The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957, December 15, 1911, EVENING EDITON, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextTHE COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1911 -EVENING EDITION. 5iillimrtWi) 1 swiiCft j " fSfcagial PA8T ANI) COMMODIOUS Steamer Redondo EQUIPPED WITH WIRELESS Sails From San Francisco -for Coos Bay at 3 P. M. Friday, December 15th INTER-OCEAN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. Phone 44 C. P. McQEORaE.'Agont. "TUB FRIEND S. S. ALLIANCE EQUIPPED WITH WIRELESS Sails from Coos Bay for Eureka, Sunday, Decem ber 17th CONNECTING WITH TDK NORTH IJANIi ROAD AT PORTLAND NORTH PaJIFIO STEAMSHIP COMPANY. PHONE 44 o. F. McGEOHGE, Agent Steamer Homer Sails From San Francisco Tuesday, Dec. 12th, 19! 1 For&m Francisco Saturday, Dec. 16th, 1911 F. S. DOW, Agent EQUIPPED Steamer Breakwater ALWAYS ON TIME SAILS FROM PORTLAND AT 8 P. M. ON DECEMBER 5, 12, 10 AND 20. SAILS FROM COOS HAY AT SERVICE OF THE TIDE ON DE CEMBER 0, HI, 211 AND !J0. L. II. KEATING. AGENT PHONE MAIN 8JV-I FAST SERVICE TO ROSEBURG Our stngoa lenvo Mnrshilold for Rosoburg at C o'clock ovory ovoulng and nfford quickest conuoctluns with Southern Paclllo Itallwny. Faro $0.00. COOS HAY ROSEHURG STAGE LINE. OTTO SCHETTER, Agent, 120 MARKET AV.. Mnrxlilleld. C. P. BARNARD, Agent, ROSEHURG, Ore. PHONE 11 ; Parties Desiring Monu ments to be Erected Would ao well to call at the Pacific Monumental voru, South Broadway aud make selection from the large stock now ou band. Mr. Wilson has In his employ the ouly practical marble and gra nite cutter In Coos county. Aid none but tho best worn Is turned Buy Your Meats s at the UNION MEAT MARKET And You Will Always Have Pure Wholesome Meats. WANTED!!! WltPETS UPHOLSTERING AND PIANOS TO CLEAN, by the Pneuma Uc Cleaning Company. Orders for ork taken at GOING & HARVEY PHONE 100 GET YOUR JOB PRINTING DO Whether You Serve Poultry. Or tho Rood old roast bout for Christmas you'll bo wlso to obtain It nt this innrkot. Our poultry Is nil choice, young nnd fresh klllotl and our roast beet Is tender enough to molt In your mouth. Thoro will bo no poor appetites whero our imuiiry or meat Is served. MAHS1IF1KLD CASH MARKET. FOURIER BROS. Two Markets north bend rAitsiiFii:rii Olympic Flour Highest Quality OF COOS HAY" WITH WIRELESS 'Phone 58 The Old Reliable If you need any fruit-trees for planting or wish to make good mou ey selling tree, write us for parti culars. No previous experience needed If you want to moke money. We show you. ALBANY NURSE RIES, Inc., Albany. Oregon. NL; AT THE TIMES' OFFICE wA-2S?2 trfSfc 5 Christmas ' In the Navy t Christmas Is a Bind holiday aboard one of Uncle Sam's battleships. The Jackie dek the (trim lighting ma chlno In wreaths of evergreen nnd hol ly. Even the groat gun wear chap lets. For one day In tho year tho em blems of peace ou earth hide the frowning frout of war. Tho Christ mas dinner aboard one of these float ing forts Is fully as glad as ut n pri vate fireside. . The willow miss n few of tho chief delights of the season, however. The prattle of children Is lacking, iih are the cheer of home and the smile of loved ones. But the .lack tars can give and accept a few piesonts that Is. they can If In port where such thlugs can be bought. Do you know any of Uncle Sam's sailor boys? If so would It not bo a beautiful thlpg to REMEMBER THEM THIS CHRISTMAS? Even n little thing would be appreciated It would show them some one thought of them. SHOP EARLY, so that the gift can be Kent In time Indeed, for uuy gifts that are to bo sent away shopping should be done early so that the pros entH may not reach their destination two or three days lato. BETTER HE BEFOREHAND. One gift early" Is better than half a. dozen Inte. Shop early and then you can be suro of reaching your friends, be they sail ors or otherwise. ON THE DOT That Immeasurably enhances the valuu of tho rift A TURKISH . BATH will do you GOOD. Phono 2H-J. Try Tho Times' Want Ads. Whero tlio Locality Docs Not Count. Whorover thoro are peoplo suffer ing from kidney and bladder all- uionts. from bnckacho, rheumatism and urinary Irregularities. Foley Kidney Pills will help them. Bolvl doro, 111., E. A. Kolly, an ox-onglncer, says: "Throo years ngo my kldnoyB becamo so bad that I was compelled to gtvo up my cnglno and quit. Thoro was a Bovoro aching pain over tho hips, followed by an Inflammation of tho bladder, nnd always n thick sed iment. Foloy Kldnoy Pills mndo mo n sound and well man. I can not say too much In thoh prnlso." RED CROSS DRUG CO. Fishermen Notice! THE COOS BAY ICE AND COLD STORAGE COMPANY ARE PREPARED TO TAKE ALL Steelhead Salmon AND WILL PAY THE HIGH EST PRICK FOR SAME. C. 13. NICHOLSON, Manager. Union Oils JASOLINE DISTILLATE BENZINE 1CEROSENE SAMSON GAS ENGINES and CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS Coos Bay Oil & Supply Co. Uarshfleld, Ore. PnONE BOW Moll Orders Solicited. BSyVvw i FrMiM." -i r f-n -nr .. i. ffh fP'iHVl fW "St IU A CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN CALABRIA, By PAUL LOUI3 COURIEH. tCopyrtght by Amcrlcnn Preio Associa tion, toil J ONE day I was traveling In Cabt brla I had at companion a young man who bad had less experience than I bad In Uila little known part of Calabria. Ho was oue of the moat careless and happy pomotis In the world. In these mountains the roads seem to be precipice, down which our horses slid "and plunged dangerously. My comrade went first, taking a path w hlrh seemed to him to be shorter nnd easier than the rogulsr mad. which, however, could not bsve been worse. In doing this no became feat, and night was fast approaching. Wo hod hoped to reach the railroad which would talis os to civilisation, u I termed It, where wo conld spend our ChrlstmnB more pleasantly thin we now expected to. As long as tt was light enough we struggled along, and suddenly, Jnst as It grew too dark to se anything twenty feet away, we came to a hut black and low. It looked sinister to mr. but Jules was so glad that lis Jnst shouted. In answer to his shont tb door opened, nnd we taw a whole family gathered aronnd t tabls on which was a whits cloth. "Comt In, coin In." said tho oldest man of the party, bat his looks were far from balug as Inviting as hta h rtr TRACED THKIIl MTTMt WOODEN SHOES 01 TIIK HtUIC Or THE GII1UNBT. words. He was black with tho pen etrating blackness of dry charcoal, bub as we were very weary and hungry and our horses worn out we uccepted tho Invltntlon. There were line cabbage soup, baked potatoes and a chicken frlcnsee. with homo baked bread such as falls In one's hands but too rarely. For dessert wu had some chocolate, while tho children were hurried off to bed after having placed their little wooden shues by tho side of tho chlmnoy. Tho horses wero well taken care of. nnd Jules was laughing and singing with the children until they were tn ken out, mid then ho gave himself up to telling the men. of whom there wero four, of our adventures. One man In particular struck mo on ac count of Ills somber silence. Ho spoke to no oue mid eyed us In n sort of sullen enmity. This was a charcoal burner's home, iiud tho man who owued this house was tho one who seemed so somber The old mnn" was his father. The worn an finished her work and brought out a few cheap toys nnd some bonbons snd a few other little things such as "t HAW IK MB WOHT HAND THE ULEAM OP A tONCJ KNIFK." mothers rannago to find no ono knows whole or how. Tlio little shoes weie tilled, and wo saw tbat all wero sleepy, We, too, being so weary, wero willing to retire, so the old mnn took Ui up a ladder to a loft above tho room where we had been sitting To roach pur sleeplug room we climbed a ladder aud there found a sort of pallet of straw, cleuu. and with sufficient covering. in this attic 1 saw by tho feeble light afforded by u homemade candle quan tities of dimly outlined things hanging from the rafters, but could not make out exactly what' they were, in the Uimuess I thought they looked like men hung aloug there. Thero wero rats for 1 saw one. I have a horror of rats, aud tho thought that one might run across my face kept me awake. Even had my mind been frpe from other fears I should still have lain awake long after Jules was sleep lng heavily. I could not sleep, so filled was my mind with the recollec tion of tho tales I had heard of tho lawlessness of these charcoal burners, who wero but brlgauds after all. 1 lay closo to tho chimney, which mndo tho place quite warm, and soon I found tho voices of thoso below could bo distinguished clearly by ly ing near the crevice. I heard the sul len mnn and tho woman talking. They seemed to bo discussing some thing, The discussion was nlmost a quarrel. Tho man said: "Ho, then, must wo kill them both?" "res." Then they apparently slept. That is moro than 1 did. I grew cold from hond to foot. 1 must havo looked llko a dead man. Even today I grow cold when I think of It all tho little children pot to bed with their hearts filled with Joyous thoughts of the expected visit of the Potlt Jeans, then ton or twelve lawless men and th bloodthirsty woman, nnd we shot in that attic, from which there was so oocape and fJmost with out msans of dsfsnso. 1 did not even dara to try to waken Jutes, for they would bav beard ns below, and tbat would only have precipitated onr death. And. even tf w could have tot out of ths window, thore wor does big. henry ones below. No; ws bad no possible chance, and I expect ed death each Instant. At thu end of tht longest quarter of an hour tbat I eror lived through I heard steps on the ladder and In a moment more saw tho light which was carried by the snllon mnn from bolow. 1 saw In uls tight hand tbo fleam of a long knife. His wife csme behind him. end she took tho lamp from his band. He was barofooted, aa well as the woman, and she hid the light of the lamp from my face by shading it with her hand. I lay there too overcome by fonr. I admit, to move. What could I have done tn any case? Whispering softly, the couple pass ed by where we lay and on to where I bad seen tho shapeless masses banging to the rafters, and they un covered a sack filled with linnis tlielr provision for winter, as I now know. They cut two slices from one of tho hnms and dlssppcnred again down the ladder with caution not to rouse us. After this, while saying to myself that I must not let myself sleep, for this might have been a feint, 1 did go to sleep nnd knew nothing more until Jules roused me. "Noel, Noel!" ho shouted and ran down tho bidder to the room below, where tho children were doing ns other children do on this dny. examining and comparing thelripresents nnd eat ing n lot of-sweet stuff not nt nil good for them. I soon followed nnd had a pleasant greeting from all. After a good hieakfnst of bam an'1 eggs nnd coffee our horses wero brought. They hnd Isson well cared for nnd danced about. All the little company of men, the children nnd the woman were dressed In their holiday garments to go to tho Village down bolow to mass. When wo offered to pay for our lodging no ono would ac cept It. And. moro, thero had been one chicken for brenkfnst, aud as we were stnrtlug another was brought us nil cooked to tako nloug on our Journey. The little girl said to me in conlldence as she sat ou my lup showing her poor llttlo toys: "I llku chicken too. Wo bud only two, but mother hud to klil them for you. I don't know whnt I'll do with out my Plckoy. Tbo other bolonged to Joseph. Joseph Is my brother, who died last month, My father loved him so much," Here was tho key to tho riddle. The ouly thing they had that might be considered n luxury bad been sacrificed for strangers, and what I hnd thought sullen roguery was but a father's hope less grief over tho death of his first Iwrti. "Now, What on Earth Was I tc Remember ? " This mau has a string on hlm or at least n string finger. Will that make him remember what Jils wife told him to buy? Well. It Is your guess, What Is your experience' But did YOU forget thnt Christinas shopping' If you did tie a strlug to your llngor today AND THEN DON'T FORGET AGAIN. Don't STRING your Christians shop ping nloug. Start It quick and have It over Neither let anybody STRING you with the tale that you can got ns good good" Pec. 21 as you can Dec. l or Dec. 10 You know better. Tho answer la: Get STRINGS on those CHRISTMAS packages NOW. The Only Mourner. Randall-Was Spratt a popular man? .,.-. i n-i.ti Anlif nimimpr nt his "I'opumri " "'v - funeral was tho luaurunco company ."- Lire. i CHRISTMAS IN CIVIL WAR TIME, A Veteran Tells About the Box That Camo From Home. "CUEING all tn peoplo buying w Christmas things now," snld A veteran of tho civil war, "make mo think of somo Chrlstmns experi ences of my own. tlrst of tho tlma when 1 used to liaug up my stoc'i'ag by tho fireplace, sticking forks thlougtt them nnd then Jamming tbo forks Into a crack under tbo mantclpleco, where Snntn Claus could get at them bandit when ho camo down tho chimney, nmT then of a tlino when we wero morar grown up and Santa Clans camo to tu in tho army. "Tho regiment I served In put In good part of its tltno in states on the southern Atlantic seaboard. In South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, where with water transportation to us w could be got at rather mora easily than troops not so far away, but nt interior points, and so, whllo you couldn't biro things shipped to yon thero ns you could to this town or the other In times of peace, you could get things there pretty well, nnd tbo patron for whom onr company was named when it was tlrst recruited used to see to it tbat at Christmas time there was delivered to us a big box filled with things from friends C borne. "We no longer boro bis nnino In the army, for from tbo minute wo were mustered into the United Stntos serv ice we had become simply Company So-and-so, of such and such a nunf tiered regiment, of such and such state volunteers, but wu never forgot onr friend at s.on.o, nnd surely bo never forgot us, and at Christmas tlmo be used to see that our company got that box. "Well, In ndvanco tiu would nnnounce In tho homo papers that on such and such ii date n box would bo sent to the company nud If friends or relatives of members of tho company would tiring In tho gifts they wished to send they would bo carefully packed anil duly shipped. Aud then tho peoplo used to bring In the things, aud, though some bow 1 never thought of It then, 1 havo thought often since with what lovluif euro mid tenderness must thuno Christ mas gifts havo been prepared, those things sent from homo to their soldiers In the Hold! "When everything was all In our frleud would bnve the things securely and safely packed, and then he'd bike the box down to Now York, nnd thero tho quartermaster's department would put It down to us. So Snntn Claus wasn't coming to us with his pack oa his bnck, down tho chimney, but in a box In tbo bold of a Btcamcr. "When wo got our drat Christmas box wo wore on un lslnnd down the coast thore. drilling somo and doing guard and pit ket duty, but lurgely en gaged In building corduroy rouds through awninps by dny, and by ulgtit in hauling by Hand, with n whole regi ment ou tho ropes, iiouvy mortars aud guns over these roads, and ulso, under the same filcuilly cover ut darkness, in building masked batteries In which tho suld guns nud mortars wero mourn ed, all this In thu courso of besieging a fort occupied by Confederate soldlcra on another Island, "it was plouty of hard work and not much piny, and most of tho freight that camo to us, besides tho usual coui mlKHiiry supplies, was guns aud mor tars a ml powder nnd shot and shell and' tho various materials of war, but one day thero camo ushoro on n lighter from u trausport anchored' off, uteris; with barrels of pork and kegs of pow der, tbut Christmas box from hom for us soldiers. "Wo hauled It up from tbo beacti and set It down carefully, right sldt up, ut thu end of the company street, and I doubt If uuy fireplace ou u Chilstmus morning wus ever u greater magiKtt or attraction to children than that box was to tho men of Company X. To ii man they gathered around It to see what Santa bad brought ttiuiu from home. "It was a big box, n big dry goods packing box. big enough to hold some thing for everybody, nnd carefully ww opened It. mill with the lid off It seemed full of Innumerable treasures, so full to the last lueh of space was it packed. "Tho orderly sorgeunt of tho com pan made tlio distribution. Ho raised his hand and reached over and picked up u piicUago that lay at (lie center of the box nud lifted It and rend tho name on It and passed It Into tho out stretched baud of the man to wiiotu it belouccd "Then lie went on moro rapidly, pick ing up tho things anil reading off tho mime and pnaHlug them over, pack ages ot all sorts aud shapes mid sizes, all eagerly received. Some men stay ed to see everything given out, und bouie went tn their tents to see whut the folks hud sum them or to read tho letters Unit had come with tho gifts. And so the things In thu box got low er and lower, while still there were some men who had as yet got nothing and ho now were mure nnd moro anxious. And bow Joyfully relieved when ut last something cumo up for them: "But theio were u few, a very few, who llugcred In vain, who nmoug all these gifts got uuthlng. und plainly disappointed wont somo of these, whllo' others took it Jauutlly perhaps, they had no ono to send them, these but Llbby COAL. The kind YOU have ALWAYS USED, PHONE 73 Paclfla Llvory & Transfer Co. .." 1. 4 i - iHiTii WafrSBI