PAPERS WHAT PEOPLE MAKE THEM
(General Chaa. It. T.ylSt, Rdilor Boa ton
Globe, in Applelon'a.)
All’s Well for 1909
QThe truth of this Statement is borne out
not only by the present condition, but by
indications which positively cannot be
ignored. QWe have no complaint to
make with the year 1908, for certainly
our business has prospered. The out
look for 1909 is very favorable; confidence
is returning with lightning speed and we
know of no reason why the coming year
should not prove to be a banner year for
business.
(JWe wish you a Happy and Prosperous
New Year.
Burkholder—W o o d s C o .
COTTAGE GROVE LEADER.
Tvies4a.ys a n d F r id a y s .
T H K I.KADKK PU B L IS H IN G CO
(In c.)
A D u B ri il. i . b ,
Editora
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Knteren a i the Cottage d r o v e postonico as sec
on d-class matter.
SU H SCK IPTIO N K ATES
W eekly, one^year. $1.80.
months .78 cents
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 190*#.
BOOST FOR THE BOOSTERS
The Oregon-Idaho Development
Congress which has lieeti in ses
sion at Vale, Oregon, closed Sat
urday after a successful meeting.
local paper. Do it with pride and
do it with confidence. Get the
addresses o f men and families who
you think could be brouhgt to
Oregon, and subscrilie for the
paper for six mouths, and when
the first issue goes out, write and
tell the recipient that you have a
good town, good schools, good
climate, good churches, good peo
ple, and a tip-top newspaper, and
that it has lieeu ordered to his ad
dress six mouths without cost.
Try a few doses o f that medicine.
Praise your paper. Praise your
editor.
.
"H o w do you expect the editor
to do the best work that is in him
if he is not encouraged, supported
and upheld? How do you expect
him to praise the town, praise the
community aud praise you if you
are not giviug him decent support?
"W h at would you do with your
newspaper? How long would it be,
if your present paper should close
down, until you would be flirting
with some other newspapes mail,
to come to your town, and what
promises you would hold out, but,
how you would fall down after he
got out his first issue. I know all'
about you. 1 have seen this thing
worked to a frazzle iu Oregon, and
know that the newspaperman is,
as a rule, the poorest paid, the last
paid, and the most grudgingly
paid o f all.
"T h e people o f Oregon need to
reform
along publicity lines.
They need to wake up and find
that the newspaper is the best
friend any community has or can
have, and need to learn that
through the columns o f the local
press lies the way to solid, sub
stantial aud permanent im prove
ment in every city aud town.
"T r y my method. Try it at
once. Try it here, iu this very
town, aud you will find a different
spirit will prevail, a different senti
ment will take root, aud that soon
your town will take on a new and
better growth than it ever has in
the past.”
Oil the last day of the session,
Addison Bennett, editor o f The
Dallas Optimist, aired his views in
relation to the support o f the local
paper, and we take pleasure in
presenting part of the Old M au’s
talk to our readers.
"H o w are you supporting your
home paper? Are you giving it
anything at all save with the
thought that it is an evil to be
made the liest of? Do you hustle
around to the office to tell them of
any little piece of news that they
might use to make the next issue
more interesting? Do you take
great pains to divulge to the editor
the scandal alxmt your neighlior
and abuse him Because he does
not mention it, and then cuss him
again if he conies to inquire if it
is true that your dog is making
night hideous for the neighbors,
and at ouce take out your ad and
stop the paper?”
"D o you use your home paper
to send to inquiring friends abroad?
Do you use it ns a tract with the
idea of converting people to the
Oregon idea? Do you know that
if you are not using it that way
you are missing opportunities of
bringing people to the state?
"A n y community that does not
spend its ‘booin' money with the
home paper is not wise. They are
The Salem Christmas Journal
overlooking the best meaus known
{contained many items about profit
o f building up a community.
"M auy cities and towns in Ore able yields, a few fo lk county
gon advertise for settlers, but none samples being as follows: Four
o f the money as a rule finds its cherry trees, >1.1 each; about $140
way into the coffers of the local from a 500 foot row o f strawber
paper. It goes to magazine and ries; $750 clear from 5 % acres of
newspapers abroad, and the local ! fruit aud berries; $220 from one
paper is entirely overlooked. But acre o f strawberries; $2f>2 from
woe to the editor if he does not, one acre o f strawberries; four
without costs, tell in large type, ' cherry tree yield $40 a year; $14,-
with a bold head, about how much 1000 off a 40 acre tract, and so on.
is to lie paid for an ad in some
publication but little known, but
with a smooth solicitor. And then
the men who gave the money, and
sometimes the men who spent it,
wonder why the people do not
flock iu.
"P u t your money first into your
Our papers are wha) the people
make them. The public decides
what it wishes to read; the editors
and publishers, trained in their
business, gather their raw material
and work it into the finished pro
duct, uews, to meet the demand.
Controllers o f newspapers are often
criticised for what they print,
lounialists have a much heavier
and more direct responsibility than
any other businessmen, The idle,
the self seekiug, the untruthful,
the vicious, beguile them at every
hand, to use the powerful eugine
o f the press to carry themselves a
little way aloug their chosen road.
The editor must watch ceaselessly
for these unwelcome passengers,
and eject them on sight. He ap
preciates the responsibility of his
trust. He reaches his ideal as
nearly as he can, aud does far
more for the morals o f the com
munity than he is usually given
credit for. I believe firmly that
the journalists o f the country are
just as true men, just as eager to
build up their communities, to up
lift and broaden and (letter the
people, just as anxious to carry
suushiue rather than sorrow and
grief into the families which their
journal visits, as are the same
number o f men iu any other pro
fession or any other line o f busi
ness in the Cnited States.
The
Draiu • Nonpareil
accuses
C o tta g e Grove of being a ctu a ted
by selfish, personal motives in ad
vocating the formation of a new
county from north Douglas and
South I.ane. How about Draiu in
its advocacy ' of forming a little
one-horse coutity from the north
end o f Douglas* alone to be selfish
ly styled "D rain county?’ . There
is nothing selfish or personal aliout
that, oh no! Cottage Grove people
have vast mining* and timber in
terests, which are cut iu twain by
the Lane and Douglas boundary
line, causing much iuconvenieuce,
extra expense aud delay iu devel
opment work and general opera
tions. These people have repeat
edly endeavored to have the bound
ary line changed so as to include
these valuable holdings all iu Lane
couuty, but Draiu aud Koseburg
just as stubbornly and inconsist
ently opposed this relief measure as
the former does the county divisiou
proposition, inaugurated principal
ly for the purpose o f advancing
these mining atld timber interests.
From what we can learn Drain has
about all she can take care o f in
the way o f taxes iu promoting its
school interests without any addi
tional taxatiou for the costly e x
pense of a county division fight
and still more expense in couuty
seat buildings aud the inaugura
tion o f a new county administra
tion in case o f success. Better
forget it, Bro. Sliutt.
"Nesmith county” sounds good
to the I.eader and uo doubt will
have the proper ring to every old
pioneer aud native sou aud daugh
ter in the state. It is an admirable
way to perpetuate the names o f the
noble pioneer who founded the
grand commonwealth o f Oregou.
The soldier who was sentenced
to three months' imprisonment for
eating an apple got off with light
punishment. Adam got a life
sentence for the same offense.
The farmers turned out $5,000,-
000,000 worth o f products last
year. W hy don’t they take some
o f the money and go out and up
lift themselves?
Anyway, we shall give our Cot
tage Grove friends a most respect
ful hearing when they come down
| Southern Italy? The places are
to talk county division with us.—
i vacant by reason o f the late Register.
quake
This, now demands states
Some o f the Koseburg, Drain
men o f good courage and clean
and Kugene boosters have devel
hearts. "W h ere are they at?"
oped into knockers— at least from
a south Lane county view point.
W ho wants to be a consul
to
Cottage Grove's movement to
ward securing a city park has in
spired other Oregon towns to in
augurate a similar movement.
W o d d ’. D i.p * n ..rv Medicei AwoetatHM, R. V .
Pwroo, M . D ., President, Bufalo, N . Y . Dr. P im a
f a . hrrn c k w con.u ltm f p h r ..e i* . «4 tfa law d ifa’
H o*»* «od S u r g id In.titm », o4 Bufala, N . Y ., lar
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ta t f a I r n t a n t o f w om an', di.aa.aa Ifa a aay arfar p faa ia ia. ia d w
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IN T H E LINE O F
A . NYE.
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W OM EN W E L L.
. Twpt e m. o f w om an’, pa.nliur «lim anti i n fo lw mg
P M « ).T m w fo
Family Groceries, New Dry Goods
Fine Laces and Embroideries
Ladies' and Gents Shoes
UO.. by E d w in A. N y e
BROKE F A IT R ; KILLED HERSELF.
In a lit o f remorse because she had
worked on a Jewish h oliday. Fannie
Chanon, a young girl o f (Sitcngu. com
mltted suicide.
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The spirit o f V oid klppur was lu
the atr as bright faced c|lUlr«i Jour
neyed with their elders to the syna
gogue* and temples alul them prayed
for forgiven«** for their trespasses.
But the day o f atonement held noth
lug for the girt who sat lu the park
and said to Be'rself: “'Their right la no
longer mine. I have held aloof and will
not be forgiven.”
"D o yon not go to shale, 1-iiitnle?”
asked one o f ber friends o f the girl lu
the park. The latter turned away
without answer.
So, most o f the day, while Ibe iteople
were In tho synagogues, neither eat
lug nor drinking, but praying until the
dusk closed ou tbe day o f atonement,
the girl brooded in the park.
Aud then she remembered how, when
Hush Hashono ushered lu the Jew
ish new year. Instead o f going to syn
agogue she hAd worked all day at the
factory, where she sewed buttons on
cloth.
She had broken faith!
In despair the poor girl left tbe park
til the latd afternoon. She sought ber
opportunity apd threw herself from
the platform In front o f a n ’ elevated
train and was picked up, crushed,
bleeding, mutinied, dead.
A single Bcrap o f paper was found
In one o f ber pockets. It said:
“ A j . It should be. It was,”
Aud thto story o f her—cruelly pathet
ic is here recorded because It gives
oiie a glimpse Into the depths o f n hu
man soul.
You say there was not sufficient
cause for suicide, It was all a super
stitious fancy, this anguish that tore
the Jewish girl’s heart. B u t -
Put yourself lu her place.
Perhaps you cannot. The faith o r
your futhers has tost Its hold on you.
Or, tf not sov( you cannot realize whut
tbe departure o f n great faith may
mean. Nevertheless this U. true;
Life without faith Is Impossible.
Existence without faltli Is possible,
but life normal, nbundant, high pur
posed aud joyous Wfe— without faith Is
Impossible.
,
“ As It should be, so It was."
.
That Is a fatalistic sentiment, but—
Hopeless Is that soul ihat sees no.
morning break with promise, that feels
no pulsing thrill o f Joyous -faith? The
poignancy o f shell hopelessness may
not end In suicide—but It Is the logical
end.
Heart to Heart
‘T alks.
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By EDW IN A . NYE.
i ■ >,
C o p y r ig h t, INS. b y E h w in A . N y « .
'1
HER R E D HEADED LOVER.
“ Yes; I know Albert Isn't handsome
—perhaps lie Is homely—but I love him
Just the same.” •
That was what Martha Pay Greluer
o f Denver said about Albert Charles
Dickenson o f the same place.
Albert’» face Is as homely as that of
Abraham Lincoln.
Nevertheless Martha Is lu love with
him. Dan Cupid, who shoots at hearts
regardless of exteriors, fatally wound
ed both Martha and Albert. ;
So that when Papa Greiner objected
thnt Albert was entirely too ugly to
be bis sou-U-law Martha replied by
eloping with Albert to Chicago.
Greiner followed, and there was a
scene. The couple were arrested. Mar
tha pleaded for Alliert, and Greiner
Anally consented If they would all re
turn homo tbe wedding might proceed.
Interviewed by a reporter, Martha
said:
■'I know be Isn’t handsome.
Fa
ther’s objection is that Albert bas red
hair, but that la not his fault. He
may not be good looking, but he has
winning ways.”
Good for you. Martha!
For such a woman one might well
elope much farther than from Denver
to Chicago.
Martha sees qualities In Albert tbe
world docs not see. Rtie knows that,
while lienuty Is only skin deep, good
ness Is soul deep. She knows that A l
bert's wiualng ways come from a
warm heart. And when you arc r 'l o o s
ing one whom you are to live w lih all
your life soul qualities count.
Abraham Lincolu’a homely fare was
glorified by «he great soul that shone
through the honest, rugged features.
And so Martha can see a halo about
the red head o f Albert which her fa
ther cannot ace.
And as for the red hair—
Why. forsooth, let the father look
up the historic records o f the red
headed
T o aay nothing o f Rufus the Red,
there’ s Shakesjwnre, and Napoleon,
amt Oliver Cromwell, and Thomas Jef
ferson. They hsd red hair.
And If you go Into the feminine
class most distinguished women o f
history have bad Anmhig red tope—
Titian red at least Cleopatra, and
Charlotte Ccrdny. and Catherine o f
ItniuJn. nml Elizabeth o f England, and
Bernhardt.
Martin Is right.
ing holiday aeuson accumulate such a
fresh supply that an ordinary bouse
wilt not bold you unless you have a
rieartog out o f tbe old stock before
the holiday rash o f goods comes In.
wrwr d r rf c . d «
IT M ARKS W EAK W O H I N STR O N G .
_
Talks.
The outlook for building during
the spring and summer o f 1909, is
Take all your old grouches out and
even brighter than it was last year. bury them. Ton will during the d o s
Even the usual "after holiday
lull in business" has not been per
ceptible in Cottage Grove.
Eiactly Vbat Too Want
earf
Begin to fret about tbe way tbe coel
Albany may improve a fine op
to tbe bin la disappearing. A warm
portunity it has to get a city park
season may occur during the winter,
tract o f 20 acres.
and thus the rout may bold out, so If
your fretting were not already done
Many commercial cluha are pre the fa mily would hare bad to get along
BMMMFNke annual coal worry.
paring to get busier than ever.
JOHNSON’S STORE
IC o p y r lg h t. 1908 b y C. M B a rn itz. T h o se
a r t ic le s anil lllu a lra tlu n s m u st n o t b e re
p rin ted w ith o u t . p e d a l p e r m is s io n -]
HOW
TO
SELECT
THE
Everything new :»n<l in * to date Best Brands and grades ot
Fresh Groceries. Country Produce bought and sold. Call and
see what a dollar will buy at W. C. JO H N SO N ’S.
LAYER 8.
A genius for research declares be |
discovered OHO embryo eggs In a ben.
A ben’s capacity Is boru with ber j
and Is her limit. Now. If her capacity
Is Otui niid her laying life Is two and a
half years. To get them all we must
hustle her for 240 eggs a year
But It Is said tbe Asiatics only av
erage 180 to 200 each aud tbe Amer
ican 173 to 200 mid tbe Mediterranean
180 to 200 eggs per year, and a gov
ernment report declares tbe farm hen
lays but sixty eggs per annum.
An Informant states that breeding
from trap nested females has produced
a Brahma that laid 232 eggs, a White
Wyandotte, pullet that laid 2-12 and
a S. C. White Leghorn hen tbnt laid
251 eggs per year.
But trap nests are expensive for a
big dock, and It la time and trouble to
an warn
Edison Graphophones
Carving Sots,
Silver
and
Records,
Knives,
Forks
and Spoons, Ornamental Candle Sticks
and many other useful and appropriate
Holiday Gifts
Headnsarters far Hardware
if
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COTTAGE GROVE
OCR WHITB WYANDOTTE WINNER IN NEST
AND' SHOW.
Watch them and untrap the birds.
Now, we believe there Is a laying
type o f hen Just ns there Is a milk type
o f cow or a ham type o f hog.
W e have studied some o? our best
layers In Leghorns and Wyandottes
and hereby give you the principles wo
use In selecting layers and breeders.
They- will Improve your flock and save
you ktlllug your layers for dinner, but
In this, ns In everything else, you will
And exceptions.
A prime layer must have a well de
veloped, roomy body, so that tho or-
gna4 . o f respiration, digestion, repro
duction, circulation, urination, etc.,
may properly perform their functions.
, gh* pitist breathe well, cat well,
digest, well, qsslmtlate well, scratch
welt, tie well and have a big bunch
o f embryo eggs to lay well.
A hen with rattling, rustling breath
la useless.
A'.typical layer Is plump; she is mus
cular; all her cavities are covered
with meat.
1 She Ims simply fat for fuel and
weighs heavier for her size than the
drone whose feed produces n gob o f
fat at the end o f her breastbone.
That drone lays the eggs In spring
that batch the drone pullets.
Follow this table o f points for selec-
tlon: ’
Head, medium size; eye, bright, full,
open; comb and .wattles, medium size,
clear color; neck, medium length,
stocky, well nrehed; back medium
length, broad at shoulders; nice cush
ion; tall, medium size, angular; fluff,
good size; body, medium length and
depth, with medium underline and
good keel; breast, broad, round, full;
legs, stout. Bbort between feet nnd
shanks; feet, set square and wide
apart
Hens o f this style fed a proper
variety o f food will keep you busy
hauling eggs to market
Mated to a male o f egg laying strain
such bens will furnish fertile eggs to
hatch pullets thnt will smash your
egg records.
DONT8.
Don’ t put clean fow ls Into lousy win
ter quarters, nnd vice versa. It's poor
housekeeping.
Don't keep old hens and then knock
nt an empty egg creek. Oalerlzc the
centenarians.
Don’ t house cult pullets nt heavy ex
pense to lay for you when egga ore
cheap. Invite the preacher for potple.
Don’ t forget to cleanse, disinfect and
paint the water vessels and solder the
leaks tn tbe roof.
Don't use stationary feed bins for
grain, but light sugar barrels. They
tan be e!
-'■■I !
'1. aired, and
mice.
the tom-
Doii’ l
»
<1 f-hlrkpns to*
(tether
ill ret the filth
r•:
and ole.
Don’t r ; . >1
ff«*t the
prive c l f V ” \ Lie v. :t? v : a ftifcrr be-
cans»- yed (iklll’ l
RctCn re o f sour
grape«
Dou’ t keep n big dock and stint them
on feed. One horse well fed does bet
ter thaa tw o bone racks.
Don’t fall to feed cat lo n e regularly,
but do fall to keep your machine
knives dirty.
Superfluous.
” 1 am sure o f one thing,” said tbe
homely woman.
“ What ts thatT” Inquired tbe brutal
“ That I can make myself plain.”
“ Oh, Impossible,” murmured tbe
brutal man
to W ork.
“ I am troubled so with Insomnia.”
T have a aura cure.”
"W bat to It. p r a y r
"T aking care o f a baby that to teeth
ing.”
FLOUR
MILLS
A ll K in d s of
Mill Feed
Grain
and Hay
C H A S . M A T T H E W S . Proprietor.
Fashion Stables
First Class Livery, Sale and Feed Barn in Connection
P o w e ll
&
T u lla r ,
P ro p .
THE PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE.
The Standard High Grade Fence o f the
World.
There is over 400 miles of this
famous wire fence in Douglas county, Oregon.
This is High Carbon Spring Wire which will
keep its shape when properly stretched. Will
carry a full stock o f wire at all times.
I n q u ir e o f
DAVID GRIGGS,
or STEARNS & CHEN0WITH, Agents
Cottage Grove. Ore.
Oakland, Ore.
DRAYINQ
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
And n il Kinds o f
Department o f the Interior,
T j ^S. L an d Office nt R oaeburg, 0
J u ly 27. 19
N otice ts hereby
given
CHARLES E. C LA R K
of C om stock, D ougins cou nty. Ore
w h o. on Mny 12th. UKYI made h<
«tend entry No. 1274.1. S R, OnlO to
North W est quarter of the N
Weat quarter Section 28. T ow n
21 South. Range 4. W eat o f the
lam ette Merldan, lm* filed noth
intention t o make flnnl five v
proof t o establish claim t o
lead Above described before i l
ter Bud Receiver nt L^sebnrg,
Ron on the Wed day o f Ja n u a ry
< laim ant nam es as w itnesses
C. C. W a lk ns, O . T . Ok-son J
W aiktns, M A. Clark a ll o f l
stock, Oregon.
fit-38
B enjamin L. E d d y , Reglst
HAULING
Leave orders at Cunningham s Con
fectionery Phone 73 or phone
residence 406
Hauling Done Promptly at
Reasonable Charge
W . A. H 0G A TE
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