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S! Monday. An gust 24, IO14 .ASHLAND TIDINGS rAQB TWO Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. EST ABLI S H ED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, - Editor and Owner Chas. P. Greer, Mrt. and City Editor IUllie llrijats, - - Xews Reporter SUBSCRU'TIOX RATES. - One Year 12.00 6ix Months '-. 1.00 Three Months 50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. No subscriptions for less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at expiration unless renewal is received. . ) In ordering changes of the paper always give the old street address or postoffice as well as the new. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail mat ter. Ashland Ore., Monday, Aug. 34, 1914 NEW YORK AS WORLD'S MARKET. AT THE HAH OF JUSTICE. The New York World discusses the proposed government prosecution of the New Haven officials as follows: "President Wilson has been very patient with the directors of the New Haven Railroad. "Attorney General McReynolds has been more than patient. "As a reward for the administra tion's efforts to help bring about a peaceable solution of the New Hav en's difficulties with the United States government under the Sherman law, the president and the attorney general have alike been tricked by directors who deliberately broke their 'solemn agreement' with the depart ment of justice. "In ordering the attorney general to institute dissolution proceedings and to submit 'the criminal aspects of the case' to a federal grand jury, Mr. Wilson describes the conduct of the New Haven's directors as 'inex plicable and entirely without justifi cation.' This, in the circumstances, is vefy moderate criticism. "Nobody can read the correspond ence submitted to the president by Mr. Mclteynolds without feeling that the administration has been more than generous in its efforts to help the directors extricate the road from its plight. The administration's re ward Is broken pledges and repudiat ed agreements. The directors of the New Haven have evidenced the same kind of bad faith toward the govern ment that they evidenced toward their own stockholders. They have been false stewards of their word as well as false stewards of their trust. There is only one course for the ad ministration to pursue, and the presi dent has ordered it without hesita tion. The responsibility for this ac tion rests upon the New Haven di rectors, and upon the malone. "The World hones that Mr. Mc Reynolds' treatment of the criminal aspects of the case will be as reso lute as his treatment of the civil as pects of the case. We can conceive of no more wholesome Influence upon railroad management, upon Wall street finance and upon the general business life of the country than the spectacle of a few .New Haven direct ors serving time In a federal peni tentiary for the offenses that have plundered a once great and prosper ous property." The New York World predicts a shifting of the financial center of the world, as a result of a great Eu ropean war, from London and Paris to New York. It says: "London is still reputed to be the money and credit center of the world. Paris is reputed to stand second only to London in financial power. "But the London Stock Exchange was practically closed by the panic of the Austrian declaration of war on Servit. The Paris Bourse was practically closed, with trading par alyzed and quotations largely nomi nal. The bourses at Vienna, at Buda pest, at Brussels, at Amsterdam, at St. Petersburg were all closed tight and trading at Berlin was suspended. The stock exchanges at Montreal and Toronto were closed. Sellers through all these centers were a frantic multi tude, buyers dropped out of sight, and a 'market' necessarily went with them. "Only the New York Stock Ex change, among all the leading securi ties markets of the world, remained wide open. It was the only place where holders of listed properties, in fright or distress, could turn them into money. It was the only place where the whole wide would could find any financial footing. Ameri can securities, therefore, became the chief or only medium of liquidation for all Europe, and the New York market had to bear the brunt of the n:int:::iiiia? The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen The Growth of Your Town. The growth of a town depends very much upon the character of the people who make up its population. This may seem so self-evident a truth as not to need any mention, but we wish to call attention to one class of people who work much injury to their town. We refer to the grumblers who run down their own place as a busi ness point and think every other vil lage has a better opening. The men who refuse to stand by their town are few in number, and their influence is a bad one. If a stranger comes along and wants to in vest or settle here, he is told by these croakers that the place is no good, and if they could get away themselves they would do it. There is plenty of competition already and they do not think a business man in town is mak ing any money. They tell the new comer he will make a mistake if he invests, and they advise him- not to. Farm property is worfhless afid there seems little hope for the futufe of the town. Such talk is enough ' to dis ourage the most enthusiastic Investor and drive him away. V There are but few placeJ which have no representation of tKls class of croakers. They mean no harm and selling of a panic-stricken continent. !no doubt would like to see their places "New York has not only borne up advance, but they cannot see that they under the incoming avalanche of I themselves are the barnacles which AN IDYL OK A REACH. stocks and bonds, and the outgoing avalanche of gold in exchange, but it has done so without serious disturb ance or hint of inability to tsand the strain. "The situation has been without parallel in recent times for the ex tent of tie-up in markets and credit. It has been handled on our part in a manner which affords the most Btriking demonstration yet given of the breadth and soundness of the American financial position. Wall street itself has proved that all its calamity-howling of a year past has been the veriest balderdash and that President Wilson was right in his di agnosis. "If Europe Is determined to cut its own throat in a general war, it can have some idea beforehand of where the financial center of the world will be found at the end of the process." ONE WAR PRODUCT WORTH WHILE. Credit to Villa one of the best things yet done in Mexico. He is sendmg the orphaned sons of his fall en soldiers to the United States to be educated. And paying for it at the expense of Mexico's exploiters. You can do such things, for a time, during a revolution, if, like Villa, you have the nerve and foresight. But of course, when peace comes, Mexico will need to provide schools of her own; free education for all her children. The big fellows who have hereto fore ruled Mexico overlooked that. They didn't want the peons to know too much. It has been left to a one-time "bandit," himself but lately taught to read and write, to perceive and enforce his country's crowning need. IT'S A ROUT TIME. As soon as the tall, blond young man had got the unconscious girl ashore and In the hands of a doctor he waited Just long enough to be sure she would revive and then he disappeared. The mishap had been of the fa miliar summer reRort type. Unused to water, she had waded beyond her depth. He was the only one on the shore with presence of mind. As she gasped and sank he started toward her with the only craft available, a raft, and arrived to prevent her sink ing the last time. Next day, entirely recovered, Rhe scanned the verandas that she might locate and thank her brave preserver. But he was nowhere In sight. Now why do you suppose he had fled? It wasn't that he lacked brav ery, for the way he rescued the girl proved that he was brave. Wait- it modesty? Perhaps; though he didn't appear to be. of the shrinking kind Possibly he was already engaged and had no wish to run new chances. Who knows? At all events, the girl la alive to day, owing to a stranger's heroism; he Is ready with thanks any time he Is willing to rail; and a number of folks around Lakewood Beach, Minn., wonder why he didn't. So after two of Uncle Sam's men have been murdered in one day at Tulsa, OUla., the government Is going to stop giving bootleggers a license. Well, it's about time. The farce of the government issuing a whlBky license from one department and or ders to suppress bootlegging from an other can't be beat on any stage. And the worst of it Is that for the first three years of statehood the govern ment revenue officers appeared to be in most hearty accord with the boot leggers, even making It as difficult as possible for the state authorities to get Information about licenses Issued bootleggers. prohibit any progressive movement. Stand by your town and sound Its praise if you want to see it grow. Encourage investments and competi tion. It is through these that in provements will come. If there is one better way than an other to ruin a town, it is for those who live in it to go about apologiz ing for its existence. So there are some who are always ready to say, by their actions at least, that this place doesn't amount to much. They will tell you that the town is dead; that no one can think of stopping here; that some town adjacent is more re spectable, more enterprising, has bet ter people, better enjoyments, is ahead of us in everything. Reading by Ear. Reading of magazines and newspa pers by blind men has now been act ually accomplished by the aid of the optophone, which translates sight into sound. Some months ago the Inventor of this device, a distin guished British scientist, succeeded in reading billboard type with it; but at that time it was hardly expected that the optophone could be refined suffi ciently to be used on small type not for many years at least.. Even now his apparatus is only a laboratory device; but the fact that he has even experimentally solved the problem he undertook gives hope of a practical working device to enable the blind to read. Recently he exhibited the improved optophone before the Royal Society and demontsrated its efficiency. The principle is simple. A tiny light is thrown on the printed line and moved from left to right as the eye follows type in reading. This light is reflected on a delicate detect or; and, according to the amount of light reflected, faint electrical im pulses are obtained. Of course black does not reflect light, theoretically, and the black print does not reflect by any means so much light as the white paper. The electrical Impulses are used to produce sound in a telephone receiv er. With practice the blind person mhiim minim inmiiiitimnn ntniiiiniiin. The Oldest National Bank in Jackson County Member Federal Reserve System FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus $120,000.00 DEPOSITORY OF i City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon J I United States of America can tell from the variation of sound just what letter the light is passing over. In the device recently demonstrate ed the adjustment was delicate enough to enable the reading of type one-fifth of an Inch in height, using an ordinary telephone receiver. . By using a highly sensitive tele phone relay, invented by a member of the Royal Society, the optophone was successful in distinguishing news paper type. GIVES INSTANT ACTION. T. K. Bolton, druggist, reports that A SINGLE DOSE of simple buck thorn bark, glycerine, etc., as com pounded In Adler-i-ka, the Germaa appendicitis remedy, stops constipa tion or gas on the stomach IN STANTLY. Many Ashland people ara being helped. 6 Headquarters Briggs & Shinn. for good shoes. 8 An Interesting case of receivership came up in Chicago the other day. The case had been pending a number of years in the United States court and a lawyer who had been acting as receiver had paid himself $3,000 In fees as receiver and $5,500 for legal advice rendered by himself, but had not paid one cent of the $2,400 which brought about the receivership. There was originally Involved in the controversy $2,400, and this lawyer receiver had expended to his own ad vantage $8,500 In gettjng ready to pay it and then had not paid it. Small wonder that some lawyers soom to be under suspicion with most of the people. Most married women are a trifle envious of a rich widow. Host men reckon time by paydays. Fondness for the Horse. Philadelphia Public Ledger: A farmer who was about to lose his team of horses by the foreclosure of a mortgage killed the animals, in terred them, and then shot himself above their grave. His letter of ex planation, found afterward in the sta ble, said it would have broken his heart to have them pass Into the pos session of another. 'Often when 1 was overcome with grief, with no one to console me, these old friends would act as if they knew all about n.y dis tress, and, doubtless, they had some sense of it." The dog disputes with the horse the claim to be the first friend of man among the animals, and, with his quick intelligence and his sensi tive intuitions, no doubt he comes closest of all. But there are attri butes of "horse sense" that stand without a rival. What other animal Is so sure-footed and patient a guide out of a trackless wilderness? What other animal endures the burden and heat of the day, obeys without com plaint, responds with such alacrity to the lightest finger of command? Is it any wonder that the Arabian con siders his steed as almost on a foot ing with the members of his family? The history of the decisive battles cannot be written without tribute to the horses that bore warriors into battles, brought up the guns, carried messages, and often as In Sheridan's ride turned the tide of defeat. If Pegasus and Bucephalus, and even humble ' Rosinante, have won their places in song or story, and In the first instance achieved the starred, Immortal glory of the skies, shall not the four-footed ally who draws the market wagon or the plow or the ash man's cart have his meed of praise? There is pathos In the sight of some shabby, raw-boned animal waiting at the curbstone or with his head half burled in the nosebag munching his noonday meal. He does not dream of the freedom of green meadows and meandering streams. He has no ex pectation of a caress all he knows, perhaps, Is a blow or a harsh word. If ears laid back betray vile temper, there need be no surprise. Surely the horse may be forgiven if occasion ally he forgets himself and behaves no better, under the provocation, than a human being. After fighting off prosjerity as long as It could, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has Just ordered 100,000 tone of steel rail. The fact that the railroad company Is very much in need of steel is shown by the condition of the order, which was The reason a man hates to be called a capitalist is because a woman likes to be called a cat. cut Into five parts and placed with five steel companies. Other railway companies have been playing the same game, hoping to Influence legU' latlon perhaps, and perhaps for other reasons, but they are all licked out by the stupendous cropB that are now being harvested. Staple and Fancy Dry Goods Fancy Waists VAUPEL'S &e QUALITY STORE Bntterick Patterns SHOES GENTS' FURNISHINGS Wc Give 5 Cash Coupons With Every Cash Purchase Fall School Clothes FOR oys and Girls The vacation for Young America is over, and the thought of the parenl tarns to the out fitting of the boy or girl for school. For little money yon can select a pair of shoes, a sub stantially built good looking suit for the boy, or a school dress for the girl, one that will not only have a pleasing appearance but will stand the wear and tear. A hint at the prices: Holeproof Hose for Boys and Girls. 3 pairs $1.00 Guaranteed for three months. Boys' Shoes built for actual ser vice, $1.75 to $3.00 Girls' Shoes built on common sense lines and for service. $1.50 to $2.50 Boys' All Wool Suits, made to withstand wear and tear, $3.00 and Up Boys' 25c Porosknit Underwear - Now 20c KXSSDEsfll Boys' Gingham Blouses, special 25c Each ESBQBB3B&3 rTf itf mom m wnr rm ! vir m THE STAPLES REALTY AND AUTO AGENCY Cheap and arid G m and 200 a. stock ranch, water and alfalfa 110 a. targe wheal ranch $ 30 a. 800 a. partly improved 25 a. 120 a. Improved, close (o town 100 a. 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. Lots of other properties at fair prices and easy terms Automobile Insurance On all makes of cars against loss by fire from any cause in the old Boston Insurance Co., the nr6t company to write insurance on automobiles. Stanley Steamer Agency The car that pleases. The car that excels in all points. Get a demonstration and tell us your opinion. Hotel for Rent Furnished House for Rent Tad In Hotel Ashland Bldg. sBWslBttS ' EsMl3 KtssWI (sjiiMil CiMliMsMBlsw ' Ashland, Oregon