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♦ •tudy w I im I ow lliulnn reported the
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fact tv bin etuployvr. tbv latter hired
Kitnrr WorthiHgt'««. a hunker of both
Mark Twain the hoy w«« leader of • iiaik ini and mm l«i t>mmluenc«. called ■ aotber defgrtlv« tv watch the play
• bruni of young Incorrigible«, accorri kt« daughter Mabel Into hl« private wright'« house
It was not long before the city de
Masquerade Ball Feb. 24 In« to Albert Htgeiow Paine Twain « watting mom and ««Id to tier
tact
I re reported another meeting. Mr.
secretary «nd biographer, who In liar-
My dear. I nm very much troubled
pern tells something of their juvenile at having seen you walking with th)« Worthington took a incniornndiim of
The Fotirmile people are prepar goings on:
•ctof. who wbi * to have thrust him the day. hour and minute and sent It
Iv the detective at A. The spy. who
Fourth and Spruce Sts.
ing for .« grand inask ball al
His mother dec In red that be gave her •elf u|>ou you.“
was a woman, living opposite the
“
You
ure
mistaken.
|*pa.
tn
a««um-
more
trouble
thnu
ail
tbe
other
chil
Founnilc hall <>n the evening of
ing that Mr Deane liaa tbruat himself Deanes reported that at that time
put together.
Februaiy 241b and a glorious time dren
«he saw Mr. Deane writing nt hl« desk
“He driven me crnxy with bin dMoea upon me
is promised all wno attend.
when he in In tbe houae." «be used to
“Well, be 1« an actor, and 1 wish you near the study window. Half an hour
say. “and when he la out of It I am to underatnud that no nctor la welcome later she made a note of the fact that
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Ids mother came to the window, notic
expecting every miutite that some one in my house.”
Dr. S. C. Endicott, Demist. Ras- will bring him home half dead."
“Tbe profession of the stage Is an ed that the sun was shining too
S5-tl
•nuMien Bldg. Phone 71.
He did. in fact, achieve the first of bls artistic calling, aud 1 consider tt above brightly on her son's desk ami pulled
'•nine narrow escapee from drowning" buying hik I selling merchandise or down the shade
F. K. Get I ins and P. M. Jones atmut this time nud was pulled out of lending money. But you are not right
This seemed to estnbllsb an alibi.
were over from Marshfield Sunday. the river one afternoon and brought in assuming that Mr. Deane is an ac Instead of writing a threatening note
to the playwright. Mr Worthington
P. S. Robison < f Norway was a home In a limp nud unpromising con tor He was an actor, but is now a > simply reporter!
the fact to him that
dition When with mullein tea and cas playwright, which means that be is a
a
a
Bandon visitor Saturday.
tor oil sbe bad restored him to actlv member of tbe literury profession He | he had been again informed of a meet
is the s«>n of a gentleman, bas receiv- Ing of Mr Deane and his daughter
Sheriff W. W. Gage of Coquille ity she said:
and would like to know If ft were true
“I guess there wasn’t much danger.
was do a 11 io Bandon Saturday.
Deane wrote a reply stating that he
People born to be banged are safe in
bad not left his residence at A. on
W anted — 1 000 empty sicks at water.”
the day he was reported to have met
She declared she was willing to pay
Central Warehouse.
a-tl somebody
Miss Worthington.
to take bi tn off iter hands
Attorney C. R. Barrow was down for a part of each day and try to teach
A third report of a meeting between
the lovers came to Mr. Worthington,
from Coquille the first of the week him manners.
Besides bis mother, who had to con
Rates $i.no to $2. og per day. Special rates by
but not through either of bls detec
on legal business.
tend with tbe bad boy. was his school
tives. The lovers were said to have
week or month. Sample Room in Connection.
beeu seen walking in a park near the
H. J. Hansen of Langlois was a teacher. a certain Miss Horr. Mr
Paine tells bow unlike to a tied of roses
center of the city. The person report
Bandon visitor Saturday.
was ber lot.
lug the meeting was a sister of Mr
Miss Horr received 25 cents a week
Worthington, who. in the event of his
W anted —Watches lorepair. H.
for
each
pupil
and
opened
ber
school
daughter
’s death or disinheritance,
Sabro. Atwater St.
76-tf
with prayer, after wbicb came a chap
would inherit the principal part of his
S. C. Milburg of Port Orford was I ter of tbe Bible, with explanations and
property. He telephoned at once to 3
tbe rules of conduct. Then tbe ABC
bis spy in A., asking if the playwright
in Bandon on business Saturday.
class was called, tiecause its recital
was seen in bis home oti the day and
J. T. Knox was over from Marsh was a band to band struggle, requir
hour named. The reply came that Mr.
Deane had not been seen there after
field looking after business affairs ing no preparation.
SI HEEDS
KENNEDY
The rules of conduct that first day
10 o’clock in the morning, when he
Friday.
KE4CKMMITHS
AMI WAUON3IAKFRN
interested little Sam. He calculated
had driven out with his mother.
Since he was reported to have been
W. S. Graham of Coquille was bow much he would need to trim in to
Wagons of Ml Kinds Made to Order
Horseshoeing a Specialty
sail
close
to
the
danger
fine
and
still
seen
walking in the park with Mabel
cdlii g on Bandon people Saturday.
Job Work «tlendf-d to promptly and all work guaranteed to give satisfaction. Price»
avoid disaster. However, he made a
at 3 in the afternoon he would have
reasonable. Shop on Atwater Street, Bandon, Oregon.
C. J. Howard of Marshfield was miscalculation during tbe forenoon and
bad ample time to go to the city to
received
warning.
A
second
offense
keep
an
appointment
at
that
hour.
Mr
in Bandon on business the Inst of
Would mean punishment. He did not
Worthington, who was now moving
the week.
mean to be «-aught the second time,
more cautiously, wrote Mr. Deane,
stating the facts and asking for an ex
F or S ale —A good carpet at but he bad not learned Miss Horr yet
end was presently startled by being
planatiou. Mr. Deane's reply contain
half price. Telephone 702, or Ad commanded to go out and bring a stick
ed affidavits of three different persons
Box 371.
for his own correction
that they had seen him driving in L..
a
suburb of the city, fifty miles dis
This
was
certainly
disturbing.
It
Dr. H. L. Houston reports, a
HIS WOULD BE SON-IN-LAW.
was sudden, and then he did not know .
tant, between 3 or 4 o’clock in the
girl bom to Mr. and Mrs. Andrew much about the selection of sticks . , eil a college education and went on tbe afternoon of the day in question
When Mr. Worthington read these
Marsden, Feb. 5th. A girl born to Jane Clemens bad usually used her 1 stage for u short time in order to pre
hand It required a second command pare himself for tbe work of writing replies bis brow lowered. He was
Mr. and Mrs Chas. Ashion, Feb. 8, to get him headed in the right direc
aware that his sister was next of kin and Ladies are cordially invited to call and inspect same
j Plays.”
and a boy born to Mr. and Mrs, | tion. and he was a trifle dazed when
“Playwright or actor, his associa- after his daughter, and be at once sus
in* got outside. He bad tbe forests of t’ons are not our associations, and I'll pected her of plotting to prevent Ma
Leave orders now for your
H. Wardner, Feb 9th.
Missouri to select from, but choice was 1 have none of him Don't let me bear bel’s marriage. The more he thought
The Elizabeth will sail from San difficult. Everything looked too big i of your ever being seen in bis company of such a scheme the more feasible it
and competent. Even the smallest again."
seemed to him. He remembered that
Francisco for Bandon Friday,
switch had a wiry, discouraging look
if a girl set her heart on a man and
There
was
11
rebellious
fire
in
the
Agates cut, polished and mounted, Across the way was a cooper shop girl's eyes as she left her father that meets with a disappointment she is
I
Fit and Workmanship Guaranteed
work done in Bandon.
Call ai with a good many shavings outside showed him the nffalr had gone fur very apt not to marry any one else. If
One had blown across and lay just in ther than he had supposed. Mr. Worth Miss Amelin Worthington could secure
Boyle’s jewelry store. Agates cut front of him. It was an inspiration
ington was not a man to give an Mabel’s disinheritance, that would be
50c and up.
gt2x.
He picked it up and. solemnly enter order without taking pains to insure even a better scheme than to prevent
ing the schoolroom, meekly bunded it
A G. Thrift left this morning on to
its being carried out. He did not sit her marriage. If he had been convinc
Lorenz Building.
Miss Horr.
down
calmly, relying upon bis dnugh ed of a plot on the part of his sister
the Elizabeth for a business trip Io
Perhaps Miss Horr’s sense of bumor
be would have consented to his daugb
prompted forgiveness, but discipline ter, on reflection, obeying him, nor ter’s marriage at once. But the mat- |
San Francisco.
did
he
assume
that
if
she
persisted
must be maintained.
ter was merely a suspicion.
“Samuel Langhorne Clemens,” she in her infatuation he could prevent
F. J. Feeney, wife and son David
However, he was not sure but that
her.
He
hired
a
detective
to
watcli
Mr.
returned on the Elizabeth Sunday said (he had never heard it all strung Deane and report to him if the actor some one was acting in opi>osition to
together In that ominous way». “I am
evening from San Francisco where ashamed of you! Jimmy Dunlap, go were ever again seen In Mabel's com Deane and Mabel, and this mollified 1
him considerably. When one evening j
Mr. Feene, had been looking after bring in a switch for Sammy.” And pany. after which drastic measures Mabel asked him to take her to the
would
be
taken.
Jimmy Dunlnp went, nnd the switch
theater he consented. It was the first j
legal business.
It was not long before tbe detective
was of n sort to give the little boy an
night
of a new play, but the old gen
that Deane nnd Miss Worth
F or S ai .E—New modern bunga Immediate nnd permanent distaste for I reported
tleman knew nothing about that. All
school. He Informed his mother when ington were seen sitting side by side
low. inquire at this office. 98-tf-x he went home nt noon thnt he did not at a matinee. Tbe meeting was re he did know was that as the play
progressed the audience, including him
care for school; that he had no desire ported to tbe banker, who told his
The the third monthly smoker of to be a great man; that be preferred daughter that he had heard of her dis self, became very much impressed with
the Bandon Naval Militia Corps will to be a pirate or an Indian and scalp obedience to bls order and if she de it and finally enthusiastic. When the
curtain fell at the end of the third act
fied him again be would send her
be held Thursday evening in Con or drown such people ns Miss Horr.
the author.
Young Sam couceived the notion thnt away where she would have no op shouts were made for
crete hall, There will also be five a pirnte's life would be joyous and. portunity to see the actor A clandes- When he appeared Mr. Worthington
fast boxing bouts of four rounds with a couple of pals, cruised the Mis »lne meeting took place soon after found himself joining in the storm of
applause. Then, putting on his glasses
this, in which Mabel told her lover of
each. The admission will be 50c. sissippi
Some of their expeditions were Inno. tier fathers threat, which she knew and taking another look at the re
ciplent. what was his astonishment
A chance to spend an enjoyable cent enough. They often cruised up to be would make good.
when he «aw in him his would be son-
Turtle island, about two miles above
evening and fun by the bushel.
The same evening sbe bad an Inter
Hannibal, nnd spent the day feastiug. view with ber father, in which she in-law:
Mr. Deane’s play was reported by the
For a house to rent see Spencer. You could have loaded a car with tur told him that he must look to Mr
tles and their eggs up there nnd there Deane to fulfill his orders. If the play critics in the morning newspapers as a
G. B Gage had the lot two were quantities of musselk and plenty
wright joined her he did it on bis great bit. and the playwright found
fingers on his right hand badly in of fish. Fishing nnd swimming were own responsibility, nnd her father himself famous. Not only a living, but
their chief pastimes, with general ma must call him and not her to account a fortune was assured. Krom the mo
jured in the Prosper mill last Tfiurs raudlng
ment of Mr. Worthington’s leaving the
for adventure. Where the rail
day. He was brought to the Ban road bridge now ends on the Missouri for such action This was something playhouse he ceased bis opposition to
of a relief to the parent, who would
don Hospital, where it was found side was their favorite swimming hole rather deal with a man than a worn bis daughter's match, bis change of
—thnt nnd nlong Bear creek, a seclud
mind not only being due to Deane’s
necessary to amputate the fingers, ed. limpid water with special interests an. even if that woman were, bis own success,
but to wbat Worthington sup
da
tighter.
lie
did
not
doubt that posed to be a plot on the part of his
and the gentleman is getting along of Its own. Sometimes at evening they
Mabel would assist ber lover rather
us well as COUU be expected at swam across to Glassccck's Island, the than her father tn any contest that sister to get possession of bis property
rendezvous of Tom Sawyer's "Black
after bis death. So one day. after a
present.
THE RECORDER OFFICE has recently
Avengers” nnd the biding place of might arise between the two. but be conference between him and his daugb
considered
himself
a
match
for
both.
Huck
and
Nigger
Jim.
Once,
though
ter, Bhe left him with his consent to
added a lot of new type of the latest
Celebrated E. P. Reed shoes for
Wit bin a fortnight his detective re
this was considerably Inter, when he
her marriage.
ladies, True Blue school shoes for was sixteen. Sam Clemens swam across ported that the lovers had been seen
faces, especially for Fine Job Printing,
One day some time after the wed
children and Spencerian shoes for to tbe Illinois side and then turned together Mr Worthington spoke to ding Mr. Worthington, who had be
and wc are now prepared to print all
and swam back ngaln without land his daughter about the matter and come quite foqd of bls son-in-law, ex
boys, at Lorenz's store.
I I t-2
asked
her
If
it
were
true
Sbe
replied
kinds of Fancy Invitations, Announce
ing. a distance of nt least two miles as
as she bad Informed him. he must pressed tile opinion to him that Miss
Public Reading Room, over Chas. he hnd to go. He wns seized with a that,
Amelia
Worthington
had
laid
a
plot
ments,
Calling Cards, Letter Heads
cramp on the return trip nis legs settle all such questions with Mr to secure bis property.
Lorenz's store. Open every even became useless, nnd he was obliged to Deane and she bad nothing to say.
and in fact all kinds of modern printing
“I can’t permit any one to suffer un
“Very well.” replied her father. ”1
make tbe remaining distance with bis
ing. Everyone welcome.
justly." said Deane, “so 1 must exon
done in a Modern Office.
arms. It was a hardy life they led. shall write Mr. Deane that If he again
H. W. Painter and R. W. Van- i nnd it is not recorded that they ever thrusts himself upon you I shall take erate your sister from any sUch sus
picion. This involves a confession.
derburg came over from Coos Bav I did any serious damage, though they such means as | think proper in tbe When as an actor I was’studying the
premises "
narrowly missed it sometimes
technique of tbe stage 1 took a double
yesterday to look after business
Mabel left him without n word, and
part, requiring my appearance on the
affa'rs.
he
knew
that
the
fight
with
tbe
play
A Close Relation
boards when I was not there. A dummy
Bess—What do you think? Fier aunt wright was on He sent tbe note, as was constructed that was my exact
F. L. Randall was up from Lake brought
Tess ouly a string of cheap he Informed his daughter be would, twin When you put detectives upon
port on business yesterday.
bends from Europe. Jess—Well, what and received a courteous reply, as fol
me this dummy was placed in my
more could she expect from a close re lows:
itudy window and afterward, when I
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burkholder lation ?—Lippincott’«.
My Desr Slr-Tf your Informant on the
day
and
hour
of
this allowed meeting had drove out with my mother, was car
of Coquille, passed through Bandon
ded wrapped in a shnwl into the car
passed my house In A . the suburb tn
Mon.lay morning on their way home1 Blessedness consists In the accnm which I live when nt home and looked .dage. I got out at tbe station and my
pltsbment of our desires and tn onr up nt my s’udv window he would have
from San Francisco, having come having only regular desire«.—BL Au seen me diligently engnyed at my work, mother drove to L. with the dummy
which waa on that occasion putting In iilttiug beside her. while I west to
in on the Fifield,
gustin«.
tha dialogue of a play th« scenario of meet Mabel tn the park.”
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Sydney Smith.
Home Hand Laundry
Family Washing a Specialty. Make a
Specialty of Rough Dry.
EARL SCHOONOVER
Hotel Gallier
Bandon
Oregon |
The Spring Line of the
American Ladies’ Tailoring Co
Has Arrived
F. W. RUEBENACK, The Tailor
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E. Steinhoff
The Harness Man
Whips!
Whips!
Whips!
All Kinds and Prices
Gloves!
Gloves! Gloves!
of the Lasting Kind
J
FANCY PRINTING1
Fancy Wedding Invitations a Specialty
RECORDER PUBLISHING CO.
Bandon, Oregon
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