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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-07-17
MELISSA WOULD TANTALIzE A
TOO CAUTIOUS MAN.

"What in the name Of goodness do
you want with a darnlng egg, Me-
lissa?" asked Mrs. Merriwid's mater
nal maiden aunt Jane, in accents OF
profound establishment, land what are
you doing with my stockings?"
Mrs. Merriwid smiled as she rum
mayed in her relatives workbag. I'm
not sure that I'll tell YOU" she an
swered. as this a darning needle.
dearie?"
Its a bodkin," Aunt Jane Informed
her. you put my things down and
tell me what you want and I'll try to
get 1t for you. Are you intending to
darn stockings?"
You're a wonder when 1t comes to
making an intelligent guess" said
Mrs. Merriwid, admiringly. Some
might have deduced that / was about
to make an omelet. Yes, ma'am, I'm
going to be a busy little housewife
this afternoon during Mr.. Farsite's
visit-just to please him. I'm taking
lots OF pains with that sensible and
level.headed gentleman. II you've no
ticed."
1--WE noticed that you have been
unusually nice to him." said Aunt
Jane. But why should you. Of all
persons. try to darn stockings? You
can't do it, anyhow. You don't know
enough to pull basting threads.
never saw anybody in my life as un'
utterably ignorant Of any useful thing
as you are. And what makes you sup
pose that the sight Of you darning
stockings will afford Mr.. Farsite any
pleasure?"
81 shan't really darn" explained
Mrs. Merriwid. II shall merely be
overwhelmed with blushing confusion
when he surprises me with the mate
rails. You see, he's cautious per
son, Mr.. Farsite is. He isn't leaping
to any great extent without taking a
good long comprehensive look first
There are lots OF people like him, my
dear. They look SO long that they gel
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-07-17
Moving Pictures Of Aurora soreaIIs.

Moving Pictures Of Aurora 5oreaIls.
A new camera for photographing the
aurora borealis has just been con-
structed for Prof. Carl Stormer OF the
Christiania university. The apparatus
will be used to measure the relative
brightness Of the northern lights at
different periods, and to enable cine
matograph reproduction Of the phe-
nomenon to be made afterwards. The
pictures are to be taken at night, and
will consequently require long ex-
posure, which win extend from two
and q half to eight minutes each. 1t
10 expected that the results win prove
Of the greatest scientific value.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-07-17
Gets Weary Sometimes

convenience. and the druggist has no
kick. In fact, II folks didn't drop In
for little things like that I'd feel lone
some. l reckon getting the habit Of
dropping in lie an asset for the drug
gist. Perhaps the public figures that
the drug profit is large enough to carry
q free information and accommoda-
ton bureau-and that may be true.
Certainly We have no complaint on
the profit in soda water. and the foun-
tain is our big popular drawing card
"And yet. while ] recognize the fact
and a general waiting station at trans
Ter points. there are times when the
assumption OF some Of our patrons 90
y a nuisance.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-07-17
A Mechanical nefact.

Agent-Here. you've had that type
writer for SIX months and you haven't
paid me q cent for It.
student-well. you said It would
pay for itself In six months.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
The Only Safe Course.

There is a supreme court jdstice in
New York city who is locally noted for
his severity. II he can prevent 1t no
guilty man shall escape, and in his
court very few Of them do.
Last fall man was on trial before
him for forgery. The prosecution, so
tsseemed to most of the spectators.
failed to make out a very good case.
Nevertheless the jury came in with a
verdict of guilty.
Later the foreman Of the jury was
talking about the case with friend
who had heard some of the testimony.
"We weren't certain that we ought
to convict either" said the foreman,
In explanation, 'but after listening to
his honor's charge. all of us realized
that If we acquitted that fellow we'd
be guilty Of contempt of court"-Sat.
urday Evening Post.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
ALL RECORDS
ARE BROKEN
ABOUT DOUBLE RAIN FELL so
FAR OF ANY JULY RECORDED.
2.S6 INCHES is FALL FOR MONTH
In Thirty-One Years Prior go is the
Maximum Rainfall for the Month,
Many Years Showing None at
All.

All records of July rainfall in the
Ashland district have been shattered
the past few days. Records in this
city have been kept for no less than
81 years and in all that time only
six years have shown a July rainfall
of an inch or over. The highest
July rainfall previously was in 1886
when 1.69 inches fell, or only lit
tie over half the amount for the
present month, up to the oath.
There have been five Julys, 1899,
1900, 1901, 1905 and 1906, in which
no rain fell, and in the years 1892
and 1897 only a trace is recorded.
The average rainfall for the thirty
one years prior to 1913 for July has
been .457 inch. The following is
the precipitation for each year from
1882 to 1913, the latter year being
only to the 25th of the month:
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
MAKES MANY COFFTNS.
H. c. Stock One of Few Undertakers
in City Who Build Many of
the COffins Sold.

In the good old days" gone by
the undertaken was also the coffin
maker. In fact, in pioneer times
there were no coffins, practically. ex-
cept such as were made by hand in
the local undertaking shops, and it
was indeed quite an undertaking.
But that time is long past. The
building of machinery especially
adapted to the work, the installation
of railways and the possibility of
getting goods in quickly and prompt
ly, and above all the growing disin-
clination of business men to do man
,ual labor, have united in driving the
handmade coffin out of the trade,
almost entirely. 1t might not be
making too strong a statement to
say that Ashland has probably the
only local undertaken making a large
proportion of his own goods. Ash
land has an undertaken, however,
who is an exception to the rule. H.
G. Stock of this city builds a large
number of the coffins that he sells.
He says that figuring by the modern
rules of business they can be bought
cheaper than they can be made, but
as matter of fact he builds them
largely in time which would have
been spent in loafing around the
shop if not thus employed, and there
fore it is decided saving to him and
to his customers. Mr.. Stock is
of the old school, the
days when mechanics learned the
whole of each trade, and he turns
out coffins which would be a credit
to the best coffin factories in Amer
lea.
One, couch in silver gray plush,
lined with satin and lace, is one of
the handsomest specimens of the cof-
art ever shown in this
city.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
DANGEROUS Dust.

Dust is more dangerous than draft
The dust of the house is more danger
GUS that the dust of the street. 1t is In
dry, windy weather that colds. influ-
enza. bronchitis. tonsilitis and consump-
tion are caught. For every speck Of
dust is an aeroplane with an army Of
disease germs as passengers. Sunlight
destroys them; they thrive in dark
ness The broom and duster of the
housewife stir them up from their
breeding places in dark recesses, and
the open windows of the busting hour
blow them all about the house.-New
York World.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
JOHNSON WINS HIS LAND.
Secretary of Interior Decides in
Favor of Settler Near Ashland.

Washington, July 22.-The secre-
tary of the interior has given a de-
cision reversing the decision of the
commissioner of the general land Of
flee holding for cancellation the en-
try of Ira G. Johnson, situated 80
miles from Ashland, Ore. By the
secretary's decision the commission
er's office is directed to issue patent
to the entryman "in due course"
Johnson settled on the land April
22, 1902. On December 2S, 1908,
he submitted final proof and at the
same time the local officers issued
to him a final five years certificate.
After the land was entered in 1902
1t was included in the Crater nation
al forest. Shortly after final proof
was submitted, in 1908, the forestry
service filed contest, alleging John
son had not made his home on the
land, that its main value was for it's
timber, that there had been no. culti-
vation. Hearing was had in 1911
and the Roseburg land officials de-
cided in favor of Johnson.
The forestry office appealed the
case to the commissioner of the gem
eral land office, who reversed the
decision of the local officers. The
secretary's decision just promulgated
holds that Johnson is entitled to the
land.
The decision of the secretary in
this case, as well as decisions re-
Gently rendered in other homestead
cases, indicates a more liberal home
stead policy than has obtained in the
department in recent years. Techni-
calities are being dispensed with and
decisions are being based on the mer-
its of the claim, The case of Ira G.
Johnson has attracted unusual at
tention in and around Ashland.
where he is we'll known.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
WENT TO SCHOOL HERE
Lyman Mas, Killed at Seattle July
IL, Was Brother of Mrs. Clar-
ence FaTnham.

Lyman Mas, who was killed by
an electric shock at the Fremont sub
station of the Seattle city lighting
plant Saturday night, July 12, was a
former Ashland high school student,
and a graduate of the Lincoln high
school at Seattle. At the time of
his death he was a senior in the Uni
versity of Washington at Seattle. He
was a son of William Mas, former
ly of Ashland, but now of Los An
geles, CAL, and a brother of Mrs.
Mabel Hoyt of Los Angeles, o. R.
Mas of Red Bluff, CAL, and Mrs.
Clarence Farnham of Ashland. All
of the family attended the funeral
at Seattle July 20 except Mrs. Clar-
ence Farnham, who was unable to
be present. Mr.. and Mrs. o. R.
Mas stopped over here for a day on
their way home from the funeral and
visited at the Farnham home.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
Deer Season Opens August 1.

Anticipating the needs of the
hunters, the Elkhorn Gun Store re-
Gently received the high power, fores
arm movement 25 and 80 calibre
Remington rifles, 22 high power Saw
age and New Standard rifles, Win
chester 25-S5, 1920 and S2 special
rifles, at lowest restricted price.
$l5.55; Winchester carbines, same
calibre, at $14.25. A large assort-
ment of cartridges of all calibres. A
nice assortment hunting coats and
vests, hunting knives, hatchets,
lunch, shell and pack bags, fishing
tackle suitable for anything from
mouth of Rogue river to source of
any of its tributaries, and a lot of
sporting junk we don't want to pay
the printer for telling you about but
will gladly show to you. Elkhom
Gun Store. 17-2t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
THE "CITY OF HOMER"
Reminders Of the Ancient Architectural
Glory of Smyrna.

0toty " OHtyTuas
Architecturally Smyrna must have
degenerated since the ancient days. for
we are told that then the streets were
broad and handsome, well paved and
running at right angles with each
other. There were a number of squares
and porticoes and public libraries. a
museum. stadium in which Olympic
games were celebrated with great en-
thusiasm, grand, music hall or Odeon,
a Homerion and many temples, Of
which the most famous was that Of
the Olympian Jupiter. in which the
reigning emperor was practically. the
god worshiped.
The ancient Smyrniotes were ipordi-
nately proud Of their city. They called
it the "First of ASIA" though the Ephe-
SLAMS violently disputed this claim. The
inhabitants also called their city the
"City of Homer" who they claimed
had been born and brought up beside
their sacred river Meles.
They put his image upon a coin.
which. they called a homerion. a name
given to one of their temples. Enor-
nous fragments yet remain showing
what tremendous buildings once occu-
pied the broad plateau on the summit
Of the acropolis, and as one rebuilds in
imagination these wonderful piles he
can easily forgive the Smyrniotes of
old for their grandiloquent praise Of
their city and its beautiful CROWN
Christian Herald.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28

''Why do you put your finger on that
paint? Don't you see the sign Fresh
PaintY"
"Yes," replied the man with eccen-
tric ideas. But | can't keep from
testing 1t and thinking what con-
venlence 1t would be IL fresh eggs
could be tested the same way
washington Star.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
Carrying the College to the People,

Carrying the College to the People,"
On Monday and Tuesday, August
IL and II, social welfare school
will be held in Ashland under the
direction of the Agricultural College,
assisted by the Oregon Social Hy-
giene Society. M. o. Evans, Jr., of
the extension division of o. A. c. was
in town Friday and Saturday making
arrangements. The G. A. R. and
Chautauqua buildings will be used
Sessions will be held morning, after
noon and evening of each day. No
admission will be charged. The
complete program will be announced
later, both through the local papers
and by flyers. In order that sessions
may be of benefit to large number
of persons it is necessary that Ash
land people and organizations do all
in their power to assist. The work
is strongly commended by the Com
mercial Club.
AS result of recent favorable leg
islation the Agricultural College is
enabled to greatly widen the scope of
it's extension work. Up to the pres
ent time this work has been confined
TO purely agricultural lines and car
ried on by the faculty and expert
ment station staff at such times as
they were able to be absent from
their duties at Corvallis. This work
will be continued and extended by
the regular staff and several newly
appointed specialists who will devote
their entire time to it. In addition,
extension work in both the cities and
small towns will be conducted along
general welfare lines. 1t will be
started in this city and will consist
of lectures, discussions, demonstra.
tons and exhibits dealing with do
mestic science, art, home decoration,
sanitation, food adulteration, child
welfare and kindred subjects.
Both pleasure and profit may be
derived from the school and a large
attendance is desired.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
Death of /. N. Ford.

|. N. Ford, the father of Mrs. Fred
Herrin, died suddenly Sunday at his
home in Willows. Cal. Mrs. Herrin
Will leave for Willows this afternoon
TO attend the funeral. Mr.. Ford was
formerly a resident of Ashland, leav-
Ing here about five years ago. He
leaves three children. one son and
two daughters.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
Why Not More Hogs?

"A 1eW days ago a carload of hogs
arrived at the Portland Union Stock
Yards by rail from Condor, Ore, the
consignors being the Gilman-French
Company of The Dalles, the hogs
coming from that company's Prairie
ranch in Wheeler county, this ranch
being located few miles southeast
of Fossil.
These hogs sold for $9.1O per 100
pounds, and the carload, consisting
of 80 head, brought the shippers
$1,395.O5, after payment of freight
and sales expenses. The manager of
the Gilman-French ranch states that
the grain fed to these hogs to fatten
them amounted to about 725 BUSH
els, which at the market price at the
time of shipment, about 73 cents per
bushel, sums up $529.25. But from
this must be subtracted the price of
$50 grain sacks at 1O1a cents each
and hauling the grain to market, the
haul surely being worth Is cents a
bushel for the 35-mile haul.
Deducting such items, we find
these hogs were fed, in the fatten-
ing stage, grain worth $383.75. To
this, however, should be added, to
make the comparison complete, the
cost of hauling the hogs to Condor.
The hogs averaged in weight about
175 pounds each, or 1880 pounds.
The 725 bushels of wheat fed them
weighed 43,500 pounds, so there was
saving in hauling of practically
$4,000 pounds.
AS pigs and shoats these hogs were
fed chopped wheat, barley and corn
and ground alfalfa; perhaps such
feed would amount to SO per head.
Deducting this sum, $27O, from the
net amount found above, it will be
seen that there was a good profit
in the grain fed. Mr.. Cooper says
the usual estimate that grain fed to
hogs will fetch 81 a bushel is far
too low. Certainly the figures bear
him out.
One of the pleasing features dis
cernible in the wheat regions is an
increasing interest in feeding grain
instead of marketing it in the raw.
Many wheat-growers are feeding
their wheat and barley to cattle and
sheep, making good returns thereby
much better than if they hauled
their grain to market. This is par
ticularly true where the haul is long
and the roads not of the best.
The one drawback is much of the
area where grain is grown is the
lack of water Without good sup
ply of running water hog-raising is
practically impossible. On the other
hand, sheep take very little water
and can be driven to it quite dis
tance. Cattle take more water, but
can be driven farther. To drive
hogs any distance to water is out of
the question.
Several large ranches in Sherman,
Gillian and Morrow counties are
lequipped with wells and gasoline en-
gine pumps. With a good well and
plenty of water the hog business
means prosperity far beyond that
now reigning in those sections. Every
well sunk is an asset worth while for
the community. 1t seems practicable
for several landowners to join to-
gether and sink cooperative well,
piping the water to central point
or to their various farms. Even a
30O-foot well, equipped with pump
ing apparatus complete, costs some
thing like $2,5OO. That sum does
not seem prohibitive where four or
five farmers can join in its owner
ship.-Oregonian, July 10.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
Notice.

The next meeting of the Produc-
ers' Development League will be held
in the Commercial Club rooms Sat
urday, August 2, p. m. Prof. F. c.
Reimer will be present and speak on
"Vetch, Its Benefit to the Soil," etc.
All interested are invited to be pres
ent. RALPH BILLINGS, Sec.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28

A farm of 100 acres has been
decided to the schools of Paoli, Kas.
Money from the farm is used to buy
books, clothing, ETC., for boys and
girls who wish high school educa-
ton, but cannot afford it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
New Blacksmith Shop.

i have re-opened the Splitter
blacksmith shop in Talent and am
prepared to do all kinds of work in
that line. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Horseshoeing speciality. ]. T.
Baker. 17-St*
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
On klaa SkanA

Flossie-Of course. in the theatrical
profession 1t doesn't matter how often
lovers quarrel. Ge7ie-Why so? .Flos-
s''' I'"'r''sr rh"v uEkA mn every night
uI lwt,t ~ Inn,Iine. DAYS Az
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28

A German scientist has produced
coal from several substances by SUBJ
mitting them to intense heat under
pressure.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
Commenced Work Today.

Frank Jordan commenced the
work of rebuilding the front Of. the
Masonic building today.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28

A concrete ekeg, said to be almost
indestructible, has been patented by
a Wisconsin inventor.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28

A cap which fits any head has
been invented recently. .
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
NOTICE.

Please get your items for the Tid-
ings in the day before date of publi-
cation, If possible. All matter must
hereafter be in type by noon on pub
lication day.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28

Phone job orders to the Tidings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28

Extensive deposits OF high grade
nj 40 been discovered in south
n .N.gee.a,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-28
All our ladies hats on sale this

- 80. caoicc
s3.l;, Enders G Son.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-05
Bechtel and BynOn
Bargains
MUST SELL AT ONCE.

Owner of three houses is here from
the East, and wishes to dispose of
them before going away at the end of
this week. Will furnish an abstract
showing clear title Modern S.rOOm
house, close in, on paved street.
Price $4,000; terms; well worth $4,000.
Modern Groom cottage on paved
street. Price $2250; terms; worth $4,000
another one, S-room, 2-story house, barn,
windmill, water piped in house, lots,
good corner, bearing fruit, Price $2500;
terms; would be cheap at $4,000. Don t
overlook these bargains.
7 ACRES
We have just listed 7 acres of fine
land, all in crop, close to the city on
main travelled road. The land, location
and price will suit you. Ask for Bech-
tel.
$3.50.
Will buy a large lot well located
near carline and paved street, we'll
worth $3.50.
Houses, vacant lots, sold on easy
terms; just like rent.
BECHTBL n BYNoN,
Phone 45o 347 State st.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-05
WATSON WILL GET
AFTER CORPORATIONS

Corporation Commissioner Ralph Wat.
son is preparing to start an active cru.
sado against the corporations who fail
to pay their license fees when due. The
law requires that all fees are payable
after July l, and after July Is they be-
come delinquent and if not paid by Au-
gust 10, the corporations are subject TO
a fine of 500.
1t is the intention of Commissioner
Watson to request the district attorneys
to begin action, when necessary, but in
case they default in any manner, he will
ask Governor West for permission to
appoint special prosecutor to 60 ahead
with the cases.
Another matter that is seriously call
ing the attention of the corporation de.
Rartment is the matter of filing prelim-
mary statements by companies. The
law specifies that companies doing bust.
ness and have capital stocks, etc, for
sale are investment companies and must
file the necessary preliminary papers.
Companies that are doing business, but
have all of their capital stock or shares
sold, are classed as a regular business
and are exempt from filing prelimin.
aries, but must file an affidavit as to
their condition. Up to the present
most of the companies have been delin.
quent or have overstepped themselves
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-07-05
1.-THE POLICE INSPECTOR. 4"

In writing their latest effort, "Ths
Police Inspector" Clay NJ. Green ami
Harrison Armstrong have succeeded IN
pictuIing in its true guise one of the
most effective devices known to mol
ern police methods for extracting in
formations or confessions from GRIMM
ais or suspects, The "third degree
theme has worked overtime of late. no
doubt, to ideas circulated by certain
persons to the effect that this sort Of
thing was a species of Spanish inquls.-
tion brought down to date. The real
Third Degree is a battle of wits; a lil-
ing UP of evidence that eventually bat
ters down the criminal 8 defense. Pos
sibly some of this evidence may be man
ufa1tured, but thinking people will cou-
cede that serious ills in the polite re-
quire serious remedies. "The Police in.
spector" will be presented on Monday
and Tuesday, July and 8, at the Globe
theatre, direct from the Pantages, Port
land. 1t will be found most absorbing
act. 1t abounds in comedy, pathos and
the strong situations are most dramatic.