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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16
CLOTHES AND THE TAX.

A clerk in the Chicago internal
revenue office remarked, on the day
that the last income tax returns were
brought in, that as a general thing
the shabber clothes people wore, the
bigger return they handed in. Per-
haps he exaggerated. Yet men came
in who did not look as if they could
sign a check for three figures, yet
they showed up property worth mil
lions.
This converse relation Of clothes
and prosperity is noticed in all stages
of society. Savings bank officials,
particularly those dealing with re-
cent immigrants, bear similar testi-
money. A Pole or Hungarian creeps
humbly into the bank, as if he doubt
ed his right to stand on it's marble
slabs in the presence of free-born and
lordly Americans. An inexperienced
clerk might feel like setting a dog
on him as a tramp.
Lo and behold, he pulls out a
greasy but protruding wallet and be-
gins to count out the fives and tens,
all soiled and redolent of long re-
pose in his perspiring pocket. When
the "wad" is complete it is several
times as much as the fashion plate
five o'clock tea clerk behind the
counter could produce.
In business life good clothes are
the badge of hope and ambition. A
well-creased pair OF trousers gives a
man a sense of confidence that re-
ligion can scarce bestow. Well fit
ting and cared for clothes suggest
both past success and habits of atten-
tion to detail that cannot fail to i'm
press a stranger favorably.
Once the big golden goal of wealth
is reached, the character often tends
to soften. A man rises later in the
morning and abates his habits of in.
dustry. Also the minor amenities oi
! life may begin to look formidable
Brushing off dust and polishing boot.
and scrupulous cleanliness may seen
like an effort, Man is at his best in
many ways in his days of struggle
and toll
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16
THE PLACE OF POETS IN MOD
ERN LIFE.

Poets are always considered fair
game for newspaper humorists. There
is no closed season on them, for the
spring poet bobs up indefinitely, re-
gardless of temperatures and seasons.
And person who live so much in a
world of imagination apart usually
have some eccentricities at which the
jokesmiths naturally aim their pleas
ant jests.
A real poet has still a large place
in modern life. The fact is empha-
sized by the invitation just extended
to Alfred Noyes, the brilliant and
rythmical English poet, to lecture
four months at Princeton University.
There is always a demand for good
poetry, though the pecuniary returns
are usually small. The space given
by the newspapers to printing verses
is still too large. 1t is doggerel al
legged to be humorous. But a good
deal of it is at least an effort to
express joy and sorrow in an elevated
and imaginative way.
The troubles of the poetry editor
of newspapers come from the fact
that many of the people who try to
write verse have no conception of
what the essential elements of poetry
are. The popular idea is that it is
string of verses tackled together
which end in words that rhyme.
Ryhme, however, is only one of the
smaller elements of real poetry and
may not be found at all.
The essence of real poetry is a gift
for expressing human sentiment in
an imaginative way, having some pc
culiar beauty of expression. A ryth
mical wording, along which the mind
dances in metrical way, is much
more important than rhyme. 1t is
this singing and dancing gift of verse
that has been one of the principal
factors in giving Mr.. Noyes his large
success here and in England
Lacking some suggestion of these
gifts, the poetry scribblers may well
be cautious how they spend too many
postage stamps in efforts to market
their stuff. Their effusions may
be pleasing to the participants in
golden wedding and old folks re-
unions, but the newspapers usually
want advertising rates for printing it..
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16
What Farm Women Want Most.

Says Farm and Fireside; We have
said that the first thing millions of
them want is running water in the
house. Now that Secretary Houston
has officially agreed with us we feel
sure of it. Analysis of the small part
of the letters yet digested," says the
secretary, shows that farm women
desire assistance in all phases OF
home management, especially as to
ways of securing running water, in
Producing household power machin-
cry and labor-saving arrangements
and providing better hygienic and
sanitary conditions And the first OF
these is running water, important as
the others are.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16

Hays, Douglass county; Eleanor Lu-
cile Kendig, Moline
The following list of Kansans was
handed the Tidings. The names are
from a roll of Jayhawkers, all of
whom reside in Ashland today, to
the best information: A. A. Marske,
engineer; A. C. Nininger, Ed Bear,
e. w. Rose, conductor; c. Vanbus-
kirk, F. D. Million, Mrs. Grace
Holmes, Alta, Mamie and Marie
Holmes, Mrs A. c. Keller, Charles
Rose, Karl Rose, Mrs. Mary Rose
Atkins.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16
Farm Assistant Policy Making
Healthy Growth.
Farm

Fear of the farm assistant idea
growing too fast is unwarranted.
The statement that the growth is
healthy and has only just begun,
made by President Waters of the
Kansas Agricultural College, who
continues as follows:
"of six or seven hundred counties
in the United States that have tried
the farm assistant idea, not one has
discontinued the plan. The farm as
sistant has not only proven himself
indispensable, but he has shown the
possibility of carrying the demonstra-
tion idea still further am conf
dent that in the course of a few
years the more progressive counties
will have assistants for each of the
more important branches OF farming
followed in those counties"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16
Big Meeting Of
JayhaWkerS

The meeting called for next We'd
nesday night at city hall for Jay
hawker organization promises to be
a big success. Every one who is a
native of the Sunflower state or re-
sided there long enough to consider
themselves Kansans should be pres
ent. Bring all the family and get
acquainted with your former neigh
bors.
This meeting will be largely a get
acquainted gathering to form plans
for the future.
Be on hand at city hall at o'clock
sharp.
Those who have sent in their
name since the list published, fol-
low:
Miss Ada Hartley, native of John
son county.
Mrs. Joe Hartley, lived in Johnson
county many years.
Mrs. w. J. Keryorn writes from
Tolo, Ore, her desire to join the
club. She was a resident of Jewel
county, Kansas, and two Of her chill
dren are natives.
j. l.. and Mrs. Barnthouse.
These acknowledge the Sunflower
state as their native state: Winn
Hays, Coffey county; Estella NJ.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Cigarette Habit is Gargled AWAY.

cigarette Habit is Gargled Away.
Here is the cure" for the cigarette
habit, as given out by w. S. Hale of
Salem, superintendent of the state
training school for boys, who says it
has been efficacious in every case
tried at the institution:
Home treatment-Two per cent So
luton silver nitrite (not silver nj
trate). Gargle at night three times
week for a month. Will not be
able to smoke next day after first
gargle and will be cured after taking
treatment for one month.
Treatment by physician or nurse
Five per cent solution silver nitrite.
Swab mouth and thraat daily until it
is believed cure has been obtained.
About IS per cent of the boys sent
to the institution are treated and
cured by these formulas.
Since publishing the story that
we We're curing boys of the cigarette
habit with silver nitrite," said Super
intendent Hale, I'VE have received a
half dozen to dozen letters a day
from persons asking if they could
come to the institution to be treated.
The fact that we have found the
treatment efficacious, and the ap-
peals of many persons, have induced
MS to make the prescription and
treatment public"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16
Animal Expressions.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: What are
called dumb animals are really not
dumb at all. Science is beginning to
find out that they have at their com
mand wide variety of distinct vocal
sounds which express their thoughts
as completely and often much more
concisely than human beings can
with their elaborate vocabularies.
Two English scientists have found
that the hen is able to utter at least
% different notes or cries, each of
which conveys a distinct meaning.
Many other sounds which the hen
continually uses have been observed,
but not yet classified or explained
This is quite remarkable, for the hen
has never been noted for its intelli-
gence. AS domestication undoubted-
ly diminishes a fowls alertness and
resources. it seems likely that wild
birds have a much larger vocabulary
than the barnyard varieties.
The way animals communicate
ideas to one another is quite differ
ent from our own. Our words most
ly define things or actons-the
sun" man." to eat" and so
forth. 1t is only by more or less
lengthy and complicated combina
tions of these words that we can ex-
press our feelings.
Animals, however, express their
subjective feelings directly by their
cries. Their language is language
of the emotions and they convey their
| joys and sorrows and fears to one
/ another with extraordinary rapidity
| and distinctness. A human being
would have to utter a good many
| words to convey the same idea of
! contentment which a cat gives to
other cats in single purring note.
An animals cries sometimes indi-
cate an objective thing, but only in
a secondary and not very definite
way. A cats splitting, for example,
does not always indicate the presence
Of a dog, for the fear and anger
which this sound expresses may be
due to some entirely different cause.
The peculiar low note which a senti-
mel crow gives to warn a flock of
crows Of danger has nothing in ito
to indicate whether that danger is
a man with gun or merely a hawk.
To make up for this definiency in
their language, animals often COM
bine with their cries movements
which help to make their meaning
palmer. When a hen utters a quick
squeak and crouches Immediately
in the grass she says as clearly as
words could do, There is a hawk
just overhead" You often hear a
hen utter this cry, and instantly her
young chicks will rush in all direc-
tions and hide themselves motionless
In the grass. Sometimes there may
be no voice or cry at all-the hen
will simply crouch down-and with
the same results; the chicks hide
themselves, well knowing what she
means.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16

w. j. Hale and family resided il
Jewel county, Kansas, for II years
E. w. Radifer lived in Kansas :
years Mrs. Radifer was born in Or
near Ottawa, Franklin county, and
lived there until coming to Oregon
IS years ago.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16
ASHLAND THE BEAUTIFUL.
(By A. Belle Anderson.)

Ashland The Beautiful" we hear
them all say,
So closely nesting to the Siskiyous
it lay.
No ice and no snow, nor cold winds
that blow,
All balmy and soft, where sweet roses
grow.
Just take a trip west, be convinced
Oregon's best;
The breath of the spring will be a
fair test.
The sky it is blue, welcome to you,
Where flowers are blooming the
whole year through.
What more can you ask?-grow a
crop without task,
For Nature has smiled, her treasures
she cast
A paradise of the gods, where the
pioneers trod,
Heavens beauty, earth's riches, are
mingled in sod.
Now, we will come to our city the
home
No more you'll be tempted this wide
world to roam.
Mt. Ashland water, cold and clear,
from the mountain quite near,
Through canyon so beautiful, with
out any peer.
Our park is gem, Ashland creek
there flows through,
With its waterfall, lake-liquid foun-
tain there, too,
The pride of us all, the slogan a
ditty,
The song We all sing, of our rose
bedecked city.
Lithia water at hand, health-giving
and grand;
Also soda, sulphur and iron flow out
of the sand.
The fruit and the berries have taken
the lead,
You know it is true, by the papers
you read.
The mines they are nigh, undeveloped
we sigh,
We long for a glance, its gold there
to espy.
oh, would that the hills would give
of their bounty,
The treasure they hide would enrich
the whole county.
The timber in mass nowhere is sur
passed,
Not knot, nor a curve, but straight
TO the last.
Marble Cave, with its stalactites so
rare.
One world great attraction not met
with elsewhere.
Its rooms show the work of His hand
and His care,
No artist can paint picture so rare.
Crater Lake, the worlds wonder
antwerp, turquoise blend into
one,
The sunlight there plays to show how
il is done.
Castle Rock, in her grandeur, look
ing down all alone,
To the waters below. whose depths
are unknown,
Stands as sentinel to guard and TO
stay,
Ger looking Wizard isle, seem to
hold II at bay.
The lone, lost eagle, in its wild, rest.
less flight.
Seems awed at the scene, to the scene
bids goodnight.
The place is enhancing, with color.
SO rife;
The mountain sank down, to give the
lake life.
All the resources OF Oregon can't tell
II is true;
Just stop on your way, therell b.
welcome for you.
All hail to our land, all hail to ou
song.
The fairest and best is old Oregon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16

The Mexican government will no
doubt protest against the inhumane
act OF our soldiers. who made 5000
Mexican refugees take baths.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16

There are whole lot of peorie
who would observe "Go-to-Church
Sunday if only a $3.9S parlor LAM
were given as a premium.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16

They are burning the midnight oil
SO assiduously at Yale college that a
dozen students are dropped for tam
going all night with the girls.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16

The politicians of all parties deny
responsibility for the earthquake that
shook the east, but the plain people
know better.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16

Plant more flowers. Make IL Ash.
land the City Beautiful"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-16

Phone news items to the Tidings
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-19
Leper Early Escapes-Former Wife,
Terrified, Given Police Protection

John Ruskin Early, the leper $ loose!
John r. Early who insipient while
American soldier in the Philippines who startled the
tire world when he discovered living quietly
nit Tacoma suburb years custody
is reported to be coming Tacoma!
John Early, live
conwho sought and strength making home his
children, colony
his wrath said be his little
family.
Mrs George N Tauson the who stood by her
husband for and who finally orsook him after
hiding in fear at her home 1890 South awaiting
moment that the supposed will
All last night today Patroman Nelson
forth before
officers
readiness intercept the leper he
sble taken the Tacoma police
against Early's invasion of Tacoma.
Early, besides being ncurable leper. is crazed.
When he learned his wife, whom he had
had
Early Whether he will be able
marked he by the his disease problem
the police debating.
colony Diamond Point
straits of Juan de Fuc Friday night He had been rusty
patient the colony had enjoyed liberties that other
colony taking
that
keep his escape a until yesterday.
w. b. MeCreery, physician Tacoma notified
escape, Immediately notified the police
exercised
precauion guarding every entrance to the city.
The of Eays has the world Today
using further
ment the establishment of a national eprosorium.
Eas gained worldwide notoriety Specialists
the world have debated and argued his disease half
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-19
PRISON
FOR FRAUD IS
SENTENCE ZEN iITI GIVEN
ATTY. SmALLEY

Frank A. Snalley Justice
eaueo guilty before Judge Clifford the
connection with settling sentenced t from
one TO 10 In the Wala WaIla penientiary.
Snaley Immediately to "a cell In the iaI
where he awaits guard TO Wall WaIIa
Inc plea OF smaley his n
uona climax to- the made axy
Fierce county superior
Judge smaley had been
OF Ida NJ Ross September pocketed
OF proceeds of the He
contempt failing a
bate proceedings. but failed to o lie court :
The Times u of
superior citing
GRAVITY neglected of all I'm the
Mrs. Josephine NJ Ross estate
Saturday " es
smaey collected all estate but failed to make
It, He
$lf9223to his and that he had OF
reimbursng the
Smaley appeared in mpng a stoutc He
is old fell sustaining
injuries that will him be
aged greatly during
emotion from his that he hardly
lie spoke patheicaly Judge Clifford lifelong friend
asking for clemency. +
II have made mistake judge pleaded know the
Know that erred
due But please in respect family myself
make the punishment light a
Judge Clifford made short bench telling of
the pain that caused by
friend and fellow barrister, but obey
the punishment
of followed.
Smaley lived In He has wife
and daughters During the become
absenmnded his friends and his
almost nothing
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-19
DID VILLA STAGE
TORREON BATTLE
FOR MOVIE MAN?

Youngstown. o., May 10
That Villas campaign which cul-
minated in the rebels capture of
Torreon vas staged at the cost of
hundreds of lives for the conven-
fence of moving picture operators,
was asserted today by J. M. Wolff,
official of local steel company,
just back from Mexico. villa
originally planned the attack on
Torreon at night, said Woltz, and
probably would have taken 1t in
short order had he done so.
The Representatives of Los
Angeles movie company protested
vigorously, however, according To
Woltz, offering Villa $1,000 for
exclusive right in the fight film
If a daylight engagement were
arranged. To get the money,
Woltz asserted, Villa delayed as
sault until dawn with the result
that the federals held out foi
days, killing about a thousand
rebels.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-19

ASHAMED OF DEALS
HE MADE WHILE AT
HEADOF NEWHAVEN

i do not feel proud OF the part
l played in that deal" said Mel
len. q should never have been
dragged into 1t, but even ! was
kept in the dark Until the details
were arranged. Morgan and VIII.
lam Rockefeller approved the
deal, but | thought the stock of
the Westchester road worth about
10 cents a pound. Now l know
| was right"
Mellen produced letter con.
tanning a prophecy he wrote In
1897. IL referred to the West.
chester deal wherein the New
Haven road paid $35, 100000 foI
20 miles of railroad and fran.
chises. MelIen wrote: MANY
regulations will lie damaged and
I'm the end ! will be the goat"
He admitted this is how the at.
fair worked out.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-19
EMPLOYMENT
Agent TOLD
TO BE GOOD

After a lengthy hearing in the
council chambers This morning, in
which City Employment Manager
j. G. Horne made allegations OF
"crookedness' and fraud the
city council reprimanded John
Burnett, proprietor of the Pho.
neer Employment Bureau, and
gave him another chance to
make good"
Burnett had been charged with
sending laborers out on false re-
ports of jobs, refusing to refund
their money, and cheating them.
The employment man managed to
refute many of the charges today,
but admitted that his business
methods had been lax. On mo-
tiOn of Commissioner Mills, he
was allowed to retain his license,
on condition that 1t would be
summary revoked If any further
complaints were established
against him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-19

food, going to sleep half-fed.
During the investigation" the
commission says In its report,
two girls were found who had
not had warm meal for a week. F."
1t is impossible to get a room
for less than $3.50 or SO a week, -
said a girl at a meeting held by
the commission in Tacoma.
She was earning Sc a week.
81 did my first clerking in
Walla Walla for 81 per day." she
said. THAT was six years ago
Six years later l am here clerk
ing, getting 81 a day. In Taco
ma they took me out of list
of 100 applicants. got SIS to
start with, and l had to go to
my employer and demand it be.
fore ! got a raise of 81.
tThey have a commission sys-
tenn in my store which allows a
girl to draw 81 a week il she
sells 500 worth of goods in a
week. If a salesgirl is short Is
cents of the 500, she gets moth
ing for her efforts. The book
keeper told me no one ever come
up to the required standard since
she has been there, and she is an
old employee
The welfare commission i'll
serted want" advertisements In
30 newspapers, and the average
cost for board and room in sc
places investigated was $22.57
a month or over So week.
How could girls earning So, SO
or even SO manage?
A laundryman, who estimated
the cost of girls living at 500
a year or $3.50 a week, told thu
commission: 1.-THE ordinary work.
ing girl wears a suit, dresses, un.
derwear, etc., two or three
years."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-19
LOW MAGE GIRLS
EAT Ga7'' cold Bib FOOD FOOD

OLYMPIA, Wash, May 19.-Within few weeks,
the order of the Washington Industrial Welfare
commission, establishing $40 minimum wage for
girls employed in mercantile establishments, will 60
into effect
Washington will thus, as in the case of the work
mems compulsory compensation law, be in the van
guard among the states in the union to promote the
conditions of labor
In the records on file with State Labor Commits
sioner Edward w. Olson, chairman of the minimum
wage committee, may be found ample reason for
Washington's advanced stand
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-19
|RECALLERS TO
START CHECK
ON ALL NAMES

All petitions for the recall of
Commissioner Mills and Woods
were taken to the recall head
quarters this afternoon, and the
final work of checking up names
began at once. 1t is probable
that the checking up of names
will be completed by tomorrow
night and that the petitions can
be filed Thursday morning, ac-
cording to Chairman Durrant of
the recall committee today.
Field workers reported today
with their petitions completely
filled. Chairman Durrant said
that the petitions would contain
several hundred more than the
4,526 names required, and that
there would be no possibility OF
the petitions being short.
Active work by the recalIers
ceased today when it was learn
ed that sufficient names had been
placed on the petitions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-19
nab SEATTLE GIRL HERE:
STOLE A $1,000 BROOCH

Charged with the theft in Sc
attic of a $1,000 diamond brooch,
owned by Manager Jensen of the
Alhambra theater, Paul and Eliza
beth Payne, believed to be clever
to be clever thieves, were cap
tured in Tacoma last night by
Detective Captain Adam Wiley
and Detective Peter d. Mckay.
The couple attempted to pawn
the 1000 stones in a Commerce
street pawn shop for $500, when
the detectives rushed in upon
them. During a rigid examina-
tion by Captain John Fitzgerald
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-19
MAYOR To SUE WOMAN FOR
THE RETURN Of S269. 20

Formal demand will be made
by Mayor A. V. Fawcett upon
Mrs. Agnes Fletcher, former sup
erintendent of the Tacoma con-
tagious hospital, for $269.20, al
legged to be the amount she has
charged the city for her board
during the time she has been
head of the institution. II Mrs.
Fletcher refuses to pay the sum,
Mayor Fawcett said today that
he would be forced to institute
suit against her.
While Mrs. Fletcher was super
intendent. she had a contract to
supply meals for patients and
employees at 20 cents apiece. It
is alleged that, In violation of the
contract, she has charged the city
with her own meals. Secretary
Rockhill. in checking over the OK
penses of the contagious hospital,
found the items, and began