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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-23

blouses visible. The men have over
alls and Jumpers to wear while doing
dirty detail work, so that their uni
forms are kept spotless. The 1st
company men are especially noted for
their cleanliness and are the pride of
the fort on inspection day.
The company puts in a busy day.
1t is hard to outline the present days
activities because of the changing Of
the days routine to fit the needs Of
their new position as coast artillery
engineers, Much of the hard infan-
try drills have been done away with
for the 1st company, and in its place
goes much time for studying and
drilling In their new work such as
the manipulating of searchlights,
construction work of the big guns,
signal work, etc. There is plenty of
time for recreation, all Thursday af-
ternoons being given over to athlet-
les, and all day Sunday. The work
will be grand treat to all men who
desired to take up electric work and
engineering work for life vocation,
as their new position gives them op-
portunity to get the best of training
and experience along this line, while
the work is most desirable for all.
Much good-natured rivalry has
sprung up among the various COM
panies along athletic lines. In a
wrestling contest with the men from
Astoria, the men from the 1st COM
pany won five out of six bouts. "Ch''
Delsman, Charles Lamkin, Arthur
Long, Burton Winnie and others
threw men Of their class to defeat
Battling Burney" Burnett and Ural
Coleman have won several boxing
contests with men from other com
panies. Baseball, punching bags
mouth harps, a mandolin, magazines
(about six of them) form means o.
recreation. The post store and the
stores of Hammond and Flavel. abou
a mile and two miles away, a moving
picture show in the post gymnasium
an occasional dance with women from
Astoria and Seaside, all help to re
llieve the monotony of the days work
The en- are allowed from Satur
day evening until Monday off, and
special train is run to Seaside ever
Sunday for the benefit of the soldier
Astoria, with its city-like entice
ments, is but ten miles distant.
The men are up at in the morn
ing and are free at 6 at night, bu
must be in their quarters by II a
might, but the days work usual,
makes o'clock good night" yer,
popular. This will be changed whel
the men go to work on the search
lights. They will probably sleep mos
of the day then and do their work a
night.
All mail and packages come to th'
postoffice at Fort Stevens, wher'
they are sorted into bundles for eacl
company and taken to each of th'
camps and then distributed to thu
men by the top" sergeant
The drinking water is good. AL
though it has been thoroughly steril
ized, it is far from the good old watel
of Ashland creek, but that, like man!
other things, is one of the luxurie'
which the boys left in the good ole
city they all intend to return to wher
they are through canning the kais
err" LEITH ABBOTT,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-23
Publicity Campaign
To Be Started Soon

Plans are being worked out by the
Commercial Club for comprehensive
publicity drive to cover period of
two years. 1t is thought that a high
class publicity man should be en-
ployed about the first of January and
sufficient funds put at his disposal to
forward a comprehensive campaign.
A committee of three will be ap-
pointed to work out the plan for
financing the undertaking.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-23
No More Camping
In Ashland Canyon

The council decided Friday night
to stop all camping in Ashland can
yon above the lower intake on ac-
count of the danger of concentrating
the water supply. An effort was
made to stop camping at Longs cab
In. but 1t was finally decided to bar
campers only from city grounds along
the creek. ts
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-23
CITIZENS, BE THERE.

) Saturday night the CONNER
, cial Club committee will enter
) tain the visiting Motor Car Asso-
3 citation members at the Bunga-
3 low with a free dance. We want
3 to show them a good time. All
8 citizens who like to dance are
Q invited. Good music and free
0 dancing.
Q
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-23

The present indications are that
the harvest this year will still find
many Of US with . bumper crop OF
poverty on our hands. ~,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-23
CONCERT SATURDAY NIGHT.

9 There will be a band concert Q
O in the park Saturday evening 9
o from to 8 o'clock for the en- Q
o tertainment of the Oregon Motor 9
o Car Association visitors, after 9
o which there will be free dancing g
o at the Bungalow, to which citi- 9
o zens are invited. z
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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-23

Nature gives every man charac-
ter, but he has to supply his own rep
utation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-23

AffectatiOn in dress indicates a flaw
in intellect.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-23

! Cupid never seems to worry about
results. r.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-08-23

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The Winslow mail., 1917-03-02
The McuIIud eemmen" Speaks.

A heavy shadow in the deep gloom
Of the recess approaching the bar be-
came animated and presently strolled
out into the lobby wearing delegates
badge. He couldn't escape. A pad
and pencil backed by reporter con-
frOnted him.
MS you one O. dem writer's dat pulls
dis cullud gemmen' stuff ev'y day in
de neWspapahs?" grinned the dele
gate, evidently overjoyed at the pros
pect of an interview.
Sure said the reporter. "That's
me. Pretty good-eh?
"Well, sir, you are not the CORE
! spondent I'm looking for. If l am to
be interviewed send one of your more
mature men, who elucidate the flank
movements of the old guard and
analyze the effect of a great mans
dyspepsia on the vote of a delegation
Whereupon the shadow faded into
the deeper gloom of the Streets
/. Chicago Tribune.
The Winslow mail., 1917-03-02
Censorship Dragon.

Let the American people stand In
fear and trembling of the eventful out
come of the insidious growth of cen
sorship powers.
Censorship is no fantastical bugaboo
it is a real national peril, because
the day may not be far off when cen
sors, under the shadow of the Ameri-
can flag Of independence, will be EN-
powered by legislative enactment to
foist their individual whims, hobbies
or prejudices on the suffering public.
1t is not beyond our imagination to
see a fanatical functionary, with the
title of censor who is vegetarian
forcing the people of his city to alb
stain from meat.
Other censors with similar whims
might censor tea and coffee, cigars ant
+ fcookbooks. Already it is reported
ministers are sensing the possibility
OF their pulpits being ruthlessly
purged of Objectionable texts.-NeW
York Telegram.
The Winslow mail., 1917-03-02
Makes His. Money En- Rouec.

A genuine California booster is wfG@
us. He is G. F. Langley of Watson
vile, Cal, according to an ATLANTIC
City correspondent of the Philadei-
plffa North American.
Mr.. Langley is president of tho
Pajaro, Valley National bank in Watt
sonville, and he puts the bank, the
town and the state on the map by ats-
vertising in an unusual way.
Whenever a waiter presents a check
in the dining room, Mr.. Langl ey brings
out a pair of scissors and a roll of
green paper, clips off $5 bank note,
signs it with his fountain pen and
pays the check. The captains ana
walters know their business and tac-
cept Mr.. Langley's money-maling stunt
without a lift of the eyebrows. The
bank notes are already sign ed by the
cashier of the California bank.
The Winslow mail., 1917-03-02
Tobacco Aids Soldiers.

The benefcent effects of tobacco OF
the front were affirmed by the Lancet
as long ago as 1870, when the ques-
ton was being discussed in connection
with the Franco-Prussian war. 'The
soldier" it was said, "wearied with
long marches and uncertain rest, OBJ
tanning his food how and when he can.
with his nervous system always in q
state of tension from the dangers and
excitement he encounters, finds that
MS cigar or pipe enables him to sus-
tain fatigue with comparative eQua-
nimity. For the wounded it
is probable that tobacco has slight
anodyne and narcotic properties that
enable the sufferer to sustain pain ber.
ter during the day. and to obtain sleep
during the night. London Chronicle
The Winslow mail., 1917-03-02
Opportunity in Syria.

From the comparatively few letters
that pass the rigid censorship of the
Turkish government, the Presbyterian
board in the United States learns that
the work of the Syria mission is going
on as usual. The boys schools have
not as large attendance as in ordinary
years, owing TO the fact that so many
homes have suffered financial losses.
The girls school, however, at Beirut.
has more applicants than it can take
care of. This is because of the fact
that the schools carried on by mis-
sionaries of other nationalities, such
as the French anel English, have been
closed and the missionaries sent away.
Their pupils have consequently
knocked and not in vain at the door
of the American Girls school in Bel
rut.
The Winslow mail., 1917-03-02
HORSE A FRIEND OF MAN
Ask Yourself the Question, How
Have You Dealt With Faithful
Animal Grown Old?

You may have had a favOrite horse
and the folks may have advised sell
ing or turning it out to die, maybe,
Erasmus Wilson writes in the Pitts
burgh GaZette-Times. Could you, or
did you give consent to thus disposing
OF your old friend?
How would you like to meet such
an old friend on the avenue geared In
heavy, cumberous harness to a rickety
coalcart loaded to the limit of his
strength to move, and to hear the
coarse commands of the unfeeling
driver and the cruel cuts of the whip
when he was straining his .stiffened
joints and weakened muscles until he
seemed ready to totter and fall?
But then you might not recognize
him on account of the prominence of
his bones, the roughneSS of his coat
and his Slavish and heartbrOken ap-
pearance. We can hardly recognize in
weary, shambling, ill-kept brute the
once sleek, sprightly, prancing steed
that was our pet and pride.
Maybe it is well that we do not
know them when we see them in their
sadly changed conditions.
Ask the veteran cavalryman about
his favorite horse and he'll tell you
things that will bring lump into your
throat. Many time and oft, perhaps,
they endured storms and braved dan
gers on picket posts, faced death in
mad and turbulent rivers, occupied a
common bed on the ground, foraged
for food to stay their hunger and
shared the last handful of parched
corn or piece of hardtack.
And he will tell of the times his
trusty steed saved him from capture
or death, or bore him into the thick
of the battle and maybe fell victim
to some merciless bullet or shell, or
maybe both were wounded together
it to die in mercy, he to live and suffer
on.
The old trooper is never willing
much less anxious, to part with the
>
ing campaigns, and to which he feels
so greatly indebted.
No doubt this was the feeling of
the Arab whom Mrs. Caroline e. S
Norton has SO deftly and effectively
sketched in the poem that made her
famous-"The Arabs Farewell to His
Steed," which concludes as follows:
When last I saw him drink! Away! The
fevered dream is DER;
I could not live day, and know that we
should meet no more;
They tempted me, my beautiful! for hun
gers power is strong;
They tempted me, my beautiful! but
have loved too long;
Who said that I had given thee up? Who
said that thou vert sold?
'Tis false, it's false! my Arab steed.
flung them back their gold.
Thus, thus, L leap upon thy back, and
scour the distant plains
Away! Who overtakes US now shall claim
thee for his pains.
The Winslow mail., 1917-03-02
A SITUATION
BY SUSAN E. CLAGETT.

There is nothing new under the
sum- Sarah Carroll, who was spend
ing the summer with her friend, Mil
dred Carlton, said with something
like asperity. 81 know. Don't | write
for my daily bread and the sweets that
should go with it? l cudgel my brain
for plots for inspirations and evolve
a situation. A situation is not story,
yet it seems to me that situations are
the only things in life
The other leaned a little forward,
looking toward the gate. Il think, .
she said slowly, there is the begin.
ming of a story that will not require
Imagination to carry it to conclu-
sion.
Sarah turned her head curiously.
The gate was open. Standing just
without, but in full view, was little
child, a black kitten closely clasped
in her arms. She had been watching
the two on the porch and, when she
thought herself unobserved, stretched
out a hand and softly tOuched.a cluS-
ter of half-blown roses that had
pushed themselves through the palings.
For some minutes the two watched
her in silence and then Mildred called
to her:
won't you come here and talk tc
us, little girl?"
The child, startled, came to the foot
Of the steps. Il didn't hurt them, >
she said under her breath. Il was
just petting them and talking to them
and wishing mother could see them
"Where is 'mother?" Sarah asked,
The child's eyes filed with tears.
"She's sick down there" nodding hel
head in an uncertain direction, "and
daddy's sick, too"
"Poor little piece of forlornity, tell
me all about it, and then we will 60
and see mother and you shall have
all the roses you can carry"
The Winslow mail., 1917-03-02
SAW DEATH ANGEl.
Apparition That Appeared o.
Royal Children.
Story Related by Governess of Ewe
sian Princesses-Czar and C8Gss
ina Believe Supernatural VIC.
ure Really Was Visible.

Grand Duke Ernest of HesSe had q
very pretty little daughter by his eRse
wife, Princess Victoria Melita Of GreRg
Britain and Coburg, now married oD
Grand Duke Cyril of Russia. This hs-
tie girls name was Elizabeth, and Gu
account of her beauty and sprighaty
cleverness she was a universal GGvGae
ite and the only tie between her Ip0s'
ents after the estrangement, H. CGar
life Owen writes in the New Vog5
World
While staying with her uncle ana
aunt, the present czar and czarina, e2
their picturesque country seat Ia 70
land, she succumbed when seven years
old to poison-ptOmaine poison, &C.
cording to some, but according to Oefa-
ers drugs conveyed into food or
drink by the Nihilists for the purpose
of taking the life of Emperor Ricas
olaS.
A remarkable account of the affafs
is given by an English woman OF th@
name of Miss Eager, who, after spend
ing a number of years in the services
of the emperor and empress of R1g'
STA as the nursery gOverness of theas
young children, published on her TO
turn to England, with the full author
ity and approval Of their majesties, q
volume entitled "Six Years at eAs
Court of Russia"
According to her, little Princess
of
taken ill one afternoon or night and
died before the following morning.
Between nine o'clock and ten O'Clock
two Of the little girls of the czarina,
who were sleeping together in a rOOEn
adjoining that of their seven-year-0hd
cousin of Hesse, suddenly alarmed
every one within hearing by the mOg
frantic screams.
When the empress, Miss Eager @RG
the doctors rushed in they found t&9
two little grand duchesses standing HD
on their beds, Shrieking and shaking
with terror. 1t was some time before
they could be soothed, and then they
related that they had seen man WIEN
flowing robes and huge wings in theif
room. While they were still talking
the eyes of both children suddenly
dilated with terror, and both pointing
in the same direction, they cried
'Look Look! There he is again.
He has gone into Elias room, Oh9
Poor Ella Poor Ella !"
Neither Miss Ea ,er nor the czatritsa.
nor yet the physicians, could see amy.
thing. But a few moments lgteR
Princess Ella suddenly sat up In .aeR
bed, crying: II am choking. i sGSa
choking Send for mamma" J" Thr(E9
hours afterward the child, who hau
Immediately after the cry for heg
mother fallen into a state of coma,
passed away, in the absence, of co1rSo,
of her parents.
Miss Eager expressed her firm coE-
viction that the little grand duchesseg
had seen supernatural apparitiOm
and that the apparition in ques-
tion was the angel Of death.
That the czar and czarina shared heP
impression is shown by the fact thaC
they had authorized her to publish
the story in her book, as well as by
the circumstance that she retains thesR
favor and good will and is in re-
ceipt of an annuity from them for thu
remainder of her days.
The Winslow mail., 1917-03-02
Four and a Half Ton Mirror.

The 100-inch-diameter reflector for
the Mount Wilson observatory in Cali
fornia, which will be finished early
next year, will be the largest mirror
ever cast. 1t will be 10 inches thick
and Will contain, in one solid piece,
a3la tons of glass.--Engiueering Rec
ord. -
The Winslow mail., 1917-03-02
Preparedness.

"How did you get your motorcycle
SO FAR in advance of the other orders? 2
II seized the sociological momen
TO ask for it''
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09
Corporations to Declare
Red Cross Dividends

New York, June 8.-Large Amer
ican industrial corporations and bank
ing institutions have agreed to declare
a special dividend to be known as the
Red Cross dividend" it was an
nounced here last night by Henry P.
Dawson, chairman Of the Red Cross
War council. Each stockholder re-
ceiving this extra disbursement will
be asked in a blank form to turn the
money over the Red Cross.
The amount of the dividend will be
approximately per cent of the capital
stock of each corporation, Mr.. Davi-
son said. He pointed out that in the
case of the United States Steel cor
poration, for example, the sum which
would accrue to the Red Cross would
be about $5,500,000.
Mr.. Davison's announcement was
made at a conference held here to de-
wise means of raising the proposed
SlO0,OO0.O00 to finance Red Cross
work during the war.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09
To Keep the Face
Fresh, Clear, Youthful

More important than the cosmetic care
Of the complexion is its physical care. To
keep the face clear, fresh, youthful there's
nothing better than ordinary rnercolized wax.
1t absorbs the soiled or faded, rn-out skin
particles. Cosmetics simply add unwhole-
someness to the complexion. That's the diff
ference. By all means, acquire the mercolzed
wax habit. It's so easy to get an ounce of
the wax at the druggists. apply at night
like cold cream and wash it off next morning.
There's no detention indoors. the old skin
coming off so gradually no one suspects
you're using anything. When in a week or
two the alluringly youthful. roselike under
skin is fully in view-well, you won't want,
or need makeup complexion after that. It
must be apparent that this process means
complete riddance of all cutaneous blemishes,
like freckles, pimples. blotches and black
heads.
For wrnkled loose or saggy skin, face
bath made by dissolving an ounce of pow
dered saxclite in half pint witch hazel. sur
passes massage cream and everything else
for results. Its action is instantaneous and
perfectly harmless. II improves facial contour
onderfully.-Advertisem
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09
Springfield.

Miss Katherine Kokjer who has been at
tending school at Blair, Mas returned to
Avoca
Mrs, W, A. Hollenberger Entertained the
Royal Neighbor circle Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Benjamin Belts has returned from
Lincoln, where she has been taking treat
ment at sanitarium.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Harmon OF Omaha were
visiting at the home OF his parents Mr.
and Mrs. A. T. Harmon. over Sunday.
Mrs, Ruby Druery and son of Auburn are
spending the week with Avoca relatives
Adolph 2immerer son. Adolph, and daugh-
ter. Mary, were here from Nebraska City
Sunday visiting.
Mr.. and Mrs. J, o. Rowland Of Bethany
were visiting friends here Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Harmon of Weeping
Water we're visiting relatives here last Sun
day.
Mr., and Mrs. Walter Abker have moved
up from Berlin and will make this city their
home.
Mrs G. w. Breazeale and daughter, Mary,
are spending the week with relatives at
Rock Port Mo
G. W, Harshman. jr. has returned from
a trip TO Otis, Colo.
Mrs. Herman Behrns and daughter Sylvia,
have returned from/a visit at omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09

hdence and faith in the capacity, skill
and superiority of his chiefs"
That is the prestige Of the Prussian
bureaucracy and it is the same for
all Germany, In Bavaria and Saxony
the mentality is the same. but | do
not say that this is the immutable
state of mini the day when the Ger
man people become convinced of the
lack of skill of its leaders. When it
perceives the fa1lability of imperial
leadership it will not support any
more.
Senor Aguero then portrays the
sublime confidence placed by all Ger
many in the submarine warfare and
its certain effect in the minds of the
Germans in starving out England and
France,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09
Notes from Missing
Ship Found in Bottle

London, June ga bottle contain
ing number of messages, apparently
written by members of the crew of the
long missing American steamer
"Frederick," has been washed ashore
at the Orkney islands. The messages
evidently were written by two Ameri-
cand and five Spaniards.
One of them was dated January II,
1916. They contained no information
as to the circumstances under which
the ship was lost. One of them said:
1--WE are sinking in mid ocean"
Others said the writer's were dying.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09
Avoca.


L. A. Bates attended commencement ex.
ercises In Peru this week. He graduated
from that school forty years ago,
Miss Iva Singleton OF Bedford Mo, IL
here visiting her sister. Mrs, Frank Adair,
tr
Mrs John Gorder and children, Of Platts
mouth are visiting at the home Of Mr.. W.
II. Peters.
Oliver Haney is home from McGreggor.
Ia where he was professor of manual
training in the public schools,
Miss Esther Wallace OF the Hastings
schools IN here for the summer
Mr.. and Mrs wade returned from Mis-
souri where they have been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Il. Miller returned last
Monday from Cherry county. Their two
srandsons, VIII and Max, returned with
them.
Ernest Kieck graduated from the medi-
cal department Of Creighton college last
Friday He will go to Minneapolis to prar-
tce In hospital,
Miss Gertie Smith, who has been teaching
at Neigh, is at the home OF her parents
Miss Elizabeth Thompson left Saturday
for her home at Usage City, Kann
Mr.. Carl Strauhe OF Burr, Neb., and
Miss Alice llogarth we're married at the
home OF the brides parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hogarth, They will reside at Burr.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09
Hundred American
Airmen Reach France

Washington, June s.-One hun
dred American aviators from the
navy flying corps have arrived
safely in France for any duty that
may present itself, according to a
statement issued today by Secre-
tary Daniels, They are the first of
the American fighting forces to
reach France.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09

council of defense, who is also the
representative of the agricultural in
terests on the council. Information
relative to the probable shortage Of
seed for winter wheat sowing has
been received from the local councils
throughout the state and he feels that
action should be taken at once.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09
Successor Of Senator Lane
Of Oregon Is Sworn In

Washington, June s.-Senator
Charles /. McNary of Oregon, ap-
pointed to succeed the late Senator
Lane, was sworn in today. He is
republican and in succeeding Senator
Lane, democrat, the majority repre-
sentation in the senate is decreased to
fifty three, with the republican in
creased to forty-three.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-09

Jonathan Edwards of Omaha is visiting a.
the T. D. Hickey home
Wilson Bryans of Omaha visited at the
". H. Sandy home Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dyer have gone on
q wedding trip to Denver
The kensington club met at the home
Of Mrs. Rev. Day Thursday afternoon,
Mrs, John Hughes, who Is in a hospital
at Rochester. Minn., has Undergone an oP-
eration and is getting along nicely.