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PAGft TWO ASHLAND TIBfVGS ThmrndMj. Janata? 9, 1 Ashland Tidings SEMJ-WEEKLT. ESTABLISHED 1878. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, B. V. Talcott, Editor and Owner . City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Tear 2.00 Biz Months 1.00 Three Months SO Payable In Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Po6toffice as second-class mail mat ter. Ashland, Ore.. Thursday. Jan. 0. '1:1 THE PAKCEUS I"OST AND THE MERCHANT. The new parcels post law has been viewed with a great deal of misgiv ing by retail merchants everywhere. However, it should give them new opportunities of which they have had little conception. It improves their position as re spects distant mail order houses. A mail order house 300 to 600 miles away must pay 62 cents to gtt a 10 pound parcel mailed. The local mer chant serving the same article to a 50-mile territory can get the same thins carried for 32 cents. He can send it for local delivery, including such rural routes as may start at the home office, for 14 cents. A mail order house over 1.000 miles away must pay SI cents to get such a parcel mailed. It should be possible for the local merchants of Ashland to develop a good trade in the outlying country for material to be delivered by par cels post. Suppose a farmer wants a steak for dinner. He can order it by tele phone and have it mailed within 50 mile3 for S cents. The possibilities for the development of this business we unlimited. The postage is cheaper than the time he would spend in the provision store making his purchase and paying for it. In the outlying country around Ashland there is thus a great poten tial trade waiting for someone to get. It will go to the man who gets after it with advertising. The people in the ranch home rarely pause at the town merchants's shop window. They will do their shopping through the newspaper. There the merchant has the chance to 6how them his foods. It is a great show window in which the entire community looks every day. Former ly high express charges threw obsta cles around mail order business to the nearby territory. Now the lower rates and the spread of rural deliv ery open a big field for the mer chant with an outlying country to draw from. Advertising in this newspaper will get this business. "BAD NEGRO" OF THE SOUTH. In the latest of his series of sym pathetic articles in the American Magazine on the negro problem in the south, Ray Stannard Baker shows with convincing clearness where the much-dreaded "bad negro" of that section comes from. He is a product of ignorance; but he Is more than that. The chain gang and the prison camp, which are continu ally hungry for recruits, are provid ed with exceptional facilities for turning out "bad negroes." In Georgia, thought it is one of the most progressive of the southern states, there are no reformatories. Yet there are large numbers of young negro children arrested, many for trivial offenses. Since the work of prisoners, sold to contractors, brings a large annual profit to the state, there is an incentive for not showing leniency in cases where properly it should be shown. So chain-gang pu pils are enrolled with easy nonchal ance regardless of future conse quences. The south need3 more schools and fewer chain-gangs. In degrading the negro by way of proving the super iority of the white race it does a bit ter wrong to whites and negroes alike. Manhood and self-respect must be cherished without regard to color. Over $100,000 has been sub scribed in Philadelphia to provide new and additional buildings for the Children's Hospital. Japanese feather poachers are re ported starving thousands of alba trosses in the Hawaiian islands to secure feathers. The public automobiles of Auvers, Belgium, must be fitted with mud guards for the protection of pedestrians. THE SCIEXCB OF XOSES. It is a fortunate thing for human ity that not all doctors of medicine are too busy attending to their pa tients to write essays for the medi cal conventions. Otherwise the pub lic would miss many entertaining and consoling pieces of information. Dr. Haseltine. for instance, in his address before the Illinois Homeo pathic Medical Association says the larger one's nose, the greater the intellect. Furthermore, the uglier one s nose, the greater bis mental powers. "Huge noses, commonly considered deformities, are brought about by the overdevelopment of the brain, which causes the forehead to bulge and in this way occasions the nasal deformities which are so num erous." The protuberant proboscis is the true sign of genius. Dr. Has eltine fortifies his theory with a gal lery of pictures showing that the great men of the past would have taken no prizes in a beauty contest on account of their noses. In some instances genius possesses physical beauty despite and not on account of nasal feature. The eyes are of un usual brilliancy or color, the head and figure possess the perfect shape, j but the nose almost invariahlv rnn.l tributes the note of discord to the artistic harmonv. The Kind of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Ought to Apixjint, In the current issue of Farm and Fireside, an agricultural paper pub lished in Springfield, Ohio, appears a review of the great work done in the department of agriculture by James V. Wilson, who will retire in March after sixteen years' service. The following suggestion is made to President-elect Wilson with refer ence to the kind of secretarv he ought to appoint to succeed the re tiring secretary, James W. Wilson: "When Wilson became secretary he quit trying to keep the depart ment little. He didn't worry much about saving money. He wanted a big department, a lot more money, a long list of new tasks to wrestle with. He got the money as fast as he was ready to use it, because he got the confidence of the farmers and the country. "Now here comes the danger. The department has bf.en under fire for a long time. It has been criticised by reason of various mole hills of trouble, which have been exaggerat ed into mountains of disaster. Thev have been pushed into Ihe fore ground of the picture till they have cut off a perspective of the great realm of substantial accomplish ments wrought. . "If a new secretary of agriculture is selected with reference to the crit icisms ,and the troubles of the de partment, it will be a mistake. No man who thinks this big department has gone to the dogs will be the right man for its head. No man with a general conviction that things are hopelessly ary, and that a com plete new policy ij needed, will do much more than run amuck. Doubt less there are weak spots; reforms may be needed in some quarters. But the fact stands that the adminis trative surgeon who comes along, looks over this patient and then pro ceeds to operate, will make a tragic mistake if he cuts off a leg or two in order to relieve the discomfort at tending a couple of corns! That's Just what is liable to happen if any of these professional crtics or people with grievances against the depart ment get into its leadership.'- The Truth About the Cost of Living. Judson C. Welliver. Washington correspondent of Farm and Fireside, writes as follows in the current issue of that publication: "Not long ago a president of a great American railroad system, talking about this very problem, walked over to a map that hung on his wall. 'Let me tell you how far we are getting away from the soil,- he said. He swept his hand in a gesture over the northeast section of this country, Indicating the whole of New England and New York. " 'There,' he said, 'is the biggest population in all the world that has so small a proportion of its number actually living on and by the soil!' "I was astonished. He had the figures, which I don't remember; I sort of hoped they might not be true and didn't want to be cumbered up with them. He had comparisons, carefully worked out, with Britain, France. China. Japan all the coun tries that could possibly get entered in that sort of competition and I guess he wasn't wrong. Think of it! A lower proportion of farm-supported people than any other equal num ber of people, living in a contiguous community, in the world! "That's what's the matter with us. In this matter of living costs. We have the land, the people and the capital. The difficulty is to get the land, the man and the capital to gether in one place." Phone job orders to the Tidings. The Home Circle jj Thoughts from the Editorial Pen 5 Pathologists aver that fear causes death, and another instance for them to cite is that of the London woman who, while washing her teeth with a weak solution of carbolic acid, swallowed a small amount of the liquid, and. screaming that she had taken poison, immediately fe:l dead. A doctor investigated the bottle of mouth wash and stated that though it was labeled poison, the entire con- tents was not chemically sufficient to cause death. The woman had been killed by fear. rear is pernaps the strongest emo- tion that takes possession of mor- tals; it wrecks the nervous system and leaves the victim weak and trem- bling. It is doubtful if death itself is to be dreaded so much as the fear of death. Fear presupposes that the - -- j -""i itit r.uicaueiu vine in tne worst is Inevitable, and the torture Belgian Congo he tad a comparative endured is as great as though it j ,y easy time, for ho could obtain sup were. For exampe: A person who jpiies. good food and good water; but has an innate fear of lightning trem- j beyond that point he had a very try- , Vu . v . ing t,me- He had no Porters, carry- explain that he will never see thejing all his own impedimenta, weigh hght of he bolt that strikes himing 70 pounds. TnU a,one gno he far is established and it cannot j raean task in a tropical and wild be eradicated. country. But he could eet no native There are cruel and thoughtless parents who fin1 amusement in frightening their children with stor ies of monsters that dwell in dark ness, and laugh when the little ones refuse to enter a room without a light. Many of those children carry that fear of thn night all through their lives and ever dread the imagi nary horrors that they never see but always expect. A few years ago a Chicago paper interviewed a number of prominent men, some of them connected with the police department, who had won recogniaion for their bravery, asking each what it was that he most teared. One said dogs, another lightning, while one police officer admitted that it was darkness, and in every in stance there was good cause to be lieve that the origin of that fear be gan in childhood. Fear is not only the most deadly but also the most useless of all emo tions. Its effect is invariably de structive and its anguish in many cases more to be shunned than the worst that is feared. It is the ab sence of fear that makes heroes; it is the absence of fear that makes successful farmers. Fear sans the stamina from a man's body. A harm-1. less tooth wash labeled poison causes uuu, a narm.ess nurry in the mon- w u.u.ai loui-to a. inline, jusi 8& tne harmless flap of a mackintosh causes a herd of steers ti stampede. Plowing as An Exercise. Oregonian: Plowing is suggested as a substitute for football at our colleges. Why not? Football is up held as developing the physique, but so does plowing. What more calcu lated to harm the muscles of back, arms and legs than to follow the plow, pressing down on the handles, guiding the team and stepping over the heavy clods? Football is good outdoor exercise, but so is plowing. Football develops certain mental fac ulties, but so does plowing. Skill is required to run a deep, straight fur row, just as skill U required to make an end-run, to block interference and to kick a goal. Plowing has the further recom mendation that it is useful, produc tive of exercise. One husky member of an athletic club could probably plow, harrow and plant with potatoes a whole acre with half the expendi ture of energy that goes into a prac tice game. Were each of the hun dreds of members of the club to cul tivate and harvest an equal area of land, he would be equally rich in health and strength, he would be richer in pocket and the whole com munity would be benefited by the in crease in farm production. The lesson taught by the great Nasby in "Eastern Fruit on Western Dishes" is worthy of study. One of his characters, Koab, inherits a for tune, and, deaf to advice, squanders it in riotous living. He is found by one of his relatives rolling barrels In front of a grocery. The relative Jeers and says, "I told you so." Koab replies that, money being gone and health gone, he might have consulted a physician, who would have recom mended exercise and plain food. Had he taken the exercise at a gymnas ium, he would have been obliged to pay. He was now being paid for taking equally healthy exercise, and the smallness of his wages forbade indulgence In any but plain food. We do not recommend the entire abandonment of football in favor of plowing, but we do recommend that those who feel tha need of phvslcal exercise and cannot afford to pay for ft as a sport should adopt it as a means or earning a livelihood. They will then strengthen both body and mind and fatten their pocketbooks at the same t!me. Soldier's Tramp Through Africa. Em 11 Lund, a Rhodesian settler of 26. has just completed a walk from ; Capetown to Cairo, not in fulfillment j of a wager, or without money, or to test a system of diet or training, but; simply from love cf adventure. He has been a soldier and scout since he was 1", serving In the second ! Matabele campaign in 1S93, the ; Uganda rebellion of 1897-99 and the ' South Afircan war. tia f, j walked, all alone, right through the! ral1 r,-;.,, ., ..., .J Rhodesia. Thence he continued i . thr0Ugh the Congo state, the Sudan and the Nubian desert to Egypt, a I distance of nearly 5.000 miles as the ! crow nies. -My wish." he said in Iling the 6torj. of his gre&t walk I to a correspondent of the London Standard, "was simply to be the first j man to accomplish the feat. I am proudest of having walked across the j Nubian desert. That was the hardest ! tramp of all." ! t-.,i w , . .. ! to accompany him, owing to tribal hostilities being in progress, During most of the time Mr. Lund was obliged to be a vegetarian, but he always had meat when he could get it. "Sometimes," he said, "I shot a buck, but I could only eat the liver, which I broiled in the ashe sof my fire. Having no salt, I cannot say that I enjoyed my food. In passing through the great forests I camped on the ground, lighting a large fire to keep off the wild animals. I had to be very careful to keep this going throughout the night. At earlv'been dawn I renewed my search, tramping continuously till about 11 o'clock. After that I used to hunt round, col lect wood and cock my one daily meal. Then I Blept till sundown. Lions and other carnivora do not usually attack in the heat of the day they are asleep and it is only when night falls that they set out in search of prey." He met with a good many lions, but was never attacked by one. The idea that water wiU protect one from a lion is, he says, erroneous, for lions are excellent swimmers. In the Katanga district he was bitten by a i in u in uu fiuatvu ana wuuiu prou- My have died, but he reached a -native kraal and was treated by a black mamba snake and would prob- woman who applied a decoction of herbs to the wound and cured him She steadfastly refused to say what herbs she used or how she prepared them. From Albertville the traveler made for Lake Albert, and here he had one of his most unpleasant experi ences. He came across a powerful tribe, under the command of a very suspicious chief, who, before he would listen to him, put him through the "ordeal by dirt." This consists of eating a mouthful of earth picked up from the ground. In the native mind this constitutes a form of oath, and it is believed that anyone who undergoes the or deal and does not speak the truth will be condemned to an eternal diet of dirt. The ordeal is called "nkola donga." One of the worst troubles with which Mr. Lund had to contend was the venomous flies and insects which swarm in tropical Africa. He was bitten near the eye by a certain kind of malignant tick, and for a time was nearly blind. If he had not shortly afterward reached Fort Por tal and obtained medical treatment! he would probably have lost the sight of at least one eye. A little farther in the course of his walk he fell iu with the Baluba and Valessi cannibals. When they have a cannibal feast the victim is usually a man accused of some crime. In such a case the man is offered a draught of a poisonous decoction. If he takes a long drink the poison is inoperative, producing merely nau sea. But if, from timidity or guilt, he drinks but a small portion, the effect is almost immediately fatal. Women are excluded from these feasts. Making a wide detour of Lake Albert, Mr. Lund eventually arrived; on the Nile, which he followed to Abu Hamed and then struck across the Nubian desert and came to the Nile again at Wady Haifa. There are but two wells on the route across the desert, and he had to carry with him three days' food and water sup ply. But he safely crossed the des ert and reached Khartum, where he went into the hospital to patch him self up for the last stage of his jour ney, which he completed without fur ther mishap. SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new subscribers. Regular price of Sunset Magazine la $1.50 per year. j iniMniiiiiiniiiiiMiiMnimimiiiiiin IF YOU ARE INSURED IN The Mtittial Life of New York "NONE BETTER" It i8 worth your while knowing that G. F. BILLINGS is the local agent. He will be glad to make the necessary ar rangements so that you can pay your premiums in Ashland. IF YOU WANT NEW INSURANCE let us tell you about THE BIGGEST AND THE BEST LOWEST RATES Telephone 211-J The Man Who Evens Up. I la a Pullman car between Boston d New York some young men were I an speaking, not Ion;; ago, of a minister wno naa engageu in questionable j in these cost of living times. The financial ventures with disastrous j working man, who already can bare results not only to those who trusted j y have meat once a day, will now be him, but also to his own moral and j asking w hether he must return to religious character. The loe of the linsey woolsey of the fathers, money had got possession of him. j The Survey says the average week Flaming newspaper headlines told to j ly wage of New York home workers the world the story of his dishonesty, j on men's coats is but $2.40 to $2. Tbe young men vho discussed the ' On trousers it is a shade better, $3 incident were all business men. They i to $4.20. In neither case is it spoke of it as if it had discredited ' enough to feed a human creature, let not merely the erring minister, but alone a cent for shelter or clothes, the whole ministry, and religious Conditions in the factories are prolj men in general. Then a man in a ably not so bad, but, as a whole, neighboring chair, who had listened wages in the clothing trade are low to their talk, askc-d permission to er than a world with any heart In it show them an item in the newspaper of tbe same dav "Here is a missionary from Alaska just returned to New Y'ork for a short vacation," said he. "He has traveled thousands of miles on snow-j snoe3 in company with a single In dian guide. The mercury has often 0 below zero 50 below has been common. This man is a den tist and a doctor; he extracts aching teeth: hp waKnaa nut on A dpaudiiD wounds and sores, and prescribes for ' -..... n vub "II VI J 1 O .? H 13 sickness; he marries the youns, and j u cost 40- balf f which may b buries the dead. He comforts the I C0U!iidered as due t0 tn high cost sorrowing, defends the helpless, j of custom work. Probably the same stops illicit liquor selling, puts his j thing could be had in a good ready life in daily peril from cold and I made Nothing store for $20 end at starvation and the revenge of wicked j off Eeason3 for $1.'.. if on a pinch men. He helps the miners, and 8ucn a coat tan bj worn ten years, brings back to their memories the'the cost is bul 1&0 to $2 a year good lessons they learned at home. "That's the kind of man that evens up!" exclaimed one young man. "That's the real thing!" There was a chorus of assent, and the whole tone of the conversation i changed. The inconspicuous item ! that told of one minister's heroism reminded each man of the goodness of brave Christian men he had known, men who were not to be dis credited by one man's fall. Now and then the moral sense of ! ,' j ... a COmmunitV is shnrkpd hv fh wrong-doing of a man whom all have trusted. Let us remember that it is the exceptional character of the event that g'ves ir its wide circula tion. The men who "even up" are always there, and in far greater number than those who betray the confidence of their fellow men. Youth's Companion. La Follette's Weekly Magazine and the Tidings one year for $2.50. Out Special Offe? the Ashland Tidings and LaFoIIette's Weekly Magazine BOTH A FULL YEAH FOIt OXLY You can read every week what Senator Robert M La Follette the fearless champion of the people's rights the leader 7f h l gressive Republicans, thinks and says for Pr" ONLY 50 CENTS MORE THAN THE PRICE OF THE TIDINGS ALONE A Btirring and momentous campaign Is openine Ynn to be posted. You will want the record o 'you con'irreMnian n he represent YOU? You will want information iho f ' h- H KaMi cles eaTweek668 f Cr"P emrial8 and 'foresting special artl- LaFoIIette's One Year$1.00 Our Offer: TheTj $2.50 To new or old subscribers who pay in advance. Address all order LIBERAL POLICIES Office 41 E. Msin t Cheap Clothing. Astorian: j the men's re The labor trouble la readv-made earment trarf I puts a sharp interrogation point uj , can permit very long. Perhaps the best thing the poor man can do in thfs pathetically tight squeeze is to reflect on the expensive ness of cheap clothing. It is a common experience, amour men who buy clothes of good tailors, to be surprised at the length of time really good clothes will wear. Any tailor living in a wintry climate will tell you of cases where an overcoat use-j souie inree to lour months a j ear wil1 wear te years. Probably Tor the garment. It is probable that most working men would pay about $10 for an in ferior garment, and could hardly make it go more than three years, costing them over $3 per year. If the poor man tan once get sucn ; a start that he can buy a really good ,coat, waiting perhaps for some off j season sale in order to get the very j best at a moderate price, he will not j merely save money in the long run. 1 Ee W1U also do his ')art toward solving the sorrowful nrnhlom -f th sweatshops. For it is always the low cost garment that pays the low wage. I Trr TirHno-o IV, in n. quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. Chronic Constipation Cured. "Five years aco I hnH tho j case of chronic constipation I ever snew oi, ana Chamberlain's Tablet cured me," writes S. F. Fish, Brook lyn. Mich. For sale by Poley's Drue Store. to the Tidings. I V
