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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09
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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09
A FIDDLERs' CONVENTION.

News from Atlanta, Ga, telling of
meeting of the Old-Time Fiddlers'
Association, suggests one of those
picturesque old type of personality
that are fast becoming extinct.
Nowadays there are no fiddlers.
They are all violinists. You can see
the youngsters Saturday morning
piking along the streets with their
instrument case and roll of music,
vending their way to the music
teachers for a lesson. As this in
struction is a matter of parental de-
cree enforced on children who Sc
cretly long to be out playing games,
too few real musicians are ground
out
Every country neighborhood had
its fiddler He had rarely taken any
thing that could be called profession
al instruction. Often he bought his
cherished fiddle at an auction and
picked up his version of technique
from some old-timer who had pre-
ceded him.
Music was to him the chief joy of
living. He usually had some ostensi-
bic calling at which he earned a bare
living wage. But as he was hoeing
corn or cobbling shoes his heart was
in the breakdown to come off that
night at the crossroads.
He had little conceit as to his own
powers. Usually you had to use
many arts of persuasion to induce
him to bring along his fiddle to
public function. Many typical old
time fiddlers used something to start
with his instrument, but to repent
and conceal his fiddle behind a wall
or in some barn on reaching his des-
tination.
Once started, it was as difficult to
quench the liquid melody as to in
duce him to begin Irish Washer
woman" Money Musk" ETC., rolled
out of his singing bow by the league.
His was kindly soul, who brought
merriment wherever he went His
place is not wholly supplied by the
technically better playing today
which so often lacks the old-time en-
thusiasm.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
"The Old Game"

Most prohibition literature is
worthless, because it only appeals to
the prohibitionist, says Robert Ruhl
in the Medford Sun.
But Sam Blythe, the well-known
author of Who's Who and Why in
the Saturday Evening Post" has
written prohibition article entitled
The Old Game" which is not worth
less because it will appeal to the per-
son who is not a prohibitionist.
Sam was pretty consistent and
convivial imbiber a few years ago.
And he isn't less convivial or con-
sistent now, but he has decided that
the drinking game is losing game,
and has cut it out entirely.
In our opinion this article is the
the best argument written for pro-
hibition during the present genera
ton.
There is no fanatical Demon
Rum hysteria, there is no sour-faced
moralizing about the wickedness of
drinking by a man who has never
taken drink, but there is a readable.
kindly and convincing succession of
experiences given by a man who has
played the game, knows the game,
and has stopped not because he be-
lieves it wicked but because he be-
lieves it isn't worth while.
We quote the following:
Looking at the matter from all
its angles, | am convinced that the
best thing l ever did myself was to
quit drinking. ! will so further than
that and say 1t is my unalterable con-
viction that alcohol, in any form, as
a beverage never did anything for
any man that he would not have been
better without.
And let me say another thing:
One of the reasons / quit vas be-
cause | noticed was going to funer-
ais oftener than usual-funerals of
friends who had been living the same
sort of lives Tor theirs as had been
living for mine. They began drop
ping out with Bright's disease and
other injections superinduced by al
cohol; and ! took stock OF that fea-
ture of it rather earnestly. The fun
erals have not stopped. They have
been more frequent in the past three
years than in the three years preced-
inS-all good fellows, happy, conviv-
ial souls, but now dead. Some of
them thought | was foolish to quit,
too!
And there are a few cases of
hardening arteries | know about, and
a considerable amount of gout and
rheumatism, and some other ills
among the gay boys who jayed at
me for quitting. Gruesome, is it not?
And God forbid that / should cast up.
But if you quit in time there will
be no production of albumen and SUI
gar, no high blood pressure, no swol-
len big toes and stiffened joints.
IF health is a desideratum, one
way to attain a lot of it is to cut
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09
BOSTON'S NEW MAYOR.

1t is a mighty good thing that the
law which prevents a civil service
employe from holding two jobs and
drawing two salaries at once does not
apply to congressman. If it did, the
Hon. James NJ. Curley, representative
in congress from the twelfth district
of Massachusetts, would lose good
thing" For be it known that the
Hon. Curley is also mayor of Bos-
ton. Further than that, the Hon.
Curley is holding both jobs at once
and drawinb both salaries. Not only
that, but the Hon. Curley has moved
the mayors officr in Boston town
and is conducting his congressional
correspondence from the mayors Of
flee. This is by no means a new
thing for the Hon. James NJ. He has
worked the same game before. He
was elected to the sixty-siXth con-
gress in 1909. At that time he was
serving on the Boston board of alder
men. Did he choose one job and re-
sign the other? Not so you could
notice il. He came down to Wash
ington as a congressman and con-
tinued to hold his job on the Boston
board of aldermen. His autobiogra-
ply in the congressional directory
witnesses the fact.
The Hon. Jim has another unique
distinction attaching to his name.
He is the only congressman, so far
as the record shows, who was ever
put in Jail for an offense against the
civil service laws. He served term
in Jail for taking a civil service ex-
animation for a friend. His biogra.
ply does not mention this.
The funny part of it is that there
seems to be no member of congress
with sufficient nerve to rise in his
place in the house and demand the
enforcement of the rule against alb
sentee members. The house rule
solemnly declare that no member
shall be absent from the house unless
on account of illness of himself Of
family, or unless specially excused by
the house. This rule, however is no
enforced. If it were, half the mem
bers would be jailed about half tn,
time for contempt of the house. S,
the Hon. Jim Curley continues Sc
recently to serve the people of Bostol
as mayor while he also represents
them in the house-drawing bot
salaries. The people of Boston seen
TO like it, and the house doesn't OBJ
ject.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09
A MAN AND A GOVERNMENT JOB.

The story of Frank Nagle, a plate
printer who lost his job, then his
wife, next his children, and finally
ended up in government asylum
for the insane, amply illustrates waht
becomes of a man who has a sure
thing year after year and then loses
it. Nagle worked for the government.
He was not required to any specific
amount of work. Uncle Sam is an
easy taskmaster. The minimum
amount of work is partialed out
among a maximum number of en-
ployes. Nagle drew his salary with
regularity. There was no reason for
him to ever speed up" efficiency
was not in his line. He was probably
a good workman when he went into
the employ of the government. but
he was useless when he came out
To hold his job with the government
was an easy matter he became more
lhSllICleni every udN. mere are
10000 government workers in Wash
ington travelling the same road. If
there was a limit to the years of SER
vice of an ordinary clerk or employe
it would be different; he would be
able to spend few years in offices
employing the best office and me-
chanical facilities and then he would
be able to get out and do a man
work in the world. That portion of
the civil service law which provides
that a man must demonstrate his
capability before he is appointed to
office is splendid, and that portion
of the service regulation of how we'll
he may fit the job or how well he
may do his work is a farce. 1t is
good law enacted for a good purpose
and loaded with some bad features
which have resulted in governmental
extravaganza and incompetency.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09
THE CLEANUP CAMPAIGN.

The proposed cleanup campaign is
necessary to the sanitation and
health of the community and should
be done thoroughly and enthusiastic
ally. In this connection it would be
well to remember that the common
house fly is just one moving collec-
tion of disease germs. They are on
their wings and feet, anr they deposit
the mon food and in liquids. II has
been amply proven that the fly has
been the cause of transmitting ty-
phoid fever, infantile paralysis and
hundreds of other equally dangerous
diseases.
If you kill fly in the fall you
simply kill one fly, but now is the
time when they multiply rapidly and
every fly that you kill now means
that you stop the propagation of
countless millions. The fly is a men
ace to health, and refuse heaps and
garbage heaps breed the fly. Re-
move these things on a general clean
up day and in the meantime start a
vigorous campaign to keep your
house free from flies and you will
be protecting your family from those
infectious diseases which the fly car
ries on its wings and feet. Monday
March 30, is cleanup day. Do not
wait. Do it now.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09

Secretary of Agriculture David S.
Houston has issued a circular which
discredits the Fletcher Moss South
ern Commercial Congress scheme for
rural credits legislation. 1t appears
from the secretary's analysis that the
Fletcher-Moss bill savors too much OF
exploitation of the farmer by the pro-
fessional banker. The best form of
rural credits is that worked out CO.
operatively by the rural community
itself without the interference of big
banking interests.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09

have few weeks of unrestricted and
unhampered vacation, which would
give them the real holiday before
they returned to college
Military Camps for College Stu
dents" by Arthur Wallace Dunn, in
the American Review OF Reviews for
March.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09

When the poets wrote those NOV.
ing verses about the pleasures OF the
imagination, they probably had just
seen some one reading seed cata-
logue.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09

out the booze. The old game makes
good fun, but it takes toll-and
never fails."
To some OF our fire-eating freDzied
friends who can't see a beer glass
without seeing forked tails and brim-
stone, We earnestly commend THE
Old Game" Here is the sort of am
munition to employ against the
liquor traffic. For while laws and
revival meetings may help, substan-
tial and lasting improvement can
only come through the individual and
his education. And this is the sort
of gospel that takes root, and works
from within out, not from without
in.
Outlawing the liquor traffic is only
half the battle. The complete vic
tory can only come when the indi-
vidual realizes that THE Old Game"
is one in which he will always be
the loser.
The most trying time of the col
lege career of a youth-trying for
his parents-is the vacation period.
Very rich people, with large summer
homes, or those who can travel
abroad, or who can spend money lib
orally for their boys while they go to
seashore and mountain resorts, do
not worry about what to do with the
boy when he comes home for vaca-
tion. The very poor, likewise, do not
worry, because they boy must go to
work if on the farm, or into the fac
tory or shop if in the city or town.
But the average family is always at
a loss as to how to give the college
! boy on vacation a good time without
too much expense; to afford him
recreation and outdoor life: and to
avoid having him spend his time
about the streets.
1t would seem that the military
student camps have solved the prob
lem for a large majority of parents
The young men will have an outdoor
life, recreation. and be under disci-
pline, at the same time receiving in
struction of a most valuable charac-
ter. They will be taught how to
care for a camp, care for accoutre-
ments, besides military instruction
which will be of great value to them
in the future. Coming out of the
military camps the young men would
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09

1t is predicted that the pear
shape will be womans next figure
The present style must be the pear
upside down.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09

The next question is what General
Villa will do for recreation, when he
gets everybody executed?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09

Have you set out a red rose OF
Ashland" this spring?
New Britain herald., 1914-08-14
Two Damaged Warships
 Enter Hong Kong Harb0r

Shanghai. Aug. 1.-Two warships, each having four tunnels, badly damaged and carrying many wounded entered the harbor at Hong Kong yes terday. Their identity has not been learned here but the vessels are be- lieved to be either the British ar mored cruisers Minotaur and Hamp- shire, or the French armored cruis- ers Dupleix and Montcalm. They are reported to have had an engagement with the German cruisers of the same type. Sharnhorst and Gneisenau X despatch from Hong Kong re- ceived by the Exchange Telegraph company, in London last night said it was reported in Hong Kong that the British fleet in the far east had cor nered the German far eastern squadron. The correspondent added that weight was given to the report by the fact that shipping along the coast was being resumed on a normal basis
 The British cruiser Minotaur has a displacement of 14,60O tons and was completed In 1908. She carries four 9.2 inch guns and smaller armament Ihe Hampshire is a less formidable craft, her tonnage is 1O,85O and her four largest guns are AIS each. The Dupleix and Montcalm are of 7.578 and 9.367 tons. Each carries eight 54 inch guns and smaller ones The German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are sister ships, displa cing II APO tons. They were launched in 1906 and each carries eight 82 inch guns and the cruiser equipment of smaller guns.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-14
LOCAL REPUBLICANS
 TO ATTEND OUTIN(
Hardware City Men Will Attend Gc| Together Meeting i'm Bridge
 port Tomorrow.

New Britain will be well represen| ed at the big republican get-togeth( meeting in Bridgeport tomorrow d several of its officials and other pron| inent republicans.
 At least three automobile loads wi go down shortly after noon, cars b( ing loaned by Building Inspector N. Rutherford, Peter Suzio and Jl seph Towers. Among those who al going are Mayor George A. QuieIe| Building Inspector Rutherford. Petl Suzio, Joseph Towers, Commisstonl Healey, Aaron Danielson, Judge Jam T. Meskill, Mark M. Cashmere an George Elliott.
 The republican state central eonl mittee will hold a meeting tomorro| morning in the Park city and i'm tr| afternoon the big outing will ia, place. There is to be a big stre1 parade. a dinner and other events d interest and pleasure which are sud to draw out big crowd to boost tf] G. o. P.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-14
French Troops Hold Valley of Bruche

London, Aug. 14.-The Paris cor respondent of the Exchange Tele- graph company. telegraphs an official statement issued by the minister of war at the French capital at mid night. Referring to the fight on the ridge of the Vosges mountains, he ssys: French troops held their positions on the mountains for five days despite vigorous attacks of the Germans, who were superior in num- Ter. At one point the Germans brought, beside their weakened troops, some formations of reserves but the latter were unable to resist the French attack and were obliged to lay down their arms. The entire division surrendered. The French troops hold the valley of the Bruche'
New Britain herald., 1914-08-14

scribes. The Belgians permitted the forces of General von Emmich to actually pass the forts in their march on the town and then attacked in the rear from the forts and on their front with infantry. He estimated the German casualties as from five to ten times as great as those of the de- lenders.
 Speaking as neutral,' says MT. Duras, according to the Times it seems to be part of the new military tactics of the Germans to fight as much as possible in the night time. mparatively little fighting occurred at Liege during the day
 The scheme of the Belgian de- fence seemed to be not to make any serious resistance to the attack until the German troops were actually past the forts. Then, when they were close up to the town and their several bodies trying to effect a juncture, fire was opened upon them from the forts behind and from rifles and ma chine guns in front, so they were caught in a trap and retreat was cut off. There was nothing for them to do but to be shot down or surrender.
 "The amount of suffering on both sides owing to an inability to deal promptly with the wounded was very great, but especially to the Germans, whose casualties were from five to ten times as numerous as those among the Belgians.
 The Germans paid a terrible pen alty for the boldness of their scheme of attack, which, from military point of view, could be Justified only by conviction on the part of the German officers that they would meet with only the feeblest resistance. The mistake they made was in under rating the fighting qualities of the peaceful Belgians."
New Britain herald., 1914-08-14
Versions of Statement
 Differ in Some Respects

London. Aug. IA, 12:15 D. m.-The version given by the Havas agency of the official statement issued by the French minister of war in Paris at midnight in reference to the fight on the Vosges mountains between the French department of Meurthe-et- Moselle and German Lorraine differs in some respects from that given by the Exchange Telegraph company. It says:
 An entire section, and not di- vision of the German troops surren- dcred with their machine guns"
 The Havas version adds:
 Tn the course of recent operations e number of spies have been court martfalled and shot, including the mayor and postmaster of Thanh, in Lower Alsace.
 Two French battalions which had seized the village of Lagarde in Ger man Lorraine, above Avricourt, were
 (Continued on Fourth Page.)
New Britain herald., 1914-08-14
RELIEVE FINANCIAL
 TENSION IN GERMANY
Embassy in Berlin Restores Almost Normal Conditions
 Among Americans.

Washington, Aug. 14.-Volunteers who have co-operated with Ambassa- dor Gerard have made it possible for the em mbassy in Berlin to restore al- most normal conditions among Ann orleans in Germany, according to a report received today at the state de- partment. Cooperation of the Dres- dener Bank, which has agreed to cash a limited number of checks of Americans bearing the American con- sular stamp of identification has greatly relieved the financial ten sion.
 From funds subscribed by the Am erican colony in Berlin and a large personal contribution from MT. Rud- dock of Chicago, specie has been sent to many American consuls through out Germany for cashing checks and disbursing department, which daily pays our cash allowances to the needy, has been established in Berlin with Mrs. Gerard and Mrs. Ruddock in charge. A card index has been made of all Americans in Berlin. dividing them into three classes; families with small children. women alone and all others.
 Through the Wolff news agency word has been sent to all American citizens in Germany that travel to or from southern Germany, where most of the baths and many of the pleasure resorts are located, is practically inn possible.
 In addition to the work of assisting Americans, Ambassador Gerard re- ports that he has opened an English bureau in the embassy for the issue of passports and general aid to British subjects. Boylston Bealle of Boston, is in charge of that work
 Ambassador Gerard's report reached the state department via Copenhagen and bore forwarding date of Aug ust 13.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-14
Two Battered Warshps, Either French British Arrive There With Many Wounded Seven German Ships
 Sunk on East Coast of England
Reported Purchase of German Cruis- CTS Goeben and BresIau by Turkey
 Arouses Ire of Germany's Foes.

the fight the Germans were obliged to pass two bridges over the Gethe and Velpe rivers, where they were exposed to a heavy fire. The retiring Germans left piles of dead and wounded at these bridges.
 The same carnage occurred on the road from Threck to Haelen, where the German cavalry, exposed to the gatIing guns of the Belgians, fell in droyes
 The German infantry and cavalry had a similar reception near Col faekin.
 The success of the Belgian arms is considered here particularly im- portant as most of the Belgian troops participating had not been under fire before.
 The Belgian casualties at Haelen were light in dead as the troops were we'll entrenched, but many were wounded. The situation, which was somewhat critical Tuesday morning, when the German patrols had arrived close to Brussels, was held to be rapidly improving. from the stand point of the Relgians twenty-four hours later.
 The victory described above was followed by new and successful en- agreements near Noville-Taviers and Eghezee, about nine miles north of Namur on Wednesday and Thursday.
 These operation proved that the Germans are retreating further and that the allies, being steadily rein- forced. are resolutely pushing ahead.
 Brussels is no longer in danger but the situation few days ago was such that the eventuality of it's occupation by the Germans was considered.