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1 I1" Thursday, October 7, 1015 abitTjAnd tidings PAGE SEVEfl - V. is. , mtk. wl ill ik THE APOLLO CONCERT COMPANY Ashland Lyceum t'ourso, Tulmit. Governor Proclaims Day for Fire Study Governor Withycombe has issued a proclamation designating October 9, forty-third anniversary of the disas trous Chicago fire, as fire prevention day in Oregon. The proclamation cites the fact that in 1914 more than $4,000,000 worth of property was destroyed by fire in Oregon and that the annual loss per capita in the state is far in excess of the $2.32 per cap ita loss for the United States as a whole. The governor calls for efficient or ganization against unregulated fire and urges individuals and communi ties, as far as. -possible, to have in flammable materials removed from hotels, stores, dwellings' and other buildings. Establishment of fire drills is urged. The proclamation follows: "Whereas, it is becoming ever more evident to all of us that the great losses which we are constantly sustaining from fires are, in a large measure, preventable through proper precautions; and -. "Whereas, there is a growing ten dency to study the problems of fire destruction with a view to combating it scientifically; and "Whereas, we of Oregon should be " especially interested because of the great losses locally sustained, which ' T)ring our estimated per capital annual fire loss far in excess of the $2.32 per capita loss of the United States s a whole, and this in comparison with a per capita annual loss in Euro pean countries of less than 50 cents; ' there having been in Oregon in the year 1914 over $4,000,000 worth of property destroyed by fire; and "Whereas, it is fair to believe that by giving the matter proper thought and precautionaly attention our loss es may be measurably lessened, and an interest in the entire problem can well be focused through setting aside day each year when it shall be es pecially considered, as is done in many other states; "Therefore, I do hereby designate October 9, 1915, as fire prevention tfay in Oregon, that day being the an- niversary of the disastrous Chicago fire of 1872. And on fire prevention a 41,.. Arrn,.fo y,a mario tn nr- aay x urge iuni cnui m - ganize our state in an efficient cam paign against the common enemy of ell unregulated fire. And it would PLACARDS AT THE TIDINGS Printed sip cards . of all kinds in stock We are prepared to supply your needs at all times 1 THE TIDINGS THEflOME OF .: , , A ' ft : si .-..r T & 1 K vxw seem to me well worth while that, so far as possible, Instruction concern- , ing the dangers of fire and the meth iods of fire prevention be given In the 'schools on that day and on other jdays as well. And I would further urge that on fire prevention day in dividuals and communities undertake : domestic and municipal house-clean-I ing and inspection, to the end that j inflammable rubbish may be re ' moved; that heating appliances and 'chimneys be examined and placed in safe condition; that the occupants of hotels, factories and Institutions housing numbers of people be safe guarded: that fire drills be estab lished and operated; and, in short, that every encouragement be given to a healthy public preparation for the lessening of our fire losses, through intelligent and adequate fire preven tion. "In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand this 22nd day of September, 1915. "JAMES WITHYCOMBE, "Governor of Oregon." Grants Pass Ships Carload of Grapes Grants Pass Courier: The vine yards of Tokay and Malaga grapes set out in the Grants Pass district during the past few years are just now coming into mature bearing, and for the first time in its history car shipments of giapes will go forward from this city. The first full car will be billed out Thursday, and it will be followed by from six to eight more during the season, while many I thousands of crates of the luscious fruit will be shipped out by express. Ashland's Glass of Water. The Tidings has just printed the beautiful glass of water prepared by Mr. Durye'a on a large number of en velopes (the glass immediately under the return 'card) and has them on sale at this office in packages of 25 at 10 cents a package. Every citizen should secure and use these envel opes in their correspondence and thus help to put Ashland on the map with out extra cost to themselves. The price, 10 cents the package, is the same envelopes are usually sold for without the beautiful advertising souvenir. tf Phone job orders to the Tidings. FOR SALE For Rent Cards Public . Stenographer For Sale Cards Board and Room Rooms for Rent No Smoking ON LINEN AND CARDBOARD GOOD PRINTING ;t v. n f - c The Cofft Cup In Persia. The expression "to give a cup of eof fee" has in Persia a somewhat omi nous significance. This is due to the fact that the coffee cup is oue recog nized medium for conveying poison. Some years ngo the governor of Aspa diuia, having lou been at daggers drawn with the chief of a powerful mountain tribe, determined In this way to put an eud to all trouble. He pro fessed to entertain a great degree of friendship and esteem for the clileftuiu and invited him to visit him at his pal ace. The chief unsuspiciously came, accompanied by his two young sons. For a week tliey were royally enter tained. But at last one morning when the chief came into his host's presence he was coldly received, and un attend ant soon stepped forward with a single cup of coffee in his hand, which he of fered to the guest. The latter could not full to understand that he was doomed. Preferring, however, steel to poison, he declined the cup and wus thereupon, at u signal from bis host stubbed to death. The Teat of Education. The test of a good education is the degree of mental culture which it Im parts, for education, so far ns its object Is scientille. is the discipline or tne mind. The reader must not overlook what is meant by the word mind when used in reference to education. That some dumb animals are possessed of a sort of understanding Is admitted, but It has never been asserted that they enjoy the use of reason. Man, how ever, has the faculty called reason in addition to bis understanding. Accord ingly what we mean by saying that the obieet of education Is the cultiva tion of our minds or thut the goodness of an education varies with the de gree of mental culture amounts simply to this that we better perform our functions ns rational creatures in pro portion us we carry further the dis tinction between ourselves and the brute crention-that is. in proportion as we ore better fitted for the discourse of reason. John William Donaldson. Floorwalking and Spelling. The worst thing about the following Is that it Is true and, what's more, that it happened in oue of Pittsburgh's stores. The girl, stylishly attired, stepped up to the still more stylishly attired floor walker and inquired where she would find the chiffon. The floorwalker con sulted a notebook. Her surprise came when he gravely told ber that they did not keep chiffou. "Why," she gasped, "you cannot pos sibly mean that!" In her eagerness she stepped closer to the stylishly attired man than Eleu nor Gale says a stylishly nttiivd wo man should, and looked over bis shoul der nt the notebook. "Oh, I see!" she said flatly as she moved off to ask for the girl at the glove counter about the chiffons. The man had been looking under the ss. Baltimore Star. Making Lenses. There is absolutely no other human occupation that requires the accuracy of observation and the delicacy of touch tbnt are requisite for the mak ing of the finest lenses. These are the most perfect products of human hands. It may convey some Idea of the labor required lu the maklug of a large lens to say that at least one year's time la required for the grinding and polishing of a thirty Inch object glass. A little lens two inches In diameter requires the unremitting care and attention of a skilled workman for two or three days. It is easy, then, to see why it is that even lenses for high class photo graphic work are costly. A forty luch object glass for a large telescope can not be made in much less than four years' time, aud f everything does not go just right it may require much longer than that. The Circular Saw. In technical journals considerable dis cussion has taken place as to who in vented the circular saw. The claim is made that this kind of saw was in vented and used by a wood turner named Murray nt Mansfield about the year 1820. The first saw Is described as having been about sis Inches in di ameter and was used on a wood turn ing lathe operated by water power. James Murray, the inventor, is said to have been the sou of old Joe Murray, the favorite servant of Lord Byron. If It Only Were. Little Johnny was sorely troubled one morning. Prohibitions great and small met him ut every turn. It wus "no" to this and "no" to that till at last he began to cry, angrily exclaiming to his mother betweeen sobs. "I wish 'no' was a swear word, mamma, so you couldn't say it." American Boy. Firmness of Purpose. Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessory sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes ita efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. Expectation. Montague So the Jlmson girl eloped with young Perkins? Are her parents much worried? Melissa Awfully. Ev ery day they are expecting a letter asking for money. Judge. Those Funny Stories. A well known trouble with conversa tion is that you can't talk to some men half a minute without reminding them of a funny story thut isn't very funny. Toledo Blade. ' Inquisitive. . , 'Edgar, aged six; was recently sent to school f or- tbf first time, and upon h1f return-home he asked; "Papa,' who' taught Adam the alphabet?" This One Is Just Too Good To Keep This one is too good to keep, and although the victim tried to bribe the reporter with cigars and soda water, the reporter's sense of humor, while it did not prevent him from accepting the bribe, will not allow him to let the incident get by without notice. We will compromise with our friend, the victim, however, and let you guess his name. The victim was one of those who was "going to bring back the limit" Friday morning and arose bright and early to bo first In the fields where the elusive honk of the china pheas ant, is heard. He had one "staked out" rlKht in a bunch of weeds in a fence corner. The unwise man had had the luck of sense to tell a couple of friends, however, and hence the sequence. He was sure that the pheasant was there, having seen several in the vi cinity on former trips through that locality, and was therefore very cau tious in his approach. Crawling care fully along the fence he glimpsed the brilliant plumage of a beautiful cock pheasant, posing in a listening atti tude. Now while most of these sports men tell you that they never shoot until the bird is on the wing, one's own conscience is more easily quieted than the jibes of the cronies in the cigar store, and so our valiant friend raised his trusty pump gun to his shoulder and let go at the motionless pheasant. Not a sound broke the stillness for a second after the shot rang out, and with exultant thoughts of the story of how he "brought down the beauty at a good fifty-five yards, by Jove," our hero leaped to recover the prey. Our huntsman's aim had been good, as splatters of stuffing from the nicely mounted pheasant testified. A cackle of laughter from behind some brush nearby completed the disillusionment. September Weather at Ashland. Co-operative observer's meteorolog ical rerord for the month of Septeni' ber, 1915, at Ashland, Ore.: Temperature. Date. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 i 12.:,.... 13 14 15 16... 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Max. Min. 75 45 80 42 88 44 88 48 85 48 76 43 76 40 79 41 74 45 69 36 , 71 37 , 65 40 , 60 43 , 72 45 , 75 40 , 85 44 , 88 45 .' 88 49 , 85 47 . 88 47 . 76 44 , 74 38 . 65 45 . 68 47 . 74 38 . 70 42 . 66 48 . 74 34 . 82 37 . 80 40 27 28 29..'. 30 Maximum temperature, 88, on 3rd, 4th, 17th, 18th and 20th; minimum temperature, 34, on 28th. Total precipitation, .14 inch. Number of clear days, 24; partly cloudy, 4; cloudy, 2. LOUIS DODGE, Co-operative Observer. Johnson the Jeweler for fine watch work. 97-tf Uncle Sam knows a p'ood "ihinp Perfection Oil Heater Tents in the Model Camp, U, S. Marine Corps, P. P. I. E., San Fran cisco, 1915, are equipped with Per fection Oil Heaters. Smokeless and odorless. Dealers everywhere. For lest results use Pearl Oil Standard Oil Company (California; Portland Our Mind at Rest; It Was Not John The many Ashland friends of John Dugger, who was formerly employed in the local Southern Pacific offices and is now located in Oregon City, will be glad to learn that John was not the Dugger who was arrested for chicken stealing Borne time ago. The following item was enclosed in a letter from Mr. Hugger asking us to set forth the truth concerning the af fair: "A strange case of mistaken ident ity has resulted in deep troubles for John II. Dugger, an employe of one of the local paper companies. "Dugger has received a letter from his mother, Mrs. Lou Dugger, of Boonery, accusing him of stealing chickens. 'I did not know that I had raised my son to be a chicken thief,' the letter read. Dugger began an in vestigation, for, he declares, he 'has never taken a tiling that belonged to somebody else,' and found that a week ago a man named John Dugger was arrested and fined for chicken stealing in the recorder's court. His mothor read the story of John Dag ger's arrest and conviction in a Port land newspaper and thought that it was her son. "Dugger came to Oregon City from Ashland several months ago and does not know the other man wtih his name. He Is well known throughout southern Oregon, he says, and regrets that the story of the arrest and con viction of a man with his name should be so widely circulated. The Dugger who stole the chickens lives at Park place." Oil Tests Favor Western Crudes An article In the National Petrol nnm X'uro AaWrxV with fill tPStft 11111(1 cum ncnu uvHiiuB " by car manufacturers, says regarding tAnn Kir Via Pan1rntf1 rnmnnTlV! "A year ago this company made an .1 !.. n.ln r,llo This test consisted in taking six new motors ana using in eacn a fnllv niPHRiired Quantity of one of the six standard motor oils then on the market. .The oils were carefully an market . The oils were care.m y an- alyzed before they were placed in the motors. The motors were then start ed running under pressure equal to an average load and allowed to run for a period of twelve hours. Every hour the oil was tested for tempera ture, viscosity, flash and fire test and sealing quality. At the end of the twelve hours -- v the oil was again analyzed and the . J .1 motors were torn down and examined for carbon deposit. "Assistant Engineer Hunt says he is inclined to favor oil made of west ern asphalt base crude, rather than oil of eastern paraffine base crude." A special train bearing 130 mem bers or the American Railway Asso ciation passed through the city Fri day morning en route ,to the San Francisco exposition. . Harry Sayles being laid up with a broken collarbone, Brick Moody is holding down his seal-grabbing Job and attending to his "HawkBhaw" du ties. Phone job orders to the Tidings. County Youngsters Win at State Fair The boy corn growers of Jackson county have fared well at the state fair, having carried off all the blue ribbons on this golden cereal. Claus Charley of Brownsboro, who won first last year at the Jackson county fair as well as at the state fair, was this year awarded first In the Boys' Agricultural Club with an exhibit of corn. His brother Leland won first in the boys' corn-growing contest as well as first In the boys' open corn contest, class A. Vern Owens of Wellen carried off first in class B. Others of our boys winning in corn are Joe Collins of Table Rock, fourth, and Sidney Flentley of Talent, fifth. It will be recalled that seed corn from the Clans Charley field was distributed last spring to all boys in the county who applied for it. About twenty-five of the boys made exhibits at the state fair. Miss Ksther Miller of Medford, It. 4, was awarded first prize in the poultry-raising contest, division 4. The first prize in these project eon tests are trips to the O. A. C. at Cor vallls for a two weeks' course dur ing the summer school In 1916. Other boys and girls winning prizes at the state fair are the fol lowing: Joe Collins, Table Hock, first on watermelon, first on pie pumpkin, second on hubbard squash. Ida Stearns, Gold Hill, fifth on sewing. Harriet Howells, Medford, third on hand-made dress. Maud Rice, Talent, fifth on pie pumpkin. Louis Sweet, Beagle, fifth on bread. Merle Willits, Persist, second on potato growing. Jake Cook, Gold Hill, fifth on po tatoes. Mildred Lynch, Talent, fourth on , , , oa nK Han Harold Burnett, Talent, fifth on lions. Robert Keller, Ashland, second on rd house. Chester Nlckelson of Portland waa on n' KObt fm the be8t , " . ... ..,...,.... dividual exhibit In the agricultural section: D. M. Lowe of Ashland re- . G,key ot c DKPOT DOINGS. The attendance at the Panama Pacific exposition from February 20 to September 23 was 13,219,832, tuxuruijift iu i vi,.. ,.... i lisherl by tho Southern Pacific Com- pany. According to advices from Salem, President Sproule has telegraphed the state railroad commission that the Southern Pacific now has 400 carB en route to the Willamette valley to relieve the car shortage in that section. Switchmen employed by all Chica go railroads have petitioned for an increase of 5 cents per hour. Brother hood officials say that demands from the switchmen in other cities will fol low. The railroad officials say thnt switchmen are paid more in Chicago than any other city in the United States. The state railroad commission sent a telegram to President Sproule of the Southern Pacific the last of the week demanding an explanation for the shortage of. cars to handle the lumber shipments from the Willam ette valley. General Freight Agent Hlnshaw says that there has been a small shortage but that cars wore getting more numerous and that few complaints had been received. The latest economy measure adopt ed by the Southern Pacific Ib the adopting of a form of envelope which permits of use several times.' The company seeks suggestions from its employes for money-saving methods or devices. When the thousands ot envelopes used every month are con sidered it may easily be seen that the new envelope, which may be used seven times, will be the means for a great saving. Don't Get.Wet k and carry arouna a toaa 1 i3c of water and a cold. Tower's Fish Brand Reflex Slicker $3.00 sheds every drop. Easy fitting and 1T OIIV1IK Ok .v.j j point. 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