A / TRE DflIUY C. J. READ, ESTABLISHED IN 1876 A shland PUBUSHfeÜ BŸ f iÍ E AgHLÀND PRINTING fcÖ MANAGING EDITOR dàily 1 DON-rCÄfcE» 1H»£> B A B W H A S TO K A ^ t FR E S H A lC T f . A N D ä & t& S S fc The GrälilLOld T ttö The birth of the New Year of 1926 was cele brated by three r markable old men, all safely past the Ninetieth milestone aria all apparently nt not only for another year but (or the poesibility of making the century grade. As the year draws Io its dose but one of them is left, Ch$rl?s W- ^lipt, the educator, and Joseph tiuriiey Cannon, the elddr statesman, have slipped quietly* into the abyss of eternity. Only Chauncey Depew, big business execu tive; quondam politician and noted wit, survives. It is interesting if not significant to note that the two who first answered the summons of death had terinihated their cireere in active life and wer© lining in retirement .The third, member of the trio nominally ah least still carries oh. Although He long ago gave uj> affcer-dihner speaking, a field in which he reigned supreme,, he is to be found, daily in his offiqj exercising the functions of chairman of the board of the New York Central railroad and still sits on the directorates of numerous corpora tions. We faiicy that he takes it a, little easy in the world of affairs, but still it is something that he finds it copsisfent with his physical welfare to appear daily, in the market place. • We think of the members or this trio.todhy as the grand oTd men of" our generation. They were as a matter of fact unusually active and able men. They flowered early and held the bloom of their public usefulness through much longer periods than is customarily given to men of promipance. . Cannon was a state’s attorney of Illinois at 25 and a con gressman at 37. Depew was a New York assembly man at 27, secretary of state of New York at 29 and in demand as an able railroad attorney at 32. Eliot was an assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry ¡at 24 ana president ot Harvard at 35. , IO OíOM’ K A J OM t X i PttÇ\>L TP HüSSuMD DO| áll * f c M '* 1 - A’to* , Imitates a certain Germ -IW *- V - ' ’¿ Ìlàvè fcrievpj nt the dmcòvérv in masculine wolves’ clothing. A i . to s t t o t o fee Weather M a n -¿ r J, enced. Insight that a beta novios, as h o le iroeverently called edge of KlpUog might hi into the pegcfeoiogJ o g a r s » a s a n » her soldier's sentiments. 1 w ife the godo than la an> other ha would never have t>ee> t o » th to ■ on u stf Mmmtoor Heins cendy frank a» .to mention, how ever casuqpy, another Mao. The letter, In Both’’s character istically tender and. longing vein, dogs. downpour. Then the ex- tod-Jteeg toU of'BMTO Doughboy. l|Ebaa edsh. tradition- Chelsea gosslj), of oft-repeateA ate further tell yon castles concerning The pay, fg en is reduced to dearments, of eweht little lntlfaate ny freak of su- nothings that ware sorely Indited In tears and heart blood and not In W M, certain In k ,. The paragraph,, about Daniel (Daily «S bad. Murtagh was hot passing and brief- Yet Jimmy's Jealous eyse magni fied It beyond all due proportion with regard to thOetato •< the. Ipt-' yoor ville. Or Bocbe • shells, or tor. sotoat. lt Qversbadowpd.pvwr- bombo.tropi Fokkers, or, stali offl- thlng else she hgd written thepeiu- eere ea Inepectioa tours. or that Thus it m a: » I worst of o li abomlnatlone—Amori- - “Murtagh, the politician, ho that Ja hnowp M •Dan . thar D pds.\yoij| know.,has bean visiting.us a good deal of late. He la very kind to Boene Peidtag parries wlth ttqald father and has got Mm a Job as, SamoJQuvwprs tarahtood welcome watchman with the Chelsea S tate; Bank, the o n e. on the .comer a f, w ie raining, lllnth and Twentieth, where MllPo of many other Mulrgney lives upstairs. Father ; red-bowelled says it's because he's interested in Ï S X iÆ What Others Sa/ 41, fe fect, tti wto taaprlrtM te her thgt tog was not more surprised to ¡ { ¡ k i l t A g ili "*tlsre "she hod never known they Bogue valley. In Straw berries and tomatoes -etUl being picked and are the berHis BSeed many thanksgiving table t i l l year. I t ’s a real Joy to live (Corvalljs Gazette-Tljnes) ' '• The government releases valuable information to the effect that Jce cream la greatly lmprpvdd by the addi tion of real m ilk find butter (at. Tips at ¿east sounds reaaonabie, and we believe the lhveetlgators are on the right track. Polished folks are quite oil not bright. ' yjplspt lo,ve sometimes has adiy result as violent hate. Draama c o n s tru e If you wi up pnd put foundations urn them. . The highest ambition of some men. It seems, Is (o have no ambi tion at all. ( OrantJL Ptoa^Conrler ) , It’d 2 real honor when a Josephine county g irl Ja se; lected from 4000 g irl club workers to make gg exhibit at the Chicago livestock ex position. Miss Hatley has been a mighty hard ' worker and Is entitled to every bit of honor which she receives. (Eugene Guard) Mr. F a ll and his black sat chel are in court at last,* hut don’t look too confidently for • conviction first, oft. There Vice has this virtue: A fter fill ing hp on It, you have spells when yeti feel like reforming. \ Traveling salesmen and goods cierks are the only mea who come anywhere near under standing women. Hes Heck says: “The more we try to legislate morals Into peo ple, the more cops we hev to put on the force.’’ Twenty-flve cotqmaters who have ridden unnoticed twins daily over the Central ra il road of New Jersey, between Bgyoijne apd ( Elisabeth, found themselves Invited guests of hqnor by the grateful cor- ceremonies open ing a 114,000,000 bridge ov er Newark Bay. C. S. H ig gins, a dally rider .since the Civil war, headed the guest list. N E W YO RK — Legal tech nicalities were-Invoked Sun day to keep Smith, drunk and nnàer arrest for the 13 th time. In Jail until spring. Isaac customarily appeared before thè same magistrate and received the same sentence— s lf months. Then he would get three months off*, for good be havior unde? a r ^ n | per taining to six months’ sen tences, and show up again. This time the magistrate gave Isaac five months and 29 days— a dirty trick It you ask Isaac. had existed and yet she was net so particularly amasod whm two little csMtareo appeared before tor say- M . v ,t A^Ê^ÀND 10 Years Ago Dorothy, the little daughter of M r. aad Mrs. W . N. W right, and Elbert, daughter of M r. and Mrs. B, H. Oteer, received unique And appreciated gifts from Bobert 8tanley, known .throughout Ash^ land aa the “chair doctor.’’ > h . . ASHtAND . to k J t \ of Happy’s coat i lddes. pla to M arry and a Happy that we to n of rain and strafe and stench thought we would come and call on and rats and slop and mud and manww-freestng tension along the know lo w l l . M that the trenches. The trouble was, in the words must go whenever they are .ease of Jimmy Ford, not only the summoned by people. Well, at this .drenching downpour of rain with time of the year the words Merry out—but the even more unendura- gtd. t o t I d ra fter b* awrrtet rain that was cascading down the bravest and nlcest-taking and.Bappy aiy Me1> 10, often tbgt ^rlto l? fete Ma homesick and In New York, which, my J|mm; tovosiek young breast And that Happiness, like liberty, iS lie f s s i t t t i S s a r r t M ratn within was so desolating that supply will never run out er. appreciated until Its gone. g nsada Aim, obllrlous to the nun th a t being exempted himself j g ? a s r a f a ^ ,g . a j i Mtotort of, poor -ereelght it’s AU because of a Letter. A letter When caught with the goods, from a Girl—a sweet chit of a girl in lies and woman criea. hack.trome. "Back home,** to,bs went over In the draft and toy to yreethe in toe case of Jimmy Ford, Sheer,me ,np nntU you oeme tome. S - a f X S "And Tm In meant the old Chelsea section ef s - S charge of ths New York City. That part of ths Happy words,” metropolis made famous In ths He says he w a n ts le hs m p to u » eye» pf all metf by a multitude of tlmp b|lf topthep,” t gringo; among them toe song "El - fnere wa^ mot another w osAto sie from Chelsea,” longshoremen's Ä - ^ Ä r V ' i ^ Ä ’ Strikes, the Cunard and White Sjtar JoUlest time, for ASHLAND docks, toe brownstone fronts, . W the Dnde, ward hesllnd henchman notorious gang, the "Hudson ei towers, that to. LHtls rs.* who held undisputed fist- OfT away, south of Hell’s sa. And mads famous In ths Of any toils except ths Instinctive syas of cos manNTlmmy Ford, only coquetry with which God Almighty by two thtegs:. that old-fashioned has endowed'every feminine tongue Hum Pracht of the Depot Ho- and pen. Tet it had on Jimmy pl, has been quite 111 for the past o one wanted r m |n charge where his Mother and his Father, nek with an attack of inf lemma- tem around at «r the Merry Police Lieutenant James Ford. Sr, pry rheumatism hot was abls to ds time a a J t Words.** to lm rJ C m a d fT h lin mài onto to i f no, « i « Moved yesterday to the Pracht getYeady to fig h t ■ le cared whether they received street, between Seventh and Eighth h ¿ T « i r « ’tht e iome In Peach-Blow: Paradise ed ly presents or not avtoues, where hla sweetheart, itio n Where H u m ’s many friends "So you like u s r Both Allen, Jived—In a two-room weak tossiche <• wskk g i^pe he will rapidly regain his "Oh, I think you’re Just too— skyttght suits, alone with her fa t h * ttot‘j»r .F lth .h iim , en—merry and happy looking tor ther, queririons, cranky James Al- isual health. lythlng," said Mahalla. 'firi." ' ¿c “Good,” said the two compan- Three things there were that had T fr. H. B. Carter and her son, ns. “And now we must M oft." Then Merry waved his cap and kept Jimmy Ford’s head and heart Ito fife o tth e tfto- [r. E. V. Carter, cashier of the n ite d , “Merry, Merry Christine»,” and hopes in the clear blueness swift hornets arooni knk of Ashland, expect to leave above the clouds while his feet ■ ^ ' ■ S ß ’ S S X 1 svridged In the stinking mud of ths (morrow fcfr Houston, Texas, West Front trenches. First, ths un [r. C arter goes on a business trip dying taste and feel on his lips ef right, out.the Arito t. two or three weeks while his Che last hot pressure of Bath's teas BRIDGE AN ATTRACTION Mther goes to spend the w lnte^ to his, the warm briny sensation of ^Ubon with her daughter, I 'lfes. - fceat Crèsi brldké Vai a decid r. Purdy, ot Houston. ed attraction for citisene In the fillin g s says the McKinley valley Tuesday, when they w it prosperity is striking the Bryan nessed the raging waters of the people In Ashland. Attorney T ref- oipally peaceful creek, swelled the water was still high iterday, to be floating downstream- W hile ron kaa a floe now dank In kjs of with the reheat heavy rains. it is still lower than < when, the Bogue Blver nearly flowed level ove( the Gold Bay fice and Judge Howell has a to w Largs trees, uprooted along Its' flood whlbh took place in Dam. * banks, were noticed several Aimes latter part of November, buggy. Next. » S 20 Years Ag< Mrs. J. W . Frater, tormei Miss Ida Ganlere of this cl came d<jwn from Portland tod Io remain i for some tq with her parenta, Charles Gaqletw. Mr. and II •< Among (he new residents o| Mrs. Minnie W right and noa Orin, went to Grapts Pass this Ashland -are C. W . Hunton and morning to look after farming wife who came here last week aura Intend to make a home in this property In that vicinity; city. • They were formerly from San Francisco. ¿ Ö i C S ü B T Ä C California, Mies Cordelia Graqt pud 1 where they have been spendi eg svOkal months. They have rented Mary Munday^ returned to tl the B. Beach home on Gresham home In Ashland Friday, and street. Mrs. Stoner is a slater of spend som» timo tiers. Mrs. L. 8, Brown of the Ashlaud Trading Company. . Mrs. E. It . Anderson and F. P. Burrell a r t ' visiting M'F* W i * Anderson (9r . ornbrook for the days, having come up from eat yesterday, t i red stocking cap with a white tap- sel on the end. He had bright red cheeks and very blue eyes and a red mouth, and he was Just a Uttta bit round In shape. Happy was dressed all In white. He wore a suit of soft white with daxxUag silver balls hanging-iram TURNING THE PAÔË5 BACK ) )Voinan, a lady preacher informs, hag been t’VeaV’d out of hei- rightful filace fti skered iiislory by {he croob^driese of ancient ^hinplatols. Tliby, the translators, fielibcrliely changed the nairios of certain accomplished women so as to give them masculine personalities, she says. This is a serious charge and ohe codoerlririg which we should like a trifle more detail. Who are the Women who have been masquerading in ecriiTttitv as men during all these centuries! Doubt and ¿Jspldon is cast upon every apparent infiRllit|le charlctel of tile Bible from Adam to St. Jonh; the chad divirl diviife. It js serious because it is txnind to create distrust of the rest of their work. If the translators have d< ieeived ns as to the sex of their characters, may Ifley ndt also have deceived us as to thfe things they <Dd ana the inspiration under which they did oonaolatlon. can are Thè art. that Is, la a country where spring weather can be enjoyed (h the winter. The Ladies of H oly Writ Mother, from his Fadier, and-— from Both. .*• - ’ It was the hurt o to from Bhfe— the one thathad reached him today luat before hla outflthad w s rto uo rrfe . v t t w T, w s>- the range all the way from defining it as .8 gift to afi infinite capacity for taking pains. Wnatevel it is it undoubtably exists and however well Ire may be able to dissect from it certain of its essential qual ities there 'in still considerable. of baffling mystery about tj, 4n uncanny something that defies ex- planatlon. Ordinary genius is associated witl} practice pi the fipe arts or one of the learned professions. Ad a matter of fact it may and does exist in persons who have no skill in and no taste for art, science or scholarship, aS we ordinarily conceive of these things. A. A. Stagg, the grand old man of football, recognizes it oil the gridifoh. Jt is the only way you can explain (in Eckersall. There are geniuses in busiuesk, iri i&bor, in cprds, in plriy acting. The hand of death has recehtiy been laid upon two such geniuses. Harry Hoiidini who accumu lated fame as a magician and an exposer of me* diunristic frauds was a genius within t|ie field of his special interest So too waj Annie Oakley whd used to thrill the crowds at Buffalo B ill’s Wild west show with marvels bi tier marksmanship,. Thete may be thousands of competent sculptors, but only one Rodin. Just so there are numerous competent ma^icldns blit only one Hohdlni, thousands of Cbtn- peteilt mkrksmen but Only One Aftnie Oaklfcy. 4 í n u iN G ô » . . (Oregon Observer) Flowers are blooming ence, well beyond hal a century in each case, it will be bird iff any j tiÓdiidftslméncàtf''Kièlóry tö little , pin A «