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• • • • BANDON RECORDER OREGON BANDON You will never be happy if you «nvy the happiness of other«. A minute of real work hour's talking about it. beats an No umpire was ever mobbed for let ting the home team win. The coat may not make the man. but it often helps him to make a bluff If a man's wife cuts his hair he is entitled to a lot more sympathy than he gets. One way to forget your financial troubles is to figure the cost of the Panama Canal. The airship man declines to be called a chauffeur. He claims to be a professor of aviation. Be particular In examining your |500 bills. A dangerous counterfeit ot that denomination 1 b reported. Emma Goldman makes it plain that she will not stop talking so long as there are any words in the dictionary. The north pole, It seems, was located on the shifting ice. Every explorer must watch his own pole. No respon sibility for lost poles! Doubting Thomases who discredit Dr. Cook's story can ask Santa Claus for corroborative testimony when ha makes his annual call. The ex-Shah of Persia hints that he has been bunkoed out of his throne by Russia. But. alas, he cannot get even by playing the same trick on Nicholas. Londoners are beginning to drink specially prepared sour milk to pro long life. Have the Londoners ever pondered on what fresh air and sun shine would do for themf A Pennsylvanian named Kidd has named his youngest baby Orville Up- dyke. We can see the finish of that youngster when he ages a few years and gets out among the other boys. Scientists say the remain at the same within a radius of haps this accounts it has staggered so north pole doesn’t place, but wobbles thirty feet Per- for the fact that many explorers. It Is expected that the next census will show a population of about 100,- 000,000 for the United States, The man who produces an article on which he can make 10 cents profit and which everybody needs knows what a popu- latlon of 100,000,000 means. The new McAdoo tunnels, now In operation, carry passengers from New York to the Jersey side In three min utes. The metropolis means to retain all the advantages of Its Island situa tion. and conquer, one by one. the long endured disadvantages. The Halley comet, after being Invisi ble for seventy four years, has been sighted by a Heidelberg professor, but people who do not possess telescopes will not be able to see It until next spring It Is sad to think of the many famous ones who will have been for- gotten before the plain people get a look at the comet. The first anniversary of the grant ing of a constitution was observed as a holiday In Turkey on July 23, and In Constantinople the Sultan reviewed fifteen thousand troops before the Hill of Liberty. The anniversary, coming exactly a century and a third after the notable July day of America, may mean as much In Turkish history. having no busia*«« ot be» «»«, «cn- pled herMif with that of other folk. Both critic« Ufa* »* « the pr«»a,ent tn licence pt i< c oi th« mean uf and use of leisure The w n >e « t • e » Uy the •I ' •< -r es sip, or champions "reforms" as foolish as they are noisy, the Idle woman is a burden and a menace On the other hand, every woman who orders her life well and wisely is a true woman of leisure. Without some space In every day uncrowded with duties or pleas ures, there is no flexibility of plan and no repose of spirit. Without leisure to furnish elasticity and to make possi ble some ripening thought, a woman's life becomes either a treadmill round or a wandering butterfly's flight. Lei sure Is the synonym for reserve pow er. Is fosters the sense of responsi bility. It illumines dullness with hu mor. It restrains rashness and ban ishes pettiness. To be without leisure is to be without wisdom. Leisure sows the rare seed which Idleness neglects, and even industry cannot gather the harvest which has not been sown. Sometimes the newspapers a:, nounce in startling headlines that a lone highwayman has "held up” a train and gotten away with a fahu lous amount of money. This fires the Imagination of the criminally Inclined and leads them to think that "easy money" may be had without work. But the fact Is that very few criminals ever profit much by their Ill-gotten gains. William A. Pinkerton, the vet eran detective, declared, in a recent address, that no crime pays; that 95 per cent of criminals die In debt and frequently In want. And speaking of “hold up" robbers especially, he says few are alive and out of prison to-day. The very limited number that are in comfortable circumstances are those who have abandoned criminal lines and taken to honest work. It some time« happens that a man who has led a criminal life for a while reforms and after squaring himself with the law builds up a competence In some legiti mate pursuit. This Is partly due to the fact that a successful robber or burglar must be a man of more than ordinary nerve, ability and quickness. The same amount of energy and smartness and labor that he' puts into his criminal enterprises would bring him a greater reward in some honest calling, with the added advantage of being able to keep and use what he make«. The ignorant, petty and clum sy thief usually has a short shrift. Hs Is soon caught and put away It is getting to be quite a general opinion among defectives and students of criminology that men who attempt daring train robberies and similar crimes are men of unsound mind, probably dangerous lunatics, as no really sane man would take the des perate chances Involved in such an at tempt. If such is really the case, it is all the more Important that what few bank or train robbers happen to be at large should be hunted down and put where they can no longer endan ger the lives and property of public. Hurled Treaanrea. For me Is burled treasure By many a misty coast; But ah! Its tale and measure Long. long ago I lost. Or If Phoenician mintage. Or crusted bowls divine That held Alclnous* vintage Or late Falernian wine! If Egypt's Jewelled scarab; Or moonlight gleam of jadej Or magic dirk of Arab. Or Scythian idol-blade! Or painted scroll or quiver. Or Inca's gold-ln-cave; Or pelf from diamond river; Grlsamber from sea wave; Or, from Varangian barrow Some amulet uncouth; Or but this fltnthead arrow From hilltops roamed In youth; A board of army officers appointed I count my treasure hurled to Investigate charges of hazing at By many a misty coast West Point, has found that the prac The vanished Ilves, as varied. That long ago I lost! tice still exists there, in spite of all that Congress and the War Department have done to end it. The investigat Whereof a cloudy token Across my memory drives; ing board has been asked to make rec But no spell lifts unbroken ommendations for the punishment of My many sunken lives. the cadets found guilty. Nothing but —Edith M. Thomas the severest penalties will stamp out 11« Knew the Cla«**lflciitlon. the evil. The vigilant custom house officer wa« In order to facilitate the work of em right on hl« job. ployes, the Belgian postal authorities "Who La tn your party?” he demand have suggested that correspondents use ed of the fur-collared theatrical man red envelopes for all letters to Brus ■ger. •els. yellow envelopes for country let "The English pony ballet that I am ters, and green for those addressed to bringing to New York," the manager foreign countries. In a country so responded. ■mall territorially as Belgium such a "Admitted free u antiques." said the plan has obvious advantages. To make inspector, briskly, as he turned to the It work tn the United States, it would next arrival.—Cleveland Plain Dealer be necessary to call upon so many Seal of nurglar,. ■hades of color that a color-blind post Bill—I see the rolling stock of the office clerk would be driven to distrac Russian railways suffers loss from tllJ tion in sorting the mall. hands of thieve«. Two years ago 10. "Join a readln' club? Not if I know 000 passenger and freight cars disap It! I ain’t no woman of leisure with peared and were never found again. nothin' better to do than read books!” Jill—-I don't see how a man can put Thus spoke the harassed, uneducate«! a freight car under his arm and walk wife and mother, whose children were away with it without some one seeing daily forgetting at home what they It.—Yonkers Statesman. learned at school, "The moat danger- K< pre»«l$ e. ous woman in a community le a worn- "Of all th« quaint expressions I have an of leisure She tries to divert her- beard recently." said I the clubwoman ■elf by taking up one fad after anoth- “none has »truck me as more delight- er, and while she proclaims her use- ful than that of an English woman fulness, she Is really undermining the who told me that her • daughter ‘would foundations of social order and wise never smooth out i a room ' ”—New- «harlty by her follies, which she calls York Times benevolences.** So a trained worker And the man you hate Is usually a among the poor set forth her Irrlta- ttaa with U m euperfiuoue helper, whe, better man than you are the t.r.-.il 4 I *f cheap fiction, or playa da - .g Mi.9 I T. Ü.T-.YJ? Í E ditorials 5 Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. DOCTORING BY CONTRACT. EDICAL men are getting their profession down to a practical business basis. The lattst plan advocated is called "contract practice,” and it is believed this will help to solve the problem of securing proper medical attention for people who cannot afford to pay big doctor bills. It has oth- er advantages, Many medical men who are really In love with their profession and serve altruistically rather than for mere profit believe the time will come when the practice of medicine will be divided by specialists. the general practice will be no mere and physicians will all be in the employ of the city or State to serve the people of all classes commonly and equally. Human life, in theory, has a common value, irrespect ive of Individual accomplishments or conditions. If ft were not for the altruistic disposition of medical men. together with the natural desire of the scientist to en large his scope by experience, causing him to treat many cases without compensation, medical science at Its highest development would be controlled and used exclusively in the interest of the life and health of people who have the money to pay, and the poor Anier- lean would be on a plane with the poor Hindu. Fortunately the majority of medical men do not feel that their calling is for profit only—they serve to do good. The majority of them recognize the fact that society and the State has conferred upon them a privi lege and an honor, that their opportunity to follow this 44 4 *.* PRICES AND FARM LABOR. ECRETARY WILSON returns from a West ern trip with the conviction that bis pre vious explanation of the upward trend of food prices is sound. He attributed the troubles of the consumer to the scarcity of farm labor, and he sees no reason to change that view. Thousands of fertile acres, he says, are lying idle in the Far West because their owners cannot get "hands" at any rate of pay. American boys drift to the cities, while immigrants, even if from purely agricultural districts, are either unable or unwilling to do farm and field work, while many of those who try It prove to be incompetent owing to the different methods and the improved machinery employed here. Those who regard this theory as inadequate and who think that monopoly is not without considerable responsibility for the high prices of foodstuffs must admit that the scarcity of agricultural labor is a fact, and as such it at least partially accounts for the phe nomenon in question. Hence, it is highly desirable to continue and extend the work of the Federal informa tion division of tlie Bureau of Immigration, which has sought to promote the better distribution of immigra tion and has taken particular pains to direct the aliens to the Western States or localities where the shortage of labor is greatest.—Chicago Record-Herald. DRY FARMING IN THE WEST. OLORADO. Wyoming and New Mexico have recently made large appropriations for "dry farming” stations and experi mental farms. This marks another step toward the utilization of the semi-arid lands of the west, where irrigation is either impossible or too costly. Dry farm ing is something of a misnomer. It Is not farming land which is dry, but farming land which is comparatively dry. It takes land in regions where the rainfall is far below normal for old-style farming, and by a prac- tical method of cultivation conserves the moisture which falls and converts soils which formerly were considered good for nothing but grazing into great crop-producing sections. Dry farming is not to be rec- oniniended for the easy going agriculturist. It appeals most to the man who has a positive passion for seeing things grow in untoward surroundings. With such farmers at the helm, thousands of acres of heretofore unproductive soil are being redeemed without the inter vention of irrigation ditches. In Montana alon'e it is estimated there are from 15,000,000 to 24,000,000 acres of land which may be dry-farmed, to 6.000,000 which may be irrigated. It Is said that dry farming will reach 200.000,000 acres of land which have been considered worthless.—Minneapolis Journal. erals. It is safe to say, therefore, that the selection of Morley for his present post is proof that England wishes to deal as liberally with India as the real facts about that region make reason able and safe. TIME-TELLING DEVICES. la «»iii la* 4» I Io. usii till» ui *cllirr«. . i . . y ,md ■ ■ olessed work springs from the people whom they serve. Only a few abuse the privilege.—Des Moines Newa been published before the Copyright Convention, this has brought me no material advantage, the fame and pop ularity it has won for me among the American public is an asset not to be despised. It has been translated. I think, into every European language except Arabian, also Into some of those of Asia.” \«»r. I, v* I H ' iw i. —72 BOYS AND THE FARM. HE surest way to Interest children In farming is to let them make a little real money out of it. money that they can call their own and spend in any reasonable way. You remember how It was yourself. You couldn't see any fun in farming un til you began to find a little profit in the business. You became enthusiastic after a good season which gave you a chance to save money. The boy's first paying garden and the girl's nice flock of profitable chickens will anchor their owners if anything will do it. A little good advice will soon start the extremely Important habit of saving money. Can he clear $50 In a year? Sometimes. Fifty dollars placed in a sav ings bank everv year will amount in twenty years at 4 fier cent to the very respectable sum of $1.549.46, enough for a good start tn business. But the moral and business training that goes with it should be worth more than the money. A successful boy is pre’ty sure to become a successful man. The farm boy who saves money every year is not likely to grow into the kind of men who fill the poorhouses or live on their cred itors or drift about the country telling hard-luck stories They will be too busy being good, substantial citizens and a credit to the parents who gave them a right start. —American Cultivator. leu« of u lure prosperity. T. G. Morehead says in the Delineator. Public lands in the United States, subjec t to entry and set tlement. amount ia area to twenty- three times all the acres devoted to ill agricultural pursuits in Iowa, the greatest agricultural State in the less than 4.75 ii 090 families might re- eive their allowable of 160 acres and independence. Each year the popula tion of Trenton. N J., or Oakland, Cal., finds homes in the new north- west, and still public 1 I mds remain to supply 169-aere homes i to every man, woman and chii 1 in New York City and Philadelphia combined. The trims are easy, yet harder than they were It is now necessary to make one’s residence on the homestead four- teen months before securing pernils sion to commute, and by paying a small amount receive patent to the land A short time igo the residence require ments were eight months. The price asked Is small, from 50 cents to a few .dollars an acre; with time allowed In which to make the payments. Or one may live on the lan 1 continuously for five years and cultivate It and so get It free of cost. Each day of the year a heavily laden train conies to a halt in west ern Canada and pours forth Its cargo yf eager-faced homesteaders Sunny Alberta, prosperous British Columbia »nd unpronounceable Saskatchewan, to say nothing of unspellable Asstnibola, have been in their dreams for months, perhaps for years; at last they have been reached. Poverty Is behind these homeseek- ers. a few more days and. looking over he rolling prairies, they will be nion- irchs of all they survey. The reversed rain disappears over the eastern horl- ’.on. but there is no regret. They have ’cme ln*o the promised land Seventy- hree thousand of them made the trip ind took up homesteads last year. That means 1,200 coaches filled to ca melry. each day of the year a train of ’our cars filled with hopeful humanity. A HAPPY HISTORIAN. The intellectual training of Edward Gibbon, the great historian. Is a mat ter of unusual interest, writes James Ford Rhodes in Scribner's Magazine. "From my early youth." wrote Gibbon in his "Autobiography.” "1 aspired to the character of a historian.” He had "an early and invincible love of reading.” which he said he "would not exchange for all the treasures of India," and which led hint to a "vague and multifarious" perusal of books. Before he reached the age of 15 he was matriculated at Magdalen College, giving this account of his preparation: "I arrived at Oxford." he said, “with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor and a degree of ig norance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed." He did not adapt himself to the life or method at Ox ford, and fjoni them apparently de rived no benefit. Gibbon passed nearly five years at Lausanne, from the age of 16 to that of 21, and they were fruitful years for his education. It was almost en tirely an affair of self training, ¡is bls tutor soon perceived that the student had gone beyond the teacher, and al lowed him to pursue his own special bent. Alter Ills hlstorj was published and his fame won. he recorded this opin ion: “In the life of every man of let- ters there is an acra, front a level, from whence he soars with his own wings to his proper height, and the most important part of ills education is that which he bestows on himself.” This was certainly true In Gibl>on'8 case. On his arrival Lausanpe lie al at Lausanne __ hardly knew any F. ....... but before •’rench, he returned to England he thought spontaneously in French, and under stood, spoke and wrote it better than he did hfs mother tongue. "I have drawn a prize in the lottery of life.” wrote Gibbon. ”1 am disgust ed with the affectation of men of let ters who complain tha| they have re nounced a sub tar.ee for a shadow, and that their fame affords a poor com pensation for envy, censure and perse cution. "My own experience, at least, ha« taught me a very different lesson. Twenty happy years have been ani mated by th' labor of my history, and its success has given me a name, a rank, a character In the world to which I «hculd not otherwise havt been entitled." Rosa Nouchette Carey, Gnomon, Sand Glam mid Clepsydra PROBLEM FOR BRITAIN. whose death is regretted by many I «cd Ilefore Modern Clock. readers, left the finished manuscript The art of telling time is as old as nlty of India’« People W ould Ter. of a novel which will be published un I the earliest historical records, though infinite Engliiml'N Huie. der the title, “The Key of the Un Unrest in India, such as threatens the methods employed In dividing up known." The total work of this In and disturbs the British, must, of the day into equal periods have varied dustrious and wholesome writer course, always be a profoundly serious greatly during the last eras, and only amounts to some 40 volumes. menace, says Collier's. None of the in modern times have watches and Robert Hiehens' new novel, "The uneasiness which just now seems so I clocks as we know them become cus Knock on the Door," is described as widespread through Europe and Asia tomary. Many of these are most elab a dramatic portrayal of a contest be- could have as immediate and far- orate, but practically all possess a cir tween materialism and idealism. It reaching an effect as any real national cular dial or face. However, only as opens in London, but almost imme movement in India. The rest of what late as the sixteenth century many diately the scene changes to Africa, England governs or controls either watches were oval in shape, and an to the Nile and the Pyramids, to the consists of essential and willing parts oblong one with six sides kept splen desert and the ancient temples on its of the whole, like the colonies, or else did time after It had been repaired border. This is a pleasant bit of news is thoroughly In hand, like Egypt. ninety years later. for the admirers of Mr. Hiehens' pre Probably the earliest form of time Only one thing, however, has made it vious novel, "The Garden of Allah." possible for a European nation to gov piece, says Harper’s Weekly, was the Tennyson is regarded in France as ern India, and that Is the lack of gnomon, or index rod, of a sundial, a poet who is "typically English." unity In India herself. Should that At first this was merely an upright Rudyard Kipling "does not express heterogeneous collection of various stick placed In a sunny spot and meas English thought," writes a French re races, languages and religions, over a uring the passage of the day by Its viewer, “lie has merely interpreted territory as large as Europe, ever ex shadow cast ui>on the bare earth, be transient and factitious feelings, a perience a wave of feeling sufficient to cause the dial was a later invention. temporary aspect of the Anglo-Saxon The sand glass, still frequently used make it a unit, the control of England temperament.” This was recognized i could not last a week. She governs as an indicator for the boiling of eggs, by Kipling himself, for Tennyson, ' India by means of Indian troops and dates back 2,000 years and was always some time before his death, wrote to I Indian money, and there is no other reliable in marking a fixed space of the author of "The Jungle Book” to way In which she possibly could gov time, such as the hour. It has not compliment him for his poem. "The ern It. She obtained political posses been very many years since the hour English Flag," and Kipling replied: sion. without design, because of her glass had its particular place on the "When the soldier in the ranks re- wars with France. She removed nn- pulpits in our churches as an ever- ceives praise from his general, he present reminder to the preacher not does not know how to thank him. but archy and the terrible rule of spoils. to overtax the attention of his audl- As Hastings fairly boasted, "the plow on the morrow he fights better.” It ence. The fity?r glasses were filled Is said that Tennyson was delighted man is again in every quarter turning with powdered eggshells thoroughly up a soil which had for many seasons with the reply. The sweet singer in dried, for this material was not so sus never been stirred except by the hoofs carnates to the Frenchman the Eng ceptible to atmospheric moisture. of predatory cavalry." To what extent lish character. "His calm life, labori A still earlier instrument was the ous. regular, had no vicissitudes other India could be conducted for the wel than those which might fall to the fare of the millions, instead of for the clepsydra, which measured time by the lot of the busy clerk or the tranquil spoils of the powerful. If British rule efflux of water through a tiny orifice. should be shaken off. Is a dark, unan There were two types of these: In shopkeeper.” Henson« I' iioiim I i . Tb.e “Bookman,” referring to the swerable question. The loss to Eng- I the first the water trickled from a Father You seem to look at thing« new edition of Jeiome K. Jerome’s land would he almost entirely commer small opening in one vessel and slowly "Three Men in a Boat." tells us that cial. for politically that great and dis- I filled a receptacle which was graduat- In a very different light since your sin<e Its appearan e in 1SS9 the book tant province weakens her. There are. | ed to Indicate periods of time, and marriage. Miss Newly Married Daughter— has been reprinted every year until of course, no signs of an Immediate generally a "floater" pointed cut the there has be n produced the large approaching unity of feeling that could I height of the water on the side of the Well. I ought to after receiving four In the second variety of this teen lamps and nine candelabra for num! er of 202.090 copies, the 5.000 of result tn shaking off the British rule, vessel this pres, ut edition bringing the total but there are signs that some such clepsydra the graduated vessel, having wedding presents. Tit-Bits. up to 2O7.it''O copies. I luring that general spirit may ire born sooner than a small orifice In the bottom, rested lint of the Future. period there has been only one edi thirty years ago seemed at all prob- j upon a surface of water and gradually Rella How will you have your hat able. Even now there is plenty of na- | I filled and sunk at the expiration tion. and. Ji. e the pre ent issue, this of trimmed? lias been pu lishel at 3s 6d-facts tlonallty talk, but it Is confined mostly , th« fixed Interval. Bella—I haven't de' lded between which the publisher b lieves to be un- to those who call themselves the "in :he merits of a monoplane and bk Equlvnleut Deficiency. pre . . u • 1 In an Author's Adver- tellectuals.” and It seeks and receive« Fond Father—Take good care of plane wing effect.—New York Sun. tlsement” ( q this new r edition. Mr. some foreign sympathy by assuming Jerome suppl •nenfs his publisher's a similarity among the various popu yourself, my boy. wherever you go, for Twn on the Job. parti iilars a: c ut its sales. "In Chi lations living in what Is called India I can't afford to lose you; you are rny Teacher You got well tanned thia cago." be writes. "I was aasur« d by much closer than any which actually only son. you know. summer, I see. ^on—Yes, but relatively I'm a« hard ■n enter;« 1 ng pira e. now retired. does exist. John Morley, whom It Is Jobnnj Ymi'r- right, i did. Ba- that the <1 » tlir< iigho t the United rather difficult to call Lord Morley. up as you are in that line, for to the tween d id and the sun I'm pretty Beaff l est of my knowledge and belief you'r« 4 an anti imperialist of a species rap- States had «.xceedel a million; and leather. Jnlg«b o..0h. ... .. vqu< a :! its having U'y disappeai Ing even among U m Ifb-. my only father -Boston Courier. I
