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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Weather Signs.


We have a new sign which was
never known to fail. 1t is this: If
there is a fog in February, taxes
Will be big the following year. Just
watch and see if this is not an un-
failing sign. We have noticed it for
for ten years. In all that time fog
came in February and taxes were
high the following year.
There is another sign in the Feb
ruary fog business noticed particu-
larly by newspaper publishers, and
that is after a fog in February the
subscriptions are hard to collect. If
this difficulty is experienced prior to
the month of February, it is a sign
that there will be a fog in that
month-a dark cloud, as it were, of
unpaid drafts upon the newspaper
office.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24
Isn't 1t.

Venerable Stranger addressing
Sunday schooD-Boys, what 10 the
hardest thing to remember?
Tommy Tucker (seeing that no
body else had anything to offer)-
The hardest thing to remember is to,
take down the ice card in the front
window after the man has been along
and filled the ice box.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24
CITY's RIGHTS AND CITIZENS IN.
TEREST.

TEREST.
Edward Holman and family have
just returned from a three months
tour abroad, in the course of which
they made a visit to the principal
South American cities. Mr.. Holman
is an observant man, and as a result
of that he has much to tell un con-
cerning his tour in South America
that is thought provoking.
We take this one item of observa-
tion as worthy of consideration: Mr..
Holman says that in the South Amer
ican cities they have direct and sim
pie methods for the Inauguration of
public improvement, such, for ex-
ample, as the widening of streets,
where, apparently, the need for such
widening is urgent. When a street
is to be widened, the commissioner,
or some other properly authorized
official, goes to the owners of prop
erty that is needed for the purposes
of widening, and offers the values
that are sworn to in the tax state
ments. If the offers are declined
that is all the city will pay, and it
proposes to take the property on the
basis of the tax valuation, which it
does and proceeds Immediately to the
demolishment of whatever building
there may be standing upon it.
In this land of liberty and special
privileges a proceeding like this
would seem arbitrary enough 1t
would be regarded as intolerable.
But if we analyze the situation care
fully we will find that it is not eth
ically unfair; while the efficacy of it
from the point of view of municipal
advantage is entirely beyond dis
pute. We hold it as a fundamental
doctrine that the good of the many
is superior, or should be superior, to
the good of the few. The doctrine
of eminent domain is based upon
that principle. But in practice we
have much difficulty in getting away
from the consideration that the pri-
vate property interest is a matter to
be considered as far above the public
municipal interest. Moreover, we
encounter that difficulty in two di-
rections. When it comes to paying
taxes for the proper discharge of
public functions the idea is to pay
as little as possible, or, in other
words, upon as low property valua-
tion as possible. On the other hand,
when occasion demands that the pri-
vate citizen shall part with his prop
erty for public use, the idea enlarges
to a strenuous endeavor to get as
much as the public can be made to
pay,
1t is peculiar, too, that with all
our public enlightenment we are dis
posed to regard %his going-and-com
ing system, this minimizing the duty
and maximizing the right, as wholly
legitimate. We know that on the
average the things attempted where
there must be surrender of private
property for public use, are things
that will enhance the value of al
property in the community, because
the value of all property in the com
munity, because as a rule they i'm
prove living and business conditions
But that knowledge seems to hav,
, little effect. The individual poin
, of view contending' for individua
profit and advantage is loath to Civ,
: way before the demand for the pub
lie good OF late years we have i'm
proved in a measure on this system
in American cities, but there is room
| for more improvement-vas more
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

Whether you handle a pick or a
pen, a wheelbarrow or a set of
books, dig bitches or edit paper,
ring an auction bell or write funny
things, you must work. If you look
around, you will see that the men
who are most able to live the rest of
their lives without work are the men
who work the hardest. Don't be
afraid of killing yourself with work.
Work gives an appetite for meals, it
lends solidity to your slumbers.
1t gives the appreciation of a holi-
day. There are young men who do
not work, but the world is not proud
of them. 1t does not even know their
names; it speaks of them as so-and-
SOS son. The great, busy world
does not even know they are here.
So find out what you want to know
and go in; take off your hat and
make dust in the world. The bus
ier you are the less deviitry you will
get into, the sweerer will be your
sleep and the better the world will
be for you.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

to become commonplace to us, but
we know they will do to tie to, and
it is not best to give them up for
those whom we do not know. The
man or woman who builds up a
character and maintains it for years
in the same community deserves
some consideration, and the friend
ship of such people is to be preferred
at all times to the snowy attention
of strangers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

If men are the salt of the earth,
women are undoubtedly the sugar.
Salt is necessary-sugar is luxury.
Vicious men are saltpeter; stern men
are rock salt; nice men are table
salt. Old maids are brown sugar;
goodnatured matrons are loaf SUI
gar, and pretty girls are pulverized
sugar. Please pass the pulverized
sugar
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

The difference between an agri-
culturist and farmer is that the
farmer gets up at the break of day,
feeds his stock and has breakfast at
sun-up. After his frugal meal he
bitches his team to the plow, takes
the hard handles in his horny hands,
calls gee haw" to his team and
plows all the long, weary day The
agriculturist gets up at 8 o'clock in
the morning and after an easy
breakfast pulls on his gloves, orders
his horse and buggy and drives to
town.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

1t frequently happens that a
stranger coming into a community
and putting on the airs of a gentle
man is taken up at once and lion
ized, though nothing whatever is
known of his antecedents and the
sequel often proves that it is best
not to take up with strangers too
readily. The oil friends whom we
have known all our lives and whose
characters are firm and established
as the everlasting hills, are too apt
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

There is more benefit in a good
laugh than in all the hot water rem
edies-cold water, electric and all
the other new-fangled treatments in
the world, and it does not cost any
thing. Laugh. If you have nothing
else to laugh at, laugh at your
neighbor. He is probably improving
his health by laughing at you.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

thought that water will soon be
changed to the ice wagon, one of the
most comfortable spots in the sum-
mer time.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

1t is truthfully said that rain or
shine, cold or hot, hard times or
good times, money or no money,
measles or no measles, the printer,
the preacher and the doctor are al
ways expected to make their visits
on time.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

If President Taft is to take the
chair at Yale, it's high time that the
furniture makers should begin work
on it so as to give the concrete base
time to settle.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

Pick out twenty young men as you
meet them and not five out Of the
twenty are making an effort to save
money. The indications are the poor
house of the future will have to be
ten stories high with folding beds
in each room.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

The Chinese official newspaper,
which has been published for 1900
years, has been put out OF business
by the new administration.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

The command to Remember the
Sabbath day and keep it holy" is i'm
mediately followed by six days shalt
thou labor and do all thy work. :"
The latter is just as imperative as
the former, and the Lord has as
much disgust for the loafer as for
the Sabbath breaker.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

There's a smudge in the garden,
a smoke in the air; smell combined
of burnt leather and hair. There's
a girl on the lawn with rake in her
hand; there's woe and distress all
over the land. There's carpets to
beat and rugs to shake; enough of
such work to make a man quake.
There's stoves to lie moved and car
pets to put down-no wonder a man
wants to get out of town!
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

The fellow that's on the water
wagon ought to be comforted by the
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24

The grounding came out of his
hole as usual, but seeing the high
cost of living, was not slow in get
ting back.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
DONOHUE
IS DEAD
FAMOUS FIRST BASEMAN DIES
IN INSANE ASYLUM NEAR
COLUMBUS, OHIO.

Chicago, March 29.-The fact that
John "Jigss' Donohue, the former Chi
cagO American league first baseman.
who won fame in the worlds series
games Of 1906 between the Two Chicago
league teams, is dead, became known
here today. The man who was termed
the greatest first basernan he had ever
knoWn by President Comiskev of the
local American league club died in an
insane asylum nea Columbus, Ohio.
live weeks ago. Mrs. Donohne wa
notified Of his death yesterday bv an
insurance company in which he had a
policy.
The players first big league en-
Sagemeht was under Connie Mack at
Nll"Aukec during the infancy of the
American league. In 1906 he accepted
1855 chances at first base, a record
Which has never been cqualed. "Jiggs"
also had the RECORD on the fpWest
number of chances in a single game ON
May %, having only one. He made
one assist. 1t has never been known
in baseball before where a first base
man was not given Il chance to make
at least putout.
'Jl&gS' was one of min brothers,
all of whom We're baseball PLAYERS.
Donohue derived the nickname ',Jiegs"
from his clog dancing.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

counting will probably find them still
in this position, but on the whole
there seems little to choose among.
them, although they all fight on diff
ferent styles.
1t may not be long before this blow
OF Smiths takes rank with the lannon's
cerkscrew punch of Kid Mccoy and
the solar pleNus Wallop of Bob Fitz-
simmons. In itself it is sufficient to
make Smith a noteworthy figure in
flstlc affairs. To become known as
the possessor of a peculiar blow is of
the greatest aid to a boxers success.
In a surprisingly short time it's vir-
tues are exaggerated beyond all pro
portion. The owner of the mysteriou
sh~ock-producer strai"htaWay become j
feared by his oppon s., ana whe +,
confidence is shakr4 i,lu b2 Il IS haif
lost n Won.
Smiths Sole Stock.
inns one blow of Smiths is about
ms soie STOCK IN trade and whether it
VIII be sufficient to carry him ia the
top of the ladder is a question Rnt
II is a marvellously efficient battle
winner and goes far to make nm for
MS lack of science. one of the ne-
cul1ar features of Smiths blow is tbe
difficulty his opponents find in avoid.
ing 1t. Smith starts the punch from
MS hip and arches it over with won
aerful speed considering the distance
the list travels. Usually long range
swings are h least feared and
least used, so easily avoided. But
smith has discovered sometime
new. Instead of aiming his fist
Tor the chin he selects a point he-
hind the ear. This spot being a most
unusual target, the unsuspecting VIC
TIM pulls back far enough, as ba
thlnks' to escape, but only to receive
the blow on the jaw. If, instead of
pllllng back, an attempt to duck IS
MADE, Smiths fist lands on the base,
Of the skull with even more deadly
results. II is also almost impossih,,,
to block the punch, as it drops down
from above and is apt to slip over the
guard.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
BIG FELLOW RANKS AHEAD or
M'cARTY AND Smith WITH
LATTER SECOND.
M'CARTY IS 0UTCLASSED
Fight Experts Place Present Holder
OF White Title Third in List Of AS
pirants-Smith Ranks With +he
Best of Them.

New York, March 29.-G,lnboat
Smith is now firmly established in the
upper set Of pugilistie circles Nv vir-
tue of his victory over Bombardier
Weiis' II IS only fair to Smith to
place nm on a par with Jess Willard
ana Luther Mccarty. There is little
doubt that smith can duplicate the
feat OF McCarty. who stopped Al Pal
ger, II he is given the chance, and
WIZARDS record is no more impress
slve than THAT of Smith.
The sporting public will not accept
McCarty as the champion as yet. and
nine times out of 10 the public IS
right in it's choice. Judging this trio
solely on their local performances,
they rank: Willard first, Smith sec
ond and McCarty third. The final ac-
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
Philadel

Figuring OF the Phillies is odd bust
ness. Figured on the basis of each
man doing what he is capable of doing
the team ranks second in the National.
They figured first last year by a few
points over both Giants and Pirates,
yet I vas compelled to cut them way
down because of known conditions
said known conditions being chiefly
Fogel.
This season the team, figured indi-
vidually, is still points ahead of New
York, but Pittsburgh has passed it.
Again | am compelled to shave off be-
cause of conditions-even with Fogel
gone. / am certain that the coming
of Billy Locke to the head of the club
will improve it over what was last
season. Further, last season was not
one on which to judge the team. 1t
had tough luck right at the start; then
instead of coming back. it quit.
I do not believe any team in modern
baseball Ven through such a ".joy sea-
SON. Some thought Doom had lost
control of the men. In fact, he didn't
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
TOURISTS
MAY MISS HERE
EFFORT BEING MADE BY MON.
TANA PEOPLE TO HAVE Ro,,rE
GO THROUGH MIssoULA.

ltle Montana Automobile association
has grave fears hat the 1919 clidaan
tour will not go over the route that
WIN take the tourists through the
niost interesting part of Montana,
rms became evident a few DAYS AGO
"nen a letter was received by Score
tary Ferguson of the hambe of
from E. P. Mathewson
president of the association. Mr.
MatheWson has been appraised of the
fact that Louis w. Hill of the Great
Northern railway has offered a train
TO accompany the Glidden tourists
over their course.
1t is supposed by the Montana an
toists that the roads over which the
people on the tour will decide to tray
ell will be the ones that most c,osa1v
follow the Great Northern tracks Tn
lhls event the autoists will not pass
through Great Fails, Butte, Helena or
Mlssoula and will consequently miss
the best roads n most interesting
points in the tate.
president MatheWson In his letter to
the chamber of in Misso1la
asked that the organization here take
up the matter with Mr.. Hill and DR.,
Z. l. Dutton and request them to so
arrange he itinerary so that the
tourists will be enabled to visit the
best parts of Montana. Mr.. Matthew
son inclosed a letter to Mr.. Ferguson
which he, as president of the Mon
tana Automobile association, had
written to G. e. Dutton, The letter
OF Mr.. MatheWson clearly explains
the advantages to be had by leaving
the Great Northern main line and
following the branch line of that road
to Butte. From Butte Mr., Mathew
son advocates the following of the old
Northwest trail through Missoula and
across the reservation to Kalispell,
meeting the train again at that place.
AS the goal this year the Glidden
tourists are making for the Glacier
National park and SO could go straight
through the northern part of the state
and into the park from Midwife. How
ever, this was not the road best liked
by A. l.. Westgaard, pathfinder for
the American Automobile association.
when he toured Montana a year ago.
Mr.. Westgaard liked the Northwest
trail better than any over which he
travelled.
The chamber of has talk
en- the matter up with Louis Hill, as
surfing him that every adequate enter
talnment would be given the tourists
should they decide to pass through
Missoula on their way to the Glacier
park. In addition to this Mr.. Fer
guSOn has written to the mi IF
commerce at Roman, Poison, Kalispell
and st. 1gnatius, asking them to join
in the request of E. p. Mathewson
and the Missoula Chamber of Com
merce.
If the course taken by the tourists
Is the one suggested by Mr.. Mathew
son and the Missoula Chamber of
Commerce the party would dispense
with the train from Butte to Kalis-
pell. AS a branch of the Great North
ern runs into Butte the train could
be taken in to that city with the auto
party and then sent to Kalispell
where the autoists Woul again be in
Great Northern territory. Every pos
sible effort will be made by the Mis-
seula men and the Montana Automo-
bile association to nave the tour in
clude the towns of Great Falls Hell
ena, Butte, Anaconda and Missoula.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
RECORDS

Phiiadelphia, March 29~,-Breakine
po'h me average and the high rum
RECORDS OF the present tournament, r.
W. Gardner of East Orange, N. r.. de-
Gated Wlikle c. Duniway of Portland.
Ore, in he night game Of "a Lational
amateur 1872 billiard championship
tournament by 400 to 173. Gardrer,s
average was Is 1926 and lis high run
was ~. hIGtway.s average was
= 1870 and high run IS,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
(BY HUGH S. FULLERToN).

Here come the two dark horses of
the major leagues, turning into the
dope stretch and threatening to kick
all the form out of the race. They
are the Chicago White son and the
Philadelphia Nationals.
These two teams are the hardest in
the country to calculate upon. The
White Sox have Ed Walsh and a
jumbled assortment of assistants, BIT
Walsh puts them into the running for
first division honors even without
help, provided they do not hinder him.
You can figure the Phillies any
place from sixth to second, according
to whether you hin that each man
will do the best he is capable of doing,
or whether you think he will do, as in
the past, nearly his worst.
one thing is certain, and that is
last seasons form OF the Phils was
not true. The team was off u~nluckily,
suffered from serious injuries to
players right at the start, followed by
tough luck, lack of condition, more in
%jlries, and finally by Interference and
meddling by Fogel, which completed
the wreck of the club. After the men
became discouraged and disguised
they misbehaVed shamefully and fin
ished in joke condition for athletes.
If You are looking for dark horses,
play the pills in the National up as
high as third. for if they go at their
best they are a better club tina
either Chicago or Cincinnati, and
close to New York. even ~deducting for
their bad two years.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30
ChamberIain's Tablets.

These tablets are intended especially
for disorders of the stomach, liver and
bowels. II o are troubled with
heartburn, indigestion or constipation
they will do you good. Try them. For
sale by all druggists.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

Borton will play first. Here is a
competent player, clever in defense,
and a Corking good man all round, be-
sides which he is developing rapidly.
The players say he has shown 30 per
cent better this spring than he looked
last year, and he looked good then.
Whether or not he can hit Is a ques-
ton.
Rath will play second. lie is a
promising man.. improving and likely
to become a first rate star in a year or
two. He is smart and a fast thinker,
q big help to the pitchers and to the
men close to him.
Sadly enough, it seems as if Weaver
is the short stop. He is a fair ball
player, but has not lived up to his
promise of last spring. Not disparag-
ing his work at all. he isn't of the cal
1her that wins %pennants. ] had big
hopes Berger would make the job. The
Coast leaguers declared this fellow the
best ever, and the tales of his work
made it look a cinch that he would
land the job. He has not looked good
to the experts travelling with the team
and Callahan does not seem to take
him seriously. He certainly win be
kept and probably will get a chance
later.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

cant hit good hurting. This will ne
cessitate Callahan carrying a bunch of
understudies and nursing the team
carefully.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

The White rSox are too uncertain to
wager on. Indeed, the White Sox are
a strange baseball club. Jones won a
worlds championship with a club
much weaker than Callahan now has,
but the opposing teams were not as
strong.
Remember, too, in trying to place
the probable finishing place of the Sox
that the league as Il whole is going to
be a tough one to 60 through this
season, and that the weak clubs are
almost as likely to beat the strong
ones as to beat the other weak ones
Give any of the weak clubs strong
pitching and worlds champions look
the same to them as u teams do.
What makes the Sox so hard to fig
ure is this: They have grand field
ers who can't hit, great hitters who
can't field, and two fellows who can
hit like fiends as long as the pitching
is bad and can't hit at all after about
July 4. In short, Callahan has a club
composed of material good enough to
win a pennant if he could use it all
at once, which he cannot.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-30

There is another youngster who looks
good to the experts, Herman. a young
Chicago boy. They say this fellow
is a WhirlWind all round and one of the
fastest men handling ground balls in
the business. Also, sad to relate. they
hint that the arm isn't strong.
Just how Zeider can be henched and
the shortstop job passed up to these
three is another puzzle. He is a hust-
ling, fighting, brainy ball player when
he has his heart in the game and an
invaluable offensive player. He seems
to be working hard this spring and not
suffering from the "disgusts."