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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1910)
Stye fteniitttL BY LEW. A. CATES. Subscription Rates. $1.50 One Year_____________ - u5 Six Months_______ ________ .40 Three Months__________ ... fjo subscription taken unless paid for in advance. This rule is imperative. Advertising Rates. Display 12i cents per inch under sixty inches; 10 cents per inch over sixty inch es. Reading notices, 5 cents per line each insertion. Want ads.' 1 cent per word; no ad. less than 15 cents. Rates on posi tion made known on application. OFFICE, Finti ST., SOUTH OF POSTOFFICE Entered at the Cottage Grove Postoffice as'Second Class Mail Matter. HUSBAND AND WIFE. Thackery probably wrote “Barry Lyndon” to show up the injustice of the law to married women. The scape grace Barry married Lady Lyndon and took possession of and wasted her for tune of $150,000 a year, subjected the lady to continuous cruelties and even horsewhipped her in his fits of drunken anger. She was obliged to endure this treatment until her relatives rescued her by stratagem from the monster’s clutches. Married women in England now, as well as in the United States, are protected from the waste of their property by separate property laws, and in large measure from cruelty. A woman of means can hold the whip hand over her husband, if he is at all. dependent upon her, or if he desires to enjoy her fortune. He may wheedle her money away from her, but if his ravages upon her estate become at any time notorious she, or her relatives for her, can easily secure protection by proper court orders. A woman can have her husband ar rested for striking her, for refusing to support her, for drunkenness, and he can be fined or jailed; but the law can- , not protect her from a species of men tal cruelty by nagging, meanness and infidelity, save through the divorce courts. And in some states this rem edy is very difficult to obtain. One Mrs. Madeline Gordon Bissell recently secured at Reno, Nev., a divorce from her husband, Dr. William J. Bissell of Buffalo, N.1 Y., a nephew of former Postmaster General Bissell, on eom-’ plaint that he had struck hb'r, , locked her in her " dragged her by the hair, and inflicted numerous other cruelties, and that the courts of her own state would not give her any re- ’ lief. This seems incredible for a pro- ressive state like New York. If the charge is true, another Thackery is needed here to paint the lurid picture of wifely suffering and husbandly fiendishness. LOAN OR GIFT. foundation exists for the insurance and pension system of the Pennsylvania railroad. But the latter company has added to the compensation at its own expense a system of voluntary mutual insurance by employes which increases the benefits enormously. Apparently industrial employes think they cannot make adequate provision for compen sation for injuries from their own re sources alone without putting too great a burden upon the consumers by rais ing prices. They’ have gone a certain distance and may go further- in paying for death and permanent injuries. Put the related field of provison for support in illness and old age pensions seems better adapted for voluntary as sociation among employes. The present time, when wages are generally going up, seems favorable for suggestion of these projects on one side and consid eration of them on the other. • MOTHER’S DAY. school .children sold tags at a dime each to create a knockers’ fund, and now comes a set of resolutions—cunningly drafted by some king bee—from a woman’s club of that town. The fact is, the business men of Roseburg are not deeply interested in the movement, and the few kijockers who would defeat the creation of ' the proposed county, having to hustle elsewhere for funds, are directing their attention to women and children of the rural realms. THERE NEED BE NO FEAR. Notwithstanding astronomers have given us assurance that there is no fear of the comet coming our way there is uncertainty in some quarters as told' by the press. There is no danger, as the world is not in the track, and the inhabitants. of earth will watch the comet pass and be in as little danger as is the farmer who watches safely from his fields the passage of the roar ing express train. Tonight the sun will go down and the stars will disclose themselves in the peace of their con stellations. Tomorrow the ,sun will rise all glorious and call men forth to their labors. Little children will play in peace and mothers go about their homes serenely. The life of the spring will continue to well up through stalk and leaf and bud. The busiest life will be a pastoral, compared with what it would be were a comet approaching to destroy us. We are still possessed of our certainties. There is nothing like astronomy to make earth, with all its insignificance, feel like home to us. When our minds try to grasp one small handbreadth of the staggering distances of immensity, when the magnitude of that little cor ner of the creation which we call our universe breaks on us, we are stunned among the things which it is not pos sible to utter. The atoms which com pose our bodies are relatively more dis tant the one from the other than is this earth from the stars we see. We have seen a few molecules of God’s universe but know not what the whole body is. Is it any wonder that the Hsalmist cried, “What is man that thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that thou visitedst him.” TAKE THE PROPER STEP. Fruit Growers Organize for Better ment of Conditions. Cottage Grove should become affili ated with the Willamette Valley Apple Growers’ Association, organized at Al bany last week to promote the fruit in terests of this section. It will be in corporated into a strong organization to direct the scientific marketing of fruit, and the growers of this section would undoubtedly reap benefit by hav ing a local association. Working through each local association, the val ley organization will endeavor to have every grower pack and label his fruit exactly alike. It will not sell this year’s crop on a union basis, but ex pects to develop into an organization strong enough for that purpose next year. Spurred by the fact that this year’s apple crop wil1 be the bigest and best in many years, growers of the val ley decided to get together and make the Willamett Valley label mean some thing in the apple markets of the world. The committee recommended that all growers adopt the size of boxes and system of packing heretofore adopted by the valley association, and that all labels on the boxes be the same. De tailed plans for carrying out the recom mendations were formulated. The growers resolved that while they op pose such legislation as the Lafean bill they favor some kind of National legis lation to protect the grower and con sumer as well as the dealer; that all packages should be marked with the name of the grower and also the packer and shipper, if different from the grower; that this association co-operate with other associations of the North west to formulate such legislation. A resolution was also passed urging a state appropriation to aid the State Experimental Association in working out problems for the control of insect and fungus diseases that now confront the orchardists of Oregon. The asso ciation will itself raise funds for the investigation of a blossom blight that has attacked some Oregon fruit to de termine whether it is bacterical or caused by climatic frost, and to learn how to combat. The thought of setting aside a day to be called “Mother’s Day” was a most happy one, for on the mother depends the character of. a people, on the moth er depend the status of the home. Since the birth of the Savior motherhood has been still more exalted, though from the first, the reverence and love drawn around the mothers have been in great part the world’s anchor. For thousands ,of years the Arabs held that the great qualities of a horse are inherited, not from its sire but from its dam, and the rule is as pro nounced among men as among horses. Millions of men sorely tempted, have been saved by the thought: “Were I to do what I am contemplating now, what would my mother’s spirit think, if now she is looking down from heaven upon me?” The sanctity of the home centers on the mother, and the man who through his passions or his bigotry would cast a reproach upon that sanc tity and dignity, never himself had a glorified mother, nor knew the grace of full enlightenment. Our country at first was settled by a primitive, God fearing people; the part which the mothers bore" while the forests were being cleared between the eastern sea and the prairies, if properly portrayed, would make thfe most fascinating book CRATER LAKE HIGHWAY. ever written. But it would require SUBJECT TO PENALTY. the pen of an angel to write it. We The people of southern Oregon are suspect that it has been written, but raising a fund to build by subscription that when it was finished, it was de a highway to Grater Lake National Collector of Internal Revenue on Path of Corporations. clared to be too sacred to be entrusted Park, the most interesting geological Hundreds of Oregon corporations t- worldly keeping, and hence was filed section of the globe, a region contain in the immortal record of the. ages. ing many natural wonders.' It is plan may be subject to the penalty provision In this world it has had a partial por ned to raise $100,000 in subscriptions of the income-tax laws, in the opinion trayal only. It has shone out in five of $100 each, half payable June 1 and of David M. Dunne, collector of inter great wars, on the dauntless heroism the other half in June, 1911. The peo nal revenue for the Port of Portland. of their sons, it has given them strength ple of Medford have subscribed $25,000, Since the period of filing statements of to storm the, wilderness and to build the balance of Jackson county raising earnings for the preceding year expired from sea to sea, temples to justice, to another $25,000. The people of ’ the on March 31, the local collector has mercy, to industry, to learning, to re rest of the state are asked to contri been receiving straggling reports and ligion and to freedom. And in homes bute the remaining $50,000. Jackson forwarding them to Washington with where the freest and most generous county has appropriated $50,000--says out recommendation or comment. What will be done with the belated efforts to race that the world ever saw are the the Medford Mail Tribune. inhabitants. The highway is to be built under comply with the law is problematical, one of them having been refused by Hail then mother’s day! Let it con Probably , the reported purpose of Di tinue with music and flowers and smiles supervision of the good roads section of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue the United States department of agri rector Newell of the reclamation ser and welcomes, that the devoted ones to date. About 50 reports were re vice to follow Mr. Pinchot into private may feel that more than a home and culture, whose engineer, B. F. Heidle, ceived and forwarded during April, and life is connected with the controversy local interest attaches to them, but is at present at work with a corps of 25 additional reports awaited mailing over the government loan of $30,000,000 rather, that a nations arms are around engineers on surveys and estimates. last night. When asked about suits to complete irrigation projects that them in affection and reverance, and Contracts will be let as soon as esti against Oregon corporations District were begun without authority of law or that the splendors of the Great Repub mates are completed. The forestry Attorney McCourt said: appropriation for their payment. Many lic are but a reflection of the yearnings bureau is co-operating, and is expend “It is probable that a great many senators and representatives oppose that filled their hearts, when they took ing a considerable sum in constructing corporations are delinquent under the the highway through the forest reserve. that loan on the ground that the gov upon themselves their share and more, income tax law, and it is very likely ernment had no right to begin works of the burdens of creating a nation, Secretary Ballinger of the interior de that some suits may be commenced partment has ordered a complete sur not authorized by law or to create pub which nation, if the mothers of the fu here, but up to this time I have heard lic expectation by promising them. ture shall be like those of the past, vey of the park and engineers of the nothing about them. The case will war department have been ordered to They object to encouragement of future will eclipse in grandeur and in power, reach this office from the hands of Col unauthorized commitment of congress all the nations that have held rule since map out a comprehensive system of lector Dunne, who will receive them highways and improvements about the to such expenditures. the beginning of time. lake, which will call for the expendi-- from Washington. They contend that what is called a “I understand that there is a test ture in the immediate future of several loan is likely to turn into a gift by the RIP THE COVER OFF. case now pending in the United States millions of dollars. To secure this ap increase of expenditures upon irriga Supreme Court, involving the validity There are some mighty interesting propriation, the park must be made ac of the income-tax law, and that it is tion works more rapidly than funds for cessible, and it is to make the park ac repayment can be realized by sale of facts back of the unprincipled opposi cessible that the people of Portland soon to be argued. It was brought by . redeemed land and water rights. They tion to the creation of Nesmith county a stockholder of an Illinois, corporation recall the general experience that gov by the domineering cities of Eugene and other sections are asked to contrib and enjoined the office of that company ute to the building fund. ernment expenditure for private ob and Roseburg, whose literature reeks Crater Lake will prove one of Ore from complying with the law. Perhaps jects tends always to waste and ex with misrepresentations and falsehoods, gon ’s greatest resources. It- will, di nothing will be done at Washington travagance. They hold that it is ex so brazen that a person possessing the vert to Oregon the immense tourist about penalizing those concerns which cusable only as a start and an example average intelligence of mankind may travel that California enjoys. It will failed to report until the test case is for private enterprises, and should be- easily detect them without an unusual be advertised by all the railroads in disposed of. I do not know definitely confined strictly within the limits of amount of study. Individual residents the country and bring through the state what is contemplated.” provision for its payment. On the of the respective cities named have It was reported yesterday that Inter a desirable class of money spending other hand it appears that the last ad heralded abroad statements regarding nal Revenue officers are very confident tourists, some of whom will make their ministration did actually begin the pro the proposition that have not the of winning the test case in the Supreme ject irrigation work it had no means to slightest semblance of truth, the sole homes here. Court and that preparations are being finish and so tempted settlers into re purpose beingto create public sentiment Cottage Grove has more attractive made to bring suits immediately.—Ore moval and investment, creating just against the measure from a purely sel show windows among its business gonian. expectations whose disappointment fish motive. The Sentinel has evidence houses than any other town of its size would be a severe hardship. On that in abundance to warrant this stater in Oregon, according to a traveling ground alone the loan of $30,000,000 is ment, and it will produce it within a salesman who makes the greatest por advocated and justified. If the disap short time, showing that the very men tion of the state. pointment of Director Newell with the who are now endeavoring by hook ‘or prompt arid cheerful making of the crook—principally crook—to defeat the The citizens of Cottage Grove, realiz loan should result in his separation Nesmith county proposition are belying ing that boosting is an investment, from the government service, opposi their words of not many moons ago. will put a shoulder to the wheel and tion to it would be abated by the as The statement that the promoters of boost ’another year. It has been the means of putting this city on the map, surance that he at least would no long the Nesmith movement are real estate er be in position to commit the gov boomers and office-seekers who want to and today it is one of the best known towns in Oregon. ernment to the expenditure of millions plunder the public coffers of the pro without authority of law or appropria posed county is absolutely too silly to Cottage Grove will have an abundant consider. There is no foundation for water supply within six months, then tion by congress. the statement, which is made without it may become a city beautiful. It has GOOD TIME TO BEGIN. acquaintance with the facts, or with been discouraging work in the past. lying intent. More likely the latter, The present system of giving compen There is a noticeable improvement in for it is in keeping with “The Eugene sation for personal injuries in industry Way,” a way with which the people of the appearance of The Morning Regis with a check instead of cash. Then is so atrocious, and the ’ difficulties of Oregon are becoming familiar. The ter of the county town. It has aban you will have both a recotd of your new legislation are so great that every people within the territory of proposed doned country style of make-up, and is payment and a receipt as well. step in direction of voluntary reform is Nesmith county want self-government, otherwise getting into the ways of the Checks on the Bank of Cottage hailed as a boon. What is desirable is among other things, because of this metropolitan newspapers. In fact, it Grove are as good as gold. You a uniform and certain basis of payment is considerable of a newspaper itself. can secure a book of them by open for loss, without waste in insurance or “way.” Eugene is selfish to a degree. You avoid The popularity of the Nesmith move It matters little who is at the head ing an account there. litigation, or exception for any reason lots of trouble and dignify your but contribution so rank as to amount ment is shown by the fact that in Doug of the Oregon Electric. The question to suicide. Such a basis has beqn las county the aid of even the women that interests the people of the Willam business by their use. adopted by the steel corporation and and childern has been solicited to de ette valley is whethet the extension many of its constituents, and a similar feat the measure. In Oakland the south will be made. Pay Your Bills HAMPTON &C0. Cambric Embroideries 50c values, 18-in. wide, at 35c a yard. A very fine quality of Cambric Embroidery in the newest designs. 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