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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-12

tween the railroads on the one hand
and the pressure upon the railroads
for favors on the other hand consti-
tuted an attitude of the times which
was common to all business. 1t was
largely held that it was a natural
law of business. Much of the calcula-
tion of the railroad and the shipper
alike was based upon the wholesale
principle as distinct from the retail,
and upon the distinction between i'm
portant customers and less important
customers, just as a merchant sells
to one customer subject to certain
discounts when the latter is a more
important customer, is more valu-
able, and perhaps is closer trader.
Old Practices Abandoned. =
To the public imagination the con-
ditions that belonged to those times
have been held up as evidence of
high crimes and misdemeanors upon
the part of the railroads, but neither
the railroads nor the shippers re-
garded them as immoral in concep-
tion or illegal in performance. These
practices had their origin when there
were no laws on our statute books
leveled against them, and were so
generally accepted as part of the or
dinary business of the time that for
a considerable period after the law
was devised having for its purpose
correction of these practices the law
remained deliberately unenforced, be-
cause those charged with its enforce
ment regarded enforcement as un-
popular an inexpedient. Finally leg
islation and regulation put the stamp
of criminal illegality upon all such
practices, and they are as extinct as
the dodo, excepting for unintentional
and foolish lapses which form excep-
tions so unusual as to be instantly
conspicuous.
1t is well that those practices have
been abolished. Neither the railroads
nor the shippers could themselves
abolish them. Both the railroads
and the shippers were dealing with
competitive conditions as they found
them; they could not control the con-
ditions; and regulation in this regard
has undoubtedly been in the public
interest. Notwithstanding all this
the railroads have been subjected for
years to such misrepresentation and
such scandalous abuse that the pub
lie mind has become infected with
the notion that somehow or other the
railroads were in these things guilty
OF high crimes and misdemeanors fol
which they should still have punish.
ment inflicted upon them.
Discrimination a Community Ques.
ton.
Another favorite topic for the de.
lectation OF the public is discrimina.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-12

Rev. Guy w. Wadsworth, repre-
sentative of the general assembly of
the Presbyterian church, will occupy
the pulpit OF the local church Sunday
morning and evening. DR.. Wads-
worth is a very able speaker. Como
and hear hiui
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-12
The Public and
the Railroads


To the members of the Traffic
Club of Chicago, William Sproule,
president of the Southern Pacific
Company, few days Ego delivered a
speech which, because of it's open and
fearless discussion of transportation
questions and business conditions
should have vide publicity and care
full study. Mr. Sproule tells us why
development has been retarded and
why business is bad, but unlike some
of the critics of the times, goes far
ther, and suggests a remedy for con-
ditions that have very seriously i'm
paired the prosperity of the country.
Mr.. Sproule said:
The public interest in transporta-
tion is as keen as it is Tisinformed.
The public interest in transportation
really rests in the one word: Serv-
ice. To meet the public interest serv-
ice must be adequate to the public
needs. To lie adequate to the public
needs it must be safe; it must be
frequent and varied enough for the
requirements of commerce and of
travel; flexible enough to fit the
varying wants of specialized bust
ness; it must be maintained at a
standard high enough to be depend
able; and in all it must be an ener-
getic auxiliary for business and the
pioneer of business by extension of
service as needed. This is true,
whether the transportation be munic-
ipal or interurban, state or interstate,
gasoline or electric. by railroad or by
steamship.
One OF our difficulties is that the
subject when thus regarded looms so
large as to extend far beyond the
horizon Of most minds. This pro-
duces confusion and bewilderment
that have for their result discursive
generalities upon what people are
pleased to call broad lines, only be-
cause they talk in a loose way upon
subjects beyond their comprehension.
We throw broad phrase as a blan-
ket over our ignorance. The fact Is
the public interest in transportation
is different from the interest the pub
lie takes in transportation questions
in these times.
The public interest is the greatest
of business interests. The great
business organization which we call
the public is bigger than all the So
called big interests put together. If
casually we think that what we call
the public is not great business or
ganizatlon the mind has merely to
revert to times OF great crisis such as
the San Francisco fire OF 1906 when
the business organization was COM
pletely dislo2ated and broke down,
when a 500 bill or a $40 gold piece
had no purchasing pow er for the time
being; men were fed by a supporting
and controlling and nurturing hand,
themselves helpless in the emergency.
Public Interest in Transportation.
The delicate interlacing of COM
mon interest in periods of public tran
guilty enables us to move along our
daily paths OF conduct so easily that
we are apt to forget that the public
interest is great business interest.
And so, as great business interest,
1t demands that transportation shall
be safe and flexible, adequate and
helpful The public interest requires
that the means of communication
upon which civilized mankind de-
pends shall be effective for the pur-
poses of the community the state and
the nation. Transportation to attain
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-12
Seventh Birthday.

Little John Seager celebrated his
seventh birthday with a dinner party
Tuesday evening. The guests were
his teacher, Miss Sylvia Brown, and
the c. b. Wolf family.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-12

Now Is the Time TO Get Rid of These
Ugly Spots.


There's no longer the slightest
need Of feeling ashamed of your
freckles, as the prescription othine-
double strengths guaranteed to re-
move these honely spots.
Simply get an ounce of othine-
double btrength-rrom any druggist
and apply little of It night and
morning and YOU should soon see that
even the worst freckles have begun
to disappear, while the lighter ones
have vanished entirely. II is seldom
that more than an ounce is needed to
completely clear the skin and gain a
beautiful clear complexion.
BE sure to ask for the double
strength othine as this is sold under
guarantee OF money back IL II fails
to remove frecLles.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-12

Fifty cents invested in Tidings
For Sale" ad often sells a $1,000
property. Did you ever try It?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-12
The Power of Accurate OBJ

servation.-By accurate observation
we mean not merely to exercise the
senses, not merely to see, hear or touch
a think, with some levity of thinking
about it; not even the keenest use of the
eye cultivated in microscopic work, or of
the ear-hearing sounds that to the un-
educated sense would be inaudible, or
the use of the finger with the most re-
fined detective touch. All these higher
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-04-12

powers of the sense must be acquired by
careful study practice and must be exer-
cised with all the attention with which
a strong will can direct them: but even
all this is only part of scientific obser-
vation, which must include, besides, an
habitual constant watchfulness, to take
notice of all conditions in which objects
or events are found; their concurrence,
their sequences, their mutual relations,
and all their variations.-Sir James Paget.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-07
NoopIiyh, e,hp,,I, in Ns4b csroI IA

'-2ys ne I,.rerS News Letter
The students report tha, me work
u l.e moonlight schools .as been re-
,E.yEc WITH ne creates; e-ttuslasu.
me scccyl houses cEi,g faxed . ,nelr
- psc.ty ny the people from the sur-
rpyciE9 rgu.'ry Courses sre be-
.EY prerec " ill,ersles. but alsy
more advanced courses u arithoetic.
writing, spelling. history, and civil
2DyETDUeD, for Others
- the reports come jn from the
ted where the moonlight schools
are serving the mrUnity. Great
gpcc Il being accom- mplishec. l. is 70
longer an experimert-but pro-
uouncf5 success, 10 De written in
large Letters.
u ,his city the schools being
layRh, ~ four places are proving
splErc.c successes They are large
y ATTENDED The teachers VINO are
giving Their services lave gone into
'aE work with al earn sslaess tha, r.
sure ~ brirg results. The r,oor!ign,
''hocls are doing Rrea, and good
wcrk, Just aS WAS expected u them
salisbury Post.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-07
WCKSW5oeuBSAIK
II ALTON.

STATE or SOUTH ChNOLIEa,
county ~ Lancaster.
~ J r.. SlsWman, Judge of Probate.
Whereas. Kate SAutc has made
suit ~ ne ~ grant her letters " ad-
mln.straiiOn III the estate ana effects
- y. j. Sngtc, deceased.
These are, therefore, U cite and
aGmDu!sh al! and singular the kind
RED ana creditors ~ The said dcccas-
ed, that they be and appear before
me. in the court of probate, 70 be held
~ Lancaster on the Isth day of De-
crmbcr. 1915, next, after publication
lhcTcDt, al J O'Clock in the forenoon.
~ show cause, u any they have. Why
the sald administration should not
be granted
Given vndcr my hand, this 2rd day
~ December ammo DDmini 1915.
j T.. STEWMAE,
Probate Judge
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-07
Smiling.

salisbury past
FolFa ~hD are tDI.DwinR the de
yeiDpncnts IN the SGuth are smiling
in confidence, far the approach Of
fall Is bringing spirit III optimism
not known Of recent months EycTy
man who Is looking into the situation
secs II condition improved. cotton
is much better price. the country In
fairly grOaning under great crop
OF grain, hay and other crops TO add
10 the wealth Or the nation. What "a
wonderful difference when we com
pare today with the conditions u
year ago. Nothing Is now lacking
except the confidence Of every man
and his determination 10 drive
straight ahead in fuil confidence.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-07
Southern Commercial
COnDregg

ChhrIc.iDn. =. g., Dec. 1877, 1915
Vcry LpW Round "Trip Excursion
Fares Via
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-07
Ain Pocl..,. tn, Women.


From Ara Women People
J. Because pocEe-s are not Z MT
UrHl right.
SsGa uss -ne great ua jurity o.
omen 10 not want pockets J. tney
tlt they would nave them
. L,sca MSS vbsuever women nave
Ia pockets LrPy nave npt uss,G them
& Bsca use women are -e.d
- carry enough Things as i e. win
-ut ms adfltlorEl burden % pockets
:. bscB uss i; vuUlt uaEs cisssr-
sion ustwse- husband and VIE as 70
wIcss pockets we've % us fined
6 Bsra use i would destroy -ru- <
cnivB'rr toward vc-Gr y 80 cIt NOT
nave - carry al nsr t.ioEt i tls
pockets
Brca MSS - - are -rr- and W.
re, are wr-E- Va must -; = 2
-.e ti"s - nature
: SEra ysa pockets nave res-
uSa. :. larry '.rg rr. pes v.EsEav
sasts raev-F Ty,- and rcr-Y Yrc--l IS
= letrE"s WE Ees -. ~als-- -
suppose -.a- w--e- would rss t.e.-
.l-'E " 81 =
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-07

There 10 more Catarrl in this section ~ the
country ihan all other diseases pu; together, aud
until ths last few years was supposed 20 bu
tHeuTAbIs, For great many years dOctOTs
pronounced II local disease aud prescribed local
Remedies, aud BY constantly failing H. cure with
oaal treatment, pronounced it incufAbo. Science
bas proven CataTgh tO he constitutional disease,
snd therefore requires constitutional treatment.
ItaIrs CatarTb Cure. manufactured by D. ..
Cheney 4 Co, Toledo, OhiO. IL the only COHstitu.
Ii0nAi ouTH On the market ~ is taken internally
~ doses from 10 drops i0 ttaspoonful u acts
directly On the blood aud mucous suTfarrs ~
iba Hystam. They onor one hundred dollars Tar
any case IL fails to cure. Send Tor circulars and
testimonials,
AddrassI y. J. CHENEY CO.. Toledo Ohio.
Sold BY Druggists, Toe.
Taks ualls Family Piiis fos constipation.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-07
Noticc TO Debtors and Creditors.

AT prrsOn. having claims against
the estate ~ X. 7 Hilton, deceased
are hereby notified ~ file the same,
duly verified, vim the undersigned.
and those Indebted 10 said estate VIII
please make paymcn, likewise
". r.. HILTON,
Administrator Estate Of Il. +. Hilton.
Deceased.
Dec. 9Th, 1915.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-12-07
S.Gicsl Fcr,cset.

surgeons hav..g supplied one -,a-
with stee. backbone, REINFORCED cuu-
crete may come next
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-14
SOSsIetV News

Miss Sissy Simpkins darter of Mr.. &
Mrs. Abner & Mehitabel Simpkins made
her debut into Bingville sossiety last
Saturday evg by having what was called
coming-out party which was one of
the most brillyuntest soshial events
which has tux place in our midst sinst
the winter soshial season begin last fall.
Our wife who was present on this glad
some occasion told us that Sissys dress
was so low in the neck that she thort
onct when Sissy had a sneezin spell she
was a going to succeed in coming out
according to the kind of party she had.
Hen Weathersby prop of our general
store desires us to a nounce TO the sos
siety ladies of Bingville that he has Jest
received a supply of fine cashmere yarn
in different colors to suit the most fas-
tidious. This yarn Hen says is espe-
shislly fine yarn for ladies to knit stock
ms from for cold whether. Hen will
show this yarn 70 members of the Bing-
vile soshial set with great cheer.
Bige Barker killed a pig last wls
which drest 307 pounds and half Bige
made sawsidge outen part of the pig and
will smoke the hams in the spring Elk
PLANASHION-This item about Bige
KILN a pig amt what you'd call strickly
a soSsiety item. but we had to put it in
here to help I'LL Up.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-14

Ranse Hillyer has had felon on his
finger for several days which has been
causing him so mulch agony that he
amt did mulch except set around the
house and moan.
Ranses wife thort she would take adj
vantage of the opportoonitty of Ranse
being ar home to git him to put new
seat in a chair which she has wanted to
git put in for 10 these menny yrs so
Ranse he consented to do it in spite of
the felon so he sawed seat outen a
board the size he wanted and got a
hammer and some nails and when he got
it in place he tried to drive a nail but
the hammer slipt and struck the felon
on his finger a awful wallop
Ranse let out yell that could be
heerd nearly quarter of mile away
with all the winders down then he start
ed in cussin and after he had called
the hammer everything he could think of
he throwd it through a winder smash
ing out two pains Of glass after which
he orderd his wife outen the room and
told her if she give him emmy back talk
he would slap her Ease for her. After
that he broke the chair he was a trying
to FIX into kindlin wood so it wont never
need no new seat then he laid down on
the floor and went TO moanin agin
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-14

who has wrote some awful beautiful
PONIES which have apeard n the Bugle
from time to time has nounced that she
is going to go on the stage and be-
come a acktress. There was a yung
summer boarder Teller from the City in
Bingville last summer who paid con-
siderable Sttenshion to Sally and it was
him as put the noshion of being a ack-
tress into her head. He told Sally he
thort she would make a awful good ack-
tress and promised to write to her after
she left witch he has never did. Milly
says that when she becomes a acktress
she will read her PONIES before large &
culchured audiences.
Last wk Jerushy Perkins while bring
ing to the Buggle offs not mince pie
to persent to us with her compliments
stubbed her toe while she was passing
Deacon Butterworth on the st and fell
flingin the mince pie into the Deacons
Ease against which il broke s1learing
him Up considerable We regret that
the Deacon got the pie instid Of us.
Cy Hoskins had horse to die on MS
hands last wk which he had SIS. Of
ferd for il by Slime Wilkins only the wk
before. Cy said if he had of knowd it
was going to die he would of sold it to
Slime, but Slime says if he had of knowd
If was a going to die he wouldn't of
bought IL so there you are.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-14
Mall UnCalIGd for at the
BIngViII0 P. 0.

Edditor Buggle-As P NJ. of the
Bingville P. o. I take my offishial pen
in hand to write that there is the foller-
ing mail in the Bingville P. o. which re-
mains uncalled for and unless il IS
called for soon I will investigate this
mail by opening same keeping ennythinI
I find of emmy value and throwing the
rest in the waste basket
Postcard Of Link Smiley. Being as
Link has been working away from Bing-
vile and wont be back here agin until
spring and being as our wife IS keeping
a postcard album we have presented her
the post card 10 put into her album.
Sample Copy OF the Moo York Tri-
bune for Alonzo Skillings. You can get
this sample copy next wk, Alonzo-l
amt had time to read It clean through as
yet.
Registered letter for Jed WHITLEY
which we are curious TO know what i:
inside. led can have this letter by open
ing Il in our presents as P. NJ. of Bing-
vile so we can be shure il don't con
tain nothink that would violate the P. o
regulashions sich as furrin matter or e.
eettery.
Unless these mail are called for nrnrsi
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-14
LANDS END

Bill Henshaw has had roomytiz in his
knee for quite a spell back and cant
walk without limpin. Bill says it axes
him so at times that he cant keep from
swearin although hes a member of the
church. Bill says now If it was a tooth
he could have the blame thing pulled
and be done with it, but being as its his
leg that's outep the questshion.
Mrs. Jim Bradley Sundayed last Sun
day with Jemima Peppers of Hickory
Corners. Mrs. Jim says she would also
of Mondsyed with Jemima if she had
dent 10 of come home to do the wash.
Jaspar Tarbell set a steel trap for q
fox which has been stealth his chickens
and ketched his ole tomcat in the trap
Jasp was a good cal surprised at this and
he calkilates the cat was too. Jasp was
also surprised at the way the cal
scratched him when he was tryin to gil
il outen the trap. EXCELSIOR.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-14
Personal Suuibs

Personal Squibs amt what you might
call so turrible plentiful this wk az they
might be if they was more plentifuller.
We have allus notised that squibs of
this descripshion Is allus more skeercer
in the winter time than in summer and
we persoom the reason is that in winter
time folks in Bingville is sort of denned
up and ~sticbin to the fire as il were in
std of bein out and moovin around and
as a result not very menny Personal
Squibs happens.
That was quite a fall of snow that
fell in Bingville last Thursday and we
persoom we voice the general sentiment
of our subscribers when we say that il
was more of a snow fall than neces-
sary. Before that snow snew the snow
was nearly three Fl deep and now its
nearly four. At the present writing we
have enuff snow 70 last us until next
Aprile.
Mrs. Ezra Johnson intended to VISIT
her sister over to the Co seat last wb
but jest as she got all reddy to go she
got a letter from her sister saying il
would be more convenient If she had
came this wk instid of next. This made
Mrs. Ezra mad and now she says she
amt goin tall
Mrs. Luke Sharp says she Is going
to paper her front parler in the spring
Mrs Luke paperd her front parler only
last spring doing the papering herseli
but she got the strips on crooked and
she says she cant take emmy comfort sot-
tin in that parler lookin at them crooked
strips on the wall so she Is goin &c
repaper it. Suppose you git EN- or
crooked the seckond time, Mrs. Sharp
Praps you'd better let we'll enuff alone.
Mrs. Gid Smalley is making Gid ;
cupple of new shirts outen sacking same
as they make grain sacks out of. Mrs
Smalley says she never see SIGH hare
man on shirts as Gid is being IL he can
jest git shirt over his head quick Is
time he gifts mad and tears it all Il
thunder, but she says she'd like TO SCI
him tear them two shirts made outer
sackin
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-14

emmy ice in SIGH bitter cold wether
as that was simply ridicklus in the
extreme.
And Lem is Jest like a lot Of
other folks in this here town. They
dilly daily & shilly shally along
without putin up emmy ice until
spring comes when its too late,
then when it gifts hot in July they
need ice to cool their worter so its
fit to drink or make some ice cream
with to cool their innards with,
why they haft to go and beg or
borrer enuff ice to do so from their
nabers.
1t makes US mad clean through
when we think of ennybuddy be-
ing so blame shiffless & dilatory.
| AS edditor of the Boogle we wish
to a nounce that we have our ice
house full of ice clean to the roof
and when some of our lazy nabers
comes around to borrer junk OF
ice from us next summer when Its
hot enuff to fry a egg on a tin root
they wont git no ice from us even
if their lungs is stickin out foot
for ice. We believe in being ma
berlv. but we don't believe in bein
60 alfred naberly as to put up ice
for our nabers who is too gorram-
med lazy to put up ice for their
sells. that's what we believe.
Among others who put up their
ice last December was Bill Hep
burn Our artistick blacksmith. Bill
saws he couldn't git along skeerceiy
without ice in the summer time es-
peshially when he comes home un-
der the wether every Satterday
night from the co seat where he
has lingerd too long over the flow
inc bowl as we might say and gifts
no Sunday morning with his head
achin him fit to bust. Bill says at
SIGH times as this there amt nothink
will give him relief except to jest
lnacherlv pack his head in ice ana
cool his feverd brains.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-14
LOkal JOttingS

Mics Phronicia Watkins who has been
entering from pneuralgia in her Ease
Cor wk or 2 attended a fashionable
.f+ernoon tea give by Miss Amelia
tucker last Sat. P. NJ. Phronicias Ease
r,as all sweld up and she lookt so RI
d;clIus TO the other invited gests that
tbev couldn't help latin at her when she
s-r;ved which made Phronicia turrible
mad so she flounced outen the room
and went home in a rage Phronicia
saws no descent person would Ian at an
other persons sufferings and she hopes
n Goodness everybuddy al the tea who
lated at her will git pneuralgia IN the
Ease
Miss Millv Underwood was the gest
NJ Sam Hankins on a slay ride last Sun
dav afternoon. AS they was drivin
along down the Snake Bend road Sam
was oavin more attenshion 70 Milly than
b. vas 70 his horse which strayed into
snow drift and dumped both OF en-
o,,, into the snow. Milly was awful
unused I'D and mad and after telling
Sam what she thort of him which was
considerable she stuck her nose into the
air and walked all the way home We
persoom that all is over betwixt Milly
& Sam.
Anne Peters says the rats has gnawed
into his oats bin recent and. 70 glt shei
OF the rats Anne sprinked some arsenick
in amongst the oats after which he hap
pend 10 think that what would pizen Z
rat would also pizen a horse or a COW
and now he is afeerd TO feed his oat:
10 his stock and will hsft 10 buy enuf
oats 10 winter his critters. Il seems &c
Us that Anne must be turrible numb no'
20 OF thort Of that in the lst place.
Miss Sally Hoskins. or poer writes