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DAILY: By rns.ll, for advance payment
Only, 30 cents' a month; 4 months for
$1 00. When not raid in advance tht
price is 50 cents per month, straight.
Issued every morning except Monday.
SIZKD UP
(Priuevllle Journal.)
Portland rnr-itnllsts want their dcllars
for Investment ear-marked, and, like
llttlo Bo-Pcep's sheep, must return wag
gins their tails behind them, with about
four new dollars (or every one invested
That's Portland. II she nanta oven a
dice oi Eastern Oregon's trade, she'll
have to move. This trade is constantly
being diverted to San Franclrco, and in
tho meantime. Portland is daily losing
prestige. What'd the reason? The rea
son'is traceable to one thing, and that's
criminal slowness. There's tnoro than
enough money laying idle in Portland's
coffers to bnild a direct road from that
city across the state, and the reason she
doesnot nsn it for that purpose is because
they are mossbacks. After all, it may be
their loss and onr gain, who knows?
JJOS'T BLAME RELIGION
(Oregonian)
When a man who ia a profeesinc
Christian grossly sins, he, of comse,
does not fall because of bis creed, but in
spite of it, and it is only the transient
meanness and shallowness of tho world
that seeks to lay at the door 0! a man's
religious faith the responsibility for bis
blemishes. There need be no delicacy
In holding a man, clerical or lay, to
stern acount, since be i what he is in
1
despite and contempt of bis (aith, and
not because 0! the religion ho has falied
to adorn while only protending to
f
adore.
GOOD ROAD WANIED
(Coos Bay News)
It Is to bo hoped that the agitation
regarding the Improvement oi the Coos
Bay wagon road, between the bay and
Roseburg, will result in the building of
a good all-the-ycar-'round road. It
means better mail facilities, and also
would 'mean much increased travel,
which is now necessarily limited on
on that route. Even it the long-looked-for
and anxiously anticipated railroad
should put in an appearance in the near
future, a good wagon road wonld not bo
amita ontwitbstanding. Coos county
evidently looks on the matter with favor
end if Douglas county will do ber part,
it Ifl pretty safe to assume that the next
year will eeo the bay and Roseburg con
nected by a road 'that will be eafe and
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comfortable to drive over.
"ENGLISH AS SHE IB WROTE."
North Bend Citizen
'. Disordily
Tjntbbugbtedly , ,
.. doth slippers done" all that wac poe-.
Wcmld of proved-
iJtfoWd is Witness- f , u
ifcf.wood in tai&ueed aa cornlsh--
xl&'cWftf 1-
Uipelled
THK niniOtlALIZtNO KUANOin
Under no nyMcm, however, can our
municipal governments become perfect
while wo elect police, superior court
Judges and supremo court judges. Tho
tlrst step in reform should bo to appoint
all Judges (or life. .Until this is done
there can bo no largo city government
conducted lu America on n lilch moral
and patriotic plane, (or tho universal
franchise which gives every man the
risht to vote will nlwnxs operato to
mkt j'idpos timid ntid dishonest. A
niHM who expects to be re-elertcd nt tho
end of a short term is not likely to bo as
fearless and just to all men as one who
holds his pbsitlon secure by appoint
ment, S. F. Wasp.
How eay it is to reach a conclusion,
when you aro not hampered by the nec
essity oi basing your ptomlses on (acts I
Judges should bo appointed (or llto, be
cause the universal frauchlsowhich gives
men tho right to vote will always operate
to make judges timid and dishonest, if
they aro obliged to depend on tho people
(or re-election.
If that be the case, why stop at ap
pointing tho judges for life? K the uni
versal franchise tends to make the judges
timid and dishonest, why not all other
officers in all branches of the govern
ment? Why not have them all appoint
ed (or li(o? Why have universal suffar
age, when its effect is so disastrous on
tho public service? Why not restrict
the right to vote to those whose superior
courage and honesty have enabled them
to accumulate a million or more? Then
elected officers need have no fear that
the vengenco of a depraved popnlaco
would be visited upon them for any dis
play of courage and honesty, and thoy
could serve their masters in every case
accordiug to ante-election contract.
In (act, i( the Wasp's philosophy be
correct, wo would better abandon this
form of government altogether.
Do away with the (raacbisealtogotbor;
establish a monarchy; let the king ap
point not only judges but all other offic
ers for life, so that they may all be (ear
less and honest.
Then, the whole business, freed from
the demoralizing effect of tho universal
franchise, could fa conducted on a high
moral and patriotic plane.
A BAD BREAK
Tho Mail observes with regret that
the North Bend Citizen in its second is
euo shows an inclination to stir up ill
feeling between that town and this ono.
In its account of tho ball game it takes
occasion to greatly magnify the disorder
which at times prevailed: to pronounco
it "a disgrace to all Mnrabfleld;" to ac
cuse "the Marsbfield crowd" of mis
treating the North Bend player who
charged out into the crowd for the pur
pose of thumping a man who in the ex
citement of tho gamo bad aroused his
ire; to magnify the "soreness" of the
North Bend boys ; to compare the crowd
to "a herd of Texas cattle;" and to jump
onto ''the management."
All this may bo Brother Ingles' Idea
of the sort of journalism required by
the situation, but to the Mail if seems
poor policy to try to far the firefl of ill
feeling betweon the two communities.
That all was not as ploasantas a Sum-
mor dream on the Marsbfield Recrea
tion Grounds last Sunday is certainly
to be regretted, but it wasn't; and
"what are you going to do about It?"
Shall we fry togatborthe twocommunf
ties into hostile camps becauso in the
heat of an unusually exciting ba,l gamo
'things occurred which are not oanctionod
by the usages of polite society. , , ,(
ThecttizKi ety8,hat "sovefal fights"
were ai tnneren; iiares ,nnoer progress,,"
bten printed, demands correction Mn
ngor Short in hlif onrneat attempt to
keep ardor was ttbllgcd toutosomoforco
In ejecting n young man from a position
wbero ho had nn right to be. That was
onu of tho Citizen's ' fights", Tho other
and only one, was nt the Mail has stated,
when ono ot tno North Bend players left
tho d'nmonJl to administer n physical
rebuke to ono of tho rooters. Whothor
or not hu had sufllcont provocation has
nothing to do with tho. case.) (The mrm
he ciuno ttttor wns something of n scrap
per himself, nml thuro was a low mo
ments ol rough and tumble. In this
wild Western country thotbystnndurs
always crowd around when, there Is a
scrap, and thpy did so in ttils'case, but
there is no evidence that thoy mistreat
ed tho playor Ho took his mcdlclno
nml went back and resumed his playing,
apparently in better humor, than when
hu came out. Tho incidont was a dis
grace neither to Marshfleld nor North
Bend, nor to "tho management." It
wan ono of thoso incidents which hap
pen in all pltces, with this difference:
that where what tho Citizen calls "row
dinesa" really prevails thoro would havo
bo:n a frco-for-all fight right U'ero.
That It did not lead to anything ot the
kind in this instaaco is really a credit to
both the North Ucnd and Marshfleld
partisans present.
The Mail suggests to tho Citizen that
it cultivate a different spirit.
COOS COUNTY ROAD3
It Is most encouraging to note that tho
"good roads" sentiment is gaining in
Coos coonty, not only on the Bay, but
on the Coquiilo, and in tho minds of tho
county court. ,
A good part ol this section lios so
advantageously (or water transportation,
that tbo matter of good roads baa not
heretofore received the attention that it
ought. Them is no doubt that enough
road tax has been collected an Coos Bay
to furnish and kcop in repair a pretty
good system of highways. Some of us
can remember when practically all the
road tax collected in Marsbfield and
Empire was, (presumably) expended in
keeping open the "old trail" between
the two towns.
Perhaps tho worst featuro of Coos
county road building has been tho way
in which many of tbo roads wero origin
ally laid out. Vlowers wero appointed
who knew a little less about laying out a
road tban about anything elso on earth.
1
They were ordered to meot at a certain
hour of a certain day at a certain placo,
1
and thoy wore expected to lay out more
road that day than a competent engin
eer could lay out in a week, Tho result
was that they madeas near a bee line for
their destination as the brush and logs
would permit. If they came to a tmlcb
they slid down into it and climbed up
tbo other aide. If a ridge crossed tbolr
path thoy went over if by tbo sbortOBt
route.
If they crossed a marsh of bottom,
thoy wont straight up tho hllfas soon bb
they got across.
This is n6 exaggeration, rfs anyone can
convince hlmsolf by driving over the
road from ShlnglohouBe slough to the
Isthmus, for instance. Thore is a piece
of road which could bate been placed
practically on a water lovel, yet It is so
laid out that It Is all up hill and down,
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with numerpua steep places, and, might
as well go oyar ja mountain a copple bt
thousand feet high ; there would bo no
more climbing. . .....
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(fAll this makes it impossible- toj got a
many of them and ibiWOfllag aaftJty
miles upon which time and tnony lmv.c
bton spent. But putting " money
upon a plevo of roiut tlint can never bo
mado good and must ovontnally bo
abandoned is throwing It nwny, and It
Is to bo hoped that In such cases tho
powers that bo will havo tho norvo to
tnko tho bull by tho horns and lay n
foundation upon which to build aonu-
thing permanent.
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Editorials
of the
People
Uniltr thlt heJ lh MAIL, will bt
pltMtd to publlih eoinmunlcitlotii on
ubjtcu ot public InUrt l, timing no
mponilbllUy for tht itntlmtnu
pitiud Contribution art InvluJ
tMIMtftHMHWHtl
AN ALLEGORY
Enuon Coast Mail.
Once thoro was a town; It wnsn't a
very largo town still it was largo enough
to have a sufllciont number of people to
make quite a "muss."
This town bordered oil what wnsonco
be for the town was built a nice clean
wholccomo little bay.
When building tho town tho people,
run their sowers Into it, which porhaps
was a nocossity, but it certainly did not
add anything totho beauty nor tho wholi
somenoss of tho bay. Thoro wns no
way provided In this placo to dispose of
any garbago or offal thnt could not be
run through tho sower and hence pcoplo
woro supposed to hlro some ono to cart
off tho rurplus.
Th inhabitants woro like most pcop'o
in that thoy wouldn't yield up n cent
for anything'except for absolute neces
sities. such si whisky, tobacco, cigar
ettes and poker and to them tho idea of
paying out anything foi carrying off refuse-
matter wns preposterous.
Under thoso conditions after a whllo
these peoplo dovolopod somo peculiar
traits not common to mankind. For In
stance, (or tbo purposo of disposing of
surplus rubbish thoy grow to prefer
darkness rathor tban light and as tho
evening shades prevailod a momber of
each family with well flllod vessels sil
lied forth and dumped its contents into
bis neighbors back yard or bis tront
yard, or in his cellar, or on his door
steps or In his vest pockot if ho wasn't
looking or in any place under the sun
outsido bis own domaine. Every body
did tbo samo thing as a rulo. It was a
capital offeneo to disturb any trash altor
it bad been once dumped and finally
each bouse became surrounded with old
tin canfl, old boxes, old clothed, hay and
ovory sort of unseemly thing undor tho
sun, so that when a resident of that town
looked out of his front door with his
surroundings hu resembled nothing so
much as the pictures seen in our child
hood days oi a dragon on a can on n
pflo of bono a encompassed with all sorts
of offal. Nor was this nil. The In
habitants on tho water front and along
tbo docks dumped into tho bay all sorts
of filth In great qiinntitios. Tho kindly
tides, without (oar, favor, or hopo of re
ward distributed this impartially all
over J and along tho boach so that
any ono paeaing could find Any
thing from a cart loid of putrefying
potatoos to a decomposod cow, without
over missing a link. A fow there were
moro public spirited than others who
employed persons to cart a ay rcfuso
for which they woro resixmslblo, but tho
carriers as a rulo liko tho tido disposed
of It whore it could bo done, tho easiest,
along and, in tho public highway on
vacant lolp and in tiiu streets and alloys
I.
of tno towit
Vile a'arJbnoxlbis smells orbso .'
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roni
all UMti tons of Unsightly and Uecaylbi
v: 1 . o . t . .11. ! ' pv fi v.
v.
uintior cnrrvinit'tlTiu'nVoAiHl death to IU
inhtiblluiitr. Tho death irtitu exceeded
tho birth tato Ami Immlgrnllou combined
and tho town wan becoming last depop
ulated, Property was rrtpldly,dooreai
lug In valuo ami It wits becoming ap
parent that soiuothlng mutt bo done,
but Just what nobody loomed to know.
Finally u town muullmr was called .uid
the matter discussed pro and con nil
agreeing that tho tmvimmldii'l afford to
spend n cent to, clean up lu their dt
Icmtnn the tho town Idiot nrosonud after
nddroislng tho chair said : " I havu been
n resident of this town nigh unto (orty
yeiuB and 1 know somothlug must bo
douo but wo can't clean up. Wo nrn nil
too poor, wo cnn'l afford It." (Loud and
prolonged cheer) "Kverybody's nick an
ilyln but wo can't spunu ho much uiou-cy-Komothln's
got to bo deno though
(or I hoerd tho duel of tho weather
bureau snyln' yosturduy, that this town
was Mttnkvn' tho man out of tho moon,"
WomiiHtistop lutorfearlc' with nntur
nn' dlsUirblu' tho phtueti. That mnn'i
been thoro tevurn! thousau' years nn'
Its too late to smoke him out now
S'jtuothin.' must bo douu though and It
costs too much to brush up eo I movo
wo abaudau this town and all mora out
bag an baggngo to 11 clean placo nu begin
all over ngaln. Tho motion was accord
ingly adopted and tho plan ultimately
carried out. J. Y. 1'klumauuxu,
Mnrshnold. Or. Ang. 21,1001.
From Saturday's Dally.
Southern Oregon I'rcsbjlery
Tho Presbytery of Bonlhern Oregon
convoned nt tho Pioshylerlan church In
this city last Thursday uyunlng unit tho
opening ojientng tortnon was
preached by Rov. W. F. Hhields.of Med-
I (ord, Oregon, tho retiring Good music
(or tho evening was furnished by a choir
of local musicians undor tbo training
of Mrs I)r, Tower.
At tho closo of tho opening sermon
thu Presbytery was duly organlsud by
tho election of tho following:
Rov. Adolph Haborly, Moderator; F,
(J Strange, Stated Clerk ; W 0 Connull.
Permanent Clerk; )t J W Strange,
Tompornry Clerk.
Rev. J V Mllllken, a member ol Port
land Proabytcry, Bynodlcal Missionary,
and Hcv. B. K. Peck ol thu M. K. Church
woro tuvlted to act as corresponding
mombors.
Alter agroolng to meet Friday morn
ing at 8 o'clock a. m. to ipond 30 min
utes In durational exorcises, after which
tho business of tho day will bo taken up.
In tho evening a popular service will bo
held, to bo dii voted to tho matter of
"Missions"
Thro aro In attondenco on the Pres
bytery tho following Minister's.
Reverends V G Strange 0! Marshfleld,
J A Townscad of Roseburg, M M Mars
hall of Oakland, Geo Gillespie of Curry
county, W F Shlolds ol McdJord, W 0
Connull of Grants Pass, W S Smith, K S
Missionary (or Presbytery, J V Milliken
Bynodlcal S S Missionary, Adolph Hab
orly, I). II Haroof Myrtlo Point and J
R Lundsboro, Goo Byera and J It Mc
Comb. Elders present aro J D .Johnson ol
Marshall J M Byero of Willondalu, 'P
Benedick of Roseburg and J W Strnngo
of Myrtlo Point and W F Disbar of
Wlllowdalo.
To Daiidon via Launch
Capt, E. E. Riggs, Tom Golden, Chas,
Brooke, Ohas. Mngoo, Clam Jack, and
Emll Peterson wero thoso going to Ban-
don on tho Mayflower lant Sunday
morning. Tho party loft North Bond
At 0 o'clock atld reached Bnndon thud
hours and thirty mlnutoa later( rctnrti
Ihg (n fivo hours, Tho boys eay it was a
pleaeant trip and ihu Mayflower behaved
excellontly. Nono of tho party wero
ailllcted with seasickness, going down
but after the roturn next mornlug, elgnd
Wero vjsib'lo on the deck but none of tht
Valiant seamen would ac'riioVla'dga'that
they wero the vlutlm. 'I hu return trip
wns nilido altir dark mid It was rough
onough so tho boys did not go on deck,
Captain Hlgga proved himself a seaman
with unusual courage. Ho came In over
tho bar llko nu old skipper.
Will Move Camp
l.owery Owou was down (mm tho
Duhtols creok;loggliig camp ytslorilnv
011 his regular weekly trip. Ho ropurtn
everything running smoothly. Prepnrn
tloiis nro being Hindu to move tho vninp
nbont three miles, us soon as now build
lugs onu ho erootod, Besides tho cook
house, thuro will bo two largo buiikaht
tloiis nml about six suinll oner, rtml
some dwelling houtot for thu men,
making with other necessary 'building)
quite it llttlo village nt tho camp, to
house tho 70 men employed thoro.
Mr. MmpHon will soon tvnd up thu
dredger now in operation nt North
Beud, to dredgo out tho mouth of
Daniels creek, whuro thu log nro now
boliig dumped and fcheroiomo trouble
Is experienced from lack of water,
Great Game Tomorrow
Tho last baseball game of tho soman
botwieu leiig'ie players, to far as now
known wilt bo played oil tho Marshilold
diamond tomorrow, betweon the Baudoa
'.until and n picked nine solcotcd from
thu Mnrthfleld nml North Bend teams,
This ought to be, nml undoubtedly
wilt be, one of the best gamo ovor seen
in Marshfleld.
A free train will run to bring ovor tho
CtMulllor, leaving Ccxjulllo on tho ar
rival of thu boat from Bnndon, mid
thuro will bo n Inrga attandnuco from
thu other sldo of thu dividt.
Bedllllons Braves havo proved them
selves tho best team lu thu longue, hut
with tho flower of tho, North Bund and
Mnrthfluld teiwnn opposing them, thoy
nro likely to havo their hnnds full.
Birthday Parly.
Thurtiday evening Miss Kva Coku was
given a pleasant surprise by a number
of bur young friends, tho occasion being
Miss Coku's sixteenth birthday. Games,
convocation and other uyenlng amujo
munta served to pais tho time, until
Into lu the evening whun delicious' re
freshments wero served, tho principle
featuro ol tthlch was a magnificent a
birthday cako.
Boon aftur, tho party eiljournod, lea v.
Ign their fair hostess many beautiful
tokens of their regard and voting her an
I deal enturtelner,
Thsso present wero:
Mrs Milo Bumnor, Misses Bensfo
Brown, Iva hnngworthy, MabloMauxey
Jennlo Elckwprth, Junnlo Wfckman,
Myrtlo PennocV, Kva Coko. Messrs
Howard Savage, Jasper Mauzoy, C hector
Wolcott, Clarenco Punnock, Mllo Sum"
ner Charles Jonsen and Androw Wick
maim.
' nmer0Tt'j'Tkfi,r-rre"I&V. -T?iO
bct thing that Ktuorson hna loft
oh la his aplilt, flue and high, atom and
mvcot. Hu took life lu u royul way,
nod Ixjru himself tnuunl tho eternal
luynterlefl with ncruno courage and
dauntk'HA hope, Illn itisnyH, which nn
ulu most chamctorloUc work, havo their
chief vnltio not iih revolutions of tho
moral order of life, not na discoveries
of tho fluul ineniilng of thiugn, but ns
BlHclOHiirvrt of hlH nvu spirit Tlierc la
In tlicno cHflnyu nn iuiinotiflo moHii of
truth, uttered In pIcturoBqua nnd iiicin
ornblo words. Them Ih In them alno
fin linmonua mnss that Ih nut true. Tho
Uinurnoiitnn lilt mid iiiIhh nru upou
ovory page, and sldo by hUw with n
golden and porfoct Hcuteucu ono lliulu
c.oiionii8 ecroutrldty. Tho origin of
this ntrnngu compound of orncto nnd
luipoHltlun lu 1'merflon lien In thu coiv
fosHlonal character of IiIh writing. IIo
iipakH from wltliln, nnd his gonerullza
Uoiih hit or mints urconllng ua his per
noual oxperleucu cmbodlwi u law ot
humanity or 11 moro ldloHyncrnny. That
nmorHoii npcalcu ho often nnd no royally
for mint ia hl great distinction. Thut
ho hjk'uU no frequently for tho Idiosyn
cratic, tho Isolated nnd vnln la his chief
fault. Wo havo n tight to Itold him nt
bin beat, mid -through tho tidmesa and'
majesty of tho coufcusion wo nro
brought faco to faco with the ctnifcsBor.
Rov, Ucorgo A. Gordon, D. D., In
AUautlc
The Quute Law,
A Ashing trip I nought to try.
Tho constable coma round that way.
And prMentty I found, that I
Waa th UDiwrUnt, patch tint &W'
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