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THH DAILY COOS BAY TIM " ES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBERS, 1903.
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8VBSCIIUTIOX KATES.
In Advunce.
DAILY.
Dae year 6.00
BJst Months $2.50
Lea than 6 mnn'hs per month. .50
WIHJKIA.
One Tear $1.50
Address All C immunisations' to
COOS HAY DAILY TIMES
MnraliAeld - Oregon
The policy of tue Coos nay Tl -n--s
wCl h. Republican In politics, with
tie Independence of 'vhlch Presiient
Bcosevelt is the leading exponent.
CHRISTMAS SHOWING.
At this moment there is no indi
cation that Christmas will be cele
brated in 190S w.:h less lavlshnes
asd generosity than in lormer years.
Confidence has been restored, alter
the slight business depression, with
capital letters. Reports from all
over the country confirm earlier ru
mors of great commercial activity,
and hold the promise of a future
prosperity which will be almost un
precedented. The nation breathes
in tho spirit of thankfulness and con
tentment and hopefulness. With the
revival of general sa.isfaction, the
instinct of disinteroated giving as
sumes new vitality. The coming
Christmas will be a festival of gener
osity and unselfishness, participatsd
in by an entire nation which ap
proves of itself and its condition of
felicity.
That the holiday receipts of the
itores this year wiil exceed those of
last is a foregone conclusion. The
merchants have devlned a concerted
Blackening in the economics which
tho citizens have felt the need of
practicing for the last year or so,
and are, accordingly, carrying heav
ier stocks than usual. There will be
more to select from this year, and
the average Christmas shopper, being
assured of a sufficient income for
come time to come, will desire to
make more selections to visit even
the more remotely prospective re
cipients with tokens of good will.
There are a few human pleasures
vhich approach In degree the pleas
ure of anticipating and arranging for
the happiness of others. There Is no
Joy quite so rare as that of rum
aiaging through lavishly stocked
Ktorcs in the annual search of gifts
which will be peculiarly appropriate
lor Christmastlde bestowal upon the
iriends for whom one cares.
The coming week prdmiscs to be
one of manifold pleasures for almost
everyone except tho clerks In the.
shops. For them the approaching
aoliday means extra and especially
iatigulng hours behind tho counter.
It is only In keeping with the spirit
of tho time to urge that the public
spare the clerks In every possible
extent the nerve racking rash at tue
last moment. To paraphrase a re
cently popular business motto, Do
jour shopping now.
But a'le from uny humane feel
ing towards the clerks, there are
Eood and salient reasons why Christ
mas shopping sholud be delayed no
Jonger than necessary. The stores
which, at this time of the year, are
not much more than normally busy,
Segin to 1111 up with the linlf frantic
crowds of people towards tho end of
December, who have postponed their
shopping expeditions too long, and
who creato only confusion In tholr
mad rush to repair their negligence.
Then, of course, the stocks of inor
rhauts do not ronmln intact long
aftor Christmas shoppers invade tho
itores. For your own poaco of mind,
and tho convenience of tho merchants
and clerks, bo yoursolf unions the
C-T5t of tho shoppers.
PANAMA AND PESSIMISTS.
Bo you recall tho days when the
Panama canal was n physical impos
sibility? They really aren't so far
awny, says an exchange. Every
thing was in tho way, from ocean
carronts to earthquakes, from tho
shoveling capacity of tho Jamnlclan
Bor.roos to tho effect of tho climate
pou white northerners. Tho croak
ers disappeared for n tlrao, but they
xs& back again. Until an enterprise
w actually In running order It Is un
natural to expect tho pessimists to
Ale.
The new obstnelo to tho canal is
aot that It can't bo built. It Is ad
mitted now that it can and will bo.
TCi jwreaent trouble concerns Itsolf
nrtili the years following tho com
vrotfon of tho waterway. It will bo
found then that It can't bo mado to
jay. So say tho hopeless ones,
Whethor tho canal will pay must,
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last at the home of Mrs. W. B. Cur
tis. The election of omcers for the
ensuing year took place. The offi
cers elected were:
Pres. Mrs. Cowan.
Vice Pres. Mrs. Tuttle.
Sec. Mrs. McCullock.
Treas. Mrs. Lang.
At the close of the afternoon a
delicious luncheon was served by the
hostess. Mrs. B. C. Bradbury will
entertain the club on next Friday
afternoon at her home in Ferndale.
Mascot Lodge, Degree of Honor,
this week elected the following offi
cers for the ensuing year:
Chief of Honor Lillian Bralnard.
Lady of Honor Jennie Kasmu3
sen. Chief of Ceremonies Anna Hol
land. Recorder Fannie Hazard.
Financier D. L. Rood.
Receiver Dora Cathcart.
Usher Lizzie White.
Inner Watch J. D. Johnson.
Outer Watch Cora Bowron.
The Swastika club dance Wednes
day evening was one of the most
pleasant dancing parties of the week,
inere was a large attendance, an
unusual feature being that more girls
than boys were It. attendance. An
effort will be made to prevent this
next time even though il did not de
tract from last Wednesday night's
event.
The annual ball of the Mara..
Fre Department to be given at the
I. O. O. F. hall Christmas night,
December 25, Is oue of the big social
events of the future. It is proposed
to have it eclipse anything of the
kind ever given in Marshfleld.
Mrs. E. "K. Jones entertained last
Tue'sday afternoon In honor of her
sister, Miss Stella O'Connell, the day
being the latter's birthday. The
Jones home was prettily decorated,
chrysanthemums predominating in
the decoration scheme. The after
noon was spent at Bridge, Mrs. E.
Mingus winning first prize and Mrs.
Otto Schetter second. Refreshments
were served. Among the guests
were Mrs. Arthur McKeown, Mrs.
Otto Schetter, Mrs. John Preuss,
Mrs. E. Mingus ,and Mrs. J. W. Fla
nagan of the Biographic club and
Mrs. H. S. Tower, Mrs. Minot, Miss
Mary Mlnot and Miss Stella O'Con
nell. The first of the "Ladles Nights"
at the North Bend Commercial club
Wednesday evening, proved one of
the most delightful social events of
the season in North Bend. The at-
tendance was not quite as large as
was anticipated and the meeting of
the Chaminado club in Marshfleld
slightly Interfered with the program
but every one present had more
than a good time. The Commercial
club quarters were beautifully decor
ated for the occasion, huckleberry
and cedar predominating. The ef
fectlvenes of the decorations was
greatly admired by everyone present.
The program consisted of numbers
by Mandenburg's orchestra, a recita
tion by Miss Pearl Hockett, a vocal
bo considered not entirely as regards
dollars and cents. Tho saving of dis
tance to the world's commerce, the
ease with which American warships
can bo transferred from tho Atlantic
coast to the Pacific and back again,
the shunting of a large amount of the
truffle which has been going through
tho Suez short-cut, tho position Am
erica will command among tho pow
ers, surely theso aro things that will
pay. Tho single item that tho canal
is expected to oncourage the building
of American morchant vessols is a
tremendous one and ouo which will
pay.
As for tho Income from tho canal
thoro is no reason to bollevo that it
will not bo large. Tho Suez canal
draws an immense profit and tho
dividends aro large. It may bo said
to have paid from tho start. With
the completion of tho Darlen channel
tho route around tho Horn will ceaso
to bo used by almost all tho lines
now sending tholr vessels that way.
It Is a dangerous way, a tedious one
and, evon for sailing vessols with
slow cargoes, probably moro costly
thnn would bo tho towlug charges
and tho tolls through tho Panama.
As tho way will bo shorter for Europ
oan warships bound for their eastern
stntlons tho canal will bo constantly
In uso by thorn. It is hard to see, at
this distance, why tho Panama water
course should not pay and should
not, In tho courso of tlnv, give a full
return of tho investment.
Aftor tho canal is found to bo all
that wns prophesied for it, what will
tho throwers of wet blankets say
then?
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selec.Ion by Miss Mable C'.nre Millls
and a short address by Captain A.
M. Simpson. Refreshments were
served. The committees In charge
were as follows:
. Decorations Mesdames Burmls
ter, Wlnsor and Simpson and Miss
Anne Flanagan.
Reception Mesdames Simpson,
j Wlnsor, Rennie and James.
Refreshments Mesdames Fal
kensteln, Byler, Burmlster and
James.
It Is planned to make the "Ladles
I Nights" a regular feature during the
(winter months at least, the North
Bend Commercial Club turning over
Its club rooms to the auxiliary for
, the first and third Wednesday nights
of each month.
. . .
The Evergreen Whist Club was
pleasantly entertained by Mrs. J. W.
Butler at her home last Saturday aft
ernoon and this afternoon Is being
entertained by Mrs. G. A. Bennett.
Last Saturday, Mrs. A. T. Haines
carried off the first honors, having
the highest score ever made in the
club. Mrs. R. M. Noble received
the consolation prize.
A wedding of unusual Interest to
Marshfleld people will take place In
Portland today, the bride being Miss
Edna Bralnard and the groom Fay
Dempsey. Miss Bralnard spent most
of her life on Coos Bay and was for
some time identified with the Pion
eer Hardware company as book
keeper. Mr. Dempsey is slightly
known here through visits at the
home of his aunt, Mrs. Lyman Noble.
The many friends of the young cou
ple here unite with The Times In
wishing them a long and happy fu
ture. MILLIONS FOR BARRELS.
The farmer with his potatoes and
his apples, the miller with his flour
and meal, the hardware man with his
nails, tho cement manufacturer, and
the army of other users of the faith
ful slack barrel, that combination ot
staves, hops and heading, which Is
not intended to hold water or some
thing stronger In fined form, used
forest products last year having the
enormous value of $15,800,253.
The average man would little sus
pect that the humble barrel plays
so Important a part in the expense
accounts of the American farmer and
manufacturer, yet figures compiled
by the Census in co-operation with
the United States Forest Service dej
velop this startling truth. Moreover,
statistics taken directly from reports
irom 950 cooperage mills In all parts
of the United States show an in
crease of $1,5G9,GSS, or 11 per cent,
in the value of last year's product
over that of the previous year.
In distinct contrast to tight coop
erage stock, which in the. main re-
I quires oak timber .or Its raw mater-
ial, slack coperage stock, particularly
I staves and heading, utilized in great
er or less degree, most of the com
mercially important trees in the
country, and for this reason its man
ufacture was far more widely dis
tributed than is the case wit hthat of
ugnt coperage stocic. .twenty-one
species of wood contributed to the
total slack stvae production last year.
Nearly two-thirds of the out-put,
however, was manufactured from
the four species, red gum, pine, elm,
nnd beech, in the order named.
The figures disclose an interesting
movement .in the industry In the sub
stitutiin of less expensive woods for
those which for many years were
drawn upon most heavily for slack
stave material, but which, owing to
growing scarcity nnd advnacing cost,
are rapidly being displaced. In 190G
elm staves were manufactured in
larger quantities than those from any
other wood, and constituted nearly
one-fourth of tho total production for
that year, with pine and red gum
occupying second and third places,
respectively. Last year gum jumped
to first place, pine to second, while
elm, with a falling off of 36 per cent
In production, dropped to third place.
Beech, maple, spruce, chestnut, and
ash followed in the order named.
While slack stave and heading pro
duction was reported last year from
practicality all the states engaged in
the manufacture of lumber, a con
siderable percentage of the stock, in
fact, being turned out ns a by-pro-"duct
of lumber, tho Industry was to
an extent localized, tho flvo states of
Pennsylvania, Missouri, Michigan,
Arkansas, and Virginia, in tho order
named, contributing 56.8 per cent of
tho total production. Tho distribu
tion of tho industry of hoop manufac
ture 13 much moro limited than that
of staves and heading, and it duo
primarily to the fact that this com
modity Is made chiefly from elm tim
bor. Ohio led in tho quantity of
hoops manufactured, closely fol
lowed by Indiana, the output ot theso
two states forming 67,3 per cent of
the total production.
W
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I wish to extend to the ladies a special invitation
to visit my store to inspect my Holiday line .of Togs
Do not wait
but get first
choice
I have made
trade, so do not
. SUGGESTIONS
CIA'ETT SHIRTS, KE'S'R CRAVATS,
INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS, FL'LLDRESSML'FFLERS
FULL DRESS GLOVES, FULL DRESS TIES,
BATH ROBES, SMOKING JACKETS,
PAJAMAS, AM) NUMEROUS
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By Mrs. HUMPHRY
ohekjh,t ;s now 0tcn saicj
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who have no real sympathy with the suffrage move
ment, who believe, indeed, that its results if success
ful would bo disastrous, that its success is none the
less "inevitable." People arc apt to think that when
in a democratic country a claim of this kind has been
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asserted sufficiently long and with sufficient vehemence mere clamor
and insistence wear down opposition and the claim must ultimately be
granted.
THE SUCCESS OF THE MOVEMENT, HOWEVER, IS
XOT "INEVITABLE" AT ALL, in spite of the increased parlia
mentary vote or tho skillful organization of a Hyde park meeting.
Let me quote tho example of America.' After sixty years' agitation
for tho movement generally is dated in America from the meeting
held in New York in July, 1848 THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE
DEMAND IS NOW IN PROCESS OF DEFEAT AND EX
TINCTION, AND THAT NOT AT THE HANDS OF MEN,
BUT AT THE HANDS OF WOMEN THEMSELVES.-
SINCE 1896, INDEED, IN FIVE STATES THE SUFFRAGE CON
STITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS HAVE BEEN DEFEATED AT THE
POLLS, AND IN 1903 THE LEGISLATURES OF THIRTEEN STATES
REJECTED .WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILLS OF ONE TYPE OR ANOTHER.
SCHOOL SUFFRAGE HAS BEEN SECURED FOR WOMEN IN TWENTY-FIVE
STATES, BUT THE STRIKING THING IS THAT THE SUF
FRAGE AGITATION AND THE "UNWISE PRESSURE BROUGHT TO
BEAR ON LEGISLATURES AND PUBLIC OFFICIALS" HAVE HINDERED
THE NATURAL PROGRESS OF WOMEN IN THIS' FIELD OF WORK
SO WELL SUITED TO THEM.
We in England, however, aro safe, thanks to tho concession of the
local government vote to women and to the act of last year enabling
them to sit on local government bodies, from any similar reaction,
AND THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT TnAT AMERICAN
WOMEN, NOW THAT THE ANTISUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
HAS PRACTICALLY ATTAINED ITS END, WILL SOON
FIND MEANS AND CHANNELS BY WHICH THEIR LE
GITIMATE PUBLIC INFLUENCE IN MATTERS OF EDUCA
TIONAL AND SOCIAL REFORM SHALL BE MORF FULLY
BROUGHT TO BEAR.
THE IMPORTANT THING FOR US TO NOTICE IS THAT THE
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT HAS BEEN CHECKED AND WILL BE Ul -TII""!V
"""TED BY WOMEN THEMSELVES.
Man's Nature Makes It
Necessary to Be
By Premier A5QUITH
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S lone as man's nature continues what it is it will bo neces
sary for prudent statesmen to provide for war. National
security must always havo first place in tho thoughts nnd
plans of tho government of any country.
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BUT, ADMITTING THAT ALL, THE PLAIN FACT REMAINS THAT
THERE IS NO ENTERPRISE MORE WORTHY OF THE EFFORTS OF
GOOD MEN THAN TO DEVISE PRACTICABLE MEANS NOT ONLY
FOR MINIMIZING THE RISKS OF INTERNATIONAL QUARRELS, BUT
FOR PROVIDING A RATIONAL SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SETTLE
MENT OF DISPUTES BY WARFARE.
Among tho various means of progress in this direction tho first
is tho growth of international agreements.
I uso tho word agreoments because alliances sometimes havo tho
contrary effect. Tho second is the SUBSTITUTION OF INTER
NATIONAL LITIGATION FOR THE BAKBAROUS METH
ODS OF SLAUGHTER. Tho translation of theso principles into
practice is beset with difficulty, though not, in my opinion, insurmount
able difficulty.
Of courso there is a delicate sphere of international relations. Tho
main thing is that the nations should get to know and understand one ;
another.
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special preparations for the Holiday I
fail to see what I
OTHERS. m
?3ragMgzsz5Ska&KiaEr&j
Women Them
selves Defeating
Suffrage Movement
WARD. English Author nnd Suffraflrtte.
even by many of tllogo jn ?ngianc
Ready For War.
of Greit Britain.
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Now is the
time you get
the selection
have in stock
fllARSHKIELD, ORE.
Head io Head
Talks.
By EDWIN A. NYE.
Copyright, IMS. by Edwin A. Nye.
OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE.
So you arc tweut-oBel
And you stand up clear tyed to look
the world in the face a -mn.
Did you ever think, son, how much It
cost to make a man of you? It cost a
lot of money, but that isn't all.
You have cost father a lot of hard
knocks and short dinners and gray
streaks in his hair. And your raothei
boy, you will never know. You hnve
cost her anxious days and nights, and
wrinkles in the dear face.
Sure, it has been expensive to grow
you. But
If you are what we think you are,
you aro worth all you cost us, and
more.
Be sure of this: Father doesn't say
much but "Ilello, son!" but deep down
In his tough, stanch heart ho thinks,
you are the finest ever. And the little
mother simply cannot keep her love
and pride for you out of her eyes.
Sonny, if you were to do anything low
or mean It would Just about kill your
mother.
You are a man now.
Some time you must step in your
father's shoes. Don't call hlui "old
man." lie doesn't like to know you
call him that; but, just the rame, he Is
not as young as he used to be. You
see, he has been working pretty hard
for twenty-one years to help you up.
And your mother begins already to
I lean on you.
Dnenn't that sober you twenty-one?
Your father bns done fairly well In
the world, but he experts you to do
bettor. And so do you expect you will,
do liMtor. lie has given you a better!
chain p than he had. You begin al I
most whore he leaves off. All tut1
same, young man. If you do even as
well as your sire and keep your soul
clean you will havo done pretty well,
Don't flinch, boy.
j The world will try you out. It will
strain every fiber that' is In you, But
i you arc made of pood stuff. Hold to
j your mother's teachings nnd shame tho
j devil. Once tho load of life Is fairly
strapped on your young shoulders you
will carry tho burden nnd scared?
feel it If only there is n cheerful mind.
All hall YOU. on the threshold!
It li high time you were beginning
to pay the freight. And there are
your back debts to father and mother.
You will pay them, won't you, boy?
Not in money. No. You can't pay
those debts Jn money.
How shall you pay thosa sacred
debts?
There Is Just one way by being al
ways nnd everywhere a man!
. -
"Ho belongs to ono of our flno old
families."
"Oh, does he? Then that iccounts
for it"
"For what?"
"His being always busted."
Even Lower.
"Johnson doesn't appear to be th
brightest person in tho world."
"Ho hasn't got horse sense."
"Bad as that?"
"Worse. He couldn't learn to nm
an automobile."
The Caucus Youth.
What's so trying aa a day in June?
Then for certain come reckless days,
When Cob tries his voice that Is out ol
tune
And tho silence all about him flays.
Undoubtedly.
"Money isn't everything."
"No, but nearly everything
counts Is money."
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