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GOING TO
THE CIRCUS
The Chauffeur
ft» BEATRICE TUCKER
By M. QUAD
II
Copyright, 1910. by Associated Lit
erary Wess
Fate of English Government.
Copyright, 1310. by American Preaa
Association.
i
Ti e fate of the English Govern-
[ inrnt is largely in die hands of die
, Iiisb menibris of the House of Com-
I iimns holding the balance oi pouer,
and John Redmond has announced
ili.it those members will insist first
oi all upon curtailing the veto powei
ol du- Lords—liecause that is a con
dition pecedent to the ixissing of a
Home Rule Bill.
Ihe situation must harrow the
feelings of many an Englishman.
The Irish members are interested
primarily in Ireland Uuon a very
important question of English poli
tics they propose to vote «vith rt-lcr-
. ncc to their own special national
interests. In slior*, the fortunes of
politics have tem|x»raii!y thrown the
government of England, to a degree
into the hands oi men whose para
mount interest is not in Engl ind.
Tins is exactly the condition that
Ireland has been cotnplaing of for
centuries. Irish governmmt is con
trolled—not temporarily ami acci
dentally, but perman ntlv—by men
whose paramount interest is not in
Ireland. In announcing that he will
exert his power in whichever way
seems best for Ireland, Mr. Red
mond merely gives conservatism a
momentary taste ot its own medi
cine. Probably it tastes bitter. -
Saturday Evening Post.
HAS A SELECT STOCK OF
Wines. Liquors & Cigars
“Come. Molly; the auto's waitlug.”
Mooes Fairman was visiting the
“All right. Imogen; 1’11 be with you
Widow Hooper at least two nights a as soon as 1 can tie on my veil. Have
COIKTEOUS TREATMENT
Week with a view to matrimouy. Just
about this time the billposter for a you your goggles?”
“Goggles? No! Do you suppose 1
circus appeared and pasted the road
would
make myself hideous by wear
side barns with the usual gaudy bills,
ing such things?”
and the excitement begun.
Imogen went out to the piazza, where
Perkinsville was no circus town. It
BANDON'
OREGON
never bad had one and didn’t want ut the foot of the steps tile automo
one. Such things were looked upon bile was waiting, and said to the
aa demoralizing in the extreme. The chauffeur:
bills were hardly up when the parents
“You ueedn’t go today, William, I'm
began warning their children and the going to drive myself.”
ministers had something to say from
“Yes, ma'am.”
tin* pulpits. On one of tils visits to the
“Is everything nil right?”
widow Moses Fairman expressed the
“Yes. ma’am.”
ho|ie that she would not even permit
“Come, Molly; let's be off."
her cat to view the circus parade, and
Molly came hurrying out, trying to
Newly furnished large ligt't looms
the next instant he was a surprised adj test n veil and pull ou n pair of
man.
'I i-ieplmiiH
Elevi rie Light*1
gloves at the same time, a somewhat
“Why. I »ball be a spectator my difficult feat to perform. The two got
Rented by single night, week or
self," replied the widow. "Not only Into the auto, and the machine chug
monili
that,’but I shall attend the circus ged down the driveway to the gate.
both afternoon and evening. I shall It was a mild spring morning, and the
INQUIRE AT OFFICE OF
expect you to escort me tn the even roads were tine. Imogen was quite
ing.”
The BANDON STEAM LAUNDRY
an expert driver, and there was noth
"W-h-a-t!" gasped Moses as be stared ing to mar the pleasure of the trip
at her with open mouth.
till they hail beeu out a couple of
If you wish a bottle cold—
The widow repeated the words and hours and were some thirty miles
Call at the Eagle,
said she was tickled to death that a from home. Then one of the tires
11
you
love the goods dial's old--
circus was coming.
subsided and let the wheel to which
"But it's wicked! It’s monstrous! it belonged down on to tile ground.
Call at the Eagle.
You can’t be in earnest!”
"Oh. dear!’ exclaimed Molly.
Taint no use to sit and blink
“I shall tie there on a front sent."
"What shall we do?”
If you really need a drink.
"But I won’t go, and neither will
"Thtse's a shed or stable or some
Just make a sign or ring a bell.
any church member. You have heard thing over there; let’s go over and
And you bet they’ll treat you right
what has been said about it. Why, sts- if we can get any help."
you'd be turned out of the congrega
Down at the Eagle
Having placed the auto on the side
tion as a black sheep. Mary, don’t of the road, they both walked the hun
think of doing any such thing.”
dred yards that s< parated them from
"Moses, I’m going to that circus, the house and found a man in over
i
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and that’s flat!” replied the widow as alls tinkering with an automobile.
she put her foot down. "I don t be
"Oh, how fortunate!” exclaimed
BANDON, OREOON
lieve there's any more wickedness Molly “It's a garage.”
An Old Pioneer.
about it than at a spelling school.
"We’ve got a puncture or some
Why should there be?"
thing." said Imogen to the man. “We've
"But circus men swear and fight,’ left our auto out ttiere tn the road.
The Myrtle Point Enterprise men
protested Moses.
Would you mind coming out to see
"Ho do lightning red men nnd tin w hat’s the matter?"
tions the death ot Philip Br ick, aged BANDON
—
O regon
peddlers. I've heard some of the men
The man left his work, went with St years, who died at his home or
brnggixt nuil
imtlim'ury
around your mill swear.' »»
them to their auto, inspected the wheel
the Middle Fork on April 20th
Is ,11st in receipt of anew slock of
“But circuses have a clown, and the and said:
clown”—
"It’s not a case of puncture. There's Mr. Brack was one of the two sur
Drugs mid Chemicals. Pater.
“And the clown he jokes and makes a rip in the tire.”
viv ns of the wreck of the Captain Proprietary Preparations. Toilet
fun. Why shouldn't he?”
“Oh. dear!" exclaimed Imogen. “Can
Lincoln, which went ashore during tides L'rngg Sundries. Perfumes
“Mary," solemnly said Moses, “if you it be fixed?”
go to that circus then all is over be
a gale, on the ocean beach opposite Brushes, Sponges. Soap. Nuts am
“Not here. 1 haven't the tools.”
Candies, Cigars, Tobaccos and Ui<*
tween us."
"What shall we do?"
where Empire now stands, on Jan arettes, l'ainta, Oils, Glass n
“All right. Moses; I'll be there.”
“I'll put enough wind in it to get
Moses went straight from tlie house your machine into my garage, and 3. 1852. She had on board, besides Painter's Supplies.
of the widow to that of his minister there it must be left till you can get the crew, thirty-five troopers belong
and told his story. It produced con another tire. 1 see you have no ‘ex in' to C troop, ¡st U. S. Dragoons,
SOOTS - AND
sternation. The widow’s independ tra.’ ’’
SHOES
ence had been winked at. tint here
The man managed after much dill) commanded by 1st Lieut Henry M.
You can’t expect to get $2 worth
was a euse of revolution, rebellion, de culty to get the auto into the garage; Stanton.
The only survivor left
for $1, but you can get your
fiance. It must be met and crushed then he said to them;
now ol the wreck of the Lincoln is
money's worth at
in the bud. The hour was lute, but
“I will take you to your home, and
the minister went to struggle with you can send some one out with an Henry Hewitt Baldwin, of Bandon,
the rebel. Site |fiit her head out of her extra tire to take your auto back."
who was one of the troopers on that
chamber window and after ascertain
“Do you think that’s the only thing ill-lated vessel.
The Lincoln was
Dealer in Boots and Shoes.
ing bis errand replied:
to do?"
bound
from
San
Francis
o for Poit
"I have been to Sunday school pic
"Yes. Please wait till I go to the
nics of our church and seen selfishness, him: e atal get ofT these overalls. I'll Orford, where thg services of die Repairing neatly and promp
tly done at lowest liv
quarreling and backbiting. It «■an l»e l-e hack In a moment."
soldiers were required to quell the
He went up a byroad and disappear
no worse at a circus, and 1 am go
ing prices
ing Did you ever see a two horned cd. The two girls occupied themselves uprising oi the Rogue river Indi ms
rhinoceros ?”
looking at an imposing mansion on the in southern Currv county.
“N-no!” was the stammering reply.
top of a hill, at the foot of which they
"Then by al) means go ami see one. waited.
The BANDON CABINET
It may be your only chance for the
“That's a fine house,” said Imogen.
A fact that It Is well for the one just
next twenty years. Yes, and there’s a "I wouldn’t mind being at the head ef
WORKS
that house—that is, if I had a husba.d starting in orchard work to remember
five legged calf and a dodo.”
is that winter pruning, as a general
Next day the news was all over to be”—
All kirds of Cabinet
thing, tends to induce production of
town, and the earth proceeded to rock.
“At «tie foot." supplied Molly.
Pateros and Models
wood,
while
pruning
in
the
late
spring
The widow had many callers at her I In a few moments the man returned
and early summer encourages a set
bouse, and Moses had many at his in chauffeur costume.
SASH and DOORS
ting of fruit buds.
“1 should think you'd be hungry,
mill. All were ’‘again” the widow.
It was decided that she must lie put he .-aid. "It's past lunchtime, and
Not all western fruit ranchmen are
down. At first she was only deter you'll not get home before 3 o’clock
mined. So much was said, however, Perhaps you'd better go up to th. ' wise, ns one we came across the other
China .;losets.Sideboards,
that she got her mail up and an summer hotel." pointing to the house I day neglected a thirty acre ranch
Picture Era in e s and
nounced that she would attend Thurs they had been admiring, "and get | which would have increased in value
at the rate of $150 [>er acre during the
Mouldings made to order
day evening prayer meeting and an something to eat. It's not yet
Book L uses. ii> fact every
nounce her position. She was there, for the season, tmt I think you'll find year to handle an automobile agency
through which he got a $200 commis
aud the church was crowded. It was something to stay your appetite.”
thing in the Cabinet Line
and High Ctnss Finishing
hoped that site intended to recede from
“What a beautiful site for a hotei!' sion on a $1,500 machine. He lost
her first position, but it was a vain exclaimed Imogen. "We thought it . just about $4,300 by the deal.
hope. She took the floor to ask how private house."
many persons present had ever nt-
They climbed tlie hill, were adnib
tended a circus. Five men signitied ted by a maid in white and bl:.< :i
Blackerby
Building
that they had, and seven or eight uniform and shown into a diuit g
BANDON. ORFUON
In
The
Circuit
Court
of
The
more could have done so, l»ut didn't,
room having node of the npitennt ■
The widow asked how they hail b»-en of one belonging to a hotel, There a
State of Oregon, in and for
harmed -if it had led to profanit}, delicious luncheon was served, Oi.
The County of Coos
drunkenness, wife beating and theft. attempting to pay for It the matti
BANDON
F.
Lewis
T.
said
that
there
was
All pleaded not guilty. Then she asked
no one in the
Plaintiff)
why it was more wicked to look at an house to receive cash anti they weu';
—
vs I Suit ir. Equity
elephant than an ox. No one answer- ' have to pay another time.
For Divorce
•Rebecca
Lewis
\ 1
“We'll leave it with tin* man at -.m
ed. Then she asked why it was worse
Full line of Harness. Sad
Defendant
to listen to n clown's Joke than to garage down there," said Imogen.
“Yes. tn'nt.” the girl assented.
some of the Stories told around the
To Rebecca Lewis,
1
the abive
dles, Bridles, Halters,
Returning to the garage, they found named defendant
postoffice while waiting for the mail
Blankets and everything
to arrive, No orfe answered. Then she tile man waiting for them with : In the Name of the State of ()regnn:
asked why a woman shouldn't walk a auto ready. They entered it am!
usually
kept in a first*
You are hereby required to ap
tight rope or a rail fence if she want started for home. On the way* home
class
harness
shop.
ed to? She had seen men walking over | the chauffeur ts’came more comma..; pear and answer the complaint tiled
Repairing
a
Specialty
the bridge on the railing, aud no one eative. and Imogen remarked sotto against you in the al>ove entitled
had raised a fuss about it. Women voce to Molly that he used very ge. <1 siut on or before the last day of the
would jump through hoops at the cir- language for an auto tinker. When time prescribed in the order for the
cus. What of tt? She knew a woman they reached the house Imogen to;.» publication of this summons, which
in Perkinsville who had crawled out her pocketbook, asking him how prescribed tim? is six (6) weeks,
through a screen door when locked much his charge would l>e. includlc., the last day of which time will be
FURNISHED ROOMS
out.
the luncheon.
rlinrsday, the 5th day of May, 19(0.
The widow's best weapon wns saved
AT
The chauffeur replied that there was
And if you fail to so appear and
to the last She had made a good case, no charge for the ride; on the con
but she clinched it by asking if any trary. he bad been much honored. AS answer said complaint by the said
one present would please point out tn for the luncheon, he owned the bouse time, the plaii till will apply to the
Court for a decree forever annulling
the Bible when» Christian men and tn which they had lunched, and
the marriage contract existing be
women were forbidden the circus any this. too. they had honored him.
MRS SARAH (’OSTELLO
more than the paring bee. the corn
The giris looked at each other
tween yourself and the said plaintiff.
Nice <•!» nn r <»nis *5 and f»Oc n
husking or the ’lasses candy pull. All consternation.
This summons is published in the
nmlit ; $1.25 a u«ek; $ • am »nth
heard, but no one complied, and Mrs.
"Rut you said." Imogen protests-, ILitidon Record*r, a weekly news,
Hooper wrapped her toga alsnit her "that the house wns a summer bote!
paper published in Coos County. RANDON
OREGON-'
and walked out.
"1 Bed there." Mid the man !u.pe;
Oregon,
for six (6) consecutive
The circus appeared on the date turbably
given. The widow was there. Moses
Tile th"ee sat regarding one a not fee.- weeks liegimng March 24th, tyro,
v. as there, aud the three or four peo for a few moments, then burst out and ending May 5th. I910 by order
of publication made by the Hon.
City Transfer
ple tn town who weren’t there were laughtag
down with the iniim|>K or measles It
“Panion me,” said the chauffeur. • John S Coke, Circuit Judge of the
All kinds of d raying and transfer-
wns even said that the three ministers couldn't help It. Yon walked r?ght State of Oregon at Chambers in
penetrated as far ns the cages of tlie into your .urn trap.”
Coquille, Oregon, on the 24th day ing
FOR SALE—mill wood,
ostriches and the hvenas and that
That wns some years ago. Toda- of March 1910.
from Cody’s mill $2.00 i>er Io id
those who tried to figure up the in Imogen is at the head of the bouse or.
Geo P Topping
crease of crime during the next year the hill, and the gentleman chauffeur
Coil
sold and delivered at lowest
II ;t
Attorney for Plaintiff
got lost in the mate before arriving at IB at the foot of It
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