Thursday, Attgt IS, 1914
ASHLAND TIDINGS
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Ashland, Ore., Thursday, Aug. 13, '14
SAFETY IX THE STREETS.
HOW ABOUT SPO PEE'S LOST
LIFE?
Spo Pee, the Indian, was impris
oned for 34 years. He was pardoned
as an act of grace, by the president
of the United States.
But what shall we do about this
man's lost life? For as a matter of
fact we put Spo Pee into prison and
then forgot him. He was really im
prisoned because he was poor and
friendless. Had a man of standing
and influence killed a man belonging
to a poor and outcast race or class
under the same circumstances he
would not have been convicted, and
if convicted he would have been par
doned long ago as Charles W. Morse
was pardoned.
What right have we to put people
in prison and forget them?
A South Dakota town marshal a
few years ago put a drunken tramp
into a town caboose, locke dthe door
and forgot all about him. There
came a blizzard, the poor fellow was
frozen I believe be lost his feet and
hands, and was so weakened that he
died.
Even though the man was an out
cast, the people were shocked at the
cruel neglect with its tragic conse
quences. When we forget a man for
ever, when we allow him to spend all
the remainder of his life in the spir
itual cold and darkness of the living
death of a prison, there is no public
outcry, because nobody knows.
How many Spo Pees are there in
our prisons?
Ought there not to be some agency
for seeking tbem out and doing them
Justice?
Spo Pee may have been guilty, but
men are frequently liberated from our
prisons because it has been discov
ered they are Innocent of the crimes
for which they have been convicted.
They are then "pardoned." Pardoned
for what? Rather ought the govern
ment which has wronged them seek
pardon of the wronged. But we do
nothing for such victims of our in
stitutions save to liberate them into
a world for the battles of which they
are unfitted. We turn out these poor
frozen souls, robbed of hands and
feet, withour kind permission to
work.
Satan must bow his head in humil
ity when he notes how superior in
cruelty to his deviltry are the naked
stupidities of man.
In really civilized nations such men
are remunerated, so far as remunera
tion can be given, for the wrongs
done them; but In our unfair land we
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
In spite of all that is said about
careful driving of automobiles, every
few days one reads of children, and
sometimes older people, who are run
over in the streets. In large cities
heavy truck wagons are also a cause
of much fatal injury.
Various agencies are at work to
compel drivers to maintain due vigi
lance. But laws and regulations are
difficult to enforce. There are all
kinds of human tyes at the steering
wheel. Officers of the law do not
always want to see too much.
Tht street is not the safe place it
used to be. Before motors became
numerous the public highway was a
kind of a common playground. Driv
ers of horses waited tolerantly while
the kldlets reluctantly suspended
their baseball game.
The hoofs of an approaching horse
gave warning long before a carriage
was near. Now the motor slips up
from behind with swift and deadly
speed. While you are looking to the
right the machine has dodged out
from some side street on the left.
Every child ought to be carefully
warned of the dangers of the street.
On streets where there is any consid
erable traffic he should never cross
without looking both ways'.
Many accidents could be saved If
people were not in such a hurry.
Some persons seem to dislike to show I "pardon" an innocent man for the
, reasonable caution. It takes but a wrongs we have done him, and make
To Boom Your Town.
Talk about it.
Write about it.
Elect good men to office.
Be friendly to everybody.
Keep your sidewalks in good repair.
If a poor man starts a project, help
him.
If a rich man starts a project, en
courage him.
Sell all you can and buy all you
can at home.
Don't talk the town down to
strangers.
If you are rich, invest in some
thing; employ somebody.
If a project to improve the town
conies up, don't hoot investigate.
Don't let your personal antipathies
get away with your business Judg
ment. Follow the men who have the vim
and energy to go ahead and "saw
wood."
Be courteous to strangers who
come among you so they will go away
with good impressions.
If you don't like your town well
enough to speak well of it, get out
of it and make room for better men.
Always cheer on the man who goes
or improvements. Your portion of
the cost will be nothing but that
which is right.
Do not kick at any proposed im
provements because they are not at
your door, or for fear that your tax
will be raised fifty cents.
Don't be afraid to stick your hand
down in your pocket for money to
help a public enterprise. You owe
something to the community for being
so kind as to patronize you.
Don't! Don't!! Don't!!! For
heaven's sake don't think your ideas
are the only correct ones as to what
Improvements are needed and how
they should be obtained. We heard
an old man say once that his name
was written down on every paper that
came around with the word "temper
ance" on It. Let your name be writ
ten donw to every paper that has
"Improvement" on it.
few seconds for a motor to pass, while
a broken leg would mean a month on
your back.
The manenr in which some motor
ists expect every one to make way
for them is Irritating. Still human
nature is at it is. One must adapt
oneself to modern conditions.
It the pedestrian gets too wrathy
over the arrogance of his automobil
Ing friends he may very reasonably
reflect that It Is much easier for him
to stop than it is to bring a heavy
machine to a standstill. That, how
ever, does not excuse the motorists,
who should never run at a speed
which he cannot check in time to pre
vent injury.
THE VALUE OF SOLITUDE.
him no amends.
We should reinstate the case in
court and allow the tribunal which
condemned him to record the fact of
its shame, in lieu of him.
We should then pay him for his
lost time, and if he has been unfitted
for labor by our Injustice, we should
pension him. In short, we should try
to do him Justice.
If we try, we may get some good
out of the case of poor old Spo Pee,
PRESIDENT HADLKY'S "SOCIAL
OSTRACISM."
"The average American does not,"
says George Brandea, the Danish
critic, "seem to have the slightest
idea of how necessary solitude is to
the formation of an opinion."
Haven't you, as you've talked with
farmers, been Impressed with the
"sotness" of their opinions?
There are stubborn city men, of
course; but the mixincHs of life in a
city tends to a certain versatility in
thinking you might almost say
tends to substitute Impressions and
tniotions for thinking.
The farmer, on the other hand,
working for the most part alone and
quietly, hag ample time to assemble
and digest his thoughts and to ar
range them into a definite philoso
phy. Hence what sometimes seems like
stubbornness In him. Is, Indeed, mere
ly the confidence with which he holds
to an opinion upon whleh he has done
a careful and, so far as he was able,
a thorough job of thinking.
The great works of literature have
mostly been written in the country.
For that matter, most of the world's
big men have been country born. In
the arms of nature and amidst her
silences they have wreBtled with life's
problems and wrought out guiding
ideals and visions.
Much as we regret to have to ad
roit It, we guess Brandea Is right
Since July 1 money orders may be
cashed at any office regardless of
what office drawn on, but must be
presented within thlr'y days. A con
templated change is In a new tele
phone postal card, which has your
telephone number on and the post
master calls you up and tells you of
the contents and it is then delivered
in the regular way. It is an entering
wedge for the postal telegraph.
The Claflin failure opened the eyes
of a lot of country banks that had
been In the habit of buying "com
merclal paper" Instead of lending the
money locally, on the theory that
they wanted liquid assets. The thir
ty-five million of notes of Claflin
were altogether too liquid.
President Hadley of Yale went to
Denver In the winter of 1900 and
made a speech on trusts in which he
put forward the remedy of social os
tracism. "Where it is shown that a
man is engaged in an unworthy en
terprise the people should have the
courage to refuse him social recogni
tion. I believe the time will come
when they will do so."
The time came for Dr. Iladley him
self to apply his sovereign remedy
when he entered the New Haven di
rectory and a little later learned offi
cially that the railroad had been
plundered of many millions of dol
lars, to the cost of the university
among other stockholders, In one of
the most obvious and aggravated vio
lations of the anti-trust law ever recorded.
It was a rare chance. Most of the
responsible persons In that unworthy
enterprise were still sitting In the
same board. The physician with his
new remedy and a bad case of the
disease to be cured were brought to
gether at last. We had seemed to
see him getting busy. He strikes the
names of these respectable directors
from his list of acquaintances. He
refuses his hand as William Rockefel
ler comes in. He turns his back' when
Charles F. Brooker enters. He os
tentatlously leaves the room and
slams the door as the other offending
trust-builders troop In, and tbey all
shrivel up and proceed to works meet
for repentance.
Does he and do they? Alas; like
many another discoverer of great
cures. Dr. Hadley himself fell a vie
tlm to the disease and we see him in
the front rank of the movement to
break up a peaceful dissolution of
this trust and resist a government
prosecution. Social ostracism may
exist in New Haven, but the great
New Haven trust evidently has no
part In its deadly work.
Why is It, it is often asked, that
people in small towns can find no
beter business than prying into other
people's business and then exaggerat
ing the truth in regard to the same?
People who pretend to be Christians,
who attend church regularly, who In
the sight of their neighbors are gen
erous and charitable, yet who, with
out the slightest provocation, pick up
some little mistake, or more, often,
at nothing, will so scandalize one as
to ruin his or her reputation for life.
No, the deadest man on earth is
not numbered In Father Time's har
vest. You cannot find his tombstone
in the cemetery, neither does a mossy
mound hark his lowly bed. His last
resting place was on a cracker box
in the grovery, and there he will re
main dead to everything good, dead
to all activity, dead to friendship and
dead to his home ties until Gabirel
shall awaken him to a more active
life in a future world. "
Royalty Hakes
' Strange Bedfellows
Unless he has been removed quiet
ly from his position in the last few
days, a German prince will rule the
fleets of England sent against the
German navy.
And an English prince, who went
to school at Eton, on whose play
fields Wellington said English bat
tles were won, will lead a German
army against his English kin.
And in the palace of Peterhof, a
German princess wearing a Russian
crown may live to hear the guns of
an army led by her own brother
thundering under her windows.
During the last century the nations
of Europe have exchanged many
princes and princesses In matrimony
to cement offensive and defensive al
liances. Now the whole fabric of se
curity built on the sacrifice of royal
hearts has tumbled down. In Lon
don, Berlin, Vienna and St. Peters
burg are scores of royal applicants
dividing between the land of their
birth and the land of their adoption
their prayers to the god of battles.
In the great and stunning shock of
the war all little shocks are merged
and lost. This revelation of the flim-
siness of matrimonial bonds between
the reigning houses of great nations
Is only a little shock. But in England
the situation provoked is the most
curious.
Prince Louis of Battenberg is a
full admiral of the British navy and
first sea lord of the admiralty, one
of the little group of men in whose
hands repose the conduct and destiny
of England's fleets in war. And
Prince Louis is a German born and
German bred. His wife is German
also, sister of the Grand Duke of
Hesse, who holds a command as gen
eral in the Germany army and would
lead German troops against his sis
ter's England.
And still more curiously entan
gling, Prince Louis of Battenberg,
England's first sea lord, Is a brother-in-law
of Prince Henry of Prussia,
the ranking officer of the German
navy, and the man who naturally
would lead it into battle against the
English.
The Duchess of Connaught and the
Duchess of Albany, daughter-in-law
of the late Queen Victoria and sisters
of King Edward, are German prln
cesses, German born and German
bred. And Prince Christian of
Schleswig Holstein, son-in-law of
Queen Victoria, and now a natural
ized Englishman and an English gen
eral, who may lead an army corps
into Belgium, was a German until he
married an English princess.
In Germany the widowed Duchess
of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who makes
her headquarters at Coburg, is
Russian through and through. She
Is the only daughter of Czar Alexan
der II, while the similarly widowed
Grand Duchess Anastasla of Mecklen
burg-Schwerln, mother of the Ger
man crown prince, Is a daughter of
the late Grand Duke Michael Michael
aivitch of Russia.
The reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg
Gotha, sovereign of one of the Ger
man Independent states forming a
part of the German empire, is a gen
eral of the German army. Yet he
passed the first sixteen years of his
life as a prince of the reigning house
of England, at the court of his grand
mother, Queen Victoria, and was a
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schoolboy at Eton when summoned . In Russia. That they will meet with
to a German throne. I popular disfavor (some of them al-
Emperor William himself and his ready are not any too popular) is not
brother, Prince Henry, are the sons
of an English mother, the eldest sis-
improbable.
The German treatment of the late
ter of Edward VII, and are both in . Empress Frederick during the Fran
line of succession to the English Co-German war Indicates what possi-
crown. Yet today the kaiser Is lead- ililvlmnv hannon At thft tlmA tho Hom
ing his German armies and his broth- , preg8 Frederick, a daughter of the
er Henry the German fleets against )ate Q,leen Victoria, was crown prln
their mother's closest kin and kind. I rpR, nf fiormnnv Entrland was a uph.
In Russia the situation in which tral power during that conflict, but
royalty finds itself is no less curious. waa BUHected by the Germans of bud-
The Empress Alexandra of Russia and j piying arms to the French and in
". " wmuweu uimiu Lui;ii-,Bynil,atnjZlng with them. Bismarck
ess Sergius, are sisters of the sover-i ordprfi(, that no military or state se-
eign Grand Duke of Hesse, who holds !cret should bo communicated to the
a command as general in the Gerraan,,rown nrince. the heir of hla klne an
army and who, as such, has taken up
commander of one of the principal
arms against his brother-in-law, the armies in the field, for fear that he
Grand Duchess Victoria, wife of the! hia con8ort at Berlin, who would cer-
Grand Duke Cyril, who is second in tainlVi BO Bismarck alleges, Impart
line oi succession to tho throne ofjthe information to her mother and
Peter the Great, is a daughter of the I her eIdest brother In England,
late sovereign of the German duchies ! throueh whom It would reach the
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Grand Duke Cyril's mother, the wid
owed Grand Duchess Vladimir, is by
birth a princess of the German reign
ing family of Mecklenburg-Schwerln
and was so thoroughly identified with
the land of her birth that the late
Emperor Alexander HI used to Insist
that she was the principal agent of
Bismarck In Russia.
It Is not difficult to see how pain
ful will be the suspense of these
princes and princesses during the
war, particularly the German ladies
The Commercial Club is desirous
of obtaining good specimens of grains
and grasses for exhibit purposes. Will
those who have such kindly leave at
the Commercial Club rooms? tf
There Is never any lack of fuel la
Mexico. If people can't find anythins
else to burn, they can always get out
and tear up some ties from the rail
roads built by Americans.
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Every wage-earner should strive to own a home. Buying a home is
not speculation, it's thrift. It's something that you need, something In
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are a few of them:
Two good places of about 1 acre
each, with good improvements and
good location; either one for
$2,000.
House and 1 acre, within 5 minutes'
walk of poBtoffice. $1,250.
First-class vacant lots from $300 up.
Five-room house with good lot. 4
blocks from East School, above
Boulevard. 1,300.
Seven-room house, 2 blocks from
West School, large lot. $1,600.
Five-room modern bungalow, closer
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REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE.
Phone newt Hems to the Tidings
We happened into a home the other
night, and over the parlor door saw
the legend worked In letters of red,
'What Is Home Without a Mother?"
Across the room was another brief
"God Bless Our Home." Now what's
the matter with "God Bless Our
Dad"? He gets up early, lights the
fire, boils an egg and wipes the dew
off the lawn with his boots white
many a mother is sleeping. He makes
the weekly hand-out to the butcher,
the milkman and the baker, and his
little pile Is badly diminished before
he has been home an hour.
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Iteap Laii and G laii
Young men, and often young wom
en, as well as older persons, perform
acts which become legitimate items
for publication and then rush to the
newspaper office and beg the editor
not to notice their escapades. The
next day they condemn the same pa
per for not having published another
party doing the same thing they were
guilty of, forgetting apparently their
late visit to the printing office.
"Is your father rich?" someone
asked a five-year-old girl and tho lit
tle one replied confidentially: "Why,
of course! He's got me." And she
was right, too, for Ihe father- of a
sweet, loving, helpful little daughter
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whose money cannot buy them the
love of a single heart.
200 a. stock ranch, water and alfalfa 110 a.
Large wheat ranch $ 30 a.
800 a. partly improved 25 a.
120 a. Improved, close to town 100 a.
Lots ol other properties at fair prices and easy terms
17 a. high grade alfalfa home . $9,000
16 a. 6-yr-old gilt-edge orchard ' 6,400
80 a. alfalfa home ranch .12,500
20 a. bottom land on Bear creek 200 a.
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