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MONDAY, February 7. li
THE DHIüY TIDlfíOS EDITORIAL « n d
C. J. READ, MANAGING EDITOR
ASH LAN D
D A IL Y
T ID IN G S
W . H . P A R K I N S , NEWS EDITOR
OUT OUR WAV
The Message to Garcia
By Williams
1>OST M O O R
A Newspaper item the other day mentioned
the fact that Mrs. Florence Kahn, representative
in congress from California, is the authej- of a hill
proposing advancement on the retired list o f the
United States army of Major Andrew Hammers
Rowan to major general. The first disposition of
the puzzled reader is to ask what he did td win
; the war. The next sentence clears up the mystery.
, Major Rowan is th e man Who carried the “ message
• to Garcia.”
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This may not be so illum inating to the gep-
• eration which marched into the trenches to the tune
i of “ Over T here.”
But to the boys who sang
‘‘There’ll Be a H ot Time in the Old Town T onigh t”
and made it good in one of the typhoid fever camps
of *98 it says a mouthful.
A t the outbreak of the Spanish-American war,
it became a m atter of com pelling necessity to
into immediate touch with General Garcia, com
mander of the Cuban insurgents. Lieutenant Rowan
was given the job of delivering a message to him
from Freaident McKinley and bringing baek his
reply. It was a difficult mid dangerous task, but
Lieutenant Rowan, after overcoming numerous ob
stacles, completed it. The service was recognised by
the bestowal of a decoration and immediate pro
motion.
That probably would have ended the m atter
just as it does with manv other cases of -conspicuous
service in war, but for Elbert Hubbard. The sage
of E ast Aurora who discovered the law o f service
long before Rotary and Kiwanis were bom went into
prose dithyrambs over the exploit, not so much as
a tribute to Rowan as to point a moral for the youth
o f America. “ A M essage to ■Garcia” pretty nearly
ran ‘‘W hat’s the Matter with K ansas” nut of busi
ness. It took rank with the Ten Commandments
and the Constitution.
Besides executives had it
printed in pamphlet form and distributed it as
Christmas presents to their employes. It was as
famous in its day as “ Back to Norm alcy.”
In t ie meantime Lieutenant Rowan had become
Major Rowan. He served in the Philippines and as
a m ilitary instructor at the U niversity of Kansas
and finally retired at the age of 59 in 1909. The
age at which he left the army probahjy accounts
for the fact that he did not reach a higher rank on
retirement. H e is now 70 years old and possibly
needs the money which ^advancement on the list '
would bring him. The report doesn’t say.
A t any rate, in spite of the use wliich was
made of him as an object lesson for all IRtle boys
he seem s to have fallen somewhat behind in the
recognition accordod the other conspicuous heroes
o f ’98. Roosevelt became president, Funston and .
Wood became major general« in the army, Dewey
was already an admiral and Hobson made a fortune
lecturing for the Anti-Saloon league.
U B O « ., O S B
M tf iM « ..
This weather is like a
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A Friendly letture From Japan
Japan is
longer an absolute monarchy, but
its people regard their rulers with deep-rooted rev
erence, because the same royal fam ily, since the
■ dawn of Japanese history, has held the throne.
«•Hiro bi to is the one hundred twenty-third mikado in
a line dateiug from several centuries before the
beginning o f the Christian era—a record unique
among all the nations o f the world.
Although, a« regent, the new emperor has ruled
in fact if not in name for several years, unusual in
terest is attached to his first imperial message.
Those who have been made fearful of a Pacific war,
of the yellow jieril, of. a conflict between Japan
and tbe I uited States, w ill lie reassured by the
tone of the address«
For Hirehito preaches moderation, tetuplieity,
national harmony and international good will. There
is nothing alarming hi that. It is in marked contrast
to the first message that W illiam II of Germany gave
when he ascended the throne of Germany. W illiam,
making his first address to the army and navy, de
clared, “ My confidence is placed in the army,-” and
gave in the l>egiiuiing o f his reign, warning of the
m ilitaristic policy that was, eventually, to plunge the
whole world in war.
The progress Japan lias made in half a cen
tury of civilization, according to western stand
ards, has l»eeoii remarkable.
There seems little
danger that the nation which has displayed" so much
intelligenee in its rise to first rank as a world power
w ill im peril its future by a devastating war. The
jnesaage of Uiroliito was at once a warping to the
intense nationalists ol hie owu realm, and a friend,v
gesture to the world outside.
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Perhaps they call it n transformation lteeause
the old dear looks so different when she takes it off.
Crater Lake
In Winter Time
BY JOHN MABIN
Caretaker rt Crater Lake
MA*M>vfeRCU»EF
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LAND PRINTING CO.
i2 £ £ £ ^ ìiS 2 C S 2 2 ìi
prise
fight, a aeries of right and left to
the jaw. . First it hits yon on
one side and then It takae a
craofc at the other, t Just set the
snow cleaned out on the lake
side, and« now the wind is shov
eling It is on the south.
I was out yesterday to see
I what damage the wind had does
to the trees. They «re sure :a
ragged looking
bunch, like
a
, flock of geese that have Just
been picked. There are limbs,
big asd small scattered every
where, and the snow is -black with
moss. There were pockets, dug
out by the wind, and these were
fu ll of cones. I only went a lit
tle way the other .aid e of the
oommuntty house, and I passed
two trees blown over.
For th e last three
or four
y ea n I have noticed that there is
very little now at the W ine Glare.
From Skell’s Head to Pumice
Point the rim is bare at snow
now. Just how deep its gets I do
not know, but you can compare
the depth there with the depth
near the Lodge; it is 66 in. here
today. I was startled today by
a roar from the west ripv as I
have, hoep hearing of earthquakes
over the ra d io /1 didn’t know but
, one had come to pay me a visit.
I I hurried to an open window, or
; -rather a window without a shut
ter and looked out.
It was a
» snow slide over on the W atch
man. I t was over when I got to
the wlndoow, hut it >mnst have
been o f good sise for it had ;
Started near the top and had a l
most cleaned the slide of snow,
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W ork— Shoveled snow, work-
’ ed on lamps.
W eather— Day
cloudy > wind '
southwest; snowfall since last
Observation 0.6 In., precipitation
.67 In; snow on around 66 ip.,
Temp. H. 42, L. 21, R. 21, M. 31.5
entangle Abner's gllnky steps and
Anally «absstt «he ead to «he pun
ishment they had devised as meet
•a d fitting tor each re he.
Almost surly in Ms outward as
pect, Banny maintained a steady
and searching scrutiny of Abner
until that worthy toot moat uf bis
Insolent eelf-aMurance and w m
driven almost to jumping out of his
under the table, covertly signaling
io him to desist lest Abner take
warning sad abort tbeir plot
Ip Mrs. Clare Clemoneau’S little
blonde cranium, however, as she
sensed the sudden collapse of Ben-
ay’s interest in her ead calculated
the reason therefor, there wag no
thought of surrendering so easily
and readily the grip she had so
carefully laid upon him.
fimils aad lisp still concealed the
true trend of bar thoughts, but In
wardly she was gloating upon the
realisation that Banny had publicly
committed himself to her interest
now to a degree from which he
would not well withdrad—without
trouble, aad lots of lti
CHAPTER X
On Livingstone «tim er's floating
palace the social amenities were as
. well preserved, the routine as well
j ordered, as in the most fastidious
mansions ashore.
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Accordingly after dinner the men
♦ marshalled behind Sttvner and
h withdrew to the smoking room for
cigars and ooffse, while the women
• reared to the drawing room for
* cigarettes, eoffee aad scandalous
gossip. .
Inasmuch as the men, too, were
not averse to an exchange of spicy
chit chat, the main difference be
tween the two poet-dinner gather
ings lay In—whag they smoked!
Ranny and Clay, bursting with
eagerness to absent themselves at
the first opportantty sad go about
the preparation of their man-trap,
wolcomed this splitting up as »uch
MAN’« ANCESTORS LIVED
■ .as Clare resented I t
B E F O R E T H E “D A W N M A N .”
Clave, in tart, petulantly and per
emptorily demanded of SUvner that
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 7.—
he recognise the modernist view of
(U P ).—The 6,000,000 year old
sex equality by having both men
’Idawq man,” heralded
recently
and women ooagregnte In the
by some scientists as "m en’s first
smoking room. SUvner, however,
stoutly insisted npon the sacred in-
ancestor,” cannot rig h tfu lly be
violableness of the smoking room
called such, according to Prof.
as the one and only place on the
K irtley F . Mather, Harvard geol
Speedwell barred to the dainty feet
ef the ladies.
ogist.
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Stivner's insistence, truth to tell,
“ Man is ad evolved being and
was not so muoh in defense of aa
so Is the monkey,” said Dr.
ideal aa it waa a strategic and justi
| Mather.
“A t some place way
fiable pse of the one effective
Jrca scraped to mu o«to<4« drek. means at his disposal with which
back In the dim past, their gen-
he could maneuver a temporary
eological trails crossed. T h e gw.ted right to the flirt o( tbs sltus- separation of d a r e from Banny. •
;:daw n man” is separate offshoot
The apg division of the party,
Bltlngly, Clay bad reviewed the therefore, was complete and entire
from the common tree, neither
fieyelopmento. Banny Kgs making hut tor one factor.
man or monkey, but related to • pnblje aqs of himself. Qe had
Jean Forbes, pleading a M t of a
both.
eome on this eruiae solely and nota hendache and a consequent indis
bly
because
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t
offered
aa
excellent
position for coffee-cup conversa
The "dawn man” lived 6,000,-
ukance to entrap the interloper.
000 years ago. The ancestors of Abnqr Qratman, who w»i stealing tion, excused herself and escaped
to the outside deck.
man were in existence long before the wife of his heart from him; be
Abner, conveying nondescript ex
that. True, we have no skeletons cause It afforded an opportunity to cuses to « tim e r, hastily followed
as yet of older date, but there is begin a campaign to re-lntorert his her.
wits and win back her lava.
The maneuver was so broad that
evidence of evolution in what we
Yet here he wgg letting himself •very pair of eyes in tbs remainder
have found. Hence, we logically >e made a donkey of by a design ef that party shot qnlasicaUy to
assume that there was evolution ing little bundle of sophisticated B*nny Forbes* face.
pad trouble making.femlniaityI
,
Knowing full well his temper and
prior to the dAwn man.”
Here he w m forgetting the aim fists, one and all expected an im
and end of the serious business in mediate scene, a delightfully scan
JAPANESE ARE NORROWFUL paid under the spell at baby dumb dalous eruption. Nothing short of
eyes!
the pitching overboard of Ahnerl
|A S EMPÖRER IN BURIED
H ara he was forsaking the role
Banny, however, prolonged the
ef a man for that of a monkey I
spicily expectant agony e i the n o n
A man defending the sanctity of gers by pretending to take no no-
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Ms marriage contrast aad the rto tioe of what had occurred—a t cost
united support for the empire tue-ef his wife, descending tesense- »f what a struggle oidy Clay and
lese philandering himself]
io knew.
and the dynasty.
And what wgs «tim er thinking,
W ith a raging internal tornado
Shortly after mid rig h t the cor did Ranny Imagine? SUvner, who held ip leash by an Irep w ill be
tege again formed and followed wanted Clare! «tlvner, with whom hind an external appearance of oool
the coffin borne by 10« bearers, Banny sareastly desired to become unconcern aad innocence, Banny
associated in a business way I
strolled along with the other men
to a specially built railway sta
Was thwarting the billionaire down to the smoking room and
tion gt Sendagayga, where It was lumber king in an affair at tbe joined in the general conversation
entrained for the Asakawa Mauso beast sues as be had recently iafl-
jsd him in the matter of the polo
leum.. The train was scheduled wager, a sensible way fqr Ranny
to arrive at the mausoleum at to endeavor to achieve social aad
lees of Clare’s presence.
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day break where additional cere business success with Stlvaer?
y fr e q r ’a whole career was a rec
"Phew!” giggled Dowager Tef-
monies w ill be held before in
ord of having hrqken the reckless fena -1 hove rtsiens of my ptetore
terment.
snen who tried to stand in his way! to the Moor se a w^neee to the
The coat of the funeral was And Stivner’s heart was even now crime. Dear me. do I hope they
SpeU dsy name oorrertlyl”
approximately 31,600,000 goM.
> Meanwhile by ao untoward word
to
the gllghtert manner betray trepi-
Thus Olar had raved, aad Ran j1,?**0* * aptooheurton as to the
ey's head hod hewed and his eyes thia tee over which his wtts ores
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undsr the »tora. For flauntlngly skading. It was s «war-
I Mftaf Where Say j
P A R I« — Enter the kiss
ing bandit.
An attractive
aad well dressed blonde en
tered an antique store just
off the Avenue de l ’Opera
and whan the dealer bent ov
er to select some o b jart the
girl struck him on the head
w ith a silver candlestick.
Falling on her knees, th e
young woman implored for
giveness of the . stunned
merchant, kissed him on
both cheeks and saying «he
was in need, nt money, took
the contents of the till and
walked out.
CONCARNEAU,
Francs.
When one of the century old
ramparts of this town .col
lapsed the city fathers delv
ed Into old records for the
secret of tbeir construction.
Old documents revagled that
the walls, dating to the 14th
century, were built of sea
granite plastered
together
with a mixture of granite
dust, unslack limes, whites
of eggs. Sea granite will be
used In reconstructing the
wall, but with eggs at more
than a franc each, the whites
of eggs w ill probably be
omitted ^rom the formula. x
TOULON. B I.,— J. « . Futl-
er, republican candidate tor
county treasurer, has won
his battle to hold that office
by a decision granting him
ope vote more than his op
ponent, M argaret Allen. *
AND
I know of nothing so unpopu
lgr as facts.
Many men and Women
are ”to< astray” supply
ow# baiters-
17,/»
who
tbeir
Moat of the space In the aver
age man’s head is taken up by
things he doesn't-know.
Seeing the rame people and
dotes the same thingy O»u auu
over causes much immorality.
I t is easier to estimate a msn
by the character of his foes than
by (he Plaudits of his friende
(Corvallis G aw tte-Tim es)
la
spite of a ll the de
mands for a reduction of
commissions,
spme
seH
consciences propose a state
movie censor board. There
are to be three members of
th e commission at 3 3 AO a
month. Nice fat jobs tor a
of Dpllftors.
Do
you
.want somebody else to say
whether or not a
moving
picture is f it -for you to see?
I f so, then let us have some
one to tell us what books
we may or may not read.
Funny thing— we boast of
our wonderful ability at self-
geverament aad the very
people who shout the loudest
are constantly trying to get
geme kind of legislation to
restrict our freedom on the
ground that we are not fit to
decide the
most Intricate
problems in economics
by
initiative
and referendum,
but on a question of morals
we have to have self appoint
ed guardians.
( Portland Telegram )
Punetuate this sentence:
Miss H arrio t
Weatherson,
cashier in .the
Florence
bank, reporting the rectmt
holdup said: “Tbe robber ap
peared calm and collected.”
Hes Heck says; “ To be good-
lookin’ calls fer less intelligence
The several bloc heads In
thap anything else I k in think in Congress have entered upon
o’ today?’
tbeir busy hegson.
TURNING THE PAGE5 BACK
ASH LA N D
10 Years Ago
B C. Gard has returned from
D. J. Winters, recently • from
Va noon ver Island, where he has Montana, has negotiated through
been engagad In lumbering and Ed Hughes.' for th e purchase of
ranching.
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the I^ U ik e n and Farm ar t e n
acre traqt Just south of Ashland
formerly port of the Erb place.
»Y w A ^o
Mrs. Col. W m . Myers deft last
evening to Join her husband who
has located at a small place o *
Pi'gpt .«pund hetweeu Tacoitta
and Esattls.
Miss Irene Johnson of Lore-
E. F. W iakior, wutohooer of the
land, Colo., gfirlred la Ashland re
U- .A. Sackett, who had been
cently to fill a position in the Austin Bakery has secured the confined to the'kouse for some
services
o
f
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Brat
siass
all
around
west school, succeeding M i s s
time w ith the grippe, was able to upon a listener whimpered to his
baker Who thoroughly under
Jeanette Creekpaum.
get down town last Wrek.
companion, "say it ain’t are, is
stands his businoos.
it?”
“A in’t sure,” the friend repli
Judge Tolmgn came down from ed, “but I ’m bettln* on the gov
Manage«
Thomas
J.
Fuaon
of
E. A. Nlsbet attended to busi
the Springs last Thursday and e rn o r/ That stwtad Ibe .battle.
ness matters in Medford yester the opera bouae, te .fortaaate in
win
spend a few days In Ashland - Booofical respite, If gpy, from
securing the engagement ’of the
day.
vlsltteg w ith friefids.
the bloodless fight have been in
eminent actor Chas B. Hanford.
a decline to speeches. These le g
islators hav* pot bills to pass,
Mrs. Lewis has returned from
Frank Mee was looking after Miles Central! of the Ashland
amend
or repeal, and are afraid
a several months visit with roia-1 hi* interests in Siskiyou county
schools went over to Hepley* oa to start another grkmaiatical
tires in Washington and Idaho.
last week.
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this Tnorniag’s «trate.
argument. '.''f
public faith to her conduct!
delivering a hair-raising bawling
B.at
s«*» glance ha
out. a craekMog piare of U s m l*«! eaebaaged with Q a r lay the rea-
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i0Bad W " » 1 * ttr-
ago in thia crisis.
bJRrt hla boor 6f vengeance waa at
<To ha oaatiausd)
Spaat Weak-Bad in
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Attended Dance at HUt—
Cleon Cpldwell, Clark
Southern Oregon Normal spent field and Bob Morris of j
the week-end in Montague, Cal., attended the danqe at HU
visiting With friends.
Saturday evening.
Tad
Kinney, student at
tbe
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