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AN ACQUIRED TASTE.
Tha Way Dlaraall "Put One Ovar* on
Publiahar Colburn.
When the Hon. Mr. Ward wrote his
novel "Tremaine” he was fearful of
acknowledging himself the author un­
til Its fate should have been ascer­
tained. He accordingly, the better to
preserve his Incognito, sent the manu­
script copy by the wife of his attorney
to Mr. Colburn. The work, although
j accepted, was not considered likely to
1 pay extremely well, and consequently
■ trilling sum was given for I t Con­
trary, however, to Mr. Colburn’a ex-
! pectations. It ran to three editions.
The Ingenious author of "Vivian
! Grey.” then twenty-two years old, hav­
ing heard of the circumstances, deter-
| mined to use It to advantage, and ac-
! cordingly, having arranged his work
for publication, he proceeded to find
out the honorable gentleman's fair
messenger. This he quickly effected
and upon a promise of giving her £20
| induced her to be the bearer of hla
novel to the same publisher,
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The woman was Instantly recognized
by Mr. Colburn as the same person
who biought him ‘Tremaine,” and,
recollecting the greut sale of that nov­
el. be leu|>ed at the manuscript pre­
sented to him with the utmost eager­
ness. It was quickly read and n hand­
some sum given for the copyright A
short time, however, enabled Mr. Col
burn to And out his error, hut too late
to remedy himself. The work was not
successful, and a considerable sum was
lost by Its publication.
TRAPPING AN ERMINE.
is now fully equipped with modern
for the execution of
AN EYE FOR BUSINESS.
One of the Reaeone Why the Prized
Fur Is So Costly.
“ This stole o f Imperial ermine Is
worth $1,000,” said the dealer. "Dear?
N'ix. Just couslder how the animals
comprised in it were caught!
"In the first place, they were caught
lu a winter of extreme cold, for It Is
only In such a winter that the weasel,
or ermine, turns from tuwny to snow
white. In normal winters the ermine
only turns to a greenish white, like this
$400 greenish white stole here.
"In the second place, the ermines
were caught young, for when fully de­
veloped their coats are coarse and stiff,
as In this $250 stole, and to catch them
young the tongue trap must be used.
Auy other trap would tear the delicate
fur.
“The tongue trap Is a knife, an ordi­
nary bunting knife, smeared with
grease, that the hunter lays In the
snow. The little ermine sees the blade,
which It mistakes for Ice. Ice it loves
to lick, and so It licks the knife blade
and is caught fast. Us tongue. In that
zero weather, frozen to the steel.
"Yes, sir. when you see a stole like
this don't begrudge a good price for It,
for every ermine In It was tongue
trapped In subzero weather—a mighty
slow and painful hand process.” —New
York Tribune.
The Blanket Tree.
Blankets grow on trees in Ecuador,
and, while the Idea of an all wood
fresh from the forest bed covering
might give Insomnia nnd n backache to
the child of civilization who likes to
snuggle comfortably under several lay­
ers of down and wool, the natives find
It all right, as in fact It Is.
When an Ecuador Indian wants n
blanket be bunts up a demajagua tree
and cuts from It a five or six foot sec­
tion of the peculiarly soft, thick bark.
This Is dampened and beaten until the
flexibility of the sheet Is much Increas­
ed. The rough gray exterior Is next
peeled off. and the sheet dried In the
sun. The result Is a blanket soft
light and fairly warm, of an attractive
cream color. It may be rolled Into a
compact bundle without hurt nnd with
ordinary usage will last for several
y ea rs.—H n rper’s.
Butterflies That Live on Fish.
The butterfly was blue nnd transpar­
ent As through blue glass Its tiny
hpnrt could he seen beating Inside Its
body, and the professor rend a news­
paper article through Its lovely blue
wings. "This,” he said, "Is the pter-
opoda. n Mediterranean butterfly. It
eats flsh. On Its tongue are rows of
pointed books. They serve as teeth.
This beautiful creature would turn up
Its nose at a garden of roses and lilies,
but It would feast ecstatically upon a
putrid eel. Now nnd then a pteropodn
Is found on the Florida or the Califor­
nia coast It Is only abundant, though.
In the Mediterranean.”
Ancient and Modern.
Mr. Choate, the well known Ameri­
can diplomatist was being shown over
a very old English parish church.
Pointing out an oak screen, the rector
Informed his visitor that It was "cen­
turies old.” “ And this paneling on
the door?" inquired Mr. Choate, much
Interested. “ Oh." replied the rector,
“ that Is quite modern! It was put up
ouly forty years before the discovery of
America, you know!” —London Globe.
Buttons Barred.
"Our collection today, my dear breth­
ren,” said the rector. "Is for the cloth
lng fund. At the same time, may I
earnestly Impress upon you that
though the collection Is for the cloth­
ing fund. It Is not uecesaary to con­
tribute buttons?"
The Hero.
First Critic—1 understand yon saw
Sorlbler’s new comedy last night
Who played the hero? Second Critic—
I did. I sat through the whole thing.—
Philadelphia Record.
Neither walls, theaters, porches nor
senseless equipage make states, but
men who are able to rely upon them-
selves—Aristides
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Miss Buckingham took up two notes
and read them with a bored expression
on her beautiful and aristocratic coun­
tenance. Then she threw them down
and on her crest stamped paper wrote
two replies. One was a declinatiou to
a proposal of marriage, the other an
invitation for a proposer to call. Inti*
matin)' that he would be accepted. Ad­
dressing two envelopes, one to Hamil­
ton Uillis. No. — East Forty-eighth
street; the other to George B. IIIIliars,
Union club, city, she laid both notes
and envelopes on the desk before her.
Then she darkened the room so that
she could not see auy of them, mixed
them, took up one of the notes, put it
In one of the envelopes, sealed and
stamped it. tore up the other note and
envelope, threw the pieces into a
wastebasket and sent the other to the
mail without looking at the address.
Her intention was to remain ignorant
of the man she had chosen till he pre­
sented himself.
This was a dangerous thing to do,
for the reason that Miss Buckingham
had a number of suitors, and she wrote
an Illegible hand.
The next evening a card was handed
to her bearing the name of G. B. llil-
ller. She glanced at it. gave a slight
shrug, fingered her back hair before a
glass and descended the stairs. On en­
tering the drawing room she found a
very ilifferent man from either of the
two to whom she had written.
A great many things flashed through
her mind in an infinitely short space
of time. First, she had written one of
the notes (evidently the one that had
been mailed) to George B. IIllliars, and
It had fallen into the hands of Gus-
tavus B. Illllier. This was not remark­
able. since both men belonged to the
same club. Second, how was she to
escape the results of her blunder? Mr.
Hillier was one of her many suitors, a
suitor she loved and by whom she had
supposed herself to have been jilted.
“ Marian!” he said, advancing, but
stopped, repelled by her expression.
“ Marian,” he began again, “ what
does this mean? Have you led me to
believe that you had seen your glaring
injustice only to give me additional
pain?”
“ How did you happen to—to get” —
“ Your letter? I returned today.”
“ No. no; 1 didn’t know you were
away. I mean—what right have you
to” — She balked again.
“ Marian!” he exclaimed.
“ No. no; I didn’t mean th at”
There was a short pause, after which
he said, “ When we parted last I told
you that I could not brook” —
‘Brook! It was I who could n ot”
‘You? The objectionable words were
spoken to me.”
'What words?”
‘What words? Why, in reference to
that note I wrote you to which you
deigned no reply. I sent another ask­
ing for the cause of your silence. You
replied that you would not address a
note to a man at his club because a
friend of yours had done so and her
note had been shown to others.”
‘And do you mean to tell me that a
trivial thing like that caused you to
refrain from favoring me at the next
cotillion?”
‘A trivial thing like that!”
‘Yes. Shouldn’t I have profited by
my friend’s experience?”
He stood looking at her in astonish­
ment.
Then the next time,” she added, “ I
met you on the street you didn’t si>enk.”
How could I when you walked by
me with your—without looking at
me?”
Judging from your previous treat­
ment of me, I supposed you intended
to cut me.”
‘Did you expect me to bow to your
shadow? Could I speak to a girl who
would not even look at me?”
“ You men are so” —
“ So what?”
“ Irritating.”
“ Anything else?”
“ Stupid.”
There was a long silence, which was
broken by the man. “ I believe yon
are right I ’ve been stupid. There
is something about the feminine make­
up that renders a woman oblivious to
the frightful imputations she casts
upon a man. You argued that, be­
cause some contemptible cad had be­
trayed a confidence, under the same
circumstances an
honorable
man
would do the same.”
Miss Buckingham was silent
A
faint glimmer of the fallacy o f the
syllogism began to dawn upon her.
“ I suppose I ought to apologize,” she
said, “ but I’m not going to do it after
the way you treated me.”
My apology would be In order aft­
er, not before, yours.”
“ I prefer it should come first and
mine shouldn’t come at all.”
“ I f I will agree to do all the apolo­
gizing will this nonsense that has been
so long between us be obliterated?”
“ I suppose so.”
“ And our former status will be re­
newed ?”
“ I f you promise not to do so any
more.”
“ Very well, I apologize fo f both.
But what in the world did you mean
by sending for me with no idea o f a
reconciliation?”
“ I didn’t. Not caring whom I mar­
ried so long as you had treated me so
badly, I sent the note to George Hll-
linrs. You got it.”
“ Great heavens!
What a close
shave!”
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P o r t l a n d , O h io o n .
Farmers
Merchants Bank
F rom
De Wint’s Clever Ruse That Sold One
of His Paintings.
Peter De Wiut. the Fugllsh land-
sen pe painter, wns accustomed each
year to have a semi-private show of
his pictures before sending them to the
Water Color society's exhibition. On
such occasions his friends frequently
bought pictures, which, of course, ap­
peared at the public exhibition marked
“ Sold.”
Among the painter’s friends was a
wealthy man who wanted to appear a
patron of art nnd at the same time
keep his money. He managed this by
loudly admiring the paintings already
sold. He was always a bit too late to
buy the pictures that pleased him
most, and having seen them, as he wns
wont to declare, he could never content
himself with less beautiful works.
De Wint at last suspected the man’s
sincerity, and when the next show day
came round he concluded to test him
After plenty of time had been allowed
for De Wint’s friends to make their
purchases the rich man arrived. As
usual, his eye soon fell on two “per
feet gems” marked “ Sold.” Turning to
the artist, he said: “ Now, De Wint,
those are exactly the things 1 should
like to possess. What a pity they are
not to he had.”
“ My dear sir,” said the painter, slap­
ping him on the back, “ I knew you
would like them, so 1 put the tickets
on to keep them for you.”
The awkwardness of the situation
was only relieved when the enthusias­
tic admirer became the somewhat un­
willing purchaser of the two “ gems.” —
Youth’s Companion.
Resistance to the Sun.
Animals whose capacity for thermal
regulation is limited, such ns rabbits
and monkeys, rapidly succumb to ex­
posure to the tropical sun.
In the
same circumstances the skin o f a man
rises some 3 or 4 degrees C. above the
normal. Theoretically the black skin
of negro races should absorb more heat
than that of the white people. How­
ever, colored races are better able than
tiie white to regulate their temperature
under the influence of the tropical sun
perhaps because perspiration is more
abundant The ape, although a native
of tiie tropics, is less capable o f resist­
ing the sun than other animals and
even the white man. This is no doubt
attributable to the fact that its natural
home is in the forests. For certain
monkeys two hours of exposure to the
tropical sun is fatal.
C oos B ay
A t service of tide, January 7, 12, 18, 25,
CAUGHT THE BLUFFER.
PAUL L. STEHUNG, Agent
Phone Main 181
No.
Two Sides.
“There are two sides, you know, to
every argument,’ said the ready made
philosopher.
“ Yes,” replied the gloomy person,
“ but It makes a difference which side
you choose. There two sides to n piece
of fly paper.“—Washington Star.
An Exception.
“ Money, after ail, means nothing but
trouble.”
"Still, it Is the only kind of trouble
which It is hard to borrow.”
He Swore.
She-W ns he furious, dear, when yon
told him that we had been secretly
married? He—Not really furious, only
su I fu rlotis. — J udge.
None is to be deemed free who has
not perrect self command — Bythngorns.
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A Unique Laboratory.
Outside the harbor o f Sfax, Tunisia,
in the shallow water o f the clear
Mediterranean, is situated a biological
laboratory for the study of sponges.
It is one of the most unique In the
world and affords opportunity for ob­
serving the development of the sponge
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Odd Compliment That Wee Paid to an
English Artist.
I Richard Wilson, the English land­
o p COSUIUUB, ORBQON.
scape painter, was not of a pliant dls-
! position. Conscious of his own merits,
I'r a n s u c ts a G e n e ra l B a n k i n g B u s in e s s
he disdained to humble himself to
those who nieusure men by rank and
vulue them by pounds. But Wilson's
BotrA of Olrootsri.
Corroopondoalt.
friends liked blm no less for his
R. O. Dement,
A . J. Sherwood,
National Rank o C’wmiierce, New Yotk Oi
brusque manner.
L. Harlocker,
L. H. Hazard, | Orooker Woolworth N ’ lBank, S u F r tm i
Goldsmith. Sterne. Wilson and Dr.
Isaiah Hacker.
R .K . Shine. I First N a fl Batik of 1'nrtlaud. Portland.
Johnson were assembled at Garrick’s
house with a party of ladles for sup­
per.
"W e were very lively at your ex-
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l>erise Indeed, gentlemen.” anld Mrs.
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R. I I . M a s t , Cashier.
Garrick, rallying them for having ar­
rived late. "T o punish you for not
obeying our summons the Indies likened
you all to plants uud fruits und flow­
ers."
"Pray let us hear,” said Wilson.
"Doubtless I come In for a sprig of
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laurel."
"No, sir," said the pretty, lively lady;
“ you are wrong.”
Opened for Busines March, 1 9 0 9
"F or rue, perchance,’ ' said be.
“ No. sir; guess again.”
c o r r espo n d en ts :
“ Why, I am dubbed bitter enough,
perhaps a crab." said he, “ for that
Ladd & Tilton Bank, Portland
First National Bank, San Francisco
man," pointing to Garrick, “ has dub­
National Park, New York
First Trust & Savings, Coos Bay
bed me Sour Dick.”
"Guess again," said Mrs. Garrick,
laughing "W ill you give It up?”
“ Yes. madam.”
"Why, then, sir, you nre likened to
olives. Now, will you dare to inquire
O LD R E L IA B L E —EQ U IPPE D W IT H W IRELESS
further?"
“ Let me see,” said Wilson, with all
eyes upon him. “ Well, then, my dear,
out with It! I dare.”
‘Then know, sir,” said she. rising
A L W A Y S ON T IM E
and courtesylng most gravely, "Mr.
Wilson Is rough to the taste at first,
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tolerable by a little longer acquaint­
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same details and color as would be shown in broad day­
light. Y o u see I’m displayin ’ the goods under the clear
white rays of (his wonderful new General Electric M azda
Lamp.
It’s really the equivalent o f daylight, and that’s
why all up-to-date stores are using it.
O f course there
are also other vital reasons, one of which is this: the G - E
M azda Lam p gives t w ic e the light of the ordinary car­
bon incandescent lamp— and co s ts less to bum.”
T h e invenlion o f the M a z d a L a m p has caused thous­
ands o f people to have their houses and stores w ired for
electric light.
If you are n o t n o w using it, com e in
for a moment to-da y and let us p r o v e to y o u r entire
satisfaction that this w onderful n e w lamp has made
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