Cottage Grove leader., June 10, 1913, Image 7

THE LAST OLD SOLDIER.
(By A. H. McGregor.)
Say, boys, you heard wh^t the newspapers say?
One and fifty old soldiers a day,
Footsore and dreary, dropped out at last,
Back on the road w here the column has passed.
Every seven days—keep the number in mind—
Another full regiment lagging behind.
We bid them good-bye with a tear and a song,
And the column keeps steadily marching along.
Every three weeks another brigade
Back in the quiet old churchyard is laid;
One look at the spot where they peacefully sleep,
And each at his place in the column must keep.
Sixty days a division forever at rest,
No picket thrown out, no foe will molest;
And let it be morning, at high noon or nignt,
The column moves onward—is soon out of sight.
Every six months a full army corps
Goes into camp on the furthermost shore.
No break in the column—the evening is damp.
But mind, boys, we’ll soon be in camp.
An army each year, and weary, I ween,
Sleeps ’neath the sod with the grass growing green.
An army complete, fifty thousand strong,
And the column is still slowly moving along.
Soon there will be but an invalid corps
Of an army that numbered two millions or more—
A division, brigade, then a regiment small,
Too feeble to note when a comrade shall fall.
At last but a company, then a platoon,
A few stragglers left; then, soon, oh, too soon,
They will read this small item: “The news comes today
That the last old soldier has just passed away.”
SHE'S A FOUR TIMES
GRANDMOTHER NOW
On 101st Birthday Mrs. Shrake
Has 152 Descendants.
W yalnsing, W ls.—Mrs. Lydia Shrake
of this village has ju st celebrated her
one hundred and first birthday, a large
num ber of relatives being present
She has living four children, thirty-tw o
grandchildren, eighty-four great-grand
children, thirty great-great-grandchil­
dren and tw o greut-greut-great-grand-
chlldren. or 152 descendants. Her
youngest son Is sixty-eight years of
age. and she m akes her home w ith him
Mrs. Shrake w as born In Pennsylva­
nia In 1812 and when a child moved
w ith her parents to Coshocton county.
O., where in 1831 she was m arried to
Mr. Ault, to which union tw o duugh
ters and three sons were born. Her
husband died jn 1838.
Five years later she m arried Jacob
Shrake. and they moved to W yalusing.
To them five children were born, one
daughter and four sons T he second
husband, who served in the w ar of
1812, died in 18G1.
Despite her nge Mrs. Shrake is nble
to do m any of the household duties,
hns rem arkable m ental faculUes and
keeps posted on curren t events through
th e new spapers w ithout the aid of
glasses.
She takes w alks about the neighbor­
hood with the aid of a cane.
SPARROW S T R E E THIS T A B B Y .
Cat Goes After Birds and Catches Tar­
tars Instead.
Los Angeles.—Treed by a great flock
of nngry sparrow s a badly frightened
cat w as rescued here by officers of the
H um ane society. T hree days before
the cut had clim bed the tree, presum e
bly in the hope of catching a sparrow.
T he sparrow s caught the cat.
E very tim e tabby tried to leave the
birds fought it buck w ith their sharp
beaks, and the rescuers had to beat off
the spiteful sparrow s before they could
reach the c a t
Our *Ptani
I s A b lo o m
With the Freshest Flowers e f the Frustisi
Art.
It Is a Com plete, Up to Dote Print­
ing Plant. Ready to Do Y oor C o m m ercisi
Printing Attractively. Y ear Lew Printing
Accurately. T e a r Social Printing A rti*
lically end A ll Printing Expeditieosly.
JAPAN’S FAITH IN
NATION’SJUSTICE
Eipects Equal Treatment With
Whites Eventually.
PRESS
PRAISES
W ILSON.
War Talk Is Denounced at Ridiculous
and Calculated to Embarrass the Two
Governments, Which Are Seeking to
Reach Peaceful Settlement by Diplo­
macy—Count Okuma Cheered.
Tokyo.—In spite of the fact th a t Gov­
ernor Johnson has signed the so culled
"land hill,” faith In the Am erican peo­
ple to see th at Justice is done the
Japanese Is the dom inating note in the
discussion here of the California alien
land ow nership legislation. W ar talk
is denounced as ridiculous and calcu­
lated only to em barrass the tw o gov­
ernm ents, which are laboring for a
|K*aceful settlem ent by diplomacy.
It is conceded, however, thnt failure
on the part of the Am ericans to re-
The Fsrmer, Not the Motorist, Is Bene­
fited Moat.
Lincoln on Road Building.
The pretense th a t It would over­
whelm the treasury to engage in the
building of roads is no more true in
congress than In the stnte legislatures.
If one will overw helm the national
treasury, so the other will overwhelm
the stnte treasury. Go where we will,
(he difficulty Is the sam e.—A. Lincoln.
R U R A L S C H O O L S AND ROADS.
Impaisablo Highways Seriously Handi­
cap tha Country Child’s Progress.
The most serious charge yet lodged
against tbe rural school Is thnt tbe
rate of rural Illiteracy Is tw ice the
urban rate, despite the fact th at three-
fourths of our Im m igrants are In the
cities, and Illiteracy am ong native
born children of native parentage Is
more than three tim es as great as
am ong native children of foreign born
parentage, says A. C. M onahan of the
federal bureau of education.
W ith 220.000 one teacher school
houses, of which 5,000 arc log build
Ings, we face tbe fact thnt the rural
school Is nlarm lngly neglected. Al­
though more than 00 per cent of the
children of the entire country are en
rolled In country schools, the aggre­
gate attendance Is only 51 per cent.
Inquiry ns to why children do not at
tend school longer in many com muni
ties will alm ost Invariably bring the
reply thnt bad roads, blockades of
mud. snow drifts, washed out bridges
and the discouraging factor of long
tram ps through tbe cold w eather keep
them aw ay. Even the consolidated
school is limited In Its usefulness by
the Im passable highway.
W hile the one room school and the
inexperienced teacher are serious de­
fects. we should put most of the blame
w here It belongs—on our abom inable
highw ays—which had better In roost
cases be called low ways. W ith good
roads the little red achoothouse might
free Itself of many o f the charges It
now bears.—Country Gentleman.
Chines* at Oakland Trsasursd Clip­
pings About Girl.
San Francisco.—A key to the m ys­
tery of the m urder of Elsie Siegel,
granddaughter of General Franz Sie­
gel, a civil w ar hero, in the room of u
Chinese in New York in Ju n e of l'JOl),
is believed to have been found in O ak­
land. In the rooms of Lee Dor, who
was arrested on charges of having
opium. United States treasury agents
found a set of press clippings describ­
ing the death of Elsie Siegel and sev­
eral photographs of pretty w hite w o­
men.
I’rior to this discovery the prisoner
had been released under $1,000 bond
His w hereabouts now are unknown.
John W. Smith, a treasury agent,
who unearthed the evidence against
Lee Dor, said:
"Lee Dor tried to convince us thnt
he had no knowledge of English, hut
It Is significant th a t n Chinese who
pretends no knowledge of our Inngunge
should so treasure the reports of n
m urder th a t took place in New York
four years ago.”
The Chinese suspected of strangling
Elsie Siegel w as Leon Ling. His de­
scription does not tally w ith th at of
Lee Dor.
COUNT OKUMA.
spend to the Japanese appeal for a dis­
continuance of the alleged discrim ina­
tion would be likely to lead to some
estrangem ent of the tw o peoples. The
Japanese public generally is convinced
thnt the land bill is a racial and not an
economic m easure and hence a blow
to national pride, nnd it feels thnt the
world must he taught the necessity of
equal treatm ent of the w hites and non­
whites.
Tlie Tokyo new spapers are loud in
then praise of President W ilson’s zeal
in his endeavors to preserve the tradi­
tional friendship, and they recognize
tlie difficulties which confront the pres­
ident of the United States in the con­
fusing conflict between state and fed­
eral rights.
The Nicht Nlchi is of the opinion
th at tlie question ns to w hether the
W ashington governm ent cun procure
equnl rights for the Japanese depends
upon tlie strength of Japanese diplo­
macy, nnd it urges the governm ent to
take a firm attitude.
A Joint celebration of the Japanese
and Am erican pence societies here was
attended by 1,000 Japanese. 8|>eeches
were made by Count Okumn, form er
m inister of foreign affairs; Baron
Yoshiro Sukntnni, m ayor of Tokyo, nnd
T sunejlro Miynokn, who was coun­
cilor of tbe Japanese em bassy nt W ash­
ington in llXXi. All of tlie speakers en­
deavored to clarify the situation, and
all decried jingoism.
Count Okuma was loudly applauded
wtien lie compared the attitu de of the
C alifornia legislators with the anti-
foreign movement In Japan half a cen­
tury ngo, which Ire looked upon as an
abased race prejudice.
“We despised foreigners,” he said,
“because they looked different We
did not consider them hum an beings.
Japan finally raw the falsity of Its po­
sition and heenme an adm irer of every­
thing western. The sam e causes un­
derlie tlie California question; b u t like
the Japanese, the Californians will see
the folly of their position, and truth
and justice will trium ph.
"A t some future day the C alifornians
will In ugh nt their fathers and grand­
fathers for driving off the Japanese,
ju st ns we laugh now at the anti-
foreign absurdities of the sam urai.’’
NO D E G R E E S FC/R PA S TR Y.
Harvard Bans All Pie, Pudding and
Cream Puff*.
W
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THE U N I V E R S A L
CAR
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Printer's ink w on’t make
tlie
car
one
go.
There’s
only
reason why 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 new Ford’s
can’t possibly satisfy this sea­
son’s
demand.
The car itself
is right with a rightness that
is unmatched anywhere at any
reasonable price.
There are more than 220,000 Fords on tlie
world's highways—tlie lx-st possible testimony,
to their unexcelled worth. Prices—runabout
$525---touring car $600—town car $800 f. o. b.
Detroit witli complete equipm ent. Catalogue
from Nesmith Auto Co., Cottage Grove,
Oregon.
AIDED BY W IF E IN FIG H T .
British Mine Owner and Woman Kill
Five Mexicans.
Aguas Callentes, Mexico. — John
W alker, a British mine owner, nnd his
wife, lighting shoulder to shoulder, re­
cently killed five men and wounded
three of a hand of eleven em ployees nt
the mine near Villa Garcia, Zacatecas.
Mr. and Mrs. W alker arrived here later
under escort of troops.
The employees attacked Mr. W alker
because of ills inability to raise money
to pay their wages. T he men used
knives and clubs, nnd Mr. W alker had
been seriously cut and beaten when
he opened fire with nn autom atic re­
volver. Mrs. W alker re-enforced her
husband w ith a rifle.
A fter the battle Mr. nnd Mrs. W alker
escaped and were befriended by a
Spanish priest, who hid them until lie
could secure the aid of tlie Am erican
consular agent here. Tlie latter ob­
tained troops to escort Mr. and Mrs.
W alker here.
GAINING B Y GOOD ROADS.
It is not unnnturnl th a t a w rong Im­
pression prevails as to the class of peo­
ple who will be m ost benefited by good
roads. T be enthusiasm of autom obile
ow ners for good roads and the Inrge
num ber o f cars seen in all parts of the
country have given the lm presslou th at
tbe autom obilists will be tbe largest
gainers. This is. however, an errone­
ous idea, as a "road census” taken
would show th a t the m otorcar ow ners
are In the m inority, and the people de­
riving tbe g reatest benefit are tbe
farm ers.
W hile the users of m otorcars may
assist in the work of creating public
sentim ent In favor of road Improve­
ment, the real benefit to tbe country is
in the saving to the farm ers in trans­
portation and in the enhanced farm
production which better m arketing fa­
cilities engender. M any n farm er will
take to m arket over good roads a load
of early potatoes for which be pan get
$1.50 u bushel, w hile witli bad roads it
would not have occurred to him to
plant them. T be difference to him is
between n quick trip to town early In
tbe morning over an improved road or
a slow. Inliorlous trip, taking prac­
tically an entire day over bad roads.
It Is everyw here ndmithHl that w ith
the Improvement of our roads, farm
lands will greatly enhance in value.
All of these argum ents in favor of a
strong agitation for better roads should
receive the earnest attention of every
farm er.
Our faithful servants, the horses and
mules, should also be considered in
this m atter, as It Is nothing less than
cowardly to let these patient, dum b
gervants be lashed through mud and
ruts, straining every nerve to serv e.-
Farm Press.
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Interest paid on all Savings
Accounts at the Old Reliable
CAPITAL and SURPLUS $50.000 °°
COTTAGE GROVE.
MISCHIEVOUS PAGE
CALLS MISS WILSON
d o llar
p a t c h e s h is s k u l l
Coin hammered Out to Fit Hole In
Man’s Head.
Om aha, Ark. — John Cbickniore of
this place will alw ays have $1 on his
person, but it will never be available
as a cash asset, as it lies in tlie front
part of his head over a Jagged hole
more than tw o Inches long and one
inch wide.
Chickm ore got in n fight, nnd his
skull w as crushed in ley n stone throw n
by Alvin Roberts. Dr. W. A. Butts,
who was called, had to have some­
thing a t once to cover the opening.
Chickm ore being In too grave a condi­
tion to be removed to n city hospital
and there being no tim e to order a sil­
ver plate.
The doctor did the next best thing—
he m ade one. He took n silver dollar
and a heavy ham m er nnd bent it out
to fit the hole. He sewed up the scalp,
and John is now recovering.
Cambridge. Mass.—T he curfew for
pie. pudding, cream puffs and char­
lotte russe has been sounded nt H ar­
vard.
Recently tbe Memorial dining ball
m anagers have substituted cereals in
various popular forms at tlie noon and
night meals as well as for breakfast. TO R AISE M IL E O F C E N T S .
Tills ex|>orinient has proved a great
Church Society Hat Estimated the
success.
Number at 84,480.
A great many of the 1)00 students
ta t at "Mem" believe th a t the new Sum m it, N. J.—"H ow many cents to
form of dessert is much more health­ a mile?" Is a question which the yonng
ful than pastry.
people of S t John's Evangelical Lu­
theran church of Sum m it are asking,
and they are to give a practical dem ­
Icebergs Fast Moving South.
N ew port FI I.—A m essage from the onstration by collecting the required
revenue cutter Seneca saying th at the num ber for the church building fund.
ice fields are rapidly moving south­ W hen they have enough to m ake a
ward was picked up by the radio sta­ mile they will tell the people of Sum­
tion here. The Seneca, which is pro­ mit how many It takes. M eantim e
tecting tbe Atlantic steam ship fines, those who have m easured the diam eter
gave Its position as latitude north of the copper coins have arrived a t the
answ er—84,480.
43 41, longitude west 40.01.
OREGON
Reliable Harness
But Suspicious Phone Operator
Intercepts Message.
W ashington.—A fter a search of five
weeks on the part of secret service
men, capltol policemen and attaches
of the sergeant-at-arm s office to dis­
cover the identity of tlie page of the
house w ho called up Miss Jessie W il­
son on tlie phone on one of the night
sessions ot tlie house tlie search of the
guilty person was finally abandoned.
D uring tlie night sessions on tlie ta r­
iff the pages oil the floor of tin* house
having lots of tim e on their hands,
am used them selves by phoning to vari­
ous residences in all parts of the city.
One of the lads suggested thnt It would
be a good joke to call up “Main ("’ and
ask for Miss Wilson. T his is the W hite
House num ber, although It w as un­
known to tlie hoy who used the private
line from the capltol to the W hite
House.
T he operator on duty nt the execu­
tive mansion realizing thnt soinolxxly
was playing a trick, notified tlie enpi-
tol sw itchboard, nnd tlie m essage was
traced to the house cloakroom. An Im­
m ediate investigation was ordered.
A fter weeks of w’ork tlie identity of
the page responsible for calling up the
W hite House rem ains n m ystery.
The m essage for Miss W ilson never
got nny further than tlie operator nt
the W hite House.
SAFETY and SERVICE I I
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House
A catalogue* lists a
double work harness,
No.
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at
$ 4-0.74. I will supply
any farmer or team­
ster with the same
harness at the same
price plus $ 1 .0 0 for
frcijjdit.
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