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i PAGE TWO HLAX1) TTDIXGS Monday. Jnly 29, 1912. Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issocd Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, - Editor and Owner W. II. Gillis, ... City Editor W. E. Barnes, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION' RATES. One Tear .$2.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months 50 .Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. V Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Po6toffice as second-class mail mat ter. AfibJand, Ore., Monday, July SI), '12 . THE TRUE VACATION. In glancing over our social col umns we note many Ashlanders are now on their summer vacation. How much benefit is derived from the out ing depends much on the mood of the seeker how well he succeeds in banishing care and giving over to that which mostly appeals to him. People find in this world chiefly what they look for. Those constant ly expecting trouble find it stretch ing even into the deepest cavern of the mountain. Those seeking bless ings will find them extending every where in harvests of luxuriance. When you start on a vacation be sure to leave your worries and trou bles behind. They are the most use less of all baggage. Away aay with all forebodings. Lightly ladened, go forth amidst nature, up in the mountains. Meet rare air with light heart. In the gloaming go down in the depths of -the canyon on the banks of the shim mering brook. Standing silently in the moonlight, look down into its glassy waters and you will see a heaven below, then look up and you will see a heaven above, each reflect-, ing in the other, like , mirrors, its moons and planets and trembling stars. Merry with ten thousand happy thoughts this experience will be" twinkling worlds innumerable, join ing hands of light, going round and round with gleam and dance and ce lestial song Snaking old Time itself feel young again. Lose yourself from worry in' the woods where cool and sifted breeze is scented with odors of fir and pine fragrant and sweet with nature's pongs. Sit where waters leap down off rocks, their crystal heels clattering and glistening over granite cobbles. Then hark to the storm in the dis tance. Zigzag lightning flashing back to lightning's flash. Hear the fluting winds and long-meter psalms of thunder. And overhead the fitful patter of fairy-footed raindrops danc ing on the swaying leaves. Up early and behold the gray morning striding down the hillside, routing the skulking shadows. And when the day departs heed again the shadows chasing away the light and watch the myriad changing colors in the sky where cloud curtains are drawn aside from heaven's walls of jasper and amethyst. Look on all of this and feel that God is in his most high place that there is room enough in your soul for peace. WANT MEAN'S EFFORT. "All want something they have not I want a cottage, others want castles." Thus saith the rich Duchess of Sntherland, deprecating the age in which we live. Let not the duchess worry. The wanting something you have not is what moves the world. Even adversity has its uses. It is the lack of things he wants that keeps man moving upward. Picture a condition under which every man had everything he wanted. Why, it would be a mighty listless, uninted fsting old world, wouldn't It? But nature has provided differ ently. She has decreed that, man, like all other animals, like the flow ers, the birds, the fishes, the streams and the hills, shall change, and in each change discover something that ' he wants. The rich, the titled, the powerful, all want something that they have not, as well as the poor and lowly. Hence, there is a striving for things. Probably Adam recognized the mercy of the Lord in tempting his punisn meut with the necessity of earning Ills living. Anyhow, since Eden's time, or since the time when scient ists pay man swung from branch to branch in quest of acorns and other monkey food, man hag grown through efforts for things he wanted but had not. THE PANAMA CANAL TOLLS. Great Britain performs an act un provided for by the international eti quette book, in asking the United States congress to hold up the Pan ama canal toll bill until that coun try an present its case for free tolls. The phrase upon which it will no doubt depend is the following from the .Hay-Pauncefote treaty: "The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules on terms of entire equality.' From this it will be argued that if American ships are to use the canal free, all others must have the same right. An Englishman of high rank re cently said, in the expansive confi dences of an after-dinner period: "Wallace (said to the former chief engineer of the canal), civilization is to be congratulated that the United States is ' constructing the Panama canal for the benefit of Brit ish commerce." Our taxpayers will find it some what difficult to sympathize with this point of view. If a man posts certain regulations regarding the use which the public may make of his land, does it neces-. sarily follow, in either moral justice or law, that his own family must con form to those regulations? There is a big question whether the words of the above treaty cannot be fairly interpreted to mean all nations out side of the one that is the owner of the canal and that paid the bills. Of course something can be said in favor of an absolutely free canal. Trying to get the money back spent in construction work by charging tolls is about like paying for a road by charging tolls. That sort of thing was thoroughly tried out in this country, in the old days of turn pikes and toll bridges. Few relics of that custom prevail. It is gener ally felt that more is lost by hamper ing business than is gained by the fees. But the toll on foreign vessels fur nishes a convenient method of en couraging the building and operat ing of -American ships, without the evils which many feel to exist in a system of subsidies, and our people will hesitate a good while before dropping it. (iRUMIlLlNG. It is amazing to hear humanity, set 'on end for some unknown pur pose, devoting so much of their brief time allotted us on earth to a care ful detailed diagnosis of our head aches, backaches, stomachaches and other miseries that defy description. The comical part of this business lies in the patience with which we listen to one aanother. But he or she knows that his or her turn conies next and the luxury of returning sickening accounts of troubles will be granted. Many of us are not miserable enough with the pains of the present, but must treasure up the pains of the past, as a constantly accumulating reservoir of misery; and the most woeful and most useless of all is the anticipating of troubles supposed to be coming. If talk about our aches and pains were suppressed, a third of the con versation of civilized life would cease. If to this be added the weath er, another third would be chopped off. Still the female discourse' on the troubles of dress and servants would remain. If we would only forget it all, and permit others to forget it, what a world of joy, now unseen, would open up to us! ' ROW BACKED BY RELIGION. Administration pressure has been brought to bear on Commissioner of Indian Affairs Valentine to resign. The latter declines to do so. The trouble arises over the so-called Val entine religious g'arb order." Sev eral months ago, without consulting anybody, Commissioner Valentine or dered that henceforth the teachers In -the twenty-three Indian schools should desist from the use of relig ious insignia or garb while on duty In general assembly exercises or in the school rooms. There are seventy nuns and several prleBts who for sev eral years have taught in the govern ment Indian schools who would be aTfected by this order. A protest backed by influential Catholics was at once laid before President Taft, who ordered that the Valentine rul ing should be suspended until he could inquire Into it. He has been too busy campaigning to attend to the matter personally, and Secretary Fisher has been away on a vacation, so that nothing has been done. Meantime Protestant organizations have become interested on the one hand and Catholic organizations on the other and a determination of the question either way will be the occa sion for feeling. A HOPEFUL SIGN. (Mail Tribune.) Most hopeful and most helpful sign of the times is the turn balance of trade in favor in the kf the Rogue river valley. An increased acreage in potatoes, melons, berries, grain, hay and small produce has de veloped a considerable surplus for export, and instead of importing produce, the valley is, for the first time in some years, exporting! it. The extension of the irrigating systems is largely responsible for the change that is gradually and pswiftly creeping over the valley. Water is necessary to insure the success of al most any crop and thereMg no reason why, by use of water, the1 yield should not be increased tenfold and the land doubled in value. ; The Rogue river valley is export ing a considerable quantity of poul try products. It should be sending out a carof eggs a day. Many cars of chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese should be shipped out annual ly. In no place are natural condi tions more favorable. Diversified production is the key to prosperity in the valley until an extended acreage of the young or chards come into bearing, and even then it is wise not to put the entire dependence upon any one product or class of products. . The entire valley can be and should be placed under irrigation. Nature has provided soil and climatic con ditions, and it is up to man to pro vide the water and the industry. POSTOFFICK BILLS REPORTED. Measures Embrace Revised Parcels Post System. Washington, D. C. The postoffice appropriation bills, shorn of the good roads provision proposed by the house and embracing a revised par cels post system, with charges based on zones of distance, has been re ported to the senate by the postoffice committee. The total app-opriations proposed are above those of the house measure, which carried ap proximately $260,000,000. One of the principal increases is the pay of railroads for transporting mails, the senate committee adding more than $2,500,000. In striking out the Shackleford good roads feature, whcih provided for federal improvement of high ways, the committee recommends an investigation by a special congres sional committee and provides for no highway improvements until this commission has reported. The Barnhardt amendment in the house bill for the regular publication of the names of stockholders of newspapers and periodicals is changed to provide for puWrShloH once a year. The parcels post section of the house bill provided a flat rate of postage for all distances. The sen ate provision is that of the Bourne bill, slightly modified. Senator Bourne recommends that third and fourth class mail matter be combined for the parcels post ser vice, but the bill makes the parcels post apply only to fourth class mat ter. The senate committee struck out of the house bill the provision giv ing to postal employes the right to combine in labor unions and the right to petition congress for redress of their grievances. Steel cars for railway mail ser vice, which were required by the house bill to be in universal use by American railroads by 1917, also are required by the senate bill. The Mouse bill required the railroads .to replace 20 per cent of their wooden mail cars every year, while the sen ate bill would give the railroads one year of grace and then require them to replace 25 per cent of their cars each year for four years. Senator Gardner of Maine declared the senate committee on postoffices had been unfair to a parcels post bill he had introduced, and denounced the Bourne plan as a "mockery." He criticised its limitations and declared its effect would be to give the rail roads higher incomes for postal ship ments than they now enjoy from ex press packages. MILLIONS WEKE STOLEN. Swindlers Operating Through Mails Reap Hurvest. Washington, D. C. One hundred and twenty million dollars was filched from the American people during the last fiscal year by swin dlers who operated largely through the mails, according to a statement made in a formal report to Postmas ter General Hitchcock. This was an Increase of approximately $50,000, 000 in the aggregate over the previ ous year. Of those who are alleged to have operated, the fraudulent schemes, 1,063 were arrested by postoffice in spectors. During the year ended June 30 last, 452 persons were con victed and sentenced and 571 'cases are awaiting final disposition. The report says that these fraud manipulators, who usually exploit bo gus mines, fake remedies and worth less lands, constitute a distinct class of lawbreakers. Among those who have been caught by the inspectors are criminals who have posed as re spectable citizens, leaders in their communities and personages in the highest social and business field. Some of them are millionaires, en riched by their plunder. Some of these men now are serving prison sentences. Part of the bridge across the Wil lamette river at Jasper fell the other day, injuring three workmen. The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen jj ;::;;;s:t;;;tiiii::tK;:ittt:is;i;:u We hear considerable complaint nowadays that the art of letter writ ing is a lost art. In one sense, this is true. A generation or soN ago, as a glimpse through any bundle of old letters will convince, stilted even though they might be as to style, a letter contained only the precious bit of home news refreshing to 'the heart of the wayfarer. Now, when Henry is away buying goods for the store, and the letter trom back home is received, he opens it with avidity, hoping that he will be able, after mastering its con tents, to see the family circle, know what each one is doing, and so keep in touch with them all. It does hot interest Henry to know that Mrs. Algernon Jones is going to give a bridge party, and that the hateful old thing has left his Maria out. . Neither, if his Maria is of a poetical turn of mind, does it matter that the apple trees are in blossom and shedding their prodigality and fragrance .all over the place. What our Henry wants to know: Will they yield a good crop this year? And did little Sarah pass in school? ' And what did the butcher offer for the calf? And did the last rain fill up the cistern? And did Johnny get over his stone bruises? And have they drowned the last batch of kittens yet? For our Henry has a practical turn of mind, and it is the practical thing that appeals to him all of the little every day familiar things of life are of interest to him, and he cares not at all for abstract discussion as to whether basques will be worn short or long, or that the Browning club had decided at its last meeting to take up the reading of Mary Jane Holmes' works next winter. We are tending more and more to this display of literary ability in our letters, and less and less to the things that our correspondents really long to know. Now Henry is a far better corre spondent than his Maria. He makes no attempt to clothe his simple news in metaphores, or to have his news masquerade in borrowed finery. He knows what he likes to hear from back home, and. by the same token he sends out his - daily or weekly budget, as the case may be. His Maria may be of the senti mental sort who sighs because he does not tell her every line of his passionate adoration of her, his long ing for her, and the fact that the days seem like months while he is absent from her. It would be a lie if Henry should write it, for he is having a very good time in the city, and has no leisure for sentiment. He tells h's Maria in plain words that he had been to Coney Island the night before; that he shot the chutes and went up in the Ferris wheel; that his dinner cost him 80 cents, and that he has bought her a perfectly good percale suit at a bar gain. Not long ago I received a letter from a dear old lady of whom I am very fond. It was written with a lead pencil, and was nothing wonder ful in the matter of grammatical construction or spelling. But it was right to the point. She told me just the things I wanted to know; told them simply and directly. It was like a visit with the old lady. I sat and Bmiled to myself SALE OF Mies' 54 lo $6 Values Waists A remarkable offer to you, for it brings you handsome Silk Shirt Waists worth from $4.00, up to $6.00 at only $3.00. There are many waists made up of taf feta and messaline silks in colors blue, brown, black, gray and white. They are handsomely trimmed with lace to match silk. Others are trimmed with silk cord. Sizes are 34, 36, 38 and 40. Not a waist in the lot worth less than $4.00. We of fer you your unrestricted choice for only $3.00 The Store with a Rest Room I M 1 1 1 1 H 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 H 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 H 1 1 1 1 1 1 I PureMounlainWafcrlce ! Reduced Prices on Ice FOR SEASON OF 1912 t S ave money by purchasing T 500, 1,000, 2,000 This Is the cheapest way to buy your ice. Delivery every day except Sundays. ASHLAND ICE AND STORAGE CO. TELEPHONE 108 with pleasure over the letter. I was able to follow her through her sweet, quiet life for the few weeks inter vening since her last letter. I sat with her as she knitted on the shawl which was for the comfort of some one. I shared with her her simple repast. I assisted at the lit tle task of cleaning up afterwards. Then I watched while she took her afternoon siesta, her dear old gray head leaning to one side of her chair, her glasses gently sliding down over her nose, her hands idle in her lap. And so, with a. whispered "good-bye, and God bless you," 1 left her to her pleasant dreams. Then I vainly tried to piece to gether the little daily occurrences in the life of my friend beyond the bijj range of hills, but found it a Chinese puzzle a following of the seasons one upon the other the wonders of nature with which we are all fa miliar. I recalled that in the spring I was made aware that the birds were singing, and that the crocuses were peeping from beneath their blankets of snow. I was informed that the still, hot days of summer were upon her, with their suggestion of drowsi ness and this was followed by the knowledge that autumn tints were on the foliage, and that the crispness of the air brought with it renewed vigor and the ambition to take up life again. But of that life noth ing! This, then, is the secret of success ful letter w iting. To write as one would talk as one would read if from Shelley or Byron. To tell the things the correspondent wants to hear to put the trills and thrills if one must but stick to the orig inal melody through it all! M. D. Boardman, 573 West Main street, Helena, Mont., after giving a detail account of his case, says: "I am almost 79 years old and have spent hundreds of dollars for medi cines, but find that I have received more benefit from Foley Kidney Pills than from all other medicines." East Side Pharmacy. "Everybody's doin' it." Send your social news to Miss Hawley. Phone 3-9. al $3 Silk VAUPEL'S coupon books. Issued for up to 5,000 pounds. t t t 4. OPERA HOUSE BILLIARD PARLOR Cigars, Tobacco, Candy and Soft Drinks J. P. Sayle & Son Successors to Ruger & Sayle. 'Practical Shoe Repairing Done promptly, with the best nia j terials obtainable, by j J. H. WILL ! Cor. Fourth and Main Streets. , Signs and Banners ! MADE TO ORDER ! ON SHORT NOTICE Also House and Carriage Painting HUGHS & EMERY I'HOXE 80. Phone 129 27 Main St. C. H. GILLETTE Real Estate, Loans, Rentals, Conveyancing SEE ME BEFORE BUYING. 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 6t., or phone 1C8. Jfen's TrariisMiop BEST QUALITIES At Very Low Prices Men's Union Suits, mesh fabrics simi lar to Porosknit, special suit 50c. Men's genuine Porosknit union, suits in ankle length, three-quarter sleeves, at $1, also knee length short sleeve suits $1. Men's balbriggan vests and drawers in pink and flesh color, at per garment 50c. Men's athletic two-piece underwear at 50c per garment. Men's flannel hunting shirts in red, tan, blue, olive and gray, at $1.50 up to $3.50. We have received our first fall shipment of men's and boy's sweaters. Bargains in Boys' Shoes We are offer ing odd styles in sizes 9 to 5J which for merly sold at $2.50 now on sale at $1.50 The Store with a Rest Room i