COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL THURSDAY, AUGUST 13. 1925
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gottagr ftwvr -^rntind
made in a diaeuiHUOn of a biolof*
ieal subject, but as a leading
newspaper of the twentieth cen
Bede & Smith . .................. Publishers tury it should keep its scientific
Editor knowledge abreast of the seventh
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A first-class publication entered at century.
We do not need to go outside
Cottage Grove as second-class matter
of the editor’s family to prove
that scorpions are insects.
The
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
fact that they are both animals and
insects has been known to the
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that time the Venerable Bede, emi
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( ing it difficult to explain satisfac
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torily to his flock some of the things
1 that appear in the Bible, used the
Member of
theory of St. Augustine and St.
National Editorial Association
Oregon State Editorial Assiciation Basil to account for the ability of
Oregon Newspaper Conference
Noah (a noted man of the time
when there were reptiles) to pro
THE SCORPION FULLY
vide room in th«* ark for so many
IDENTIFIED.
animals and sufficient food for the
peri oil of th«* flood.
In a recent editorial The Orego-
The eirlier Bede explained that
niaii, in having some fun with the the food problem amounted to
editor of Thu Mentincd, made the nothing—the cost of high living
statement that the scorpion is not being a modern problem—as God
an insert.
could have thrown all the animals
That the scorpion is an insect into a deep sleep during which
was held by scientists and theolo they would require no food. He
gians more than a thousand years lessened the strain on faith by
ago, according to
Andrew
D. diminishing the number of animals
White, one time ambassador to taken into the urk, as 44 many of
Germany nnd first president of the insects .sprung from carrion
i’ornell university. In his 4‘History later,” including of course the
of the Warfare of Science with scorpion from the crab,
Theology,” volume 1, page 5157,
All of the Bedes from the Verier
Dr. Whte says:
able up to 1925 have been aware
4 4 Nt. Isidore of Seville, in the of these facts.
seventh century, incorporated the
The editor of The Sentinel
St. Augustine theory that insects no claim to being a direct di
were developed out of carrion after ant of the Venerable Bed<
who
the first six days of original urea lived a life of celibacy.
lion into his encyclopedic work
that gave mnlerials for thought
in San -Franeisco a man
for so many generations. He made
* com
this doctrine familiar to the then
e had
logical world by citing examples
Judg-
of ‘secondary creation’ of insects
ty of this penalty,
from carrion as follows: ‘Bees are
s way
generated
from
decaying
veal,
f they
beetles from horseflesh, grasshop
ir eyeM
pern from mules md scorpions from
likely
crabs.’
usually
with
“Nothing new was made by God
after the first six days of creation,
absolutely new, but it was in some
ruins
sense included in the work of the I
they
six days.
Even now species, if
any appear, have existed before in
certain native properties, just as
animals are produced from putre
faction. ’ ’
'I’he Sentinel does not attempt to
classify the kind of carrion or
putrefaction from which some of
the so-called great dailies of today
have developed.
We do not in
elude The Oregonian in this cate
gory.
We have usually found it
reliable nnd it greatly pains us to
have to correct an error it has '
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The noblest and most Imposing
tree In the Hawaiian islands Is the
banyan. These trees do not produce
seeds. Propagation is dependent
upon one of the tiniest of insects,
the fig wasp. The trees introduced
Into Hawaii, from Australia, China
and India, are not propagated In
the territory of Hawaii In that man
ner, and the tiny insects necessary
to the production of mature fruit
and seeds are not present there.
The fig wasp goes Into the tigs for
selfish purposes only. She Is hunt
ing for a place to rear her babies,
and the only place that suits her
are the female flowers Inside the
flg. She puts an egg In each flower
which she selects, and In doing so,
crawling about, pollinates the other
female (lowers with grains of pollen
which were adhering to her body
from the older fig where she herself
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Griggs en had grown to maturity. The figs
tertained Tuesday evening in honor do not mature without the agency
of ther guests, Mr. and Mrs. of the tig wasps, and the latter can
Charles
Me Kernan,
of
Seattle. not develop or exist without the
Those present were Mr. and Mrs. presence of the figs In the proper
condition for them. Numerous kinds
Martin Foster and son Harold, Roy
of figs and banyan trees are native
Foster and Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey In many tropical countries, each
Bloffer, of Lorane, and the George having Its own kind of minute in
Kappauf family,
. ..... ,y, of Hebron.
1 Re sects called fig wasps to assist In
fresh inents were served.
seed production.
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Mrs. O. G. Biggs entertained a Here’s Another Idea
number of friends nt a social eve-
of Ancestry of Man
ning Monday, the occasion being
Most men believe that mankind
Mr. Biggs’ thirty second birthday
an n i versa ry.
Refreshments, which Is descended from one “Adam" or a
included a huge birthday cake bear single prehuman stock. Dr. Fran
ing 32 lighted randies, wore served. cis Graham, writing In the Forum,
as a result of his studies of a type
of Imbecility called Mongolism,
Mrs. Heinen way hud as < dinner concludes that mankind 1s of three
guests yesterday Turner Wrfllace fold origin.
ami daughter, Mrs. Laura Pope, of
According to this scheme, three
Stockton, Calif., who arc visiting great branches once diverged from
a
common
stem. From one branch
relatives herc^ and Mrs. Willinin
Wallace and son Winters, of Crus- sprang the orangs and Mongolian
and Australo-Caucaslan man. From
well.
another the gorillas and the ne
groes. From the third the chimpan
zees, and probably the Mesopota
Continent Believed
mian races.
Now, although schemes of this
to Lie Under Ocean sort
have been bitterly attacked,
Docs the Atlantic ocean roll over they do at any rate “explain” not
a lost coni Inent? Le I’iongeon, only the occurrence of the Mongol
who deciphered the hieroglyphics In our midst, but the characters
among the ruins of Yucatan, in and Incidence of certain forms of
Central America, came upon in Imbecility other than that we call
scription« describing a catastrophe Mongolism. If this hypothesis be
which submerged the old Atlantean comes established we shall have to
continent, legends of which have admit that the population of Europe
survived In literature from the earli Is a blend. In different proportions,
est times.
of the black, the white and the yel
It may he that this cutastrophe low, nnd we shall find no difficulty
gave rise to the equally widespread In understanding many facts In
belief In the flood which destroyed anatomy and In medicine that have
the early inlmbHunts of our planet. hitherto baffled us.
Certain it Is that the American con
tinent, nithough called the New
Born for Job
World, Is geologically the oldest
Senator Goopbue* slx-inonth-old
land on the globe, and the monu
ments found In the Jungles of Yuca Ron started howling at six o’clock
tan were ancient when the pyra In the morning. _At 10 p. m. he was
going strong. At midnight the
mids of Egypt were built.
The catastrophe Is supposed to storm subsided temporarily, but as
have taken place about 94)00 B. (X, the senator and Mrs. Goophus tip
anil at that time there was a highly toed out of the ruyserv, th« howling
organized civilization In Yucataq. broke.forth wlthrenewed vigor. It ,
which would seem to be a remnant continued more or less vigorously
of the lost continent. It Is not a until six o’clock the following morn
very large country, yet, in spite of ing. when Goophus, Jr., fell asleep. I
and haggard, the sena
the great difficulty of exploration, tor Blear-eyed
turned to his» wife, “Marla.” he
the ruins of 172 cities have been
discovered. Some of these are so said proudly, “our son’s future Is
extensive that they must have con assured. He la going to be a United
tained half a million inhabitants, States senator. He has Just con
ami It Is possible that the pyramids ducted his first filibuster. most suc
found In the Jungle gave the pat cessfully.”
tern at a much later date to the
pharaohs of Egypt.
Height of Mountains
The height of mountain» 1» cal
culated by the use of Instruments
Easy to Foretell
»nd trigonometry. If the Instru
Change in Weather ment» are accurate and there 1» no
It is not always easy to tell what error In the figure» the exnet height
the weather Is going to l>e, but a of » peak above sea level can be as
fcv. signs are very reliable. When certained without ever climbing the
It Is raining you will sometimes no mountain, if afterwards » figure
tice that the sky starts to clear In proves to he erroneous ft Is the
the form of an arch. Close to the fault of the Instruments or the cal
horizon you can see the little half culation. not the method. Mathe-
circle which Is the beginning of the nintiebins do not give round num
arch that will sweep across the sky bers when they are dealing with
Practically
until there are no clouds left. Then measurable distances.
you may be certain It Is not going these exact figures are often ridic
ulous.
to rain again for some time.
Look nt the clouds at almost any
Gunpowder’s invention
time of day, and If these get small
er or remnln about the same size,
The origin of gunpowder Is In
rain Is not likely.
Should the volved In considerable uncertainty,
clouds get bigger, expect showers but It la believed that the mixture
soon.
and Its characteristic properties
In tine weather the wind Increases have long been known, even before
up to midday and then gradually Its use to propel s projectlie from
dies down. If the wind does not some form of artillery. There Is
get less after noon, ¿nd still mor* evidence that the recipe for making
If It blows harder town rd mnset. gunpowder was In the hands of
you may he always sure bad weath some of the alchemists of the Thlr-
er Is coming.
tenth century, and, on the strength
of passages In the works of Roger
Bacon, he 1» often spoken of as Its
Inventor,
The discovery of gun-
powder la alao assigned to Berthold
Schwartz, hv whom It was men-
tinned In IBM
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Mrs. J. F. Saf ley and Mrs.
Mamie Gidney entertained 26 rela-
tives at dinner Monday evening
in honor of their mother, Mr». L. P.
P.i-ll-.. who makes her home with
them, the occasion being Mrs.
Beals’ eighty-fifth birthday anni-
versary.
Relatives present from
outside points were O. T. Beals
and Mrs. Laura Trenholni, of Cor
vallis; Mrs. P. R. Crowley, Portland;
Mrs. W. P. Walton, New York, and
T. S. Beals, Seattle; all accom
panied by members of their fami
lies, and Mrs. Leitn Fait*, Days
Creek. Mr. and Mrs. T. (’. Shaw
ou W on t Have This Opportunity Again
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Bu'1 Dog Fri:
Spokane, Wash.-—A dog-—and
bull dog at that—fainted dead
away on the operating table hero
vesterdnv, I):. Bernard Johnson, a
veterinarian, sail today. The pup
had beqp strapped Io the table and
:l muscle r'.-'ju-ted, he sail.
“As 1 was gathering up my
tools it proceeded to fall into a
perfect faint. No sick person ever
went out more quickie.’’ 'i’he dog
was revived by dashing a bucket
uf water in its face.
Wo usually criticize others for
doing exactly what we would do in
their places.
•
Professor—Can any person in this
class tell me what steel wool is?
Pie Bate—Sure. Steel
shearings from hydraulic
ARCADE Theatre
WEEKLY PROGRAM
Thursday, August 13
William Desmond in
“STRAIGHT THROUGH
Comedy and
International News.
I
A new C-T-C Cord free if it
fails to outrun any other make
^TATURALLY motorists are talking
about such a remarkable offer —
and we’ve put on a lot of new C-T-C
Cords since it was announced!
Saturday. August 15
Buck Jones in
a blazing story of
the cowboy trails
There are no strings to this offer —. it
costs nothing extra. So certain are the
makers of C-T-C Cords, that their hand-
built construction gives added mileage,
that they authorize us to issue a num
bered certificate.
You simply put a
C-T-C on the wheel or wheels opposite
any other make of tire.
THE DESERT OUTLAW "
a picture with a thousand
throbs and thrills.
And a comedy.
Sun.-Mon., August 16-17
Richard Barthelmess in
“CLASSMATES.”
West Point!—big in every
way, in drama, romance, in
thrill and action.
See it and have your
life-long dream of
West Point come true.
And a comedy.
Come in and see us about it today 1
Billie Hall’s Service Station
Our Building Material
Line Includes—
Wednesday, August 19
Evelyn Brent in
“ALIAS MARY FLYNN.’’
A little stick of dramatic
dynamite in her greatest
melodrama of the
underworld!
And a comedy.
Thursday, August 20
Jack Hoxie in his greatest
outdoor photoplav
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Doris Atkinson, little daughter of
(he Cahuengs l'ass Demon. »Idled
to her mother ths other day and
said:
“Virginia told me babies came
from heaven. Is that the troth F
"Well. ■mid Blanche, smiling.
"that Is what I always was told"
"Then If» all right." declared
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• What'» all right, dearF
"I can zee why baby cries all the
time. He wants to go back where
lie came from." — Los Angeles
Time«
The fanner took the new man
out to a field und atarted him
__ at
plowing behind two horaes.
Two hours later the new man re
turned to the house utterly ex
hausted. The fanner asked him
how he was getting on.
"Not gettln' on at all." snapped
the man. disgustedly. “How do you
expect me to hold a plow with two
big at rung horses trying to pull it
away from me nil the timer'
Cottage Grove, Ore.
Phone 64
Tuesday, August 18
“40 WINKS’’
with Viola Dana,
Theodore Roberts and
Raymond Griffith.
Here is a picture with just
one laugh; but it starts with
the first scene and ends
with the last.
And a comedy.
Our work is conscien
tious and prices art
reasonable.
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Picture Shop
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creates a furore!
Friday. August 14
Zane Grev’s
“CODE OF THE WEST
with Owen Moore,
Constance Bennett.
Mabel Baltin,
Charles Ogle and
David Butler.
The story of another
invasion of the West—when
bobbed hair and
rolled stockings
conquered the cowboys.
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And a comedy.
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