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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-08-23
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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-08-23
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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1913-08-23
FURNITURE

has been selected with and bought prices that
RIGHT This is why and do sell RIGHT and sell
much. Buy of us once and You will buy again.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
A NEWSPAPERS DUTY.

What is the duty of newspaper
toward the public as to the exposure
of frauds? How far should it go
and to what loss of friends or bust
ness should it subject itself to pro-
tect the people from imposition?
These questions recur almost daily
in the experience of every conscien-
tious newspaper man; and a large
proportion of the newspaper men are
conscientious, paradoxical as many
seem to think.
Almost every issue of almost every
daily newspaper brings questions of
the reliability of an advertiser: not
whether or not he will pay his ad-
vertising bill, but whether or not his
scheme is intended to defraud the
public. The schemer usually tries to
stand in" with the newspaper man
by paying his bills, at least until his
trick is turned.
The same question comes up as
to exposing crooked business schemes
and fakes of all kinds. If the news
paper denounced everyone as a fake
or crook that it is asked to it would
go bankrupt and the editor go to the
pen for libel. On the other hand,
when the paper has absolute knowl-
edge of the crookedness of a man
or scheme it may become it's positive
duty to expose him or it. This is
especially true when the man is in
an official position or when his
scheme is one wherein many inno-
cent people are made to suffer.
Where one person only has suffered
from the acts of another the ques-
tion of veracity arises and it may
easily prove a case of dog eat dog"
Every man is presumed to be inno-
cent until he is proven guilty, but
when many reputable people come
forward with tales of losses through
the misrepresentation of the same
person, then the presumption in
every fair mind must be that the
person is crooked and that the others
are telling the truth. In that event
1t becomes the duty of a newspaper
to at least give enough publicity to
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
SIMPLIFIED SPELLING.

The editor, having read the rec
concentrations of the Simplified
Spelling Board, and feeling that this
subject would afford a tranquilizing
relief from the acerbities of politics,
turned to the literature of spelling
reform.
He was amazed to find such words
as "asinine," liars" "w'tless per-
sons" and idiots" hurtling through
the calm academic arena. Apparent
ly publishers of spelling books will
not find their old stock outlawed for
some little time yet.
If you assembled a group of intel
ligent Germans or Italians or French
men, and read to them a passage of
their own tongue containing a lot
of new words, they would all spell
them about alike. But if all the col
lege presidents of the United States
were given such passage in English
no two would agree on one spelling.
If too many changes ara made all
at once, the public and young people
get the idea that there is no such
thing as single correct standard of
good spelling. Josh Billings becomes
as good as the president of Harvard.
Anyone can excuse his laziness and
inattention at school by the excuse
that he is phonetic speller.
Furthermore, wholesale changes
involve confusion and labor for
grown-up people who studied the old
way, while the time of the children
who are now learning to spell is
comparatively cheap.
Nevertheless, the English language
is being simplified all the time.
Twenty years ago everybody spelled
it programme" Today probably
the majority of newspapers cut off
the words superfluous petticoats.
When Americans spell. honor"
without any "u," our English cous-
ins call it western barbarism. +"
When the letter "k" was left off
critics" and public" many editors
kept on using the "k" for a genera
tion. But these old spellings would
look as grotesque today as knee
breeches and silver buckles.
The pupils seem to understand
simplified spelling a good deal bet
ter than the teachers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
WE CAN SPARE THE FLUNKEY.
ISM.

President Wilson will dc the coun-
try good turn if he shall continue
to set his foot down against the
flunkeyism that has had so strong a
hold in Washington. Imperceptibly
we have got to looking at things
through the eyes of other nations.
We started on this republican ex-
pertinent of ours with a code as stern
as that of the pilgrim fathers. And
we have gone so far that the rich
Chicago man who tries to buy his
way into New York society could
scarcely give up points as a nation
in toadying.
Here is the demand that foreign
ambassadors be rich men, and that
the government provide them with
palaces abroad, so that they may go
merrily with the swim. The great
est foreign representative that this
country ever had, the one with the
profoundest influence on Europe and
on the destiny of the United States,
was Benjamin Franklin. He went to
the richest, the gayest, the most os-
tentatious court of Europe in that
or any age. He dressed in homespun
and lived as simply as he did in
Philadelphia. What retuke to the
flunkey ideas of this generation!
Our presidents have fallen into
the habit of running about the coun-
try like a sovereign who must "get
acquainted" with his Subjects and
they have carried a miniature court
of satellites and sycophants with
them. They could not move out
without bodyguard and a Gordon of
secret service men. 1t protected no
body. Mckinley and Roosevelt were
as easy targets for the assassin as if
they had walked about like plain cit
izens. 1t became just the gratifica-
tions of an easily aroused vanity.
Mr.. Wilson is beginning very sim
ply. He keeps office hours. He in
tends that those hours shall be free
from the office-seekers, whom he has
most properly shunted off upon the
heads of departments. He goes to
the theater quietly like any other cit
izen. His wife has set an American
standard of dress, and the White
House receptions will not rival those
of European capitals. All of which
is amazingly grateful to every true
American. We can scarcely imagine
any reform that would be so well
come and far-reaching as, a return
to the standard of true American
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
Shifting Responsibility.

A town character who had been in
trouble with the police many times
was arrested recently on a minor
criminal charge. The arresting Of
ficer was amazed when the fellow
appeared in police court with law
yer, prepared to make a defense. FL
nally his case was called and the
judge asked:
Prisoner, are you guilty or not
guilty?"
Let my lawyer plead not guilty
for me, judge" was the reply. "I
amt got the nerve. kansas City
Star.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
Obituary..

Central Point. Herald: Friends
in this city were shocked Monday by
the sudden death of Ms. Jacob
Stone, who passed away at an early
hour that morning following an at
tack of paralysis with which she was
afflicted.
Rachel Catherine Winner was born
September IL, 1914, near Lancaster,
Jay county, Indiana, where she re-
sided until the spring of 1853. She
then moved with her parents to Lam
caster, Keokuk county, Iowa, and
here she was married to Jacob Stone
April IA, 1868. They remained at
that place until 1873, in which year
they crossed the plains by rail in
an emigrant train and located at
Lake City, Modoc county, California.
November z, 1885, they left Lake
City and came to this state, locating
first at Ashland, where the family re-
sided until 1890. In that year they
moved to Talent, and in 1906 they
came to this city, where they have
since made their home. At the date
of her death, April Z, 1913, Mrs.
Stone was 6S years, 6 months and Z
days of age.
Mrs. Stone was brought up in the
good old Dunkard belief and all
through her life she was an earnest
Christian worker. While residing at
Ashland she united with the Chris
tian church and continued a member
of that denomination until her
death.
Mrs. Stone was the mother of
eight children, three of whom are
dead, one having died at the age of
four years, one at the age of four
teen, and Mrs. Handy, who died
some four years ago. One son, P. L.
Stone, has not been heard from for
some time and could not be located.
Those here to attend this funeral
were: Mrs. Cora Shields of Port
land, d. w. Stone of Sacramento,
Cal, accompanied by his wife, and
the Misses Ella and Edyth, who re-
side with their father in this city.
A nephew, Mr.. Winner, and wife of
Medford were also present. Two
brothers of the deceased, ]. o. G.
and e. R. Winner, reside at Salem,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE So
CIALISTIC PROPAGANDA.

The king of Greece was assassin
ated by one of the instruments of
those who are opposed to law and
order, those who have arrayed them
selves as against existing authority
of every kind, and are ready to COM
NIT murder to carry out their wild
and vicious ideas.
There are grades of socialism,
there are spheres of socialistic activ-
ity, but there is no limit tc the dan
ger from the imperfect brains and
the murderous hands which respond
so promptly to the vicious sugges-
tions of socialistic leaders against ex-
isting conditions and to ths wild de-
nunciations of those same leaders
against the laws and the executives
of law.
There are, without doubt, socialis-
tic leaders who will sincerely deplore
the work of assassination. There
may be anarchistic workers who
would not openly advocate this
method of upsetting existing law and
order, but for more than fifty years
assassination after assassin alton of
kings, queens, emperors and presi-
dents in Europe and America have
testified to the murderous effect that
socialistic and anarchistic doctrines
have upon the brains of certain fol-
lowers of these cults.
1t was socialistic doctrines that
nerved the hand that drova the knife
to the heart of the beautiful and
good Elizabeth of Austria.
1t was defiance of constituted au-
thority that caused the brooding of
Guiteau to fire the shot that ended
the career of Garfield, and it was the
hatred of existing social conditions,
cultivated by socialistic discussion
with socialistic associates, that made
Czolgosz the murderer of the we'll
beloved Mckinley.
by their fruits you may know
them" is as true in the history of
men and parties as it is in the king
dom of the plants, and in these
events which follow the unrest, dis
content and aroused wild passions,
clearly attributable to the work of
socialistic or anarchistic agitators,
one cannot fail to perceive the dan
ger which attends their operations.
The chief of the Hellenic people,
the promoter of the glory of the ma
tion, the patron Of the arts, the help
er in all branches of scientific re-
search, King George of Greece, was
sent to the tomb by the shot of a
feeble-minded anarchist,
whose brain had been inflamed by
socialistic agitators through their
denunciations of existing authority.
1t is the part of wisdom for those
in authority at Washington to see to
it that no harm shall befall the pres
idents of the United States, and the
fetes of Lincoln, Garfield and Nc
Kinley all should remind our people
that lack of personal fear affords no
of personal safety.
Ample protection should be given
our chief magistrate at all times, and
no opportunities be afforded social
istic or anarchistic assassins to strike
down another president of the Unit
ed States.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

and another brother, V. L. Winner, at
Manville, Texas. These with her
husband, Jacob Stone, survive her.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday at 10 o'clock from the Chris
tian church with Rev. H. N. Aldrich
officiating, and was attended by a
large number of the friends of the
family.
Interment was made in the Central
Point cemetery.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen

The old saying has it that when
the days begin to lengthen the cold
begins to strengthen" Will those
who are attending school and well
up in geography tell why this is the
case? Why should not the weather
become warmer as the hours of sun
light become more, and the dead of
winter come at or near the shortest
day of the year?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

We call attention this week to our
advertising columns 1t Will pay you
to give them careful perusal. This
much must be admitted in favor of
the advertiser. He wants your busi-
ness, he comes into the open to bid
for it, he puts his prices down in
black and white where you can see
what they are, he gives you his name
and number and you will find him at
the door ready to welcome you. The
generous advertiser is invariably the
generous fellow. He bubbles over
with enthusiasm and when you meet
him you feel like you had come in
contact with an invigorating breeze
right from the sea. The advertiser
must be given credit for being
pusher, and this is further attested
by the fact that among the fellows
who, in life's race" got there, he
numbers nineteen to one, compared
to the fellows who meet land seek
ers' trains to coup out here and there
a prospective buyer whom the ad-
vertiser has brought into the coun-
try, or who sends small boys to stand
before the doors of the advertiser to
turn the crowds into his own doors.
The advertiser indeed is the Siamese
twin to the fellow who followed the
biblical instruction and is not afraid
to cast little bread upon the wa
ters.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

A great many young men, whom
the doctors advise to take long walks
and exercise with dumbbells to re-
duce their ovoirdupois, will stand
around the house with their hands
in their pockets while the little wife
removes the tacks from The carpet,
and then complain if she requests of
her lord to pull it out from under
the stove while she lifts the stove.
o, man, thou art certainly a hum
bug!
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
ASHLAND WOMAN POTENTIAL.

1t is a significant fact that the
progress of humanity, from a social,
an ethical, or from a humanitarian
point of view, is gauged by the activ-
tiles of it's women citizens.
Sociology recognizes woman as the
strong arm of achievement; the hui
manities bear witness, not only to
her kindness of heart, but to her ex-
ecutive ability; reform movements
and enterprises conceived for the
promotion of altruistic and artistic
ideals express in eloquent phrase the
direct force of the woman-soul, the
breadth of the woman-vision and the
strength of her activities.
Ashland, even more largely than
the average city, owes a heavy debt
to her female citizens.
Civic pride, not less than the hui
manities, is an elemental principle
in the woman nature. Beginning
with one room, two, or even the
larger social economy of her imme-
diate neighborhood, the woman's S am
bition soon vaults over the narrow
confines of her environment and in
vades the larger economies, govern
mental, industrial and polirical, city,
state and nation. In direct proper
ton, then, to her own growth and
to her freedom in action does she
become not merely city beautifier,
but a city builder.
Ashlands fame has gone abroad
as the city beautiful, city of inno-
cent and healthful amusements and
recreations, a city of institutional
and civic enterprise second to no
other town of it's size in the land.
Who has set the pace, and lead, in
this civic progress?
The women of Ashland. Yea, even
more; they have gone almost alone
in many of their undertakings and
have forwarded them to glorious con-
summation with little or no help
from the male citizens.
Women's clubs have done in
finitely more in Ashland than foster
social life, or stimulate literary ef-
fort and intellectual growth; they
have touched the very well-springs
of proper material progress in Great
ing greater interest in matters of
public health and morals, in parks
and boulevards and well-ordered
homes and lawns. In short, theyI
have cultivated public taste in a
high degree to a proper appreciation
of the values of life, artistic, utui-
tartan and social, in it's broader
sense. They not only have investi- |
gated and discovered social needs, |
they have supplied them; they not |
only have laid bare the rottenness of
past health conditions, they have as
sumed the task and corrected them. |
They have advocated laws bearing |
on cleaner and more wholesome food |
products, they have lobied for meas
ures that meant better protection for
their sex and for the children. They |
have forced consideration of social
problems erstwhile tabooed because
mis- understood. They have emanci-
pated themselves from traditions
that bound them within four square
walls and have become. not only
mothers to race of men, but intel.
ligent participants in the conduct of
government.
Ashland women are alert; they are
sensible; they are sane. Women cit
izens are immune to graft; they
work without salaries and they fear
not to dare and do when necessity
presents the occasion. They are the
leaders, not only in moral thought,
but in material achievement.
Hats off to the Ashland women.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

Readers who would consult their
pecuniary interests should not fail to
closely examine the advertisements
of our merchants, who advertise bar
gains in this paper. They mean bus
mess in every word they advertise
and propose to make business by the
bargains they are advertising. Pc
ruse these advertisements carefully
and call on these merchants for the
bargains they are offering.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
VIII Recover Relics of Frigate "Phil-
adelphia."

If it is found possible, the United
States navy department will recover
the cannon, bronze ornaments and
other relics of the old American fri
gate Philadelphia, the hulk of which
has rested and rotted in The mud of
the harbor of Tripoli since 1904,
when she was set on fire an sunk by
Lieutenant Decatur to prevent her
use by the pirates who had catptured
her.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14
New York City Big Clothing MAX

New York city produces more than
one-half of the clothing for both men
and women worn in this country
There are over 100000 men and
women working in the factories in
New York city, considerably more
than the combined factory popula.
tions of Philadelphia and Chicago.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

Half century of use as railroad
ties has been obtained in Australia
fiom wood of the "stringy bark"
tree, species OF eucalyptus.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

In 1912 the United states output
of kerosene oil was 100000, 900 gall
Ions.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

A New Yorker has invented a
typewriter operated by the voice on
the Photographic principle.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

the charges to protect others in the
community from being similarly i'm
posed upon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

The tide from Italy to America in
1911 is figured at 5000, 900.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

Fresh farmers eggs" at 80 cents
a dozen were recently advertised in
Gloucester county, Pennsylvania.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

The polar regions are said to
cover 1888, 500 square miles.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-04-14

The Chinese republic is renewing
efforts to stamp out poppy culture.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
NAVY YARD EMPLOYE
HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Part Of Large Crane Breaks, Striking
Him CHANGING Blow and
Breaking Arm.

George Melchior, thirty years old. O
1852 c Street Northwest, had a narrow
escape from being crushed to death a
the Navy Yard yesterday, when part Of
large crane used in the cast-gun car.
rage shop broke, striking him a glancing
blow. His left arm was fractured in two
places and he received a number of pain.
full cuts about the head. An ambulance
was summoned and he was sent TO Cas-
ualty Hospital.
While roller skating in C Street South
west, near FOur-and-a-half Street. last
night, Sam Hass, ten years old, of SIS
Four-and-a-half Street Southwest. had
his left arm broken as a result of a fall.
He was taken to Emergency Hospital in
the automobile patrol wagon OF the
Fourth police precinct.
Lucien II. Thaden, of the United States
Reclamation Service, had his right
wrist badly bruised yesterday while
cranking an automobile in F Street, be-
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets
Northwest. He walked TO Emergency
Hospital and had his wound dressed.
Wesley Medley, three years old, of 4S3
Massachusetts, Avenue Northwest, fell
from a first-story window to the ground
at his home yesterday, receiving a num-
be- of cuts about the face. He was taken
to Emergency Hospital.
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
CONSERVATIONISTS
PLAN ORGANIZATIONS
National Body Names Secretaries to
Attend Fifth Annual Congress Meet
ing Here Next Month.
ELLIS REPRESENTS DISTRICT

Through an announcement made yes
terdaY it became known that the National
Conservation Congress has arranged TO
establish an organization in every State
for the first time in the history of the
conservation movement
The State organizations are to be under
the direction Of the Congress, and are be-
ing formed under policy that will give
powerful impetus to the work Of the ma
tional body. Plans have been made for
nationwide activity by the State organi-
cations prior TO the fifth session of the
Congress. which is called to meet in
Washington November IS, 49, and 20.
Active men Of known influence have
been selected and are committed to ener-
petic application 10 the work in hand.
Don Carries Ellis, OF Washington, is the
secretary for the District Of Columbia
The Washington herald., 1913-10-10
CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEETS.
a equation Of Journal by the Ma
tional Body Is Discussed.

Discussion of the proposed acquisition
of the American Chemical Journal by the
American Chemical Society took plaes
last night at meeting of the Chemical
Society OF Washington at the Cosmos
Club. The general organization, of which
the local society is a branch, has decided
in favor of acquiring the journal. and
the discussion last night conferred around
Incorporating the journal of the local so
ciety in the official organ of the national
society. Definite action in the matter,
however, was postponed until Later
meeting of the society.
Two short papers were read by Paul
Niggli and G. w. Morey. They were pre-
scented by John Johnston. Informal re-
ports OF the meeting of the national or
ganization, held recently in Rochester.
n. Y, were made by the delegates from
Washington to the convention.