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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27
THE DECLINE OF ECONOMY.

The statement was made on the
floor of congress a few days ago that
if pending bills were passed as ex-
pected, the expenses of the govern
ment would greatly exceed any pre-
vious figures.
Not only is Uncle Sam feeling the
burden of a constantly heavier tax
bill, but there is scarcely a city or
state where there is not a surprising
increase. The outlay has grown
much faster than either population
or valuation.
Modern science of course has
caused many of these new outlays.
No school board is satisfied now with
the unframed teacher. She must
usually have done normal or college
work. The public must pay for her
schooling. The people will no longer
buy flour and starch instead of SUI
gar, nor milk anointed with stable
refuse. 1t costs good money to have
pure food laws nforced.
Other expenditures are often
caused by local vanity. The town
that formerly built wooden houses
is usually justified today in erecting
them of brick. The safety of child
life is not a good direction for
cheese-paring. But many a town
that once liked eood old-fashioned
red brick is dissatisfied today unless
it has the most expensive fancy
brick. Tomorrow only marble will
properly glorify the community
One of the most useless extrava-
gances is transporting costly build
ing materials long distances. In
many edifices the home product is
not good enough. Costly building
stones are imported across the seas.
Every town or city or state that
has a public building to erect will do
well whenever possible to select con-
struction material that comes from
near home. This less costly material
shows better taste in its lack of os-
tentation, and is useful display of
home resources.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27
Power of the Dead Hand.


The difference OF opinion in the
senate committee on the policy of
chartering the Rockefeller Founda-
ton with an endowment of $780,
100000 arises from fear that con-
troll of vast aggregations of wealth
by perpetual corporations might
prove a danger 20 the state. This
fear prompted the passage of the
statutes of mortmain in England in
the middle ages. The church was
gathering into its possession great
landed estates until it's wealth en-
abled it to challenge the power of
the crown. Being a perpetual COR
poration, or an aggregation of such
corporations, it never let go of prop
erty it had once secured. This con-
dition was one of the moving causse
of the dissolution Of the monasteries
in the time of Henry VIII.
In more recent times the power of
INC uSdu MANU-, NulCu 10 Tue EHS-
lish meaning of m6rtmain, has been
seen in numerous charitable be-
quests, which have long outlived
their purpose. Rich London alder
men of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries bequeathed to a certain
parish the income of a certain tract
of land to be expended in a specified
manner forever. For example, such
a bequest was made to an old parish
in the heart of London to be eXpend-
ed in decorating the church. If the
entire sum was not thus expended
the beQuest was to be forfeited The
income Of that land has increased so
enormously that the rector and
church wardens have to tax their
brains to find ways of spending the
money in compliance with the terms
of the beQuest, lest they lose it all
Another old Londoner left the in
come of a small tract to be spent in
feeding the birds which frequented
a certain churchyard 1t was only
enough for the purpose at the time
the bequest was made, but has
grown to such proportions that it
would keep millions of birds in lux
ury.
These extreme examples are cited
only to show the danger of creating
an endowment which may outliye its
( purpose, good as that purpose may
have been originally. Not only may
the time come when such endow-
ments should be diverted from their
first uses. but the institutions hold.
ing them may attain such power
through their wealth as to become a
menace to the state or at least a
positive evil. Some provision is nee
essary to guard against this posi-
bility by breaking the hold of the
dead hand" on posterity after the
lapse of certain time or when Ger.
tain contingencies arise.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27
The Home CirdIe
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
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After the Bunny-HuggerE.


The national organization Iof the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion has taken up a campaign Against
the bunny-huggers and turk@ y-trot-
ters, and hopes to see these dances
relegated to the more or less tainted
dance halls from whence they came.
Ii certainly does look a bit queer
that the girl who will humbly apollo
gize if her elbow brushes against
mans coat, will take the strangle
hold of some of these new freak
dances.
No one wants young people to re-
turn to the prudishness of genera
tion ago when piano legs had to wear
pants and one was afraid to look
on the sculptural representation Of a
human beauty. But the modern alb
sence of such squeamishness does
not prove that all womanly sense of
personal reserve is obsolete.
Women who attempt the easy man
ners of the dance halls that fringe
on the underworld may feel that
their freedom of manner creates a
certain sparkle. But it is the effer-
vescent foam on the surface, through
which the real substance of beauty
is escaping.
The girls who are really the most
attractive are not the ones who run
after the men the most arduously.
They are not those who besiege them
at the office with telephone calls,
who sit on shady piazzas until name
less hours of the night, and who
allow all sorts OF familiarities in
public and private.
There has to be a certain elusive
ness about the eternal feminine to
reach the higher winsomeness. A
certain touch-me-not spirit whets
masculine ardor and stimulates the
desire for possession.
And after all, the vogue of these
new dances has been much less than
one would think to read the newspa-
pers. In nineteen bathrooms out of
twenty the women still act like home
folks, no matter what high jinks
may be doing among the smart set.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27

superstitions. still there are thou
sands of the more ignorant classes
who still cling with fondness to
them. They mourn the nakedness OF
their devil, trimmed as he is by the
light of science, and his lost power
to create witches.
Just to the extent that science has
progressed, have theological creeds
been compelled to recede from one
superstitious position to another.
May the flash light of reason and
common sense continue to blaze till
all the dark clouds of superstition
be dissolved and freedom be en-
throned.-Hugh ]. Johnson, Benton,
Pa.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27

A special report just issued by the
United States Bureau of Education
gives the story of certain expert
ments at Kansas City, Mo. These
classes were called 4 School for Dis
ccntented Children" 1t is a clever
way of expressing it. much better
than calling such pupils dull"
Isn't there a lot in a name, A
movement to clean up a certain town
was once wrecked when they pomp-
ously dubbed it as a Moral I'm.
provement Association
Similarly many an effort to help
children who have no taste for books
has been killed by clubbing it a class
for backward" children.
Many children have no natural
aptitude for books. But ideas may
come to their brain through the eyes
twice as fast as to the children who
can rattle the multiplication table
five times as rapidly. And the eyes
are the most valuable means of ac-
quiring ideas. The trouble simply is
that such children learn by means OF
other than the printed page.
Such children are not back
ward" Usually il is the teacher
who is the backward one, in not
learning the true road of approach
to their little minds
instruction with tools and at use
full trades is commonly the best way
of arousing the consciousness that is
not touched by books.
Brightness used to be measured by
the rapidity with which a child could
rattle off things he had learned by
heart. That is a monkey trick that
a parrot may emulate. 1t has little
relation to the constructive faculties
bringing success ir life.
Every school system should care
fully consider the needs of the little
ones of his type, whose success
means so much to family and com.
munity. In almost every case there
is means of approach, and nc
teacher or superintendent should be
content until it is found out.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27
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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27
MEXICAN BUSINESS PARALYZED.
Millions in Trade Tied Up by Upris-
ing.

New York, Feb. 24.-Exporters
and importers with Mexican connec-
tions awaited with anxiety today fur
ther advices of the situation in Mex
leo. Shipments and contracts aggre-
eating millions OF dollars are held
up pending the restoration of order
Much of this business is for foreign
account, chiefly French and German
1t is understood scores of American
and foreign corporations are prepar-
ing to lille claims against the Mexi-
can government aggregating many
millions.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27

lawyers technicalities and subtleness
masquerading as constitutional gov
eminent. The disappointment of the
American plutocracy is that nothing
in the way of a solution of social,
industrial and political problems of
the age can apparently be expected
from them.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27
Chickens Will Come Home to RoOst.
(By Dorothy Dix

NDS @~OANS A0A@A'(
Finley Shepard, the man Helen
Gould married, says that when he
started forth to seek his fortune in
life his father gave him this homely
counsel:
Remember, son, that chickens al
ways come home to roost."
: And Mr.. Shepard says that in
many crisis in his life he has re-
membered the old adage, and that it
has been stay and a prop, and a
red lantern warning, and a beacon
of hope, all combined, to him.
You who live on farm know just
how much wisdom is packed into this
old proverb. You know how, when
night begins to fall, the deserted
chicken yard commences to fill up,
and from tree and bush, and garden
and distant field, no matter how far
they have roamed during the day,
the chickens come struggling back
home to roost.
Chickens come home to roost. 1"
1t is a good motto for us all. 1t is
a good motto to give to every girl
and boy starting out in life. 1t
might not look as elegant as do the
Latin words engraved under an imi-
tation coat of arms. but it would
mean lot more, and be better
watchword in times of stress and
trouble.
You go to the hospital and see
some friend who lies tossing on his
couch of pain. He is a charming
young fellow, lovable, talented, with
every good thing the gods can give.
1t seems terribly unjust that such
one should die in the very flower
of his youth, but the doctors tell you
that they cannot save him.
But" you say, 80 many others
with that malady recovered" "Ah,"
replies the doctor, but the trouble
with him is that he has gone the
pace that kills. He has burnt up his
vitality in dissipation. He has got
nothing left with which to fight dis
ease"
And so the boy dies. His chickens
have come home to roost.
And they come home to roost for
the lad who has lived cleanly, whose
blood is pure, whose eyes are clear
and who can walk unscratched
through pestilence as if he bore a
charmed life.
You often hear people, especially
women, complain that they are lone
ly, and that they have no friends,
and that their children even do not
love them. 1t never seems to occur
to these women that they are re-
sponsible for their own forlornness,
which is nothing but their own
chickens coming home to roost.
The woman who has no friends is
the woman who has never kept her
sharp tongue from saying the thing
that she thought was witty, no mat
ter how badly it hurt another; she
is the woman who has ridden rough
shod over other peoplpes rights and
pleasures; she is the woman who has
been so selfish and so determined to
have the best for herself that she has
never sacrificed her own comfort for
anybody else.
But the woman who has been low
ing and tender and kind, who has
thought of other people before her.
self, who has been the first to go
with helping hand to every one in
distress about her, who has shrouded
the dead, and pinned on the wedding
wells, and cuddled the babies where
ever there was need of woman's
sympathy in joy or sorrow, never
complains that her old age is lonely
nor that people don't like to have
old women around them.
Her birthdays are smothered in re-
membranes. Her old friends cleave
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27
SPECIAL NOTICE.

All matter for the Tidings should
be directed to the paper, rather than
to any person connected Herewith.
When directed to a person it is apt
to be sent to the home address, thus
delaying its Insertion.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27

to her as David did to Jonathan.
Young people come to her with their
condolences. Her chickens come
home to roost, and they are called
love and tenderness and honor.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-27

In addition to its aeroplane fleet
the French army will be equipped
with a squadron of swift dirigible
balloons that viii carry machine
guns.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30

ercises. We desire large attendance
of our Christian friends on this occas-
ion from the upper Cumberland coun-
try. A number of friends from other
parts of Tennessee and Kentucky will
be with us. We are to have a num-
Der of speeches from different breth-
ren. Brethren A. B. Lipscomb, J. D.
Gum, Marion Harris, J. d. Walling,
NJ. L. Moore, J. W. Dunn, j. P. Watson
and others are expected BrotherLips-
comb will be with us on Lords day,
8, 1913. The exercises con-
tinue over Monday night, Nov. 10.
You are not only invited, but request
ed to be present on this occasion.
Bring the members of your family and
your friends with you. We shall ex-
tend the hospitality of our homes to
our friends and brethren.
If possible, notify me of your COM
ing and when to meet you. shall
a message from you.
Most fraternally,
JOHN e. DUNN.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30
Carlen.Ray Wedding

An event of much interest Tuesday
was the marriage at the home OF the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. B.
Ray of Monterey, uniting Miss Ethel
Ray and Mr.. Herbert Carlen of Cooke
Vile. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. ]. w. Pearson Of Nashville. A
musical program was rendered by MIS-
Elise Epperson Howard OF. Algood a,
the piano and Miss Marguerite Ray,
who sang. The ribbon-bearers were
little Christine and w. T. Ray, sister
and brother of the bride, and Virginia
r. Carlen and Eugene Collier, niece
and nephew of the groom. These wer.
followed by the maids and groomsmen
alternating in couples, who were Miss
es Amelia Nell Ray, Mary Jared OF
Cookeville, and Mary E. Jackson OF
Maryville; Messrs. Benton Carlen and
Bob Lee Maddux of Cookeville, and
Shirley A. Christian. Miss Sallie
Maude Ray, the brides sister, was
maid of honor. Little Miss Robbie
Ray acted as train-bearer. Mr.. Car
lens brother, Mr. Algood Carlen, Was
best man. Miss Ray, during her brief
young ladyhood, has been recognized
as one of the most popular girls, not
only in her home town, but in the sur
locality. The ceremony was
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30
DEDICATION

The new Presbyterian church, U. S.
A., at Double Springs will be dedicated
next Sunday. There will be preaching
services in the morning by Rev, w. A.
Provine, Of Nashville, and in the after
noon by Rev. j. H. Miller, of Nashville
Everybody is cordially invited to at
tend. A basket dinner will be served
upon the grounds.
This Is one Of the prettiest church
buildings in the county. 1t has been
erected and furnished at a cost OF
about $1,500.00, every dollar of which
has been paid and the church is COM
plete in every detail.
Rev. B. V. Riddle, pastor of the
Cookev'lle Presbyterian church,is also
pastor Of the Double Springs church.
Although Double Springs has been a
railroad town for twenty years, this is
the first church to be built at that
place.
The lot upon which the church is To-
Gated was donated by Esq. w. T. Book
man, who was also liberal oentribut-
or to the erection fund This church
was built largely through the efforts
of Rev. w. w. Baxter Of this city.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30
Mckibbon-ShirIey NuptiaIs

Miss Edna Shirley of this city and
Mr. R. P. McKibbon of Marshall coun-
ty were married Monday at the home
Of the brides mother, Mrs. Emma
Shirley. On account of the recent
death of the brides father the wedding
was a quiet affair. Rev. WIN. McClear-
en- performed the ceremony, after
which the bride and groom left for
their home near Lewisburg. Miss
Shirley was popular and accomplish
ed young lady. Mr.. McKibbon was
former student at Dixie College, and
is a man of character and means.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30
LAYING THE. CORNER STONE
of Dixie School of the Bible
CookevilIe, November 10, 1918

CookevIIie, November 10, 1918
The following letter has been sent to
our Office by John E.Dunn, president OF
the Dixie School of the Bible, with the
request that we publish it and give it
as wide reading as is possible.
The letter is as follows:
Dear Brother and Friend:
The first session os Dixie School OF
the Bible opened very encouragingly
September 1st. 1t uas better than
any of us had expected. In this school
Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky and Ten
nessee are represented. We have sew
eral young preachers. Some of them
go out over the country to preach Sat
urday nights, Sundays and Sunday
nights. Including myself, five of us
were out preaching last Lords day
Some Of them are planning to spend
next summers vacation evangelizing
in the upper Cumberland country of
Tennessee and Kentucky Others will
work in other fields.
We have two Bible classes-one OF
10 students, another of IL students
All are delighted with their work
They are also taking vocal music and
sight-singing. We feel encouraged
The outlook is full of hope.
Our building, to be known as the
Home of the School of the Bible," is
now going up. The foundation is near
ly completed. The brick work Is 60
ing forward nicely. When this build
ing is completed and furnished, we can
do ideal Bible work, and we can make
it much cheaper for those of limited
means. We can accommodate more
students than we are now able to ac-
c0mmodate. Some CT these young
preachers are now paying their ex-
penses by working between study per-
iods. We desire to continue in the
future to teach the Bible free of cost
to everybody. We pray God to open
the hearts of our friends so that they
will make 1t possible for us also to give
free tuition in literary studies of Dixie
College to all who are preparin to con-
secrate their lives to the service ofGod
On November 10, 1913, at 2 p. m,
the corner stone of the building known
as the Home of the School of the Bi-
BILE" will be laid with appropriate ex-
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30

followed by an informal reception, af-
ter which Mr. and Mrs. Carlen left on
the 2:40 train for an extensive nridaI
trip. The wedding register was kept
by Misses Iona Speck and Anna Cope
land.-The Democrat.
Mr.. Herbert Carlen is a son of Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Carlen of Cookeville,
and one of our most popular young
men. He holds responsible position
with the Maxwell Bros Grocery Co.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30
49, - X

Mt. View Lodge, No. 179, LOOP.
met at the usual hour, pm, Oct.25th,
1913, w. A. Hensley, N.G., presiding,
w'-h a good attendance. Quite lot OF
routine business was disposed of.
Bros. Staley and Garrison were report
ed to be about as last week-slowly
improving.
Bro. J. NJ Judd. representative TO
the Grand Lodge has returned and
made very interesting report 1t Is
a pity that all of the brothers we're not
present.
We are able to CLEAN the following
facts and lgures from grand officers
reports; The grand secretary reports
the state membership, 1854 Paid
for relief of brothers during the past
year, $40, ,462.u5 paid for the relief Of
widowed families during the past year.
2,1S4.45; paid for the education of or
phans during the past year, $1,4SS.74;
paid for the burying of the dead, $lI,-
269.40; paid for special relief, $4,853.&e
Total paid for relief, $60,258.44.
Cash receipts for the Home have
been as follows: From per capita tax,
$50, ,504.S5;. from special improvement
tax, $72S.5O from donation to endow-
ment fund, $9676, making total Of
s31, ,330.11.
The next regular convention of the
Putnam County Odd Fellows Associa-
ton will be held on Saturday night,
Nov. 29th, at Monterey. The program
for this meeting will appear in mex,
weeks issue.
The grand lodge, grand encampment
and Rebekah assembly of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows wene
held last week in Knoxville. Those
who attended from this county were
Z. H. Boyd, J. H. Hodge, J. M. Judd, J.
H. Brown, Mrs. J. M. Haynes and Mrs..
G. W. Stephens of Cookeville; r. l..
Richardson of Baxter; Byron Bartlets
of Buffalo Valley; J. F. Hampton -
Algocd, and DIR. Bagwell Of Monterey.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30

A freight wreck occurred on the T.,
C. baout two miles west of town Sun
day morning, three cars being derail-
ed and the track torn up for some dis
tance Traffic was delayed until late
at night
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30

The weather this week would do
very well for January, and being the
first cool spell we have had, pinches
like fun.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30

Mr.. Thomas L. Draper and Miss Ln-
cile Green were married at Thomas-
vile, Ca, Oct. %. Mr. Draper resided
here for many years, and is a brother
of Mrs. G. W. Stephens.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1913-10-30

Attorney c. P.Capshaw was In Nash
Vile last week on business.
Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1913-07-31
4 Melon Feast

Mr.. l.. 7. (Tump) Little assist
ed by Mr.. and Mrs. D. b. (Tobe)
Maddox, entertained party of
Jefferson young people at his
splendid home seven miles south
of town Tuesday night with a
very large size melon cutting.
The young people went in
three farm wagons and awOke
the echos and all the denizens of
the forest as WELL with their
songs and merriment both on
the outgoing and Homecoming
trips,
The watermelons, for which Mr..
Little and Mr.. Maddox are ia
nous, made a splendid sight as
they lay gathered for inspection.
There was a great number of
them and they averaged fifty
pounds in weight,
In the contest for eating the
most melon Boss Echols and
Abe Segal ran close race, Boss
finally winning after eating
steadily for one hour and ten
minutes and consuming sixty
pounds Of fruit. The winner
challenged DR.. Bob Moseley to a
contest at aEothertime. After an
evening Of singing and iollitica-
ton the party babe Mr.. Little
and Mr. and Mrs Maddox "a re-
luctant good night. Those in
the party were.
Mrs. j. NJ. beware, ST., the
Misses Annie Neidermeier, Cora
Wood, Eva Hussey, Dora Vines,
Emma Louis Terry, Matte Per
ry, Tommie Stallcup, Mamie
Durham, Marguerite Collins, Lii
lie Segal Josephine Meyer.
McsserS Marvin Echols, Ben
Echols, Victor Meyer, Vincent
Whelan, Bremen Whelan, Harry
Rosenthal, Ansel Rosenthal, jim
kistsnmacher, Chas. Neid d.
meier, Curtis beware, Louis
Stutz, Jace Smith, Henry Beck.
or Y