Thursday, November 25, 1915
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ASHTiAVD TIDIGS
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President Wilson has won the
plaudits of the American people by
the firm stand taken In bis last note
to England regarding that nation's
unwarranted treatment of our mer
chant ships. As a note writer and a
diplomat the president is making a
marked success, but we venture the
opinion that if he permits the disci
ples of militarism to Inveigle bim into
an expenditure for the army and
navy in time of peace which will ne
cessitate a bond issue he will find
that his good deeds will soon be for
gotten. It will be difficult for the
Wilson administration to justify a
big bond issue for a great army and
navy when practically all of the lead
ing powers of the world are anxious
to give us a severe letting alone.
timbrel. Never was ' a greater na
tional holiday, never one more per
fect in its spirit. It is in itself one
of the things to be thankful for to
the Power which has so blessed so
vast a land.
A FALL TOXIC.
Entered at the Ashland, Oregon,
Postoffice as second-class mall matter.
Ashland, Ore., Thursday, Nov. 25, '15
HARD WORK A PANACEA.
1
Portland Oregonian: IheOregon
ian reprints from Its valued contem
porary, the Medford Sun, a few point
ed extracts from a homily on com
munity building which that paper ad
dresses to its readers:
"The great trouble with Medford
is it has too many Micawbers.
"The (1910) boom spoiled them.
Money was so easy, business was so
brisk, times were so marvelous, that
they became convinced that Medford
was a magic city, which only required
a little rest to return to the role of
Lady Bountiful, throwing gold to
every one to grab.
"The only thing that will bring
Medford back to its proper and de
served place is work hard work.
"People with wishbones must be
replaced by thoBe with backbones,
and irrigation and beet sugar factory
must be the first projects listed for
accomplishment. The day of mira
cles has passed."
The Oregonian passes along this
sensible and significant counsel to
other towns, Including Portland, for
whatever good It may do. No com
munity which is not prospering ac
cording to its expectations will be any
better off for blaming somebody else.
The day when waiting for something
to turn up was a respectable and
even profitable occupation Is past
The only way Is to take off one's coat
and pitch in. There will be bruises
on tender hands, and stiff Joints, and
many discouragements, but effort is
worth while always; and starvation is
not a pleasant alternative.
"Thank God, that's paid," said Mi
cawber, when he stood off a creditor
by giving a new I. 0. U. But it was
not. The town or county or state
which Is forever flying kites with its
credit will reach its day of reckoning
Let Medford and Rogue River buck
tin. It Is the noblest spot on the con
tinent. But what nature has done Is
not enough.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson states that
football Is one of the greatest fall
tonics. It is even more of a tonic
for the spectator than for the player,
according to the renowned doctor.
The average man and woman are too
apt to shut themselves up when chil
ly weather arrives in the fall. An
afternoon spent in the open air with
tht added excitement of a close foot
ball contest is the best kind of a
tonic. The player stands a possibility
of overdoing; the police force won't
let the spectator overdo. The big fall
athletic event takes place this
Thanksgiving afternoon on the Ash
land high school athletic field. Take
a dose of Dr. Hutchinson's tonic.
VXCLE SAM'S COXSCIEXCE Fl'XD.
HOLIDAY BUYING.
The retail trade now has reached
the point In the year when an un
usual amount of money will be spent.
The approach of winter makes neces
sary the purchase of an unusual
amount of regular supplies. On top
of this cames the gift-buying habit.
The people who do this buying have
a lot of hard work ahead of them In
shopping. They will try to cut down
the time this takes.
They take advantage of every ad
vertisement seen in the newspapers,
to find out what mercahnts have the
most attractive offerings. This saves
an enormous amount of running
around from store to store.
Advertising is always read quite as
carefully as are the news columns.
At this high tide of the buying move
ment it Is of double Interest. The
merchant does not have to create a
want, he finds the public all ready to
buy. The people are searching
through each issue of the newspa
pers for the desired Information, thus
silently asking the merchants what
they have to offer. Those who refuse
to meet this desire for information
in the public prints are lost In the
shuffle.
The high price of eggs again raises
the question why more people don't
keep hens. It Js so easy for them to
get their living In the neighbors'
back yards.
If every man's life was an open
book, you couldn't send it through
the mails.
Even the rich stockholders of the
Nsw Haven railroad have their trials.
Half a million dollars "conscience
money" has been sent to Uncle Sam
at his Washington address since the
year 1840. One dollar was the low
est, $20,000 the highest contribu
tion.. ' .
This fund Is bound to boom if con
science ever gets to work on the
nephews and nieces who were travel
ing in Europe when the war broke
out, and who buncoed their Uncle
Sam out of thousands of dollars for
transportation home.
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
The old homestead Is all alive to
day. Father and mother have been
anticipating for nearly the entire
month. Day by day some little prepa
ration has been going on, until there
seems nothing more to do but to wait.
It is very quiet on Thanksgiving day
morning. Grandma stirs around live
ly but silently. Occasionally a tear
steals down her cheek as she fixes
the places around the table. Just
as many places as last year, but one
less to fill them. Then comes grand
pa, and she brushes away the tear
and In a moment the dear, sweet face
Is lit up wtih smiles. They'll soon be
here, grandma, and the house will
not be so still. Yes, there they are,
Jim and Jennie, little Madge and
Charlie the sweet little fellow; and
there Is John and Mary with the four
children my, how they've grown.
Frank Is almost as tall as his pa, and
Kate I declare, half a head taller
than her mother. Come in, come In,
heaven bless you, children! The
silence of the old home Is broken and
gives place to merriment as in days
agone because Thanksgiving time is
here. The above is but a brief pic
ture sketched of hundreds of Ameri
can homes today because it is
Thanksgiving. '
: "It can not be that earth Is man's
only abiding place. It can not be that
our life is a bubble cast up by the
ocean of eternity to float a moment
upon its waves and sink Into noth
ingness. Else, why is it the high
and glorious aspirations which leap
like angels from the temple of our
hearts are forever wandering unsatis
fied? Why is it that the rainbow and
cloud come over us with a beauty that
pass off and leave us to muse of their
loveliness? Why Is it that the stars
which hold their festival around the
midnight throne are set above the
grasp of our limited faculties, forever
mocking us with their unapproach
able glory? And finally, why is it
that the bright forms of human beau
ty are presented to our view and tak
en from us, leaving the thousand
streams of our affections to flow back
in an Alpine torrent upon our hearts?
We are born for higher destiny than
that of earth. There is a realm,
where the rainbow never fades, where
the stars will be spread out before us
like the Islands that slumber on the
ocean, and where the beautiful be
ings which pass before us like shad
ows will stay forever in our presence.
In these beautiful thoughs we can all
find much to be thankful for, even
if a vacant chair is in our home and
the dark side of life seams turned
towards us. They will place a silver
lining back of any cloud. As a mat
ter of fact we all have much to be
thankful for.
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People's Forum
Editor Tld'ngs: I read an article
In the Tidings recently about grow
ing alfalfa near Medford; about the
splendid yield and quality of seed.
The report was correct. But Just as
good seed was grown on the Davis
ranch, one and one-half miles east of
Talent. The yield was about 400
pounds per acre. Something like
eleven acres was cut and threshed.
So this goes to show that Rogue
I River valley lands are adapted to the
i successful growing of alfalfa seed,
a,a the seed from both sections of the
! valley shows a very high percentage
of purity.
j William Beeson grew alfalfa seed
I in the Wagner Creek valley thatxwas
'of a fine No. 1 quality. So this shows
'that we are bringing out another In
dustry In farming that certainly will
jlead to not only supplying the local
trade and dealers, but wholesaling to
outsiders and dealers, and will be the
means of bringing hundreds of dol
lars to our beautiful valley.
W. H. HURLEY,
Talent, Ore.
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In many ways Thanksgiving Is one
of our most delightful events. It!
comes at a time when the rigors of ,
winter are not yet at hand. We have I
at our disposal all the varied products
of the soil and the time for a season
of partial rest is at hand. One of its I
most delightful features, which has
become quite general, Is the gather
ing together under the old roof tree
of all the scattered sons and daugh
ters on this day. Two, thre and
sometimes four generations thus meet
around the festive and hospitable ta
ble of the old homestead, and thus
fraternal ties are strengthened and
filial piety encouraged.
What a year of special blessing has
been ours! What a year of fruitage!
How the earth has yielded br in
crease! How full the gathering has
been, and how great a storage-we
have! Truly our temporal blessings
were never more full our arms can
carry no more; our greed could ask
no more. And In view of all this will
It be difficult to have a true spirit
of Thanksgiving? Not if we have a
moat of consideration alongside of
the mountains of blessings that
crown this year. Let us not become
so absorbed in appropriating so mucb
that is good that we will have-no
sense of gratitude, no appreciation,
no humbleness at receiving so mucb.
Each year of life is fraught with
many changes, and many of them sad
ones. Yet blessings of sunshine have
fallen as well as the tears from the
clouds. It is not best to live In the
past, whatever it be. Better gather
up the sunshine of the present, or let
the hope for better things add a mite
of comfort for today. If there is much
to make you sad, lose yourself in
seeking to cheer another's heart, and
make those around you glad. It Is
always helpful to think of others
rather than yourself. The greatest
sorrow of any heart can find allevia
tion In ministering to others. Real
life Is to minister rather than to be
ministered unto. Give cheer and
you'll get cheerful. Be thankful and
give praises and rejoicing will fill
your soul. Sing the snatch of a
song and the sunbeams will play
about you. Be mindful of all this
and Thanksgiving Day will be a day
of Thanksgiving until Thanksgiving
Day again.
We have made of Thanksgiving a
day of gratitude all untrammeled, a
day the accompaniments of which are
merry as tbey should be. The re
union of families and of friends, the
feasting and the laughter, even the
legend of the ennobled American
bird, all combine to make the day
something genuine and - religiously
beautiful. There la the strain of the
Miss Bessie Walton of Grand Rap
Ids, Mich., spent a week visiting Mrs.
Earll C. Weaver of Clayton Orch
ards. Miss Walton, has gone to San
Francisco and will spend the winter
In Los Angeles. She plans to return
to Ashland later.
$2 per tier for dry body wood.
Telephone 4 20-J. 45-tf .
Corn LimpersI Use
"Gets-irand Smile!
Corns Come Bight Off; Clean and
Quick! Yon Needn't limp, or
Frua With Your Corn
Any More!
What's the use of spoiling a good
time for yourself by limping around
with nerce corns? It's one of the
easiest things In the world, now, to
get rid of them. "Gets-It" doea it
Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 17.
Editor Tidings: With your kind
Indulgence permit me to describe 60
days' life on a chicken ranch seven
miles from the center of Los An
geles, but still in the corporation. I
am staying with my daughter and her
husband. They have three acres and
are pretty well equipped for 2,000
chickens, but has now about 1,000
besides some turkeys and ducks.
They could sell easily 100 dozen eggs
a day, but unfortunately are getting
less than two dozen a day. Eggs sell
for 50c a dozen that is, yard eggs.
All kinds of pickled and stored eggs
are shipped in, but are so poor that
they are not much wanted and sell at
30 to 40 cents. Local chickens have
n't paid for their feed for four
months, and it will be February be
fore they will. Then eggs will sell
at 30 to 35 cents. Wheatiells for
$2 a hundred. I won't describe the
different feeds that they use, but
there are lots of them, and the cost
Is plenty high. It takes about $15 a
week to feed those on this ranch,
and tbey have not paid for their feed
for months.
Talk about work that keeps up
from daylight till dark every day!
The loss from disease is a very big
item. Talk about cold. Well, it is
sure plenty cold, for the last four
mornings the ranchers and gardeners
have made the sky good and black
with their smudge pots. It reminds
one of home in the spring, when the
OLDER BUT STRONGER
To be healthy at seventy, prepare at
forty, is sound advice, because in the
strength of middle life we too often forget
that neglectod colds, or careless treat
ment of slight aches and pains, simply
undermine strength and bring chronic
weakness for later years.
To be stronger when older, keep your
blood pure and rich and active with the
strength-building and blood-nourishing
properties of Scott's Emulsion which isa
food, a tonic and a medicine to keep your
blood rich, alleviate rheumatism and
avoid sickness. No alcohol in Scott's.
Scott &Bowne,Bloomeld,N.J, .
smudge rises from down the valley.
This morning there was one-quarter
of an inch of lee on all the chicken
pans. Nothing In the papers about
that. By 11 o'clock It gets warm
enough in the sun.
I have been over the city quite a
lot, and from what I bear and see
there must be from 5,000 to 6,000
empty houses and thousands ot
stores, but the rents for stores In
best location, Broadway and Spring
street oh, my! A store like Beebe
& Kinney's $S,000 a month. They
voted down a $2,000,000 road boni
recently. There is no building going
on to speak of.
' I will be tickled to death when
the time comes for me to go back to
my dear old Ashland and greet with
much pleasure my old friends and
chums.
Yours sincerely,
W. A. FREEBERG.
a continuous desire to get something
for nothing, the above conclusion will
likely. have no effect.
Yours for Ashland's continuous
prosperity,
A RETURNED WANDERER.
Ashland, Nov. 18, 1915.
Editor Tidings: To one who has
been absent from the city for a sea
son, the changes for good that are
noticeable on all sides are quite ap
parent, and are much more obesrv
able to such than to those who are
in town continuously. The private
Improvements are nt Inconsiderable
in the way of a lavish use of the
paint brush, and in rebuilding and
alterations of old structures. The
public improvements exceed all oth
ers. Street and park work improve
ments are simply wonderful. Ashland
should be proud of her public offi
cials, handicapped as tbey are by an
archaic charter, which has been
patched so often that it Is almost im
possible to tell where the patch be
gins or the original cloth ends. What i
the auxiliary water commission with
the aid of the park board and street
commission have done Is remarkable.
A walk through the park as far as
the auto camp grounds and return by
the way of Granite street, to one
knowing the conditions there one
year ago and having some knowledge
of the price of real estate which now
belongs to the city but which bad to
be bought from its former owners,
to see the improvements and changes
in said locality, reveals that our pub
lic servants have done well by the
city. If he Is not blinded by preju
dice he can certainly see that Ash
land has gotten the worth of her
money if $75,000 is all the added
park lands and their Improvements
cost her. However, to those who have
acquired a perverted vision through
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due to Insecure packing.
Address your parcels correctly and
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Write your own name and addresa
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be marked "Eggs."
Packages containing perishable
matter should be marked "Perish
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lies, etc., should be marked "Fra
gile." Don't pack eggs, berries or similar
produce in a thin pasteboard box.
Eggs wrapped separately and sur
rounded in cotton or excelsior and
packed in a strong, light wooden or
corrugated paper box will arrive at
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Coffee
'What's this coffee
worth? How much good
feeling in a pound of it?
And what's that worth?
What is coffee worth with
out it?
It's not the price that
counts, but what you get
for it that is why Schil
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economical.
It is packed evenly
ground in airtight tins,
ready for use and
moneybacked.
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The BreaMast
ii Shapes the Day
Load the stomach up with a breakfast
of rich, greasy food, and you clog both
digestion and miud.
For real work real efficiency try a
breakfast of
TboM Com Coma Right Off, Cteaa A
Whittle, by Uu( 'Cu4U'"
the new way. That's why "Oots-It" ha
become the corn remedy ot America,
the biggest selling corn remedy la the
world, prejorred by millions. Do you
remember that toe eating salve you
tried, that sticky tape, that toe
bundling bandage, the gouging you've
done with knives, razors and sclssorsf
Well now, forget them all. No mora
fussing, no more pain. Whenever you
use simple, easy "Gets-It," the corn
la doomed, sure. Bo is every callus,
wart or bunion. Never cut corns
or calluses. It makes them grow that
mncn faster and Increases the danger of
blood poison. No cutting Is necessary by
using "Gets-It." Use it tonight and end
your corny existence. ,
"Oets-If la sold by alt druggists.
tSe a bottle, or sent direct cy E
Lawrence Co., Chicago. ' - -
sold in Ashland and rccomended as the worlds
bat Cora remedy by Motiair Bras, and I.J. Mc-Hair.
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Grape
Nuts
and Cream
Some fruit, an egg, toast, and a cup of
hot Postum.
Then tackle the work ahead with vigor
and a keen mind. There's joy in it.
Grape-Nuts is a food for winners.
"There's a Reason"
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
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