Voi. 3.
Florence Lane County, Oregon, Friday, December 9.
1892.
Douglas red on women who could and would use
,«unties is being a g ita ted by th e citizens the splendid opportunities for study, but S t a t e s d X ^ r ^ l T ^ m
of Cottage Grove, D rain a n d vicinities. wliose limited fortunes would compel
No. 34.
ju t division of L ane an d
It is proposed to take a p a rt from Lane them to stay at home. The “ scholar
on the south, and a portion from Dong ships” en title holders to fare to and p o rta . po b M
le on the north, and form th is te rrito ry from the city, board while here, and the
into a county._______________
N early all the people h ere m ay flat
ter themselves on th e financial condi
tion of this part of L ane co unty. A fter
visiting the valley, and h earin g thecoin-
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Much good of Huch sensational stories which
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will thus be done those who most need too frequent n » n r
* * * ° to,n,“ on »»»orwlity recoils in lasting ob-
MJirequent occurrence in the W««W loquy
it and whose added knowledge will be
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one of America’s most lasting and val
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j.laints of the business m en regarding
P rune culture, the skeptic would have
“hard tim es” th e re , it gives us an us believe is a mistaken pathway to the
Go as far east as New York state and
additional and m ore ex alted regard for land of wealth, yet when we read th a t a
we find fl .ating the rounds of newspa
the Gieat Siuslaw c o u n try .
sixteen-acre orchard of German prunes
pers the announcement that “ the dis
T he famous locom otive th a t rolled in Sonoma county, California, from five
covery of immense fields of coal m
along the Pennsylvania track s from Con- to eight years old, yielded 90,000 pounds Washington has already caused an enor-
neraaugh to Jo h n sto w n , sh riek in g its of dried fruit this year and gave its ow
«nous influx of capital into that state,
whistle and giving th e alarm before the ner a net profit of $7600, we are still of snd the output next year is ex|M*cted to
oncoming flood, was w recked n e a r Al the opinion that there is money to be
be more than 3,000,000 tons.” While
toona recently. A fter th e flood th e en made in this line of fruit culture, and these ami many other pleasing things
reer and memory of other wealthy men.
There is no support in it for the craay
socialist theory that wealth itself is a
crim e; th a t “ property is th e ft;” th at
t,H’ ri<
*8 ■»ecessarily and justly
w i,ho«t honor. It is not because he was
ricb ’»mt Jay Gould lived tu 's,s‘Cted
and died unregretted. It is not even tie-
cause he used his wealth selfishly, ern-
i’»°Dng n either in charity, nor in in-
gine was found buried b en eath a great our opinion is so strong that we are go- are being said of our sister state, Oregon dustry, nor in public enterprise, nor in
bank of sand n ear w here th e engineer inK to urge our farmer friends to get in still retains her reputation as being “ the that private extravagance and luxury
had abandoned it.
and drill on prune growing.
state just north of California and south of which confers an indirect benefit by em
asliington,’’ and here ends our state’s ploying labor. The mere miaer is an
M ost of the citizens a re agreed th a t
Six or seven men and boys have been
Florence s h a l l be incorporated a t the either killed or permanently disabled by chapter so far as it is known to eastern ,^^eot of public c o n tem p t; but not of tlm
next session of th e L egislature, and we the fool gunner in the Oregon woods people, except that every four years she ^ » « « » iv e and acrid detestatiou which
Gould inspired. He lived and die,I
are now engaged in d ra ftin g a ch arter lately, and the people are asking, “ W hat casts four electoral votes for president. j
in dishonor, not liecaute he was rich,
to be submitted to th e people for th eir is to be done about it—can ’t this thing
THE LESSON OF A LIFE.
but because hie riches were ill-gotten.
approval so soon as th e w riting is done. be stopped?” Well, no, it can’t be coin-
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No life lived in the glare of publicity He was hated ls<cause he took money
Notice will be given for a m eeting at pletely stopped so long as there are any ¡. _
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• 18 «»thout its wido-apreading lesson. from others, by muuus not the less iiu-
the school-house in th e n e a r fu tu re, and idiots left with sporting . proclivities, hut Jh'btì
U » -5nor“1 because the law cannot reach and
1» hoped all in terested p a rtie s w ill be perhaps If drie'of two "of W m e t T
[generation that follows him. Posterity punish them . Me was detested because
present and express th e ir views.
think a m an’s h*i. is a deer’s head were ...¡ ii
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will nor know him and liia <*onttmt|K>- bis exceptional case dem onstrated the
Miss K enealy , th e well know n nurse, to be arrested upon a charge of man rarics take nothing from him. He • I1 rench parn«)ox; because ids property
in a recent lecture before th e h ealth so slaughter, it might discourage their lived in vain, except for the lesson his was theft. The public judgm ent th at
ciety of London, m ade a m ost startlin g brethren for a time and create a lull in life conveys to the youth in whose char held him unworthy of honor was none
the slaughter.
acter building it exerts some of the in the less true, in its discrim ination be
statement regarding th e m o rtality during
the recent cholera epidem ic a t H am burg.
L e M ars , Iowa, was christen«*,! in a fluence of environment. This has a tween him and other men no less
! •'•he said that th e statistic s officially giv curious way. The completion of a rail value not to be despised.
w<*althy, than in the estim ate it made of
The ethical value of Jay Gould's life himself. Riches are not immoral In
en out were wholly in co rrect, an d th a t road to th a t point in the wilderness
while according to them th e d eath s num gave birth to the town, and the few in lies in the fact th at it ran its course themselves. Selfish use of riches is
bered about 5)000, as a m a tte r of fact the habitants succeeded in having a post- without honor and ended without re contem ptible, but not detestable. The
'ictims of the disease num bered fully office establish«*«! there. When the ques gret. The man has lived for a quarter only rich iumii held in ju st ami lasting
18,000,
tion of naming it came up the men very of a century in the very eye of the pub- dishonor is he w ho gets Ida riclics dis
chivalrously decided to call it by the ! He; not willingly, fur no man ever cov- honorably.
A hulking piece of h u m a n ity was re
Demonstration of theae tru th s is of
given name of one of the young ladies of « ^ d privacy and o'wcurity more than
ally sent to jail in Sail Francisco for
the community. But which one? That h e; but necessarily, because the work to inestim able value to young men, whose
'•tree months for choking his foster-
could not be agreed upon, and it was which he devoted himself and the life work is Iwfore th e m ; whose inspira
! lll0tber, u woman of seventy years. The
finally decided to take the initial letter methods he chose to employ could not tions are taking form out of the vohi of
Melty of his defense, th a t he was inere-
of the names of the six most jopular. j hut attract the widest public notice. No un«levelo|M>«| character; whose natures
dressing the old lady an d th a t h er
Their names were Lily, Evelyn, Ma.vle,
»‘as been better known than his are crystallising umier the influence of
! wrangling was b u t in cid en tal to th e ex-
Annie, R uth and Susan.
for tb i’
oi H centur^ I u #’” inherited impulse and a«'«*i<ieutal envi
| France of bis affections, m ig h t have
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rials are filled with the names of ronment. The l«*ss«ma of every life are
’belied some iiearts to th e very quick,
W e desire a petition from the people H(ate8nittIb JljrifltM( ,„en of b,tu .rH
the rightful inheritance of livea th a t
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old ladies have to appeal to th e of this river, a«ldressed to the Lcgisla
pulpit orators and inventors, come after. When a life haa but one
I'vliceto keep them from being petted to ture, requesting the establishing of rt i eacb kuown (Juri„g bfe to a smaller cir- lesson, and th a t a profound and valua
•ieath.
rijbnon hatchery at some point on the cje kjan lb at oj t |,jg ,nani who did noth ble one, it wouhl lie treason to the
river near Seaton. The location should
wort|, r(.llieIIIBering for an hour af tru th and hum anity to cover it up
,,XB excellent feature of th e W orld’s
be agreed upon, and all other details
h<j (Jj| eX).ept t |1Ht ,,e tt(.|bev«*«l the through m istaken
sentim ent.
Jay
t,ur "ill be the o p p o rtu n ities afforded for
arranged, so no contention could possi- wjdeHt Ilotoriety w ithout honor, and a Gould nerved only one useful purpnee
No one can “ d o ” th e g re a t ex- blv arise to endanger the passage of ' |non(jtrou- material success without i »Hve.
Hi" brief memory has only one
i"*ition in one day, n o r in tw o days.
the Act. As our river is the most ini- pub| jc
ethical value now th a t he is «lead. Llv-
‘ expense of a trip to Chicago, living portant salmon producing stream, on This is th e lesson of Jay Gould's
life ing and dead, lie makes th b tru th plain .
there and daily adm ission to the this part of the coast, other than the for the gent;r#tjon t|,at follows him. Il th a t w Idle w ealth well gotten and wisely
tfl,>inds will he beyond th e reach ot
Columbia, and as other localities are u,a(.lu>H t |,e »«rrenness of mere material use«l is honorable, and wealth selfishly
,hany deserving persons, particularly m aking an effort in this direction, it i" BU(>CWJrt k revenjt
the impotence of u.wd is wasted, weaiib acquired in cyn-
*om«n. Mrs. F. B. C larke, of St. P aul,
hard to understand why the
„ ert| tb u, (.on.rnand resps t. It enipl.a- “-»I contem pt of moral stam lar.ls, how-
‘ ‘H-'inber »it th e B oard of Lady Man- should be behind iifth e race.
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the pricelcssnens of honor. Jt be- ever used, can buy nothing hut public
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, . i detestation. This dem onstration is a
*^r8’ bas proposed a p lan th a t reflects
TitttoUGflour nearly all our exchanges tra \s t o uni tang a ,« | ri
public send«». It ought not to he de-
h|uch honor on herself as it promises
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rticle published by the .indifference to common e. uca s an< feiite<, by m awkish sentim entality about
for th e beneficiaries. “ Scholar- we notu e ie
Danielson ha«l ards. lew young men «*an fail to see the sham re*|>e<*t thought to be due to
J|l)s "ill be sold to w ealthy ¡»ersons (jtmrd, th a t the s< loontr
& ,liOuth th a t the success Jay Gould won was the dead.—.Sunday O/vy«/niaa,
* i ’cieties, and will ’«x by th em confer- gone to pieces on the sj.it at the