The Gold Hill News
Published fvery Salurday •>< Gold Mill,
Jacison County. Oregon
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REX M. IAMPMAN
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S aturday , D kc ' kmbkr 10, 1910
CHRISTMAS CAROL
Continued^
city. It was made plain enough by
the dressing of the shops that here,
too. It was Christmas time again, but
It was evening, and the atreets were
lighted up .
The ghost stopped at a certain war»*
house doot and ashed Scrooge If he
knew It.
•Know It!" said Scrooge. “Was 1
apprenticed here?”
They went In. At sight o f an old
gentleman In a Welsh w ig sitting be
hind such a high desk that If he had
been two Inches taller he must hare
knocked his head against the celling
Scrooge cried In great excitement:
“Why, it’s old Feaxlwlg!”
Old Feaxlwlg laid down hla pen and
looked up at the clock, which point­
ed to the hour of 7. He rubbed his
hands, adjusted his capacious waist-
eoat, laughed all over himself from his
shoes to his organ of benevolence and
called out In a comfortable, oily. rich,
fat. jovial voice:
T o ho. there! Ebenexer! Dick!”
Scrooge's former self, now grown a
young man, came briskly In, accompa­
nied by his fellow 'prentice.
Dick Wilkins, to be sure," said
Scrooge to the ghost. “Bless me, yee.
There he Is. He was very much at­
tached to me, was Dick. Poor Dick!
Dear dear!"
THE TRIUMPH OF HONEST POLITICS
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Robert Marion LaFollette first went to the United
W HEN
States senate, four years ago this winter, a conspiracy of
contempt was organized among the other senators. Old trust
protectors like Aldrich and Lodge and Depew determined that
they would snub the young upstart from Wisconsin who came
with a strange new doctrine including the propositions that the
people had rights and that corporations should be regulated.«So
when LaFollette arose to make his maiden senatorial speech they
coughed and shuffled their feet and talked to each other in under­
tones. Many of them got up and leisurely strolled off into the
lobbies. This was their boorish way of showing the Badger
orator that he was distinctly persona non grata with them.
LaFollette recognized the intended snub by telling the senators
as they left the room that they did not have to listen to him, but
that the people outside from ocean to ocean would hear him.
Tears streamed down his face as he told them that what they
termed his demagoguery was the coming political gospel. He
warned them of the pride that goeth before a fall, and predicted
the defeat of those whose ears were deaf to the voice of the
people. But LaFollette was laughed at, sneered at, all but
jeered at, by the august senators who had been in the senate so
many years before his coming. They felt sure that nothing
could disturb them in their places of power.
Throughout his senatorial career LaFollette has,voted
straight for what he believes to be rig h t There has been no
compromise with his conscience or with the enemy. He has
been like a prophet in Lreal when th at nation was inclining to­
ward strange gods.
LaFollette made a notable speech on the Payne-Aldrich
tariff during the last session, when the passage of the measure
was pending and the triumph of the Aldrich crowd was ap­
parently absolute. Once more he gave his errant colleagues
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“I warn you that if you refuse to cousider every prop­
osition advanced in behalf of the public, and carry out your
determination to make this tariff legislation but an instru­
ment by which special interests may enrich themselves, the
public will hold you responsible, and prove its resentment
C o n tin u e d in n e x t w e e k ’s N ew s
as certain as elections are held.”
W heather or no LaFollette is a true prophet may be seen
Coroner Kel.ogg was called to
by
the
fact that nine of the senators who laughed at the La­
Medford Wednesday to hold an
Follette
“demagoguery” were retired on November 8th, and in
irquent over the remains of a
seven
of
the states so represented domocratic legislatures were
witn-nw bohad been f ,und dead
by the railroad track near that city . elected.
It developed • that her name was
LaFollette, were he the kind of a man who has time to
Belle Ellie, that ehe wag a divorced smile at the discomfiture of his enemies, is entitled to a full-
woman, and the verdict was that fledged smile at this juncture.
But he hasn’t time. He is too j
ehe was killed by a train while in busy with his work of spreading the gospel of political purity,
ao intoxicated condition. A pint of common honesty in political affairs—in Lincoln s eternally
whiskey flask, nearly empty, was
great phrase, the gospel of a government of the people, by the
found on her person. It was said
people and for the people. In the meantime those who have
that she had relatives at Roseburg
sown
the wind of political dishonesty will continue to reap the
but they could not be located, so she
whirlwind
of defeat and disgrace.
was buried at county expense.
“ five Thousand in 1 9 1 5 ”
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
Rex Lampmao, publisher of The
Gold Hill News, has installed a new
cylinder press and last week en­ ' F V E R since “Cleopatra, wise old girl, got gay one night and
larged his pap®r from a five column, L drank a pearl,” and long before that, the successful man or
quarto, with patent inside, to a six woman has always been he or she who took as axiomatic the
column, quarto, all home print. proposition that it pays to advertise. Throughout nature tiie
phrase is vindicated. The hen announces her contribution to the
Mr. Lamptnan is making a heroic
high cost of living with a joyous cackle, and the farmer decides
effort to give Gold Hill a high grade that she is one that he cannot afford to kill, however importu­
newspaper, which should insure for nate the holiday market.
Likewise the dimpled baby, at the
him the hearty support of every approach of a feeling of vacuity in its little fat tummy, sets up a
c itiz e n of his town and community howl that is sufficient advertisement of its needs.
The finest
but it’s a two to one bet that if it commercial apple has the highest coloring. Everyone advertises.
There
does, Gold Hill is different from Some use word of mouth and some use printer s ink.
the average small town. We hope are merchants who depend on tastily arranged windows. An­
The News’ latest venture will prove other relies on a few cut prices to sell all his goods, trusting
a seven-time winner, however. Cen­ that the news of the bargains will be passed from mouth to
mouth, until all the countryside knows that he is selling sugar
tral Point Herald
or flour cheaper than anyone else.
Fame these days is merely a
Look pleasent. Raise your chin m atter of judicious advertising, as it was in the time of the regal
a little higher. Hold still just a enchantress of old Nile. There are advertisers and advertisers-
second. That’s all. You may have j the word-of-mouth advertiser, the hot-air advertiser, and the
your photos in two davs.
newspaper advertiser, but the greatest of these is the newspaper
C. K Norcott. Photo Tent.
advertiser. He has the best of all the others. He lets printer’s
ink do his talking for him and is selling goods while his compet­
* My, isn’t that a big box of
itors are wasting wind at the hopeless task of trying to tell every­
candy!” is an exclamation that may
body
what they have to offer. Advertising is the motive power
be heand in front of Turner’s win­
in modern business, and it is generated by printer’s ink.
dow any dav now.
C a l i f o r rr i a
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1« the plaru to v illt. Orange grove« to full bloom, tropical flower«, famons
hotel«, historic Old Mi««lon», attractive watering place«, delightful clim ate,
making that favored section the nation’« moat popular retreat. T ou can see
it at ita beet via the
S h a sta and R o u te
"T he R oad o f a T h o u sa n d W on d ers”
S o u t h e r n P a c i f ic C o m p a n y
Up to-d»te train«, flrat-sla-« in every respect,unexcelleddiniug car serv ice,
quick time and direct connections to all pointe south.
S P E C IA L RO UND T R IP F A R E OF $ 5 5 .0 0
PO R T L A N D TO LOS A N G tL E S A N D RETURN
U ith corresponding low fare« from hit other lection« of the Northwest.
Liberal stop over« In each direction and long lim it. Interesting and at­
tractive literature on the various resort« »nd attraction« of California ean
be had on application k> any S. I’, or O. R. A N. Agent, or from
Wm. McMurray,
P a ..? : g e err A g e « t
Portland, O regon
f you are looking for something for your w ife or sweetheart, don’t miss our Ladies’
Furnishings Department.
See the mechanical man in our window, and
decide whether he’s alive or not.
KENTNER’S
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Everything fo r Everybody for Christmas
MEDFORD