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ASHTiATTD TIDHT09 Monday, January 8, 10JO TACE TWO Ashland Tidings Br TUB ASHLA.M) rRlXTIXQ 00. (Incorporated.) SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Bert R. Greer, Editor and Manager. Lynn Monat, - . Newt Reporter Issued Mondays and Tbarsdays Official City and County Paper Under the new electric light ar rangement It will be found altogether possible to retire the bonded indebt edness of the plant in a few years and with the income of the water works plant retire the waterworks bonds at the same time, so that in a few years both electric light and wa ter bonds will all be retired.. Then the profits -from the light and water plants will pay the running expenses of the city. The best way to get rid of high taxes is to operate these city Income propositions to that end. The deal just closed by the council with the old electric light company, if han dled properly, should net the city a profit over cost of current, under the contract, of about $300 to $400 per month, a clear pickup that can rap idly retire the outstanding electric light bonds without raising the cost to consumers. Citizens who will study the matter attentively will find the new electric light arrangement a No subscriptions for less than three j splendid thing for the city. The new months. All subscriptions dropped at j schedule published In the last Tidings expiration unless renewal Is received. showg gome readjustments of rates, In ordering changes of the piper! but the proposed Increase will not af always five the old street address or j feet a dozen institutions and individ- SUBSCRIPTIO.Y RATES. One Tear $2.00 Elx Months 1-00 Three Months 60 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application, first-class Job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. postofficc as well as the new. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Fostofflce as second-ciass mall matter. Ashland, Ore., Monday, Jan. .1, 1016 THE PASSING OK VILLA. ua's, and that In a very moderate degree. IK) .MOVIES DOOM THE STAGE? Pantho Villa has given up the sword with which he hewed his way from peonage to power. The "king of Chihuahua" is dethroned. The outlaw who once led 100,000 Mexican troops has gone the way of Diaz and Huerta. How will history write his record? Bandit he surely was. He stripped the lands he ruled of all their wealth. His firing squad was never idle for want of wretched victims. Yet Villa was a leader of his' peo ple. History must grant him that. Ho rode Into Mexico three years ago with a handful of malcontents and ceven stolen horses. A few months later, ragged thousands called him "general." History may even rate Villa as a reformer. A peon himself, he knew the peon bad been robbed by the land-grabbing pets of Diaz. Villa knew there was land enough in Mex ico for all, and he dreamed of the day when every peon would own the soil he tilled. Centrules ago the same vision of land reform broke the power of Eng land's feudal barons and gave birth to the sturdy yeoman class. But Villa waB densely ignorant. He was unable to formulate a pro gram of his own. He struck a few telling blows for the people, but he struck blindly. Yet Villa has not fought In vain. He was unable himself to keep the promises that attracted an army to his banner. His rebellion, like Wat Tyler's, accomplished no direct and prominent reforms, but it paved the way for stronger leaders to reach the goal. History will be unable to withhold from Pancho Villa some measure of credit when the people of Mexico finally win their freedom. Pretty nearly every day you hear somebody ask, "Will the movies final ly put an end to the spoken play?" Our answer is "no," because that which appeals most in each does not cross the wires of the other. Vachel Lindsay expresses this idea exactly when he says that the keynote of -the stage is passion and character and the keynote of the moving plctur stage is speed and splendor. Some day the movies may be able to adequately portray passion . and character as well, but we doubt it. Coffee The upper ten percent of the world's coffee crop Schilling's Best. It isn't a species or vari ty from this or that coun try, but an unchanging standard of flavor and strength. The name expresses the expert service given you in choosing from the world's supply. Each tin is airtight ; the coffee is packed ground, free from bitterish chaff, and ready for use. Schilling's Best LOOKING FOR THE REST AXD MAKING IT FOR OTHEKS. Now comes the story of a woman who has been bedfast for sixty-five years. Her name is Mrs. Sarah Fos ter, and her home is in North Man chester, Ind. She was paralyzed before the Civil War broke out. All that she has seen of the world since 1851 has been from a tiny bedroom window. But she says, "It's all for the best." This spirit of resignation may not have made Mrs. Foster very happy, but one thing is sure it has done a lot for those around her! The great community effort of this year should not be to Induce people to locate permanently In Ashland. It will do us more good now to have people come here for a season of recreation and healthfulness without regard to whether they stay or not. Thone who come for a week or a month will bring expense money with them. They will be here not to make money, but to spend it, and the money they will spend will fill the community with ready cash from which they will reap prosperity. The Tidings is absolutely opposed to the promulgation of literature, at this stage of the development, with a view of inducing people to come here to Invest and become permanent resi dents. Our great anset is health and recreation. Let tis exploit Ashland as a health resort and playground, than which there Is no better on earth, and growth In permanent pop ulation and in permanent prosperity will follow as surely as the nighj the day. Let us not get the cart before the horse and make the great mis take of starting our development with a rf-al estate boom. H will be harder for Ashland to keep down a boom during the next three years, than to create one. Let the solid heads pravail and exploit our resort without developing a muchroom boom. The greatest work that can be ac complished for Ashland In this early part of the new year is to strike the doleful words, "can not," from our community dictionary and "failure" from our lexicon. "As a man thinks, so Is he." The power of a unanimous, eo-operative thought is beyond com putation and the possibilities' of unanimous co-operative effort brooks bo semblance of failure. Ashland can Dot fall If we do thit. Portland Journal Co-Operates Well The Oregon Journal of Sunday, December 26, contained an Illustrat ed story describing the physical plant that has been constructed by Smith, Emery & Co. In connection with the springs development. This story was written by Morris J. Duryea, from data furnished by Chester Bell, the engineer in charge of Smith, Emery & Co.'s work in Ashland. The pic tures used show the new work at the city lithia spring and the concrete amphitheatre a.t the Borkely sulphur spring. This makes the sixth illustrated story on Ashland that the Oregon Journal has printed in the past six months. Five of these have been written by the manager of the pub licity department and all of them illustrated with pictures furnished by the department. The Journal has given more space to Ashland during this time than any other newspaper published outside the city has done. It has shown its Interest in the city's development and Its desire to co-oper ate with the citizens of Ashland in their efforts to exploit tho town's at tractions for the visitor and tourist by printing this series of storits in its Sunday editions and giving them prominent places In the news section. The publicity department appreciates the generous treatment it has re ceived from the editor and official stuff of the Journal. 1 The Home Circle jj Thoughts from the Editorial Pen The New Vear. A friend stood at the door; In either tight-closed band Hiding rich gifts, three hundred and three score; Waiting to strew them daily o'er the land, Each drop he treads in it, and passes by; Even as the sower. It can not be made fruitful till it die. Friend, come thou like a friend, And whether bright thy face, Or dim with clouds, we can. not com prehend, ( We'll hold our patient hands, each in-' his place, And trust thee to the end; Knowing thou leadest onward to those spheres Where there are neither days, nor months, nor years. the Past. And one must plan for the future." To be sure. Only forget not that it is not the Past that determines the Present; it Is the Present that deter mines he Past. The Past is what we make of it. It la the temper of the Present that qualifies it. It all depends upon how you now consider it, whether it bring you despair or discouragement. Suck out its wisdom, keep its les sons, utilize its experience, make of all those things elements of present power. But forget its septic quali ties. Don't let the Past unman you. benumb you with remorse, weaken you with self-contempt. The poet says we rise by stepping I on our dead selves. And so for the Future, the best praparation for it 1b i an unafraid Today. Whatever hills you have to climb, whatever bridges you have to cross, whatever enemies are lying in wait for you, whatever crises are to be met, you can be no better equipped for them than by living this day soundly, cheerfully, and free' from fear. Apprehensions, premonitions, wor ries, these are the poison gases of our foe, the Future. If you are to die tomorrow, the best way to be ready Is to discharge faith fully Today's duties, and to enjoy heartily Today's simple pleasures. Today is yours. God has given it to you. All your Yesterdays He has taken back. All your Tomorrows are still in His hands. Today is yours. Take its pleasures and be glad. Take its pains and play the man. Today 1b yours, just a little strip of light between two darknesses, just a bit of life between two sleep-deaths. Today is yours. Use it so that at its close you can say, "I have lived, and loved, Today!" Dr. 'Frank Crane in Pictorial Review. MMMMIMMIMMHHMMMHMIHMIIIIUW The Oldest National Bank In Jackson County Member Federal Reserve System FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus $120,000.00 DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson Slate of Oregon United States of America HH H 1 1 1 ! FINANCIAL STATEMENT Of fcl'KIXGH WATEIl COMMISSION', Week Ending December 80, 1015. Miss Mullock, in this beautiful Obit nary. Thomas Colebourne was born in Hosley Woodhouse, Derbyshire, Eng land, August 3, 1S46, and died at Rogue River, Ore., December 26, 1915, being 69 years, 4 months and 23 days of age. At the age of 26 years he came to Iowa and on July 7, 1875, be was married to Miss Mary R. Hays at Marshalltown, Iowa, and in 1876 the family moved to Califor nia and remained In that state eleven j months, when they moved to south. ' ern Oregon, where they have since re mained, , having lived in several places, spending his last few years at Rogue River, In 1891 a boy came to bless the Date. Vr. No. 12-24 1517 R 1518 1519 1520 1521 1522 1523 1524 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529 Name of Party Issued to and Items. 1530 J. Shaw, 48 hrs. labor at $2 day $ J. Galbraith, 32 hrs. labor at $2.50 day C. A. Shutts, 48 hrs. labor at $2 day F. Babcock, 48 hrs. labor at $2 day H. N. Stratton, 48 hrs. labor at $2 day ' I. Bailey, 48 hrs. labor at $2 day L. M.'Eagon, 48 hrs. labor at $2 day R. Bailey, 40 hrs. labor at $2 day J. Kerr, 32 hrs. labor at $2 day W. A. Bibby and team, 12 hrs. labor at $4 day.. F. Hendrix, 36 hrs. labor at $2 day F. Putnam and team, 28 hrs. labor at $4 day... B. W. Olcott, secretary of state, 1916 motorcycle license Provost Bros flies $' '.25 2 shovels 1.50 1 1-lnch coupling 20 1 ft. P4-inch pipe 20 64 ft. 4-inch sewer tile 7.04 1 4-inch tee 80 1 4-inch ell 50 4 ft. 1-inch pipe 40 1 screwdriver 73 Amount. 11.94 9.9G 11.94 11.94 11.94 11.94 11.94 9.95 7.96 5.98 8.85 13.95 3.00 11.64 union, but he lived only a short time poem, gives our ideas better than we and was buried in Ashland, where the can express them. The idea of each father is now laid to rest, day being a gift, hidden from us until I its hour comes, is a pretty thought. So many gifts, so much time to use for either profit or loss, and so many hands are held out eagerly for the coming days, looking for them to bring happiness, or gain of some kind. The spirit sometimes grows faint before the unknown future, con sequently it is enough to take one day at a time and try to make that good It is hard enough even then and sometimes it is best to go hour by hour. Reedsport, Ore., has given a lum ber company 75 acres of land for a factory site and water frontage on condition that It will build a mill of 125,000 feet capacity and operate for fifteen years. 1531 12-27 1532 1533 1534 12-28 1535 12-28 1536 1537 1538 12-29 1539 1540 1541 12-31 1542 1543 1544 111.64 H. R. Ling, inspector, 48 hrs. labor at $3 day... Ashland postofflce, 50 newspaper wrappers Ashland Livery Stable, 414 ft. old lumber J. P. Dodge & Sons, 28 lbs. burlap...' H. Easterly, 3 days patrolling park at $2 day Warner Mercantile Co.. on acct. Dinine for two fountains 130.00 i-aen valley Nursery, 100 sycamore trees G. O. Oium, balance due on construction of power line C. H. Metcalf, balance of December salary as aud itor Ashland Printing Co., publishing financial state ment 12-27-15, 90 lines at 5c J. N. Dennis, 48 sacks cement for fountains M. J. Duryea, salary as manaeer nublteltv for n- cember 200.00 N. E. Swlgart, salary as stenographer publicity de partment 50.00 II. R. Ling, inspector, 5 days labor at $3 day 15 00 18.00 .65 5.00 1.68 6.00 77.60 517.45 35.00 4.50 34.42 Total Jl.238.04 Park Improve- Finishing Operating ment Fund Balance last report 1731 ss Transferred from Operating Fund 6.14 Fund. $4,472.36 1738 (12 Disbursed per this report t4 so Balance this date $683.52 Fountain Fund Balance last report $3,348.43 Disbursed per this report 173.16 $4,472.36 233.38 $4,238.98 Publicity Fund. $2,171.41 250.55 Fund. $491.50 6.14 $485.36 9.00 $476.36 Electric Line Fund. $2,441.08 517.45 Balance this date Other funds same as last reported. J. P. DODGE, Secretary. .$3,175.27 $1,920.86 $1,923.6$ BERT R. GREER, Chairman. You will make a reputation, not by a single great action, but by a long succession of little useful ones. NEAREST TO EVERYTHING Hotel- ssv ma "Meet me at the Manx ' 4" ; yaanrrancisco rmeiiot-oiurorreu Oregonians Head quarters while in San Francisco moderate rates Manaromeat of Chester W. Keller Running1 diilllfd let xeater in every room. Special aften lion iven to Udiet (raveling led. A dining room, la carl, I 'USa Today and tlio New Vear. The best tblng you have in this is Today. Here it is, a wonderful treas ure," a marvelous Jewel. It's yours. all yours. It's in your hands. What are you going to do with it? Today is your savior; it is often crucified between two thieves, Yes terday and Tomorrow. Today you can be happy, not yes terday nor tomorrow. There is no happiness except Today's. Most of our misery is left over from yesterday or borrowed from to morrow. Keep Today clean. Make up your mind to enjoy your food, your work, your play, Today any how. Time Is not divided into three parts, past, present, and future. There1 Is only one real time it is Now. You can do anything, if you'll only go at it a day at a time. If you're bereaved, betrayed, heart- 1 broken, why, take a day off. One day will not matter. Today put away your festering thoughts. Today take some simple joys. Today be a little happy in the Biinshine. You can do It. It's the burden of the coming days, weeks, years, that crushes us. The present is always tolerable. Whoever planned this life of ours did well in giving It to us one day at a time. We don't have to live it all at once, thanks be! We've only got to get through till bedtime. And at the end of every day we are bathed in death. In sleep we go back to our original nothingness. Every morning we are born again. Why let life oppress you? You don't have to live your life, only a day of it. Come, let's finish our small task manfully. It's not long. Don't let life mass against you. At tack it in detail and you can easily fwlnmnh Ifc suutyu. "On, but I can't help thinking of YouVe hit the light tobacco when you fire-up some Prince Albert in your old jimmy pipe or in a makin's cigarette. And you know it 1 Can't get in wrong with P. A for it is made right; made to spread- smoke-sunshine among men who have suffered with scorched tongues and parched throats ! The patented process fixes that and cuts out bite and parch. All day long you'll sing how glad you are you're pals with It', an easy job MMIfef f JNgg? j Albert tidy red tin, but lIMhtXS -XPJ :'$ W jfftfl l tat. th.flarorof Princ. J?f f?FV J l 1 1 SSEessS Albert tobaecol Th. !M:Tfr'tf3 1II8;' jCWSS U ,SV Pjt.nt.dproc.-prot.cU LP-,' ; 1 1 I4M ' mm the national joy smoke You take this testimony straight from the shoulder, mea You can smoke a barrel of P. A. without a kick! It hands out all the tobacco happiness any man ever dreamed about it's so smooth and friendlv. It's a mio-htv rr,pPr- ful thing to be on talking-terms with your pipe and your pfe jfcfcfj tongue at me same rime put mat's what's coming wi7w ; to you sure as you pin your laith to Prince Albert I R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO, Winston-Salem, N. C tidy rmd tint. iOe; handmm poaiufand half.poand hami. dart and in that eaa.y poena crytml-tlft Jtmmidor with iponrm - moittnr ton that hmmot thttn imm m fit!