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________
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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
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