o • o o list -<>, i>er or later ci-ts to my-cry s a disastrous end, wliil go d AT tmpuocs and noble deeds .bring h«p pmess and other renards. Flic so called •'regular stage" at Observations by R lycu, the v< By M. QUAD various times has claimed io exer- crop writer and esteemed authority . Copyright. IAO. by Associated Lit­ kllih Nil AH COS ELL ) "A great ado" is made over li e • ctse a salubrious moral influence, erary Ureas. but in view «>f the long vogue ot its protqM-ctive exhibition ot moving Nice cl. n r • -'S «mi S f.iubt. ti. ■ ek ; $ • nui pictures representing the fight be­ devotion to adultercus tilth even its On the 15th day of Juno of a certain tween J u k Johnson and James J temerity enough to continue that Ainoa Gray straightened up to rest his of the world at Ri-no, Nev., • n th • pretention. back and then and there decided that M"re good, wholesome plays that he would marry the Widow Spooner. Fourth of July. - SHOES BOOTS - AfsD He bad been a widower and she a According to reports the picture. teaci the advantage ol praiseworthy widow for three years. She lived near $2 worth You can't expect to g t of this fight are to be made tlie main moral conduct have been shown on biui In the village, and they bad known for $1. but you can get your monry i worth at pretext to injure an industry that the traduced screen during the pas' each other before marriage. Her garden needed hoeing. He set promises far greater benefits than two years than have been seen on ubout it. It gave him a sort of sense t ’ the "regular ” stage in half a k ■ tlie fanatical agitators and jealous of proprietorship. It was her garden now, but after awhile it would be bls. Dealer in Boots and Shoe». opp nents, who are instigating thL century, He had been at work for a quarter of Taking the scenic, industrial and Repairing neatly and promp­ clamor and persecution are capable educational films as a group, there an hour when the widow came to the o|K*n kitchen door and discoverd him of bringing about tly done at lowest liv­ is no gainsaying the fact that tiiey and called out: Alt t nearly forty years' connec­ ••'Why. deacon, this is truly good of impart a general knowledge, lor a ing prices ts m with the press, during which you. I was Just wondering who I time I have had an abundance of few nickels, that would cost many could get to hoe my garden.” dollars and many days oi study to When ho had been at work an hour Clarence ) . Lo~vc proof (flat the great leaders in the acquire, let alone such expenditure the deacon uttered a few grunts and newspaper field are sincere in their sighs and came to anchor on the step. bandon -- O regon asservation that they offer "a fair as would be entailed lor personal 'Die widow was looking fine for a wo­ bruggitd and ry I man of forty. She was robust and in field anti no favor." I do not hesi observation In this group we find good health. The services of a doctor ni receipt of a new stock of i marvels of nature otherwise access- I tale to ask lor space enough to make I wouldn’t be needed for many a long ’ able only to the adventurer of un- day unless she fell down the cellar Drugs hik I d>“tiiid»-t ed men to a rational conclusion as I limited means. We see achieve­ stairs. who would esteem it a privilege to Helen. L’rngg Sundries, Perfumes ments of men so stupendous that no Brashes, Sponges. Soap. Nnts and to the right of rabid reformers to description or ordinary picturing build the kitchen fire every morning for four weeks after the groundhog Candiae, Cigars, Tobaccos and Cig- | cause trouble and immense loss with Hretten, Paints, Oils, Gltuw and out furdu r warrant then bare asser­ would avail to give even a faint con­ bail come out and seen his shadow. Yes. she was nil right, and the deacon Painter’s Happlie-. tion based on distorted and grossly ception thereof. The famous show opened his mouth and said: exaggerated reports of evil being, places oi the world, that the very ••Wldder 8pooner, me an’ you have small minority along have hitherto known each other a long time.” If you wish a bottle cold-— and further to lie wrought bv “Yes. deacon.” Call at the Eagle. tlie exhibition of a series of pictures been privileged to admire, are “Long before either one of us was If you love the goods that s old— that show what a man can do with brought before our eves for a nickel married.” Call at the Eagle. ” ! the weapons nature gave him, in ­ or a dime, expanding our knowledge “ “ Yes. Anil I guess we alius sorter liked Taint no use to sit and blink stead of using the coward's knife or oi the world and its strange inhabi each other.” If you really need a drink, tants, both human aud animal, as “Yes.” pistol. Just make a sign or ring a bell. “And now Abe Is dead and Martha is During the past ten years the mulling else would enable us to dead And you bet they'll treat you right and we are lonesome, wldder. Down at the Eagle moving picture industry has de grasp the reality of its vast ai d in­ Why shouldn't we”— She waited, but he stopped right I veloped from its etude experiment. I comparably interesting diversities. One incontestab'e advantage of there There was Sister Nancy. Hadn't stage as a clvap amusement for the better sound her and see how she Alvin Munck, Prop populace into a form of entertain the moving picture is that it is com he was goiug to take it? Yes, that would BANDON, OREOON ment that appeals to the most in­ prehensible to all races. No matter i be the wisest way. He therefore be­ — what the language of the spectator gan to talk about the drought and —--------- ---------------------------------- telligent classes of the people in all may be, if he possesses jiny intelli­ other things, and after working for an civilized countries. I other hour he went home. He didn’t MY CLOTHES ARE AT THE In its vast diversity o' atltactive I gence whatever, he is able to get a speak to Nancy—not on that subject. features the taste of a vast majority mental grasp of the subject por- She was trying to get supper with green wood, and she was hopping mad. He is fully satisfied and the bearer of the trayed. split up a dry board for her and blew What the moving picture means up tlie tire, but be had lived long slender purse is able to enjoy him­ self on equal terms with the richest. I to millions of foreign lx>rn citizens enough to know that when a woman ! who see scenes of their homeland on gets renl mad she must have at least Like any other great innovation ! the screen can only be understood a «lay to get over It. Next morning that threatens to diminish the power by those who speak many tongues; Nancy was so chipper that he decided to take his chances without speaking an«l revenue of established i. stitu- who hear parents tell their Ameri- to her on the subject. tions the moving picture was bound Where Yours Ought to be cad born children of the countri s in the afternoon the deacon did to meet with violent opposition by «ome more hoeing, and there was an­ Prop jealous, gree«ly and and fanatical op ann tlie people from which they other talk on the steps. Yes. the Wid­ A. F. DERINGER 1 came; who see the d *ep emotion of ow Spooner well remembered his tak­ ponents; but, notwithstanding all I the expatriated at sigh' of a familiar ing her to spelling school in the old the obstacles put in its way, the days. She remembered their Kliding | scene, of groups of men and women, hills together; she could recall the r<*d [ moving piicture is firmly established among whom may l>e loved ones apples he used to give her. as the dominent entertainment of the “Happy days them was. widder— they will never see again. masses. happy days.” lie sighed. Whoever will tak»* the trouble, as “Yes. they were.” HAS A SELECT STOCK OF The cause for the rapid and tre­ I have, to listen to comments and “But now you are a widder and I am mendous expansion of the moving to enter into conversation with n widower.” Wines, Liquors & Cigars pictuic industry is obvious. A man enough patrons of the moving pic­ “Yes.” “And both of us goldurned lono- can take his entire family to such an ture theatre to obtain a correct some.” ent« rtainment for the price of one Ntemn Herr on llrnu^lit opinion, will retain no doubt as to “1 am sometimes very, very lone- seat in the gallery of a "regular” the worth of these productions as a some.” theatre. Thousands upon thousands "But we needn’t be. Widder—wo COURTEOUS TREATMENT factor, a powerful factor, in improv­ needn't lie. S’posin’ of men who have spent their leisure ing the rrinds of men and women, “Well?” hours and money in saloons anti i ot boys ami girls, who have neither He couldn't go ahead. The thought gambiing houses, who the ieform; rs time nor money to inform themselves had Just struck him that she might have a wooden leg or a stiff knee an«l could not bring to a realization ol OREGON BANDON otherwise; who find in the moving would make that an excuse for not their wiong-doing, now find it more picture the only available models to doing tlie washing and Ironing. lie profitable and agreeable to spend Ijecome good citizens. Every such could dimly remember hearing that she had fallen from an apple tree and their spare time and money in the BANDON « ar nest student of Social problems broken a lion«* somewhere. He would ‘ picture houses" with their wives will agree that the benefit derived wait and make inquiries. It thus came aud children from the moving picture has been about that lie went home again with nothing decid«*d. Now. the deacon was The usual program of pictures manifested beyond questioning. Full line of Harness. Sad­ a great county fair man. He always presented at all the moving picture Eminent educators and clergy­ had an exhibit of chickens, eggs or dles, Bridles, Halters, theatres of the better class consist ol men in constantly increasing num vegetables. He believed that if any­ Blankets and everything three reels of 1000 feet of film each. hers declare the moving picture to thing could save this world from the usually kept in a first- fate of Sodom it was th«> Methodist re­ One reel a drama, the second a lie a most valuable aid in tbrir re ligion and a county fair held every Oc­ class harness shop. scenic or purely e«lucational series spective fields, and some of these tober At that very moment tie was Repairing a Specialty of piclutes and the thirrl a comedy. ar- so convinced of its value that raising a prize cucumber to exhibit. It was only a ft long now. but it would W. J. SABIN. Prop. W hoever wdl take the trouble to they strongly advocate the installing be a rod In length before time for pull­ investigate the moving picture thea­ <>f projecting apparatus in the schools ing tre without prejudice and talk with md churches, realizing that studies Deacon Gray let a week go past with­ out seeing the Widow Spooner. He got 60 YEARS many of its most intelligent regular that can be entertainingly illustrated up one morning mid stepped outdoors EXPERIENCE patrons, as I have done, for the pur are more fruitful in good results than to Inhale the fragrance of the air be- pose of a-cettaming the truth Tis to instruction that is taken solely as a fore sitting down to breakfast. About first thing his eyes light«*] on was its influence, will be greatlv sur­ duty and is considered irksome and a the woman standing over his prize cu­ prised at the indisputable g«>o«l don« laborious. cumber. It was the Widow Spooner. by this viciously lampooned indus- To be cheeringlv entertained is She had an ax on her shoulder, and her T raci : M arks D nuns one of the absolute needs of the Jaw was set. trv. COMR uHTS AC. “Why, widder. what do«» this mean?" people. The comedy film provides Anyone sending ft nhetrh end dewcrlntlnn may The dramatic part fre«;uently is a ihat enjoyment -nd relaxation in asked the deacon ns he sauntered out nnlchly eerertnln our opinion free whether -n utrenuon ?• probably patentable < '»mmunlcu- tloniiRtrictly confident lai. HANDBOOK on 1‘ateuta religious subject that is tar more im proper measure at tar less erst and to her irnt free. Oldest agency for ftt»ruriiitf patent*. "You have the same as asked me to Patents taken tnrouuh Minin A Co. receive pressive and inspiring than the pre­ risk than it is elsewhere obtainable marry you.” she replitMl as she spat on no/Pr. without ch a fire, iu the In view of the indubitable aim of her hands an«! flourished the ax. ponderance of sermons heard. Or the leading producers of moving "But not right out" . it may lx* an historical production A bandtomely IHnatrafed weekly, l-arireat rlr- I ictures to raise the standard of this • li.ttlon of any arientulc journal Tvrm<. f.1 a "But near enough. Deacon, when is ir ; four month«, |L S.ddbyuh )ewa<1e.-iier«. that gives a much. Ix'tter conception industry with most commendabl- It to lie?" ‘ iUNN&Co. 30’^“’-’ New York of a race of men. or of t-Yenls and persistence -no less in the ..spe> t ol “I can't say. What are you doing •’runch <»fflrw ’"36 F Ht,. V'aahingtoii. 1). C the customs of a per od, than is its ai t than in its utilitarian possibil with the ax?’ “In two w«*eks, deacon, or I chop fixed in th«' mind l>y the forced dies and, moreover in view of the your prize cucumber In two!” undeniable fact that no class of bus cramming of any text. Or it mat Bring your “T.ordy, woman!” iness men has been so ready to con “Do I chop?“ i be scenes that arouse patriotism; a form to regulation by civic authority, "You wouldn’t go to chop that cu"— more chivaliic spirit in men who howeyer unreasonable in some in “Two weeks, deacon, or three or have found no such emulation «n stances, it appears to many to I»« four? Speak quick!” Job Work “Waal, say about three!” their earlier environment. Other of high time that the rightful claims of those engaged in this popular bus ­ And three it was. and. though Nancy I these dramas depict social con iness be given as fair a hearing as raised a fuss and had to be carried out dilions triu to life that impress one the vilhticationt of its fanatical ene­ md dumped over the fence, the couple To T he R ecorder strongly that evH doing is an error mies. have lived happily together for yean. Concerning the Moving ♦ Picture. Í LkMbih.L» MXl.is e M Pacific Sam Says THE PRIZE CUCUMBER BREL ER O There ain’t any sense in keep ing a cat to watch the knot holes in your house; you want to get the kind of house ma- terial that is sold by the Geo. W. Moore Lumber Co •9 and you won’t have any knot holes i I GEO. W. MOORE LUMBER CO THE COQUILLE RIVER LINE Strs. Fifielcl & Bandon Twin Screw, New and Fast 1st Class Passage, Up Freight. $10 00 & $7.50 3.00 Our interests are your interests. Fair rates and good service our motto A. F. 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