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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-15
TO ReOrganize
Fire Department

The Ashland fire department is
undergoing second reorganization.
At the time the new truck was
bought, because of the advice of the
demonstrator of the car, there was
reorganization of the fire depart
ment. Largely because of misunder-
standings the old members of the
department dropped out with the
change. The reorganization, as ad-
vised by the fire truck man, has not
been entirely satisfactory, in that it
has been found impossible to find a
man who will stay at the fire house
22 hours per day and seven days per
week.
AS a result the members of the
old department and the mayor and
councilmen have come to an under
standing and the old fire boys will
be on duty from now on at every fire.
The chief has not yet been select
ed.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-15
Give Your Work
To Home Men

Many people in Ashland, said an
observing city official Friday, make
a decided mistake in giving out their
odd jobs to transients. If a man
comes along offering to paint sign
on a window, to clean their windows
or to do any odd job they are apt,
without stopping to think, to give
them the job without stopping to
to think that there are many home
men who would like the work. The
home man, especially if married, is
entitled to the preference.
There is one excuse for this. The
transient man asks for the work,
while there are very few local men
who will go around seeking odd jobs
There are a few who will do them,
but there is scarcely one who goes
out seeking the work as do tran
sients. Whether this is because of
pride or lack of initiative, or for
what reason, / do not know, but it
is true. The local man does not go
after the work and the transient does
and so the transient gets the work. !"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-15
LOCAL And PERSONAL


C. C. Gall is quite sick at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. William
Myers, of this city.
Get your Xmas gifts from End
ers' Premium Department. Every
body is doing it.
Mr.. Eastlick and Mr.. John Cress
went to Gold Hill on business this
morning.
Buy from our Xmas windows.
n. G. Enders & Son, where they do
things.
Mrs. W. T. Hills has been at Tai
ent the past week canvassing for the
International Bible Study literature.
Sec our eight big windows for
Xmas suggestions. The Big Store UP
the Hill, of course.
D. S. r. Walker of Medford was in
Ashland on business Thursday night
and Friday morning.
"A pair of nice tan or black slip
pers will suit him. Get them al
Briggs.
Percy Daggett of Portland, former
ly employed as baker at the Vienna
bakery, is here visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lebo and
Mrs. Ernest Mckee of Medford were
Ashland visitors Thursday.
Silks on sale for few days al
10 per cent discount at the Ashland
Trading Co. 1t
C. w. Root wasa t Medford look
ing after the affairs of the Medford
Ice & Storage Company Friday.
-Tamales, fresh tamales, delicious
tamales, the best on earth, at But
Ier's. 51-tf
Lady Maccabees bazaar Saturday,
December 20, at Plaza grocery. 56-4t
Wallace Woods went to Medford on
business Friday morning.
E. N. Butler went to Medford on
business today.
Get him or her pair of Briggs
shoes.
Butler is the king of tamale
makers. Have you tried them? Drop
in next to the postoffice and try
them. They can't be beat. 51-tf
j. ]. Murphy will ship six carloads
of cattle to Portland today.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-15
Address by Former Ashland Man.

The Tidings is in receipt of PAM
phlet copy of an address delivered
by William r. Herrin of San Fran
cisco, general attorney for the South
ern Pacific Railway Company before
the California Bar Association meet
ing at San Diego, Cal, November 20,
1913. The subject is Government
Regulation of Railways" The ad-
dress is of peculiar interest to Ash
land because of the fact that Mr..
Herrin was born near Ashland and
raised in Jackson county He is a
son of John Herrin of North Main
street and a brother of F. w. Her
rim, the well-known ranchman.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-15

Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Merrill leave
this week for stay of two, months
at their winter home at Long Beach,
Cal. They also have a home in Ash
land at $40 Boulevard, where they
spend their summers. Their liking
for Ashland has made them deter
mine on a permanent home here,
which they will build upon their re-
turn from California in the early
spring.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-15

E. B. Veghte, son of c. w. Veghte,
and a member of the firm of Veghte
& Co., architects, klamath Falls,
came over from there Thursday on
his motorcycle. He reports the
Green Spring Mountain road as some
thing fierce at this time of year. He
expects to remain here to visit his
parents until some time in January.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-15

Under forest regulations in Colum-
bia, rubber gatherers are required to
give the trees rest period in tap
ping them for gum. The size, num-
ber and location of the incisions are
regulated by law. In the United
States similar regulations are in
force in the tapping of pines for tuf-
pentine on the Florida national for
est.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-15
Meetings Were
A Big Success

The temperance meetings held at
the theatres Sunday night were rous-
ers and did much to enthuse the citi-
Zens and make them see the neces-
sity of turning out and voting with
bigger majority than ever for
dry town.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-15
Teachers, Attention!

Abbott House dining room at Jack
sonville will be open to teachers dur
ing examination. Room and board
81 per day. 1t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-12-15
Teachers. Attention.

Abbott House dining room at Jack
sonville will be open to teachers dur
ing examination. Room and board
81 per day. 1t
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
HISS ANGELLOTTFS
NEW BOOK

! have received from the press Of the
C-ctVrv company copy of "Harlette."
r7 i-is. erical romance by Marion Polk
4u-ellotti. The story deals with moving
accidents and stirring incidents by food
snd field In the stormy career Of Robert
Tr1e Of Normandy, better known as
J.qnert the Devil Miss Angellotti has
acquired q command Of vivid prose and
NVorthiIy carries on the traditions of the
cre-tt historical uovelists. Yet I am in
slined to the belief that she is wasting
Ier undoubted talents on q barren and
luostly exhausted field. There is a pow
crful lack of verisimilitude about the
historical romance Of commerce. In the
current slang cf contemporary review
CTS. these tales are not convincing"
y ON seem to get from them the idea
that life in the dark ages was all stab
hing and hanging. The human interest
lags What did these heroes eat, for
example? We would like to know
Dumas tells us. Perhaps you win re-
,uember that infinite gusto and smack
ing Of chops with which the ingenious
Ange Pitou cleaned up the fat pasty
with the crude but effectual help of
his spatulated fingers. We know of the
lat capons that were devoured by Por-
thos and D'Artagnan. Such details
tumanize Falstaff is alive because we
lave an itemized account of what he
8 te and drank. chiefly what he drank.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
DO NOT INSULT
THE CLIMATE

Let's talk about the weather To IN
suit the climate is worse than to speal
disrespectfully of the equator. 1t is {
public offense to deride an asset. anc
anything of that sort makes fighting
talk. BY way of example, 1 find Henry
James. in the Los Angeles Tribune
sternly and resolutely rebuking an Ore
gonian detractor in this wise:
In the Oregonian of Sunday ap-
peared something having the as
pect of a dispatch from Los An
geles. This told of the sun in this
city having set fire to a streetcar,
much to the CONSERVATION of pas
sengers. The car, blazing q the
chariot of Elijah, was stopped at
Sixth and Broadway, and there a
bucket brigade was formed, partly
of women, and the flames subdued.
Oh, shameless webfooti
There never was such fire, caused
by the sun. The story seems more
like the effects of a full moon on d
full correspondent.
few buckets of nice cold water
sloshed over him might teach him
to lead a better life.
Los Angeles summer weather is
proverbial1y delightful. It does
not cause cars to burst into con-
fagration. IT has been Just a
shade too cool this season for the
natives, although it has charmed
countless visitors into staying. and
it does roll up some coast cities so
that they print such stuff as men,
toned.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
SOME PROBATION
DIVORCE

1t does not do to fool the Anaheim
ers as one may conclude from the fol
lowing:
When Cora B. Milford of Ana
helm found her husband had con-
sumed a half gallon of wine with
a friend, she horsewhipped both
men, tied Milford UP with baling
wire and made him finish the jug,
then sued for divorce.
This was the story told to Judge
Monroe by Abner Milford. stalwart
and admitting rs pounds.
Did you do that?" demanded the
court Of Mrs. Milford. who con-
fessed to weighing los.
Il did" she snapped. Il got
tired of his broken promises to stop
drinking and decided to teach him
lesson"
Both were SO goodnatured about
the proceedings that Judge Monroe
suggested that they might patch
your honor. can't speak to her
outsider" asked Milford, with
you'll have to ask her; she's the
boss of that" said the judge.
Milford left the stand and talked
animatedly for a moment. Mrs. Mif-
ford shook her head. but she finally
consented. Three minutes later the
pair came back into the courtroom.
Give her divorce, Judge. l
me again If / make good by the
end of the year." said the husband.
Judge Monroe laughed in spite of
himself and made the order
We already have probation sentence
and probation marriages In effect AM
the trilogy is complete with probation
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20

Seriously speaking, I am unable to
conceive how a given and well defined
area shall he part of three several
Streets at the same time. This doc
trine appears to me a contradiction in
terms and d patent absurdity- Ny cor
respondent plays on the meaning and
derivation Of the word intersection" 3"
which he thinks necessarily implies a
substantial cut into the heart of Mar
ket street. ] do not follow his reason
ing at all. and my Interpretation of
intersection" is the junction line OF
Market and Post streets, which is COM
mon to both. The intersection IS. of
course only a hairsbreadth, but It eX-
i-ts and is capable Of definition. My
correspondent says I have confused
"iurersection with beginning" I think
lot. but 7 do contend that in this in
Stance thev mean the same thing Ny
critic. jn all good faith and in a friend
- spirit. asks me 90 believe that Post
street begins i'm the middle of Market
street. Tt is an interesting geome trical
abstraction. but it appears 10 me that
St would involve the city in endless
confusion.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
PLAYING WITH AN
ABSTRACTION

With all Difference to the professional
knowl edge of my correspondent, his
thesis brings us face to face with a
strange situation. We are told that a
given area belongs to three separate
streets, and Post and Montgomery
streets are extended to an arbitrary
point in the middle of Market street
This strikes me as one of those queer
mathematical distractions with which
geometers like to play, pretending that
they can extend or produce a given
line to infnitY and other such fanciful
conceptions that they like to play
withal. Why does this arbitrary pro-
duotion of Post street end with the
middle Of Market street? II they can
extend one street half way across an
other, why not produce it indefinitely,
SO that Post street, like a parallel of
latitude, might put girde around the
world. Perhaps we shall be told that
Mr.. ThOrnwell Mullaly owns the tropic
Of capricorn and bestrides this puny
world like modern Colossus of Roads.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
| NEW APPLICATION
OF FEMTNTSM

Feminism found It's unexpected appli-
cation in the experience of the Southern
Pacific company with band of buck
Indians employed to grade tracks ir
Nevada, of which we learn:
The company had encountered all
kinds of difficulty with Mexican
poems on the various sections, and
the suggestion of ]. NJ. Davis at
Winnemucca that Indians be en-
ployed in place of MeXicans found
favor in the general offices. The
first three or four days they did
splenddly. On the fifth day, how
ever, the boss was called away sud-
denly and left the work in charge
of one of the Indians. He returned
"a hours later and gazed about him
in amaZement. Over on one side of
the track the new section hands
sat playing poker, and toiling under
the rays Of a hot Nevada sun were
eight squaws. The new section
hands. left alone. reverted TO the
Indian custom of letting the women
do the work.
remember one hot day in Rene
when | met an Indian brave who was
moving house. 1t was a simple opera
ton, conducted without an eXpressman
and the squaw was carry ing the stove
while the buck packed the pipe.
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20

-GIlIIIilllIliIlilIHIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiIIIiiIIIIIi

A friendly correspondent takes in
finite pains to persuade me that I was
wrong last week when l contended that
Post street ended where Market street
begins and that the intersection of
POST and Market streets" mentioned in
the United Railroads franchise was
the junction line of the two streets.
Aly correspondent is of the mathemati-
cal mind and he has kindly prepared a
c-a&Tam or picture showing Post street
cutting monstrous cantle out of the
heart of Market street OF course. IL
his reasoning is valid, every street that
tmpinges on Market street takes a slice
gut of that thoroughfare. He writes:
was amused to find you
taking such q positive stand on
the question OF the meaning of a
street intersection. This is a sub
lect with which ] am profession
ally familiar. and I think that your
Interpretation is wrong and arises
from confusing intersection" with
'heginning
If the franchise had read ''be-
ginning your view might be
maintained, but the intersection"
Is another matter.
Intersection both technically and
etTmologically implies a cutting
into another object
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
SERMONS ON
WAF

One recalls a we'll known local res
taurant of the period before the fire
whose walls were illustrated by scrip
tural and other religious and monitory
texts by which the ultimate consumer
was exhorted for instance, Prepare to
meet your Cod" or some such warn
ing which. however, was not under
stood to cover the consequences of Dip
ping into the bill of fare. Now one
learns that an extensive coffee roaster
of this city employing large numbers
of discreet young persons has hung
on the walls of his factory a selec-
tion of elegant extracts from the poets
and the philosophers like this from
Ovid
iii habits gather by unseen degrees,
as brooks make rivers, rivers run to
seas"
To be sure ovid did not write 1t in
just that way because he did not know
United States and still less could he
foresee that his melancholy philoso-
ply would come to be construed as a
warning against the fashion of wear
ing a slashed skirt or flirting a trans
parent stocking,
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
NOT QUITE SURE
OF HIMSELF

But the scribe still finds some need
of apology. or at least an occasion
for explanation, for he adds in another
rebuke for the offenders:
Los Angeles has experienced
short series Of warm DAYS, these
invariably followed by cool even
ings and perfect nights.
The only tiresome feature has
been that a class of people has de-
Veloped having such nerve, and
displaying such ignorance as to
yammer and grumble about the
heat"
These peculiar people do not
know what hot weather is. If ever
they knew, they have forgotten.
Let them turn their minds to any
one of several eastern cities, which
by day are furnaces. that through
out the night still give out wither-
ing blasts. The most oppressive
period of the day there is just after
the sun goes down. Midnight some
times is of a temperature only a
few degrees lower than midday.
Such a visitation as this may last
a period of weeks.
Yet notwithstanding the torrid mis-
cries of our ultramontane fellow coun.
trymen. the fortunate Californian com
plains that even in this favored cline
there is heard the sound of growls II
fat man becomes heated to the ne
cessity of wiping the perspiration from
his face after chasing car a high
noon
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
NEW SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS ORDER
POPULAR IN fNGl AND AND IREL AND
COtenid Draws Members OF unbIemiShed Character From
Commercial and Professional Classes

NEW YORK, July IA new organ
| ization of social and religious promo
recently formed in England with the
full sanction of the Catholic hierarchy.
The new order is known as the Catenia,
and is rapidly working its way into
popular favor among Catholics in Great
Britain and Ireland.
1t is essentially a sectarian move
ment, designed to promote materially
as well as socially and religiously the
interests of its members. Unlike or
ganizations such as the Hibernians, II
admits men of all nationalities who
profess Catholicism, but 1t prescribes
| that members must belong to the com
mercial or professional classes and that
| they produce credentials of unblem-
| ished character before they are even
nominated.
One of the associations chief un-
dertakings in the near future will be
a campaign to pass a law similar to
| that proposed by Colorado and Mis-
souri, by which libels on the church
can be treated as criminal offenses.
| The Catenians are not, however, a
| fanatically puritanical body; they en-
| Joy the luxury of smoke and engage
in every form of health and amusement
| and sport. They are making much
headway In places like Liverpool, Glas-
! one of the strongest lodges in the
! kingdom.
JULY 20 FEAST DAY
July 20 is the feast day of st. Jerome
Emiliani, who was a member of one
of the patrician families of Venice and,
like many other saints in early life, a
soldier. He was appointed governor
of fortress among the mountains of
Treviso, and while bravely defending
his post was made prisoner by the
enemy.
In the misery of his dungeon he in
NOkeQ the great mother OF 1Ou, dHO
promised If she would set him free to
lead a new and a better life. Our Lady
appeared, broke his fetters, and led him
forth through the midst of his enemies.
At Treviso he hung up his chains at her
altar, dedicated himself to her service,
and, on reaching his home at Venice,
devoted himself to a life of active
charity.
His special love was for the deserted
orphan children, whom, in the times of
the plague and famine, he found wan
dering in the streets. He took them
home, clothed and fed them, and taught
them the Christian truths. From Ven-
ice he passed to Padua and Verona. and
IN a few years had founded orphan
ages through northern Italy.
Some pious clerics and laymen who
had been his fellow workers fixed their
abode In one of these establishments
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20

of his new auto to a Garden Grove
lady for SITS. He was owing 500
on the machine, and is thus $215
ahead of the game and is going
fast. Editor Bennett seems to have
been struck by prosperity with
resounding thwack.
The town of Stanton has a curious
history. There is more farm than
town and its incorporated territory is
mostly owned by Phil Stanton, for
merly speaker of the California assem-
bly,. 1t was incorporated mostly by
way of self defense because the Ana
heimers proposed to condemn part
thereof for a sewer farm. Now that
this danger is past many of the resi-
dents want TO disincorporate because
the burden of sustaining a fit munich
pal dignity seems to cost more than
If tS worth
The San Francisco call., 1913-07-20
is THE CLIMATE
CHANGING?

Now we have taken up once more
the ancient debate on the question, IS
the climate of California changing?
and the Oakland Tribune prints ar
elaborate statement for the affirmative
1t seems that the famous Japan cur
rent is misbehaving or has been scared
off its base by volcanic disturbances
among the Aleutian islands, the ultima
thule and tail end of America, and the
Tribune adduces these facts:
Bearing upon this subject, so far
as it relates to northern and CEN
ttral California, 1t is worth noting
land agent Of the Central Pacific
railroad in the early '70's, COM
piled a record of the temperatures
kept at rs stations along the com,
pany's lines in the Sacramento and
San Joaquin valleys, from Shasta to
Bakersfield, which he used as the
basis Of paper read before the
California Academy OF sciences on
the climate of California. Its pur-
pose was to serve as a guide to new
settlers in the state. In that paper
Redding laid particular stress upon
the fact that the temperature In
the Tulare lake basin at Sumner
then the station for Bakersfield
was at no time of the year low
enough to warrant the condensa-
tion Of the vapor in the atmosphere
and produce rain and. by that
process of reasoning he accounted
for the practically rainless charac-
ter of that section of the state and
described 1t as "the rainless belt
Since then, however. the climate of
the Tulare lake basin has changed
to such an extent that it gets regu-
larly a fair share Of the annual
rainfall Indeed, during the last
month the unusual June rainstorm
which swept over the interior OF
the state from the Oregon border to
the southern boundary of the state
drenched Bakersfield and the Tulare
basin as heavily as any part OF the
San Joaquin valley, whereas many
Of the coast counties experienced
merely the faintest sprinkling. OF
rain. These facts are calculated TO
intensity the query: Is the climate
of California changing?
I don't attach much Importance te
these supposed changes. and | remem-
ber an old settler in the southern part
of the state telling me that in 1864
after two dry years such as we have
experienced in 1912 and 1918, 1t rained
every month in the year.