t flT he Herald, the old estab lished reliable newspaper of the Coquille Valley in which an “ad" always brings results. T he C oquille H erald V O L . 3 0 , N O . 51 C O Q U IL L E , COOS C O U N T Y , O R E G O N , T H U R S D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 5, 1912 THE 0. E. S. NATAL DAY given them when they were installed as Mutrons they have shared in promul gating th? principles of brotherly love, relief and truth; they have aided, com forted and protected their sisters and brothers in their journey through life and by cheerful companionship and social enjoyment lightened the burdens of active duties. The O. E. S. was founded in this GATHERING OF WIMODAUSIS country in 1778, and I can see, as in a vision, that wonderful array of Maids Of Freemasons at Masonic Temple, Marshfield, and Matrons marching on from that day down to the present, each one trying to Friday, August 30,1912 —Eleventh be what James Russell Lowell calls Annual Convention “earth’s noblest thing” —a woman per fected. Wimodausis, a composite name Mrs. Tyrrell of Coquille, while formed from the words wifk , moth not named on tbe program, favor e r , daughter , sistkr . “ A secret ed the convention with a vocal solo society to promote friendship and a kindly interest in the welfare of the members, and to stimulate intel lectual activity by an interchange of thought on all subjects which will tend to the advancement of the wives, mothers, daughters and sis ters ol Freemasons.’ ’ The Order of the Eastern .Star— to which the above paragraph refers — comprising representatives from the five chapters in Coos county, met in eleventh annual convention at Marshfield Friday last. Of the members present Coquille contributed lorty, North Bend fifty, Bandon twenty-five. Myrtle Point twenty, Marshfield one hundred and twenty-five and visitors from Mich igan, California and several places in Oregon swelled the number in attendance to over two hundred and fifty. Margaret V. Hayter of Dallas, Grand Matron ot Oregon; Jesse Davis of Roseburg, Matron of Rose- burg Chapter No. 8, and J. L. Roy of Coquille, 82 years of age, the first Associate Grand Patron of the Eastern Star of Oregon, were among the more distinguished visitors. All incoming members were met at trains and boats, provided with suitable badges and escorted to Masonic Temple where a reception was tendered at noon. Address of welcome by Jesse Marsh of Marsh field, eloquently responded to by D. D. Pierce of Coquille. Dinner in the dining room of the temple followed, at the conclusion of which routine busiuess, election of officers, exemplification ol secret work, vocal and star drill, and ceremony of closing were demonstrated by the various chapters A silver cup given lor the largest attendance at the convention in pro portion to membership— outside of Marshfield— was won by Coos Chap ter No. 9Q North Bend, the “ baby chapter” of the county. The cup has a capacity of three gallons and cost $90. F. E. Alleu presented the cup and N. C. McLeod on be half of Coos Chapter made speech of acceptance stating “ if it takes a three-gallon cup for an inlant two years old what size would be re quired lor one at maturity ?” The lodge room was profusely decorated with choice flowers of all kinds, while large and numerous bowls of fuschias beautified the re ception room. Floral decorations were likewise many upon the long tables in the banquet room and the soft illumination from scores ot ean- dles made a scene of beauty long to be remembered. A sumptuous banquet w»s given at the temple in the evening at which F. E Allen was toastmaster. Many responded to calls of the toastmaster on subjects pertaining to the order, the one on "Our Past Matrons” by Susie Folsom ol Beu lah Chapter No. 6, Coquille, being particularly pleasiDg and appropri ate. Mrs. Folsom spoke as follows: Our Past Matrons—You all know who they were and what they were to us and to our chapter. Our Past Matrons were the flower of the flock, the gold taken from the dross, the fairest among thousands. They were the women chosen from among their associates as best fitted to wield the gavel of authority, and in con trolling others they gained greater con trol over themselves. They learned to be cautious in words, courteous in man ner, serene in their ruling, and governed with moderation and decorum, The principles of our order are enno bling and worthy of earnest pbrpose, and they who have passed through its chairs cannot help but be keener of sympathy and finer of vision. They exemplify in their lives of labor the fidelity of Adah, the unquestioning obedience of Ruth, the heroism of Es ther, the faithful trust of Martha and the loving endurance of Electa. If they have lived up to the charge S Q U E E Z IN G T H E W A T E R O U T O F S IN G L E T A X in her usual pleasing manner. The officers elected for the en suing year are Mrs. Stephen Gal- lier, Bandon, president; Mrs. C. R. Wade, Bandon, vice-president; Mrs. Wm. Bingham, Bandon, secretary Bandon was chosen as the meet ing place of the convention next year. We are indebted to Chas. Evland of this city for giving us informa tion regarding the convention and we fully realize our iuability to supply words sufficient to elucidate the benefit and enjoyment derived by the participants, as well as de picting the enthusiam manifested by Mr. Evland. May the shining light of the Eastern Star giving forth its radi ance of beauty and holiness never grow dim. A SOCIETY WANDER SONQ. Thin quiet life Is beastly dull. I ’m g etting quite blase from it. I wish 1 w ere a blooming gull; I ’d quickly fly aw ay from It. F o r In m y heart there Is a flame— A longing raw th er hot, you know — To plunge into this w ander gam e And—all th a t bally rot, you know. I ’m greatly bored w ith clubs and such. I ’m sick of sm art society. I ’m yearning p retty blaw stod m uch F o r change and for variety. I feel a throbbing in my veins T h at m akes me wish to trot, you know, A cross the hills, across the plains And—all th a t bally rot, you know. To be a gypsy would, I ’m sure, A ffect me raw th er plquantly, A lthough I v •’ ''“stand Mn.y’re poor And w ash tnem selves infrequently. Or I could sail the open sea— I t’s really done a lot, ypu know — W here I could bo alive and free And—all th at bally rot, you know. Ah, yes, the fev er’s in iny blood 1 The lust to leave Is stirrin g me, B ut beastly heat or cold or mud O r wind keeps on deterrin g me. The w eather will not let me start. It chains me to the spot, you know. B ut, ah, the dream th a t’s In m y h eart A nd—all th a t bally rot, you know! -L ife . T h e C a m p e r's D ilem m a. S in g le T a x E x p o sed By CHARLES H. SHIELDS T P E R Y E A R $ 1 .50 time you have exempted personal property. Still your taxes must be paid. Who is left to pay them ? Just the small lot owner, the small 1 home owner and the small farmer, H. L. Rann, an Iowa newspaper and when they cauuot pay their man, relieves himself, like this: land will go to the state. For this Tde man who owns eighty acreB reason the single taxers’ figures are of Iowa land and who has brains unreliable as the revenue expected enough to till it, makes a lot of from the large land owners would country newspaper men look like not he forthcoming. All land val tbe last sad rernuunts of a Dutch ues under graduated single tax must Lunch. The farmer has tbe best of and will decline in value. The sell it all around. He is ah independent ing and the renting value will be ae the American Express Company. destroyed. When the full rental He doesn’t have to go ioto raptures value Is taken by tbe state, the over the beauty of an open-faced state's means to raise funds will be bride with a cast of countenance by leasing, for there will be no val that would blow out the gas, and he ue on which to place a tax. To can say what he dum pleases about vou, ladies aud gentlemen, it will a candidate for congress, something he a case of pay your taxes "or get no newspaper man ever dared to do out. Do you want to get out? If unless he had lost the postoffice. so, vote for siugle tax. U ’Ren of The farmer isn’t required to lie un course piomises you that if you do til his back teeth fall out, about the not like the" law, you can repeal it. sterling manhood of a groom with This argument does not appeal to ears like a cauliflower plant, and the me. Does it appeal to you ? Do brain power of a shoat. He doesn’t we want failures? Do we want an hAve to run a piano contest for the era of depression, for that is what most beautiful young lady in the declining land values and no mar community, make everybody sore ket lor your land will spell. As about the winner, and then print a land values decliue, the mortgagee seventy-five cent half tone of the will foreclose your mortgage. An beauty that looks like a tintype of era of land communism and land grandma at the ago of thirteen. socialism will be upon you. In my He isn’t called upon to paint the belief it will be before you ever have virtues of a promiuent citizen who the opportunity to repeal the U’Ren earned his money by collecting single tax measure. No progress notes with a draw shave and who was ever made under a law of this would have an attack of heart fail, kind. No progress will ever be ure if suddenly separated from two made. Egypt saw a system of land hits of real money. communism and Egypt fell. Greece The farmer can look every man in aud Rome feel too in their turn the eye and tell him to go where when they applied the test Bar there is no premium on coal slack, barian races everywhere have land aud if the printer informs a man who communism. Is that what wc want? tries to beat him out of four year’s These measures are promised to subscription that be is so crooked cure all evils, I am not sure wheth that he couldu’t go to sleep in a er graduated single tax is promised roundhouse he is liable to he reduc to cure rheumatism and gout, but I ed to the consistency of a cornstarch know it is promised to cure crime, pudding. waul and all social evils. Person If a newspaper man knew the joyB ally I doubt this. I never did have and independence of the farmer’s faith in quack doctors. life, he would kick himself up to ‘‘On the ballot in November,” a peak until he looked like a rat went on the speaker, “ you have tailed file for continuing to make offered three measures by the State himself the door mat of the stiff Tax Commission, Numbers 304, necked and ungodly community. 306 and 308. These will give you Let us reform, brethren, and get a rational system of tax reform and close to nature's heart with a tbree- with absolute assurance I leave tined pitchfork and a Belt feeding them to your consideration. manure spreader. We will live “I want to thank you for the loDger, or at any rate it will seem very caretul consideration you have longer, as the married man said, shown to me this evening and from and if tbe worst comes to worst, we the talks I have had here today, I cad live on rutabagas and rock salt, have no question of the manner in which we have no doubt, is an im which the voters in this section will provement over our customary diet. Then “ Back to the Soil” will he the mark their ballots.’’ --------- • - ---- pass-word and “ Soh Boss” the grand hailing sign of distress. FARMERS AND EDITORS CALLINGS COMPARED “ Henry George, in his book HE above subject advertised to take place at the Masonic hall ’ Progress and Poverty,’ 33 years last Monday evening proved a fail ago, gave the source ot single tax ure insofar as securing the hall. It the private property on land.” appears arrangements had been duly The speaker gave the history of made for the hall but the party rent the single tax movement in Oregon, ing it failed to materialize. Much of the $16,000 spent hère two years disappointment was manifested by ago in putting through the tricky the throng awaiting in the streets Home Rule measure. not the least chagrined being the "This measure was offered,” said speaker. Mr. Shields, who personally Secretary Shields, “ because the sin made application for and secured gle taxers saw straight single tax the Scenic Theater where an able defeated, and it.was their idea to discourse was delivered in opposi get the small land owner aud the tion to the single tax theory. small home owner by the exemp Very many voters are in a quan tions afforded to the graduated sin dary as to how they will exercise gle tax measure. This is purely a their franchise on this measure at single tax measure. The graduated the polls next November and are expression used is just a trick. Sin not only willing but anxious— as gle tax is offered you as a tax reform they should be— to “ hear all sides as a system of taxation that will The huge flagpole presented the and then decide.” Panama-Pacific International Expo The graduated single tax and the Russell Halle is Philadelphia’s sition by the citizens of Astoria various single tax measures offered reached San Francisco in one of protege for the world’a runt honors. in Multnomah, Clackamas and Coos the giant rafts of the Hammond His fingers are as small as tooth counties were nothing more or less Lumber company, and has been picks, his arms pass comfortably than single tax and was one of the towed to the Exposition site at Har through a woman's finger ring. He earliest statements of Mr. Shields. bor View. It was sent by Mayor weighs two pounds aud is twelve ‘You will find.” he said, in' every Henderson of Astoria as that city’s days old. communication that Mr. Cridgc, When he was born he weighed contribution to the wonderful Ex one of the Fels paid workers, has position to be held in ¿ 915 . Tbe a pound and eleven ounces, but he sent out, ht has declared this state pole was originally intended for the is growing. He is now nine inches ment of mine to be untrue, How Physicians Astoria Centenuial celebrntion, but long, or, rather tall. ever, I can back it with proof, for it was so long and heavy that it was said he would not live. But, in his not only do the single taxers stand impossible to raise it. The dimen place at the Infant Incubator hos whole heartedly for Henry George sions of the flagpole, as given by an pital at Point Breeze, the young who declared that the purpose of expert timber scaler, are as follows; man is persistently setting their siugle tax was the absolute aud en Douglas Fir, a perfect piece of tim predictions at naught. tire confiscation of land by the state, The indications are that he will ber, base 5 G inches, top 23 inches; but I can also prove my statement estimated weight 93,061 pounds. keep on growing and be a regular by Mr. W. S U’ Ren. Rather heed Cubic contents 1 , 958.52 cubic feet; baby, as he drinks his milk as eager- lessly the other day in a letter to relieve all the ills of society. As a contains 23 , 515.46 solid lumber feet; lg as any other infant. His moth matter of fact it is not a system of the Oregonian he admitted this to length over all 246 feet. The special er is sixteen years old and weighs be true. This is what Mr. U’ Ren taxation at all, aud far from being flag which is to be flown from this too pounds. a tax reform. It has but one object, -------------------- said : of restoring privately owned flagpole is to be furnished by tbe "The Single Taxers have presented that citizens of Astoria. It is planned two Single Tax measures, one in the land back to the state. local county option law for Multnomah, “ The taxpayer,” declared Shields to hold appropriate ceremonies It happened in the chemistry Clackamas and Coos Counties. The "should he the men with the ability when the pole is raised and old class, and the professor had just other is the graduated specific tax ex asked same one to define gravity. emption amendment.” to pay. Graduate ! single tax ig glory is unfurled from its lofty The somewhat hurried answer con "This is the first lime Mr. U’ Ren nores this, and its purport is to peak. tained the word “ pull” which ir has ever made such an admission, make the man pay who cannot. ritated the instructor. He declared and while he admits writing this And when he cannot pay, it will that there was no such energy in letter^very other paid single tax confiscate his land to the state. “ Here, waiter, take this away. nature as pull. A young woman worker says his statement is not Graduated single tax is not a reve What do you mean by bringing me in the front row caught the pro true. I leave you gentlemen to nue getter. My single tax friends soup with a bit of paper floating fessor’s attention. ” 1 would like to judge for yourselves.” will tell you it will break up large around in it ?” ask a question,” she said. “ Yes, Mr. Shields first told of his work land holders and thus reduce the “ I can’t serve you soup without j Miss Myers, what is it?” The in Seattle and declared that his pri price of land. that, sir. That’s the union label.’’ young woman spoke up very clear vate business under single tax “ This may be true. It may not ly: ” 1 want to ask whether you would escape paying $t,ooo a year be true. We can only tell by exper T. L. Parke, Mnrrayville, Ga., Route would push or pull a radish?” in taxes. His work was a matter ience. But if it be true, the revenue 1, ia in hia "3rd year, ami was recently cured of a bad kidney and bladder trou And that closed the controversy. of principle, he said. He bad come which the single taxers figure will ble. He say» himself: “I have suffered | ----------.»,, with my kidney« My back ached ami ! to Oregon because he had told the come from the land owners will not A man may praise a woman’s pie I was annoyed with bladder irregnlari-1 Seattle single taxers that he was then he forthcoming, for you re ties. I can truthlullv «ay, one 50c lmttle but that is no sign he will eat it determined that Oregon should member they say large holdings of Foley Kidney Pill» oured me entire ly.” They contain no h»hit forming , It may be all right to lend a dol know the truth of the case. will be brokeu up In the mean-^ drugs, hold at Fuhrman's Pharmacy. lar, but it is better to give it away. Astoria People Patriotic Weighed Two Pounds At Birth Uncle Joe (who hns been left to cook dinner for the party, reading: from “Things All Scouts Should Know”)— If your only wax match falls into a puddle • * * you need not despair. Dry It roughly on your coat and then stick it in your hair. Leave it there for a minute, and it will couio out per fectly dry again.—Punch. H e r B la c k Hope. “You yourself have been arrested, have you not?*' he began in cross ex amination. “Look-a-heah!“ exclaimed the dusky witness. “Does yo’ think I’s gwine to tell yo’ mah private business? I guess not!” “I have the right to know, and you must tell me,” the lawyer persisted. And the Judge instructed the witness that she would have to answer. “I’s been arrested fo’ lickin’ mah husband,” the woman finally said, her eyes flashing. “Is that so?“ queried the attorney, with satisfaction. “What is your hus. band’s business?” “He’s a prizefightnh,” she added. And amid the general merriment that en sued the cross examination suddenly ended.—St Louis Post-Dispatch. Joy’s Crown of Joy. Mr. Dorklns—Well, now that we’re got our motorcar, Mnrla, I suppose you're happy. Mrs. Dorklns—I’m cheerful and con tented, anyhow, John. I found out what It takes to niaka a woman really happy when I saw our Bessie reading her graduating essay at the high school commencement.—Chicago Tribune. Conditionally. ’’Well, sir," said Mabel’s father after Algy had asked for the maiden’s hnnd, “she tells me she loves yon. but do you think you can afford to pay for all the little luxuries she Is accustomed to?” “Why, ye»—that Is, If she'll do with out the necessities, I can,” said Algy.— Judged Library. That Settled It Future Restaurant Ethics ®JJob Printing—-New presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald pnnting will please OREGON NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK Transpiring in Oregon Boded Down to Least Number of Lines and Yet Make the Subject Understood Fifteen thousand Woodmen at tended the state fair at Salem, Sep tember 3. Recent heavy rains have sus pended threshing operations in Lane county and farmers believe that grain standing in the shock is damaged so that it will be unfit for flour. T. F. McCallister of Crooked riv er has invented a plow that, if it proves a success, will revolutionize farming as it will plow, harrow and seed at the rate of 126 acres in 24 hours. Mr. McCallister Is having the first machine built In St. Louis and hopes to be able to test its mer its within a short time. Mrs. Jane Veatch of Cottage Grove, aged 82 years and one of the oldest pioneers of the valley, will at the Grange fair, to be held this month, ride the same jfeddle with which she crossed the plains in 1852. She is still spry and ener getic aud gets about like a woman of 50 aud will, no doubt, ride her horse as well as anyone in tbe parade. The Medford & Crescent City railroad company, on August 30, filed articles of incorporation, with a capital ol $50,000, lot a road from Medford to Crescent City, Cal , pass ing through the towns of Ruch, Wilderville, Wonder, Taylor, Kirby, Deering and Gasquet. All incor porators are said to tie Medford people. In the name of Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, president of the Oregon State Equal Suffrage league, Mrs. HeDry Waldo Coe is arranging a great rally of srate-wide importance for the suffrage cause to tie held in the Gipsy Smith auditorium in mid-October. Representatives of organizations in every county of state will attend aud the speakers will be some of the most prominent men and women of the state. “ Capt. Charles Bennett was the discoverer of gold in California and fell in defense of his country at Walla Walla.” This is the in scription upon a tombstone in a cem etery at Salem. He was killed in battle with the Indians in 1855. The All-Seeing Eye, broken col umn, the Great Light, square and compass are engraved upon the stoue marking the place the body of Charles Bennett reposes. C. F. Lansing, proprietor of the Quaker Nurseries, Salem, is exper imenting with the citrauge sent him by the government. The citrange is a cross between the lemon and Japan orange, and is said to be much t>etter for ades and ices than the lemon. In the government’s re port the trees are claimed to stand the cold as far north as St. Louis. This being true, Mr. Lansing be lieves they ought to do well on the Pacific coast. His trees have done well, having made a fine growth, and he hopes to be able to report on the fruit in a year or two. Hairless Race Prophesied “ Within 500 years there will be scarcely a hair on any woman's head, and men will lose their hair 200 years before that time,” declar ed Professor C. B. Wells, an emi nent brain specialist of Paris, who is here on his first visit to the Unit ed States in twenty years. Bald ness will he the fashion for both men and women. The development of brain power of the human race will precede the loss of its hair, and to have curly locks will be a re- fleciion on the intellect of the wearer some hundred years hence.” — «# » < ------- The implicit confidence that many lieople have in Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera ami Diarrhoea Remedy ia found ed on their experience in the use of that remedy and their knowledge of th© many remarkable cure» of colic, diarr hoea and dysentery that it has effected. For sale by’all druggist».