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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1908)
THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFlfeLD, OREGON, FRltiAV, LECEMBER 11, 1d08. Ji ---- We Want to Call Your Attention To Our Complete Line of CHRISTMAS GOODS o Our stock this season is larger and more com- o plete than ever before o And we are able to give the best values ever o oftered as Ve took the opportunity last Spring of ;; ordering direct from the factory Our Holiday Line Is too large to enumerate but we have presents for everyone old or young. AW the latest books of fiction and TOYS of every description Fountain pens at all prices, from $1 to $15.00. Everything will be found here and we are always glad to help you in your selec tions, t We especially wish the attention of those desirous of sending away presents to friends And would like to fill their orders in time to insure arrival before Christmas, NORTON & HANSEN Two Good Policies have Is one upon your Life and the other upon your Property. You kre then protected In a double sense, nd your family Is also protected In ease anything should happen to you, r the house burn down by accident. the cost of either Fire or Life Insur- Ince Is infinitesimal In comparison flth Its great blessings and the actu- II, substantial protection It affords o both you and your posterity. . For particulars see HENRY SENG- CACKEN, OF f Title Guarantee & Abstract Co. -a-a--tj-tt-tt--a-n---r Farmers Attention I i, For the following grass oeed give us a trial. I ORCHARD GRASS ITALIAN RYE RED CLOVER TIMOTHY JL'X 4 M I T IC YV WOLCOTT ? THE FAMILY GROCER 8 PHONE 071. ft front St. Blarshfleld. A w-tt-a-tt-tt-tt-H-n-tt-tt-tt-it ----.-.-- THOMASON & HANSON -DEALERS IN- 'Hay Grain and feed' ree Delivery Phona 1761 ! --.. FRONT STREET Quality and Prices H Are the twin foundation stones is bulltT FIRST The best meat that 3 SECOND The lowest prices at HERE ARE A Bocf, per lb 8 to 15c Mutton, per lb. 10, 12 & and 16c Veal, per lb ..10, 12 and 15c I Corned beef, per lb ... . 8 .to 10c J Pork, per lb . ...12 and 15c The CITY R. H. Phone 8 1941 FRONT AND 'C STREETS, MARSIEFIELD, OREGON. mmmmtmmtmmmtit:gmmttffi:mtmttttmnmu:ffl rvTrTVVVVT Malthoid Roofing Mr. A. L. Balrd, Ge n. Mgr. Princes Court Proprietary, Limited, Mfiihnnrno. writes as follows: "I have much pleasure In Informing j'ou that the Malthoid lining of our Chute Lake has proved, after j three months' severe tenting, highly successful, and, as far as I can o Judge, Is entirely watertight, the only loss of .water appearing to bo JJ from evaporation ana oplasning." The Paraffine Faint Co. SaSf0 i; c. P. NFCHOI.SON. Local Distributor mm mmtmmmmm on which our growing business can be produced. which it can be sold. FEW FIGURES: Pork sausage, per lb 10a Hamburger, per lb 10c Good Hums and Bacon, per pound 18 to 20c 5 Pounds pall best lard, .... 05c. MARKET NOBLE , Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1903. by Edwin A. Nye. THEY KILLED THE GIRL. Kathleen Sheclian, aged twenty three, of New York city killed herself because her mates mimicked bur speech. Kathleen was a slip of a lass who came from tho old sod recently and brought her mellifluous tonguo with her. Sho broadened "meat" Into "mate" and rolled her "v'b" with a rich bur. Only ignorance would have failed to catch and admire the delight ful accent. The girl had a tender heart, tho mo bllo. temperament of her people and was timid and sensitive. She first found employment nt n dressmaker's. She chanced to say something about "woruck." The girls tittered, and one of them said. "You mean woyck,' don't you?" When Kathleen understood she was having fun poked at her sho took it much to heart and left the place. Sho engnged herself at a department store. Laughter greeted her utter ances. The teasing wounded her spir it Sho worked hard to learn tho cor rect pronunciation of English, but her labor was mostly In vain. Sbo could not easily twist her Limerick tonguo. Kathleen went to another shop only I to endure similar torment. Sho brood ed. Her once smiling faco grew sad. Ono day sho told her relatives she had Insured her life. "Why?" they asked. "I might die," she said, with a far away look. "Tho money would be for you." The last Sunday tho poor lass dressed herself In her best clothes and went to a park. Here sho stayed all day and all that night. She was debating tho old, old query, "TO BE' OR NOT TO BE?" What torture to tho distraught brain nnd tender, sensitive soul! She was passing through her Gethsoraanc, poor child! Monday morning at dawn she went to a clump of bushes and swallowed carbolic acid. A policeman found her writhing on tho ground. In the am- .bulanco on tho way to the hospital she gasped: "They'll nlver mnlce fun av me ngaln." Then she died. No, no, lassie; they'll never make fun of you again. And If they oul knew how they had hounded your poor little body Into the grave most bitterly sorry would ihey be. YOU SEE, THERE'S MORE TnAN ONE WAY TO KILL A POOH GIRL And your lisping brogue, Kathleen, will not trouble you in the kinder laud where you have gone. They spenk neither English nor dinlec-ts there. There Is only one language In heaven a language used too little on the earth. It Is the language of tenderness nnd love. WE DON'T KNOW MUCH. It behooves tho scientist to sing low 1 theso days. Heretofore he has been j rather too dogmatic. If, for Instance j Radium may bo changed into hellon then some of tho "well settled princi ples of science" are knocked Into smlthereons. Tho discovery of radium Itself was a bard blow. Truth is a powerful wedge. It splits theory logs smack open. The prating of tho suro enough who Is certain of his conclusions Is often made to sound like tho puerflo prattling of a child talking In tho dark. A learned professor Haeckel In his book "Rlddlo of tho Universe" takes several kinds of kinks out of the boastful know-all. Ho says we don't know much. And comes mighty near proving It Ho says we play at putting up big things high buildings, great bridges, huge engines and such. But ho says we do not know even a little bit about how to prevent murder, suicide, theft nnd poverty. He hits us hard there. Wo boast of our civilization and point to Its Indices railroads, ma chines, news transmitters, etc. Why, Diogenes made fun of that nort of "progress" 2,000 years ago. Ho got out his tub and rolled It through tho streots of Athens and said, "That Is all there Is to your boasted prog ress" simply making the wheels go round. Haeckel sayB wo don't know much about a man. We don't know where ho got either his mind or his body. Wo dont know very much about how bo can best use either body or mind. Wo don't know very much about the proper relation of men to government Our political economy stops short of the problem of distribution. Haeckel says wo know scarcely any thing about tho prevention of crime. Sin and suffering are problems as se rious as In David's time. ne tells us It is the fault of our educational system that wo do not know more, He says our education skips the really Important things. Maybe. Anyway we don't know much. Mesdemoiselles LeMas and Llzetto, direct from Paree, will appear at tho Opera House FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11th, after act 2. "Uncle Josh" will be In town FRIDAY. "Uncle Josh" FRIDAY, December j 11 at MASONIC Opera IIoubo. How a Wife Finds Out Secrets From Her Husband "There, now, I've told you!" said the married man. "I know I should not have done so, but you've coaxed until I had to. Now you know all about It, and I hope you are satis fied." "I don't see why you shouldn't tell me," said his spouse. "It wasn't my secret," said the man, sadly. "That's the point, as I told you. It's Brown's secret. He confided in me as a man of honor. He trusted mo, and now I've betrayed his confidence." "Nonsense!" said the woman. "If he expected you to keep things from your wife he ought to be ashamed of himself. If he keeps secrets from Mrs. Brown I've got my opinion of him. But what I don't under stand " "I know. You don't understand," said the man. "You women never do . Certainly ho expected when I said that I wouldn't tell a living soul that I would keep my word. Ho didn't think I was so weak that I would let you twist mo around your little finger and worm tho whole thing out of me." "Why, how you do talk!" said tho woman. "It Isn't as If you had gone around telling everybody. That would bo different." "Would It?" sa'd tho married man. "Of course, It would," replied his wife. "I should hope It would. But It seems to me that you're making a great fuss about nothing." "I know you don't consider it any thing," said tho man! "I have al ways boon accustomed to regard a confidence as sacred, though. How do you suppose I'm going to look Brown in tho face when I next meet him? What do you suppose that ho will think of mo when ho learns that I've broken faith with him?" "In the first place, I don't see how Place Criminals on Farms, Not In Jails; By ProfcMor C. R. HENDERSON of the University of Cblcatfo. HEN THE DEVIL WANTS TO MAKE A MAN A CRIMINAL. ALL HE HA8 TO DO IS TO KEEP HIM IN IDLENESS AND LET HIM ASSOCIATE WITH CRIMINAL8. WE MAY TALK ALL WE WANT TO ABOUT PROQRE38IVENE88, BUT WE HAVE LITTLE RIGHT TO BOA8T A3 LONO. AS OUR JAILS ARE LEFT 80 OLD FASHIONED AND BARBAROUS.' S V. K . Tho jail 13 no placo for serving a sentence. If the offense is felo nious the man should bo sent to tho penitentiary, nnd if not ho should bo put out on a farm. Cooped up in tho jail ho does nothing but play cards and make tho acquaintance of men who Booner or later drag him down. Tho farm has been tried successfully in Switzerland, in Hol land and in Cleveland, O. Industry in tho lockup is a prime necessity. NOT ONLY SHOULD MEN AND WOMEN BE GIVEN EMPLOYMENT WHILE SERVING A SENTENCE, BUT THEY SHOULD, ALSO BE KEPT BUSY BEFORE CONVICTION. Many of thoso arrested aro poor and would bo wiling to earn money whilo waiting for their trial. In some cases men aro confined in tho county jail almost a year. With no employment to pass tho time THIS BE COMES A PUNISHMENT THAT IS NEARLY INHUMAN. All cells should bo arranged so that every prisoner could have a separate .compartment and that every ono should havo a window through which tho rays of tho sun camo directly. THE PROPOSITION 18 NOT A MERE THEORY. IT HAS BEEN UNIVER8ALLY ADOPTED IN EURf E, AND WE HAVE IT IN SOME MEA8URE HERE. WE TAKE TH, , KIND OF CARE OF OUR PIQ8 AND OTHER LJVE 8TOCK. WHY SHOULDN'T WE DO AS MUCH FOR OUR HUMAN BEINQ8? SNAKE SERVES AS PUR PIECE Dogs, cats and other quadrupeds are entirely too conventional as pots for Mrs. 'Maude Coleman; she likes snakes. She has liked them ever since sho was a little girl. Residents in the vicinity of her home who did not know Mrs. Coleman and her strange fancy were surprised to seo her calmly strolling down tho street with a snake nearly nine feet long draped around her neck instead of the usual fur boa worn at this time of tho year. Mrs, Coleman has had pet snakes In her homo for years, but she has only ono now, Shu is as fond of it as any pne could bo of a pet dog or cat. In her lifelong study and association with the rep tiles Mrs. Coleman has discovered that they aro affectlonato and havo a good memory for people, places and things. Wilwaukee Sentinel. Mesdemoiselles LeMas and Llzetto, direct from Paree, will appear at tho Opera Houso FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11th, after act 2. Steamer BREAKWATER sails from Coos Bay for Portland SAT URDAY, DECEMBER 12, nt 12, NOON. Have You Tried I -. 1 he's going to learn anything of the kind," said the woman. "In the sec ond place, you haven't told me a word of " "Do you think I can depend upon you not to say anything- about it to any of your friends?" asked the man, anxiously. ' "Do you suppose I'd dream of such a thing after you've told me not to mention It? But, for that matter, I don't see why " "You won't whisper lt?"'- "No, of course, I won't, but " "Not If Mrs. Jamleson comes around with a choice tld-blt of gossip and 'gets all swelled up over It?" "You know I wouldn't. Now, Henry, J want you to stop talking a moment and let me get in a word. What I want to know is r" "Of course, she'll say that she'll never breathe a word of It," said tho man, disregarding her plea "All tho same, you mustn't trust her. Re member, now. Not a word of'lt, or a hint." "I don't seo what there is to be, so secrot about," said tho woman. "I won't say anything about it if you don't want mo tc. but It seems ab surd. What would It mattor, If any body in tho place knew It? It would not hurt anybody, so far as I -can see. I should think Mr. Brown would tell everybody himself. It's to his ad vantage to havo it known. It will ad vertlso his business." "I wonder!" said the married man, musingly. t . "You wonder what?" "I wonder if that isn't tho Idea Brown had when ho told me. I ex pect ho knows had hard It is for mo to keep anything from you." "You'ro a mean old thing," Bald the woman. "I don't believe It's any secret at all, and I don't beliovo you would havo told mo if It had been." Chicago News. , NO TRACE OF THIEVES. Portland Police Unable to Fnd Cine to Rank Robbers. (Ry Associated Press.) PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 9. Tho police havo been unable to find any clue to the bank robbers who secur ed ?1G,500 from tho Eastsldo bank tho night before last. Tho summer girl can't laugh In her sleeve becauso of tho absence thereof, but sho may make a hit with her funny-bone. According to statistics recently la sued by tho executive committee ot tho Qrapo Qorwers' association for the first tlmo California's wino prod uction was greater than that of Ger many last year, California produced 56,000,000 gallons of wine. while Germany produced only 50,10,080 gallons. Boo "UNCLE JOSH" and enjoy good laugh Friday. WHEAT $2.00 at Haines. Two hours of Bolld fun, B "Undo Josh" FRIDAY at MASONIC Opera Houso. the Want Ads? 4m, ti W; ; f-i . 1 ?! n ii ui M M ; i' 'i b ! I
