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About Semi-weekly Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 1910-1915 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1913)
b A CLEVER SWINDLE Working the Game at an. English Watering Plate, STORY OF A WORRIED WQKWSM. It Caught thn In tore tt and Syrtipallty of the Prosperous LounQcrq' n4 tlto Fashionable Hotel,, and the Reii of the Scheme Was Easy. m "Tlin pros'ini-oiia" won; lomif;lMK on , thu tcrritce of tlio loadlni; hotel In tint fitalilunablo watering j)Inc ginning thVjiUHelvea. It wiih n mugiilfk-unt aft urnoou. Everybody wan lazily Rood tempered nnil contrlbiittnl to tbo gen eral ulr of well fill contentment. .Aji1 then "the woman" put In an appear ance. For u moment olio Htood on the stout stepH that Jed up to the terrace, fiet)i luting.. "The prosperous" gaped wl her and wondered why Hue wan there. They urohalily oIhkhIIIwI her us one of the "roHpeetable Itoor.". "The woman" could not dtuKiitao tlio fact that hIiu uiim In trouble, of jioiiie Hort. Hliu advanced upon "the pros , perous" uud glnni-i'd timidly-from Tacl to fuvu. Then, gathering Jier courun In both hnuds, Hhi! walked right pitHt them Into the vestibule or the hotel. A Iltflo ' buzz of speculation urcso. There was no doubt about It. They found "the woiuan" Interesting. "Wouder wlmt'M worrying her?" wild onu. 'Terlmpu alio thinks of putting up and N. u bit doubtful nbout the' cui sine," cackled a would he wit. The cold Htilru with wljlch his remark was lecelved told him tfiat It was consld . rcd to bo In decidedly bad tnsle. As a fapt, "the prosperous" were Inclined to feel sy.mpatiiy for "the Woman." They had been well fed, and It was a niaKU.IIJcent afternoon; also they we're senninely curious. Soon, uhtt cunie out skmIii. looking mor drjucttil than ever, alio looked ,. eround as'lf for tt Iv.ss public means of , ocape, but, llndlntr .none, struAt Ava twrutely forward. . "My jjood wouioii, you aewm to tot lx trouble. Can I d anything?". It waa t -l"rly military ' lonklnK iian In tr eorner wJio -Hpoke- smke aiullly as one who li. In tfft halii--.f floliiif farors uiiHrciousJy. "The Tn'o lous" HwHfc'ht It o trifie darliiK. Hut ' tl?y were merrily ijLuA. Aiul wy lis Conul. "No, air. thank you," replUai :'th? sroiUMii." And then she belled her words by a ittiilllut nob. "I I It's iiohinff;lr nothriiff At Th military Itwbliva nmu torn trim) trf at. "Jluv tffce a;oortiwsa o take 1hat c&alr," he hII peremptorily, "flint trjl v Iba truth'. I'have no rtouM that wr etmll be able to asaUt yu." . Wlim !ilt had partly composwt twr cslf "(ho wnumn" staiuiuert! out h lory, with the aid of much , pvotnpt tug from ttcr companion. "1 itm i widow, a eo for tfrgrr.M tu ttte Welntt Orays my inisbHud was. 1 let lod-jliitfa lu the town. There was a vutleinan call'ed Colonel MorrUI boarttwl in uy houca tiltfti on alt umtitha; salt! IWiJ pay m aooa Ms dividend or soiuet&lu' eam ta at tba half year. "1 managed to hold wit olid ffavo tktta tlx good toMe s h was onti foiiitil tu, though It meant owIiik (1m landlord. . Hut I'd do anything to hay ttia gentry In my house." ' "The prosperoua" murmured yitljui tlietlcally. . ",lmt buforu tbc.nl months was ui lr said he'd have to come nu' stay at tb.14 bote to, meet one of the directors who was goliifi to wy him uts.nimitr, , , An' now they ll me that there never was no one here by tb"nanie of Colo nul Morrfali. And and the bailiffs ' come Into my house thjs mofnln', an' they'll take nil my furniture for the 11 I owe the landlord." . "Twelve pounds!" repeated the mili tary looking liuili. lie hesitated and then fumbled In his pocket. "Well, dash It, here Is .2 toward It." And ljls volve was grulTer than fever. He glared fiercely at the meek tittle man by his side, who promptly begun the fumbling process to cover bis con . fusion. ' Others fumbled, too, aiuf at the end of a coifplo of Inlnutes tho 12 was there. "I-I-cnn't take It, Blr. 1" ",Mndum, don't talk like n fool!" thundered the military looking man. ' "Kim houioand pny. out those bail iffs." Lure that uvenlug In a rinim In tho ' poorer (iiiarterj) of the Jown "the wo iuan" was lingering the sovereigns. That's ten ipfld to the good, any howl" she said complacently, "Where shall wo try next?" "Don't know, old girl. Hut J aviv thinking of llrighton." It was tlfti military looking man .who nuswered. I-oudon Answers. Appropriate. "Did you hear that that pSor fllot who lost both his legs lu nil automo bile accldent Intends" to go lntoj polT tlcsT "No. How can ho without n Ujf4 stand on?" . "Oh. ho expects to go on Hie stump.'' Judge. a When yon know n thing, maltrtnln that you kuow It; when you do not ncknowledge your Iguoraucc Coufu clu. . MERHISrOPH:ELES. Ho Satisfactory Protff as to the Orlglr of tKe Napie Exists. There has betyi liiuVh dlsctflsslon con eairnliitf tho orlaln of thu word MuVh- tsophelo fn tb past, whlcll . has,') owircvTer, ns j-et viidejkln no verjj stit Isfaetsy concliislon. , Some very bl aio ttxpluliatduns had been proimund ed" before the Mni'a oP Goethe, who was himself forced to own to the tnuslctun Zelter In a letter of Nov? J0, 1820. "I J cannot give aiy detlnlte nTiswer to tho oucHtlou, Whence 'cOines tho name Mephistophelean " AccordliiK to one theory it Wju0 u hy brid Greco-Hebraic fornmtlon of mc phls uud toiil'el (the liar); according to. another Its etymology was entirely Greek very dubious, Greek meplios tophllos, "ho who does not lovo the, light." Though this derivation Is hard ly accoptablo. It appears that" this was tho original form of the name, the sec ond vowel being replaced by 1 at lirt In Mugland, whence It was taken Into 'the popular German mysteries. In the "Goethe Jahrbuch" Herr Oellike Vlves an entirely novel dcrlva Uoirwhich, if 'faff etched, has nt least tho jni.Tlt of originality. It Is based-tin )lyo names found In "chapters "1 and 15 of the wcoibI book 'of Saiutml, IVphlbosehetu and ArchUophel. He .-einlnds us that It was ctistninnry in the middle ages when giving namuw to evil sylrlts to refer to tho Old Testa ment; hence the combination "Meph Istopheles." t The explanation Is 'not. perceptibly more absurd than ithers.. Goethe him self had n trick o,f using the abbre iah'd fonn.Mephlsto when tt miltwl 'the exigencies of bis meter. 'It may In remembered that this particularly ir ritated .Schopenhauer, who wrote In Ida iwimphlet ."On the ..Murder (VerhuU ziliig) "f the German Iunguii8e," "Tho foolish desire for brevity rocs so far as to 'cut off even the devil's tall by writing Mephlstu for "Moidilatojihelas." Westminster Gezctto. Tfeltfb oS a Plftfo 9 Homo (taa btt an ItvfteJit Ptpl "In all the yejin 1 have lann attthA liiff bnball xrtinio imV ttivj uiv tmtv than 1 would care to'iumtw tliere t one jly which atunda out.iu ray uilu.1 ni the jtrt'atest.I Jmv evr neu," y n. contributor to ttk Anureteou Motfa sttut. '"i'hw ww no wonderful sktll ees bodied i it dy. It w, f mipims, jiii re luc&. Hut tu fact rvmntu that I hate iev lun'U it duplicate) u'ur tkt IWoHcbed,' Vint l.t U, ao far ns I kuow, unlilUf. In the Himwl of bnsbll. "The iamr ViH)i oiue Iwfwnn Wash ingtdp and Clnclntiati liiok in the day when WilHtiliigtcm' v in the National' lelKU. Tilt! naotr was 1 to 0 lu Clu chumtt'it favor lu lant tit If of th ninth. Two titcu ytvfa out, utwt Wrteh lntftott bad a ruiitirr on sowt, wtlb Wllmot at ttM! bat On ttw ft rut tiall pifclwo) WtlltMt awuutfhantaiM) kiwwb- lniU'ltt fly, tlte lilichwst I aor evf r'w-t'U. TU;' bull wrut up OIkJ 0 until U wm vilbie vuly n a tiwy "With the ctwi of th tvot ttw tua imt oil fMr'Ofut bad startwl tot boo, ami toe cxusmmI tht plate petot the ball Nti to- rail. Hitch Kwln, Cln ciuiiatl'a .Hrst (Ktwutau; Mcl'hne, who plyl sm'oud, ntul 'Germany' KmltU, th, shortstop, all k1ht1 between first and mttstviX awaitlutf tot the toll ti drop. Wilmot twl amttul tho basrs at top iiid and pasiu-it third a tUe ball fell Just liwtitu tt triaiitfU of waltlntf lxiilcUara. "Tbr 1h1I atructi thr hunt artb tf fhe tisw line and boumfat high lu ttw air, IwIuk havliift- to watt for It to te acefid a sc'eud tim U'fore he could make the thioV home. Wlliuot olid around the plate ami wa.i xafe, hIn wiiu the- game with a home run on an Infield 'ijy, a feat which lms never twen dupllcuteit lu jiroft'HsWn.'il twnctMli." , To HTov PitStttmti. . . 1'pojiti) who stand their family fmt traits iwalust the walls while packing and unpacking their household ifoodn' cause n grt'at deal of broken glass, ift'ratclica unit, dents; The lli'st thliuc to be done when ninvlng' Into yiMir new home should he to hang the plcLuree any pl.aee In onler to get them out of the vny wltlaiut waiting to choose a scheme of arrangement. TliU' will juevenl a great deal of 'breakage nuA other flaniage. New York Telrtln. Chsckorv. " Checkers Is suld 'by somo to bo a vef y old game, while others declare It to b of conipuratlve'ly modern orlklii, Whence ' It 'came is absolutely un known. Tljo game is also galled driffts, and there are many. varletlt-sJ of It-Chinese, Ungllsh, rotlsh, Spnn- fch. Kalian ahd. Turkish. It 1 also found among tho native triliu at the Interior ol Vow Zealanrf. , Totting rti Pnilh. Uncle Well, Hobby, 'what did yan learn at school today? llobby-I learn ed that tW world is. round uud turns on hinges. Hko that .kIoIa; In the li brary. Uncle Well, what do you IiIhV oftthat? Slobby I, think, unele, they are us4.ln me to believe n ouil del for a small tioy. ?t. I'aul l-loiWr- . . " liwull' to Injury. Jrs. WoiiAiat Is highly ln'dlgnaitt" "Her bonne wiA robbed, I hear." "Yes, and the npxt nlghftbe burglar brought lunik hrr silver plated ware," I'ytfburgh Tost. J 1 Vrr llikfikiitrit.d in film riTn en ft nfirl In w. i.f .,. i.'.i.w.i,, itn.ni.,.u i. niUet my stone cut. ami when It wns In brECina. a. a air Transporting a llua 1 ftjuwr t&fl .wiljirm& dliTpenJ Cor diamond dura iw wralu etpiclal ly t this wtory. Mi tltotv ! found It 1& ImiKirtanU few iaf effort to net It uwuy fwmj the woloii where? It hud lain over since a lump of pure carbon' was cryntulHzed and bocamq u gem ns lilgjiH a walnut Is what; I am going To tell you nlout. When 1 wus a young ster f?ran away from home and a few wePks later found myself In the prov ince of Minna Gerue, In llnw.ll. where the diamond mines are. I worked In the" mines for5 live years and-eoiildn't very well do. that without learning something about dlnmonds. ' Ono'sundiiy 1 was out op u tramp and. stopping to rest, noticed near. me a stone (hat. It struck me lookiM like n dlymonfl In the rough.. I took it up fo examine it and found It exactly like the uncut stones 1 had dtig up fur the illamomf company. onl.V 1 had never seen one half the size. 1 was u good deal upset, for ff the thing was a dia mond ,1 was rich. But, as 1 have swld, ft was the jcet llng away with It that 'm olng to tell itbout. It. was o dtamond, sure enough. and onu of the I tig ones o the wirld While 1 us looklnflr'o tt Jim "Stivers came up, and 1 wa fool, euough to IM him sve It. lie knew right off' that it wa wopih the Mge imft of. a mll lloa diollara. omf a- nTiiim like hut Is a pi'ent'temritHtioai ter tfny ono. tie coiwrntulMtml w on my tlnit and be , trnu at once to plot to grt Jt troui ine. I .Ttm half more sense than- i In tills, tie dlrtn't tell ony on about, my hav-' lug It eicept tlirev men whom, lie usrd to jcet Jt nwj fi'om me. iiv kiu'w't woiilji go to file, with tt, h his liliui was to'tiavct tti wnylwid aiwl tin.- ittoiu. enpturmt. Of eiurs4 I didn't trnow Jtnt wti.vt tb wmilil 4to, imt t did hniMV ttiiH once i Sot out ot the t'tttlou of Ikw Mint ur- . Art lu other words, of hy myself outetxAty would try for oiy protiety , I cot'iuiti to eotltravor t fool wtto ever auctel 1 had tt wtth tne by ptoylua o jmit Tin: glial I itt1o)te1 wan this: I found o coHiktryiuan who wM aottta down with a butd of wfMl and told hint 1 would eit 'with htm. lit old ho wu afc-rtwable, aittl i nl-)t tl; tiittht Wfore we tarr.l i-or hia wokou, which Wi all'.dv twdnt. lttriuic ttH. uftfht t took .'Jin- of ttte Iok oji that I woMt.it rroptriiibi euslly aiut, twvltitf a big hob- in It utuU-r ' pinee of tttose Iwrk, put1 my diamond in tt Thii.- piiigfc-tiiK up the'ho, i M down the barfc, first puttliu a little Kilir ?rt wrl it iul the wtnal Ur hottt' it in tUc. TtMn I tbrrw ttm itf tmch ou to (he )d. Wm atarteO eitstjr in ttM uxiri.ina. and I, not wlshtnic to te identtttat with the woodtuaii, at times kept'tn hU rear nutl at time) iu adraiM' of hlty. .41 though I hadn't toki any :ou i was oiiMr on the trip. I fautMt (he rimd pickHed. I pasd o man wo lookivl t lue neon-httiKiy. oiil It wasn't lotuc twftjre, tuertii foots(it Iwt.lnd mm-,. 1 turtmt aiut saw him coiuius with two other. They lautcht up witti tue, ouct oue of them, whu huw tu hy atglit, mhl, "That's tba tuat," au4.- oiMtmji' illtf t, odilwl: "Vu4titr frtbr. ttr dlacuAiMl r)utiau.v has iii1kvJ n valuaiiie uncut Mow and, having bweti lnforiuetl that tt is lu jrour poaMewtlon, has Kent its 'to t uutbd it of you. I'U-msv haud it oXt." "I haven't ony dtatoond,' repll4. "I'vt jKKir ns poverty himI don't know where I ahall tit m blto to eat." , They didn't wasto any word, htit two of thuui held me while the third went through tuy (tuckets, uiy hair, my beurd indeed, "every irt of Then Im took off my clothen, it-avlns live stark naked, aiM eiuuliued' every cow, every Inch ot cloth, even hofd liiK theu wp iui4 looking through tkeui to thu Ibjht. "i recktui tm has either ent tt ou lihesd or left It behind to come later," said the man who bad (loin- tlie seurcti Ing. All would haye krone well "and not the .woodcutter', wagon come luintierliiff down the roud u'nd he hud to ask' mo lu a fuiulllar way what my appearing- In my blrtlwlay clothes meant Tive men prtcked up their' earn at Hits and nHkeiT him If ho knew'-me. 4Hid h told! them that we were fellow travelers. Ho tret ft thorough searching, for bis pains, the men ffduklug Hint he was arrylug thV gem for me. 'then, they, examined the horses, the harness, the wagon, looking even Into the hub? of tlin whwls. One of Them suggested that what tlify were foo'liUiB for might lie between the logs" of 'wood, and tlfuy Hirew every logoff 6u Uf tin rund. carefully watehlim for the dftuuond betweenthein. Hut It was ot no us. Thu stone wn not to le found. They didn't llko to vo It up; but. Iwllevlng that 1, Imfl conveyed 'the treasure by some other method, they llnull concludttt to do so. They had luslructlona ftoiu Sttv.ers not .to hurt me. If .they could eti the diamond tliuy -were to ao. hut they wer not to commit murder or make a rase aeolnut those tinp&CAted In th at tempted robhrty. H t -wo nJlowtl .to procejJ. When' w nrahfd t 1 toot the log in which 1 had hidden tbo diamond off tho load, paid the woodman for If nnd. putting it on iftj-'Miouldta'. went away with It 1 , , . I sailed for. Amsterdam, that I ttylght OmpcT CondltlOU sold It for $050,000 to il ..m.ta. lli HI fti triVKjr JjifHunared InsurahceVCorapanyl has. been clira&ing the fire insurance, la'dder until to-day it ( stands at the top. In the volume' of protection Upves the Aproncaa people it fuidsaboVe other fire I rtMtte cowpiflsiy. yju ami fere m$HB&c& E. .OAKES. City Transfer ' R. M. Bolter, Pfojt. ALL. 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