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when stock is sold below the mar tainments, grange gatherings and product of party organization and citizen to a furtherance of its ma price imposes an unnecessary the like, afford old and young ad partyTealty. There is not a law terial interests. Slip bruttati. ket burden upon shippers for dividends. vantages of both intellectual and upon the statute books of the nation BY LEW. A. CATES. Subscription Rates. One Year.__ ______ :___________ $1.50 Six Months_________ --__ ...___ .75 Three Months____ _ __ ____ _ .40 No subscription taken unless paid for in advance. This rule is imperative. Railroads have been ready to listen to this argument because the management could get more money for its necessary operations for the same increased burden upon earn ings by selling stock at a premium. We believe that was not done two years ago, because all stocks were down and the public had to be tempted to buy. But the last time the Pennsylvania railroad offered new stock it was at $1.20, and this year both the New Haven and the Canadian Pacific are selling new stock readily at a premium. The Pennsylvania, taught by the narrow escape from failure of its new stock issue of 1903, is now offering a new issue to its stockholders at par while the old stock is selling for cash at $1.40. The trouble is that unless the stock of a railroad is nar rowly and closely held, the offer of new stock at a premium is an in vitation to a bear raid which may defeat the sale or compel the com pany to pay tribute to bankers for underwriting it, as the Pennsylvania did in 1903. social qualities. But the whole some recreation of the stimulating rivalry in spelling contests, which accorded rural communities elevat ing pastime in ye olden time has almost wholly ’disappeared in these latter days. that was placed there by insurgents. There has been enough crimination and recrimination and peace should now be declared. Speaker Cannon could render the republican part}7 great service at this time by “com ing down off of his high horse.” He should be a pacifier rather than a disturbing element. Let us have peace. The monetary report of the gov ernment shows the per capita wealth of Oregon to be $225.52. If this be true some one has $225 belong ing to The Sentinel Bargain Week - AT - The death of Miss Laura Land ess, daughter .of one of Cottage Display 12J cents per inch under sixty Grove’s best known citizens, comes inches; 10 cents per inch over sixty inch as a deplorable loss to that family LITERARY WORK. es. Reading notices, 5 cents per line each insertion. Want ads. 1 cent per word; as well as a large circle of friends no ad. less than 15 cents. Rates on posi Ex-President Roosevelt receives in the community.. She was a lov tion made known on application. for his African hunting stories a ’TWOULD BE A BOON. ing and devoted daughter, and the dollar a word. Rudyard Kipling family has the sympathy cf all in Ladies’ Ready to Wear OFFICE, FIFTH ST., SOUTH OF POSTOFFICE An idolater of Shakespeare who their bereavement. is supposed to receive the highest Goods at a big reduction Entered at the Cottage Grove Postoffice prices paid any author of fiction. regards the Baconian theory as both as Second Class Mail Matter. idiotic and heretical, declares that The Sentinel will be published For the English and American ser ial rights of “Kim,” he received on whatever subject man has writ on ThursdayXof next week in order REACTION COMES. $25,000. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ten, he can find it better done in to give advertisers the benefit of hit one of the highest marks when Shakespeare. We do not find that their Christmas announcements. The juvenile story book of the On Ladies’ LaVofue he received sixty cents a word for Shakespeare has entered into any last few years has displayed a not It begins to look as though some the American serial rights of his discussion of the woman’s hat prob thing would be done in the not very Suits and Coats, also able alteration in the character of latest “Sherlock Homes” stories. lem. But there is a scene in the distant future to stop tfie" overflow Ladies’ boy heroes. Formerly it was the Waists and This compares amusingly with the “Taming of the Shrew” where Pe- and consequent destruction of prop wonderfully smart and precocious truchio and Katherine have a quar . . rate of $2 per thousand words—or boy who was exploited, the boy erty during occasional freshets. Skirts. one-fifth of a cent a word—received rel on this subject. The usually The county court will give the mat Who amazed his elders and frequent $32.00 Suits now $24.00 for his first and generally consider mild Petruchio, to carry out his ter its early attention. ly flouted them, and who always 21.00 “ 15.75 purpose of taming the virago Kath ed best stories. made hair-bfeadth escapes from erine, pretends that he has a tem Give the fresh air fund a boost 19.50 ‘ * * 14.50 High prices for literary work be dangerous situations. This was a gan practically with the great suc per worse than her own, and vio by purchasing Red Cross stamps. reaction from the child repression These goods are strict cess of Sir Walter Scott. The com lently assails her'cap. The cause is worthy. literature of a much earlier day, of “ Why this was moulded on a. THE FARMING INDUSTRY. pensation for his ‘‘Life of Bona which the key note was, “Children Every citizen interested in pro ly sof the latest styles. porringer,” he says; “A velvet dish should be seen and not heard.” The Sentinel has previously ex parte” averaged $165 for each day —away with it, come let me have motion work should attend the Now is your chance to The preternaturally smart and forth- pressed its want of sympathy with of work spent upon it. Thackery a bigger; off with that bauble; throw Commercial club meeting Monday putting boy hero does not tend to the fashionable railing at the farm was offered $1,000 for “Henry Es get a new suit for your it under foot.” “I’ll have no big night. foster parental reverence or respect ers of the country for their ineffi mond and he jumped at the propo ger,” answers Katherine. “This If Cottage Grove contemplates for elders.* Indeed, sòme of the cient and unprogressive methods. sition. Both Dickens and Hugo cap doth fit the time and gentle paving its principal thoroughfare comic pictures which have for their We have believed that this industry made good money, but when Eu women wear such caps as these.” in the spring—and, of course, it motive successful practical jokes is as well conducted and has made gene Sue drew $20,000 for his If the hat of today had been in does—why not start the ball roll played by naughty boys upon as much progress as most other in “Wandering Jew”—a novel of vogue in Shakespeare’s time, he ing? 'Considerable time must nec grown people, fathers, mothers or dustries that had to be developed probably upwards of 500,000 words doubtless .would have treated the essarily be consumed in the prep neighbors, often go so far as to give in a new country. This view is —the literary world gasped. Prices Remember we carry a hat question more exhaustively. the- average child the impression confirmed by statistics lately col have risen steadily, with the in aration of plans, specifications and As fashions did not change often in complete line of that “grown-ups” are naturally lected by the bureau of statistics to creased success of publishers and in advertising for bids and award that time, the porringer shaped hat stupid. Much of the impertinence show the ratio of agricultural pro the growth of magazines. No au ing contracts. which was then in the heighth of complained of in children. is un duction to population in a series of thor, however, in all the history of fashion, probably remained in vogue Europeans are liberal with their questionably .due to pernicious decades, beginning after the civil literature, has ever made so much for years, and as it closely fitted Christmas gifts to this country, money for each actual word in a forms of literature put forth for the war. In almost every case, the the head, did not shut out from On Wednesday 5165 sacks of mail especial delection of the young. production per capita shows a large literary product as will Commander Friday and Saturday playgoers the stage on which arrived from across the Atlantic on Peary. Dr. Johnson, it will be re Now another reaction is in pro decrease, and in every case, the Shakespeare had his dramas pre one steamship, being the largest SPECIAL gress. The' parent and the school value shows an increase. It is to membered, wrote his immortal sented. Christmas mail from that source in “ Rasselas ” to pay the funeral ex master and others with a realizing be remembered that the ratio is 25c value Art Pictures A hat of this neat close fitting the history of the country. sense of the duty of* obedience are taken to the whole population, penses of his grandmother. Milton for only shape would be an inestimable bodn sold his Paradise Dost ” to a book writing the children’s stories—that though a much smaller proportion Notice of Road District Meeting. to theatre managers and to clergy is, the stories which publishers ap of the whole is engaged in farming seller for $25. Poe’s “Raven” TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: No pear to want—and the moral tone than forty years ago. The pur brought him the grateful sum of men of our day, since in churches tice is hereby given that a meeting of as well as in theatres the removal $15. ’ _____ is much improved. Another en pose of the compilation is to show of the hat is being insisted on. the taxpayers of road district No. 60 couraging fact is that the juvenile that agriculture is keeping up the for Lane County, Oregon, will be held THE SALVATION ARMY. This hat question is a vexation and at the Residence of B. M. Hawley the books are pitched upon a higher supply of food for the whole popu a snare both to preachers and play 28th day of December, 1909, at .the plane of intelligence. It is recog lation. The exhibit favorable to During a discussion between two of 12 o’clock of said day nized that the child who has been the farmers is only incidental. For guests at Hotel Oregon the other ers. Such a kind of headgear in hour The object of said meeting is for the these days of the enormous picture in school long enough to get above that reason it is, far more valuable. day one was overheard to remark, hat, and the deadly hat-pins re purpose of submitting to the taxpayers the primary grades and sit down of said road district the question of vot Going into details, cereals have “What in blank has the Salvation quired to keep it on the head, would ing a levy of an additional tax upon the seriously to read, has passed be increased about 25 per cent, cotton Army accomplished?” It appears yond the stage where mere fairy has doubled and hay, a very vari to The Sentinel that the Salvation be a boon to humanity, and an un taxable property of said district for the purpose of improving xhe roads of said tales delight, can comprehend some able crop, exceeds 25 per cent, in army and kindred organizations told blessing to all who frequent district. public gatherings. If Petruchio thing, with instruction and mean crease on the average since the first need no defense but the record of This notice is signed by at least ten ing in it. It is noticed that boys decade. Animals show little in their achievement. They contin had lived in the twentieth century per cent of the taxpayers of said dis and girls of ten years and upwards crease, except horses, in spite of ually accomplish good among per he would not have ordered his trict. B. M. Hawley. will very frequently skip the juve bicycles and motor cars, and even sons not reached by either the Katherine to replace her small por F. J. Hard. nile department of the public librar decrease in some cases, but the ex churches or the civic charities. So ringer like cap witn a bigger one. The Vesuvius Mines Company. , ies and take out books from the planation is obvious. The statistics ciety accepts the good gratefully, The Calapooia Poultry associa By F. J. Hard, Secretary and Man adult department. are given by numbers, and improve as it does that of the other agen tion evidently does not enjoy the ager. Consequently we are beginning ment in all cattle but horses is cies, without asking how or whence widespread lack of appreciation for to have a different type of boy hero. shown by increase of weight and it comes. There is waste in every the cat’s many admirable traits, His ambition isn’t so much to run yield of milk and wool rather than kind of labor for humanity through and will, at its exhibition in Jan off and fight Indians, or become a in numbers. By this standard, want of precise adaptation of means uary, give pussy a show in a one stage robber, or to surpass or hu production of animals would show to end Probably the churches al night’s stand. It is well that this miliate his elders, but rather to a large increase. The only decrease ways failed to reach much want should be so.^The most esthetic PROFESSIONAL CARDS look forward to emulate their suc in cereals is susceptible of a like ex and misery that might be alleviated souls of all times have cherished J. C. JOHNSON cess in business, professions or pol planation. Rye has fallen off slight because of their primary purpose of the cat. Baudelaire, Von Schefiel, itics, and therefore to take good ly, but barley -has more than doub spiritual salvation. Certainly the Poe, De Musset, Henry Irving and Attorney-at-La w Practice in all Courts of State. Corpor advice. On the other hand there led. Here has been a transfer of civic charities have always fallen a host of other lovers of the beau ation, mining and Probate law a specialty is a more marked disposition among industry. In all there has been short in some cases because they tiful come to mind in this connec Collection and Insurance. the elders to retain their own juven such improvement of methods and could not make prominent that ap tion. The silky feline of padded COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON ility as long as possible and to en application of intelligent industry peal to the spirit which is more po footfall and mysterious wanderings ter into sympathetic relations with to agriculture that the farmers aidtie tent with many than lessons in has ever appealed to the imagin F. L. INGRAM their youthful proteges. probably produce twice as much thrift or stimulus to self respect. ation, just as she has ever appealed Dentist per capita as they did immediately The Salvation army has made to the sense of domestic comfort. STOCKS NOT BONDS. after the civil war. wonderful success because it comes If you have a cat exhibit it. Stewart-Porter Building between the higher spiritual and Three important railroads are There is one relic of barbarism The Pacific coast states are third A? h king the practical civic agency with just selling new issues of stock to their that is being “eliminated” from in the sectional wealth of the United Attorney at Law that wise mingling of religion that old stockholders, as the three trans this country. We refer to the rur States, the figures being taken at COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY does not repel without meaning to continental railroads did two years al or community store. While it is« the close of business on April 28 Near Bridge ; : COTTAGE GROVE ago. New capital is needed for still a social center of some renown do so the ignorant and immoral and last. The Pacific group is led by WE MOVED td IKON BLDG of helpfulness that is comprehen J. E. YOUNG improvements made or contemplat it has materially improved its con Nevada with a per capita of $512- sible to the feeble and emotional. ^Attorney at Law ed, and the market seems to be ditions. Time was when the rural .73; then follows California with The old sentimental, undiscrimin MAIN STREET. Office on Main Street, West Side more hospitable to stocks than to store was headquarters for profes $386.10; Washington, $296.23; Ore ating charity, with all its waste and COTTAGE GROVE :: :: OREGON bonds. It is easier to get new sional Joafers who contaminated gon, $225.52; Utah, $187,76; Idaho partners in the ownership of these tender youth by spinning vulgar injury to self reliance, did reach $178.82; Arizona,. $135.29; and J. 0. VAN WINKLE, M. D. railroads than to borrow money on stories, while profanity* was ming some whom neither scientific char Alaska $100.07. We wisji to call your at Physician and Surgeon their mortgage security. This led with smoke from pipes and am ity nor religious appeal could res tention to our line of Staple Special^attention given to diseases of the The United States raised this year raises the question, only lightly ber fluid of the strongest type was cue. The mission of the Salvation eye and ear. Offices in Phillips Building and Fancy Groceries. discussed two years ago, what directed toward inoffensive knot army is to organize this sentimen a wheat crop 8 per cent larger than P hones —Office, Main 193; Residence,631 tality so as to get the good in it 1908 and 10 per cent greater than should be the price of new stock holes in the floor. The country We carry all the leading without the evil."' the average for the preceding five DR. E. C. MACY when old stock bears a high prem store was an abomination unto the brands of Canned Goods DENTIST years. This would seem sufficient ium? The obvious price for new people, but it carried with it a les If the republican party is to ac and Teas, Coffees, and cater FIRST CLASS WORK to meet all requirements. stock seems to be the par which is son that suggested better things. complish anything in the way of Advertising Rates. I LURCH’S I 1-4 OFF WIFE’SXMASPRESENT CHRISTMAS TOYS, ETC. 19c Lurch’s Johnson & Co. General Merchants supposed to have been paid for old, giving the stockholders the advan tage of whatever premium is paid in the market as a kind of extra dividend. But they who consider the shipper as well as the stock holder say that the large number of shares necessary to be issued The fact that men and boys gath ered there was not indicative of a depraved desire for mingling with unwholesome companions, but it pointed to the absence of social equipment in the rural districts. In many places today debating so cieties, school and church enter- advanced legislation at the coming session of congress it will be neces sary to get together. Factional alignment will only divide strength that will be required in the accom plishment of needed reforms. There is no disguising the fact that legis lation in. this country is largely .the. Indifference on the part of the in dividual in movements of public im port can but have a bad effect upon all movements which are launched for community development. In difference is criminal, Pottage Grove has reached a state in its career where it needs the energy of every I to the best trade by keep ing our stock Fresh and Up-to-Date. Come and See Is . . Office Over Bank of Cottage Grove PHONE 583 Miller’s Machine Shop All kinds of Mill Repair Work and Blacksmiting First class work at moderate prices