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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
KILLS SPOTTED FAWN
Then Holds Gun on Stranger and
Commands Him to Mind His
Own Business.

Gold Hill, Ore.-By taking a short
cut into town along the Sans creek
trail, two days before the opening of
the season for deer, Paul Bro
slus, newcomer from South Dakota,
was enabled to learn something of
the methods of the southern Oregon
sooner" or poacher. He had not
gone far when he heard a rifle shot.
He thought nothing of it until, a few
minutes later, he came upon a spot
ted fawn, dying by the trail in a pool
of fresh blood A small round hole
on one side and gaping wound on
the other, showed how it came to it's
end. Brosius thought of the rifle
shot, but his wonder as to who would
shoot fawn, and out of season at
that, was cut short by sharp COM
mand to move on. accompanied by
the profane information that he
(Brosius) had no business that
should detain him in that particular
locality.
Brosius at once continued his jour
ney, noticing only that the command
to vacate came from a man standing
not more than 80 feet away, partly
hidden by tree, and that the man
was covering him with a rifle.
Brosius had taken the trail not
only because it was short cut to
town without the heat and dust of
the highway, but because, being a ma
ture-lover, he had hoped to surprise
some of the creatures of the woods
in their native haunts. His expecta-
tlons We're more nearly fulfilled a
short distance beyond the place he
encountered the fawn and its slayer.
A six-point buck pranced along the
trail ahead of him for several hun
dred yards, pausing at intervals to
look back, before he finally disap-
peared in the woods.
Deputy Game Warden Sandry was
informed of Brosius experience, but
as yet no clew to the identity of the
outlaw who killed the spotted fawn
has been found.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL NOTES.

The school will have good mum
Der of students from northern Cali
fornia and Klamath Falls.
Five additional new Underwood
typewriters have been ordered.
The proprietors are advertising
the school in several newspapers.
Thousands of folders, letter-heads
and envelopes have been printed.
Miss Stephenson school furniture
mas been purchased as part of the
fixtures.
Students will enter during the en-
tire fall and winter.
Where are the young people who
are working for the 1925 and S75
prizes offered by the Tidings and
Record? The remainder of the 100
scholarships must be secured by
August 10.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
ROAD TO BLUE LEDGE
$1,OOO,0OO Said to BE Available for
Railroad From Grants Pass to
Big Copper Mines.

In line with recent agitation for a
railroad from one of the valley cities
to the famous Blue Ledge mining
districts, is the announcement in the
Oregon Mining and Timber journal
that the road is already financed
and will be built Immediately. The
following is the article referred to:
"A railroad to cost $1,000,000 and
to extend SO miles from Grants Pass
up the Applegate river has been
financed and authorized by the own
ers of the copper mines in the Blue
Ledge mining district. The contract
for the rails has been let, the final
survey is to be made at once, and
thes contract for the construction of
the road will be let soon. The build
ing of this railroad is to solve an old
and serious transportation problem
of the southern Oregon and northern
California district. A first effort was
made to induce the S. P. to build
it as a spur, connecting with their
lines at Grants Pass. This effort
failed. e. NJ. Chester, local agent
of the eastern capitalists who are
financing the road, has been in Port
land several days, completing final
arrangements for the construction.
The road will be partly in agricul
tural, partly in mining country" "
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
HAGGARD is WINNER.
Race to Mount Baker Won in Less
Than Ten Hours.

Bellingham, Wash.-Cheered by
thousands of spectators, Harvey Hag-
gard of Maple Falls, Wash, stag
Sered from the Bellingham Bay &
British Columbia Railroad train to
the chamber of commerce Thursday
morning and with Joe Francoviz but
a few inches behind him, was declared
the winner of the 1912 Mount Baker
marathon, and of the first prize of
5000 and cup which goes Herewith.
Victor Galbraith, who had arrived
at the train at Glacier three minutes
behind Haggard, was the third man
TO arrive at the chamber of COM
merce.
Haggards time for the compete
round trip was 8 hours and 81 min
utes, as compared with IL hours and
2S minutes made by Joe Galbraith
over the Deming trail last year
From Glacier to the summit of
Mount Baker and return the distance
is approximately 80 miles. From
Bellingham to Glacier the distance is
"A miles.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
SHIP BARELY SAVED.
Fire Burns Over Two Hours With
Wireless Ruined.

Eureka, Cal.-Aflame from u er
bed plates to her cabins, dripping
with oil, and severed from the world
by the failure of her wireless, the
North Pacific Steamship Company's S
vessel F. A. Kilburn was saved from
destruction Thursday night by the
heroic efforts of her crew.
Two girls narrowly escaped suffo-
cation. An oiler fell end sustained
broken leg. The chief engineer, b.
G. Clough, and Sidney Ashton, the
steward, who rescued the two girls.
fell heavily on the oil-drenched
decks, and were badly bruised
The fire, which was discovered in
the engine room of the steamer at II
o'clock while 25 miles south of Point
Arena, burned fiercely for two
hours. The vessel arrived here six
hours late, with holes chopped
through the floors of the staterooms
along the port side and several rooms
on the upper deck gutted.
For more than two hours six
streams of water were played into
the engine room and down the shaft.
TO add to the confusion, oil was
pumped from the tanks to prevent an
explosion, through nozzles, on the
upper deck, drenching many as they
escaped from their staterooms.
The flames raced up the engine
room ventilating shaft to the state
rooms on the upper deck as through
a chimney. Sitting, greasy, black
smoke filled the corridors. To add
to the confusion, the oil tanks were
emptied as best they could be, and.
as the frightened passengers sour
ried out of their staterooms, they
were drenched with streams of dis
tillate
TO get water into the engine room
holes were chopped through the port
stateroom vans, and, after two
hours of hard work, the crew won
the upper hand.
The f. A. Kilburn is a wooden
ship. She was burned to the water
lines about two years ago while ly-
ing at the Oakland long wharf.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
COOLING MOTH SPRAY
Last Application Should Be Made
Beginning August Pears Need
Not BE Sprayed.

The final or last spray for codling
moth should be applied beginning
with August Z. Ordinarily, this
spray might be omitted, but our OBJ
servations on the second brood show
that there are a great mahy belated
members, which will tend to enter
the apples some time after the above
date. The spraying which was done
about month ago covered the fruit
completely at that time; however, the
surface area of the apples has in
creased greatly since that time max
ing a large portion of the fruit un-
protected. 1t has been noted that
the belated members of the second
brood of codling moth have usually
caused more damage than any of the
regular first or second broods. This
is due to the fact that the apples
have been properly thinned and only
those which should remain being
left on the trees. Therefore, the
destruction of any fruit after this
time means loss.
Pears need not be sprayed. even
the very late ones. The apples
should be sprayed with arsenate of
lead at the rate of four pounds of
arsenate of lead. to 100 gallons of
water.
An examination of all of the COM
mercial orchards of the valley shows
that very effective spraying has been
done this year. The fruit is clean
in every way. and it is hoped that
the record so far maintained will be
kept up by applying the final spray
Remember that box or two of ap-
pies will go long way toward pay
ing for the additional expense of
spraying. p. j. O'GARA,
Pathologist in Charge!
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
Beef is High.

Portland, Ore.-The price of cattle
on Friday reached the highest price
ever known here, when 1925 per
hundred was paid for steers at the
union stockyards. Even good to or
dinary steers were quoted at $3.50
Pork was also the highest for sew
eral years. Mutton was the cheapest
meat. but owing to the influence of
the high prices for other meats this,
too, is beginning to show an ad-
vance
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
Salmon Run Begins.

Astoria, Ore.-The long delayed
run of salmon seems to be here in
earnest Good catches have been the
rule for the past two or three days.
The biggest catch by one boat re-
ported so far is one of 1900 pounds.
but catches of 1000 pounds have
been common. The best catches have
been made at the mouth of the river,
those up the river being smaller.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
HOldup at Newport.

Don't get held up on your way to
Newport. Keep your checks and
save money Bains Transfer Com
pany meets all incoming boats. We
have no solicitor along the route or
on board the trains. We simply give
the public a square deal and solicit
a share of the patronage IA
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
CLUB MEETING TONIGHT.

9 The August meeting of the
Commercial Club will be held
. this evening, at which time i'm
/: portant matters will be laid be-
: fore the club for its considera-
3 tion. Professor Van Scoy has
: returned from trip to north
g ern California and will have
{. considerable of Importance to
Q report. A large delegation is
. desired.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05

Money to loan on improved ranch
es, first mortgages; mixed farms pre-
ferred. w. d. Hodgson, Ashland.
Phone 427-J.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05

Recent storms have delayed deliv-
cries, but all wood orders will be
filled soon as possible. City Wood
Yard.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05

The new fall and winter samples
are now on display at Fuller'sl
Prices cheaper than ever.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
Clearance Sale.

For two weeks, in millinery, all
lines, big bargains Mrs. H. Simons.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05

Screen doors, any description or
size. Carson-Smith Lumber Co.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05
Clearance Sale.

For two weeks, in millinery, all
lines, big bargains. Mrs. II. Simons.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05

Barnes, Winifred Watson, Myra
Homes, F. c. Routledge.
1t is possible that in gathering the
names at the summit a few may have
escaped us, not all having registered
and several having proceeded farther
on almost Immediately upon reach
ing the summit, and others having
started down with but few mo-
ments' stop No names have been in
tentionally omitted.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05

Screen doors, plain and fancy.
Carson-Smith Lumber Co!
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-05

The water is fine at the Natator-
ium. Try plunge.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-16
First PrOhibitiOnists
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

~ NE hundred and seventy mine
years ago, the governing body
of Georgia, by a unanimous
vote, prohibited the use of rum in
the province.
Thus it will be seen that this
action of the Georgia authorities
antedates that of Neal Dow and
the Maine people by one hundred
and twenty mine years. So far as
our country is concerned, the kings
trustees in Georgia were the orig
inal prohibitionists While as yet
Maine was an unorganized wilder
ness, untenanted save by the In
dian and the bull moose, the Geor-
gia temperance decree was on it's
way across the Atlantic for sigma
ture by the king and the commons.
The royal signature was obtained,
and for ten years the Georgians
had to get along without rum. 1t
may be we'll to state in this con-
nection that nearly all of the Geor-
gians of that time were Germans
and SCotchmen.
As long ago as the time of TaCi-
tus we read Of the thirst" Of the
Teutons, and from time immemorial
the men Of the heather have been
accredited with being very fond Of
their "toddy." But the trustees of
the crown meant business, and FOR
a decade Georgia was dry"
But i'm those days. as is the case
in our own time. there were power
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-16

full interests" and the interests"
decided that prohibition in Georgia
should cease.
The Lumber trust sent its agents
to England with a tale of woe"
and the parliament. on July IA. 1742.
repealed the prohibition law of the
province. The lumber dealers ex-
changed their lumber in the West
Indies for rum, which article thew
sold to the colonists at a big proae.
and in consideration of this profit"
the parliament voted to overrule the
trustees and make Georgia wet"
again.
OF the founder Of Georgia. James
Oglethorpe, John Fiske does well in
saying his name deserves a very
high place among the heroes Of ear
ly American history"
Fiske might have added that in
that history no name stands high
er. The associate of royalty and
the companion of nobility. he was
at the same time a sterling demo.
crat and plain man Of the people.
He desired, above all else, to pro-
mote the happiness and virtue Of
his fellow men. For that purpose
he founded the state of Georgia,
and but for the disturbing infiu-
ences Of the merCenary and unprin-
cipied agents Of Mammon he might
have succeeded beyond all the other
fathers Of American common
wealths.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-16
We Long For Immortal I'm
perfeCtiOn---We Can't
Have It

lodgings for Immortality. all plans immortal
life are based on the hone that Divine Providence will condo
crowd - Lat ~. live IN anotlor ,,orId a.. ~, Ii,, bor
S"u " N " ''' -" " "' " " "
Each OF us wants 10 De hNeI IA Inc Iufe me- ana TO see
his if'eldS as ne Me" hen.
We want to preserve individuality forever and ever when
faded away and the days Of matter ended
But what is Individuality except imparecon You are
g.. 81 .r;+l el 10 Iie.o,,+ fr, I,,os pu+ # is s;,n
ne: :4s ;r, ,,,i o T.; r faIib
than another one is more rrospou,b moved TO laughter or
'
ihal constitutes ms personality
Remove our mpcrcctons md should be alitc-smooh
90 an ,,.l,r,,r,,,. ,.or e;d,g oyor.tJin,
would he srhcrical
What opld I've fine use Of conno So many Of MS if we were
=, -, = - M Ll =:
q" i9''''' an" '''I an "r '"'AS "'o"-" MS "oS''
one has deep voice But shall KIND Providence provide two
wings for takers and chest takers Why make
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-16
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.

in her imagination as she reads
are not exactly those which we see,
they are none the less true and
charming to her.
SHE WRITES-in ordinary
characters, although she can not
see what she writes. In her let
tiers she says to her friends: II
am glad to SEE you" She has a
cheerful soul, and she laughs and
claps her hands when she Is
pleased. She knows exactly what
she lacks in physical endowment.
She knows that she is poor, and
that her friends are poor, and she
wishes that she could gain money.
She has learned that money is pow
er in this world, but she appreci-
ates its limitations also.
And all this has been gained SOLE
ly through her hands. NJ. Bor-
deaux is quite right to call it the
Miracle of the Hands" But to
many it will appear to be far more
than that-it is the MIRACLE OF
THE SOUL.
Souls in Prison"
1t proves that something Is born
in us which does not depend upon
mere physical senses. The senses
are simply instruments. They act
through vibration. Sight depends
upon the vibrations of the ether;
hn
parted from solid objects. II we
had a hundred physical senses
would the nature of the soul be
changed? Do we distinguish be-
tween the ideas Of right and wrong
by virtue of our senses? If none
of us had been born with any more
senses than poor Marie Heurtin
has. would not those ideas still
have existed in our minds? Her
education has been an education
in the true sense of the word
(e-duco, to lead Uut'). The ideas
were not created for her by her
teachers; they existed already, and
only needed to be taught a form
of expression.
1t is this which gives its high
philosophical interest to the teach
ing of deaf. dumb and blind mutes.
They are, as another French writer
has aptly and eloquently said,
souls in prison" We are all pris-
oners of that kind, but not in the
same degree. We all FEEL that
we are prisoners, for there is no in
telligent person who is not con-
WINGED that his five senses are not
enough to place him in complete
touch with nature. Just as the
French girl has been led to recog-
nize the fact that she lacks many
things which other human beings
ossess-although, even with her
imperfect physical organization,
she is able to show that she COM
prehends their highest ideas-so
every one of us, who carefully ex-
amines himself, knows full we'll
that he has impressions, ideas. as
pirations which do not depend upon
sight or hearing or touch, and to
which language can not give ex-
preston. Is it very extravagant
superstition, then, that there may be
beings, far more perfectly endowed
than we are, who take in us an
interest similar to that which we
take in the Helen Kellers, the Laura
Bridgmans and the Marie Heur-
tins, striving to cause US to com
prehend things which lie beyond the
range of our narrow prison, with
its five pitiful little windows?
But here we touch the frontier
of the domain of speculation.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-16

exactly how to get rid of him.
Tanned? Pooh what do you care!
You can throw back your veil and
love the wind and the sun and
glory Of all outdoors, while poor lit
tie et-and Twenty has to swad-
die herself in gauze to keep that
complexion that is the only thing
she has.
Friends? Hosts of them-all the
sort you want; you've learned how
to get rid of the other sort
Enemies? Not one in the world.
You have found out what a nui-
sance it is to stay awake nights
and hate anybody on earth.
Moonlight music, love. and flow
ers-youve had them all, and have
them yet if you amount to any
thing; and you can wear your old
shoes out into the moonlight and be
comfy.
Forty is the glorious age. the
comfy age. the age of reason, the
age of delicious understanding, the
time Of quiet friendships and help
full comprehensive.
Why. you can speak to the lone
some young fellow in the train at 40
and say something to comfort him.
At twenty you would have to
bride if he even looked your way.
Life, life, life-full, rich, album
dant, friendly. open eyed sane,
i01-0us understanding Iife-that's
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-16
STAGE STRUCK AT FORTY
WINFRED
By HAL COLEMAN.
BY WINIFRED BLACK.

"Cra2y--every ole of them-Cra-
~ as bats. Think they can go on
the stage and fascinate the public
after they've brought up all their
children and got father comfortable
at the club. It's really too bad
And. really, do you know, l be
lieve 1t is too bad. l wonder what
on earth it all means?
What has become of all the good
comfy women we used to know
women who were forty and glad of
it; women who let out their cor
sets and put on loose shoes. and
tied their hats on with a rubber,
and let it go at that?
All gone-disdpptared vanished
into the beauty parlors to be made
over into twenty. l wonder why?
Forty Is the Fine Age,
Forty is the fine age, the most
comfy age in the world, if we'd
only live it. No more weepy hours
because "he danced oftener with
that CREATURE than with me" no
more miserable nights trying to
figure out just how to manage to
make over the old frock so your
dearest friend wouldn't know it.
You had a struggle of it that first
year or so, but the business is set
tied now, and things are going
pretty well.
Fat? OF course you're fat. You
ought to be at forty. You know
what to eat and how to eat it; you
know when to rest and how to en-
joy it; you can pick out the kind
of book you like at one glance;
you can tell the summer bore with
one look, and you understand Just
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-16

n Henri Bordeaux, has just
been visiting a school for
blind deaf mutes near Poitiers, and
his establishment over what he saw
leads him, in one of the great Paris
newspapers, to a characteristic
outburst Of sentimentality. But
out of the bushel of literary chaff
which he offers, one can pick
few grains of very interesting facts,
which are well calculated to in
spire reflection.
we viii take simply his account
OF a young girl named Marie
(Mary) Heurtin. She was born
blind, deaf and mute. She has
never seen the world around her,
nor heard its voice. nor been able
to communicate with it in any other
evident way than by touch. She
comes of an humble family. ignor-
ant of all the higher studies. bv
means of which we imagine we at
tain an intellectual elevation that
must be incomprehensible to crea
lures less fully endowed than our
selves.
Her relatives could do nothing for
her or with her. Having themselves
all the ordinary faculties of human
beings, they thought that she, who
seemed to lack everything. was
doomed to pass her life in dull
blind ignorance, without wish, or
thought, or spiration-eating.
drinking and sleeping; inoompara-
bly, more helpless than a brute
animal. Perhaps they thought she
had a mind, but they believed there
was no way to reach it.
But a good sister of charity
found the way. l do not know the
details of her operations, but they
can not have differed essentially
from those practiced In the cases
of Helen Keller and Laura Bridg-
man, whose histories are so well
known in America. Under that
dull exterior, which presented to
the outer world but single mar
row avenue of approach-the sense
Of touch-was found a human soul
as full of possibilities as that of
any person possessing all the
senses. Marie Heurtin had ONLY
one of the three senses which we
are accustomed to regard as the
most important, but with its sole
aid she has learned so much about
the world around her that she sim
ply amazes her visitors. She I'M
derstands what light is, although
she can not see it; what sound is
although she can not hear it.
She has been taught to compre-
bend the ideas Of POVERTY, AGE
AND DEATH.
Fond of Reading.
She weeps when she is informed
Of the death Of a friend.
She wept when she read with
her fingers, on the types that are
furnished for the blind. of the
putting out of Samson's eyes. She
pitied him, and she did not want
him to become like herself.
She is very fond of reading
which is done only with her fingers,
remember-and she has two favor
lite authors-Bossuet, whose grave
discourses sn religion hold her at
tentiOn and stir her moral senti-
ments and remarkable to relate)
Alphonse Daudet, the teller of vi
vacious stories, in which light,
color and description of beautiful
landscapes always play conspic-
uous part. If the pictures formed