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better it will be for the country.
BY LEW. A. CATES.
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TRUE HEROISM.
The sacrifice of human life in an
endeavor to save the lives of fellow
men, when «the steamship Argo
went aground at the mouth of Til
lamook bay, is a reminder that
heroism still lives, notwithstanding
this has been called an age of sei;
fishness. In a way, however, this
age may be correctly termed selfish.
The manner in which we live, the
extreme to which all things are
carried, society, dress, amusement
and the eager rush for the almighty
dollar that is necessary to reach
that extreme, has much to do with
the appearance that is termed sel
fishness.
And, looking upon
things from the external side, it is
not strange that our age receives
the term, for outwardly greed, graft,
extortion and all sorts of mistaken
motives seem to find creation in
the brain of man.
And yet, The Sentinel does not
believe in the real selfishness, either
of the age or the individual. It
admits that oftentimes the noblest
feelings seem crusted oyer with
cynicism, and that the spontaneous
cheer and good will which is na
tural to man lie sealed beneath a
spiritless indifference or a guarded
conservatism.
But let disaster
come in the way of earthquake, fire
or flood, let misfortune strike man’s
neighbor, and indifference, conserva
tism and selfishness lose themselves
in ■ sympathy, active effort and be
neficence The heart beneath the
crtist of an everyday, methodical
life has been touched, the real man
reached, and naturally and spon
taneously he gives of his best.
There are innumerable instances
of heroism and sacrifice that the
world has never known. The pa
thos of the secret history of martyr
dom where heroism has come to be
second nature in quiet, unobtrusive
lives is perhaps the most touching
of all. The hidden trouble, un
complained of, the skeleton in the
closet that must be met with smil
ing front, where all days are alike
in sacrifice and martyrdom takes
the noblest, most intrepid, courage
of all. There are other lives of
heroism of which we are reminded,
the lives of those who are in con
stant jeopardy that others may live
the life of ease and pleasure; the
miner in his dark earth-cavern; the
engiheer in his railway cab; the
life saver in his hazardous risks;
the pilot at the helm, the man on
the pinnacled spire, or at the guns
in the porthole of the warship, and
numerous other places of risk and
peril. We who walk in safety and
comfort are apt to think of our
brother’s hardship and exposure
only when some great calamity calls
him with a shock to our mind»
The man at the post of danger is
generally possessed of a brave, in
trepid courage, ready in the hour
of peril to give his life rather than
to desert his post.
Is this age a selfish one? Exter
nally viewed, yes. Viewed from
the standpoint of the real in man
which is always true to itself in.
time of need, no.
One of the most nonsensical ut
terances that ever emanated from
a publication gifted with ordinary
intelligence is the opinion expressed
by the Oregonian that “Joe Can
non could carry Oregon by a ma
jority equal to any obtainable by
Teddy Roosevelt.” The people of
this great commonwealth should
have tired long ere this of Cannon-
ism, and refused to elect men to
congress who are sympathetic with
his high-handed modes of proced
ure. The sooner Joe Cannon is
ion to that of the present day re
calls that asjthere have been changes
in the manner and method of the
pulpit, so there have been changes
in the life of the minister. Within
the vivid recollection of the writer
there was a time when this indi
vidual stood aloof from the people.
The pulpit from which he expound
ed the gospel was high above the
people, and when he mingled among
members of his congregation it was
in the performance of his accus
tomed pastoral Calls, during which
he propounded many questions
about the personal religious exper
iences of his subjects and tortured
the children by testing their knowl
edge or memory of the Catechism.
The high pulpit is a thing of the
past, much to the comfort of the
people in the pew; the periodical
pastoral call of the olden time ling
ers only in memory and all for the
good of the people.
There was likewise a time when
the pulpit was the informing agen
cy in the life of men, but today, in
the presence of the respectable press,
the magazines, the lecture platform,
and hundreds of other telling agen
cies, knowledge is materially in
creased and men learn things for
themselves. The pulpit no longer
has a monopoly on general intelli
gence. An element in the power
of the former pulpit was its dogma
tism. Today the dogmatic pulpit
is. weak. Men resent the pulpit
that attempts to speak excathedra.
They accept its utterances not be
cause of or according to its dogmas,
but because of the reasonableness of
its utterances, their fidelity to the
scriptures and the sincerity of the
speaker. But however marked be
the changes in the relation of the
pulpit to the people} it has not lost,
but has increased its power within
the people.
-
With these physical changes in
the attitude and relation of the min
ister to the people, he is no longer
a man apart from the common,
every.day life surrounding him.
He is both minister and man. The
sacredotal has given place to the
service-rendering minister. If he
has passed beyond the awe of the
people, he has passed into their use.
He has not only their greater re
spect and reverence, but he has
their confidence, esteem and love.
MUST OBEY LAWS.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has sent out word to the National
Banks that they must obey the law
relating to excessive loans. Under,
the recent amendment to the stat
ute relating to this subject, the
limit of a loan that a national bank
may make to any corporation, per
son or firm is 10 per cent of the un
impaired capital and surplus. It
is the intention of the Comptroller
to exact strict compliance with the
statute in its present form, and with
that end in view he has adopted
the plan of calling the attention of
boards of directors of offending
banks to the requirements of the
statute and the penalties for viola
tions of the loan restriction. There
is a double penalty for such viola
tions«- In the first place, the di
rectors who knowingly permit an
excessive loan to be made are
individually liable for any loss that
may be sustained thereby. Second
ly, any bank which violates the re
striction may be subjected to the
forfeiture of its charter. Hence
forth, in the case of each bank vio
lating the law a letter will be ad
dressed to the directors advising
them of the fact, and they will be
required to send the Comptroller
by return mail a letter stating that
excess loans in their bank will be
reduced to the lawful limit and that
thereafter the law will be strictly
observed. The signatures of all
the members of the board to the
reply will be expected, and if for
any reason it is not possible to ob
tain the signature of a director an
explanation must be given. The
national bank examiners will also
be required to co-operate with the
Comptroller in the effort to eradi
cate excess loans, and they will be
furnished with a copy of the letter
sent to every national bank viola
ting the law in this respect. On
the occasion of their next examina
tion of the bank the examiner will
call for the bank’s copy of the
Comptroller’s letter and the reply
made to it by the directors of the
bank. If the bank still persists in
making over loans, its charter will
be forfeited. This is simply an
other move of the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington toward giving
the United States the safest and
best banking system in the world.
Let the good work go on.
KEEP TO THE RIGHT.
of employes' and expense of con
ducting it, seems to increase by
leaps and bounds. On the other
■hand, those interested in the ques
tion appertaining'to public health
insist that nothing short of an in
dependent department will serve to
protect the health of the nation in
an adequate manner, that such
work must be carried on independ
ently and without subservience to
interests ■ of wealth-producing or
wealth-accumulation.
NESMITH COUNTY.
There should be less opposition
to the formation of Nesmith county
from a part of Dane and Douglas
when it is understood that Laue
alone has a total area of 2,714,500
acres, with a population of 30,000,
while Douglas has a total area of
3,076,460 acres, and a population of
only 18,500. The combined area
of the two counties is nearly 6,000,-
000 acres, and its population less
than 50,000. This would, give
every man, woman and child now
residing in the two counties 120
acres of space were all of the terri
tory thus available. Nesmith asks
only a small part of this vast area}
and is going to get it. There is a
campaign on in this state as well as
throughput the entire Pacific North
west for smaller farms, and this
movement has the encouragement
of those who would have the sec
tion prosper. Would not the same
argument in favor of smaller coun
ties appeal to you? It means more
rapid development of unrivaled re
sources; it means better roads; it
means better educational facilities;
and above all it means, in this par
ticular case, an opportunity to have
a voice in the administration of
county affairs.
the democrats will gain control of
the house after the next election.
If the democrats control the house
it will have a splendid chance for
the election of a piesident in 1912.
Mr Clark is a presidential possi
bility.
SPRIGGS BROS.
The awakening of a new civic
spirit in our midst is in itself a
wholesome thing. The slogan
“Get together” has a high moral
significance. It means the subor
dination of selfish and private inter
ests to the common good, and that
is the genesis of true patriotism.
It is quite apparent that the Taft
administration will adhere strictly
to the legal aspect of all questions.
street. All work guaranteed.
Government by impulse is always
Phone Main 321.
dangerous. That is what is back
of the difficulty in regard to the
conservation policy of Secretary
Ballinger.
A movement is on foot to organ
ize the sons of former union soldiers
into an organization that shall be
known as sons of the Grand Army
of the Republic. There is already
an organization known as The Sons
of Veterans but somehow it has
z
never appealed to the sons of old
soldiers as it should.
METCALF
&
BRUND
“Keep to the right” is the law of
the road, which, when obeyed, saves
one a world of trouble. Society is
a publicriiighway on a grand scale;
a great turnpike whereon a hurry
ing, jostling, wrestling crowd of
badly-assorted humanity is ever
thronging. Here is life in all its
The Eugene Register is blossom
better phases; childhood with its
ing out. It has purchased a Du
golden hair and wondering eyes;
plex press, making it possible to
youth with its widening, thought
print a complete eight-page paper
ful outlook; manhood with its firm
at the rate of 6000 per hour. The
PHONE HAIN 65.
step and earnest purpose; old age
Register always has been a good
with its bowed form and whitened
paper, and The Sentinel is pleased
locks.
Here, too, are thickly
to note its prosperity.
D r . e . c . M acy
strewn the wrecks of life; misguided
DENTIST
childhood; headstrong and way
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
<
FIRST CLASS WORK
ward, erring youth, rioting in friv
Office Over Bank of Cottage Grove
olity and dissipation, and sowing
J. C. JOHNSON
PHONE 583
the seeds of physical decay and
Attorney-at-La w
moral death; vicious manhood,
Practice in all Courts of State. Corpor
ation, mining and Probate law a specialty
treading the downward road; and
Collection and Insurance.
old age, sinister and sere, with its
Did anyone ever hear of a rail COTTAGE GROVE,
OREGON
painful memories and hopeless fu
ture; all commingling in the one road paying off its bonds, except fey
Old Time Auctioneer
F. L. INGRAM
great journey from the cradle to the selling new ones? When there is
no demand for betterments or ex
' Dentist
grave.
How much discord, inharmony, tensions, prosperous railroads spend
Can sell anything, from a leather
Stewart-Porter Building
tea-kettle to a cast-iron
and jostling would be avoided in their surplus in buying stock inter
bull - dog.
this journey if each traveler would est or control of other roads. Even A. H. KING
when
roads
liquidate,
their
secured
only keep to the right. There is a
COTTAGE GROVE
:
OREGON
Attorney at Law
pitfail before every young man; bonds are extended with additions
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY
temptation to do evil; a snare for instead of being paid off to take a Near Bridge . : COTTAGH GROVE
ECONOMY IS WEALTH
his feet. There are habits of idle fresh start.
The
Union
Pacific
is
a
typical
ex
ness, dissipation and extravagance
J. E. YOUNG
eAttorney at Law
which will stick like the shirt of ample. As soon as it began to pros
Office on Main Street, West Side
Nessus, hampering your noble ef per it bought Southern Pacific and
OF PORTLAND, OREGON.
OREGON
forts, and eventually dragging you tried to buy the Northern Pacific. COTTAGE GROVE :: :r
IF YOU DIE, it costs no more than or
Though
it
failed
to
get
control,
it
dinary Life. |F YOU LIVE, it ismore
down to the gateway of despair.
J. O. VAN WINKLE, M. D. profitable
than Endowment. Life insur-
Keep to the right and avoid it. made a Jot of money by rise of
ance
is a great protection to our families;
Physician and Surgeon
When tempted to deal in gossip or stock. In 1906 it bad $60,000,000 Special attention given to diseases of the TOM AWBREY has the most reason-1
scandal; to play tyrant; tq withold Surplus, which it used to buy stock eye and ear. Offices over the Bank oi able plan known.
Cottage Grove
the gentle word of love or praise; of other roads, using $75,000,000
to lower the standard of honor, or borrowed money for the1 same pur P hones —Office, Main 583; Residence, 48
do ought that would make you less pose. This time it lost money in
manly or noble in the eyes of good stead of making it, but it was able
men and angels—keep to the right. to hold for the rise and then unload
Keep to the right. These gold without much loss. Again the
en words should be engraven in Union Pacific has $60,000,000 of
letters of living light on the temple surplus and people in Wall street
of every human soul. They should are asking what it is going to buy
stand forth as finger posts at the next.
All work guaranteed satisfactory;
junction for every wrong; at the It never seems to enter any mind
point of every divergence from the that a railroad with a lot of money
Phone 114.
straight path of rectitude; by every may reduce its indebtedness by tak
wayside temptation. Keep to the ing up maturing bonds instead of
right—spurning every ignoble making a new issue. Railroad
thought, every unmanly action. debts, like those of most nations,
All kinds of Mill Repair
Thus will you lay up treasures for seem to be irreducible. Like our
Work and Blacksmiting
a grand old age, and life will 'bear present bank note currency, they
First class work at moderate price!
are elastic only one way. Probably
for you its richest fruits.
this is because, value of security and
A very sure measure of the pros need for extensions increase so rap
T. A. ANDERSON
perity of the farming class of any idly that it is really cheaper to bor
PIANO TUNER
community is the nature of the row than to pay. Or perhaps they
homes occupied by those following are getting ready to sell out to the
«st
.
farming. A visitor, as he drives nation. ______
All Orders left at Marion Veatch’s wi
through this section of country,
Braganza, who married a mess of
and looks upon the comfortable American dollars, declares that his
be given prompt and Careful Attentioi
homes on the farms, knows that high sense of honor demands that
here the farmers are prosperous and all his debts be paid in full at once.
are receiving liberal rewards for This touching devotion to honor is -
their labor.
believed to be the expression of an
acquired taste.
S. E. WALLACE
In his annual messageto con
And
a
few
that
are
dreams,
strongly
gress it is expected that President The edict has gone forth, but we
Taft will recommend the establish fear not the consequences. Mr. built, covered with Veloure or Tapestry-
ment of a new bureau or depart W. C. Edwards of Drain says his Steel constructiop, spring edge, genuine Chimneys, Fire Places and
ment of public health. If la suffi people are strictly opposed to the Leather Couches for library or parlor.
Repairing a Specialty
cient showing is made he will rec proposed county division, and will If your home lacks a couch and you are
Cottage
Grove, - Orego
ommend the creation of a depart do whatever possible .to frustrate thinking of buying one, come to us. We
.
Phone 673
such
a
»move.
It
has
been
inti
ment, the head of which will be a
have the goods. Reasonable in price.
mated
by
the
Roseburg
News
that
cabinet officer. Otherwise , he will
probably content himself with rec Mr. Edwards would feel more in
ommending a bureau under one of clined to advocate such division as
the departments now existing. would give Drain the county seat
There are already nine departments of a new county.
AND
with cabinet officers and a prejudice
Congressman Champ Clark of
exists in congress against increas Missouri is correct in his judgment
AND POLISHING.
ing that number. Once a depart when he says the split is of material
ment is created, its field of useful aid to the democratic party, and
ness and incidentally the ^number that unless the factions get together
Cottage Grove,
- Orego
“The Furniture Dealers”
|
Grocers
I to the People
W. T. KAYSER
C. W. BEALS 5 SON.
Couches HARNESS SHOP
REPAIRING ALL OF KINDS
for
Comfort !
Miller’s Machine Shop
Brick & Cement Worl
G. A. ESS1CK,
SEVERAL Monumental Cleanin
Van Denberg