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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-30
Howard Writes
OF Irrigation
(By ]. S. Howard.)

The above topic appears to be the
all-absorbing one at present, and hav-
ing had over fifty years experience
along those lines, perhaps those in
terested will pardon me for butting
in, as | should like to help promote
the enterprise in any way possible, as
irrigation OF the valley is the only
road to prosperity and have had my
ear to the ground listening for pros
perity for long time.
| may state at the beginning that
] have no axe to grind and am not
working for any company, associa-
tion or individual, and | do not pro-
pose to present an array OF figures SO
large as to discourage any enterprise
nor to make any under-estimat so
as to put people in hole. The suc-
cess OF any enterprise depends on the
projectors knowing in advance the
prospective cost, and being prepared
to meet it.
Big Butte Proposal.
will first consider the Big Butte
project. understand that the flow
OF Big Butte creek is about $50 sec
ond feet OF 10000 miners inches, or
enough to irrigate $4,000 acres of
land. To carry that amount of water
will require a ditch IA feet wide on
top, 8 feet wide on the bottom, and
6 feet deep, all in the solid ground,
with a grade OF / in 1000 feet, or
5.28 feet per mile, having a cross
section of &C feet, with a velocity of
3.S feet per second. As this ditch
will be all side hill work with an
average cross section slope of 20 de-
grees, II will cost approximately $10,-
600 per mile. Much of the excava-
tion will be in bedrock, as can be
seen by the excavation along the p.
& E. railroad to Butte Falls.
Seventy-Mile Ditch.
The distance from the forks of the
creek to Little Butte creek is about
30 miles. At salt creek an inverted |
syphon pipe line across Little Butte
creek, one mile long, will be required |
to bring the ditch on the south side |
of the creek at an altitude above the
Fish Lake ditch. From this point
along the contour of the hills to a
point about midway between Talent
and Ashland at the crossing of Bear
creek, the ditch will be about 40
miles long, which with the first sec
tion will make a ditch 20 miles long,
costing 100000 for the ditch, and
$4,000 for 5000 feet of pipe for the
Little Butte crossing, making $780,
600 as the cost OF the ditch.
The altitude of the forks OF Big
Butte, according to the U. S. con-
tour lines, is 2,4OO feet. The fall or
grade Of the ditch head for the sy-
phon line will be 400 feet, so the
ditch should intersect Bear creek
somewhere near the Farnum mill.
The evaporation in that length ditch
will be about 20 per cent, making
5000 inches delivered at Bear creek.
Emigrant Creek.
Now let us consider another
source Of supply. Emigrant creek
enters Bear creek about four miles
above Ashland, 1t is a sluggish
creek with high sandstone walls. On
each side OF the canyon the bottom
widens out to about one-fourth mile
N places, with a narrow canyon be-
ow, which would make several ideal
places for reservoir sites. Why not
axe a part OF the s750.000 and
'iuld a series OF dams and make
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-30

1t is difficulties which show what
men are.-Epictetus.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-30

TO EXCHANGE-Acreage near Port
land for property in or near Ash
land, c. P. Good, Ashland Hotel.
22-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-30

The total acreage for irrigation is
14,534 acres.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-30

FOR SALE-Household furniture,
piano and violin. Phone 414-L.
22-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-30

LOST-A fine meerschaum pipe,
either on Church or on High street,
last Friday. Finder leave same at
Tidings office. 1t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-30

FOR SALE-Hogs, shoats and ween-
ed pigs. Call on or phone ]. B.
Hunter, 10-F-5. 28-St
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-30
Classified Advertisements
Continued from Page Three.)
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

FOR SALE-Household furniture;
also cozy four-room cottage, with
all conveniences, for rent or sale.
Inquire at 416 Palm avenue.
2S-1mo.t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-30

FOR SALE-Fine, almost new piano,
for $125 cash. Needs tuning. APP
ply to Miss Gray, S65 Blaine street.
2S-2t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-30

FOR SALE-Good six-year-old mare,
gentle driver, nearly new top bug
gy. harness, two young Jersey
milch cows; bargain. 66S North
Main street or phone 701-J. 2S-2t*
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15

have starved and been buried by the waySde by mothers
dying from hunger and shivering IN fear. Aged men
and women exhausted have lain down by the roadside
and died from want of water and food unable to walk
further those of their families still physically able to
bring succor unable 1t in land fanaticaly
opposed to their race; bent upon prosecuting them
for their religion.
Herman Bernstein, the noted Jewish writer and
scholar ascertain first hand the extent of the suffer
ing has visited the batefelds and the former homes
Of these victims of old world persecution, and sends
back cry for relief eloquent appealing, ptifu
that should touch the heart of every person with
heart in his bosom. Bread for the living, shrOuds
for the dead" is their appeal he says, and in his plea
he pays tribute to the greatness Of America and its
people and institutions, when he says
Gan eyes of the Jewish people abroad turned
to American Israel all hands stretched out to the
great Hebrew center in the New World, waiting for
help They hopeful that the great American Jewish
center will surely act quickly generously and
gecally and help in saving the Jewish centers that
being destroyed now, the mothers and children who
dying Of hunger and of cold, driven from
town, like CATTLE yet without the accorded to
cattle.
"They hopeful that the Jews of America Will
be aroused to a realization OF their full duty to their
brethren, to the Jewish people which is becoming
people of starving wanderers"
Telling of their sufferngs, he says:
1t IS not of the Jewish soldiers who have fallen
that I write Nor of the Jewish officers who
have bravely given their lives upon the battle
fields In Austria alone upwards Of 1900 Jewish
officers have already died on the battlefield in
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15
Short Snatches From Everywhere.
~ c. a. 70

Absinthe is being used as explosive It has
long been destructive elements known
man-Los Angeles Times
Just to show he could be neutral. Col Roosevelt
saved Princeton student from being shot BY the
British.-Pittsburg Dispatch
Several hundred Villa generals and Of
private soldiers have taken refuge in the United
States recently--Phoenix Republican
optimistic do predict that the great
Will kill the seeds OF dissensiOn and dstrust in
the Ballans.-St Louis Globe-Democrat-
a fresh water exchange has discovered that
rage is the longest sentence that justice Of the
peace impOse.-POrt Arthur CTexas) News
nothing serious viii happen than adjourn
ment in time for Christmas--Los Angeles Times
The demented who plunged into the sea TO
but crude method OF applying it-Austn American
If Henry Ford thinks he can bring peace between
the warning nations OF Europe before Christmas
think he is cranking the wrong jitney-Tombstone
(Ariz) PrOspector-
early" the Texas newspapers carry. pay your poll
tax" Poll taxes and Christmas shopping 80
in that state--PhOenix Gazette
The official recognition Of Carranza has at least
enabled keep track Of the Mexican president
he has been and the person for several
weeks which is quite some record for Mexico-San
Francisco Chronicle.
The theory entertained in England. that the way
beat the Germans is to them down by slow
attriton is not unanimously received in Russia
must beat the enemy says writer in the Novoe
ereya by being stronger than he is not by waiting
for him to get weaz-"-Tucson (Ariz) Star.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15

dren, his wife, his mother, his father.
Because of their religion the Jews have always been
prosecuted but nevertheless, with the call to arms the
Jew showed his patriotism to be equal that of those
about him It believed that the prosecutions that
mad gone before would be buried with the situation
at least for the time of the war Jews enlisting to
the country of their adoption might be saved, did
without suspecng the horrors that would be heaped
upon those they left behind by those whose country
they trying to But instead of ceasing their
prosecutions of the Jew the residents boasting nation
atty in the country in which the Jews were residing
doubled their prosecutions. Unprotected they WERE
the Jewish families readily fell prey to the
gous preudices of their prosecutors and today pages
being written in the religious history of the Euro
pean continent that bloody as any the history
of the world
1t is not through Jewish alone that the tales
Of these horrors brought TO Other writers have
told from time to time in the daily dispatches and IN
the magazine columns of the suffering of the Jews IN
the and out; of the prosecutions of the Jews
Jews because of their religion Appeals have been made
for funds to for the victims such as left alive
appeals from societies that are wholly neutral in their
view of the unfortunate situation. The fact has been
well established that the Jews have been suffering
told horrors to the everlasting shame of the civilization
OF the countries where the crimes have been committed
Men have been killed, have been violated, chill
dren have been slain; all have been starved Property
has been confiscated without warrant and
families have been turned into the streets and the
fields with but few shreds of clothing upon their
backs barefooted without food drink Little children
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15

well-manicured words. Minor poets are
supposed TO make the lines rhyme and
metre-metre being two-four time or
three-four time or Jig time or, IN the
case of Swinburne. Salome time. The
greater poets do not have TO rhyme
their lines and there are some few so
great that they do not have to use
rhyme or metre either. The reader
tells this kind Of poetry from prose by
the way he jerks and jumps while read
ing it.
SHAKESPEARE was q great poet. and so
were Tennyson, Byron and Goethe One
of the greatest requisites for poetic
greatness is TO be dead The late Mr.
Poe Of America adopted this method
with success. However. America has
produced very few great poets. be-
cause life is too pleasant over here
Poetry soOthes the soul and deepens
the mind and lightens the heart It
also fills the stomach and keeps the
mills running full blast More than
once, in the last few years, an Amer
lean poet has kept a large breakfast
food mill running day and night by
putting two small lines OF poetry in
all our leading street cars.-CProtected
by the Adams Newspaper Service-)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15
1AYEARS Ago Today
Date. 1901.

The contest for the selection OF the
queen Of the winter carnival started
today. and the girls are getting excited
at this early date Also, besides. and
likewise, the boys are showing more
than their share Of interest in this
important matter. and FL Paso shows
unmistakable Indications OF being all
churned up over the final choice when
that momentous moment rolls around.
Ed Anthony left for Casas Grandes
to receive a big bunch Of cattle
W W Turney has returned from
Austin where he has spent the past
week on private business
Ed Hohing has sold 70 Charles R
Norehead lots II and IS in block Is,
Franklin Heights addition. for $500.
The women Of the Baptist church will
have their Christmas sale Of cakes at
T H Springer's store. and any order
for special cakes must be given 10
Mrs Howard Thompson, Gil Myrtle
avenue
Mrs. Dascomb entertained in honor OF
her sunday school class and among her
guests we're the Misses Laura Town
send. Winnie Grove. May Rouk. Ellie
shelton, Juanita SOrenson. Bessie VII
hams, Carrie Brown. Edna Holland.
Ruffie Roach. Rose Williams, and Theo
Patterson
A most delightful dance was given
last night by members OF the Impromp-
u club. Mr. and Mrs. H G. Grove
were chaperones and among those par
ticipatinO in the evenings pleasures
were the Misses Martin. Grove. Ainsa.
Mari. shelton. and Lakeland and
Messrs- Burns, Beach. Townsend. North,
Herpeh, Miller, Hague, and Tongue
mare.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15
Poetry Teaches Thought to Shake It's Feet
Requisite For Poetic Greatness Is to Be Dead

~ OETRY is the science Of teaching
thought TO shake its feet It is
= one Of the Oldest OF human habits.
but has spread greatly in late years
whereas at one time poets were so
scarce that one poet was passed around
among a thousand manOrs they are
now so plentiful that one editor has
70 be passed around among a thousand
poets.
Poetry has existed since the time
Of Homer a blind man. who peddled
verses considerably B. q. A great
many critics declare that the quality
Of poetry has not improved since then
However, the sale has improved great
" since Homer was in the business
Homer had to beg his bread, while
Rudyard Kipling now has his metrical
grouches cabled all over the world as
pure reading matter and gets thou
sand dollars grumble with a bonus
II Il is against the United States.
In the very early days poets had to
carve their verses on stone with
malIet and chisel- This was a splen-
did idea and kept down the output
very nicely, as 1t took a poet a whole
DAY to knock out a single line Later
on however, ink was invented and since
then poets have got entirely beyond
control The output has increased enor-
rnouslv and unruIy and egregious poets
are causing great distress-particularl
In England since the war and Harold
Begbie began
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15
PERSECUTION OF

this war The Jews everywhere have furnished
proportionately a larger share to the armies than
the other elements of the populations and their
blood has been shed on all battlefieds. 1t is not
of these victims of the war that I write now.
The Jews have given their lives the other
nations have given them in this most useless,
most terrible OF wars in history.
But it is of the people they have left behind
that ] write. of their fathers, their mothers,
their sisters their wives and their children who
are starving, of Jewish communities, of ancient
Jewish eenters of culture and learning that have
been uprooted.
Millions of Jews in Russia and Galieia have
been utterly ruined; they are now homeless.
hopeless. starving. Thousands upon thousands
actually dying of hunger. They are starving
in Russia. they starving in Galicia and they
starving in the Polish provinces occupied by
the German forces. Yes, they are dying of hunger
in LODI and in Warsaw, and in countless other
places They cannot even utter cries for help.
The censor Is suppressing these cries everywhere.
The refugees are crying in vain in the wilder
ness, but their hopes are directed to the Jews
of America. Those who have given must give
more and those who have not given must be com
PEELED to give The Jews are martyred now, are
tortured for no other -crime7 than their Judaism
Whoever YOU are, however great your influence
your power and your wealth, here in the land of
freedom, if by chance you had remained where
your brethren are now martyred, you too would
be among those who are now begging for a crust
of bread. When the whole story of Israel's
tragedy in this war VIII be told the world viii
shudder.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15

a APPEAL, touching in the extreme in its pathOs,
a. comes across the waters from the battlefields
4 = of Europe It is the cry of suffering nation
that suffers for its religion
A of people innocent of any connection with
the beginning of Europes great war is being
made the victim of its horrors. The Jews inhabitants
Of practically all the nations war; among the
greatest sufferers from the conflict The not
Of their making not of their sanction but they have
been dragged It, thrown upon the sacrcal altar
and made the victims of cruel atrocities The stories
of their suffering and their anguish, that from
he 'front.'" would be unbelievable in this country of
free speech if did not know that such things
possible in countries blndly fanatcal in their religion
of the countries of Europe engaged IN the
great strife In the trenches.
Loyal any national the countries In which they
live the Jews have thrown themselves into the ranks
with as much patriotism any race; they have will
ngy enlisted officers and soldiers In the armies
their kings They have fought their brothers upon
batteelds because of geographical divisions solely;
other of people have done more Germans fight
Russians French English and Serbs; Russians fight
Germans Turks and Austrians. All fighting for
their own people, their Jew is fighting Jew
because of his loyalty TO his adopted country. Jews
are fighting in every army upon the battlefield.
Yet the people of these nations not satisfied and
the Jew must suffer more-greater agones, more ter
rible punishment His family is not safe at home In
the country he is fighting for while he IS away at the
front battling for It. Religious fanatics at home have
committed terrible outrages upon his unprotected chill
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15

shipping rates. I do not think that a
small industry Of this kind would ex-
actly lay. II this Is TO be a success
il hould be builded on a large plan
from the beginning
7 an very ag-seabIy surprised at
the size and metropolitan appearance
Of El PasO." said Tom Newton. former
county attorney ar san Antonio. The
city appears TO be in very good shape
and undoubtedly has a great future
San Antonio continues to grow. Expen-
sive street improvements have been
made in the city, greatly improving its
appearance"
FL PasO is the best city have seen
in some time" said J. P Baker. OF Tex
arkana, shriff OF Bowie county. 7 ac-
knowledge that was greatly surprised
10 see so modern a city was greatly
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15
It's a Long. Long Way to Old Missouri.
NAY PUNISH PHYSICIAN
FOR WRITING ARTICLES

Chicago. H.. Dec I5.-NOt because he
let the OBllinger baby die, but because
he wrote articles about il for pubGca-
tion. DR.. H ]. Haiselden is in danger Of
expulsion from the Chicago Medical so
ciety. The council Of the society made
its report to that effect public Tuesday
night The BOllinger- baby was al
lowed to die. with the consent of its
parents. because il was an alleged
hopeless defective.
The society decided Dr. Haiselden's
conduct was unethical. insofar as his
fort at AUTHORSHIP We're concerned
The sessions of the council were ex-
ecutive, but DR.. Haielden is said to
have set up the defence that for 2000
years physicians have subscribed to a
policy of secrecy or subjects which
ought to be published for the enlight-
eminent OF the public
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15
Mexican Is Fine Type For Artist To Paint
Juarez Fine Field For Seeker After Color

6I"HE MEXICAN makes line
type to paint" said Allen T.
true. "The picturesqueness Of
him and the color and setting help pro-
duce a picture which has plenty Of in
terest and range of temperament in it.
In Juarez there is a field for the man
who will keep his eyes open and watch
faces and costumes. Then, when he
starts picture making. perhaps thous-
ands Of miles away. he will perhaps
draw a jaw or the fold in a blanket
which will bring back to him in flash
the whole figure he saw down here
with its setting and colorful back
ground"
ALLEN True's work is splendidly done
and shows the earnest efforts Of an IN
affected young man who has given ser
iOus thought to his art and has worked
out his themes with the care that makes
for real art" said Fred J. Feldman-
There is nothing hasty about his
paintings which are on exhibition here
The murals are especially well done
and all Of his work has the spirit and
the color of the west This exhibit
IS the best FL Paso has had and Mr..
True is deserving Of the compliments
the patrons OF the exhibition are pay
ing him this week"
an Michigan the law is very strict
on the question OF wife desertion" said
r. c. Towsley of Battle Creek. Mica
II q nan leaves his wife he is sub
ject 10 several years in the penitemtiary
unless ne shows a disposition TO re-
turn to his home and provide for his
family Neither the law. nor the au-
thOrities, insist that men and women
VINO are uncongenial live together, but
it does insist that once q man marries
he must provide for his wife and fam
lily
"El PssO is the most logical place In
thu southwest for the development of
q packing house" said II. H Bass
builder Of packing houses from Chi
cagO. This is a range country and.
unlike the prairie land Of the coast
viii remain grazing land A packing
house here would serve not only the in
terests OF the southwest. but would
build Up a large trade in edxico. more
than competing with central United
States points because OF a difference-in
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15
Color

Interesting in Juarez, which Is the
most remarkable place I have ever seen
It is a point Of interest that must
greatly appeal 10 every visitor OF the
city"
Good corn and first class fat hogs
spell success for many Fl Paso valley
farmers said county farm demOnstra-
tor A G. Graham The man who de-
votes his time to growing PICS and hez-
W hogs ard at the same time ap1or-
tiors much Of his land TO the cultivation
Of hardy corn will make money in
this country under the Elephant Butte
irrigation project I hope to get some
corn and hog clubs started in this sec
ton. and there is no doubt in ny mind
but that they will be valuable assets IN
the building up OF the farm lands here
abouts-"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15

felt very tired He came to the edge
of a big pond Of water. all frozen
over.
IF I could only walk across the ice
it would be much shorter" Uncle Wig
gily said. But can't The ice is so
slippery that I'd fall down. I'll have
to go all the way around But I'd
like to get across on the Ice
Then he looked at the dishpan and at
the fan in il. and he felt the wind
blowing on his nose. and suddenly
Uncle Wiggily had a new idea.
why not2- he cried Why not
make an ice boat? III sit in the dish
pan, hold up the fan for a sail, and
the wind viii blow me. the pan, the
fan and all across the slippery ice. just
as If l were in an ice boat. I'll do it"
And he did Holding up the fan as
he sat in the pan Mr.. Longears was
soon being blown across the slippery
ice Away and away he sailed And
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15
War News

GI7HE trenches pretty
captured HIlock
Buth
navy We pleasure boat! Our
an things aOat THE Turks
Christian troats and they robbed Of
policy
sheets broadly stating that he's false alarm The
there's panic now Our heroes scrambled from the trenches
town. THE Russian hosts still reaing dith
they surely lot of beating, punishnentovitch"
protected by the Adams Newspaper sece) MASON
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-15
Bedtime Story For the Little Ones
"Uncle Wiggily and the Ice Boat"
By HOWARD B. GARIS.

uncle I can tie string to the han
die Of the dishpan and pull it along
over the snow. just like sled And I
can put the fan in the pan and give
that a ride
Uncle Wiggily took the paper off the
dishpan and tied a string TO the handle.
Then, just like a boy pulling his sled,
off the rabbit gentleman strated again
This is easyt he cried why didn't
1 think of it beforeZ'
Uncle Wiggily had quite a way to go
to reach his hollow stump bungalow,
and before he was half way there he