Cottage Grove sentinel., January 25, 1912, Image 4

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Orrin Bennett, of Eugene, has
signified his intention of running
for county commissioner in this dis
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IVace has been declared in nearly all
A D V E R TIS IN G R A TE S
If all laud was like that in the the South America republics to allow
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inches Readmit notices. 5 cents par line each insertion. Want ads. 1 cent per famous, fertile, fruitful W illamette, them to recuperate for the spring elec­
word; no ad. less than 15 cents. Kates on position made known on application. the back - to - the - soil movement tions.
There were 70 volcanoes in the world
O f i i». t_, F i f t h S x ., S o f t h o r POS TOFF tot would have easy sailing.
before Roosevelt or Bryan were horn.
A first-class publication e n te n d at Cotta»;«' Grove as second class mail matter
In the category with "W ho hit Hilly
The person with plenty of good, red
THURSDAY. JA N U A RY »5. 1912
Patterson?" should come "W here do blood coursing through his veins seldom
all the trusts go to a fte r they are dis­ gets the blues.
solved?"
A few more wars ought fi bring
When President T aft gets " s e t " on about peace.
doing a certain thing, it seems pretty
The quick-chungc vaudeville artist
hard to move him from his position. sometimes gets a good salary, but the
N a tu ra lly !
quick-change man in the I kix office gets
Henri Watterson and Col. Kryan op­ the dough.
pose Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow may Men may not live longer than women,
get there yet.
but they get old quicker.
An
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poet
won
$10,000
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More law suits are won before the
What to do with ex-convicts is one question that might well
lottery and says he will write no more. case comes to trial than afterwards.
take the place of some of the other problems that are taking up
I We wish we had enough ten thousands
much time and will be of little worth when solved.
You can hardly he a non-believer and
to go around.
be a Christian Scientist.
The problem of the government taking care of criminals after
Dr. O ile r’s chloroforming idea does-
their release is vital to the well being of the government itself, as
To reform the world quickly, take
not
seem to tie as popular as it ought
well as being important from an humanitarian standpoint. It is
away the need of money.
to be.
especially important in the case of convicts released because of
If everyone believed what the new s­
We are again informed th a t the end
being found not guilty of the crimes for which they were con­
papers say, what a misled old world
| of the world is near at hand. Well,
victed .
this would be.
let 'or come; we don't intend to risk
In the case of the man who has received only his just deserts
I'retty compliments ure the only
our life in trying to stop it.
for some injustice to his fellowtnan, it would be the part of wis­
kind you should pay a woman.
dom for the goverment to so prepare him for his new battle with
Some burglars got into a stock pro­
In Tennessee Mr. Beech has married
the world that he will not again become a charge of and expense
m oter's office in Chicago the other
to the state.
nig h t—and got away without losing Miss Willow. Wc suppose there will
always be a dispute as to which aide
anything.
From an humanitarian standpoint we owe a convict, after the
of the house the furtiily tree originated
expiation of his crime, an opportunity to better himself and pro­
Lorinier and Stephenson still hold
from.
vide for his needs—and from a social standpoint we owe it to our­
their seats, but otherwise than that
Many a successful man ia a complete
selves to make him a useful citizen. How much more do we owe
there does not seem to be much indica-
failure.
one who has been unguilty of the crime for which he has un­
; tion that congress is in session.
justly suffered?
I’retty soon the necessities of life
An eastern professor says Ksperanto
will
coat more than the luxuries.
Circumstantial evidence can send a man to jail for stealing a
' can never be used for the expression
There's one nice thing about being
copper penny, but if later found unguilty he has no recourse.
of high and soul-stirring thought. Why
The law cannot be put in jail for having robbed him of time,
| teach it in the shcools, then, if it is of poor. No one is likely to auk where
money and reputation.
no use to valedictorians and salutator- you got it.
Failure often stimulates to success.
| ians?
However, far distant as it may seem, it is not improbable
that a time will come that the hand that punishes will also pro­
Some men tell more fairy stories to
Roosevelt shows a verbosity border­
vide the means of starting on the right road those who have paid
ing on garrulousness upon every other their wives than they do to their child­
the penalty of their misdeeds. At any rate it is a good subject
subject but th a t of whether or not he ren.
for those looking for great problems to solve.
A little agitation
will be a candidate for the presidential
The man in the (noon gets half full
along these lines can do no harm and may result in much good.
| nomination.
on two quarters.
Sometimes a fallow takes a tumble
Sometimes the unexpected also fails
to himself and discovers where he has to happen.
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The things we do ure not iniatakea
A GREAT FORCE.
In these days when it is the fad
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It cost a New Year girl $20,000 to until someone else does them.
One of the greatest forces for to criticise p ublic officials, am i find out what kind of a man ahe had
A book agent has a hard lime talking
good in the country today is th e w h e n m a n y o f th e m d e s e rv e such married. If she really found out it to a woman who is playing with her
agricultural school, and no sta te c ritic ism , it is a p leasure to be able waa probably worth the money,
first baby.
can longer boast of h i g h e r educa- to praise one j u s t l y . C o n g re ssm a n » The plumbing trust has been dis-
A gossip is a woman who repeats the
tion which does not have one. Hawley is demonstrating every »o|ved
L“ Angelea, but the meni- things that her husband hears from
. ^ ers will probably charge the people so men who would be scandalized if called
They are one of th e g re a te st, if not
l° a w h '_le *b a t h e
much per hour while they are figuring gossips.
the g re a te st, sin g le affirm ative force that the proper way to develop, out a gentlemiin.8 agT9tment
Sometimes the expected unexpected­
Oregon is to open the land to the ------------------------------------
in the baek-to-the soil movement.
ly happens.
They are making farming as actual settler, whether that land be
When you think other people arc sel­
much a business as keeping a store, in the forest reserve or not, and
fish, just try to think of how many un­
or running a newspaper. They are many a homesteader has had occa­ Span of horses, mare, two selfish things you have done yourself
Studebaker wagons, new bug­
teaching men and women how to sion to thank Mr. Hawley in the gy. Cheap if taken at once. during the week past.
Some of the greatest truths have
make as good a living, or a better obtaining of patents to government J. T. Davis, Cottage Grove.
been spoken by folks who didn’t know
land. In a county like Lane hav­ Phone 112-J.
one, than can be made in a city.
w hat they were saying.
They are teaching men and ing more timber, it is said, than
No m atter how young a woman may
women how to make the farm a any other county in the United
A man is never too busy to stop and look it ia a mistake to tell her she ia
pleasant place to live—teaching States, it is pleasant, indeed, to tell you how much work he has to do. i well preserved.
II is said tha t Poet Laureate Austin
them how to get along with as few have at W ashington a public offi-
The wife of a self-made man is al­
every has made the sta te m e nt tha t he docs ways busy keeping him from making a
hours work as their city relatives, cial w h o is w illin g to b e nd
a c tu a l not like America. There'» one Kng- fool of himself.
by training them to do more work effort to open th e land to
se ttle m e n t.
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lishman who believes in reciprocity.
When you hear something dreadful
and better work in a given space of
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A Chicago bachelor is trying to fig- about a friend, just take it fur granted
time.
II th e re is o n e t h i n g a b o u t w h ic h ure out
what would happen if he —tha t it isn't so until the proofs are
And their teachings are not con­ w e ste rn n e w sp a p e rs s h o u ld be c a re -I ownetl heaven and had a wife. The forthcoming, and don't hunt around for
fined to young folks. The older c ful i it • is a b i o u t . o v e r s ta
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girl he would get the other place
folks, who once thought agricul­ s ta tin g as facts t h in g s t h ° a t a re th e j cago
When a man gets into a mean of
too
tural schools were a snare and a
trouble he always seems to have a
m e re st possibility. S u c h s ta te m e n ts
An eagtern man Kot three yearg for
bunch of friends—who ju st knew it
delusion, have had their eyes
o n ly react to th e d e tr im e n t of th e stealing 15 cent*. The east doesn't eouldn’t help but happen.
opened and are going there them­ c o u n tr y . S o m e pa p e rs so m e tim e s i like a man who only starts a job.
I t's easier to run up a hill than it ia
selves to study. Take the short re m in d one o f th e old s ta te m e n t
So far aa we have been able to learn to pay it up.
course of the Oregon Agricultural a b o u t D a k o ta " w h e r e e v e r y tre e is Bellamy Storer has not offered to nomi-
A wise chaperone never Icta the
college. Its membership is made a w a v in g forest, e v e ry r iv u le t a nat‘ Roosevelt.
young folks know tha t ahe knows tha t
up largely of those who have long
m ig h t y river, e v e ry h a m le t a popu-
Tha fact th a t the "eco,n<1 Kenerati" n she is being fooled.
usually squanders the fortune of the
ago taken up their life work, who lous city, and every man a
The mari who pats you on the hack
b la ste d prevjou, generation is probably the
are earning a living for themselves liar.” The truth about this
may be just picking.out the moat vul­
c o u n - ; cre a to r’s socialistic way of dividing
nerable spot to stick a knife into you.
and families. And the officers state try is hard enough to believe, so j things up.
Half of the people don’t deserve the
that the membership was increased
don’t exaggerate.
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that they get and the other half
something like 55 per cent, this
do n 't get half what they deserve.
year. It is ably demonstrating
The Eugene Guard and the Port­
The worst trouble about marrying a
that folks are never too old to learn. land Oregonian are having a littie
widow is the taking the children along
on the wedding trip.
fuss between themselves and seem to
A living may be easy to make in be getting quite a little amusement
The Woodrow Wilson letter about
from Cottage Grove, 25 acres
Oregon, but Oregon doesn’t want out of it, if nothing else. The Sen­ west slope; easily prepared for Bryan seems destined to take its place
the people who are looking for an tinel is of the opinion that neither orchard, 25 acres fine piling and in the archives of the nation alongside
easy living. It wants and needs paper portrays anywhere near cor­ mining timber, balance pasture. of those in the Controller hay incident,
workers, developers, producers— rectly the sentiments that exist in Only $15 per acre, $750 down, the Bellamy Storer incident and those
balance on time. Verv little $15 per
to Rogers, of Standard Oil fame.
men with wealth and the brains to use
their respective fields of endeavor, acre land remains aFtout Cottage Grove
A father wouldn’t be nearly so proud
it—men with muscles, and a will­ and perhaps their little tiff between and this snap will not remain open of his son if he didn’t get into some of
long. Apply to
ingness to use them. To these Old
themselves may keep them from V. O. Box 45H, Cottage Grove, Oregon the deviltry th a t the old man did when
Oregon bids a hearty welcome and
a kid.
hammering away at something else
offers more than any other state
The divorce courts wouldn't be so
where they might hurt something.
A woman feels that she has kept a bad if they didn’t make it possible for
can offer in this great land of op­
secret if she succeeds In keeping her
The editorial and letter published informant from knowing th a t she told people to go and do the same things
portunity.
over again.
in last week's Sentinel advocating it.
A woman amilea a t the way ahe
The railroads have again granted the paying for street improvements We are glad some people change
works the men with her tears.
the colonist rates for the coming out of the general fund of the city, their minds once in awhile. We would
Too many people believe too many
spring and are predicting a greater or a special fund provided for that dislike to have them stay in the same-
thinga tha t they know a re n ’t so.
sta te of mind all the time.
influx of settlers than ever before. purpose, has stirred up considerable
A pessimist ia often an optimist who
A fire always bums best on a hot
It is reasonable to expect that just agitation. Friends of the present
has
backslid because the things he
day.
following the great land show and system of taxation, whereby only
The less brains a man has the more predicted didn’t come true.
exhibits in the east that the move­ abutting property pays for the im­ he likes to make a show of them.
The man who makes every move
ment westward will be large. The provements, claim to be able to The next best thing to seeing a with the idea of meeting popular ap­
magnificent exhibit made by the puncture boles in the arguments of woman devoted to her husband is to » proval seldom completely achieves hia
ambition.
Willamette at Omaha ought to in­ those who 'favor the new system. see a man who is worthy of th a t devo­
We ourselves are the only people
tion.
sure its receiving its proportion of The Sentinel's columns are open
The man who does things is never who have real trouble -our neighbors
the new comers.
for arguments. Go to it.
imagine or enlarge theirs.
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