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BANDON RECORDER U ■ r.»s 1’1 r itshel? fa n s. nfl a!T •ha» th* pure! str a fl ts to fit 1 the box th i’ B - ■>• ■ .irk it with a erosa Th* “ busiest ” Werk traveler, 1» is fi, .■ sed, will ep > « s t • t- ite t BANDON....................... ÖREGOK alas, that la!,or ■ . or be se cl as long as name- are to a-tefully ' t: led The south pole Is now the burning and places so innumerable. .But think of the joy of the t ' i* question. spiring card, wtth the one small pi Int Harry Thaw has ‘een a great money ed line Intended for hfs benefit among Baker for expert witnesses. a wilderness of “sentiments” that are "lost” in spa e and time! Think of “All Hats (»« to the Farmer," says the thrill in the stereotyped message! • headline. An<l open your purs*, Ijtbor sating baa its limits. The in too ventore must really leave us a little real chance for indi- Somebody declares that politics Is spontaneity, a expression, for “home Indus» vldusU a disease. And In most cases It Is try." incurable. How much do men know about worn- The new tariff law Is now In effect. en’s dress, and how much do they How does It feel not to be taxed on care about ft? Is an interesting ques- your hide? tlon raised by a curious advertisement The milliners say they lost money printed in London. The person who on the "peach basket" hat. This placed the advei tLseinent announces himself as “a man of gnod position. makes It unanimous. with very critical, refined and exclus Dr. Cook doubtless noticed that the ive knowledge," and much experience earth seemed flat at the pole, as the of the best firms which rater to wom en’s wants. He fs “willing to be con geographies say It Is. sulted on matters of dress and millin There Is some talk of abolishing the ery." The heads of a number of well- |2 note. Why not? The fives are known dressmaking establishments, when asked for an opinion, all agreed much more convenient. that the knowledge of men about wom A judge has ruled that a man may en’s dress is small, ami their advice swear at hfs wife. The best plan, how in regard to it of little account. They admitted that the heads of some of ever, Is to swear by your wife. the most noted dressmaking establish Lady Cardigan Is of the opinion that ments had been men, but they were of a girl should not get married until the opinion that the men succeeded only by virtue of being good business she Is old enough to know better. managers, and that the details were It Is against the law to swear In worked out by women In their employ. certain Kansas towns. Think of hav "It Is only the -esult that men no ing to walk out into the country to tice," was the general agreement, swear! Very likely there is truth In thia view, but there is also truth In the opposite The Countess of Cardigan sayB no side of the proposition, says the girl knows her mind in her teens. The Youth’s Companion. Many women are countess, It may readily be deducted, so intent upon the details that they Is In her “tys.” lose sight of the result. They cannot see the forest because of the trees; When a man has enough money laid and It is here that the advice and aside to keep him on Easy street fop judgment of a man of taste may be of the rest of his days, he ought to give service-—especially the advice of ths others a chance. husband. He is a man of taste, else ho would not have selected so charm "How do you like the new $50 bill?” ing a woman for a wife. In a general asks the Manchester, N. H„ Union. way, the preference of men Is for elm- Oh, five thousand times better than pliclity in women’s dress. It makes the Lincoln cent! for good sense in material and for di rectness in accomplishing a desired Why do they seek communication end. Men are uncritical and undls- with Mars? Because there are people crlmlnating in the matter of fabrics, constantly asking questions that no but as the London dressmakers tacitly one on earth can answer. admitted, display frequently sound Judgment In regard to the general ef Mrs. Besant says that India saw fly fect. Above all, they are far more in ing machines centuries ago. So did clined than women to consider the In we, but we never saw them fly until dividual case rather than the general Orville and Wilbur were Incarnated. style; and that Is not an unmlxed evil. A Michigan judge has decided that a man may spank his wife when It Is necessary. Now It will take a judge and a jury to decide when It Is neces sary. TIGER WHIPS A LION. A LIB1RAL »DÜCAriON. Î K »on l.'Jir» Rome of the bones of Buddha have recently been found In India. It Is hoped that the discoverer has his diary and instruments where he can readily lay his hands upon them In case he Is called upon to furnish proof •f his discovery. Abdul Hamid, former Sultan of Turkey, is rei>orted to be losing his mind owing to constant worrying. We •uppose his worry Is caused because he has only eleven wives and about $20,000,000 Instead of the large harem and the immense treasure that he for merly possessed. Most men marry for love and some of them stay married for the •same rea eon. There are others. Erank Mel- choir of Hoboken, N. J., is one of the Others. Mr. Melchoir has no fondness for a diet of “love and cheese and kisses. ” He demands a decidedly mote sutatantlal bill of fare. He was haled Into court for administering forcible reproof to his better half; and in the cold light of the police court the source of domestic infelicity was dis closed. No, it was not that love had fled. Not at all. Ix>ve was permanent ly roosting there and had taken the place of the cook. That was the trou ble. The head of the family would come home from work hungry and tired; and would find his wife arrayed Uke a bride; but with no supper ready. To the manufacturing of fads In connection with postal cards there seems to be no end. The picture card originally contained an excellent Idea. It had a touch of nature and appealed to the imagination. But what degenerate forma It speedily assumed, and what a nuisance It be came! The Indecent cards required po lice Intervention. The merely vulgar card has had to seek obscurity an 1 a congenial atmosphere The varieties that are fit will survive, whether they are made in Germany, France or in the home market. The plain, un adorned post card retains Its useful ness and hold, however, and will never be wholly displaced. In France, It a 't . pseudo-benefactor of mankind has in- vetitvl i a ■ 1 that re sembles in t ¡’i the Australian ballot. U bears all sons of messages, sunU <l>uuc<-» •»< OtnrS For * n .-d- rat«l> lit s ,1 ■ duration a man must be able fairly to appro- » I He should first read a good daily pa lter. He can skip all that does not i. ’ crimes, the so l.tx evert'the games anil races the actresses and divorces; but he cannot emit the major events —the process and progress of legisla tion, the movements of democracy, the conflicts of privilege, the discover ies In science, the Inventions in the arts, the diplomacy of nations and the general advance of civilization. These things are of importance to hu manity, and to have them foreign from one’s education leaves It utterly illiber al. Therefore, the first thing neces sary is not a book for the shelf, but a broad, intelligent Journal for the table. Th» n ft is Impossible to gain a fairly liberal education without the basis for an understanding of these current facts of history, and this requires tho reading of some books. What are the important books? Largely text books. Tor example, one should have read and fairly mas tered roasonal ly lull treatises contain ing the lati -t conclusions in the chief sciences, such ns chemistry, physics, geology, bioipgy and astronomy, so that he may be tide to gauge the value of what he reads in Journals and mag azines. He will keep in touch wfth new discoveries and inventions, He will be a man of his age, for liberal education is the education of this and not of some past age. Equally ho will read as good text books as he can find on sociology, political economy and governments. This will require read ing of the history of the principal na tions, or, at least, of a general history of the world. He must have read enough on the history of religions to distinguish their differences and their worth. Now comes the question of the value of pure literature In a liberal educa tion. There is no doubt of Its im portance to put the polish on an edu cation which fs truly liberal. But pure literature is not of the framework, the bone and muscle of a liberal edu cation, but of that beauty which is skin deep. It Is delightful to read Chaucer or Dante, tut many a man of a liberal education has read neither. The long lists of famous names of an cient and modern times attract us and give us additional “culture” if wo have time for them, but the bulk of them are not essential. And when it comes to the older En glish, poetry and prose, Shakespeare— well, one needs to have read his plays twice or three times to be fairly in telligent. For other poetry one can get all he really needs for a fairly lib eral education within the covers of two or three volumes which give us golden treasuries of accepted verse. I ■tl>* c n 1 I t <• Í, J I I 11 i IUI I LU v ■ Papers v/ VClIIU Subjects, UUUjtVL?« Opinions of I V/1 Great on ’ llllf/V/l Important V/ j/ l THE UNWRITTEN LAW. S it not time that the unwritten law bo cast back into the dusty closets of feudal proprieties and ancient folk lore whence it wao taken? To recognize such an influ ence is to bow to the half-savagery of the middle ages, to offer praises to murder and to issue a certificate of merit to the agent of assassination. Recent trials have indicated not only that the plea of emotional homicide is failing in the courts, but also that sentimental hysteria is dis appearing from the Jury box. The imposing hypothet ical question may find a witness—properly coached— ready to say yer at the end, but, with the company termed by the oratorical lawyers of the '50s “that sa cred flame of civilization—an intelligent Jury"—one- half might be counting the buttons of the judge’s coat and the other half snoozing. The presentation of new varieties of Insanity Is not uninteresting, but ft has lost its mystic charm. The game fs largely worked out. The unwritten law we have beheld invoked to excuse the avenger of an outrag'd fireside and with success. A Jury In a recent sensational trial was divided in a case of murder brought about by a frenzy of Jealousy. The argument was lost entirely when employed in de fense of politicians who resented with firearms the crit icisms of a newspaper. T^t us hope that the last American community has ceased to license murder by giving approval to the law unwritten.—Toledo Blade. THE GULF HURRICANE, NE of the triumphs of man over nature Is the great sea wall which protected Gal- veston against a repetition of the horror which submerged the city nine years ago. The whole country rejoices with Galveston that no life was lost within the wall and that the property loss from the flooding of sewers was Insignificant. The hurricanes which periodically start from the hot vzaters of the equatorial Atlantic or the Caribbean sea and hurl themselves against the low-lying coasts of the Gulf of Mexico are freakish. They are more apt to come late in August or early in September than in July, it fs not often that they spend their greatest force upon the same part of the coast tw’lce In so short a time as the period between the two visitations of Galveston. A dozen years or more ago the hurricane headed for the delta of the Mississippi river and drowned hundreds of fishermen and squatters whose huts had been built upon that low alluvium. Once in a while the storm piles tip the water of the Gulf of Mobile bay and floods the lower part of the city for two or three blocks back from the river front. But Galveston, which is prac- tlcally on an Island, is the only one of the Gulf cities where the need of a protecting sea wall has yet become apparent. The exceptional severity felt at Galveston is easily explained. When the hurricane follows the Gulf stream northeastward its fury is visited upon shipping in the The new woman superintendent of the Chicago public schools will receive a salary of $10,000 a year. Where does she stand on the Income tax proposition? Mrs. Decker expects that feminine fashions will be reformed when wo men get the right to vote. They will have to be if the voters expect to keep their hats on straight. nt ki>t In Norway those who are not vac- cfnated may not vote. In June British Imports increased by $29,000,000 and exports by $13,000,- 000. While an audience of 1.500 people Alexander mutilated the dead that was in the hall of a Coney Island ani the sight of them might lie as horrible mal Rhow a lion and tiger started to the enemy as possible. fighting, and before they could be sep The revenue of the commonwealth arated the hind quarters of the lion of Australia for the last financial year had been so mangled by his striped was $71,750,000, a decrease of $3.325,- antagonist that he had to be shot. Tho 000. act which was being shown required Lightning kills one-half of those it seven Hons and two tigers, and was strikes, while a few of the survivors considered a very daring feat on ac count of the enmity of the great are rendered blind, deaf, dumb or par Jungle beasts. At every performance tially paralyzed. The “Place-makers’ Bible" Is so they snapped and snarled at each oth er, but had always been held in check called from a typographical error by the trainer; on this occasion, how- which makes Matt. v. 9. read: “Blessed ever, he turned his head for an in are the place-makers" instead of peace stant. and in that inconceivable time makers. the lion saw his chance nnd spran The annual report of the Montreal upon the tiger, after which, in s, " harbor commissioners says that Mon of efforts to part them, the}' foug!)' treal Is now handling a greater vol- until both were helpless. time of business monthly than an y other North American port except New The Smallest Store. York. What fs believed to be the smalle; An irrigation project to cost $25,- etore In the world was opened for 000,000 Is on the cards in Argentina, business yesterday at Front street and the principal rail'. ays to do the work Bigelow court. Worcester. It consist" and be mid by the government in 5 of two shelves 14 Inches long attar-het per cent irrigation bonds, with the wa- to the building owned by J Lewis EH" ter rentals to take care of the bonds. worth, secretary of the State Board of The Treacle Bible got Its name from Agriculture, and tho space given up to Its rendering of Jeremiah vlll. 22: "Is the display of a few handfuls of fruit there r.o treacle li> Gilead." Instead of and peanuts contains 280 square balm in Gilead. It was printed in inches. 1568. The same text was rendered in For more than a quarter of a een tlie Douai vision. 1609. "Is there no tury the corner was the sl*e of a new» ro--!n In Gilead?" Tills Bible was and peanut stand, but when the city called the Rosin Bible. extended Bigelow court front Front All degenerative diseases that cause street to Mechanic street ft was seen that the stand encroached on city so much suffering and death In civili land. It was demolished to allow the zation are absent from the Eskimo. street to be extended, and the new line No art.-rl. lero-ls, Bright’s disease, goes to within 14 Inches of the Ella ' cirrhosis, diabetes, cataract. The pure, sterile arctic air contains no germs, worth Building. but Eskimos Invariably take a bad Louis Orient© has rented these fs. Inches from Mr. Ellsworth and started "ship col 1" when they go aboard white man's ships. to do business yesterday, keeping his During 'he coronation festivities of stock In trade in a little structu** about the size of a dog house in th> 1906 the consumption of meat In Mad rear of the Ellsworth Building. Wi-*’> rid was much smaller than at ordinary Mr. Orient« makes a sale he has to| times, d-spite the Large Influx of vis stand on the sidewalk.—Boston Glol>e itors. This was due to the fact that the majority of the working classes \ Pnrthlnn Shot, got no wazos while on holidays and She (contemptuously i -Marry you? are consequenHy compelled to go with Why, you couldn't keep an old cat out their meat. alive. The Geneva version is sometimes He—Oh. well. If you’re one of that called the ’Breihes Bii.le," from its eort, all right -Boston Transcript j rendering of Genesis IH. 7: "Making Poople are never stlngj with tilingo them*» Ives bre- h»- out of fig leaves.” .This translation, dons by the English tlitf don't wan» Atlantic and upon frail structures along the coast. Its course being in the open sea. parallel with the shore, the water doesn’t pile upon the land as it does in the Gulf of Mexico.—St. Louis Republic. THE DAY OF CHEAP FOOI». F the day of cheap food has passed, as we are now Informed with great fre- quency, there wlU soon be proof of it in a visible movement from the cities to the farms. Good wages In America have ad ded greatly to our artisan population, High prices for food, if maintained and Justly distributed, cannot fall to carry many thousands back to the land. The fact that no such shifting of population and Industry Is in evidence proves that food Is high only In spots and that manipulation rather than scarcity Is to be charged with the soaring prices. In Manhattan a measure of potatoes or beans or onions or berries Is to many people a luxury. One hun dred miles distant ts may be almost worthless. In one place the man who would buy finds prices high, In the other place the man who would sell meets an Indifferent demand and nominal prices. It Is not true, therefore, that the day of cheap food has passed. There has been no Important change ex cept in the congested markets. Transportation charges, the profits of middlemen, tho exactions of combinations and the other costs of distribution and delivery have increased in spite of Improved methods, but the en- hanced prices rest upon products which in the first Instance barely paid for their growth. If our farmers received a fairer proportion of the money paid by con- sumers for their commodities they would be the rich est class of workingmen In the world.—New York World. A LESSON IN MISSIONARY WORK. .SIE SIGEL, granddaughter of the famous civil war general, voluntarily entered the field of settlement work among the Chi nese of New York City. She was a mis sionary among the heathen Chinese in the thickly populated section of foreign New York City. She was found murdered, her mutilated body being packed in an old steamer trunk. The man or men to whom she had brought the mes sage of the gospel turned upon her nnd killed her. It is almost incomprehensible that the girl should have fallen in love with her Celestial convert, and yet there are the ircriminatlng letters said to have been written by her. If this element of romance was an actual fact, then Jealousy or revenge must have been an element. Certainly there was treachery somewhere, and a "converted” Chinaman murdered the young girl missionary. Here Is a lesson in missionary work, and the ques tion arises, does it pay to sacrifice lives and treasure in an attempt to compel the followers of religions older than ours to accept Christianity? Will somebody an swer this question?—Cleveland Press. I exiles at Geneva, was the English fam ily Bible during the reign of Eliza beth and was supplanted by the ver sion of King James tn 1561. Miss Gertrude MacArthur, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Robert S. MacArthur, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, In New York, has been appointed a teach er of English In the peeresses school at Toklo, Japan. This school has only the daughters of the nobility of Japan for Its pupils. A daughter of the Mi kado is being educated there. The Eskimo mother totes the baby In the hood of the fur jacket on her back next to her skin. Babe Is nursed two years, but at six months begins to blubber for blubber. Eskimo wom- en are absolutely free of those surgi cal diseases which are filling and run ning our hospitals oCer. the curse of the times.—New York Press. VANISHING TIMBER. Trees <’nt Three Times ns Fnst n« They Are Growlag, forests. The supply seems abundant enough for a great many years. Further study of the statistics In the pamphlet, however, reveals th« reason for anxiety. The yearly drain upon the forests is some 20,000,000,001 cubic feet. Figures are given for lura ber, lath, shingles, firewood, poles, posts and rails, railroad ties, pulp wood, cooperage stock, tanbark and ex tracts, round mine timbers, naval stores and miscellaneous products. The annual growth of the new trees to take the place of the old fs esti mated at less than 7,000.000,000 cubic feet. In other words, the timber Is being destroyed three times as fnst as it is growing. The end of such a pro cess is not hard to see. That Is where the need of the forester comes in. By showing what Germany Is doing, for example, in keeping the annual growth always ahead of the annual destruc tion, the pamphlet points the way to the right course of procedure in the United States.—Chicago Tribune. History in Woman»« Gnrb. Nobody knows exactly what the tim Never before probably were so many ber supply of the United States Is. varieties of feminine historical cos There has never been a timber census tumes seen as were represented In the taken In this country, With a few ex history pageant recently In Bath. Eng ceptions no State has made any close land. The founding of that famous estimate of its forest resources. But watering place antedates the Roman the demand for information on the Invasion of ancient Britain, says the subject which lias attended recent agi New York Press, and every fashion in tation has been so marked that the De women's dress used by the people of partment of Agriculture has prepared Bath since the days of tho Picts and a pamphlet In which an attempt is Scots, and of the wall separating made to give a fairly accurate show Southern Britain from the savage ing of facts. The assistant forester, tribes of the norih. was shown by par who is responsible for the compila ticipants in the pageant. There were tion, has collected hfs data from many the flowing, fur-lined, heavy robes of sources, He claims no special author the Saxons; the light, graceful draper- lty. On the contrary, he invites les brought by the Roman Invaders; criticism and correction of statements the flowered and embroidered gowns of in the interest of more complete I Norman women, who were up-to-date knowledge of actual conditions. in all the mode, coming as they did The original forests of the United from France; the rude dresses of wild States were found tn five distinct .beasts’ skins in which were clad the areas, called for classification purposes helpmeets of the Danes and Vikings, northern, southern, central, Rocky who swept through the country long Mountain and Pacific Coast. The esti before the Normans came, and every mate Is made that they covered 850,- style of frock which garbed English 000,000 acres and contained 5.200,000,- women from the time of Klug Arthur 000,000 board feet of saw timber, oc and the Round Table to the present cording to present standards of utill- reign of King Edward, Each of more zntlon. There were 100,000.000 acres than 200 women wore a different cos- of scrubby forest and brush land, prin turne illustrative of a distinct period cipally In the West, which has been In British history. available for post and fuel material. A Serious Qnaation« Cutting, clearing and fire have re "My dear Mr. Fellows,” said the duced this enormous acreage of 850,- doctor, “I will admit that I am not 000,000 to 550.000.000. The 5.200,000,- quite decided as to whether or not 000,000 board feet have dwindled to 2,- yours is a constitutional disease. ft 500,000,000.000. The stand of timber In "Hum! That so?" said the patient, every region has been reduced In great with a weary sigh, "and have I got to er proportion than the actual forest go to the expense of appealing to the acreage. The clearings in the central United States Supreme Court to find part of the country to make place for out? ” _____________________ rich farms account for that. A tint ex- amination of these estimates lead« the Some people are noted for their abll- reader to wonder why ao much has lty to recollect things that never hap- been said about the exhaustion of the pene& I Legal Information The liability of a railroad company to an infant who comes upon its prem ises without Invitation, and who is in jured there while playing, without Its knowledge, with a turn table, fs denied In Wheeling & L. E. R. Co. vs. Har- I. St. Rep. vey, 77 Ohio St. 235, 503, S3 N. E. 66, 19 L. R. A. (N. 8.) 1136. That one killed at a railroad cross- ing under clrcumstances of which thcro was no witness cannot be pre- sumed to have been in the exercise of due care In an action to hold the rail- road company liable for his death. where the burden of showing due caro is on the • plaintiff, is hold in Shum vs. Rutland R. Co. (Vt.) 69 Atl. 945, 19 L. R. A. (N. S.) 973. From i n charge allo« ing the jury to consider on the subject of damages the humiliation resulting from the loss of an eye. an appeal is taken in United States Express Co. vs. W’ahl, 168 Fed eral Reporter, 818. The United States Circuit Court of App ds remarking that there was a contrariety of deci sions involving this point, adopted the decision of the Supreme Court in Mc Dermott vs. Severe, 26 Supreme Court Reporter, 709. and allowed a recovery. Where mental suffemig producing eni- liiirrn--sment or humiliation as the re sult of the absence of a facial constit uent is a direct and necessary conse quence of the physical Injury, Its sub mission to the jury fs proper. When Oregon became a State tho boundary between It and Washington was the main channel of Mie Columbia river. The diminishing depth of that channel, the Jetties constructed by Congress, processes of accretion, and the diminution of the volume and depth of water, have made another channel more fmjiortnnt and properly the main channel. In Washington vs. Oregon, 29 Supreme Court Reporter, 631, the Federal Supreme Court held that, whatever changes had occurred In the former channel, Its varying cen ter was still the true boundary, and suggested that the course of wisdom would be for the Interested states to gain the consent of Congress to secure the aid of commissioners who could adjust as far as possible the jurisdic tion and this elusive boundary. Trial«. "Don’t waiters try you?" asked tho thin chauffeur of his comjnnlon while waiting for a meal. "Not as much as Judges,” replied the fat chauffeur, with a fast look.— Yo® kers titatebuian.