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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE, 4, 1908. v 1 Jr " J' r ,1 COOS BAY TIMES An Independent Republican news paper published every evening except Sunday, and Weekly by The Coos Bay Times Publishing Co. Entered nt the postofflie at Marsh field, Oregon, for transmission through the mails as second class mall matter. M. C. MALONEY. . .Editor and Pub. DAN E. MALONEY News Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. In Advance. DAILY. Ono Year 5.00 Six months $2.50 Less than 6 months per month .50 WEEKLY. One Year SI. 50 The policy of the Coos Bay Times will be Republican In politics, with the independence of which President Roosevelt is the leading exponent. Address All Communications to COOS BAY DAILY TIMES Alarslifleld Oregon THE WniRLIGIfi OF TIME. Real light on Mr. Roosevelt is shed by a private letter which has come Into our hands, and which has more personality than many of the President's longer documents: "State of New York, Assembly Chamber, Albany, April 30, 1884. Dear Mr. North: I wish to write you a few words just to thank you for your kindness toward me, and to as sure you that my head will not be turned by what I well know was a mainly accidental success. Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow mo to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat. "I have very little expectation of being able to keep on in politics; my success so far has only been won by nbsolute Indifference as to my future career; for I doubt If any one can realize the bitter and venomous hatred with which I am regarded by the very politicians who, at Utica supported me, under dictation from masters who were influenced by pofitlcal considerations that were National and not local in their scope. "I realize very thoroughly the ab solutely ephemeral nature of the hold I have upon the people, and the very real and positive hostility I have excited among the politicians. I will not stay in public life unless I can do so on my own terms; and my Ideal, whether lived up to or not, is rather a high one. "For very many reasons I will not mind going back Into private life for a few years. My work this winter has been very harassing, and I feel both tired and restless; for the next few months I shall probably be In Dakota, and I think I shall spend the next two or three years in making shooting trips, either in the Far West or in the great northern woods and there will be plenty of work to do writing. If you are ever in or near New York, let me know, and I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you in my homo, either on Long Is land or In New York; you will always bo sure of a. welcome. Very truly yours, "(Signed) THEODORE ROOSEVELT." When Mr. Roosevelt wrote this letter ho was six months short of 20 years old. Since ho predicted the early termination of his political pnrnnr. 2 4 years have passed, and tho last 19 of them ho has spent constantly in public olllce. A few weeks after the date of this letter ho went to the Republican National Convontlon as a delegate, and seem ed to further Insure his political obli vion by bitterly opposing Blaine. Thereafter this is tho list of his poli tical activities: 188G Republican candidate for Mayor of New York. 1889-1895 National Civil Ser vice Commissioner. 1895-1897 President New York Police Board. 1897-1898 Assistant Secretary of the Navy. 1899-1900 Governor of New York. 1900-1901 Vice-president of tho United States. 1901 to dato President of tho United States. When ho wrote this letter Mr. Roosevelt was Just finishing his sec ond year as an unpopular reformer in tho Now York Legislature. Ho ad dressed It to Simon N. D, North, editor and statistician. Mr. North was then managing editor of tho Utica Morning Herald, nnd had com mended Mr. Roosevelt's courso in tho legislature. Twenty-four years later found Mr. North In President Rooso volt's administration as Director of tho Census. Will those politicians, potty nnd great, who cringe and fuss and scheme and Ho awako nights and curry favor with this Interest and that to keep a desperate and slippery tall-hold on popular favor see the point? Colliers Weekly. ' DECREASE IN RAILROAD CASUALTIES. With the reduction In volume of railway traffic there has been a natu ral decrease In the number of acci dents and casualties to passengers and trainmen says the Spokane Spokesman Review. This result Is attributed by the Interstate com merce commission not merely to the fact that the fewer number of trains operated gives less opportunity for accident, but to the diminished de mand for overwork and excessive hours, while the weeding out of the less competent men Is held to be an Important factor. The quarterly accident bulletin just Issued by the commission covers October, November and December of last year. Comparison of the prin cipal items in this bulletin with those for the preceding quarter and for the quarter ending With Decem ber of the previous year shows a re markable falling off in the number of passengers killed in train acci dents and a considerable reduction In the fatalities to employes. In the quarter ended December, 1907, 21 passengers were killed In train acci dents; in the previous quarter 110; and in the October-December quar ter of 190C, 180. Trainmen killed In train accidents during the same periods were, respectively, 199, 236 and 294. The total number of persons killed In train accidents during October, November and December, 1907, In cluding passengers, trainmen and other classes of employes, was 220 and of Injured 4187. In addition to these the bulletin mentions casualties due to other causes than train accidents bringing the total for the quarter up to: Killed, 1092; Injured, 19,366. It is noticeable that In the fatal ities to passengers for other causes than train accidents, such as getting on or off cars, and said to be largely due to their own negligence or want of caution, there is little difference between the quarter under considera tion and the corresponding quarter a year ago, the figures being 61 and 54, respectively. This probably in dicates that the difference in the total number of passengers, travel ing was not large; while, on the other hand, the diminution in the number and severity of train acci dents must have been due to the dimin ished pressure nuder which trainmen have had to do their work as a consequence of the falling off in gen eral traffic. This gives emphasis to the Importance of providing that as traffic Increases there shall be no overworking of any employes en gaged In the operating of trains. A SENILE ROUE AND MISS WOOD. Ago never appears In a more un lovely rolo than when posing, with a self-satisfied smirk and grimace, as an object of the amorous regards of youth. All feeling of respect and Tevorence that by common consent of civilized peoples is due to gray hair, and eyebrows touched by the frost rime of time flees In disgust when the whitened thatch projects over weak eyes, watering lasciviously at folly's Indecent pose as represented by a young woman ogling for the money that Is behind the trick that she Is playing to catch tho senile regards of tho hoary simpleton. It Is bad enough and disgusting enough when tho latter is a plain lumberman or a lusty cattloman, or an uncouth miner, whoso accumulations in these honest vocations havo been the golden bait that allured tho angler, but who has not heretofore been known to tho goneral public. But when a United States Senator drags his toga to the slimy social fishing pond and poses and postures, and drools and smirks while tho unscru pulous angler, watching hor chance, takes him in for tho gudgeon that he Is, tho disgust of decent people is augmented and nausea ensues. It does not matter that Senntor Piatt probably tells tho indecent truth, when ho denies that ho was married to his youthful accuser. He admits all of tho Important allega tions of lewd, Immoral conduct and seeks cover In his infamous part In the matter at issue In tho slmpV, boyish declarations thnt tho prosecut ing witness "fascinated him" nnd ho was "very fond of her." Tho great stato of Now York is tho humiliated sponsor for this senile simpleton. She know tho man full well, yet sho bestowed upon him tho rank nnd tltlo of a United States sonntor. Who shall say that her humiliation completo ns It Is boforo tho world, Is undeserved? Portland Oregonlan. With the Toast and Tea ;: j IMHIIIUHtniMMtHUllMMMIHH MMtMIt X GOOD EVENING. i The pain of an unfulfilled wish is Bmall In comparison i rt with that of repentance; for i one stands in the presence of H the vast open future, while the X other has the Irrevocable past K closed behind it. K SCHOPENHAUER. Getting Information Out of Pn. My pa, he didn't go to town Last evening after tea, But got a book and settled down As comfy as could be. I'll tell you I was offul glad To have my pa about To answer all the things I had Been tryin to find out. And so I asked him why the world Is round, Instead of square, And why the piggies' tails are curled, And why don't fish breathe air? And why the moon don't hit a star And why the dark is black, And just how many birds there are And will the wind come back? And why does water stay In wells, And why do June bugs hum, And Nvhat's the roar I hear In shells, And when will Christmas come? And why the grass Is always green, Instead of sometimes blue, And why a bean will grow a bean, And not an apple, too? And why a horse can't learn to moo, And why a cow can't neigh? And do the fairies live on dew, And what makes hair grow gray And then my pa got up an gee! The offul words he said I hadn't done a thing, but he Jest sent me off to bed. Selected. There's more than one man In Marshfleld who can be a millionaire if he has the money. Sometimes when a father tries to get a daughter off his hands he gets a son-in-law to put on his feet. The breadfruit tree is all right, but what I want to know Is, "Where Is there a tree that grows pie?" Some Coos Bay people are like pins they have their good points but they will stick you if they get a chance. Nature probably has compensations for women, but somehow they have not yet evoluted to her satisfaction. There really is no use in getting mad, but a great many people make use of it. Self conceit should not be kept upon dress parade If kept at all, but it cer tainly is the balm of Gllcad for bruis ed feelings. Soorae people 'will steal before they will starve, while others havo to starve awhile before they will steal. Some people must have bor rowed a lot of troublo In their time the way they have it stacked up about them. Nothing mat ters very much, but there is al ways so much to matter. An apple was never known to turn into a plum, but a peach often helps to make a pair. It is easy to get something for noth ing. Tho consummate flatterer knows how it Is to be dono and is tho only party to the transaction who knows that it is being done. A man usually pleases himself when he marries, but he sometimes finds It hard to keep pleased and married at tho same time. The best thing a mother can teach her child is how to get along without her. The man who delights to hear him self talk Is generally alono in his on thusiasm. Somo Coos Bay people call danc ing "praying with tho feet." If this Is so a clog-dance must bo a prayer In Chinese. Arthur McKeown says thnt love of tho national gamo runs in his family, oven tho baby is a great bawl enthusiast at times. Thoro nro girls one cannot nick name Martha niny bo called Mat tie; Catherine, Kittle; Mary, Molllo; Frances, Fnnnlo; Sarah, Sallle; Wln nlfred, Winnie, but a girl named Belle they never well, thercall her Belle all the time. "Say, Dave," asked W. R. Haines of his friend Stafford, "What I want to know Is do tho members of the brick-makers union make your brick Ice cream?" In Saint Louis a man was arrest ed and fined $300 for trying to flirt with a married woman. Put that rule in force on Coos Bay and there are several fellows that would be broke financially. A Quandary. WR7 o ffSlfky s Mi' Taw li yf mft' "Where did you get that counterfeit dollar?" "I picked It up on the street." "I should have thought you would have been afraid to do that?" "I didn't dare pass It. did I?" Nightmares. no Mrs. Jones has a new bonnet. She Yes. iMi't it a dream? He Maybe it Is, but If I had dreams like that I would be sending for the doctor. Vanity Fair. In vanity fair Is mirth In tho air. And Folly Is flaunting about. She's nailing so fast Her Hag to tho mast She's putting gray Wisdom to rout. Language Expert. "What Is this 'made In Germany' I hear so much about?" "Maid In Germany? That's frauleln." At school a little Coos County boy, being one of the geography class, was deeply Interested in learn ing the points of the compass. Said tho teacher: "You havo in front of you the north; on your right the east, on your left the west. What have you behind you? After n moment's reflection Charllo ex claimed: "A patch-on my pants." Coos Bay girls who blush and they all do now and then will be Interested In the following defini tion of a blush by an Oregon editor: "A blush Is a temporary erythema and calorific effulgence of the phys iognomy actlologlzed by one's per ceptlveness of the sensorlum when In a predicament of unequlllbrlty from a sense of shame, anger or other cause, eventuating in a paresis of tho vasometer filaments of the facial capllarles, whereby, being divested of their elasticity, they are suffused with a radiance offemanat Ing from an intimated pratKiordia." xciaaxs xxou.ii no navan Snntcbcs of Comersntlon Caught on the Fly by a Times Reporter. "I hope that It will be dry." "Hey, Jake, come and have a drink!" "If this rainy weather continues the strawberry crop'll be short." "Oh, girls, have you seen the new show at the ?" "Yes sir, a man has a right to stand up for himself, but not to step on another man's toes." "I never told a He about fishln In my life, but there was that bass and " "He ate so much we was all asham ed of him." "All them two does Is to stand around and watch the bank build ing." "I'm skeery of ice cream because I hear of a good many people being poisoned from eatin' of It." "Yes, she lives In North Bend." "Old man built his house close to the street so as to save a lot on his ground for another house." "Keep still, here comes that news paper man." "I carried that potato in my pock et for fourteen years, and I haven't been troubled with rheumatism since." E5S5asaS25Z5aSH5i5HSS25E5asa5asasaE525HSH5t!SHS"d5H5E5Hj2SaSE52Sa5ESE5a is Purity and Quality Form the most Important part of GOLDEN GATE LARD Is It Necessary To Say More? 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