Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-10-03
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen

OTIS are lllTlllS Win hASS quill DO
ette is something awful.
Not a word in any of the party
platforms about giving the people
the kind of weather they want.
You will have time between now
and election day, perhaps, to read all
the political speeches and all the
platforms that have, been put forth
up to date.
According to law, all weeds should
be cut down from the roadsides, but
the law cuts no weeds. A sharp
scythe and a little pride on the part
of the land owner will cut more
weeds than the law ever did or will.
What makes you think the baby
is going to be great politician"
asked the young mother anxiously.
The young father said: He can say
more things that sound well and
mean nothing than any kid l ever
saw"
Good times and hard times, it's all
the same with the tramp. He is no
richer or poorer. His story also new
er changes-he has been two days
without a mouthful to eat and wants
a dime or a quarter right quick to fill
up on.
1t is said that apples may be kept
two years by wrapping them in news
papers so as to exclude the air. The
newspaper must, however, be one on
which the subscription is paid in full
or the dampness resulting from the
due" will cause the fruit to spoil.
Here is a biography in nutshell:
Born, welcomed, cried, caressed, fed,
grew, amused, reared, studied, eX-
amined, graduated, in love, loved,
engaged, married, quarreled, recon
ciled, suffered, deserted, taken ill,
died, mourned, buried and forgotten.
A cigarette is a roll of paper, to-
| bacco and drugs, with small fire at
one end and big fool at the other.
Some of its chief enjoyments are
1 condensed nightmare, fits, cancer OF
/ the lip and stomach, spinal menin-
gifts, softening of the brain, funeral
procession and families enshrouded
/ in gloom.
| You can't build up a town or in
! fluence trade or business by whining.
Every citizen owes it to himself to
never allow a discouraging word OF
his town to go unchallenged. Every
one has it within his power to con-
tribute to his towns prosperity. The
trouble is we all forget our own re-
sponsibilities.
You may have the stars in a mai
keg, hang the ocean on rail fence
put the sky to soak in gourd, anC
unbuckle the bellyband of eternit!
and let the sun and moon out, bu
don't think you can escape the place
that lies on the other side of pur
gatory if you don't pay the edito
for your paper.
Let the young man about town ou
of a job try a year on the farm
Flowing behind mule will give hin
an entirely new constitution, TAX
: the kinks out of his head and tn
, frog out of his throat, the gas out o
his stomach, the weakness out of hi
legs, the corns off his toes and Civ
him good appetite, an honest liy
: ing and sight of heaven.
f These are the days when the goo
wife scrubs, does the washing, feed
the COW, licks the kids, gets tn
meals and does things general
= while her liege lord is to be foun
) down town on the corner saving hi
d country, 1t is great snap this SAY
G ing ones country, and it is a grea
city for some Of these old ducks tha
e it can't be worked oftener than one
+ in four or more years.
J. An exchange gets off the follow
e ing: Ten cents a line will /
; charged for obituary notices of a
business men who do not advertis
Ie while living. Delinquent subscribel
% will be charged fifteen cents lin
l. Advertisers and cash subscribers wi
10 receive as good send-off as we al
capable of writing, without al
j. charge whatever. Better send
Of your subscription now"
ar 1t is claimed on good authori
ID that next to a monkey-wrench,
NJ hairpin is the most useful inventio
A woman can open time lock, bu
e. glarproof safe with a measley litt
Il. hairpin. They use them to scrat,
re their heads, button their shoes, pi,
H. their teeth, punch bedbugs out
cracks, run into cakes to see if tn
U are sufficiently baked, clean fling
h, nails, fasten up stray bangs, pick o
SIS nuts, lift stove lids, clean their ca
RI and do many other things
of Here is something that may be
interest to dog owners here: A /
cent supreme court decision outlin
responsibilities of owners of do,
n The decision was a case where acti
had been brought to recover damae
from the owner of dog that bark
n, and frightened the plaintiffs hor
or The plaintiff was thrown and
-et jured and brought suit for 81 3
damages. The jury gave him v
~ dict for that amount, and the owl
or of the dog appealed to the supre
zee court. The supreme court sustain
II the verdict and said in strong wol
that the owners of barking a
vicious dogs are responsible for
ng damage caused by such dogs, q
- the owners keep them at their O
0' peril.
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