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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1910)
"ftJHMIwaatk 5 I n. . c lopics or Meaty of land In thla country yet N,o woman over expects glad titling to corns by telegraph. We observe that President Dtaa will "virtually retire." Tho emphasis la on the. "virtually." Indeed, my boy, tho man who won't get up In the morning can't aspect to txet up In the world. Collector Loeb says people are be coming more houest Mr. Loeb haa done what he could to ahow them how. Is there a Santa Claus, or Isn't (here? If you leave It to us, we say "yes," and a reckless old boy he Is getting to bo, too. A University of Wisconsin professor dcllevea schools should be kept open ait year. He doesn't seem to caro what the boys think ot him. Professor Hyslop wants 180,000 to carry on the work of psychical re search. This must be an appeal to a philanthropist with tho right spirit crops can be raise la much aaerter REMINDED. time, owing to tho prolonged auasMne of the summer day. It may bo aatd Mad Hr the iiorr mim lht lb. nrft.1i.rl. nf Alaska will never I Oornolla Wantod ( T.l.phon.. mako much Impression upon the world's food supply, but Alaska Is not tho whole story. There are Immense northern areas In Canada aud across the straits In Siberia that will, with proper cultlvntlon, produce food In great abundance. The distribution ot , this food will bo a question ot trans portatlon, which la In tho way ot being solved by the projection and construc tion ot railroads, through regions which were formerly tuppoeed to be regions of eternal snow and Ice. A large percentage ot the arable surface ot the earth Is as yet untaxed by the plow. The time when the population will outrun tho means of subsistence la many generations ahead ot us, and may perhaps never come, as by the tlrao the land ts all occupied Intenser cultivation may Indefinitely Increase tho yield ot the soil. "Wo'ro all upsot hare this morning," said the young woman who was show Ing ready-made suits to Miss Cordelia Grant "Ono ot tho girls In our depart ment lost her mother very suddeuly I've been trylug to get together some black thlug for her to wear." Mis Cordelia looked disturbed, Bhe had suddenly rememberod a hurt ex pression on her own mother's face. It had been Just before she left tho house that morning, Then, wltn a murmur ot sympathy, aho gave her attention onco more to deciding between the gray stripe and the small brown check. Half an hour later, when she had chosen her suit and was watting for tho fitter In a small mirror-lined room, the saleswoman, who was watting, too, poke again ot the matter that was titl ing her heart "Ono ot our girls lost her mother last night," sho said, quite forgetting that she had told It "I had just fin ished gottlng togother some black Papers bpeopl l&S Hereupon arises the necessity ot reconstructing the statue ot Liberty Enlightening the World, or ot taking It down. Gee-bernard Shaw does notllko It The dukes am not at all afraid that the English people will decide to abol ish the House ot Lords. No house ot lords has ever been abolished in Eng land. The 15.000 paid by a New York yachtsman to a Bailor for saving his life represents the average valuo ot a life as estimated for American Jury awards. In tho sugar scandal they are after tho men higher up." When last seen the said men were climbing hastily over tho ridgepole and dropping oft tuto the alley. A Philadelphia preacher has arrang ed matters so that halt a dozen ot the prettiest young women In his congre gation act as ushers. A largely In creased attendance ot men la reported. A New Tork widow who possessed fsany millions and might have married soma foreigner with a title has become the wlfo ot an American who Isn't even a colonel on any governor's staff. Aren't come women strange creatures! It la one of the most scandalous facta in our national life that It is not the Ignorant and degraded elements ot society that are the most serious men ace to our Institutions and our com mon life, but representative of the intelligent and educated classes. Canada talks about an army ot f0, 900 men for her prairie provinces. Such aa army would be too little to be a menace to the United States and too big for any other purpose. In either ase it will be too expensive for a coun try that needs all Its money to develop Its resources. The race has outlived all its threat ened dooms. Physicians tell us that we waste a billion dollar annually be cause potential laborers are needlessly sick with fever and tuberculosis, which can be prevented. We are threatened with lumber famines, pulp amine, food famines and coal fam laea. And still we survive. Whole race have been wiped out through the Ignorance of the past, by disease, and by the failure to husband natural re source. But the race thrives amain, and nature still proves Inexhaustible. We "rise on the stepping stones of our 4ead selves' to better things. To a degree that men of the early sineteenth century never dared 'to hope, society la being international ized, and all the serious aspects of human endeavor and speculation are more and more being faced by men as men, and not aa members ot races or a citizens ot nations. They agree in Intellectual aims, social desires, hu man feelings; but they differ radically In the speech with which they define 'their aims, their hope and their de sires. Are they to be forever debar red from completest interchange ot their ideas and ideals by lack ot a common speech? Are the records ot their united action always to be writ ten in diverse tongues? Is the lan guage of science to be shaped by Da te! ? Tho demonstration made this year ot the agricultural possibilities of Alaska may serve to quiet the alarm of a fall ing food supply. Vegetables raised in tho Tanana valley, within two degrees of the Arctic circle, have been placed on exhibition In the Eastern States 'surpassing the products of some of ,tbo famous market gardening regions, both In quality and yield. There are potatoes weighing three pounds each, which would Uko the premium for ( quality at most any county fair. The ' yield Is said to be as high as 640 bush els to an acre. There are cabbages, turnips, beets, mangles, carrots and -parsnips, all larger and finer than the average. There are also fine specimens et wheat, oats, barley, timothy and red-te hay. Although the growing season up In that latitude is short, the The discussion ot tho lists ot "besi seller" that are published monthly has been renewed owing to some interest-1 things for her when you came In." ing "confessions" of a popular novelist "Yes; you were telling "me," Miss who admits that ho manufactures Cordelia answered, with the same trou harmless but "thrilling" fiction for this great market It ts Intimated that tnany authors and publishers would Uko to see the lists discontinued, tor in many instances they represent wish es rather than facts, and In some cases they crcato false Impressions. How ever, tho honest lists ot beet sellers have never given any support to tho assertion ot some hasty critic that only ephemeral and worthless novels figure in these lists. The fact Is, as the anonymous writer who has con fessed hi sins points out, that "the best novels by tho best English and American writers havo generally been Included In these Hats." Even so "old fashioned" a novelist as Do Morgan, who makes no concessions to tho fads and fancies ot the day, has "shared tho ignominy of popular success," to soy nothing ot Mrs. Wharton, Mrs. Ward, Churchill, Owen Wlster, Hew lett Wells and others. Undoubtedly many ot the best sellers are not liters bled look that had come before. "Was I? Well, I can't thluk of much else. It was so terribly sudden. Her mother had supper all ready, Just as usual, they two lived together, and then sh dropped dead, a few minute? before the girl got home." "Ohl" "Wasnt It terrlblot Heart failure, I suppose. And Frances was telling me only yesterday she didn't know how she could ever live without her mother they were so wrapped up In each other. Wasn't It strange that should happen on the very day? One good thing, though. Bhe told me that It either one ot 'em should be taken, thero'd be nothing but sweetness for the other to rivnembcr no hard words, ever. I'm glad ot that." She wiped her eyes. "What is It, madamT Some thing missing?" "No," said Mtsa Cordelia, who had been searching through her bag. "Only I must get n nickel somewhero 0 BEWARE OF T1IE MAN WHO TELLS. Uy Hart Kennedy. It you have a brick handy, present It with out ceremony to the man who Is always tell ing you what other people say about you. You will Injure him with the brick, and you will doubtless bo locked up for assault; but you will gain In the end. For you will have rid yourself o( a friend who Is more danger ous than the moat dangerous foe. (lostlp In itself ta not a bad thing at alt And oven scandal Is shorn In a vast measure of Its power to Injure when tho person about whom It Is Cir culated knows nothing of It It you don't know what people are saying about you, tho thing largely Is, In ef fect, not said. And, even It you do know what Is said, absolutely tho best way ot dealing with It I to wear a bold, unconscious front. If you do this you will al ways find people to take your part. This Is aa true of human nature as It Is true that It love gossip and scandal. It ts the ono who tell who really causes the trouble. This dealer In the truth that Is necessarily In part a lie routes mora mischief than any other kind of criminal. I say criminal advtiedly, for the man or the woman who is in the habit ot telling people what others say about them creates far more mischief and causes far morn misery than the more honest and bolder type ot criminal w ho la sent Into penal servitude. The law Is unable to touch them, I know; but their crimes are thoto that the law Is unable to punish. A ture at all, but tho qualities which and send a telephone message." please in them romance, plot, advca-l "I have one right hero. Yes, and ture, humor are generally wholesome and natural. "There are not enough novela of tho first order," to quote the "confessions" further, "to satisfy the popular demand, and while the people wait they take inferior books, which have no aim but to amuso." And there Is this difference the really good nov el are steady sellers after they disap pear from tho lists ot best sellers. while tme cnade-to-order variety Is , short-lived and haa no hope of rceur-1 rcctlon. And thla latter fact suggests an adjunct to the system of ascertain ing and publishing lists of best sellers. These lists, apart from the element ot dishonesty that ha been charged against soma of them, merely Indicate the state ot the market What pub lishers and lovers of letters might do to encourage good work and artistic education is to prepare and furnish semi-annual lists of steady sellers, of novels and volume ot essays, biogra phy and history that have survived and that stand ont as works of merit and value works that the great pub lic should not forget How many books deserve praise and commendation In a retrospective survey of literature? These are Interesting questions, and the proposed list of steady sellers, book "crowned" by, the consensus of critics and thoughtful readers, would answer them to some extent welcome. I tell you. as soon as I heard ot Frances' trouble, I couldn't do a thing till I got a dime changed and called up my mother, Just to make sure sho was safe. All I could think was what It a certain remark I made before I left tho house should be the last word I'd ever have a chance to speak to her. When 1 got to the tele phone, there I found two other girls waiting to do tho same thing." A gleam of sisterhood lighted Mlis Cordelia's face. "It's exactly what I want ot thla nickel," ahe confided, a he took It. Youth's Companion. 0 BQUIUBEL AND THE PLAQUE dOD HAS HELPED HIM. Ran Adopted bjr Habbt to Car Marl and Ihrl-al SoSarcr. A story Is told ot Rabbi Wlldrewltz. who Is well known on the east side, the New York Press says. A recently arrived skeptic and cynic came to see him once with a "case" Intended to put the reverend gentleman "up a tree." He called and begged to be healed and consoled. "I suffer," said the skeptic, "from two maladies. I have a great weak ness I cannot tell the truth, and that hurts ray soul terribly. And I have lost the sense of taste In my mouth; something is wrong with my tongue." Mr. Wlldrewltz studied the man a moment, seemed to be perplexed, and said: "Come again to-morrow. It Is a difficult case. I shall have to reflect upon It If God wills, I shall be ablo to help you." When the patient returned next day the rabbi brought forth a pill be had prepared, told the doubly afflicted man to open his mouth and shoved It In. The pill was of considerable size. Scarcely had the patient allowed It to dlssolvo In his mouth when be be gan to spit, with an expression of tho greatest disgust, and exclaimed: "What do you mean? That's tar and sulphur and kerosene you gave me. Do you want to poison me? Phull" "Well, what are you making . so much noise about?" laughed the rabbi, with great heartiness, Hasn't Ood per formed a miracle? You have told the truth; It Is really tar and sulphur and kerosene. And you have actually re covered the sense of tasto in your mouth!" A Iluiiblrr, "I have Just had an idea" "Excuse me, you'll have to produce your Eskimos and submit your data to Copenhagen before I can credit your assertion." Houston Post When the coal supply Is low, one member ot the family stays In bed longer in the morning to keep warm, and refuses to worry about it. That member ts an Optimist flotlent la'Shnwn to Its aa Inculiatnr of tho lllack Death. One hot day In the summer ot 1903 a German blacksmith In the country town ot Pacheco, CaL, wanted a mess of ground squirrel for his dinner. He bankeS his forge, hung up his leather apron, took the old shotgun from Its pegs on the wall and had an excellent afternoon's sport In a nearby field. That evening he feasted on fat, tender broiled squirrels. Three days later he was taken violently HI so 111, In fact, that the physician who was called sent him to the German hospital In 8an Francisco. The doctor, a man of keen intelligence and acute observation, realized that he was dealing with a disease which ho bad never met before and the exact Identity of which ho was unablo to determine. At this time bubonic plague existed in Chinatown, San Francisco, and the task of eradicating It' bad be-n as signed to a young officer ot the public health and marine hospital service who was afterward to tako foremost rank among the world's authorities on that disease. His ability was already rec ognized by the medical profession, and he was called to diagnose the strange disease which had attacked the coun try blacksmith. He saw at once that the patient was suffering from bubonic plague the black death and was ablo to prove this bacteriological! after the death of the man. Pasted Assistant Surgeon George W McCoy ot the federal laboratory In San Francisco, -whoso bacteriological work on the ground squirrel marks an advance In plague Investigation, finds that many of the ground squirrels sent In for examination have the disease In light form or are recovering from a severe attack, William Colby Ilucker says in Harper's Weekly, Usually when the germs from such a case are Injected into rats or guinea pigs they die quite as rapidly as If they ha.1 been given a dose of the most virulent plague bacteria known. In other words, althbugh tho disease does not seem to kill off all of the squirrels after it has traveled through several generations, It regains Its virulence when Injected Into another species, The squirrel, then, Is the animal In which the disease Is kept alive, a serf of natural living Incubator, as it wore, and when plague leaves the squirrels for another species widespread death and suffering follow In Its train. Dr- llluo's officers and men have scoured the city of San Francisco and ridden It of plague. Tho present movement looks to the eradication of this outside focus, the extermination of the disease from California. COMPETITION AND BIIOTHEIUIOOD OF MAN. Uy Prot. (lcorge H, Votter, How does it come that weaker man has maintained his place upon the earth, while much stronger animals of the primeval world succumbed to their fnte long ago? Only through social life, only through the bond ot common, If so be, primitive order, the first traces or civilization! And the higher hu manity has ascended the ladder of develop ment, tho clearer Is It to be seen that tho power which makes man strong to triumph In the battle of life, thus to fill the law ot social progress, consist in Incrcaied capacity to servo the Interests of other men, to understand tho problems ot other men, and to serve other men's lives. In fair competition man sees all the foolish schem ing and striving which goes on around him and makes him sorry for the people; he trie to be strong so that he may not bo upset by the general confusion ot moral Ideas; he feels that ho must be better, even If he standi alone, than all his' totalled competitors. If he re mains strong, ho will become ever stronger, ever freer, a fountain ot life, n stirring exnmple for others, show ing them new paths ot life. It Is ours, then, to seek tho best to excel all who lag behind In that which Is truly human, good and great. The truest love, the flne.t eenio for truth, open righteousness, magnanimity, and r.enUrnes-!n a word, brotherhood-all this sec-urn a victory In which the vanquished share In the triumph! POWER OF M0HAL OOUltAQE IN WAIt. Uy Lieut, 1tnt RtglHuld C. Ilrt. It It Instructive to stiuy the moral lorrct that contributed so largely to the Japanese, victories. U Is sufficient lit that re ligion, call It any other name you like, en trr Into the dally private and public life of the whole nation. Hoys amf girls alike are brought up lo rrat their parents with honor, mspnil and unselfish devotion, and lo revere past generations to whom all living men arow much Indebted. Ill Japan the young men ami wiiuisn of the nobility and wealthy .classes would think It ill. honurablo lo devote the bett years of their lives to Idleness and the rmult of sclflth pleasure, because tltey are taught that It I wrong not to work. The causes of coursge are mostly moral. There It some mysterious working In the minds of ordinary intti that gives n force ot character that determines Itiem to Ignore or control the strong natural Instinct of sf. preservation and to accopt self-eaerUlcs more or Uss completely. Itellglous feeling I a moral canto that produces an almost Irresistible moral force We need only recall (lis religions enthusiasm of 'the followers of Motes, Joshua, Mohammed, Cromwell and scores of othtrs. In deed, the greatest things have been done by armlt of Godfearing men. FATHER THE BEST ADVISEIl OF THE BOY. Uy John A, lluwUml, As a matter of stern, hard common noma truth, most of the advice which today i given to tho joung man In peron, long before ought to hate been Impressed upon Uie fa ther, In order that the growing boy ami yeung man might have ben made open to all else that may come to him In spoken advice and personal experience. It Isn't easy to train the normal boy, who Is overfull of high spirit and lightness of heart and feet and full ot high spirits and lightness ot heart and feet and hands. Hut when It It brought home to him that seme of his heedless aetlons Just a little later In Ufa may "put him out of business" the application Is direct and In disputable. Hold that boy to his accountabilities aa you would held the stranger boy. If you won't do this, don't ask that son to do anything. Open. Irresponsible Idlenrss Is tho better for him by far. lie will have a better show, wholly without training, than If lastly and Indifferently halt trained. 1 H-MH-H- I THE SPEED OF THE PIGEON. I ..... . ............ ....... if TTftT I i exes rri ttt fT it? VWWVNJVN It keeps the State legislatures but) making new laws as fast as the old ones are broken. The man who makes a specialty ot looking wise usually isn't Ilaclng pigeons are the fleetest ot all creatures. They have maintained a speed ot a mile and a halt a minute for a hundred mites, according to n writer In Collier's, and they have flown seven hundred miles between the rising and the letting qf the sun. Pigeons havo flown a thousand mile back to the home loft In 1901 a bird covered that distance In five days, two hours and fifteen minutes, proving how unerring Is the mysterious homing In stinct that will drive them across tho continent without swerving. Hut tm test is not true sport. Tho birds sim ply hurl themselves against time and spaco till they are played out Taey can never raco again. Tho racer rises Into tho air with heavy, slow wing pulsations, then, onco poised over the starting point, there is a swifter, shorter beat, and the time is "hit up" to the third and pormanent wing rhythm, rapid and steady as a pulse beat which carrlos them horns. They fly three hundred feet high over land, but low over water. Their enemies as they fly are wind, rain, gun ners and hawks. They do all their fly ing between sunrlso and sunset It caUght out overnight, they fend for, themselves till dawn. The homing Instinct Is lifelong. During the Frsnco-Pruttlsn War tho Germans caught a homing pigeon which was on Its way Into beleaguered Paris. Tho bird was kept prisoner for ten years. It was then released. It 'mmedlately returned to Its old home. ANY HRKllIT IlOY WITH TOOLS CAN NOW AtAKIl AN UI'.TO-DATIl AllKOI'LAM! ALL II V IIIMSULI ft "A1 rm sma km wuinxi 13 TO 6 j0y VSjr-7r W a. W XXVW , 1 r I IKl is hiisj jtrW mwi.-fti . m. nr . ,., M jnm I A 'NSSJttWyTl " SSSLSM YW JV Vv?L - fi vm i ff A1ITLMK2 rilUlHLD. rt ' .iti.'s x iaiHv '- .. r MJm V v?fV PROPELLER FIN WTU Bim W WHICH RUBBER &W Ll'MILHUl f)-l6i lit-" -i6!lh- . f.-lti I ljrtl i in ii ! U--- jLz OltEAT NOItWEarAN POET. EnPsiH fSBBBBSI SSBE? V & rfJfSaVPsBBsV IsaaaTM '.' s WtgS' j?T ""furS WOUKBTJKHXE IMOU.NRQX DJornstJernu DJornson, who has boen seriously 111 In Paris, may to culled tho Grand Old Man of Norwilan lit eraturo and drama. He was born In 1832, and In 18S7 became director of the theater at Uergen, From 1800 to 1862 ho lived In Denmark, Italy and Germany, and from the latter year to XI7S was director of the Chrlttlnnla 'Jh z F 4 n&D sxwiemmxTm 'Of PtOPlLLUAt Tin mm RUBBER BAHto m STRZTCHCD dZTVEMFM6 XKLL- mtr jm vav mowk Pfomma Hoys, If you follow these plans, you can make an aeroplane that will fly: First buy a bamboo flsbpole. Study tho plan and cut piece of tbc proper length. Split the pole to get pieces a quarter of an Inch wldo. This gives very stout and light rods. Mako tbreo box forms, according to tho scale In the plans. Don't drill holes In the bamboo, but bind the ends together with heavy linen thread, moistened with glue. Cover the top and ends of these boxes with a light linen cloth, tightly stretched, Glue (be cloth to the framework and then paint the cloth with n mixture which you obtain by shaving a psraflla candlo Into a pint of benzine, allowing the mixture to dissolve over night Now you havo three boxes, On is tho forward rudder. It Is II Inche long and 3ty Inches square. The largest box Is tho main biplane. It Is 2f Inches long and fl Inches square The smaller box Is the rear rudder, which stands upright Tho larger box ought to be well braced with six up rights, three In front and three In the rear, Any boy who will study tho plans carefully can sea how the boxos ars fastened together In their proper relation. Tho forward box, which doe the lifting, ought to be tilted upward, Underneath tho aeroplano fasten two runners, which will take up the shock when tho flyer alight. The noxt thing Is to carve two propeller.' Fasten on tho middle, lueso,, with small tacks, a tin plato and solder strongly to the plato tb7wki,proptlcr pin, which Is shown In tho drawing. A glass bead ought to. bo,pUeed-between the propeller and tho framo at B to act as u wasner. 2UW "m . Oet two long, HKhtgir'5hams--they ought to bo at least eighteen Inches In length. Attaijhoiieeud of tho rubbers to tho propellor pins and tho other to tho f rweworJc feta and II. Twist the rubbers about ICO times, being careful Uiat-Wtli propellers aro equally "wound." Heleato the aeroplano when holrtlngJWVboty your head, holding the propcllors with your thumbs until MJMtTj-Ulf to allow the piano to fly. Hy adjusting tho foro and rear rutfdoWM tli finally be nblo to direct your aoroplane" In tho air as you plriyjejilfy keeping the rubbors covered with talcum pow dor, thoy will last lnrllhan otherwise Theater and editor of tfe Nuisko Folkoblad, In 1874 he boift tu, farm In tho heart of Norway, twh ire be has slnco generally spent tte inirter. at other seasons living mij! In Paris, Rome and the Tyrol, jAmon hie works that hnvo beon translated la o English aro two novels of Norwlu peasant life, "A Happy Hoy"d '? "he Fkher Lass," and among ofhFj".Tbo 'Her itage of the Kurt," 'WKnfre' ind "Laboremus." He is las avitbbr X nu merous plays, hi lntost having only tP cently been In rehenrsal at Drosden. Th ICxyUuHlluu. Fred There seouis to be a lot more fuss made of Miss A.'a singing than Miss IC's, and I am euro Miss K. has by far tho richer voice. Jack Ah, yes, but Miss A. has by far tho richer father. Vhat the man with a good ! ntsds Is a flre-Jnsuranco policy.