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
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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.’’
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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 |
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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
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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.”
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