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ROAD WORK
TH È
HINTS.
Quit “foolin ' n with tho roads
and get down to businosa.
Your grandfather's ways will
not hold up under present day
traffic.
The read question is inter*
county» interstate and nation
wide.
Why not national highways aa
well as national waterways?
SKOOKUM
RESTAURANT
Rooms in Comietion
Alexson Building
Bast End First St.
POOR ROADS KEEP
MILLIONS FROM SCHOOL
GEO. C. THERAULT
Ignoranc. and Poverty Dua to Unim-
proved Highways,
PROPRIETOR
The following la an extract from a
very Interesting and important contri
bution to Farm and Fireside:
“ Out o f 25.000.000 children In the
United States fewer than 18,000,000 go
to school.
Keek the Flies Out of
"O f those 7.000,000 children who do
Your House by putting
not go to echool half of them Hve la
the country, where bad roads—muddy
in Screen Doors ana
roads, rutty roads, dangerous Iteads—
Windows.
He makes
not only prevent them from getDag to
them to order
and from school, but by tbelr lajwver-
Isbment o f the farm prevent thO exist
; Also'Screen Safes, Ironing Boards,
ence o f any good schools for diem to
| i;
Bread Boards and Step Lad
ders of any size
go to!
SCREEN DOOR F AC TO R Y “ Many children are killed eatb year
walking railroad tracks to school Why?
J. E. Q U ICK
They hare no roads to walk o d . ilany
COQUILLE
OREGON children each year have no ec&JOls to
go to. Why? The roads are Jh bad
there Is no profit In farming, no honey
for schools, no progress, no grtf rib, no
ambition. Hundreds of thousands o#
children yearly have to do with 1 little
has installed a modern Steam Pres
schooling, a little part of a tdrtn at
sing machine, and is prepared to
school
Why? Because father needs
serve his trade better than ever.
their help on the farm. He Isn't mak
Bring me your work.
ing money enough to spare hfh chil
SPRING SAMPLES ARE READY
dren’s time for school days, becanee he
has to pay so much for hauling his
See my display of suitings for spring
and summer. New and nobby pat
crops to market he has no pro#t left
terns at lowest prices.
for extra hired help!
Bring your Repair Work to me.
“ Isn't It your problem, ton. Mr*.
Mother? Isn't It worth yonr while to
K. HALVERSON
agitate the qnestlon? Isn't It Worth
Front Street
your while to bring It np In chnrch. In
school. In society. In club, in neighbor
hood—to talk, to Inquire, to agitate, to
educate those who don’t know and
perhaps don’t want to know, to under
stand that the expense of good roads
Is like the expense of a new threshing
machine, plow or a pair o f horses,
Regular as the Clock
sure to come back many fold In the
course o f time?”
Quick Says:
K. H a lve rso n
Str. Elizabeth
San Francisco
and Bandon
ROADS RAISE PRICES.
One Instance of the Advantages ef
Better Highways.
A contrasting picture of the effect of
good roads upon farm prices Is paint
ed by a dally newspaper o f the grain
E. & E. T. Kruse
belt In this manner:
24 California Street, San Francisco
*‘A good farm on a bod road. Nice
house. Modern Improvements. Finn
team. High fertility. Seven miles from
For Reservations
town. Owner wants to selL Adver
tises. Buyer comes. Has plenty of
N O SLER & NORTON
cash, seeking good farm, pleasantly
Agents, Coquille, Oregon
locnted. Roads fierce. Conversation
hinges on highway. Buyer wants good
road to town. Boy In school. Likes to
go In to plays, lectures, church.
A U C T IO N E E R
Couldn't offer over $100 an acre and
doesn't think he wants the farm at all.
When you get one, g et one o f exper No sale.
"Same thing; similar farm, similar
ience—26 years at the business
circumstances, except good, permanent
E. G. C A S S ID Y
BAND O N , ORE. road, good every day In the year. Own
er thinking of selling. Same man with
cash In hand looking for farm. Con
versation hinges on price. Offers $150.
Owner can’t see I t Keeps edging up
$5 at a time. Sale closed at $200 per
acre Everybody happy.”
Not the least Important phase o f the
whole highway agitation Is the effect
of good roads not only upon farm com
forts and contentment, but, upon farm
prices. A farm which had never been
priced above $75 an acre before the
W ill Accept
construction of good roads sold within
a few months after their construction
for $112.50 an acre, the owner admit
ting tho ndvnnce In value was due
solely to the new highways. Such In
cidents are far from rare. The amount
asked for road Improvement Is large
enough at times to stagger us, but
there are proofs In plenty that the re
turns are not long In coming and that
the problem Is so large as to call for
an ex[<endlture and a policy In keep
ing.
First-class fare only............ $7.50
Up freight, per ton.............. 3.00
■ THE HERALD
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YOUR
LACÉ
C U R T A IN S
will need laundering this
spring. Send them to
us. We wash Quilts at
15 cents, Comforts at 25
cents.
W e will wash
your Wool Blankets for
you better than you can
do them and for the
■mall charge o f 25 cents.
Send the entire family
wash and be rid o f the
hardest o f the home
work.
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COQUILLE LAUNDRY & ICE CO.
NUGGETS.
Th.re Is a Curious Retsmblanoo Be
tween Them and Meteorites.
How do nuggets of gold originate?
Sometimes a mass of the precious met
al worth a thousand dollars or more te
found. By what process was so much
gold compacted Into a lump?
An attempt was made not long ago
te answer this question. An Investiga
tor In Australia cut and sliced and
polished gold nuggets with the sole
purpose of finding out lust what Is
their structure. The first thing be dis
covered was that there la one curious
point o f resemblance between gold
nuggets and meteorites. Both, when
l>ellshed and etched with chlorine wa
ter. exhibit a crystalline structure. In
the case of meteorites the line* thus
exhibited on the etched surface srs
called Wldnmnnstattlan figures, and
their presence Is said to be one of the
most Invariable characteristics of those
metallic bodies that fall from the sky
to the earth
But It Is not meant to he Implied that
gold nuggets hnve fallen from tbs sky
liecause they exhibit a crystalline struc
ture recalling that of meteorites. Tbs
resemblance la apparently only super
ficial, and the crystals of the nuggets
differ In form from those o f the me
teorites.
Another curious fact Is that when a
nugget Is heated In a Bunsen flame ex-
ploelons take place on Its surface. Blis
ters are formed which continue to
swell until they burst with a sharp re
port and hits o f gold are violently scat
tered about It Is evident that the nug
gets contain either gases or some liq
uids or solids which are easily convert
ed Into the guseoua form, the expan
sion o f which produces the explosion*.
-Harper's Meekly.
auy wHy by which she might procure
aduikjg^oti into the United States with
out havlug uuy visible means of sup-
1 port.
For some reason unknown to her
Mury received no reply to this letter.
I Whether John bud moved from whero
be had last written or whether his
letter in answer to hers hud uilscar-
1 rled she did nut know.
She had
A Tale o f the New York
raised the money to take her, and a
friend o f hers, whom we will call
Emigrant Station
Charlotte, was about to start for New
York. She persuaded Mury to go with
her, trusting to luck for some way of
By S A R A H G. T R E V O R
overcoming the Immigration restric
tions. Mary, feurlug that If she re
The town of Aberaeron, on the coast mained In Wales the money she bud
for her passage would dwindle uud
of Wales, looks out westward on the
waters of tho Atlantic. Here lived a she could get no more, decided to take
young r a n Just coming o f uge who. the chances.
Wbeu the two friends reached New
dissatisfied with the limited opportuui
ties afforded him In a little Welsh York and were transferred with other
town, purposed to emlgrute to Ameri immigrants to Ellis Island Mary fouuO
ca. The Welsh language la reuowued that what she feared was true. Not
for belug unpronounceable by any other havlug uuy meaus with which to sup
nationality, and Welsh names resem port herself aud no oue to guarantee
ble a lot of type knocked Into pi that she would not be a burden ou
the country, she wag told that she
Therefore I shall have to give tbs
characters of tills story English names. would be seut buck to England.
"I am strong and ready to work.”
I shall call this young man John.
John, despite his ambition to Im she said to the matron In charge of the
prove Ills fortunes In new fields, was women Immigrants, "and I am sure I
much attached to his beloved Wales shall find work to do.”
“ I am sorry for you.” replied the
His neighbors loved him, and be loved
them. In the house next to his home matron, "but your case does uot come
lived a family with whose younger wlthiu the law.”
“ Is there no way by which it can be
members be had been brought up.
There were two boys, one about his brought within the law?” asked Char
lotte.
own age, another a few years older,
"The only way Is for some one to
and at the time this story commences
marry her.”
a little girl—we will call her Mary—
This wns cold comfort, for there was
about eleven years o f age.
but one man In America Mary knew,
John spent some time trying to make
and she bad failed ever to reach him
up his rnlud to go to America and
by mall. Among n hundred million
more time raising the money to take
him there. Then he went about bid people she was not likely to find him
aud If she did certainly would not pro
ding Ills neighbors goodby, and by the
pose marriage to him.
time he had finished It seemed to him
Mary wus given a reasonable time to
that It would be Impossible for him to
find a way to prove that she would be
go after all. But be was a stout heart
self supporting, aud her friend Char
ed young fellow and. having made up
lotte would uot leave her till she hud
his mind, would not turn hack. Little
dene so or bad sailed buck to Europe.
Several days passed, and, no solutlou
of the problem appearing. Mary was
notified that she would he deported on
a steamer that was to sail the next
day. In the morning Mary and Char
lotte were standing on the dock, dis
consolate. waiting for the tender t<
lake the former to the ship In which
she was to return.
“ I f you only had time," said Char
lotte, “ I nm sure you could find a hua
band. I wish I were a man. 1 would
murry yon myself. I’m going to nsk
the next man who comes along If he
won't marry you."
A young German passed, and Char
lotte asked him in the Welsh language
If be wouldn't help a poor girl to get
Into the country by marrying her.
“ Nlcbt versteli." replied the man.
A man appeared who looked Into the
face of every one he passed ns If seek
ing some one. t hnrlotte called to him:
“ A oes clsian gwrlag arnocb chwl?"
(Do you want a wife?)
The man In the same language re
plied. " I ’m Io< king for a Welsh girl
from Aberaeron.”
"W e are from Aberaeron.”
When John left Wales he was twenty
years old aud was now twenty-eight
He had not changed so much but that
Mury could recognize him In the
stranger, and she did.
“ I know you,” she said. “ Y'ou are
John. I um Mary. But I have grown
" T O D S A X T H IN K U K B O L D ,” H K S A ID .
since you saw me.”
Mary was the last one to whom he bade
John took her in bis arms.
adieu, and when be kissed her goodby
“ You may think me bold,” he said,
be said:
“ but your friend asked me i f I wanted
"When 1 have made my fortune In a wife. I do.”
America 1 will send you something
Mary blushed and geutly disengaged
nice for a gift.”
hersel f.
The child, seeing the sadness in bis
“ Why did you not answer my letter?"
eye, clung to him, winding her arms she asked.
around his neck, loath to let him go.
"Because I went west to do some
“ Aren't you ever coming back?" she work and did not return till a week
asked.
ago. I hnve been to every steumer on
“ I'm afraid not—at any rate, not till which you would have been likely to
I ’ve made myself Independent.”
come since then. I have been too busy
The parting over, John went up to to come to try this week till now. I
Liverpool, where be took steerage pas sent a man In my place, but he 1» a
sage for New York. In due time he stupid fellow and failed to find you.
landed and went to work at ills trade.
Only half nu hour ago I learned from
Eight years passed, during which the matron that you were here and
there were great changes among the were to be deported this morning.
friends John bad left In the little town And now the question before us Is,
of Aberaeron. Little Mary's father and How nm 1 to get you through? I hnve
mother had died and left her In pov looked Into several ways, but It seems
erty. She wns now nineteen years old to mo thnt your friend has suggested
and willing to work, but what could the simplest way.”
she do In a little scaconst town In an
He looked admiringly on the fresh
old country where no Improvement waa young girl with cheeks of phjk and
going on? She remembered the depar white, and she dropped her ej^ts. Char
ture of John for America. It had been lotte sauntered away to a different
quite an Important event in the quiet part of the dock.
place and bad made an impression on
“ Often when lonely In my new
the child's mind. America had then home,” said John, "and when dream
been so far distant that she fancied ing of my old one In Wales 1 have
John would be n year or more In get thought of the little girl who put her
ting there. She knew now that the arms around my neck nnd kissed me
fastest steamer crossed the ocean In when I came away. And every year
four days. The Idea of going to Amer I have remembered that she had grown
ica. where women found opportunities a year older. Then I began to think
for all kinds of work, got Into her head, that when you beenme a womau I
and after many days' debate with her would go back to Wales nnd If you
self and seeking Information from her would consent I would bring you back
neighbors she determined to undertake to America for my wife.”
the trip—that la. If she could get the
Mary said nothing, keeping her eyes
necessary funds.
fixed on the panorama before her—Cas
Among other things, she leanied tle William, on Governors Island, the
fhnt paupers would not he admitted Brooklyn bridges nnd the skyscrapers
Into the United States; that every emi of lower New York.
grant would he required to prove that
“ I f you'll consent to marry me here
lie or she would not become a burden now It will save a lot of trouble. Say
on the government. This seemed to the word nnd we'll go Inside, call a
Mary to be the most Important barrier
clergyman and be married.”
In her way. The most money she could
I f Mary had used the common
hope to control wns the amount requi phrase of a lady receiving a proposal.
site to pay her fnre across the ocean; "It's so sudden,” she would hnve made
when she reached her destination she
a record for telling the truth. She
must rely upon getting work at once
made no reply In words, but she show
This she learned would not satisfy the
ed In her face that a great relief had
emigration authorities.
come over her which resolved Itself In
John had from time to time written
tears. John took her In his arms for a
to those In his native town stating
moment, then, releasing her, said:
thnt he was doing well and was be
“ Come,”
coming satisfied In Ills new home. He
Charlotte was called and Informed
had not forgotten them and If any of
them ever designed coming to Ameri of the method adopted to get her
friend Into the United States of Amer
ca as he had eottie he would lie glad
lea. They all went Into the station and
to assist them so their arrival. Ho
after a eeremony left together for Man
Mary wrote him to ask If there wns
hatrnn Island.
“DO YOU WANT
A WIFE?”
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T r a n s a c t s a G e n e r a l B a n k in g B u sin e ss
By R U T H G R A H A M
Tom Burns, a farmer's boy, who
didn’t llko farm work, went from Illi
nois out luto the wild west There he
waudered about, making a living as
best he could, but there wus little fur
him to do, except kill the uulmuls of
the wilderness either for their meat
or their skins. During Ills wanderings
Tom nmrrled the daughter of u settler
who had come from Ohio. She wished
to get buck to that state as much as
her husband wanted to return to Illi
nois. But Instead of drifting eastward
they drifted farther westward, for us
civilization encroached upon them the
wild uulmuls. by which Tom rnude a
living, became scarce, and they were
obliged to find new hunting grounds.
So at lust they found themselves In
n gulch where game wus pleuty and
neighbors were few. It was a deso-
late life, especially for the woman.
Tom offered to take hls w ife east, but
she know he had never fitted himself
for the work to he done there, and sho
preferred to remain where they were
rather than run the risk of starving In
her former home.
Oue day a mnn came trudging up the
gulch nnd, stopping at the Burns cab
in, asked Mrs. Burns If he could be
accommodated for a short time. She
told him that her husband would he
home aoou and then she could give
an answer.
The stranger said be
would pay well for hls board. When
Tom returned It was agreed between
him and hls wife thut they would take
the stranger In, though there wus only
one room In the cabin, nnd they were
all obliged to sleep In the same room,
divided Into two parts by a curtain-
The mnn went out every morning
prospecting for something—he didn’t
say w fe t—aud every night returned to
the cabin. He remained with the
Burns couple a week, then said to
them:
“ I’m going away from here, and 1
can’t pay you any board. I have been
told that an nrtlcle Is to be found iu
this region that Is very valuable. Had
I found It 1 could have paid you thou
sands of dollars for my keep. As It 1»
I can't pay you anything.”
“ That’s all right, stranger,” said
John. “ W e wouldn't have felt war
ranted in charging you over $4 any
way, so It doesn't matter much."
" It matters more to me than to you
It may be thut I've missed the deposit
I've been looking for, and some day
you may stumble ou It. But you won’t
recognize It If you do. I ’m going to
leave you some chemicals, and If you
ever come across the article I refer to
aud mix it with the chemicals und burn
the compound It will give a green
flame."
He gave them some Idea of what tho
substance looked like In Its crude form
and. pouring the chemicals from hls
stock Into bottles, left them with hip),
with hls address, telling them If they
ever found the article to write him
aud he would make them rich.
A month passed after the stranger’s
departure and the Burnses would have
almost forgotten bis coming had It not
been for tile bottles h^bad left them
that stood In the cupboard. One day
John, Instead of hunting In the gulch
aud the regiou thereabout, went down
to Its mouth and, rounding a mountain
spur, entered u valley. He encounter
ed a trapper, who told him that noth
ing could live there, not even animals,
and there was no use for him to try to
get any game there. So desolate wns
the place that It was called Death
valley. John hnd heard o f It and con
cluded to have a look at It before go
ing home. So he wundered about In It
He hadn’t gone far before he saw
scattered about a substance that an-^
swered the description tila boarder hnd
given him. He gathered k o ic of It
and took It borne with him.
After supper, while hls w ife wns
washing the dishes, he took a piece
of the substance he bad brought from
Death valley and, putting It In a tin
pan, poured the chemicals over It nnd
set fire to it. As be did so hls wife
paused lu wiping a dish nnd watched
him. As the flame hurst forth the two
looked at each other with surprise aud
pleasure.
It burned green.
The couple talked that night ovei
various plans to secure what value
there might be In their find to them
selves. They thought of presenting a
claim for the ground where they had
found the substance, but realized that
they were too poor and too ignorant
of the subject to handle It themselves,
so they wrote to their lodger thnt they
thought they had found what be had
been looking for. He came to see them,
and John showed him a specimen of
hls find and also that It burned green.
The stranger uttered an exclamation
of delight.
"That Is borax," he said, “ used foi
washing purposes In every household
In America.”
He told John thnt If he would tell
him where it lay he would form a
company to tnke the ground, work it
nnd would give John half of all hi
made out o f It himself. John accept-
od Ills proposition, nnd an agreement
wns written out and signed by both ac
cording to the terms.
It turned out the stranger had a large
borax company behind him with us
limited capital. A company wns form
ed. nnd be retained 20 per cent of th*
stock. O f this he assigned one-half te
John, which gave him more money
than he and hls w ife could spend
They went hack to the east, wheal
they lived In comfort for the rest eA
their live*.
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