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Philadslphi* Sutlers from Smallpox-
“ Your 'rhyme may be ‘lenson’ but i
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The following excerpts we give
PU B LISH E D E V E R Y TU ESD AY poetry ie for bright and happy j
] things, not for gloom, and murt- ; from uu article in the Philadelphia
North American, l>v Dr. Benjamin
D. F. Dean. Editor and Proprietor gages are greuaorue facts. I auppoae
Lee, one of our country's most em
Countv O f f i c i a l P a n e r , ns an old resident of this county, you inent physicians and u recognized
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------ I are full of valuable statics, on all authority on smallpox, for the bene
Ueroted tu (be uisiensi and w*(ai up subjects pertaining to its versatile fit of our readers on account of the
fta ild in u o t t b a C o q o il i . V alley pa llicu lsrly
productions, aud we would be many and varied opiuious in regard
mad or Corn C ou n ty KOiieraliv .
to the diseaae now extent in all
S u b son p tiou , per year, ta «üvnnoo, f l .fio pleased to print a lot of them.”
parts of the country:
“ Ob dear no! I ’m not an ency
KPIOKMIO WAS EXPKCTKD.
S clopedia by anv means, and for a
T I I K P Ib f l t i<bèpt enai*»t a _ c , M : DARE’
Dr. Benjamin Lee, secretary of -
I Merchant*’
H I* V I 41 "ill ÂdYertiBlnii Aceuoy, f>4 and 60
BxolUnge, San
San Francisco,
Fiauclaco, California,
fai
__________' Exchange,
boy, I bave’nt the state board of health has been j
*«• r «contracta Tor a i vertigine can b* made for it. dead sure fact my
collected the latest statistics, by a j busily engaged sending out warn-1
| ings throughout the state.
As he
long shot. In fnct it would be hard i is regarded as specially well-inform-
WITH MR. KAN AGAIN.
to keep an up-to-date, account with ! ed upon smallpox, what, he has to !
Some Sensible Sayings, Seriously ftU the varied industries, and pos I say at this time is considered valu- j
I
sibilities of our county, unless one | able.
Said.
“ This epidemic has now reached
; made a business of it, anil that I've
When next wo assembled ourself j never had time to do. The climate a state which the board predicted
together, at the comfortable borne ot Coos county, aside from its 1150 ' over n year ago,’’ he said yesterday.
I ‘ The disease followed the army
o f Mr. Kan’ we found that gentle square miles, and rank productness, from Cuba, but it was a light variety
man’s dome of thought, corrugated is one of itsinostseducfive features. which did not frighten the people.
with a sort of condensed air of ser A few years ago, some one kept a Its introduction into the state
iousness, somewhat at variance, with record of the temperature, and through the southern counties aiul
through Virginia and Ohio was well
his usual make-up,
fouud that in January the thermou- marked.
The disease is essentially |
His greeting however was as cordial eter ranged from 30 to 50 degrees, a cold country malady: the germs do j
as ever, and seating us in the same aud in August from 49 to 70 with a not live preserve activity in high j
For that reason we j
easy chair, in nearly the same spot, mean temperture for the year of temperatures.
we before occupied, in his den, pro 52,2 degrees. The three winter and have to keep vaccine in a refriger
ator. Consequently, the colder the
duced, thote Virginia Cheroots of three summer mouths varied only
weather, the more favorable for the
which he seems so fond, and in or 11 degrees.
propagation of the germ.
We
have
fifty
miles
of
coast
line
der to disperse other “ blue devils"
“ Now the West Indian smallpox
aud two good harbors, one of them
we soon bnd the air ladened with the best between San Francisco and which the troops brought home wai
the aroma of the soothing weed, Astoria, on both of which the gov of such a light type that hundreds
ernment has already spent some of cases were not. recognized by the
and conversation did not lag.
physicians as variola at nil. These
“ When you came iu", said he,” thing like a million dollars for jetty
improvements anil will put in more cases went through all stages of
“ I was thinking what a different
for their completion. Coos Bay has the disease without inconvenience.
world this would be if people, who 600 square miles, water shed, and The patient did not know that he
could— would only do things. A the Coquille river nearly 1000, most was more than out of sorts. He ate
mouse and a pig, you know are of of which is in this eouuty. Our his three meals a day, and attended
to his ordinary pursuits.
no use until they are dead, and if river has au excellent channel from
“ These light cases were capable
eight to ten rods wide with ten feet
that isn't the plan of many of the
So the
of water on the bar ut a low stage. of spreading the infection.
human race, 'little’ or ‘hoggish’, then We Love probably teu billion feet epidemic has been growing for three
I don’t know what those words of merchantable timber and 450 years. During the early stages the
mean. Since you were last here, I square miles, underlaid with u coal mortality was uot above one per cent
Then it grew to two per cent, and j
have been canvassing certain mat strutum from three to six feet thick, today it stands at fourteen per cent.!
a very productive soil, the best of
ters aud I've hud no mere success,
“ The longer an epidemic of small
pure water in unmeasured quanity,
— at least uppareat success, than together with a climate healthy and pox lasts the more virulent does the
though I had sat here iu my den, pleasing to every body. Our popu disease grow, and the more deaths
smoked my Cheroot, and chewed lation is now over 10,000 with a per hundred are recorded. We are
gross property valvation I should now within the grasp of a serious
over the ‘weekly’ paper.”
say of between four and five millions epidemic, and the authorities should
“ I fear sir,” wo rejoined, “ that
with lands patented and UDpatened do everything possible to check it.
you are a little pessimistic, influ of tally about 750,(100 acres of which Unfortunately, it is not practicable
enced perhaps as we often are, by perhaps 60,000 to 70,000 acres are to compel the people to be vacci
the weather, or the state of our liver. under cultivation. Our Hchool fund nated. The best that can be done
is to deny them certain privileges
We cannot expect good results from state and county, mus* now be be and to quarantine them when their
tween $15,000 and $20,000 with at
any adventure, at once. It often
least five thousand
children of families are atlacted.
“ The most dnngerous period is
takes piles of hard work and lots of school age to profit by it, as well as
it in a hill, and it’s the uever-sav-die the state, which lias everbeeu liber during convalescence. Then the
which succeeds. It’s the determined, al in educational matters. But my disease is easiest communicated.
There are two standard disinfecting
•I will’ you know, that puts a man friend, we have not really reached solutions. Oue is made bv dissolv
our agricultural,interests yet though
n.tri.le the world to conquer it. We
I.hope our talk will not prove prof ing coiTosive sublimate and per
are doing well enough. The peo itless, but lest we outrun your space manganate of potasli in soft water
ple ard thinking. By and by, they perhaps we had better, say this sub in the proportion of two drachms |
will act and whether they give us ject will be “ continued.” and leave of each salt to the gallon. The other I
is Made by dissolving six ounces of
any credit, or Dot, something’ll be a good bit, for another issue, and chiorido of lime in a gallon of water, j
yet another, as we have struck a
done. It was Josh Billings we be
subject which is practically exhaust- But above all, vaccination is the
lieve who said, “ inv son! observe the lea t.”
only preventive.
postage stamp. Its unfulness de
“ I ’m agreed to that Mr. Kan,
A United States senator says that
pends upon its ability to stick to with all my heart and be sure, we the intention of Congress to pay to j
think its our turn to supply the Mrs. McKinley one venr’s salary of j
oue thing until it gets there.”
the President’s office and to grant j
“ Ha! ha! ha! There I ’m glad you Cheroots, when we come again.
“ Oh don’t bother about that!
made me laugh. It’s ns good as Only come, and meanwhile I will her a pension has given raise to th e!
,
suggestion that this canuot be done !
soothing syrup. What’s the use cf
alK “ e* uiy»elf better posted. I j without also giving consideration to
worry any way since worries are so never particulary admired a walking the case of Mrs. Harrison, widow
much like crumbs in a bed, the encyclopedia,but sometimes
it’s 0f President Harrison. The senator
more you wiggle, the more they mighty handy to be one” and then takes the position that it would be
scratch you. I’m not much on the at t ie oor. iood mighty, my boy, discrimination to provide for Mrs.
“ G oodnight Mr. Kan, and my McKinly without also doing some-
worry, and am old enough to know thanks for a pleasant hour.”
thing for Mrs. Harrison, and be-
that big tilings move slow; that no
Aud then we thought as we hit ]ieve« that this matter will be fully
great scheme was ever perfected in the grade, what a wise and curious j considered in Congress at this ses-
an hour. It takes a lot of thinking, Imeu is Mr. hau. “ A mouse aud » ] sion He savs tlint while President
p!g are o f no use until they are ; McKinley wiis assassinated in office
and the time to think is before one
deai ,
And again .“ The time to . nl,,| p lesident Harrison died out of ,
undertakes a piece of work. Then think is before one undertakes a „ffice, there is no reason why Mrs.
keep right on thinking, and push piece of work. Then keep right on 1 Harrison »bnold not receive the
i 11U mg* aud push hard.
Aud K>une consideration a« Mrs. Me-
hard
“ Right you are Mr. Kan,” exclaim ngmu, ‘,No partisan politics, b u t; Kinlev.
farmers at the first table. No truce \ *
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ed the scribe. “ Right you arc, and to raouopljr and fair play to all tueii.” i The opponents of Culm tariff
while what we have said in back And the "iud as it is sighed around • concessions may find themselves |
numbers about a Board of Trade is the street corners seemed to sav, “ between the devil and the deep |
rioting iu the brain of our fellow “ No truce to monopoly and fair piny sen’* if compelled to choose between
to all men and beyond in the tmr a reduction in the tariff on Cuban
citizens if vou please, as we suggest-!
o '.T'i !7"
,
- *
,
moonlight
the widening himzeii,
products and the free trade Mint
ed when last we smoked together seemed to bend away until item- would follow the annexation of the
let us canvass our agricultural and ! braced the whole world, with its island.
other resources a few moments.” ' multitude of people, studying the
“ Suit's me to a ‘T’ mv boy’ Hint! fr° l.'li!n rule‘ “ ud ertch 11,0 harder
Marshfield vs. Eureka
,
,r
.. . .
.
| striving to see what good things'
does, and I give you this for a toast j ¡,,
(lo lor bl„ Be* |lbo
Tin- much-tslked-of football game
on an agricultural basis: ‘ No parti- then like Mr U egg ( I he ..id scoun between tbe Marshfield anil Eureka
san politics, but farmers ut the first drel) we fed into poetry.”
teams took plnce Sunday with the ,
table, no truce to monopoly, and “ Wo sometimes that we'er attained.
result that ucithor team made a
boiDc resting place ( ìo U' n tove halli gained
score. One o f the Eureka boys sun
fair play to alf men.’ ” Let these And an week look in to the skies.
F orever and forever rise.
tnined a dislocation of nil arm at
views become known and popular
T he possibilities o f Uond,
tlmelbow seems to be the ouly casu
and the agriculturalist would have 1 <>" ’• kindness aud ins fath erhood.
alty of note.
It was a hot game
i And hence tod sy, l o l - w e nisv see.
A season of unexampled pro pen t y , j T ue white pesks beckon you snd m e,
but we have not beard whether
s in t e d t ) i , with their gold en suns,
hitherto unknown. No longet then A s 1 s riuiuphititi
another will be played
o ’ er the «ulltni ones
The people o f the river
T h. glow ing White deed« Hint survive,
could it be said of him:
Aud keep H ope's quenchless dame ulive.’ * get to ntteml the game
“ His nights were tilled with res less, esre.
E. G. D. Uouicy. was no special train as it
H is d sys with toil, life held no charm .
A nd the gh ost, that haunted his troubled
ver lined there would be.
dresm s,
All kinds of soft drinks and fine cigars
(Ètti] R itra ili
J. S. KANEMATZ
Extra fine glass table pitchers, fully
worth 50 cents.
Our holiday price 35c.
Ladies 50c Union Suits,
40c.
Misses’ size, 35o.
Holiday Goods, Toys, Etc,
Steel Locomotive aud Passenger train 23 iuches long
.
.
.
.
Toy Garden Set, consisting of a hoe, rpail« and rake
made of wrought steel, good size, for 25 cents.
Ladies' embroid
ered silk hundker-
chifs
10c.
let powders, pi r package 15c. j
Tin Kitchen Set, consisting of 21 pieces of useful kitchen utensils, pet-
box, 10 cents.
CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENTS, Scents aud up.
Kid Bodied Dolls, 12 inches to 20 inches, 25 cents to $1.50.
Ladies’ extra fine silk Medium Sized Dressed Dolls, jointed, neatly dressed iu all costumes, 25c
embroideried bandker- Tinsel Garland, 5c per yard,
cbic-f
10 to 50c.: Mechanical Locomotive‘ Eugine, large size, 25c.
Children’s Cups and Saucers, Floral and Gold Decorations, 5c.
Gout’s Mustache C"ps and Saucers, beautifully decorated in Floral de-
Misses.
and Childens
signs, 2oc.
plain and scolloped hand- Bohemian Glass Handled Baskets for trinkets, comes in red, green and
kerchiefs in great variety, ;
Opal shades, 30c.
for 2J cents and up
‘HinuiiniMis Children’s A, B, C plates, 5c.
Gents’ cambric and
Linen
handkerchiefs
plain and hemstiehed
kalicl colored borders 5c
to 25 cents
12 inch Opal Glass Bowls, Bohemian manufacture, nn exquisite parlor
piece, $1.00
Colored Crnvon Pen
cils 6 assorted colors
in telescope box, 5c
Toy Brooms 10 c
Hair pins, 3 large
buuches for
5c.
Toy Dust P ud , IO o .
$ 1.00
Ladies’ moroco Iiath-
¡P ^ jjj er pocket, buck, metal
atiiiiS trimming,
2Sc.
Toy Cart, substantially built, biggest for 25c.
2 doz for 5c
Pictnos Boooks, large variety, l c each and up.
Scrap Albums, large size, elegautly decorated, wo th 50c, fut 25.
Dominos, per set, 15c.
Tin Bows and Arrows, per set, 15c.
itapanesr Kites, oc.
La lies’ Fancy Work Baskets, 5c to 30c.
Good sizeed Photo Albnrn, Celluloid front nnd'PInsb back, 50t.
Bette grsde in Photo Albums. $1 to 830.
Ladies' and Misses’ Wool Fascinatois, 50c, 75c $r.25 aud up.
Hooks and
cirds for
Chid’s Sil ve r
K nife, fork and
Spoon set, trip-
Candy and Nuts.
trench Mixed, Chocolate Cream, Plain Mixed and Fancy
Candies.
W oodm Top, nicely paint
ed, 5c.
Almonds, 10 cts. per pound.
4-piece glass table
[A. i, . I, -,.i trl Toy Horns and Ti um-
pets, finely deco
rated in colors, 5c.
tet not exacty lit\e
Toy Watches, with chains,
5 cents.
cut but plain clear
Doll Bug
gies of all
kinds, 40c,
50c, $1.00.
:ut glass, 30c per
set.
Good Bristol
Brush,
m
FREE!
f e FR E E !
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•NiJ
jToy Tranks, trays and
1
compartments, exact
j
duplicates of large
ones, 25c to $1.00.
T a i l o r s and.
Coin Purses, 3 for 10c.
G E N TS' F U R N IS H E R S.
Martin's Building.
:
;
:
Embroidery Hoops, |
4 inches to 8 inches in
i liametor, any size, 5c.
Boys’ elastic suspen-
enders,
10 cents.
Mens’ suspenders 15
i ut to
50 cents.
£)
% &
Coquille- Oregon
Yes we are always rushed but i f you leave your order with,
in the next 10 days we can guarantee you the neatest
and nobbiest suit or pair o f trousers you euerwore
and haue them in time Jor the Holidays.
Hair
25c
French basting cotton, 2 spools
________ for 5 cent g
W se the m ortgage on b is farm .
•‘Y o jr toast is all right Mr. Kau.
On the farmer’s prosperity all else
depends, but I doubt me much,
whether this country will tvrr see,
■no partisou politics' until we rench
millennial day a. The farmer in
a sense, is divided against himself
anil many of them, or all of them,
for one party or Another are ns
rank as any par’ issn's in the land.
Your own experience doubtless
proves this and what is ‘sgaiu them’
as a unit, is the fart, they are men
united. The Grange in its best
day, accomplished much for the
agriculturalist, but that is now
largely a thing of the past, and the
^rouble was they provided nothing
3
Toy
Carpet
Sweeper; not a
toy, but small,
does
practical
work, 25c.
English Walnuts 2 lbs. for 25c
$1.25 per set.
eyes,
American Plate looking
lass, 10x17 inches • 0 cents
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Medium quality
uand saws, 90c.
©
Toy Hammers, cast
steel, 5c.
J. S. I(ai)ematz. «
Canvas Telescopes,
dl sizes, 50c to 1.26.
.Tin and Agate
sauce pans, 15,25c
Stockinet, dress shields,
por pair
5 cents.