BINDON RECORDER
MAKING A JOURNALIST
i eharacter--have been aiworoed within
i) this brief time by a reading publi*
whose intelligence Is too often meas
ured by the sales of "popular" fiction.
The proof given that the world’s gr
masters of literature are still
OREGON
BANDON
"bast sellers." that works published
in Athens and Rose before the Chris
Galling a man a liar won't aJwa». tian era or la Weimar or Florence
settle an argument.
centuries ago are to-day in lively de
mand. is an agreeable tribute to the
If there's one thing worse than bo- quality and correctness of modem
•ng poor, it's having poor relations.
popular taste in literature.
Mr. Harriman's was a rare
H« was richer than generally sup-
posed.
And
Alaska want» a legislature
Af ehe ever gets one she 11 probably
wish she hadn't.
A magazine writer is wasting his
time in telling how to spoil a boy
Let Grandma do it.
When European monarchs meet they
don't seem to take any stock In the
kissing germ theory.
Anyway, the next minister dealg
nate to Pekin will know what not to
do at the very outset.
The man who knows it all will tell
H if he can get somebody to listen to
him for five or ten minutes.
If the farms will only produce big
ger crops, J. J. Hill will furnish the
freight cars to haul them to market.
Wilbur Wright says the 60-mlIes-an
hour aeroplane Is practically here,
And there are no telephone poles
ahead.
A 12-year-old Baltlmors girl stole
for the purpose of going to a moving
picture show. Could depravity sink to
a lower depth?
A man who has reached the age of
90 says a steady diet of pie did it.
What a splendid tribute to the woman
who made the pies!
A St. Louis man is advocating the
Shortening of the months. That might
be aJl right if all the extra days could
be added to October.
It now appears that the Harriman
patriotism was more amply rewarded
than we had supposed. The estate
totals about >30,000,000.
A Connecticut mother spanked her
daughter and the yoang man with
whom she eloi>ed Thai is one way of
spoiling a beautiful romance.
Not every boy can become a foot-
ball hero, but there seems to be no
reason why he should not wear hts
hair long during the season if he
wants to.
And now Explorer Baldwin wants to
reach the pole So long as there is a
choice apple which bears that name,
why cannot the Baldwin family tie
further
satisfied without seeking
fame?
A Boston publisher of schoolbooks
has decided to contrlbote >1,000,000 to
the <«use of ¡>ea<'e. IH-ople who have
complained because of the high prices
they were compelled to pay for school
books may be comforted by the
thought that at least some of their
money is to be well spent.
A Columbus. Ohio, lady has written
a letter of complaint to the newspapers
because she was compelled when she
went to church last Sunday to sit be
side a woman who had so thoroughly
saturated herself with perfume as to
be disgustingly odoriferous
It will
never t>e possible to ma’se church-going
pleasant for some people
An Important suggestion, and one
well worthy of oonsldemtion. « m made
by a formal resolution of the Grand
Army of tbe Republlo at Ita last na
tional encampment. It was urged that
one school under the jurisdiction of
every local board of oducaitjon in the
country should be named the Lincoln
School, in commemoration of the great
President.
Service In the medical corps of the
army does not appeal <o young physl
clans, or they are not r.ware of the at
tractive pay offered and of the number
of vacancies At an examination re
cently, to teat the qualifications of can
didates for one hundivd and four va
cancies. only forty twx, passed The
siKveeaful candidates begin with the
rank of first Lieutenant. at a cash sal
ary of two thousand dollars a year, and
with quarters, furniture, horse, fuel
and other allowances, which make the
pay equivalent to thirty four hundred
dollars This lncreas»w with length of
service and promotion; and after the
retiring age the officer receives about
two-thirds pay for the reat of his life.
e
It is now less than four years since
the issue by a 1-ondon publisher of
the first volumes In a series of re
prints of the works of standard au
thors. which marked an Interesting
experiment in providing the public
with the world’s best literature in
handy and inexpensive form
The
books were clearly printed and taste
fully bound and sold for a shilling.
On the recent addition of the four
hundredth volume to the list the an
nouncement was made that more than
6,000,'tOO separate copies* had boon dis
posed of
That Is, felly five times
the number of luvoks In the Library
Of Congress, more than double the
■ umber of volumes In the Blbliotheque
Nationals of Paris, the world's largest
library—books all of a substantial
•
Twenty years ago the cotton-be 11
weevil, having completely wiped out
the ootton culture in many parts of
Mexico, crossed the border and began
its ravages in Texas. At about the
earns time fruit-growers in Californ a
awoke to the fact that a minute scale
like Insect was threatening to destroy
their apple, peach, pear and plum or
chards. In spite of every effort, these
two pests spread rapidly. Only the
cotton fluids of the Atlantic coast have
so far escaped the weevil’s attack; the
San Jose scale is domesticated in al-
most every State in the Union, Some
persons predicted the complete de
structlon of both cotton-fields and or
chards, and it is certain that a good
many planters and fruit growers wore
ruined. But the intelligence and in
genuity of man are proving equal to
the emergency; and incidentally there
are appearing certain of the blessings
which always follow adversity cour
ageously met. The Southern farmer
has learned the benefits of a proper
crop rotation, and a close and careful
cultivation of his fields. In the boll-
weevil country the old system of mort-
gaging the ungrown cotton crop to
get the money with which to raise
it has gone. There may not be any
crop at all unless the planter is vigi
lant and industrious. There is more
and harder work to be done, but there
are the rewards of hard work to t>e
had. Texas raises about as-much cot
ton as ever, and more general crops
The banks show Increased deposits.
In one community the farm mortgages
have fallen from twenty-eight hundred
to four hundred The orchardist has
found that he can save his trees by
thorough spraying. The scale is de
stroyed, and with it other pests, which
were not dangerous enough to per
suade the grower to the practice of
spraying, but the destruction of which
greatly improves the quantity and
quality of the yield, The experience
has been alarming and costly, but it
has left both industries on a sounder
basis, and has taught their practi-
tloners much that will be of lasting
value to them.
Nationality
In
China.
A recent Chinese newspaper states
that the law of nationality, consisting
of twenty-four articles, has been de
cided upon, a consular report says. By
this law any person who has lived in
China over ten years and Is above 20
years of age. of good moral standing
being helpful to China, may be allowed
to assume Chinese nationality. If asked
for. Unless one has lived in China
more than twenty years he will not be
allowed to serve in the grand council,
imperial household department or as
a military official In any position
above the fourth grade, neither can
lie become a member of Parliament nor
of the provisional council When one
wishes to abandon his nationality as
a Chinese he must first get the consent
of the board concerned or he cannot
lose his nationality. Only a person
who has an official position or has not
failed to pay taxes is allowed to aban
don his nationality. When a Chinese
woman marries a foreigner she will
abandon her Chinese nationality, and
when a foreign woman marries a Chi
nese she will become Chinese
Tn
either assuming or abandoning na-
tionalfty the wife and children will
follow the husband's nationality. A
woman who is married is not allowed
to change her nationality alone. Worn
en who are divorced and persons who
have abandoned Chinese nationality
before the laws are enforced will be
treated as Chinese so long as they live
in and enjoy their rights in China.
“Ari Well Your Par».”
But there is one great, striking dif
ference between the theatrical stage
and the great drama of human life
On the former, as a rule, the leading
lights—the star actors and actresses
get most of the applause; those who
are forced to play the lesser rules
often get but scant notice. But on
the great, wide stage where the
Author of our being Is both judge and
audience. It matters not what part we
play—whether It be prominent or ob
scure-provided w-e piay it well. The
hod carrier and the poor washwoman,
who perform conscientiously and ex
actly the duties of their lowly state,
may be far more pleasing to their
Maker than the professional man. the
monarch or the genius—certainly a
consoling reflection.
A
NoV loVroqnent Occurrence.
"As a witness 1 was required to
promise that I would tell the whole
truth!" said the Indignant citizen as
he was leaving tbe court house.
“Of course ”
"And every time I started to tell It
the lawyers on the other side proved
that such a procedure would be en-
tlrely improper.”—Washington Star.
Whether he's right or wrong, a row
with a woman will ruin a man Rather
than submit to it, run away.
A woman says unprintable things
about as gracefully as she throws a
brick.
We have an idea that some men
quit smoking to get their names In the
paper.
Dr.
Warm
Mold
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects
THE CENSUS.
BUSINESS man tn the East who had r*-
tired after amassing a fortune decided he
would employ his first leisure in looking
for a brother whom be had not beheld
or heard of in forty years. He traced him
to Nevada and finally came across him on
the edge of the desert, quartered in a
tumbledown cabin, bearded and unkempt and yoked to
a wife who looked like the offspring of a cyclone and
Her features suggested chaos.
a weathered flagstaff
Her eyes were like two bullet holes in a barrel.
The Nevada brother proceeded to brag about his help
mate.
"It was nip and toss,” he said, "whether I'd take her
or her sister.”
“I never saw the sister," said the man from the East,
“and don’t know anything about her, but I know this,
I’d a dem sight rather have married her."
The new census is to be taken next year, It has
been divorced, or at least tentatively separated, from
politics. New methods, new machinery, nearly every-
thing new and reformed. Is promised for it. This can
be taken with a liberal application of salt. But when
you think of the last enumeration, its slow-ness in re
porting. its rank errors and statistics of which no little
was ridiculous, your preference for the new census, un
seen, untested, is fixed and unalterable.—Toledo Blade
CONSERVATION OF LIFE.
S IT not time that the discussion of poli-
ejes and personalities in the controversy
over the conservation of the natural re
sources of the country give way to a real
conservation movement, such as the con
serving of the lives of the toilers in the
mines?? A report from the Geological
Survey, entitled "The Production of Coal in 1908.”
makes the grim announcement, in the most casual man
ner, that 2,450 miners were killed in the coal mines
last year and 6,772 injured. The chapter detailing the
accidents is treated as but an incident in the produc
tion of coal, several thousand words telling the condi
tion of the coal business In the various States, Yet, to
the men who work in the underground pits there Is a
terrible meaning in the figures. There is further slg-
nificance in the statement that the death rate In the
mines of the United States for the year was 3.6 for
every 1,000 men employed, In Europe the death rate
tn the coal mines is one in 1.000 employed, and not
more than two under the most unfavorable clrcum-
stances.
Why is it that Americans are so much mare care
less of this most valuable of all resources? Do we
value human life less than they do In European coun
tries? Are we ahead in industrial progress, scientific
achievement, and everything else that goes to make life
Mr. Kipling's forthcoming book will
contain not only short stories but
various pieces of verse. He has given
to it the not particularly happy title,
"Actions and Reactions.”
Another English novel which is on
the way is Douglas Sladen's "Tragedy
of the Pyramids." There is much
warfare in the book, which has, by
the way, an American heroine.
The autobiography of Henry M.
Stanley, which has been edited by his
widow, is to be brought out soon.
The volume is said to contain much
inner history not made public hereto-
fore.
The first novel of a new American
author is on the press. It Is written
by Miss Elizabeth B. Dewing and its
title is "Other People's Houses" The
book Is described as a study of wo
men, their motives and points of view.
From America and from Europe the
author has derived her scenes
M. Leonee Benedite, the official at
the head of the Luxembourg, has writ
ten a history of art In Fiance and
abroad which covers the entire period
of the nineteenth century. He is also
producing a volume dealing with the
painting of that century—a volume
which will contain numerous repro
ductions of. the pictures of the
French. English, Dutch, Belgian, Ital
ian and Spanish schools.
Interest In Sinnish life and letters
is very keen at present and students
of the language of Spain are contin
ually Increasing
Modern Sjianish
plays have not been available to those
who would read them because they
were not to lie found in American edi
tions. Prof. F. W Morrison, of the
United States Naval Academy, has
edited and will bring out thia month
"Tree Comedias Modernas," by some
of the best known of the modern
Spanish dramatists It contains Car-
rion's "I»a Muela del Juiclo," "Cocat
y Criados." "Les Solteronas'
and
Barranco's "lata Pantalones "
Writing in an introduction to a
new edition of "Swiss Family Robin
son," about to come from the Har
per's, Mr. Howells thus expresses his
appreciation of that famous classic of 1
adventure: "In these happy pages
there is never any want of work or
Play, never any lack of sport. The
lovely family Hie of the Robinsons is
asvsr insipidly swiet, tut is lull of
worth while, except regard for the life of the man
himself?
Here is a fine opportunity for the leaders of the con
servatlon movement to do something real, something
tangible, The saving of a single human life means
more than all the talk of policies, It perhaps means
one less widow thrown, with her family, upon the char
ity of the world. Multiply this saving by 1,200 or 1,600
(and this is the number of miners whose lives would
have been saved had we the same standards as Europe),
and there would be a conservation movement worth all
the rest—Washington Post.
THE NEED OF FARMERS
GEORGIA newspaper, commenting on the
cry from one of the counties of that big
State for 1,000 more farmers, remarks that
there are 146 counties in the State which
need as many. All the Eastern and North
ern States sadly need good farmers, com
petent, intelligent, up-to-date men to till
the soil properly and get from it the largest and best
crops with the least possible expenditure of toil and
money. A fair share of both capital and labor is needed
in agriculture, of course, but intelligence, a good meas
ure of enthusiasm, the will to learn and the ability to
apply learning practically are more essential.
New York State needs farmers of the best sort
badly as Georgia needs them, though perhaps not
many; 146,000 swooping down at once on the abandoned,
neglected or ill-managed farms of the Mohawk valley
and the upper and lower tier counties would scarcely
be able to find land enough to work on. There are
some intelligent farmers in New York and New Eng-
land, but not many in comparison with the poor and
thriftless ones. The modern farmer must adapt him
self to modern conditions. He shopld know how to
market crops as well as grow them. He should not be
content to do things the way his honorable, but be
nighted. forefathers did them. He need not. if he have
his wits about him, be controlled by middlemen. His
market opportunities are enormous. The development
of chemistry and mechanics has greatly increased his
chances of making agriculture profitable.—New York
Times.
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Material.
Up at the New York university a
department of journalism was initiât
ed thia year, with Dr. Frank J War-
ren in charge, says the New York cor-
respondent of the Cincinnati Time*
Star. Seventy-five pupils have been
enrolled and it is Dr. Warren's hops
ts make regular newspaper men out
cd them in a short time "Just th«
.-ame," he admits, "it isn't any fun to
make a reporter out of a raw young-
st w. who has not the slightest know!-
e?|e of the manner in which newspa
pers get or handle their news. It
makes me think of the experience of
a confrere of mine in the Missouri
College of Journalism. He put his
students through a course of theoret
ical sprouts," said Dr. Warren, "and
after they bad achieved a moderate de
gree of knowledge of the business it
was his custom to send them out to
report events for the daily newspaper
of the college. The ¡taper handled the
news of the vicinity just as a real dal
ly would. On one occasion he Bent
ou) a student reporter to report a big
railroad wreck near the city, in which
a lumber of cars were in flames and
general people were reported killed.
Time went on and nothing was heard
from the student reporter. Finally,
in desperation, the dean telegraphed
him 'What is the matter?' he de
manded briefly. 'No 6tory yet; edi
tion soon go to press. Rush, rush,
rush!’ By and by he got a jaunty
little message from the student re
porter. T have not written story yet,'
said he. 'Too much excitement here.
I am all of a tremble. Soon as things
quiet down I will ask some ques
tions
g Legal Information
Conducting the business of pool
selling and book-making in the State
it Kansas, except within the inclos
ure of a race track for not exceeding
two weeks In any year, was prohibit
ed by fine and Imprisonment. Subse
quent to the passage of this law Kan
sas City, Kan., enacted an ordinance
entitling any person to carry on such
business in that city for an annual
license fee of >5,000. Two days after
plaintiff had purchased a license he
was compelled by force and threats
IN THE LOG CABIN COUNTRY.
and repeated arrests to cease busi
HEN we celebrate prosperity we seldom
ness. In Levy vs Kansas City, 168
save anything for a rainy day. The man
Federal Reporter, 524, plaintiff sued
who works for the best generally gets it
the city tor the >5,000 paid to it for
while the other fellow is hoping for it.
the license. The Circuit Court of Ap-
The man who can make a pillow of his
peals held that, as plaintiff was guilty
conscience need not envy the millionaires
of a violation of a general law enact-
of this world When you lay up treasure
ed to effectuate the public policy of
in heaven the only way to be happy is to forget that
the State of Kansas, his action aris
there is any Interest coming on it.—Atlanta Constitu
ing from his own moral turpitude was
tion.
not maintainable.
In Blermann vs. Guaranty MuL
Life
Ins. Co., 120 Northwestern Re
true affection and willing subordina
POWER FROM DEAD LEAVES.
porter, 963, payment of insurance was
tion. The children, who are different
enough in other things, are alike In They aii<l Kludred Muterials, He- denied for the alleged reason that de
ceased, a drunkard, had represented
ipviug their father and mother, as the
«lured to Gas, Will Run Motors.
Good Book bids them.
The father
The use of dead leaves, straw or hay that he took a drink occasionally,
leads the boys in their adventures and as a source of power is the latest con but not to excess. The Iowa Supreme
enterprises; the mother welcomes tribution to practical science made by Court, allowing a recovery by the
them home and spreads the table with French experimenters. Henri de Par- widow of the insured, remarked that
rich and wholesome abundance, For vllle, writing in the Journal des sufficient disclosure was shown to sug
the honest-hearted, home-loving boy, Debats, Paris, vouches for the truth gest to a discreet person the advisa
it Is like being under his own roof, of this announcement, The expert- bility of further inquiry if the sub
with a boundless range of field, forest, ments are being carried on by M. S. ject was of vital importance. What
and sea, and every harmless delight of Bordenase, says Public Opinion, who constitutes “excess" in this respect is
them.” Mr. Howells also confesses has found it possible to produce largely a matter of opinion, and va
that he never read the book before enough gas by the combustion of veg ries all the way between a "drink"
the publishers asked him for a pre- etable matter to run a small but ser and a "drunk;" while an occasional
viceable motor. The different materi glass of beer may mean anything
face to it.
als used were straw, leaves, hay, etc., from a glass once a month to one ev-
ery 15 minutes, according to the ca-
HOW TREES WITHSTAND WIND. compressed Into bales.
M. de Parville says that the follow pacify of the individual, or, perhaps,
according to the liberality of his
Boi F.lders and Soft
Maple« Are ing results were obtained in practice:
views. Although testimony was elic
"With
hay,
it
was
found
that
one
horse
Kaally I prooted.
The big wind that passed over the power could be obtained by using a ited showing deceased to have been a
Twin cities recently taught much little over two pounds of combustible, drunkard when he applied for insur
about what trees to plant for perma- which, being valued at 10 francs per ance, it is apparent that the company
nent ahade and other effects. One ton, made the cost of each single horse had means of knowledge of this fact
might easily have expected the softer power .04 francs. With the labor and when it made the contract.
While a buggy in which were a man
varieties of wood to break first, says other accessories the cost of the horse
a writer in the Western Architect, power was raised to .056 francs for and a boy was being driven on a high
but would hardly be prepared to see each horse power for one hour. If the way, a heavy automobile tried to ¡»ass
the ease with which box elders and average quality of hay at a cost of 36 it, but struck its rear wheel. The
soft maples are uprooted. When It is francs per ton be used the horse power boy was thrown beneath the feet of
the frightened horse, and literally
let alone the former likes to branch for one hour costs 076 francs.
“Wheat and oat straw may be used kicked to death. The owner and
near the ground and It can be seen on
the prairie more like a gigantic bush to greater advantage. Here the power driver of the machine were convicted
than like a tree. This habit of growth is obtained with a little over two of manslaughter in the second degree.
would not call for any great spread pounds of material. The value of the In People vs. Scanlon, 117 New York
of roots except in capturing nouHsh- straw being estimated at 25 francs Supplement, 57, the defendants ap
ment, an operation In which the tree per ton. the cost of the horse power pealed from an order denying a new
Is supposed to excel. We have known Is .063 francs. With oat straw the trial. The New York Supreme Court,
a tree of the kind to send its roots to horse power costs .057 francs. The ex ifflrmlng the conviction of the chauf
almost any length in the seams of a periments with leaves gave a horse feur, said that it was the reckless
quarry yet in well-sodded and water- power at a cost of .043 francs, while driving which is the cause of many
ed lawns it is the first to give way at the power was obtained with a mix Accidents, and which should dlsquall-
the root, it should be less missed ture of sawdust and shavings at a fy any one who practices it. Wlth a
cost of .05 francs.
heavy machine, weighing 3.000 to
than any other sort.
"With other material the results 4,000 pounds, going at the rate of 26
indigenous
trees
the
Among the
elms hold an intermediate ¡»«itIon, were In every way satisfactory from miles an hour, it is indefensible neg
furnishing not much more resistance both an industrial and financial stand ligence to attempt to pass a buggy
to the winds than the sorts mention point." It Is claimed by the experi within a few Inches. The owner of
ed. This is a pity, they being such menter that the new process will be ths machine, who was sitting next to
universal favorites for shade trees. particularly useful to farmers who are ths driver, had given orders to give
Coniferous trees and the larches seem in need of small motors and have full leeway to passing vehicles, He
to hold up well against winds as do great quantities of refuse vegetable was powerless to deflect its course in
the ashes and white walnuts, although matter from which to obtain the time to avoid the catastrophe, The
power.
whole thing was. as It were, instan
so few of the latter are used for shade
Made the Parrot «hr Scapegoat.
taneous, in the control of the chauf
that one cannot speak with confidence
Father—What did the teacher say feur. but in no way In the owner's
of their performance. Coming to ma
ples In the track of the storm seemed when she heard you swear? Small control The conviction of the owner
to suffer much more than their num Boy—She asked me where I learned wait reversed, and a new trial granted.
bers would warrant, hut the oaks pre it. Father—What did you tell her?
Supply and Demand.
served their reputation for sturdiness, Boy—I didn't want to give you away,
“We could all live on 10 cents a day
while the humble hackberry held its pa. so I blamed it on the parrot.—De If we would cut out high-priced meat
troit Free Press
own as well as any.
And eat beans and rice."
By the way, oaks of some varieties
“Aw, come off If 90,000,000 peopl«
When a man marries a woman older
are by no means so slow of growth
than himself the couple is never men •ach ordered • bushel of beans to-mor
imagined by some, nor are they so tfoned without some comment on
their row, beans would go to 20 cent«
averse to the ways of civilization as difference in ages.
Apiece " Kansas City Times.
has been taught.
We often wonder whether a on»
You can't be so smart that people
It runs In some families for the win be impressed if you fell al»mjt W ' legged man will have two legs sites
i |*u lauds lu heaven.
girls to make unfortunate marriages youraatt
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