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THE DAILY TIDINGS EDITORIAL and FEATURE PAGE
ESTABLISHED
IN -J 8 7 6
C. J. BEAD, Mmwgiog Editor
A SH L A N D D A IL Y T ID IN G S
W. a PERKINS, News Editor
OUT OUR WAY
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hole m the doughnut and see only the" practical
advantage that aoomeg from nature’s failure to
make the confection with a solid center.
Such we verily believe is Calvin Coolidge, the
most popular president since the time of Wash­
ington. He has just seen what many other presi­
dents have bitterly contemplated, evidence of grow­
ing diminution of his popularity,' indications that
the Coolidge name and the appeal in the’ Coolidge
behalf -have lost some of their potency . And he
oan still present what passes on the Coolidge face
for a smile.
Aa is well known Mr. Coolidge speaks little in
the presence of newspaper men. But there is a
person who dogs his footsteps day and night and
reports the soliloquies which reveal the Coolidge
mind to the press. This spokesman has just succeed­
ed in finding out what Mr. Coolidge tbipks about
the defeat of his personal friend and political ad­
viser, Senator Butler of Massachusetts.
There was some suspicion that the president
might have felt somewhat downhearted over' the
Butler debacle inaemnoh as he had departed from
an otherwise inflexible rule personally to urge the
voters to return his friend to the senate. He said
lie just morally had to have Butler in the senate.
Butler was apparently the one man in the whole
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The Boost wuaderfal thing la the
w erld was that CJbrtetmae was
never late la coming.
It * seemed, a fte r one Ghrtetmae
I was over, th a t It would he hard to
w ^ t until another whole year was
finished fo r Christmas to come
around again.*
B a t It came and I t was sever,
never late. B ig h t along I t came,
had I t people were lata, Christmas
paid ao attention to them. -
People w eald say:
“Goodness, do 7 0 a realise that
It ’s only two weeks before Christ­
mas end th a t I'm not h a lf reedy?"
B n t th a t was not .the fa u lt of
Christmas, Every q m knew that
Christmas was the twepty-flfth of
December and they were a t fau lt
I f they were late.
A t least, Christmas «res not go­
ing to disappoint those who were
on time.
Then another wonderful thing
wee th a t not only did Christmas
coma exactly on time, but Santa
Claus was never late.
Ho, he managed 10 th a t no mat­
te r how much he had to do, and ho
eerislnly had a great deal to do, he
was never, never late.
aeew*weee«eoeee*eeM
WSAS” “ *>
(C ontinued fro m yesterday)
JTmn loosed arier" a e r,~ u me
lengthened skirts, at the geld
braids wrapped round her bead.
“She doesn’t change except In else,
thank God,” he said.
“Oh, she je ts prettier,” said
Ames, carelessly. “She’s sort of
grown up to her month, and the
way ahe wears her hair ehows the
fine set of her head- She’s Im­
proved a let.* Amos paused and
looked eat at tho shimmering lake.
“John, I wish I bad five daughters.
There’s nothing like ’em in the
world.”
Levine did not answer for a mo­
ment, while his gase followed Amos'
out over the fam iliar outline of
blue water and fW green hills.
“Sometimes. Amos,” he muttered,
No one could Imagine Christmas finally, *T feel as I f my whale life
coming along in January because had been wasted.”
It wee as extraerdinsrlly pleas­
It had been delayed any more than
one could imagine Santa arriving ant supper. After the dishes were
washed, Levine asked Lydia to
stroll up tho road with him while
Amos did his evening chorea, ft
was dusk when they turned oof the
gate, to the road, Lydia clinging to
John's arm.
John put a long, hard hand over
the small thin one on his arm.
“Have yon missed me, yonng
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L y d f f ir he asked.
“Tee,” >he answered, “especially
as you never came near, us after
the hearing.”
“How could I eome?” asked the
man, simply. “Ton had weighed
me and found me wanting. Have
you forgiven me. Lydia?"
“It wasn't a matter between you
and me,” replied the girl, slowly.
“It wag between yotl and your con
science and If your conscience ap­
proves, what’s the use of asking
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stand not h e v
What Others S a y ¡
A follow In Minnesota
qualified as the
world’s
champion coffee tlpler by
drinking 62 cups in 12 hours,
but hs couldn’t sloop that
night. He was probably ex­
cited by the high honors that
had come to him.— Eugene
Register.
Uncle Joe Cannon
stage lor wore than Iwtf a century, He served
46 years in Congress. Only twice in his career,
marked by many political upheavels, was lie- de­
feated, once in the reaction of 1890 and once in the
party split in Taft and Roosevelt in 1912. During
20 years of hie 46 years of service in the house
of representative« he was chairman of the approp­
riations committee and during eight years he was
speaker.
Men who once ran on the ticket with Abraham
Lincoln, and in Lincoln’s own state of Illinois, are
not now so numerous as to 1« divested of dis­
tinction.
The Cannon span of life covered the
period between Andrew Jackson and Calvin Coo­
lidge. He could remember 18, i>erhapg 19 of the
Presidents of the I nited States and had intimate
acquaintance with more than a dozen of them.
There was a time when public resentment was
greatly kindled against Mr. Cannon, but the faot
remains that few men have hoen more typically
American than this contemporary of great figures
in our national history.
The greatest progress of
the agos has been made by
men who turned peers into
plaudits. — • Cottage Grove
Sentlpel.
The merchant or the manu­
facturer who advertises his
goods shows, at least, that he
has faith
in himself. And
confidence wins «many a busi­
ness h a t f l e , — Roseburg
News-Review.
“ Ita ly on Crest of Fascist
W ave,” reads a newspaper
headline; as if the cap of the
wave has not been Mussolini
ever since the flrfc body of
black shirts
m a rc h e d
through the streets of Rome.
— Athena Press.
Ty Cobh, manager of the
Detroit Tigers, wo« no pen­
nants, but he retired with
11,000,600.
Finance hath
her victories no leas re­
nowned than sport.— Baker
Herald.
AN D ,?
^BÈRT^MÒSESr:
Many good women are not wise,
but all wise women are not good.
Things you moat appreciate
are things you had to work hard
to get.
I f you want to know what big
rascals lawyers are, Just ask any
lawyer.
We have no records of Eve
Calling Adam for running around
with qther women.
Mussolini calls *’ a mystic
something”
his protection
against assassins. W e are
wondering if it could bo luck
or that famous leather shirt.
lag your approval,” said Levine.
They strolled on in silence, while
I< d ia considered her reply. “No
matter If the destroying of the
Indians were right. M at wouldn’t
exonerate the whites for having
been cruel and crooked ip dblng It? "
People will always remember It of 1
Scienca has perfected a
synthetic sausage casing of
cellulose, but all-wool still is
meeting w ith some demand.
Japan sends the United
States a stone lau^srn «a ”a
gift of lig h t.”
Maybe we
should send a few of our
European friends and old
stocking or two this Christ-
Now that the Fascists have
revived capital punishment,
you might say the noose
hangs high lp Ita ly .
The doctor who gives the least
medicine Is usually the most suo-
cessful doctor in town.
Famous last llnas; ’’Didn’t
we borrow an umbrella the
last time we were o v e r
here” ?
•
Hez Heck says: “ S
noticed, virtuous me,
to hev much standin
min.”
We recommend (or a niche
porter
who worked President Cool­
idge for a tip w ith “push
Vuhmoat maple sihup.”
In the hall of fame the
Another Rumor
" iwviu news uitq>Hicn loiu us m a t th o mono­
plane in which Commander Richard E. Byrd and
his crew Hew over the north pole was snowbound
iu Cheyenne.
Things like that can happen.
The veteran of a dozen bloody battles comes
home unscathed to die of the infection caused by a
pin priok.
The steeplejack undertakes to hang a picture for
his wife, falls off the stepladder and breaks his neck.
The adventurer traverses bandit-infested moun­
tains, jienetrates to the heart of unmapped coun-
gagemeut »»fore ho 1» mto another. Alwut the only
break in the aeries is when he obliges by fulling «,ff
his hone.
The latest evidence of his engagement is seen
in the fact that housecleaning is under wav at his
London residence, Marl tro u g h house. Why should
a prince dean honm , if not to pat the place In order
for the reception of a bride? •
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TURNING THE PAGES BACK
ASHLAND
ASHLAND
ASHLAND
10 Year» Ago
20 Years Ago
30 Years Ago
Mrs. L. H ilty, expect» to leave
Mr. and Mrs. G. W . Owen«.
Mrs. John Cummings, wife of
thia week for Kansas City for a Charles and W ill Lindsay were a t
th
e
lpcamotive engineer, has re­
visit with her parents.
Medford, Friday on timber land lum ed from a vigil to Redding
business.
California.
Q. H - Barnhill and wife, G ra ti
Wm. Fox, treasurer of the Ash­
B arnhill and Mtsa M lnta Cherry
were among those from Ashland land coal mining company, who
who attended the high school de­ has been in California for the
past few weeks, returns tomorrow
bate a t Talent Friday evening.
to attend to active operations th a t
are being put,under way.
An epidemic of mustaches has
bit the Medford high school, ac­
Geo. Deen, and old timer A»fc-
cording to reports from that eity. laad boy, Was here several days
As yet Ashlaader bag only been last week, outfitting for a trip
tcbortched la spots by the mus­ »cross the mountains to the Coy-
tache disease among the young ate H ills mining district In Tgpr»
men.
county. He expects to spend »»wy
F. M. W alker and fam ily are
again residents qf Ashland. Mr.
W alker exchanged his place on a
farm down at Sheridan, Yamhill
county, for his old position on the
S. P .’section force, with Geo. W.
Rockwell, Who removes to Yamhill
county w ith hie fa m ily .
R. BesWlck and fam ily left to­
day for a visit to Ager and vicin­
ity. Mrs. Beewlck w ill go to K la­
m ath hot springs for a brief stay.
months there in search of gold,
M r. and Mrs. Frank Snyder,
also Mrs. Brown of Bellview were
In Ashland Saturday and the let­
t e r also attended the party given
by her Sunday school class at the
home of Marten Cusick,
John
tsrested
Oregon,
months
Rader, who Is largely tnr
In mining In Koulherg
leaves this week foy g
trip to the Gila rlvey
co u a try . Arizona.
The following Ashlanders Join­
last
Tharsday: O.’ W . Croweea, Frank
Dodge, O. W . Pennebacker, Mrs.
Eunice Evans, Mrs. Ba»r, Mrs. O,
ed the P o rtla n d I excurgiqa
(Medford MaUTrlbune)
AU hands In the rural dis­
tricts are busy these
day«
performing autopsies on tu r­
key»— the m ilkfed birds whq
ate grasshoppers all summer,
daily bible passage
” Ye have not chosen me,
hat I have chosen yon, anti
ordained yon, that ye should
go and bring forth frwtt, and
ehat yonr fruit should rem ain:
that w hatsoever ye sh all ask
the Father In my nam»,
may give It yon.” Nt. Jute»
6
Je»u« m ust bring the world
of mankind to His pierced
feet. Every realm of life and
labbr must be made suhJeot
to His eoatrol. He challenges
ps to make this possible. Are
we worthy of the trust placed
16 nd?
Levine gave a laugh that had no
, mirth in I t « “Lord, who’ll Bay the
, New England spirit la dead! You’re
, ag cold In Judging me as one of
your ancestors was when he sen­
tenced a witch to be burned.”
“Oh, no I” cried Lydia. “Deas
John Levine, I couldn’t be oold to
you. Nothing could make, me lova
, you lean. And you youraelt told me
, to be true to myself.”
John sighed, then said abruptly,
“Let’s never discuss It again. What
Curiously enough, nothing could
are you reading now, Lydia?”
“English essayists and Emerson. have done so much toward rein­
Fm crazy about Emerson. I learned stating Lake City In the good opin­
one thing from ‘Friendship’ to quote ion of the country at large as did
Levine's tragic death. There was
to you. I t ’s like you and me.”
She quoted: “ ‘Friendship— that felt to be a divine Justice In the
select and sacred relationship that manner of his taking off that par­
la a kind of absolute and which took largely of the nature of atone­
even leaves the language of lova ment. He had led the whites In
auspicious and common so much Is the despoiling of the Indians. For
this purer; and nothing Is so much this the Indians had killed him.
That a white life .extinguished
divine.’ ”
John stopped and taking Lydia’s for a tribe destroyed might not be
face in both hands, he exclaimed full compensation In the eyes of
Lusklly, “Oh, my dear, this Is my that Larger Justice which, after
real welcome home! Oh. Lydia, all, rules the universe, did not seri­
Xydia, If you were ten years older ously influence the reaction of pub­
lic opinion toward thinking better
and I were ten years younger— ’’
Lydia laughed. “Then we’d travel of Lake City. And John Levine,
•— to all the happy places of the known in life as an Indian. graft
world. We must turn back. Dad­ politician, became in his death a
statesman of far vision.
dy’ll be waiting.”
Levine's will was not found at
Levine was very busy with the
details of the Indian removal for first. Distant cousins in Vermont
the next weak or two. The exodus would be his heirs, if indeed after
was accomplished In a businesslike hts estate was settled, It was found
manner. There were some disturb­ that there was left anything to In­
ances on the reservation, but for herit.
After her first wild grief had
the roost part, the Indiana were
dazed and unprotesting.
Before expended Itself, Lydia, found that,
the concentration began, the pre­ after all, Levine’s tragic death had
caution was taken of sending Char­ not surprised her. She realised
lie Jackson under guard to the.new that ever since she had known
reservation
la
the
southwest. Charlie Jacksoa, ahe had been
Lydia had never seen him after her vaguely hannted hy a fear of Just
day at the hearing. She always such an ending.
Billy, trundling up the dusty road
was to carry In her memory, his
handsome bronze face, too early from the law office on his bicycle,
marked with lines of despair, as 1 late each afternoon,’ would stop for
ahe saw It while she uttered her a moment or two.
“The drought Is something fright­
protest to the commissioners. And
It was a hauntlngly sad memory te ful,” he said to Lydia one after­
noon In late August, wiping the
carry.
In the evening Lydia sat with sweat and dust from hts face. “Are
her Emerson open before her, but yon feeling any more cheerful,
with her unseeing eyes fastened Lyfl?”
“I shall always have a gap in
on the open door. I t was a little
after nine when the chug-chug of hiy life, where he went out,” she
Kent’s.car stopped at the gate and said, slowly. “I shall never get
In a moment Kent, white faced, over missing him. Oh, he was so
dear to me! And yet, Billy, It Isn’t
appeared In the door.
“John Levine’s been shot Hs at all like Patience's death. He
didn’t depend on me and I
wants Lydia!”
Without a sound Lydia started didn't live with him so that every­
after Kent down the oath, AqiM thing doesn’t cry his absence te
followin’
Kent packed them Into me. And I ’ve got more resources
than I had then—”
the little car and started back to­
She laid her hand on the ooea
ward town at breakneck speed.
book In- her lap. ‘
“How had off 1« he?” asked
"w >iat’r# y ° u r id in g ? ” asked
Amos, •
Billy.
“Oan*t Jive," answered K ent
"Emerson—Compensation.
Lis­
“That d—d sister of Charlie Jack- ten, Billy—‘We cannot let our
soa and old Susie both took a shot aagela go. We do not aee that they
at Mm Just aa the last carload only. go • out that archangels may
w m finished. The police and mili­
tia got ’em right 6ff. Shot ’em all
to niece«,”
No woman Is'ever so hapity'i
“Where Is John?" asked Amos.
man thinks she Is, or so misers
“la Doc Fulton's office. They
as she believes herself to be.
«an’t move hi™ "