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The Sentinel
a q u o d r a n c a in a o o o o
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H. W. YOUNG, Mi >*m
H. ALLEN YOUMft,’
Savings Banks are in active
um in the United
Are you using one of the Five M illion.
You can start a SAVINGS ACCOUNT in this
bank with a dollar or more.
1«wt. n ie kids aad Urta’ to git *
■tart.
“Now Jak», ha’a a old foIWr, but
•pry. ’Staad of pattili' up Ua hand*
he dona a dhra for the boy’* lag*, and
upset him. The bay pitched down and
the gun want off, aad Frank, who’d
ADVERTISING
The Outlook
The grissled inks*per in the little
village Juet eouth of “the liae"
temped his pipe with s leathery fore­
finger and glanced a t the clock aa a
heavy truck flashed under the lights
outside end vanished down the glist­
ening road, says fltaaley Frost in the
Outlook.
“ThStTl bo Jak* Ranett,” ha ob­
served, meditatively. “He’s a mite
■head of time tonight. Mostly there’s
a couple of other runners git# through
fu s t Wonder if he's gittin’ It some­
where# else for a spell. He’s been
rayin' he needed a change of hick.
Me, 1 allow what ha needs to ehaagu
is his brains. Ha’s had all tha luck
one feller it entitled to, seem# as
though.
“Jaka’a he’s boon rich aad poor
three four times these last two years.
He makes s-plaaty, lika all o’ the
runners, but I allow there’s eoaaet
about this boose money makes it herd
to hold on to. Jake, he epeuad hia
ovary which way—rolled the
played the bosses, tried to buck the
market, besides liviak liks J. P.
gen. Bom* fellers says hah lost half
a million, though auiat like that's too
high. But it's boon a hasp, all right.
Berne with must of ’em. This town
would be rich if they’d hold ooto it,
them that don’t git killed.
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“Ok, yee, they’» been a paasel at
these b e n killed—three right here in
the last ten months. On* of ’em
wasn’t rightly in the boose bos in eee at
a ll That was another piece of Jake's
luck, too, him bein’ the feller that
ought rightly to have got i t
“Why, yee, everybody know* it,
so’# they’« no reason I shouldn’t toll
you. They’s nothin' secret”—the fir*
hissed as he spat to emphasise the
last word—“about this boos* basin
up here. Everybody know* about it,
or can find o u t includin’ tha Gov
ment men, if they want to»
Mt was along last spring. They
was four boys down the road got bald
of a big ear, second-hand, of
but a big fast one. They kind of
aimed to make a little money tike the
rest. Yon knew, what m
fellers mekin’ so m A , and witk
stories goin’ around evta bigger than
the money, the kids Juat natarTy itch
to git after i t You can’t hold ’am in
school, and yoo can’t g it ’em to do no
real work, neither.
Who wants to
work for three four five dollars
day when be might clean up a months’
wages in on* night? It’s awful
temptin’ to the kids, what with law
enough to keep the prices high and
not. enough to make it dangerous,
much. And the real danger ain’t
from the law, neithar.
“These was real nice boys, some of
the best families down tbs raat
folks all rig h t Wall, tbay drove up
to Jake’s one noon and aakad him
could he sell them fifty case*. Of
course, be says ‘yaa,’ but be ain’t got
it right then, and tails ’em to
back at five o’clock. They agreed and
drove off, and Jak* he takas a car
—no use using tbs truck for a small
Job life, that—and gone up
the line and gita i t
“On his way back aomethinig went
wrong with his engine, mid there ha ia
stalled half a mile from home, Now,
you know, they’s some things they
won’t stand for even around bore,
aad he didn’t allow it waa good Judg­
ment to leave hie boost aittin
in the road whiles he went for hie
truck. Besides, he flggored he’d bo
l«te and maybe lose hie sal*. So be
went into Prank Blanchard’s
aakad him for a tow. Prank got out
hie fliw er and hauled bin
Jak* and his boos*.
"There waa the boys, three a t ’em.
On* hadn’t cobs * back far
Frank haulad the load ar
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BREAD OF
UFE
through tha pbad, grab bin’ a shotgun,
Fame the Literary Digaat
and he got m range and let fly Just
When Gladstone awoke ia the
aa tha ear w n tw in ’ into the road.
He didn’t hit tha boy, but it muet have morning hia eyea fell an this text
from teeieb lettered on the foot of
and went Into a telephone pole. They his bod: “Thou wilt keep him in per­
was bottle* and busted glass scatter­ fect peace wkoae naiad, ia sUyed on
ed over an acre, and a smell there for Thao." The thought ia said to have
days. Goad stuff, Jake handles. The remained with the groat ataUbmaa
driver boy, hq was ia the hospital for aa a spiritual support throughout the
two months. Whan ha got out, they day, aad wa are aakad to eaaaider
sent the three up for eight years, all what a fine moral textura might ba
alike, tha killing of Frank bain’ aed- woven into the nation if scripts such
ss th at which daily greeted Glad­
dent like aad not intended.
”1 ’spoee that’s fair enough, aad stone's ayas wara as conspicuously
I’m mighty sorry for Frank. But and frequently posted as aré tha vir­
it’s pretty hard on tha boys, eonsid- tues of soma now brand of bread or
of soap. “Who," asks one keenly
aware of the value of advertising,
“can calculate the valúa of outdoor
signs, streetcar cards or newspaper
space, containing such a text as this:
‘Owe no man anything, but to love
other has fulfilled the law :’ 'Lova
worketh no ill to his neighbor; there­
fore love Is the fulfilling of the law.’ "
In practical precepts like this the
Bible sbounds.
Advertising the Bible'is not a new
idea. We see occasionally texts from
Scripture posted ia streetcars and on
billboards; but we see much more
about bread and soap. Howéver, a
frssh Impetus is given to the subject
in aa advortiaing Journal by a writer
who ballava* that the Bible could be
advertised to better advantage and
suggests how it could M done. In
“An Open Letter to an Unknown Mil-
that m o te the anvil, saying, It k
ready for the aoldaring: and ha faa-
tanad it with naila, th at it should not
ba aaorad.’ laaiah 41-.8-7.
the workmen at today
•u— npo» bo happier if the unity, co­
operation aad thorougkneaa pictured
above ware equaled o r approximated
in their own daily work?
“Thee* text* also auggaat tham-
of Coquille, Oregon
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JN O .
J. W.
ORBGONIAN REPORTER’S BREAK
Tha lad with the misplaced eye­
brow, who covered tha Core 11 trial
hare last week far the Oregonian,
may be a reporter of ability, but he
did not do hia paper any good whan
he dosed his article la Sunday morn­
ing's paper with the following para­
graph:
"Tha Coveil trial was a big event in
the life of this town. Santa hava-baaa
at a .premium, and long lines of par­
sons, principally woman and girls,
have stood about fqe hours a t the
courtroom doors for the chance to
glimpse the much-discussed prisoner."
It is true there were a lot of woman
aad girls ia attendance a t the trial
who could probably have boon better
employed at home, but they were not
all from CoquUle, aad the “big event
in the life ef this town" statem ent to
what might ba expected from a youth
Just breaking into the newspaper
A LAW THAT DOESN'T WORK
The ao-cffUed law of "supply aad
demand" is another let of political
bunk, for “there ain’t no such ani­
the following Bible texts:
mal." During the war wheat was
• ‘God is a spirit,’ John 4:24.
41 ‘Gad is light, aad in him is no sold for 92.80 per bushel, and bread
sold in Canyon CKy two loaves for
darkness S t *0.’ 1 John 1 4 .
N cents. Wheat has dropped to 91
“ *God ia love-’ 1 John 4:19..
" ‘He th at dwelleth in love dweHeth
in God, and God in hiss." 1 John 4:16 If there is any such thing as the
“Has Christianity a program? law of supply and deasaad it ia gum­
What ia ttT I* the program inviting ? med up on the wheat situation. De­
Wf will never know bow many mil­ partment of agriculture states that
lions have wondered about th a t Tea; the five staples of hogs, cattle, wher t,
in daylight, Christianity’s program was announc­ hay and eggs have declined in pries
ed very clearly by its founder. It is from 21 to 44 per cent and a t the
expressed in a modern . translation same time the* manufactured products
which we suggest for m e in large from these articles advanced 99 per
cent Where is the mythical lew of
newspaper space:
"To Preach Good Tidings Unto the supply aad demand? A beef hide
In Grant eounty is worthless, and
“To Bind Up) the Broken-Hearted : yet shoes sell up to |16. Is this the
"To Proclaim Liberty of the Cap­ result of supply or demand or both
tives and the Opening of the Prison to or either or neither? No, we are
all in the same boat and victims of
them that are Bound:
“To Proclaim the Acceptable Year the same preferential laws which
of the Lord, and the Day of Ven­
geance of our God:
"To Comfort all that Mourn:
"To Appoint unto them th at Mourn
Obser vers a t Garden City, L. L,
Saturday declared th at L ieut Brow
in making his flying record of 269.16
miles an hour went too fa st for the
eye to follow his flight This may be
a slight exaggeration, hut a t times
he was traveling 990 feet a second.
“If a nuts any, I love God,
and hnteth his brother, he is n
Harffor he that loveth not his
brother, whom ha hath sago,
Farmers & Merchants Bank
C. J. FUHRMAN—Via*
more talked of ease than any other
sordid murder trial. Everyone w ant­
ed to eee Justice done, but the im­
pression given that A rthur CovaD’s
trial was a “big event" here is ab­
solutely false.
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This town is no different from the
over-grown village on the banks of
the Willamette, except in sis*. And
the sensation seekers are no 'm ars
We get ene impression from this
type. New compare it with this rise:
-V'%
J. B.
There was no move interest exhi­
bited in Coquille than titer* was in
Roeeburg, Eugene, 8alem, or Port­
land, and the excitement ftirrod up
by the Portland daily presa ia entirely
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Coquille
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He is your prospective buyer today w
could not use nor afford your product y<
terday.
carries the following-
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“In 1792 C ap t Robert G riy , «ail­
ing from Massachusetts with Betsy
Rosa’s original S ta n and Stripes
fluttering a t U m peak, entered the
■»oath of a great Western river which
be named the Columbia, a fte r bis
«hip, thereby giving the United States
a claim to aQ the, territory of a vast
and opulent watershed.”
Through this Historic Milestone
C a n t the E ast salutes tha W est, and
Massachusetts pays homage to her
dlatant Ulster states, Oregon and
W ashington
Calllgf Garda, 199 far 9U9.