COTTAGE GROVE LEADER
NO. 45
CO TTAG E G R O V E, OREGON, SA T U R D A Y . FE B R U A R Y 23, 1907,
VOL. X V III
To Kilt Gophers
Passed Over Veto.
R E S U L T S ASTONISHED HIM
Salem, Or., Feb.
19 .— The Uni
The Outcome of Judiciously Placed versity of Oregou wou a decided
Advertising Opened His Eyes.
victory over Governor Chamberlain
For a number of years I adver
tised only in my windows and in
some of the street cars, because I
did not feel that I could afford to
advertise in the daily papers. Tw o
years ago last September I was hav
ing a craveuette coat sale, and 1
succeeded in selling for a couple of
weeks about 50 coats a day. I
thought I would try a column ad.
in one of the evening papers. The
result was that the next day the
sales, which formerly had been
about fifty coats a day, jumped to
I42, and in fifty days 1 sold over
3,500 raincoats
For the year following that sale I
continued to advertise in this one
paper. Last fall I felt that I could
afford to invest, say, about $ 5,000
in advertising in some of the other
papers. I used three morning
papers and three evening papers,
the best in Chicago. The results
have been phenomiual. I did not
have to invest $ 5,000
The profits
came back from the newspaper ad
vertising before their hills came in,
and I do not figure today that I
have a dollar invested in advertis
ing, In my opinion, the only way
to advertise is to give them plain,
comraou sense talk Tell them of
the truth. Do not, get a customer
to come to your store and find that
you have faked him, for that is poor
advertising, besides being dishon
esty.— From “ Autobiography of a
Business Man” in Everybody’s.
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today when both houses overrode
the executive’s veto of the $ 125,000
appropriation bill.
In the house Representative
Eaton and his colleagues wou an
easy victory, the vote iu favor of
the university standing at 45 to 15.
In the senate, however, the fight
was close, and there was not a vote
to spare when the roll was called,
the vote staudiug £7 to 7 for the
school and against the governor.
Senators Bingham and Booth had
made a hard fight, Bingham mak
ing the only speech when the ques-
tion was called. The senator spoke
for 2o minutes, and his telling
points uo doubt had much to do
with influencing the result.
Senator M. A. Miller, of Linn, a
regent of the school, was one of the
seven who voted to sustain the veto.
Flat Salary
Bill to Take
Effect in
1911 .
Salem, Feb. IS .—The house this
morning killed the lull providing
for an appropriation to build and
equip a state printing plant, and so
amended the bill providing for plac
ing the state printer on a flat salary
that it will not affect Mr. Dtiniway.
It takes effect in 191 t
Smoot Will Stay in Senate.
The senate Tuesday voted to re
ject the report of the investigating
committee in favor of expelling
Smoot of Utah. A majority of the
senators favored the Mormon apostle
and he will retain his seat.
The California Experiment sta
tion has found a sure way to kill
gophers: Carbon bi sulphide is to
he put on cotton on pieces ot cloth
probably one half teaspoonful to
each piece of cotton and placed in
their run ways and then stop up
the hole tight, the gas being heavy
will follow the run ways, will kill
all gophers and moles.
M. L a m m o n .
Brain Leaks.
bread. But more have been
wrecked by failure to keep the crew
well provisioned.
“ Hitch your wagon to a star,”
was Emerson’s advice. But would
it not be better to pull your wagon
yourself and travel iu the direction
of the star?
The man who learns to look up
on death as merely the finishing
touches on an education for life,
has learned the first real lesson in
right living.
This is tho season of the year
when a man who complains about
the work of keeping a lawn the size
of a postage stamp in good condi
tion in summer, imagines that he
would make a first-class manager of
a farm of 320 acres.
1’ luck uever complains or poor
luck.
It is a waste of time to give or
listen to advise that you know will
not be heeded.
Seeds of doubt are not likely to
sprout if sown in a heart full of
abiding faith.
Irish Wit.
The more money a man has the
An Irish priest had labored hard
easier it is for him to talk about
' with one of his fiock to induce him
the ‘‘ blessings of poverty.”
I to give up whiskey. ‘T tell you,
A lot of people claim credit for
j Michael,” said the priest, “ whiskey
being charitable because they give is your worst enemy, and you
away -tuff they want to get rid of. should keep as far away from it as
When men sow the wind it is the
you can.” “ Me enemy, is it
innocent bystander who usually Father?” responded Michael, ‘ and
suffers most in the resultant cy
it was Your Riverence’s self that
clone.
was tellin’ us in the pulpit only
,Vhen a man marries in order to
last Sunday to love our enemies!”
get a housekeeper, a woman who
“ So I was Michael,” rejoined the
wants a home, there is bound to be
priest, “ but I uidn’t tell you to
trouble.
swallow them.”
Reforms flourish best when al
lowed to get a fair start at borne
LUMBER!! LU M BER!!
before being thrust across your
I I want 20,000,000 feet of good
neighbor's fence.
Some people make such a virtue merchantable Oregon pine. W ill
of promptness that they forget to contract for a years cut and pay
consider the matter selected to dis I highest market price; will make
1 liberal advances on B. of L.
cuss at the appointed hour.
G. W . P *»
M_ny a matrimonial craft has
been wrecked on a reef of poor j 209 Barlett St., San Francisco, Cal.
5>tiill B u sy
V h ar e goinig to get Busier
15 p e r c e n t o f f
on a n y S u it
25 p e r c e n t o ff
on a n y O v e r c o a t in th e house d u rin g
th e m o n th o f F e b r u a r y w ith ca sh
m IEEL ER-l HQMPSON GO.
th e le a d in g C lo th ie r an d Sh o e H ou se
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[S u c c e s s o r to W e lc h & W o o d s.]
j agent should give out uis theories
as what the secretary is supposed to
Interesting Reading Front the Na thiuk. If the ideas take, he could
modestly acknowledge them. They
tional Capitol By Our Regular
all
do it that way.
Correspondent.
The people of the capitol who
have been wanting an old fashioned
Washington, Feb, 1 1 , iyo7 .
winter have the chance to take a
What will the people of the sleigh ride.
country say when they know the
Young Rocxefeller’ s advice that
facts regarding the “ salary grab” it is easier to tell the truth than a
put through Congress this winter? lie will not apply to politics and
Alter much talking and scheming the Brownville case.
the salaries of Senators and Repre
Why not pay our national legis
sentatives were raised from $ r> 000 lators space rates iu the Congres
to $7,500; reason, advanced cost of sional Record? Some of them
living. This reason is sufficient, for would make a pretty penny.
not only are tho members of Con- j 1 Will Senator Beveridge reap all
gross held up on every turn, but tbo Blory brought about by years
the cost of living ill \\ ashiugtoti- : 0f agitation l>v labor uuious for the
already too h ig h -lia s advanced at abolition of child-labor?
least 50 percent iu the last two
Is it possible that a j(lry can be
years. But does this increase settle j lound williDg to accept the profes-
tlie matter"
sions of iunoceut childhood ex
it is generally thought that the bibited iu tbe Tbllw trial?
government pays enormous salaries.
How much longer wU1 the
Tu.s is not the case. The workers oountry stand for the raisadvent.
in the departments who are in the uros uf l>jerCe, late of the State De
pul,lie eye are the petty Griefs of partmeut and nearly every other
division, who receive from $i,ooo branch of the government" What
to $ 2,400 a year There is in each S a o pull. . be must bnve?
division an average of about five j
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clerks who receivo from $1,200 to
$r.8oo a year, and from UO 10 100 Senator Beveridge and Child Labor.
The February number of the
who receive from J&4OO to $ l,lo o
Woman’s Home Companion con
per year.
Now the question is, wili Con tains a comprehensive description
gress give to the workers of the of Senator Beveridge’s national bill
Federal government a proportionate to abolish child labor. The senator
raise in salary to their own, or even tells how he worked in a logging
any raise at all. A goodly share of j camp at fourteen years of age, be-
tlie members of Congress live at S ‘ n'»'ng before daybreak and end
boarding houses 01 $2 a day hotels, *"S alter dark ,and the lessons he
and some have been so “ cheap” as : teamed there served as the founda-
to sell to a local book dealer the tiou ,0' ' llis Present fight against
volumes ot governmental publica- *bo horror of child labor. After
lions contained in their quota, describing the evil, he adds:
Some hire their clerks for $<¡0 or
*>ut
's uwt *110 wor<d of it.
$ 7 , a month and put the balance ot ^ be worst of it is that pretty soon
the allowance of $loo per month in these children come to age.’ What
their pocket. Others put their sons kind of citizens do they make"
or daughters at. work as clerks and Loudon Hooligans! I hat is the
pocket the entire wad! A raise iu kind of citizens they make. Each
their salary is all right: the govern- ^oy and girl of this kind that de
ment clerk who has to work ull the v,iloPes ‘ » t 0 3 “ 3D o r woman knows
yenr- uuw 5 or li months, like a lhat 1,6 or sbe “ re inferior to his
congressman gets enough moticy, leU°ws inferior iu body, mind and
even though there lias not been a HOIlk * b<,y H°t only feci it, they
change in the list foi twenty years I ««tartly see it. Thay fed that they
Uncle Sam’s baby elephant- the '"*ve beeu robbed iu some way—
Panama canal- is cutting its wis- ,,ot robbed in money or property,
dom teeth. One day we are to but robbed of life, of health, robbed
have it attended to by a contract of intellect, robbed of spirit. And
physician and the next day prefer- *n *he>r undeveloped brain, in tbeir
euceis given to Christian Science weakened hearts, in their cramped
treatment! But we may rest as- ' 3 »d deformed souls and fires of an
sored that it is all but completed, -'»extinguishable wrath begin to
since ex chairman Shouts t. 11s us burn. They go through life hating
so! He has finished his work and sociel>’ . hatinK everybody and
oiled his spade and hung it up in everything. For, while they do
the tool shed; why do not the other " « k,,ow ,UU,’L-
do know ll*rt
workers do likewise" The canal is 3 system of industry and a state of
d u g ! Slionts has a good job. society lias worse than murdered
Everybody’s happy except Engi- t,10'u There is your material for
m c i Wallace
who waa foolish nnarehy
We bear a good many
enough to also accept a better job. «P<-*ecbes about the danger of anar-
(>„«• man resigns to accept $50,000 c,'ists coming to this country from
a year, he is a man beneath con Europe. The truth is that child
tempt, another does exactly the labor is creating some two hun
sarno thing for the same salary he dred thousand grown-up unurchists
is a gentleman and a scholar, lie can of native American blood in this
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
go about the country delivering couulry every year.
lectures about how he brought |
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order out of ch aos1 That’s Wash
County Printing,
ingtou life with a vengeance.
Ju dgin g from Hie list of allow
Keep your weather eye 011 W il
anees made by tlieo unity court at
liam ” Ja v ” Bryan. He has not
tlie Jam tury term, the out of town
been heard from for several months
printers should have a day of reck-
and must be primed for another ou t-,
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follows: W. E. Yoran, printing
judgment to lead you estray on the
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Register Publishing Co.,
ubject of the next presidential
print in .
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candidates, for ‘ William ‘Ja y
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bearer if he 5 persists in hi, embrace
pa|iers, $000
During the past two
of government ownership. Govern
years and .1 halt the Springfield
ment ownership in the East incaus
News lias done not to exceed $20
socialism, and that creed bus no
worth of work for the couuty and
standing in court.
all but $2 came from tbe sheriff's
Speaker Cannon is about the
office. Springfield News.
only smoking volcano that does not
have a periodical eruption.
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The Kansas legislators who ubol-
The Register says. Tho Eugene
¡shed capital punishment in that Lumber Co. received four cars of
state probably considered residence logs at one shipment Monday morn-
111 th< commonwealth sufficient ex mg. They will have plenty of logs
cuse for eratie actions ut times.
to commence on when they ge;
Secretary
Shaw's advertising j their mill ready for business.