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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1915)
years old there was u gutheilng of vet erans ou the field of Gettysburg, and Mr. Sawyer proposed to his wife that A wealth\ uien hunt iu 1'ari* who they make an excursion and visit the bail an extensive luwluesn witb .lap i field themselves Mrs. S a w yer would was Informed that a prominent firm not go without inking tbeii sou, Tom in Yokohama had failed, bur he eottld my. uow four years old. and that iu uot learn the name of the firm. He ; solved taking me along to have the could have learned the truth by ca By ESTHER VANDEVEER care of him while bis father and moth bling. but to save expense he went to er were visiting the scenes of the dif- a well kuowu banker who had receiv ed the uewa nud requested Uim to re ;; Why a Soldier Didn't Like to ; ferent fights on the battlefield. Cyrus Mudge was au Imlianian six So we ull went down together on one veal the name of the lirui Talk About His Deed feet four inches high. Having inherit of the anniversaries of the struggle, “That’s a very delicate thing to do.’ By J. I. Jon«» | and. since Tommy manifest ed a desire ed some means and desiring to 6ee tbe replied the bunker, “for the news is ; to go about with his fathci tnd mother, world, he went abroad. In Baris he A pretty little story of visits to not official, and if I give you the name By F. A. M ITCH EL I had an opportunity to go too The met .loel Hoisted, a fellow townsman Mount Vernon on the Potomac—“ im 1 might Incur some responsibility." veterans we saw moving about iu who introduced him to Jules Laboudier, •* i , - r r n * * » The merchant argued, but in vain, pressions and sentiments like yours and groups locating different s» < at* oi ibi>so and he kindly consented to pilot the mine,’ ’ explains the author to those and dually he made this proposition. I was born at the time of the war exciting days of 1SG3 were not the old two Americans among the sights of "I will give you." he sold, “a list ol who have seen our country’s greatest ten Arms in Yokohama, and 1 will ask between the states, but what year 1 men they are today. Many of them Baris and the vicinity. One day after shrine. you to look through it. and then lei» have never known till recently. My had fought as mere boys, and they having visited Versailles the trio re Bound in colonial blue and butf, with me. without meutiouiug uu> uttun*. earliest remembrance Is being in a were fine looking middle aged men turned final and hungry, and Labou- hand illumined cover design, and colon whether or not the name of the linn foundling Institution In Harrisburg, 1 One Union veteran—he was between dier led the way to a cafe in the j thirty five and forty years old a friend Champs Ely secs for dinner. ial ribbon book mark; profusely illus which has failed appears in it. Sure Ba. How I came to be there 1 could of Mr. Sawyer, took charge of our par- How these two plain inhabitants of trated with handsome half-tones and ly you will do that for me?” never find out, for It was. Judging from “Yes.” said the banker, “for if I d-> my age. toward the close of the war ty and showed us over the field, tilling the western world ever secured the pen drawings, it is a dainty and invalu able reminder that will instantly appeal not mention any name I can uot be and when everybody and everything us in a very interesting maimer where services of so elegant a gentleman aw his and that engagement had taken Laboudier to show them about is a to every person who has been to Mount held responsible in any way.” was In a state of com motion l left place, Little Round lop. Cemetery mystery, though possibly the fuct that The list was made out. the baukei Vernon, while to those who have not the asylum when 1 must have beeu Ridge and other interesting points, Mudge paid the hills had something to had that good fortune this clever hap looked through It and. as be haudt d about sixteen years old. At any rate, pointing out where his own regiment do with It. Seeing that Mudge was un It back to the merchant, said: py little story of our beloved George “The name of the merchant who has the Inmates were not kept there utter had fought without claiming that It accustomed to the tone of high life in and Martha gives a clearer view and sixteen, and since there was a record had won the fight or. Indeed, saying Baris, the Frenchman took Halsted failed Is there.” anything about its or his achievements. apart and told him he feared that his understanding of their colonial home, “Then I’ve lost heavily.'* replied the on the books in 1803 of “a female baby There was something in his appear friend might through ignorance put which is today the pride of Virginia and merchant, for that is the Urm with apparently about a year old” that was the Nation. which I did business.” showing him i called Betty or Hetty or something like ance that attracted me. and this re him to the blush. But Halsted quieted training from making claims for his Ills fears, and the three continued the As a souvenir or g ift book, for young name ou the list. that—the first letter was blurred—and regiment or himself added to my admi sightseeing copartnership. “But bow do yon know that Is the 1 was called Betty It was assumed that or old, there is nothing to approach the ration for him I had bemoaned my During the dinner iu the cafe in the elegance of this little volume, and it Arm which has failed?” asked the the record pertained to me humble position, but uow it was dou Champs Elysees a party sat at the At leaving, being old enough to uu will make one feel more like a patriotic banker iu surprise. bly hard to hear, for I could not hut “Very easily.” replied the men haul. derstaud the importance of learning as think that, though he was courteous to next table to Mudge and his friends, American to possess it. one of whom was a dapper gentleman “Of the ten names on the list only one much as possible about my anteced me as to the others, he must look down five feet five inches high, with a wax is genuine—that of the tlrm with ents. I made every inquiry concerning on me as a simple nursegirl ed mustache and imperial, who seem which 1 did business. All the others them, but all I could learn was the After W’e had seen the scenes <>f hero ed to be the center of attraction of are fictitious.” above. The clothes in which I was ism of others I asked our guide to he those with him. When Mudge arose Notes About Birds. Send $ I for a copy to be delivered brought to the institution had been more exact in the matter of his own from his chair this gentleman turned A peculiar characteristic about birds preserved, but tin* only thing ou them participation In the battle. Yielding to look at him with wondering eyes to your address Is that the young of those that build for identification was the letters “II nests in trees are blind whi n hatched, C./' which were carefully embroidered. to my solicitations, he told his story, When Mudge finally finished going up which was Interesting, though he re- toward the ceiling the Frenchman ex U .S . P R E S S A S S O C I A T I O N are naked, unable to walk and ure fc I On leaving the asylum I went to B o n d B u ild in g by the parent bird. Among the wad serve as nursemaid with a lady in frained all through it from claiming claimed loud enough for all to hear: to have done anything very brave. “La tour d’Eiffel!” lug birds the young can walk, swim Bhiladelphia She and her husband W a s h in g to n , D . C . After driving about tbe hold we stop Now, Mudge w’us sensitive on one and pick up food Immediately upon were refined persons and on hearing ped at a farmhouse not far from it for subject—bis height. He knew that the leaving the egg. With birds, as with S P E C I A L N O T E : Mr. Jones is higher animals, the females seem to my story took an interest in me, ex dinner. A woman who served us seem Frenchman had said something detri the Washington correspondent fancy bright colors and music; hence pressing themselves ready to help me ed interested in our chat about what mental. but. not understanding French, to find my parents we had seen and. being asked whether was not aware that he had been com of T h e Herald, and if you j will Mother Nature usually ornaments the One day Mr. Sawyer, husband of tbe she had lived there when the battle pared with the Eiffel tower. He glared head, neck and tails of the males that state that you are a reader of^this they may find mates more readily. Tli. lady by whom I was employed, return took place, said: at the man who had criticised him. "Yes. I lived here, and I wish I supposing the remark to be more in papier, an autographed copy of the male birds usually excel iu music also ed after an absence. He told me that he had been in Har hadn’t, for there is a matter connected suiting than It really was; then, mak first edition will be furnished on j —Exchange. rlsburg and while there, being Inter with the battlefield that has been a re ing one step, he covered the distance ested in my case, had gone to the asy gret to me ever since and always will between himself and his critic and. the regular order. A Pleasant Way to Help. lum where 1 had been brought up to ho A lady had come from the city of “Mamma,” lisped the cherub, while make inquiries concerning me Being Bhiladelphia to he In the country for taking him by the coat collar, held him dangling in tbe air for a moment, then a smile of seraphic sweetness ilium a man of affairs, he was more success hi-r health. She hoarded with my |0t him gently down on tho floor, nated Ills baby face, “do you know mother, who lived in a house where The Frenchman’s face was as red that sometimes I help Catherine's mam P. 0 . DEPARTMENT part of the fighting took place. We j as a turkey cock's comb, and his eyes ma.” country people didn’t know that there AND GOOD ROADS. i fairly scintillated sparks. Laboudier’s “That’s nice,” prompted the proud was to be a battle here and were not 1 countenance was equally expressive, parent “And what do you do to hell' prepared for it. There were lots of though in a different way. soldiers gathering here, and we were It Diroots Co-operation With Authori her, dear?” “What have you done?” he cried to “Oh,” replied the cherub, “when all much excited over their coming. Mudge. “Do you know who that gen ties For Improvement. Catherine’s naughty 1 punish ber!H— This lady from Philadelphia had a tleman is?” Youth’s Companion. baby and had brought a nurse with “That sawed off chap! Why. I reck Good roads movements throughout her to take care of it. The nurse was on he’s a dwarf escaped from a dime Very Engaging. the country are to have substantial taken sick and went home. Then tbe museum.” Aunt Anna—Your wife Is a perfect lady hired me to take care of her child. support from the postofflee department “He is M. Gamier, the best swords “One morning 1 wanted to go to see First Assistant Postmaster General dear. William; she has such engaging man in France.” ways. Mr. Stubbs - Right you are. my aunt, who lived across the field ltoper has notified officially postmas “That doesn't make any difference aunt; she has engaged fully two dozen where the soldiers were to fight, and 1 ters of all classes that ‘I t Is the desire different cooks In the last six mouths to me. I’m not a soldier.” thought it a good plan to take the bn by The outraged Frenchman whipped of the department that they co-operate to my certain knowledge. — Florid;» with me in her little carriage. So I with state and county authorities In the Tlmes-Union. put the bottle in her mouth and start out a card with bis name ou it and endeavor to improve the condition of ed. I was passing along quietly when Hung it down on the table before Retreating In Disorder. I heard a lot of firing all about me. Mudge. Laboudier picked it up and the public roads and It seemed as if a dozen thunder joining the other party, held a conver “Who was that tough looking chap I “The departments attention.” con storms had broken out at once I was sation in French, which his friends tinues Mr. Roper, “has been attracted ■aw you with today, Hicks?” did not understand. Presently he re scared to death.” “Be careful. Barker. That was my to proclamations issued from time to The woman seemed to live again In turned and said that he had endeavor twin brother.” time by the governors of states desig the scene she was describing and trem ed to explain that Mudge was au “By Jove, old chap, forgive me! 1 nating certain days as good roads American uuacquainted with the man bled. really ought to have known.”—Kansas days, and postmasters, as representa ners and customs of Europeans and “Then I did what I have regretted City Times. tives In their communities of the na all the rest of my life. I deserted the tried to excuse him ou that ground tional government, are expected to baby, leaving the little thing sucking lie had finally induced M. Gamier to Ancient Silk. manifest as active an Interest In this at its bottle In its carriage, and ran accept an apology. A book published in Japan 1,000 movement as Is consistent with the “Apology for what?” asked Mudge. away and hid in the first house I came years ago notes that at that time good proper performance of their official du “Mon dleu! For holding him up iu to. The child was probably killed, for silk was already produced in twenty- tie s” the air like a jumping jack!” nobody has ever heard of It since.” five nrovinees of that country "Didn't he Insult me first?" “I can assure you.” said our guide, “He simply compared you to the “that it wasn’t killed, for our regiment ‘ I AM T H A T B A B Y! moved through the trees when yon left Eiffel tower.” ful than 1 had been He had got from It. My captain detailed me to take “lie did. did he! if I’d known that I the records the names of persons who charge of it. I never have since liked I wouldn't have let him down so were connected with the asylum when to talk about my part in the battle of easy.” I was sent there and had advertised for “Then if you will not apologize you Gettysburg—at least to mention this I several of them An elderly woman incident—for when I say I was wheel must fight.” living in the country not far from Har- “ Fight! With that little chap! Why. ing a baby carriage everybody laughs." I rlsburg answered the advertisement, “For land’s sake!” exclaimed the wo- 1 l him up in two minutes! j Mr Sawyer learned from her that she man. “What did you do with it?” | “My dear M Mudge. you do not j was at the asylum from 1802 to 1804; “But It in a barn till the battle was understand. You must fight him tin that during that time a girl baby was over, then found it safe and sound, but der the code.” brought in by a Union soldier That “What’s the code?” Before the was all she could remember, for she bawling for more milk | "Why. he’d challenge you. Therefore j had left the Institution soon after the next day’s fight came on I had provid ' you have the choice of weapons— pis- ed for it temporarily, and. after the child was received | tols. foils, any weapon you like. You I i think Mr Sawyer took more Inter fighting was over and the Confederates , also have the choice of the time and the est in the matter than I Berbnps it had withdrawn, iny captain sent me j place of the combat.” ; was a detective Instinct In him that off to hunt for Its mother I couldn’t "Oh, I have, have I? Well, I choose I led him to busy himself about It. At find her, and 1 was sent to Harrisburg | with it. where I chucked it In an or- fists, 1 to stand on tbe ground, my j any rate, his curiosity was aroused, phan asylum.” I enemy to fight me through a second | and be kept thinking about It much of “I am that baby!” I exclaimed, mijcft stor> window. 1 don't want to take | the time. “You’re a war baby, Bet.” he would excited and. not realizing what I was 1 ,inT uUvantage of him because be isn't as tall as I am. tie can't help his i sny to me. “1 have an Idea that you doing, threw myself into the arms of shortness any more than I can help got lost somehow’ during the war. i the map that had rescued me. my longness." Maybe your father was a soldier and I There was a commotion at this, and “Monsieur, you do not understand got killed and a comrade took his lit I then the rest of the matter came out our Parisian customs. You cannot tie girl and not being in a position to : The woman who had been my nurse re fight with the fis!:. The code does not care for her left her at the asylum. membered my mother’s name-Cheno allow. The weapons must be some This fheorv Is supported by the fact with -and I had been baptized Harriet. thing that will kill.” that «•bout the time you were taken This corresponded with the lpltJals“H. “M. Laboudier." Mudge replied, “1 there General Lee Invaded Bennsyl C.” embroidered on tny baby clothes. What remains I will tell In n few consider it my duty under the cir vanla. ami every citizen who could car cumstances to fight this M. Garnier ry a gun turned out to oppose him Wo words. My mother and father were But since you say that, according to will establish your Identity and don't both living, and I was reunited with them and several brothers and sisters. your code. 1 can choose time, place you forget it and weapons I choose any place in When tbe war ended, everybody, both They were overjoyed at finding me north and south, had had enough of it. end lavished every blessing on me that the Seine where the water is exactly About fifteen years after its close they could think of One day the sol five feet five Inches deep, the weapons those who were interested in it began dler who lyid rescued me asked me. to be pickaxes.” The Frenchman gasped. Then he Where do I come In?” nncj when I In jto taik about It and write about it and Jlscuss who should have the credit of .tilted of him where be wished to protested. But Mudge was not to be this and who was to blame for that, come ip ho said. “Finders are keepers,” moved from Ills position It complied and nil the prominent Union and Con wlii» li. being ioi. ipi elt d. meant that lie with tlie conditions of the code ns it He didn't had been explained to him. What if federate officers who were living found wanted me for himself It did give him an advantage of a an opportunity to explain their roc have any trouble getting me After our marriage we went to the clear sight above water, while his an ords As to those who had died in the struggle, they had nothing to say and asylum where he had left me more tagonist’s eyes were below the sur were lucky If they didn’t have to hear than twenty years liefore and exam face? Was he not entitled to such ad the brunt of blunders roimnttted h> ined flu* record There I »aw that the vantage? Finally F,nboudier was satisfied since those who had lived to tell their stories first .«‘tter to the name I had been It was about fills time. I believe, that given was Intended for a G. I had Mudge was ready for a fight to the people began to take an interest In the been called (Jetty, from the battle of death, though in n peculiar way. It is battlefields which now are made nn Gettysburg, but the name was soon needless to say that the duel did not take place. tlonnl p a r k s When I was nineteen changed to Betty. Mount Vernon Hs Used a Clever Ruse to Get the In- formation He Needed. H e Fulfilled the Conditions Found on the Battlefield ÌHE HOME OFlfASHINGTON Now Being Printed S E L L TH AT O LD Automobile R. E. SHINE, V .-Pro 0. C. SANFORD. A u t. Cashier A. J SHERWOOD, PFES. L H. HAZARD, Casi,*. F IR S T N A T IO N A L op B A N K C O Q U lL iL iB . O R E G O N . Tranw actB a General B a n k in g B usin eeb B o i r f l of Oirootor». Co rr o ip o n o «m i R. 0. Deim ut, A. J . 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T o w n an d V illa g e , g iv in g ' d e s c r ip tiv e sk etch o f i plnce, lo c a tio n , p op u lation , te le - ?h. s h ip p in g a n d h a n k in g p o in t; C ln 's in o d D ire c to ry , c o m p ile d b y ’* « ri«> fe *«io n . i 1 * Of » ' 4 CO.. »R A T T L E J0 I I I Bv installing a day Morse code telegraph operator at Murahfield our long distance lines have been relieved of much telegraph business. It makes possible a quicker and better long distance conversation service between Coquille and Bandon and Coos Bay points. J INTRODUCTIONS Are essential to social and business life. You want to know who tlie other man is— where he comes from, what he has been doing, who fiis friends and associates are. THE NEWSPAPER 1.« the great medium for introductions. It enables yon to form the ac|imiiitance of people whom you could moot in no other wav. YVe wiil be glad to help you use our columns to extend your acquaintance ship and increase your business. 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