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Monday, August 12, 1912,
ASHliANU TIDINGS
Ashland Tidings
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ESTABLISHED 1876.
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TOO BAD, MY SON.
And now they are telling about a
precious book that was lost at sea
a copy of Omar Khayyam Illustrat
ed by Vedder, and it took two years
to bind it in elaborate tooled mo
rocco, inlaid with, 1,500 gems and
gold settings. This rare volume was
bought by an American who wanted
to prove the proposition that a fool
and his money are soon parted.
Over two thousand dollars was the
price. But think of the intellectual
giant who wants a book bound in
gems, and set with gold. Why not
buy his bologna sausage that way?
Get a link of bologna sausage and
take it to a goldsmith and have it
set in richly carved bands of gold,
and then procure a thousand price
less gems and place them on the dear
bologna. Of course it wouldn't add
anything to the taste of the departed
dog in skin it would not add to the
seasoning or destroy the taste of gar
lic which would still abound but
think how much coin you could part
with in decorating say a dozen de
lightful sausages in this way.' Omar,
on thin- paper, bound in a rag and
stamped with a rubber type,, is just
as much of an Intellectual treat as
the priceless volume which had be
come a depository of wealth that
went to the bottom of the sea. But
it is not only Omar decorated vul
garly and wantonly. Milady often
times imagines that her too, too solid
flesh looks better disfigured with a
small jewelry store, placed here and
there, and so many of the so-called
smart set imagine that a bank ac
count adds to the brilliancy of the
conversation. And so Omar had to
be decorated. But the gems Inside
the book outshone the gems outside.
For our part we do not see why some
fool with money to burn does not
decorate the sidewalk with diamonds
and rubies and try to bring about a
picture of the New Jerusalem as it
was pictured by the men who
thought Mammon would allure its
slaves to heaven.
THE NEW EDUCATION".
One of the glories of our country
is that every child in it can get a
good fundamental education without
money and without price. Whether
we send our children to the public
or the parochial schools, all of us
believe in education. We are not go
ing to be a nation of illiterates. A
nation in which every grown man
and soon every grown woman is en
titled to the vote, is also entitled to
the education that will make literate
votes.
The trouble with our educational
systems in the past has been that
they have not taken into account the
individual. All children were con
sidered in the mass. Certain things
were to ly studied and all were to
study these alike.
It is exactly as if we were to say
that all children of a certain age
were to wear the same sizes in hats,
shoes and knickerbockers- or skirts,
regardless of the height of the kid
dies. Now just as children differ in
inches and. pounds, so do they differ
in mental capacities, powers and hob
bies. The richest cities have begun
to recognize this. Hence the new ed
ucation. There are classes for those
who are slow, and classes for those
who are especially alert; classes for
those who have capacities for three
R'b and kindred subjects, and classes
for those whose minds turn toward
the manual and mechanical arts.
The new education does not mean
that the child shall be left to go his
own gait, but it does mean that the
teacher, the parents and the child
himself shall find out and do what
is best for the child.
We are now quite of the conviction
that the unfortunate "cocked hat"
incident will not prevent the estab
lishment of warm and lasting friend
ly relations between the eminent pro
fessor and the great Commoner.
TARIFF PLUNDER.
Managers of railroads talk about
the injustice of the public attitude
towards railroads. They say, for in
stance, that railroads must pay more
for material and labor but are not
allowed to raise rates. But do they
ever call attention to the fact that
the "protective tariff" burdens them?
Becaues of the "protective tariff,"
the steel trust and other iron and
steel manufacturers can and do
charge from $28 to $34 per ton for
steel rails, which, according to the
testimony of such expert manufac
turers as Mr. Carnegie and Mr.
Schwab, can be and are rolled at a
cost of $12 per ton. Making a lib
eral allowance for profits, etc., the
railroads must therefore be paying
from $10 to $16 per ton more for
rails than they should or would pay
but .for the tariff.
In round figures the railroads of
the United states buy .3,500,000 tons
of rails per year, so that for rails
alone they pay annually $45,000,000
more than they should. It is a con
servative estimate that, taking into
consideration the iron and steel pur
chased by the railroads in the shape
of cars, locomotives, wheels, axles,
trucks, trimmings, bridges, struc
tural material, etc., they are paying
from $125,000,000 to $150,000,000
annually as a bonus to steel manufac
turers. If it be asked why the railroads,
which are not benefited by the tariff,
put up with this extortion, here is
the answer. Twenty-three directors
of the United States Steel Corpora
tion are in control or on the direc
torates of 65 per cent of the railroad
mileage in the United States.
PROUD OLD HUMAN RACE.
Scientists have figured it out that
the valley of the Nile has remained
in virtually its present condition for
a million years, and. that Egyptian
civilization is anywhere from 5,000
to 500,000 years old.
Makes a fellow feel mighty small,
doesn't it?
Tom Reed was once asked what he
thought of a certain southern mem
ber of the house, who was constantly
airing his views on every conceivable
subject that came before that body.
"Why, he's all right," said Tom in
his nasal way. "The only trouble
with him is that he misapprehends
his relation to the solar universe."
Isn't that true of all of us? Here
we are a million years since civiliza
tion overcame the savagery of the
wilderness, and we haven't settled
the tariff question yet, nor even the
right and wrong of the hobble skirt.
And the solution of the real prob
lem the matter of making a world
in which everybody shall have
enough and nobody too much
sometimes seems to be as distant as
that day when the first sunrise shim
mered on the murky waters of the
Nile.
We are little bats, beating our
wings against the cage of the uni
verse, bruising ourselves on the wall
of things as they are, then passing
away into forgetfulness with nothing
much accomplisned. And we've been
on the job some hundreds of thou
sands of years, they say.
THE ALTITUDE OF MEAT.
Congressman William Kent of Cal
ifornia, himself a large cattle raiser,
offers no hope of decrease in the
high cost of meats. He figures that
it costs $20 more to produce a meat
steer than it did ten to fifteen years
ago, very largely owing to increased
cost of feed. The once vast ranges
have been taken up by individual
farmers who raise the hay and corn
that must be had to fatten steers.
Whether Kent is wholly right or
not, a lot of things indicate that the
thrilling proposition for generations
soon to come is going to be intensi
fied product the scientific raising
of much on a limited acreage.
Agriculture seems to move as a
stream. It abandons vast territory
in the east to take up, exhaust and
leave the middle west for the ranges
and the Canadian northwest. Ilts
methods and processes persisted in
these regions would mean awful
shortage or food supply. But fol
lowing this stream of pioneers slowly
but surely Is comming the fellow ed
ucated to make three crops grow
where one was reaped In disappoint
ment before. And side by side with
him Is coming the fellow who raises
practically all that he consumes. The
disappearance of the great cattle
ranges and ranches is not wholly a
calamity by a good deal. The big
corn-fed steer will supplant the lit
tle range fellow.
Woodrow WilSon, was christened
Thomas Woodrow Wilson. It was a
mistake to drop the first name. Con
sider with what unction democracy
might refer to the great man as Tom
Wilson, it would certainly sound as
If the bearer of the name was one
of us.
FACTS ABOUT ELECTORS.
Senator Borah of Idaho has been
looking into the legal questions in
volved in the selection of presiden
tial electors.
"Each state determines for itself
the manner of selecting its presiden
tial electors," said the senator, "and
congress fixes the time for their elec
tion. This being true, the state is
responsible for the method of selec
tion and for the qualifications of the
electors. There is no way . to bind
an elector to support any particular
candidate. A republican elector can
support a democrat in the electoral
college if he desires to do so. . The
national convention is a matter of
form. Up to the time of Andrew
Jackson the party convention had no
part in presidential elections. Any
body of men could put out a candi
date. The legislature of Tennessee
named Jackson for the presidency.
Up to 1820, presidential electors
were chosen by the state legislatures.
In 1824 all states except six selected
them by direct vote of the people.
In 1828 electors were voted for di
rectly in all states but Delaware and
South Carolina. South Carolina con
tinued to chose its electors by the
legislature up to 1860. Since that
time electors have been voted for di
rect in all the states.''
THE BANK.
The bank is a philanthropic insti
tution which confers a favor imon
society by borrowing people's money
at 3 per cent and loaning it out at 7.
The banker is a man who is paid a
large salary for telling wabbly busi
ness enterprises where the jumping
off spot is located. Banks are built
of marble and manganese steel, in
order to prevent somebody who needs
a little ready money from reaching
in with a bottle of nitroglycerine and
foundering himself with the cash on
hand. In spite of this precaution,
every once in a while some bank
cashier is backed up against the add
ing! machine and requested to trans
late the time lock from the original
Hebrew, while coarse men in pea
jackets carry away everything in
sight but the overdrafts. The banks
have built up a flourishing and prof
itable industry, pursued with cease
less energy- by a certain class of citi
zens, who go through a steel -vault
like a bareback rider through a pa
per hoop, and who evade the police
by effecting a change of neckties. It
occasionally happens that one of
these gentry is trapped before some
body can bail him out, after which
he is photographed from all points
of the compass, fed into a shower
bath, measured for a new suit of
striped clothes and taught how to
dance the lock step. Banks are usu
ally kept by cashiers who sometimes
keep all of the visible assets until
they get into Canada. A run pn a
bank occurs whenever a cashier blos
soms out in a new spring overcoat or
donates $25 to the Y. M. C. A. A
bank examiner is a merciless and
prying individual, who irritates the
board of directors by requiring of
them to put up some collateral secur
ity against their loans. Banks have
prevented a great many people from
going broke sooner than they in
tended to, and therefore we should
hold them in grateful esteem.
CONSPIRACY CHANGED.
California Fruit Dealers Said to Have
Formed Combination.
Washington, D. C. Open charges
that California fruit dealers had con
spired with other interests to shut
out fruit importations to Atlantic
ports Were made recently by Con
gressman Harrison of New York in
discussing the conference report on
the agricultural appropriation bill in
the house.
The report eliminated the pro
vision to limit the quarantine against
the Mediterranean fly pest, so that
it would apply only to the Atlantic
coast. As the bill passed by the
house it specifically exempted the
Atlantic coast.
Congressman Harrison maintained
that the effect of the conference
change would be to heighten . the
tariff wall to the exclusive beneiit
of California fruit interests.
Congressmen Kent of California
and Moore of Pennsylvania took issue
with Harrison, denying that ' the
amendment would have such effect.
Despite Harrison's objections, the
bill was reported unchanged, and
now goes to President Taft for his
signature.
HEARING AUGUST 20.
Disbanded MJlitia Will Present Case
to Governor West.
In order that ev.ery side may be
given a full and complete hearing,
Governor West has appointed Tues
day, August 20, as the date for hear
ing the accused officers' side of the
recent trouble in the militia.
As it stands at present, the three
companies are disbanded and inquiry
and court-martial are hanging over
the five officers. If new and exten
uating evidence should be adduced
at Uiis hearing, however, it is possi
ble that the disbandment order
might be revoked.
It is with the desire of giving the
utmost opportunity to everyone to be
heard that Governor West is appoint
ing the day for a review of the af
fair. Chehalis county, Washington, has
such an excellent crop of potatoes
coming on that residents feel sure of
reasonably low prices.
Captain E. W. Bixby, the Missis
sippi river boatman who taught
Mark Twain how to pilot a steam
boat, is dead.
REPORT SHOWS INCREASE.
County Superintendent Present
Some Interesting Figures.
The following figures, taken from
the annual reports of the county su
perintendent for the paBt two years,
show a substantial Increase in near
ly every item vital to the schools of
the county. The growth of senti
ment in favor of advance in educa
tion is evident from these figures.
The statement of Superintendent
Wells follows:
School Year, 1010-11.
School census (between 4
and 20 years) 6,969
Number pupils enrolled in
school 5,645
Average number of pupils
belonging in school... 4,735.5
Average daily attendance' 4,439.9
Per cent of attendance. . . 93.7
Number eighth grade grad
uates 173
Number enrolled in high
schools 624
Number organized district 95
Number school houses
built io
Number teachers employed
, during year 211
Average salary male teach
ers (monthly) $ 91.62
Average salary female
teachers (monthly).... 61.17
Average salary city su
perintendents (annual) 1,600.00
Average salary principals
(monthly) 97.46
Average salary teachers in
one-room schools 52.64
Average salary assistant
teachers 70.02
Average , number of days
taught 141.9
Number of school rooms
in operation 193
Amount paid for teachers'
salaries .$S5,966.53
School Year 1011-12.
School census (between 4
and 20 years) 7,381
Number pupils enrolled in
schools 5,742
Average number of pupils
belonging in school... 5,026.2
Average daily attendance 4,775
Per cent of attendance. . . 95.02
Number of eighth grade
graduates 260
Number enrolled in high
schools v.. 636
Number organized districts 98
Number school houses built 4
Number teachers employed
during year 231
Average salary male teach
ers (monthly) $ 91.00
Average salary female
teachers (monthly)... 63.56
Average salary city super- ,
intendents (annual).... 1,750.00
Average salary principals
(monthly) 101.04
Average salary teachers in
one-room schools 55.98
Average salary assistant
teachers 74.36
Average number of days
taught 140.4
Number of school rooms'
in operation '227
Amount paid for teachers'
salaries $103,383.17
Number of school visits made
during the year by super
visors and superintendent. . 406
Number of visits made to
school officers in their
homes 271
Number of miles traveled in
performance of official du
ties 7,176
J. PERCY WELLS.
Scaje receipts at Tidings office.
ffiisemmcF Oeannip Sale
Many New Articles Placed On Sale For This Week
You will save considerable by making purchases now lor lulure use. Hundreds of dollar's
worth of stylish seasonable goods are being sold at a fraction of their regular price.
WE QUOTE HERE A FEW ITEMS
Dry Goods Department
Embroideries and insertions, 12 ,
to 15c values, on sale at per yd.
Wash fabrics, floral and figured A
patterns, 15 to 20c values, at yd IvfC
"Pillow clina ARyQCK -rnm-iloi
value, on sale at
Pequot sheets, size 81x90,
value, at
Ladies' white lawn waists, all new p
styles, $1.25 to $2.00 values, at ijJ)C
Ladies' muslin gowns, $1
on sale at
The Store with
a Rest Room
M nun 1111
I PurcMountainWatcrlcc
Reduced Prices on Ice
FOR SEASON OF 1912
Save money by purchasing coupon books. Issued for
500, 1,000, 2,000 up to 5,000 pounds. .
This is the cheapest way to buy your ice.
Delivery every day except Sundays.
ASHLAND ICE AND STORAGE CO.
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HERBERT KNOX SMITH.
United States Commieiioner of
Corporations, Who Has Resigned.
by ITuwcelL
Governor Johnson of California
says if petitions now in circulation to
initiate a law abolishing capital pun
ishment receive the required number
of signatures, he will allow no more
executions until after election.
The right of Roosevelt delegates
from Kansas to have places on the
national ballot is to be decided by
the supreme court of the United
States in October.
Infantile paralysis, has been fatal
to 33 out of 173 children in Los An
geles, and public playgrounds are be
ing closed.
Telephone your social items to
Miss Hawley between 9 a. m. and 4
p. m.' each day. Call phone 39.
The Tidings is for sale at W. M.
Poley's Drug Store, 17 East Main St.
SIB
i -" ...iii m-.mn--
Men's last-long mesh union suits,
special at
1 Kr
10c
:.
$1.25
98c
aiiu pniK,
value at,
value,
75c
Men's oxfords in tan and black,
$3 50 values on sale at
VAUPE
L'S
in mimiiiiiiiM
Newly Furnished Rooms
Centrally located. Well ventilated.
Gas and electricity. Everything new,
neat and clean. Keasonable prices.
340 E. MAIN STREET.
Phone 129 2j Main St.
C. II. GILLETTE
Real Estate, Loans, Rentals,
Conveyancing
SEE ME BEFORE BUYING.
Practical Shoe Repairing
i Done promptly, with the best nia-
Cor. Fourth and Main Street?.
Signs and Banners
MADE TO ORDER
ON SHORT NOTICE
Also House and Carriage Painting
HUGHS & EMERY
PHONE 86.
Attention, Wood Consumers
Sound dry red fir and yel
low pine, 16-inch block body
wood, delivered in your wood
shed in orders for not less
than 10 tiers to a place, at
$2.25 per tier.
E. J. MAIIAN
Leave orders at office, 290
East Main St., or phone 1GS.
Men's Furnishings
48c
Men's Longley felt hats, all this rf0 50
- season's styles, $3 values at ... p
Men's negligee shirts in stripe, figured
and plain patterns, $1.25 up to $2.00
values all reduced 25c from regular
price.
Men's balbriggan underwear, colors flesh
an sizes, regular $1 pit '
per suit
f
$2.
95
The Store with
a Rest Room