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• I By ROCKFORD KING. (<"*>pyrlght. 1910. by American Pres* As**» . elation.] One day a* I was about to leave my *t»dy a young couple came hurrying in and asked me to marry them. I dislike very much to marry persons thus hurriedly about whom 1 know nothing, and In this case I especially hesitated. The man, though refined looking, was dressed in clothes more befitting a workingman thau a gen tleman. He was pale faced either from 111 health or because he had not been accustomed to the sunlight; oth erwise he »-•<■;,ied to be In good health. However, s.aee there seemed to be no objection to my uniting them, both being of age, I told them to come Into my study and I would accommodate them. We hud barely got inside and the couple taken position before me when quick footsteps were beard with CHILD LABOR EVIL LUXURIOUS BAGS. Pennsylvania’* New Law Expected te Improve Condition». A Collspsibl. K.w Dr«**ing and Hand Bag. Fred S. Hall, secretary of the Penn ■ylvanla Child I-abor association, gives the new child labor law. which went into effect Jan. 1, high praise. The changes this law is expec ted to cause, he declared, should raise Pennsylvania from its rank with the southern states in child lubor matters to a position alongside of the other great manufac- luring states. "The great mass of our manufac- turers and coal operators,” Mr. Hull declared, "are sincerely opposed to the under age work of children, but a ‘re siduum’ among employees cling tena ciously to the evil thing, and In their effort to evade the law they are met more than halfway by that large class of parents who lie before some notary public as to their children’s ages. “The old law assumed that parents of working children would tell the truth about their children's ages. The new law assume« that a large propor tion of them will lie about this if they get a chance. Every child who claims to be of working age must produce a copy of some record of his age, either the record of birth kept by the city or the record kept by the priest who bap tized him in infancy or the record of age kept by his teacher at school. Nineteen states have exactly this re quirement. “Fortunately the new law has been Interpreted by the attorney general as in a sense retroactive. All the 30,000 factory affidavits and the 10,000 addi tional mine affidavits became so much waste paper on Jan. 1. The children must apply to the school officials for the new certificates. If it appears that they are still under age or that they are not able to read and write the English language Intelligently they will have to leave work and re-enter the schools, remaining there until they are really qualified for certificates. The school authorities will hereafter Issue these certificates Instead of the magis trates, aldermen and justices of the peace, and we are confident that chil dren who are still under age or who are illiterate will be refused. The chief factory Inspector and the chief mine Inspector have both announced that they will insist that children be discharged at once who are found at work without the new certificates. If this Is done we may expect a purging of our state’s employment rolls which will raise Pennsylvania to its proper rank with our great industrial commu nities.” 1 Shock of Sudden Glad Tidings at Times Turns the Brain. IT HAS DRIVEN PEOPLE MAD Some of the Saddest Cases of Lunacy Ara Those Where the Mind la Un able to Stand the Strain of News of Unexpected Good Fortune. The fitted traveling bag Is supposed to bo the height of luxury—at least to judge by its coat The furnishings are silver, ivory or even gold, combined with cut glass bottles of all sizes. The bags themselves are of the finest Rus sia leather or calf, and the outside usu ally carries the monogram of the own er In skui 11 gold or silver letters. All tuis is very handsome and very heavy. The weight of the bag before anything is packed into it Is euough to daunt a woman with a weak back, though her bag may be one of the smaller sizes. Since the convenience of having all one’s toilet belongings neatly packed in readiness for a hurried trip Is evi dent most women will welcome one of the new bags, which are so built and furnished as to be three times as light as those ordinarily sold. The bag Is a collapsible affair of fine smooth leather, black or colors, that closes up like an accordion. It It is no exaggeration to assert, said an asylum doctor of long and varied exiHTience, that there are scores of men aud women in Insane asylums who have literally been sent there through excess of joy. Many of these I cases which are, in my opinion, the saddest of all have come under my own observation. I remember in the very first asylum out. with which I was connected one of I The man lost what color he bad bo the patients was a strikingly hand fore. some and very well educated man, "Go on,’’ said the lady to me lmpa- who was as sane as you or I except tiently. on one point. He was really a man of But before I could do so two men considerable wealth, but bls delusion rushed in. One of them, glancing at was that he was a pauper, and he the groom expectant, said, "All right; would tell the most pitiful tales of his we’ve got him.” Then to the man to destitution, begging, with tears in his whom he referred he Bald, “You come eyes, for a few coppers with which to along with me." buy bread. “What’s all this about?" 1 asked. According to the story told me, he "He's an escaped convict,” said the was the only son of a wealthy mer man who had been speaking. chant. In his youth he had fallen “Is that a fact?" 1 asked of the man among evil companions and had led I had expected to marry. such a dissolute life that his father “Yes," he said; “I am.” not only threatened to disinherit him, lie spoke without the slightest ap but forbade him ever to enter his pearance of shame or regret. The bouse again. After that he seems to lady went up to the men. who were have sunk into the lowest depths of prison officials, and begged them to poverty until he was glad to earn a few coppers by selling papers or permit the ceremony to proceed before taking her lover back to prison. matches in the streets. “But you don’t wish to marry a jail It was at this last and lowest stage bird, do you?" he replied. that news came to him that his fa "I wish to marry this man. It will ther had died Intestate and that he delay you only a few moments. Come; was heir to all his vast fortune. The sudden news completely turned the let the clergyman proceed." “What do you say. Tom?" he asked man's brain and brought on such a of his companion. condition of excitement that he had “It’s a ruin go,” said the other, “but to be sent to an asylum, and when he if the young lady insists on throwing calmed down again he had lost all herself away on a convict 1 don’t see recollection of his good fortune, and 8ILVF.R BAG WITH WATCH. as Its any business of our’n. We’ve nothing could shake his delusion Unit got him safe enough, and two or three he was on the verge of starvation. lets out according to the amount of minutes won't make any difference. Another patient in the same asylum packing necessary. This extension is "All right," said the other. “Go was a young and in his lucid moments regulated by leather straps on the out ahead, parson.” a most intelligent fellow, whose "brain side, which add rather than detract It was my turn to demur, not liking was turned,” as the saying is, on learn from its smart appearance. the business of uniting a lady to any ing that he had passed an examina On the inside are mirror, comb, brush, man under such circumstances. tion. He had sat for the matriculation tooth and nail brushes, shoe horn, “I reckon she’s with him,” said the examination at tho University of Lon buttoner, nail file, flask, a bottle or official called Tom. "Some one sent AMERICAN STANDARD HIGH don, on passing which he had set bis two and a soap box. They are arrang him a saw in a cake, and I expect heart and had asked a friend in Lon ed to take up the least possible space she’s the one that did it.” Wages of Labor and Cost of Living don to wire the result as soon as the and, being made of white celluloid, “Do go on," said the girl pleadingly. ' names were screened at Burlington weigh almost nothing. Here and Abroad. I felt constrained to take the same ’ The Labor Gazette of the board of House. The effect of this celluloid, with Its view about the matter the men did— ' trade of London gives the result of About three weeks later came a fa I black monogram on each piece, Is good, that It was none of my business, so 1 i an Inquiry made by the imperial sta tal telegram, “Failed—sorry,” which and the weight is less than half as yielded aud married them. The girl tistical department at Berlin Into" sent the young man into the lowest much as Ivory. It wears well, and the took out a portemonuale and gave me household expenditures of families of depths of despair, for he was too old a twenty dollar bill. Then she threw small means in Germany. The aver to sit again. Not many hours later, only precaution necessary is to keep her arms about her felon husband's age yearly income for the skilled work however, came another telegram. it away from a flame, as It may ex neck and said cheerily: “It’ll be all man was $45$.83 and the average ex “Passed honors—very sorry crush so plode. A novelty In the bag line is ir right now, dearie, we’re married. 1 pendlture $457.71. of which 51.5 pet great did notice name this morning.” i new silver mesh model with a watch can now tell the whole story. I would cent was spent for food alone. Among The revulsion of feeling was so great set at one side of the heavy silver have done it before onlj’ you wouldn’t the unskilled laborers in both indus that the student's reason gave way, mounting. let me. It won’t be long now, I assure trial and commercial occupations there and he became so violent in his ex you. I won't say goodby, but only was an average yearly income of citement that he had to be confined. HELPFUL HINTS adieu." Aud with several more kisses $411.78 and an average yearly expendl Fortunately he was not with us long she released him, and ho went away ture of $400.70, 54 per cent of which and Is now, I am glad to know, doing A damp room or cupboard may be between bls captors, each holding on went for food alone. dried by keeping in it a jar containing very well as a solicitor. to a handcuff the prisoner wore about Disappointed love sends many people quicklime. The lime will absorb the Compared with t-his, a recent study ' his wrists. After they had gone I of the standard of living in New York to asylums, but it Is very seldoin that damp and keep the air dry and pure. gave the lady a certificate of marriage. city, made under the Sage foundation. | success In wooing drives a man mad. It must be frequently renewed, as it She was going away without It, but I led to the conclusion that it was Im It had this strange effect, however, on loses its power. detained her. Eggs are muscle building food and possible for a family of average size to one of my late patients, The girl he “Would you mind explaining this maintain a normal standard of living . loved had gone out to India to keep ■ are digested principally In the stom to me?” I asked ns she was about to on an income under $800 a year. This J house for her brother before he had ach. They are most easily digested leave me. conclusion has been substantiated by screwed up his courage to the point of ■ when raw, somewhat less readily “Not yet," she replied, “Thank you an investigation by the federal bureau I proposing to her, but an offer followed when slightly cooked, but difllcult of ever so much, You don’t know how of labor, which showed that the aver-1 by mail very quickly after her. digestion when hard liolled. far you have been instrumental In un- age income among 1,415 workmen I11 Weeks and months passed and no The weary woman who wishes to tying a knot by tying one. Couldn’t the north Atlantic states, among whom answer came to the Impatient lover woo sleep successfully should try a you date tlie certificate back a year?" the percentage of shilled labor was until, after waiting two years in de scented slumlier cushion. Cased In a “I couldn’t do that," 1 said. high, was $834.83. Against this was an spair, he became engaged to a girl who dainty cover of washing silk, the con “Well, I don't know that it is neces average expenditure yearly of $778.04, had nothing but her money bags to tents vary from vegetable down scent sary, though it might make the rest of which but 43 per cent was spent recommend her and for whom he had ed with lavender to the aromatic hop. of it easier. Goodby. Some day you'll for food. not a particle of love. Scarcely, how An old proverb says, "Spare the din hear from us.” ever, was his fate sealed than he re ner, spare the doctor.” Like many With that she went away, looking ceived the long despaired of letter other homely sayings. It is to the Pennsylvania Railroad Pension*. far happier than when she had entered. Nearly 4,500 employees onthePhila from India, accepting his offer and ex-, point. Some of the foremost physi I Six months passed, during which I delpbia division of tho Pennsylvania plaining that the girl's brother had re cians shake their heads gravely and heard nothing from eit' r of the cou Railroad company have signed ]>etitions ceived and mislaid the letter, which say, “People eat too much.” They ple 1 hail married. Th 1 one day a to President McCrea asking that the had only just been found and had i have grown into the habit of unques gentleman called on me v. ’u in I failed company revise its pension system so come into tier bands. tioningly earing all that Is set before to recognize. that employes may receive larger old Within an hour of the receipt of this them, and then, rather surprised, they "You don't remember me." In said. age pensions and may retire nt sixty letter the man was a raving maniac, resent any reference to this as "over “I confess I do not." I replied. years instead of waiting until they at and, altliough bis condition Is Improv eating.” “That's not remarkable. The last tain alxty.-flve, the present minimum. ed. I doubt whether he will ever re and only time I saw you I was an es To secure the revenue necessary to cover his reason. F*w Men In Washington Society. caped convict in borrowed, or, rather, meet the proposed Increase in pension In another remarkable case it was j While the cause of militant womaD stolen, clothes. You married me be payments the employees offer to make the joy at seeing her husband agaiD t is advancing so strongly In every di fore I wns returned to the peniten monthly payment in form of a per-1 that robbed a lady patient of her rea , rection, It comes almost as a surprise tiary.” eentage of their wages. This matter! son. Her husband was the captain of i to find mere man still has a value of “And tuny I ask how you have «e- has been discussed on other divisions, ’ a merchant ship which was reported his own. but signs are not lacking that I cured your freedom?" and it will be taken up by the officials to have gone down with all hands. : "the man question” Is proving one of "By a pardon from the governor, In the general offices. The widow had deeply mourned her the most difficult that Washington so You sec. it wns a case of conviction husband for nearly a year when one J ciety has to face this winter. There is under a misunderstanding.' • » day on returning from a walk she! a scarcity of eligible young men. and Typographical Union Politic*. “I’lense be seated.” I said to him. Reports in circulation are to the ef found him sitting in the drawing room the dearth Is felt nowhere so severely “and make your explanation.” feet that President James M..Lynch as hale and robust as ever. ns In that youthful circle which Is in “The matter which has puzzled you Is of the International Typographical With a shriek she fell unconscions ! very simple when you get the facts union may lie opposed In next year’s on the floor, and when she recovered [ creased each year by a fresh crop of I courted my wife clandestinely, she election by Edward Wright of Chicago. her reason was gone. It seems that debutantes. This season's crop has been larger than usual, between seven being engaged nt the time to her fa Joseph I »Ireks of St. Louis wants to her husband, after flouting for some ty-five and a hundred young girls hav ther’s partner tn business. I persuad succeed George A. Tracy of San Fran- time, bad been picked up by a passing ed her to elope with me. The night cisco as first vice president, and Thom- “tramp" and had been landed on the ' ing stepped from the schoolroom to the we were to make the elopement I went us Curtin of Boston would accept west coast of Africa, from which lie' reception and the bail room In the last two or three months. The situation to her house and met her at a rear the vetary-trcasurorshlp. Brooklyn had returned home by the first avail obviously is serious when, having tak door. At the moment our egress was Eagle. able vessel.—London Spectator. en the step, they find no men to talk cut off she admitted me to the house and dance with. Philadelphia and and closed tlie door. To esenpe de Charitable. LABOR BRIEFS. Baltimore can lend Washington no as tection wo went upstnirs and into a It Is said of the author of a volume sistance, for these cities are In an bedroom. We heard some one coming. Bookbinders in Memphis. Tmin.. have of biography that his verdict on the equally bad way. There is a general • gid the girl told me to go into an ad great of his chosen period is much that reorganized. disposition to blame the departments joining room. Her father came Into There is a possibility of a labor tem- of the New Hampshire parson at the of war aud the navy, for, in obedience the room I had entered and. supposing highly approved funeral of a parish ♦,< being elected In Ottawa. Ont. me to lie a burglar, culled the police. ioner: “Brethren, we must agree that to the policy outlined by the secreta The electrical workers In St. Louis “I must either Lie content to confess our deceased friend was mean In some ries, a sharp check has been placed on myself 11 thief or the girl’s reputation Itave reorganized and are now recog things, but let us In Christian charity wholesale excursions of cadets from West Point and Annapolis, who for would be ruined. 1 chose the former nized by the A. F. of L. allow that ho was meaner In other».’’ The leather workers in Ottawa, Ont, I merly could be counted on to save any course. Since my marriage my wife occasion by their presence. The ad has confessed’the whole story to her have asked for a raise In wages, some I Beth Sides. father, and I have been pardo*d both of them getting as low ns SO per week. Doctor’s Little Girl—Yonr pap» owes ministration, in fact, is at pains to The National letter Carriers’ asso my papa money. Lawyer’s Littl» Girl keep its young soldier and sailor offi by him and the governor.” Before leaving me he presented' me ciation has purchased ICO news near —That’s nothing. Papa said be was cers out of matrimonial temptations, with a check for $3.000 for a Euro Colorado Springs ns a site for the igo- glad to get off with his life.—Baltimore ■ nd the Washington girls, therefore, posed sanitarium. The ground adjoins American. pean trig» flfoin himself aufi wife. •re threatened with rather ■ dufi SM- »n. that of the Cnlon Printers' boms. s A I • Notice to Mariners By SADIE OLCOTT. [Cr’pyrlfht. JilO. by American Pre»* Asso ciation.] Capt. Parsons of lhe Str. Golden Gate reports that on M; rch 13. 1910 at 4 p. m. between Tillamook Rock and Cape Falcon he passed a Urge quantity of drift wood. Also on March 13th 1910 at 4 p. m. about 4 miles of! Falcon rock he passed a large tree about too feel long and about 6 or 7 feet iu dia.n eter. Roots attached, Easily seen an 1 very dangerous, Directly in path of Coos Bay bound vessels. XCapt. M. Ridley of the S. S., Hazel Dollar reports that on Feb 19th and 20th 1910 between Lat. 4i'°3‘».N Long. i6o°oo'E and 48°- 00' Long i 62° oo 'E, he lost his en tire deck load of 190 hardwood logs, averaging abot t 20 by 20 inches and 14 feet long. J ohn M c N ulty , Nautical Expeit. “By the spirits of your ancestor« I lie eecto you to hide me!” I The words wore spoken by a young Japanese who rushed Into a tea bouse where stood n startled geisha girl. It was more than forty years ago, when the followers of the mikado and the shogun were struggling for the SU- premacy in Japan. “What is It, Ilerobumi?” asked the girl quickly. “The shoganltes! They are after me. If they i-atili me they will kill me. Quick. Nikama!” The girl darted glances In every di rection, and finally her eyes lighted on what she at once recognized as the best place for concealment. In every Japanese house is a dust hole. The ground floor is raised about two feet above the earth, and a square hole is cut in the floor, into which the dust and litter of the rooms nre swept. “Get in there, quick!” cried the girl, pointing to the hole. Ilerobumi sprang into the hole, dou bling himself up to occupy the space. Nikama put a board over it, and on Notice to Contractors the board siie placed a brazier, thus concealing the hole and making it ap- pear that the brazier rested on tbe floor. Then she sat down before the brazier, in which was a tire, and ap- “ Bids will be received at the resi poured to tie lazily warming herself. dence of R. Pomeroy, near Lampa In another moment a band of armed men rushed in. The girl looked up at up to and including April 10, 1910, them in feigned surprise. for the grading of one mile of road “A man is here,” said their leader, in district No. 20. Grade to be 14 "whom we seek. We saw him enter. feet wide with a turnout every too Where Is he?” “You are welcome to look for him." feet. “We will see for ourselves,” replied R P omeroy , Supervisor. 9"4tx the man, and. with his followers, he began a search of the premises. They moved furniture; they opened closets; FOR SALE—A lot of two and they pulled out drawers. Into every cranny in the house they peered, but three year old heifers. All coining none of them thought of the dust W. S. Marshall, ffole. Thinking him they sought bad in this spring 9 4t. simply passed through aud had gone Langlois. on. they rushed out as hurriedly as they had come in. When they were P iano F or S ale — 1 have been well away the girl called to the hlder: agent for this piano for several “There is nothing now to fear, Ilero- buml, but you had better remain years and can give you a bargain where you are for awhile in ease they The factory price delivered here is come back.” “Thank you, Nikama. You have $365. 1 need the money and will saved my life. I knew when I came, sell foj $250 cash. Will ship if n< t having been here at times for tea, that sold by April I. Rev. M. E. Coen, I would not be betrayed, but I did not 9>2tx know that I would find one who by Bandon. her presence of mind would keep my head on my shoulders.” Fishing tackle is now in demand The girl went out and looked about The Bandon Hardware Co. have a and, finding all pursuit of the fugitive The kind the in that vicinity had been abandoned, fine assortment returned to the house, removed the sportsman uses. totf brazier, and Ilerobumi came out of the hole. He did not tl^nk of the dust with which he was covered, but Ni kama did, and, getting a wisp broom Settlement Notice she brushed his clothes. Theu he took both her hands In his and said to her: "You are but a poor geisha girl, while Business calls me away from Ban I am of a far different rank, but I dun in 2 or 3 months for an in promise that you shall never regret definite time All who are indebted the act of this day.” When it was dark he slipped out of to me must call anil make settlement the tea house and found a more per by cash or approved note by the 20 manent place of safety. D r . S. L. P erkins . One day—It was after the shogun of March 7-4tx had been permanently defeated and the mikado securely placed upon the throne of Japan—a jinrlklsha stopped Notice For Publication before tlie tea house. Nikama was Department of the Interior, t a tiding at tho door, and who should U. S. Land Office at Roseburg. Oregon, ho see alight from the jinrlklsha bn March 5, 1910 ;fie young man whose life she had Notice u hereby given that William A. De ■aved. lie came up and led her out Long, of Bandon, Oregon, who oil April 6, on to a veranda. 1908, made Homestead Application (04408.) "I have not seen y< u for a long No. 14828, for lots 0, 7, 10 and 11, Section 4. while." she said. "1 La red that the Townahip 30 South, Range 14 Weat, Wil lamette Meridian, has filed notice of intention to ■bogunites had caught v u at last.” "No; I was too slippery for them make Final five year proof to establish claim But nil lay inventive [lowers -and to the land above described, before A. D. Morse, U. S. Commissioner, al Bandon, Oregon, there are those who esteem them con on the 22d day of April 1910. slderable- are as nothing compared Claimant names as witnesses: with yours, Had it not been for your George W. Rea, F. F. Baird, George Tyron, quick acting brain I should not now H. A. De Long, ail of Bandon Oregon. be here.” BENJAMIN 1. JONES. Register. The girl, nifrally pleased at his ap 9-6t predation of tier act, smiled and blushed. “1 told you that you would not re you gret your act of that terrible day," continued the visitor, “nor shall you I wish to make you a present. I will first offer you that which 1 value most highly and which will include within if so CALL AND LOOK OVER itself all I can give you. Then if you OUR STOCK OF prefer a part rather than tile whole you may ask for what you like and I will give it. in rkkllex. 11 (»robu id I "You sper r, rather, you «peak like the mikado when you say you will give what 1 Whist, 500 and Bridge Score ask. Are you. a young man not yet thirty years oid, so powerful that yon Cards, Punches, Counters, etc. enn give me anything I ask?" "1 can nt least give jou that which I A FINE ASSORTMENT OF prize most.” “And that Is" — PRIZES FOR ALL “Myself.” AT THE Tin* girl stood looking nt him in as touishmeiit. No high caste young man in Japan was likely to marry a geisha girl. "I am the whole." n-Munied the young iiiau. •If you don't find me to your taste you may take a part.” “But 1 know you only as one who lias come here to drink tea and tie oniusel." said Nikama. "Oh. you wish for my credential«. Well. then, know that when our new government v, s formed It was I who wrts principally fntruste-1 with Its .ferxLt PATTERNS < . Drilled for style, perfecTfit formation. Then I was made prime r lability marly 40 y< *rs. i cry my aud to'^ n in the V u1 minister by tin- emperor, and that < a h I i, or by mail direct. A’ •»• I 1 office I hold nt the present time.” any oth r make. Send for free ent u It is true that Prince Ilerobumi Ito V.l’S MAGAZINE c a tab r bets than «fiy < ■ fa i»f Japan, who was recently assnnsl- id irhic-million a month. Tn-. . I uitol. married Vie geisha girl who t t pitti-rnu, dretsmnkinr, »1 iihn p ahi *cwing,lan<y needawotk. 1 n »11. tupre than forty years ago saved his « . qui ttr, »loritt, etc. Oi. y J life by hiding him hr a dust hole, put y»:»r (forth double), including a Irtv j »*’-m. it boas! and brazier on It and then ’ S-.ivxi be today, or tend for 1.11 4 ’ n v Invited the followers of the shogun to WjCNtEKFUL INnUCFMENTS • . r learcb the house. < I ’ fh pr.xe otfeis. Add»» »» no PLAY CARDS? Playing Cards Bandon Drug Co. «IU McCALL CO. 2» •• IU W I7tb SI.. NF.W VO! I i