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V % -A \ í BINDON RECORDER The next man who bring* In th« VO1« will find a congested market. The course from the pole to the lec ture platform Is well charted, anyhow His wife being away on a visit, King Alfonso has grown a set of whiskers. Many a baseball game is lost on ac count of the superior playing of the other side. Some newspapers spell it "Eski mau,” and others "Esquimo.” Try to get together, brethren. You may observe that whether or not you accept the excuse for an ln- crease in the price of a necessity the Increase sticks. Everything looks favorable for a good crop next year. Would that we could say as much for early Christ mas shopping! In New Guinea, as the London Chronicle reminds us, the women pro- pose. And to anybody who has see U them the reason Is clear. There Is comfort and joy In the thought that we are to have a good apple yield this year. Otherwise we might have to eat Ben Davises. By this time next year, people will frequent the housetops and take their evening, recreation by watching aero nauts trying to hog the aerial lanes. Fortunately for their records, neith er explorer flshed through a hole in the ice at the Pole and caught a good «trlng, while the biggest one got away. Funny to hear those aviators kick ing about the condition of the aviation grounds, isn't it? You'd think that all they’d want would be a large bunch of nice smooth air. When Peary and his party reached the Pole the Eskimos cried out: “Ting neigh, tlmah ketlsher.” Thl* must have been disappointing to those who expected them to yell, “Excelsior.” • Eskimo wives and mothers, it is •aid, never suffer from the ailments that afflict the matrons of a higher civ ilization. But it is no more than fair that there should be some compensa tion for being an Eskimo wife. San Francisco is getting ready to celebrate the discovery of San Fran cisco Bay. For the benefit of those who have forgotten, it may be men tioned that San Francisco Bay was dis covered by Gaspar de Portola, who doesn’t seem to have had a single Es kimo in his party. A test case Is to be made In the New York courts as to what criminal Statute Is violated by the offense technically known as “talking back” to the police, and whether arrest and punishment in the matter are justified by the law. The question of Illegal arrest is really a serious one, as the whole matter of personal liberty, upon which the principles of this govern ment are founded, is involved. The word "lobbyist” has generally been used, with good reason, as a term ef reproach, yet it is well to remember that one may have commendable rea eons for approaching legislators and trying to Influence their deeds. In Washington, during the last session of Congress, a woman was spoken of as "one of the most aggressive lobby ists ever seen at the Capital.” She was acting, however, merely as the representative of California club women, and her mission, happily suc cessful, was to help Insure the preser ration of the giant redwoods, which are one of the glories of the state. Meat has been officially introduced as a part of the Japanese army diet, and, as a result, the Japanese board of agriculture has sent a commission abroad to Investigate and take steps for Introducing the breeding of cattle in Japan. One reason for the change of diet is to avert a repetition of the •courge of beriberi which sapped the strength of the army during the Rus elan war, and was said to have been due to the rice diet, and another pur pose is to add to the stature of the race by a general Introduction of meat eating Here in the Occident there is an increasing conviction that the meat diet has its penalties as well as its benefits. A recent visitor to one of the larg •st of American cities stated that it was not the subways nor the tall buildings that impressed him so much, as the great number of prosperous, well kept, good looking old men. “They are.” he said, “seen on the streets by the thousand, carefully dressed, lei surely in movement, yet apparently actively concerned with affairs. It Is a stronger Indication to me of the ac cumulated wealth, of the established •uc< ess of the city, than anything else I have seen.” These old men are splen did specimens The game of life in terests them and they have the good «•nse to keep actively employed in It rather than to confine themselves to Utah homes or to eat their heart« out r te their »•* fna •«’! « of Emerson that h« “b a that privi lege of sou) which aboli 1. s -«leu dar and presents him to us always the unwasted contempora! y of hte own prln.s" Whitman Lrr-aw for Am«r I a a IM " ' ' nd »oi «•> • “K® «M men ” We at- to hear “the hurry of business life” decried •nd American ideals of life unfavor ably contrasted with European. But the results In many rases are not so bad, after all Look at our splendid and effective old men. Thus goes the old familiar song. "How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood.” On second thought, however, one may Interpose an excep tion or two. Let the memory go ba^k to the “parlor.” In the re-olle-tlons of childhood It does not figure as one of the popular home Institutions. There was something sacrosanct about it that did not appeal to boys at least, and the girls didn’t seem to give It much appreciation until Horace and Arthur accumulated sufficient courage to Inaugurate the custom of calling around on Sunday afternoons, sitting on those frail and artistic Louis XIV. chairs and assuming the joyful expres sion of slaves on the block while pass ing stereotyped compliments upon pho tographs In the family album, many of which pictured numerous freaks of the genealogical tree. Ed Howe, In his Atchison Globe, quoting an archi tectural authority, says that the Amer ican parlor, as as institution of the home, or adjacent thereto, Is passing, adding: “That word ‘adjacent’ is used advisedly, and with a distinct recollec tion of some parlors all have seen. In the house they were, of course, but they were far enough from the home; perhaps adjacent Is a little too close, since they remained a dungeon except on grand occasions like funerals, or weddings, or entertaining the presld- Ing elder, So the parlor’s doom will leave no aching void, It was sonie- thing In the void Itself, when most of an Institution; devoid at least of com fort or cheer, of sunshine or fresh air. And the chairs ranged about In such excellent order, added to the somber light that filtered through shades and shutter which strove to shut It out, made of It a nice, grim death cham ber, which purpose It served frequent ly, and better than the others, being better suited to the purpose.” AN ARBOR-DAY IDYL. Every human activity may be con sidered from the esthetic as well as the practical point of view. No espe cial powers of discrimination are need ed to enable the reader of this extract from the Chicago Ledger to determine where to place each of the two men whose conversation is reported, The man wth the benignant counte nance framed in side-whiskers came to a stop and spoke genially to the stur dy fellow who was planting the tree on the lawn. "Ah,” he said, “yours, my friend, is R noble task.” "How lss It?” Inquired the husky In dividual. "Yours Is a noble task. Now, when all nature la sear and disconsolate, you are looking forward to the coming season of sunshine and flowers, and are doing what you may to beautify and gladden the earth.” “It dake a vagon-load of r-rlch eart' for de hole vare diss dree go.” "Yes. yes. *Jnst so. I was speaking metaphorically, so to speak. I was re ferring to the time when this umbra geous verdure should------” “Diss Isn't dot kind of a dree, Diss las a moundain-ash." "Very true. And a beautiful species It Is, I have no doubt. How splendid It Is to realize that one may be a hum ble Instrument In the furtherance of the plans for making glad the waste places! In years to come you will journey, perchance, to this spot and gaze upon the towering monarch of the forest which shall arise from the shrub you are planting, and to your soul will come the cheering knowledge that ft was your hands that made it possible. Even next year you will come here, no doubt, and------ ” "Yess I gome next year unt pull der dree ould again if der feller don'd seddle his pill. He iss slow pay.” Sparrow* Served a* Woodcock. Friends of State Senator Sterling R. Catlin, of this city, who attended a dinner he gave the other night, are now wishing they had not accepted, for a joke he played upon them be came public property. The main course at the dinner was named as woodcock, and the guests remarked how- small and tender they were. It was noticed that Senator Catlin did not seem to eat much of his. and to-day the guests learned why, for, as a joke, he had them served with com mon sparrow Instead of woodcock — Wllkesbarre dispatch to New York American. Beller Xot. Nephew (just returned fron. abroad)—That franc piece, aunt, I got In Paris. Aunt Hepsy I wish, nephew, you'd fetch home one of them I-atin quarters they talk »o much about.—Boston Transcript. The Cylinder Prlntln* Preaa. In 1814 Frederick Koenig Invented the cylinder press in London, It was used here first in 1827. Koenig in- vented it to the order of Walter of the London Times, the world * (re wot newspaper in those di.; A RAM'S HORN BI.AST3* Waftiiug ><»«•-» Celling Wick«« WE ARE MEI ONLY AS \V£ BECOME MEH. By Prof. George B. Foster. A) most every language contain« the equiva lent of our old saying: He s a chip ot the old block." And than there is O. W. Hulmes' Every man is an omnibus in bon mot: which all his ancestors are riding.” More important still, the old church and the new science both know a law ot heredita- tlon. Man is hereditarily burdened with pre disposition to disease and vice, they both as sert. Now, the old church had a plan of escape from this network of necessity. A divine decree ot grace ar ranged for the salvation of a part of the race from the ruin of hereditary sin. But this sort of salvation does not satisfy the moral sense of the modern man. That a fixed number were arbitrarily selected to be saved from the curse under which our common humanity groaned— this conception has turned out to be offensive to the moral sense. No man wants that blessedness in which he must helplessly gaze upon the damnation of his brothers who were passed by in the decree of grace. It is not whether we have Inherited bane or blessing, it is what we do with our heritage that counts in the world of values. And we can convert our curse into a blessing, our blessing Into a curse, both into character. The law of heredity which at the beginning of my ca reer binds me to its network can in the end free me from Its network. I may be saved by the law from the law. Instead of thus denying the law we fulfill it. AMERICA NO LONGER MERE SPECTATOR. By Sidney Brooks. It Is difficult for Europeans, who live in a powder magazine and rarely have the fear of an explosion out of their minds, to realize the simplicity, spaciousness, and unhampered self-absorption of American life. Foreign poli tics is minimized by them at least as much as It is exaggerated by Europeans. Ameri cans can hardly be got to take them serious ly. A diplomatic dispute with another power, conducted on either side upon the implication of force, is of all experiences the one most foreign to their nor mal routine of existence. When you have mentioned the Monroe doctrine you have pretty well indicated the sum of the average citizen's Interest in external affairs. During several years in the United States I do not recall a single well Informed debate in Congress on the foreign policy of the republic or a single member who ever treated his constituents to an address on such a topic. The operative opinion of the commonwealth still desires to have as few dealings as possible with foreign powers, still quotes and abides by Washington's warn ing against "entangling alliances,” still shrinks from any course that threatens "complications," still cling3 to the policy of isolation aB the one that most adequate ly squares with the needs of American conditions. This is so even though facts and necessity have out- 1HE COOK FOR. KINGJ run many of the formulas, prejudices, and traditions that a decade and a half ago were all but omnipotent The I>eculiarlty of America's position In the general scheme of world politics is indeed precisely this, that iier ;• ..de are unconsciously engaged in adapting their mental < :tlcok to filter Achievement« The Spanish war landed them on a stream of tendencies that has already carried them far beyond their old confines, and ig te- exorably destined to carry ti n farther still. UNITED STATES. PRECEPTOR OF JAPAN By Louis Ichiga Ogata. A visitor to Japan is at once impressed with the evident desire for education among the Japanese people that shows itself on every hand. The governmental regulation that makes education compulsory is really little needed, for the parents themselves show the greatest eagerness to give their children the best school advantages they can afford. In spite of the multitude of children who swarm the streets and the vast number who work in the fields and in various Industries where the cheap labor of children can be used to advantage, school sta tistics in Japan show a much better percentage of chil dren of school age in attendance than is shown in some States in America. Recent reports show that there are about 30,000 pub lic and private schools, nearly 120,000 professors and teachers, and about 5,295,000 students in Japan. There is hardly an Incorporated city In the empire that has not at least one kindergarten. Many colleges and uni versities. public and private, furnish opportunity for higher learning to thousands of Japanese young men as well as women, but the crown of them all is the im perial university. MARRIAGE AND GOOD LOOKS. By Betty Vincent. Girls, do you marry a man because he dresses well or because you love him? Do you love him because he is 6 feet tall and broad-shouldered or because he Is honorable and a gentleman? From some of the letters I receive from young girls I cannot help in ferring that their ideal is a combination of a clothing house poster and a showman In a musical production. If the heart of the man is tender and kind, what can it matter if every feature on his face is hopelessly crooked? The doll-faced man Is as bad as, and worse than, the doll-faced girl. The rugged man of sterling worth Is the man to guard a woman’s future and happi ness If you are Impressed with a man's smartness of dress stop and think, girls, how that same man would look in rough and simple working clothes. Ask your self, too. if you would be willing to give up many of your own little vanities that your husband might gratify his own fastidious sense of adornment. lettes, not to mention any use of harf boiled eggs. Veal is cooked In 9( ways. There are 80 principal soups, The nursing school of modern gas tronomy Is the Salon of Parisian Crefs. Here meet Paul de Amici o: the Quirlnal kitchens, Bosomporo o the Vatican, Quenon of Belgium; Bo relll, with Prince Doria, and others. A great catering combination it i* able to undertake the most brilliant gala dinners at a day's notice, Its cen- ter is Paris, It is run by business men who can offer many advantages that an artist chef, thoughtless of money details, might not think of It Is the beginning of the end of prince ly kitchens. Aborrui Freak«. On the Orient Express an enigmatic gentleman with a mauve ribbon in his buttonhole hastens to Paris, writes a correspondent from the French capital. The Cologne Express carries another, the Sud Express a third, A fourth comes by the English packet. From Lisbon and St Petersburg two start; from Rome and Constantinople two arrive. All wear the pale mauve rlb- bon. They are the cooks of four great kings. Without the best butters, vinegars, wines, truffles, mushrooms, herbs, cream, spices and raw materials of ail kinds, there is no grand cookery. The pantry chef hands out the ingredients of every dish completely garnished to his colleagues. He has one specialty. Ail cold dishes are his particular care. The kitchens of Edward, the Czar, Alfonso and Leopold are to-day near perfection Francis Joseph up to ten years ago kept the moat princely table of them all When age forced him to go slow he still invited the archdukes and their suites Then finally the force was handed over to the Archduke Ferdinand, whose simple living is nat ural and whose enthusiasm did not last a year. For the first time In l,0d0 years the court of the Holy Ro man Empire (till 1809) had no longer the greatest kitchen of the world. To-day Francis Joseph eat* alone. When he goes on a gastronomic spree It is with frankfurter« and horserad ish, with "spaetzle” cakes. But the kitchens of Nicholas, Edward, Alfonso and Leopold are run on the great old lines of: 1. A pantry chef. 2. A chef of soups, entrees and hot desserts, including souffles, fritters (sweet r otherw ise I, hot fruit croutes, •te. 3. A chef roaster, who also directs all grill« and fries. 4. A sauce chef, who rule« over all that carries a sauce; fish, braised meats, etc., I. e. the majority of dishes. 5. A pastry cook. • A chef decorator. Do not think be decorates the table He decorates j The man who blows into an old gun to see wheth er it is loaded, 'never makes tue foolkiller any Double. A woman jump at a eouclu- ston and hit It with both feet w hile a man ia bringing his wits around the corner. Some people never look up as long as they can stand up. An enemy is an enemy, whether he carries a flag or a musket. The organ's sweetest music does not come from the biggest pipes. No school will do us much good un less we make life itself our school. Sometimes the meet ng is closed the tightest the moment the leader says it is open. Tell your troubli only to the Ixtrd, and you will soon have joys to tell to everybody. The thing that makes a bulldog fa mous, Is that he hangs on like grim death to the eml. No man h is done his whole duty to God who has done less than his duty toward his next door neighltor. If every Christian always looked happy, how soon it would kill the sa loon business and crowd the churches. Alm high. It won't hurt your gnu *ny more to knock the leathers out of an eagle than to splinter a barn door. Among the curiosities of tree life i. the sofar, or whistling tree, of Nubia. When the winds blow over this tree It gives out flute-like sounds, playing away to the wilderness for hours at a time strange, weird melodies. It is the spirit of the dead singing among the branches, the natives say, but the scientific white man says that the sounds are due to a myriad of small holes which an Insect bores in the spines of the branches. The weeping tree of the Canary Isl ands is another arboreal freak. This tree in the dryest weather will rain down showers from its leaves, and the natives gather up the water from the pool formed at the foot of the trunk, and find it pure and fresh, The tree exudes the water from Innumerable pores situated at the bane of the leaves. the food. Be it the czar’s bear chops, the baby bear with bright glass eyes is brought in holding his own chops on a silver plate garnished with smilax. When Edward eats his fa vorite turtle doves they come boned, wrapped in a chaud-froid sauce with cameo design in black truffles. They are ranged round a bed of Spanish chestnuts puree. But. above them, the beautiful birds spread their white wings Such "presentations” of the dish are the chef decorator’s work. He—almost a taxidermist—spreads the tail of the peacock in bls gorgeous feathers over the roast peacock, whose breast meat only la eaten. Never will the sauce liuny Mr. Harries. cook try to roast nor the roaster Gen. George H. Mairies, commanu touch a sauce. Those turtle doves pass from chef to chef, each adding er-in-chief of the militia of the Dis trict of Columbia, is the busiest cen what the lilac ribbon orders. Quelllan, head chef of the old sul turion in the land. In addition to be tan, taken over by the new, quit the ing a soldier, he ran« an electric light Cafe de Paris six years ago on 12,000 company and manages a traction com per year salary and an admitted com pany that Is the wonder of those who mission on purchases of from $6,000 know what good car service means. to $8,000. To-day he has a real dilet In addition he is a member of all com tante to work for—the new sultan Is mittees of civic organizations. “I met Mrs. Harries just a few min a poet, rose grower and gourmet; but M. Quelllan deplores the Turkish craze utes ago,” said one of the general's for stuffed meats of all kinds. Th«y friends by way of making talk when actually want the Rouen duck com- they met. "Fine. I'm very glad to hear it,” plicated with a stuffing -that terrible strangled "high" duck, whose sauce returned the general. “I met her my- demands its liver festered in the sun! j •elf last week.” M. Menager, head chef of Edward, i I’ecnn Culture« and M. Peltier, head chef of Queen Pecan nuts are grown successfully Alexandra, have fixed salaries of ] $8,000, free lodgings and a rake-off of 1 in several States, but mainly In those 3 per cent on all purchases accepted by States south of parallel 40. Forty them. Queen Alexandra has simple feet is generally the distance apart of tastes- a breast of Bohemian pheasant, the trees. If the triangular method a slice of Danube sturgeon, or a sad of planting 1 b adopted forty trees can die of Siberian young boar. On the be grown to the acre. Pecan trees contrary, King Edward probably may bear a few nuts at an early age. knows more about great feeding than but paying crops cannot be expected did Carlos himself. He delights In under ten years and full crops under plovers' eggs He adores little birds. twenty. The annual yield of a tre« in The art of these cooks Is sublime full bearing has been variously report Each can give you a choice of 5,000 ed at from one to twenty bushels. dishes There are 125 ways of pre Hard («raves, paring eggs, 32 “on the plate" (not Before a grave can be dug in th« fried, but done In the balnmarle); 47 churchyard of Llanbadoc, In itoutb poached. 20 with cheese. 13 "en co Wales, the rock has to be bias tod cotte” (tiny earthen dl«h?, 32 oae :< A NEIGHBORLY CONSPIRACY. ■ Mr. Grimes had a large lawn in front of his house ami another at the side, and it was his custom to get up and run his lawn mower at 5 o'clock in the morning. In vain his neighbors protested. In vain they complained that he woke them up just when they were sleeping the soundest, and that they could not go to sleep again. "Nobody has any business snoozing after 5 o'clock,” he said. "Go to bed early and get up early. That’s the way I do. Think I'm going to wait half a day for you people to sleep off the effect of your late hours, when my grass needs cutting? 1 guess not!" Then his neighbors did a little plan ning. They found out that he went to bed at 9 o'clock, and they made ar rangements accordingly Punctually at 9 o'clock the next moonlight evening the sound of a lawn mower in action was heard directly acrosT the street from the Grimes dwelling. Presently another one chimed in, then another and another, and in les3 than fifteen minutes at least a dozen were in ac- tlve operation. At 10 o'clock or thereabout an up- per window in the G rimes house was closed with a vicious bang, but the rattle of the machines ceased not, and the noise became even louder. It was a bright night, and the industrious neighbors, bareheaded and in their shirt-sleeves, appeared to be enjoying their exercise. There was no more grass to be cut, but they continued to go through the motions. In accord ance with the prearranged plan, there was no conversation. The lawn mow ers were permitted to make all the noise, and they needed no assistance. At 1 o'clock the window that had been closed was opened again, and the unkempt head of Mr. Grimes was I thrust forth. “Say," he called out, "how long are you fellows going to keep up that racket?" "Not more than an hour longer,1 answered a voice. “Well, say," spoke Mr. Grimesagain, after a pause, "if I'll agree not to run my lawn mower before 7 o'clock in the morning after this, will you stop that noise and let me go to sleep?" "We will." “Well, it's a bargain," he said. A Queen Muy Look nt n Mnn. There is an old story current in his home city, Brooklyn, about the late Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, which illus- [rates how a son ls to his mother the most Important being In the world, In Dr. Cuyler's case one could not lustly question his ability and useful ness. Besides being a successful pas tor he was the author of many re ligious looks which were read here and abroad, as well as a frequent con tributor to certain magazines. When he was In England he and his mother corresponded regularly, and at great length, so the tradition goes. One day a letter came In which he described his presentation to Queen Victoria. Mrs. Cuyler read It with eagerness, hardly able to wait till she had finished before telling some one what bad happened. When she at last got through the letter she hastened to a neighbor’s house and announced: "I've just got a letter from England. • nd. do you know, the queen has seen Theodore.” Mntn'l Wusle III* Time. "Why not have our store physician keep busy between whiles?” "As to how?” "Offer bargain operations In appen- licit is. Only one to a customer, of cours«."—Washington Herald. Ih« Tongue. There are "blind spot«” on th* tongue which are luatuslLl« to Mu*« flavor*. » % the to Re ire at lance.
