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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
Science Finds Solution
EXPERIMENTS RESULT IN PRO-
DUCTION OF IDEAL BREAK
FAST FOOD.
Adults Who Have Protested Against
Baby Food" for Years Find New
Product Both Palatable and
Beneficial.

The average man holds up his
hands in mute protest when any kind
of breakfast food is suggested; the
average housewife considers it good
for the children" but realizes that
she must provide something differ
ent for the ''grown-ups" of the fam
ily-something more appetizing,
something less suggestive of baby
food"
Why? Because the average break
fast food is more or less insipid,
tasteless, pasty or sticky. Those who
have made a study of food values
and the requirements of the human
body in this line have long realized
the need of the elements contained in
the ideal breakfast cereal, but that
ideal was never realized until the
Golden Rod" products were placed
on the market.
In the manufacture of these whole
some, delicious, nutritious prepara-
tions, each stage of the process is the
result of scientific investigation and
eXperiment-there is no haphazard
guesswork, or following the lines OF
the earlier methods which resulted
in the production of the average
breakfast food.
Each Golden Rod" product has a
distinctive quality. Golden Rod
Oats and Oat Flakes contain less
hulls and discolored particles than
any known make; in the process OF
crushing, the ends of the grain are
left intact, which prevents that
'pasty" consistency which is charac-
teristic of other makes. This gives
just enough of chevy quality to
make them more palatable and more
digestible.
The Golden Rod Pancake Flour
makes light, wholesome cake, far
superior to the average cake which
finds it's way to the breakfast table
and Golden Rod" Wheat Nuts and
Wheat Flakes are making a decided
hit among those who have no taste
for oat products. These latter are
really an innovation in breakfast
cereals-so nutritious, so palatable
so satisfying.
In each package of Golden Rod
products will be found an alphabeti
cal letter. Save them until you car
spell Golden Rod" and get uncon.
! ditionally fine Apiece dinner set
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
ASHLAND HIGH SCHOOL
Personal Notes That Tell of ActiVi-
ties in the Realm of the
Three RS.

On Friday evening the members OF
the caste and others who took part
in the anniversary program treated
themselves to feed in the domestic
science room. The boys got up ta-
bles from the basement while the
girls prepared the eats. Those pres
ent were: Miss Wagner, Frances
Hamlin, Ruth Hutchings, Wilma
Charter, Mary Weisenburger, Mar
garet Siemantel, Mildred Applegate,
Glyndon Scott, Vivian Greer, Mar
garet Patterson, Kenneth King. Neal
Shinn, Harold Huntley, John Enders,
Edward Stannard and Walter Car
penter.
After all expenses have been de-
Quoted the Literary Society has a bal
ance of $95.S5 on hand About $50
will be spent for magazines, while
the balance will be used to buy ref
erence books.
Felix Moore, Jr., has shown his
precocity by cutting a tooth. Some
of the students were wondering what
had made his papa look so bright
and cheerful.
Next Friday the Grants Pass girls
play the girls here at basketball. AL
though Ashland beat them in the
game played there, the game here
will be no walk-away. The dope was
in favor of the locals last year but
Grants Pass gave them the game Of
their lives, Ashland's rooters prob
ably being the final impetus to vic
tory.
The football game with Grants
Pass having fallen through, all inter-
est now centers in basketball About
% were out for the first practice on
Thursday night The boys limbered
up in good shape and practice has
begun in earnest. Four of last years
bObISi iiOll olO u ms OuJ. ullllJo
and Moody, forwards; Poor, center,
and Mills, guard, while there are sew
eral others that are hot contenders
for places. Among these are Ash
craft, Plymate, Enders, Spencer and
Shinn. The competition will un-
doubtedly be keen. No games have
been arranged definitely as yet, but
many teams are asking for games,
among them Cottage Grove, Eugene,
Roseburg, Klamath Falls, Washing
ton high school of Portland, and
Redding high school, California. The
boys made reputation last year that
cannot be ignored by other schools.
Friday the literary societies of the
different classes met in their regular
fortnightly meetings. Music, debates
and readings occupied the hour. The
next meeting will be before the whole
assembly on December 20.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
The Best Christmas Gifts for Small
Boys or Girls.

bOyo vi VII
The December Woman's Home
Companion contains an excellent arti-
Gle entitled Christmas Gifts That
Grow" in which the author shows
how a little money given to children,
if properly invested, will grow into a
larger sum and also keep the young
folks interested in something worth
while. Following is an extract:
Christmas before last a father
who owned vacant city lot gave his
oldest son a handbook that recorded
the deposit of two dollars to his ac-
count. Then he told the boy that
he could have the use of that lot the
following year, and when spring
came he would have it plowed and
narrowed and made ready for the
seed. Long before time for planting
came the boy had decided to put the
entire patch of ground in potatoes.
He had unusual success, because he
had selected good, smooth, mealy po-
tatoes for seed, and, having city wa
ter on the next lot, he was able to
water his plants when they needed
it. The youngster early learned that
there was a scarcity of potatoes that
year, and when the price was high
in the fall he decided to hold his
yield until he could get the highest
price for it. AS a consequence in the
spring he added quite a sum to his
original bank account, and enthusi-
astically made preparations for
planting the ground to onions this
year.
Another little fellow, about IL
years old, persuaded his father to
lease the empty lot next to their
house for him, and he raised cucum-
bers. A seed firm supplied him with
all the seed and information he need
ed for making the product a success
and at the end of the season bought
the seed from him. His success was
so easily attained that his sister was
allowed to make use of an adjoining
lot the next year. Their reading has
developed along more educationa
lines, because they are so interested
in finding out the best methods fol
growing things. They are planning
to raise cabbages next year, to give
the land a rest as well as to gain
i knowledge along another line o.
farming"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
No Nominating Conventions; No Pre-
election Campaigns For the
French Presidency.

France knows no party conven-
tions, she knows not the laundering
storm that breaks out after a magic
name has been spoken before deliri-
GUS crowds. There are no platforms
submitted to the nations approval.
For a French president is not the
elect of party; he has to hold him
self above party disputes. Where
do you belong?" an usher asked La
maritime when the impractical poet
had been elected to parliament
Right, center, left or extreme left?"
"I'll take the ceiling" Lamartine
answered.
Unless a French president takes
his seat ION the ceiling" unless he
refrains from expressing partisan
views or evincing a bias for certain
legislation, an angered nation may
clamor loudly for his resignation.
Thus France protects herself against
the possible return of monarchs or
dictators. This is way no president
of all parties and of all Frenchmen
can have been a so-called leader at
any time of his life. This is why,
also, there cannot be any pre-elec-
ton campaign with the American
connotation of the word. While
presidential candidates, or, / should
rather say, presidential possibilities,
may travel a good deal in the months
preceding the great trial, attend
many public festivities and accept
many dinner invitations, their public
utterances do not make overlively
reading.
They generally expatiate on the
civic beauties of the city, remit
small contribution for the local hos
pital, kiss few babies, and make
themselves otherwise agreeable.
Some of the men in training for
the presidency taFe up some harm
1000 CCOiiOliilN ldu III w hlCH JllGy dC-
quire the reputation of being special
lists, and they are expected, what
ever the occasion of their public ap-
pearance may be, to refer to their
hobby unavoidably and exclusively.
Thus Paul Deschanels name is al
ways associated with the idea of mu-
tuality. Wherever he goes the bur-
den of his speech is the benefit to
be derived from mutual aid. Ray
mond Poincare's special line of re-
search is solidarity, quite as vague
and uncompromising a topic as mu-
tuality.-From Frances Way of
Choosing a President" by Andre
Tridon, in the American Review of
Reviews for December.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
Lovely Landscape.

George ". on one occasion casually
entered private apartment at Wind
sor castle and encountered. somewhat
10 his surprise. his valet. who was
seated at table loaded with viands
and eating with great avidity.
"Ah" exclaimed the king. 81 was al
ways fond of scenery. and here is
lovely piece of landscape spread out
before me-"
The valet smiled feebly. but politely
intimated that he did not understand
the kings allusion to landscape and
scenery.
Why" replied the first gentleman of
Europe. do not see before me smi-
ing valet with magnificent gorgeT'
The valet thereupon rose and retired.
excusing himself to the king on the
ground that he had turned suddenly
"hill."-London Tit-Bits.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
Central Point Wins.

Herald: The Baraca basketball
team of the Ashland Baptist Sunday
school came down Friday for a game
with the MeteOrs OF the Y. NJ. c. a.
in this city and met defeat in a score
of % to 27 at the hands of the Cen
tral Point boys. The Meteors were
considerably lighter than their OPP
ponents but did not let this fact dis
courage them in the least and played
so strong a game that they got the
better of the count by five points.
The game was fast and interesting
from start TO finish and both teams
played good clean basketball. The
Meteors are all small players, but
they surely get right into the game
and give promise of making team
which will win honors for Central
Point in this game.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
Vets Win in TiIlamook

Tillamook, Ore, Dec 3.-Mayor
Harter, getting the wet support, was
reelected yesterday over II. T. Bolts,
by vote of 319 to 81. Out of 647
votes cast, women cast over half,
Mrs. Amanda Evans being the first to
vote. A. H. Gaylord was elected
treasurer over Chester McGee, and
Miss NJ. Mills, the two caucus nomi-
nees. For the council, f. L. Sap
pington, NJ. f. Leach. Ernest Bales
Erwin Harrison and G. l.. Dick were
elected
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
WEEK WITH THE BIRDS
Special short Course in Poultry at
o. A. G. Planned for Farm
ers' Week.

Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
wallis, Ore.-A special short course
in poultry farming has been arranged
3 for farmers week, December TO 4
at the Oregon Agricultural College
and Professor James Dryden has
planned an interesting schedule o.
daily lectures accompanied by prac
tical demonstrations.
Types OF poultry farming and diff
ferent systems of management in the
various sections of the country will
be discussed, and original views on
u,n-,ent poultry farms throughout
the United States will be shown.
There will also be views OF plans of
serviceable and practical poultry
houses for the farm.
Breeding tor egg-laying qualities
will form a prominent part of the in
structional work, and representatives
of the different breeds will be shown.
Special emphasis will be placed on
egg-laying qualities and how good
Layers may be produced. In this con-
nection the results of the breeding
work at the experiment station will
be summarized.
Hatching eggs under the hen will
be compared with various artificial
methods as to efficiency on the farm,
and breeding and caring for the
chicks will be studied in detail. Poul-
try foods and egg rations will be
discussed, and Professor Dryden will
report the results of feeding expert
ments at the station.
The preparation of fowls for mar
ket will be given some attention,
both as to fattening methods and
fattening rations, and as to ways of
killing and dressing the fowls. Mar
keting poultry products will also en-
gage the attention of the visiting
farmers. Mr. Dryden has made a
careful study of the good and poor
methods of handling eggs, Gambling
and grading. packing and shipping to
market, and the practical demonstra-
tions will cover all these poinst.
The Judging of fowls will be dem
onstrated with several breeds, in a
special pavilion which will be open
all day throughout the week. 1t will
be fitted with all the equipment and
appliances for practical poultry keep
including both good and bad layers,
will be shown. Charts and stereopti-
con slides will point salient facts,
and the convention of Farmer John"
to the proper viewpoint as to farm
poultry keeping will be given dra-
matically by moving pictures.
The whole program will be a
course in practical poultry keeping
combined with an egg and poultry
show, with demonstrators always on
hand to explain exhibits and answer
questions In addition there will be
a large number of other lectures of
more or less interest to poultry rails
ers, including a discussion of tuber-
culosis and other fowl diseases, the
growing Of kale and other green
foods for poultry. and the organiza-
tion OF cooperative marketing asso-
Citations
The entire farmers week program
will include some 100 lectures and
demonstrations, to which everyone
interested in successful agriculture
is welcomed, and there are no
charges.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
SUSPICIOUS Fervor.

"Well. brother" said the deacon.
that was fine prayer you made last
night"
Thank yon. deacon. am very glad
to hear you say So
Yes. it was a splendid prayer. long
and fervent. And, say. what have you
been doing anyway? You can confide
in me with the utmost confidence. /
wouldn't betray YOu for anything in
the world" ."-ChicagO Record Herald
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
One of the Strangest Gatherings in
the History of America.


The December American Magazine
contains an amazingly interesting ac
count of J. A. Burns, a Kentucky
feudist, who, after about the age oI
80, saw the folly of the life he and
others were leading and decided tC
found a college. This he has done
and the story of what he has accom-
plished is one of the most wonderful
chapters in American history. Burns
gathered together a meeting of feud-
lists. The author of the article goes
on with his report:
1T is worth while to tell once
1 more also the story of that meeting
in the old mill building when Burns
called his treaty meeting for the
| gathering of the clans in 1899. They
were twenty-odd men on a side, about
/ equally divided. 1t was a mighty
quiet meeting says Burns, describ-
ing it, They sat, all armed, squatted
on opposite sides of the great room
in the old mill, and Burns, feudist,
mountaineer, school teacher, preach
er, got up now and addressed them
He said to them that they were
all rearing their sons for the slaugh-
ter, that they were living as heathen
that it was all wrong, and that there
was only one way to right the
wrong. He told them the only thing
to do was to educate the boys, and
the only way to do that was to bring
in college for their education. He
said that he had no money, but was
going to start college, and asked if
they cared to help him. That was in
1899, two years after the killing of
Tom Baker. l have visited Tom
Bakers home, have eaten with Tom
Bakers daughter, now married and
a Hensley by name. Crane Greek
valley, late bloody, is now quiet
again. They say that feudism and
moonshining is done in Clay county;
and they date back to 1899 and the
meeting in the mill
I'VE keep treaty pens. We make
paintings of historical events. There
is no pen preserved by which these
feudists made their marks on this
charter application. There is no
painting of that scene in the old mill
on the bank of the Kentucky river.
Fifty men, silent, armed, fearless,
/ ignorant, illiterate men, fifty yearn-
ing, ambitious, anguished men, held
in the thrall of false idea, yet ambi-
| tious for their sons-fifty men
ranged half and half, oposite each
other, silent, alert, watching one an
/ other, and listening to the first
prophet of the Cumberland High
lands-ah, that was a picture! I
didn't know what they were going
to do said Burns, but | was right
glad when Lee Combs got up, and
when Dan Burns got up too, and
they met in front of me. They did
not draw, but they shook hands.
Then l knew that Oneida College was
going to be a success.
So they signed their charter and
went home; and the Baker-Howard
feud has halted since then, and feud-
ism and moonshining have passed in
Clay county"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
Passing Track at Central Point.

A crew of men are at work grad
ing and getting ready for a new side
track at the local Southern Pacific
station, says the Central Point Her.
aid, which will be used as a passing
track for use in trains passing. The
new track will be $500 feet in length
and will be laid on the west side of
the main line, running from the
switch north of the Rogue River
Fruit and Produce Association
packing house to what is called the
Fox crossing north of the city.
The new track will prove of con-
siderable convenience in handling OF
trains at this point as it has often
caused delay when necessary to use
the present sidings in passing trains,
especially during the fruit season
when the tracks are occupied by cars
being loaded for shipment.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
Arrestinu Time,

Even policeman can't arrest the
fight of time" said the funny man.
"Oh. ! don't know" reioined the mat
ter Of fact person. only this morn
ing ! saw policeman enter a side
door and stop few minutes"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09

| have lived to know that the great
secret of human happiness is this: Nev-
er suffer your energies to stagnate.-
Adam Clark.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
Willing to Demonstrate.

Tommy" said his distressed moth
er, Il don't see how you can get so
dirty"
"Come on ont and I'll show YOU" was
the prompt rery.-Chicago Post.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09
Chocolate.

Do not take time to CRATE chocolate.
Put the desired amount III a saucepan
and place over tht top of teakettle
until melted.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09

Try Tidings job printing. The
quality is remembered long after the
price is forgotten.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-12-09

Phone job orders to the Tidings.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-01
girls either, so other arrangements are mi
DINING ROOM FOR THEIR LUNCHES.

Adjoining the rest room and bed room is
dining room-one of them is shown above-and
there is gas range and maid The Bell com
pany does not serve lunches to the operators
But it almost does that. 1t provides coffee, tea
ice and chocolate and seasoningS maid and the
place to eat and things to eat with
All this doesn't mean that the operators
must file down to the dining room during lunch
or supper time and eat. They may go where they
please during the time allowed them but they
have found there is no place like that provided
by the Bell company. | would have good sized
bank account if had been able to bring lunches
from home and eat them in Bell dining room
with free coffee. | have to buy mine and they
cost more than those brought from home
| have worked on quite few newspapers,
but never found one yet which had bath room
where | could wash my hair
Yet | found bathrooms at the Ivy and Main
Exchanges which were better than those in many
hotels My attention to the bath room was call
ed by seeing one of the operators sitting at
window drying her hair then learned that
because of the convenienceS at the Bell exchanges
nearly all the operators preferred to wash their
hair where they worked.
Up to this point my eyes showed me the
many things done for the comfort of the women
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-01
workers in the Bell exchanges But | learned
more which my eyes didn t see.
PROTECTED AGAINST ANNoYANCEs


more which my eyes didn t see
PROTECTED AGAINST ANNoYANCEs.
Naturally, in an institution having so MANY
female employees, there are many attractive ones
In fact, most of them are. The picture of one of
them shown gives an idea of what at least one
telephone operator looks like
SO, in the first place, the easiest way for one
of the men working for the Bell company to get
fired IS to annoy an operator. Only certain male
employees ever have business in the large rooms
where the operators work, and while they are in
this room they are subject to the orders of the
chief supervisor
There is the fresh person who uses the
telephone and who will endeavor to say things to
the operator besides the number he wants The
operator Immediately puts him into communica-
ton with supervisor, and if he persists or be-
comes offensive, it is easy to notify police head
quarters
This has been done more than once in order
to protect telephone operators Not long ago,
at the Bell exchange in Richmond man on the
end of telephone wire undertook to unload some
profanity on operator The police got him
before he could get away and he was given 30
days to think it over without paying fine
The precautions against the annoyances Of
Washers are not necessary except to protect the
feelings of the operators For the Bell company
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-01
ATLANTA WOMEN PAY VISIT TO THE
BELL EXCHANGE AND ARE PLEASED

In the party of Atlanta women in
terested in welfare work who visited
the Bell exchange was Mrs. John King
Ottley, chairman of the Georgia branch
of the Woman's Welfare Work of the
National Civic federation. Not only
Mrs. Ottley, but each member of the
committee with her, was intensely in
terested in what there was to see and
learn.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-01
CARED FOR IF THEY ARE ILL.

If of the operators i'll while work, there
supervisor her side taking her place and off the opera
the If she i'll to walk invalid chair
quickly the and the has her the
couch bed
For there also bed adjoining the In
beds with immaculate linen for the operators who work
night There shifts Of operators night and while
shift works the other sleeps
The who operators
trained and when she opened cabinet and showed
of bottles which would do credit small drug
imagined hospital She also showed electric pad
which be heated to temperatures suit When visited the
Exchange she couldn't allow the bed there,
busy catering the of operator who little
i'll she made the made think she taking
of sick daughter
1t be supposed that Bell exchange is like hospital
But organization where there something like 300 girls
for and aganto be ndpoed and that they may
be every and considerations all these preparations
AS of fact the girls prefer the
like this where there convenences which
supposed to have
Telephone operators like and and Of they
suppose they could do like have done many aud
many tmebring sandwich in newspaper and
while Jump But wouldn the Bell officials
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-01

Il was very much pleased" said Mrs
Ottley, with what I saw and learned il
the visit of inspection. l found thai
the girls We're given every attention Il
comfort possible during their working
hours and during the periods Of recrea-
lion. | learned also that the official,
are very careful and painstaking il
their efforts to secure for their employ
young women of good morals and tC