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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09

pruned orchards that flashed past
the car.
And then we came to the springs.
Ny companion had been telling me
of the unique qualities of the water,
of its strength in lithium- chloride,
derivative of the rare element, lith-
ium, and of its therapeutic value. In
a way / was i'll at ease. By some
chance | had not tasted the water in
the park, and now | was assailed by
the fear that the water would not
taste good.
My mind reverted to the worst
tasting medicines my childhood had
been tortured with But as I de-
scended the neat stone stairway to
the first spring, l caught sight of the
bubbling flow and sighed my relief.
No water that looked so good could
taste half bad. And 1t didn't. My
first cup was followed by another
more generously filled, and then it
was that l felt sure / had drunk of
the Springs of Inspiration.
Ito be continued)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09
DODGE BROTHERS CAR
WINS HILL CLIMB
Negotiates Steep Pinnacle at Mont
Rose, Colo, With Nine
Passengers

Negotiates Steep Pinnacle at Mont
Rose, Colo, With Nine
Passengers
At a recent hill climbing contest
at Montrose, Colo, a Dodge Bros.
car performed feat never before at
tempted on hill near the town by
climbing to the top with nine pas
sengers weighing total of 1850
pounds.
The contest was started for cars
carrying their seating load and the
Dodge Bros. car won easily. A seven
passenger car that had stalled re-
quested permission to cut its load
to five and it was successful. But
to demonstrate its superior power,
the Dodge Bros. car was loaded with
four men in addition to its first pas
sengers and easily made the top.
The hill was but 200 feet long but
1t was crooked and the average grade
was 26.6 per cent, the steepest por-
tion having a grade of 1922 per cent
and the most level part grade Of
only per cent.
There were originally number OF
cars scheduled to try the climb, but
when starting time arrived only three
would compete.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09
PATRIOTISM.
(By Lyman Abbott.)

A nation is made great, not by its
fruitful acres, but by the men who
cultivate them; not by its great for
ests, but by the men who use them;
not by its mines, but by the men who
work in them; not by its railways,
but by the men who build and run
them. America was a great land
when Columbus discovered it; Amer
leans have made of it a great nation.
In 1776 our fathers had a vision
of new nation conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal" With
out an army they fought the great
est Of existing world empires that
they might realize this vision. A
third of a century later, without a
navy they fought the greatest navy
in the world that they might win for
their nation the freedom Of the seas.
Half a century later they fought
through an unparalleled Civil War
that they might establish for all time
on this continent the inalienable
right of life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. A third of a century
later they fought to emancipate an
oppressed neighbor, and, victory won,
gave back Cuba to the Cubans, sent
an army Of schoolmasters to educate
for liberty the Filipinos, asked no
war indemnity from their vanquished
enemy, but paid him literally for his
property Meanwhile they offered
land freely to any farmer who would
live upon and cultivate it, opened to
foreign immigrants on equal terms
the door of industrial opportunity,
shared with them political equality,
and provided by universal taxation
for universal education.
The cynic who can see in this his
tory only a theme for his egotistical
satire is no true American, whatever
his parentage, whatever his birth
place. He who looks with pride upon
this history which his fathers have
written by their heroic deeds, who ac-
cepts with gratitude the inheritance
which they have bequeathed to him,
and who highly resolves to preserve
this inheritance unimpaired and to
pass 1t on to his descendants enlarged
and enriched, is a true American, be
his birthplace or his parentage what
It may.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09
Talks With Screen Struck Girls

them, and, even though / discovered
some such and was convinced of their
laudable intentions, l would still be
decidedly doubtful about their eff
cacy.
| don't believe that there is a
school of motion picture acting that
can achieve a pupil anything or make
her chances of ultimate success in the
profession one whit better.
In the first place there is prac-
tically no prospect of adequate in
struction in such an institution. A
person, to teach a raw recruit the
technique of picture acting, must
necessarily have genuine experience
and caliber. If he possesses such,
however, is it not reasonable to sup
pose that he will be directing or pro-
ducing real photoplays at salary
much greater than he can expect
from teaching in his school? Direct
ors and producers of ability are in
demand
AS far as my observations have
gone, the schools of motion picture
acting are invariably makeshifts to
furnish an income to failures in the
profession. The perpetrators of same
have found themselves unable to
make a living as actors or producers
and so have begun to practice upon
the gullibility of an inexperienced
public. They promise their pupils
success they could not find for them
selves. Nothing could we'll be more
ridiculous.
My advice then is, DON'T TAKE A
COURSE IN ANY SCHOOL OF MO-
TION PICTURE ACTING.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09
The Springs
Of Inspiration
(By Leonard HintOn)

(By Leonard HmtOn)
The face of the man in the smoker
frightened when l said Ashland.
You'll like it," he said. Its so
homelike."
| frowned a little. A man once
used that adjective to lure me to look
at flat. There we're initials carved
on the door panels and the healthy
ghosts of many garlic stews fingered
affectionately in the kitchen.
"Its is so homelike," he repeated
pleasantly.
But l stopped in Ashland, though
/ had no business there, save as a
professional snooper among extraord-
mary places of the earth. 1t was suf-
ficient that the whim had so bid me,
when the name slipped from my
tongue in the smoker.
And it all happened while / was
totally unaware that the Springs of
Inspiration were waiting for me.
True, had heard that there were
springs in and around the city at
the head of the famous Rogue river
valley. Someone had even told me
that there were more springs con-
tanning carbon-dioxide within a rad
ius of twelve miles of Ashland than
in all the famous spas of Europe. l
am afraid l had doubted that little.
know now that it is one more of
those facts which we doubt merely
because it has not been exploited as
it deserves.
Early in the afternoon of the fol-
lowing day started for the springs
afoot. l had spent a glorious morn
ing about town, talking to whomever
l could engage in conversation, scold-
ing myself a little for being so utter
ly charmed with Chautauqua park.
Somehow it seemed a little sighting
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
'::::::;::::::3::t::::;::::
Our Pledge.

Our Pledge.
The family pledge hung on the wall
And on it you could see
The names of mamma and Mary Jane
And Charlie-that is me.
We. did not dare to ask papa
To write upon it, too,
So left place for him to fill
Twas all we dared to do.
He saw our pledge as soon as he
Came in the door that night,
And when we saw him read it
1t put us in a fright.
He did not say word to us
About that pledge at all,
But oft we saw him look at it
Hanging upon the wall.
And every night when he came home
He stood and read it through;
We all kept still about its words,
Although we knew them through.
Four weeks passed and then one
night,
When pa came home to tea,
He took the pledge down from its nail
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09

, to such master works of nature and
art as Golden Gate park, Griffith in
Los Angeles, and Lincoln park in
Chicago. But the charm is there,
whether you know it or not, and
shall give myself the privilege of
saying a great deal more about it
later.
/ had hardly left the main section
of the town behind, and was ques-
tioning the wisdom of a coat on a
day that seemed stolen from an east
ern June, when | was startled by the
whirr of a motor at my side, and
genial voice making the welcome sug-
gestion of Gift" AS fortune would
have it, my benefactor was bent on
the same adventure as I. My indo-
lent mind finally relieved of all
thoughts of walking, / leaned back
luxuriously and devoted my atten-
ton to the scenery. Also to the
asking of innumerable questions.
/ My companion was an angel of
courtesy. The road, he told me, was
the Pacific Highway, the great artery
of travel that was destined to sweep
away the last barriers between the
states of the Pacific Coast, and open
to the tourist a motor paradise in
what has been the last wilderness
of America.
And now on all sides Of us were
rolling fields of mountain loan. Like
soft folds of velvet they seemed to
clothe the hills, pale, wonderful
greens where the new grain grew,
and deep browns where the ploughs
and harrows had but lately worked
the soil.
I know that soil of old. In the
foothills of Central California they
have its counterpart, and they raise
on it oranges that are ripe and mar
keted before Christmas, and won
derful Emperor and Tokay grapes. l
felt that | could safely prophesy the
flavor of the unborn peaches that
shall come later to the young, we'll
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09
HOBSON AND THE JAP NAVY.

Congressman Hobson and the 9TH
er advocates of big navy who have
been preaching the imminent prob
ability OF war with Japan have been
basely betrayed. We strongly sus-
pect that Henry Ford or w. j. Bryan
is at the bottom of this latest perfidy.
The Associated Press sent out an in
terview from Toxic under date of
January 20, quoting Admiral Kato,
head of the Japanese navy, as pre-
dieting that Japan's navy will soon
be ranked with China, Greece and
Spain. To make the matter worse
and to complete Mr.. Hobson's humili-
alton, Admiral Kato pointed out that
Japan has but four ships Of the first
line, and referred to the American
and British navies as mistress of the
sea, incomporably superior to any
thing Japan has now or may hope to
have. Such an interview coming
from such a source Just when the
Hobsonites are trying to make the
American people believe that Uncle
Sans navy is little better than junk,
is bit disturbing. Doubtless Bryan
and Ford and others OF their type
must have engineered this Japanese
interview. With only four ships in
Japan and practically none in Amer
ica, II one believes the experts, this
navy business seems to be rather ex-
pensive..
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09

It has been said that from the same
materials one builds palaces, another
novels; one warehouses, another viii
las; bricks and mortar are mortar
and bricks until the architect makes
them something else. The block OF
granite which was an obstacle in the
path of the weak becomes a stepping
stone in the pathway Of the resolute.
The difficulties which dishearten one
man only stiffen the sinews of anoth-
er, who looks on the mas a sort of
mental springboard by which to vault
across the gulf of failure on to the
sure, solid ground of full success.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09

had they been in the other mans
place. They do not stop to ask why
the fellow that was in the other shoes
did not succeed. If they did they
would often find tne man who went
wrong, or who failed, was entitled to
great credit for standing up SO brave
ly under forces and burdens that
might easily have overthrown his ac-
cusers. Sometimes the man who fails
is a greater hero than another who
wins.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09

1t is so easy to criticise ones neigh
Dor who has gone wrong in morals,
or made a failure in business, and so
hard to give credit for the effect OF
the influences impelling him to disas-
ter, over which he has no control,
that our criticism of Others is often
very uncharitable. Men often say
how good they would have been, or
what they would have accomplished
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09


had thought that with my last
talk" | was finished for a time with
the fake school of motion picture act
ing. / find myself, however, still in
a belligerent frame of mind. An in
quiry received with my last mail has
probably had something to do with
it.
How may l tell fake school
from the honest kind?" writes my
young "screen-struck" friend.
| must frankly admit myself un-
able to answer, since none Of the
schools of motion picture acting that
have come under my observation
have had any of the ear marks OF
honesty.
Now | want to be perfectly fair in
all my assertions, and so l will grant
that there may somewhere be few
schools with honest intentions. Thus
far, however, I've been unable to find
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09

The grandest luxury God ever gave
man is health. He who trades that
off for all the palaces of the earth is
cheated. Many have envied Napoleon,
but he would gladly have given all
his honors to have been freed from
the gout. A dinner of herbs tastes
better to the appetite sharpened on a
woodman's AK or a cythe, than
wealthy indigestion experiences seat
ed at a table covered with venison
and all the luxuries of the season.
With good health we can sleep sweet
ly on straw mattress, while fash
ionable invalids get but little rest on
a couch of eagles down. Let us re-
member Paul's advice to the Hebrews
and if we have health in al other
respects, "Be content with such
things as ye have"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09
Coffee

Poor coffee is one of
The worst extravagances-
Schilling's Best, one of
the best.
Really not extrava-
gance-ec0A00y. so much
richer that it makes more
cups Of better coffee; SO
much finer in favor that
the difference is marked.
The alright tins carry
all this flavor safely to
you--proteCted from taint-
ing odors.
Ready to use ground
evenly, bitterish chaff
taken out.
Schilling's
Best
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09
And then turned to me.

And then turned to me.
GO get the pen and ink, my boy,
And let me fill that space,
1t looks so bare" he slowly said,
A queer look on his face
And then mamma sat down and cried
(She said it was for joy,
And Mary Jane, she creid some, too,
l did not-I'm a boy!
And papa said he did not drink
Since first that night when we
Had hung that pledge upon the wall
Where he our names could see.
And ever since that space was filled,
Mamma said so tonight,
Though dark may be our little room,
One corners always bright.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09

This is the season when highway
builders promote the cause by wash
ing down costly brands Of cham
pagne at good roads dinners.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09

That injunction to love your neigh
Dor as yourself means the neighbor
in trouble as well as the other who
has a big automobile.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09

In order Ito make a good front"
some people put everything on their
backs.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-11-13
He REMOVES McGRAW'S
CASE TO WEBSTER CO.
Has Been On Docket For Sew
eraI Years In Charles Town.

Judge J NJ. Woods, iii the Jeffer-
son county circuit court, has ordered
the removal of the case OF II. p.
Camden against John 7. McGraw, Of
Grafton, which has been on the dock
ct in that county for several years,
TO Webster county. where all OF the
creditors of Colonel McGraw in West
Virginia are to be convened with a
view cl having a decree for sale of
mis- property and a number of corpo-
fations in which he is interested en-
tered.
R. l. Gregory, of Parkersburg, rep
resenung Receiver Hyatt, of the Graf
ton Bank. appeared as attorney. Mr..
Gregory stated that the creditors had
been compelled to pay about $4,000
in taxes to keep the property from
Icing sold for taxes in the last year
or two, and that there was already
$g50000 in judgments entered
E. H. Morton, of Webster Springs,
Instituted suit several months ago tG
convene all the creditors of Colonel
McGraw. and It is said that all the
property probably would be put on the
market early next year The suit,
which was instituted in jefferson
county On account of Colonel MeGraw
owning a 250-aere farm there, BY Mr..
Camden, representing the estate of
lie late Johnson n. Camden, had
been satisfied. although it had been
allowed to remain without being dis
missed. The claim had been paid by
au attachment proceeding in connec-
ton with the sale Of some of Colonel
McGraw's property in Garrett county,
Maryland.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-11-13
BIB MORTGAGE ON
MERTENS' PROPERTY

70 secure a bond issue Of $2,500,00
he r. Mertens Sons Corporation Fri
day in Washington placed a blanket
mortgage on all its property in the
District, Maryland, Virginia and 9th
er states. The bonds are to be 1890
in number and in varying amounts,
payable November l, 1921 and bear
ing s per cent interest payable semi
annually The continental Trust Com
pany is named as trustee Attorney
William H Sholes filed the mortgage
for record. The z. Mertens Sons
Corporation was organized recently
and took over the business of Fred
eriek Mer,ens' Sons Bates Warner
is president Of the corporation and
Frederick Mertens, Jr., is secretary.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-11-13

that killed him. l carried it in my
pocket a few days, and then big
boy took it away from me. The sol
der had his gun in his front. 1t was
a short gun. He and my papa and
my mama had been quarreling."
No cross-examination could shake
the childs story.
q know where bad boys 90 if they
don't tell the truth" the boy declar-
ed in answer to question.
When Mrs. Alexander was called
to the stand she admitted that Bur
CESS had shot her husband. She said
she and Burgess had been friendly
for some time, and that when her
husband returned she refused to
leave her home for the other man.
Then she swore, quarrel began at
which Burgess was present.
Her husband, she said, fired at her
and she fell to the floor, feigning to
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-11-13
REPUBLICANS HOME
BLOWN TO SMlTHEREENS

Authorities from Gallipolis, O., are
continuing their efforts for learning
the motive for the mysterious dyna-
hitting Friday night Of the home Of
John Watson, prominent Republi-
can, at MjIlersport Ohio, according to
reports received in Huntington.
Miss Susan Watson, aged -, who
was seriously injured by the eXplo-
sion which wrecked the home, will
recover. it is said Gallipolis author
tiles offer but ole explanation of the
dynamiting, that political opponents
OF Watson in celebrating the victory
planned the affair as joke, without
intending to set of such a forceful
explosion. Blaodhounds are being
used and it WAS stated, arrests We're
expected.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-11-13
BOY F0ILS A PLOT
TO CONCEAL Staying
And His Mothers Lover Faces
Trial For Murder.
BY w. B. GRIFFIN
(By international News SerVice)

El Paso, Tex, Nov. 13.-Because {
little boy of five knew the difference
between a murder and a suicide Ear
Burgess of Company I, thirty-fourtt
Infantry is facing trial for his life
for the killing Of Sergt. T. A. Alex
ander of the same company.
Alexander's death had been formal
~ declared case of suicide by the
coroner; Burgess was at Camp Stew.
art unsupported and Alexander's
beautiful widow, becomin2ly gowned
in deep mourning, was receiving the
sympathy Of her neighbors, when her
little son gave the information that
resulted IN Burgess arrest on a
charge of murder.
There's the little boy whose papa
committed suicide one boy remark
ed to another as Mrs. AleXanders
son passed by
My papa did not commit suicide.
A soldier shot and killed him." was
the reply
The BOYS laughed but plain
clothes man heard the remark and
BIT set him thinking An investigation
was started and Burgess and the wo-
man were soon under arrest Then
they admitted that Alexander had
been shot by Burgess, but they told
story of shooting in self defense
after a quarrel Of which she was the
center.
Alexander was found shot to death
in his home at 301 South ST, Vrain
street, Oct 8. He had been in Port
Clark for some time and had only
recently returned to Ell Paso Neigh
bors said Burgess meantime had been
a frequent caller at the Alexander
home.
When the police arrived Mrs Alex
ander told them her husband had be-
come Respondent and had shot and
killel himself She related such a
convincing story that Coroner J. NJ.
Beaver rendered a verdict of suicide,
Ii was ten days later that Mrs. Alex
ander's son by a former marriage,
Manuel Mandiver, gave the true
story of The killing. Burgess up to
that time had not even been ques-
tfanoI
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-11-13
MONDAY, NQEdH;

be dead. Alexander then turned on
Burgess, she testified, saying, .'Ill get
you, too" He fired again, bot again
missed and Burgess shot and killed
him.
Mrs. Alexander said she told the
suicide story in order to avoid
scandal and TO save her child from
disgrace
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-11-13
AGED MAN KILLED.

Ishmael E. Robinson, aged sixty
years, died Saturday night at Fair
mont Hospital No. 3. He was driv.
ing in a buggy near Fetterman when
he was struck by passenger train
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Mr.. Robinson was a resident of
Wickwire, w. Va, living on a farm.
He leaves a family The body was
taken to W'ickwire for burial. >
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-11-13

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