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The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

At the rate the allies progressed
on the west front during tho
summers campaign-a mile wide
by four hundred long, it would
take them about five hundred
wears to get to Berlin.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

According to the Springfield
papers our county seat is to bave
a Chautauqua next summer,
which is glad news to us. 1t is
a credit to the county, and we
are with you. The businegs
men of that town too are to be
commended for their enterprise
in backing it up and signing the
guarantee. We will boost for
xou. .''-Sentinel.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

On the 31st of December will
be the last $1.25 subscription
that will be taken to the Herald.
Brussels carpets and paper have
sS4h1Serssas,5.erd after the first
of the year It will taRe sl.5c to
get in on that first tioor-and
other floors in proportion.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

Anyhow, the Herald is not
knocking on its own town. as in
the case of the Two Buttes SEN
tinel. As an explanation, the
Sentinel agrees with the Herald
that the county should not
bridge their ditchers, and is
thereby knocking on Two Buttes
"a Ia Jones argument. Too
bad"
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

We believe the largest net
proceeds by an entertainment
was realized at tile new school
house of Prairie Queen last
week-$110.68. That Prairie
Queen country is sure some
pumpkins.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

In the light of the results in
the state, one thing that Hughes
can have to weigh on his con-
science during the rest Of his life
is that he didn't make himself a
warm stump to governor John
son, instead of an iceberg, while
touring California.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

One of our reporters this week
mentions the necessity of burn
ing ireguards. In this con1ec-
ton it is we'll to know that there
is a $4,000 fire to let fire get
away by wilfulness or care
lessness. At the same time, ev-
erybody should burn tireguards.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

The one time tide IF migration
from ths United States to Cana
da has changed its current dur
ing the last two years, and now
it is from Canada to the United
States. the result largely of the
European war,
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

Some Of our correspondents
this week tell of entertainments
in their neighborhoods on the
night of the 8th-the day We
publish, and invite Everybody
to come" For such notice to be
effective it should be given the
week before.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

Hiram johnson carried Cali
fornia by u MAORI, Y of 269, 600
for United States senator, and
Hughes lost it by 3,700 for presi-
dent. Manifestly, the repul H.
cans had the wrong man on their
national ticket.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

That 10000 canadians have
fallen in the European war is one
of the blackest pages in Canadi-
an history. Those boys had no
more business in that war than
so many boys from Colorado.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

Four of our correspondents
this week tell of entertainments
that netted all the way from 500
to $1109s-and last year the
dryest year ever known in the
history of the county.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

1.-THE war will commence in
May"-that's what the British
premier said two years ago, with
still another May ahead for the
war to commence.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

At the close of the summers
campaign there is no material
gain by either side in tho Euro
pean war, Dut hundreds of
thousands of ofi,nocent boys have
been ruthless,y hurled into eter-
nity.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

The American Economist, the
organ of high protection, wants
protection made the principal
issue in 1920. Wonder if the old
rallying cry of the foreigner
pays the tax" is to go along as
the principal frill.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

Whatever may be thought OF
those nations that first went
into the war, there isn't any
sympathy to be extended to
those that went into it after
wards solely for the spoils.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

We learn by our esteemed COLI
temporary that 1000, 900 acres
waits settlers in Baca county,"
AS l, 600, 900 acres is up towards
two.thirds of the land in the
county, we are bothered to know
Just how to understand our con-
temporary's statement.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

Carranza saved his face" by
refusing assistance to Gen. Per-
shing in his drive for Villa, but
it may be the cause of him los
ing his head. as witness recent
events in Chahuahua and other
parts of the republic.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

Two weeks more and better
TO do your shopping before that
great national holiday known as
ex-mas
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08
At DENVER
THIS WINTER

A Resume of Some Legislation
That Should Command the
Attention of our Legislators
at Denver During the Com
ing Session OF the Legisla-
ture
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

Elmer French's mother and
his two brothers. j. j. and ]. M.
came up from Tyrone, Okla, the
first of the week for few days
visit with Will and Elmer.
.~~~~~~.~~e~~~.--.
Saturday j. D. Payne and G.
Shelley had their trial for
butchering a heifer belonging to
]. B. Ratliff, and we're bound
over in the sum of $4,000 each,
Judge Hillyer for the prosecu-
ton, Att Gordon for the defense
before Justice Zircle. Monday
in the same court with the same
attorneys Chas. Conoway and
Clay Mason were bound over on
a charg of butchering a steer be-
longing to Arthur Dodge in $3.50
bonds. In the county court on
the same charge Or. McAdams
was give a suspended sentence
of five years in the reform school
and Aaron McAdams discharged
they being under age. In the
same court the bootlegging cases
were continued to the Jan term.
In the justice court yesterday
the four boys arrested for gam
bling were discharged tor want
of jucisdiction-Att' Alberti for
the prosecution, Judge Terral
for the defense. And it hasn't
been a good week for court cases
either.
The Springfield herald., 1916-12-08

war.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-09-07
Forest Fires in Northwest.

According to figures just compiled
in the district forester's office, 54
forest fires out of 119 occurring be-
tween August 10 and 20 were caused
by careless campers, and the remain
der were due TO incendiaries, hunt
ers, numbering and railroads. Dur
ing the period from January to
August 20 there were $40 fires in
the national forests of Oregon,
Washington and Alaska. These fires
burned over a total acreage of 2,437
acres, an average of 61s acres per
fire, and cost $3.50 to extinguish.
The Siskiyou national forest, during
this period, has had 80 fires, burning
over 263 acres, and costing SS7, as
against 29 fires, burning over 112
acres and costing $S7 for the same
period last year.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-09-07

show to head him off. kept on
going and had got up to within prob
ably two hundred yards, when, sure
enough, away he went down the hill
towards Black Butte. He made
quite a run this time before the dogs
brought him up, as 1t was brushy,
but as soon as they struck open tim
ber they made it hot for him again
and he couldn't make much head
way. l gave the horn a toot and
Bob answered me, only a short dis
tance ahead. He waited until |
caught up with him, and on we went
We could hear the dogs going after
the bear now, and could tell he
wasn't making much headway. Pret-
ty soon they came to a deep canyon
and he made run on them down
into this. but as he came up on the
other side we had got to the brink
and could see them as they fought
backwards and forwards, first one
grabbing him by the ham and then
the other. Now was our chance,
and as he turned with his side to
us we both fired. Down he went on
his belly, clawing at the ground for
a few minutes, then over and over
he rolled down the hill, both dogs
yanking at him as he came. We
went down to where they were now
and made the dogs quit Both bull
lets had passed through behind the
shoulders, one at least through the
heart. He was a mealy nose brown
and about as big as they generally
get. We dressed him and straight
ened him around in good shape and
started back for camp, as we knew
it would be noon or after when we
got there, and besides Trailer had
run enough for one day.
Ito be concluded next Monday)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-09-07
Big Grand Army
Camp Closes

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 1.-The
fiftieth annual encampment Of the
Grand Army of the Republic and the
reunions of its auxiliary organiza-
tions will close today.
A visit from Charles Evans
Hughes, republican nominee for
president, the election of national
officers and their installation, and
the annual "camp fire" of the Ma
tional Association of ex-Prisoners Of
War were to combine to make this
one of the big days for the Civil
war veterans.
Mr.. Hughes is to arrive here at
$3.50 o'clock this afternoon. He is
to be met by an escort of veterans.
The veterans yesterday selected Bos-
ton as the next meeting place. The
camp fire of the union ex-prisoners
tonight will be the last evening of
the encampment.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-09-07
Name Louisiana's Pride.

AudubOn's Name LOuisiana's Pride.
Louisiana will always be associat-
ed with the name of Audubon. Not
simply because the immortal ornith-
ologist was born within the borders
of this state, but because 1t was here
that he received the great incentive
to pursue to triumphant conclusion
the studies that have made him re-
vered the world over. For here, in
this wonderful bird parish of West
Feliciana, he mot neglecting to duly
honor his noble wife's part) earned
sufficient funds to enable him to go
to England, where his art and other
scientific attainments and researches
were appraised at their true value.
In Louisiana there are three
places to be inseparably linked with
the name of John James LaForrest
Audubon-Mandeville, where he was
born; New Orleans, where he starv-
ed; West Feiciana, where he
roamed the most beautiful of all
Louisianas beautiful woods, studied
his birds, drew their portraits, and
earned sufficient to have his work
printed and made known to the
world.
To those who have studied the life
of this noted scholar. as set down by
his wife and other chroniclers, 1t is
evident that the most momentous
periods of his strangely checkered
career were those spent in this state
yet those are the periods passed
over in a few sentences or short
chapters by biographers. This seems
strange since it was here his heart
interest lay-especially when abroad.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-09-07

that flows out of Black Butte anC
makes one prong of Butte creek
Here was grass high as horses
back, and huge spreading maple
to camp under, and one of the pret'
tiest streams that ever saw in al
my life, and full of fish besides
This was too good to pass by, so we
Just simply unpacked and turned the
horses loose, and after resting
while we got out our hooks and lines
and in twenty minutes had all of the
speckled beauties we wanted. Some
we're twelve and fourteen inches in
length. This same stream can be
reached from Ashland now by auto
in half day, but parties would have
to walk certain distance. An auto
road could very easily be made the
whole distance. After supper, which
consisted of bread baked by the
camp fire, fried potatoes, butter, cof-
fee and fried fish, we concluded to
take a walk out to Elk prairie, which
we knew could not be very far, and
here did a foolish trick and discov-
cred it when it was too late. went
without my gun! | wanted to leave
the dogs in camp, and knew If l
went without the gun they would
not want to follow. So Bob took his
gun along and | sauntered along be-
hind, not thinking for moment
that we would see any game that
would be worth shooting at. But in
this / was mistaken, for after travel
ing perhaps half or three-quarters
of mile we came to to the edge of
Elk prairie, and, 10 and behold, right
out in the prairie, not over 125
yards. were two big gray wolves,
busy feeding on the carcass Of
deer which they had probably killed.
need not tell you that just about
this time | would have given king
dom for my gun, and watched as
Bob pulled up his Winchester and
took careful aim at one of them and
let her go. At the crack of the gun
the wolf leaped high in the air and
turned round and round and tum-
bled over. The other one sprang off
a few yards and stopped to look and
listen. The lever went down and
up, and quicker than it axes to tell
it, another bullet sped from the IA
and caught him in the thigh. Away
he went now towards the timber,
dragging one hind leg, and away
went Bob, too, stopping to shoot
about every twenty yards. How it
would have ended is hard to tell,
but Just then | heard the dogs COM
ing. / stopped Trailer, but Ranger
passed by like a cyclone and saw
the wolf. You could just see a black
streak going across that prairie.
The wolf could not make much head
way, and it was plain to be seen that
Ranger would overtake him before
he could get to the timber to save
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-09-07
Early Day Hunting
On Mount Pitt
(By John B. Grlffin.l


While in Ashland a few weeks ago
] met many old friends and was i'm
portuned to write a hunting story
for the Ashland Tidings. | was so
royalty entertained while there that
could not we'll refuse, so l prom
ised. and now / will proceed to full
fill that promise, and l hope that
the reader will not be disappointed
in this story, as / am going to write
of one of my most successful hunts,
and besides the friend who was with
me is one of Ashland's old-timers
and most substantial citizens-no
other than Hon. Robert Neil, eX-
mayor and vice-president of an Ash
land bank, but in this story l am
going to call him just plain Bob.
Now, no doubt, there are a great
many people in Ashland who will be
surprised to know that Bob ever
hunted bear or ever hunted at all,
for that matter, but let me tell you,
don't deceive yourselves, for thirty
years ago there we're few men in
Jackson county who could give Bob
Neil any pointers on either hunting
or shooting, if he did miss the Sugar
Loaf bear that told about In the
Record some time ago. Well, to
make long story short, l know that
] couldn't lay it over him any, but
that is not saying very much. How
ever, l used to hate awfully bad to
be beaten by anyone when it came to
hunting, but it sure kept me jumping
sideways to hold my own when /
went out with Bob.
/ and Bob used to live neighbors
in the Dead Indian country long
time ago, and it was from there that !
we started on the hunt that am
going to tell you about, and the re-
gion around Mt. Pitt was our des-
tination, where bear, deer, elk and
gray wolves abounded in more or
less numbers, and we went loaded |
for bear, for bear was what we want
ed, and besides we had old Trailer,
the famous old dog the readers all |
know about, and Ranger, one of the
best helpers he ever had, and we
were ready to follow them to the end
of the trail We started out with
five horses and IA apiece and lots
of ammunition, also plenty of grub.
Now at this day and age of the world |
some hunters will think 1t strange
that man would go out to hunt big
game with a IA Winchester, but in
those days there were no high-power
guns, and let me tell you I have been
in some pretty close places, when l
had only the "A, and always man
aged to come out all right.
Well, the first drive we made was
to Wetfoot prairie, by noon. Here
was an old cabin that had been built |
several years before by Bob Neil |
Bill Daily and others, and had been
used as e trappers cabin. There
was a prairie here and lots of grass,
so while we cooked dinner the horses
filled up and at 1 o'clock we saddled !
up and pulled out, intending to go
as far as Elk prairie. There were
no trails those days, so we hit |
straight through the woods, and af-
ter travelling about three or four
hours we came to stream of water
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-09-07

Mrs. Mary L. Newland, who has
taken personal instruction under DR..
Montessori of Rome, has opened an
open air Montessori school for child
rem from three to six years of age.
Chautauqua hall, phone 441-R 2S-4t'
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-09-07

For sale, three COWS and No. 4
Sharples separator. o. ]. Rathbun.
phone 409-R. 24-tf
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19

profile view of himself upon the sheet,
as shown in Fig. 8. Each boy must
have a number unknown to the girls)
and while his portrait is upon the
screen the girls on the other side OF
the screen must guess who it is and
write his name upon paper provided,
In this way: mo. George Wash
ington Jones'" mo. 2-George WASH
ington Thompson" ETC., preixing the
boys last names with that of George.
Washington. (
Fig. A shows the cooked hat. G q
a circular piece of wrapping r<opef~2Ol
inches in diameter for the, hat brir1'
Gig. 81, and cut a center opening for
the crown. Make a crown Of q, strip
OF cardboard bent into a band to fit
your head, with a circular piece fitted
to it's top Gigs. 6 and y.
Fig, 8 shows how to arrange g
lamp for projecting the light.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19

ftrong and will sell for several thou
on the block and the voice of the auc-
tioneer leaps out like a whip lash:
Gentlemen, this is a likely wench.
What am | bid for herr" There fol-
lows a rapid, sing-song recital of the
girls salable points, ending with
scarcely a noticeable break in the
crisp, persuasive challenge:
What am | bid?"
Bidding for the Slaves.
A prosperous looking planter strides
forward and touches her arms mp
praisingly, them his hand falls I'M
abashed to her strong bare ankles.
He steps back obviously pleased, call
ing out with assumed Indifference:
"One thousand dollars!" Higher the
bids go. higher and higher; voices rise
and fall, rise and soar and swell, In
til at last the hammer falls, the bah
BILE subsidies and the octoroon steps
down to her new master. AS by no
volition of your own, your mind slips
back to the cells and to a buxom,
k~ind-faced nanny, created and en-
dowed to nurse the offspring of white
mothers. She will bring but a modest
price in the mart, for there are many
of her kind. Here is a young quad
room, there a gray old Creole darby,
somewhere else a very black and
strapping half-grown negress. You
melodious, a jargon of French and
Spanish inlaid with many little Eng
lish words. Suddenly. in the cells
occupied by the men, the coarser
blackI break out in a burst of wild,
weird song, cut through by the tam
tam of a drum made of a gourd cov-
cred with sheepskin.
A tail and sinewy negro rises and
steps III quickly to the center of the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19

door, and cut crosspiece E several
inches shorter than D. Nail cross
piece E to the door an inch and one
half below the clock, pivot latch D to
it with a screw, and nail block F to
the door just below E for a stop for
the latch. Screw a screw-eye into the
latch at G, and two others into the
door at H and l; then tie a latch
string to screw-eye G, run it up to
and through screw-eyes H and l, and
down to the alarm winding key of the
clock. Pull the string taut, and, aft
er winding the alarm, tie the string
to the key. Now, when the alarm
goes off and the key reverses, the
string will wind about it and raise the
latch. There must be a catch ] Gigs.
5 and g. for the latch to drop behind.
The combination shown in Fig. l
is make-believe. The knob is a spool
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
OIdSIave f0asIrt
NiZx0rIelznz !.

floor and dances with rolling eyes and
gaping mouth to the time of the primi-
tive drum.
Now, a bat fiutters out of the shad-
ows and brushes your face, while you
stir out of cramping muscles with a
muttered word Of relief. Drip. drip,
drip, the rain seeps in, steadily, now,
like a clock ticking.
You mount a flight of broad and
creaking walnut stairs and pause at
the first landing to view a pink and
lilac tracery on the wall which once
represented a painting of De Soto's
first view of the Mississippi.
Led by the chateIaine.
You glance at two holes high up in
the outer wall which show the light
like a pair of prying eyes under shag-
gy brows, then you take a bracing
breath and go on. BIT you halt alb
Tuptly at the sound Of an opening
door and the echo of slow and drag
ging feet coming nearer and nearer.
In a moment a oma short and heavy
of build, with the mingled air of gra-
ciousness and reserve, is before you.
She is the chatelaine. You know it
before she says "Entrez!" in her
charming throaty French. She has on
a skirt of faded crimson and blue,
with a basquelike bodice of luminous
green. She wears a cap Of soiled
D'Alencon lace, and a fine odd brooch
of jet as sparkling black as her deep
set eyes. Instinctively you drop a
silver piece into the bag which bangles
with a bunch of keys from her ample
waist, and follow her shutting lead.
To the accompaniment of her ex-
%planatory and also rapid French, you
are shown salons with cracked and
sunken marble fireplaces, salons with
vanished onyx floors, once pressed by
the satin-clad feet Of many beautiful
women, widowed mirrors made in the
days of the first empire, crystal
chandeliers with broken pear-shaped
prisms, and walls from which price
less frescoes and friezes and medal
lions have been removed, bits of
bronze from an old balustrade, the bat
tered fragments of a fountain.
One Room Still a Home.
When you have looked into count
| less chambers and heard the history
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19

ance,' a hopeless kind o. struggle.
Sooner or later that u~nceasing stream
of men issuing out of the narrow de-
file must sweep us back. Always the
enemy returned to the charge, unde-
tered by heavy losses, undismayed by
our deadly guns and magazine fire.
in the end we CAV the enemy his
dearly bought line of trenches and
slowly fell back to our second line of
positions, where the remainder of the
division Joined us and helped to beat
off the sustained attacks, which lacked
naught in violence. All day the Bull
gars alternately b~ombarded and
charged us. There seemed to be thou
sands and thousands of them. They
gave us no rest at night. Wherever
we stood they rained an ~unceasing
fusillade of shell upon us and followed
each rafale up with a determined in
fantry attack.
Communicating the Tenth division
in the proportion of at least eight to
one, they were obstinately zen on its
destruction at whatever cost to them
selves. Their artillery far exceeded
ours in weight of metal, but in effec-
t~iveness there was no comparison. AL
most all our shells told, while many of
theirs did nc more than splinter the
rocks yards away. So Monday, Deem
Der 6, was passed with the Tenth d.
vision nightly pressed but still well
able to hold it's own. Tuesday, the
It'll, was an exact replica of the pre-
vious day.
Tenth Held Its Own.
THE Bulgars heavily ~bombarded our
line; then sent forward strong storm
ing parties before whom we r~ecoiled
a little, but no more. The division
never lost its cohesion, and it gave
ground only at the rate of two miles a
day, which is a proof, if any were
needed, of the splendid rear-guard &C.
ton that this much-outnumbered force
fought. Our artillery kept them in
sufficient check to give us all the res
pite we needed, and the rife fire of the
different regiments bit gaping wounds
in the enemy mass that helped to
throw them into temporary confusion.
'"Teodorow, the Bulgarian general,
is a great believer in the German
method of attack. He reckons no loss
in lei is too gr""t if the objective be
gained. The objective in this case
IA the defamation of the Tenth di-
vision, and under his orders the Bull
gars charged and charged until the
snowdrifts owe which the battle was
fought was black with the recumbent
forms of his men.
I'm the two days we drew four miles
nearer to the Greek frontier. If we