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AOH TWO ASH LAND TIDINGS Thursday, April 2, 101 f Ashland Tidings 6KMI-WKHKLY. KSTAKLIHllKD 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Kftrt It. Gier, - Kditor and Owner H. W. Talcott, ... City Editor SUIISCIUPTION RATES. One Year v v; $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Threo Mouths 50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertisinff rates on application, j low its accomplishment. Were there First-class job printing facilities, j no otner considerations to be remud- Klc.nrentS SeCnd t0 "0Ue iU the'efl at this ti,ne we would entcr the ' j race. But the true obligation of man r,ntercHi at tno Asnianu, urcgon, , Postoffite as second-class mail mat-1 ter. ; Asliliuid, Ore., Thursday, Ajnil '14! ; KKKKIMKU ok THIS PRKSS ItASIS ! nv .ii(M;iti.' ! Kewspaper writers sometimes re mark, in hasty generalization, that a free press lies at the foundation of successful civil government. Yet probably in Mexico today the editors express their opinions with much freedom. But they must be prepared to back that freedom by quick re source to the hip pocket. , Not merely free speech is needed, but the spirit of toleranec of free speech. An editor has the right to criticise those who differ from him personally in public matters. Also lis has a right to attack the charac ter of his antagonists, provided he is convinced that be tells the truth, and is prepared to submit the justice of hta statements to the courts. The killing of the editor of a fam ous Parisian newspaper is not neces sarily an indictment of the whole French people. Similar cases occur with some regularity In this country, j Fortunately they grow more rare. The larger people's minds grow. the less keenly they take personal controversy The great antagonists of the Unit-jthe ed States senate hurl their defiances at each other with Olympian thun ders. Afterward they adjourn to the restaurant, while their friendship is repaired, and differences are toler ated. It is a very easy matter to become excited over trifles. The hardest j thing is to grin and bear it, realizing no personal flings and refusing to be ruffled by criticism. The bigger the man the more of a public character he becomes and the greater interest his acts excite. Criticism by the ! press is the most wholesome influ ence In our free system of govern- ment. It acts as a bridle upon tlw j unrestrained public man and safe-1 guards the whole people. i So it ought to be in newspaper con- j troversy. Few editors put bitter per- sonal feeling Into it. It is their trade I to express points of view. They ! would be false to the people that hire i them did they fail in so doing. When a man shoots up or tries to 1 "lick" the editor, he hurts the place where he lives. It giveB the rest of the world the impression that the town belongs on the social frontier. Such an Incident turns the sympathy of the community to the assaulted man. Rut if the editor, is in the wrong, the sympathy of the commun ity can always be won against him, byt the calm statement of the truth in lawful ways. The newspaper which leads must of necessity take decided stands, fear lessly and aggressively. There is no place in modern life for the weak and vacillating newspa per or public official. TIIK LESSON SnK TEAC HES. Helen Keller, deaf and sightless, yet a mind stored with knowledge and a soul radiant with the touch of divine glory. Has she been chosen from among all the millions ot earth to teach us how little we value our blessings our wonderful and unim paired faculties and how little ef fort we make to develop them for the world's good? In the presence of Helen Keller the average man must bow his head In shame at his own indifference to his intellectual opportunities. And think what al world benefactor is Mrs. Macey, her teacher, plodding through twenty even years of such tedious work radiating light Into the deep dark ness surrounding her pupil and Into the silent chambers of her brain; and what a glorious result! Miss Keller says the world Is beautiful and life glorious. What a lexson! persist ence and patience on the part of both teacher and pupil greater than the world has before known and now they are both prepared to show, in ocular and oral truth, what tremen dous obstacles can be overcome through persistent effort. Miss Kel ler and Mrs. Macey are teaching one of the greatest lessons ever taught Will the people apply It and redouble their efforts in self-development? SOMEWHAT PERSONAL. During the past two months many friends of the Tidings editor have encouraged him to become a candi date for state senator. It would be a very great honor, as well as a re sponsibility, to represent Jackson county in the upper branch of the state legislature. It is a prospect which has strongly appealed to us. We think we can see many things that might be accomplished for this district by persistent and energetic effort upon the part of a representa tive, and we are free to admit that we cherish such honor as would fol- iH. first to his family, nwon.1 to bis city, third to his county, then to his state and nation. Not infrequently a country editor's ambition vaunteth high often higher than his ability an1 tI,e TidinSs editor. Is no exception t0 tnat ru,e- IIe would be glad if he had the ability and could be pres- ident of this glorious country; but he has not the ability and may never reach that goal. The next honor in line of the ambition of a country editor should be to represent his state in national counsels, or his county in state legislation. We aspire to eith er. However, already we have asumed a large share in the responsibility of bringing the splendid medicinal wa ters into the city of Ashland and es tablishing this beautiful city as one of the foremost health resorts in America. For some time we have been engaged in that business and must, of necessity, be so engaged un til after the primary date, for the bond matter cannot be determined and the work turned over to the city. before the middle of June. The pri- mary election is held May 15. Sen ator Von der Ilellcn would be our competitor for the honor at the pri- ," ' an mauie Ren,lenlan' but is son, campaigner Mntn II I.. A l. !.- as well. If we landed more votes I Y. 1. 1, ... . . 1 . 4 1. . - . ' 111 ' e aoine worn in i campaign. I cannot give my time I ' nnrl t h mi frit t t rt i1Iti. nf Vilr. limn muufjuv w ivyi i Ltvo a w iiiin ii 11113 without neglecting the springs work. Therefore I have decided not to be come a candidate for state senator. It is more important to Ashland j and to Jackson county that the springs enterprise be forwarded to a successful termination than that any particular man be elected as state senator. Avaunt, political bee: we will finish the tourist resort work! first. TKX-IHHXAK GOLD PIKCK VKKK. The Tidings will give a prize of ,en "oiiars in gold to the person guessing closest to the number of tourists that will visit Ashland dur- inK ,he season of 1915, if the springs nle brought in. All guesses must be ln ,)V Xlay 19,4 (30 days from now), and the prize will be awarded at tl,e ond f the season next year, Tne Person winning this prize will no aut be the one who studies tour- 1st movements at other resorts clos est, and makes the most correct com parison between the attractions of the other resorts with Ashland after the springs are in. Address all guesses to the Mineral Springs Guess Department of the Tidings. The guesses, together with a short reason why, by the guesser, will be printed In the Tidings. Sign your own name to your guese. Lust summer during the short season at Crater Lake 6,300 visitors registered, notwithstanding there were ninety miles of steep, rough roads to travel In reaching it. Had it been located on the main line of the Southern Pacific railway, and upon the hard-surfaced Pacific High way, as Ashland is, how many more thousand touriBts would have visited It last season? Ashland's mineral waters, when mobilized In our park, will prove as great attraction as Cra ter Lake can ever hope to be. Jack Frost seldom injures tourist crops. Few seasons are so unfavor able but that gardens aud fruit can be made to pay expenses It a ready home market, at good prices, can be secured. That is one of the advan tages that is held by a tourist resort. Many newspapers will soon be get ting personal Interviews with Mr. Roosevelt on bis trip, by giving Borne smart reporter copies of "The Strenu ous Life." "African Game Trails." and a guide book to South America A Cure for Sour Stomach. Mrs. Wm. M. Thompson of Ilattle Creek, Mich., writes: "I have been troubled with Indigestion, sour stom ach and bad breath. After taking two bottles of Chamberlain's Tablets I a mwell. These tablets are splen did none better." For sale by all dealers. The Tidings for artistic printing. JUDGK GRANT 11. DIM1CK Republican Candidate for Governor of Oregon. To the Legal Voters of Oregon: I have filed my declaration with the secretary of state as a candidate for the republican nomination for governor, and as the law limits the expenditure of each candidate for this office to 15 per cent of one year's salary, I am compelled, in order to abide by the spirit and letter of the law, to avoid making an expensive campaigftn, and in order to reach the voters whom 'I w ill not be able to reach in person, I herewith submit through the press for your consider ation the following: First I stand for a strict and rigid enforcement of every criminal statute. Second I favor equitable labor laws giving to the laborer just con sideration. Third I am opposed to high and extravagant legislative appropriations and the constant creation of salaried board3 and commissions which carry with them an urmy of employes to be paid by the taxpayers of the state. Fourth I stand for the constant improvement of our public school system free from extravagance, and should the supreme court of the United States declare a forfeiture of the lauds now held by the Oregon & California Railroad Company, then and in that event I favor urging congress to place those lands at the disposal of the irreducible state school fund of Oregon. Fifth I stand for the permanent improvement of public roads from the market centers into the agricul tural districts, the same to be built under skilled management, so as to get full value for the money ex pended. Sixth I . favor a constitutional amendment allowing the governor to veto any one or more items in an appropriation measure without veto ing the entire measure. High tax levies are usually the result of excessive appropriations and experimental legislation, and the most effective cure for that abuse is to be more careful ln the selection of your legislative members. I was born in Marion county, Ore gon. March 4, 1869, and was edu cated In the public schools, McMinn ville College and the State Normal School at Monmouth, Oreson; admit ted to the bar by the supreme court In 1893; served five terms as mayor of Oregon City, three as deputy dis trict attorney; was elected presiden tial elector on the republican ticket In 1904, and county Judge of Clack amas county In 1906. I am deeply Interested In agricultural pursuits, own and manage the Dimick StocK Farm at Hubbard, Oregon, and pub lish the Western Stock Journal at Oregon City. I respectfully submit my candidacy to the consideration of the republic can voters of Oregon. GRANT B. DIMICK. 87-4t-Thurs. Paid Adv. Nothing So Good for a Cough or Cold. When you have a cold you' want the best medicine obtainable so as to get rid of it with tne least possible delay. There are many who consider Chamberlain's Cough Remedy unsur passed. Mrs. J. Boroff, Ellda, Ohio, says: "Ever since my daughter Ruth was cured of a severe cold end cough by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy two years ago, I have felt kindly disposed toward the manufacturers of that preparation. I know of nothing so quick to relieve a cough or cure a cold." For sa'e by all dealers. Magazine. We take subscriptions at the Tid ings office for new subscribers or re newals to the following magazines: The Ladles' Home Journal, The Sat urday Evening Po3t, The Country Gentleman, also Good Housekeeping, Hearst's Magazine, Motor Boating, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazar. You save money by subscribing for these magazines and have the advan tage of having them delivered at yoar bone. i I j :"?'..:. . , .' y ...'. H i ... ii " , i i ; j : & t . i V ' ' v' - V ' j -.-. ! Pp.ff ' t 1 - - - - .., I. .. . The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pea t ..... Idle Women. , The most unhappy women in our communities today are those who have no engagements to call them up In the morning, who, once having risen and breakfasted, lounge through the dull forenoon in slippers down at the heel and with disheveled hair, reading the last novel, and who, having dragged through a wretched forenoon and taken their afternoon sleep and having spent an hour and a half at their toilet, pick up their card case and go out to make calls, and who pass their evenings waiting for somebody to come in and break up the monotony. Arabella Stuart never was imprisoned in so dark a dungeon as that. There is no happiness in an idle woman. It may be with hand, it may be with brain, it may be with foot, but work she must or be wretched forever. . The little girls of our fam ilies must be started wtih that idea. The curse of our American society is that our young women are taught that the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, fiftieth thousandth thing in their life is to get someone to take care of them. Instead ' of that, the first lesson should be how, under God, they may take care of themselves. The simple fact is that a majority of them do have to take care af themselves and that, too, after having, through the false notions of their parents, wasted In the year in which they ought to have learned how successfully to maintain themselves. We now and here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage that father and mother who pass their daughters into wom anhood, having given them no facility for earning their livelihood. Madame de. Stael said: "It is not these writ ings that I am proud of, but the fact that I have facility in ten occupa tions, in any one of which I could make a livelihood." A Word to W'iveo and Mothers. Keep in advance of your boys and girls. Be prepared to lead them, and do not, as you value your husband's love, allow him to develop and Im prove while you lose your hold upon those things which contribute so largely to a womarr's attractiveness. I see about me every day sisters who, when they married, were, I haven't a doubt, intellectually equal, if not superior, to the men with whom they cast their lot. In some occult fashion they drift apart. A man in daily contact with bright minds, in his traveling, thinking, planning, reading, unconsciously grows away from the woman of his cholV unless she is in turn keen wit ted enough to make up her mind that this shall not be the case. A man likes at nigth, when he puts on his slippers and settles down for a smoke, to discuss the topics of the moment and not babies and. the (Te linquencles of the cook. Where one woman can do this, a dozen would be utterly at sea if an attempt were made to lure, them away from them, to them, always fascinating thems, kitchen and nursery, Be wary lest in your devotion to sewing machines, bread board and broom you allow blessed opportuni ties for self-culture to slip by until LanM Pipflees KDirop BUT THEY DON'T DROP BELOW THE BOTTOM. They have been at the bot tom for some time. They were thought to be too high a short while ago, but they will booh start upward again and go still higher. Don't laugh, frown or shrug your shoul ders at this, for it is a fact. "History repeats." I have recently bad more calls from clients "raising their price" or "withdrawing" than listing new. offerings or lowering prices. But I still have some properties at REDUCED PRICES. 700-acre stock rancheasy access ! $20 000 320-acre general and stock farm, alfalfa and fruit $20 000 300-acre 6tock farm ' ' no'oOO 160-acre mountain ranch !!.!.!.$ 4 000 ; $12,000 All these are Rogue River Valley properties, quite nicely located. For Exchange 1,280-acre farm in Douglas county; 400 ln cultiva tion; good improvements. Will trade for In come property. Value $28,000. 12-acre Irrigated dairy and orchard home; fine Improvements; free water; close to city. Cheap at (9,500. 3 5 -acre ranch near town: lots of fruit. Will be sold for half 'price. Call for particulars. For rent, furnished hotel. Four-acre Ashland home to trade for business. Hotel Ashland HHtHMHtMmTtlMIMI HIIHWtttIIIIIM Capital and Surplus, $120,000.00 First National Bank Oldest National Bank ln Jackson County t Depository of the Hailed States, State of Oregon, Conn- t ty of Jackson and City of Ashland. you find yourself a target for some body's commiseration, i A mistaken notion ties women down to petty details, when many precious moments might be given to something that would elevate and re fine. Labor Is life, but worry is killing. Accept things as they are, and do not bother about the yesterday, which is gone forever; do not bother about tomorrow, which is not yours; but Lb proper Bent from fifty worn Id fully realize "- " -" '' -feto""""" mam II W l f 1sTJ ii w i! f:. II jUTA II r 7 V ment in Scoffs Emutsloa they would take it after every meat Scott s Emulsion contains the renowned body-building fats of pure cod liver oil,-so medically predigested that it distributes energy, power and strength all thru the body and simplifies the stomach's work. To people in declining years we say with unmistakable earnestness Scott's Emulsion will add years to your life and life to your years. AVOID ALCOHOLIC SUBSTITUTES IMS i "i"li:'lM-JiH lfl,i:,'Jt'H I II llll IISSSSSBBBSSBSSBBBSSSBSSl Good Work Done Promptly AT THE . . . .". . . 7 Rough Dry at Reasonable ' J. N. NISCET, Mgr. Office and Laundry 31 Water St TELEPHONE 161 TFUTURE V OF YOUR BUSINESS -HANGS Two-acre Ashland place in Ashland. Bldfj. t i t t t take the present day and make tiio best of it. Some horrid man says: "A woman can adapt herself to circumstances more readily than a man. She will drive a nail with a poker or a hair brush, take out a cork with the scis sors, no matter if it is pushed in, and sharpen lead pencils with her hus band's razors." Phone news Items to the Tidings. Aged People sometimes forget that poor teeth and mastication prevent sufficient noriaa- ordinary food and burden the digest iva organs, but if every sua or woman past the boantifaL sustaining Boorish- N.&M. Home Laundry Prices. New Machinery. Are You Taking the Risk? Can yon afford to lose Your Business House or Dome? A good fire policy protects credit and may be the financial soul of yonr business. A few dollars invested today may save yon a thousand tonight. Write, phone or call on Billings Agency Real Estate and Insurance Phone 211 41 E. Main For rent. 5-room furnished cottage on paved street. A Richmond. Cal., lot for sale on tnoothly pay ments. Better profit than savings bank in this. home to trade for smaller Some business chances. Houses to rent. Homes on installments. Insurance. Watch next issue of this paper for new bargains. Ashland. Oregon
