Bandon recorder., February 03, 1910, Image 6

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BANDON RECORDER
BANDON
ÜRÄGON
Money may be a curse, but the lacs
of It makes one swear
Misery loves company, but not any
•uore than happiness doee
The man whose sons are all daugn
ters continues to regard football as
a grand game
Radium will not noon become a
household necessity. It is quoted at
.. ... ..................... i a pound.
Uncle Sam owes more than two bil­
lion dollars, and yet he can borrow
more if he wants It.
Boon aeroplane accidents will be as
fashionable as appendicitis operations
were a few years ago.
As a matter of fact, your neigh-
bora think just as disagreeable things
about, you as you think about them.
Japan Is learning the ways of tbs.
Occident; workers in the paper mills
are going on strike for higher wages.
As a rule you can form a fairly ac­
curate opinion of what your neighbors
think of you by what they say of oth­
er«.
It appears that out New York way
Charles W Morse has only to sit in
his office, and people come and tuck
’heir money under the door.
They have what they call an "actor
famine” in Gotham. Many an actor in
financial straits knows what an ac­
tor famine really is. and how It hurt*.
Queen Wilhelmina’s baby cut a tooth
the other day, but there was so much
other news in the world that the his­
torical event didn't create any excite­
ment.
Conan Doyle has taken up the cud­
gels for reform In the Congo coun-
try. He thus annexes a more dlffi-
cult job than any that S. Holmes ever
‘ack led
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the Military arm of the German guv-
•rnaaaot
with
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bomb-carrying
aeroplanes and gave them free entry
to the atmosphere above London He
kept the fleet operating from Berlin
as a base of bomb supplier for one
year, and upon what he considered a
very liberal allowance figured out the
destruction of 36,000 houses. As 60.-
000 house« are erected in London ev-
ery year, he concluded that the air-
ship method of reducing the cJty to
ruins was not very promising Maxim
Is not an expert aeronaut, but he is
exceptionally well Informed as to the
use of explosives, and should be a
good judge as to the probable effect
of handling them by the aeroplane
route. Theprists on the other side
would have some difficulty tn combat­
ing his views In fact, their task is
not easy even in popular discussion.
The requirements affecting the aero­
plane are that it shall be unefer per­
fect control at various elevations, that
the explosives may be not only safely
but effectively handled so that they
may perform their deadly work, and
that there may be some guaranty of
protection for the machines and their
occupants
In this experimental pe­
riod the question of adequate control
la by'no means settled. Skilled oper
ators have given beautiful exhibitions
in their successful flights, and be­
cause of what they have done there
are the beat of reason« for believing
that the aeroplane, like the automo­
bile, has come to stay. But there is
a tremendous difference between a trip
across the English Channel, with elab­
orate precautions
<>n both shores
against accidents, and a much longer
journey into or above a hostile coun­
try, a journey of many nfiles and
many hours that should make neces­
sary a return trip without landing
Admitting, however, that this may be
possible, the effective use of explosives
from the moving object in the air
would still present a most serious
problem, while there can be no doubt
that the welcome from all sorts of
military devices on the ground below
would be much too warm for the
aeronaut's comfort. Fortunately, how­
ever, the value of the invention does
not depend upon its employment In
military operations, while the warlike
speculations concerning it are helpful
In encouraging experiments and im­
provements.
He Knew Illa W»r>b.
RAM S KORN BLASTS.
P apers
PEOPLE
WHY THE UNIVERSE WILL NEVER DIE
By F. O. Henkel.
On philosophic grounds Hei ben Spencer was
convinced there must be cycles of growth and
decay in the evolution of the universe. More­
over, it may be asked, how is it that the uni­
verse is not dead already? if it has existed
from eternity there has been an infinite time
for this dissipation to take place. On the
otper hand, we may say that nothing what­
ever can be postulated, as to an infinite uni­
verse at all. except that it be infinite, the dissipation of
its energy must take an infinite time, and so the death
of the universe will never come off at all.
Though it is true that the suns of the universe are
growing colder by radiation, this radiant energy is ab­
sorbed and preserved by the dark stars, and the nebula*
at low temperature. Of recent years it has been shown
that the quantity of dark and faintly luminous matter
in the part of the universe which alone we can reach
with our telescopes is far greater than was formerly
supposed to be the case. Photographs of regions of the
sky taken after long exposures have revealed the exist­
ence of nebulous matter utterly unknown before.
Under the influence of gravitation matter tends to
concentration in vast centers, but this is counteracted
by the scattering action of the light pressure. This
idea of the balancing of contrary tendencies is ancient,
and we well remember being told of the two "forces, at­
traction and repulsion, by which the jvorld is kept go­
ing.” The philosophic notion is at least as old as Aris­
totle. "Solar systems are evolved from nebula»; nebula»
in their turn are produced by the collision of suns."
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SAVE MONEY?
By John .4. Holland.
Almost universally the knowledge of how to
save enters into the modern formula for suc­
cess, and the question of method and ways
and means to saving is open to discussion. If
"keeping" every possible piece of money com­
ing into one's possession may be miserliness,
there must be some phase of saving that Is
reprehensible.
In my experience of men I have seen
enough examples of arrested business development
brought about by early savings to bring the point
strongly home to me. Through hoarding earnings and
perhaps making a few early ventures in speculative
chances that proved successful, many a young man has
acquired a bank account that was beyond his capacity
to appreciate. His normal friends, looking on with both
envy and admiration, have helped him to lose his head.
His precocious pride has been pricked until the thought
of chance of losing that which he has accumulated be­
comes impossible to him. The spirit of the miser is
aroused in him. Whatever his business ability may-
have been, it is arrested in its development.
Everywhere, in every phase of life, the experienced,
thoughtful person is confronted with the problem of
saving. It isn’t wholly the question, ‘‘Can I afford to
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gets a chance to
plant a thorn in a
good man h« put«
it where it hurt«.
You can't get ln-
the
second
chapter of any­
thing worth whll«
without
finding
woman there in
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siiend?" Quite as frequently it is the question, “Can I
afford to save?" Wisdom is necessary to the answer­
ing.
“Wasting at the spigot and saving at the bung” is
one of the old, old similes which approximates the meat
of the whole question of saving. Each man must ask
himself how much and when and where he shall save.
But wisdom and experience must dictate the satisfac­
tory answer.
WOMAN NOW COMDiG INTO HER OWN
By Ada May Krecker.
This Is woman's age in part because it is
an age when the finer forces that women use
and the sweeter Ideals that they love are be­
ing valued by the world. In a word, the spir­
itual and the esthetic forces were latent In
cruder ages, but now are beginning to operate.
Music has been a costly indulgence, a soft
pleasure, with little, if any, hard work to do
Every girl has been expected to play the
piano or to sing as a part of her education, which
has been ornamental rather than useful. But music
has a function of much grandeur and dignity to fulfill.
The old Greeks knew this and used music to cure dis­
ease. to calm troubled spirits, to purify and uplift the
mind. Their ideas are reviving The therapeutic value
of sweet sounds and harmonies is being appreciated.
And the power of music to convey subtle and exalted
thought Is being realized. "Music begins where words
leave off.”
All the woman nature which lay dormant to a de­
gree, unutilized, unrecognized, misunderstood through
the base, brutish ages. Is now awakening and beginning
to energize in the gentler times when its subtle power
and sweetness have a legitimate place.
MYSTERIOUS DISEASE AMONG CHILDREN.
By Dr. Howard L. Martin.
A mysterious new disease designated by
the profession as “infantile paralysis” has
lately been spreading among the very young
children of Kansas. Iowa and Nebraska, The
disease, though suggestive in some of its
phases of meningitis, must not be confounded
with that more malignant malady. Few of
t.he babies that have been ajfeeted with pa-
ralysis have died, but in meningitis there is
always a big percentage of mortality. This new ailment
begins with a fever, is succeeded by vomiting and sharp
pains of the stomach and completes its evil work by at­
tacking the spinal cord, causing a paralysis of the legs
and other tpuscle groups. The suffering, when death
does not ensue, usually lasts for several weeks; then it
goes away, but the paralysis continues So far, it does
not appear to be contagious, as frequently only one child
in a large family will be attacked There is hardly any
doubt, though, of its being infectious. Up to this time
no child has recovered the use of its limbs, and the doc­
tors are at their wits' ends trying to find the cause of
rhe disease and its cure
Statistics show that Americans are
Self-confidence is one of the most
the best fed people In the world. Con­
sidering the cost of Uving, there can valuable qualities to one who would
be no further doubt that Americans rise quickly. No doubt the youngster
are also the best paid people In the who figures in this story fropi the
London Dally Mall is already well on
world.
the way up.
A gentleman calling on a member
One of the prlma donnas, answer­
ing her husband's charge of desertion, of Parliament one day, while waiting
says the only foundation for it lies in the reception room, was attracted
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him any more money. Still, he prob­ and started a random conversation.
“And how much do you earn
ably doesn't regard even that aB l»e-
week, my boy?" he inquired.
•ng trivial.
“Ten pounds." said the youngster
Preparing a young man for the bat­ with avidity.
tle of life by paralyzing him from the
Being shown Into the member’s pri
A youth who, as early in life as he
hips down or by shattering hts spine vale office just then, the visitor's sur !e a free man,'decides to “work for
may seem reasonable to some of the prise found vent in words.
himself," often lays the foundation of
"Mighty bright youth you have, tc a fortune sooner than his comrade
college presidents, but it will be im­
possible to convince the parents of the be getting ten pounds a week,” he re who is willing to occupy a more de­
unfortunate boy that the system Is marked.
pendent position.
One man, now a
“Why.” said the member of parlia very rich cattleman of Texas, (»ossess-
what It should ba.
meat, “he gets only twenty-two shll ing lands whioh are more than suffi­
An anxious subscriber write® to the lings."
cient in extent to make a German prin­
"But he told me just now you were cipality, owed his independent start
New York Evening Post to suggest
with much earnestness that the speech­ giving him ten pounds a week,” per- in life to an uncomplimentary remark
es and writings of Daniel Webster be sisted the gentleman.
which his mistress made about him.
"Nonsense!" said the members of
made a part of (ha course of study in
The man, who was a poor farmer's
the public schools Probably there will Parliament, and he touched the bell boy in Rhode Island before the Civil
"Billy," he said, "did you tell this War. went to the Southwest to seek
be no serious objections to this. But
they should not be allowed to crowd gentleman I was paying you ten bis fortune while he was still a callow­
out the works of the late Noah Web­ pounds a week?"
youth. But although he was callow
"No. sir."
ster.
he was extremely long-legged, and
“You didn’t? Well, what did you this circumstance won him immedi­
Farming ought to prosper in Ala­ say?"
ately the name of "Shanghai," by
bama The legislature at its last ses-
"I said I earned ft,” was the prompt which he was almost exclusively
aion authorized the Commissioner of and stout repofnder.
known to his friends in that part of
Agriculture to offer cash prizes to the
the world.
farmers in each county for the best
The Cheerful \ lew.
He himself now tells how, on his
mule colt, the best horse colt, the best
The family horse, which rejofeert arrival in Texas, he went to work
acre of corn and wheat and oats and In the eminently proper name of Dob­ for a farmer who had several slaves,
hay and Irish or sweet potatoes, The bin, had earned a regt by long ser­ There was no one on the place except
prizes run from five to twenty-five dol- vice. and was accordingly sent away Shanghai and a negro named Pete
lars. and will be awarded beginning to the country to spend his declin­ who could ride a certain horse, and
with the year 1910.
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ing years in the broad pastures of a it often fell to Shanghai's lot to
THE WE AVI t*? OF LOWS’<9
WONDER 3PEL.L.
farmer friend of his owner. The dis mount this fractious beast, But one
Flies are few (n England in com
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tance being somewhat excessive for day it happened that when Pete was
parison with this country, and conse-
his rheumatic legs, adds a writer in on the horse, it threw him and then
quently the English people have no
the Montreal Herald, he was shipped fell on him.
A little curl-encircled head,
A little wound, a little fiche,
such menace to health as the fly nut- to his new home by rail.
This happened near the planter's A little blistered thumb to take
A little slender hand and pale,
sance involves in America It is not
Edna, the family 4 year-old. viewed house, The planter and his wife and With touch of love and make It well— A little lonesome, homesick wall.
a matter of climate, or that the flies
the passing of D.obbln with unfeigned several attendants ran out to the as­ These things require a mothers spell. Loved nursing best of skill and care
have any aversion to British soil, The sorrow. She sat for a long time gaz sistance of the negro, who appeared to Ah. sweet the progress of the skill
But oh. behold the wonder there
When Dr. Mother, lien ring sun
That science brings unto the ill!
reason is found in the prompt removal
Ing disconsolately out of the window be dead As soon as she saw the slave Vast range of methods new and
fine; From where the winding roses run.
of garbage and filth, and the general
At last, after a deep sigh, she turned lying senseless, the woman cried out: But when our little ones repine.
Leans down with hungering love and
cleanliness of the whole island
As
"O dear, how unfortunate’ There's The mother is the very best
with a more cheerful expression, and
kiss!
a result, English dwellings have no said:
an eight-hundred-dollar negro killed! Of doctors Into service prest!
There Is no medicine like this!
need of screens, and stories of the
In little child-heart’» hour of woe,
“Did old Dobbin go in the cars Now if it had only been Shanghai, it Sunshine and air and mother's spell
disease carrying fly create no alarm mamma?"
Of helping little lads get well,
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Rain, ache or life-wound's throb and
wouldn't have made any difference.”
throe
Shanghai was in hearing of tnis And helping little lassies, too—
"Yes, dear." answered her mother,
Here are three remedies that do
The Dr Mother knows so well
When the civilized Senegamblan tn
eminently
economic
A broad grin spread over the little
remark, and he at So much more, often, than the grave. The weaving of love's wonder-spell—
some distant century visits the ruins girl's face
”1 was just thinking." she owe said to himself, "If I'm not worth Skilled hands that try so hard to save. Just what the little heart requires;
of American civilization In Colorado,
said, “how funny he must look sitting as much as a negro slave, 1 guess I'll For Dr. Mother. don’t you know,
Just how to cool the fever fires;
h« will come across the Gunnison irri­ up on the
move on to some place where I can Gives something more than skill— Just how* much tenderness and cheer
plush cushion»”
gation tunnel, which diverts the Gun­
make myself worth it.”
gi ves so
Will calm the little doubt, and fear;
nison River to water the Uncompahgre
Coavlneln* His ('ham.
How much of tenderness will ease—
He "moved on" to the plains, en- Much of herself; oh. so much
valley, and will wonder at the fnge-
Alone she knows such arts as these!
Johnny (In the garden)—Father, gaged at first In a small way in the Of love's sweet alchemy of touch!
—Baltimore Sun.
nulty of a race which could have con- father, look out of
cattle business, later furnished cattle Upon a little ward-room bed
the window!
st rued so marvelous a thing The tun-
Father (putting out his head I — tn great quantities th the Confederate
A Shocked Rcot.
nel is about six miles long, and laige
stead, and from force of habit, bellev
What a nuisance you children are! army during the war. and eventually
enough to carry twehe hundred cubic
The
Ixindon
Chronicle says that two ing it was Sunday, had been shocked
grew very rich.
What do you want now?
feet of water a second to the arid
Englishmen recently touring in Scot- | at the click of the billiard balls.
Johnny (with a triumphant gianco
lands of the valley. What Is left of
land found that Sabbatarianism oc- .
White Horae of Kilhnrn.
at hts playfellow)—Tommy Brooks
the water after flowing over the land
She XX as tt III,ng.
The biggest artificial horse in the casionally extends to the middle of the ,
wouldn't believe you'd got no hair on
will return to the channel of the river
He -Do you know that as long as 1
the top of your head.— Ixrndon Tid world is the famous white horse of week. They were forced by the weath- I
It would not have occurred to any one
Bit*
Kilburn, England, which was formed er to take refuge In a small country have knowM you I have never seen you
but the daring and enterprising engi­
fifty years ago by a native of Kilburn, hotel and after lunch adjourned to the dressed in white?
neers of this age to bore a hole
Only Lnncb.
She—Indeed! Are you, then, so par
who cut away the turf In the correct billiard room to kill time until the
through a lofty mountain to carry
“Have luncheon today?"
rain stopped. The game had hardly tial to the color?
form and covered It with limestone.
water to waterless fields Less I mag
"Nope "
He—Not exactly that, but whenever I
The whole occupies about twe acres started when the landlord entered in
Inative men would have laughed at the
a very drunken condition, upbraided see a girl dressed In white I am al
"Thought I mw you gedng out."
of ground and may be seen twenty
proposition as madness
The Presi-
his visitors for their unseemly conduct1
"You did. but I hàd lunch, not miles away. It Is said that
twenty and insisted on their leaving the bll I ways tempted to kiss her.
dent opened the gates of the canai luncheon. I only had 16 cents to
She—Wil) you excuse me for a qtiar
persons can sit on the "eye" of the'
recently and let the waters of the spend."
Hard- room
They rerwfved profuse ter of an hour?
horse.
river flow through.
apologies from the landlady Her hus-i
When a woman has her photograph
Don't bank on th- veracity of any
The youth who can atter i a motor band always got drank on Sunday«,
In a lecture which he delivered tn enlarged ft's a sure sign six connid
boat doesn t have to paddle his own I she explained, but. mistaking the day. woman Who ell a man he is band
.\«r ■» York Hudson Maxim equipped era herself In the good-lOoktng class.
he bad got drunk on Thursday tb •etna
cane«.
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all the pictures.
The bilious man is never an opti­
mist.
A lost opportunity never finds its
way back.
Truth never dodges, no matter how
hot the fire is.
The right kind of goodness is al­
ways good for something.
A lazy man does his hardest work
in looking for an easy place.
Unbelief is the egg out of which al]
sins are batched.
The man who falls to look ahead
will soon fall back.
It costs more to be prpud than it
does to be generous.
When God sends His people to the
furnace He goes into the Are with
them.
The man who sits down to wait for
a big streak of good luck will need
a good cushion on his chair.
In some places they call a man pro-
fessor simply because he professes to
know things he doesn't know.
Many a noodle is stumping through
the world on crutches because he
couldn't learn anything from his mis-
takes.
"Thy will be done on earth” will
mean nothing in the church on Sun-
day unless it means something In the
shop and the store on Monday.
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It Is not surprising that the gifted
inventor of such classic Imaginative
nonsense as "The Jumblies" and "The
Owl and the Pussy-Cat” took a keen
delight in the real nonsense of real
life whenever he chanced to encounter
It. During a doleful stay in a dreary
little mining village where it rained
all the time, and he was not well and
could not accomplish the work he had
set his heart on doing, the late Ed-
ward Lear, although a good and dec-
orous churchgoer, found his source of
cheer in the parish clerk.
“O beloved clerk!” he wrote grate­
fully to a friend.
“He reads the
Psalms enough to. make you go into
fits. He said last Sunday 'As white
as an old salmon,’ instead of 'White as
snow in Salmon.’ 'A lion' for 'alien'—
’to my mother’s children,' and ‘they
are not guinea-pigs,' instead of ’guilt­
less' Fact: but 1 grieve to say he'»
turned out for the same, and will
never more please my foolish ears.” '
Even funnier was the erratic Eng­
lish of a foreigner, which once en­
livened for him the prolonged formali­
ties of an official dinner.
“Sitting next to the captain of an
Austrian frigate at Sir H Sterle’s on
Thursday evening," he recorded, “the
German officer said to a subaltern—
the conversation was aliout the good
looks of women -‘I do think the Eng­
lishwoman conserve her aperient gal-
ship (girlhood) longer than all the
women; even as far as her antice (an­
tiquity, age).'
“The subaltern withered with confu­
sion till 1 ventured to interpret, 'The
Englishwoman preserves her appear­
ance of youth longer than all women
—even if she be old."*
One
Mtlcd
Gambling:.
One need only to try his luck at
any of the Riviera gambling palaces
to learn how slender are the chances
to win at roulette.” says a German
correspondent writing from Ostend.
•< But If he would experience the gam­
bler's disadvantage at its best let him
come to Ostend and join the baccarat
players
The game as it Is played
gives the man who places his money
against the bank no chance whatever,
and if it were known how much
money is sacrificed in a season in the
endeavor to win by luck and by sys­
tem the public would lie horrified. It
is nothing unusual for the bank to
win twenty-four times before an out­
sider wins once
The people who
play. If they have ever played before,
know this, and still they come again,
respond to the call until they depart
and plant their gold in the baccarat
mire in the hope that it will bear
fruit.
It does
But what is the
harvest?”
Polar
Ode.
The arctic jokes have* the floor,
The bards insult the muse,
A’hen writing odes to polar road«.
And giving men the "blues.”
Through all the land we hear the roar,
roar.
Of angry men who swear
That Cook ne'er found the icy mound"
Or "Peary wasn't there."
—Chicago Record-Herald.
nidn’t
Relieve
It.
The Squire- That’s a splendid horse,
Giles.
I suppose you feed it dally
with punctuality?
Giles—Naw. zur. None o' yer noo-
fangled foods vur me. Just 'ay and
vat
oats and 'ay London Telegraph.
The hayfever victim appreciate«
anything that is not to be sneezed at.
Ten to one it's your own fault It
luck is against you.
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