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!.- rim tfrl-. - wwriawny - THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1908. T' I MR COOS BAY M. C. MALONEY DAN E. MALONEY -AN INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, AND WEEKLY BY THE COOS BAY TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY. Entered at the postofflco at Marsh field, Oregon, for transmission through the mails as socond class mall matter. i SATURDAY EVENING THOUGHTS I ..... J THE EVERLASTING MYSTERY. Companionship. Men laughed in ancient Egypt long ago, And laughed beside the Lake of Galilee; And my glad heart rejoices more to know, When it lenps up in exultation too, That, though the laughter and the laugh be nev, "The joy is old as is the ancient sea. Men wept in noble Athens, so they say, And in great Babylon of many towers, For the same sorrows that we feel today; So, stranded high upon Time's latest peak, I can with Babylonian and with Greek Claim kinship through this common grief of ours. 4 ' The same fair moon I look upon tonight, "This shining, golden moon above the sea, Imparts a richer and more sweet delight For all the eyes It did rajoice of old, For all the hearts, long centuries grown cold, That shared this joy which now it gives to me. Whate'er I feel I cannot fesl alone; When I am happiest or mos'. forlorn, Uncounted friends whom I have never known Rejoicing stand or weeping at my side These nameless, faceless friends of mine who died A thousand years or more ero I was born. R. M. EW EXPLORATIONS are being made in Polynesia, and the indica tions now are that there was a vast land area in mid-Pacific- at one time, most of which, like the f'bled Atlantis, sunk, leaving only the islands that are scattered through) the ocean, and there are permanent 'evidences that there was a far advanced civilization in that region. It Is proven by the fact that tremendous irrigation tunnels were dut. through mountain ranges which required, besldo great mechanical knowl edge, a knowledge of some principles of surveying. Then there was an elaborate code of water rights; there was a clear knowledge of the mo vements of the heavenly bodies; they were familiar with the currents of the great ocean, and made protracted voyages thereon. They had, too, a system of writing, and their system of religion was most elaborate, -and obtained a perfection and elaboration of ritual such as has been equaled by few other peoples. All this Is to be explored, and It is hoped that the explorations can bo made and the work describing them prc- .- arod in the next fifteen years. All that raises the question of whether men and nations do not, like trees, have their seasons. They come up and flourish and then pass iiway. In point of fact, our actual knowledge of mankind only goes back four thousand years, and yet there aro proofs In Egypt and other coun tries that the race existed there ten times four thousand years ago; that they wont on from small beginnings until they got to bo in tribes; after the tribes came nations; nations built their great works, marshaled their jinnies, and then, through civil wars or from outside assaults, they be gan to perish; then came the era of degradation, until they finally dis appeared. It starts the mind on many a curious speculation. Was it the design originally that men should thus come and go, that nations should rise and fall, until finally perfection should be reached and man should have dominion over all tho earth and all its elements and then eternity would begin? There aro no answers to those questions. No one can toll. Tho best that any one knows Is that mortals come here, they begin in holplessness, within forty years sometimes they advance until they rulo their fellow men, and make such an impression upon their age that that impression never dies away until tho race Itself, either by wars, by disease, or by soino overwhelming cataclysm, goes back into silence. No one can toll, tho mystery is just as great today as it was in the days of Job. Indeed, men seem farther away from tho real truth now than they diil formerly, and it all is at best but speculation. Wo flntter oursolves that our government was organized by divine in spiration; that In tho thought of tho Infinite, men had suffered enough; that, hence, a government was to bo organized where equal rights would orao to all and where tho highest civilization would have a chanco at last to establish itself, yet there are forces at work in our own country which threaten to disintegrate it, to undo tho work of the fathers and substitute something else. There aro politicians who have now theories of what tho rules should bo; there aro new creeds which, Hko every preceding creed, affects to Jjolicvo It Is tho only one. And thus wo move, mere shadows that wo -are, between tho cradlo and tho grave, and, save for tho few years past, wo know no moro of tho past than wo do of tho future, and no voice monies back to us to toll us whether our being originated hero and will paso here, or whether, boforo tho world was born, our souls wore alive aomewhore, and that they are to remain alivo through all tho rolling xiges of etornity. Tho final conclusion is that tho best any ono can do Is to do tho best The can for himsolf and his fellow man, that thero must havo been a pur puse In Bonding him hore, that tho agency which created him must havo been a creation in mercy, and that tho farther our lives extend In this or In any other world, tho moro capable will we bo of onjoyment, tho clearor avM bo our wisdom and tho higher our hopes. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. r On nil sides wo soo ovldonces that Rite tldo has turned. A steady im--jprovement from tills tlmo onward m uk 1)0 looked for with confidence ln"Kow York, Chicago, Pittsburg, St. Louis, Boston nnd othor industrial centers mills are reoponlng their doors. Tho stocks of goods In tho hands of manufacturers and whole salers have hocn reduced to low 11b iros, nnd tho resumption of pur chasos, which Is under way in all tho groat linos of trade, is beginning to send in orders to the factories with a littlo of thoir old-tiina volume. Rocontly the output of the mills of tho United States Steel Corporation lias boon lncroasod ton per cent ovor the avorngo of rocont months. Tho jironiiso Is that by tho bogiuning of J TIMES Editor and Publisher. News Editor. November that largest of tho world's stool concerns will bo running its works to nearly their full capacity. Tho independent steel mills, which furnish almost half of tho country's product, aro also responding to tho upward turn in trado. This improvement Is registering ltsolf in tho reduction of tho number of idle locomotlvos nnd cars. When the numbor was at Its highest, in tho closlug days of April, 413,000 cars wero sldotrackod throughout tho Unltod States for lack of work. In the closing days of July tho number hud dropped below tho 300,000 line. The heavy crops, which aro now be ginning to move to tho markets, aro likely to send tho numbor of idlo cars down to vory small figures beforo November. . . . ,- IT PAYS TO SMILE. I could learn to love you When you smile, smile, smile. Popular Ballad. This Is the smile age. It is the new dispensation tho dis pensation of optimism. Take a look at tho portraits of our statesmen of the past. They are near ly all of one type stern of feature, square cut as to mouth, dignified as to pose. You will scarcely find the glim mer of a smile on their faces. It Is different nowadays. Smile pictures are popular. Note tho pictures of Theodore Roose velt His well known visage is all broken up and mellowed with smiles. The picture shows either tho good na tured grin or the teeth, revealing spread of face. The bulldog counte nance of the president Is broken Into ripples like a pond Into which a stone has been cast. And the face of William J. Bryan in picturel He is a smller of the most expansive width a width as broad as his countenance Is wide. It Is a con tagious smile and is characteristic of the man. It Is significant that Mr. Taft is called "Smiling Bill" and his running mate "Sunny Jim." We aro a nation of smilers. Tho frowners are of the unique minority. The surly boor Is In hard lines In these days. We are learning that to look at the -world through smiling eyes not only sweetens life and brings sat isfaction, but that It pays. It pays to smile. It pays In health, In spirits. In absence of friction. It flays In lives made brighter. Therefore hold up your chin and smile. Don't be stlng In stretching your mouth. If you play miser that way you cheat only yourself. It Is difficult to appraise a smile at Its highest. It Is an iutauglblc thing. So Is the light an Intangible thing, but It lightens a world. So is heat, but It warms the world. So Is love, but it redeems the world. A home without a smile IS no home. Smiles are as necessary In a house as sunshine or air or warmth. They cost nothing. They aro worth everything. Smile! Start the smile down In your dia phragm and let it creep up into the cor ners of that drooping mouth and wrig gle up Into the corners of those luster less eyes. Smile! It pay3. A MARY BROWH MON0LOGUE. "Who is that old maid yonder?" I'll tell you who she is. Her name Is Mary Brown, daughter of John Brown. You remember John? He was a good hearted kind of ne'er-do-well. Mary looks a little old yes, evou when she Is "fixed up." But she has a good face, don't you think? And she Is just as good as she looks. She Is a woman "with a past," but the past of Mary has nothing dishonorable in It. She is the oldest daughter and takes after her mother, who was a mighty nice woman who never had a chance. If you remember, they lived upstairs over a store building on Main street. John Brown worked, when he "felt well," at painting and wall papering. He complained that ho bad contracted "painter's colic" and had never got over it. Well, John never was very strong, and that's true. And one day when he was a substitute over at the stave factory n big knife machine cut olf his right hand. After that he couldn't do much except nt off jobs. Mrs. Brown? A smart littlo woman and ambitious. She always kept the kids looking neat nnd clean throe of them besides Mary two boys nnd a girl. The woman just llternlly worked herself to death over tho washtub. Mary did the housework and helped. When her mother died Mary was sixteen years of age. That was four teen years ago. Yes, Mary is just thirty years of age. Well, in all that fourteen years Mary Brown has scarcely had time to raise her eyes from her sewing at the cloak factory. She got a dollar a day for several years. She Is a forewoman now and gets 9 a week. And, would you believe It, Mary Brown has kept those boys and tho girl just as well dressed as tho aver age? She kept her sister in school through tho grades. One brother. John Junior, graduated last year in tho high school. He helped Mary a good deal by selling newspapers. Tho other boy took a course in business college, and Mary can now take a long breath. Tho old mnn? Oh, ho earned a dollar occasionally. And ho was pret ty handy round tho house. Died a year ago. Ho had a very decent burial Mary's money. That's who Mnry Brown is. And I'm telling you no secret when I sny ono of the best men In this town is going to marry Mary in the fall, no knows what Mary is, and ho thinks a lot of her. Say, there's many an old maid in this world Just Hko Mary. I don't know how things would get along without somo of them. But all of them aro not as lucky as Mary. WE DON'T RUN A .JEWELRY cigar China ware leather goods hardware store. Wo run a drug store exclusively. Wo know tho drug business and give you tho honoflt of our knowledge. Brown's Pharmacy. Not waist $3.50. Ladlos Emporium. Tho EAGLES may screech and tho ELKS may scream. Como down to Mother's for chicken and ico cream. Road the Times' Want Ads. 044V04o t WITH THE t I TOAST AND TEA t fcfc.kil''l-' - -r nt- - jr r -rs -r nf- - - v- - -- -r t GOOD EVENING. l''Sl'l'l'ff5ifZf $VXXrO$$$$!Q&- SlLf&jSl2flfl DESPAIR NOT. aK were not made to pass In sorrow Our brief existence here away. For griefs a cloud that on the morrow . Gives promise of n brighter day. i TJRiailT flowers decay, gay foliage X fades ' Beneath November's chilly reign; But, robed In gayer tints, the spring Beholds the blushing flowers again. SO when some grief has blighted hopes Of happiness too dearly cherished Too oft we deem that overy Joy Has with departed Idols perished. HOWEVER deep the wound wo feel, However great our cause of sadness, 'Time rolls the clouds of grief away And brings again our wonted gladness. -L. V. Muller. THE SUBTLE SPIRIT. 1 BUILT a temple for my spirit's homo. I filled It with myself, and It wait fair. From Its dream pavement to its drenm reared dome No spirit but my own exists there. About the walls I wrought with doting care Huge fancies alien to tho world of men. Vague daubs and vast of youth and light and air Sublimely Isolated in my spirit's den, I lived and tolled and dreamed and hoped and then and then Another spirit entered, subtle, slow. Like summer coming when tho winter flees. With eyes that had the soft, warm, quiet glow Of somo calm evening of a day of ease. And that was you! I felt, upon my knees. A swift, mysterious spreading of tho place. My poor walls seemed to hold Infinities Too vast for peace. I fell upon my face And worshiped you at last, the spirit of the place. John G. Nelhardt Tho absence of some people- Is high ly appreciated by their interested ac quaintances. Lest we forget, the man with a bunch of bills comes around once in awhile just to remind us thnt life is not all milk and honey. If a widow is beautiful It is pretty hard for her to stick to her job. Thero are lawyers who work with a will. When they have finished it is apt to bo badly broken. The reason why some deals can't slip through easily is because they aro a little crooked and have not had their curves lubricated. You may need all you get, but if the other fellow Is sharper it is his. It is such a great comfort to a man to think how kindly he is letting his wife have her own way. After all, most of us know a lot about our neighbors that we don't tell. Women aro really sorry for men, but you never would guess It. VIco is tho pride of fools. The true btrcngth of a nation lies In tho strong arms of Its working popu lationand the otrong boxes of Us trusts. What is so game as a man in June with a straw hat when the mercury drops. A girl who looks attractive lu a rainstorm is entitled to a rebate. WTTHljA XRUiE?i- Every fat man is willing to do any thing on earth to be thin except to quit eating. Happiness may be preferred to mon ey, but not apparently among our best people. A self confessed saint is more open to suspicion than a self confessed sin ner. The peculiarity of tho intelligence of some people Is its lmperceptlblllty. Funny that while nobody really wauts to buy a gold brick it always finds ready sale. Luck is a good thing to have, what ever it is, but thero Is no question at all 'about pluck. It takes a lot to live and to live prop erly; it takes a house and lot and then some. It always sems as If the ring of the bill collector comes under the head of unnecessary noises. Use Tho Coos Bay Times Want Ada f4P5pS it AT THE CHURCHES vvv y s X CHRISTIAN' SCIENCE. Christian Science services will be held In tho Masonic Temple Sunday at 11 a. m. Subject: "Matter." A cordial invitation is extended to all. :o$so$o$$$oo$oo$f$$$$ fc! CATHOLIC CHURCH. Rev. Father DONNELLY. Mass will be celebrated in Marsn fleld at the Catholic churchy at 10:30 Sunday morning, and in North Bend at 8 o'clock, the Rev. Father E. Don nelly celebrant. f&OS&OGGOG&ZGOO&OQi n 4 Rev, B. F. Bengtson, Pastor. X fiiifiififiif,ij The service In the Lutheran church Sunday, September 2 0, will be as fol lows: Confirmation exercises with a class of eleven young persons to commence 10 a. m. Communion ser vices in the evening at 7:30 o'clock. f WWWWWVW WiW Vi rf Jt v A 4h V A i NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN. A Service every Sunday morning at 10:45 o'clock. Sunday school at 10 o'clock. These services will be con ducted in the Danish-Norwegian lan guage and temporarily at the Finnish Hall. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. The Baptist Church building is be ing remodeled and repaired. No services will be held thero Sunday, September 20, except the Sunday School at 10 a. m. This congrega tion will join in the farewell even ing services at the Methodist church. ftTVWVWV' .s -. ..KLllfl-flLfflf METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF NORTH BEND ? fcXXXXXXXXXX&rfXXf&-r'rfXX&&s Sunday School at 10 o'clock. 11 o'clock preaching service. Rev. W. A. Smith will preach. His theme will be "A Case In Court." Epworth League at 6:30 o'clock p. m. Even ing service at 7:30 p. m. Capt. Schmehl will preach. VVVVVVVVWVVWVWVWW ' PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ii ii NORTH BEND. 1l-'l2fl-'.L.Ll-l'11KL' Morning worship at 11 o'clock, subject of sermon, "A Service of the Highways." Evening worship at 8 o'clock. Subject of sermon, "Naa man the Syrian Leper." The Bible School meets at 10 a. m. Junior C. E. at 4 p. m. Y. P. S. C. E. at 7 p. m. Meets each Lord's day, at Luther an hall, in rear of Lutheran church. Preaching 1st and 3d Sundays of each month at 11 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Bible class Thursday at 7:30 p. m. Everybody Invited, strangers always welcome. VWVVVVW VT WVVSSK FIRST PRESBYTERIAN. H. H. BROWN, Pastor. Morning worship is held at 11 o'clock at which the pastor will preach. Subject of sermon, "Ori ginal Proofs." Sunday School and Bible study hour at 10 a. m. Classes for all ages. Visitors welcome. Young People's meeting at 7 p. m. Subject for consideration. The Christian Endeavor Society as a Training School for Workers." Leader, Miss Jennie Smith. At 8 o'clock a Union Service will be held in the Methodist Episcopal church In which our people are cordially invit ed to participate. Thero will bo no evening service therefore In this church. XX&VfXXXXXXXXXitt'iW&'ifxzGfx n METHODIST EPISPOCAL W. R. F. BROWNE. Pnqtnr &tttt&,&XZXitt&Xl&$$tXXZXK Methodist Episcopal church, Sun day, September 20th. The services will be as follows: 10 a. m Sab bath School; 11 a. m., sermon, "In Remembrance." Tho sacrament of the Lord's Supper will bo administer ed at the close of this service: 3 n. m Junior League; 7 p. m Epworth League, subject, "Christ tho Lord of Our Intellect"; 8 p. m., Union Sor- vlco, tho congregations of tho Baptist and Prosbyterian churches will unite with this church, the pastor will del iver his farewell sermon, subject, "The Gospol Message." Duet (select ed) by Mrs. Dr. Ingram and Miss Mablo Mlllis, also Anthem by the choir. Singing will he led by C. J. Millis. A cordial welcome is extend ed to all these services. X CHURCH OF CHRIST. X in Trn mm SI Ml t- , K TO BUY HUBBY .MISS ROWINS OF PITTSBURG OF FERS $450 AND FURNISHED HOME FOR MAN.. PJJSBURG, Sept. 19. Who will marry Mary Rowins, aged twenty four, fairly good looking, and will ing to quit her Job in a pickle factory to take up that of mistress of a home? The homo is all ready. There Is $450 in bank to Mary's credit. The successful applicant for the post of husband can have all three Mary, the furnished home nnd the bank ac count. Miss Rowins lives at No. G Pulaski alley, and was to have been married a few days ago. Her husband-that-was-to-have-been was a young mill worker. He had been out of work for months, and sought to delay the wedding because he had no money to buy a new suit. Mary, however, camo up with the cash and also with $5 with which to pay for the bridal carriage. Then the young man dis appeared. Now the damsel announces she is willing to marry anybody who wants her, that fs, provided the applicant is passably good looking and is not already a beaedlct. She says she will turn over the furnished house, which cost her $750, and her bank account. Miss Rowins is the orphan daughter of a former well-known Lawrence vllle mill worker, and has been a worker herself ever since her tenth year. She said: "Harry (the deredict one) treated me bad, and I never want to see him again. Still, I have the house fur nished, and I may as well bo mar ried. Tho house is too largo for me to live in by myself. I want a man, not a monkey. Harry professed to love me, but when tho time came ho ran away. The next time I see him I am going to pull his hair and make him sorry he ever met me." BRUIN RUNS OUT TOO FAR ON AND LIMB BREAKS, CRUSHING DOG THAT PURSUED HIM. LEBANON, Ore., Sept. 19. Fall ing out of a huge fir tree from a height of 50 feet a quarter of a mile from Lofton's mill, in the "swale country," near Berlin, when shot by hunters, a big black bear struck squarely on a valuable hound, which was instantly killed. The remarkable incident was wit nessed by a party of six persons, and came as the culmination of an hour's exciting chase with several dogs. The "varmint" hound killed by the falling bear, which weighed about 400 pounds, was owned by Corne lius Kinder, and was noted as one of the best trained animals in the Hamilton Creek region. Kinder would not have sold the dog for $500. Bears have been numerous on Hamilton and Scott Creeks this sea son, and their depredations havo been extensive. Many sheep and goats have been destroyed by the ursine marauders and ranchers have recent ly hunted them as much from mo tives of self-protection as for sport. The trail of the bear killed near Lofton's mill was taken by the party on the ranch of John Prior, where it had killed and eaten a young goat less than an hour previously. Those going in pursuit of the animal wero Cornelius and Lester Kinder, Dennis L. Taylor, Nelson Bellinger, Lyman Fltzwater and a Telegram correspon dent. Warned by tho baying hounds that he was In danger, Bruin covered a wide expanse of country in a short time in the effort to shake off his pursuers. His course led past the ranches of L. M. Taylor, W. M. Woolsey and J. M. Simons, and the hounds were at their quarry's heels when he took refuge in a giant fir. Taking up their positions in lino the hunters all "drew bead" on tho hear, which had climbed to a height of about 50 feet, and at a signal from ono, all fired. Pierced by several bul lets, the animal released its hold on a largo limb and crashed downward. Klnder's hound, eager to seize the boar, rushed in, but misjudged tho distance, and received the fo.l im pact of the dead antmal's weight. The dog's neck and back and several ribs were broken, and it never moved after receiving the tremendous blow. FALLItMG BEAR KILLS HOUND J -M. - MBMWmK