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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-18
NATURES BEAUTY SPOT.

How many people in the city know
how much and what ground is owned
by the city just above the Chautau-
qua park grounds? Who knows
run? Does the city own both sides
of Ashland creek, or only one side?
Who has been out along First avenue
TO where it comes down in the picnic
grounds up the creek? 1t will pay
any Ashland citizen TO travel that
way and take a look. BY careful
driving automobiles can now make
the trip. Compare that drive with
what we now call Scenic Drive. Go
over it and see. Look down through
the woods at the winding crystal
creek; view the landscape with a
view of determining what can be done
and what it will look like if properly
developed. Start on the street that
goes south from the First National
Bank, go up to the street that skirts
the Chautauqua grounds on the east
that is First avenue-follow it
around the hilr to the south and west
the road is level and good; follow
il clear around and come back by
way of the present park drive. DO
that 1t will be a revelation to you.
Then think it over. Wonderful nat
sral beauty. We need to landscape
this ground in such manner that the
natural beauty will be preserved, not
destroyed. In other words, proper
adjustment, or application OF what
nature has done, to Fit our needs
President Sproule of the Southern
Pacific has promised to try and gel
John McLaren, the man who made
Golden Gate park and who is now
landscaping the exposition grounds
to come and show us how.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-18
VALUE OF NEWSPAPER ADVER.
TISING. ..e,7s

The record of thirty-six retailers
added as new customers in one town
by advertising was included among
other successes of a campaign for
Armour & Co., made by the Johnson
Agency in Chicago, in which maga-
zine advertising was shown to be
hopelessly distanced. This record of
new customers was reported from a
small city in the south by the local
manager, who wrote: I'm regard to
the Easter campaign advertising
done through the local papers, the
advertising has done more good for
Star ham and bacon business in
Greenville than billboard advertising
or magazine advertising. 1t has gone
direct into the homes OF the consum-
ers. The publishing of the mer-
chants names handling Armour's
Star hams and bacon has enabled us
to round up about $50 new customers
in the town of Greenvlle alone. Our
Easter ham and bacon business for
two weeks preceding Easter amount
ed to practically $4,000 pounds
against 5000 pounds the previous
year 1t would seem that
continuation of the paper advertising
would be the most effective at the
present time" Another salesman
wrote from a Texas town: This
class of advertising does us fellows
in what you might call the rural dis
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-18
NEW YORK BANKING.

The system of locking the stable
after the horse is stolen has been
admitted for a great many genera
tions as the poorest kind of business
policy. One would hardly think of
the great state of New York in con-
nection with such a principle, espec-
tally as it may be applied to its bank
ing laws. But that is precisely what
they are doing now in the New York
Legislature.
True, the old system has some fea-
lures which may be commended. 1t
is quite likely that New York will
have another horse which might be
stolen In fact, New York is looked
upon as being the leader In points
of population, financial power and
national influence New York admit
tedly leads all the other states, but
this is not because the people there
are wiser, brighter or more scrupu-
lously honest. Not by any manner of
means would this be admitted. New
York has waXed wealthy because she.
has been especially favored-not by
the Almighty but by the legislatures,
the courts and congress itself.
1t would be difficult to imagine a
more outrageous business deal than
that of the Siegel bank. The Segel
company, owner of the biggest de-
partment stores in the country, con-
Quoted banking institution in con-
nection with its other enterprises. Its
depositors were its own employees,
working girls and poor people gener-
ally. Merchants throughout the
country looked upon the institution
simply as a trade-getter or an accom-
mediation to the company's customers.
But its proves to have been an accom-
mediation to the company. They op-
Grated their accommodation" as a pri-
vate bank. AS fast as the cash
passed their receiving tellers' win
dows they regarded it as their own
property and used it for their own
private purposes even to the extent of
paying dividends upon the stock of
their corporation. Pennies, nickels,
dimes and quarters poured into the
fake bank until the total has mount
ed up to nearly three millions. Then
came the collapse. The crash came
and the poor people who had contrib
uted-for it amounted to a contribu-
tion-now find that they will never
receive more than very small frac-
tion of the amount of money for
which they worked so hard and de-
MED themselves so much.
Now the New York legislature is
trying to pass law to protect the
security of deposits in state and pri-
vate banks. The word trying" is
used advisedly, for there is a lobby
with hundreds of thousands of dol
lars now in Albany to defeat the Van
Tuyl banking law.
And all this in the great city of
New York which, had it not been for
the energy and integrity of President
! Wilson, would still control the
finances of hundred millions of peo-
pie. Verify, it is better to lock the
stable now than to leave it go un-
locked longer.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-18

Since Grants Pass determined to
make a city by building a railroad
to the coast, and Ashland decided to
build a city by developing her min
eral waters, the spirit is spreading.
Roseburg now proposes to build a
railroad from that point to tidewater.
1t will be but a short time now until
the Rogue River Valley will be in
touch with tidewater in two places
II is now reported that the Grants
Pass line is already financed to the
sea.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-18
BOOSTS ASHLAND.

Marshfield Record: II Ashland
does develop her springs that city is
certain TO reap a wonderful return
financially. Ashland will become a
big health resort and everyone own
ing property in that immediate local
ity will be whole lot better off.
The move at Ashland Is one every
well-wisher OF the state should try
and help along.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-18

Ten boys owed ten dollars. Ten
new boys came in and bore their
share of the payment. Did adding
the last ten boys raise or lower the
tax on the first ten?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-18

tricts more good than any of the
magazine advertising you can do. It
reaches more Of the customers, and
helps wonderfully towards getting the
customers using Star brand"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-18

Make it Ashland the Beautiful.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-18

Phone news items to the Tidings.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10
The Evening Story
WE

nan How much better II she was in
conspicuous and plain. 1t was evil
dent that if she remained i the city
she must attract other men.
She was "A country girl. She had
been born and brought up III a village
of thirty houses all told-a village
where everybody was related either
by real ties of blood or those other
ties. scarcely less strcns. which love
and respect and understanding weave.
She had V known any save kind
and harmless people until she came
&" the city. She had not been afraid
OF tho city. She had not been afraid
of tho city, 1t had amused her when
her elders cried, ~"fscwarc:" Its
dazzle and throb allurcd her and she
reached out her hands for it Just as
children reach out for Il slittcring
toy. She knew how to use a type
writer and she had had Il correspon-
dcncc course in stenoyrarhy. she had
Wit and facility Of memory and both
subjects came easily to her mind. She
had needed only a few weeks in =
business school for finishing oft. and
then h was ready for y situation.
Mt. Winslow had hired her. If he
had treated her like :, machine at
least he had not disturbed her belief
in her own ability tn take care OF
herself.
Six months ago. she realized she
would not have hesitatcd one instant
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10

Joan's arm, looked s,niIinsly down
let's get put Of the weather.
Joan had taken ore step forward.
oh. no she objected. y cant let
you send me horne
He laughed deep down in his throat.
why home?' he nnrrnured. why
not Sherry's. and the Metropolitan
s~fterward? Aren't you Just dying for
a little eaye,v after pounding old
Wins'ow's typewriter all day."
Joon stood still. She did not look
at him. She looked at the waiting
car, at the circumspect profile of tho
unohserving cahman. Sherry's. The
Metropolitan. After a whole year in
New York she had secn no more than
the outside Of either. The two names
held magic for her. To see lights.
gay people. to hear music, cat deli
cious food, TO be in the midst Of all
that wonderful life she knew existed,
to be q part of it eve to let her
youth take its proper wings just once
Everything That could allure and
charm seemed to have her by ono
hand. and everything that was old,
tired. lonely. hard. seemed to have
her by the other. Both pulled, and
between them Joan's soul felt n rcnd-
ing torture. She was go tired, so
alone. In the boarding house and
without there was nobody to talk
to. to he young and gay with. She
thought of two more years like the
last and her heart sickened. She felt
herself begin to yield.
Come, my dear" said the man.
She turned and looked at him. He
was looking at her with a. half
amused, waiting. s%cornful smile under
his little black m%ustache. Something in
that smile scared her as she had
never been scared in all her life be-
fore. She felt as If a great spider
had suddenly crawled v her hand
or a snake Kissed in her very face.
NO, no." she gasped.
e. She eluded him and ran out into
the rain. Her car was coming into
the street. She made for it wildly.
as if running from awful danger, re-
CARELESS of taXis spinning recklessly
along the slippery pavement. The
motorman saw her. and stopped and
she pulled herself aboard, sank down
and covered her lace with her hands.
An hour later she stood in her room
quiet and safe. She took off her hat
and coat and hung them up to dry.
Then she went up to her glass and
looked into 1t. Thank God. she could
yet meet her W eyes without dis.
gust and aversion.
She stood a long time looking at
herself in the glass. She was beauti-
full and she had the first of the many
experiences. beauty brings to. a vo-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10

between right and wrong. Today she
had hcsitatcd. Why She knew why.
The fact thrust it's awful face close
to hers and grinned sardonically. She
could not mistake it. She had hcsi-
tatcd TO choose the right. nct only
because the wrong was moro attrac-
tive, but because she WAS lonely.
She had rot minded being lonely at
first there was SO much that was un-
tried. interesting and novel and to
catch hcr glance. her hearing and her
Young pulses: the shop windows, as
fun of dazzlins detail rs A Gobelin
tapestry: the streets, thronged with
all kinds of humanity: the boarding
house, with its string of transicnts.
Then, too. work was now and money
earning new. Her pay %cnevelope Of
fered a constantly recurring sensa-
ton of independence, ability, impor-
taco. The money it held was hers
to use as she pleased. at home there
to cat. fire. warm clothing. yes, but
none of the little things, the trim
mings on life which girls love. This
pay cnevclopc of hers could not do
everything it is She could starvc
herself and have small luXuries or she
could feed we'll and wear her old
clothes. Eut ut least there was no
careful old aunt 10 tell her what she
should do. Now. after a year novelty
was passed. there had ceased to be
any illusions between Ter and her
work. and tine loneliness Of this whole
business of wage earning i'll Il great
city pore upon her with increasing
power.
Loneliness, then. was her real en-
envy. The man with the red lips
only waited until be considered that
the cncmy should have overcome her.
He had evidently miscalculated; he
had not waited long enough. Bnt
the time would come when he should
have waited quite long enough. And
She could no longer bear the sight
Of her own face in the glass. She
was turning away when she saw a
letter lying upon the corner of the
bureau. She took it up. The writing
was her uncle's.
The letter itself was brief, but very
tender. 1t said her aunt was i'll.
Wouldn't she Din home for = little
while: They wanted to see her very
much. their little girl.
Joan stood looking at the letter.
She began to smile. All at once she
felt protected. sheltered, loved. The
real blessedness of home revealed it.
self TO hr. .Her emmy could not find
her there.
The dinner bell was ringing at the
foot Of the stairs. She slipped the
letter into her bosom and went down
to tell her landladH that she was go
Ing home on the morrow.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10

brain is atrophied and she is literally good for nothing.
We have been speaking IF the inability of so many wives to help them-
if sudden death Of accident deprived them OF support.
Eve in casesw where the woman had been sGf-supportnS before mar
she has found herself helpless after a number oil years o wifehood
of h procession" and unable to get back.
Honestly. / have been afraid to marry" confessed N business won
an who had passed the thirty-year mark. y have seen Sc man of the
girls marry give VI their jobs, eApect everything To he III right forever
;tS md after sever or eisht ear or So. con around with W pr three
tn chidre, can't give the same attention to their work and their brains
outofdatc. Most o. them seem to stop just a the place they get married,
like a clock that's had n bad tumble"
Women arc leaning to- much o the old idea of the sheltered wife
RI mother. They must gt over tn idea hat a husband should do all
the thinking and bufetng for the wife.
A woman must do nor than keep her house in order and see that her
children are properly brought up.
She must keep her mind open. and be as alert to opportunities as II
business man
I like to think of matrimony as a ship. with Father the captain and
take the wheel and navigate tin ship if anything happens % the captain.
If more wives would understudy their husbands, WI should have fewer
widows "Al al sea-"
Every I'M should understand hou &c usban Investments
should know enough about business Il handle his affairs should he bc in
In order to protect his wife, IL nan should insist upon her
knowing these things. and keep pesging away at her until she grasp them
intcNHgcntN.
Too often it happens, through a Nifes Indifference or a husbands
or: sometime MS secreuyeness. that q man is actually a
She my unknoninsh. be living beyond his means. She may b sknpins
And both may be missing a delight II common interests by lot getting to-
gcthera and cuhiating n Intelligent interest in cac others affairs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10
THI. SENATE.'S OLD GAME.

Minneapolis Journal. The Woman S
ton. rejected n" more than two to IL
in the house. is Hospitality received iii
the senate. Tn" house expressed no
opinion upon equal suffrage. bn, hold
that, under the constitution and the
sound traditions Of The government. it
is Il question for the state alone.
Nevertheless. the senate voted, for
ty-scven 10 fourteen, to consider tho
amendment. That il 4 handsonlc vote.
whatever may happen later. The his
tory of th!s and other plhlic issues.
undesired, hun not unfricuded. inii-
cafes that these votes are cast 10 dec
crate the roll call without changing
tn" law. Senator's can point Ia Tho
their hest.
This question III different form has
been before the senate FOR a dozen
Years. faNorablN reported SIX times,
ono unanimously. hut 1t has reached
only ono vote-in 1887. Thor ii MAS
rejected, sixteen 20 %.hir,y-four. with
twentv-six abscn,ces. That record
seems courteous. hui in~cunclusi,e.
Even The last handsome vote fails 10
represent th~rrc-fourths OF the states.
All the republicans and progrcssivos
voted for the resolution. but tho south
crn democrats who voted against it
represent moro than ope-fourth OF Tho
forty-ci.ht states that must pass upon
the ratification of any constitutional
amendment.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10

Since ? o'clock Joan Hall had been
at work. With ~incalculablc swiftness
and efficiency SHE had turned from
d'ctaticn pad to typewriter. from let
ter file . minute hook. Her fingers
few. keeping time with her busy brain.
AZ half past IL her employer Ia stout,
stern. elderly man with hut ono idea
TO head aft his competitors in the
moneylnaking sanle) remembered that
he had had no lunch. and slamming
on his hat and dragging on his over
coat rushed on to find the
nearest restaurant. While he was
gone Joan opened a pint bottle of milk
ana a bon of graham crackers and
and swallows she Saacd out at the
narrow. unintcrcs,ing street famed on
two continents for tho money. bust
ness II power ii represented. and
wondered whether she could hold out
until release came at ! o'clock.
II was not her first day, All hcr
days were busy days. But she was
not so we'll prepared as usual for this
particular day. There WAS no chanue
for hcr tn shirk. TO MIR. Winslow she
was a mere machine. a kind of type
1T baked or showed signs of Near
must he replaced. He paid for expert
service and demanded it.
Now it was ) O'Clock and Joan was
free. Almost dazed. she locked up
her typewriter and rose. From the
peg behind she took down'hcr hat and
coat and put them on. Nil. Wiuslow
stood at his W desk Will, some pa
pcrs in ono hand and his watch in tho
other. l1o was divided in thought
between tn" ,wo. Joan said good
! yNiU(V 10. hi1l, r,,s I,n rS;N ,-y 1.1a 1,@,.
That was not strange. for he never
spoke one word more TO her than was
necessary.
Joan went out of the Office TO the
elevator. Throughout the great build
ing tho lights mad been glowing all
day. There was seldom n day when
They did not glow. for the deep. mar
row little street was as dim as n
sullcy.
J When Joan stepped into the elevator
her eyes met those of n man who was
lir was about so years old and VERY
handsome. Joan knew him because
he frequently came into Mr.. Wins
lows Office and always spoke to hcr.
IT had never occurred to Joan tina
he came in on her account. but she
did wonder why he continued TO come
when he must sec that his interrupt
tlonS were annoying to Mr.. WiusloW.
She know nothing about him except
what she had seen. Yet she did not
like him. However. she bowed and
sat down and tried to forget that he
WAS there.
He did not speak to her. bur she
fclt that he Was looking at her. when
tho ground floor was reached he fol-
lowed her put They almos; kept
step across the tessoliatcd floor. Two
or three mel who had just entered
the building passed them. dripping
moisture. Then he spoke.
NASTY weather wc'rc having he
said.
"Oh. is il, rainins:" Joan cried out.
Outside tho door. in the shelter Of
the great porch. she paused. OBJ
viously it was raining in that drcary.
gray. persistent way characteristic of
city rain. Joan had no umbrella.
She had not over a newspaper to hold
over her head. The man beside her
had 10 umbrella either. but he was
not troubled on that
A taxicab on the lookout for fares
purred slowly by and he held up his
hand. AS the cab paused he touched
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10

OF 73t samples Of prcnarcl foods
u drugs collected by the agent Of
tho Connecticut Agricultural Expert
ncnt station, Az have bccn passed
and 2G have been found adulterateJ.
below standard, ~misbrandcd. or short
weight OF ??a more samples, chiefly
milk, Vinegar. aud turpentine, A.A
were adulterated. 1njsbrandcd. mr. nc.
low standard.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10

is III" flying boat an ordinarily safe
Vehicle" The Rider and Driver com-
mcutS ON tho fact that during 1918 u
score of American sportsnen few
some 100000 passenger miles, scour
ing tho rivers, the great lakes. and
coas lines of the country. without, II
single accident of moment. J. 3. IL.
Ncrplanck OF Fishkill-on-1Iudson nc-
miles from Chicago to Detroit by way
OF the pcrilous Strait of Mackinaw. ar
rivinc on schedule time. despite the
fact that some of the sevcrcst storms
of tho summer swept Lake Michigan
during tho time OF his cruise"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10

Father--Jane, are that young mans
intentions serious"
Daughtcr-I think so. pa: he says
our carriage shed could be easily
attic would make a dandy billiard
room and bowling alley.
The accomplished aud oblising
pianist had finished several selections
in the hotel parlor. and the guests
We're discussing other numbers. One
turned to tho elderly lady and said:
Twelfth Mass. You remember that
Mrs. Hiscomb?"
Remember it" should say SO.
Why. my husband served through the
war in that very regiment
\ couple of stars were rchearsing
in a new play. This is a lie, comments
the reader--plays don't have two
stars. Yes, but this was a very mod
ern play. with a very reckless man
agcr. They do almost anything these
days.
Well. anyhow. IS We were saving
before you interrupted. II couple OF
stars were ~rchearsing, and the first
star said:
Now in this scene 7 am supposed
in ron facing tho audience. Now,
what Will be your cue TO resume your
lines?"
THE look OF satisfaction ON the
faces of the audience answered the
second star.
y story OF Mark Twain. He had
finished his speech at a dinner party
and on seating himself q lawyer rose,
showed his hands deeps into his trou-
sers pockets, as was his habit, and
| In 4 wi lSy
ent:
Doesn't it strike this as
. little unusual that a professional
humorist should be funny?'
When the laughter that greeted this
sally, had subsidized Mark Twain
Doesn't it strike this company as
q little unusual that a lawyer should
have his hands in his own pocketso"
lie had lived in the city only ~
short time. and was having a. talk
with q young woman one evening.
Was there much life in the coun-
try town from which you camc?" she
Well. guest" he exclaimed.
the gatherings in our cemetery of a
Sunday. Magazine.
a former pastor of the First Zap
fist church of Nashville accepted a
call to a church in St. Louis, where
he was to deliver q lecture.
One of the foremost pastors in the
city was asked to the lee
turc from his pulpit. This is the way
the pastor made the announcement:
The Reverend Doctor Whitman
Will lecture on Fools i'll the Kent
Street Baptist church on Tuesday
evening. and trust a good many
will attend."-1ippincott's.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10

The permanent working force on
the Panama canal, after tho cutting off
of employees on tho construction work
is completed, will consist of the most
efficient men now O the isthmus.
There will he. no reduction Of the
force of construction on April l. CT
on any SGT date. the turning away
Of the men taking place only as the
work closes UP. The Army and Navy
Journal says that The reducing process
will 80 on gradually until the WORK is
placed on n permanent basis. The
army men. who knew bow to work UNI
der the restrictions of government rcd
tape and bring the great achievement
to completion. will of course have
preference in the making up Of Il per-
mancnt body Of operators aud main
tanners.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-10

real truth. We believe that there l.
less danger to lie feared from the
practice of investigating and present.
ing in the most convincing form the
facts on boih sides Of IA case than there
is from that of looking persistcntiy
only a, one side, and thereby having
formed a judgment which must lie
partial and distorted.