R E.SHINE,jriM Pré» A J. SHERWOOD Pr«». I. N. HAZARD, C llh ie r A BOY AND A GIRL 0. C SANFORD, Ai»t. C«»hl«r FIR ST N A T IO N A L B A N K op C O Q U IU K iB , O R B O O fl. T r a n s a c t s a G en eral B a n k in g B u sin e ss By JOHN L. PURDY My cousin Bertha and I were brought Up together. Wben by the death o f my National Bank o Commerce, New York Ci H. O. Dement, A . J. Sherwood, mother 1 was left an orphan my aunt Crocker Woolworth N 'I Bank. San Francl L. H. Hazard, L. Harlocker, took me to live with her. 1 was then Firat Nat'l Bank of Portland, Portland. K.E . Shine I aaiah" Hacker, a lad of ten. Bertha a year younger. I was too much o f u boy to appreciate Bertha, having very little use for girls and setting great store by football, baseball, tennis and kindred games. I have a photograph of her when she was fifteen, and when I look at that charming tittle face with those maiden­ ly eyes 1 wonder how I could have been indifferent to her. Bertha seemed to like to be with me. She was always glad wben it stormed so hard that 1 couldn't play outdoor games and was obliged to stay- in tbe bouse and play dominos or checkers with her, games 1 considered very dull. And when 1 was kept in on account of soma indisposition she would sit by my lounge or my bed or whatever I rested on nod read to me. It did not occur to me I » be grateful for this. I simply regarded it as a very natural thing that the inferior being, girl, should minister to the superior being, boy. I remember that though manly in somo things I was lnezpressably weak in others. I regret to say that it usual­ ly took me from half to three-quarters o f an hour to get a dose o f medicine Into my stomach. Threats, contempt, Irony, were insufficient to put enough courage Into me for the purpose. On one occasion, after being alternately bribed and threatened to no purpose. I finally made up my mind to have the thing over with and took the dose down at a gulp. When a little later I • l was asked i f I had taken It Bertha, who was sitting beside me, said, “ Yes. and he took It very well too.” That was the first realization I had that there was anything admirable in a girl. Indeed, I was very much ashamed o f myself and just n trifle Feed, Flour, Hay, Fresh Fruits and grateful to Bertha for standing up for me who didn't deserve anything but a Vegetables, Agents DeLaval Seperators. spanking. Freight and Ticket Agents Steamers As we grew older I camo to consider myself a sort o f protector to Bertha, Fifield, Bandon and Alliance. Coal Oil, looking upqn her as something very weak that needed something very Gasoline and Distillate Always on Hand. strong to keep her out o f trouble or danger, I didn’t know- exactly what. The truth Is that Bertha didn't need my strong arm at all, while I needed a certain moral courage there was in her very much. Then I went away to boarding school, and when I returned at six­ teen it occurred to me for the first time that Bertha was rather a pretty girl. I felt Just a little proud o f her Phone Home 111 Farmers 483 and wouldn’t mind somo o f my boy friends seeing her. When two years later I brought one o f my classmates home -with me there was something about the admiration he expressed for her that annoyed me exceedingly. After that instead o f wishing my friends to see her I preferred that they keep away. In fact, I was mean enough not to invite them to my home. One Christmas while I was at col­ lege some one gave Bertha an es­ critoire. When I came home for the M AN U FACTU R E R AND D EALER IN spring recess she was wearing a tiny gold plated key on a narrow velvet ribbon about her neck. I asked tier what the key unlocked, and she said it wns a drawer in her desk. I asked her what that drawer contained that was so precious, and for reply she gave me only a blush. This was worse than Introducing a C O Q U IL L E , - - O R E G O N (>< friend and enduring his admiration of her. Some fellow had been snoop­ ing around, and I wished to know who he was. O f course I didn't want Bertha for myself. I had seen sev­ eral girls while at eollege who could cut a much finer swath than she. But what business had any other man to come Into the house, and—well, it wns dead wrong. When I returned the next June a graduate I found that Bertha liad not only budded, but bloomed. She was past twenty. She still wore the key. t didn't see any fellow hanging round her, but supposed tliat he was some where else. 1 was dishonorable enough to lay plnns to get into the treasure drawer and lenrn who lie was One day I saw Bertha's desk standing open, and on the blotter she used to write on was the little key. I knew The auperior strength and durability of the Remington ami its greater I had no business to pry Into her a f­ reliability under every condition of service have always been recog­ fairs, but either I did not realize what nized. n contemptible thing it wns to do or I wns too deeply interested to refrain In addition, every contribution to recent typewriter improvement has from obeying the dictates of jeal­ been a Remington contribution. The FIRST COLUMN SELECTOR, ousy. 1 took up the key and. insert the FIR ST B U ILT-IN DECIM AL TABULATOR, and the FIRST lug it In the lock, opened the treasure ADDING AND SUBTRACTING T Y P E W R IT E R are four recent drawer. On the top o f what was in it Remington improvements, every one of which constitutes a mile stohe was the rascal's photograph, but tn an in typewriter progress. envelope. I could feel It. I yielded to temptation nnd took It out. It was my own picture taken when between boy and youth. Investigating further, I found a scrap 'e t o v f n cf my writing and on rending It rec­ ognized something complimentary I had written her ten years before. From nil overweening conceit I drop­ ped Into a bottomless pit of unworthl- ness So great wns the change that It was a long while before I could screw up my courage to tell Bertha I loved her. But when I recovered in.v equa­ nimity I regained my rascality. I told her that 1 hail loved her ever since she was a little girl. After all. it doesn’t do for a man to break a woman’s idol. When 1 was a boy without enough pluck to take a I dose o f castor oil she regarded me as a young god. Why undeceive her! ] She would find It all out after mar j rlnge anyway. C orroopoodooto. Board o f Dlroctoro. Nosier S t Norton GENERAL COMMISSION And Wholesale Merchants ‘ ~ J COQUILLE, : : OREGON X >0000000c<>005*>00<>00000