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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07
A Useful Head.


A Washington man has In his EN-
ploy a faithful but, at times, stupid
servant in the person of an old darky
named Zeke.
Recently, when the employer had
vainly endeavored to get something
done in a certain way, he gave up In
despair, exclaim'ng:
"Zeke! Zeke! Whatever do you
think your head Is for?"
Zeke, who evidently thought that
this was another of the troublesome
questions that his employer was al
ways asking, pondered it deeply. Fl
nally he replied:
well, boss, guess it's to keep my
collar on
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07
ENEMIES OF TREES
In LARGE NUMBERS
Weather Conditions Have Been
Favorable for Reproduction of
Plant Lice or AphidS.

This season plant lice or aphids on
trees and shrubs are more abundant
than in many years.
Weather conditions have been very
favorable for their reproduction and
very unfavorable for the reproduction
of their parasitic enemies.
Many of the aphids in normal years
attracted very little attention.
In abnormal years artificial methods
of control must be used to keep them
within bounds.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

Nearly everyone has a
h o b by, and those who
haven't miss lots of fun.
This season of the year is
a good time to form some
outdoor hobby, something
that will take one into the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07
LARGE drill in Small Press.

Drilling hole larger than the maxi
mum capacity of small drill press
can be done by turning down the
shank of the drill to size that will
fit the chuck. The hole should first
be drilled a size smaller than is de-
sired; then the large drill used. This
step is necessary because the speed
of the average small press is too fast
for a large drill.-World's Advance.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07
DANGERS IN MANY PASTURES
Farmer Runs Risk Of Losing Stock by
Turning Them Into Field of Rank
Growing Alfalfa.

There is always more or less danger
In pasturing cattle on alfalfa, clover
or rape. This has been known for
many, many years. When one turns
bunch of cattle in field Of rank grow
ing alfalfa, clover or rape he does so
at the risk Of losing several Of them.
Sometimes there 10 no loss, but it is
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07
FACE BATHING WITH
Cutlcura Soap Eost Soothing TO Sen
sitive Skins. Trial Free.

Especially when preceded by littls
touches of Cuticura Ointment to red,
rough, itching and pimply surfaces
Nothing better for the skin. scalp,
hair and hands than these super
creamy emollients. Why not look your
best as to your hair and skin?
Sample each free by mail with book.
Address postcard, Cuticura. Dept. KY,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Ady.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

pleted, and the guns mounted, except
one 14-inch rifle, which will be
shipped to Honolulu during the month
of July. The carriage for it is ready
and in place. One million dollars
worth of ammunition is stored in mag
azines on the island, and the forts are
supplemented by complete system OF
submarine mines controlled by cleo
tricity.
Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor itself is landlocked
sheet of water covering IL square
miles, and with depth of something
like sixty feet over nearly all of this
area. All the navies in the world
could float on it's surface, and It's
safety against attack may be judged
from the fact that the only entrance
to it is through a narrow neck three
miles long and hardly more than VIDE
enough to allow vessels to pass
through.
The naval station occupies square
mile of land, and is one of the most
completely equipped in the. world. 1t
| is provided with first-class ship-re-
pairing outfit, including the largest
| dry dock in the world, and has
coaling plant that cost nearly $1,000
600. with a magazine for naval am
munition that tapped Uncle Sans
pocketbook for 100000. There are
five tanks for fuel oil, four of them
containing 100000 gallons each, and
one with capacity of 100000 gal
lons-such provision being necessary
in view of the fact that our newest
dreadnaughts burn oil fuel.
| Such Notifications, SO manned, with
a strong navy, will afford San Fran
cisco even more protection than guns
mounted about the Golden Gate.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07
FLOODING Powder MAGAZINE

A flooding device to prevent the ex-
plosion of the powder magazine is
fitted to most big battleships BY
simply turning on number of taps
sea water is allowed to rush through
pipes into the powder store, which is
rendered harmless in case of fire.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07
"HohenzoIIern Luck"

THE Hohenzollern Luck is a plain
gold ring, with black stone, in the
possession of the kaiser. Frederick
the Great received it from his father
with a note, declaring that so long as
it remained in the family the race
would prosper.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

COMPOUND mas uOno
more for me than
anything else, and l
had the best physi-
clan here. 1 was so
weak and nervous
that l could not do
my work and suf-
fered with pains low
down in m y right
side for a year or
more. l took Lydia
r.. Pinkham's Vepe-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

If the American people
will eat more mutton they
will find that the price of
beef will go lower. The
raising Of sheep for mutton
has not been practiced to
a great extent in the United
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

Language, like almost
everything else, is unable
to escape from being condi-
toned and modified by war.
Half our best metaphors are
taken from war as it used
to be. and we still talk Of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07
ENCOURAGING The ~.

"Why didn't you buy an asstomo-
bile?"
Tve heard a rumor tina. there may
be q subsidy granted pedestrians by
the next congress"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

mercy is not only co-opera-
tive but complemcntal. In
deed, mercy is the mother
Of all law, the foundation
of the principle Of iurispru-
dcnce, the pillar Of all leg
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

Still, you doubtless have neticed
that most of those who claim 10 be "as
good as anybody" aren't.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07
FARMERS Wife
TOO ILL TO WORK
A Weak, Nervous Sufferer
Restored to Health by Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Kasota, MINI. Ter am glad to say
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

The medical profession
is not exactly a bed of roses.
We have all seen graduates
of the medical schools striv-
ing in vain to obtain a foot
hold as doctors or forced to
exc out a scanty living by
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

niger up to de fo'fe flo o. dis here
cote house, jes fur de fetal disruption
o. de ties o. matrimony, bless Gawd!"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

Poverty has advantage wealth When poor man il
acre is no ndueement his physician to proong the illness
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-10-07

1t equally important to be you wrong before BAG
It as it is be sure you right before going ahead
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11
Monday is Cleanup
Day For Everybody

Ashland will entertain more strang-
ers this year than ever in her history
and it is up to Ashland people to put
everything in the spick and span
shape which always leaves such a
markedly good impression on the cas-
ual visitor. One tin can in some
bodys front yard will ruin the i'm
preston left by dozens of well-kept
lawns. Every resident, every man,
every woman, every child, must do
his and her part to make Ashland
the spotless city. And while we are
at it those who are in a position to
do so should apply little paint here
and there and furbish up generally.
On next Monday morning the city
will send wagons over every street
in town and all rubbish placed in an
accessible place will be hauled away
You must get the sacks and boxes oi
garbage set out early, however, as
your street may be among the frs
covered
On Saturday several hundred
school children will be turned loose
and If you can't do it yourself one oi
the youngsters will do good job for
a few cents. Make it a thorough
cleaning.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11
Of Highway
Causes Strife

Tolo and Willow Springs residents
are fighting against each other in the
matter of routing of the Pacific high
way in that section. Delegations ap-
peared before the county court We'd
nesday from both places and ex-
pounded the advantages of the re-
spective routes.
The Willow Springs people say
that route by the way of their bud
ding community will be shorter than
the other, while the Tolo residents
claim that a number more families
would be served by the route through
Tolo. The county court took the
matter under advisement and will
look thoroughly into both routes be-
fore making a decision.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11
fEArOund the World"
With E. H. Hicks

Rev. Hicks, formerly pastor of the
Baptist church, will give his illus
trated lecture on Monday evening,
the 18th, in the church auditorium.
Mr.. Hicks has but recently re-
turned from the war zone.
He, with a prominent physician of
Albany, started for Palestine just be-
fore the beginning of the European
war. They were on a German vessel
and off the shores of French terri
tory when they received word that
war was declared. They turned
around, extinguished their lights and
made the fastest possible speed for
friendly waters. After much travel
and many exciting experiences they
reached the Mediterranean sea and
came within a short distance of Pal
estine, but were compelled to turn
back.
They then tried to reach their goa
by land, but again failed to reach the
Holy Land. After failing in theil
attempt they returned home, having
travelled around the world. The!
were travelling on land and watel
practically six months.
Mr.. Hicks has given his lecture a
Albany, Roseburg and other points tc
crowded houses.
Monday night, March Is, at the
Baptist church. S2-2t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11
Frohbach Says
Reports Untrue

The story coming up from San
Francisco that wormy Rogue, river
apples were given to visitors to the
county exhibit at the fair is emphat-
ically denied by H. o. Frohbach in a
telegram to the county court. Fur
ther, no apples we're given away at
the opening. The processed fruit ex-
hibit is classed as Al and better than
Canada's million-dollar exhibit. The
pictures of Crater Lake and scenes in
the Rogue River Valley are proving
one Of the features of the Oregon
building and attracting wide atten-
tion among visitors.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11
The girl Tds Exposition
Local and Personal
spirella corsets, 1OS First avenr

Spirella corsets, 1OS First avenue.
Stiff
l.. Smith was a business visitor
from Hornbrook yesterday.
H. ]. Sleyster and family left We'd
nesday for Snohomish, Wash.
L. c. Moore of klamath Falls was
visitor in the city yesterday.
w. R. Crow and wife of Portland
stopped over last night here.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Elmore OF
Brownsville arrived yesterday for a
short visit with friends.
L. w. Kirk and son Clifton have
returned to their home at Kennett
after an extended visit here.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. 4. Lathrop have
departed for Seattle but will return
to Ashland in the near future.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11
BAPTIST Church Notes.

Thursday evening the subject of
the Bible study will be THE Relation
of the Son of His Love to All Beings
and Things" Col. 1;15-23.
Morning worship is at II. The text
will be God loveth hilarious CIV
er." Male quartet will sing a special.
The topic of the 3. Y. P. U. is:
TESTS Of My Christianity" $50 is
the hour.
The theme of the evening message
will be, Jesus Victorious in Tempta-
ton"
On Monday evening our former
pastor, Rev. E. H. Hicks, will give his
lecture, around the World"
ARTHUR r. BLACKSTONE.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

Messrs. Allen, Bundy and Withing-
ton of Medford were in the city Mon
day evening comforting with the
Commercial Club trustees in regard
to an advertising project along NOV
ing picture lines. The Commercial
Club men have taken the matter un-
der consideration.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11
Ashland Rescue Mission, 223 Fourth
Street.

The following speakers will speak
at the mission this week at 1880 p.
IN. each evening: Thursday evening
Mrs. o. A. Taber; Friday evening,
Rev. Farquhar; Saturday evening,
Rev. Blackstone; Sunday, II a. m,
Brother Shaw; Sunday evening, ]. A.
Lemery. Sunday school at 10 q. m
Everybody cordially invited regard.
less of creed or toggery.
COMMITTEE.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

Andy Finneran, section foreman,
and Brick Moody, baggage smasher,
are in Jacksonville today as witness
es in the suit of the Medford Ware
house Company against the Southern
Pacific.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

E. V. Haley of Savannah, Ca, was
a business visitor in the city this
morning.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

H. V. Smith of Lents, Ore, arrived
yesterday and will spend some time
here looking over the surrounding
country.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11
POULTRY.

WITH PRESENT PRICES of grain it
does not pay to keep hens that are
not good layers. c. Cunningham,
319 Alta avenue, has a strain of
Barred Plymouth Rocks OF his own
breeding that are not only extra
good layers but are fine in plum
age. Eggs for Matching at above
address or phone 343-R. 83-3t*
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

Harold Buteman has left for Ever
ett Wash.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

Make it the best cleanup day ever.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11
Classified Advertisements
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
Continued from Page Three.)

FOR SALE-Irrigated Ashland 6h-
acre ranch complete. Bottom land.
Cheap. NJ. Jacker, 375 Otis street,
Ashland. S3-3t%
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

Regular communication of Ashland
Lodge No. 23, A. F. & A. NJ, this
Thursday evening, March IL, 1915.
Visiting brethren welcome.
w. e. BLAKE, w. NJ.
w. H. DAY, Sec'y.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

FOR SALE-An Australian Maltese
goat with two kids. Good goat and
just fresh. Phone 292-Y or call at
943 Oak street. 83-2t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

FOR RENT-One or two furnished
rooms for light housekeeping.
Place for garden. Prices cheap.
Address 55S Holly street. it,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

FOR RENT-Three newly furnished
Nront rooms, Allen building. Call
at real estate office, 63 North Main
street. S3-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

Phone news items to the Tidings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-03-11

Nos Ei4
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-03-16
TINE TO LET UP.

In it's efforts to get money with
(which to make up for the loss of reve
niue due to a lower tariff, the Wilson
administration has pressed and har
}assed business interests to such ar
extent that oven the administration
leaders have finally seen the prudence
Of letting up for time at least until
business can get its breath.
Senator-elect Oscar w. Underwood
who. with Wilson, framed the present
low tariff, has at last recognized the
fact that business is bearing a ter
rible burden, and that it is time tc
let up. In speech at New York sew
eral days ago, the democratic leader
stated:
1T is not enough for the govern
ment to permit business men to rise
Nrom the prostration which, has over
taken them and their affairs. We
have reached the point on our way
to social betterment where sound pro.
pressivism must recognize that the
proper regulation of business requires
that it must sometimes be helped and
not always hindered; that we must
occasionally say you may and not al.
ways you shall not
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-03-16
THAW NOT GUILTY
IS JURY'S VERDICT
DID NOT COMMIT CRIME IN
ESCAPING FROM ASYLUM
WANTS HIS LIBERTY.

New York, March 13.-Harry K.
Thaw was acquitted today of conspir-
acy in escaping from the Matteawan
asylum August IT. 1913, the charge on
which he was brought back to New
York from New Hampshire. Roger
Thompson, Richard j. Butler, Eugene
Duffy and Thomas Flood, the four men
who assisted him in his spectacular
flight by automobile from Matteawan
to Canada, likewise were acquitted.
The jury which acquitted Thaw had
labored all night and until 1920
o'clock this afternoon In an. effort to
reach verdict.
AS soon as the verdict was announc-
ed Thaw was given into the custody of
Sheriff Grifenhagen of New York coun-
ty. The four codefendants were dis
charged.
A motion to have Thaw committed
to Matteawan asylum as an insane
person was made by Deputy Attorney
General Cook Immediately after the
Jury had rendered it's verdict. This
motion was combatted by Thaw's
counsel, who moved that inasmuch as
Thaw was brought here on the con-
spiracy charge and found not guilty,
he be returned to the state of New
Hampshire as sane.
Justice Page announced that he
would hear arguments on this motion
next Monday afternoon, March Is.
Thaw was remanded to the Tombs.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-03-16
GERMANS REPORT
REPUls|NC ENEMY
OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM Der.
LIN TELLS OF FIGHTING ON
BOTH FRONTS.

Berlin, March 13-(By wireless to
Sayville)--The German official report
issued today follows:
ITO the south of Ypres isolated
British attacks were easily repulsC 1.
Our movement for the recapture Of
the village of Neuve Chapelle began
successfully. but thereafter encounter.
ed superior British force and for
this reason it was not continued.
THE British in this locality have
been showing great aerial activity.
The day before yesterday one, and
yesterday, two British aviators were
brought down by German fire.
I'm the Champagne district there has
been a renewal of fighting at Isolated
places. All the attacks made by the
French have been repulsed, the enc.
my losing heavily. Two hundred
French soldiers were taken prisoners.
Fog and snow have hampered the
operations in the Vosges.
"The Russians have retreated from
the Augustowo district and the coun.
try to the northeast, until they are
now beyond the river Bobr and under
the guns of Grodno. At point north
east Of Przasnysz, near the Orzyc riv-
er, Russian attack has been repuls-
ed"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-03-16
Armament, Victory and Peace
BY DAVID STARR JORDAN
Chancellor of Leland Stanford, Jr. University

this. Then war actually becomes in
evitable unless craftsmanship inter.
venes, and craftsmanship is rare
quality in the venal chancelleries of
| Europe.
The determination of war and peace
may be compared to gigantic game
of cards, in which the side with the
best hand must take not merely ma
jority, but all the tricks, and at all
times. The friends of peace must win
at every cricis in every nation. When
all nations go armed If the war party
wins once, it wins all If it takes a
single trick in any nation, it brings on
war, and we have seen, war all along
the line.
The war party in Russia failed to
bring on war when Bosnia was an
nexed to Austria. The war party in
Germany, failed in the Boer war, In the
Spanish American war, in the affair Of
Casa Blanca, and in the affair at
Agadir. The war party in England and
in France having little control of the
government, have failed at every trial
in the last six years. The murder at
Sarajevo gave the war party its first
great opportunity. The new weapon,
the ultimatum, hurled ostensibly from
another state, suficed to gain their
purpose. One success is enough, and
all Europe, being charged with dyna-
mite, is in flames.
If we want peace, we must prepare
for it, guarding it at every angle, and
reducing so far as we can all war in
centives. When nations are armed,
very few men, very small accident,
may turn the scale. To lose at one
point is to lose at all. 1t is the arma'
ment itself which is the true cause OF
war. Trade jealousies, race antip-
athies, land hungers, all these are
mere excuses, which would not OF
themselves lead any nation to fight. 1t
takes a vigorous agitation, war scares
and war appeals to get these taken
seriously.
The safeguard for peace is the min
imum, not the maximum, of armament.
AS to this, George Washington, who
warned us so sagaciously against en-
tangling alliances, had also this word
of caution: "Overgrown military
establishments are, under any form of
government, inauspicious to liberty,
and are to be regarded as peculiarly
hostile to republican liberty
a atinnal Editorial SSrYice.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-03-16

The agitation for greater prepared
peace to the United States still goes
on. No increase of armament makes
FOR peace. 1t may make for victory If
a struggle comes. But it also makes
, for war, for victory comes only after
war, and the men that bring on war,
dare-devils all, in any nation never
shrink from the odds against them.
The relation is very simple.
The larger the armament the larger
the number of men engaged in making
it. Their trade once established, they
are not going to give it up without a
conflict. The larger the armament,
the more men there are who have no
interest other than war. They want to
try out their new guns, or to test their
new maneuvers. They are weary of
the endless round of the camp or the
ship and hail 1.-The day that dawns for
action and for glory"
The people of Europe are hungry
for peace ("avide de la paix'O, as a
leading journal asserted before the war
began. There was not nation in
Europe, not even in the distressed and
mangled Balkans, where the people
wanted war
But this feeling for peace was no
where organized. nowhere represented
adequately in the governing minority.
Moreover, the feeling for peace was
everywhere paralyzed and vitiated by
the idea that in spite of its horrors, it's
SORROWS and it's devastation, war is
somehow noble, healthful, strengthen
ing, patriotic duty to the nation, a
pious duty to God, the birthpang or
growth pang by which nations rise or
spring to higher stages of culture,
prosperity and power. Probably not
more than one man in a thousand in
Europe really hoped for the present
war, yet uncounted millions thought it
inevitable and as many more looked to
some national advantage at the end.
Even finance, commerce and industry,
with everything to lose and nothing to
gain, could put up no common front
against it. The majority, but half
hearted or less than half, could never
make common cause against the great
world enemy.
It is easy to talk about war; or for
subsidized journals or journalists to
write about war, as inevitable the
sooner it is over the better until the
people on both sides are led to believe
Copyright, 1915, by the N