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ing hate brought on by your foolish ness.” | Which example is best to be com •BY LEW. A. CATES. mended to our youth for their imitation and profit—that of Shem and J apeth Subscription Rates. and Eneas, or that of George Meredith, One Year____________ $1.50 Six Months.__ ________ .75 if his “Boswell ” tells the truth! Three Months________ -40 THE RAPIST MUST GO. No subscription taken unless paid for in advance. This rule is imperative. The dastardly assult upon a twelve year-old girl at Junction City by A. J. Advertising Rates. Display 12J cents per inch under sixty Pateson, whose age is given as sixty- inches; 10 cents per inch over sixty inch five, should arouse anew a determina es. Reading notices, 5 cents per line each tion to exterminate the rapist. Seve insertion. Want ads. 1 cent per word; ral cases of this character have recent no ad. less than 15 cents. Rates pH posi ly come to the attention of The Senti tion made known on application. nel, and it is high time some strenuous OFFICE, FIFTH ST., SOUTH OF POSTOFFICE measures be taken in the premises. Only a short time ago a Eugene man of Entered at the Cottage Grove Postoffice supposed respectability was charged as Second Class Mail Matter. - with a similar crime, was haled before the court, bonded - lightly, and fled- FORWARD THE WATCHWORD. More stringent measures should be en acted to prevent the wholesale debauch Until we learn to think in billions ery of our fair daughters, low or high, we can not measure the meaning of in hut or palace, for none are excepted. the material development of the Unit To such alarming extent have the oper ed States during the last quarter of a ations of the rapist spread that it is century; much less can we mentally high time to call a halt at any cost. grasp the potentialities which the com If necessary each county throughout ing years have in store for us. Our the commonwealth should come into progress, however, has only been the possession of well-trained bloodhounds pioneering work of clearing the wilder to trace and capture these varment-like ness, of plowing and planting amid the archfiends of perdition, for we must all stumps which mark the new land of admit the superiority of the man-trail the settler. Not yet have we had time ing bloodhound’s scentive powers as to pull the stumps and drain the compared to the posse in search of the swamps. What, we have been doing is worse than midnight assassin. like sowing by hand and gathering our A standing reward of $1,000 should harvest with the old sickle as compared be fixed by statute law in Oregon, with what we are now preparing to do. In our pioneering work we have had to and every state and territory in the un disregard the permanency to meet the ion, for the “head on a charger” of a immediate needs of the hour. We have rapist, the same as a bonus given for had to make haste even though it meant the hides and heads and horns and hoofs some waste. However, like the pio in exterminating certain wild beasts neer who built His rude log hut and where they infest the lands to the de tilled the stump-ridden sod until in triment thereof. Wild beasts are pre creasing gain? made possible the build ferable in any locality to the archfiend ing of a better home and the clearing rapist. It should be every person’s of his land in' order to utilize labor-sav most sacred and solemn duty to capture ing implements, we had to pursue sim these culprits of crime, and his pride ilar methods in our national develop of home, his love of women, -and pat ment until now, when we have entered riotism of country should prompt this upon .a period where scientific farming individual to voluntarily reject any will take the place of soil-destroying proffered reward for such inValuable farming and where scientific skill in service as he would spurn a bribe. But manufacturing will mean changes as let the reward be posted ; let the law be made faultlessly stingent and not radical as those which mark the differ ‘ ‘as sounding brass or tinkling symbal. ’ ’ ence in farming methods. All we have done in this work of ma THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER. terial upbuilding has been the perfect The local newspaper of any commun ly logical working out of conditions which have surrounded us, conditions ity can do more toward the inspiration which in no wise need give us any con of concerted action on the part of citi cern for a moment nor be considered as zens than any other single force. And it has been this unanimity of purpose pessimistic in their tendency. In studying the material advance that has been the prime force in the in ment of the United States one is amaz dustrial and commercial awakening ed at the marvelous progress of the last that now prevades nearly every section quarter of a century. Even ten years of the country. The Sentinel believes ago» the heart of man could never have that it is the duty of the local newspa conceived the magnitude of the devel per to devote as much space as possible opment of today. But looking at this to the promotion of the city and terri in the light of the world-wide revolu tory in which it is published. It is tion in business now in progress, con equally the duty of the citizens of the sidering our unique geographical posi community to give such paper a liberal tion midway between Europe and-Asia support. Few localities possess the natural re and the vastness of resources, be yond the power of man to describe, and sources and advantages of Cottage bearing in mind the forces which today Grove, and it is the purpose of The are making for the intensest human Sentinel, animated by a spirit of home activities ever known, it will be realiz pride and an abiding faith in its future, ed that the achivements of the past, to inform the outside world of the compared with what the future has in things we have. And we want to fill store for us, are but as the gentle every citizen of Cottage Grove with shower of an April day in comparison enthusiasm. We all believe in Cottage with the mighty downpour of the win Grove ; to us it is the center of the un iverse ; the Mecca to their circuitous ter rain. pilgrimages ; where the sun shines most LACKING FILEAL RESPECT. lovingly, and where the hand of prom The late George Meredith seems to ise holds aloof the sweetest flower from have his Boswell in one Edward Clodd, the garden of Nature. Cottage Grove—growing Cottage whose “Recollections” of one who is declared by a recognized critic to be Grove, if you please—the future me “undoubtedly the most analytic of Eng-j tropolis of Nesriiith county. The Sen lish novelists,” lately appearing in the tinel proposes to be proud of the part Fortnightly Review. The biographer it will have in her making. Further reports the sayings of his hero without along down the recesses of time we discrimination. He does not put the may, perhaps, stop to felicitate our grain through a winnowing mill and selves upon what we have helped to blow out the chaff, but gives it all, accomplish. For the present, we shall good, bad and indifferent. Some of the pause long enough to take a stroll remarks attributed to Meredith reveal around the block and count the new him in a curious light. For instance, buildings in course of construction. he is qouted assaying: “My father WHY INCIDENTALLY? lived to be 74. He was a muddler and a fool.” In a current newspaper announcement Such a remark certainly shows the setting forth the attractive features of novelist and poet’s analytic turn of their February issue, the publishers of mind, but hardly illustrates the geni a magazine conclude: ality which is said by some to have “P. S.—Incidentally, look at tha+ been his typical characteristic. It is to bunch of advertising.” be hoped that the lack of filial respect Very well, we will look at it, and displayed by Meredith will riot become other readers also may look at it, but fashionable. In this matter we would why “ihcidentally?” Studious readers rather see the old delusions—when they of current publications find in their ad are* delusions—cherised. We would vertising pages much that is not only rather see a son attribute imaginary of interest but of value. The newspa virtues to his father than too see him pers and other periodicals have grown coarsely bulletin the old gentleman’s under modern conditions to be a market place in which the seller displays his faults. We have a good Scriptural example wares and heralds his bargains and the of Noah’s sons, who “walked back buyer looks on reflectively, judiciously, ward with averted gaze”, to hide their and makes his selection. If the latter father’s shame. They might have gone sees what he wants he is likely to or out and proclaimed from the housetop der it. that their father was a drunken old We are not so overrunning with ap- fool; but they chose rather to preserve probativeness as not to believe that the family reputation for respectabil many more of The Sentinel’s women ity. Then there was the pious Eneas, readers will today master the announce who earned the title in large measure ments of our advertisers’ January sales by his respect and care for his venera than will absorb the views and com ble sire. Instead of risking his own ments of the editor. And they may be and his wife’s life in order to bear up the better for it. The advertiser and on his back the aged Anchises from the the advertisement have ceased to be in flames of Troy, he might have said to cidental. The making of the latter is him: “You got yourself tangled up a fine art which the former practices. with a disrespectful goddess, now let Incidentally, the magazine advertise her save you, for I have got all I can ment in question is itself a work of art, do to save myself from Juno’s unrelent evincing skill, method, originality, g»ettitnel. grace and effectiveness. Its publica tion cost a great deal of money, but it is worth more than it cost. It will at tract instant attention"because it is art full typed and alluringly displayed. If it were merely incidental it wouldn’t and couldn’t do this. A good adver tisement isn’t a sign on a bypath; it is a part of the big procession along the main road. ’ AWAY WITH USELESSNESS. The world demands that its men and women be useful. It did not always demand this. The old grayheads whom we call the wise men of ancient times cared little for usefulness. They would have been wiser if they had not considered that to be useful was to low er one’s self. Archimedes thought ge ometry was debased if it was employed to produce any useful result. Plato de cried arithmetic, thought little of the science of medicine and less of alpha betical writings. Socrates saw no ad vantage in astronomy except to raise the mind to higher fields of speculation. When Posidonius, a writer in Cicero’s time, mentioned the arch as one of the discoveries of philosophy, the intellec tual ones grew angry. They were ashamed to have Posidonius say such a thing. They undertook at' once to prove that the philosopher Democritis did not discover the arch, or the philos opher Anacharsis the potter’s wheel. “In my own time,” writes Seneca, ‘‘there have been inventions of this sort—transparent windows, tubes for diffusing warmth equally through a building, shorthand; but the invention of such a thing is drudgery for the low est slaves. Philosophy lies deeper. We shall next be told that the first shoe maker was a philosopher.” This makes us think less of Seneca. It might make us think less of philos ophy, if we did not understand that philosophy had to grow like the rest of the world. The world wants you to be useful. If you are not useful, there is no place for you. You are only in the way. If you look into nature, you-will not find anything that is not useful, either in her different forms or in what she produces. The buzzard is an unj clean bird, but he helps to keep the world clean. The thunder storm gives us better air to breath. The butterfly goes from flower to flower fertilizing them, and adding to the world’s beauty. Every insect, bird or beast, even the smallest particles of stone and earth, the tiny atoms of which all matter is made—each has its use. If it had not, nature would never have created it at all. Seneca and Socrates and Plato were useful in their way. But the shoemak er was of more value to the world than a thousand Senecas. The world needed shoes and the shoemaker furnishes them. If we can give to the world something that it needs, something that is useful, our lives will have been worth while. THOROUGHNESS IS NECESSARY. “Knowledge Is Power” is a trite, but nevertheless true adage. The mer chant who would wish to succeed must study all the details of his business, and keep himself posted on the buying and selling prices of the various articles in which he deals. The artist who would aspire to fame, acquaints him self with all the minutia.relative to the different colors and their many combin ations and, effects. So it is with the scientist, physician, clergyman or the man who seeks his daily bread in the more humble vocations of trade. They all strive fqr a more thorough under standing of their various callings, and with that knowledge they have the power to make their influence felt. Pure luck may sometimes succeed in the mercantile world, but even then it is the exception, the rule being that those who make their calling a study, and make use of their knowledge, are, the ones who succeed. Thus we say “knowledge is power.” If it is true in respect to the different pursuits and business affairs of life, it is also true in regard to our social un dertakings and well being. Particular ly is this applicable to members of se cret societies. There is a general lack of knowledge relative to the work and principles of fraternal institutions. Not that the members are not intelli gent enough, for in other matters they may be quick, sharp and shrewd, but when it comes to the work of their re spective order, they are sadly deficient. How few among the leaders are posted in their charges, or in the unwritten work, especially of the degrees. It comes partly from carelessness and a neglect to study and think of the du ties their obligations have placed upon them, and partly from the fact that the chief officers of the order fail to instruct them. Schools are needed, places where it will be the special business to teach the work, written and unwritten, and explain the truths embodied in the charges. Lodges of instruction should be organized where every meinber in good standing could attend. How many of the- Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen or any other lodges in Cottage Grove, except one, can explain the principles of his respective order, or give its aims and objects? If the ceremonies of the rit ual are worth doing at all, they »are worth doing well. If the principles that are written in the charges are cumstances which being unforeseen I lead to hypothecations not strictly in accordance with the jurisprudence' laid down for the cases that might, as it were, be held in abeyance. ” The Sentinel’s informant says the seeker after legal advice, seeming to understand the case clearly, strode away, evidently determined to get what pears he could. good, they should be read and explain ed until they are thoroughly impressed upon the mind of every member of the fraternity. The better we are versed in that which is good, the greater is the sphere for usefulness, - and more capable for building up the order and overcoming prejudice. TEACHER AND THE SLAT. That Divide schoolmaster who, bear ing in mind the Solomonjc injunction about sparing the rod, inflicted corpor al punishment upon a girl pupil, and received a pummeling by the irate fath er, sought satisfaction in the eourts and received d verdict. While The Sentinel is not acquainted with the pre cise nature of the alleged misdoing by the pupil, it appears quite certain that regulations had been fractured, regard less of admonitions and mild corrective methods, which was followed by chasr tisement. At any rate the school di rectory has signified its approval of the schoolmaster’s mode of procedure, for he is to be retained. Unlike the Iowa teacher who took a bedslat—or a fair substitute for that implement of.' correction—and belabored some saucy girl students, the Divide instructor’s salary has not been increased up to the present writing. Once in a while, as every educator will affirm, there comes a period in school life when nothing but corporal punishment 'seems to avail towards straightening out the refractory pupils, of both sexes. Outsiders who do not know the trials of the pedagogue have agitated against this form of correction so long and so vigorously that it has been abolished almost entirely. But there is not a tired teacher or a prema turely bald principal but will confess when pressed for a reply on the. subject, that the. occasional privilege of using the rod would do wonders in the way of enforcing discipline and making the pupils love and revere their instructor. Fine-spun notions on these subjects are all well for the theoretical purposes, and, of course, the day of the old fash ioned pedagogue who ruled the school with the rod and, whose chief occupation was the flaggellation of offending ur chins, has been relegated to the rear with other ancient barbarities. But every one will admit that the youth re quires certain spankings, and those who receive proper spankings- in their youth have not often been known to .complain against the parental or school authori ties who administered them. In the development of our iron industry, Pennsylvania made pig iron first from the most cheaply mined ores, and then gradually advanced from pig iron to the fine products of steel. Ala bama has sometimes been criticised for selling its pig iron to northern and western shops and buying it back in shape of machinery and locomotives. That, however, is only the natural course in the evolution of business. Under the old conditions it was just as much the natural order of events for the western farmer to work his prairie soil and the southern planter his cotton land in a way to get the largest imme diate results. Nothing else than what ■we have done in this way could have been expected by anyone who looked at these things from any other than a sup erficial point of view. Now a point has been reached where it can be seen that all that has gone before is but the pre paration for the real work of national growth—growth in agricultural, growth in manufacture, in mining and in all the other varied business interests of the country. _______ ’ The Oregon Life Insurance Company, through its general manager at Port land, L. Samuel, is sending out to news papers of-the state a prepared “story” advertising that company with a re quest to publishers to print and favor the manager With a marked copy. This scheme to get something for nothing has long been practiced, and finds ready takers among a considerable number of newspapers, as strange as it may seem. The Oregon Life is abundantly able fi nancially to pay for its advertising— possibly far better so than the printers of the state are to carry a policy with it—and its scheme to “work” the press belittles it in the estimation of The Sentinel. , _____ _ If The Sentinel understands condi tions as they obtain, general sentiment is favorable to the lighting contract which has been blue penciled by May or Job. It increases the service ren dered to the municipality over 60 per cent, yet the consideration is less than under the present contract. There is a strong probability that the council will pass the bill over the mayor’s head. Mr. H. O. Thompson hit the nail squarely on the head when he stated, in a recent meeting of the progressive element of Cottage Grove, that the street department is slovenly conduct ed. Debris from repaired walks is to be found here, there and everywhere about the city.__________ Those people who argue that women should be especially protected because they are more delicate than meh, should glance around at the Cottage Grove girls who are wearing peek-a-boo waists while those of the sterner sex are shivering in winter flannels. One of Cottage Grove’s need? at this time is a measure to prevent the dump ing of garbage along the banks of the Coast Fork. “The Sentinel may lambast the so- called tightwads, and give them ‘hail Columbia’ for holding onto their scads with a deathlike grip, but I have re solved to join the tightwads,” said a prominent merchant to the reporter the other day. “Poor, fellows, they get hit pretty hard; but for 1910 »1’11 be hit with them, for I can’t stand the finan- | eial pressure. Last year the aggregate amount of money I contributed, to every old thing that came along,—good bad and indifferent—appaled me when it REV. W. A. ELKINS was totaled at the beginning of 1910, Pastor of the Christian Church of and I firmly resolved .that the time for Cottage Grove. retrenchment had arrived. I am on the The Woodburn Independent is agitat other side of the hill, so far as age is ing the question of a, new county. Cut concerned, arid I must prepare for the up the counties and the land and Ore valley down there at the foot, and the gon’s prosperity will be greatly en next person who comes to me with a I- told-’em-you’d-head-the-list story will hanced! _____ get the cold shoulder, ” and the mer A Chicago girl, while wrestling in chant’s countenance became changed play with her paternal ancestor, knock and for a moment we though we had ed out two of his teeth, broke his knee lost an advertiser. Cap and fractured his leg. Girls will “There are - commendable undertak be girls. ings that call for contributions, ”~he “Spring is the season of hope,” says contnued, “and to these generous help an exchange. Yes, indeed, for it is must be given, but this constant beg then that the government seeds are ging for, Jones or Brown, or for some planted. The season of despair begins orphan with only one father arid mother makes 'me Weary. I can see subscrip about three weeks later. tion papers in my dreams—quiet and The proposed new state of Siskiyou peaceful slumber have become horrid doesn’t appear to have many support nightmares. ■ I’m a1 tightwad hence ers outside of a comparatively spiall forth and forever,’’ and he stode away. district in the Siskiyou territory. A Portland newspaper having an nounced that Congressman Hawley will be renominated, what’s the use of any further procedure? Yes, Cottage Grove is to have one of the largest sawmills in the Northwest, Watch us grow. Lane county has the first farmers’ high school in Oregon, being a union of five districts. “Home first, the world afterward,” should be the motto of every citizen of Cottage Grove. ' Think less of self, and more of the corporate body. A dollar is your best friend; keep it at home. ______________ i Caught ntt tip (Unrb \ Recorder Van Denberg, who not only faithfully records all matters pertain ing to the municipality but serves in the capacity of magistrate as well, be lieves in weighing his words and look ing at a question from every stand point before expressing a positive opin ion for or against. It once took him full twenty minutes to answer a man who asked him the distance to Eugene. The magistrate was not willing to say offhand, although he^ knew twenty miles to be approximately correct. Last fall, it is said, some one put this ques tion to him: “If you owned a pear tree which stood so near the line between your lot and your neighbor’s that some of the limbs hung over the fence, would your neighbor have the right to pick the fruit which grew on the limbs that projected above his property?” This seemed to be a poser for the magistrate. “Well,” he replied, “that’s a‘question that requires delib eration, not admitting that the legal possessor of the tree is clearly fixed by statute made and provided. But as for right andwrong there are things to be said for both the plaintiff and the defendant. Suppose for instance,” continued the dealer in justice as his inquisitor stood on one leg and turned his bearing side to the learned man, “suppose, for instance, it wasn’t a pear tree, but a critter belonging to me that walked up to the line fence and ^tuek its head over. Would my neighbor have a legal right to claim the animal’s head? If so, he would get tired of feed ing the head. while I did the milking. And, such being the'obtaining condition of things, he might poison the critter, killing my part as well as that alleged to be owned by himself. As he would have nothing against my end, there would naturally be some doubt in the mind of the jury; or, to-wit, if your hen comes over into my yard and lays her eggs, does the hen fruit aforesaid thereunto appertaining belong to me, or have you the. legal right hereinbe fore mentioned to invade my premises and to hold for your heirs and assigns forever said eggs; or, to proceed, if you owned a cow and she broke into my pasture and a calf was born, would the calf belong to you or to me; further more, if the court should give me a de cision, could you drive the cow home and permit the calf to starve, which,, very naturally brings us back to the pear tree. “In summing up the question brief ly,” continued his honor as his client shifted-to the other leg and looking restlessly at the setting sun, “this court can only say that there are cir Johnson & Co. General Merchants BE m 10 IKON « MAIN STREET. We wish, to call your at tention to our line of .Staple and Fancy Groceries. 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