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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
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Uy the
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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
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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-
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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.
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