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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17

How fortunate for the Bull Moose
leaders that they were driven" into
the old discarded way of selecting
candidates, that they might name the
man who offered $4,000 for the
honort
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17
Not a Bit of Foolery.

You can fool all of the people some of
the time and some of the people all OF
the time, but you can not fool the Pro-
gressives of Maine in this year of grace.
Lewiston Journal.
Not with Dingley on the job to
interpret" things for them, =
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17
A GUESSING Contest.

Time and time again have voters been
delivered to false gods by a plausible
political hierarchy. This year standing
for temperance and Prohibition in state.
next year they betray the cause.-Lew
iston Journal.
he meant
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17

Port Arthur. at the head of Lake SUI
perior. is about to build the greatest
freight carrier on the great lakes, with
grain capacity of $4,000 bushels. The
boat viii be 625 feet long and she will
operate between Port Arthur and Colllng.
wood. Ontario.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
coMMANpERY,

X. T. Stated conclave at Masonic lem
Mo. Friday. july is. s p. NJ All soiourn-
ing fraters are cordially invited to attend,
whether with regalia or not:
CHARLES X. GETCHELL. IL. =.
TUOS II. BODICE. Recorder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17

Maine Gossip
To Swallow Building Under Our

To Swallow Building Under Gu,
| Thou, too. hast travel'd. little futterinl
Hast seen the world, and now thy wear,
wing
But much, my little bird, coud'st thol
but tell.
| Id give to know why here thou lk'st ST
To build thy nest.
For thou hast passd fair places in til,
A world lay all beneath thee where t,
light:
And. strange thy taste
of all the varied scenes that met thine
OF ali the spots fer building meath tn,
To choose this waste.
Did fortune try thee? Was thy little
purse
Perchance run low. and thou. afraid OF
Felt here secure?
All. no! thou need'st not gold. thou happy
one
Thou know,st it not, of all Gods crea-
lures, man
Alone Is poor.
thought
Caught under German caves. and hithcr
brought,
Marring thine eye
For the worlds love loneliness. till thou
art grown
A sober thing that dost but NOPE and
Not knowing why?
NAY. IL thy mind be sound, I need not
Since here see the working at thy
task
With wing and bcak,
I..s.I 1NtI, tB,t hnl1
contain.
AT which thou work'st brave bird. with
might and main,
Nor more needs seek
In truth. l rather take it thou hast got
BY instinct wise much sense about thy
And hast small care
Whether an Eden or desert be
Thy home, SO thou remainst alive, ana
To skim the air.
God speed thee. pretty bird; may thy
small nest
With little ones all in good time be blest.
| love thee much.
For well thou managest that life of thine,
While I. oh. ask not what l DO win
Would I were such,
Jane Welsh Carlyle.
We find in the Lewiston publication.
that has so ardently followed Roose-
welt into phonetic spelling and other
things. the story of horse which set
its teeth in mans waistband ana
thru him Is feet What shrud
animal it must have been.
"One of the most remarkable feats
of dam building in the State of Maine
is lust nearing completion on farm
in the town of Phillips" says the
Franklin Journal. 1T is not the
of the dam, neither is II
any unusually difficult engineering
problem which had to be solved that
makes the construction so remarkable
1t is nevertheless, an unusual work
and one that probably in some par
tieulars has never been equaled III
this State. II is entirely the work
of one man and man. too. in his
goth year. He has built a solid and
dam, unaided and alone.
He has not had the advantage even
of horse to move the large amount
of earth which the construction re-
quired And further, all Of the dirt
that has gone into the dam has been
carried out on the structure pail
full at time. Up on the farm of Free
Ross in Phillips there is a large anc
flowing spring. 1t is stu
ated in gully in the side hill and one
day while looking over that locality,
George Thompson, the father law
Of Mr.. Ross and who resides with his
daughter and her husband. was i'm
pressed with the idea that by build
ing dam across the gully the water
which has been going to waste fer
untold years could be made into
pond and that such pool of water
1t that point would be great con-
senience."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17

N. E. o. p, kENNE1Ec LODGE, NO.
25l, meets in G. A. r. hall the first and
third Tuesday evenings Of each month ct
7.3O o'clock.
WALLACE d. SLIPP. Warden.
EMMA F. HOWE, Rec. Sec.
=, L. NICHOLAS. Fin. SEQ
tu-th-sA1
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70 REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
JOHN G. HOWES, N. @.
%. r. WESTON, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17

JEpHThA ENcAMPMENT, NO. ..
Meetings at 8 O'Clock every second ane
fourth Tuesday. xov
c. e. STEWART. Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. D. p. NJ.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday ~
8 O'Clock. go
RAY M. BURNS, Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-17

We find in the Lewiston publication
that has so ardently followed Roose-
Welt into phonetic spelling and othei
things. the story of horse which sci
its teeth in mans waistband anc
thru him Is feet. What a shruo
animal it must have been.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07
CUMULATIVE ADVERTISING.

Send me a copy of your paper. /
have heard much of Ashland and
think of coming there to 90 into
business. l want your paper to see
how business in my line is represent
ed"
Thus wrote gentleman from Red
lands, Cal, the other day. We sent
him the paper, but his letter aroused
thoughts like these in our mind:
Why does he want to know how his
line is represented here? Is it be-
cause he wants to see if there is
room here for him? When he looks
over the Tidings and finds that no.
body in his line is advertising will
he conclude that there is big open
ing here for him, or will his expert
ence lead him to the conclusion that
there must be those already in that
line in a town the size of Ashland,
but they are all dead ones, without
enterprise enough to have their busi-
ness represented in the columns of
the leading paper of their town?
And if he does conclude the latter
will he be led to come here on the
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

Hundreds of towns in the United
States are today groaning under a
special improvement tax created by
oyer-paving. In thousands of cases
it has worked the practical confisca-
ton of abutting property. While the
work was in progress business was
stimulated through the large en-
ployment of men in the work. Every
thing had an air of prosperity. New
retail establishments were induced to
open. Everybody was employed and
all merchants were busy. The real
estate boomer thrived and ate cream
and honey, and it looked like the
village, by the magic charm of bor-
rowing two dollars that it might
keep one, would be quickly trans
formed into a great city. Short
sighted people took the swelling, oc-
casioned by over-borrowing, for solid
growth, and when the work was COM
pleted and the laborers discharged
found themselves overloaded with
speculative investments and the pay
day was at hand. Now the commun-
tiles are impoverished because the
bill for interest and installment
charges literally drain them so there
is no surplus cash left in them for
other needed improvements and de-
velopment.
This is intended to be no argu-
ment against paving; it is but the
chronicle of the sure effect of over
paving. 1t is admitted that paving
is a valuable improvement. When
put in the right place, at the right
price, it is worth more than it costs.
A fine house is better to live in than
shack; everybody should occupy as
good house as his circumstances will
admit; but prudence warns those SO
disposed against borrowing to build
great house when their circum-
stances will permit of but a modest
one.
Had the paving operations been
extended over long period laborers
would have been continuously en-
ployed in the work, there would have
been no over-stimulation to retail
trade, there would have been no in
centive to oyer-building, and the in
terest and installment payments
would not have fallen on all the COM
munity all at once.
While paving is a necessary and
useful improvement, it is an abso-
lutely productive investment and
should be proceeded with cautiously
1t ADDS VALUE without CREATING
NEW WEALTH and should be ap-
preached with careful consideration
for the ability of the community to
liquidate the debt contracted for
without material injury. -,
ITO be continued.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07
HALF OUR POPULATION LIVING
IN "DRY" TERRITORY.

1t is generally thought that Ger
many drinks more beer than any
other nation in the world. This is a
mistake. Germany comes second.
The United States consumes 1851
100000 gallons of beer each year,
which is hundred million gallons
more than Germany's consumption.
Russia leads the world in its use of
distilled liquors, and the United
States comes second, with it's con-
sumption of 19G,9GG,000 gallons.
Although the United States is first
as beer-drinking nation and second
as a consumer of distilled spirits
among the nations of the world, the
liquor dealers of America are having
a desperate fight for the life of their
traffic.
The saloon has been expelled from
one-half of the population and from
two-thirds of the geographical area
of the country. In 1868 there were
100000 people living in territory
where the drink traffic has been out
lawed; in 1900 the number had in
creased to 1S,000,0O0; in 1908, or
only eight years after, the number
had doubled to 36,000,000, and to-
day there are 46,O29,75O persons,
or a fraction over one-half of the
population of the country, living in
no-license territory. In the last five
years the no-license population has
increased little over 10,000,O00,
which is more than 10 per cent of
the total population of the nation
and 80 per cent increase in the num-
ber living in "dry" districts. Since
1868 the population of the country
has doubled, while the number of
inhabitants of dry" territory has
increased over thirteenfold
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07
WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR CUR
RENCY SYSTEM?

A man dislikes a leaky house, or
coat that does not keep him warm.
An enterprising man devotes his in
genuity and power to putting his
house and clothes in good order, and
to keeping them so. Why should we
not expect nation as big and rich as
the United States to do the same
thing with its banking and currency
system? Our system has ugly holes
in it which cause suffering and dis
grace. Perhaps the chief craftsman
of the nation is even now coming
with his tools to mend our credit and
monetary system. Certainly we
ought to point out to him and his
able aids in congress what we wish
repaired.
Obviously, we have suffered too
long from two defects: Cd the rigid
ity and inelasticity of our note issues.
and CD the mischievous inelasticity
of our credit system, on which the
borrowing business public depend.
We should not be satisfied with an
old hat stuck in the hole; we need
a courageous, constructive measure.
which will stand forth as the most
important enactment since the Civil
War.
Banking reform is tied up with
currency reform, because banks in
this country provide a currency in
the form of checks drawn on depos-
its, and because the question of the
organization of credit is even more
important than the issue of bank
notes. The unnecessary expense of
obtaining credit under bad banking
system is borne by the borrower;
the impossibility of getting loans in
time of stringency, or panic, shuts
up factory and shop and falls most
severely upon the .wage-earner who
loses his employment. The defects
in our banking and currency system
are obvious.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

theory that such competitors are easy
to lick?
And so it may come about that
Ashland will have another merchant
in a line already crowded, just be-
cause those already here did not pro-
tect their field by having an adver-
tisement in the Tidings as notice that
they were here and alive? Even
though a merchant does not believe
in the saving grace of advertising in
getting business, it is worth the
money in keeping the other fellow
out, so the field will not become over
crowded
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

The Tidings has about three thou
sand dollars in little bills on its
books, and no money. Whoever
reads this and owes us a little bill,
do not neglect to pay on the ground
that the amount Is so small It does
not amount to anything. Yours and
all the other fellows little bills
amount to three thousand dollars.
That amounts to whole lot to a
little business like this. II is more
than the business can carry. There
fore we ask those indebted to us,
even thought the bill be small, to call
and settle soon after you read this,
for II is a distress signal.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07
WHATS The MATTER WITH ROCUERIVER VALLEY?

NOTE-Under this caption the
Tidings proposes to publish a series
Of editorials, discussing the possibili-
ties, the advantages and hindrances
to the proper development of this
valley.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07
SANDBAGGING.

If the Tidings should say that the
members of local organizations were
being used by transient persons
merely as sandbags to pummel the
local merchants out of money, all of
them would feel more or less hurt.
Therefore, we are not going to do
so.
The members of these societies are
engaged in laudable undertakings.
The community cannot get along
without them and they should be
well supported. They are composed
of pubIic-spirited, self-sacrificing cit
iZens, whose aim is but to do the
community good. And their efforts
are accompanied by endless toll and
worry in the interest of society.
However, the methods used to raise
funds are exceedingly wasteful and
should not, and will not, be long con-
tinued when these societies are made
familiar with the true facts of waste
We refer to the practice of adopting
the scheme of transient persons for
raising funds for public or charitable
uses, because those persons always
present plan whereby large part
of the money SO obtained is taken by
themselves for the Services they
render" in presenting and executing
the plan of acquisition. In fact, we
have known cases where out of every
dollar SO obtained the local society
got but ten cents while the transient
left town with ninety cents. The
ten cents representing the solid ben
eft to the locality through the or
ganization and the ninety cents rep
resenting the waste in the method of
obtaining It.
The organizations are not alto
gether to be blamed. ParsimonS
upon the part of business men il
contributing directly to worthy caus
es is chargeable mostly for the abuse
There should be a committee o.
the Commercial Club whose duty Il
should be to look into all sucf
schemes, for the protection of boil
the local societies and the merchants
Then the societies could present th'
matter to such committee for it's en-
dorsement or rejection before it wa
presented to the merchant, and th'
merchants would understand that un
less the matter had been endorsed b!
the committee he would be under M
obligations to subscribe to It,
II the writer was a member o
such committee and an advertising
plan like the one just worked by ;
transient saleslady of cookbook
through the local Woman's Relic
Corps was presented for his approx
al, he would give the ladies this en-
dorsement:
ITO the Merchants of Ashland;
THE advertising proposed in thii
scheme is worthless. For every dol
lar you invest in it the ladies ge
ten cents and a foreign concern gets
ninety cents. The cookbook can be
produced in Ashland for less money
than will be taken out of town by
this agent
However, the Woman's Relief
Corps is worthy of your hearty sup
port.
"You will take this as an order
upon you to pay the ladies of the
local corps three dollars, and take
no advertising, instead of paying the
travelling lady five dollars with the
advertisement"
BY this method we would save the
merchant two dollars while getting
the ladies two-fifty more than the
agent was willing to give them.
A great many towns have followed
the plan suggested above to cope with
this abuse and It is working to the
satisfaction of all, except the timer.
ant CRATER.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

La Grands Cleaned Up; Red Lights
Extinguished.
La Grande Cleans Up; Red lights
first time in several years La Grande
is without restricted district. The
closing up of the resorts is the re-
suit of campaign instituted by
Mayor Hall month ago. The
habitues have abandoned their loca-
tions and most of them have left the
city.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

He who can create his own happi-
ness in the sphere in which he finds
himself has within him one of the
real elements of success in business
and success in winning happiness.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

More than 1000 miles of copper
wire will be required for telephones
in big office building which is be-
Ing built at New York.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07
NOTICE.

Please get your items for the Tid-
ings in the day before date of publi-
cation, il possible. All matter must
hereafter be in type by noon on pub
licatiOn day.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

High pressure gas lights have been
found to be just as effective as the
flaming arc in Manchester, but the
latter are more economical.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

1t is said the Japs of California
will demand that their native Ian
guage be taught in schools of that
state.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

Part of the Kern oil fields of Cali
fornia have been set aside for the
use of the navy in case of need.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07
The Home Circle
rhoughts from the Editorial Pen

The worlds greatest need today is
men and women who have decision of
character. Oh. the contempt we feel
for the man CD who has no opinion
OF his own; who is influenced by
every little ripple of public senti-
ment-a reed shaken by the wind.
The world wants men who will stand
in all the grandeur of their manly
dignity and raise the moral standard
to a higher, holier atmosphere,
where vice cannot thrive. Young
man, set your mark high" No ideal
is too lofty for your aspirations.
Have courage to do the right in the
fact of all opposition and you are
every inch hero. The world wants
true, noble-hearted, womanly wom-
en- who, by their sweet influence and
hallowed presence, will be as guard
ian angels to the weak and erring.
Such a being can no more be con-
taminated by evil surroundings than
the ray of sunlight which lightens
up the prison cell. Oh, woman, thy
mission is high and holy one. Thy
influence reaches out into eternity.
If faithful to duty, the living will
love and bless thee; the dying, to
whose wants thou dost minister, will
carry the impress of thy loved fea-
lures into paradise.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

failure to man as when something
goes wrong at home that he can't
possibly blame on his wife.
The most recklessly extravagant
woman has a vein of economy some
where in her. composition. Economy
is born in woman. 1t may not
develop in a manner to prove bene-
ficial either to herself or to her hus-
band. Yet there will always be some
point at which she will look we'll to
the pennies and think and calculate
with the ablest financier. She may
be willing to pay 800 for a gown,
but will shop all over town to save
10 cents yard on the lining. She
may spend S. for a ride in the park,
but she will begrudge cents in car
fare when out shopping. She may
stint the table at one time and be
wildly extravagant at another. Or
ruin a whole garment by the desire
to finish it cheaply, which desire has
remorsefully seized her at the last
moment, but there is one thing in
which she never economies. When
she loves, she loves with her whole
heart. There is no stint-only a
giving of all the wealth of her affec-
ton. Therefore do not laugh at her
little economies; simply remember
that woman must be just made up
of those contradictions that seem so
ridiculous to the average masculine
mind.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-07

Marriage never seems so much
failure to man as when something
goes wrong at home that he can't
possibly blame on his wife.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-01-31

Usage County Hunters say Big Game
Rapidly Is Becoming Ex.
tinot In State

Unless a state law IS passed pre-
venting the killing Of deer in the
Usage country It is the belief Of hunt
ers there that It will be only a few
years before this game viii have been
annihilated in that part OF the state.
Five years ago deer in the Usage
country We're plentiful Today It is
believed less than one hundred are in
existence and the open season will cut
this number BY half
The fact cannot be denied that deer
are becoming scarce In Usage county,
because there has been a wilful slaugh-
ter Of these animals each year Ten
years aee II was estimated that no
less than 500 deer could be found in
Usage county, and several hunters de-
clare that is placing the estimate very
low. This year, il ia doubtful il there
are fifth of that number roaming the
hills in that county. II they become
extinct in that country there will re-
main but few sections Of the state
where they can be found. Other coun-
ties in the state where deer are 10
be found are talking Of taking SINH
lar action in having the season for
killing deer closed for period Of FIVE
years,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-01-31
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