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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1902)
,41,1. lll'-TO-OATi: ItllSINIMS 'IKH ' uottahi; (UtOVi: uivimi isi: in tiik nimhi'ut. THIS NIKKJI'.T .lOH OITICK TUIINB OUT ClOOI) WOIIK AT MOST IEIJAHONAI1LI5 I'llICJiH. ll10 M'K. Umbering and Farming Interests of this Community, lo Good Government, mid Hustling for a Grub Stake. VOL. XXX PROFESSIONAL. J. E. YOUNG ' jit torn oy-at-Law m 0 ffl 00 un MaIm "Heel, Vpt tlite CoTTAtiK GUOVK, OkH. J. C. JOHNSON' and F. IS. BUY Attorneys and Coitiiselors-at-f.aio floll attention istren to Mlntiiir, Cortorntlon hikI Mercantile Ijv. Oitlce over (iariiun A llememtay'aalortt. COTTAGK GROVE, ORE. J. S. MEDLEY Attorncy-tU'Luw o o o -Olllco on Mnlii Itent :- Cottagh Gkovk, Okic. JEROME KNOX jittorncy-al-Law rromi'l attention I il.l to MliihuMlualiiMi. Cottaok Gkovh, Okk. MILMUS W. TIlOMMilM CIU. i. IIAIIIir. THOMPSON & HARDY Attorneys and Counselors-at- Law Si-cflnl uttontlon kIh trJwo( Mliiw. KUliKNK. OUH. L. T, HARRIS Attar ntu and (Joitnselor-at-l.aa- Slal uttciitlolijtlveii In the hoi Mlnoi Hrst National Hunk Iliillilititf. KUUKNK, OltK. Mrs. Katherine Sclilcc,, l. II. Diseases of Women ami Clnlilren COtrAOK CiUOVK, OltK. W. H. ROBINSON -rnrttn.s Piiymcun- Offlre nl reMtnw on Itlver ttcet. iier Wall. COTTAISK l(0'K, - - - OHMON. BUSINESS. J. W. BENTLY, Tbe practical IlfMil ami Khiw Maker. lctet one lmr uenl of tlio Immortal llolut. IteiMilr ln neatly lono. Satisfaction Goranteed "barker & perman l'ltOI'HII'.TOKH HP THE EXCHANGET DKAM'.IUi IM HNK WINKS, LIQUORS, CIGARS. Malnitrect, OoIIiiiib lrov,On. hTc. "mads en , Watciimakhr. KepnlrltiKot rcanonable charge. All work Ktiaraiilco;! II rr-cl. .,,. Watchoi, Clock! ami Jewelry at Uiweit I rlcci COTI'ACiK GUOVH, ORIi. I Makers. Sc.louisMo. R h A completo line always in stock tj 'V A a- T TTDfUIQ 1 PIONEER WHITE LEAD Is Absolutely PURE, and will OUTWEAR all other Leads. If youi local itonlor iloon not curry It write to u anil wo will isco tlmtyou gut It. W. P. "Fuller & Co. PORTLAND, OHUOON. Kino roHlflmn'OH, rliolcu lota, business blocks for uulu Joromo Knox & Co. Ooto,ge KEEP on HOLLIDAT GOODS! EAKIN f! Tin 4L IIC Yet U Is so Large it is impossible to list and price tliem all. Just come in and see for yourself. We have never experienced such early buying of Holiday Goods. Our best Dressing Cases and Albums are nearly all gone. If you want to select from a full line, do so now. We have a place we can store away your packages and you can get them any time. -gg Vs German & Hemenway XiEA-DISRS IN" MEKCI-IjSTDIZHSTG- KNOWLEDGE Do you know That a Railroad is being constructed from Cottage Grove to the Bohemia Mining District through one of the finest timber belts on the Pacific Coast ? Do you know that the ore now being transported by wagon from the Bohemia Mining District to Cottage Grove is the same characterfamt made Do you know that this ore ' jjiglit Hundred Dollars per ton, and is being shipped to the Omaha Smelters through Long & Bingham's warehouse. Do.you know thai the present population of Cottage Grove will double in the next eigh- teen months ? Do you know that the fine, high, sightly tract of laud adjoining Cottage Grove (formerly . owned by 0. W. Long) has been platted in lots and acreage and is being offered . ' 0 terms that will enable you to double on your investment in a very short time ? , The above is a few of the facts with which we can make you acquainted if you will call upon us or write. Address all communications to - .. LONG- & mG-JrlA-M, l', O. BOX 8, OOTTAQIS OBOVE, OIIEQOX. Grove, Oregon, YOUE OUR STOCK & BRI5T itiomicdCliFistiDasStflrcGSi Goods Sharjly Undcrpriccd Our Careful Attention Costs You Notliiiiif Must Ke VuIamXric to You OUR STOCK Ob HOLrDAY GOODS from the Helena Consolidated Mine Friday, January ETE of Cripple Creek famous ? contains values from Four to . OW Mr IS WEALTH ! 3, 1902. SOMU PROFESSIONS TO WOMKN. Ol'KN H. Y, llullutlti. Althrotigh there is scarcely any profession, business or trade in which at least one woman is not engaged, the number of professions that arc open generally to women is limited. This limitation is set by the inferiority ol women to men in physical strength. A woman lacks the physique requisite to enable her to be a competent soldier, police man or stevedore, and there are very few professions in which she can compete on the same terms with men. It is a curious fact that even at what is commonly called ''women's work," such as cooking, dressmaking, millinery and hair dressing, men easily surpass women. The foremost chefs, modistes, milli ners and hairdressers in the world arc males. Women, however, com pete at some advantage with men on account of their steadier habits and their willingness to work for lower wages than men demand. Pedigogy is the principal pro fession open to women, and the profession in which the greatest number arc engaged and in which women are most successful. Women make good teachers in lower grades, but in universities the profession is still in the control of men. There is no apparent reason why women should not do well in college fncul- lies, ami u is surprising mat more of them are not employed at the schools of higher education. Women have been fairly success- ful at the practice of medicine, although they are seldom called except by patients of their own sex, cud it must be admitted that most women yet prefer the ministration of male doctors. Perhaps in future years women physicians will gain the complete confidence of their own sex and of the other sex and will be able to build up general practices like those now enjoyed by male doctors. A number of women in this city derive fair in comes from the practice of medi cine. The feminine mind and tempera ment arc not adapted to the prac tice of law, and not nearly so many women seek admission to the bar as obtain licenses to practice medi cine. The law requires too much wrangling, to constant a pitting and too violent a clash of intellects to attract women. Nursing is a profession at which women are ve.y apt and competent. It is more lucrative than school teaching, if the nurse has constant employment, but the work is very arduous and tiresome. A trained nurse obtains at least $25 per week, but she cannot work all the year round, eveu if there is work for her to do. It is strange that more women do not go into commercial business for themselves. Men enter stores as errand' boys and rise until they become partners or proprietors of the whole business, but one rarely hears of a woman rising in that way. Is this failure of women at tributable to the hostility of men or to an inherent incapacity for con ducting a business? Why has no female Carnegie arisen, 110 Ilavc meyer in skirts appeared, no Wnna maker or Marshal Feldi come forth out of the hundreds of thousands of women employed in offices, shops and drygoods stores? Trade is a richer field than any employment, but women seek the salaried places and do not hanker for the profits of trading. Yet they make good saleswomen and good bookkeepers, and do their work well and with intelligence? Valuable mining property In Bo cmin forsnlo. Jerome Knosnnd Co. Wil'tlll, liltl I Mil ML f. MIL t Wl, 1 flff riCLi ft I lIJfJ' II II ft I ML t . M ft tit t ML I. f. I . 1 1. . AMERICANIZING CUBA. In one extremely important par ticular Cuba is being Americanized with great rapidity. W. C. Gor gas, major and surgeon of the United States army, and chief sani tary officer of Havana, in his re port issued on December 5, 1901, shows that the sanitary condition of that city shows an improvement in each month over the correspond ing moutii 01 1900, and mat year scored an advance on all preceding years. In November, 1898, just at fthe close of the war with Spain, and before the United States occu pation of the city began, there were 205 deaths in Havana, while there were 444 in that mouth in 1900, which was the lowest mark ever reached in that month since the population of Havana has been up to any high figure. In No vember, 1901, the number of deaths was 443. Havana, which was formerly one of the uuhcalthiest cities on the face of the globe, has now be come one of the healthiest. The death rate in 1891 was 106 per thousand. The Americans reduced it to 21 per thousand in 1900. In 1901 it has been cut to 19.58 per thousand. In 1896 there were 1 1 15 deaths in that ciiy from yel low fever. There were only 79 in 1898. There have been only 5 iu 1901. In November, 1901. tor the finJt tJmc si,)ce there has not bec, a s!ngIe case of yellow fever IIavana In November, 1900, thcra were 2,4 casesand 54 deaths. jThere ,ms ,10t been a case thig j ycar since September s8 October Lmi November are thc molUhs when yellow fever is most preva lent in Havana. Until 1901 there has never during a hundred years been a day during those months in which there were not many cases of yellow jack in that city. Here is a field in which Cuba already has been Americanized, whether the island sets up an in dependent government for itself or not. The scourge by which Cu ba's population every year has been thinned to tbe extent of many thousands has been dimin ished so radically that it has lost much of its terrors. In the is land's chief city it has almost been abolished. Cuba owes a debt of everlasting gratitude to the Ameri cans lor driving out the malady witli which it has been afflicted ever since the early days of white occupation. Iu all the centuries which have passed since the Spaniards first settled on the island there were never so few deaths iu proportion to the white population as have taken place in 1901. It is no longer necessary for the United States and the world to raise quar antines against Havana and the rest of the great cities of Cuba. Those towns are as free from ma lignant diseases as are New York, Philadelphia, St Louis, London, Berlin and the other great centers! of the most modern of the nations.. For Cuba's and the world's goodj the obligation to keep up the) American system of sanitation is; one of the provisions of the Platf amendment which will be binding on the Cuban republic. Globe Democrat of St Louis. DA11WIN llIUSTOW, Heuhekt Kakin, l'rcsment, wasuicr Tlift First National Rani CoTTAGIt Grovu, Orr. Paid up Capital, $25,000.0' OF jROVU, OrR. ital, $25,000.0' Monoy to loan on approved security Exchanges sold, available any plac in the Unltud Suites, r 1