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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09
The Man Who Evens Up.

In Pullman car between Boston
and New York some young men were
speaking, not long ago, of minister
who had engaged in questionable
| financial ventures with disastrous
results not only to those who trusted
him, but also to his own moral and
religious character. The love of
money had got possession of him.
/ Flaming newspaper headlines told to
the world the story of his dishonesty.
The young men Who discussed the
incident were all business men. They
/ spoke of it as if it had discredited
not merely the e-ring minister, but
/ the whole ministry, and religious
men in general. Then a man in a
neighboring chair, who had listened
| TO their talk, asked permission to
show them an item in the newspaper
of the same day.
Here is missionary from Alaska
just returned to New York for
short vacation" said he. He has
travelled thousands of miles on snow
shoes in company with a single In
dian guide. The mercury has often
been 20 below zero-50 below has
been common. This man is a dem
tist and doctor; he extracts aching
teeth; he washes out and dresses
wounds and sores, and prescribes for
sickness; he marries the young, and
buries the dead He comforts the
sorrowing, defends the helpless,
stops Illicit liquor selling, puts his
life in daily peril from cold and
starvation and the revenge of wicked
men. He helps the miners, and
brings back to their memories the
good lessons they learned at home.
That's the kind of man that evens
up" exclaimed one young man.
That's the real thing"
There was a chorus of assent, and
the whole tone OF the conversation
changed. The inconspicuous item
that told of one minister's heroism
reminded each man of the goodness
OF brave Christian men he had
known, men who were not to be dis
credited by one mans fall.
Now and then the moral sense OF
wrong-doing of a man whom all have
trusted. Let us remember that it is
the exceptional character of the
event that gives If its wide circula-
ton. The men who "even up" are
always there, and in far greater
number than those who betray the
confidence of their fellow men
Youths Companion.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09
THE PARCELS POST AND THE
MERCHANT.

The new parcels post law has been
viewed with a great deal OF misgiv-
ing by retail merchants everywhere.
However, it should give them new
opportunities of which they have had
little conception.
1t improves their position as re-
spects distant mail order houses. A
mail order house 300 to 500 miles
away must pay 62 cents TO &c. a To-
pound parcel mailed. The local mer-
chant serving the same article to a
50-mile territory can get the same
thing carried for 80 cents. He can
send it for local delivery. including
such rural routes as may start at the
home office, for IA cents.
A mail order house over 1000
miles away must Fay 81 cents to get
such a parcel mailed.
1t should be possible for the local
merchants of Ashland to develop a
good trade in the outlying country
for material to be delivered by par
cells post.
Suppose a farmer wants a steak
for dinner. He can order it by tele-
phone and have it mailed within so
miles for cents. The possibilities
for the development of this business
are unlimited. The postage is
cheaper than the time he would
spend in the provision store making
his purchase and paying for it.
In the outlying country around
Ashland there is thus a great poten-
tial trade waiting for someone to get
1t will go to the man who gets after
it with advertising.
The people in the ranch home
rarely pause at the town merchants's
shop window. They will do their
shopping through the newspaper
There the merchant has the chance
to show them his goods. 1t is great
show window in which the entire
community looks every day Former
ly high express charges threw obsta-
cles around mail order business to
the nearby territory. Now the lower
rates and the spread of rural deliv-
cry open a big field for the mer-
chant with an outlying country to
draw from. Advertising in this
newspaper will get this business.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09
The Kind of Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson Ought to Appoint.

In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside, an agricultural paper pub
lished in Springfield, Ohio, appears
review of the great work done in
the department of agriculture by
James w. Wilson, who will retire in
March after sixteen years service.
The following suggestion is made to
President-elect Wilson with refer
ence to the kind of secretary he
ought TO appoint TO succeed the re-
firing secretary, James w. Wilson:
When Wilson became secretary
he quit trying to keep the depart
ment little. He didn't worry much
about saving money. He wanted a
big department, lot more money,
long list of new tasks to wrestle
with. He got the money as fast as
he was ready to use it, because he
got the confidence of the farmers
and the country.
Now here comes the danger. The
department has been under fire for
long time. 1t has been criticised
by reason of various mole hills of
trouble, which have been exaggerat-
ed into mountains of disaster. They
have been pushed into the fore
ground of the picture till they have
cut off a perspective of the great
realm of substantial accomplish
ments wrought.
If a new secretary of agriculture
is selected with reference to the crit
icisms and the troubles of the de-
partment, it will be a mistake. No
man who thinks this big department
has gone to the dogs will be the
right man for its head. No man with
a general conviction that things are
hopelessly awry, and that a COM
plete new policy is needed, will do
much more than run amuck. Doubt
less there are weak spots; reforms
may be needed in some quarters.
But the fact stands that the admins
trative surgeon who comes along,
looks over this patient and then pro-
ceeds to operate. will make a tragic
mistake If he cuts off a leg or two
in order to relieve the discomfort at
tending a couple of corns! That's
just what is liable to happen if any
of these professional critics or people
with grievances against the depart
ment get into its leadership
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09
Cheap Clothing,


Astorian: The labor trouble in
the mems ready-made garment trade
puts a sharp Interrogation point up
in these cost of living times. The
working man, who already can bare
/ ly have meat once a day, will now be
asking whether he must return 10
the linsey woolsey of the fathers.
The Survey says the average week
ly wage of New York home workers
on mems coats is but $2.4O to SO.
On trousers it is shade better, s.
to $4.20. In neither case is it
enough to feed a human creature, let
alone a cent for shelter or clothes.
Conditions in the factories are prob
ably not so bad, but, as a whole.
wages in the clothing trade are low
er than a world with any heart in it
can permit very long.
Perhaps the best thing the poor
man can do in this pathetically tight
squeeze is to reflect on the expensive
ness of cheap clothing.
1t is a common experience, among
men who buy clothes of good tailors.
TO be surprised at the length Of time
really good clothes will wear. AM
tailor living in a wintry climate will
tell you of cases where an oyercoat
used some three to four months a
year will wear ten years. Probably
it cost $40, half of which may be
considered as due to the high cost
OF custom work. Probably the same
thing could be had in a good ready
made clothing store for $50 and at
off seasons for sl5. If on a pinch
such a coat can be worn ten years.
the cost is but $3.50 to 81 a year
for the garment.
1t is probable that most working
men would pay about $40 for an in
ferior garment, and could hardly
make it go more than three years.
costing them over SO per year.
If the poor man tan once get sucn
a start that he can buy a really good
coat, waiting perhaps for some off
season sale in order to get the very
best at a moderate price, he will not
merely save money in the long run.
but he will also do his part toward
solving the sorrowful problem of the
sweatshops. For it is always the low
cost garment that pays the low wage.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09
THE SCIENCE OF NOSES.

II is a fortunate thing for human
ity that not all doctors of medicine
are too busy attending TO their pa
tients to write essays for the medi-
cal conventions. Otherwise the pub
lie would miss many entertaining
and consoling pieces of information.
Dr.. Haseltine, for instance, in his
address before the Illinois Homeo-
pathic Medical Association says the
larger ones nose, the greater the
intellect. Furthermore, the uglier
ones nose, the greater his mental
powers. Huge noses, commonly
considered deformities, are brought
about by the overdevelopment of the
brain. which causes the forehead to
bulge and in this way occasions the
nasal deformities which are so num-
erous.' The protuberant proboscis
is the true sign OF genius. DR.. Has
eltine fortifies his theory with a GAL
lery of pictures showing that the
great men of the past would have
taken no prizes in a beauty contest
on account of their noses. In some
instances genius possesses physical
beauty despite and not on account of
nasal feature. The eyes are of un-
usual brilliancy or color, the head
and figure possess the perfect shape,
but the nose almost invariably con-
tributes the note of discord to the
artistic harmony.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09
BAD NEGRO" OF THE SOUTH,

In the latest of his series of SYM
pathetic articles in the American
Magazine on the negro problem in
the south, Ray Stannard Baker
shows with convincing clearness
where the much-dreaded bad negro
of that section comes from. He is
a product of ignorance; but he is
more than that. The chain gang and
the prison camp, which are continu-
ally hungry for recruits, are provid-
ed with exceptional facilities for
turning out bad negroes" In
Georgia, thought it is one of the
most progressive of the southern
states, there are no reformatories.
Yet there are large numbers of young
negro children arrested, many for
trivial offenses. Since the work of
prisoners, sold to contractors, brings
a large annual profit to the state,
there is an incentive for not showing
leniency in cases where properly it
should be shown. So chain-gang pu-
pills are enrolled with easy nonchal-
ance regardless of future conse-
quences.
The south needs more schools and
fewer chain-gangs. In degrading the
negro by way of proving the super
iority of the white race it does a bit
ter wrong TO whites and negroes
alike Manhood and self-respect
must be cherished without regard to
color.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen


Pathologists aver that fear cause:
death, and another instance for them
to cite is that of the London woman
who, while washing her teeth with
a weak solution of carbolic acid
swallowed a small amount of the
liquid, and, screaming that she had
taken poison, Immediately fell dead
A doctor investigated the bottle OF
mouth wash and stated that though
it was labeled poison, the entire con-
tents was not chemically sufficient
to cause death. The woman had
been killed by fear.
Fear is perhaps the strongest emo
tion that takes possession of NOR
| tails; it wrecks the nervous system
and leaves the victim weak and trem-
bling. 1t is doubtful if death itself
is to be dreaded so much as the fear
of death. Fear presupposes that the
worst is inevitable, and the torture
endured is as great as though it
were. For exampe: A person who
has an innate fear of lightning trem-
bles at every flash. 1t is useless to
explain that he will never see the
light of the bolt that strikes him
the fear is established and it cannot
be eradicated.
There are cruel and thoughtless
parents who find amusement in
frightening their children with stor-
les of monsters that dwell in dark
ness, and laugh when the little ones
refuse TO enter a room without
light. Many of those children carry
that fear of tho night all through
their lives and ever dread the imagi-
nary horrors that they never see but
always expect.
A few years ago a Chicago paper
interviewed a number of prominent
men, some of them connected with
the police department, who had won
recogniaion for their bravery, asking
each what it was that he most feared.
One said dogs, another lightning.
while one police officer admitted that
it was darkness, and in every in
stance there was good cause to be-
lieve that the origin of that fear be-
gan in childhood
Fear is not only the most deadly
but also the most useless of all emo
tions. Its effect is invariably de-
structive and its anguish in many
cases more to be stunned than the
worst that is feared 1t is the alb
sence of fear that makes heroes; it
is the absence of fear that makes
successful farmers. Fear saps the
stamina from mans body. A harm
less tooth wash labeled poison causes
death, a harmless furry in the mon
ey market causes a panic, just as the
harmless flap of a macintosh causes
herd of steers u stampede.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09

Phone job orders to the T.dings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09

japanese feather poachers are re-
ported starving thousands of alba
trosses in the Hawaiian islands to
secure feathers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09

Over 100000 has been SUBJ
srribed in Philadelphia to provide
new and additional buildings for the
Children's Hospital.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09

Try Tidings job printing. The
quality is remembered long after the
price is forgotten.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09
Chronic Consultation Cured

rive years ago l had the worst
case of chronic constipation ever
knew of, and Chamberlain Tablets
cured me-" writes S. F. Fish. Brook
lyn, Mich. For sale by Poley's Drug
Store.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09

The public automobiles OF Auvers.
Belgium, must be fitted with mud
guards for the protection of pedes-
1rians.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-09

La Follette's Weekly Magazine
and the Tidings one year for $3.50.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-03
through via the landslide last

Ddllh dllu d llllll dllu d lev. OLllCl
things in and around Milstadt.
And Katie, Frieda and Ottilia are
real farmers!
Katie is %; Frieda, 20; Ottilia,
Is. During the farming season
they ask no odds of any hired man
on their fathers big place. For
themit's three A. M. every morn
ing, and work in the fields until
the cows come home in the dewy
eve.
They plant the corn and other
seed, riding the planter up and,
down the field as jauntily as the
society girl guides her electric
along the city streets.
When the wheat is to be cut,
Katie, Frieda and Attilia follow
the binder, gathering and stack
ing the sheaves. When the corn
is ripe, Katie, Frieda and Ottilia
cut stalks, stack them, and later
on husk the ears.
And Katie, Frieda and Ottilia.
have found time to learn to play
the family piano well, sing, and
read whole shelves of good liter
AZURE!
Now they're going on to Wash
ington with their dad. They are
set on making a Showing" in
the society down there. In the
parlor of the big farm home they
sat discussing their chances.
Il know the square dances,
explained Miss Frieda, "and I am
going to a dancing school when
we get to Washington and learn
other dances, too"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-03

learn those dances the news
papers speak so, awfully about"
said Miss Katie, and if I can't
find enough nice folks there in
society I will come back home"
So, while their dad is making
laws for the nation, Katie,
Frieda and Ottilia, CARRIED in the
latest Milstadt creations, will
venture upon their social cam
paign.
Of course the girls can't do the
''bunny-hug." They don't know
the A. B. C. of bridge, and never
saw an opera. A male butterfly
of society CARRIED in a full dress
suit will be stranger to them
than dodo. They never saw a
taxi, or a bottle of champagne;
and of all things! a low-necked
gown won't be in their collection
of trunks. They've never been so
miles from home, and never saw
the interior of a Pullman car.
Now, maybe you begin to real
ize the size of their undertaking
breaking into exclusive society
where it is no earthly benefit to
possess a record of stacking
wheat, shocking corn, blowing.
Tall, broad shouldered Con-
gresham Baltz and the girls
mother, who tells with a deal of
pride that she once walked be-
tween the pillow handles, will back
the girls to the limit.
Hard to Believe.
Fred-The fish was fo1r feet
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-03

Hard to Believe.
Fred-The fish was four feet
long. What 1 say is true: You
know seeing is believing.
Maud-Not always.
Fred-No?
Maud-No; I can see you, for
instance.
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-03-20
SPORT.

The Northwestern international
rowing regatta will be held at st.
Paul July Is and 10.
In the closing hours of the Indiana
Legislature, racing commission bill
was passed by the Senate and sent
to the governor.
In one Of the fiercest lightweight
fights ever seen in the Vernon arena
at Los Angeles, Bud" Anderson OF
Vancouver and Knockout" Brown Of
New York, battled to draw.
The Rocky Mountain basketball
championship was won at Salt Lake
by the University Of Utah from the
University Of Colorado. by the score
of IS to l6. This was the third game
of series Of three.
Gunboat Smith, the California
heavyweight, knocked out Bombardler
Wells, heavyweight champion Of Eng
land, in the second round Of sched.
uled ten-round bout at Madison
Square Garden in New York.
Governor Stewart OF Montana ap-
proved the Kiley boxing bill and
named a state boxing commission.
Under the law twelve-round contests
are to be permitted under the super.
vision Of the commission.
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-03-20
Man Sees Own Leg Amputated.

Longmont.-To watch the amputa.
ton OF his right leg between the knee
and hip, without losing drop Of
blood and without pain or feeling,
was the experience of Freeman
Belche, a Civil War veteran, here,
aged seventy-nine years. The leg had
become dead nearly to the hip from
senile gangrene. and amputation was
decided upon. No anaesthetic was ad.
ministered, and Belcher watched ev.
cry move Of the surgeon with much
interest and asked many questions.
After the leg had been removed he
hobbled around the house on crutches
with the remark: That's better"
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-03-20
SENATE sLAsHEs EXPENSES.
Decides to Cut Salaries and Eliminate
Unnecessary Offices.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-A cut of from ten to thir-
y per cent in the salaries Of nearly
Ill state employees, the elimination Of
very clerical office the work OF which
'an be done in other departments,
Ind the killing of every appropria-
ion not absolutely necessary toward
he maintenance Of the educational,
charitable and penal institutions was
lecreed by the Senate In an executive
Iession that lasted four hours.
The session was called by Chairman
Samuel ]. Burris of the finance com.
nittee as preliminary to the prepara-
ion Of the biennial appropriation bill
10 check up the needs Of the state in.
Ititutions against available income.
The result Of the conference is that
he state will go upon strictly busi-
less basis and the $l,2O0,0OO available
rill have to meet every item Of ex.
pense save that Of the highway depart.
nent. This much was given out at
The conclusion of the conference.
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-03-20
THEDENVER PRESSCLUB
ADOPTS RINGING CREED FOR
GREATER COLORADO.
Newspaper Men Express Faith In
Centennial State - Her Products,
Her Men and Natural Beauty.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-After electing Harry Leo
WILDER president. and transacting 9th.
er business. the following creed was
adopted by the Denver Press Club.
1t was ordered printed and copies will
be sent to the newspapers. commercial
organizations, members of the Legisla.
ture and the Citizens Protective
League.
We believe in the commonwealth Of
Colorado and the municipality Of every
city and town within its borders.
We believe In the land Of Colorado,
whence spring the world.famed prod.
ucts Of the farm and whence comes
the metal wealth that moves the marts
Of the universe.
We believe in the water Of Colorado
that, flowing from the virgin SHOWS Of
the majestic crest OF the continent
cools the parched lips Of man and
beast and gives new life to the thirst
ing plain.
We believe in the air Of Colorado
that rejuvenates the old, keeps the
young youthful and drives away
scourge and plague.
We believe in the commercial inter-
ests Of Colorado and the men who
guide and control them, each in his
own sphere, and we believe 1t Is our
duty to aid and foster them, to con.
slider each man an expert in his own
field, to encourage industry, to criti-
else honestly, to crush that which Is
dishonest and unfair.
We believe in the laws Of Colorado
and will endeavor to uphold them and
increase respect for them and try to
drive into outer darkness any who
seek to evade or defy those laws.
We believe in the manhood Of Colo.
RADIO and we will try to stamp out
cowardice and unmanliness and anys
thing that tends to bring disgrace on
the commonwealth, In order that all
good impulses may be quickened, that
the sacred ideals Of the state may be
held in reverence and that we may
stand forth among all these United
States now and forevermore as Colo.
RADIO the Clean.
The Raymer enterprise., 1913-03-20
eilIo introduced In the House.

II. b. SAC. Gallup and Skinner-An
act to submit to the qualified electors
OF Colorado an amendment to section
concerning boards OF equalization.
II. B. SAT. Gallup and Skinner-An
act In relation to revenue.
II. b. 54s. Gallup and Skinner-An
act amending sections 40 and Al OF
chapter ZIG OF the Session Laws OF
1911.
H. b. $40. Tait and skinner-An act
in relation to revenue.
Fl. B. $50. p. B. Gates and Ardourel
An act authorizing the state board
of land commissioners to improve by
and invoke the power of eminent do
main over public lands of the United
States.
II. B. 55l. Frazzini and Andrew-An
act to amend sections 377 and 3S9.
chapter II. of the Revised Statutes Of
the State Of Colorado. entitled Births
and Deaths"
II. B. 552, Frazzini and Andrcw-An
act relating to the administration OF
the estates Of citizens OF foreign coun-
tries, dying within this state intestatc.
II. u. $50, Sweet (request)-Au act
In relation to landlords and tenants.
landlords liens and the enforcement
thereof.
II. B. 55i. Ardourel-An act on be-
half of the state to accept the proyis-
ions OF the sO-Called Page bill pending
in the Sixty second Congress relating
to the subject OF agricultural extcn.
sion departments In connection with
agricultural colleges.
II. B. 555. Sweet (request)-An act
In relation to trusts and trustees.
II. B. 556. Finoh-An act for the con
struction OF n bridge across the South
Platte river.
II. B. 55s. Andrew-An act for the
relief OF the blind.
II. B 557. Gallup--An act to amend
the statutes OF Colorado relating to the
burial of paupers
II. B. $50. Vogt-An act to establish
the County OF Bryan and the tempo
rary seat thereof
II. II. $50. Kennedy tregucsD--An
act authorizing and regulating the
practice OF homeopathy In the state Of
Colorado.
II. B. 55l. Skinner--An act to cstab-
lish the county OF Paradox and the
temporary county seat thereof.
II. y. 5G2, Rowan (requcst)--An act
authorizing and regulating the prac-
tice OF hydropathy In the State Of Col
orado.
II. B. b63. Peri B. Gntes-An net for
the relief Of Edwin j. Wittelshofcr for
services during the session OF the
Fifth General Assembly.
II. B. 5G4. G. W. Gatcs--An act pro-
viding for the erection. Improvement
and equipment OF buildings for the VA.
rious state Institutions and making an
sroronriation therefor