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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13
UNCLE SAM AS BAILIFF.

Centuries ago, before railroads,
telephones, hourly mail deliveries;
when to travel by coach or horse
meant to hazard holdups by high
waymen demanding your money or
your life, it was quite a job to serve
writ of court. 1t meant lion
hearted bailiff armed with pistol and
sword; and it meant mileage allow
ance and fees in proportion to the
costs of travel and the risks.
Though those conditions have long
since passed away, in most courts
the old scale of charges remains, a
dead weight tax on Justice, a grim
reminder of the resistance of court
forms to the spirit of today.
But not in all. Clevelands mu-
nicipal court has just closed a
months experiment with service by
mail. When a person is to be sum-
moned, the bailiff fills in blank
on a typewriter, addresses an envel-
ope to the persons legal residence,
registers the letter and leaves the
rest to Uncle Sam.
During 19 days in October, service
in this manner was attempted upon
S37 persons, of whom all but 4 were
located. Under the old system, the
bailiff assures us, about 6S of this
number would not have been found.
Uncle Sans watchful letter carriers
have the constable beaten to a fraz-
zle for efficiency. The cost to liti-
gants of personal service would have
been $27O.12. The cost of service by
mail was $67.50.
Court authorities throughout the
United States know of this Cleveland
innovation. Now see how soon they
will take advantage of it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13
RECEIVING ELECTION RETURNS

Although only about half dozen
states have held elections of any i'm
portance this year, the returns have
been awaited with unusual interest
to see how far the new party line
ups of last year proved permanent.
Every year returns come in little
more speedily. This is principally
due to the existence of the telephone.
1t was only few years ago that get
ting the returns from the back towns
meant that a carrier must drive or
ride from the polling place, unless
the returns were to wait until the
next days mail. Now there are com.
paratively few precincts where tele.
phone connections cannot be had.
Ballot officers who count the votes
quickly and transmit them immedi
ately to the nearest newspapers per
form a real service. Elections upse
business to an extent, and the quick
er the agony is over and the resul
announced, the less friction is caused
in daily life.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13
HAPPENING EVERY DAY.

In Tacoma the other day a woman
was seized in a police raid. She had
been travelling the easier way.
The judge was impressed by her
lack of hardness. Something of the
divine which is in all women still
cleaned as a rainbow in the clouds
of her miserable surroundings She
had the look of a mother. So he
questioned her, and this was her
story:
Married when young to a beast
who soon deserted her, she had been
left with two beautiful babes, no
money, no relatives, no friends and
no trade.
She went forth offering to do hon
orable work, household work, laun-
dry work. rough, exhausting work,
any work which good woman might
do, and all that she could earn was
about Sc week.
But she could not take her babes
with her when she worked and she
could not afford to hire someone to
tend them. The princely pay of
menial toll left no margin for keep
ing mother and babies together.
However, she was pretty and not
yet old. The world which would not
give her a living wage for honorable
work offered her ease, comfort, con-
sideration and comparative riches in
exchange for her honor
She was not of the fiber of mar
tyrs. She yielded. With her body
she bought bread and shelter and
pretty dresses for her little ones.
The police came with clubs and
hustled her to prison. The men who
had tempted her escaped. Society,
which made that awful contrast be-
tween the wages of virtue and vice,
shrugged it's shoulder and politely
decided that the subject wasn't prof
table for discussion.
And this is happening in every city
every day.
What are we going to do about it?
If anything.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13
NEEDED: MORE HYMNS OF
DEMOCRACY.

One night at Rochester, n. Y, DR..
Samuel Crothers, who breaches
across the road from Harvard and
writes the best essays now coming
from an American pen, listened for
80 minutes while 1900 folks in a
social center-Jew and Gentle, mas
ter and slave, but for that occasion
all free and equal-poured out their
souls in songs of democracy. Then
he said:
do you realize what you have
done? You have found a substitute
for war. We peace fellows have had
all the arguments but one. and that
one has been unanswerable. The
military fellows say it takes a war
to make people really feel together,
to know a common interest, to own a
common country. And how do they
prove it? They tell us that from 81
to '65 we were a singing nation, and
that's true. Those were the days
when we learned Marching Through
Georgia. 'Tenting Tonight Mine
Eyes Have Seen the Glory, Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp, When Johnny Comes
Marching Home
81 was a boy in those days and
never expected to hear such singing
again. But l have heard it here to-
night. You sang in that spirit
What does it mean? 1t means that
down underneath, you have been
gripped by that same, throbbing com.
mon reality; not hate this time, mol
fear, but love. You know common
interest. You own a common coun
try. You've found what the militar!
fellows say we can't get withou
fighting. You've spoiled the only ar
gument for war"
The spiritual vibration whicl
comes from fellowship on a leve
can't be understood until it is felt
1t is the best thing in every enter
prise in which men and women en-
gage in groups. 1t is what furnishes
the motive power for hymns ant
cheers and what stimulates those sou
forces which make heroes and mar
tyrs of folks ordinarily just like yol
and u.s.
All of which reminds us tha
there's need for some more goo'
hymn writing. The old religion
hymns of selfish personal salvation
are pretty we'll played out. Even th
orthodox churches are casting then
aside. The tunes may live, and man.
are worth living. But they requir,
new words-words expressive of tn,
new note of social service word
summoning not only man, but .alst
society, to repent and be just.
Open social centers to the full cal
of democracy and you'll be aston
ished how soon new crop of poets
and hymn writer's will grow up.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13
"ONLY A BIRD IN A GILDEI
CAGE!"

Il have only been bird in a gild-
ed cage!"
That is the explanation a young
New York wife gave for attempting
her life. She wore eight diamond
rings and had all that money could
buy,
How many women there are, with
apparently every conceivable want
supplied, who are only birds in a
gilded cage!" How many women
there are who, because their "place
is at the fireside," have never had a
chance to get into the broader cur
rents of life
How many women there are, de-
MED by fate or self-robbed of the
inestimable privilege of motherhood,
who sit idly, hand in lap, and let
their God-given faculties go to seed
Think of the hell of continued
inward chatting over the absolute
lack of incentive to the use of those
faculties that distinguish man from
beast!
Think of being a plaything for q
man all your life!
Think of all these facts before you
condemn this woman!
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13

Lest we forget, make note of the
climate at Ashland last Sunday and
Monday and compare it with that of
the same date in the east. Then
look up the temperature last July in
the east and middle west and that of
the Rogue River Valley on the same
dates. When you have done this the
question of exceptional climate for
the Rogue River Valley will be for
ever settled. This much only because
our people are so used to this fine
climate that it takes a contrast of
the kind to keep it in view. Again
we arise to assert there is no better
Observation-Disclosures climate in
the world than at Ashland and vicin-
ity.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13
NOTICE OF REDEMPTION OF M
PROVEMENT BONDS.

Notice is hereby given that i'm
provement bonds Nos. Sal to 544,
both inclusive, of the city of Ashland,
Oregon, will be taken up and can
celled by said city on December /,
A. d. 1913, by payment of the face
value thereof and accrued interest to
said date, and that interest will cease
on same from and after said date.
Holders of said bonds will present
same at this office for payment.
c. H. GILLETTE,
Recorder City of Ashland, Ore.
48-2t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13

Again is backwoods preacher in
the tolls on the charge of moonshin-
ing. This time the alleged infraction
of the excise laws was practiced in
the mountain districts of northern
Georgia. Those mountaineers do not
consider it crime to manufacture
Illicit booze, any more than a drunk
en- chauffeur thinks it crime to run
over a pedestrian at street cross
ing. Much depends in this world on
the point of view.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13

To beat the high cost of living
three thousand students in the Uni
versity of Ohio are cooperating in
the buying of food and clothing sup
plies. Carload lots are the rule, and
middlemen are being left out of the
deals. Besides saving money. these
students are making a practical ap-
pIication of the book rules of eco
nomics, which is real educational
triumph.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13

Now that Ashland is fairly started
on her way as a big summer resort
why would it not be good idea to
have a rose-planting day and make it
"a bower of beauty as it will be a
haven of health. The fall is a good
time to plant roses. Let's hear from
the Ladies Civic improvement Club
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13

Let us teach our children to be
lovers of the meadows and woods,
the mountains, and of the whole
earth. Students of all her moods,
knowing that nature will be to them
as Wordsworth the anchor of purest
thought, the nurse, the guide, the
guardian, of the heart, the soul, of
the moral being.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13

The Mexican so-called election oc-
Cured on Sunday, but the deed was
no better on that account.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-13

There can be fun in doing the
things you can afford.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-06
OLD SETTLERS REUNION
Bad Weather Could Not Dampen Its
Success.

In spite Of the disagreeable weather
Friday, ESQ old settlers met at the
First Presbyterian church for their
annual gathering. The session began
at II o'clock in the morning with a
short business session presided over
by p. 1. Bonebrake, president. Off
GERS were elected at the beginning of
the meeting and were as follows:
Robert Steele, president; ]. M. Meade,
vice president; George A. Huron.
treasurer, and Miss Caroline Deming.
secretary. The business session was
followed by a hearty chicken dinner,
which the members of the associa-
ton enjoyed.
After the dinner was the program,
which was of great historic interest.
J. NJ. Meade, newly elected vice presi-
dent, described building of first bridge
across the Kaw. Mrs. Robert Shoe
maker sang a solo, I'm Kansas Where
the Sunflower Crows" Charles Cur
tbs, former United States senator.
spoke Of the work of the early set
tiers in the state. George p. More
house gave an address on "Old Set
tiers of Kansas The last speaker
was VIM. Connolly. who spoke of the
early state and territorial history Of
Kansas. A roll of those who have
died since the last annual meeting
was held was read. Those on the roll
were: John Armstrong, Mrs. M. M.
Hale. Mrs. s. A. Kingman. Mrs. w.
p. Douthitt, Rev. John D. Knox, Mrs.
E. J. DAILY. w. E. Hopkins, w. D. Paul,
Mrs. Caroline Weed, T. ]. Anderson.
Luther H. Root, Homer Boughton,
Mrs. Esther Youngs, Mrs Rebecca
Hook, j. w. Farnsworth, Mrs. Sarah
Ogden, J. w. Marsh, w. c. N. Garvey,
w. Packard, G. M. Kellam. D. w.
Boutwell, William Boyd and Mrs. c.
p. Baker.
The following members of the Shawnee
County Old Settlers association were
P: L Bonebrake; s; sardou. NJ; A. sar-
4ou, G. w. Weed. John F. Carrier. Mrs.
Knowles Harriet Kitchell. Mrs. w. H.
Wilson: 6 p Moore; N; NJ Moore. H. A
dali. A. B: Whiting. Mrs. William owen,
MS. 9. w. Packard. J. E. steyan. John
Elizabeth Reed. Sarie E. Lane, Juanita B.
Dignon, j. B. Larimer, Mrs. A. A. GODDARD
Mrs. F. R. Foster, Anna H. Foster, Har-
korbes. J: N. shellabargsr. Mrs; J; n y
Mn orehoass Mrs Kit9 ae J. H
W Rogers. Mrs. K. ". Hand: Miss. Belle
ReminEton. Mrs. Ward Buirlinsams; ".
II. Moffatt. NJ. 8. Mofatt: Mrs. H; e.
liam Gilkerson. Peter Hell. q. w. Eddy,
w. E. Johnston, Matilda Steele McFar-
! land. John Elliott. Mrs. Byron Jewell.
Fred H. Jewell. Addie Jewell Newton,
LEO. NJ. Jewell. Vera Thompson, John
Waters. o. K. Swayze, Walter ]. Arnold,
| ]. G. Sinner, James r. Troutman. A.
| Troutman, Marcie G. Troutman. Harry
| o. Carney. T. w. Boutwell,, Mrs. Emily
! v. Boutwell, A. w Doane. IT,, George N.
| Holmes, Grace Holmes Albert McClain.
! Mrs. NJ. E. Sharras. F. M. Bonebrake.
i Lulu H. Bonebrake. W: p. Bishop, Mrs.
| mar. Mrs c. o. Knowles. George O. VIII
| marth, Mrs. g. o. Wilmarth. Mrs. W. A.
| Steele r. B. Steele. Mrs. A. III. Horton.
G. w Veale. Mrs. G.. w. Veale. Mrs May
n Schnebly. Hall Ritchie. Mrs. Hall Hdtcn1e:
L Charles F. Spencer, Belle A. Spencer, Nell
|, Mcfarland and Mrs Lee Monroe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-06
He need NOT refund
Head of Florida Land Company Can
Keep the Money.

Kansas City. Dec. 6.-R. ]. Bolles
Of Miami, Fla. president of the Flor
ida Fruit Lands company. may retain
81, 400, 900 paid to him by the COM
pany for lands in the everglades OF
Florida and in dividends. according
to a decision of Circuit Judge Guthrie
here today in a civil suit brought
against Bolles by trustees represent
ing 1900 purchasers of the ever
glades lands.
Today's decision, it 8 said. will
have an important bearing on the
cases in which Bolles and seven other
officers and agents of the Florida
Fruit Lands company were indicted
by the federal grand jury three weeks
ago, charged with misuse of the mails
and conspiracy in connection. with the
sale of the everglades tracts to the
1900 purchasers. Government in
vestigators declared the lands held az
farms were for the most part under
water.
In Judge Guthrie's decision Bolles
is ordered to proceed with the mat
ter of obtaining the drainage of the
lands, which task, the company con-
tends, the state of Florida is under
contract to complete. The court en-
Joined the lands company from pay
ing further dividends to Bolles until
Florida shall have complied with the
drainage contract.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-06
FILE A Demurrer.
Lawyers Declare Information IL Faulty
in the ''Calf'' Case.

Kansas City. Dec. 6.-The jury in tho
"caf corner case on trial here was
not brought into the court room this
morning when Judge Porterfield's court
convened. Instead, counsel for John
H. Aikens and Orlando 8. Bone. the
defendants, began a vigorous assault
on the Information filed originally
against the two men. They sought to
have the case thrown out Of the crimi-
nal court on demurrer
A. L. Cooper, of the defense, assert
ed that the Information was INSULT
Gent to acQuaint his clients with the
specific charges against them, although
it contained 10000 words.
1t was contended further that the
state had not proved any specific trans
action as required by law. Atkins and
Bone as president and chief buyers re-
spectively of the Kansas Cattle and
Can company. were charged with OBJ
tanning money unlawfully from the
packers by promoting a calf CORNER
by trickery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-06
NO RAISE IN PRICES.
Frisco Hotel Men Make Promises
Regarding the Exposition.

San Francisco, Dec. 6.-An almost unan-
imous declaration ON the part of the more
than 100 hotels of San Francisco that no
increase IN the present charges for rooms
today by George H. Herrick, director of
the division Of exploitation of the Panama
racific exposition which will be held here
that year.
The declaration. as Mr.. Perry's state
ment explained follows an alteration be-
tween the exposition management and the
announced plan of exposition officials to
build union inside inn" with service at
troll. The hotel men objected to the build
ing of this inn. which Mr.. Perry says
brought the whole question Of accommo-
cations to a head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-06
RIPLEY RUMOR DENIED
Official Frown Placed Upon Tale of
Storey's Promotion.

For several days Topeka railway cir
cles have been hearing wild rumors
brought from Chicago to the effect that
w. B. Storey, Jr, vice president OF
the Santa Fe, would soon succeed E
P. Ripley as president Of the road. The
rumors have been of such laughable
nature that no mention was made in
the daily press OF the west where
President Ripley's vigor and improv-
ed health is well known.
From Chicago today comes an OFF,
cial denial of the rumor and the rail-
way world in the Windy City is set
Ting down to business once more. Chi
cego started the story. and the west.
with utmost faith in the Santa Fe's
head, has allowed Chicago to stop it,
President Ripley resigns from the
Santa Fe through the newspapers on
an-average of three times a week. First
he is succeeded by Storey and then by
Nudge. 1t is only a question of time
until the railway writer's will have Mr..
Ripley leaving the Santa Fe proper
to become active head of the Leaven-
worth & Topeka or the Topeka-South-
western route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-06
PEOPLES MISTAKES.
Bryan Says They Have Made Several
in Past Twenty Years.

Washington. Dec. Secretary
Bryan narrowly escaped a suffrage
ambush today at q meeting of the
National Popular Government league,
where he spoke on Popular Govern
ment." A delegation of women SUI
fragists took places in the hall, at
which 1t had been advertised the Sec
rotary OF state was to speak, and near
the conclusion of his address Miss
Helen Todd, a California suffragist
arose and called out, And how about
popular government for women, Mr..
Secretary?'
With flashing eyes, the secretary
said:
Madam, in your work you doubt
less have followed your iudsment and
conscience. In my work 1 have fol-
lowed mine"
Mr.. Bryan asserted his firm convic-
ton In both the right and the capabil-
ity OF the people to rule.
They might make mistakes" he
said, but would rectify them more
quickly than If few were ruling for
them.''
Smilingly he added that he could
point to several mistakes the people
had made during the last twenty
years. Secretary Bryan said he
thought that before another presfden-
tial campaign arrived the people
would vote at home for their choice
and that the president when he en-
tered the White House would know
no individuals
senator Owen, speaking on the
need OF more direct rule by the peo-
pie, declared that the archaic rules of
the senate were costing the people of
the country from five to ten million
dollars day while waiting for action
on the currency BILL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-06

Suffrage convention in session at
Washington (arrow points to
President Anna Howard Shawl;
bottom. Mrs. o. 81. p. Belmont
Oeft) and Mrs. Inez Milholland
Boissevain.
I'VE no longer beg for the ballot,
we demand It." declared DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw, president Of the
American Woman Suffrage associa-
ton, at the national suffrage conven-
ton in Washington. This was the
keynote Of the meeting, which was
attended by hundreds Of prominent
women from all sections Of the coun-
try. DR.. Shaw is the author Of a
resolution which calls upon Presi-
dent Wilson to make an administra-
ton measure Of woman suffrage.
Among the prominent figures at
the convention were Mrs. O. III. p.
Belmont and Mrs. Inez Milholland
Boissevain. delegates from New
York city. Mrs. Belmont is the wen
known society woman and Mrs.
Boissevain is the girl who as Miss
Inez Milholland before her marriage
q short time xgo, was known ~
most beautiful suffraeist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-06

will also be provided a Christmas tree
for the poor children bearing gifts of
candy and toys Gifts of money and
provisions may be sent to Captain F.
N. Reisner, sos jackson street. If it
is not convenient to do this the phone
may be used-216S White.
Albert T. Reid, president of the
Kansas Farmer company. has been
elected president of the Standard
Farm Papers, an organization includ-
ing a dozen of the leading farm pub
locations of as many states. Among
the papers in the membership OF this
organization are: Hoard's Dairyman,
Wisconsin; Wallace's Farmer, Iowa;
Breeders Gazette and Prairie Farmer.
Illinois; The Indiana Farmer. Indi-
ana; The Ohio Farmer, Ohio; The
Michigan Farmer. Michigan; The Ok
iahoma Farm Journal, Oklahoma;
The Pennsylvania Farmer, Pennsyl-
vania: The Progressive Farmer. Ala
bama; The Missouri Farmer, Missou-
RI. and the Wisconsin Agriculturist.
Wisconsin.
The annual banquet Of the Baraca
organization Of the First Baptist
church will be held next Monday
evening at the church. Several prom
inent men are on the program as
speakers for the occasion. Hender-
son Martin is booked to speak on
-OuT DcDC 10 society," r.. -. OOpo1dHU
will talk on Business Integrity" and
H. B. Wilson, superintendent OF city
schools, on Church and Schools. L.
B. Hunt will have something to say
on "Our Glass and Social Problems"
Miss Irene Troxell will give a read
ing, a violin solo will be rendered by
DR.. Robert Nash. and the Misses
Kouns will sing. Mr.. O'Donovan will
serve as toastmaster. and the invoca-
ton will be given by the Rev. Robert
Gordon.
A reel of 'movies'' will be shown
next Monday and Tuesday at the Iris
theater which will give Topeka peo-
pie a good idea Of the dedicatory ex-
ercises in connection with the site of
the Kansas building at the Panama
Pacific exposition. The members Of
the Kansas commission will be seen
as they come out of the Palace hotel,
where they were the guests of honor
at a luncheon given by the manage
ment of the exposition. They will be
seen getting out of the autos and go
ing over to the reviewing stand. Then
there will be a review Of troops. Later
will come the planting of a flag on
the spot where the Kansas building
will stand. The members of the COM
mission who will be seen in the pic
ture are: Albert T. Reid, chairman;
Senator w. F. Benson of Eldorado.
Walter Innes Of Wichita and H. e.
Dean of Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-06
WEEPS over KIM0N0,
DR.. Knabe's Cousin Testifies at the
Craig Trial.

Shelbyville. Dec. 6.-Court adjourned
at noon today until Monday without
the states completing its side in the
trial of DR.. William B. Craig, charged
with the murder Of DIR. Helen Knabe.
Miss Augusta Knabe, cousin OF Dr.
Knabe. testifying today, wept softly
when handed kimonO which she fden-
titled as one she had given DR.. Knabe
as Christmas present.
The witness said the kimono was a
beautiful navy blue with red poppy
flowers, but that now it looked like a
faded rag. She said she saw it hang
ing in closet in DIR. Knabe's flat a
short time before her death, and the
next time she saw it, it was in the pos
session Of Alonzo M. Ragsdale, under
taker, who was indicted as an accessory
after the fact. The state contends
that the kimono was put through a
chemical process to remove the blood
stains.