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THURSDAY, Hod. 1«, M M .
TRE DAILY TIDINGS EDITORIAL and FEATURE PÄGE
PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PBINTDJQ CO.
W. H. PBBKINS, News Editor
ASHLAND D A IL Y T ID IN G S
OUT OUR WAY
By W illiams
L Y D IA
of the Pines
A Western Artist
■ Willa Cather, that much respected writer of
books with western scenes and western people, has
rewritten one of her first novels, “ My Antonia,”
after an interval of nearly 30 years. , Miss Cather
disputes with Edith Wharton the honor of being
called tlie leading American woman novelist. Mrs.
Wharton held the rank for many yean, until the
late war, sajL but .she does not fit in the modern
tradition continues and survives, as it promises,
Miss Cather will continue to be regarded as the
greatest writer.
Mrs. Wharton has been living nearly all her
time in Prance for many years, and it is fair criti­
cism to say she has lost touch with the American
development. Her approach is still American, hut
it is touched with a European attitude. It is ap­
proximate justice to say she is a Heiyy James,
rather than a Theodore Dreiser. Miss Cather is a
writer of the lin t magnitude who is still wedded
to American scenes and to what may be called an
American art.
But even a writer of the first magnitude, with
as fine an early volume to her credit as. “ My An­
tonia,” may find revision profitable.
The first
version drew praise from critics as far apart as
H u g h Walpole and II. L. Mencken.
The English
novelist called the book one of the very finest writ­
ten on this continent, and the bold man of Balti­
more said no romantic novel of our is one-half so
beautiful. But the few changes which have been
in the writing in the later version - show that in de­
tail it has been improved, although in large plan
it has been left undisturbed.
Miss Gather’s opening sentence in the first book
contained the following specimen of prolixity. “ Last
summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa
in a season of intense, heat, and it was my good
fortune to have for a traveling companion James
Quale Burden—Jim Burden, as we still call him in
the west.” Her later judgment .put down “these
words: “ Last summer, in a season of intense heat,
Jim Burden and I happened to be eroesing Iowa on
the same train.”
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What have been long passages of explanation
have been shortened into paragraphs, just as this
long sentence has been made more concise. Miss
Cather was led in her fij*st edition to give a long
description of Jim Burden’s wife, which has been
boiled down to a very small space. In making file
change, Miss Cather brings her book to date. For the
interest Mrs. Burden displayed in the first book in
woman suffrage, there is substituted “ she finds it
worth while to pla ythe patroness to a group bf
young poets and painters of advanced ideas and
medicore abilities.”
Miss Cather is a westerner in her art, but it is
the west of human beings, not of cowboys and he-
men. She finds the same simple human problems
in this country that great writers have found on
the steppes of Russia, in the valleys of Scandinavia,
on the farms and iu the vineyards of France and
Germany, and on the great Wessex plain. Her work
is an illustration of the kind of literature the west
can take a legitimate pride in, not because it or its
creator came from here, but because it shows our
people capable of a fine art.—Des Moines Register.
The Golf Dinner
With the announcement yesterday of u golf
dinner dance to 1» staged at a local hotel, the Golf
business is beginning to loop up. There is an abso­
lute need in Ashland for a golf coarse. This need
extends Iwyond the limit of our own selfish desires,
it has reached the stage when it becomes a real
business necessity. Necessity because, the tourist
trade has lieeu recognized as a large factor in our
yearly business life. We have received a generous
portion of this business, and it is up to us as a
cctamunity to not only hold our present standing
hut to increase it in every legitimate way possible.
Golf has become a universal attraction. Other
cities throughout the state have recognized this and
are completing or have completed excellent courses-
It behooves Ashhind folks to at least do as well, as
a step towards protecting that which we already
have. Consequently* anything, that will boost this
project along deserves the support of the entire com­
munity. The dinner dance will do this, if it is
kindly received. Mo bear this fact in mind, that
when you are asked to purchase a ticket, you are
doing your bit towards Uringiag before the publie
the necessity for an early completion of this work.
Four centenarians died within a month in Ire­
land. What we want to know is what kind of armor
they wore.
Endland has a man 41 inches in height who
can walk under ah omnibus. But who wants to walk
voder an omnibust
H onor«
WiOaU
“Then he said while ha w as get-
that done, he would par as a
every month to, go flumgfc
the woada and chop dowa the MM
tree» The Big Father wW let
whites get ’dead and down’ Umber
ont of Indian woods, he said. Rot
adt let whites eat any. So We aay
y e» and thoagh fail bloods a w very
mad when we eat down big tree»
we de i t For many m o w s we do
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tell him everything that happen*.
(Continued from yesterday)
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Twelve.
It was mid-
Christmas
Eve had coins
and gone ones
nior0 an<* now
Christmas was
here. /
All was very
still and quiet
Ha Glanced Up. ’■
Z’V''"'
I What Others Say
(Garibaldi N ev a )
Ike Patterson and Calvin
Coolidge would make a good
pair to draw ta, both aa to
allene* and achievement. The
governor's mansion at Sa­
lem will be nnnaually quiet
for tha next faw years, and
the number of speeches de­
livered ail over Oregon will
be decidedly fewer. All of
which comes In pat for
Thanksgiving day.
(Malheur Enterprise)
When the girls of a Ne­
braska high school complain­
ed that n s school rooms
were too chilly the board
made the ridiculous sugges-
tlon that they should wear
more clothes.
AND
“Celebrating’’ make* few (olka
celebrated.
It isn’t what you do, but
you do It, that counts.
Anyhow, the hair ta the butter
is shorter than it used to be.
When a man starts sliding
down hill, laziness acts as a lub­
ricant.
What the average town needs
Is more sense rather than more
population.
We see only the good points in
people we like, and only the bad
points ta people we hate.
(Central Oregon Press)
An eminent atar-gacer aays
tbe moon is made of Ice. A
chorus of voices under voting
age are asking him to cheese
Her Heck says: “It’s about a
stand-off whether wimmin spends
as much fer bargains as men do
ier tohuccer.”
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17.
(United Press)— Juat to get
himself in shape, H. Levett,
the “human dynamo,’ begaji
a 128 mile gallop Monday
from here to Romana, Saa
Bernardino a n d
ratura,
promising to a h © w up
promptly Wednesday mora­
ta.
Then with the stiffness
out of hla legs, Levert plana
to trot to New York over a
3157 mile route ta 460 to
600 running hours.
JAMAICA, L. I., Matt
Wieaen of the Hillcrest Golf
Club Isn’t a hole ta oner. He
la the sole member ef a lit­
tle golfing feature organised
by himself. Wieaen drove oft
Monday, slice« Into the turn­
pike and hla hull broke the
windshield of a police de­
partment automobile, send­
ing Patrolman Herman T.
Cook to'tke hospital.
NEW YORK,— ‘‘No man
that can make goulash like
Etel Welesz will ever become
a public charge,’’ Alexander
Kordat, Hungarian motion
picture director, almost tear­
fully told Immigration au­
thorities. Moved by the di­
rector's plea that he could
not make American pictures
without Hungarian goulash,
the officials released Welesa
from Elba Island.
TURNING THE PAGES BACK
ASHLAND
ASHLAND
20 Years Agi
Verni Milla left Saturday to
C. B. Watson haa returned from
resume hla duties at the Univers­ s trip to the Willamette valley.
ity of California.
He delivered a lecture before the
student body of the University of
Walter Kittredge has traded his Oregon upon the geology of Ore­
old car snd some coin of t h e gon.
realm for a beautiful new Btude-
baker Six.
The family of Rev. J. O. Hack­
ett,
the 'new pastor ot the Free
Floyd Fraley of San Bernardino
and Karl Fraley of Pomona, CalM Methodist church ta Ashland, ar­
are here vtaltlng with their par­ rived Saturday from Illinois.
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Fraley. Mr. Hockett purchased the Pratt
They are both teachers la the place on Oak street and they have
taken possession ef tt.
California schools.
District Game Warden Drlacell
returned Monday from a trip to
the mouth of Rogue river. He
wan accompanied down the river
by State Game Warden Carl Shoe­
maker of Roseburg and Deputy
Forester Fiery of Portland.
On
thalr return trip they vletted tbe
Jeeepbtoe Cave».
house.
He glanced up at the clock.
(Medford Mail-Tribune)
Science proclaims “there
la no life on Mara.” Thia haa
been worrying a lot of peo­
ple who now, with their
minds undistracted, can go
right ahead and rake up the
leaves ta the front yard.
the
r Now and again
there was a soonp hut it was only
the croak of an old, weary board
In the floor, or of « murmur in the
wall» usually so quiet and willing
to be qbt ot tbe way of people,
though serving a vary useful pur­
pose Just the same.
The fire had gone out long be­
fore. The rooms ware as silent.
Only If you had gone late acme of
the bedrooms you would have
heard quiet, even breathing.
The Hock had made more sound
and noise than anything ta the
house with its striking twelve times
to let anyone who cared to know
| realise that Christmas had com»
Then there camo some sound»
voices, ateigh hell» prancing.
Aad there ware sounds In the
chimney, sounds aa exciting aad In­
teresting as they could be.
“Wall, well, wall,” came a lew,
cheery vale»
Down the chimney, pack aad all,
came Santa Claus.
Fred VanNatta, a former Ash­
land boy, arrived from Goldfield.
Nevada, where he holds down »
position ta Wells Fargo A Co.’si
cfflce. Mrs. VanNatta precede©
him a fortnight and haa been vle­
tting with her slater, Mr*. W. O.
Long, of this city. They wil)
tarry natll after Thankagtvtng.
J. Connor of the Oregon Hotel
went down to Salem Sunday on a
business trip, accompanied by
Mrs. Conner. They returned to­
day.
Miss Lydia McCall accompan­
ied her uncle L. B. Applegate, on
his return to Klamath county, for
a three week’s visit with rela-
ttves there.
i Col. Jss. Scoble, so well snd
favorably kaown os a contractor
during railroad and construction
day» and aa extensive land own­
er la this vletatty, aceomfoialed
by bis wife, have Juat returned
from a trip abroad dartag which
Mr. Scoble visited hla native
Scotia. Mr. Scoble canto to Ash­
land precinct last week to attend
the wedding ot bto niece Miss
WHbelmbna Roes with Mr. Ho­
mer Barron.
Thors It wa» Just a tow minutes
after midnight la fact. It was only
two minutes after midnight
“I arrived Just on Christmas,’’
Santa said to himself. “Merry
Christmas to everyone ta the house­
hold : Thia io the first Marry Christ­
mas I’ve whispered aa yet thia year.
For a few minutes ago whan I was
In tha house next door it was not
quite Chrlatma»
“Now it’s Christmas morntag. Ah,
how they've, greeted ma herel
“Such b e a u t i f u l decoration»
Wreaths with red bows in the win­
dow» groona aad branches over the
picture» rad candles la the candle­
sticks, oven eome wreaths with lit­
tle cones aad bunches of rad her-
All about thing* Kanban gatf eth­
er whites do. AM ha pay* aa al-
way*. Than ha Mia a* that the
Big Father will tat mixed bloods
sell thetr pine lands but not fOU
Woada So then we agree when he
want* any full-blood land to awear
that any fun Wood Is mixed. And
wa bave dona thia now, perhapa
twenty time»” '
The mixed Wood and Charlie
paused. Mr, Smith took ap a pa-
I per. “I bave hare, Mr. Lavine, a
statement of your dealings with the
Lake City Lumber company. You
have had sawed by them daring
the past afx ar eight yean millions
of feet of pino lumber. I find that
you are holding Indian landa In the
name of Lydia Dudley and her
father, Amoa Dudley, them lands
legally belonging to full blood»
Amos Dudlpy Is also the purchaser
of land from fun blood» as la Wil­
liam Norton, 8r„ through you.”
Levine rene quickly.
“Gentle­
men," he exclaimed, “surely you
can find enough counts against mo
without Including Mia* Dudley, who
has never beard of the matter yoe
mention.”
Commissioner James spoke for
the first time. "Suppose wa go on
with the witnesses before wa open
any discussion with Mr. Levin»
Jackson, what have these squaws
to te lir
Charlie called old Susie. And old
Susie told of the death of her
daughter from starvation sad cold,
thia aaaao daughter having sold her
pines to Levine for a flve-dollar
mil and a dollar watch. She held
out the watch toward Lavina in eoa
trembling old hand.
* “I find thia in dras» when she
dead. She strong.
It take her
many days to die. I old. I pray
Great Spirit take me. Noi I
starve! I freetel I no can die.
She young. She have little baby.
8he dis.” ’
Suddenly, she Hang the watch at
Levine’s feet and sank trembling
Info her chair.
.. There was silence for a moment.
In at the open window came the
rumble of a street car.
Levine
cleared hla throat
“All thia Is dramatic, at enarra,
but doesn’t make me the murderer
of the squaw."
“No! hut you killed my father r*
Shouted Charlie Jackson. And ris­
ing, he hurled forth the story he had
told Lydia, years before. Lydia eat
with her hands clasped tightly in
her lap, her eyes fastened fa hor­
ror on Charlie's face, it seemed
to Lydia that the nooao was fas­
tened closer round John's neck
with every word that was uttered.
Suddenly she sprang to ber'faet.
“Stop,
CharUel
«topi”
She
screamed. “You shan’t any any
more 1”
Senator Elway rapped on the
table. “You’re out of order. Miss
Dudley." ha exclaimed, sharply.
Lydia had forgotten to he em­
barrassed. “I can help It If I am,"
fill© (natatori **T
Hmara PKor
After they were gone, Billy sat
np and looked at Lydia. “Lydia,”
he said, T m going to quit. Yon
knew Tve worked with Cberlle
Jeeksen right nleng."
“Qultl But BUly, why I— I didn’t
think yon minded Kent and Mar­
gery that machl”
”1 don’t mind them at all. Bat'
Lydia, I ftonnd yesterday my father
got one hundred and twenty acres
from a ten-year-old fnll-bldod boy
for five dollars and a bicycle. Last
week Charlie unearthed a full-
blood squaw from whom your fa­
ther had gotten two hundred and
forty acres for an old sewing ma­
"Then I tfo admire the red bells
and twenty-five dollar» I’ve
that are banging about ta different chine
done so much for the Indiana and
place» and there seems to be so Charlie la ao fond of you that he'll
much care and thought about the shut these Indiana np, but I can’t
decorations
go on, after that, of course.”
“I like to see all the.cardn on the
“Ye» you’ll go on. Wily," Lydia’s
mantelpiece and the bits of rad rib­ voice
was very low. “After I faced
bon around.
would come to John Levine
“There are twig» from ptnc trees what
through thia, I can face anythin#.”
ta vaaee and dower pots which leek
Billy gave a little groan and
as thoagh the pine woods had cease bowed hla head on Lydia’s knee.
to the nous»
Suddenly she felt years older than
"But I must get to work."
BUly. She smoothed hla tumbled
So Santa unpacked end put the blond hair.
present* arawnd. There were as
“I told yen all the battles of the
many, aaaay present» and Santa wortd were fought for a woman.”
worked-with all the quickness and he said. “Dear, I’ll go on, though
speed with which Santa can work. It’ll break mother’s heart."
And as be left and looked about
"It won’t break her heart," said
the cheery, Chrlstmaay room and Lydia.
"Women’s hearts don’t
peeked out Into
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break over that sort of thing."
the hall with its
Christmas trim­
ming» to» be
said bait-aloud
Duett Amor Patriae.
to himself:
T WA8 the last week In August
"Merry Chrtab
when John Levine was sum­
ma» c h e e r y
moned before the commission.
baaaakaHl"
Lydia and Amos Were summoned
H* left, then,
with him.
but the old clock
There were two long tables at
on the mantel­
one end of the room behind one of
piece, with the
which sat the three commissioners.
Christmas curd*
At the other table were the official
all around went
stenographers and Charlie Jackson.
on ticking, tick-
Before the tables were chairs snd
tag, ticking, bat
I here were John Levine and Kent.
the Hock said
Pa Norton, and BUly, old Soste and
nothing a b o u t
a younger squaw, with several
Christmas for It
bucks.
D mw Chat it hud Santa Unpacked. “Lydta gave a sigh o f relief when
Levine caught her eye across the
when It had struck tbe hour that room and smiled at her.
She
looked at the commissioners curi­
mode It Christmas moraine.
On» two, three, four, five, six, ously. She knew them fairly well
seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, from the many newspaper picture«
eke had seen of them. The fat gen­
twelv»
The clock had helped to make it tleman. with penetrating blue eye*
Christmas when It had struck the ahd a clean-shaven face, was Sena­
tor Smith of Texas. The roly-poly
hour of midnight I
man, with black eyes and a grtzHed
« U H , Waatora N tm xiM r Uatoe.)
beard, wee Senator Elwny of Maine,
and the tall, smooth-sbaven man
’omoraow)
with red heir was Senator James
At the Oregon Hotel—
e f Mew York.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Lander of L qs
“Mr. Levine,” said, Senator Smith,
ON VOLLRY BAM, TEAM
Angeles. Cal.^W. A. Johnson of "we have found that you had car­
O R E G O N AGRICULTURAL
San Francisco, Cal., and Mr. and ried on so nanny—er—transactions
that we Anally decided to choose COLLEGE, Corvallis, Nov. 18.—
Mrs. C. E. Grives of Portland, three dr' Mur samp** cases end let
Koslna Gallatin of Ashland la a
Ore., were among those who stop­ ear ess* Hand on these. Jacks*»
■»ember ot the sophomore co-ed
call
Crippled
Bear."
ped at the Oregon Hotel yester­
Charite apoke quickly to one of volley ball teen . Volley ball Is
day.
thè bucks, who rose and took tbe <»• of the major sports conducted
empty chair by Charlie..
He began to talA-ut once, Charlie by tbe Women’s Athletic associa­
tion.
Interpreting slowly and carefully.
“I am a mixed blood.
Many
Participation in more than half
moons age «he ama Levine found the games in which the c I s a a
, me drank In the snow. He picked m
a s and kept mu In Ml* house over playa entitles each player to 190
I night When I was sober, he fed points toward membership Into
I me. Then he made this plan. I W. A. A. and toward the Orange
, was t e gather half a down half- “O’* sweater awarded to women
I breed» together, he could trust In
spring be would come up to earning 100* potato ta cfefo ath­
reservation end talk to us. I letics. Mias Gallatin 1* a oopho-
Society’s discords ore due
tMs »ad he earn» We were Stove in the school o f home tech to
at bottom to a divided self.
Its harmonies are achieved I rosy hungry whea be mrt us ta
only aa Jeans ceatroto and I tbs traoda and be gave us food sad
mauey. Thou he told us he was
harmonises tha taper life.
M tag-to get the Mg fathers et
_ Washington to let us sell our pines
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