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TpE D fllhY TIDINGS EDITORIAL an d
C. J. R E A D , MANAGING EDITOR
E S T A B L IS H E D Q i 1876
ASH LAN D
D A IL Y
T ID IN G S
“Murphy” and the Vitaglass
Just one little matter remains to be settled be
fore we all will live under vitaglass roofs and live to
be hearty Methuselahs, That ia to piake vitaglass
cheap enough eo that it will be available for every
body. Just now it is extremely expensive, not too
expensive to be used on “ Murphy,” who has grown
a new coat of hair under it and otherwise fattened
and perked up, but too expensive to be available
for all the rest of us “ Murphy’s ” brothers.
,But we, for one, have enough confidence in
the marvels of present-day inventiveness to believe
that this matter of cost is only trival, and that
we shall soon be buying onr vitaglass cheap with
the money we save by no longer needing to keep up
our life insurance premiums.
Santa Claus
ML® have just read about a minister who has
boldly announced himself an infidel against Banta
Claus. Too bad! All of us in this world aro children
only some of us are taller groan and more cynical
and hardened than others. But nearly all of us, tall
or short, have faith in much at which the scientist«
and materialists scoff.
The faith iu Santa Claus is one of our deep-
seated and most helpful faiths. It is» a faith born of
another and even finer faith—faith in God «lid Hi«
goodness and loving kindness.’ It helps us to grasp
and understand that finer faith; helps uS to attain it
where otherwise we might wander in darkness and
be infidels utterly and for keeps. Love and kind
ness are at the bottom of our religion. Personified
they bpeome our God. To the little children they are
]>ersoiiified first in mother, then in Banta Claus,
who together lead us to knowledge of God. When
at five years we understand, that there is a good
saint eternal in this world who on each recurring
Christmas day comes to us, as the Wise Men cam«,
bearing gifts to childhood, it helps us to understand,
when we are older, that there is Another even more
loving than he, forever and everywhere dispensing
even fin e/ gifts.
Because it is a good thing to know love and
believe in love it is a good thing for our children to
know Santa Claus apd believo iu him. It is a
g<K»d thing to know that love is to be found not
alone in mother’s arm», or in the family circle, but
that it come« to uh from far away lands, from com
plete strangers, even from the Arctic zone and with
whisker* on it; that it know* not race or tongue or
color; that it ig universal.
The “ Apache” motor trail, Maricopa, county,
Arizona, follown approximately the route used by
“ The Apache KidJ’ and his band of warriors in
raids on white Kettleiueuts in the '«arlv SO’*.
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10 Years Ago
C, C. Wisenberger was on .the
street yesterday for the first time
since his recent illness.
E. C. Gard has returned* from
Vancouver Island, where he has
been engaged in lumbering and
ranching.
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C. A. Swanson leavea today to
take his old position in the mines
near Kennett.
His family re
main in Ashland.
Penry T. Howard was a business
visitor in Medford recently.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brown hare
moved intd one of the houses of
the Morse Realty Company.
Mr.
Brown is employed by G. A.
Morse.
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20 Years Ago
M. L. Pellett and wife, leavs
soon for a. visit to Southern Cali
fornia and may extend their trip
to St. Louie, before returning to
Aahland.
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Mr«, A, R. Wright »a ■ leader
of the mooting and the topic tor
dissuasion will bo different ata-
The Baptist Missionary Society tloM ln Indlg.
will meet In the church parlor«,
Officer« for the coming Mis
Wednesday afternoon. December sionary poor w|H ho elected and
fifteenth, at twe-thlvty.
a good attendance 1« desired.
•tarring Rlo-Tlo-Tln, 1« a Werner Wednesday, Dec. 18,— Auxiliary
on of tMe novel.
to Trinity Guild «Mets in the
Parish House
rid of him. Tm dead aet against
• using such visions animals on the Wednesday, Dec. 18.— Missionary
1 force. H e ain’t safe for honest
Society of the Presbyterian
. folk»—*
church, meets la the church
"Ho’» safe enough tor honest
parlors.
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i folks. It’s the crooks who need to
watch oat tor him I" retorted Bath Thursday, Deo, 1 A— Baby Clinic
, with aaperlty.
club house, on Wlnbnrn Way.
[, "Ruth’s Very fond of dogs."
chimed James Allen, who upon Thursday, Dae, lg .--T h e Imman
catching a significant signal from
uel Cantatta will be given In
Murtagh whoa Bath's back was , the Normal auditorium, under
momentarily turned as she busied
direction of Mia» Leona Mars-
herself clearing away the break
aters.
fast dishes smiled la servile ao-
qulesoeuoe and made • casual ex Friday, Dee. 17. —k Junior high
cuse to leave the room. Murtagh
school (visiting day. Christmas
and Ruth alone now—Murtagh and
Urogram.
Ruth and four walla and, the hot In
decency of carnal covetousness and
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the white shield of Intelligently la-*
nocent youth. <
Announce Engagement—
Roth was calm now as her slim
Mr. and Mrs. G?H. Yeo of thia
hands laved the fortunate dishes In
their agate hath. Bvea polite and city, wish to announce the en
with aa uawefoome ardor, as to friendly, because she saw that she gagement of their daughter, Ber
make her whole body and aoul go must be—as a defensive measure. nice, to Dr. George E. Stannard.
tense against Its Imaginary caroaa. Murtagh somehow felt curiously
The wedding will be an event
She wanted to cry oat, to ran. to defeated before he opened his
aaka soma wild dash and post mouth. His admlraUon, his lashing of the Christmas season.
frantically against the walls of the! I desires, led him on:
"Ruth, I want you to please take
little kitchen as a swallow might
I dinner with me tomorrow night
beat against oage bars.
"Why, Ruthle, what la tbs world I W ell go to Cavanaugh’s. And we'
Is the matter with you?" —
her lean take In a little show after
father deprecatlngly, almost re wards, eht There’s a swell play at
proachfully. Tarnation, ho did the Winter Garden—" Talk . . .
wish she would not he no womanly, talk . . . talk . . . eager, wilful,
so scary, when Murtagh was visit I jealous talk.
“I’m sorry, sir," said Ruth, plop
ing. Bother women, they wars al
ways that way—dashing and stam ping an unused smear of butter
mering and taking things eo. Into the sink drain, "but I’ve got a
Bath’s mother had bean that war. (previous engagement"
Silence save tor sloshing water.
too, Ruth was being a aStr, ftMdm*
ened little schoolgirl In Itront of Then: "With young Ford, 1 sup
with each used car sold
Murtagh, a worth while man who pose f"
between'now and Christ-
courted; yet always so headstrong I ■Yea." adThm«« AS Ttoulw.»? l i n r l o o h
tn ia o
M u r ta g n
and obstinate, and merry and I f mow , D i n
bright in her attachment for that had come from a raw and thorough
boy cop! Allen nodded apologetic school. The school that reached
ally to Martagk: ’Mho’s 111, I know. 1 'tentacles into every slummy ward
She Isn’t feeling good this mom»J from the big Wigwam on Four
lag. Women are always 111—*
1 teenth street He had not always
Murtagh wore such a grin as been of Chelsea. He had been bora
makes the Sphinx, or an Old World In a lower Bast Side hotbed of un
Priced for Quick Sale.
derworld politics. He had suckled
political oanniness from the breasts
of his mother, herself the daughter
We need more storage
of a ward czar and the wife of a
room. We have cut the
fat and furtive man who "collect
ed" from the various sources of
price on every used car
roronae ttett keep opulent the dark
thrones of precinct bosatem. He
had keen unescapably nurtured and
educated In the destiny of shady
Come, look them over, you
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’A beg from this store
1« a gift de-luxe, the
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gift
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others for the woman
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ReconditioAed
Fords
H. E. McWilliams. messenger
In the express service, Is laid up
temporarily with an attack of
grip.
Mrs. Sarah Foudray and Mrs.
Robert Goodyear, who went to
Southern California recently are
now In Los Gatos where they ex
p u t to remain tor awhlls.
save all depreciation.
Claycomb
Motor Co.
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30 Years Ago
I The Shakespearean Club held
I its anniversary party at the home
I if Mr. . and Mrs. Jacob Wagner
IWedoesday evening. Those pres-
I mt were: I. B. Vising, Mrs. Sar-
I ih Johnson, Mrs. E. A. Sherwln,
Mr. hud Mrs. E. V. Carter, Mr.
I ind Mrs. C. E. Donnelly, Mr. and
Mrs. A. C Dixon, Mr and Mrs. F.
ID. Wagner, Mrs. G. S Butler, Mrs.
Gertrude Bhrclay, Miss Fannie
[Ralph, Miss Carle Roper, Miss
[Rosg Dodge. Besides there the
nvlted guests present were Mr.
Day Parker, Mr. E. E. Wabhburn,
Mr. Henry Galey, Mr. O. S. But
ler, Mr. E. A. Sberwiu, Mr. and
| Mrs. J Wagner. Miss ¿basis Wag
ner, Mrs. Georgs Bngle agd Mrs.
W. H. Mowat
•That Blnly*« a natty beast."
gargoyle, or an Alaskan totem Im
age so unlovely to look upon; eo
IndecenUy all-wlsel He said noth-
teg.
Ruth, blushing furionsly, tried
her level best to dissemble, to be
hospitable and grateful to the man
who was her father's benefactor:
"It's se stuffy ia here. And I’m so
excited about father going to his
new Job."
Murtagh grinned wider—and still
said nothing.
James Allen beamed Indulgently,
yet uncertainly, upon his daughter
as she held his coat He piped to
Murtagh: “You see. Just as I told
you. Ruth’s just as grateful as I
am, MT Murtagh, for your kind
ness. I don't know why you should '
be ee kind to a poor nobody like
me. neither."
At this point Murtagh ram» 0Dt
of his grinning brown study—a
0 . M. VanNatta has purchased study In which be had never for a
haK. interest in the Medford moment relaxed the lecherous fixi
ty of his gam upon Ruth’s worried,
launday and will move there w /h harassed
face. He shrugged and
outsgread hie oily hands:
have a look-tor For the flrst time
“On, don’t mention It * I’m only
Pfof. W. Wann, the pew mem too glad to he of service to yon—
nnd Ruth."
as If In spits of himself.
bor'af the Normal faculty, reach
Realisation of the meaning of
"No one else while my Jimmy
ed this city last Tuesday.
Murtagh's present looks and words boy Is living—"
nnd of his assiduous attempts to be
"Nor after he’s dead, I suppose
helpful the past two years, was you're going to say. Funny how
draining the strength from Ruth's you kids to love gat so sentimental.
body, whs wished he would go. You most have road that some
Instead, ha oat down.
place, hsht Wen. n t spook to the
Rath sold: "Won’t father have to captain every chance I get* Done
he hunrytag along now if you're go- the wixtfulnass. Murtagh’s voloe
to take hint down there and get hod token on the oUlasss of the ah-
jataytadr*
dsr hand dghter again—the hard,
crnel overtone so unapporsnt to ln-
noeeut ears, but so ton of toner
burnings and envious rages.
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know."—•
spoke O
again
la a sadden burst of girlish confi-
dencs—'•yon can help me about
Jimmy right now, Mr. Mnrtagh. It's
this way-, He’a vary anxious to get
assigned to Post 1«, because that's
the Hudson Baatars’ neighborhood,
A new tenant always kicks (or
an« ha thinks It win give him a
new wall-paper.
ahoncs to find oat who kilted his
Wtaaa They'D 6o to him whet
they dM to hie father. He sold he
The (arther o(( a distant rela
was ffbtag to ask tor that pest, and
tive lives the bettor.
I’m so worried for tear tbs captain
w tt humor his raahaem and give
It to him. Bure." »1 a (retted, " Ils
My experience Is that the bum;
the teost dangorous pest to New
meat cigars find their outlet In
York."
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If the South had won the Civil
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Every bride being described as
War, where would the Northern
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Entered at t*w Ashland, Ore««* P e st s i r e M R riw il CUsa Mall Mattes
Murphy ” ia a reasonably well-behaved young
orang-outang iu the London soo. Vitagiaaa is the
invention of a Cambridge scientist, F. L. Lamplough.
“ Mirphy,” it must be supposed, does good to
men, enlightening their minds about other lands and
other lives —«otherwise “ Murphy” would be still
back in the Malay woods from which he oame. And
the vitaglass, which is iu the roof under which he
lives at the soo', does good for “ Murphy,” so his
keejærs say.
Thereby, says medical science, hangs a tale
which may promise to overthrow the hitherto ex
isting conditions of civilization, and take man
kind back to the growth and longevity of un
civilized nature from which mankind came some
many thousands of years ago. The only step still to
be taken, say the British physicians who have
been watching “ Murphy” under his vitaglass roof,
is to make the vitaglass do for mankind what it is
doing for “ Murphy.”
The crux of the situation, of course, is in the
violet actinic rays of the sun, the rays which used to
beam down blessing and health and happy old age
on people, but which were shut unkindly out of
doors to play with the flowers and the birds and the
bees when civilisation came and built mercilessly
opaque shingle and state and tile roofs over the
tendering heads of men to keep the rain and the
snow and the sleet off them.
'The protection — so goes the theory—was too
good. It not only k,ept off the rain and the snow
and the sleet, but the sunshine too, and so man has
just merely been sprouting along ever since, like a po
tato in a dark cellar in February, long and gaunt and
pale and bloodless.
The vitaglass lets the real sunshine in. Ordinary
glass even if it were much used for roofs would
be little better than slate or shingles or tile because
it keeps out the violet rays, which aro the very
things that do the good. But vitaglass lets the vio
let rays through. And it may be frosted, to keep
out the heat and the glare of light, and still the
actinic blessings will flow in just as well as be-
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