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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08
KEEP GOING.

Don't try to hide It, We saw you
fall down. What's the sour face
about? Discouraged? What If you
did take a fall? That's nothing.
Don't stay down. Get up before the
crowd walks all over you. Smile!
Laugh hard!
Now forward with your left foot
That's it. Now your right foot. Fine!
Keep going!
Don't try to stand there. You'll
go down again If you don't keeI
moving. Come on! Walk! Pro
gress
You're tired? Already? Forge
1t! The hill is steep? Certainly II
is. It's full of rocks, too. They
can't stop you. There's nothing tC
them.
Adversely besets you? OF course Il
does. Are you afraid of 1t? Come
out of your fearl Rise above youi
doubt!
Dominion is part of you. Get the
best of your cowardice.
A good strong 81 will" is all you
need to obliterate and eliminate fail
ure.
Get busy! Get busy now! Fight
your belief in adversely. Trouble
has no reality. II 1t did 1t would last
forever.
Reality can't be destroyed.
Reality annihilates trouble.
No lie can exist in the presence of
truth. No obstacle can initiate
against the power with which you're
endowed.
Use that power! You can.
Freedom is your birth-right. Ac-
cept your freedom. Loosen the shack
les that bind you.
Your only captivity is your lack Of
Your slavery exists
because you're afraid to use the
strength you've got.
You're afraid there's greater
strength elsewhere. Use your own.
Prove your mettle. You can. It's
in you.
Quit your doubling. Don't stoop
to worry. Use the energy that's
within you, crying to be applied to
some worthy purpose.
Don't try to hide It. You can't lie
to yourself forever. Admit your mis-
take. Correct It. Use 1t, grow, eU-
pand, develop.
The world needs you when you be-
come a man. Get busy. Try 1t
again. You're game. You're com
ing. Now for the home stretch.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08
CHEERFULNEsS.

We should always find something
to do to scatter sunshine where 1t is
gloomy. A smile, a pleasant word or
a hearty greeting will brighten the
pathway of others and bring joy to
yourself.
1t is our duty to be cheerful, lest
we rob others of their pleasures. Our
greatest happiness comes from max
ing others happy. There is nothing
gained from boing other than cheer
full land we owe it to the world, be-
sides there is much pleasure in cheer
fulness.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08
THE HOME CALL.

Resounding across the span Of
countless centuries is heard the heart
call Of home and country. 1t is as old
as the written history; older than
the Christian religion. It was the cry
OF Jacob who, after years OF success
full exile, in which he had gathered
that which he sought, turned in his
thoughts to the old home and the
scenes OF his youth.
II has been the cry of all men
throughout all ages, the cry of the
human TO get back to the days when
his brain and heart were receiving
those indelible marks that go on
through life. Neither success nor
failure can Danish It, for the instinct
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08
Heard and Overheard
(By Lynn D. Mowat.)
Sad Tale of a Man Who Died

Sad Tale OF Man Who Died
Cheese Hero.
There was a man about the town, as
dapper as you please,
Who made lot of money selling yari-
GUS kinds of cheese
He'd peddle cheese from house to
house and carve 1t by the pound,
And women used to worry when he
didn't drop around.
At home he kept 2 lot of holes to
drive into the cheese,
And he would shoot them into it with
polished grace and ease.
One day he took bunch of holes, the
which were oyergrown,
And tried to drive thom in the cheese
by pounding with stone.
1t was damp and gloomy day; the
holes were oversize,
And so they slipped, or something,
and the cheese flew in his eyes.
Now blinded for a moment, he began
to wildly drive,
But he missed the cheese entirely,
and so he took dive
And fell headlong into the vat that
held the unused holes.
And died of strangulation where the
broad Pacific flows
No more will housewives welcome
him with CHEEKY smile and
wheeze;
No more will he go peddling out his
various kinds of cheese.
But on the spot where he expired
they sat upon his case
And built a monument to him within
that holo-y place!
Los Angeles Examiner.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08
Ashland, Ore, Monday, Jan. 8, 1917
DESIGNS-CROSSING AND
FLORAL.

The county judges Of Oregon in
session at Salem arrived at the
opinion that the designing of grade
crossings should be placed in the
hands Of the public service commits
sion OF the state, and bill to that
effect may be presented to the state
legislature. At present 1t seems the
county courts have to settle upon the
designs.
And in the meanwhile, the Inter-
urban has had to back down Billings
hill once or twice, several cars have
been stuck in the mud on the hill,
and the amount Of profanity distrib-
uted into the atmosphere down in
that vicinity would provide liberal
material for O textbook, should the
subject ever be introduced in the
schools. The hill has been, first, a
slippery, icy, dangerous slant, then a
deeply rutted, bumpy succession Of
auto-damaging ruts, and Is now sea
OF slush, mud and sllpperiness, That
there has not heen an accident is
dispensa.lon OF providence.
And the Billings crossing, the der
signing of the substitute for which
seems to be requiring years. regard
less OF who is doing 1t, remains at a
right angle turn at the foot Of hill
and Is one OF the most dangerous
crossings in Oregon.
There is moro travel over the road
between Ashland and Medford at this
season Of tho year than any other
country road south of the Portland
vicinity The paved highway pre-
sents no winter difficulties, but the
Billings hill does, and the auto own
crs Of the valley will hcave sigh Of
relief when the first shovelful Of dirt
is taken out In the construction
work to eliminate the hill and the
crossing. The particular design does
not worry the cutoist, but 1t is to be
hoped that some design will he car
ried out before the florists of the
valley are called upon to design
floral wreaths for the grave Of an
unfortunate automobile load OF folks.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08
UNITY GOOD WORDS CLUB.
(From Weekly Unity, published az
Kansas CITY. MOI

/ NrTom weekly Unlty, puDllSneQ az
Kansas City, Mo-
There is a beauty of language, just
as there is beauty of face. There
is harmony Of words, just as there
is harmony of sky and stars, green
foliage and crystal waters. There Is
a delicacy Of speech, Just as there Is
a delicacy Of tints in the masterpiece
of canvas, in simmer of light on
the dewdrop, in the semi-transparent
petal Of the woodland flower.
Nature is beautiful because nature
is the robe of God, woven in the loom
OF his everlasting Word.
The beautiful word Is the picture
Of the beautiful soul. Kind words,
firm words, tonder words, righteous
words, loving words draw on These
elements of God, bringing them to
bloom in human life, like the wick
draws the oil and produces light.
Place the word Beautiful in the
background of the mind, and 1t villa
color all the language of life.
Beautiful words actually make
beautiful faces, beautiful manners,
beautiful souls.-I. o. s.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08

Somebody told US deucedly funny
story the other day. But we can't
remember who 1t was. It was some
thing about a member of the school
board who was examining the school
and asked the question, (Which is
most valuable, the sun or the moon?"
or something like that. Then little
boy frantically waved his hand, and
when called upon emphatically stated
that the moon was the most valuable.
The school board member surprisedly
asked, "Why?" and the boy brought
down the house with the answer:
"The moon is most valuable because
I 1t shines at night when it is dark and
we need the light most" Or some
thing like that. But blamed II we
can remember who 1t was that told
US or just how 1t went, 80 we won't
try to tell it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08

My last years gowns are all worn
out"
Next at the age when through the
nights
Dad paced the floor, she lies
To visitors and sweetly states,
Our baby rarely cries
And worst of all, when women's
clubs
Demand her close attention,
and gossips sip cup of tea,
And (thase we dare not mention).
Last, when granddaughter's growing
up
And in the merry whirl,
She says: Young girls were not so
gay
When grandma was a girl"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

News print has doubled In price
the last four months. It necessitates
an advance in advertising rates, or
We will have to quit business. Fol-
lowing are the advertising rates In
the Ashland Tidlngs after this date.
There will be no deviation from this
rata.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08
ADVERTISING RATES.
Display A Advertising

Reading Notices. cents the line
straight.
Classified Column cent the word
first insertion, Y cent the word
each other insertion. Thirty
words or less one month, 81.
All written contracts for space al
ready in force will be rendered at
the old rate until contract expires.
Fraternal Orders and Societies.
Advertising for fraternal orders or
societies charging a regular initiation
fee and dues, no discount. Religious
and benevolent orders will be
charged for all advertising when an
admission or other charge is made,
at the regular rates. When no ad-
mission is charged, space to the
amount OF fifty lines reading will be
allowed without charge. All addi-
tional at regular rates.
The Tidings has a greater circula-
ton In Ashland and its trade terri
tory than all other local papers COM
bined.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08

Laugh and the world laughs with
you" may be true-to a certain ex-
tent-but the pessimist will return a
frown for every laugh you give him.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08
THE CONDUCTORS RESOLUTION.

And as he passed along the aisle
4 sweet face met him with a smile.
At first he glanced in a careless way,
For such things happened every day,
But something which he could not
explain
Caused him to wish to look again.
Her cheek took on deeper hue,
And he gazed in her eyes Of blue.
His heart seemed to beat in hurried
way,
And he thought for a moment Of
what he could say
/ To engage in conversation in a proper
way;
But instead he passed to the smoker
for a while.
Still he was haunted by her smile
Haunted by a vision that filled his
brain,
And he longed to go back and view It
again,
To look In those eyes Of azure blue,
To see those lips OF cherry hue,
The rounded cheek with dimple
sweet
The dainty hands and little feet.
But, hardening his heart in a con-
ductor-like way,
He concluded that in the smoker he
would stay.
But now they arc nearing the station
of Airs,
OF course it was his duty to collect
the fares.
So with assumed dignity and a deep
ened frown
He took up the fares and chalked
them down,
And had quite forgotten the pretty
lass
Until a sweet voice accosted him as
he passed,
Excuse me, conductor, how far is It .
to pash?"
And he bent down low and stroked
his mustache.
"The second station, Miss. Do you
get off thore?
You remind me of some I have met
before;
Not that l have met, but that have
longed to meet"
Whispered the con in tones most !
sweet.
Thanks" said the maiden, and |
raised her eyes,
Blue as the far off Italian skies.
The con quite forgot his task,
His wife at home, his hidden flask,
AS he took the seat across the aisle,
Bewildered by her ardent smile.
Who would blame him as he sat |
there,
To forget the two men riding on one
fare?
The check in the wrong hat
Was a thing too small
To enter his whirling brain at all.
The con took from his pocket a paper
white,
And on his book began to write,
''Oh, sweetest of maidens, angel fair,
love you madly. Can't we meet |
somewhere?
Meet me, oh darling, is my maddening
wish,
For love none but you. w. L. Fish"
'Dash!" shouted the brake in with
erins tone.
No time for her to answer, and the
con is left alone
Alone for all else but her beside,
Seemed but desert vast and wide.
AS the maiden rode to her home that
night
She took from her pocket the paper
white
And read the words, but with great
surprise
Beaming from her long-lashed azure
eyes.
A different writing on the reversed
side
Caused ler to open them strangely
wide.
1t read as follows, or in some such
way:
"W. L. Fish: Oh, husband dear,
I wish you a happy New Year.
Be sure to bring the baby's new
shoes,
And oh, darling, can you guess the
news?
He's got tooth on the lower side.
That you would come home is my
earnest wish.
Your loving wife, Della G. Fish"
She folded the paper and laid it away,
And when her husband in a future
day
Wanted to take a trip on the train,
She took 1t out and folded 1t again.
This time it was the other side out,
And when the con came around with
pout,
Tickets here, tickets, sir, please"
A paper was handed that caused him
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08

Many man who hands you good
advice does not know 1t is good or
he would have used II himself.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08

Those who pay as they go can
travel on rubber tires most Of the
time.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08

Entered at the Ashland, Oregon,
Postoffics as second-class mail mat
ter.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08

Never despair-many a game ia
won in the ninth inning.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08

Adversity-the acid test that tests
the gold Of resolution.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-01-08

Opportunity-what most men miss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

state of South Carolina or of the states of Nebraska and Wyoming put together--men. women and children were suddenly to be converted into young men clad in olive drab and organized into companies and bat talions.
 When Great Britain entered the war it was with a much smaller army. The first expeditionary force numbered barely 100000. The Kali ser called it contemptible little army. Yet without its work at Mons Paris might have fallen. One hundred thousand men and the en. couragement they brought to the French were enough to avert defeat in the first year of the war.
 It Is the hope of the allies that an. other new force 10 or 12 times as great will be enough in the fourth year of the war to insure victory.
 If 1t is not enough America has the men and the machinery to make a greater effort.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
BRITAIN NEVER
 CONTEMPLATED
 CLASSIFICATION

London, Dec. 10.-Sir George Bu- chanan, the British ambassador, in an interview with Russian journalists according to Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd, assured them of British sympathy for the Russian people and denied absolutely the reports that Great Britain contemplated coercive and punitive action in the event of Russia making a separate peace. The British government, the ambassador is reported to have said, was entitled to complain of the action Of the bol- sheviki government in negotiating with the enemy, but did not want to induce an unwilling ally to continue to share the common effort by appeal. ing to treaty rights.
 Great Britain, he added, was ready as soon as a stable government was established to examine with it the aims of the war and possible coHdi- tions for just and durable peace She wished to stand by Russia in this critical hour.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

gsrmer want Ads. Quo Cent wors
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
food and heat.

food and heat
 There were not houses enough to shelter them, but the fact stands out l that while the city was stunned
 Thursday, it. provided quarters for
 every person in distress. The tent
 quarters were comfortable without doubt.
 Between this tented park and
 Richmond district are the morgues.
 A four-story school building, severely
 damaged by the jar, is the main
 morgue into which hundreds tramped yesterday in search of the missing. But the view was heartbreaking to
 those who feared the worst. for the bodies were burned and blackened to
 such an extent that the only chance
 of identification lay in the possible finding of trinket Of the 300 in | this morgue not more thu n 50 bodies had been claimed tonight Eight | hundred probably have been recover ed.
 | Various reports regarding the num- Der killed in certain buildings have been accepted generally as correct. Many of the injured died at relief sta- tions, while being taken to hospitals and elsewhere.
 Heretofore 1t has been more or less | guesswork, but the officer in charge 1 Of the morgues fixed 4,00O as the number, this being based upon re- ports from officers who had made a general survey of the burned sec | tion.
 With everything buried under the
 snow, the search yesterday was de-
 layed, while the main forces were de- ] voting attention to the injured. All vehicles have been command eered. An aged man on his way to
 search for his wife was held up and the pung taken from him, An officer explained in a kindly way | that it was 8 life and death matter
 to the care of the wounded. Without
 protest he gave up the rig. This
 merely illustrates the wonderful spirit | of the entire community. l Guards stood all around the ruined
 part of Halifax. but this was for form
 rather than because they were need ed.
 There never is any footing Halifax
 in time of trouble like this" the au-
 thorities announced yesterday in dis
 posing of inquiries concerning footing.
 There has been absolutely none
 here.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
HOLLY-XMAS TREES
 WREATHS JOHN RECl1 6E SON
DIED.

OAnD.
 PRUTTING7-In this city, Sunday, Dec. g, 1917, Elizabeth O. CalI- ghan, wife of Conrad K. Prutting.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, No. 2S5 William street, on Wednesday, Dec. 11th, at 8:30 a. m., and from St. Charles church, at o'clock.
 Burial in St. Michaers cemetery. Automoolle cortege; b*p LOWE-In this city, Dec. g, George Lowe, aged 53 years.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his sister, Mrs. Michael Duggan, S34 Seayiew avenue, on Wednesday Dec. 12,s at a. m., and from St, Patrick's church, Falls Village, up. on arrival of 6:53 a. m. train from Bridgeport.
 Interment, Falls Village ceme- tery. he KELLEY-In this city, Dec 10, Win. nifred, wife of John Kelley.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, SIG North Washington avenue, on Wed. nesday, Dec. 12, at 2:SO D. m.
 1nterment Park cemetery. An. tomoo1le cortege. b. HOOK-In this city, Dec. sth. Edwin T., Jr.. son of Edwin T. and tho late Catherine Hook, aged 1e years
 Friends ar einvited to attend the funeral from the residence of his father, SS0 East Washington ave. nue, on Tuesday, Dec. 10th. at :3C a. m. and at St. Charles church a, g a. m.
 1nterment. St. Rose cemetery Newtown, Conn. Automobile cor. tege. b. MAsTERsoN-In this city, Dec. g 1917, Fred H. Masterson.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral at the Mortuary chapel ot Cullinan, Mullins & Buckley Co.,, 29: Golden Hill street, Tuesday, Dec 11th. at s:30 a. m., and from St Augustine church, at a. m.
 Interment in St. MichaePs ceme tery. Automobile cortege. al CUMMINGS-In this city, Dec. 8 1917, John E. Cummings. -.
 Friends are invited to attend tht funeral from the Undertaking par lors of Cullinan. Mullins, Buckley 6 Co.,, 293 Golden Hill street, ol Tuesday. Dec. 12, at S:3o a. m., anC from St. Patrick's church, at g a m
 Interment in St. MichaePs ceme tery. Automobile cortege. a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

The latest official figures put the number of enlisted men in the armies of the United States at 1,360.000. This is the force that has grown in eight months out of an army that on April 1 numbered only 10000 men.
 Most of them are still in the train. ing camps. Many of them are not yet disciplined troops, fully equipped and armed for battle.
 But there are 1,360,000 of them. al ready one of the biggest factors Hin, denburg is reckoning with for the campaign of 1913.
 To lead them there are over 80,000 officers. When the graduates Of the second training camp get their first orders the number will be over 100.' O00-as many. officers as there were Drivgtes nine months ago.
 The whole military establishment, with the marines and the auxiliary forces thrown in, numbers million and a half The expansion that has taken place Is as if a city smaller than Hartford had grown in eight months to be virtually as big as Philadelphia
 Since Xerxes led his million and a half of assorted Asiatics across the Hellespont Europe has seen many a campaign conducted on the grand scale. American battles have been fought ag stubbornly, but with smaller forces engaged. There wero 2,700,000 enlistments in the Federal army in the Civil war. But many oi this number were re-enlistments The highest total engaged at any one time was reached in the last year of the war. On March 31, 1865, the Union army comprised 980:000 men.
 For the Spanish war an army of 275,000 was raised. Only 60,000 saw service.
 The present American army .fs the largest armed force the western femi- sphere has ever seen. unless the Mound Builders were more numerous and pugnacious than we have any reason to. believe they were. If the whole army could be gathered to. gether today and lined up in solid infantry column. four abreast. il would Yeacth from New Haven across Connecticut and Massachusetts and almost as far north as Montpelier Vt.
 A million and half of rnenl Il ls os lf the entire population of ths
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
HUGHES PAYS RESPECTS.

MT. Hughes had a case before the Supreme Court here. his first since he retired from the bench more than wear ago, Friends said his call at the White House was only incidental and to pay his respects.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

vented another big explosion in the harbor. The men boarded the ship, threw the burning cargo overheard and checked the flames before they could spread to the holds. The yes seI was taken to sea today and sunk.
 After the Picton had gone to the bottom it was officially announced that there was absolutely no danger now of other explosions in the harbor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
PREVENT ANOTHER EXPLOSION HORROR

Halifax, Dec. 10.-The deck cargo of the British steamer Picton, laden with munitions, caught fire last night and only the quick and courageous work of a Halifax company of rifles pre-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
OVER A MILLION
 MEN OF AMERICA
 NQW UNDER ARMS
Twelve United States Soldiers Today to Every One in
 Khaki Last April.
LARGEST MILITARY FORCE EVER SEEN IN THE WEST

As Many Officers Ready for Battle as There Were PrNates When This Country United With the Allies Troops Would Fill City as Large as Philadelphia H Gathered Togethe, in one Place.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

FOR SALEHe5 bushels first class Baldwin apples. o. J. Gill, R. F.
 D. No. 24, Betlel, Conn. Phone Bedding 16-2. ITO s*
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

x < This is the first article of l < series on Americas war prep ) < arations, secured from federal j X officials by the Publicity Com i < mittee of the Connecticut State :, < Council of Defense for pubIica- l < ton in Connecticut newspapers. , < They will deal with all phases , < of the Nations organization for ,
 k war and WilI be as complete and ! < informative as the exigeneies Of |,
 < military strategy will permit. ]
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

the ages of IS and 40
 are wanted by the New York, New
 Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.,, as freight brakemen ,telegraphers and firemen. Apply by letter, stating experience, to F. S. Hobbs, surerin- tendent, New Haven Division, New Haven. Conn, ITO d.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
ICE-COATED RUINS
 COVER BODIES.
 OF HALIFAX DEAD

Intense Cold Halts Searching of Debris for Bodies of Killed-RichmOnd District More Utterly Demolished Than Any Section of Belgium or France-OOdor of Burning Flesh in Heart of Ruined Section Makes Atmosphere Unbear- ahle
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

LOST-Large, square cuff button,
 horse design. Reward, return this office. ITO s*p