r AGE SIX
ASHLAND TIDINGS
Monday, December 22, 101S
Will there fee
A Victor Viefrola
or an
Edison Plioiiograpli
lis your home
is Clirislmas?
It is lite ideal gift as well as the ideal
musical instrument. Let us demonstrate
free of charge a Victor Victrola or Horn
less Edison machine in your own home.
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DEALERS I
The world's production of silk this
year has been estimated at more
than 54,200,000 pounds, a decrease
cf more than 1,500,000 pounds from
last year.
No man succeeds uulosa he takes
chances; neither does he fail.
If one cannot make himself or her
self pleasantly interesting and some
what important to somebody else,
his or her self is surely a dismal failure.
More than a watchdog is needed
to keep the wo'u' from the door.
People's For am
Have You Heard Ahou
the Toy Corner?
The only place in town carrying a com
plete line of high grade Dolls, Electric
and Steam Engines, Clocks, Games, Chil
dren's Books, Horns, Drums, Etc.
KEWP1E DOLLS
East Side Pharmacy
Rogue River Valley Excursion
TO
Los Angeles
KND RETURN
VIA THE
December
20, 1013.
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Kcturn limit
March 14, 1014.
"THE EXPOSITION LIXE 1015"
ROUND TRIP FARES
Grants Pas $32.80
Rogue River 32.50
Gold Hill 32.16
Central Point 31.70
Medford $31.55
Phoenix 31.35
Talent 31.20
Ashland 31.00
SPECIAL TRAIN SCHEDULE
Lv. Grants Pass 2.40 p.m.
Lt. Rogue River. . . . 2.59 p.m.
Lv. Gold Hill 3.15 p.m.
Lv. Central Point... 3.42 p.m.
Lv. Medford ... 4.00 p.m.
Lv. Phoenix ....... 4.14 p.m.
Lv. Talent 4.25 p.m.
Lv. Ashland 6.10 p.m.
San Francisco's New Year Celebration
Tickets will be sold December 29, will be good for return until
March 31, 1914. and permit stop-overs on going or return trips.
Full particulars, with Interesting and descriptive literature on
California's famous outing resorts, from any S. P. Agent.
JOHN M. SCOTT
Gcueral Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon.
The Springs.
I was much interested in reading
the article by Mrs. Sexsmith in last
week's Tidings, and was forcibly re
minded of my own experience and
personal observation at one of the
most famous health resorts in the
United States, that of Eureka Springs,
Arkansas. I was there in 1881, the
third summer after the first little
wooden shacks were built in that
wild gorge among the Ozark moun
tains. "
After a tedious stage ride of twen
ty miles over the roughest of moun
tain roads, with the heat and dust
almost stifling, I reached what at
that time was considered the Mecca
of all good pilgrims, for the fame of
its healing waters was spreading like
wild-fire over the land. People were
flocking in from every state In the
Union, and buildings were going up
like magic in every direction. The
strets were hewn or blasted out of
the sides of the mountains and were
so narrow, crooked and uneven that
every one walked with a cane in the
middle of the street. There was so
little room in the narrow streets for
vehicles of any kind that the milk
man delivered his goods at the door
from two buckets slung over a mule's
back. The buildings going up varied
all the way from small wooden shacks
on stilts to four-story brick blocks,
and the mountains were covered with
tents and people. And yet with all
die drawbacks at the' time I was
there it was estimated there were
25,000 people there, and when we
consider that all, of them must have
come in as I did, by stage, as at that
time the railroad had not arrived, it
gives us an object lesson of what
folks will do to gain health. I often
hear that during all the 32 years
since that time the volume of float
ing population during the season has
never grown less, but will even now
average 30,000.
I used to sit for hours every day
on the wooden seats by the "Eureka"
or "Basin" spring, as it was called,
and watch the endless line of people,
each' filling their tincup, then give
way to the next, each drinking their
regulation pint of the life-giving wa
ters; for this and the Harding spring
were just pure, sweet, soft water, as
far as I could tell, and tasted like our
own city water here. There was an
iron and a sulphur spring farther
down the gulch, but as far as I could
discover no one, draSik from them,
and lt was the Basin spring that was
considered the great healer. .
In that endless tincup line we could
see the flash of diamonds, and silks
and satins trailed over the wet and
nuddy rocks, while the wearer rubbed
elbows perhaps with a wan, hollow
eyed woman whose toll-worn hands
and scant attire told plainly of the
struggle it had been to get the neces
sary funds, that she too might come
and be healed. All .sorts and condi
tions of people, bearing traces of all
sorts of disease, were there, but
money flowed " like water into the
rough little town, and the city cof
fers were bulging. I was Impressed
with one feature, and that was the
apparent absence of anything like the
rough element, for unlike a mining
town, a famous health resort does
not attract the rough element to any
great extent. There were only the
, three kinds of springs there, except
an oil spring which must be petrole
um, as no one used it, though it was
reported that its use on the hair
would make hair grow oa bald heads.
Now since the first steps have been
taken toward making our own Ash
land into a similar health resort. I
cannot help but wonder why it has
not been done long ago. Va have
many more kinds of mineral water
and better ones than Eureka Springs,
and as to location, climate, fruit and
general desirableness, there is no
comparison. They have intense heat
and dust in summer and mud and al
most impassable roads in winter, and
all among almost inaccessible moun
tains, while here we have everything
in conditions as nearly perfect as
though it came fresh from the hand
of the Creator. The truth must be
apparent to everyone who stops to
think, that Ashland is an ideal loca
tion for an all-the-year-round health
resort, so let us aM wake up and
make it one. All we have to do is
to bring the waters into the town
and invite the world to come and be
healed. The necessary hotels and
other things would follow as a
natural consequence. We need not
worry about them. Of course, there
is much hard work to be done to
bring this about, and two or three
cannot do it alone, so let us wake up
and all help to bear the necessary
burdens and in a short time we will
have people from every state in the
Union at our door, and all hard times
for Ashland will be a thing of the
past. CASSIE R. MINKLER.
Dot Spacific Highroad.
To der Tidings Editerman: Dot
peas of yours is all right about der
weary traveler cooming up py Calif,
mit der hot sands making his eyes
tired while he cooms, und dot when
he sees der apex of der Slsqueyou,
imd look over, und pehold der fir
und der pine und der scrub oak on
der one site of der mountans, fur he
only see von site to once, ain't it?
Veil, py golly, der nest what nature
make for our puteful city is a jim
dandy, shure!
Now, thens, what apout dot spiel
of Mr. Counselmans Bevers apout der
Specific Highroad acooming up py
der two-to-onst semetaris? Is dot
so! Und vhy Is it?
Vould dot weary travler vont to
rest mit his eyes vile he go py dot
twin semetaris und shut 'em? Und
maybe run der car into der tree, or
ain't it?
Gretchen, she say, der mans mit
der machine ven he see der semetaris
on der 2 sites mit der roat, vill say,
"Py golly, Hans, dis town must pe
dying fast mit 2 semataris so soon
to-onst." Und is dot so?
Maype dot Specific Highroad vould
go thru Mr. Counsilmans Bever's
land and hellup him sell her, and dot
be shust A 1 mit him; und'mappe
it don't, too, gee villikers! Any
hows, yet-a-ready, if it 1st tree or
ate rods shorter, vot of it?
Vy- not vould dot mans on der
Specific Way vant to go mit der road
up, vere he half der fine view, der
bungerlow houses dot are fine too;
und der fruit rows; und der pulle
vard dot is pully too; und der Nor
mal Schule mit der puteful grove
und der prospects of not peing a
semetory, ain't it; und der Hospitle
mit Its name ter be changed to Gate
way Hospital; und sum oder lots to
sell alreaty platted, by golly.
Veil, you yest tell me dose tings
mighty queek und I mit Gretchen
vill pack up Mr. Bevermans, as we
voted mit him for der counselmans.
'Yours, auf wiederschen,
HANS SCHMIDT.
Dec. der 20, 1913.
Mrs. Sarah Todd.
Eugene, Ore. Mrs. Satah Todd,
103 years old, and a sister-in-law of
Abraham Lincoln, walked to the
polls this month and cast her first
vote. "Grandma" Todd, as she is
familiarly known in Eugene, has tak
en a lively. Interest In the referen
dum balloting. Born in Kentucky
when that state was a wilderness, Bhe
moved to Missouri at an early age,
and came to Oregon twenty years
ago. This was, therefore, her first
opportunity to enjoy the right of suf
frage, and she was especially con
cerned over the fate of the university
measure. "Grandma" Todd will be
104 years old March 29. Her hus
band's sister was Mrs. Abraham Lin
coln. She has been making her home
during the past ten years with Rev.
J. S. McCallum, who lives at 1165
Willamette street, this city.
Although a woman may be afraid
of a little mouse she never forgives
her husband for not being a Carne
gie medal hero.
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House Coats All prices
Belli or loocgiug Robes $4.00 and $4.50
Dox of Hose, 4 pairs $1.00
Dress Gloves (also Dent's) $1.50 and up
Shirts see and op
Soils All prices
Neckwear 25c and cp
Collar Bags '....73c to $2.09
Suspenders, in fancy boxes 50c to 75c
Handkerchiefs, silk, linen and fancy 25c to SOc
Traveling Sets $2.00
Cuff Bnftons, Stickpins, &c All prices
The celebrated Conqueror Hats $3.eo
Shoes, the dependable kind, and everything for men, at
Tho PJen'& Store
MITCHELL & WMITTIS
SEE
A boy is harder to bring up than
a girl but to this rule, as to others,
there are exceptions.
"Seven generals offer surrender,"
Is a headline. Seven in the army
all generals.
USEFUL
Christmas Gifts!
What is better lor Mamma or Papa
than a serviceable piece of furniture
such as a rocking chair, a library
table, a writing desk, a new dining
or bedroom set, or tor
The Daughter
a beautiful, inexpensive music cabi
net, on all of which we have placed
such a low price as to make them
(
Real Bargains
HOUSE FURNISHERS
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357 East Main
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Telephone 75
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Your young physician very
speedily acquires a wiso look,
JN YOUR trituration for
Christmas, and in the excitement
and enthusiasm attending the selection
of flifts. don't fortfet tlinf a
fcortant detail of tke day, ond'one tnat means muck to
its enjoyment is
THE XM AS DINNER
Everything that will add" to th cheer of themenl is here. Nuts.
Candies, Fruits, etc., for the tree and between meal feasts.
Things the good cook needs at much
less than the ordinary
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