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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1914)
% FIRST IN DARKEST AFRICA. Mungo Park’» Daring Plunge Into the Heart o f the Continent. Babbitts PURE LYE Kills Germs Kills Odors Use it today - the stronoest Lye in the New Sifter Cen L IT T L E Babbitt’s Lye and a lot of water will keep your A home and barn free of all germs and odors. Why not try it today?- - and see for yourself how easily, cheaply and thoroughly it does the wotk. W rite fo r booklet showing many uses. Valuable presents t r the labels. W rite fo r Catalogue Highest in Strength But N ot in P r ice ^ B You Use Less It Lasts Louocr B . T. B A B B I T T P . O. Box 17 7 6 NEW YORK CITY / t Mungo Park started out on ills Afri can exi>edltlon—the first serious at tempt that was ever made to explore tlu* “ dark continent”—-on Oct. 24, 1795. The lion hearted Scotchman, with two negro servant«, set out from Gambia, on the west coast, and plunged fear lessly into the task which before him no white man had ever attempted. It took a real man to plunge Into the unknown Interior, filled with tales of the monstrous and the terrible. Huge serpents, roaring lions, great black cannibals, scorching heat, deadly fe vers—who would dare to challenge tlyse things? And so Africa remained “ dark” until yesterday, as it were, while Moses was battling with his problem in the Arabian wilderness; while civilization was maturing in Egypt and Greece; while Homan repub lics and empires were rising and fall ing; while the modern nations were coming into being; while crusaders were fighting and troubadours sing ing; while Columbus was discovering the new world and Washington was founding the United States of America. But at last the man and the hour met. and the son of the Selkirkshire farmer took his brave leap into the mystery. In the mystery he remained a year and a half, when he reappeared, returned to England and wrote “ Trav els In the Interior of Africa,” a book which is still one of the most interest ing in the libraries of the world. In the year 1805 Mungo Park started on his second trip to the dark conti nent. a trip from which he was never to return. Resolved, with true Scotch grit, to “ discover the mouth o f the Ni ger or perish In an attempt,” Fark pushed on through the pathless forests until he reached a point between 9 and 10 north latitude, where in attempting to make his escape from the natives, who were about to kill him, he was drowned in the mighty stream, which should be accepted ns his most fitting monument.—Rev. T. B. Gregory in New York American. NAMES FROM THE BIBLE. Odd IT WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY No need having piles any longer! No need of suffering another dayl Steam s’ Pile Remedy (complete witli tube) will help you or IT C OST S YOU NOT ONE CENT- This remedy is a combination of the lately discovered, high-priced Ad renalin Chloride with other powerful curative principles, and IT STOPS T H E PILE PAIN IN ONE MINUTE! So sure are we that Stearns' Pile Remedy will benefit you that we will REFUND YOUR MONEY if you are not satisfied. This is the only pile remedy that we can guarantee and we know you will thank us for telling you about it. W e have the exclusive agency. R . S. K N O W L T O N THE HERALD Will Accept á Fi re w o o d Ones From the Old Testament That Pleased the Puritans. A certain set o f Christian names taken from the Bible have been in use so long that we do not think o f them as Bible names. Among them are Adam, Moses, Samuel, David, Daniel. Solomon, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Others taken from the saints, like Peter, Paul, John, Stephen and Mat thew, originally given to children be cause they were born on the saint’s day, are still so common that we think of them as English names. These names antedate the use o f sur names, ns may be inferred from the fact that nearly all of them have given rise to patronymics, like Jacobson, Peterson and Stevenson. In the twelfth century missionaries sent out by the authorities ust>d to baptize whole vil lages at once and to save time invested all the men with the name of John or some other saint and the women usual ly Mnrv or Martha. To distinguish the Johns some additional name like Short or Strong or White or Black was given him by the neighbors, and so Christian names nnd surnames were united. After the reformation It became the fashion among the Puritans to give children the names o f characters like the Old Testament, and odd ones like Melchisedec or Barzillai were pre ferred. Among these were Abel, Devi, Jesse, Amos, Asa, Isaiah, Ephraim, Gideon, Malachi, Job, Abner, Hosea, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Zechariah, Asher, Eli and hundreds o f others.—Hartford Times. The English Penny. The English penny has had a good long inning. For over six centuries it was practically the only English coin, for while the florin did not appear until 1343, the penny was Introduced by Offa, king of Mercia, who took as a model a coin struck by the father of Charlemagne. This penny of Oflfa’a wns a silver coin, nnd it was followed in 1357 by one of gold, and it was not until the time o f George III. that copper pence were struck, the present bronze not coming until Victoria had been over twenty years on the throne.—London Chronicle. Old Time Rowing Costumes. & ----- ON----- SUBSCRIPTION English rowing men a century ago wore costumes far different from what they wear now. In 1805 It was the cor rect thing for them to wear a green leather ontskin cap with a Jacket and trousers of nankeen. In the first uni versity race nt Henley in 1829 Oxford won wearing blue checks, while Cam bridge wns in white, with pink waist coats. Broad brimmed heavy straw hats came in a little later. Curiosity. Maud— Why didn't you protect your self when Jack kissed you? Betty— Why, at first I was simply speechless, nnd then I thought I would Jnst see how many times the impudent fellow would dare to do it.—Boston Transcript. Maybe. D. A. R.—I have the drum that my great great-grandfather carried all through the Revolution. The Flippant I One- Ynd when he saw the enemy did ; he beat it?—Puck. The Celebrated Berym ann Shoe The Strongest and Nearest Water Proof shoe made for loggers, miners prospectors and mill men. 1 Thurman Street P o b t la n d , O regon , Both Affected. She—You really should give up smok ing; it affects the heart. He—By that reasoning I ought to give up you also. —Boston Transcript. Work will hide from most o f us muco needless worry. FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL FIRST N A T IO N A L B A N K Farmers O R E G O N a n d W A S H IN G T O N Business Directory A D ire cto ry o f each City, Tow n and V illage, g ivin g dee rtptlve ak tch o f each place, location, population, tele graph, sh ippin g and banking poin t; also Clftesirted D irectory, com p ile d by bualnoHs and profession ( BUTTER WRAPPERS A T THE HERALD It. le. POLK A CO.. RFATTLK O FFICE and Merchants Bank STEAMER BREAKWATER j x x x x x x x RIME & V ON PEGERT SHOP Roseburg M yrtle P oin t Stage S u b scrib e For T h e H era ld teenth ordinance of the city guild of carpenters providing that tlie mem bers should attend the funeral of any one of the fraternity resident within the city “ or in the subburbs.” The natural inference is that even then it was part o f the everyday talk o f the citizens.—Pall Mall Gazette. Good Substitute. “ Why have you not come to my bridge party ns you promised?” tele phoned the irate hostess. “ You are breaking up one table.” “ I am sick,” wns the reply. “That’s an old excuse.” “ Really, I’ m sick. I have a trained nurse.” “ Well, you should have sent a sub stitute. Ask the nurse If she plays.” — Kansas City Journal. An Inducement. W ife — I wish, Harry, dear, you’d get me a nice clock for my room. Hub —But I am really very short aud can’t afford— W ife (Interrupting) — If you will I’ll set it back two hours the evening you go to the club.—Boston Transcript. Hope. “ There Is bo sweeter suffering than hope.” So runs an old German prov erb. melancholy text for hearts that bitter disappointment has cured and to whom all hope is but memory. Chinese Idols. The Chinese, according to a mission ary. are the most exacting o f worship ers. When they pray to their idols they ask for definite material blessings and they expect results. The life o f an idol in China is precarious. G ifts will be heaped before it only as long as it seems to be bringing about the wishes of its followers. If the shrine falls upon evil times and disappoints its worshipers their homage soon fades. Not only do the gifts cease, but the re sentful people o f the countryside will come in a body nnd smash the ineffi cient symbol. A Change. “ Tommy,” said an irate mother to her incorrigible offspring, “ if you don’t behave I’ll give you a good whipping!” “ Well, that’ ll be a change, anyway,” replied the little fellow. “ All the other whippings I ever got from you were bad.” —Chicago News. Nothing but Fun. “ H ow’s your wife these days?” “ Well, she has found a soap that makes washing a pleasure, a machine that makes sewing delightful and a contraption that makes sweeping a dream of bliss. She ought to find life one continuous round o f joy.” —Louis ville Courier-Journal. Pa Knew. “ Pa. what’s nn agnostic?” “ It’s one o f those poems where the Mr. Staylate—The other night I heard a story that gave me such a start. first letters o f the lines spell out a Miss Much bored—I wish I knew it.— word. Now run along and let me read.” —Boston Transcript. Woman’s Home Companion. An Alarming Tale. Ta<*. Tact Is when you cover your mouth Ella—Did the bride smile as she walked down the aisle? Mai—I don't j with your hand and make the other party believe that the yawn was a know; I was watchiug her hat.—Kan smile.—Cincinnati Enquirer. sas City 8tar. The Attraction. • *•» * POLK’ S' « J . SHERWOOD P m Seville’s Tower of Giralds. H. E.SHINE, V .-I’ rcs. SHE HAD A NIMBLE TONGUE. From its great antiquity alone If l. H. HAZIftO, Coluti 0 C SANFORD, A o t . C o h K i i rrom nothing else it Is plain that the (Continued Irom firs-t page) The Old Duchess Could and Did Swear (iiralda at Seville could not have been , Like a Trooper. century. As a rule the states have I studied from the tower o f the iffadison The old Duchess o f 8t. Albans, who Square Garden in New York, which selected their great statesmen for O p C O Q U I L iL B , O H E G O fi. the American will recall when he sees had been tlie widow o f Mr. Coutts, the the two places allnted to each of the It. If the case must be reversed aud banker, when the duke, much her Jun I rtu iH a c ta a G e n e r a l B a n k i n g B u a in e a E we must ullow that the Madison ior in age, married her, was one o f the states iu the Hall of Fame. Square tower was studied from the habitual visitors at Talmouth. My first WIRE TAI.KEKS IN RETREAT 1 Ciiralda, we must still recognize that view of lier, however, was at the Crieff l o r p t f Olractor, C ,r r ,« ,,,,,a t , The American Telephone and It is no servile copy, but in its frank hotel, on her way through to Ken more, R . O. Dem ent, A . J . Sherwo. d , National Baak u Commerce, New Y ork Ci imitation has a grace aud beauty when tlie duchess and her retinue ar Telegraph Company has not been L . H artocker, X,. H . H aiard, Urocker W oolw orth N ’ lBank, San Franci which achieve originality. Still, the rived in eight carriages; for though by slow iu making haste to get under I» .iah Hacker, R .E . Shii., Kirnt N nt'l llaak o f Portland. Portland. Glralda is always the Giralda, and, birth o f no family, she had a most ex cover, and shield itself from the though there had been no Saint Gau- alted Idea of her own importance and dens to tip its summit with such a fly when paying u series o f short visits to prosecution instituted by the Attor ing footed nymph as poises on our country houses was so convinced of ney General of the United States R. 8. K now lton , President G eo . A. R obinson , Vice-Pres. tower, the figure of Faith which the savage condition of the highlands R. H. M a st , Cashier. crowns it is at least a good weather that she traveled always with her own The action of this telephone mo vane and from its office o f turning gives chef and pâtissier, who alone were per nopoly is viewed in Washington as tlie mighty bell tower its name. Long mitted to cook her meals at the inns an attempt to forestall government centuries before the tower was a bel she stopped nt on the road. I shall not easily forget the sight o f ownership, but it is safe to say that j fry it served the mosque, which the cathedral now replaces, as a minaret the disgorging o f the duchess’ own the sentiment that has been created COQUILLE. OREGON for tlie muezzin to call the faithful to chariot when it pulled up at the inn by Postmaster Generals and other prayer, but it was then only two-thirds door! First emerged her grace herself, an enormously fat woman; then fol pubic officials has been advanced as high.—Harper’s Magazine. lowed lier three nieces, daughters of by the retreat of the wire people. Op.-ned for Busines March. 1890 Sir Francis Burdett, whereof the Cultured Hindus. GOVERNMENT SEIZES SHIPMENTS In Bengal there are about 70,000,- youngest and best looking became In correspon den ts : In emphasizing the determina 000 of people, and they boast of heritress of her wealth, and Baroness [.add & Tilton Bank, Portland First National Bank, San Francisco tion of the federal government to perhaps the best culture in India at Burdett-Coutts. These young ladies, evidently in mor enforce the tood and drugs act, re National Park, New York First Trust & Savings, Coos Bay the present lime. The language as a written language is only fifty years tal terror o f their awful relative—not cent large shipments ol tomato pulp old. Though for over a thousand without reason—followed the duchess years it has been a dialect, there is in in single file, dutifully carrying each from Baltimore to Galvestou, T ex .. » ( 0 ^ 3 ( 3 4 3 ^ 5 ; It is r -SV io at-ra-r ;■ Indian history unfortunately no trace some article necessary to her grace’s as, have been destroyed. of Bengali having been an important com fort — reticule, cushion, wraps, charged that it is a common thing OLD RELIABLE—EQUIPPED WITH WIRELESS [jj books, footstool and ling o f toilet requi literary tongue. The language orig among shippers to can filthy, de inates from Sanskrit, the mother sites, the duchess’ favorite lap dog and tongue from which every other Indian her pet parrot in a cage. After them composed, and putrid vegetable came her grace’s private physician, language has borrowed its alphabet, matter. ALWAYS ON TIME grammar an^ vocabulary; but, unlike who traveled always in the same car riage as herself, so ns to be on the spot, “ t e a c h e r ’ s p e t s ” a t w e s t p o in t the others, Bengali never shrinks Sails from Portland at 8 P. M., while the duke preferred the coach box We all remember the teacher’s! from gathering new materials. There Every Tuesday to the company inside—and no wonder! are numerous Persian, French, Ara pets in the public schools, and now i All the time the duchess’ tongue was Sails from Coos Bay at Service of Tide bic and English words incorporated in heard going—scolding, complaining, it appears that this feature of hu Every Saturday it, and the wonder of it is that, in abusing everybody, from her husband man nature has been asserting it- ¡ Tickets on sale to all Eastern points and information as to route stead o f having been degraded into downward, in unmeasured terms. The and rate.- cheerfully furnished self at West Point, resulting in a ! some vulgar form like pidgin English, unfortunate nieces came in for no small Bengali has become the most literary, resolution by Senator Chamberlain W. L. KOLM. Agent share of her harangue and earned pain Phone M ain 181 scientific and perhaps the most philo fully any share o f her fortune she may of Oregon, asking for an investiga- | S’ 4 sophic o f modern Indian languages. have left them in her will, for she tion. swore like a trooper or a Billingsgate Shrewd Sexton. is p o l y g a m y s p r e a d in g ? fishwife the whole time.—Lady Login Among the tourists who travel in Cornhill Magazine. It appears that there is a suspi Fred Von Pegert through France a considerable number cion in New England that polyga visit the cathedral at Rheims, a mag CHEMICAL EXACTNESS. nificent example of gothic architecture. my exists even outside of Utah, In the tower there is an enormous and Senator Weeks of Massachu clock, nnd it is tlie sexton’s business Bunsen’s Feat After His Goblet of setts has introduced a resolution iu Solution Had Been Upset. to wind it every day. a very tiring job. MECHANICAL The remarkable skill in dealing with the Senate asking for an investiga ns the weights are naturally extremely the material o f their experiments that heavy. tion. The sexton, however, is a very some chemists have is well illustrated » --- - shrewd fellow. Whenever he shows by the following story told of the great From off the Map the trippers this wonderful piece of German chemist Professor Robert Bun G e n e r a l niacksmithnir mechanism lie remarks, “ Ladies and sen: Wagon Making. Machim Professor Bunsen evaporated fifty gentlemen, if you do not believe me (Gold Hill News) Work. Pattern Making and regarding the heaviness of the clock hogsheads o f water from the Durk- Casting, Automobile Work. The Man Without a Country bud heim spring and carefully isolated weights try for yourselves.” Each of the trippers immediately from the residue a small quantity of nothing— in the vulgar vernacular— COQUILLE, OREGON give a turn or two to the wheel, and the salts of two very rare elements, on John D. Rockf-rfeller The pow as there are some 200 visitors a day caesium and rubidium. lie dissolved the trippers unconsciously and eagerly these salts in a small beaker o f water erful oil magnate is iu bis country wind the clock for him and in addition and set them aside on his laboratory but not of it. The hamlet of Rock give him nn extra tip for being allow table. erfeller, Illinois, irking under an One day a friend came to see Profes ed to do his work.—London Onlooker. sor Bunsen. Unnoticed by the chemist appelation that is considered dis his visitor in leaning against the labo graceful and un-American, petition Emily Bronte’s Looks. And Auto Line A discussion as to the personal ap ratory table tipped over the beaker and ed the postoffiee department for pearance of Emily Bronte reveals the spilled its contents on the floor and on remarkable fact that no one knows his clothing. The solution looked like permission to change its address to Lcav s Myrtle Point 5 a. m. anything about it since there is no au plain water, so the man thought noth 0D6 less conspicuous and abhorred ! Arrives Roseburg, next day thentic portrait in existence. When ing o f the accident nnd a few minutes Colleges and institutes may bear ¡ Leaves Roseburg..... 6 p. m. Charlotte Bronte first saw George later took his departure. Arr. Myrtle Point by 10 p. in. Shortly after the gentleman had gone the Rockerfeller name, memorial | Henry Lewes she said that he was wonderfully like her sister Emily, but Bunsen noticed that the contents of windows may make gay twilight in Make reservations in advance at Ow I this is unfortunate for Emily since the beaker had been spilled. Instantly his honor— for the Rockerfeller Drug Store, Marshfield. Lewes was very much like a baboon. he ran out to the street, overtook his Possibly the comparison was due to a friend and brought him back to the gusher is bouuteous and greases Carrying Baggage and United States Mail even the portals of the church— but sisterly candor that so seldom errs on laboratory. J. L. LAIRD, Proprietor With water Bunsen carefully extract the respect and affections of bis the side of mercy. Thanks to photog raphy, the historian of the future will ed the salts from the sleeve of the gen Office at Laird’s Livery Bam. Myrtle Point, Both Phones countrymen are forever closed to not be in doubt as to the appearance tleman’s coat and his underclothing, of celebrities o f the present generation, washed his arm, cleaned off a drop him, Aren, Illinois, isn’t much of a but he is likely to have his own opin that had spattered on his shoe, careful name, but it has no associations that ion as to those worth knowing about.— ly washed the floor nnd the table, col lected nil the solutions together, puri constantly remind the citizens of Argonaut fied them and on evaporation found personified privilege nnd grinding that he had recovered the valuable greed. “ Suburb.” When did the word “suburb” first salts! So perfect wns his skill that he Lonely John Rockerfeller— with find its way into tlie language? It is had not lost a weighable amount.— his chaplain, his caddie, and used in a recently discovered four Youth’s Companion. Realism In Art. ----- His Narrow Escape. Tw o artists were boasting bow they 1 “ I tell you. the closing o f the Steenth could paint "Oo you know,” said one, ” 1 painted n sixpence on the ground , National was a mighty close call for one day, and n beggar nearly broke his me.” Ungers trying to pick It up!" "T hat’s “ flow wns that?” nothing to what I did,” said the «flier. ! “ Why. a friend had advised me to ’T painted n leg o f mntton on a stone, put my money In it and” — and it was so realistic that a dog ate “ And you took his advice?” half the stone before he found out his “ No. but T would If I’d had any mon mistake I” ey.” —Philadelphia Ledger. his paid sycophants, alone to do him honor ami estimate their prob able bequests. SPREAD OUT! Ingenuity at Allegany The Pacific Homestead has a picture showing a view of an auto- moble and a silo, and under it ap pears this legend: "Modern way of filling a silo on the tarm of W A. Gage, near Allegany, Coos j county, Oregon. The automobile i furnishes the power for operating the ensilage cutter; a 14-inch pulley was put on one of ihe rear wheel j axles. Power was plenty and some to spare.” Another Lesson ( Batidon Surf) There is no use in trying to be patriotic by patronizing Portland, Several of our business houses or dered Xmas goods from Portland weeks ago and owing to the delay occasioned by reason of the Tilla mook tieiug bat bound in some God forsaken imitation port along the coast, their holiday trade in season able goods is nix. Portland mer chants handle but very little of our products, but have ill the past sold largely to us. They have insisted upon our buying in that market but they have provided no satisfac tory means of delivering the goods As there are no less than four reliable frieght boats plying be tween this port and San Francisco, and as San Francisco takes all our surplus products, why do not our merchants practice reciprocity by transferring their trade to that city and be done, once for all, with the disapointments incident to shipping via the jerkwater route. K eep your business on the move. Let us help you ! Your stationery must be done in the best possible form. W e will print it. W e do Job W ork of every dlscription for the progressive merchant. Cards, Letterheads, Billheads, Everything.