Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. SENTENCED TO HOME LIFE. T is a wise judge in Malden. Mass., who has prescribed the home treatment for youths who wreak mischief in the streets. Several boys were brought before him. charged with wandering misbehavior. He released them temporarily, on condition that their parents keep them at home from 6 o'clock in the evening until the next morning. At the end of this probation the lads are to be ex amined as to the effect ot this treatment upon their conduct. The magistrate has exercised his discretion in the direction of enforcing parental responsibility. In real ity, it is the fathers ami mothers, and the homes they make, rather than the childern, that are on trial in this test. The experiment will enforce, at least during its period, the presence of these boys every evening in the family circle. The influence of Its environment must make itself manifest in either marked improvement of manners and diligence, or In sullen deterioration; for I youth must grow, either upward or downward. It is possible that the trial of this method may disclose whether it is the parents who need reformation.— Washington Herald. THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM. HAT was done on the Isthmus of Panama can be as effectively done in New Jersey for the extirpation of the mosquito. The State is the only power that can do the work, and should set about it in earnest. The isthmus was notoriously the most unhealthy region in the world until Amer ican engineers undertook to conquer its bad name. They ascertained that the mosquito was the conveyer of the malaria and yellow fever that had carried off thousands of human beings. So they attacked the in sect in his lair. They destroyed the breeding places by drainage and ether methods. Today the Panama Isthmus is as healthy as any section of the United States, and the change is entirely due to the work of the American engineers and sanitarians. The mosquito problem was attacked on the isthmus with the determination to conquer. The problem in New Jersey has been dallied with. There has been no earnest purpose. The Legislature has been lukewarm and parsimonious, legislators have been Incompetent to size up to the great importance to the State of ridding it of a pest that entails a property loss of many mil lions, keeps away population and makes summer life a trial alike to the sick and well.—Newark Star. ANOTHER VICTORY FOR WOMEN. LMA LOUISE SINGLETON'S name should certainly be enrolled high on the scroll of famous women who have won notable vic tories for the cause of women's rights. Elma Louise has succeeded in persuading a divorce court that a husband who Is en gaged in business six days of the week should remain at home and entertain his wife on the seventh, and that failure to do so furnishes good grounds for severing the marriage bond. This is a long step in advance from the days when a man was permitted to whip his wife, provided the whip was no thicker than his little Unger. Surely it marks an era of new women's rights worthy of a little extra jubilation and surely Elma Louise deserves to be the central figure of the rejoicing. Soon we shall have other offenses listed as valid ground for cutting the tie that binds. Eating pie with a knife, stopping out after 8 of an evening, taking tn more than one ball game a week, smoking a nasty smelling pipe, refusal to wear a high collar in August, eating onions, neglect to curl the mustache, and snoring may now hope to be recognized as just cause for divorce. The forward sisterhood will be justified in holding a real celebration then. But in the meantime common fairness demands that Elma Louise should receive im mediate recognition as a gre-e e-e a t benefactor of her suffering sex.—Chicago Journal. THE YELLOW JOURNAL EGOIST. F a man like Thaw, whose condition of "exaggerated ego” led him under certain favorable circumstances to the commission of a homicide, should therefore be per manently secluded in a hospital or jail as a measure of public safety, why should not the public safety be further assured by the seclusion of other more dangerous madmen whose insane egoism creates vastly different social in jury? Why not bring to bear the restrictive grip of the law upon cases of exaggerated ego which find • X- pression in yellow journalism? To habitually murder the truth, for the sake of no toriety and profit, is a crime so far reaching in its dls- astrous consequences, when it takes form in the publi cation of a daily newspaper, that any corrective ruling of the courts bearing upon the matter is most welcome. The egoist who, as publisher or editor of a newspaper, seeks to keep himself in the public eye by riding every inviting hobby, by making indecency more indecent, revolting fact more revolting, and by constantly min istering to the depraved appetite, is more dangerous than an army of Thaws.—Philadelphia Record. AMERICANS AS EMIGRANTS. E are impatient with those immigrants whe maintain their native ways of living and thought within our borders. May it not be that in the Canadian Northwest the Canadian-born look with distrust upoii the Americans recently settled there? A traveler wrote that the saddest men and women he had ever met were the American exiles who were trying to be gay in Paris. The farmers who have gone into Canada to till the lands all but given them will not have occasion to know the sadness of the exile. They will be too busy. Their work will save them, will protect them, from the grief the banished feel. But as these farm people grow older they will have the leisure to dwell upon their relations to the folk about them and to the institutions under which they live. It is a characteristic of the American to compare the things he sees abroad with those at home, to the disadvantage of the foreign. And those who have settled in Manitoba or Alberta, being as Ameri can as any of us, are hardly likely to lose that habit.— Toledo Blade. buggy, or carriage, or wagon, or pedes trian? Settle on a rule, and make it compulsory, with penalties. Who has the right-of-way, when the question of precedence arises? No road law should pass which falls to meet this question. Then, again, there is the speed limit, and the policing of the road. Non-resident motoring parties are in the habit of coming through at a forty-mile clip, as though it were the duty of all creation to scoot out of the way. ‘Clear the track!’ is the Ulen for Koiidw and Itoml l.nw«. reckless motto by which too many of John, Jr.—Will you give me a nickel I In a recent issue of The Jefferson- these touring cars are driven. No fan, Thomas E. Watson, as was to ] State should adopt a road law which if I'm good all day, dad? John, Sr. No, my son; I want you have been expected, aligns himself fails to deal justly with all parties, squarely with the aggressive contin those who have autos and those w'ho to be good for nothing. gent for good roads in Georgia, along haven’t." IllKitest of All Mackerel. with National President Barrett and There can be no question that the Until a few days ago a mackerel that State President Lee, of the Farmers' average conception of the rules of the exceeded four pounds in weight was ' Union, and the overwhelming major highway is somewhat hazy and cha considered something remarkable, but ity of officials and prominent citizens otic. Conditions governing traffic have when Capt. Rufus McKay of the seln voicing representative sentiment in changed radically in the last twenty- er Speculator showed one he had taken this State. in the catch he brought to T wharf I "All of >is want good roads for all five years. Travel and patronage of there was a change of opinion, and the of us,” declares the sage of McDuffie, the public roads has multiplied many ordinary large mackerel looked like a in his straightforward fashion. Mr. times, and means are now employed canner in comparison, a Boston dis . Watson directs attention to important for locomotion that introduce new fac tors into the situation. patch to the New York Herald says. phases of the subject that must figure When the present legislature comes, Capt. McKay had been seining on in any blanket legislation by the gen as it probably will, to enact a uniform the Rips and had taken some pretty I eral assembly. We need statutes and big fish, many of them weighing above fixed regulations, he shows, that will road law. these features stressed by four pounds, but when the men came newly and sharply define the "laws of Mr. Watson should receive mature con across the real big one the crew stop the road,” so constructed as to conserve sideration. Meanwhile, it is gratifying to know ped work for a time to get a look at the interests and privileges of all par It The fish was carefully laid in ice ' ties. Following Is an editorial extract that his Influence may be counted ! separate from the others, anil when ] embodying his views on a problem upon to further a movement so vital , with constructive meaning to the bona the Speculator's hatches were opened now of vital concern to all Georgia: fide producers of Georgia.—Atlanta it was brought out and shown to the "The Jeffersonian courts no fame as Constitution. dealers. an old fogy, and has no disposition to Immediately there was a struggle to cater to the popular prejudice against IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. get ft, and ft was finally bought by automobiles. The motor car Is here to Elmer Prior for P. H. Prior, 2 T wharf. stay; the air ship Is on its way. and Press Xian Found Proceeding« Dull The fish was placed on exhibition In we might as well agree with tortured and I.eft Volu iilarily. the store and was viewed by hundreds Galileo, that the world does move, Reporters are not allowed to be pres It weighs eight pounds and is twenty- orthodoxy to the contrary notwith ent at the secret sessions of the Unit nine and one-half Inches from the tip standing. • • • ed States Senate. Some of the diffi of the head to the tip of the tall, and "Every -food citizen should favor cult work which newspaper men go nineteen inches in its largest circum I good roads and, so far as we know, he up against at the capltol is gathering ference. dees. Scout cars and newspaper the details of some outbreak after the Mr. Prior was made an offer of $10 whoop-her-ups are not necessary for doors of the Senate chamber have been for the fish by a Beverly dealer, who that. All of us want good roads for closed to all except Senators and one wanted to present it to President Taft all of us. ♦ • • if our road sys or two sworn employes who keep its but he refused the offer, as he intends tem. which now bears somewhat heav records, says the New York Herald. to have it mounted. ily on the under dog. is to be changed, One newspaper man recently sat let us adopt a plan which will dis ’hrough a part of a secret session and Good Market. left of his own free will. He is Jerry “Is your son doing anything during tribute the advantages equitably. 1« lOpt some def A. Mathews, a representative of one vacation?” "Yes. He's making money hand over fnite 'law of the road,' adjusted to oi the three press associations which pres nt conditions. We should pre- during tne open sessions of the Sen fist selling a new fangled diary.” “I shouldn't think that there would s> ribe. tin ler reasonable penalties, the ate are given the privileges of the duty of the drivers of all vehicles, and fl ooi be much money in that." Coming down the corridor one after "Every woman buys it. It has one the duty of all vehi le drivers toward W1 ' h »1 le of the road noon dr. Mathews pushed through the page a day for what you do yourself ta e. Shall Senate doors and took his usual place and ten pages for what your neighbors . w th« d«r s dealt A treaty Was e fo tit« right, or to the do."—Puck. . | being r>ad After looking about him ect ill We still contend that the funniest J p> b ' I ’1 n rf it. What it da«ned upon the newspaper man thing In the world Is cheap printing :i,e fluti give to tut ( nat ae wai being closely examin'd for cheap shows by two or three Senators. One moved over to a group and pointed at Mr. Mathews, and together they seemed to be discussing him. Things seemed dull, and after a short stay on the floor Mr. Mathews left the chamber and joined some friends in the press gallery. "What is that they are reading down there, Tom?" he asked the representa tive of another press association. "Why, I don't know,” was the reply. "They are in executive session." "No, they are not," hastily put in Mr. Mathews. Then the situation dawned upon him. There had been no doorkeeper at the entrance when he passed in to warn him. and he had unwittingly enjoyed a part of an exec utive session. How the Drakeinaii Helped. Thomas Moffat, consul at Trinidad, distinguished himself while consul at La Guayra by refusing to sign a doc ument declaring the "sanitary condi tions of La Guayra to be perfect." The town at the time was in the grip of the bubonic plague. "The local authorities were angry with me." said Mr. Moffat recently, "for refusing to indorse their stupid and baneful policy. They said it was a bénéficient policy, but I told them that it reminded me, in its ignorant harmfulness, of a brakeman I once knew. “The man was a novice, and on his first run there was a very steep grade to mount. The engineer always had more or less trouble to get up this grade, but this time he came near sticking. He almost lost his head. Eventually, however, he reached the top. “At the station, looking out of his cab, the engineer saw the new brake- man and said with a sigh of relief: “'I tell you what, my lad, we had a job to get up here, didn't we?' “ 'We certainly did,’ said the new brakeman, 'and if I hadn't put the brake on we’d have slipped back.’” Tiie common Wild violet affor of the most remarkable illustrations of the care and api>arent forethought of nature tu preserving a »pedes, a w rlter in the St. Louts Globe-Demo crat says. As everybody knows, the violet grows in the shade, iu pastures, woods and fields where the grass Is abundant and long, it comes up early in the spring and flowers at a time when the grass ;• most a umlaut and succulent. Of course, It is liable to be cut down by the scythe, but much more likely it Is to I e bitten off by grazing animals. The violets that come in the spring either do not seed at all or very spar ingly. But in the kite fall tho plant bears another crop of blossoms that are never seen save by the profession al botanist. They are very small, ut terly insignificant in appearance, and grow' either just at or below the sur face of the ground. These are the flowers which produce the seeds for the next season. 'Die flowers on long stems blooming In spring are only for show; the hidden flowers are for use, and the number of seeds they bear may be judged from the ease with which a wild violet bed spreads. Wh< n the seeds are ripe the pod ex plodes. scattering them to a consider able ¡distance, often to ten or twelve feet from the parent plant, so that in spite of its boastful modesty the vio let not only takes care of Itself, but becomes a troublesome aggressor. Germany has become the greatest producer’of cocoa butter in the world, turning out about 7.000 tons a year. The best Turkish tobacco is grown in the low mountainous region border ing the south shore of the Black Se4T The entire tire department of Frank- fort-on-the-Main, Germany, is to be changed from horse to motor traction. To prevent fraud in weighing, the government is having self-registering scales built for use in customs ware houses. The paper on which the Bank of En- land notes are printed has been made by a secret process in the same mil) since 1719. A resident of New Jersey has pat ented a tapering stiletto on which there is a sliding gauge to regulate the size of the holes it may make, to save an embroidery worker from car rying a set of tools of different sizes. Contrary to the general impression that the country furnishe ’ by birth a much larger percentage of idlng men in all walks of life than the city, Dr. Frederick Adams Woods arrives at the conclusion that it is the urban popular tlon which takes the lead In tills re- s;>ect. He bases his results on the birthplace statistics given in a well- known volume containing brief biog raphies of notable Americans. Tak ing the total urban and non-urban pop ulations. he finds that the town shows a notably higher percentage of produc tiveness in the way of talent. This he regards as consistent with the laws of heredity, since talent of all kinds tends to seek the cities, and should be expected, generally, to reproduce it» kind. On of the most interesting achieve ments of Lieutenant Shackleton's polar expedition was the ascent of Mount Erebus, the most southerly of all known volcanoes, by a party led by Professor David. The highest peak has an elevation of 13.120 feet. An old crater, fillesl with feldqiar crystals, puniloe and sulphur, was found at the height of 11.000 feet. The active orater at the summit Is half a mile in diam eter, and 800 feet deep. It was eject ing steam and sulphurous gases to a height of 2,000 feet when the party visited ft. The ascent was made In March, 1908; in Juno the volcano was very active, and photographs of the eruption were made by moonlight. The neighboring volcano, Mount Ter ror, was inactive. Of course the ocean Is not as old a* the earth, because it could not be formed until the surface of the globe had sufficiently cooled to retain the water upon It. but it seems chimerical to try to measure the age of the sea. Nevertheless Professor Joly has under taken the task, basing Ills estimate u[K>n the amount of sodium it con tains to that annually contributed by the washings from the continents. He thus reaches the conclusion that the ocean lias been In existence between 80,000,000 and 170,000,000 years Th!» does not seem a very definite determin ation, but then, in geology, estimates of time in years are extremely dif ficult because of the uncertainty of tho elements of the calculation. The most that can be said of such results Is that ♦ hey are probable. I p Ilegiirtl for Appearance*. Max O'Rell was once staying with a friend at Edinburgh. Starting for a walk on Sunday, he took his walking stick. "Do you mind taking an um brella?" asked his conscientious Scotch host. "Jt looks more respect to Date. Drummer—So the coal oil got near the butter and flavored it, eh? I sup pose you’ll lose It? Storekeeper Jason—Oh. no, stranger. I've jjust put a sign over It, "Try th» New Petroleum Butter," and It 1» go ing like hot cakes. able." I'crlifip« (he Happiest. Corio«*. Minister I made seven heart» hap “It's curious,” said Uncle Eben, “dat py to-day. a lot o' folks will hardly notice de Parishioner How wan that? speeches of de country's brainiest Minl»t«r Married three couples. men. an' dat devil read every word of Parlghfoner That only makes si* what an <-x n of prize flghUn' Minister IA 1). you dqftt thiuk 1 haa to say!”—Washington SLar. did U k>C Both: ng? L.ia.
