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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

constructed that any one can start
fire in it the first time by the simple
eXpedient of substituting gasoline for
kerosene. AS rule, the cook stove
has to be fired up every morning and
this is a wifely duty which should
be included in the marriage ritual
along with love, cherish and obey.
Failure to attend to this, on the part
of enraptured and short-sighted
bridegrooms, often results in the
mournful spectacle of embittered
bubbles leaving a warm bed at an
unearthly hour and cropping around
in sepulchral woodshed after kind
ling, in their pajamas.
One of the principal functions of
the cook stove is to heat water for
the bathroom. 1t discharges this
function with great enthusiasm for
the member of the family who gets
to the bathtub first, after which it
yields an icy product that would
build chilblains on an Antartic eX-
plorer. In summer the cook stove
does not heat water or anything else,
which accounts for the increasing
popularity of the bathing beach and
the four-minute sponge-off.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26
HONESTY THE BEST RESULT
GETTER.

"The real estate men who are
really interested in this country and
who are doing constructive business
must drive the fake advertiser out
of the field" said William Wood
head, president of the Associated Ad
Clubs of America, and general man
ager of the Sunset Magazine.
Cooperation and not coercion
will bring about honesty in advertis-
ing. Above all things swat the fax
er: let someone else swat the fly.
The west is the Mecca most people
are aiming for We have created
that desire, and the only reason they
do not come in larger numbers than
they do is because we have permit
ted the fraudulent advertiser to spoil
the game. The people in the east
lack confidence in the advertising
they read bearing on the wonderful
resources of this country"
Woodhead predicted that all the
Pacific coast unsettled lands would
be sold out within very few years
if the people on the other side of the
Mississippi could believe all they read
about the west. He emphasized the
point that fake advertising reduces
the profits of the honest real estate
broker and that truth in advertising
is best because it is truth
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26
PRICES BEING MET BY LOCAL
MERCHANTS.

The advertising mail order price
is becoming the established retail
price all over the country and forcing
honest dealers toward lower quality
and special brand goods" according
to reliable correspondence just made
public by the American Fair Trade
League. The writer is M. l.. Corey,
a prominent retaile dealer of Argos,
Ind. and secretary of the National
Retail Hardware Association, and re-
plies to a circular letter issued by an
opponent of the one-price-to-all plan
of merchandising as applied to
standardized goods. Mr.. Corey at
tacks certain mail order practices
bitterly, saying in part:
Experience is demonstrating that
unrestricted catalogue prices mean
the destruction of the retail mer-
chants opportunities to build a busi-
ness based upon quality and reputa-
tion of makers.
You know mail order houses have
time and again advertised standard,
well-known brands of goods at less
than wholesale prices with the sole
idea of substituting Others of un-
known origin.
You know that these same mail
order houses, in order to coerce and
injure reputable manufacturers who
refuse to sell the price demoralizers,
have even bribed retailers to pur-
chase certain goods for them and
then advertised same at less than
actual cost.
You know that the advertised
mail order price is becoming the es-
tablished retail price all over the
country and forcing honest dealers
toward lower quality and special
brand goods.
There may be a dividing line be-
tween attention getters' and bats,
but the consumer never knows. Our
profits are right now a football for
the price cutter and dishonest ad-
vertiser, and the result is causing so
much injury to the country town
merchant that we welcome price
maintenance, honest window displays
and truthful advertising as moves in
the right direction
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26
Wise Insects,

In his experiments to determine
whether it is the color or the odor Of
lowers that attracts bees and other in
sects NJ. Plateau. the Belgian zoolo-
gist. bethought him OF trying mirror.
He selected a flower Of striking color
and strong odor and placed it before an
excellent glass IN which the reflection
was perfect All the insects went
straight to the real flower. and not a
single one approached the reflection in
the mirror.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26
HOW THE FIGURES READ.

Good roads throughout the country
would mean the saving of enough
money each year to build fifteen
Panama canals. This is the state
ment of State Highway Commissioner
James r. Marker of Ohio in discuss
ing his plans for publicity cam
paign in connection with the depart
ments good roads movement. THE
cost of hauling one ton one mile on
good road by horse-drawn wagons
is cents" said Marker. The aver
age cost in the United States is 23
cents. Five billion tons of freight
are hauled annually over roads. The
average haul is ten miles. This
makes the traffic amount to fifty bill
lion ton-miles. At 23 cents a ton
mile, the annual cost is $ll 900, ,0O0s-
600. At s cents mile, the good
road cost, the saving would be ST.
100000, 900" It's easy to do things
with figures.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26
OREGON PRODUCTS TO BE
SHOWN.

At the great development conven-
tion held in Eugene il was the unan-
imous opinion OF the delegates that
a statewide exhibit of Oregon prod
ucts be maintained at Ashland during
1915. A meeting to discuss and defi-
nitely determine the cost and other
details of such exhibit will be held.
All the members of the last legisla-
ture who can make it convenient to
be in Portland on that date are
urged to attend. Also state officials.
Representatives from all the CONNER
cial clubs will be welcome and all of
the communities represented at Eu-
gene last week will name special del
egates
or course. under the law no MEM
ber of the legislature can give a def
mite pledge as to an appropriation to
be made in the future, but as a citi-
zen he can give his opinion at to the
common sense of such an exhibit as
will be under discussion. Ten thou
sand dollars will construct the build
ing. pay for gathering the products
and for every other character of
work up TO January l, 1915. when
the legislature will meet. Twenty
five thousand dollars will pay for the
entire years work The Portland
session will welcome suggestions pro
and con.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26
FARMER NEEDS TO APPLY BUSI-
NESS METHODS.

Farming is a business, and when
farmers run their farms along ap-
proved business lines and put the
same intelligence and energy into
the conduct of their business that
the business man must put into his
If he is a success, the farmer will
beat the average city man in results
ten to one, and at the same time
have the advantage of living where
there is the greatest prospect of
health, which in so many instances
has the most to do with happiness.
The farmer may have sufficient area
and grow the right kind of crops, yet
not be successful, owing to the poor
quality of his entire business. Poor
crops do not pay the cost of produc-
ton, and the feeding of these to un-
productive live stock are common
causes OF failure. This characteristic
of unsuccessful farming attracts
much public attention. Such farms
are Improbable largely through ig-
norance or indifference on the part
of the operator Under good man
agement they can generally be made
successful.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

Should Popular Songs Be Cen
sored?" This question is asked by
the Woman's World, and answered in
the affirmative. 1t cites the probable
fact that such songs as When | Get
You Alone Tonight" Il Love My
Wife, But Oh You Kid" MY Wife's
Gone to the Country, Hooray, Hoo
ray" and Row, Row, Row." are
lowering in their tone and because
of their repetition have a demoraliZ-
ing effect on the susceptible young
men and women who sing them. This
is offered merely that others may eX-
ercise their thought upon it If they
choose. A man in the theatre the
other night gave expression to the
belief that the moving picture with
practically every hero, and certainly
every villain, smoking a cigarette is
doing more to promote the use of the
cigarette among boys than all of the
agencies against it are able to ac-
complish. This man is a tobacco
eater, not noted for any special re-
finement, and could have no special
prejudice that would cause him to
make the remark. Is it possible that
a censorship of moving picture actors
is advisable?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26
The Innocent Cook Stove.

The cook stove is horrible exam
pie of mans inhumanity to woman.
Sometimes, when placed in the hands
of a young bride who learned every
thing at college except how to hash
brown potatoes, II becomes an object
lesson of woman's inhumanity to
man. The world is full of bilious
husbands who married some prize
winner in the Latin course. and woke
up later to find that while she could
pin the shoulders of a Greek root
to the mat three times out of five
she didn't know whether a cook stove
could be started from the seat or had
to be cranked with half hitch.
In newly established home which
! Is filled with love and installment
furniture the cook stove l., used for
the first few years as domestic sci
enc experiment station. As nearly
all cook stoves are made of sheet
iron. they do not feel these expert
ments nearly so much as the rest of
the family. If there were more sheet
iron stomachs in existence there
would be fewer round trip tickets
sold to Reno, with six months stop
over.
The cook stove is a simple affair,
and seldom requires more care than
| a six-cylinder automobile. II Is SO
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

The National Association of Retail
Grocers has voted to urge its mem
bers to discourage customers from
buying eXtravagantly.
Although the action taken by the
national body is most commendable,
the problem how extravagant popular
habits are to be checked is not an
easy one. Few retail merchants en-
courage the public to buy beyond
their needs.
The real cause of extravaganza is
the effort of people to live beyond
their means. The woman who could
afford an ingram carpet wants brns-
sells, and when she gets to the brus-
sells she wants oriental rugs. The
merchant must show what the pub
lie wants to see. The best he can
do is to eXtol the virtues of simple
and substantial articles.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

The fact that they can't make
living at anything else is considered
by many people good reason why
they should be appointed income tax
collectors.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

II might be convenient for the rail-
road presidents to live in Washing
ton as most of the work nowadays
consists in answering the questions
of government officials.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

Redd-Did you have a nice auto
mobile trip? Greene-Part Of the way.
The chauffeur went too fast going out.
81 suppose be reduced speed coming
back"
"Oh. yes: we were towed back!'-
Yonkers Statesman.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

The suffragists went away dissatis-
fled from the White House, though
the president would have frankly
given them his ideas about the best
way to make bread.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

Prices for seats on the stock ex-
changes OF the country are going up
with the rise in the market, but you
can still get free ticket for admis-
sion to Monte Carlo
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

Not merely was Butch McDevitt
forbidden to speak from the capitol
steps. but they wouldn't even give
him leave to print in the Congress
sional Record.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

There is a disagreement of opinion
as to whether the smaller number of
people carried by the railroads is due
to hard times or the growing scarcity
of passes.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

The vice-president's wife is such
a social leader in Washington that
Mr.. Marshall must be tempted to cut
out his dull work in the senate chair
and stay at home and pour tea.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

Some cities persist in selling their
bonds over the counter, ignoring the
fact that this leaves the brokers
without commission.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

We men often sneer at the foolish
things that women allow to excite
them-but, of course, we did not
take the same point of view when as
girls in their teens our evening visits
produced the same results. That
seemed like something to get excited
about
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

Although the world looks pretty
black to the income tax payers about
now. they should reflect that while
there is life there is hope.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

Some cities are filming people s.
for tangoing, but the dancing teach
ers deny that this was done to in
crease their business.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

General villa always keeps in good
humor, provided he Is not deprived
of the executions that constitute his
daily recreation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26
MAKE THE
HOTEL MEDFORD
Your Home and Resting Place

"iO ""N A'OS'hS AidCc.
Visitors to Medford will find this
modern hotel both convenient and
accessible place from which to shop
and meet friends. Rooms $1.00 up.
Hot and cold water in every room.
Courteous attention.
Ladies will find large. comfortable
and airy parlors and reception room.
Meals served la carte in spacious
dining room. EMIL MOHR, Prop.
YOUR RESTING PLACE.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

People who are looking for the
wild and woolly west" go east to
New York and Boston, the homes of
the gunner.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

That force of Mexican generals in
termed in Texas seem to have all the
comforts of home except a few kill
ings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen

Modern living is complex affair,
greatly in contrast with the simple
modes of life of the earlier Americans
and of their immediate descendants.
All the appliances which have been
invented-notably during the past
generation-to give heightened COM
fort to the home and to make labor
easier, have added to this complex
ity of living, and most materially to
its cost. How materially one would
hardly believe until he had studied
the matter for himself and discov-
cred beyond a question that today a
man cannot support a wife and bring
up one child living in comfortable
and not at all lavish manner upon
what his ancestors would have con-
sidered sufficient to rear large FAM
lily, He cannot do it on what it cost
his ancestors of only two generations
ago.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

Have you set out a red rose OF
Ashland" this spring?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

At least learn not to get out of
patience with yourself.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-02-26

The modern conveniences of rural
free delivery of mail, rural telephones
and trolley railroads, are rapidly an
Initiating the old-time isolation of
country life and rendering the social
intercourse of farmers and their fam
lilies one of the most delightful fea-
lures of rural life. These modern
conveniences are all educational in
their character to certain extent,
and they all mean more intelligent
agricultural population for the future
and strong guarantee of better So
cial economic conditions for all
classes. We do not believe strong
er bulwark for the safety of Ameri-
can progress and liberty could be es-
tablished than the practical educa-
tion of American farmers
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-22
UNITED STATES CANNOT STOP
EXECUTION OF ME xICANS
(By United Press.)

cannot prevent the summary rxecu-
tion of political enemies of the vari-
GUS Mexican factional leaders. 1t is
uDerstood this reply has been made 70
several influential Mexicans who ap-
pcalfc to the state department. to pro-
teet friends who have been taken
prisoners. The United States an pro-
te"r only Americans and otner por-
eigners. 1t tried to inflren@e Car
rsnza and Gutierrez to stop execu-
items. Gutierrez insisted that he had
ordered them stopped, but unofficial
advices indicate his orders hav, been
ignored.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-22
KLfINf CHRISTMAS FEAT.
URf FOR The NIXON

Scenes of beautiful Venice; scenes
of life in the quaint Italian city in
the fifteenth century; scenes Of fery
love and fierce vendettas are woven
into a charming six-reel film 20 be
shown at the Nixon opera house
Friday, December 25, Christmas.
If that were not enough guarantee
of its sterling merit, the name of its
producer, George Kleine, would be
sufficient. The mighty spectacle Of
"Quo, Vadis,' "Antony and Cleo
patra' and "The Last Days of
Pcmpeii' were introduced to Ameri-
ca under his name and now follows
ane ther, equally big, equaiiy splenlid
in its immensity. tThe Lion If
Venice is the fourth big Kleine pic.
ture and its presentation at the Nixon
will afford an educational treat in mo-
tion Photography as rare as it is valu.
able.
"The Lion of Venice was n-o-
duced under Mr.. Kleine's personal di.
rection in Venice, Italy, last winter
The beautiful Grand canal made a
strong appeal to his sense of romance;
and Immediately after the completion
OF Shakespeare "Othello,'' the
players were put to work on the new
picture. The city fathers, reco2niz-
ing the tremendous advertising ad
vantage of Klein picture mads IN
their city, offered to close the Grand
canal to all traffic for half dav
provided the story should contain he
name of Venice. This was according
ly agreed to, so the big photoplay was
given its name after a mammoth
brass lion s head which adorned ,fs
entrance to the Palace of the Doge.
and into which the people of those
days dropped information notes q
their enemies. This brass lions heed
in reality letter-box for informers
plays an important part in .ha story
The Venice of the pictures IS th'
same Venice of five centuries ego
The old palaces still remain beside
tie flowing water and tas gaily
attired gondoliers sing the same ser
enades and strum the same guitars oil
moonlight evenings much as they di,
wi er Venice was the Queen Of th'
Adriatic and the home of 50 mucl
romance and adventure.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-22
NEW GAME LAW WHICH
SHOULD BE ENACTED

A new game law that should be
passed by all states would contain
the following
Book agents may be shot between
October l and September L; spring
roets from March l to June /; auto
mobile speed demons from January l
to January l; road hogs from April
II to April Is; amateur hunters from
September ! to February /; war talk
ers-no closed season; any man who
accepts paper for two years and
then, when the bill is presented, says
81 never ordered it, may be killed
on sight and shall be buried face
downward in quicklime so as to de-
stroy the germs and prevent the
spread of the infection.-Sparks
Tribune.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-22
COMPANY Will ERECT
MILL AT LEONARD GREEK

A company has been formed by sew
|erai Of the owners of Leonard creek
mining properties who will take in a
mill to work the ore from their own
claims, also do custom work for 9th
ers in the district. There is consider
able ore on various dumps that will
lay to work if the mill can save the
values. Some of this ore assays
thousands of dollars.
Should this venture prove success
full it will open up country that is
iioh in minerals, both quartz and
placer.
But little actual development work
has been done owing to the distance
OF this gold belt from the railroad and
lack of facilities for working. Several
claims in the district were worked at
a profit more than forty years ago
the ore being sacked in dried COW.
hides, hauled on hand sleds to the
wagon roads and then to old Vary
vile, where crude, old-time quartz
mill saved enough of the free gold
contained in the rock to nay those
who took it from the lodges.
The district is lined with gold, cop
per and silver lodges. Every gulch
canyon and flat prospects in placer
but those interested in prospecting
fnr placer at the present time are un
able to obtain results owing to the
amount of water encountered at "a
depth Of from eight to sixteen feet
below the surface.
There are ,rumors of dredger and
hydraulic plants being established in
the near future.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-22
NORWEGIAN STEAMSHIP
PINNACLED ON ROCKS
(By United Press.)

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 22-Pinnacled
on the rocks at the southwest end of
Cedros island, $50 miles south of San
Diego, the Norwegian steamship Nal
ahaka, firm San Francisco en- route to
Gin istiana, is holding her own un-
der calm weather conditions, but may
60 to pieces should high wind and
heavy seas develop. The Malakaka
went on the rocks December Is. Fifty
members of the crew are still aboard.
The steamship Arizonan is standing
by and salvage tug is en- route.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-22
SLOW PROGRESS
BY ALLIES IN west

PARIS, Dec. ga communique
reports new progress along practically
the entire two hundred mile front,
and says: Between the sea and Lvs
action since December 21 has largely
beer confined to cannonading between
lys and Aisne. Repeated attacks of
the enemy were repulsed and we
gained several points in the region of
Carency, Mamaetge and Lihons. In
the region of Aisne and at Rheims the
carnonading continues. In the cam
pagne district and in Argonne, we ad-
vanced by bayonet charges, while be-
tweer Argonne and Meuse the French
progressed markedly. Trenches were
taken in spite of barbed wirs entan-
clements.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-22

"I have listened to all the other
instruments, SON. of which are won
derful tone producers; i have compaI
ed them side by side, and know that
I am justified in saying the Edison
Diamond Disc Phonograph as tone
reproducer has no competitor; there s
no other instrument nj the same
class''-T J. Foster, Vice-Presiieht
of the First National Bank, Guthrie
Center, Iowa.
Let us talk Edison to you.
STEPHENSON DRUG co,
The Corner Drug St,ro
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-22
os ANGELES ATTORNEY
KILLED BY BURGLAR
(By United Press-)

Los ANGELES, Dec. 22-W. III.
Alexander, a wealthy retired attor-
ney. was shot and killed by burglar
in his home here today. His son, W
II. Alexander, Jr., engaged the bur
glar in revolver duel and received
two bullet wounds. His condition IS
rot considered serious. Alexander s
daughters went to their brothers as
sistance and drove off the burglar.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-12-22
RUSSIANS STILL
HOLDING WARSAW

LONDON, Dec. 22-The Russians
defending Warsaw are counter attack
ing the Germans strongly between
Rawa and the Pilica river. 1t is re-
ported the Muscovites have practi-
oallv abandoned Skierniewice, an inn
portant railroad point. This retire
ment gives the Germans partial pos
session of both railroads into Warsaw
from the west and southwest.