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PAGE TWO ASHLAND TTDIVG9 Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Octal City and Connly Paper Bert K. Greer, . Editor and Owner Lynn Mowat, . News Reporter SCBSCIUPTIOX RATES. One Tear $2.00 Six Months 1-00 Three Months 60 Tayable 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 piper always give the old street address or postoffico as well as the new. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postofflce as second-class mall mat ter. Ashland, Ore., Monday, July 10, 1015 WOMEN AS COMMERCIAL TRAV ELERS. The last number of the New York Nation prints a letter from London in which it is noted how women are spreading out Into new fields of em ployment. Particular mention Is made of their success as traveling salesmen, where they are acquiring a reputation for tact, keenness and economy. The killing off of Europe's best young men will open wide to women many fields formerly closed. Social changes like this will be felt in this country. If many European women go on the road as commercial travel ers it will encourage more American women to do the same. It Is per haps remarkable that women have not Invaded this field more gener ally. The selling of goods In retail stores has been largely In the hands of women for many years. In the larg er cities they hold many lucrative positions. They may often know more about a business than the own ers thereof. Women are great bar gainers, and they will fight for what they deem a principle, where men would have a feeling that they low ered their dignity by haggling. Probably the reason why more women have not gone on the road Is that in past years the profession of commercial travelers was somewhat looked down upon. The "drummers" were supposed to be a bunch of sports who spent much time In con vivial life. In modern competition It has become very responsible work. A firm takes quite a gamble when It hands over a good territory to a new man. The expenses of his trip and the possibility of losing trade are a large stake, and few moral hazards are taken. Women as commercial travelers may be a novelty In England, and they are still the exception In this country, bjit an Increasing number of them have been attaining success in this field In the United States for some years back. HAVE A HEART. Out of the thoughtless prank of some young lads who threw stones at the Liberty Bell near Walla Walla, even as you and I might have heaved a stone "Just to hear It ring," when we were kids, sensation-seeking newspapers are making an act of vandalism which will no doubt be hailed as such all over the country. Even the usually conservative Port land Oregonlan lets loose with the following symptoms of approaching senility in Its editorial staff: "The train officers comfort them selves and lis by describing that stone-throwing affair near Walla Walla as a 'prank' of small boys. The young chaps would not have thrown stones at the Liberty Bell If their elders had not set them on. We might as well admit to ourselves that there is a good deal of disloyalty In the United States. Some of It Is loud, some quiet. The latter is the more dangerous." " Boys will be boys, and we would suggest that the august editor who wrote the above spend an evening with a "gang" of boys, so that he may better realize the difference be tween thoughtless outbursts of prankishness and "disloyalty In the United States." The ball player who takes $10 In cash is a low-down professional play er, while the one who takes $10 worth of board is a high-class gen tleman amateur. - There seems to be a general opinion that President Wilson should hand Germany some hot ones, and yet should run no chance of involv ing the country In war. THE BOY CAMPS. Enormous numbers of boys are spending parts or the whole of their summer vacations now at boy camps. Not merely are large camps run by clubs and Young Men's Christian As sociation, but many teachers, Sun day school workers and others take small groups of boys off to tent life. There is something barbaric in the heart of the boy to which this life keenly appeals. In many cases it the desire to get away from his "women bosses." Having to dress up to go to school and church is not merely an arduous burden, but It seems to him so wholly unnecessary and futile. The normal boy Is an Indian at heart. He revels in the free life where he can wear khaki orwlm mlng clothes all day. Boys become manly and acquire initiative in this life. At home all their wants are too much looked out for by indulgent parents, who answer the boy's call as if he were a little king. Out In the camp he learns to shift for him self and take bis part with other boys. THE PROFESSION OF HOl'SE. WIFE. There seems to be a revival of In terest In home economics. Many women's clubs are arranging courses for next fall with lecturers on the subject of home efficiency. The great majority of women are hard working people, who may not have studied household efficiency scientifically. But they have put an enormous amount of toilsome labor Into the practice of the art. To some others, household cares have been a tedious and boresome task to be shifted over to servants as much as possible. The efficient and economical run ning of a home Is a business prob lem that should be no less interesting than the details, of running a news paper, a store, or a factory. Educa tional Institutions, clubs and other agencies have given too much atten tion to the world of books and art, too little to this fundamental busi ness problem affecting every fam ily's welfare. The women's clubs are evidently seeing It. OUR CHAUTAUQUA. Garfield (Wash.) Enterprise: Ash land, Ore., has a Chautauqua park In the center of the town and a bee hive auditorium on a natural slope of land built after the plan of the Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake City. It Is said that the Chautauqua programs during twenty-two years have cost some $50,000, the list of speakers being particularly notable. The man behind this independent Chautauqua, G. F. Billings, says that the money and effort expended have done far more than similar expendi tures for paving or business struc tures, "in making a high-minded community, In uniting people, In re fining them, In making young men and women of the highest type, and In bringing all the world to Ash land." A gentleman from San Diego writes: "Please send me a copy of your paper. I want to size up the business of your town from the ad vertisements with a view to trans ferring my Interests there." He will have a hard time sizing up the busi ness of Ashland by advertisements in the newspapers of the city. There are only half a dozen consistent mer cantile advertisers In town. And if people size up the opening for busi ness by the newspaper advertise ments there will be more merchants In Ashland than the town will hold. From the Ashland newspaper adver tisements the average wideawake merchant would conclude the mercan tile business was not well represent ed here. Looking over the ads, we find there are no ire cream parlors In town; there is but one blacksmith shop; there are no grocery stores; there are but two garages; there are no cigar stores or factories; there are no bakeries; there are no sulphur baths; there are but two jewelry stores; there are but two banks; and very few merchants. Of course, this Information comes to us only by look ing over the advertising columns of the Tidings and Record. We are here and know the town is well sup plied with all of them, but how about the man away from here who at tempts to size up the town, as this inquirer Is doing, by the advertise ments? The dancing craze this summer Is called worse than ever. The great number of dancing teachers called for must cut down the supply of help available to harvest the wheat and corn crops. Railroad travel Is pretty tedious this hot weather, but after the tour ist works around In a comfortable position with his head on the floor and his feet on the top of the seat, bo' will feel all right. iiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiirrmmmnm The Home Circle Thoughts from the Editorial Pen "O, think of the home over there1 Is the sweet refrain of a popular hymn. We don't want to throw any cold water on the honest efforts of this pious poet, but we do wish he had directed his energies to the im provement of the home down here When a man or woman thinks of the "home over there" so much that the home below the clouds gets but little attention, we think that kind of piety Is not practical. Think of the home that you occupy, and try to make It better, happier and purer. The home over there Is in better hands, and won't need your exclusive attention until you get there. Blighting Word If the merely Idle word is one day to be accounted for and judged, what of the untrue, impure, the profane, the malignant and cruel words with which this earthly air is continually charged? Only a movement of the Hps, a moment's stirring of the air, and all is silent, as though the word had never been spoken; yet a fellow creature's happiness has been blight ed; a heavy burden has been made still heavierlo bear; a heart has been robbed of its guilelessness and trust; the seed has been sown of a career that ends in ruin and death. Those words are not dead. Though they seem to be buried In everlasting ob livion, yet, when the Judgment throne Is set and earth's myriads are gath ered together to be by their words Justified or by their words con demned, they will return with solemn reverberating echo out of the dark ness of the past, and fall with dis may and shame on the ears of those who spoke them. And those words faithful, pure, benign passing to and fro among men like white-winged angels, carrying messages of love and hope and healing from heaven; words almost divine In their ennob ling Influence, helping us ever on ward and upward along life's journey those, too, will awake from their sacred slumber, and amid the grate ful murmur of the multitudes whom they have gladdened, comforted and saved, their blessed sound will be heard on earth once more. i Keep watch of your words, my darl ings. For words are wonderful things; They are sweet, like bees fresh honey, Like bees, they have terrible sings, They can bless, like the warm, glad sunshine, And brighten a lonely life; They can cut, in the bitter contest, Like an open, two-edged knife. In nearly every case boys who bring sorrow and disgrace upon their parents are those who are allowed to run on the street at night. With the shades of night around to a boy comes the opportunity for bad asso ciations that do not tempt them in the broad light of day. Evil doesn't stalk abroad at noonday, and hence a boy Is not apt to come in contact with It with the sun at meridian Keep your boys off the streets at night, or rather safely sheltered In the home nest, where evil influences never enter to lead them astray. Never cast aside your friends If by any possibility you can retain them. We are the weakest of spendthrifts if we let one friend drop off through inattention, or let one push away an' other, or if we hold aloof from one for petty jealousy, or heedless slights or roughness. Would you throw away a diamond because it pricked you? One good friend is not weighed against the jewels of the earth. If there is coolness or unklndness be tween us, let us come face to face and have it out. Quick, before the love grows cold. Life is too short to quarrel in, or carry evil or unkind thoughts of friends. It is easy to lose a friend, but a new one will not come for the calling, nor make up for the old one when he comes. Many children hear from their par ents nothing but words of censure ihe Gasoline of Quality and reproof day after day. They would smile with intense joy it told at night bow kind and helpful they had been and what comforts they had been to their parents. They would go to sleep and dream of angels and bright and happy things. Ah! bow little it takes to make hearts happy, and bow little also to make them miserable. Young man, don't forget that your commercial standing Is marred by your association with bad men. Don't let anybody fool you with the suggestion that you can lift some ras cal into decency by making him your yoke fellow. You can't lie down with a dog and get up without having fleas. You had better listen to the advice of men and women whom you know to be your friends. Your best blessings are not recog nized by you till they have vanished; your common privileges have little value to you till you are deprived of them. Your home Inspires no spec ial gratitude till you are cast home less upon the world. Your friends, the companions of your life, the dear sharers of your every day experience how little do you prize the tender ness of their love or the beauty of thejr character, until the quiet, un ceasing ministry of goodness has ceased forever. FOREST SERVICE DONATES TIMBER FOR ALASKA R. R. The district forester at Portland has issued to the Alaska engineering commission a free use permit for over 85,000,000 feet of timber, to be used In the construction of the proposed government railroad between tide water and the Matanuska coal field. The act of March 4, 1914, author ized the Forest Service to permit the navy department and the Alaska en gineering commission to take from the national forest, free of charge, earth, stone and timber for use in government works. In accordance with this provision, the Forest Serv ice Is setting aside bodies of timber In the Chugach national forest con venient to the line of the proposed railroad, in order that the building of the railroad may be furthered in this way by getting tie timber, piling, etc., free of charge, at convenient points. The permit issued by the district forester allows the cutting, by the commission's contractors, on eight areas, most of them on Turnagain Arm and in the vicinity of Cook's Inlet, the total stand upon which aggregates 85,600,000 feet. This timber v.ill be cut In accordance with the practice in force on the national forests to secure the most Intensive utilization and to provide for the per petuation of the forest cover. The act of congress provides that the secretary of agriculture shall re port annually the amount of timber which has been so disposed of free by the forest service to the other bu reaus in order that congress may know what use" Is being made of the national forests by other departments as well as by individuals under paid permits. When a boy in full sincerity of heart asks his mother, "What shall I do next?" It seems strange that she will dodge the issue by making such an irrelevant suggestion as that he should weed the garden. Phone job orders to the Tidings. Ml. I. Hum, Manager and President 250 KEARNY ST. Bel. Sutter and Bush SAN FRANCISCO I A modem, fire-proof, up-to-date Hotel. I Irvftfrd in the center of evervttiino anrl nn located in the center of everything and on I i I direct line to the upoiition Citoundi. RATES l Detached Bath Private Bath $1.03. $1.50 single $1.50, $2.00 single $1.50. $2 00 double $2 00, $2.50 double 1 50 Roomi (Solid Comfort Ery Convenience Fran Third and Towrniend St. Depot, tale ear No. 1 5 or 16. From Ferry take Sutler St. car. set off at Kearajr St., walk liali a block North. Or Take a "Universal" Bos direct to Hotel Red Crown the straight refinery gasoline Standard Oil Company (California) Portland I I The Oldest National I Member Federal FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus $120,000.00 DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon United States of America MUItmWIIIMMfmUWtilHimHIHIHMM What is a Placer? A placer Is an unconsolidated de posit accumulated by mechanical processes, carrying one or more min erals In commercial quantities. All placers are secondary deposits that Is, the material of which they are composed was originally derived by erosion of bedrock. Although It is undoubtedly true that under certain conditions nuggets of placer gold have been enlarged through chemical precipitation, yet this action is a nediEible Quantity In placers. Plac ers may be derived solely by rock weathering without water porting, but more commonly are the result of water transportation, sorting and de position. Many of the richest placers are thoses formed by the erosion of older placers and the recoucentratlon of their gold. Johnson the jeweler for fine watch work. 97-tf ONE SP00NFIL GIVES ASTONISHING RESULTS Ashland residents are astonished at the QUICK results from the sim ple mixture of buckthorn bark, glyc erine, etc., known as Adler-i-ka. This remedy nets on BOTH upper and low er bowel and Is so THOROUGH a bowel cleanser that it is used success fully in appendicitis. ONE SPOON FUL of Adler-i-ka relieves almost ANY CASE of constipation sour or gassy stomach. ONE MINUTE after you take It, the gasses rumble and pass out. T. K. Bolton, druggist. I CLEANLINESS, PERSONAL COMBINED TO Eagle Meat Market Popular Inspect our market, and your confidence will be behind the pleasure of eating our meats. The knowledge of cleanliness and a sanitary workshop will aid your digestion. 84 N. Mala L, SCHWEIN ""onelM Newport i Oregon's Popular Beach Resort An ideal outdoor retreat. Hunting, fishing, boating, surf boating, etc. Interesting visiting points in the neighbor hood. Convenientcarapinggrounds.electric light, pure water X Low Season and Week-End 7 mo DAILY TRAINS Ask tor illustrated (older "Newport" A Visit Two World.Expositions at San Francisco and San Diego ia an event of a life-time and one you cannot afford to miss Special Fares In July to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego on certain dates Low Round Trip Fares Daily with stop-oven in either direction Faur Fin Trains Dalljr la Each Dirtctlom Stop-Overs At Expositions , All tickets to the East via California permit atop-oven at San Francisco and lot Alleles to see the Expositions Ask nearest Agent for "California and Its Two DUVIU KOUle." ' SOUTHERN PACIFIC John M. Scott General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon Bank in Jackson County I Reserve System j IS ASHLAND SATISFIED? The Evidence is Convincing The Testimony Open to Investigation, Before a statement can be accepted here' It must be supported by local testimony by the evidence of some one residing in Ashland. Statements from unknown people in remote places may be true, but we cannot prove them. Here Is a statement by an Ashland resident: Allen Davis, 137 First street, Ash land, says: "A bad attack of kidney and bladder trouble came on me. It was so sudden and hard that I thought I was done for. My back ached and when' I tried to pass the kidney secretions I had such terrible pains that I could hardly stand them. The flow'of the kidney secretions was scanty. After suffering a number of days I got two boxes of Doan's Kid ney Pills, as I had seen them adver tised for such cases. They proved a Godsend and restored me to good health." Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Davis, had. Foster-Milburn Co, Props., Buffalo, N. Y. HSHLRND Storage and Transfer Co. C. F. BATES Proprietor. Two warehouses near Depot. Goods of all kinds stored at reason able rates. A General Transfer Business. Wood and Rock Springs Coal. Phone 117. Office, 99 Oak Street, ASHLAND, OREGON. We Give a Horse Laugh when we see the way some horses are shod. The horses don't laugh, how ever. Neither would we if we wore such ill fitting, uncomfortable shoes. Bring or send your horse here to be shod in our way. Then the horse will feel like laughing and working more willingly too. A. L. LAMB Corner First Ave. and C St. Successor to W. W. Wilson. ATTENTION AND COURTESY MAKE THE Round Trip Excursion Fares FROM ALBANY giving list of hotels, rates, etc. to (he World Impositions" and "Way Side Notea ' mi! mil