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

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Things We Think
When you meet it friend carrying a
cup o f sorrow, fill it with milk o f hu­
man kindness.
There are many who believe some o f
the nporta o f Jack Johnson's prowess
are colored.
Thing« others think, and what w «
think o f ths thii^s other« think.
President T a ft has a double, the
Women's hats may yet be sold at so news dispatches say.
W ell, there'«
much a front foot.
enough o f him fur two, anyway.
There is no froth or foam on the
temperance wave.
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A magnetic personality may some­
O f f i c e , F i f t h S t ., S o u t h o f P o s t o f f i c e ; times get shortcircuited.
A first-class publication entered at Cottage Grove as second class mail matter.
Automobiles are traveling the pace
that kills— pedestrians.
T H U R S D A Y . J U L Y 25, 1912
Things naturally look dark to the
man whose eye has been Mucked.
came
along
and
larceny
is
no
longer
There’s a whole lot of first per-
We don’ t care what's at the top o f
a capital offense. Pernicious maud­
son about the third party.
Mount McKinley but we would like to
lin sentiment!
know w hat'« at the iKittom o f the high
Olden time tyrants, who had an cost o f living.
“ Tbou shalt not steal” is a com­
Highway Expert of Agricultnral
College Explains Economi­
cal Repair Work.
"T o
the farm er better roads fr e ­
quently mean the difference l>etweeii
Every time anyone makes a sug­
gestion about doing away with
capital punishment, The Oregon­
ian, that great pabulum of liberty
and righteousness, with an over­
whelming fear for the safety of
society, froths at the mouth, ful­
minates and prates about maudlin
sentiment, as if sentiment were
little short of high treason and
anyone indulging therein a nincom­
poop, neurotic, mollycoddle and
nature faker.
The Oregonian is evidently enter­
ing upon its second infancy, as far
as reasoning power is concerned,
retaining at the same time the
crabid disposition and peppery tem­
per sometimes attendant upon old
age.
W e will draw a few comparisons
just to show where its method of
reasoning is faulty.
The man who takes a gun in a
moment of frenzied fury and snuffs
out a human life, shows none of
that quality of maudlin sentiment
so distasteful to the Portlaud daily
and his method of procedure must
be highly pleasing to the hard­
hearted, blood-thirsty Oregonian
Not long ago the authorities of
Vermont hanged a man who had
been sent to the insane asylum 30
limes in his 45 years of life. Surely
a pleasing lack of display of maud­
lin sentiment.
In Delaware recently two men
were whipped with a cat-o’-uine-
tails until their naked backs were
seamed and interseamed with livid
welts and the gore dripped from
the wounds into the falling snow.
The crime was that of larceny.
Truly an edifying monument to
our lack of maudlin sentiment,
One man received 40 lashes, the
other 20. At the time The Ore­
gonian printed the following com­
ment from a local paper:
The men suffered frigh tfu lly from
the cold and from the blood-letting
lashes, and staggered, semiconscious
back to their cells. The whipping, as
are all Deleware whippings, was pub­
lic, and a morbid crowd stood against
the prison walls and saw the heavy
leather strap with its nine thongs cut
deep into the quivering flesh o f the
wretched men.
The men were to have been lashed
early but the two degrees below zero
chilled Warden Crawford himself to
such an extent that he postponed the
whipping until the day warmed.
In the afternoon, when a four-degree
rise in the temperature was noted, the
warden put on a furlined coat and or­
dered the men out * * *
Their arms were freed and thev stag­
gered back from the cross. Guards
seized them. Without washing away the
blood, they drew heavy, coarse, woolen
undershirts over their bodies and then
pushed them half frozen back to their
cells.
H ow The Oregonian’s chops
must have watered over this choice
piece of gory news. Its appetite
for blood must have been at least
partially satiated. Truly it would
be a heinous crime for maudlin
sentiment to interfere with this
enlightened manner of punish­
ment.
When Butcher W eyler governed
Cuba his soldiers used to hang
naked men and women on the
pillory and mutilate and dissect
them before the gaze of morbid,
gaping crowds.
W hat a shame
that maudlin sentiment has done
away with this refined method of
chastisement!
A century or so ago men and
women were hung In England for
committing larceny, but that didn’t
stop stealing, so maudlin sentiment
Some men “ s e t'' around all day and
edified themselves listening to the
all they hatch is a story to tell their
squeals and curses of the victims
wives about laying the foundation for
while the mortar hardened and the future.
they diet! in excruciating agony.
Miss Margery Chester, a petite North
Those were the days when The Dakota maiden, has married a man by
Oregonian’s editorial policy would the name o f Umpgazimgazowskinski.
Love w ill do moat anything.
have been properly appreciated.
I f the people who pack the berries
The milk of human kindness has
we buy should make a mistake some­
congealed and caked in The Ore­
time and turn the box upside down
gonian’s breast. It is cold blooded • when filling, we would come pretty
and its touch clammy. But while near gettin g full measure.
it chortles in ghoulish glee over
The man who was sent to the insane
the mangled bodies of legally aslyum because he insisted there were
murdered criminals, some of them twenty in his family, while the court
found there was only he and his w ife,
inuocent of the crimes for which
may have figured that his w ife was 2
they give their lives, we will be
and he was the 0.
satisfied with a little sentiment,
A Pittsburg hen has laid a five-yolk
feeling that this world is not all egg. Someone has to do something to
that there is of life and that it is keep up the reputation o f the old town
better, if need be, for a guilty — but say, i f that e g g should ever be­
one to escape deserved punishment come overripe the g ra ft exposure smell
would never be noticed.
than that the blood of one innocent
Some well-to-do philanthropists, with
one be upon our bauds.
much commendable concern for the
common people, have elucidated, a fter
AM ERICAN MOLLYCODDLES
much investigation, a theory that if
W e have it continuously aud we substitute rump roasts for high-
persistently hammered aud pounded priced steaks on our bill-of-fare, the
price o f beef w ill decline. This is at
into us that the American race is
least gettin g behind the meat question.
retrograding, degenerating, atro­
phying; that idleness and luxury
are developing a race of weaklings
and mollycoddles; that the terrible
strain of our frenzied business life
is developing a nation of physical
dwarfs with withered muscles and
spindling legs.
In view of these dire predictions,
the records made in the Olympic
games at Stockholm are refreshing.
Americans showed their superior­
ity against the world, especially in
endurance coutests; and outdis­
tanced nations which we are told
it would be well to emulate in the
development of physical prowess.
The Olympic games brought out
the fact that the American people
overdo everything. They make a
mania of whatever they go into,
and while we have abnormally de­
veloped
business
and
financial
maniacs, we also have athletic
maniacs, overdeveloped in their
special line.
Wheu it comes to a
test the Americans take the lead.
“ Pop prayed lor Clark,’’ says
Kermit Roosevelt.
Anyw ay the
Colonel doesn’t seem to have fooled
the Lord.
SERVICE OF A N IM A L S TO M AN
The elephant, the emblem of the
Republican party, is a tractible
animal that is easily made sub­
servient to the will of man and in­
duced
to divert
its enormous
strength to the service of humanity.
The service to man of the donkey,
emblem of Democracy, will never
be forgotten. The camel, emblem­
atic of prohibition, has been indis-
pensible since the days of Sanskrit.
Even the Populistic billy goat will
clear your land for you while
earning 10 per cent on your in­
vestment producing wool, but the
only time a bull moose is of any
service to man is after he is dead.
W e have no objection to one par­
ticular bull moose being reduced
to a serviceable condition.
Receipts $240 Per Acre.
Common sense is uncommon.
Many infant prodigies grow up into
adult prodigals.
Re moderate in all things. Do not
break off your bad habits viciously.
The government has discovered an
oleo-garchy o f butterine manufac­
turers.
There is no particular merit in being
good when all around you are good.
Government by commission is way
ahead o f government for commission.
When it gets cold enough to crystal-
ize the milky way we have a snow
storm.
The cost o f living is high, but it will
cost you nothing to bury your troubles.
Saying a woman has a wealth o f hair
may not always mean that it is golden.
The person with a sharp tongue
never cuts much o f a swath as a popu­
lar idol.
W e must disagree with the scientists
who say kissing causes disease. Kiss­
ing, however, is itself a disease with
some people.
bill has found traffic
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f] To pave the wuy to hotter homes, a more com­
fortable existence for the people of this city, and
community, ¡ h our ambition.
$| To acquire knowledge of how to make home life
more enjoyable for you and to do so ut the leust
IMissihle expense is our duty.
4] The more you. as parents, minister to the pride of
home and render it inviting and reposeful the more ♦J
enjoyment you and your children will get out o f life.
«J The Home Should Be *Thv Onr llrasant
Spilt."
Let Us Help You Make It So
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cents in March, but they must be de­
livered in town, and the roads were so
bad he could not haul over them. Wheu
he finally got them to market his pota­
toes brought him 90 cents a bushel. Y
The bad roads cost him $020, and now
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“ While the farm er receives as great
financial gain from gmsl roads as any­ « »
one, he has the added social benefits.
Under present conditions it is often
im|K>ssible for his children to go to
school regularly, his fam ily to go to
church except when the roads are dried
H t TH OM AS W LAW S O N
out, his doctor to reach him in time to
be o f most help, or his mail to be de­
livered regularly. With better roads
A fte r careful study o f the problem bustle, pros|x-rity ami contentment for
this can all be changed, and graded
set
forth in your telegram, were I man. woman and child. I f I were poa'
school and larger churches always fo l­
graduating today from college, Knat, aeaseil o f $S h ,<MM) to $60,000 capital. In
low these improvements.
Weal or South, I would ht-ail alraight
“ It is not necessary that a great deal
a twelvemonth I would telegraph bark
for the great, undevcio|>«d N«>rlhweat.
o f money be s|>ent on our highways,
to Mradxlrcr t ami Dun to mark my rat
I would buy my ticket for 1‘ortland,
but what is invested should be used
ing #126,non. ami then three tw elve­
Oregon. 1 would speml my first week
carefully and intelligently. A few dol­
months later I would w ire them to
in that spleiwiiil prototype of our old,
lars spent at the right time w ill save
make it from half to three-quarters of
«‘onaervative and intellectual but withal
repairs costing hundreds, and moat of
a
million.
courageous and huatling New England
the roads where there is no heavy
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f I had only my carfare, Bible,
capital o f a half century sgo. While |
through travel may be improve«! in this
in Portland I woukl h«unt the report- dictionary and fountain p«n, I would
way.”
urial departments o f the daily new« semi wor«l to the old folks to watch
Mr. Ayres then deacri!>ed the process papers the ever welcoming rooms o f the out for the Christmas coming o f the
o f building sand-clay roads: the initial numerous business clubs ami the boom- °kl borne mortgage lifter, ami I would
grading with a proper crown and drain­ ing departments o f the great railroails l i t tnv pal «log, for o f course I'd have
age ditches, the distribution ami pack­ and navigation lines centering in that him along, against a (touch o f Udiacro
ing o f the clay, spreading o f the sand, superb Pacific metropolis.
that when Christmas rainr I wouldn't
and ploughing and harrowing it in
Then 1 would light out and into the be making excuses for not coming
lightly on top. This ty(>e o f roa«l has modern paradise o f happiness ami dol­ East. Details? Bosh!
given excellent satisfaction in the lars, the virgin interior o f that won­
When you wake up in Golcomia you
southern and middle-western states, derful state, a world in itaelf, contain­ should not waste your time looking for
but little work o f the sort nas been ing to spare ami then Iota more o f a business guide. A ll you need is a
done as yet in the Pacific northwest. everything that makes for health. rake ami bag.
It has prove«! successful in soils ami
climatic conditions similar to those
promises to be very fine and the fruit
Pears Sell at $2.00.
found in Oregon, and there is no ques­
large in size. The apple crop never
tion as to its value for our rural high­
The first sale o f Rogue R ive r (tears
Imiktsl belter, and growers are expec'
ways.
for the season o f 1912 was made July
ing a good season.
“ The saving in expense over other 12th by the Ruguu River Fruit A Pro­
forms o f road is no mean item ,” con­ duce Association through its selling
Snake Ia Kggbound.
tinued P rof Ayres.
“ The average agent, the Northwestern Fruit Ex­
A snake in search o f f«xtd, near Mil-
coat for saml-clay roads is but $729 a change. The order la for a car o f ” Hc«l bourne, carr.e upon a chicken's egg ly ­
mile for 24,601 miles in the United Triangle brand” o f B artlett pears, to ing outaide a henroost.
The snake
States, compared with a coat o f $4,9*9 be delivere«! in August ami the price ia auckeil in the egg, which passed to­
a mile for macatlam. In other words, $2 per box, f. o. b. Rogue R iver valley. ward the region o f his tail in the form
The pre-harvest campaign ia n spe­ o f an oval sw elling. He then raised
about seven miles o f good sand-clay
road can be built for the same money cial feature o f the work o f the North­ his bead ami perceiving a knothole on
With one the wooden henroost wall, inaerteti hia
as one mile o f plain or water-bouml western Fruit Exchange.
macadam. The cost o f maintenance is hundred and fifty branches in America head and the forepart o f hia body, ami
leas than for any other form o f im­ and Europe, tha exchange is in a posi­ swallowed a second egg. On the ap­
provement except the earth road, and tion to put northwest fruit before prac­ proach o f the owner o f the henroost,
horses and automobiles alike prefer it tically every buyer o f the two conti­ the snake tired to retire, but the second
nents.
to any o f the hard surface roads.
egg would not pass through the knot­
H ealth, Hustle and Prosperity I o Be
hound in O regon.
“ The road must first be graded and
A county exchange says, “ Mr. Silas
drained carefully, and
should be
Jenkins is enjoying a visit from his
crowned about one inch to the foot and
mother-in-law.” For Mr. Jenkins’ sake
smooth hb a rag. It can be greatly
we hope it is true.
improved by adding sand even i f no
A New York woman is being sued grading has been done but the expense
for payment o f a bill o f face paints, w ill be much greater. The sand muat
powders and cosmetics, which she e v i­ be sharp and coarse, but need not bi­
dently got on her face.
as clean as is required for concrete. It
Those lawmakers who are now pos­ sho <ld be brought and piled along the
ing as victims o f the laws forbidding shoulders o f the road in dry weather
graft, are given a splendid opportunity when teaming is cheaper, though con­
o f learning how the people feel when struction can not begin until the rains
soften the clay. The cheapest way is
made victims o f legislative laws.
to spread the sand 4 to 6 inches deep
A blind girl says she can’ t see why
over the w et clay and let the traffic
she should love the man she is suing
mix the materials. Economy is the
for breach o f promise, but she can feel
only argument for this, and as more
that she does. That is gettin g the
sand is usually required to fill the ruts
sense o f touch developed to a fine
and holes formed by the heavier teams,
point.
even this advantage is sometimes lost.
The kicker should ponder well upon The road is almost impassable to heavy
the fate o f the mule, who is so handy loads until the sand and clay are thor­
with his posterior extrem ities, but oughly mixed.
who, not only leaves nothing to poster­
" A better way ia to spread the sand
ity, but has no posterity to leave any­
evenly to a width o f 12 or 16 feet, mix­
thing to.
ing well with plough and harrow. A
A ll must admit that it is more o f an depth o f 6 inches is enough for light
effort to be morally perfect in these travel, and a foot for^heavy loads. The
frenzied days than it was in the days road drag should be used often to
o f our grandfathers, when winding the maintain the crown and fill ruts which
clock and kissing your w ife good night w ill form in the first few months. I f
made up the night’s carousal.
the road does not compare favorably
Bookeeping should figure in every with gravel or macadam as soon as the
business, but some o f the government sand is added to the clay, it should
prosecutions o f illegal combinations not be considered a failure. Its con­
show that the latter have developed struction is a gradual process, and the
surface w ill not be at its best in lea«
this part o f the business put o f du
than six month«. I f it gets muddy,
proportions.
add more sand; i f it is too dry and
A good memory is sometimes a dis­
dusty, more clay ia needed. A ll that
agreeable things.
i« required for maintenance is the addi­
One o f the New York papers re­
tion o f a little more sand to the clay
cently ran a sermon on “ Man’s Duty
each year, and the occasional use o f a
to God and Man” alongside o f a state­
drag.”
ment by a sugar trust official that the
tariff has no appreciable effect on the
Returned -T o m A w brey has returned
cost o f living. It is only a step from from an extended vacation on his fruit
the sublime to the ridiculous.
farm and w ill now give special atten­
Receiving a gross revenue o f more
than $240 per acre from his nine-acre
cherry orchard, or a total income o f
more than $2200, B. I. Ferguson haH
just harvested the largest crop o f
cherries from his famous ‘ ‘ Cherry
H ill” fruit farm here, that it has ever
produced, the total yield being between
21 and 22 tons o f fruit. Mr. Ferguson
received from four to 16 cent* per
pound for his crop and using 5 cents as
the average price, he disposed o f $2200
The railroad
worth o f cherries.— Eola special to
congested.
Polk County Observer.
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stHuence and bankruptcy,” said Prof.
Krnest Flagg Ayres, highway engineer
o f the Oregon Agricultural College in
a lecture this week to the summer
mand to those addressed and has admirable lack of maudlin senti­
You often lose more by the friends students.
ment, used to amuse themselves you allow yourself to associate with
no reference to the speaker.
" A Wisconsin farmer held 1000 bush­
and banish dull ennui by planting than by the enemies who put you on els o f potatoes in his cellar, waiting
human beings in concrete and then your mettle.
for a good price. He was offered 92
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press office.
Call at the ex ­
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This sale starts the season well. It
•peaks well for the *‘ Ke<! Triangle
brand” o f friu t (tacked and guaranteed
by the Rogue R iver F fu it Produce A s ­
sociation. as this sale was maiie solely
on the reputation o f the “ Rad T r i­
angle brand,” which ia la-ginning to
be widely known.
The association is building up a busi­
ness behind the "R e«l Triangle braml"
which w ill be permanent and atrord a
market for Rogue R iver fruit year a f­
ter year.
Rogue R iver Bartletta are not a
heavy crop this season, but the quality
hole, and when he trietl to advance,
the egg in hia tall e«|ually impe<icd hia
progreas. Thus, “ egg-bound" at both
ends, the reptile fell a victim to hia
own greed. Coquille Herald.
What do you waut, anyway? A Sen­
tinel want ad. w ill get it for you.
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