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COTTAGE GROVE LEADER The paper that rives you what you want to read Published W edn esdays and Saturdays One year,___________________ $1.50 Six months,......... .....................75 Advertising rates on Application J. 1). Q U IL L E N , E d itor and Manager Entered as second-class matter January L’5, 1913, at the post office at Cottage Grove, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 187». S a t u r d ay , J u n e 27, 1914 Notice to the Public All notices o f enterlainraentsfwhere admission is charred or where there is a money consider ation; all cards of thatnks and resolutions of condolence w ill 1 e charred for at the rerular advertisinr rate—5 cents i'*r line. Aa Smart as His Boy. When Sir W illiam Gilbert was twen ty-seven nod was known to the world os n promising writer, his fattier, who was u retired naval surgeon, wrote a seiiilinetaphyslcal, semlmcdlcal book entitled "Shirley H all Asylum,'' his first book. Edith A. Brown, when preparing a biography o f the younger man, having heard that the son was the incentive from without which spurred Into ac tion the Inherent but dormant literary tulent of the father, asked If such was the fact. "Yes,” replied the author o f the “ Bnb Ballads" and the wittiest libret tos ever wrltteh. " I think the little success which had attended my hum ble efforts certainly Influenced my fa ther. “ You see,” he added, with a suspi cion o f a smile, "m y father never had on exalted Idea o f my ability. He thought If I could write anybody could and forthwith he began.” A Question of Brains. At a club frequented by doctors the discussion curae up recently whether n person could live without a brain. During the discourse one o f the doc tors said: "W hen I was practicing medicine In Indiana a remarkable case came under my supervision. A man w hile oot hunting had leaned npon his shotgun and the wcupon bad gone off accidentally, making a large wound In his head Just above the ear. The brain wns laid bare and In bringing the pa tient to the hospital a handful of the gray matter leaked ou t He was tre- pnnued and finally recovered, his men- tul faculties apparently as good as ever.” “ Your story Is Interesting," inter rupted an auditor, “ but It sounds to me somewhat Inconsistent.” "W h y s o ? ’ questioned the nnrrator. “ Because,” answered the other doc tor, “ If he hnd ever had a handful o f brains he wouldn’t have leaned on the gun.” —National Monthly. When the Trouble Started. Flagg had lived all his Ufa lh the city. Never had he seen anything In the vegetable line except factory made grass until he decided to spend the summer working on Cousin Hiram’s farm. Not knowing much In the way o f driving a hoe or a harrow, the new farmhand was put to work whitewash ing the outbuildings, while the rest of the staff took to the cornfields. When Cousin Hiram returned to the house at noon Slagg was sitting on the wood- pile looking aa I f he had been crawling on hto face through ten scree o f sand burrs. “ G ive me my money, boas,” said be In a mournful voice. “ I ’m going beck to town.* "W h at have ye been doin' ter yer- s e lf? ’ asked Cousin Hiram, wonder- Ingly sixlng up the new hand. “ W hat’s happened ? ’ “ I don’t know exactly what happen ed.” was the dejected reply o f Slagg, “ but It started when I tried to white wash thut thing they call a beehive.” —Philadelphia Telegraph. Drilling Holae In Steal. When holes are drilled and then reamed In soft steel bars the metal materially Increases In strength, the average lim it o f elasticity Improving 12.3 per cent and the average tensile strength 0.2 per cent This phenome non to explained thus: In putting to gether the parts o f a test piece broken under tension It to found that the two ends do not coincide and th a t while the edges make a good contact the central parts do n o t thus Indicating that the rupture begins at the center and that the edges have a higher ten sile resistance than there to along the axis o f the bar. Therefore. If several holes are drilled so aa not to Injure the material too much, as might be the case with punching, the average ten sile strength o f the section across the holes per unit o f metal will be higher than before the boles were drilled, since each hole creates, so to apeak, additional edges.—London Mali. Her Contribution. A man, a new acquaintance, once told Dr. Joseph Parker o f London that he had put a five pound note in the plate Instead o f the h alf sovereign he had Intended. “ I hope you don’ t repent o f your charity." aald the doctor. “ Indeed, no,” said the guest “ Because," said Parker, “ 1 remember that one o f my congregation once did. It was a woman, and she came to the vestry a fter service one Sunday morn ing to tell me that a week before she must have put a sovereign In the plate Instead o f a shilling, because she could not account for the loss other wise. But she didn’t get the change from me,” said the doctor, with a smile. “ I told her It was too bad, o f course, particularly as God would only give her credit fo r the shilling.” T o Transfer Printing. Anything printed on paper with ordi nary printer's Ink can be transferred to a clean sheet o f paper In the follow ing manner; Take three drama o f com mon yellow sonp and dissolve It In one quart o f hot water. When cool add one nnd a half fluid ounces o f spirits o f turpentine. Put all In a bottle, cork it nnd shake well together. Take a sponge or soft brush and apply some o f the solution to the printed surface. Let it soak for a few minutes. Lay It face down upon the paper on which the trunafer Is required and press both together evenly between the leaves o f a thick book placed under weights. In a time varying from half a minute to several hours, according to the new ness o f the printed original. It will be transferred In reverse. Orest Crest of the 8lerra. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the United States, Is not an Isolated mountain peak, like Mount Shasta or Mount Rainier, but to the loftiest point A Matter o f Small Moment. A local British official In India wnnt- In the great California crest or enor mous saw tooth ridge o f the Sierra Ne ed military protection against what he vada, including many emiuencea al considered to be the danger o f an In most ns high. Mount Whitney to 14.- dian rising nnd traveled all the way 501 feet above sea level. Among those to Simla to lay before Lord Kitchener, o f slightly lesser height are Mount the commander In chief, the state of Bussell, less than a mile distant. 14,100 affairs In hto district and to urge that feet; Mount Williamson. 14,884 feet; troops should be sent to support the Mount Muir, 14,20(1 feet; Mount Lang civil arm. Lord Kitchener declined to ley, 14.042 feet; Mount Barnard, 14,- do anything o f the sort. 0O3 feet, nnd Mount Tyndall, 14,02(1 “ But, my dear sir, do you realise fe e t The most distant o f these to less that I may be murdered In my bed one n lgb t?’ expostulated the official. thnn six miles away. Kitchener eyed him over for a min By a strange freak o f nature tbs low est |H)lnt o f dry land lu the United ute and then aald coldly, “ W ell, what States 1s less thnn eighty miles from o f l t r the highest The lowest [mint to In Queer Fish. Death valley and to 270 feet below sea Some curious fish found In 8outh level. It to said that from this point Mount Whitney can be easily see« on American waters breathe with lungs as well as gills. During the dry sea a clear day. son the fish curls up at the bottom of a burrow, with Ita tall over Its face, The Real Scrap. T w o muscular Individuals were ham and remains there until the rise of water dissolves the ping with which It mering at each other In the ring. "H o rrlb le r ejaculated a tender heart stops the entrance to the burrow. ed spectator. Hie Mistake. “ Uorrtbls nothing!” said a regular “ I understand you entertained a num patron. “ If yon want to see a real scrap get next to them when they di ber of people at dlnuer last n igh t” “ That's what I thought” replied Mr. vide the purse."—Philadelphia Ledger. Cumros. “ but my w ife says I bored ’em.” —Washington Star. Having Fun In N tw York. “ Did you have a good time In New York 7“ "U reatl W e paid $5 each for two dollar neats for a show that wasn’t worth 00 cents.“ —Detroit Free Press. High Finance. Asker—Can yon loan me HOT Telllt — W hy. yon owe me $50 now. A sk er- W ell, 1 Just wanted to pay yon $0 on accou n t—Spokane Review. But W ho Telle the Neighbor? It to only national history that ro pes ta Itself. Yonr private history to repented by yoor neighbor.—Woman’s B om s Companion. A liar onda by making truth appear gka fato+bood.—Bbtogteno Love of Gootlp. One o f the chief characteristics of the h-iman race Is Inquisitiveness—not so much about things and places and Ideas as about each other. Every proper person Is a born gossip, aud the accomplished scandal monger to always welcome, provided, o f course, his scandal Is about others. You can test this at any time by considering who are the people you like best to mee’ and wbo are alwuys surrounded by the grentest number o f Idle acquain tances. Invariably you must be forced to the conclusion they are those who bare made a business o f acquiring in formation about others and retailing their knowledge In various dressings. This love o f gossip Is further revealed In the kind o f books which claim the widest appreciation. You will find that these books are not poetry, drama, science or philosophy. They are uov- els. memoirs, dlnrles. Intimate histories, recollections, letters—nil o f them es sentlal gossip (nnd sometimes scandal* appearing by their power to nttrnot the gossiping sense which exists In all o f us.—T. P.’a Loudc a Weekly. The Koran. In the London Everyman Is a re view of the Koran and Its author. Mo hammed. It Is a one man’s book and that man not un Imaginative one, but essentially a man of action and lack ing in invention. The Koran Is n Jum bled mass o f precepts, doctrines, threats. Injunctions, divine commands, narrative, lyric nnd epic poetry. It's heaven and hell are too material for modern thought. “ Obviously," says Everyman, “ the Koran is mennt not to be read with the eye, but to be re A Bird In the Hand. Etc. cited, when the repetitions are not The minister had Just pronounced nearly so pronounced. It reflects a so the words which made them one. O f cial order, a -system o f ideas ns re course the next thing of Importance mote from Rome, and more especially was the fee. from Greece, as our own are from the The bridegroom looked at his bride, North American Indian. Rut neither then at (lie minister. Fumbling in time nor evolution can utterly quench his pocket, he produced a tw o dollar the flame o f Mohammed's personality, bill which carried Ills followers to reckless “ Here Is n tw o dollar bill I will give excesses, to the sovereignty o f cm- ! you now,” he said, “ or I will wait un plres, which crented an nrt pecnllr.r 1 til the end o f six months and pay you to Islam and founded age long tradi what I think it Is worth, even If It la tions.” a hundred dollars. You can take your choice.” One of the Sights of Paris. The minister studied a moment The Paris department stores are glanced at the bride and bnstily re worse Jumbles even thnn the English plied; department stores. When there is a “ I ’ll take the $2 now.” —Indianapolis special sale under way the bargain News. counters are rigged up on the side walks. There, In the open air, buyer Ghost Plant of Oregon. and seller will ehaffer and bicker and j The ghost plant was known and wrangle and quarrel and kiss and make mueh praised by the Indians o f Oregon up again—for all the world to see. One In times past mid Is sometimes known o f the free sights o f Paris Is a frugal as the Indian pl|>e plant. It is said the Frenchman with Ids face extensively Indians believed that It had great rem bnlred over pawing like n Skye terrier edial qualities and made from it a lo through a heap o f marked down lin tion which they considered curative gerie. picking out things for tile female for diseases o f the eye. it Is n tall, members o f Ills household to wear, now waxllkc plant about eight Inches high, testing some material with his tongue- and Its bloom resembles a waxen cup now bolding a personnl article up In —Portlaud Oregonian. the sunlight to exnmlne the fa b ric - while bis w ife stands humbly, dumbly Tho Possum Trail. by. watting for him to complete his se At one of the famous Georgln ’pos lections.—Irving S. Cobb in Saturday sum dinners oue of the guests turned Evening P ost to the waiter with the remark; “ Itas- tus. that Oceani Suffer Much. “ Does your w ife suffer In clleoceT* “ Tee, and I am sorry I f she did do ; suffer In alteare perhaps «b e would be •lient ottener,"-Bonete* Poni His Infinite Variety. The average man bus within bis sys tern the material for 13 pounds o f can dies, u pound of nails. 800 pencils, bindings for 1H small tiooks. 500 knife handles. 28 violin strings. 20 teaspoon fuls of salt and a pound o f sugar.—De trolt Free Press. A Sure Clue. “ Doctor, ts your patient sure yon can cure him by your new method?' “ How did you know my patient was not u w om ani" "1 heard iHut you were going to try the silence cure ’ Baltimore Anieri can ^ § New A fte r a few days shutdown, we are better prepared than ever before to serve our customers. A new oven built to perfection means to us what a new range means to the housewife— good bread, baked to perfection. W e have it. Every time you ask your grocer for a loaf of bread wrapped in Pennant wrappers, you help build up a home institution, that we will guaran tee you to be right all the time. SPLENDORS OF THE UNIVERSE TO BE SHOWN AT S AN FRANCISCO IN 1915 A SCENE o f splendor nnd glory unrivaled In the history o f world’s exposi tions Is assured the visitor to the great Panama Pacific interna tional Exposition at San Francisco In 1015. Thousands o f workmen k nre now rushing to completion the vast exhibit palaces that face north on the shores o f San Francisco harbor Just Inside the Golden Onte, nnd a conclave o f nations unsurpassed by history Is assured nt this stupendous celebration at which the United States, Joined by the untloiis of tho world, w ill celebrate the opening o f the Panama canal. Thirty-four great countries have accepted tho Invitation to take part In the Exposition. Tills Is four times ns many nations ns had agreed to partici pate at any other exposition at a similar time before Its opening. The fact that the Panama-Pacific International Exposition will be ready in every detail long before the opening day on Feb. 20. 1015. Is only what the world c s-ted o f the men who have this International Exposition In charge. More than tiO.OOO o f tho world's leading exhibitors will have their exhibits Installed In the vast exhibit halls when the Exposition opens to the world. This to an unparalleled record In tho history o f universal exiiosltions. Pretty Bad. The barber was very busy and the shop was full o f men waiting for him to practice bis tonsorlal art upon their beads and faces. One man. Mr. Blank, became tired of waiting for his turu to coine and started to leave. Although bis beard had come out pretty heavy, he thought no one could uotice it and that he could come back the next morning when Hughes, the barber, was not so busy. The barber, not wtsldug a customer to go away unatteuded to, accosted him by saylug. “ You're not leavin' us, to you, Mr. Blank?’ "W hy, I don’t need a shave, do I, Hughes?' Hughes thereupon looked hto cus tomer over critically and answered him assuredly: “ No, youse don’t ueed a shave; all youse need Is a hair cut OR de face/’—National Monthly. \ I So me t hi ng possum must have gone to W e like the country, like the people, want to stay. Show us your heart’s right and we will stay. Ï THE CITY B A K E R Y | V I I GROCERIES We have a complete line of Groceries and Vegetables FEED Process Rolled Barley, per sack - $1.15 Shorts per sack - - - 1.35 Bran per saek $ .80 M ix Feed - - 1.20 Wheat per bushel 1.10 - - Rolled Oats .50 W O O D -- Be sure and see me before bu3’ing your winter’s supply. E G G S --I can pay cash tor eggs within 1 cent per dozen of trade price. ROY E. SHORT, Cor. Seventh & Washington I i The Great Carabao W hip $ 2 3 c , 5 0 c , 7 5 c , $ 1 .0 0 $ 1 .2 5 , $ 1 .5 0 , $ 2 . 0 0 I “THE A Concession. She—You don’t allow me to do any thing I want! I f It goes oo much longer I shall go borne to mamma. H e -T h a t I will allow you to do.—FU c - geode Blatter. Corrected. H e-D artin g, refuse me. and 1 shall never love another girl She (briskly) — What I want to a man who will promise me that if I accept h im - Judge my head. It aches like fury.” “ Is dat so. sub?' resjionded Rastus "Funny bow ’possum always meks for s bolluh.” —National Monthly. J WHIP OF QUALITY’’ f o r s a l e b v C> W. B E A L S Standing of the Candidates Photo« copyright. 1414, by American Press Association. Miss Arlie Langdon. Cottage G rove,..................................... 154,333 Navy Aviators In Camp at Vera Cruz Miss A da Land, Do re n a ,______________________________________139,450 In the brief time that American forces have occupied Vera Crum the ralne « f the aviation squad has been thoroughly demonstrated. Navy aviators have proved their worth In getting a line on the opposition force*. The photo |hows tho a via tors and th eir quarters at Vers Crus. Miss Mary Bartels, Cottage G ro v e ,....................................... 116,500 Mrs. Katherine Brainard, Cottage Crove.............................. .138,750 Miss Lyndall Gibler, Sagin aw ,......................................... ........ 61,500
