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lierais Coquille ] ) R . J. B Ü R T . M O O R E , I L L promptly respond to nil culls, d»v or night. Offloe st the new Drug Store, opposite the K. It. Depot! residence In Batch prop erty. near Mr. Messer’s. C O Q U IL L E OITV, O H E G O N ^ W I J IH E The Union Labor Column. A N D P H Y S IC IA N . C O M M E R C IA L 4 ---- \ most modem arranged BARBEK »H O I* in Ooqoillo Oily M. M. McDonald, Proprietor. Hot and Gold Baths at all hoars. Popular prices. Headqnarters for Commercial Men. N est door to PostolBoe. O. E. SMITH, (CgttSurgeon Dentist, office M A R S H F IE L D , O R E G O N . vini. J. W . B E N N E T T , Attorney at Law, Marshfield, • P B O P L Z ’B P A R T Y . The following eompooe the Coonty Ex ecutive Committee uf the Peop le'! Party of Cooa ooanty, Oregon: Diet. No. 1—J . J, Stanley, Empire City. •• “ a— A. M. Collver. Mjrehfleld. “ “ S— W . H. Hull. Riverton. “ “ 4— 1. T. Weekly, Gravel Ford. “ “ S—#. H . Matheny. Myrtle Point. “ •< 6 - W . D. Marahall, Rendon. W . H. H U L L . Chairman. Riverton. I . 8. M oE W E N . V.-C. and Treaanrer, Coquille City. J. J. S T A N L E Y . See- Empire City. Before the law wax written down with parchment or with pen; Before the law made aitiaene, the moral law made men. Law atanda for human righto, bat whan it fade thoee rights to giro, Then let law die, my brother, bat let hum.n beings live. — Rev. M iller Bagemaa. THE STOBY OF IT LIFE. Oregon. JOHN F. H A L L BY “ A M A N W IT H O U T A S O U L ." xeaal E s ta te -A.e-exit, Perhaps the readers of The Com ing Nation, who have been brought up in the belief that all men have souls to save, will think I jumped to the conclusion without sufficient evidence to prow that I have no soul. L e t us look up my past his tory, for the trail is easy to follow, marked by rags and hunger and disappointment and privations from the home in a New York garret to my present home among the foot hills of the Rocky mountains. My father was a common laborer until the life was half crushed out of him by having the walls of a burned warehouse fall upon him. He was sent to a hospital for treatment, and in less than three months he was sent out into the world to earn bis own living, with one useless arm, both legs crippled, and an injured spine. I was then three years old, sister Francis ten, and little brother W al ter one. Our home was in a dingy garret over a junk shop, and it was very natural for poor father to become a rag-picker and haunt the back-yards abd dark alleys, day after day, in search of rags and scraps of old metnl. I can shut my eyes still and see him moving along in his tortuous way, with his hook iu one hand nnd n dirty sack slung over his shoulder. He grew careless of his appearance and allowed his beard to grow long and ragged and bis hair to hang iu unkempt strings about bis shoulders, while his hands nnd face were allowed to go unwashed for months. Society people saw him and shrank from touching him. He often sat down in the shadow of a great brick church to rest, and saints came and went, seeing him in all his rags and dirt, and often called a policeman to drive him away. • And yet mother said he had an immortal soul to save, for some un known purpose, and that sister Francis had one, and I had one, and little sickly brother one, too. Mother used to cry over us little children, and tell us how handsome our father was when she married him, for then he had steady work on the dock and got living wages, and had pride enough to keep him self looking like a gentleman. Father soon began to stop at the low rum shops kept in the slums, for it seemed that only a drunken slumber could make him forget his degradation and awful condition in this cruel world. ’ He would come home after the saloon keeper got all his money and kicked him oat into the street, and he would feel disagreable and cross, and would beat us children and poor mother because she had no money to give him with which to buy whisky at the saloons. The saloons paid a license fee into the city treasury which was used to light and pave the streets where the rich people lived and to sweep the streets in front of the gilded churches where the rich people go to save their souls. Mother went out to work in a sweat-shop tailor establish mont, Francis sold paper« and pop-corn ball«, and little W alter and I were left alone all day in the dingy gar ret, most of tbe time crying, because we were hungry. On« night mother and Francis came home and told me that I would never nee my father again in this world— he was dead. A loaded Attorney at Law and MARSnKIHLD, O bkoom . C . A. S E H L B R E D E . A T T O R I S T E Y st L A W Roaeburg, Oregon. Hpeciel attention to matter! hefore the Koaebnrg land ofllce, the oommieeloner of the ce neral land office and aecrefcary of the Interior at Washington. ^ __ Y K T L E CAMP. NO. 197, WOODMEN of the World, meets at Masonic Hall 1st and 3d Mondny nights of each month. A. J. S hhbwood , Consol. George T. Moulton, Clerk. M Fa A r j f i I . U . /C O Q U IL L E P. A. A I. U. meet» erery \ J second and fourth Tbureday nights in each mouth in Coquille City, Coos county, Oregon. . M bs . L im a J ohksoji . Sec. Bandon F A and I- TJ Meets every second and fourth Friday nights in each month at Bandon, Coos county. Or. E. G. G bovkb , Sic. Sumner F A. and I- TJ. Meets a*. Alliance hall on the aroond and fourth Saturday evenings of eaoh month. W » . Ktaoa, Sec. . d . mectainita new ball at Riverton every flrat and third Saturday evening*of^»mh montlh iv e r t o n R f . v . a i rv OIT I’H r o n » E t a l . D., No. a » , ». t > « i * >T- • c-’iiu . aturday at 2 p m. ; » in good standing Brothers Af < are Invited lo rond *iu l ua. U 1L. IPTON, secretary. r. 0. o : F. C/oquille Lodge N o.53 •leeta at Coquille O it, every Satnrday even ing. Visiting brothreu, iu good »lauding, cordially invited. J. H. N obles , N. G. J. 8. L awrence , K. 8. Coonille Encampment, N o S 5 I O. O. P\ Meets flrat nnd third Thorsdaya in eaoh rooi.th at Odd Fellows’ hall. Cordial invi tation to visiting patriarchs in good «¡end in g . J. 8. L awren cb . C. r . G. F. Bout ell Scribe. ___________ Chadwick Lodge, No- 68 A . F. nnd A . M., Meets at their hail on Saturday evening on or before fall moon in eaoh mouth. Vieiting brethren cordially invited. J, W. L xnnvn , W. M. T. R. Willard. See. _________ g . a r . Q-en-Lytle Post N o-27, Meets at Coquille City, on every first Wednesday. Visiting comradh, in good standing, cordially invited. J ohn M okbis , Commander. H. H. N ichols , Adjutant. Coquille Fishermans’ UNION IRandLolpH O regron. W ill meet every fourth 8atnrday in each month till further notioe. All member, in good »landing cordially invited to attend. JUMPED! SEE? LOTS AT B A lO H .t ;’“ the vicinity of the parade ground, fo r $125 each. Duly a few lots at this price. For particular« in quire at the H erald office. COOS B A Y Marble asi Slots Works C. W. PATERSON, Prop. Manufacturer o f Marble Monuments. H eal- etonee. Tablets, etc. Cemetery lots enclosed with stone ©oping or curbing. Iron railings furnished to or der. Correspondenoe solicited from parties ivin g in the oountrv or other towns who may wish anything in my line o f business. M abshfifld . . . . . O bbo J\ J. B A K E R ' S Livery Feed ? Sale M ies, M YRTLE P O IN T , OR. S I N G L E and D O U B L E R IG S , F IN E TEAM S, S A D D L E -H O R S E S — a i - R E ASON A B LE P R IC E S . Regular trips with fine hseks connecting with trains at Rosebnrg: two trips daily to and from Coquille City, making prompt connection with river steamers, stage lines and ocean steamers at Coos bay. truck had run over him in a dirty alley back of a saloon, and they took him out and buried him in the potter's field. Do you think the greedy Christian world would have treated him so badly if he hod owned a soul, like a rich man ? Mother worked all the harder now, going out at daylight and com ing back long after dark. She had no immortal soul to save, so the proprietors paid her no-soul wages — about two dollars and fifty cents a week, providing she didn't lose any time or soil any o f tbe gar ments. I f her children had been blessed with souls, like the children of the rich people over on .the taOhideable streets, they sorely would have died of starvation, but, having no souls to save, we could live on almost nothing, and wear rags and tatters to keep our soulless bodies warm. One day they brought mother home very ill, and Bister Frances went to take her place in the over all factory. Dear God, how hard times were for us poor soulless peo ple during that long, bleak winter. Mother was confined to her hard bed on tbe floor from the time they brought her home urtil she died, in early April, of consumption. I remember still how she used to call little W alter and me to her bed side and tell us to meet her up in heaven— poor, sweet mother; she imagined that she had a soul to save like rich people. A fter she was dead they came with a box to put her in and carried her off to the potter’s field— not to sleep along side o f father, for none but God remembered the hole where his body had been dumped. Sister Frances dared not leave the factory to go and see where mother was buried and, as there was no one to take care of little Walter and me, we never learned the exact spot I don’t suppose it makes any dif ference to God, for poor people have no souls, anyhow, and neod not be looked after on the last great day. They live like the lower animals, die like the lower animals, so they must be lower nuimals in the eyes of God, the same as they are in the eyes of the fashionable church-go ing aristocrats and bribe-taking statesmen. Little Walter and I went out on the streets to sell papers and steal food, after mother died, nnd sister Frances continued to worn in the sweat-shops. This went on for two years and, by that time, Frances was a young woman. She told us her employer's son was in love with her, and he soon began to come to our poor garret and take sister to the theatre. He bought her fine clothes and rings nnd she quit work ing in the factory. W e thought her young man was the best man in the world for n little while, but he soon took our sister to a finer house away up town And we didn't see her much after that. W alter and I were turned out into the street when the rent fell due, and we slept io a stable after that One day a runaway team came dashing down the street where little W alter was gathering cigar stubs, and the wheels of the carriage crushed the life out of his poor, hungry body. I cried a great deal when they took him to the potter's field and buried him out of my sight forever, and my heart was heavy for a long time. I had loved him just as though we had been rich men’s sons and had immortal souls to save. One day I met my sister Frances in the street She began to cry when she saw me and asked about brother Walter, and said she wished sbe had never left us to go off with a wicked young man. I remember still how she kissed me and wept over me and said “ good bye, good bye, Jakie,” over and over again as sbe turned to wave her hand to me and then walked rapidly toward« the river. Next day I wandered down towards the river front and in pose- ing the dead house, called morgue by some people, I was tempted by some strange impulse to go inside and look at the unknown dead— most of them having grown tired •» " fl -j* - ■ ■ ♦ Special Inducements to Subscri bers— Best and Cheapest. The “H erald” and Y o u r Choice at the Price Stated Below. and the moat intereati at Intereatins and entertaining book on tbe »abject of money pubiM|N£, CotN'i H andocok , by W. U. Harvey m b the elementary principle, of i ind statistics.) L e tte r (Vein l a d s « S r b r w d e r . A raoo , Or., Deo. 7, 1895. PATENTS NOTICE TO INVEN10RS. n Sliylock, price 25 cents, and The Anarchists of Wealth, price 10 cents, and the H erai . i > one year, all for $2. 8KB' In roferenc to the above publications, it is necessary to say but little. Everybody knows what magnificent papers the “ Exuminer” and “Call” of San Francisco are, as also tho Thrice-a-Week New York W orld and Ttvice-a-AVeek Boaton Traveler--each of which are worth the price asked. The Home and Farm is a splendid agricultural and family jour nal, large lC-page paper, and of itself worth the price of both papers. Womankind is a most attractive and entertaiuiug home monthly, heartily welcomed by and instructive to the mothers and daughters; and the Farm News is edited by a staff of experienced agricultural writers, ia handsomely printed, ami contains whnt the practical farmer wants. Word and W ork« is Rev. Ir l Hicks’ paper of S t Liotds. This in a scien tific journal and is full of excellent reading matter. The Almanac, given with the paper, contains 100 pageB of forecasts and other useful infor mation and is n valuable book. The Road is a large, wide-a-wide Populist paper, pnhlished by “ mid- dle-of-tho road" Herbert George, of Denver, Col. Of The Silver Knight it is only necessary to say that it is Senator Stewart’s fearless paper, and is published iu Washington City. Our Nation's Crisis is best advertised by saying that it is owned nnd edited by Gov. Wnito, Colorado’s great Populist governor, the War-horse of the Rockies. It is good reading. The Rural Northwest is an Oregon farm journal, nnd is clean and well managed. It will be worth the price we charge for both papers to any farmer in Coos county. U s T T hese Club Rates, of course, imply payment in advance.*^R gtjjrWe can only make these splendid terms where cosh is~%N paid in advance. — FOR THE — “Great Berelatioii of Hoi- etarr y ," SHYLOCK, A p p ly at this office. Also lor tbe supplement B u ylo c k , entitled to The Anarchists of Wealth, “ An exposure o f the plot o f the Red-H bield( Rothschild) to des troy a Republic.” One i* a 25- cent book, the other a 10-cont © * Ä I ^ V U < V f c * T r » 'i i book; but we have made ar rangements with the publishers _ by which 25 cents w ill boy botb, or both will be given free to a caah s u b s c r ib e r to lh e H E n A L i^ o iM iu i^ e a r ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ P ; NO. 22. M E o e s e s «* OUR NEW CLUBBING OFFERS! Tired HuebaRiri—I ’ye hod a ter E lin o r OcKtat M ail: vVe h ave rible day at tbP office acd Pm mad just had an opportunity to peruse clear through. W ife — Now would the Eugene City Guard o f October be a good time for yon to le.it 12, 1895, containing the article en those rugs. titled ‘'Outrageous Charge«,” to which you called attention in the Mail, and thought it best not to publish before our couuty court Lad an opportunity to explain. W e appreciate your consideration and assure you we would have taken* no offense bad you published it. The article itself gives evidence of There was never a time in the his the motive which prompted its tory of our country when the de issue. mand for inventions and improve In a recent issue of the Coquille ments iu the arte and sciences gen The City H er ald we published au ex erally was so grent aa now. planation o f the Bouckeubeimer conveniences of mankind in the fac case, which we then thought would tory nnd workshop, the household, covei the matter at issue, but since on the farm, and iu official life, reading said article, we find the require continual accessions to the Guard makes an assertion therein appurtenances nnd implements of which deserves attention, because each in order to save labor, time and it may be construed to mean that expense. The political change in our county court has w ilfully mis the administration of government represented or lied to gain a point does not affect the progress of the The assertion is as follows: “ This American inventor, who being on was no extraordinary case, as the the nlcrt and ready to perceive the officials testify that this ($3.25 per existing deficiencies, does not permit day) is the price charged the County the affairs of the government to deter generally.’’ him from quickly conceiving the T b e Guard evidently sticks close remedy to overcome existing discrep to its text. Th is is without ques ancies. Too great care cannot be tion au “ outrageous charge," and exercised in choosing a competent we emphatically deny i t W e have, and skillful attorney to prepare and on the contrary, endeavored to im prosecute an application for patent press it on the officials o f Lane Valuable interests have been lost and county that Bronckenheimer’s case destroyed in innumerable instances was one snch as we treated in Dr. by the employment of incompetent McCormac’s hospital under con counsel, and especially is this advice tract at $3.25 per day. W e had no applicable to those who adopt the occasion to give a comprehensive “ No patent, no pay” system. Inven history o f bow Coos county kept tors who entrust their business to aDd treated its iudigent persons. this class of attorneys do so at im W e coDfioed ourselves to the case minent risk, as the breadth and treated and gave all tbe informa strength of the patent is never con tion necessary to establish oar sidered in view of a quick endeavor claim, and we believe the said offi to get an allowance and obtain T H E PRESS cials understood it, beoause they the fee then due. have offered to compromise the C L A IM S COM PANY, John Wed- matter at $2 per day, or $68 in full derburn, General Manager, 318 F for onr claim o f $110 50. T o show street, N. W., Washington, D. C., the inconsistency of jum ping st representing a large number of im conclusions, which the Guard has portant daily and weekly papers, an done in this esse for a purpose, we w ell as general periodicals of tbe respectfully call its attention to tbe country, wns instituted to protect its patrons from the unsafe methods following: In the article under considera heretofore employed in this lice of tion, tbe Guard says: “ A t Coos business. The said company is pre county rstes ($3.25 per d ay), it pared to take charge of all patent would oost Lane county $45 per businese entrusted to it for reason day," from which we most infer able fees, and prepares and prose that there are 14 paupers. In the cutes applications generally, includ same issue is published the Irillt- ing mechanical inventions, design allowed by the county court for patents, trade-marks, labels, copy September, 1895, among which is rights, interferences, infringements, the follow ing item: “ Dr. Rnssel. validity reports, nnd gives especial It is for keeping paupers for Septem attention "bo rejected roses. ber, $251.25,” a per capita average also prepared to enter into competi o f $4.19 per week. T b e gross tion with any firm in securing for npers is eign patents. amount allowed for l is $378 82, an average 16.28 per W rite for instructions and advice. , week, and yet the Guard says it P m i l i f W. Aviaavr, costs only $3 per week. [ P. O. Box 385. | 618 F street, ' Can we strive st auy ether con- Washington, D. C. i « of life drown theuwelvos in tbe river. In that awful place I saw sister Frances ! The watchman said she bad l>een brought up from the river during the night. He told me that hundreds of poor, wronged girls seek death in the river, being victim« of rich men’s villainous son«. Since then I have been alone in tbe world. I never hope to see my loved ones again, for surely they hod no immortal souls. A Christian country would not treat i>eople who Almost everybody takes soma laxative possess immortal souls in such a medicine to cleanse the system and koep the blood pure. Tnose who taka SIMMONS manner— fence them off from the L iv e r r e g u l a t o r (liquid or p o w d e r). world’s natural wealth and force get all the benefits o f a mild and pleasant jr* h e H khald has m od e c lu b b in g a rra n ge m e n ts w ith th e fo llo w in g pub- them to live in poverty and ignor- m ? “sbengnt U T t h e w Lr^ t e » ! A^d , l o t i o n s , as stated b e lo w W e ta k e p lea su re in p re s e n tin g to o u r rance. No, no; poor 'people have more than this: SIMMONS LIVER REGU- P * t r o >“ an<1 o th e rs these e x c e e d in g ly fin e o ffers, via: LATOR regulates the Liver, keeps It active T h e W e e k ly E xa m in er, o f San F ra n cia co ($1.06), an d tb e no sonls 1 —The Coming 'Nation. ^NaJ#T, a M when the U v c r la in City H ” erald ($2), * ................. both for one year to r $2.75. — ------- - *----------* you find yourselffree from good condition condì The Weekly Call, of Son Francisco ($1.50), and the H eiuld ($2), both T rw tl and Tkatr Work. Indigestion, Skk- Malaria, Biliousness, ! for one year for $2.75. - There are many o f these trusts in Headache and Constipation, and rid of that worn out and debilitated feeling. The Tbrice-a-Week World, o f New York ($1), and the H e r a l d ($2), the country, and tbe amount of their Those are all caused by a sluggish Liver. both for one year for $2.25. capital is fabulous. The cattle trust Good digestion and freedom from stomach The Twice-a-Week Traveller, of Boaton— 12 page« each week, ($ t)— troubles will only be had when the liver has a capital dloek of $13,000,000; is properly at work. If troubled with any and the H erald , both for one year for only $2. T H E F A R M , H O U S E H O L D A N D L IT E R A R Y . the salt trust $00,000,000; tbe whis j f these complaints, try SIMMONS LIVER R e g u l a t o r . The King of Liver Medl The Rural Northwest, o f Portland, Or., a splendid local agricultural key trust, $35,000,006-, the cotton ines, and Better than Pills. and horticultural journal (semi-monthly, 50 eta.), and the H erald ($2), / T E V E R Y P A C K A O E -S t oil trust, $42,000,000; the lead trust, both one year for $2. $45,000,000; tbe sugar trust, $75,- H as th e Z S tam p In re d on w ra p p e r. The Home and Farm, of Louisville, Ky., (50 cts.), and tbe H m u J . H . Z eU In A Co., P h lla ., Pn. ($2), both one year for only $2.10. 000,000; the to b a c c o trust, $30,000,- Womankind, a handsome, attractive, monthly home paper (50 cents), 000; and the standard oil trust has elusion than the foregoing withoat tbe Farm News, a practical farm paper, monthly, (50 cents), and the one man among its organizers who a more definite understanding o f H r it a Li) ($2), all one year for only $2. is said to receive os his annual div the sit istion in Lane county. W e Word and Works, of SL Louis, Mo., including to each subscriber tbe do not ask the Guard to explain idend, $0,000,000. I t is estimated W ord and Works Almanac and Hand-Book, a useful and handsome pah- ., these apparent contradictions. W e licauon (both $1.25), and the H ebald ($2), tho three for only $2.50. that tbe combined capital of all the have had some experience in each Every Where, the famous poet W ill Carleton’s charming literary and trusts in the United States amounts matters. The Guard's “ outrageous illustrated monthlv (50 cents), and the H erald ($2), both one year for $2. to more than $1,000,000,000. These charges" is the latest. P O P U L I S T ' P A P E R S A N D P O L I T I C A L P O IN T E R S . Yours very truly, enormous aggregations of wealth The Road, of Denver, Col., ($1), an 8-page weekly worth double the J. H enry S chroeder . exert immense power for evil, and price, nnd tbe H krai . d ($2), both for one year for $2.15. P. S. From the amount o f time, The Silver Knight, of Washington City, Senator Stewart’s great are manifestly antagonistic to the paper and postage this case has so general welfare. They increase the far taken, it appears that il will be paper ($1), nnd the H erald ($2), both one year for $2.35. Our Nation’s Crisis, Gov. Waite's paper, of Denver, CoL (50 eta.), and price on the necessaries of life. an 3Xtraordinary case bofore it is the H erald ($2), both one year for $2. J. H. S. They reduce the wages of the work settled. IN A D D IT IO N TO T H E ABOVE C LU B B IN G RATES FO R PAPERS, ------------------------------r-------- ingman. They seek to control pro The secret of a speedy cure in W e have concluded to offer the following books as premiums for cash duction. They lessen the demand sioknesc lies in selecting tbe proper subscribers: for labor. They throttle competi remedy and this is difficult to do Coin’s Financial School, price 25 tion in trade and manufacture. unless one is sure what the ailment cents, and Coin’s Hand-Book, price is. But cne thing is sure, had the They monopolize the wealth o f the 10 cents, and one year's subscription land. They bribe and corrupt our liver been actively at work sicknesB to the H erald , all for $2. could not have come. It is then legislative bodies. They largely always safe to take Simmons Liver rCoIN’t F in a n c ia l S chool , by W . H. Harvey; illtiHtrntrU. liVO pNgea nlid ind 64 illaa- dominate both the Republican and Regulator which keeps the liver well I ration ». It si lupliflen the flunncial ■ ■abket •o that an ordinary schoolboy i andar- Democratic parties. regulated and all poiaon expelled stand it. 11 ia the text book of the from the system. absolutely reliable a» to facts and figaroo, 6 0 0 D FOR EVERYBODY *" • * & * & * "£ * ' W -. - 3 ^ ^ - COQUILLE CITY, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1895, YOL. 14. 8URGEON - <4Í » Schweitzer, Tailor, BANDON. OREGON, Fartiiehee bmt goodft on the merket, home- i«l»nn end f<*eigu. l*ete*t feehkme. Artistif • Tdiluriug • » ■ Spemltj. Herald and Rural Northwest far $2. W e offer a valuable premium to our subscribers who are interested iu the farm, fruit-growing and stock, i without extra cost; in other worda, 1 $3 for $2 — two paper« for the price o f one. D* Price'» Cream Baking Powder All kinde of work will rsceivt earafa ' WwM’a Fair Nlgkwt Me»sl W rteee. attintici). 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