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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT Classified Advertisements (Continued from Page Three.) HX LATE TO CLASSIFY. WILL TRADE buggy, with shafts and pole, and harness, for wood. Call at 108 Nursery St. l-it A-l MOUNTAIN RANCH to lease, also two excellent horses for sale. Address Miss Ursel Wasson. 70-2t WANTED Three rooms for light housekeeping, by young man and mother. Applv at 4 Beach Ave. 90-2t FOR SALE Cedar posts, also La crosse double disc plow, cheap for f-ash. or wil Itrade. Address Mark True. 70-3t EXCHANGE Have some clients that want to exchange California prop erty for Ashland property. Cecil A. Townsend, real estate, Aiken block, East Main St., Ashland, Ore, 70-2t LOST TTeTwTeTTTIryit.reet and S. P. depot, black and yellow plush lap robe. Horse head on yellow side. Return to J. M. Easterling. 400 Beech St. for reward. 70-2t FOR SALE CHEAP $35 range with coil and reservoir, $15; $30 tent, pood as new. $12; Planet, Jr., seeder and cultivator, $5; numer ous other articles of household goods and garden implements. Call at 124 Nob Hill St. 70-lmo FOR SALE Incubators, 200-egg ca pacity, $15; thoroughbred White Leghorn eggs for hatching, $5 per 100, or day-old chicks $14 per 100; also a few thoroughbred White Leghorn cockerels, $2 each. O. O. Helnian, Helman Baths, Ash land, Ore. 70"li! WHITE WYANDOTTES, eggs and stock, from high-scoring prize win ners, winners of first prize pen, first cock, first and second pullet and second hen at Grants Pass Poultry Show, aibo eggs and stock from Bronze turkeys. J. II. Ful ler, Talent, Ore. 70-lmo. ASHLAND WINS AGAIN High School Basketball Team Takes Third Straight From Klam ath Kalis. Ashland high school demonstrated her superiority oer the Klamath Fails high school Saturday night by the decisive score of 31 to 10. This makes the third consecutive victory for Ashland, the two games at Klam ath Falls on Thursday and Friday nights resulting in scores of 18-6 and 9-8. The last pame, in Ashland, wag fast and furious, although the locals did not find their stride until the second half. The score stood 12-6 at the end of the first half, but at the beginning of the second period Ashcraft, Mills and Poor all threw baskets in rapid succession, carry ing the victors off their feet. The latter rallied at times, however, and put up a stiff game. Their best point-winner was Carter, with three baskets to his credit. For Ashland Mills led with six baskets, while Poor followed closely with five. Ash craft and Plymate guarded their men well, keeping their basket well pro tected. Phillips was out of the game on account of illness. Next Saturday night the city team and the high school play for the championship of Ashland. Then on Thursday and Friday, February B and 7, Lincoln high school of Port land will play two games here, while on February 14 Roseburg will play a return game. After the game Saturday night the Klamath boys were feted at a ban quet prepared by the high school girls, at which the basketball girls, in addition to tbe boys of the two teams and teh coaches, were present. This was a partial return of the hos pitality which the boys enjoyed at Klamath Falls. The preliminary game was played by picked girls' teams, which result ed in a score of 27-4 in favor of the "whites." Hannah Abbott was the bright particular star, annexing 18 points. Eunice Grubb also showed up well, making seven points. The Ashland team lined up as fol lows: Forwards, Moody and Mills; center, Poor; guards," Ashcraft and Plymate. Klamath Falls' players were:. Forwards, Messner and Car ter; center, McClure; guards, Rail and Boiler. Sale in Bankruptcy. I will receive healed bids for a stock of merchandise located at 201 East Main street in the city of Ash land, Oregon, consisting mostly of a stock of millinery goods of the in ventory value of $2,128.86 and fix tures of the Inventory value of $271.00, up to 12 o'clock noon of Thursday, February 6, 1913. Terms cash and a cash deposit of 10 per cent must accompany each offer. Right Is reserved to reject any and all bids. Inventory may be seen at my office in Medford, Oregon, and the property may be inspected on the premises. Dated at Medford, Oregon, Janu ary 25. 1913. WILLIAM L'LRICH, 70-2t Trustee. Phone No. 39 when in need of Job .printing. Work and prices are right. Advice on ChooHiug Fruits for Or chards. "Failure In orcharding comes first from poor selection of the site, and second from unskillful orchard man agement," said Prof. C. I. Lewis of the Oregon Agricultural College In a lecture on "Principles of Fruit Grow ing" in the short course. "A large percentage of the or chards planted will never be of com mercial value, owing to the fact that their locations are unsuitable," he continued. "In choosing orchards there are many points to consider, such as climate, altitude, exposure, soils, transportation facilities, ' the eype of people, and the possibilities for expansion of the industry. "The factors of climate influenc ing fruit growing are extreme tem perature, the length of the growing season, the suddenness with which the summer or fall weather termi nates and freezing weather begins, the rainfall, the amount of heat in the fall months during the ripening period, the percentage of sunshine, and the presence of frosts. The cli matic factors, as far as the Pacific coast is concerned, are the real de termining factors. Others are to a certain degree subordinate. "The soil plays an important part, the main factors being good depth and good air drainage. Soil that is not at least four feet deep without encountering undesirable substrata, such as hard rock, coarse gravel, or cement gravel, is undesirable. Care ful examination and borings should be made of both the surface and sub-surface soils. One should satis fy himself not alone as to the sur face drainage, as seepage waters are ofteii present in our mountainous valleys. Soil fertility is an important item. Too much stress is placed on mere analysis generally. It shows us whether or not the soil is deficient in certain elements, or whether they are present, but unfortunately it can not tell us how available the plant food is in the soil. The natural character of the soil is more impor tant than the analysis. Without good climatic conditions, success can not be hoped for. "Pears succeed on heavier soils than other fruit. Apples do well on a wide range of soils, from the clay loams to the silt and sandy loams. Prunes seem to do well on any soil that is well drained; peaches on either silty loam or well-drained clay loams. Cherries succeed on the lighter clay loams, and nuts on any soil that is deep and well drained. "The exposure of the site is an im portant point. Most of the southern exposures of western and southern Oregon are thin and unadapted to fruits. Where the ground is good, however, fruits on southern expos urea are early, if they are free from frosts. Northern exposures general ly are the less frosty, but are late in maturing. Eastern exposures are undesirable in frost regions. On tbe Pacific coast the altitude bears an important relation to fruit growing. A range of a few hundred feet often determines the adaptabil ity belt for a certain kind of fruit. About the limit of commercial fruit growing in the Pacific northwest is 3,000 feet elevation. "The more railroads in a fruit growing community the better. Eventually the fruit crop o fthe Pa cific coast will be extremely large, and will need good transportation fa cilities. "The type of people among whom a grower settles is important to his success. Fortunately most of the people of the Pacific coast are very progressive and will adopt new meth ods readily. In some regions of the country, however, people are very conservative, so that it is hard to enforce good hortu ultural laws. "The possibilities of the expansion of the business are important. Fruit buyers like to come where they can get trainloads, rather than seek out small, isolated sections. " "Foolish comparisons are often made between the irrigated and non- irrigated sections. Good fruit can be grown on either .and lots of money made, provided natural conditions are right. On the contrary, fortunes can be lost in either if the condi tions are unfavorable." Remarkable Results Prom Scientific Beet Breeding. When sugar was first made from beets it took about 20 tons of beets to produce a ton of sugar; now it requires but six tons, due to scien tific breeding of the beets. Curing Meat With Gas. The smoking, of hams, frankfurt ers and the like is accomplished by one meat concern in Baltimore, Md., In a msokehouse heated by gas, which is said to be a new departure in the curing of meats. Patent Can 0ener. Two Pennsylvanians have patented a can opener in which the cutting blade slides on the handle bar, mak ing as neat a job with a rectangular can as with a round one. ASHLAND THE FACE AT THE WINDOW A Story For Hal loween By JOEL WASHBURNE Tom Biggs, tramp, was the son of respectable parents. As a boy he would neither study nor work. He was not only lazy but of a roving dis position. When be came to manhood and bis father told him to go and earn a living under pretense of seeing the world he became a tramp. One nigbt Tom stopped at a house and asked for food. It was given him and he went away, but not finding any place to sleep except under the open heavens, and tbe night being chilly, he returned to the place at which be had got his supper, but Instead of askiug for a lodging within he went into the carriage house and pulling some cush ions out of tbe vehicle he found there be spread them on tbe floor and went to sleep. Tom slept till after midnight when he awoke chilled through. Never had the fact that tramping did not pay taken possession of him so forcibly. He longed for a good bed, or. better still, for a crackling fire before which be might sit In an easy chair, toast his shins and drop off to sleep again thoroughly warmed. Through a win dow of tbe carriage house he saw a bright coal fire blazing In one of the lower rooms of the house. A desire took possession of blm to go iuto that room and enjoy that fire. Going out he went to n window of tbe room in which it was burning, and standing on tiptoe looked in. There was nobody in the room, and he was tempted to try to effect an entrance and pas9 a short time before that cheerful blaze. Putting his hand to the window sash he discovered that it had been left un locked. He raised it and climbing In by the window stepped down on to the floor and shut the sash after him. An easy chair stood near and be rolled it to the fire cautiously so as not to make a noise. Then he sat down and reveled in the warmth. But be did not dare go to sleep, for if found there in the morning doubtless he would be handed over to the police. So be sat thinking how much more comfortable It was after all to have a roof over one's head than to be a tramp. An illustrated calendar stood on the mantel before him. and in one of the spaces he noticed tbe word Halloween Then he remembered that he was sit ting there on the 'anniversary that young girls look for a sight of the men they are to marry. Marry. What had he to do with that word? ne was a rolling stone gnth'er ing no moss. What girl would think of marrying him. at least what girl in the circle in which he had been brought op? The thought was far from pleas ant. Finding himself getting drowsy, he arose from his chair, and it occurred to him to make an exploration. The only thing of any value be carried was an electric lamp that he had bought fmni a small boy for a dime. He found it very serviceable in nosing about where be bad no business, bunting for some soft place on which to sleep. Cautious ly opening a door, he saw by the fire light that It led Into a hall. Closing the door behind him. he pressed the button on his lamp and, treading lightly, went about on the lower floor, where he did not expect to find any one, for he thought the occupants of tbe bouse were all in bed on the upper floor. After having explored this floor he was tempted to mount the stairs. This he did stealthily In the dark, feeling his way. When he reached the landing he listened to hear persons breathing or perhaps snoring. Everything was still as a churchyard at midnight. Pressing the button of his lamp, he saw that a bedroom into which he was looking was empty. Passing along tbe hall, he listened at every door and, finding them all opened, risked a flash of his lamp and found them empty. Tom was thunderstruck. Either the house in which he had heard merry making a few hours ago was deserted or the occupants were asleep on the third floor. He went up there, but found no one. nis sensations were pe culiar. A tramp, he was in possession of a house a house that had been de serted within a brief space of time. For the time being he possessed a roof over his head. He could sleep in any of Its beds; he could eat up every thing in its larder. For the first time In his life he felt the pleasure of pos session. True, by returning dny. if not before, he would be deprived of his domicile, but for the present he- was master of the premises. He went down stairs, hunted up something to, eat found a bottle of ale and enjoyed a good supper.' From a box of cigars on a sideboard he took one. and. seating himself In the easy chair before the fire, he enjoyed the fragrance of the weed. On the wall before him hung the portrait of a young girl. She looked at him roguishly as If she sympathized with him in his Inheritance and thought it all a good Joke. He fell to dreaming that this was his permanent home and the girl his bride. Then a resolution came to him. "By Jove, I'll do It!" he exclaimed, starting up. with a spasm of energy entirely new to him. Going to a desk on which were writing materials, he wrote a note stating the facts about his temporary occupancy of the house ending with tbe words, "Some day I'm TIDIVGS going to buy this bouse and marry tbe girl whose portrait hangs on the wall In this room." Tom then wrote ont an I O U for a dollar to cover the coot of his enter tainment payable "when I have made the money to pay it." Then, not dar ing to go asleep again lest he should be caught by some one belonging there, he went out Into the night and finished It In a neighboring wood. It was Halloween The first chill of approaching winter had come, and in a certain room of a certain house a cheerful coal tire was blazing in the grate. A girl sat before it dreaming of the Halloweens she had passed and tbe childlike faith she had had that she might be afforded In some way a glimpse of the man she would marry. She was now twenty and con sidered herself altogether too old for such superstitions. Indeed, they had given place to something more real, something that had remained with her ever Rince its occurrence. It happened at the time of her aunt's death. Late at night a telegram had come announcing that she could not live till morning. Mabel Hinckley and her mother bad thrown a few things Into a suit case, locked the doors and started on foot to the station, but a short distance from the bouse, to catch the 11 o'clock train. After a week's absence they bad returned and found a bit of paper on tbe mantel over tbe fireplace on which had been written', "Some day I'm going to buy this house and marry the girl whose portrait hangs on the wall in this room." A due bill for a dollar to pay for what had been appropriated accompanied the paper. Mabel's mother bad been Impressed only with the hazard of going away from her home and leaving It to take care of Itself. The occasion of their departure and the hurry involved had caused them to leave a window un locked, and they had not even taken time to put out the fire burning In the grate. It was a wonder, she Raid, the house had not been ransacked. With Mabel It was different. A girl must be devoid not only of romance. ' but an interest In her personal appear ance, who would not be moved by such a note as sbe had found on her re turn. It was now three years since It had been received, and she had not ceased to wonder if the writer would keep his word. Evidently he had not thus far kept It as to buying the house, for having received an offer for more than It was worth an offer they could not afford to decline they had sold It and to a man with a wife and a family of children. The property had passed out of their hands, but they were to occupy It till the following spring. As for the man who had made himself at home ln.lt, he had not yet come a-wooing. Indeed, not a word had ever been heard from him. Mabel ninckley sat before the fire place on Halloween nigbt wondering what had become of the person who had been charmed with her picture. It hung where It had hung when he entered the bouse, and as she looked at it she mused: "When that picture was taken I was barely sixteen. I am now twenty and much changed. If he comes and proves to be a gentleman and attrac tive and all that, when be sees me be will probably not be so much pleased with, me as with my likeness taken four years ago. Twenty Is quite old for a girl. Helgho! If he's coming I wish he would come." The clock on the mantel struck 11. and. arising, she started to gq upstairs to bed. A mirror bung on the wall, and sbe paused to have a look at her face to see If she was really very much changed. The mirror faced the fireplace and a window beside it Sud denly she saw reflected In the mirror the face of a man at the window. If it bud not been Halloween and if the face at the window had been repulsive Miss Mabel Hinckley would have screamed. As it was slie stood perfectly still. The eyes of the. stran ger were darting here and' there, final ly resting on the face In the glass, which was as plain to him as the face at the window was to her. When the two pairs of eyes met there was a momentary recoil on the part of the man; then a half dubious, half implor ing smile enme over his face. It was answered by tbe lips reflected In the mirror, which gave it more confidence. And why not? Surely It was Hal loween, and what girl on that even ing on seeing a face reflected in a mirror would doubt that she was look ing upon her future husband? There was more In the face In the window than this. Something told the girl that she was looking upon the man who had written her that be would some day come to marry her. Furthermore, she saw a frank, ingenu oas face, and the smile it wore was very winning. The girl turned, advanced to the window, threw up the sash and ex tended a band to admit the visitor. When be stood in tbe room before her be began: "I am"- She lowered her eyes to the floor. "I am the man who three years ago. fancying that the world was Intended to be seen rather than for a workshop, made a tramp of myself. I came in here one night, saw your picture, and It made a great change In me. I prom ised myself that I would go to work and make the money to buy this house. That I have done through another per. son. I promised myself that 1 would come and marry you. I cannot do so without your consent" ne was n stranger to her. But she had been waiting for him for three years. It was nalloween. and he stood looking down upon her with that pleas ant smile. She said nothing, but be knew what sbe meant n 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 h 1 1 1 1 MONEY " Nickels and the Loudest This fact was demonstrated during the holiday season at the 5c, 10c, 15c and 25c Store. While others complained, our business was good. To show our appreciation for your liberal patronage we will inaugurate a two weeks' customers' benefit sale, beginning Satur day, January 25, and closing Saturday, February g. Nearly everything in the store will have a special price, contract goods excepted. 25c articles will go at igc and 20c 15c articles will go at i0c and 12c 10c article's will go at ..7C 5c articles will go at ...3c Following Is a partial list of special-priced goods in this sale: JEWELRY PILLOW TOPS PILLOW CORDS PICTURES TOYS HANDKERCHIEFS LACKS EMBROIDERIES NECKWEAR NOTIONS Extra Special! FANCY DKtXHtATED DISHES. 25c Fancy Plates and Bowls lrc 15c and 20c Fancy Plates and Bowls ioc 15c Fancy Cups and Saucers 1(,c 15c Blue Jap. Cups and Saucers 7iC Toilet ArUcies Perfumes in bulk, good quality, ic per. ounce. Face Creams Face Powders Youtheline. 1 25 T Ruby Lip Pomade Tooth Powder ) Talcum Powder j lO Two Weeks-January 25th to February 8 i The benefit is yoors. MAY WE HAVE KOHHCEN'S il 5c, 10c, 15c and 25c Store i "He who gives SUPERVISION USELESS. Beagle Resilient Says Not Worth 10 Cents Head. In a communication to the Mail Tribune D. W. Sturess says of school supervision: "Of course it is out of the ques tion for all people to look at any question the same, but this is cer tainly one in which the taxpayers should sit up and take notice, and consider as to whether the benefit (?) is worth anything like the mon ey expended.' "For my part it is immaterial whether it costs $1.75 or J3.85 per capita to maintain the extra school supervisors. I don't consider it worth 10 cents per capita to instruct my children to scald their drinking cups in lye water for fear of swal lowing a germ, and to place a slip of paper with their name on it, on their hat hook to insure hanging their hat always on the same hook, I presume for the same reason. "Or to wrangle with the school board to try and induce them to buy a set of pictures from him to hang in the school house. "The supervisor's diary published was a fair sample of the work being done up this way. "The argument that the supervis ors will so improve the rural school as to stop the drift of country chil dren to town schools is too lame to stand alone. This trouble lies in the fact that in most rural schools they can only go to the eighth grade, con sequently have to to to town or else where to take up higher studies, and an extra supervisor for each district would not help this condition. "Until we get more high schools in the rural districts we can't expect anything else but to send the chil Honday, January 27, 191.1. 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 n i n u , , i , . , , M , f TALKS! : I Dimes Talk HARDWARE TINWARE GRAMTKWARK GLASSWARE QUEENS WARE f Hair Tonic J Toilet Water I Dentifrice Cox's Corn Salve Cents rriUTO $ Nail Pc . . J Foot Pi olLsh 'owder The pleasure is oars. THE PLEASURE? most gets most." dren to where they are. i D. W. STURESS." "Beagler Ore." Deiendent Widows Bill Passes House. ' Salem, Ore., Jan. 25. Advocates of the dependent widows' pension bill are today elated over the pass age of that measure by the Oregon house of representatives by a unani mous vote. Applause swept the chamber when tho result was an nounced. The bill provides that every wom an who has one or more children under the age of lfi years and whose husband is either dead or the inmate of some Oregon institution shall re ceive J10 a month for the first cjjild and $7150 monthly for each addi tional child. Old papers for sale at the Tidings Fire Alarm System. We print below the city fire alarm signals. Readers of the Tidings are urged to cut out this slip and paste it in the telephone directory or in some other conspicuous place. A re print of the signals will appear from time to time in this paper: $&8$3foS$8$8$$3$ S CITY FIRE ALARM; SYSTEM. Fire Chief, phone 74. Chief of Police, phone 160. Residence, phone 410-J. 2-0 Bolls Cor. Main and Wimer streets. 2- 8 Rolls City Hall. 3- 5 Hells. Cor. Granite and Nutley streets. 4- 0 Bolls Cor. Main and Gresham streets. 5- 3 Hells Cor. Iowa and Fairview streets. O-l Bells Cor. Fourth and A streets. 7-3 Bells Cor. Sixth and C streets.