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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-06-12
Shepherd Items

each having their house newly paint
ed this week.
George Mcpherson is spending the
week with his grandpa Mcpherson
near Riverdale.
Mr.. Barnes and Miss Florence
Piatt spent Sunday at Mr.. VIM. Piatt'
returning home Monday.
Mr.. /. f. Parkinson, west OF town
is laid up with~rheumatism.
Harry Beatton, who is now en-
ployed in A. F. Clark's lumber yard,
expects to leave about June II for
Mills City, Montana, where he has
: like position and better salary.
The young peoples Bible class of
which he is a member gave him a
farewell party Wednesday evening.
All report fine time and Harry re-
ceived a beautiful present from the
class as a token of the esteem in
which he is held We will miss him,
but wish him good luck in his new
position.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-06-12

Mrs. Stilson of Palo, Mich took
dinner with Mrs. W. B. Wetherbee,
Tuesday. She brought her daughter
who is visiting her from Texas to a
daughters north of town and was on
her way home
Mr.. Jos Allen an old pioneer OF
Fremont township but for the last
couple of years resident of Shep-
herd died Tuesday morning after a
lingering illness.
+. b. Salisbury, received fine full
blood short horn bull from Howell,
Michigan, Tuesday
Mr.. Barton, leading man with the
"Stockford Players" took six o'clock
dinner with w. B. Wetherbee and
family
Charles Foster is working for L.
+. Parkinson while he is laid up with
rheumatism.
]. II. Lands and w. o. Miller are
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-06-12
FOREST HILL ITEMS

Fred Vandemark has closed his
school at Boone and is home for the
summer.
sMrs. Capen's son and family are
here for an extended visit.
Elmer Bauer and family visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Russ of ST.
Louis Sunday
c. f. Vandemark has began franz
ing his new barn,
Andrew Snider is working in De-
troit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Leland visited
in Mt Pleasant last week Thursday.
Otis Post and family and niece
Thelma spent Sunday with friends
at Ithaca.
Fred Creech and family and Floyd
Brewer and Miss Capen visited Mr..
and Mrs. Grant Brewer of st. Louis
Sunday.
Mrs. Garfield received message
Saturday that her brother B. K.
Hnffman of Manistee was very sick,
and later another that he had to be
taken to the hospital for an opera
ton. At the time of writing he is no
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-06-12

better She will go to Manistee this
week, if he does not get better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Brewer, Of St.
Louis his mother from Saginaw and
Mrs Carlos Atwater and daughter of
st. Louis were guests of Floyd Brew
err Friday and attended commence
ment.
Mrs. Perrigo and grandson Clare,
Of St. Louis were guests of her son
M. l. Perrigo, last week.
Ed and Mrs. Curch of Coe attend
ed the graduating exercises Friday
evening and were guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. B. Leonard.
Mr.. Dersham, w .Vandercook and
several other farmers formed a club
and purchased an ensilage cutter.
Bernice and Ward Small of St.
Louis visited their uncle VIM. Van
derbeck Friday and Saturday.
The graduating exercises last Fri
day afternoon and evening were ex-
cellent. Every part of the program
was enjoyed, but the browning fea-
ture of the evening was the response
of the male quartette. Messrs L. E
Garfield, M. L. Perrigo, Ray Van
denmark and Silas Moody to hearty
encore, with their Spelling Class,
all were called good spoilers for boys
especially Mr.. Moody who was "A
years old that day.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-06-12
FROM COUNTY SEAT-ITHACA

II. l.. Root and family of North
Star spent Saturday at Ithaca.
Miss Pearl Leslie went to Middle
ton Thursday.
+. w. Griswold was in St. Louis
last week.
Miss Gail Chandler of Owosso, Wis
tied with Ithaca friends last week.
Mrs. |. Jewel returned to Lansing
Saturday after a visit with Newark
relatives.
Harrison Whitmore and wife spent
the week at Ann Arbor.
Fred Elliott of Alma was an Ithaca
visitor Friday.
Floyd Randall and family of La
fayette went to Corunna Saturday to
visit with his sister, Mrs. Albert
Sleeseman and family.
Fred Van Buskirk was at St. Louis
Thursday.
Mrs. O. NJ. Fairbank spent Satur.
day at Ashley.
Miss Matte Seaver of Pompeii wa:
at Ithaca Friday.
Miss LYNNE. Udell visited las
week with Ithaca friends.
Melvin Sanders, of Emerson wa:
at Ithaca Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Merton, OF
North Star spent Saturday here.
Walter Todd of Ashley visited a
! Ithaca last week.
Steuart Crandal1 of Alma transact
ed business at Ithaca last week
Sidney Hoag of North Star was al
Ithaca business caller Wednesday.
Bert Long is recovering from the
effects of the runaway last week.
Wilbur Ennis left Ithaca Tuesday
last for Alaska where he is gone il
search of the son of A. I. Wilkins
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-06-12

who has not been heard of for
long time.
d. Austin, of Sumner, visited in
Ithaca Wednesday.
John Snyder and wife of Pompeii,
were business callers here Wednes-
day.
Ben Parker of Newark was at Ith-
AGA Saturday.
Mrs. George Valance and daughter
Pearl of Mt Pleasant visited at Itha-
ca last week.
Clifford Cox, of Detroit is spending
few days with Ithaca friends.
Mrs. Albert Vance spent Saturday
with North Star relatives.
Mrs. w. Hamilton, of Pompeii Wis
tied with Ithaca friends last week
Mrs. f. Moore Of New Haven left
Saturday for a visit with relatives at
Marion and McBain.
Mrs. A. N. Dodson, of Portland, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Fred Stull
James Merrill of Detroit visited
with Ithaca friends this week
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Wysell OF Ann
Arbor visited with Ithaca friends this
week
Mrs. Belle Jenne spent the week
end at Byron with friends.
Miss Audrey Ferne Graham, the
youngest daughter Of Mr. and Mrs
c. G. Graham of Ithaca, was married
Sunday evening to John West, son OF
prominent baker in Grand Ledge
Mrs. Laura Naugle, Mrs. Maggie
Naugle, Mr.. and Mrs. s. Huntley
Frank Iseman and Will Willoughby
spent a week in the Northern PENN
sula recently, returning home Mon
day.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-06-12

Somebody did a golden deed;
Somebody proved friend in need;
Somebody sang beautiful song;
Somebody smiled the whole day long;
Somebody thought otis sweet to live"
Somebody said "I'm glad to give;'
Somebody fought a valient fight;
Somebody lived to shield the right.
Was that Somebody your?
! modern poet has observed that
life is cycle, and that one by one
we all come to the same end. odd
men weave memories, sitting in the
sun" They look back upon the fol
lies of youth the vanities of world
that is still kindling with youthful
pride and hope and the waywardness
of untried illusions. 1t is not new
observation. 1t is older than the Per-
sian poet whose lines we resort to in
cynical mood to smile wisely over his
acrid philosophy. But il life is a
cycle it has its gay oval of faith. its
first fond curve of belief in things
and people, and love and the JOY OF
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
APPLES MAKE FAT.
Spokane Officer Declares He Has
Proved 1t.

Spokane, Wash, April 15.-Prepa-
rations for observing the first annual
apple Day" in Spokane gave inspir-
alton to Sergeant Asa Watson of the
local army recruiting office by which
he claims to have increased his
weight to point eight pounds great
er than it ever had been. DR.. Har-
vey w. Wiley's statement about the
apples being the worst foe the doc
tor has excited the interest of Ser
geant Watson. II read this AN ap-
pie a day keeps the doctor away
business and decided to give it a
trial." he said. Every evening just
before retiring ate an applpe. This
/ continued for month. At the
end of the time l weighed 15S
pounds. The most 1 ever weighed
in my life before was $50 pounds"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
THE CENTENARY OF THE HIGH
HAT.

Sartorial and other experts have
figured it out that the year 1913
ends century during which the high
silk hat has been in style. One sees
considerable discussion as to the or
igin of this fashion.
According to one authority, it all
comes from London, where a black
frock coat and high black hat
seemed the form of attire best suited
for an atmosphere that was filled
with smoke.
According to others, the real ori-
gin of the plug" hat dates to far
earlier period. They attribute it to
the Assyrians, and consider that the
miter and robe of high priestly au-
thorities were really the parents of
the high hat and frock coat of to-
day. The Israelites acquired the
custom when they were captives of
the Assyrians, and in the middle
ages they brought these habiliments,
somewhat suggesting present styles
to the ghettos of eastern Europe.
According to this theory, when
later the Jewish people entered the
great centers of population, and by
their hereditary instinct for business
became bankers and financiers, they
still carried the custom of the high
hat, derived from the miter of the
Assyrian priest.
Thus a high hat became in the
world capitals the symbol of finan
| cial success. 1t was not long before
not merely the bankers but the bank
ers' customers, and all who hoped
for bank deposit, began to veal
them.
The high hat custom has some de
cline of recent years. Business mel
wore them very commonly twent,
years ago. Travelling salesmen uset
to feel that they added impressive
ness and enhanced the idea of thei
importance entertained by the pros
pect."
Today high hats are used princi
pally by three classes of people: pub
lie functionaries of prominence, In
dian doctors and circus press agents
and youthful male persons who wis
to impress the other sex.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
STATES WILL PARTICIPATE.
San Diego Exposition Plans Devel,
Oping.

San Diego, Cal, April 15.-Special
Dispatches states have made ap-
preparations for the San Diego Expo
sition amounting to $405,0 900, and
two county organizations have ap-
propriated a total of $500, 900, with
right to increase this, if necessary,
to $400, 900.
Other states and governments
have, through their legislative bod
les, taken necessary action to appro-
pirate total of $2,300,000 more. In
all of these the appropriation acts
have passed either the uppor or low
er houses or have been brought to
point where they are practically
assured. To meet these overtures
and offers of exhibits the exposition
organization is bending every energy
to be in position when the time
comes to furnish the necessary in
formation as to rules and regulations
of the U. S. customs, railroad routes
and rates, facilities for transporta-
ton, warehousing and multitudinous
things that must be ready when the
first commission comes here in May
to start actual construction work and
to arrange for assembling the exhib-
its.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
BARS MUSICAL AUTO HORNS.
French Judge Says Law Requires
Single Note.

Paris, April 16.-The musical au-
tomobile horns which threatened to
fill the main streets of Paris with
snatches of popular or classical airs
instead of the usual 'honk, honk"
have come to a quick finish in
France.
test case was brought against
two motorists of Douai, who enliv-
ened the night trumpeting the lett
motiv of die Waukure," and it has
been decided that these instruments
are illegal here. The decision
brought out a judicial definition of
the word horn" which had hitherto
been rather widely interpreted.
THE latter" said the judge, must
be for the purpose of sounding an
alarm and be used to warn the pub
lie, not to amuse it. 1t must give
forth single note which should be
grave, even sinister, in order to call
attention to the impending danger.
The new fanfare HORNS" added the
judge, lack seriousness, and are
therefore outside the meaning of the
act"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
AN EDITOR AS AMBASSADOR.

There are some people who, when
an editor gathers in an important
office, feel that it is not the most
substantial and dignified choice.
Some may thus criticise the appoint
ment of Walter H. Page as ambas-
sador to England. Nevertheless,
journalism does give man a unique
training.
An editor has pretty good oppor-
tunity to judge public sentiment.
For years he has watched the turn
ings of that inscrutable weather
cock, public opinion. Men whose
business lies in other fields will
stake their success or failure on
propositions that are absolutely con-
trary to the prevailing modes of
thought.
Of course, an editor who really
edits is never afraid to speak his
mind, even though he knows himself
in a minority. But he does not cast
away much of his life blood in the
futility of forlorn hopes. He waits
until he can see the fruit begin to
ripen before he tries to pick it,
Most of the shams of life have to
take off their masks before they
reach the editors chair. Which
must be highly valuable in diplo-
macy.
Mr.. Page, magazine producer,
has never known the hair tearing OF
evening editions, nor of the day a
semi-weekly goes to press. But his
great success as an editor has come
because he introduced newspaper
methods into the formerly secluded
peace of magazine work.
Mr.. Page has had sense for hu.
man interest that any newspaper
thriller might envy Instead Of
learned papers about the decorations
on Cardinal Richelieu's snuff boxe!
or the miniatures OF Madame de
Maintenon, he printed articles about
waterways and better farming anC
social settlements. Those articles
had to be little cross sections of vita
human experience. These are les
sons that the would-be newspape
man needs to study.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
PERFECT PONIES SOUGHT.
British Polo Players Trying for Bet
ter Horses for Games.

London, April 1.-THE Duke of
Westminster claims that his stud
for the challenging English polo
team is fully equal to the stable
which Harry Payne Whitney
brought to England in 1909, but
even so he is not yet satisfied, and
he has issued an appeal to English
poloists to supply several more
ponies, preferably weight carriers.
If the English team that goes to
America is again beaten this year,
they will not be able to use the ster-
eotyped phrase that the superiority
of the American ponies caused their
downfall. Among the volunteers
who have stepped forward to provide
the two or three weight carriers
needed are Captain Edgar Brassey,
who is lending his noted gray mare;
Captain A. S. Willis, who has offered
the best of his stable, and Lord
Ashby of St. LedSers, who has Of
fered one pony.
With the idea of recovering the
polo cup the Duke of Westminster
formed stable of 40 high-class
ponies, but only II OF these have
come up to the standard required for
international polo. A total of 81
ponies is now in sight for the work
this summer in America, and only a
few more are needed to make the
stable complete
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
HUMANE LAWS.

We herewith print a section from
the humane laws of the state of Ore
gon. Whoever is inclined to treat
his team with cruelty will do we'll
to read and remember it, because
Ashland will soon have humane
society whose votaries will keep an
eye on such. The law:
whoever overdrives, or over
loads, drives when overloaded, over
works, tortures, torments, deprives
of necessary sustenance, cruelty
beats, mutilates, or cruelty kills, or
causes or procures to be so overdriv-
en- or overloaded, driven when over
loaded, overworked, tortured, tor
mented, deprived of necessary, sus-
tenance, cruelty beaten, mutilated
or cruelty killed, any animal; and
whoever having the charge or Gus
tody of any animal, either as owner
or otherwise, inflicts cruelty upon
the same, shall, for every such Of
fense, be punished by Imprisonment
in the county Jail not exceeding sixty
days, or by fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or by both fine and
Imprisonment"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
LOCATE 1T.

Ny friend, have you heard of the
town of Yawn,
On the banks of the river Slow,
Where blooms the Wait-awhile flow
er fair,
And the Some-time-or-other scents
the air,
And the soft Go-easys grow?
1t lies in the valley of What's-the-
use,
In the province of Let-her-slide;
That old tired feeling" is native
there;
It's the home of the listless I-don't-
care,
Where the Put-it-offs abide.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
TWISTING THE LIONS TAIL.

Twenty years ago favorite sport
of American statesmen was twisting
the tail of the British lion, but
Westward the course of empire
takes its way" and now it is the
statesmen of China, the newest of
republics, who are engaged in the
pleasurable task.
During Queen Victoria's reign
England forced India's opium on
China. The Chinese are now show
ing great earnestness in their deter
mination to stop the traffic. They
have left millions of dollars worth
of the drug in the British ware
houses, refusing to accept it, and are
shooting citizens who persist in us
ing it or in cultivating the poppy
from which it is made. The Pekin
Y. NJ. C. A. is trying to raise money
to buy as much of the opium as pos
sible, to destroy it, rather than have
it again forced on Chinese markets
with shot and shell. 1t would seem
rather embarrassing to have heath
en- statesmen, and young men who
have adopted England's professed re-
ligion, expose her, would 1t not?
1t is over twenty years now since
the Mohammedan empire of Nupe,
West Africa, sent the following
touching appeal to Bishop Crowther
of the Niger mission:
1T is not a long matter; it is
about barasa (rum). Barasa, bar
asa, barasa! 1t has ruined our coun-
try; it has ruined our people very
much; it has made our people mad.
beg you, Malam Kip, don't forget
this writing, because we all beg that
the (Crowther) should ask the great
priests (the committee of the Angli-
can Church Mission Society that
they should beg the English queen
(head of the Church of England) to
prevent bringing barasa into the
land. For God and the Prophets
sake! For God and the Prophet, his
messengers sake, he must help us
in this matter-that of barasa."
What European or American ruler
ever thus appealed for the deliver
ance of the people? How evident il
is that the religious pretensions OF
these governments are vain. and that
what we need is the long-promised
kingdom of Him who will lay justice
ito the line and righteousness the
plummet."
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
MORGAN, ART AND THE ANIERI-
CAN MAN.

Perhaps the most wonderful phase
of j. P. Morgan's genius was not his
Napoleonic strokes of finance. The
fact that he is probably the greatest
art collector of all times is still more
unusual distinction.
The American woman is much in
terested in art. Whether because
she feels that culture is a good So
cial investment, or from real liking,
she is studying art wherever there
is a woman's club. But il you pro-
vide first-class lecture on art, you
will find 25 women present to every
one man.
Nevertheless, in the crowds that
on Sunday throng the Metropolitan
Art Museum of New York and SINH
lar galleries in other cities, there are
nearly as many men as women.
They are not prosperous American
business men who left their auto
mobiles at the door. Rather they
are Italian or German or other me-
chanics, in more or less shabby Sun
day best, to whom beautiful pic.
ture makes a bright spot of sun
shine.
Not one in a hundred of success
full American business men has any
trace of that superlative judgment
for art values that made Morgan a
great collector. The American mil
lionaires have commonly bought
their pictures and rare books by the
wholesale much as they select their
brick and stone.
The American people will not al
ways be so Indifferent. Through the
woman's clubs and school picture!
and study, many young folks are
coming along who can spot the more
obvious varieties of artistic golt
brick.
Art ought not to be confined t.
a few metropolitan cities. There il
wealth enough for fine collections IL
every state. Mr.. Morgan has gath
cred in about all the classic art tha
was not nailed down in Europe. Blu
there is world of beautiful picture
to be had at comparatively low price
today, that will become treasures TO
another generation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
SENT BY WRONG ROUTE.
Finnish Lad and Lass Are Billed
Wrong.

Sent out of their way 1000 miles
by mistake in the issuance of their
tickets at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 60
ing ITO Winona, Wash, instead of
Winona, Mich, Fulda Aart, 20, a
pretty Finnish maiden, and her
brother John, 10 years old, arrived
at the former place to find only
strangers at the station-strange
people, strange costumes and none
who knew their tongue. CARRIED in
the snowy gala peasant costume of
their native country, the pair wan
dered about the town with their bun
dies. Finally an interpreter was
found and through him the mistake
was discovered. They were returned
to Spokane by railroad officials who
took up the case. The girl and her
brother have departed for Winona,
Mich, where friends await them.
When the mistake was fully ex-
planned to her by an interpreter the
young woman smiled, declaring il
was a good joke. She said she was
glad of the trip and that the only
inconvenience was to her friends.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
Progress of Exposition Construction
at San Francisco.

San Francisco, April 12.-The con-
tract for the Palace of Education has
been let to Lange & Bergstrom and
work on this building will start inn
mediately. Contracts have also been
awarded for the pile foundation of
the Palace of Agriculture and for
piling determination of the Palace of
transportation.
The roadway and gardens in front
of the Service Building have been
graded and planting is now under
way. 1t is understood that a fount-
ain to be presented by a local civic
organization will grace the lawn in
front of this building.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-17
Straight at 1t.

There is no use of our beating
around the BUSH" We might as we'll
out with it first as last. We want
you to try Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy the next time you have a
cough or cold. There is no reason
SO far as we can see why you should
not do so. This preparation by it's
remarkable cures has gained a world
wide reputation, and people every
where speak of 1t in the highest
terms of praise. 1t is for sale by all
dealers.