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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
THE CRIME OF CRIMES.

Mother love is the finest treasure
life offers. But not all mothers pos
sess it. Some are selfish, vain, cruel.
There, my day is spoiled" a
young mother exclaimed one morn
ing, when baby began to cry. And
instead of cuddling the weary little
one and grooming to it the soft songs
which fall upon baby nerves like a
benediction, this selfish mother be-
gan to fret and to scold and to work
up a temper.
She actually believed, this foolish
mother did, that baby cried just for
spite.
1t was this same mother who, a
short time before, wishing to enjoy
vacation with sailing and dancing,
turned baby over to a hired nurse
and went away to the shore for a
fortnight as Indifferent to her duty
as if baby had never been born.
There are mothers like that. For
tunately few, but enough to warrant
preachment on the rights of child
hood.
Do you realize as you should that
it is not merely the privilege but the
right of a child to be petted and
loved? That the man or woman re-
sponsible for bringing a little life
into the world commits treason to
the race if Sinking its tenderest
care?
BY petting we don't mean spelling.
Children can, of course, be spoiled;
and the spoiled child is an even sad
der sight than the neglected or
abused child. For spelling is rarely
undone, while neglect and abuse
sometimes are overcome by the kind
ness of others.
If there has been sent into your
home and arms the infinite blessing
of dear little babe, don't be so silly
as to imagine that the care of it is
curse Where would you be if
mother love hadn't tenderly smooth
ed the trials of your infancy and
made you the altar of worship and
sacrifice?
Providing food and shelter and
clothing isn't by any means the full
fillment of parental obligation. They
are necessary, of course, but they're
not the things most important. The
important, supreme thing is to give
unstintedly, ungrudgingly in COM
plete surrender, yourself
Unless you are ready and eager to
put your heart and soul into the nur-
| ture of the little life, to bring a baby
into the world is to be guilty of the
crime of crimes
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
Josephine County Fair.

The third annual Josephine County
Fair will be held at Grants Pass for
three days, commencing Wednesday,
September "a, and continuing till
Friday night The catalogue and
premium list shows that provision
has been made for many new classes
of exhibits, and for all of the old
ones, with valuable prizes in every
division. The annual show of the
Josephine County Poultry Associa-
tion will be held in conjunction with
the fair, and competition will be
lively with one of the best exhibits
of poultry ever brought together in
the district. A silver cup has been
offered by the Southern Pacific Com
pany for the best individual exhibit
of fowls.
The dairy COW contest will be one
of the chief attractions of the fair
citizens of Grants Pass having added
to the purse offered by the fair man
agement, prize of $50 being hung
for the winner and $50 for the Sec
ond prize winner, in the contest
This contest is open to any dairy
COW. the milking and butter-fat tests
to be conducted on the grounds by q
committee.
Special rates are offered by the
railroad covering the dates of the
fair, and Grants Pass is making pro
vision for the care and entertain
ment of one of the greatest crowds
in its history.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
HUMAN HAPPINESS.

Human life-its pleasures and
pains-is controlled by an exact
natural law. Humanity is most con-
cerned in the proper application of
the forces which yield the greatest
happiness at the least cost. Always
selfishness is destructive to individ-
ual well being and contentment.
Misery follows it "as surely .as the
night the day" The world yields
nothing of her wholesome stores to
it. 1t owes nothing and pays no
interest, except as we apply the law
through which the fountain of happi-
ness is touched. 1t is the law of
compensation. Selfishness grasps to
appropriate all external good, for it's
own pleasure; but, it finds it not.
Sacrifice asks nothing; expects moth
ing: but radiates itself, and in so do
ing touches the fountain of joy.
Would you be happy? The only
possibility for its accomplishment is
through your promoting happiness in
the lives of others. Do you desire
consideration? Then yield that SYM
pathy and justification which you
crave from your fellows. There is
no other way. Destiny pays in your
coin.
Whatever seed is planted in the
ground travels it's cycle ultimately
TO reproduce its exact type. Moods
and desires sent out from human
brain return, in kind, to cheer or to
torment Moods and actions are
boomerangs. Point your dart with
poison, II you will. but rest assured
it will rebound to inflict the injury
upon you that you intended forayoul
adversary; but, point it with benefi
cent consideration and it flies fortl
TO comfort and inspire; ere it spends
its flight it buds and blossoms int
JOY and its sweet odors of content
ment are waited back to you OF
every passing breeze.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
THE POET.

The poets soul is a fountain that
overflows and gives voice 10 the bud
ding flowers and the springing
grass; to the floating clouds and the
billowy seas. He follows the eagle
in his lofty flight, and looks down
upon the mountains and the mead
ows and makes them sing. He
strolls through the peaceful fields
when the morning scatters her pearls
of dew, and he catches lullaby from
the linnet and the lark, and when the
evening sprinkles the heavens with
her silvery jewels and paints the
fleeting sunset with silver and gold,
he looks up to God and catches the
melody of Cherubim and Seraphim,
and puts a song of praise on the cold
lips of the curfew bell
He hears love song in the rip
ping rivulet-an anthem in the roll
ing billow; he reads a sermon in
blade of grass, and in the giant oak
that spreads its boughs to the whis-
pering breezes and endures the light
nings and the storm, he finds the
strength that typifies his hero and
the gentleness that assuages pain.
From the iron arm of the black
smith issues sentiment and there is
music in the ring of the anvil. In
the prosaic rountine of the desk and
the counter he touches the mystic
spring that fills the earth with
rhythm and the tired soul with heav-
emily ecstasy. He plucks a song from
the dusty street and transforms the
smoky exudations of the engine into
the gladstone music of commerce.
With his wand he touches the pom
derous roll of the mill and forthwith
the song of the folk lore vibrates
through the heavy air, teaching IL:
all that through every avenue of ac.
tion the spirit of beauty runs
Wherever he wills he plucks the
things of beauty and leaves thu
dross for the contemplation of disma
souls.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
Banker Must Serve Sentence

Boise, Idaho, Sept 24.-The su-
preme court Thursday affirmed the
judgment of the district court for
Kootenai county, and Barney F.
O'Neil, former president of the de-
funct State Bank of Commerce OF
Wallace, convicted on charges OF
making false reports to the state
bank examiner, must serve an inde-
terminate term of from two to ten
years in the state penitentiary.
O'Neil, formerly a prominent poll.
tician and wealthy, is in Jail al
Occur d'Alene, having been unable
to furnish bonds.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
The Edison Talking Pictures.

Announcement that Thomas A.
Edison's latest mechanical rival of
the stage, the Kinetophone, is now
working successfully before large
audiences, has stirred the theatrical
and moving picture world. 1t is de-
clared by stage managers that the
machine really works and is not a
mere approximation to an ideal
such as was exhibited in all parts of
America not many years ago. The
Kinetophone is one more step in the
process by which the world is be-
coming better place merely to exist
in. The Edison Talking Pictures
will be seen here for the first time
at the Dreamland, September 22.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
sEMI-wEEKLY OREGON JOURNAL
and
SEINII-WEEKLY ASHLAND TIDINGS
BOTH ONE YEAR FOR $2.75.

This special bargain offer lasts
until November only.
The Semi-Weekly Journal is not
only an up-to-date newspaper, with
full telegraphic reports from Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, and the
world at large. but has features OF
interest to every member of the fam
lily.
The Oregon Journal is issued
every Tuesday and Friday and the
Tidings is issued every Monday and
Thursday. so the service is almost
equal to any daily. The Tidings
gives you all the home news and the
Semi-Weekly Journal all the world
news.
To get this bargain you must sub
scribe before November 5.
Applies alike to all old as we'll as
new subscribers.
Payment strictly in advance.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

Incidental to the last horrible ac-
cident on the New Haven road comes
the information that one great rail-
way system which carries more than
10 per cent of the passenger traffic
of America has not killed a passen-
ger in more than three years. That
seems to prove that all this talk
about luck in operating railroads is
like all talk about luck, entirely
moonshine. There is no necessity
for fatalities on railroads if they are
properly equipped and properly man
aged. The trouble with most of the
railroads is that they are little more
than footballs to be batted around in
Wall street. When railroad manag-
ers come to learn that they have a
responsibility to the public and that
the public is holding them to that
responsibility, then will the slaugh-
tering practically end. But so long
as railroad managers are no more
than hired men to stock gamblers we
may expect a repetition of the New
Haven horror at any time on any
road that is the creature of specula.
| tion.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
DECIDE YOURSELF.
The Opportunity is Here, Backed By
Ashland Testimony.

Don't take our word for it.
Don't depend on a strangers state
ment.
Read Ashland endorsement.
Read the statements of Ashland
citizens.
And decide for yourself.
Here is one case of it:
NJ. Powell, 263 Oak street, Ash
land, Ore, says: Il suffered a great
deal from backache. Sometimes it
bothered me so badly could hardly
get around In the morning I was
stiff and lame. The kidney secre-
tions were irregular in passage. As
soon as / commenced using Doan's
Kidney Pills l felt better and before
long l was in good health. / will
ingly confirm the endorsement gave
Doan's Kidney Pills some years ago.
1 generally use a box of Doan's Kid
ney Pills in the spring and fall as
kidney tonic"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's--
and take no other.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

According to late advices, if your
dentist advertises teeth extracted
without pain" he must make good
and not permit the least little twinge
of the nerve or you can send the
sheriff after him and take him into
court. A new law provides for re-
vocation of the license of a dentist
for misrepresentation in his adver.
tisements." After the license is re-
voked it is misdemeanor if ne pulls
tooth, with or without pain.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen

In round numbers the country
spends a quarter of a billion dollars
every year on its army and navy, the
biennial appropriations carrying al
most two dollars for military and
naval purposes for each dollar de-
voted to other expenditures. If, in
round numbers, the country spends
$SOO,O0O,O0O every year on its army
and navy, it is terrifying to contem-
plate the expenditure of $4,000, 900
(the amount prayed for by a con-
gressman) on good roads, cents
for good roads and 9S cents for sol
diers, forts, sailors and battleships.
What think ye?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
Currency Bill Passes House.

Washington, Sept. 24,-The house
passed the administration currency
bill Thursday by vote of 2S6 to "a.
Many republicans and all the pro-
gressive members of the house sup
ported the currency bill. The vote
followed rejection of several amend
ments.
The house reaffirmed the Foss
amendment to the effect that moth
ing in the measure could be con-
strued as invalidating the standard
gold coinage.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
BARGAIN TIMES.
OregOnian and Tidings From Now
Until January 1, 1915,
for $3.50.

We have made special arrange
ments whereby we can give the Ore
gonian and Tidings' from this date
till January 1, 1915, for $3.50. This
offer holds good only until Novem-
Der 1. After that the price will be
$2.75 for the two for twelve months.
This will be applied to either old or
new subscribers. Payments strictly
in advance.
Those taking advantage of this
offer during September will receive
both papers for Is months at the
price of one year.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

If your neighbor is prosperous, let
him prosper. Don't grunt, growl or
grumble. Say a good word for him
and let it go at that. Don't be a
knocker. Your turn will come. No
one man is the whole show. If you
see that the town is moving along
nicely, feel good about it, Help
things along, shove little. Try to
get some of the benefit yourself.
Don't stand around like a chilly old
cadaver. Don't waste your time feel
ing sore because some fellow has a
little more sand and sense than you
have. Do little hustling yourself.
Don't be a knocker.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

Each woodpecker in the United
States is worth $40 in cash. when
the value is estimated on the value
of the good that this bird does to
trees.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

Eugene Register: Over in Corval-
lis sign painter has opened STU
dio." The next thing We know some
livery stable will be advertising
boudoirs for horses.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

Perhaps you will not believe it,
but they say that one of our town
girls recently sent the usual 25
cents to find out how to whiten
hands, and in few days the follow
ing answer came Soak them in
dish water" Her mother was tickled
almost to death.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

In the densest parts of Bombay
there are 740 persons to the acre.
New York has 1000 in the same
area.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

A gelatine dynamite which gives
off no poisonous fumes has been de-
veloped by the United States bureau
of mines.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

One of our lady subscribers vowed
that she would teach her husband to
pick up things. So she let every
thing lay just where he dropped it
and at the end of the week she called
us in to see the room. Everything
he had was on the floor but his plug
of Star tobacco. This is a fable.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

A man in Iowa was soundly
threshed by his wife last week for
not paying his newspaper subscrip-
tion after she had given him the
cash to do it. May her crown be
trimmed to order and her harp have
an extra string.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22
NOTICE.

Please get your items for the riu-
ings in the day before date OF publi-
cation, II possible. All matter must
hereafter be in type by noon on pub
licatton day.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-22

BY a French law no doctor may
inherit property left to him by a de-
ceased patient.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-02-27
Affidavit Should Go With This.

A certain special correspondent for
a New York newspaper was sent on
the double quick a few years ago to
get a descriptive story" Of a serious
mine disaster which had occurred in
the Pennsylvania coal fields. More
than 200 miners had been entombed
and ~rescuing parties were vainly at
tempting to reach them. Arriving at
the scene Of the disaster the CORE
| spondent stood drinking in the situa'
ton. The weeping relatives gathered
at the head of the shaft and the spir'
itual consolation which was being
given them by clergymen affected him
strongly. Rushing back to the tele
graph office he wrote a 1,5OO-wort
lead" which started like this:
God is near the head Of the Mt
Pleasant shaft tonight. Hundreds o.
wivesl mothers, sweethearts and sis
tiers are praying for the rescue O.
their loved ones"
An hour after the story 10 flet
he was somewhat startled to receive
this telegram from his managing ed
itor:
Drop disaster. Get good Interview
with God; 5000 words. "-Baltimor'
American.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-02-27
White House Housekeeper Wins Name and Fame

Multimillionaires who pay their chefs
$4,000 yearly are not able to match
the product of the White House kitch.
ems and millionairesses who have aim
ed to make good by living up to the
maximum that the way to a mans
heart is through his stomach" cast en-
vious eyes upon the way things are
done at the home Of the president.
Caterers who previous to the com.
ing of Mrs. Taft had found the White
House their best patron, bewailed the
lost trade. No matter how perfect
their wares they had no sale at the
White House, where Mrs. Jaffray's
management made it possible for
home cooking" to hold the boards
against all corners The biggest fete
| planned, as for instance, the silver
wedding celebration of the President
and Mrs. Taft, as well as the tiniest
luncheon served, were provided fol
down in the big White House kitch
ems. 1t was all done so easily thai
It looked like child's play. Mrs. Jaff
ray worked out q tentative menu anC
presented 1t to Mrs. Taft. Mrs. Tai
made whatever additions or elimina
tons she wished and returned th'
menu to Mrs. Jaffray with the mum
Der Of possible guests to be served.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-02-27
biscuits Is Biscuits" Is the Impression Abroad

WHAT is a biscuit? There has been
w an impression abroad that "bis-
cults is biscuits" and that that let
them out, but German customs off,
Gals have found a biscuit is:
"A fine bakers product, sweetened
and favored, and should, therefore,
come under a particular heading for
import duty"
And, in consequence Of this epicu-
rean definition, importers Of American
biscuits in the Fatherland are forced
to pay a prohibitive duty. So high
has this duty been set that one i'm
porter has made a protest to Ambas-
sador G.. A. Leishman at Berlin that
the matter be taken up by the state
department.
Many weighty problems have left
their indent on the massive brows OF
the shippers Of u ship Of state. But
the latest problem is n that will
force them to get down IN their knees
and scrub out the cellars of their in
tellects. What is beer?" What Is
Democrat" What is whisky ?"-theJ
have all been answered. But now
comes a proposition Of preponderant
pourousness, and it is up to the state
department officials either to substan
tiate the good old Century diction
airy, or to agree in the German yer
sion. The Century dictionary give'
this press notice on biscuits:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-02-27
Turkey Suffer,

"These scratches on my face" he
said, don't indicate that | am I'M
happily married. They indicate that l
am a turkey suffer.
High grade turkeys are brought
up to the proper degree of corpu-
lence by hand stuf1ng. That is where
| come in. With a short cane | stuff
their food down their threats twice
daily. They object to this. They ex-
postulate with beak and claw. Hence
these scratches.
What do we stuff our high grade
turkeys with? Well, their morning
meal is ground pea -four and olive
oil. Their evening meal is wheat
boiled in milk. Sometimes, for a
prominent millionaire, we stuff our
turkeys exclusively with chestnuts
boiled in milk. You'd hardly believe
what a delicious nutty favor this
gives.
"But it's hard work, the work of a
turkey suffer. Your assistant holds
the birds legs; you hold its head
with one hand while you thrust the
food into its mouth with the other
and then you shove the bolus dowr
where 1t belongs with a short cane
The turkey gives you many a nip
many a scratch, during this forciblt
feeding. A turkey suffers job is NJ
s~inecure."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-02-27
GOOD NATuRED AGAIN
Good Humor Returns With Change to
Proper Food.

For many years l was a constant
sufferer from indigestion and nervous
ness, amounting almost to prostra-
tion," writes a Montana man.
my blood was impoverished, the
vision vas blurred and weak, with
moving spots before my eyes. This was
a steady daily condition. ! grew i'll
tempered, and eventually got so nerv-
GUS l could not keep my books post
ed, nor handle accounts satisfactorily.
l can't describe my sufferings.
Nothing / ate agreed with me, till
one day | happened to notice Grape
Nuts in a grocery store, and bought
a package out of curiosity to know
what 1t was.
81 liked the food from the very
first, eating 1t with cream, and now l
buy 1t by the Ease and use 1t daily.
l o found that Grape-Nuts food was
supplying brain and nerve force as
nothing in the drug line ever had
done or could do.
1T wasn't long before / was re-
stored to health, comfort and happi-
ness.
Through the use OF Grape-Nuts food
my digestion has been restored, my
nerves are steady once more, my eye
sight is good again, my mental faculties
are clear and acute. and have become
30 good-natured that my friends are
truly astonlshed at the change. ! feel
younger and better than / have for 20
years. No amount OF money wouli
induce me to surrender what ! have
gained through the use OF urspe-NutI
food" Name given by Postum Co.
Battle Creek, Mich. There's q rea
son." Read the little book, The Roa'
to MELVILLE" In pkgs.s
nver rcad fhe shove iettcrps 4 ncv
enc appears from sinae 20 ttmt. Thc'
are genuine. tFne, sad full Of haan,
fntsrest. Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-02-27

VIZ ASHINGTON.-The electric car,
w or better, the electrified car, that
runs back and forth across the Penn
sylvania avenue bridge and for some
distance up Pennsylvania venue ex-
tended, is a relic. When you enter
this car there is something reminis-
cent about it, sort Of a sensation that
carries you back to youth. You IAN
not at first tell Just what 1t is, but
there is a familiar tone that watts
your memory back to the time when
the boundary was actually the north
ern boundary Of the city, when there
were old-fashioned residences on +
street and few stores on Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets, when the only
shopping district was Seventh street
and Market space, when there were
no very tall buildings, no automobiles
and no all-night lunch houses, and sc
many other things to which we have
become so accustomed that they some
times seem to have been always witt
Us.
When you enter this car you nott
that it is only half as large, OF
fourth as large, as the average run o
the heavy and noisy cars on the mail
lines. There are only six windows Of
each side of this little car, and a lov
bench or side seat runs along eacl