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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1917)
Game Warden sack, contribuì pease of $400,000 a year. The a r nations, for civil representative gov ticle is entitled “Mourning in U ernment, for On intangible thing Hours,” a sign which is displayed ev which it has akan the moral travail erywhere amgpg the Paris shops, since the war bereavements have be come so frequent. h I t is not so much from its hospital stories, well told as they are, but more from the philosophical refiec- great war th at we quote liberally in the following paragraphs: “One man, enamored of the idea of ‘ his own greatness, mistook himself 1 dor a god and set out to conquer the ' world. It was a large plan, but not 1 unique. It had been held, if I remem- 1 ber rightly, by a number of abler men, by Alexander, by Ceasar, by Napoleon. And yet "he could have I eatried it off, could have done this big thing, even so feeble a man as the HohenaoUern, if he had not for gotten one thing. He forgot th at God is Love. He made the mistake of believing th at God is Force.” \ in the stato of Oregon has been M 1-fl • per cent per yeafr. With the comple- , tion of good roads this increase will > naturally be larger.' However, we i have not taken any increase into ac- i caunt but have based our figures on : the present number of automobiles.” TO m jL L IF T STATE LAW. Here isW h at the Oregon Journal says about Curry county’s attem pt to nullify a state law: The County court of Curry county , is not a bashful tribunal. It does not believe, evidently, in being bound By precept or rule. It has declared the statute calling the special election for June 4 to be unconstitutional, and the election to have been “illegally “I am coming to approdato thè The Ohio Germans who aro for thè called.” It has entered a formal o r source ed thè veritable miraci« b/ United Btetee in ito war with Ger der in wUsh it says th at “notice is which Frane«, th è , ahnoet-conquered, many, but a t the seam time hope to hereby given th at this court will re is now thè almast-eonqueror. It is fuse to authorise the holding of such thè power of thè Spiriti I bave talked election in Curry county or to pay any with thoee who wsre in Paris in those expenses incurred by reason of *ueh election, and the clerfc is hereby in structed to refrain from taking any landscape spoke only of p m et and stop« toward holding such proposed tranquillity. But the harvesters wem election.” It is a new experience in Oregon for a County court t* usurp the func tions of the Supreme court and, be ' “There are, of course, all too many yond its power, to set aside the man cases where death would be a mercy. dates of the legislature. It il a nov It is not always a tragedy. For elty to see a court by formal order death Is dignified and quiet, full of direct an adm inistrative oflfaer to re promise^ without scar or mutilation. fuse to head the law. Death is se austerely beautiful th at Thè spectacle would be amusing if we who stand in the midst of it, do it were not serious. Failure to hold not look upon it as unfriendly. The the special election in Curry eouhty, haunting tragedy hem is not death,— in common with the other counties of it is the hideous, multiform, disabling the state, would cast doubts on the True, it was a vain boast, but I see mutile tion, the leas of vision, of no evidence th at the intention back of validity of the road bond issue, should it has suffered any change, and I see no mason to believe, even now, that would east doubt upon the fate of all given the opportunity, Germany other measure« on tae ballot. It would not carry out her lawleea would result in a chaos of uncertainty and litigation. threat-" •, The court should recall its order HEARING PRESIDENT WILSON. and perm it the law to take its course. We have all mad mom or less about If it does not the Supreme court Proeidm t Wilson’s address to Con should be asked to teach the court of gress advocating a declaration of war. Curry county the limitations of Ha Well, hem is something from Freder authority, the fullness of its duty and ick M. Davenport, in the Outlook, the lim its of its Jurisdiction. which is different and which will grip KILL FLIES AND SAVE LIVES. the reader in who«« heart American Kill a t once every fly you can find blood throbe: and burn his body. grave, thoee ready and eager to be Observers say th at them am many Inert, thoughtless, divided, non-pa- gone, but the young and the strong, masons to believe them will be mom iriotic though the American rrrrpl« ardent leoem e f life, tim pramiee of flies this season th sn for a num ber of the raee, thoee who seek and need the may seem, it needs, whop the ti^ e discipline of active years. One of comes, but the divine spark of leader the boys in my wards is only nine ship to melt all hearts, to weld all teen, many am twenty and twenty- wills into one channel of power, to one, nearly all am under thirty. Eu •et the might of American democracy rope has strangled her own future. free to serra the world. That is what the speech of the Praa- She has given the future to the two Americas,—perhaps, in part, to Asia. idetndid. I watched the Senators file Especially clean “out-of-the-way “I am surrounded by heroic souls. ■nto the seats reserved for them in places," and every nook^and cranny. In one of my wards I have a beautiful the House of Representatives. Jus- Flies will not go where them is young girl who crossed on the same ticee of the Supreme Court, Ambass nothing to eat, and their principal adors, and representatives of plain diet is too filthy to mention. America tkrouged the galleries and were still. The President came. Them W ORK T H A T T EL L S. was a cheer, and then all again was hushed as before. The President be gan to mad. Them was neither rhet orical artifice nor oratorical surge of personality. His voice was not strong. His manner was solemn and And for a time only the tensity of the throng marked the response to his words. But suddenly the vast assem blage detected in the Message the •nger, trium phant note of democratic freedom. “We will not chooee the path of eubmiaeion.” said their rreat National leader. And as if the shift ing sands had become rock under their feet, they roe« in their places conviction th at when the Children of and with the shout of men who will Force menace the Right and Liberty hem liberty or report to God alone and Civilisation of the world, Ameri ’the reaeon for not having it, they bore ca, which pr pfemee to cam for these to the world outside the first sure tid things, ought to be doing her sham in ings of the invincible determination of their defense.” the awakened spirit of the American people. Aad so it continued to the end By the remarkable I n s is t end re * r.i„ t • f bla interpretation, as well as by the thoroughness of his programme and the completeness of his redemp tion from the phrasing and fallacies The ash heap is no place for a Straw Hat until it is smashed. Just because it is dirty and yellow is no sign it should be discarded. Get another dollar or two worth o f wear out o f it by cleaning with ELK A V S STRAW HAT CLEANER Fuhrman’s Pharmacy gon. And it also I ing ground«. Moi the state are la| farm«, but Cusry j raw state, with •■ all «trip along I «mall valley« »Ion There is more I ry county for deer We have the nM tan bark, live « black oak acorns, sm all shrub« and hrowse upon. Thi eus small prairies ed through the n there is plenty of plenty of water ip in Curry county, is found between creeks and there a thirty-five and foi There are two coa seven or eight he* five or six head Butler mountain mountain. There is plenty county, but the p pretty well thinna are increasing rap coyotes. ^ There were moi through the moun places, and plenty N eeded M ore COQUILLE OREGON The material for your Wisconsin Silo We have been j about vacant lot ft of preparedness and is interesting to re tions on that subjeo F. Hunt, of the ai ment of theUniven “The farm er si much meat, eggs, I he can. W liat the derstond, and what' era do not realise, emergency need mn greater quantities food for domestic “Most of the cun food problem has n potatoes in the bJ rice instead of pol tor of fact, the oppj two-thirds of »11 t coast family spend foods of animal 4 milk, butter and fl mens« importance greatest possible * for m eat and dairy “The disease kl starvation” need United States. In Cffig gold u g “Never will it t by legal or militai of food to be com can people, but may make it d greatly the servi the retailer and th at service for o a considerable nu: “Moreover, it a individual states E n ters