COTTAGE GROVE LEADER
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P U B L IS H E D
EVERY
W ED N ESD A Y
One yea r,__________________ $1.50
Six months,_________ _____ _ . /5
Advertising rates on Application
W . C . C O N N E R , E d it o r an d M a n a g e r
E n tere d as second-class m atter Ja n u ary
25, 1913, at the post office at Cottage
G ro ve, O regon, under the A ct of M arch
3, 1879.
What is a Kilowatt
Now let us enlighten you as to
what a kilowat is. A kilowat is
a measure or a weight or a cer
tain term by which we can find
out how much gasoline it takes
to run an engine, to generate a
certain amount o f electricity, to
load an amount o f wire with a
certain amount o f energy suffi
cient to produce a certain amount
o f heat that when forced through
a certain kind o f platinum wire
that is suspended in a certain
shaped glass bottle will illumi
nate a certain amount o f space in
certain buildings asiin such case
made and provided, says an ex
change. You find out by certain
figures in simple proportion.
You multiply the gas by the con
science o f the proprietor o f the
electric light plant, divide this
by the meter on the wall, and
add whatever you cannot multi
ply. The answer will come in
dollars and cents. Just divide
these by the price you pay per
kilowat and multiply again and
find out what a kilowat is. It is
something you can’t see, that
you pay for according to what
someone tells you who don’t
know what he is talking about
and proves by a meter that runs
by guess and by gad and is at
tached to the wall by a hired
man with machine grease on his
nose. You know just how many
kilowatsyou have had, just what
they cost apiece, but you don’t
know how big they are, what
they look like, who made them,
what shape they are, i f all are
o f the same size or how old they
are before they are ripe.
Who Wipes The Dishes!
The Bible is a mighty handy
book when you are in an argu
ment— you can find a text to fit
most any contention. A married
suffragist the other day used it
with stunning effect on an old
fashioned husband.
She wanted him to wipe the
dishes.
He demurred.
Then
she quoted scripture— this verse
from second Kings:
" I will wipe Jerusalem as a
man wipeth a dish, wiping it and
turning it upside down. ”
Being a pious chap, what could
he do? O f course he gave in.
THE EUROPEAN W AR!
"A n d I saw, and behold, a
pale horse; and he that sat upon
it, his name was Death; and
Hades followed with him. And
there was given unto them au
thority over the fourth part o f
the earth, to kill with sword, and
with famine, and with pestilence,
and by the wild beasts o f the
ea rth ."— Revelations VI.
The subscription payments o f
the farmers are about all that
enables some newspapers to ex
ist this winter. The farmer is
not only the backbone o f the
country, but o f the towns as well.
Missionary -Learn to be a
Christian I No, no! Chinese ne
ver learn to shoot good ‘nough to
be Christian.— Life.
Self denying isn’t a bad habit
Try it ’
W OM EN " B O B B IE S ”
$108,399 IS CUT FROM
W AR INNOVATION
COUNTY’S TAX BUDGET
London’s Auxiliary Fo rce W iil
The Lane county court Saturday cut $108,399 or an
equivalent o f 2.5 mills from the Lane county tax budget
and made its final order on this modified budget. Lane
count3r’s 1915 tax levy for county and state purposes
wiil be 15.5 mills except in Eugene, Junction, Springfield
and Cottage Grove and the incorporated towns where
the levy will be 13.5 mills. This represents a reduction
of 4.5 mills in the cities and 2.5 mills in the country from
the 1914 levy.
The county court in revising its budget, followed the
recommendations o f the tax committee in the main. It
cut the general road levy from 3 to 2 mills, cutting out a
total of $49,000 for roads. It cut out the office of Sealer
o f Weights and Measures.
It did not, however, eliminate the juvenile officer, as
requested, but it cut his salary from $1,700 to $1,500.
It also reduced the assessor’s estimate for census taking
expenses from $3,000 to $2,000 and cut out the salary
of one draftsman. It also cut the treasurer’s budget
$590, but refused to cut the circuit court budget.
Judge L. T. Harris packed his law books which for
10 years have rested on the shelves in the circuit judge’s
office in the court house at Eugene, Saturday, signed his
last entry in the circuit court journal, and on Sunday left
Eugene for Salem, where on Monday he took the oath of
office and became a Justice of the state supreme court.
Judge Harris was accompanied to Salem by G. F. Skip-
worth, who on Monday was sworn in as circuit judge to
succeed Judge Harris at Eugene, upon the appointment
to this office at the hands o f Governor West.
F a m ily tradition sa y s th at my uncla
« aa killed and buried at G ettysburg,
n 1863, but g ives no fu rth e r p a rticu
lars. C a n hia grave be identified?
W hen the battlefield cem etery at
G ettysb u rg w as dedicated four months
a fte r the buttle there w ere <KHI duly
m arked g ra v es and 582 m arked ” Un
known U nited S tate s So ld ie r ” W rite
to the sup erin ten d en t N ational cem e
tery, G ettsb urg . I’a.
Please tell me the difference between
the w ords guardian and trustee.
I
a a v e looked in the d ictio nary, but the
sxplanation is not satisfa cto ry.
It de|H-nds as to w hat sort of a
guardian you m ean, lu law a guardian
is a person w ho legally h a s the care of
a |H-rson or pro|«-rty or both of aiioth
er lneoni|N*tent to act for him self, es
l>eclally of an in fan t.
A trustee Is an y one w ho holds prop
erty In tru st, e sp e cia lly , lu popular
usage, one of a body of men. often
elective, who hold the property and
m anage the a ffairs of a ch u rch or pub
'lc In stitu tio n or In d ivid u al for some
reason or other.
W hat w as the trouble oalled “ Shays'
rebellion f”
D aniel S h a y s broke up the suprem e
ourt at W orcester M a s s . Deo 25.
1787
T ills w a s the cu lm inatio n of
S h ays' reb ellio n .” S h a y s w a s an Am er
lean soldier In the w a r o f the Itevolu-
tlon
T h e In su rrectio n ists, who arose
iu 1780. revolted on account of high
taxes, the exto rtio n s o f la w y e rs, etc.
Please state the num ber and c h a r
acter ot the b attlesh ip s now being budt
by the variou s co un tries at w ar w ith
one another.
A u stria has now under course of
construction six battleship s and three
sm all c ru ise rs; F r a n c e has under way
ten b attlesh ip s; G e rm a n y has seven
n attleshlps. four c ru is e rs of the line and
eight protected c r u is e rs ; G re a t Itritaiu
has fourteen b attlesh ip s, one Imttle
cru ise r and tw en ty eight cru ise rs, and
Kussta seven b attlesh ip s, four battle
c ru ise rs and eight sm a ll cru ise rs.
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London.—Conditions incidental to the
w a r In this c ity have resulted lu the
form ation o f a new police auxiliary
force o f wom en, known us the wo-
men's police volunteers, w ho w ill soon
beeorne fa m ilia r sights In the streets
here.
Dressed In neat blue uniforms, they
have already begun th eir duties, which
are at present concerned m ostly w ith
the w e lfa re o f women anil children.
T h e headquarters o f the force Is In
Cannon row , near the w e ll know n
Scotland Yard.
T h e form ation o f a wom an's squad
in the Iamdon police fo rc e Is being
follow ed by the organization In Eng-
lauil o f a wom en's volunteer reserve
fo r such m ilita ry duties as signaling.
dispatch riding, telegraphing, motor-
ing and camp cooking, thus replacing
men w ho could be more usefully em-
ployed on the firing line.
It is proposed to arm these wom en
“ fo r (h eir ow n defense In the last ex-
trem ity.”
Man, Se v e n ty-fo u r, Keeps A fte r a Deer
For a W eek A fter Accident.
H ellefonte. P a .—Isaac M iller, seventy-
four years old. a member o f a Belle-
fonte bunting party out on the Alleghe-
nles a fte r deer, fel. oft a box In the
hunters' tent and dislocated Ills le ft
shoulder. So eager was he to g et a
shot at a deer that he refused to listen
to the insistence o f his frien ds that he
com e home, but strapped the upper
part o f his arm to his body and hunted
all week. H e walked six m iles to the
nearest settlem ent and was brought
home, a distance o f fo rty miles, by an-
tomobile. T h e arm was reset, and he
Is little worse fo r the experience.
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CURFEW FOR “CARD FIENDS.”
C as
It S trik e s at M idnight In Muncie, W hen
C ig a r Stores Close.
Muncie, ln d .—Because o f the com-
plaint by w ives and mothers that hus-
bands and sons w ere being kept out
loo late at night by the fascination o f
p layin g rhum and other card gam es In
ciga r stores the police have Issued or-
ders that all ciga r stores in (his city
must close th eir doors at m id n igh t
T h e ow ners o f these places have
com plied w illin gly, most o f them say-
in g that they w elcom e the opportunity
to get a w a y from their places o f busi-
ness at a reasonable hour instead o f
having to spend the night entertain ing
"card fiends.”
A
Cen so r Opened P rin ce's M ail.
London.—W hen the Prince o f W ales
sent tw o long letters to his mother de-
scribing his experiences at (h e fron t
they w ere opened by the censor in the
same m anner as those o f ordinary sol-
diers.
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Care M o s tly Fo r Children.
ARM BROKEN, HE HUNTS ON.
JUDGE HARRIS GOES TO SALEM.
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HAD EIGHT SETS OF TWINS.
They W ere Consecutive In B irth and
Boy and G irl In E ach .
W ill you kindly ad vise me whether
Coswell. N
C.—Squire Uoliert l.
the present Count Zeppelin, inventor ot
tho Germ an Zeppelin airsh ip , ever j Mitchell, w h o visited his old home
served as an officer in the northern near IM dgeville recently, brought back
arm y during the civ il w a r?
a bit o f rare news. T h e w ife o f W est
Co u nt Zcppedu
accom panied
the Graves, a N egro o f that section, has
northern uriny d urin g our c iv il w ar as just presented her husband with the
m ilita ry observer tor G erm a n y .
eighth consecutive set o f twins.
T h e young couple have tieen mar-
W ill you k in d ly publish the Monroe ried about thirteen years, the knot
d octrine?
I having been tied by Squire M itchell
Aa stated by .»Tesideut Monroe In his | when he was a Justice o f the peace. A
an n ual m essage of 1823; "W e ow e It
rem arkable circum stance th ereof Is
to candor and to the am icab le relations the fact that in each set o f tw ins was
e xistlu g between the United States a 1 h >. v and a girl. T here are eight chll
Hud those iEu ro p e an ) pow ers to de dren living, one o f each set having
clare that w e should consider an y at
died.
j tempt on tbelr part to extend th eir ays
tern to auy |iortion of this hem isphere MAN’S LEG FOUND IN SHARK.
as dangerous to o or peace and safety
Pensacola, r i a . - A man's leg w as
W ith the existing colonies ot dependen
d en ot any E u ro p e an |n>wer we have found iu the stom ach o f a shark caught
in the ocean near here and brought to
not Interfered and shall not Interfere
Rut w ith the g overnm ents who have land by the Austrian steam er Lucia.
A ll the ttesh had been dlgi-sted, leavin g
declared their lude|H>iidence and main
rained It and w hose Independence we the bones o f the thigh and c a lf bare.
have on great consid eration and on w ith the knee Joint still intact, except
Just p rincip les ackno w led g ed We could on the foot, w hich was covered by a
new shot>.
not view nnv lnter|xru tln n for the pur
T h is shoe was exam ined by a dealer
l>ose of oppressing them or controlling
In an y other m a n n e r their destiny by and Identified as one o f a p air he sold
any European pow er In any other light a short tim e ago to Captain Risneck o f
the fishing smack Algom a. who was
than as the m anifestatio n ot an tin
drow ned about tw o weeks before.
frien d ly .lts|>osltton tow ard the United
T lie skipper nnd a m em ber o f his
States."
c rew w ere in a small boat tryin g to
W h at la the olct**t flowsr of w hich m ake a landing near the navy yard
a fte r th eir smack had been anchored
J there is any accou n t?
W aa W ashington city alw aya g ov
erned by congreee ae it la now ?
O rig in a lly G eorgetow n aud W a sh
ington w ere liu-ori*>ruted «a separate
cities. G eorgetow n In 1780 and W ash
ington In 1802. F o r a long tim e W ash
Ington had a m ayor. ap|H>liited by the
president, and a co uncil elected by
the |ieople
In 1871 congress re|<esled
the ch a rte rs of tiotb citie s and adopted
the territo rial form of governm ent
Under Itila syste m tw o governors serv
cd appointed by the p resid e n t- via..
T h e rose Is the oldest flowet of w hich ¡ f o r th e n ig h t, w h en th e b oa t w a s o v e r-
C a p ta in Blsneck w a s n e v e r
H enry D Cooke, a brother of J a j
We have any record
So great Is the tu rn ed .
Cooke, the banker, and A lexand er R I an tiq u ity ot the rose th st a ll account seen again, although the tugs and
Shepherd, who Iss-am e know n as Ross j of Ita origin lia s been hist, and It Is p ilo ts on d u ty a t th e en tra n ce s o f th e
h a rb o r k ep t a close lo o k o u t f o r his
Shepherd. In 1874 congress abolished
not know n iu w hat co u n try It ortgtnat
T h e shark in w hich the leg
the te rrito rial governm ent and suh stl
sd. In Eg yp t the rose la pictured on body.
rated governm ent by regents or com
UKjuuments believed to date from 3.000 w as found was tw e lv e and one-half
fe e t long.
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