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<>00<is>5*>00<>00000<x J. H. OERDING LUMBER, LATHS, SHINGLES MO U LT ) ING, CEM EN T BR ICKS AND BLOCKS, SAND AM D GRAVEL......................... ■ Ç szszszszszszszì3 Every Factor of Typewriter Supremacy Belongs to th j Remington Wf g For B stta r Things. Troubles are often the tools by which Ood fashions us for better things.— Henry Ward Beecher. Th* Opsn D oor. Lady (to new servant)—1 do not tol erate gossip, but i f you know any in teresting news you may tell me! Idle M o n e y How the Jewels Were Carried Off By EDNA G. WHITNEY Hsr Se cre t. Mr. Jones-Mary, can a woman keep anything to herself? Mrs. Jones—Yes; “ There’s a good deal of blundering her private opinion of her husband. In your business, isu’t thereV* 1 said W ith o u t tho S ile n ce . to Leonard Kelp, a detective of high Snacks- Did your wife's mother treat I standing. you with silent scorn? Jacks- No such “ Well, I reckon I ’ve done my share luck. She Just treated me with scorn. of it.” he replied. “ The crooks study to boat us and we study to beat them Two Acres. It’s to be expected that we’ll get the A Cheshire acre Is 10,210 squure worst of it sometimes. It’s like other yards, while the area o f ail Irish acre things one has to learn, a matter of ex Is 7,840 square yards. perience. When 1 begun 1 got fooled Jamaica. lots o’ times. The trouble with me was Jamaica, discovered in 1104 by Co that I was too smart." lumbus, was originally called Xayma- “ Tell me about one of your curious ca (land o f wood and wuter.) cases.” “ One I had only a few years ago bad Great B ritain 's W h e a t. some points o f interest In It. W e got On an average Great Britain yields an anonymous letter stating that the thirty buslu-ls of wheat per acre un butler and lady’s maid at a swell bouse der each crop in a suburban town would ruu away Envious. on a certain night carrying a lot of Flgg—What do you do when your plunder in Jewels with them. We were w ife tells you about her first husband? cautioned, however, uguiust giving Fogg—Envy him! away the information. All we were ex pected to do was to be on band and On the Trail. "Poes your fiance know your age, take ’em in when they started out. “ Well, 1 concluded to go by the let Lottn?" "Well — partly.” — Fliegende ter I received. It’s best not to take a Blatter. matter of that kind into your own Proving It. hands lest you spoil it all. We went An editor said o f a certain local pol to the place an hour before the expect itician: "W e will not call him ail nss. ed exit and waited till an hour after We will print Ids speech.” the time. I was getting pretty tired nnd was about to give it up, thinking Reformed. “ What a fault finder Jones Is! And the case was one of those bits of false he used to have such a contented dis information detective agents get so much of, when I saw a figure moving position before lie was married.” along the side of the house staggering "Yes. 1 heard his w ife say she had under something. I couldn’t tell what. married him to reform him."—Houston Getting nearer, I saw him put a ladder Post. up to one of the back windows, then throw a handful of gravel against the » Experience or Reminiscence. panes. The Author's Wife - How can you “ I waited and in a few miuutes saw write an up to date sea story when something white waving in the win you haven’t been on the water for dow. The sash had been put up. but years? The Author—Well. I ’ ve been so carefully that I hadn’t heard any married for twenty years, and yet I noise. The next thing I could distin can write a love story.—Life. guish was something dark coming down the ladder, but it was so dark I i couldn’t see things continuously. I Kept Tab on Him. “ Don't you feel sort of lost when heard a slight sound, which I judged to your wife is away, Bobby?” asked Bil- be the ladder removed from under the window, then saw’ or heard nothing kins. - “ Yes, I do." said Bobby, “ but I doiVt more till tw*o figures passed within a worry about It Maria is u pretty siff- few j-ards of where I was standing be hind a tree. I followed in their wake, cessful detective.”—Harper’s Weekly. nnd W’hen they got out in the road I could see that they were a man and a The Spires of Life. Many men build as cathedrals were woman, the man carrying a suit case. “ They took the direction of the rail built—tho part nearest the ground fin way station, and when they readied ished. but that part which soars to- the street leading down to it they di wurd heaven, the turrets and the verged, and I knew just what they spires, forever incomplete. — Henry were going to do. There w’as only one Ward Beecher. train leading into the city at that hour of the night, and they had timed their • Serious Trouble In Court. exit to take it. “ What's the trouble?" inquired the “ They reached the station tea min Judge. utes before the schedule time for the "Tills lady lawyer wants to make a train, and I went up on to the plut- motion." explnlucd the clerk, "but her form ns though intending to take the gown is too tight.” —Kansas City Jour train myself. I made up my mind as soon as I looked at them that I had a nal. slick pair to deal with. They were made up first class. No one would i A Regular Solomon. Old Gentleman—Which one of my ever have taken the butler for any daughters do you wish to marry? thing, but a gentleman, and the maid Young Man—Oh. just let them fight it must have been prettier than her mis tress. They were botli in traveling rig, out among themselves, sir, and I'll take and, though they probably had on their the one that tints up the poorest fight, master’s and mistress’ clothe«, their •i-Puck. costumes fitted perfectly. I “ I thought it best to take them in For Nothing. before the train came along, so I w*alk- Merchant (to clerk whom he has ed up to them and said to the man, caught kissing bis typewriter)—Do I ‘I ’ll trouble you for that suit case.’ pay you ro kiss m<’ typewriter, sir? There was a scene, o f course, but I Clerk—There is no need, sir. I ’m will had an assistant ready and called him. ing to do it for nothing.—London Tele I took the suit case from the hands of the butler and demanded tho key. lie graph. gave it to me at once, and, opening the case, there, sure enough, w’ere the jew els mixed in with women’s lingerie. K IN D W O R D S . “ ‘ See here,’ said the fellow’, ‘this is A word of kindness is seldom a robbery at an unfrequented railway spoken in vain, while witty sayings station at midnight. Now’, I ’ll make are as easily lost as pearls slipping you an offer. We are eloping, nnd I ’ve from a broken stream.— Prentice. got a hundred dollars in my pocket I’ll give you rather than lie exposed. Let us go with our property nnd the money is yours.’ “ I laughed at him. telling him that 1 had been informed of the ‘elopement’ and was not to be fooled by his story The lady’s maid wns about to go into hysterics when two girls and two fel low’s rushed out from a dark corner, one of the girls shouting: ’It’s all right. Mr. Detective. I put up a joke on them. 1 wrote that letter, knowing they were going to elope, but 1 didn't C. A. IIA M U N G T O N , P ro p . know’, Kit. you'd take it so hard.’ “ She put her arms around the elop ! ing girl nnd tried to quiet her. which was no easy job. The groom looked as thouirh he would like to kill this jokiug friend who had brought her friends with her to see the fun. “ As soou as I saw that it was a genuine elo[ eutent. with a frolic of youngsters added. I took the matter in good part, pronounced it a capital joke and interceded with the bride and groom for the Joker's forgiveness. She was the bride's sister, and it wns all in the family. Rut there wasn't much time to make up, for the train wills tied and in a few’ moments pulled up to the station. The elopers got aboard, and the young scamps who had played the Joke fired n volley o f rice nnd old shoos at them as the train pul Uni out “ That’s the biggest sell on me 1 ever had in this detective business “ “ It was a pretty serious joke to play, wasn’ t it V” “ Serious! Did you ever hear of a COQUILLE ye : madcap like that taking any thing seriously? That girl v.ou'iln’t stop at anything. 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