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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03
GAMBLING VS.. BUSINESS.

Under the above caption the
Grants Pass Observer rushes to the
defense of gambling in social way.
1t takes as it's text the arrest and
conviction of an alleged detective in
Grants Pass for inducing a couple
of youths to gamble and then having
them arrested.
No one who believes in right liv-
ing should support or uphold a man
in inducing a youth to violate any
law, whether or not he intended to
have him arrested. But the man
who induced the youths to gamble
was no more contributing to the de-
linquency of minor than is a man
who keeps a place where minors are
permitted and enc ouraged to gather
and play games of chance, whether
by shaking dice for cigars or soft
drinks, or playing poker for money.
The claim that a game is not in
teresting unless for a stake is an
admission that it is the stake and
not the game only that is the lure.
The Observer hides behind the
old, old theory that all business is
gambling, and that if gambling is to
be prohibited, then business must be
prohibited also.
This is the same plea, made in
behalf of petty social gambling, that
is made in behalf of the gambling
in Wall street which has wrecked
thousands of homes. There are
chances in business, and sometimes
long chances, but the business man
who does not seek to minimize
those chances is not a good business
man. He seeks to eliminate every
element of chance, even to the ex-
tent of forming pools and trusts. 1t
is not so with the gambler. The
higher the stake, the greater the
chance, the better he likes it.
1t is not the few cents lost or
gained which make the harm in
petty gambling, it is the fact that
the small stake soon pals on the
player and he must play for higher
and higher stakes until he gets to
be 4 slave to the habit. OF course
not every man who plays for small
stakes gets to plaV for ruinous ones,
but that is the tendency.
Gardner, the Grants Pass detect
i've, did despicable act if he in
duced the youth of that city to gam
BILE, but to induce youth to gamble
for the reward OF part of their
fine is no worse than to induce them
to gamble for the profit from the
sale of the goods they buy as stakes.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03
Hitting the Divorce Evil.

Globe Democrat: While not a
panacea for the evils of divorce, the
recommendation OF the judges that
marriage of divorced persons be for
hidden within one year from the
granting of the decree, is an excel
lent one. 1t strikes a direct blow at
the most immoral and demoralizing
phase OF divorce, the getting rid of
one partner for the purpose of TAX
ing another. Persons who seek di-
vorce because the marriage has be-
come unbearable, or for the sake of
their children, would feel it no hard
ship to wait year before marrying
again. 1t bears restrictively upon
those whose attitude towards mar
riage is injurious TO a healthy social
condition, and whose conduct is es-
sentially immoral.
The chief thing to consider about
such a statute is its effectiveness.
Illinois has been experimenting with
one for several years, not at all sat
isfactorily. Unfortunately, such a
prohibition cannot extend beyond
the state line. There is nothing to
prevent a man getting a divorce in
Belleville or Edwardsville, with the
full year prohibition of remarriage,
putting the decree in his pocket, TAX
ing a trolley car to st. Louis and
getting married in a couple of hours.
This sort of thing has been done by
thousands of Divorces in Illinois.
Recently a bombshell was thrown
by the decision of judge of a lower
court that such marriages were not
legal in Illinois, did not legitimatize
children and did not bestow property
or inheritance rights. A court at
Edwardsville has gone farther than
that recently, and summoned for con-
tempt of court a couple married out
of the state contrary to the court
decree.
Missouri should take a lesson from
the experience of Illinois, and spe-
officially provide in any such statute
that no marriage contrary to it per-
formed in any other state would be
recognized by the courts of this state
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03
THE SERPENT IN THE SILO.

Something new under the sun is
suggested and grave questions have
been opened for debate in conse-
quence of a recent discovery. In
packing chopped corn into a silo wa
ter soaks to the lotion of the silo
and becomes transformed into a
liquor not unlike beer and of marked
intoxicating properties. If desired,
a spigot may be attached at the base
of the silo and the liquqor with
drawn as from a barrel.
1t is only too evident this discov-
cry will have marked effect upon
the popularity of silos, especially in
Oregon, where they have not been
overly popular heretofore.
1t is suggested that live stock
have a fondness OF silage liquor, and
il this is true we are perhaps paw
ing the way for intemperance among
our horses and cows. Far better to
crush the silo once and for all than
to have the time come when we
shall be forced 10 spend valuable
time reading Ten Nights in Bar
Room" in the COW yard. What more
terrible and disgusting thing could
he imagined than to hear bunch OF
dissclute. drunken steers trying tc
sing Hail, Hail, the Gangs All
Here" out in the barnyard at
o'clock in the morning!
If there really is a serpent in the
silo it is time to find out. It ISM
for lot of silo builders to gumshoC
around over the country and induce
farmers to go to a lot of extra ex
pense upon false representations,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

American travellers present at the
coronation of a European king laugh
at its archaic ceremonial. Yet in our
own country there is a group OF
wooden Indians, into whose care is
committed that greatest function of
all, electing a president. They are
as obsolete a piece of antique furni-
ture as the coronation ''herald" in a
day of telegraphs and newspapers.
The Fathers decided that the
choice OF president was not to be
made at the rough house of cleo
tions, but in the secluded councils
of the wise men selected with great
care for this one act. Which school
room conception of pupular govern
ment was quickly put into the politi-
cal dump by a robust people, who
felt competent to DO their own elect
ing. Ever since the solemn farce
has been put on the boards for the
benefit of traditional sentiment. So
on November 5, legally speaking, the
American people did not elect a
president not even vote for one.
Thus the electoral college has be-
come vermiform appendix and, like
any useless organ, has possibilities
of danger. What might happen was
suggested in 1856, when snow
storm prevented the Wisconsin elect
ors from casting their votes on the
day named by the constitution. Also
controversies have arisen this fall as
to which party faction in case CT g
split should have the right to name
electors The electoral college is not
merely useless furniture, but a pos
sible fire hazard il a political pow
der magazine.
Election of a president by popular
vote, the simplest method ever pro-
posed, will perhaps never be adopt
ed, as it would take from the small
states some power given under the
electoral system. To the eXpedient
of election by congressional districts
it is objected that this encourages
the carving up of districts, in the
grotesque gerrylnanders altogether
too common now among political
trick artists.
One suggestion favored by some
good authorities is to give each state
the number of electoral votes it now
possesses, eliminating the electors
The electoral vote would be comput-
ed from the popular vote, giving the
minority in any state a part of the
electoral votes of that state, accord
ing to the proportion of the vote II
cast
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03

as conveying any legal rights what
ever, and that parties thus marrying
contrary to the decree would be liza
BILE. both for punishment for con-
tempt of court if they return to the
state, and to prosecution for illegal
cohabitation. This would be a body
blow at the most immoral and de-
praved feature of the divorce evil,
that which, in fact, most justifies the
use of the word "evil" in connection
with divorce at all. They could be
divorced and married again else
where, but at least Missouri's hands
would be clean.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03
Only Toadying to Great Britain.

Eugene Guard: About the most
marked instance O. toadying to a
monarchical foreign power in our
history develops with the refusal of
American federal authorities to per-
NIT Edward F. Myllus, the English
journalist convicted of libeling the
king, to enter this country. Secre-
tary of Commerce and Labor Nagle,
who is responsible for the decision,
has held that the offense OF Myllus
is one involving moral turpitude,
which is the rather "hifalutin" term
used for what must be proved in
such cases against the would-be inn
migrant.
The world knows that if Myllus is
guilty of moral turpitude" in re-
printing from a Paris paper a story
of previous marriage of the pres
ent king, then most members of the
prominent British clubs and many
American newspapers are guilty of
the same offense. The yarn has
been repeated for years. 1t may or
may not be true. A British court,
which has been severely criticised
for alleged unfair treatment of the
defendant, has said that it is false.
The fact remains, however, that Myl-
lus, the goat" of the occasion. is in
no sense a criminal. If he is, then
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03
A Word i'm Season.

If you would have your boys pure,
make comrades OF them and then
live as you would wish them to live.
There are few things more fruitful
than example. either good or bad.
What do you know of the associates
of your boys? With what sort of
companions is the most of their time
spent? Do you wish your boy to
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03
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, 1913-02-03
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

The Portland Telegram is leading
a strenuous fight against the estab-
lishment of the office of assistant
chief of police with a salary of $500
a month. 1t thinks it unnecessary
and an attempt to graft the city
treasury.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Success Only Through Toll.

Our young readers of this column
especially the young men-should
remember that success is found most
often in the path of toll. There is
no way to genuine success except
through toil-either by head or
hand. At the battle of Crecy in
1346, the Prince of Wales, finding
himself heavily pressed by the en-
emy, sent word to his father for
help. The father, watching the bat
tie from a windmill, and seeing his
son was not wounded and could gain
the day if he would, sent word:
mo, l will not come. Let the boy
win his spurs, for, if God wills,
desire this day to be his with all it's
honors," Young man, fight your
own battles all through and you will
have the victory. Oh, it is a battle
worth fighting. Two monarchs of
old fought a duel, Charles V and
Francis, and stakes were Kingdoms,
Milan and Burgundy. You fight
with sin and the stake is heaven or
hell
Do not get the fatal idea that you
are genius, and that, therefore,
there is no need OF close application.
1t is here that multitudes fail. The
curse of the age is the geniuses;
men with enormous self-conceit and
egotism, and nothing else. We had
rather be an OK than an eagle; plain
and plod, dim and useful, rather
than high flying ard good for moth
ing but to pick out the eyes of car
casses. Extraordinary capacity with
out work is extraordinary failure.
There is no hope for the person who
begins life resolved to live by his
wits, for the probability is that he
has not any. 1t was not safe for
Adam, even in his unfallen state, to
have nothing to 90, and therefore
God commanded him to be a farmer
and horticulturist. He was to dress
the garden and keep it, and had he
and his wife obeyed the divine in
junction and been at work, they
would not have been sauntering un-
der the trees and hankering after
the fruit that destroyed them and
their posterity; a proof positive for
all ages to come that those who do
not attend to their business are sure
to get into mischief.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03

1t looks as if the Balkan states
would be given a free hand by Eu-
rope in dealing with the unspeak-
able Turk. The Balkans declare that
the refusal of peace terms by Turkey
will end in the expulsion of the
Turks from Europe.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03

Cleveland has more telephones a
thousand of population than any of
the other large cities of the United
States.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03

Try Tidings job printing. The
quality is remembered long after the
price is forgotten.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03

New York is being urged to retire
and pension aged city employees.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03

Your body is your best friend
while you inhabit it, therefore take
the best possible care of it. Only
simpleton is ashamed of bestowing
care on it-of keeping teeth, hands,
feet, hair and skin in the best posi-
Bile condition 1t takes but little
while, when the days toll is over, to
sit down before mirror and bathe
in warm water, neck, face and
hands, drying them with a soft towel
and rubbing every part thoroughly,
including teeth and nails. A touch
of sweet cream rubbed on where
needed is very good. One feels so
refreshed and respectable after the
operation that the habit, when
formed is hard to give over when
circumstances DO not admit of it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03

The boys and girls look at the
older people and see what they do.
They watch the words of the father
and mother and the friends, and
take their cue quickly. Even the
little ones are ever watchful to see
just how closely father and mother
adhere to the truth.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03

Perhaps you have heard the leg
end of St. Valentine. but if you have
not, here it is in as small a nutshell
as such a saint could be well con-
densed st. Valentine lived long
ago. An emperor ruled him, and the
emperor, whose name was Claudius,
became very jealous of St. Valentine,
or FIR. Valentine, as he was then
called. And one day Claudius cut
| Valentines head off and banished
his remains, so that nobody should
know that he had been beheaded.
Now why did Claudius 90 this?"
you ask. Well, he did this because
FIR. Valentine was such a great fa-
vorite with the young people that
Claudius was not in their affection
at all.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-02-03

Valentines are provided for ALL
Like the rain, they may descend
upon the just and upon the unjust
The 18th of February is day sa-
cred to ST. Valentine. 1t was a very
odd notion, alluded to by Shake
speare, that on this day birds begin
to couple; hence perhaps arose the
custom of sending on this date let
ters containing confessions of love
and affection
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-06-06
STATE NEWS.

Miss Ann Sargent, aged 6S years, a
Bethel, died Friday at White River
Junction, where she had been whiting
for month past. She had been in fail
ing health for several months but was
only considered seriously ill two or three
days before her death, when heart dis
ease, to which she was subject, became
complicated by pleurisv. She was a
lifelong resident of Bethel and is sur
vived by sister living there, Mrs. Jose
phine Wilson.
Shortly after 10 o'clock Sunday,
Charles. 13-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Ledwith Of Wells River, acct
dentally fell into the Connecticut river
from pile of logs just in the ear of his
home. He was quickly carried away in
the swift current and his body had not
been recovered. lie was playing on the
logs with handspike in his hand and
shortly afterwards Nellie Dalton, a
neighbor living next door, saw him in
the water and saw him rise to the sur
face twice. She and her mother ran
and told the boys parents and spread the
alarm generally, but the would-be
rescuers on reaching the waters edge
could see no trace of the boy. The river
men i'll charge of the logs Immediately
commenced dragging for the body, as
sisted by many volunteers and the search
has continued at various points down the
river but without success.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-06-06
WEYRRIDGE.

Mr.. Barker, a student at Mddlebury
college, preached at the morning service
at the local church last Sunday, the
evening service was conducted by Mrs.
q. II. Sturtevant.
Memorial day was observed here in a
fitting manner last Friday afternoon. An
unusually large audience gathered in the
NJ. f church at the appointed time.
Songs and recitations We're given in a
very creditable manner by the scholars
of the different schools, followed by the
stirring and patriotic address by Prof.
Mcfarland. A procession then formed
and marched to the New Haven West
cemetery and deoked the graves of the
dead heroes with flowers.
w. T. Sturtevant and H. A. Clark
were business visitors in Middlebury last
Monday.
The c. B. S. (Class Bible Study of
the NJ. E. church realized nice little
sum from the refreshments served by
them from to 7 p. m. Memorial day.
q. H. Sturtevant, who is doing Monu-
mental work in several towns in Yer
mont and New York, spent Memorial
day here with his family, returning to
his work on the train that night.
Pre-memorial exercises were held at
the village school last Thursday after
noon. all the scholars doing themselves
great credit under the competent direc.
ton of the teacher, Miss Stella Turner
Some Of the parents attended aud felt
well repaid for going.
The War Songs Drama given at the
town hall last Friday night was a
decided success in every way. the large
audience showing keen appreciation of
every number on the program. 1t would
be impossible to discriminate when al
took their several parts SO remarkably
well.
w. c. Sturtevant, who has been con
fined to the house since last January,
does not improve as rapidly as his many
friends wish that he might He was the
recipient last week of a shower of 6S
post cards.
Several Masons from here attended the
regular meeting of Union lodge, No. 2
F. & A. NJ, held at Middlebury last
Tuesday evening.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-06-06
COUNTY NEWS.
NEW HAVEN.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Hamilton and
Eugene Tucker and wife of Lincoln,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. Ham
iiton on Town Hill last Sunday. Mr..
Tucker came in his new five-seater car.
p. G. Elmer of Town Hill goes Bristol
one better. He has COW which gave
for the month of May 1926 pounds of
milk.
The passing away of another elderly
citizen, formerly of this town. was re-
Gently noticed in a southern alabama
paper, that of Mrs. Mary (Griswold) Bar
ton, widow of the late George w. Bar
tan, long time residents of this place.
Barton farm on Town Hill, but has been
rented during their stay in the south
which has been many years. They re-
sided in Tallapoosa, Ala. The deceased
was seventy years of age and leaves one
daughter and two sons. Mr.. and Mrs.
Barton were members of the Congrega-
tional church for forty years, never hav-
ing removed their connection from here,
Memorial day was fine day and good
numbers were out. The program given
was well carried out, Music from
the chorus and male quartette of the
beeu. Int hOlOS ny MIS-. \. ". OOCklln Ol
Rutland were rendered faultlessly. She
has voice of great magnitude, as was
shown IN her rendition of the "Star
Spargled Banner" yet sweet and per-
fectly controlled. Her song 1.-The Beau
tiful Isle of Somewhere" was simply
beautiful. The reading of 1.-The Old
Sergeant" by Miss Wanetta Gill was
highly commended. Her enuncia.
ton was perfect and her manner very
pleasing. The address by the orator of
the day, Hon. f. G.. Fleetwood of Nor
risville, was one of the finest for many
years. 1t was just simply grand and
most eloquent. All we can say is come
again some time, The exercises CLOSED
with Kellers American hymn.
George w. Ward and George E. Film
are the petit jurors from this town t
serve this present term of court.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-06-06
Most Children Have Worms

Many mothers think their Children are
suffering from indigestion, headache,
nervousness, weakness, costiveness when
they are victims of that most common of
all chidrens ailments-worms. Peevish,
ill-tempered, fretful children, who toss
and grind their teeth, with bad breath
and colicky pains, have all the symptoms
of having worms, and should be given
Kickapoo Worm Killer, pleasant candy
lozenge. which expels worms, regulates
the bowels, tones up the system, and
makes children well and happy. Kicka
poo Worm Killer is guaranteed. All
druggists, or by mail. Price 25c. Kick
apoo Indian Medicine Co., Philadelphia
and St. Louis. commented by John
L. Skaters Park Drug Store. adv.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-06-06
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This is time of great events and you
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first time in sixteen years, will have the
Presidency and they will also control
both branches of Congress. The polit-
cal news is sure to be of the most alb
sorbing interest
There is great war in the Old World,
and you may read of the extinction of
the vast Turkish Empire in Europe, Just
as few years ago you read how Spain
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The World long since established "A
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-06-06
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