5TlZ If. j-, i i f f i i & l k ttfcrwi 17 AI CTrlU A H WDCAM VVAd HHAlb " MRSHFliLD, OREGON XBfered In tk latffke at Mfarjafhia a) f ecend Class Matter. ' I i mi i i ' 'COOS BAY PUSLISHING CO., !! I H I I a-a--aai --a----aat-aal---) PC, LEVAR, IF. X. HQFER, i Edlton and Managers, TELEPHONE, MAIN 45:. DALY: 37 rail, for advaecc payment only, s .:. a pic-nth; 4 months for Ot.dS. w.ts Lot paid in .iilvaisee tho price to 50 centipcr month, straight. Issued every ncrnlng except Monday. tlJa : . V EEKLY isiued Svt:y Saturday. Terms: In Ad vance, tii.yta Year, Sx.oo Six Months. WHY XOI? Why wonldu't it be a good idea for same of our local capitalists to organise 030 or rnoto companies, for tho ex 'ploitation of the reeonrces of this eec tlon, .instead of Mai'lag for ontside capital to tako the initiative? There are" several enterprise! which cauld wall be taangurated here, and if Marthfield capital would make the first move tho result woald be tho location ol new manufacturing plant; in Marahflofd. i WHY WE KICK The Mail has been asked what it ex pected to accomplith br the editorali appearing in Its columns Friday and 'Saturday morning.1). Our expectations aie not to high that they will be dis appointed; but it is a relief sometimes, even for an editor, to expreis bis feel iocs. Before a disease can be cured it 'must be diagnosed. The Mail has diagnoeed Marshfield'a complaint in a tkotcby manner, only touching the high placet. It is up to the citix?hs to carry the in vestigation further and apply adequate remedies, or to let the town become the permanent victim of chronic dry rot. This place has just about reached the parting of the ways, It must choose be tween waking up and going ahead, keep ing abreast of tho times and holding the lead over all competitors which its natural advantages have given; or it can sink in .bo slough of sloth and pecelmiem and play second fiddle to other localities which have the vim and energy to improvo their opportunillei and to make opportunity to improve. It must be one or the other. Which shnll it be? Tho Mail's flht against knocking -has.betn sneered at by all the would. b; Smnr.t Alecka in Marsbfield, and all the encouragement that has come to f ho paper Us effort to cultivate a higher plrit could be more than covered by a prade dollar; but, all the same, Marsh fleldisonr town, and it, la a sort of psrsonal satisfaction to kick when such ft ienselH policy, of jelf-dstrucion is persisted in. If we accomplish nothing tlse, jva will at least relieve our feelings. THE RENT QUESTION A .close observer of condition In Marabfleld has made tbla argument to the Mail in defense of somo of tho mer chants who liavo been putting up a poor ace when doing a yery prosperous bnl nest: He gayjj that aomaof the landlords in the basinets part of town are inclined to follow very, closely tho principle of charging "all the traffic will bear," in rattU, and any acknowledgement on tho Jrt of a rwjfcwr that he is making money k tnwtod M an invitation (0 raise the rtat. v Mkitfi&i t&tu iiiyj 'iin'-eiihiHortofla'stoharywork among Uielin.UofJB7'Vujh n policy Is short-- lighted, for it hat a depressing effect on butlnoM and re'eta directly on tho proporly owners, tlomsolvoj. ThU la not pn argument for "cheap rents;" rents are always hujh In llvo town nnd nie more ?nily paid than 'the. clrnn tents ol n dead town. At tho same time, owners of business properly fhculd he careful not to kill tho goose which lays tho Qoklou esc As a mattnr of fact tho property hold era s.r mcrj Interested in tho growth of tbotpwa than their renters are, for the latter can pull up stakes and moto, while tho real estate must stay. Fur- the, ovorv hundred added to tho popula tion of MarsbGeld adds to tho valuo of business property without effort on the part of the owners, while it may not necessarily add to tho proQtaof thoso engaged in active business. A liberal, rather a niggardly, policy on the part of lojal capitalists io as necessary as a boosting, rather than a knocking policy on tho part of other people It ie up to all of us to pot our think fog caps on and teo what each can do for tho np-butld.ng of the town. If this part of the .oninsula is to remain tho budness center It must be through the efforts of t'lo.pejple here. THE NORMAL SCHOOL AGAIN , The people of the county are appar ently unanimous in their desire for tho location of aNormal School in the coun ty, although most of the people of northern Cnrry think Port Orford is tho proper location for such a school. Of i course thero is no certainty that such a school can bo eeenrod. The last legisla ture acted rather penurious in that re spect, but tho next may prove more lib eral, and there is nothing liku trying any way; and thire ie nothing wrong in Port Orford competing with Euchre Creek for the position of a such school, though it would seem like trying to rob Eacbre Creek of her thunder. One man offers to give five acres of lend and a beautiful location in tho outekirte of Port Orford, and no doubt by a little ef fort cmplo funds conld beraljed by sub scription to erect a large and commod ious building. Port Orford Tribune It is bard to understand why the 1 newspapers qr the people o uurry should waste time crying for the moon. While a normal echool at Port Orford- or on Euchre Creek-would undoubtedly boa nice tbiogjpr Curry county, tho same may be said of any locality in the state, and there would bo no possible bopo of inducing.the legislature to np propiate money for school in such a remote and sparsely tettled locality. It is understood that this talk of a normal tcbool In Carry is a littfe poltt. cal boncomb of a would-be candidate Tho wonder is that any one- should tako it Eeriogely, as some seem to be doing. It will be remembered that tho pro posed normal school at Yaquina, which bd much (0 recommend it, was recent ly turned down by veto, although sup ported by the best men of .tho House ami Eenate, and though, the House passed It over the Governor's bead, It failed in the Senate. Kar anything within the bounba of reason, Curry could depend on Coos for any possible encouragement and assist ance, but what is tho use of talking noniense? ' Oblivion. ' 1 "Tho world won't forget him in a UuvP;" u ' , 'Wo;ltwU doubtleas ;tnko plontyof tks to'dg 8m job tlttrouftijr,M--Fuck. JAPSGETII-THEIE . "TH'INGS Thl'f- ATTfiC7L:." Mrs, RrowifPottoi was sued recently ii KukIuihI for 1111 tl)cftl Infi'ln'im-nt cf conyrhxut In rcclttuir "HIiiwutlm'H Wodainir." A ) The New Nixon thenter, Plttsbtirsfli tho nenroiit nppruuelt to llu unuul Opera Hoysc, I'urK yet attempted. It scnts tl,HW. John Cntljr. 1ms left Mnry Manner In's company, In which ho was play inj: the leadlup iniilo character In "Ju lth.'' The play has been vluivvd. . ltcportit rrout llei'lln Indicate that Unuptimuufs "Rose ltcmd" Is the greatest swcceHS pIiico "Ktilirninun Ilenschcl," which It eotucwliat ivsem- blcs. Ilcury Savage has aljmetl con tracts with Oliver llcrfom and Henry Waller to complete for his use n Kitlrlc- nl musical fantasy with the rather odd title "McAdnm niul live." Drlna Do Wolfe, who won wen last season with Henry Miller In "The Tain In of Helen," Is to bloswun forth as n Icndlui; woman In Aufttwtns Tliomaa' "The 1'UB ami the ParMh." A liussestlon Is maile by E. S. Wll- lnnl that In the London theaters the followlne announcement shall Ue nromi licntly posted: "Elderly ladfes who fear to take cold are requested uot to re move their hats." CURRENT COMMENT. The heiress of the future will bo known perhaps o a raro and radium maiden. Chicago Tribune. ' The Russlnn bear Is n conciliatory sort of nn animal. When he demands nlnoty-seret.'lVblnvs in a liuuilrctl he Is almost always willing to compromise on nlnoty-flvo or-ulnoty-slx. Iudlanap oils Journal. " Missionaries proixv;e to break nn the habit of ullnwhiK women to bo yoked with the dxen in Ilarbary states. Their eoudltlon would not be improved by yokluc them to some of the men of the Bnrbary states. Washington Post. Tlio inevitable result of. tho. passace of a national pure food law. will bo .to harmonize tho state puro food laws nnd their administration and put an end to tho present rldlcirtous and scandalous eoudltlon. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The commlttco on naval affairs has decided not to recommend Captain Hobson's bill ' for the Investment of S3,000,000,000 in new ships. Tho com mlttce hns tluurcil thnt It would 1m? cheaper to buy any country that might waut to light us. Washington Post. GLEANINGS. From 1&10 to 1830 but l,n.T0,000 im migrants eutered our coun.try. The rocks at NlaRorn falls aro being washed nwny nt the rate of almost three feet per year. Moro than $0,000 worth of pure gold Iwb been taken from tho sands of the Swift river in Oxford county, Me., dur ing tho lost llvo or elx years. The con! from tho Glamorganshire field in South Wnles Is regarded os au pcrior to all other steam coal by the navies of tho world. Its rival from the United States Is tho Pocahontas coal from West Virginia. , A. fire which broko out in tho con! sheds at Gorbarn, N. II., last August 1 and has been burning ever since has dono large damage. It Is estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 tons of coal have been consumed. THE WRITERS. y . ' Benor Jose Amaldo Mnrquez, a dis tinguished Pcruvlun writer, is dead. Dr., Moncuro Conwny haB written his memoirs and will publish them before long. Professor James A. Harris, editor of the Virginia edition of Poc, Is writing a biography of George Washington. Miss Mario Corellt's I partiality for private theatricals was formerly mani fested in tho representation of elderly comic characters, which she preferred to any others. John Hach McMaatcr, professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania, is reading the proofs for tho sixth volumo of his '.'History of the People of tho United States." ..." j 1 ' ,"r - TRAIN AND TRACK. Tho number pf men employed on the railways of the United Kingdom, in cluding boys, is B23.082. Prussian railw'uy cars havo only about threo-tenths tho carrying capac ity of thouo used in tho United States. The number of trains nrrlvlug dally in Chicago is 1,138. They uro upon twenty-threo railways, currying nn average of 100,000 passengers. Of these tralus 333 arc, for through traOla and 60-1 for suburban business, A Yunkom Gallant. Sho Why, my heart was in my boots. Uo-rOh,' come, noyl j Your honrt Isn't ns small a' a that YoukerjiRutesuJun. ON TWO Naval Battle off Chemulpo. Five Russian Warships Already Put Out of Business .' Special to tho Mail by telephone. There was a battle off Chmujpo harbor this morning. Two Russian cruisers sunk and disabled. Thd crews escaped and went aboard a French vessel in the harbor. The Japanese were not injured, this makes five Russian war vessels already out of business. Russia made a formal declaration of war this morning. V."- GREATEST COPPER BELT Country Between Umpqua, Rogue Rivers and ''Tlio biggest copper bolt in the United States, bar nono, lies bctneon the Uroppua and lloguo rivors In South ern Oregon, and tho district Is so rich In gold that I defy any man to fall In find ing a paying placer properly who, will stick a pick into any ono of tho gulches between those streams." This is tho statement mado by L. K. Kiug, of Cripple Creek, Colo., ono of the foremost mining experts in tho country, to an Oregonian representative at tho Portland Hotel. "I came out hero for tin purpose of exporting the Itatubow, and met with au agrceabla surprise. It is tho only property I ever examined which was within tO por cent as good as represent od. Thoitainbow is far and away lio yotd what I hrd been told, and what I nave seen in that conntry down thoro convinces mo that this statu lias the greatest mineral possibilities of any jn the Union. If io mineial which is in eight in Southern Oregon wa in Colora do there would be a stampede tomorrow which would equal that at Orlpplo Creek at the beginning of tho 'Ms. Yon pcoplo of this town and stato aro sound asleep as far as your mineral wealth ie.copcerned. You've gone cra zy over timber land and lumbering nnd ard letting the groatest opportunity In t;rabrlUs nod IleUffloaa Berrlcva. Umbrellas have always bcon lntl malely associated with religious scrv ices in Catholic churches. They were introduced in the church aervlco's of the Byrantlno church, aro.borno over tlio host in procession and form part of tlio pontifical regalia as well as that of a cardinal. It la quite likely that tho car dinal's bat u derived rrom tno urn brclla. In Italian heraldry a vermilion urn brella in a Held argent signifies domlu Jon. The nnrlelan manuscripts have at least ono drawing of an Anglo-Saxon gentleman whoso servant shades him With a sort of nmbr,clla having a curved handlo and evidently not monnt to closo. Electriottr Amontc .lie Jiipuneae. Tlio Japaucso uudemtood electricity au an attractive fo'rce.'of which they wcro very secret. The Greeks and lto mans also know something of tho mug net ns nn attractivo forco known to modern scienco as an electrical attrac tion, something like tho loailstono of tho Chinese. They aro supposed to be ignoraut of its popularity, though in their secret records there aro mentions of sacred forces which nono but God knew and must not be tuuiucrcd vyltul urtuMt ... RUSSIAN WAR VESSELS this country today slip away from jou Within flvo years tho peoplo of Portland will atatid on the street corners and tell strangers how they might have become- millionaires If thoy had had their wits about them. Inside of live ycara onteldcrs will go into Boothorn Oregon and make fiO-dny fortunes. The peoplo of Portland are grabbing nt two-bit pieces and letting 20 gold pieces slip through their flngarr. "Most of tho prospecting which has been dono in tho Hojuo rtver country has been misdirected. Men go in there and punch holes all' over tho country, and after thoy got down 10 or 12 feet, abandon thorn, "I went all over jt and didn't find a hole over two feet deep that n thorough minlug man would leave. "I never saw such carelois methods In my life, and I ncvor saw bottor prospects anywhere than thoro arodown thoro. Uutsido capltul is beginning to look this way, and my ndrico to tho peoplo of this state is to walo up and get into tho field boloro It is too bto, Senator Clark the coppor king, is going to beglu oper ations on a big tcaio down thoro as soon as spring opens, His son Charles, is on his way horo now, and will be in Portland Inside of a wook. Clark has 11 claims now, and wjjl get all ho can. Tako my word for it, things aro going to pop from now on. "The Rainbow Is only an illustration of what can be done down there, what is waiting and cryintr for development, nnd, as I ild befdro,'tho people of Oregon should got in and take their share, before it is too lato," tii GRAFT. "Graft" in Washington is called tn-1-l-o-a-g-e. New York World. Graft, like appendicitis, is simply a new name for a very old complaint. Tho world has always been aflllcted with graftcra. KuuHaiTclty Jouroa. Boston authorities announce that "graft" has ceased to be blung. Slang is usually supposed to pounced moro or less of a humorous significance, and graft has becomo very serious indeed. Washington Star. ; I A IloNton Hiroll. She Pino looklui; ovorcout you havo 111, Mr. Draper. IIo--ThiU's what I thought Hut there's 0110 thing about it that bothers jnu terribly. I can't make up my iiiluU, whether It looks hotter with tho, pocket llups out or in. Boston Transcript, Hot In Ileraelf, "Has tho prima donna any tulcutV" "Quito a lot." ''But I thought you said aha could noithor slug nor act," "She can't, Tho talout is in tho com pany sho carries with hor." Cincinnati Tipawi-Btar. 1 1 -r ,-. . T ORE A Ilt.M Jlul.liii. : Within my tlmu in Tuxiw (mul'ium not Hiii'h an old man either) two ulitgtN conches contaliilptr about twenty-three passenger were stopped and all tho valuables of tlio passengers litlion hy one man, Tho robber umdo them nil otiiiul in 11 row and "hand over." Tho roulo was only traveled by 01m conch, but on account of tho largo number of piissungers nu additional coach was put on that day. Tho robber stopped tho llrst coach and iiuulo tho paHNiVugers ;ut out. Whon tho pnusungum in tlio'' first coach weru lined up the second vouch iiuulo ittt appenrnnco. Ho innilo them got out nnd then told them ho didn't expect two coaches. That was nerve. A Jew Insisted on lotnliilni; enough of his motley to got his dinner, Tlio robber took all and thon guvo htm back no cents, nnd the Juw got Into au argument with him as to tho amount being niilllcleut to got a meal. That was cheelc. Tho robber wont off with all tho money of tho twenty-throo pas sengers, and yet thero wore many bravo men In that caravan, but discre tion was tlio better part of valor. Tho robber had two pistols out and ready. A shot from 0110 of tho twunty-thrco would llavo caused tho robbor to ajioot, nnd sovernl would havo been killed. Thnt's tho onlv way they looked at It, f Forest and Stream. I'nlae Ht. The rata of the pulse In males at dif ferent nges Is as follows: At birth, 13(1 beats per minute; at 5 years, 83 boats per inlnuto: between 10-1Q years, 78 heats pqr mlnutcj between 15-SO years, C0.5 beats per inlnuto; between "023 years, 00.7 beats per minute; between" irO-30 years, 71 Itcnta per inlnuto; be tween, 30-50 yearn, 70 beats per in In ute. In fentnles tho rnto is from 1 to 4.5 beats faster per minute. Slow wulklng raises tlio pulso from 10 to 20 buits, while rapid running may raise it to 110. This rise may lust from half an hour to nn hour. Kiitlng raise tho pulse from 8 to 20 beat.; without wine, 13.1;wlth wine, 17.5. In tiio morning the pulno is 10 bents higher than nt night. When tho barometer rtacs C Inches the pulso in crcawi Ml pcd inlnuto. If tho pulso 1)0 0U.0 while lying down It will bo'70 ..i sitting nnd 78.0 when standing. Ancient Trllir In l'niiiiinn. In 1'annnm reside tlio Tnluiuiincans, n trllxs of Indians ruled by n king who have not changed their habits hIiico tho days of Columbus. Tho Talaninncnn's hut, which Is n masterpiece In tho art of thatching, Is a hugo affair nnd shel ters his cutlru family and nil his world y posscttilutiH, including the domestic animals. As ho Is a past master In tho art of domesticating tho wild deer, thq peccary, tho tnplr iiud oven tho tiger cat, numbers of thesu unlmalB nro pres ent In ovory vitiligo. His bed consists of the trunk of n certain species of pnlni cut Into strips nnd supported, threo or four feet from tho ground on a frame. A few earthen imjIh complotd tlio furnishings of his hourc. 1 Ilalino'a Impionnlllr. Of Halio it la atatiHl thnt whonovcr ho was hard at work ho went to roos "llko tho fowls," ns ho himself put It, nt 7 In tho (-veiling. Ho was called at 1 in tho morning and wroto till 8; then took another hour and a half of sleep; then after a light meal went to work again until -1 In tho afternoon; then ho took a bath, saw a fow friends, took perhaps a short walk and immediately, after dinner went off to bed. "I shall bo compelled," ho wroto, "td lead this nigger's life for a fow months! without stopping lu order not to Iw flwnmped'by thoso terrlblo bills that are due." And yot ho was alwaya bardj up for money, Can-; 'qr piieerfnlnvas, Cranky Husband (nt a reception) t wish you wcro as lively as thnt'woman' oyer thero. Wife Humphj Ifo wonder sho'a jolly I Bhc'a n rlph yii)ow-i'hiladolphia lb gcr. ',' I'rovlUoni Jllnd, " no I think I'll go and spenlc to your father at oueo. Ho can't do moro than kick mo out. She It senimt a nltv to risk It. dean lu that good suit. Life. Htmllra In (,'nrlion, Tho bits of crystal kIciuiiIw; brlht On Jeweled hnnils can never win The jiruliio wlilch on n front y night Wo Hive the coal down In tho bin. Buffalo 13xprss, ( I'okor llnlprd Illm. Hewitt Thoro Js no royal road to wealth. Jmvott Oh, I don't know. I got my start with 11 royal iliuili, Now York Times. ,ii, ' Tlio Smart Mnn. s "Do really Huiuht man," said Uncle Ebon, "Is do ono dtjt ban sense enough to 'know dat he's liable to bo fooled da same as anybody cluo." .Washington UUu. '" ' ' ' " ; lii" . i -t . r t - 4 .. A w,'wji