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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
The Garage.

The garage is a quiet retreat for
crippled, discouraged and defunct au-
tomobiles, which are rebuilt from the
ground up and returned, accompa-
MED by a bill which makes father
glassy-eyed for a week Whenever
an automobile goes lame on a hill
side and refuses to walk back to
town, it is dragged into the nearest
garage by its hind legs and taken
apart at s. an hour, by near-sighted
men who never think of the spark
plugs until the last minute of re-
corded time. Every form of disease
known to the modern automobile is
treated successfully in one of these
hospitals. from a mild case of insan-
ity to string halt and the delirium
tremens. The most common ailment
is paralysis of the self-starter, and
when this is followed by other COM
plications, such as congestion of the
carburetor and cyrrhosis of the spark
plug, it costs more to effect cure
than it does to go to Cinnabar
Springs and have sciatic rheumatism
rinsed out of ones system. The
garage is also an automobile agency,
where cars which are not sold by the
owner are turned out so blind that
they frequently mistake a telephone
pole for the center of the street. A
man never knows how near to death S
door his automobile is until he runs
into garage on low gear, and sees
it dissected with loving care and a
large, blue monkey wrench An au-
tomobile may look to be in perfect
health, but the minute it gets out
side of garage iC develops catarrh
of the stomach, curvature of the
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Getting Old Too Soon
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We often hear il said by scientific
men that human beings get old toe
quickly and die too soon. Since
everything that has life in due time
grows old and dies, we must conclude
that nature intends man to die also.
But what is due time?
The scientific men say that the
race does not enjoy it's full allow
ance of life and that instead of
growing old in the land which the
Lord our God gives u.s." we perish
prematurely there, chiefly by reason
of our own blindness and self-indul-
gence.
When we look into the cases of
persons who have lived to a great
age and enjoyed good health all
through life, we generally find that
they were born of healthy and long
lived parents and that they them
selves led rather abstemious lives.
Almost always we learn that they
did not worry"
When Dr. Harvey wrote his report
on the death of "Old Parr," who is
said to have lived to the age of 152
years, he used the phrase sorry
fare, but free from care" The abb
sence of worry as en- aid to long life
was as well understood then as it is
today.
In a recent book on the subject of
deferring old age the writer declares
that by following carefully the rules
of hygiene we can preserve our youth
until the age of sc and live for 100
years or even more. Among the
rules he gives are these:
Be as much in the open air as pos
sible; take plenty of exercise and,
above all, breathe deeply and regu-
larly. Live on a simple diet; eat
meat only once day and take care
to chew your food thoroughly. Go
to bed early and rise early; sleep in
a dark and quiet room with open
windows and take never less than
six nor more than seven and half
hours sleep if you are a man, nor
more than eight ard a half hours if
you are a woman. Avoid worry about
things that have happened and can
not be helped or that may happen
and cannot be foreseen, and be tenn
perate to abstemiousness in the use
of alcohol, tobacco, tea and coffee.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23

Phone job orders to the Tidings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
KIDNAPPING Is A DANGEROUS
CRIME.

The Public: When the present
states attorney of Cook county, Hi
nois, was a candidate for election,
he protested that in no respect was
he or would he become an official
handy man for the Hearst papers.
With reference to that protest he is
now on trial. The story which Gil
christ Stewart told on the 18th to
the Clapp committee of the United
States senate accuses Hearst news
paper agents in Chicago of kidnap-
ping him, which is one of the worst
of crimes, and of stealing papers
from him. Stewart may have COM
mitted perjury. If he did, his per-
jury can be easily proved. If he did
not, the machinery of the criminal
law should be set in motion against
his alleged kidnappers. Stewards
testimony is too circumstantial to be
passed by lightly. A grand jury in
vestigation in Cook county is impera-
lively demanded-one that shall be
free from all influence or favor. No
professions Of good purposes, with
reference to the Standard Oil trust
or any other criminals, can excuse
the criminal conduct which Mr.. Stew
art narrates. Impersonation of po-
of Two
forged search warrants and warrants
of arrest, and high-handed kidnap-
ping and robbery thereby, are intol-
cradle and indefensible, regardless of
their purpose. The authorities at
Chicago cannot ignore Stewards
sworn accusations before the Clapp
committee without bringing just sus-
picion down upon themselves.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
The Joy of Getting Ready.

All week the little boy had studied
hard in school, looking forward to
Saturday, for Saturday the boys were
coming over to play Indian.
And Saturday came, too, and with
it the boys. They made a search for
barrel hoops and made bows. They
cut straight sticks and made arrows.
They tied stones into split sticks for
tomahawks. They made spears from
broom handles. They raided the hen
coop for feathers for headdresses.
They found some long poles and
patched together pieces of bagging
until they had made a wickie-up.
Finally after a deal of labor and
trouble, they were ready ito play
Indian" and then the visiting boys
discovered that it was time to go
home. Go home they did and the
little boys father came and scolded
him for mussing up the yard and
made him take down the rude tent
and put away the hardly-made weap-
ons before he could have supper.
All the little boy got out of his
longed-for holiday was the trouble
of preparation and the work of clean
ing up.
But the little boy did not know
that his holiday was an epitome of
life; we are never quite ready until
it is time to go home"
School days were a preparation for
higher education-for a start in life.
The start was only the beginning of
a struggle to get enough together to
marry and settle down. Settling
down meant buying a home and a
continuation of the struggle. Then
came the babies, ard the raising of a
family a good quarter of century's
work. When that was accomplished,
the earning period" of life was
largely past and it took just as much
work and worry to provide for the
lesser needs of later life as it had
for the greater consumption when
vigor of life was greater, too.
But always there was a good time
coming just around the corner AL
ways the "playday" was just ahead,
until it was time ito go home"
Are not we all so? And is not
the chief trouble that we fail to get
the full JOY out of the passing mo-
ment? If the little boy and his fell
lows had made sport instead of a
labor out of the getting ready" he
would not have felt the holiday lost
School days, getting a start" sweet
heart days, settling down." raising
the family, and all the rest, were en-
joyable enough when looked back
upon. 1t is only in present realiza-
tion that we fail to capitalize our
enjoyments.
What we need 20 do is to learn to
enjoy the passing moment and then
we won't mind when it is time to
"go home"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
Inaugural Reception Takes Place of
Ball

Washington, Jan. 20.-The request
of President-elect Woodrow Wilson
for elimination of the inaugural ball
will be respected. This decision was
reached here today when the inaugu-
raj committee, headed by Chairman
Eustic, voted unanimously for it's
elimination
The inaugural committee decided
to hold public reception on the
night of March instead of the usual
ball. 1t probably will be held in the
rotunda of the capitol building.
Senators Brown, Overman and
Crane and Congressman Mckinley,
Garrett and Rucker were appointed a
committee to consider the plan.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
ATHLETICS AND HEALTH IN THE
NAVY.

In his annual report to the secre-
tary of the navy, the surgeon gem
eral of the navy has collected the
statistics of the subsequent health
of $50 non-athletic midshipmen who
were in the naval academy during
the twenty years from 1892 to 1911
inclusive. These statistics were
gathered for the purpose of compari-
son with a corresponding set secured
last year with regard to the subse-
quent health of 622 men who had
represented the naval academy in
the crew, on the football team and
in other forms of strenuous athletic
contest for the same period.
Any comparison between the two
groups in this matter should of
course result in favor of the athletes,
for they are not only picked men,
but as the surgeon general says,
twice picked men. They are the
men who, it would reasonably be
supposed, would be best able to re-
sist the real effects of entertaining
and overstraining and who should,
other conditions being equal, possess
a comparatively greater degree of
health and longevity. But this has
not proved to be the case. 1t has
been found that from those diseases
to which athletics have a possible or
probable relation there has been but
one death among non-athletes as
compared with six for the athletic
group. OF the men still in the SER
vice whose records show abnormal
physical conditions, 1877 are nom
athletes as against 1913 athletes.
Probably the most striking ar
raignment of the i'll effects of siren
uous competitive athletics is to be
found in the degenerative diseases of
the heart, arteries and kidneys which
in recent years in spite of all our
advance in sanitation have greatly
increased, though the contagious dis
eases have been reduced in remark
able way. The surgeon general
says:
THE following conditions or dis
abilities show an excess amounting
to so per cent or more among the
athletes: Arteriosclerosis, valvular
disease of the heart, cardiac irregu-
larity, cardiac dilatation, cardiac hy-
pertrophy, gastric disturbance, al
buminuria, general poor health.
obesity and tuberculosis, and various
traumatic LESSONS as we'll. 1t seems
reasonable to suppose that the dis
abilities among the athletic class are
largely due to spectacular athletic
ism and would not have been ac-
quired had the overstraining and
overtraining not been indulged in"
The Journal of the American Med
ical Association, commenting on the
S"i SSOh SohCl al report, JHlnkS InaL
with these facts before them it will
be rather difficult for university fac
ulties to justify the tolerance and
encouragement which they now give
to intercollegiate contests and the
training for them. They hurt schol-
arship, which has always been ad-
mitted, but there seems no room for
doubt that they also hurt health.
Their alleged hygienic value was the
chief excuse for their being.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
Pennsylvania students Forbidden Of
fensive Dances.

Protests by Miss Eleanor Wilson,
daughter of the president-elect, have
resulted in an edict prohibiting the
students of the Pennsylvania Acad-
emy of Fine Arts indulging in Of
fensive dances, such as the turkey
trot' and bunny hug" Miss Will
son, who is student in the acad-
emy witnessed the dances on two
occasions at the academy and made
complaint to Mr.. Henry j. Lewis,
head of the institution. An order
was issued restricting the students to
mole sedate dances.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23

Phone news items to the Tidings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
Five-Pound Notes Don't Bring Pen
nieS,

London, Jan. 20.-"Five-pound
notes penny each"
For twenty minutes an unkempt
and unshaven man stood outside the
Grand Hotel here offering for sale
genuine five-pound notes for penny
each, and disposed of only two.
Everyone thought | was a faker," +"
said the actor. "A friend insisted
he could sell anything in London.
Finally | bet him l could not sell
twenty five-pound notes at a penny
each in twenty minutes. l won in a
walk"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23
No Carolina Troops for Inaugural
Parade.

Columbia, S. c., Jan. 20.-Dislike
for William E. Gonzales, editor of
the Columbia States, who would have
charge of the militia, today caused
Governor Blease to announce that he
would not permit South Carolina
troops to attend the inaugural ball
at Washington.
Gonzales would take delight" "
said Blease, lin placing the governor
or South Carolina in an embarrass-
ing position. The troops had better
stay at home"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23

spine, liver complaint, loss of appe-
tite, Bright's disease, hay fever and
hectic flush, and has to have three or
four doctors and trained nurses in
leather aprons hanging over its bed
side. Yet, nobody ever hears of a
garage losing any patients, although
the owner of the machine loses quite
little.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-23

Only, when it is all over, let us
hope that no Father will have to
scolds us for mussing up things!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-03
ADJUSTMENTS
Jules FaIk and Arthur Fischer.

SulSS F2Ik ana NfGnuF FISCHER
Jules Falk, the violin virtuos4, who
is to appear at the grand opera house
on Saturday night, jointly with Arthur
Fischer, a brilliant young pianist, has
won for himself an enviable repnta-
ton. In the time that he has been
on the concert platform he has earned
a place among the greatest of the vio-
linists of today. He is a young man,
Of fine appearance and stature. pos
sessing no mannerisms. His person
atty is very pleasing. He has played
with most Of the European orchestras
and at the conclusion of his Euro
pean work was presented with very
wonderful Stradivarius violin which
has the distinction of having been
owned by but five people since it was
made by Antoaius Stradivarius in
1922. Mr.. F'alk prides himself on the
fact that he Should have been for
tunate enough to have secured an in
strument whose history is so clear.
Mr.. Fischer, who is associated with
F'alk, is a pianist of no mean ability.
as Rafael Josef1y declared him to be
great talent and that it /. is. only a
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-03
TRIALS OF a CITIZEN WITH
PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS

That public service corporations Of
Pensacola can make Improvement in
their service seems to be the foregone
conclusion of one citizen of Pensacola,
who went up against the telephone,
street car and gas services last night
with results not very satisfactory 20
himself.
TO begin with he wanted to get home
for supper-but this is how he related
his experience:
Il tried to get my home before leav-
ing town.. but there was no answer 80
the telephone, so rushed away from
town forgetting a message but decid-
ing on the car to telephone back when
/ got home. Well, finally reached my
corner, and the car stopped in front of
a big pool of water This is not the
stopping place of the car. but the con-
ductor politely informed me the stop
ping place had been changed. i got
OF into the water and waded through
some more in the darkness, for in that
section OF the city the gas lights. which
are supposed to shed their feeble rays,
are lighted only occasionally Tonight
all was in darkness.
Il finally got home and thought OF
the message I wanted TO telephone
back to town. but after vainly en-
deavoring TO get central for half an
hour, gave it up in disgust and after
eating supper started back to the city,
ran into one of the lamp posts at the
corner, again waded through the water
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-03
GOOD CROWD HEARD THE
EXPERTS AT FERRY PASS
SPECIAL 70 THE JOURNAL.

SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL.
Ferry Pass, Feb. lowing to their
taking the wrong road. the experts
from Gainesville did not reach Ferry
Pass tin late Friday evening. Notwith-
standing the bad looking weather
there was good crowd out, more men
than we have had before. but some of
them thinking the men were not COM
ing had gone away before the meeting
opened
Previous to their arrival the pupils
sang several selections, Miss Dorsey
accompa nying them on the piano.
We also had very spirited discus
sion as to our need of a new school
building for next year. All agreed that
the need was imperative as the pres
ent building Is both unsafe and UNI
sanitary, and wholly inadequate to our
growing needs.
We were all glad to greet Mr.. Rolls
and Mr.. Spencer, and although their
time was shortened SO much the talk
they gave US was very instructive and
much enjoyed and next year we a-e
to have an all-day session with dinner
on the grounds.
Those who do not attend these meet
ings have no Idea of their helpfulness.
Mr.. Ed. Robinson has been a visitor
in our midst for a few days, having
come to look after his property hare,
A son arrived at the home Of Mr.
and Mrs. Dave Jameson about week
ago.
Our farmers are busy plowing and
planting English peas and Irish pota.
toes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-03
NEGRO IS SHOT
NEAR MUSC0GEE
HENRY WEBB PERHAPS FATALLY
SHOOTS ONE MAN AND SLIGHT
" WOUNDS ANoTHER-MAkEs
HIS ESCAPE.

In shooting affray near Muscogee
early Sunday morning. Henry Webb.
colored, shot and perhaps fatally
wounded one negro and slightly in
jured another, firing several shots into
3. crowd of negroes. Webb made his
escape.
The shooting occurred in the negro
section, and the trouble is supposed to
have been caused by gambling game
said to have been in progress during
the night.
Sheriff Ellis was near the scene,
having gone TO Muscogee in an auto
mobile Saturday night in the hope OF
catching John Henry Stokes. who is
wanted in this county for killing an
other negro a year ago In Muscogee.
The sheriff heard the shots and has
tened TO the scene, but Webb heard the
automobile and made his escape in the
darkness. He is well known in PEN
sacola, and is under bond in another
case, which Is to come up for trial
soon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-03
10 CAUGHT IN
A POLICE RAID
ALLEGED CRAP GAME is BROKEN
UP BY CAPTAIN HALL AND
THREE OF THE FORCE.

In a sensational raid On an alleged
crap game at 1o2 East Belmont street
last night. Captain Hall and several
policemen arrested a half-score ne
groes in the house
All but one are charged with shoot
ing craps, the exception being Evelyn
White. who was Just a visitor"
Oliver and Elnora Everitt. of the
address given. are charged with oper-
ating the game. while those said to
have been taking part with them are
Willie Cottrell OF 106 East Belmont
street: Frank White, of 500 East La
Rua street; James Williams, of COZ
East Belmont street; Edward Allen, of
SIS North DeVilliers street. Will Will
kerson, of 500 East La Rua street:
Henry Farman. of Gil West Belmont
street. and Tolliver Paige, of 415 South
Cevallos street
All. were lodged in the city lookup
for a hearing this morning before Re-
corder Welsh. The policemen who ac-
companied Captain Hall were Police
men Anderson. Collins. Roach and
simmons
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-03

class rate would pave the way for
this change, making it possible 10 re-
duce the fIrst-elass rate without de-
parting from the present policy Of a
self-supporting postal service.
During the fiscal year 1912 more
than S00,100,000 pieces of mail, having
an aggregate weight of about $1,000
600 pounds, were carried free through
the mails under the franks of con-
gressmen and of various government
establishments. Had postage at the
ordinary rates been paid on this mat
ter the revenues of the department
would have been Increased by more
than $20,0oo,0o0 ostmaster-General
Hitchcock declares that lit is mani
testify unfair to give the postof1ice de-
partmeut no credit in the govern
ment's fiscal accounts for the expense
of performing this service. The de
partment therefore renews its recon-
n1endation that the practice of frank
ing be discontinued and that legisla-
tive authority be granted for the use
on official mail of special stamps to
be furnished by the postonee depart
plent on the requisition of those en-
titled to them"
In connection with establishment of
the parcel post, Mr.. Hitchcock recon-
mends that legislation be enacted
looking to the reimbursement of the
payments to railroads for the trans
portation of mail He points out that
many OF the roads will be entitled
to increased compensation on account
of the increased volume of mail. He
renews his recommendation that pay
ments to railroads carrying the mails
shall be made on a car space basis
and the cost to the roads of the mail
transpor tat ton.
The report recommends that civil
pensions based on length of service
should be granted by the government
postal employees when they become
superannuated. 1t is likely that the
expense Of such a system would
more than offset by gains in efiicien-
CIV"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-03
HOUSE BURNS.
At MARIANNE
c r. HENDERSON AND FAMILY
ASLEEP WHEN THE FLAMES
WE'RE DISCOVERED - ESCAPE
ONLY IN NIGHT CLOTHES.
SPECIAL 10 THE JOURNAL.


Mariana, Feb. "A residence just
south of the Depot burned here last
night between IL and IL o'clock. The
building was mass OF flames before
1t was seem by people going home late.
It was one-story frame building, the
property Of Mrs. Holiday. of Cotton
dale. and occupied by c. F. Henderson
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henderson saved very
little Of value except the piano. The
members of the family were all asleep
at the time and escaped only in their
night robes One little girl became ex-
cited and ran behind the door, but was
gotten out safely by one Of the fire.
men.
BY good work on the part OF the vol
unteer IRE department the flames were
soon under control although saving
the house was impossible. Only the
kitchen, dining room and rear wall Of
the house burned, even though the
roof fell in before the firemen got IN
their excellent work.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-02-03

Continued from Page ore)
eel post will prove to be most i'm
portant factor in reducing the cost Of
living
Perhaps the most important recon-
mendation contained IN the report is
that the third and fourth classes of
mail will be consolidated so that books
and other printed matter may be for
warded by parcel post. at present the
postage charges for these two classes
of mail bear no fixed ratio to each
other. For certain weights and zones
the parcel post rates are lower than
the third class rates, while in other
cases they are higher.
SHOULD NOT EXIST.
This condition" ii is pointed. out
in the report, SIS likely to result in
much confusion and should not exist.
Packages containing books or cata-
logues do not differ in any essential
particular from other parcels and they
should be handled by parcel post
Prior to the enactment Of the parcel
post law the department urged that
these two classes of mail be CONSOLE
dated, and the recommendation OF
such action is now renewed"
The report directs attention to the
approval of the commission, headed
by Associate Justice Hughes, CT the
United States supreme court, of the
postof1ce departments recommended
ton that the postage rate on second
class mail be increased from cent
to cents a pound. In the opinion of
the postmaster general favorable &C.
ton by congress on the report of the
commission would be step towards
the proper adjustment of postage
charges.
There is a widespread popular in
terest." the report says, lin the plan
to lower the postage charge on let
ters from cents to cent an ounce.
The proposed increase IN the second