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LAND GRANT TAXES MIST BE
PAN)
In a decision rendered recently,
Circuit Judge J. V. Hamilton, In the
case of Douglas county vs. the South
ern Oregon company, involving taxes
due the county from that company,
held that the tax is "a Hen against
the land a definite charge not
against the individual owner, but
against the land itself."
The Southern Oregon company
owns the Coos Bay wagon road grant
made by the United States in 1869
Practically the same conditions gov
ern as In the Oregon & California
land grant, owned by the Southern
Pacific.
When the litigation was begun to
cancel the land grants for failure to
comply with, original conditions, the
Southern Oregon comoany stopped
paying taxes upon' the grant, as the
Southern Pacific did later. The suit
was brought to determine the valid
ity of the tax liens Issued against the
property.
The company maintained that the
federal 'Court decision entitled it to
an Interest of $2. SO an acre in the
land, and that as much of the land
was assessed at a greater sum, the
assessment was void. The court hold
that the assessor was bound to asses
the property at Its real value against
the holders of the legal title, and
that if the land had been assessed at
too high a valuation the remedy lay
in an appeal to the board of equalte
atlon. Over-valuation s a mere lr
regularity which does not render the
assessment void.
The decision will undoubtedly be
carried to higher courts, but there
is little doubt, in view of previous de
cisions, but that it will be confirmed,
and that both the Southern Oregon
company and the Southern Pacific
company will have to pay the delin
quent taxes or lose all equity In the
land.
Some 1170.000 is due Jackson
county from the 440,000 acres In the
Oregon and California land grant,
and this and subsequent delinquen
cies will eventually have to be paid
to secure title to the land, for the
land itself Is liable, not the person
happening to own It.
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Mai-y Pickford in "Esmcraldu" at Vbiing Thentre Tuesday nif;lit, January 18, 1010.
EXCISES THE MAKESHIFTS
THOSE WHO FAIL IN LIFE.
OF
GOOD WORDS FOR OUR AUTO
CAMP
Following is an excerpt from a
letter received by Beaver Realty
company, under date of January 1,
1916, from Mrs. Dora D. Humbert,
of Minnesota:
"Please tell the gentleman who
planned and executed the sdheme
of the park, that Ashland gave us
the most converlent and comfort
able camping place that we found
on the entire trip of more than 9,
000 miles, and while our bodies
rested, our souls feasted on the na
tural beauty of the Bpot, and the ar
tistic touches added by some beauty
loving mind.
"We most heartily thank whoever
pave the time and thought for our
comfort and assure him that the
effort was appreciated, not only by
bb, but by every overlander who
Islted the park, for we heard of
Ashland and auto camp grounds all
along the way.
"We arrived home in October af
ter a trip of over five months; and
today the snow is flying in white
beets past the window as I write,
but it doea not trouble me for the
ye of my inner self are looking
Into the clear waters of Ashland
creek and I see the sunlight flitting
through the trees above it- I love
your Oregon, most sincerely!" j
Excuses fill no pay envelopes.
The salesman who brings in ex
cuses instead of orders keeps no
wheels turning.
The engine driver who has ex
cuses to offer for bringing in his
train late day after day and week
after week is not the man the rail
road wants.
'The renting agent who can attract
no tenants, but can furnish fine ex
cuses for his failure, Is not the per
son the landlord cares to keep in bis
employment.
The world wants results, not ex
cuses. No man can hit the bullseye every
time.
No man can make a sale to every
prospective customer.
No man can achieve the superhu
man. Indeed, it has been sagely said that
the man who never made a mistake
never made anything else.
But the best workers in any field
are those who offer the fewest ex
cuses.
You will notice that the fellow who
is not making good nearly alway
blames someone else.
Often he is too conceited and self
satisfied to look for the cause in him
self, in his own shortcomings, in his
own lack of energy and ability.
If he can find nobody or nothing
else to blame he will complacently
attribute his failures to "bad luck.'
Search diligently enough and you
can usually find a reason for "bad
luck."
"Bad luck," most times, is nothing
but a convenient excuse for lack of
energy, lack of persistency, lack of
diligent thinking and planning and
striving and st.Ick-to-it-iveness.
'Bad luck" and laziness, indiffer
ence, shiiuessness ana snaiiownese
are near relatives, it not always
brothers.
"Good luck," you must have no
ticed, however, commonly goes hand
in hand with hard work, with inde
fatigable plodding, with unremitting
application, with clear-headed think'
lng with, in short, deservedness.
If those who use their brains in
coining glib excuses would use them
in overcoming the need for excuses,
they would fare better in the end.
Abject failure and an ideal excuse
are less desirable than partial success
and the poorest of excuses.
If you are a ready weaver of ex
cuses which implicate others, stop
tight now and do a little se'.f-an-
alysls.
Turn your searchlight Inward.
Do some keen, unsparing Intro
spection.
Apply an x-ray to yourself.
Try to find weak spots In your own
makeup Instead of having eyes to see
them only in others.
Don't fill yourself with delusions
that you are really a much smarter
follow than the world imagines.
Don't drug yourself with self-pity
and self-laudation. B. C. Forbes in
the S. P. Bulletin.
WHY YOU ARE NERVOUS
The nervoui system is the alarm system
of the human body.
In perfect health we hardly realize that
we have a network of nerves, but when
health is ebbing, when strength is declin
ing, the same nervous system gives the
alarm in headaches, tiredness, dreamful
sleep, irritability and unless corrected,
leads straight to breakdown.
To correct nervousness, Scott's Emul
sion is exactly what you should take; its
rich nutriment gets into the blood and
rich blood feeds the tiny nerve-cells while
the whole system respond to it refresh-
Coffee
You may know much or
little about coffee; but you
know what you like.
You like a clear cup of
coffee with a rich, smooth
flavor; and no suspicion
of bitterish chaff.
To give you this, Schil
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People's Forum
POCKETBOOK ARGUMENT.
first
To produce s work of art you must I fa, n j, tret from alcohol,
st master tbe art of work. '. (aiwree,iiooBiaeid,ir.j.
Aside from town loyalty, why
should a person trade with his home
merchant? Home pride and town
lowalty is not 60 strong as pocket-
book argument. Many Ashland mer
chants tell the writer that their
prices, quality considered, are better
than people are paying when they
send away. If this is true, and you
let the trade know it, .they are pock
etbook chumps, nothing less, if they
persist In sending away for supplies.
But and there's the rub the aver
age Ashland merchant does not let
the people know. It is one thing to
advertise and another thing to pro
duce advertising with pulling power.
Every merchant, to be successful,
should spend as much each month
for advertising as he does for rent.
Then he should give the matter he
puts In his advertisement as mulch
thought as he gives both to buying
right and selling at a profit. Adver
tisements are effective salesmen.
Just how effective depends upon
what Is offered for sale and how it
is offered.
The Ashland Tidings is today go
ing into 90 per cent of the Ashland
homes. How could a Tidings adver
tisement carry a:i attractive offer
that had no drawing power? Be a
merchant. Compete like a success
ful business man. Couple your mer
chandising Intelligently to -your ad
vertising and have no fear that your
customer will send away for goods
they should buy of you. Buyers go
where they think they do the best.
Why not you convince them that you
have the best to offer? If you can
not compete you are out of the run
ning. If you can compette and the
people do not know that you can
still you are out of the running. If
you do compete and let the people
know It, you are bound to win. That
the philosophy of advertising.
More fortunes have been made
through proper advertising than from
all the gold mines of the world. The
Tidings is a good medium in which
to try it.
The British government has asked
Portland mills for bids on 12,000,000
feet of lumber.
TOO MUCH I SIX
Editor Tidings:
As I toast "my feet by an anthra
cite fire while the blizzard rages
without, my mind is lifted and my
heart is stirred by the message Rev,
Calkins gave me this forenoon.
Why should I not say that God
sent it thru an inspired son? It
was no miracle, only a true message
from the source of all truth as all
truths come and must come, thru
natural agencies working thru na
tural laws, laws that never have
changed or ever can. I will not say
that none of the human thru which
it came did not stick to it Just
enough bran to make it good whole
wheat flour. I think there was no
chaff. We rarely get it without chaff.
I cannot give you Mr. Calkin's grist,
but I am inspired by it to try to em
phasize a truth to which many are
calling attention the unbearable
burden of donomlnationallsm that is
crushing the life out of Christian
churches.
Each church, should be a central
organization for united uplift work
in its locality. Two churches should
not exist where one can do the work.
That work should not be the spread
ing of some special "ism" or "dozy",
but the helping of homes and schools
in building up Christian character.
I think the Jews (good people)
admit that Christian character is
good character. Therefore they, if
they are few, should not burden
themselves with a synagogue and a
rabbi until they are numerous
enough to fill the synagogue and
wealthy enough to jpay the rabbi a
decent salary. Much less excuse
is there for Methodists, Baptists or
Presbyterians when they split apart,
putting the burden of maintenance
upon a few, often struggling to 'get
outside aid to maintain separate
weak organizations. They cannot
help their own poor, much less can
htey help outside poor. They cannot
hlp let the light into "darkest Af-
frica". They cannot unite in start
ing a "community house" with a li
brary, and the modern appliances for
amusing, educating, and benefitting
the community.
They can do nothing but keep the
breath of life going in their separate
little weak church organization.
This church fault Is so general at
least among Protestant denomina
tions, that I think I may liken it to a
farmer with thousands of acres of
fertile wheat land. Ho might plow
and sow it all (yes, all and raise a
tremendous crop with a few steam
plows, modern harrows, and wheat
drills, but no, he uses oxen, or horse
teams (In many places one horse)
and buys special machine to spread
"ism" fertilizer.
He cultivates comparatively few
acres poorly, getting little crop,
while much of his land runs to weeks.
At beautiful Ashland in the fertile
Rogue river valley, Oregon, I was
told that sixteen different church or
ganizations divide the efforts of a
population of 6,500 (about the popu
lation of Hilo outside the planta
tions). They have no Y. M. C. A.,
no community house. How could they
support them?
It is, however, a proof that without
a saloon (they have none) a town
of that size can give a semblance of
life to sixteen church organizations.
I doubt if there is much Christian
love between the sects, or-much co
operation. At Jerusalem Turkish
soldiers guard the sacred places to
prevent Christian pilgrims from
fighting each other; not pilgrims
from America, I believe, tho there is
here too much denominational ani
mosity and too little Christian love.
From the age of three till thirty at
Grafton, Ohio, I attended a Congre
gational church, tho that was not of
my "Ism". I was sorry when a Meth
odist church was built near it for
there was scanty support for one.
The, Congregational church is now
dead. I hope it will stay dead, for
the Methodist minister Is a good,
capable man and if all denominations
there will help him he will do great
good.
In the Outlook of December 22, is
a report of President Wilson's
"strong appeal" at the "Church and
Country Life Conference" at Colum
bus, Ohio. He said: "You have got
to save society In this world, not In
tlys next - It is a Job we
have got to undertake immediately
and work out all the time, and It is
the business of the church." A sur
vey of Ohio found (I quote) "that
one of every nine country churches
had been abandoned; only one-thord
are Increasing in membership, and
two-thirds have either ceased grow
ing or are dying; 83 per cent have
less that 100 members, 21 per cent
have less than 25; only 6 per cent
have individual preachers; a large
pp' portion of preachers receive about
the same pay as day laborers. Less
than 40 per cent of the rural popu
lation are church members. The evil
growing out of a narrow sectarian
Ism, "denominational bullies", ab
sentee pastors, and farm tenantry
were debated " "Organized at
tempts will be made to have rural
churches form community federa
tions in order to attack aggressively
the problems of better roads, better
farming, agricultural college exten
sion courses, temperance, public
health, community planning and
beautifying, promotion of coopera
tion among farmers for buying, sell-
ing, and producing, and social and
I recreation centers." Ohio churches
are seeking to apply the teachlnga
of Jesus social service, uplifting
helpfulness to mankind.
H. E. KELSEY,
Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 26, 1915.
Cold weather consumes wood.
Wood costs money. Money is scarce.
You can save by phoning your wood
orders to 420-J. 64-tf
Not a property In Ashland but that
can be sold by Tidings "For Sale"
ads in less time and at less cost than
through tbe regular agent channels.
luterurlmn Autocar Company.
Between Ashland, Talent, Phoenix
and Medford car leaves Ashland
northbound daily except Sunday at
9:00 a. m., 12:50 p. m., 2:30 p.
m, 3:30 p. m., 4:45 p. m. and
6:15 p. m. Sundays leaves Ash
land at 9:00 a. ni., 1:00 p. m
5:00 p. m. and 10:30 p. m.
Leave Medford for Ashland dally ex
cept Sunday at 8:00 a. m., 11:60
a. m., 1:15 p. m., 2:30 p. m., 3:45
p. m. and 5:15 p. m. Also on Sat
urdays at 11:15 p. m. On Sundays
leave Medford at 10:00 a. m., 4:00
p. m. and 9:30 p. m.
Our cars are kept warm in cold
weather.
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From points in Western and Southern Oregon'the logical
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eastern cities. Dining cars, observation cors, standard and
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