SEMI-WEEKLY 22: No. 41 V ol . Walter Culin, M. D. P h ysician and S urgeon C oquille C it y , O r e . T eleph on e 3. I I Stanley & Burns, Attorueys-at- Law. Real Eatate, Collections. Specialties—Criminal and U. 8 . Land Cases, Notaries Publio. C oquillb , * O regon . Geo. Russell, M. D., P hysician and S urgeon , Office upstairs in MARTIN BUILDING Calls promptly answered day or night. Night call will be answered from Mrs. Wickham’s Boarding House. Phone, main 136. Goquilie, *• i : Oregon. i I A. J. Sherwood, A ttorney - at -L aw , N otary P ublic , Coquille, : : Oregon Walter Sinclair, A t iokney - at -L aw , N otary P u b l ic , Ooquille, : Oregon. ____l__ . L- /. Hacker, A bstracter op T it l e s . O o q uille C it y , O re Hall & Hall, A t t o r n e t s - at - L aw , D ealer in K har E s t a t e o f a l l kind». M arshfield, Oregon. -------- '--------------- ---- [ J. Curtis Snook, D. D. S. D e n t ist , OIH co two doors south Odd Fellow’s Hall Will make Bandon a professional visit the first Monday in ench quarter. Coquille, O regon. E . D. Sp erry. W . C . C hase. SPERRY & CHASE, Attorneys-at-Law . Office in Robinson Building, Coquille, - - - O regon. E. G. D. Holden, L awyer , City Recorder, U. 8 . Commissiouer, Gen­ eral Insurance Agent, and Notary Publio. Office in Robin­ son Building. Coquille, Oregon. A. F. Kirshman, D e n t ist . Office at Residence, one blook east of Tuttle Hotel. Coquille . - . O regon. COQUILLE RIVER STEAMBOAT CO. S tr. D IS P A T C H Tom White, Master, Leaves I Arrives B andon........ 7 a - m . I O o q u i l l e 10 a - m . Coquille....... 1 P-M. | Bandon---- 4 p - m . Connects at Coquille with train for Marshfield anil steamer Kcho for Myrtle Point. S tr. F A V O R IT E J . C. Moomaw, Master, I Arrives C oquille.........7 A-M. | Bandon.. 10:45 a - m Bandon ............ I P-M. | Coquille. 4:45 P-M. Leaves S tr. K E T A Alva Jiee, Master, Leaves | Arrives r> p - m . Coquille __ 1 p - m . | Bandon Bandon........ 7 a - m . | Coquille — 11 a - m . Carrying passengers and mail. Coquille River Transportation Co. S tr. L IB E R T Y W . R. Panter, Master. Leaves I A rrives Bandon.......... 7 a - m . | Coquille ...1 0 a - m . Coquille....... 1 r-N. | Bandon . . . . 4 p m . Makes connection with train at Coquille and up-river boata. T. W . P A N T E R , Managing Owner. S tr. $2.00 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 2, 1904. E n tered as second-class m a tte r Ju ly 8, 1804, a t the postoffice a t Coquille, ¡lie, Ore- Ore' iron, under act of Conuresa 'resa of M arch 3, 187». K ronenberg Bldg N e x t Door to P. O, HERALD. EC H O T. W . McClnakey. Ma ter, leaves 1 Arrive. Myrtle Point . 7 a n . | Coquille( "v 8 on oqiitl). City. 1 P-¥. | Myrtle P't. .4:00 r-.M Dally PnePpt Sunday Child-Saving Long Range W ea th er Forecaata. If the (lecrenHe in the American There ate today in the United birth rate, of which we hear bo much States, at well as in other civilized aud see so little, may fitly be denom­ countries, a few persons who make inated “race suicide," it is equally ap­ their living by publishing so-called propriate to denominate the neglect long range weather forecasts, based of children— whether leading to upon old theories which have no their moral or physical death, or foundation, and which scientific both—“ race murder." Acting upon men long ago rejected. We also the principle underlying this be­ find in almost every community lief and hailed us philanthropy, some man who sets himself up as a humanity, charity or social economy, weather prophet, and who prognos­ organizations have been formed ticates, year after year, hard win­ through which eruest, intelligent ters, dry spells, and other calami­ men and women have sought to save ties. Once in a great while he hits to the race and the country children the mark, and then his “I told you who were born of irresponsible par­ so’’ receives public acknowledge­ ents. Every progressive commun­ ment; all his previous misses are ity supports institutions of this forgotten, and great is his fame class. And while the contributing throughout the land. public regords with utter reproba- j These men may be conscientious tion the fact that these children | in their belief, or veritable trick­ were brought into the world only sters, it matters not which, and does to be cast upon its mercy, philan- ! not change the fact that their say­ thropy accepts the obligation that ings and doings are an inheritance is thus thrown upon it, in order; of (he dark ages, when all the thu* enlightened minds may not he world was veiled in superstition and j accessory to the type of child mur­ ignorance. This we know, for by der that results from parental ne­ tracing back the mental progress of glect, or from the far lesser misfor- j the human race we find that all tune of actual orphanage. savages today have their rain-makers In our own community this p u r-! and their rain-stoppers, and that pose is represented by the Boys’ ; the patriarchal tribes still believe and Girls’ Aid Society, the Chil- [ that-comets, eclipses and other un­ dren’s Home nnd the Baby Home usual appearances forbode dire dis­ imd by a number of juvenile shelters asters. Also, anciently, the most and training schools under the d i-1 civilized nations, such as the Chal­ recti on of the Catholic church, and j deans, Egyptians, Jews, Greeks, and finally by the State Reform School. Romans, had their soothsayers aud With the history and endeavor of oracles, who imposed upon a credu­ one or more of these child-saving lous public. institutions, all observant citizens ¡ Latterly, the astrologers of the are to Borne extent familiar, and ¡ middle ages had a large following, many of them at least, regard j and from the beginning of the 16th the work for which such institu­ century up to the beginning of the tions stand as of prime importance. 19th century they flooded Germany, Henry Dwight Chapin, M. D., France and Great Britain with al­ tells us in a late number of the Out­ manacs containing prophecies of the look something of the child-saving weather, as well as prophecies re­ effort, covering a period of half a garding the minutest detailn of con­ century, that has been made in duct in the daily lives of the people; the New York Juvenile Asylum. These prophecies were the merest This work, he says, has shaped for twaddle, but it took a long time greater usefulness the lives of thirty- nfter Copernicus had exploded the nine thousand little street waifs, theory that our littlo world was the committed tc its care during its center of the universe before the long day of endeavor. He tells us belief in astrology received any further that it has now reached an check. Now it has so far disap­ epoch-making period in its long peared that none hut artful plund­ career, by doing away with the con­ erers and ignorant dupes give it the gregate system and developing the slightest countenance. cottage system. This plan is re­ It is not so with the so-called garded by the directors of the in­ stitution to be as much in advance long range weather forecasters. of the old regime which necessarily Unfortunately, many people, and comprised the herding of the chil­ some of the less careful publishers, dren together as the original plan are apparently in ignorance of the was in advance of the Btreet home true character of the work of these self-appointed prophets. We can­ for the neglected waif. The cottage plan has not been a not account for the continued pub­ sudden development; it represents a lication of their utterances in any long period of growth, during oeher way. Centennial Notea. P er Y ear N O TE AND C O M M EN T. If the flying machines do not suc­ A comprehensive Philippine dis. play will he nn interesting feature ceed in winning the great prize at of the Lewis and Clark Centennial. St. Louis, the ballonists might come The Forestry building at the East when Congress assembles and Lewis and Clark Centennial will he try hot air as a levitant. V nowlton’s Drug Store the second largest log building ever erected. On Sunday President Roosevelt joined Cardinal Gibbons in dedicat­ ing the parish school of St. Patrick in Washington, and Archbishop Ire­ land preached on “France and the An interesting collection of old Vatican.” Isn’t all this rather tickl­ mining implements will form a part ish business? of Oregon’s exhibit at the Lewis and It would seem as if the limit of Clark Centennial. luxury and extravagance had been Several large rose beds have been reached in this country in the mat­ laid out iu the Lewis and Clark ter of sumptousness, when one hotel Centennial grounds and the roses in Philadelphia has to pay an an. are now in full bloom, nual tax of $82,500. Of course the RAM BLERS A complete showing of the in­ guests pay the taxes. One of the logs used in the con­ struction of the Forestry building at the Lewis and Clark Fxpositien weighed 27 tons. Is Displaying a choice Line o f Holiday Goods. Coquille, Oregon. NEW, dustrial conditions surrounding the LATEST General Stoessel seems to he T R I B U N E S Indian students at the Oregon In- AND AND dreadfully obstinate. He sends dinn schools will figure in the gov­ word that he can hold Port Arthur ernment’s exhibits at the Lewis and M IT C H E L L S Best Wheels Out for several months yet. Well, we Clark Exposition. can endure it, if Chofoo doesn’t tel­ The annual convention of the egraph every afternoon that Port Hare Bargains in Second-Hand Wheels. Wheels to Rent. Repairing Done on Short Notice. National Association of Railroad Arthur has just been captured. Commissioner which will meet in Deadwood, 8. D., next August, will President Roosevelt is doubtless COQUILLE, OREGON adjourn to Portland nnd hold its correct in assuming that the tariff East End ot Front S t. concluding sessions nt the Lewis is a legislative question and leaving L. H. HAZARD, Cashier R. E. SHINE, Vice Free. and Clark Centennial. the initiative to the other end of the A. J. SHERWOOD. Pres. ALBERT FISH, Preliminary work on the Govern­ ment building nt the Lewis and Clark Fair is progressing rapidly and already the necessary excava­ tions have been made and the found­ ation timbers laid. The building will be completed April 1, 1905. avenue. Nobody need fear that he will veto hill reducing or even ob­ literating duties on raw material. F I R S T N A T IO N A L B A N K OF COQUILLE, ORBGOfi. The very last words of Commis­ T r a n s a c ts a G en eral B a n k in g B u s in e s s sioner W are, as ho joyfully quitted his leathern chair: “Enough! I Board of Directors. Correspondents. swan! I declare! I swear!” But A. J . Sherwood, ! National Bank of Commerce, New York City he didn’t. He merely emitted a H. 0 . Dement, To P re se rv e F o re stry Building. B. Harlocker, L . H. Hazard, j C ocker Woolworth N ’l Bank, San Francisco yell. “Four years in the Pension Isaiah Hacker, R . E . Shine. First Nat’l Bank of Portland, Portland, Or. Portland, Nov. 30.— It is probable office i s ------ well. Is something it that the Forestry building at the isn’t polite to tell." Lewis and Clark Centennial will he Theedore Roosevelt is the second /IN retained as a permanent structure president of the United States to * after the Exhibition has closed. In wear on his face a mustache only, order that this may be done it will be necessary that the legislature the other having been Grover Cleve­ * land. Almost all of our presidents * pass a special bill, since the act have worn a beard, not being as /I n Dealer in Fancy and Ladies’ Furnishing Goods. Also a com- creating the exposition provided for sensitive as the Sultan of Turkey, the destruction of all the buildings, plete line of Seasonable Millinery. nj ^ who never shaves through fear of President Jefferson Myers of the having his throat cut by the harbor. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * state commission says that the mem­ bers of the commission are in favor Government engineers have ap­ of preserving the building. Pres­ proved the plan of New Mexico for ent plans are to have the building a dam at "Elephant Butte, for stor­ turned over to pioneer and war vet­ ing the flood waters of the upper erans for reunions. Rio Grande. Work on the dam will The Forestry building is the sec­ begin soon. The water thus con­ ond largest log house ever erected. served will reclaim 200,000 acres in COQUILLE, OREGON. The logs of which Jit is built are New Mexico, Texas and Mexico from four to six feet in diameter. above and around El Paso. Irriga­ Goods Handled with Care and tion is the watchword of the West. Meets all Boats and Trains. * MRS. BERTHS PAYNE,| COQUILLE, OREGON. * FO X BRO S. GENERAL DltAYING. C astle R o c k iB Bought by Ladd. Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 26.— A local real estate agency in Tacoma closed the sale this week on a ncted and picturesque piece of property on the Columbia river, known as Castle Rock, being one of the great scenic attractions on the Washing­ ton side of the river between P ort­ land and The Dalles. The sale was made to Charles E. Ladd, of P o rt­ land, for Jay Cooke, of Philadelphia, who has owned it for n number of years. It is intended to preserve the rock for its nntural attractions. The consideration was $2100. Characterizing them as fakirs and which its promoters have watched and worked it with care. F o r nearly imposters avails us little. The peo­ a decade the cottage colony system ple themselves must decide as to has been under construction, so to the true worth of their work. Let speak, with the result that a mina- those who have any interest in the ture village has been founded near matter carefully compare the pub­ Dobb’s Ferry, which, it is felt, will lished forecasts with the actual serve as a model for similar institu­ weather day by day, for in no other tions for child-saving not only in way will the utter worthlessness of the great cities of the United States, the whole mischievous business he exposed. Yours truly, but upon the Continent. E dwakd A. B eau . This colony equipment consists of fifteen attractive cottages, each of North Pacific District Forecaster. Young man, take courage! If you which will accommodate twenty in­ arc poor it is a sign that Nature in­ mates on the family plan. F o r the E x h ib it S p a c e S ca rce. tended to give you a chance to benefit of the 300 children thus brought under the influence and Portland, Nov. 30.— Forty East­ make somebody of yourself. The discipline of home life all the es­ ern manufacturers represented by next governor of the splendid state of Minnesota is a democrat, elected sential public service system, in­ displays at the W orld’s Fair at St. by 30,000 from one of the stanchest cluding a power house and a school ! Louis want space at the Lewis and republican strongholds which gave house, have been instituted. It is As they cannot Theodore Roosevelt 100,000 major­ believed that the percentage of neg­ Clark Centennial. lected children that will be returned obtain as much space as thev wish ity. Johnson is a washerwoman’s from these cottnges to the state in to have in the Manufactures build­ son, and for that reason was made due course of time as useful citizens ing erected by the Exposition Com­ the victim of an asinine attack at and intelligent home-makers will he pany, which is over crowded, they the hands of his political opponents. relatively as great as that from have applied to the Chief of the E x ­ This attack was bitterly resented by average homes in which large fam­ hibits Department for ground spaco many in both parties, and there ilies are brought up, and from for an exclusive manufacturing were enough republicans who were which children are seDt out to suc- building, in which Eastern working fond of fair play to elect the target 1 cess or failure in the world. exhibits, embracing pen making, of abuse to the governor’s chair. Dropping the philanthropic and hat making, weaving, shoe manu­ - • * • » *--------------------------- humane purpose which underlies facturing, and various other forms the effort denominated “child-sav - 1 “I was much afflicted with sci­ ing,’’ its economic feature commends ( of manufacturing can be carried on. atica,” writes Ed C Nud, Iowavillc, itself strongly to the consideration The ground space will he provided Sedgwick Co., Kan., “going about ; of practical men. The cry of a in the event the association decides about on crutches and suffering a dimished birth rate is in the nature to erect a building. The manu­ deal of pain. I was induced to try Ballaad’s Snow Liniment, which re­ of an alarm, and, judging from the facturers will utilize the products lieved me. I used three 50c bot­ ! evidence presented by the public It is the greatest liniment I school enrollment of the country, of j made up while on exhibition on the tles. a false alarm at that. The plea of grounds by returning them to th e ! ever used: have recommended it to child-saving is made in Ihs interest jobbing bouses for sale. A repre­ a number of persons; all express of humanity and of political and sentative of the Exposition lias gone themselves as being benefited by it. I now walk without crutches, able social economy. The one is the re­ sult of baseless anxiety—the other to Chicago to consult with some of to perform a great deal of light the response of public conscience to the leading manufacturing firms in labor on the farm. 25c, 50c, II 00. regard to the matter. •old by R 8 Knowlton, ; the call of duty. Oregonian. Dispatch, There is a good time coming, boys. There is every reason to hope AGENT FOR RIVERTON COAL. for better days. England, France, WOOD FOR SA LE- Leave orders at T. J. Little’s Livery Stable. Germany and the United States have $500,000,000 worth of battle­ ships and modern big guns in the course of construction and are ex­ pecting to send a full line of dele­ gates to the International Peaco Conference. C o q u il l e Steam Laundry Electric ronds are multiplying so H O NE 116 rapidly that it will shortly bo pos­ sible to go from Boston to Denver by trolley. In 1900, less tlmn four years ago, there was only 311,016 P R O P R IE T O R S electric horsepower in tho whole country. Today there is 850,000 Reasonable Rates electric horsepower. At this tre­ Experienced Help mendous rate of increase thore will Special K ates to Fam ilies and Hotels be in ten years m ore- however, readers can Ague it for themselves. NOSLER & LYONS Best of Work W e m ake ou r own soap and know its ingredients. No injurious ch em icals used. O ur baskets will l>e left a t all th e principal points on th e riv e r. Kentucky sadly needs a weather Goods called for and delivered in Coquille C ity. bureau to predict “gentle rains and variable winds.” It has been suf­ fering for two months with an un. precedented drouth, and the dust haH so saturated the atmosphere that there is an epidemic of whet S W E E T C R E A M IN Q U A N T I T I E S the doctors call the “dust cough.” Seed planted weeks ago refuses to T