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FOR RENT Two furnished houses.
Phone 296-J. 62-tf
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Pair
young rows; a splendid work
horse. Call 1167 E. Main St. J.
A. Orchard. 62-tf
WANTED The Cosmopolitan Group
requires the services of a repre
sentative in Ashland and sur
rounding territory, to look after
subscription renewals and to ex
tend circulation by special meth
ods which have proved unusually
successful. Salary and commis
sion. Previous experience desir
able but not essential. Whole
time or spare time. Address, with
; references, Charles C. Schwer, The
Cosmopolitan Group, 381 Fourth
Avenue, New York City. 62-2t
AT THE JREAMLAND
Special Engagement of Miss Hunter,
the Talented Singer From the
Orpheum Circuit.
Miss Hunter, who is spending the
winter in Ashland, has consented to
ting in spotlight for the patrons of
Dreamland on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Friday nights this week. Com
plete change of songs and costumes
each night. The picture program
will also include appropriate special
feature films. All for 10c no
higher.
JOHX CONWAY 1KAI.
Well-Known Talent Shoemaker Died
. . of Kidney Trouble.
John Conway, the well-known Tal
ent shoemaker, died at the Granite
City hospital in this city this after
noon. Mr. Conway was brought to
this city several weeks ago, suffer
ing from kidney and bladder trou
bles. It was found necessary to op
erate upon him, which was done on
Monday of last week, and he tallied
well from the operation and was
thought to be on the road to health,
but acute kidney (rouble set in and,
with his advanced age of 70 years
against him, he succumbed today.
The funeral will be held at Stock's
undertaking parlors in this city at 2
p. m.f Wednesday, under the aus
pices of the I. O. O. F.
DIED OX TRAIN.
Portland Woman Expired on Train
Saturday Night.
Mrs. Cora E. McMurray, wife of
N. H. McMurray of Portland, died
on the Shasta Limited Saturday
night while on her way home from
California. The remains were taken
from the train at this place and tak
en In charge by Dodge & Sons, who
prepared them for shipment to Port
land, where they were taken on the
train last evening. The cause of
death was chronic heart trouule.
Too Much of a Good Tiling.
"I was very happy," said the con
fessor, "when, after years of wooing,
she finally said 'Yes.' "
"But why did you break the en
gagement so soon after?" asked his
friend.
"Man, it was she that dissolved
it.'"
"Really?" said the friend. "How
did that happen?"
"It was due to ir.y accustomed absent-mindedness.
When, a few days
later, I called at her home, I again
asked her to marry me." Youth's
Companion.
Variable.
"What are the duties of a cabinet
officer?"
"They depend on circumstances,"
replied Senator Sorghum. "Some
times his most important duties
arise after his Appointment, and
sometimes away back during the col
lection of campaign funds." Wash
ington Star.
Civic Improvement Club Meeting.
The Women's Civic Improvement
Club will hold its next regular meet
ing Tuesday, January 14, 1913, at
the Commercial Club rooms. Of
ficers will be elected at this meeting.
A full attendance is desired.
By order of president.
MRS. C. H. VAL'PEL.
Gardener.
"Has he the courage bf his con
victions?" "1 should say so. He doesn't care
how much his neighbors laugh at
him, he digs his garden just the
ame." Detroit Free Press.
Thos. H. Thompson wishes to
announce that arrangements have
been made by which Kellogg's fam
ous pedigreed strawberry plants can
be secured through the Ashland
Sunnyslde Nursery at regular rates.
T. II. Thompson, r.'anager. G2-2t
La Follette's Weeklv Magazine
and the Tidir.gs one year for $2.50.
ABOUT PARCELS POST
Mich Informatnon Regarding the
Provision of New Method of
Handling Merchandise Mail.
January 1 the parcels post system
goes into effect all over the United
States. To accommodate this ex
pected increase of business in the
postoffice department it will be nec
essary to employ a great number of
extra clerks. Postmaster Casey has
been directed to add one extra clerk
to his force to meet the expected in
crease of business.
For the first fifteen days in Janu
ary a record is required to be kept
of the number of packages received
and dispatched. Every package of
merchandise received for transporta
tion by the postoffice department
after the first of January must bear
parcels post stamps. It will be a
waste of money to put on stamps
which are in use now as the pack
ages to which they are attached will
be held for postage.
There is a chance that merchants
who may have on hand stamps of a
larger denomination than those re
quired for letter postage will stand
to lose as such stamps will be abso
lutely worthless for other purposes
than letter postage after the first of
January. The exchange of these
stamps for parcels post stamps is
forbidden by the postoffice depart
ment. The parcels post bill carried with
it an appropriation of $300,000 for
vehicle hire necessary in delivering
packages in free delivery offices, but
as there are 1,800 of these in the
United States graduated in volume
of business from New York city, the
largest, to the great number of
smaller ones, it necessarily follows
that the lesser of the free delivery
offices will have but little money to
expend for vehicle hire. Ashland's
allotment is $50. j
N'o packages w 111 be received for
mailing under the parcels post regu-'
lations which weighs more than 11
pounds, and in size they must not
exceed 72 inches in both length and
girth combined.
Postmaster Casey has issued the
following instructions to the public
In regard to the new parcels post
law which goes into effect next
month: '
1. Parcels cannot be mailed in
package boxes; must be brought to
the postoffice' or designated postal
station.
2. Rates of postage on packages
weighing not more than four ounces
are the same as at present. Pack
ages weighing more than four ounces
take new post pound rates, which
are arranged according to distance
carried.
3. Distinctive parcel post stamps
must be used, and packages mailed
with ordinary postage stamps will be
treated as unmailable. The parcel
post stamps will not be good for
postage on other classes of mail mat
ter. 4. Sender's name and address
must appear on all packages. Post
masters are directed to treat as un
mailable parcels presented for mail
ing on which this information is not
clearly shown. ,
B. Seeds, cuttings, bulbs, scions,
plants, etc., are mailable only at the
rate of 1 cent for each two ounces.
Weight limit is increased to 11
pounds. Special parcel post stamps
must be used.
6. Printed matter, books, etc.,
are not mailable under new parcel
post regulations, but must go as
third class matter at present rate of
1 cent for each two ounces or frac
tion, without regard to distance.
Parcel post stamps not good for
postage on this class of matter.
7. Unmailable: Live animals,
live poultry, spirituous, vinous and
malt liquors, explosives, articles lia
ble to injure the mails or persons
handling same.
8. Liquids other than those shown
in paragraph 7 as unmailable may
be accepted for local delivery only
when it is unnecessary to transport
them over steam or electric' rail
ways. Liquids may be sent to any
destination when mailed in glass
bottles containing not more than 12
ounces, such bottles to be encased
in a block or tube surrounded with
sufficient absorbeut material to take
up the contents of thebottle if brok
en. 9. Insured: Parcels may be in
sured up to $50 in value for a fee of
10 cents.
10. Registry abolished: It will
not be possible to register merchan
dise parcels under the new regula
tions, the insured mail taking the
place of the registry system as ap
plpled to fourth class matter.
11. Wrapping: All parcels must
be securely wrapped and sufficiently
well packed to protect contents from
damage in transit.
SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland
Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new
subscribers. Regular price of Sunset
Magazine la $1.50 per year.
ASHLAND
HELD FINAL MEETING
Retiring City Council Completed Ita
Duties This Forenoon.
The retiring city council held Its
final meeting this forenoon. The
principal business transacted w as the
passing of the ordinance fixing the
tax levy at 14 mills as decided upon
at the meeting last week.
The report of the street commit
tee refusing to make the refund
asked for the double curbing on B
street was approved by the council.
The salary bill3 and the current
bills which had been approved by
the finance committee were allowed.
The city recorder was authorized
to publish the mayor's proclamation
announcing the results of the recent
city election and also to give certifl-'
cates of election to the parties de
clared elected by the canvassing i
board after the recent election.
GOVERNMENT RAISES PRICE.
Geological Map Will Cost More Here
after.
After January 1 the standard topo
graphic maps of the United States
Geological Survey will be sold at 10
cents a copy or 6 cents wholesale, !
an order amounting to $3 or more
entitling the purchaser to the re
duced rate. These maps have here
tofore been sold by the director of
the geological survey, under author
ity of congress, at 5 cents ertail and
3 cents wholesale, but for some time
it has been recognized that this price
has been too low. .The constantly
increasing refinement in the field
woik of the topographic surveys, the
immense amount of detailed inform
ation which is put upon the maps,
requiring the most expert and tedi
ous drafting and copper-plate en
graving, the great care necessary In
insuring the exact register for three
or four color lithographic printings,
and the largely increased cost of la
bor and paper have made the in
crease in charge not only justifiable
but necessary. As at matter of fact.
10 or 6 cents for one of the standard
15-minute topographic sheets of the
geological survey, which is in effect
an almost exact reproduction of
about 230 square miles of territory,
is a merely nominnl price. No com
parable maps are issued by any pri
vate map printing house, but if there
were they would be sold at $1 to $3
apiece. The field surveying alone of
some areas covered by a single map
costs more than $5,000, and even
$7,000 in very difficult country,
while there are few maps which rep
resent an expenditure for field work
of less than $3,000.
All the maps are printed in three
colors and some in four colors. The
water features, including seas, lakes,
ponds, streams, canals, swamps, etc.,
are shown in blue. The relief
mountains, hills, vales, cliffs and
slopes is shown by means of brown
contour lines, which graphically por
tray the shapes of the plains, hills
and mountains and also show the el
evation of every partof the area.
The works of man are shown in
black, in which color all lettering
also is printed. Boundaries, such as
state, county, city, land grant, and
reservation lines, are shown by
broken lines of different kinds.
Principal and inferior roads are
shown by other kinds of lines.
Houses are indicated by small black
squares which in the densely popu
lated portions of cities and towns
merge into blocks. Other cultural
features are represented by conven
tional signs which are easily under
stood. Many of the maps show also
forested areas, which are indicated
in green.
The director of the survey at
Washington will be glad to furnish
an index map, covering any area de
sired, which shoys the particular
quadrangles, as they are called,
which have been surveyed and the
corresponding maps issued for sale.
This index map circular also con
tains a list of special maps of the
United States, of states, and of na
tional parks, mining camps, etc.,
with the prices, and a list of avail
able geologic reports on any part of
the area shown.
Only Abraham She Knew.
A small girl whose education in
American history far surpassed her
Biblical knowledge went to Sunday
school for the first time not long
ago and was much surprised to hear
the teacher refer familiarly to Abra
ham and his nephew, Lot. The cler
gyman, noticing she was a new pu
pil, inquired:
"Ada, what was your Sunday
school lesson about this morning?"
Her reply surprised him:
"Well, really, Mr. Wilson, we
didn't have any Bible lesson this
morning. The teacher took up all
the time talking about Mr. Lincoln
and his nephew, Mr. Lot." Kansas
City Star.
Star Laundry and French Dry
Cleaning Company. Phone 64.
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WOULD REGULATE EVERYTHING.
Labor Commissioner Hoff Plans
Strenuous Campaign.
Salem, Ore., Dec. 27. Embodied
in the biennial report of Labor Com
missioner Hoff will be a vast num
ber" of suggestions for legislation,
held by him to be of interest to the
welfare of the workers. The labor
commissioner, for the purpose of
sounding sentiment and securing
views on legislation for this class,
eent out a large number of circulars,
and the suggestions are in reply to
this inquiry. Following are the sug
gestions made for needed legislation:
Eight hours for all Kinds and
classes of work.
Eight hours and examinations for
hoisting eng'neers.
Eight hours for yard men and a
compensation act. The demand for
a compensation act is made by a
large number of workmen who feel
that such an act would be no more
than fair.
Better laws for the collection of
labor debts.
Boiler inspection and license for
engineers; many states have this
provision.
Inspection for all electrical work.
Eight hours for shingle weavers.
The regulating and bettering of
conditions for steamboat men.
A ten-hour legal work day.
Eight hours a day, 48 hours a
week, and a minimum wage of 25
cents an hour for women.
Rag dealers to be compelled to
boil rags at least 30 minutes before
reselling the same.
For taking better care of salmon
and their spawning grounds.
A state examination for journey
men and master plumbers.
Prohibiting the use of coupons in
selling cigars.
Against false advertising for help.
State insurance, widow's insur
ance, and a weekly payday. This is
along the line of the most advanced
legislation of certain states and some
foreign countries.
A compensation act.
KU4 iaipete
A well conducted paper is like a ban
quet. Everything is served up with a view
to selection. Help yourself to what you want
and do not condemn the entire spread be
cause pickles and onions may be included.
If you do not relish them, somebody may
find them palatable. Be generous and broad
enough to select gracefully such reading
matter from a paper as will be agreeable to
your mental taste. You, as an individual,
are not compelled to swallow everything.
We do not all think alike on every subject,,
and it is a good thing, as it makes more
variety, and variety is the spice of existence.
You can send 104 banquets to ono East
ern friend by ordering the Tidings sent him
for one year for only
$2.00
Ashland Tidings
Bakeshop inspection, as in Wiscon
sin, Ohio, Tennessee and other states.
State license for moving picture
operators.
Electric headlights on all locomo
'tives on all railroads; full crews,
compelling the company to lay up
crews for rest, and, at terminals
'where there are accommodations for
eating and sleeping, the crew to be
allowed to eat every five hours.
Time continuous from the . hour
called till relieved.
All state intsitutions to employ for
'all kinds of work, none but residents
of the state.
Where there are cement floors,
men to be furnished with wood
floors to stand on, inclosing sinks
and lavatories.
Qualified conductors to be placed
on all engines running light.
A collective ownership of the
means of production and distribu
tion. SEXIORITY PLAN FEARED.
Bryan Says Democrats Threatened
With letting Minority Control.
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 26. In an ed
itorial in the Commoner today, Wil
liam Jennings Bryan predicts that
the democratic party is facing a
struggle in both senate and house
over committee assignments. "It
(the party) is again threatened with
the blight of seniority," the article
continues. "That is, it will be asked
to put the ambitions and interests
of individuals above the welfare of
the party.
"Progressive democrats will be in
the majority in the caucus of the
senate. Will they allow the reac
tionary minority to man the ship and
allow length of service to outweigh
sympathy k with the progressive? If
it were a personal matter the new
senators might prefer to yield to the
old, but a man acting in a represen
tative capacity is not at liberty to be
courteous at the expense of his con
stituents." Phone job orders to the Tidings.
Monday, December 30, 1912.
DEATH OF MRS. ROSENBAUM.
Wife of Southern Pacific Agent at
Medford Dead.
Mail Tribune: A pall was cast
over the joyousness of Christmas in
many homes of the city Wednesday
by the announcement of the death of
Alice Gladys Rosenbaum, which oc
curred at 11 a. m. Christmas day.
Death was caused by an illness of
more than twelve years duration,,
during the course of which she won
the love and respect of all who came
in contact with her by the manner
in which she bore up under her suf
fering, never losing her cheerful and
helpful disposition.
In accord with her wish, funeral
services at the home were dispensed
with. Accompanied by Mr. Rosen
baum and her brother, Grant Ma
thews of Foots creek, the remain
were placed on the Shasta Limited
Wednesday night and taken to Port
land for cremation.
Aside from her husband, Mrs..
Rosenbaum leaves a mother, a sis
ter and a brother to mourn her
death.
Mrs. Rosenbaum was a member of
the Jacksonville lodge, Order of the
Eastern Star. ,
GIRL JUDGE .OF STOCK.
Young Idaho Miss Excels Roys at
Contest.
Spokane, Wash., Dec. 30. It re
mained for Eloise Judson, a 15-year-old
girl, to carry away first honor
in a large stock-judging contest at
the Northwest Live Stock Show ia
Lewiston, Idaho, recently. Miss Jud
son, who is a student at the Lewis
ton normal school, competed against
a field composed largely of boys
She was raised on a farm, and, in
addition to her expert knowledge of
live stock, has a natural adaptability
for engineering.
Ladies' and gents' clothing
made, altered and relined at Fuller's,.
81 Oak street. Phone 119.