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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

The Chinese may seem to admins
ter what they believe to be justice in
a very summary manner, but their
directness is often fruitful of the best
results 1t is said that there are
practically no bank failures in the
country, and for the reason that on
an institution closing its doors, the
directors and other officials response
BILE are lined up outside on the side
walk and beheaded. The fear of
such punishment may place decided
limitation upon credit and invest
ments, but depositors must feel that
it is conducive to the fullest security.
Moreover, there is humor, though of
the very sorry variety, in the pro-
cedure. Indeed, there is grim jest
ing in nearly all Chinese punish
ments Take, for instance, the proc
lamation just issued by President
Yuan Shi Kai, in which he accuses
number of generals and others of
treason, graft and other misdemean-
ors, and offers high rewards for the
staying of these enemies of the re-
public. In his list of those who
should belong to the "better dead
he gives such pleasant reasons as
that their flesh is unfit for wolves
TO eat" To this a number of south
ern revolutionists reply by asking
the president to resign ''in order to
save the country from further blood
shed" The whole country is bathed
in an atmosphere of assassination,
and whenever man wants to get rid
of an enemy he employs the old-time
Chinese method of paying another to
do the deed. There exists a society
which styles itself the Holy Judicial
Organization for Supervising the Ma
tional Assembly and the Govern
ment." This body has just issued
list, which recalls the comedy of ].
M. Barrie and its society for "the
elimination of persons who would be
better dead" There are seven nota-
bles named, and after each name
appears a reason. Some examples:
''Sun Vat Sen, cheating the world
and doing injury to the country by
his purely empty talks; Yuan Shih
Kai, assuming supreme powers and
violating the provisional constitu-
tion; Sun Chiao Yen, setting the gov
eminent affairs in disorder by fanati-
cal speeches and planning to grasp
power and position; Hwang Hsing,
cheating the world with pure non
sense and doing injury repeatedly at
critical moments" Here surely is
vicarious assassination tempered by
epigrams.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04
NO REASON FOR 1T
When Ashland Citizens Show a Way

There can be no reason why any
reader of this who suffers the tor
lures of an aching back, the annoy
ance of urinary disorders. the pains
and dangers of kidney ills will fail to
heed the words of a neighbor who
has found relief. Read what an Ash
land citizen says:
Hubert Dyer, n Pine street, Ash
land, Ore, says: For three months
l was in agony from kidney trouble
and rheumatic pains. 1 had to pass
the kidney secretions too frequently
l was obliged to get up at all times
OF the night. Pains, sharp and sud-
den, darted from my back into my
shoulders and limbs. 1 had severe
headaches, my appetite failed and ]
was in bad shape. also noticed that
If the kidney secretions were left
standing they deposited a sediment
| used plasters and many remedies
but nothing helped me until 1 took
Doan's Kidney Pills. 1 improved
from the first and is wasn't long
before l was well, without sign OF
kidney trouble or rheumatic pain
My appetite picked up and I felt bet.
ter in every way"
For sale by all dealers. Price Sc
cents. FosterMilburn 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, 1913-08-04

While formerly medical or surgi-
cal result rested often for years with
it's particular discoverer or until he
published a book, today it is cabled
all over the globe and is experiment
ed with by experts in every country
A few weeks ago Professor Behring
of Marburg claimed to have discov-
cred a vaccine preventive of diph-
iberia. Behring, it will be remem-
bered, was the scientist bracketed
with Professor Rouh for the Nobel
prize for the discovery of the anti
diphtheric serum. The new discov-
cry is not for patients afflicted with
diphtheria, but to protect against
contagion all persons coming in con-
tact with such patients. No sooner
was the discovery announced by ca
BILE than American scientists set to
work testing it in accordance with
Behring's theories and noting it's sue
cess and limitations This is one OF
the triumphs of what Professor
Havelock Ellis calls the internation-
alization Of science.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

ing of history. Those pessimists who
were wont to declare that new indus
tries and "the feverish haste of mod
ern life" were producing new diseas-
es at a greater rate than could be
coped with, have not been borne out
by the facts as revealed by statis-
ticians. For this we have to thank
new scientific achievements showing
that just as in war the methods of
defense have developed more rapidly
than those of offense and lowered
the mortality of combat, so have new
methods in surgery and medicine low
cred the general mortality. The
work of science has become more sys-
tematized. For example, there was
recently opened in London a medical
museum. The collection exhibited is
weird, yet in some respects amusing,
while its chief value consists in the
fact that the medical student of the
period is given access to material be-
yond the reach of the expert of a few
years ago. A table laden with jaw
bones shows clearly how horses or
kangaroos may have toothache very
badly; examples of surgery show how
natives use banana fiber bandages; !;
object lessons in the construction of
ring-tailed lemurs; three-toed sloths;
Mexican crocodiles; giraffes, bles-
boks, frogs and seals, while an ex-
hibition of the brain of the Austral-
ian mudfish shows that creature to
be much more intelligent than might
be suspected from his habits or ap-
pearance, and last, though by no
means least, the skeleton of an
American giant who, when alive,
must have stood about nine feet high.
All of which may cause the lay mind
to wonder wherein consists it's value
in the matter of saving human life,
but the scientist knows that so COM
plex is his art there is no biological
phenomenon that has not its bearing
upon the study of man, and that the
healing of humans owes much to
comparative biology.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

While science notes results at
tanned in all lands and is guided by
them, politics is still in that crude
stage of experimentalization which
insists on working out everything
regardless of failures elsewhere.
Theories tried, found wanting and
sometimes abandoned in other coun-
tries are just as likely to be taken up
by local politicians. San Francisco
is in the throes of municipal own
ership OF railroads campaign, though
across the border in Mexico the gov
ernment is demonstrating unmistak-
ably that public ownership OF such
utilities is failure. Owing to a
policy of continuous political inter
ference, E. N. Brown, president of
the National Railways, has asked the
government to appoint his successor
as quickly as possible. The difficult
ties of the civil war he felt equal to
cope with, at least to the extent of
making the best possible showing
under the circumstances, but his rep
utation at stake Brown refused to
be dictated to by men whose only
recommendation for interference in
the management of a. railroad was
that they had shown a positive gen.
ius for making a mess of matters
political. In his letter of resignation
he says: Under present conditions
success for and with the railways
seems impossible, and do not feel
that in justice to my high reputation
should remain and go down with
the properties. The government
owns majority of the stock, and as
1t has apparently seen fit to dictate
to the management of the railways a
certain line of policy which the man
agement feels will not allow the
properties to be successfully operat-
ed, l thought it best to ask the di-
rectors to relieve me of my position. +"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04
Big Yield of Wheat in WaIIowa
County.

Wallowa, Ore, July 30.-The first
wheat of the season has Just beer
harvested on the G. E. Coleman
place, northeast of Wallowa. Forty
acres of fall wheat yielded 80 bush.
els to the acre. Conditions are ia.
vorable this season for an excellent
output. The spring rains were in.
strumental in making bumper crops
in the dry sections.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04
Ty Cobb Calls to See Wilson at
White House.

washington, July 31.-"Ty" Cobb
called at the White House today with
Representative Tribble of Georgia,
and President Wilson greeted him
warmly. Cobb invited the president
to see the Observation-Disclosures games,
especially on Saturday, when cup
VIII be presented to Walter Johnson.
The president said he would try to
attend.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

The quantity of cattle in this coun-
try has decreased in recent years,
while the poultry flock has grown
larger.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

In America mining is conducted
under much more healthy conditions,
and for that reason that, despite all
that is said about the soulless cor
porations, wonderful saving of life
has been accomplished by proper ven
tilation Of mines and by many other
devices, showing that every possible
precaution is taken to reduce the oc-
cupational diseases to a minimum.
In a recent book on health and work
there appeared scores of pictures
showing the old and new methods
of safeguarding employees. Thanks
to the large sums donated by wealthy
men to medical research and the
adoption of the recommendations for
the prevention of diseases, wonders
have been accomplished. 1t is a
| striking illustration of the marvellous
progress in medical science that the
death rate due to diseases in Amer.
lean industries is far lower than in
other countries, though the death
rate from accidents is still very high
Even in this direction it has been
shown that large numbers of the
killed are not chargeable to the in.
dustries. Deaths on railroads, fol
instance, are all charged to the trans.
portation industry, though an enor.
nous number are due to carelessness
ON the part of victims trespassing on
railroad property.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

The value of farm animals in this
country last year was $5,OOS,149,-
600.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

The Tidings is for sale at W. M.
Poley's Drug Store, II East Main St.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

A cloud of locusts brought an air
man to the ground in France recent
ly.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

That there is more to be gained
by peaceable organization has also
been realized by the militant miners
in South Africa, where the Rand
strikers have gone back to work, and
with the intention of agitating along
different lines. IT. appears that the
strike was prompted by motives
quite unlike the usual demands of
labor, and that more than the quesl
tion of hours and wages was the de-
mand for healthier conditions in the
mines. In thee Rand the mortality
due to diseases, chiefly tuberculosis,
is appalling, and the men claim that
the precautions taken for the protec-
tion of life are far less efficient than
those in America, Australia, England
and elsewhere. In the months of
January, February, March and April,
the four worst months of the year,
the death rates per 1000 are respec-
lively 115,1, 117.6, 1855 and 1874
That death-laden atmosphere hangs
over the Rand mines is seen in the
statistics, which show that from
10000 to 100000 lives have been
lost in the mines since the close oi
the Boer war. The lower figure is
semi-official record, and the high
er is the claim put forward by the
men, who allege that in the case Of
the natives thousands are buried
without official registration. Among
the machine men in the mines tn,
death rate is even higher than the
figures stated.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

An even greater proof of Russia's
awakening to more civilized condi-
tion is the wonderful improvement in
the status of women. There was a
time when the sight of girl student
in spectacles was sufficient to cause
a cZar to tremble in the fear that
she was nihilist. That hostility on
the part of the monarch to the edu-
cation Of women was a great barrier,
hut it has been largely broken down.
III ever it could be said that the rul-
ing classes of a nation were opposed
TO the spread of learning on the
ground that it was easier to govern
ignorance it was the case in Russia.
But a movement SO worldwide as
the emancipation of women has not
been stayed by the fears of czar.
Though a thousand women practic-
ing as doctors and as many more fill
ing the duties of dispensing medi-
cines may be only small proportion
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

The ancient city of Smyrna is to
have an electric street railway.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

In England woman has not made a
corresponding advance during the
period marking her emancipation in
Russia. A recent application by a
British woman to enter the legal pro-
fession was refused on the ground
( that she is not "a person." On the
other hand she is not a nobody"
since she is permitted to be queen,
marshal, a sexton, church ward
en-, a constable, sheriff, workhouse
governor and many other things, in
cluding that of taxpayer. A curious
feature of the suffrage agitation, and
one to which attention has been
drawn in a remarkable document by
an American novelist, Marian Cox, is
that the nature of the opposition has
completely changed. While formerly
British statesmen objected to equal
suffrage on the ground that women
were too good to vote and that par
ticipation in politics would eliminate
their distinctively feminine charms,
today the objection, at least in Eng
land, is that woman is a lawless an
archist, a lover of disorder and a
fanatic to sex loyalty. AS tho only
manifestations of disorder are those
made by the small body of militants,
and that of the total moral Offend
ers and law-breakers of Great Britain
nearly 80 per cent are men, the ar
gument is taken as typical of the log
ical powers against which suffrage
workers have to fight. 1t is asked
by English women that if such reas-
oning rules where the right to grant
the vote exists, of what avail are
peaceful methods? If the criminality
of so many Englishmen does not
prompt the conclusion that all men
ere criminals, why should the law
lessness of the small army of mill
tants give rise to the generality that
all women are instructive anarchists?
Meanwhile the militants seem to
have realized that though sweet
reasonableness may be wasted effort
so far as English statesmen are con-
cerned, it is the better policy for the
majority of voters, for there has been
great falling off in acts of violence.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

Another country experiencing the
pangs of new birth is Russia. Like
China, the changes causing the most
trouble are those relating to the CEN
trail government, for, again like
China, Russia has long had a system
OF local government wholly at vari-
ance with the monarchical system at
headquarters. China began to awake
after her defeat by Japan, and Rus
sia began to awake after her defeat
by the same power. Since the war
with Japan and the subsequent revo-
lutionary troubles which grew out of
the corruption therein revealed Rus
sia has been undergoing a social and
industrial reorganization. Commun-
al ownership, for centuries the bar
rier to progress, is being rapidly
abolished in favor of the private own
ership of land, without which no ma
ton has ever yet progressed. Those
with no qualifications for farming
have been selling their communal in
terests and moving to the industrial
centers, and the demand of peasants
for land of their own has increased
at such rate the surveying staff
though greatly enlarged, has beer
able to satisfy only some 40 per cent
of the 3,SO0,000 applicants. In the
five years ending in 1911 abou
100000 persons emigrated to cen
fral Asia for the purpose of startine
farms. In addition to the $4,000,
900 realized by the sale of tnei
holdings in Russia they had the ad
vantage of enormous governmental
expenditures for roads, schools
churches and other conveniences
Agricultural progress is being helpe,
along throughout the empire by neN
methods of banking and other de
vices, all giving promise of great
increased production.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04
History in the Making

of so large a population, it is, when
the obstacles are considered, a won
derful advance.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-08-04

Medical and surgical progress in
all parts of the world is one of the
most gratifying features in the max
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13

the meeting the final arrangements
were made for a bazaar TO be held Tues
day evening at the church.
Tuesday afternoon Mesdames De
Bourcey and Clark entertained q num-
Der OF ladies when Mrs. Glover OF
Chicago YVES the guest of honor.
Funeral services for the late James
Metz, who died last week, were con-
Quoted here Monday Ct the home Of
Harry Hnl.
Mrs. Harry Hill and son, Mark Hill,
have arrived home from their western
Trip.
The mothers meeting at school last
Friday afternoon, given under tie aus
spices OF the local Woman's club, was
well attended and was q very pleas.
ant and profitable meeting. Several
addresses pTeceded a literary and mus
teal program. The members or the
club served refreshments 10 50 Yisl.
tors,
Mrs, john Kyle Is suffering with
ldeod poisoning.
The local baseball nine defeated
the Moths Oiympics in an exciting
game Sunday afternoon, the score be-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13
SILVIS

Mrs. Engle has as guests her daugh-
ter and sister OF Brainerd, MINI.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Hokinson re-
Gently had as guests their daughter,
Mrs. w. II. Downing Of Sterling.
Jessie Eckhardt continues very i'll
with rheumatism.
Willie Hunt, aged 9, fell and broke
his arm while playing at school last
week.
John Brown and family OF Osborne
spent Sunday here with relatives.
Morton Pencil and wife and An
drew Peterson and family have return
ed home from Sheffield, where they
spent several days with relatives and
friends and also attended the golden
wedding anniversary party at the
home OF Mr.. PetersoR's parents there.
Saturday. at her home in the eoun-
try, east Of Slvis. Irene Baker en-
tertained Il OF her little sehoolmates
at chiidren's party II honor OF her
ninth birthday anniversary. The hours
soon passed IN games, contests ana q
ramble IN the woods in search OF VIC
lets and other wild flowers. Later
e nice supper was served,
Mrs. Fred Bail eRts!tailed the zlem
bers of the Memorial Methodist ehuFeA
Ladies Aid society last Thursday, At
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13
FIRE SUR VEY MAY
Be MADE in CITY
Illinois Agents Interested in In
proving Insurance Risks
Working This Way.

Rock Island is one OF the cities of
the state which probably will be visit
ed by agents OF the Illinois Fire Pre-
vention society during the coming sum-
mer. These agents are insurance men
designated by companies operating in
the state 70 assist in a survey OF the
leading cities with q view of lessening
fire risk. Z. ]. Doyle, formerly state
fire marshal, is one OF those pushing
the work
The plan followed is for the agents
TO inspect business and industrial
quarters and note such features as
they consider likely to lead to seri-
GUS fires or 10 interfere with efficient
work in combating flames. Advice is
given property owners and after the
investigation is completed, a meeting
OF owners is called at which the re-
suits Of the work are presented. The
data secured is also later published
for distribution among those inter.
ested.
A number of cities in the southern
part of the state have been visited and
the force at work is gradually coming
northward.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13
MATHERSVILLE

Mrs. Vance Sherrard of Sherrard
visited her son Ernest and wife the
past week.
Arthur Roseen was in East Moline
on business the latter part of the
week.
John Kouski was Rock Island pas
senger Tuesday.
William Edgar was in the tri-cities
Tuesday.
Mrs. Joe Holgate and baby of Gil
christ were visitors here the first of
the week.
Clyde Lawson has opened his new
barber shop. The place is fitted with
new furniture and has a neat and at
tractive appearance.
Thomas Convil Of Gable was a
visitor here Tuesday.
Several from here attended the fld.
dlers' contest in Aledo Monday even
.hg.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Charles Reddick is sick.
Mrs. II. L. Pearce and sons Hans
and Maxwell were Aledo visitors
Tuesday.
James Barnes who lives west o.
town is quite i'll. A trained nr-s'
from Davenport has been attending
him.
Miss Alice Fall of Sherrard was &
visitor here over Sunday.
II. w. Meeker and Harry Quain
lance were Milan visitors the pas
week.
Roscoe Hooker and Milton johnson
were Aledo passengers Tuesday.
Dr.. c. NJ. Murrell made business
trip 70 Aledo Wednesday.
Mrs. George Coltman is visiting
relatives at Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Mrs. James Haddick was an Aledt
shopper Tuesday.
Louis Sword was a Rock Islam,
passenger Tuesday.
Willie Coltman left Wednesday 70
an extended visit at Osllaloosa, Iowa
Len Anderson and Walter Curt
was given the first degree by the Re
Men Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Joe Wild was a Rock Islam
shopper Tuesday.
Mrs. Charles Coltman and daughte
Verl and Mrs. George Bedford wer
Rock Island visitors the past weel
Guy Sample and James Murph
were business callers in Aledo Wee
neGday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Maynard az
the parents of baby girl, born Tue
day.
Several from here attended an Cd
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13
and Reading. club last Tuesday after,
noon
TAYLOR RIDGE

Frances Ramsay and Merriam Dun
lap, who are attending school ct the
villa, spent Saturday and Sunday with
home folks.
Mrs. Herman HofeT visited at Clyde
Schneider's home Saturday Afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charley John and son,
Walter, visited Sunday afternoon at
John Hofer's home.
Samuel Baringer, who has been en-
ployed IN the Alexander Lumber COM
pany Office In this village, moved with
his family 10 Shsrrard, where ne will
obtain employment with the Sherrard
Lumber company.
Misa Anna Hintersneister was "a
Rock Island caller TueEday.
Mira, Clyde Schneider called on Mrs.
Charles Crawford Thursday.
Wiibert Hun gersol IS 81 with ~
pho!d fever.
Miss Maria Mclaughlin has been
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13

employed as teacher for the Excelsior
school for the coming year. Miss Nc
Lalghlin has completed q very sue
cessful year In this district.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Kell were Rock
Island passengers Saturday.
hrs. Charley Crabs, who has been
visiting at the home of her parents,
Ar. and Mrs. James Bowes, returned
to her home in Reynolds Saturday.
The Misses Susie Doonan, Elizabeth
Kelly and Marina Mclaughlin gave
the fnal examinations at the school
west OF the village.
About So wedding invitations have
been issued fer the marriage OF Miss
Clara Ehrhardt Of Davenport to Joseph
BrIssel OF this village. The event
Will take place Tuesday, May 20, at
the nome OF Mr. and Mrs. Clyce
Schneider.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13

ing to 10. A new grandstand has
been erected in place of the one re-
Gently blown down.
Miss Blanche Bromley Of Rock Is
land visited relatives here last Sun
day.
Mothers day was obse1 rec with ap-
pTcpriate services az both churches
here Sunday.
Last Tuesday Mrs. Richard Nicer
entertained the Crescent Embroidery
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13

o. E. Child to Fred Sundeen, east
20 feet 10. 20 all lot IS, block 1870 East
Moline $4,000.
Elizabeth N. Smith ct TX to Ludwig
]. Goldsmith, lots 2 aud IL. block Z
Milan. 81.
Nellie l. Marshall to Lewis a. Grove.
north AS feet lot 3, block 4 Back Hawk
add, Rock Island 81