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FACE TWO
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WA It.
"How long, oh Lord, how long"
must be regaled with stories of
butchery and blood?
When, perchance, there is no real
war, the sensational press flaunts in
our faces the "yellow peril," or the
danger of England's position in the
Panama canal controversy. That
gaunt, red-haired Sherman before
Vicksburg wrote "War is hell." He
knew. Any man who has ever car
ried a musket or lieard the thunder
of the guns feels the thrill of the
soldier, but he knows, too, it is the
primeval man's lust to destroy. The
bugle call and the long roll are only
the songs of the sirene, the cam
pire's charm. Wa" takes the best we
have. The weakling cannot go, the
selfish and cowardly will not.
Just now a few miserable sand
dunes of the Sahara are the prize
for which Italy and Turkey are
striving to determine which is the
most adept in the pastime of mur
der. The blue-eyed Saxon claims the
most advanced civilization and, at
the same time, the greatest prowess
in shedding the blood of his fellow
man. A wave of the hand of these
so-called civilized nations would stop
the useless carnage.
L'Envoi
"How long, oh Lord, how long?"
THE DRUMMER AXI) HIS TIPS.
G. A. Lorenson. a Chicago sales
man, retiring from business the past
week, made public his expense ac
counts, showing $18,000 paid in tips
in 20 years. His average was $75
per month. If you don't pay tips,
said Mr. Lorenson, you are black
listed. As salesmen's expenses are paid
by the house directly or indirectly,
the cost of all the unwilling service
one meets on the road is added to
the price of the goods.
The drummer U: a natural prey.
The tourist may give up more liber
ally, but he is occasional and inter
mittent. Moreover, having a certain
amount of free time to himself, he is
often inclined to give battle against
the Hessians, and either tip or not at
all or at a low rate.
The drummer, on the other hand,
carries impedimenta. As the soul of
an army lies in its commissary wag
ons, so the soul of the drummer is
in his trunks. Many a time he would
like to seize a baggage truck and
trundle the plaguey things himself.
But he can't, as there is another
day coming, and the same battle
must be fought over again on the
tipster's own dunghill. You can't
war against all the transportation
underworld, if you must travel over
and over again the same road.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons
why only a certain type of man
makes success as a drummer. Just
as he must be able to sleep doubled
! up on a wooden bench at a junction
station, he must be able to be con
tinuously milked and keep on smil
ing. And the man with too keen a
sense of justice couldn't do it. The
THE SILENCE OF WOODROW.
Beyond any doubting or question
ing, the president-elect is a bimet
allism For is it not written that
"Silence is golden, speech is silver"?
And has it not been made perfectly
clear that, in the very selfsame pio
raent that Mr. Wilson makes speech
upoa topics divers and sundry, he
maintains silence deep as death upon
such topics as the appointments of
cabinet officers?
And beyond any doubting or ques
tioning, bimetallism of this particu
lar form isn't the least bit popular
with the democratic captains,
colonels and generals. They fiankly
prefer, at least for the moment, sil
ver speech to golden silence. They
want to know the length, breadth,
thickness, substance, weight, aspect,
character, views and previous condi
tion of freedom or servitude of the
Wilson cabinet-to-be. They want to
know whether it is to be progressive
or reactionary, or x subtle balancing
of the two. They want to know if
there is anything in the rumors, or
the suspicions, that a black-hearted
republican has been invited to sit in
the executive counsel. They want
to know whether the selections are
being made according to merits or
in keeping w'th the time-honored
policy of paying rewards. In short,
the officers of the party want to
know the complexion of the Wilson
cabinet and they want to know in a
hurry.
The things that "float upon the
wings of silence" are disturbing to
the spirit of partisan patriotism.
Some of them are enough to sicken
the soul. Unless the president-elect
speaks within a few hours we fear
1 The Home Circle
energy needed for battling with the that he'll have the death of many an
doubts of his customers would be , impatient and exasperated comrade
frittered away and diverted. ' upon his conscience.
From the viewpoint of the em-J .
ploye, he can do no differently. He j TALKS OX ADVERTISING TO TID-
is crowaea uetween me low wage on
the one hand and the open palm on
the other. And stiil the public keeps
on tipping.
IXGS READERS.
(By Kalph Kaye.)
BOOST IT.
SOME QUEER LAW.
' Real estate is a commodity. Like
! other commodities, it has a known
lvalue and use. Therefore it shoulJ
Of those who are finding flaws in i appeal to nearly all classes. Again,
the parcel post system, it might be like some commodities, certain real
asked if they know of any institu
tion, of any enterprise, of any under
taking great or small, which started
off with every cog and cam and I just this distinction that you should
estate appeals to certain classes of
people. Price, location, buildings,
restrictions, etc., cause this. It is
A Kansas City Judge has cited the
owner of the Kansas City Star for
contempt because the paper saw fit
to criticise a decision in a divorce
case. According to the news story,
the judge refused to dismiss an ac
tion brought by a wife for divorce
until the husband had paid her three
attorneys $00 each, although it was
admitted that tho woman had no
grounds for divorce. In another
case that same judge decided that
the husband must pay his wife's at
torney fees before she could collect
any alimony. The decision of the
court may be good law, but it is
poor logic. To one outside the pale
of this court it looks as if the judge
might be engaged in a better busi
ness than keeping married people
apatt when they want to patch up
their differences and live- together
again. It looks hardly fair to force
a husband to pay his wife's attor
neys for bringing suit for divorce
against him when he was in no man
ner to blame for the separation. To
say that a lawyer is entitled to a fee
before a wife and mother secures
alimony for the support of herself
and family is not in accordance with
the theory of Blackstone.
wheel and piston working smoothly?
If so, they are in possession of
knowledge they should lose no time
In disseminating. There are too few
base your real estate advertising on.
This necessitates a thorough study of
the land to be sold; i. e., take, for
instance, its location. Is it too far
perfect things in this world of men I out for comfortable daily city trips?
and it is important that they be What appeal does the outlook nake?
made known to the end that their What class is the trend of building
UNCLE SAM, GAMEKEEPER.
Without one dissenting vote the
United States senate has passed a
bill providing for the protection of
migratory game and insect-eating
birds. The bill places all wild geese,
wild swans, brant, wild duck, snipe,
plover, woodcock, rail, doves and
other birds which, in their northern
and southern migrations, pass be
yond the. borders of any one state
under government charge.
State laws have practically failed
to prevent the slaughter of harmless
birds. No one state in the union has
been able to enforce its game laws
rigidly. Each year the butchery
keeps up and each year millions of
dollars are lost to " agriculture
through the devastations of insects
which the birds, had they but been
protected, would have destroyed.
This lamentable failure calls for fed
eral intervention. Tho senate real
ized it thoroughly.
The sooner the government makes
a case against a few pot-hunters and
against those creatures who shoot
. birds out of the mere vicious love of
killing things, the tooner that awful
waste of growing grain will be
stopped.
example stimulate the striving for;
the ideal.
There have been few instances in j
whi 'h persons in the public service i
have tried so hard to put an institu
tion upon its feet as the postal em
ployes have tried with the parcel
post. They might have left the
whole thing for time and chance to
work out, as we have seen the mili
tary authorities deal with our last
two wars. But they didn't. They
studied the parcel post laws thor
oughly. They framed their system
in keeping with the law. They or
ganized the postal service to care
for it, to prepaare or it, to look for
ward eagerly to the making as suc
cessful a business of it as they knew
how. Instead of fault-finding, they
should receive praise. Instead of
the picking of flaws, the pointing
out of trivial shortcomings, sneering
and condemning, there should bo
hearty congratulations.
Unthinkingly you may have let
yourself be classed in this parcel
post affair with those who habitual
ly find fault with everything. Don't
do it. The cane calls for boosting,
not for nagging.
progress. You should follow this
line of thought in its advantages,
price and terms, building restric
tions and right down the line, pick
ing out the possibilities and recon
Btructing them along known human
lines.
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
sug8Knssns:s:;;i:;:8;:i;;:s
Lent.
The observance of Lent is not tak
en very seriously today by any great
number of people. This is not an
age of self-denial. The entire phi
losophy of mortifying the flesh is
looked upon as monkish and medie
val. With modern men, business gives
little time for meditation. If they
did sit down to think about their
sins, their minds would soon wan
der, off into the price of goods or
the position of the stock market.
The thoughtful observance of Lent
seems to be largely confined to the
women, though those that need it
most are the least apt to slacken the
pace and try to find toward what
quarter of the spiritual horizon they
are drifting.
The old-time Lent was no doubt
too introspective. It is much less
valuable to sit down and think about
your sins than to get out and try to
bring a little sunshine into other peo
ple's lives.
The fact that comparatively few
people give- much attention to the
Lenten custom is one of the signs of
the over-speeding of the age. Life
was meant to have its room for
thought as well as for action. De
nying yourself this or that article of
food. or drink may or may not be
useful according to your bringing up
and temperament.
The quiet hour when a man drops
the dust and scramble of the race to
open his heart to the voice of the
spirit is never without cleansing and
sanative effect. How different the
world looks in the calm of the silent
hour, where life's competitions seem
distant, than it does when you get
out with your ledgers and your sales
accounts and your machinery and fill
the mind with the lust of getting and
having. As the poet said:
"The world is too much with us,
late and soon.
Getting and spending, we lay waste
our powers."
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: ' ASHLAND, OREGON.
a painter of merchant. But is is a
suggestion that there will be much
improvement made in some of the
business fronts in this city by the
use of a little paint.
The outlay would be slight. One
coat would likely suffice and a day
would be enough to do the work.
Along some of the principal streets
there are several buildings needing
treatment of this sort some of
them fine, substantial structures, so
it is a pity to detract from their
natural beauty when such a small
outlay would make them attractive.
Besides, it is economy for the own
ers. And then nothing adds more to
the general aspect of the store or
office than a nice clean bright front.
The stranger notes this sooner than
anything else. It impresses him and
he goes away to tell that our city is
one of the pretty places of southern
Oregon if he sees the paint.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
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COMMOX-SEXSK AMERICAN
WOMEN.
New York's 26,000 manufactories
yearly turn out pioduct valued at
$2,000,000,000.
Fortunately none of our home suf
fragettes feel tha: they can demon
strate their fitness to vote by going
down to the public buildings or bus
iness district and heaving a rock
through some cost'y square of plate
glass.
If Mrs. John Bull had any sense
of humor she would perceive that
side of it. One of the most essential
qualifications for the voting act Is
a respect for law and a willingness
to abide by it. When a suffragette
breaks a window she says in es
sence, "I am not fit for the thing I
want."
In spite of the close ties of blood,
kindred and education between Eng
land and the United States, no hint
of that spirit has been found on this
side of the water.
From Josh Billings, and from long
before him, down to George Ade, a
stream of genial satire has run
through the life of the American
people. Who can tell how much
hysteria has been removed from our
society and politics by the national
sense of humor?
lublic Safe on S. P. Trains.
"Not a single passenger on
Southern Pacific has lost his
through collision or derailment for
more than four years," said W. R.
Scoit, general manager of the South
ern Pacific, in commenting on the
efforts of the railroads to protect
their passengers from accidents.
"Our last fatalities were , in the
collision at Webster and First
streets, Oakland, in 1908, when a
main line train crashed into a sub
urban train. Since then the only
perrons killed or injured by our
trains have been trespassers.
The Southern Pacific has thrown
every possible safeguard around its
passengers. The report of the Inter
state Commerce Commission last year
showed that the Southern Pacific
system had a greater automatic block
signal mileage than any other rail
road in the United States.
"Here are some interesting sta
tistics which shoulJ convince almost
anyone that a passenger on a South
ern Pacific train is safer than a man
walking along the street: During
the last four years 157,000,000 pas
sengers were safely carried to their
destinations on the Southern Pacific
lines, traveling an average distance
of 42 miles, or a total of 6,594,000,
000 miles, or 265.000 times around
the world."
About $12,000,000 worth of or
anges are imported by England.
Oregon Man in Illinois.
The Harvard (111.) Independent of
recent date contains the following:
"Dr. V. It. Goddard of Chicago has
purchased the practice of Dr. F. C.
Hill, the osteopath. The latter sold
out on account of ill health and has
gone to Chicago to be treated. Dr.
Goddard is a graduate of Chicago
College of Osteopathy and has lfad
several years of practice in Chicago.
Dr. Goddard, wife and little son have
moved into the John Carroll house,
vacated by Dr. Hil! and his mother."
Dr. Goddard is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. H. Goddard of Talent, and
was a student in the Southern Ore
gon Normal in Ashland a few years
! ago.
Name the Farms.
The movement agitated for some
time by the leading farm journals
of the country and more recently
taken up by some of the women of
Oregon for the naming of farm
homes is a furtho" step in agricul
tural progress. Instead of being de
scribed as a tract of land in section
No. blank, township No. blank, a
farm ought to have a definite title,
some significant and appropriate
name that would iix its identity in
the mind of friends and strangers.
If John Smith, instead of having
people refer to hin farm as "John
Smith's place," hari an entrance gate,
above which, clearly legible, was
painted the farm name, say, for in
stance, $ Q Q 't 'i
CLOVERNOOK FARM
$ John Smith, Owner
$$ S S 'i 4
the name would be a valuable asset
to John Smith and to future owners
of the place as well as an incentive
to the pride of the owner in his
place and its products.
If, in addition, John Smith had a
stencil with the name of his farm
to stamp every box, every bag, every
bushel of farm products, every doz
en of eggs that went from the farm
to the wholesale or retail purchaser;
if every pound of golden butter was
stamped with a mould printed with
the name, customers would soon
identify John Smith and his farm
with "Clovernook" products and.
providing the standard or quality
was maintained, John Smith would
have little trouble m finding a mar
ket. More than that, if John Smith ever
wanted to sell "Clovernook" and had
made the name mean what a farm
name should mean, it would add
value to the place that would mean
an extra price in the sale. John
Smith would have a farm name that
stood as a synonym for quality and
the name would have a marketable
value which John Smith could turn
into cash just as one can sell the
goodwill of a reputable firm for ex
tra cash value.
Every ranch ' in Oregon should
have a name, and provision should
be made by which it would be re
quired that the name be registered
with the recorder of deeds and made
a permanent and tangible asset. It
would increase the owner's pride in
his place. It would help make the
identity of the farm clear in the
public mind, and U would bring the
farmer and the buyer of farm prod
ucts into closer touch. We name
everything else; why not dignify the
ranch by according it a name all its
own, instead of numbered designa
tion in such a section, on such and
such a rural route?
All matter for the Tidings should
be directed to the aKr, rather than
to any person connected therewith.
When directed to a person it is apt
to Ie sent to the boine address, thus
delaying its insertion.
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Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new
subscribers. Regular price of Sunset
Magazine is $1.50 per year.
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The value of fire protection de
pends largely upon the readiness of
the fireman to respond to any call
and his willingness to face any dan
ger The value of fire insurance de
pends largely upon the readinesi of
the company in which you are, in
sured to respond immediately to your
loss and its ability to meet any ions
which may come to it.
That's the kind we have always
ready for work. They pay promptly
every honest loss, big or little. Let
us write your insurance and we'l
give you the kind that WORKS ALL
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Proper display is absolutely essential In
making sales. Even a good salesman can
not get the results in a dark corner that he
can in a well lighted department. People
want to see the goods and see them in the
light. Don't use an illuminant that gives
wrong color values if you want to .hold
your trade. Custom goes to the store
that gains confidence by using the right
Ight electric light. ,
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