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THE DfllüY TIDINGS EDITORIALI and FEATURE
C. J. READ,
ASH LA N D
D A IL Y
T ID IN G S
The Frail Old Woman
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When a frail old woman of 86 succumbed to
; pneumonia in the Chateau Bopchoute in Belgium
the other day the final curtain fell on one of the
■ great royal tragedies of Europe. Carlotta, the frail
- old woman of 86, had been in turn a happy princess,
the idolised wife of a handsome, dashing, rather
. brilliant grand duke of the house of Ilapsburg and
; empress of Mexico. A few years later she had lost
; in^* quick succession her empire, her husband and
; her reason. For upward of 60 years before her death
she had lived in the world- but not of it. While
other empires rose and crashed as hers had done,
while other thrones were being net up and torn
• down, she passed her days oblivious of all that
was happening in the old chateau which was in
reality a private madhouse.
Maximillian is quoted as having once said that
; she was the better man of the two. Perhaps it was
her advioe that induced him to occupy the rather
unstaple throne which Napoleon III had erected in
; Mexico while the United States was too lmsy with
; its own civil war to apply the Monroe doctrine.
; certainly it was her urging that caused him to cling
;to the throne after Napoleon III had withdrawn
his support and his better judgment warned him to
abdicate. It was while she was in Europe vainly
appealing for aid that her world came to an end.
Maximillian’■ empire fell and he was stood up
W ore a Mexican firing squad. With that blow
her own reason fled.
Perhaps the tragedy which marked her for its
victim was largely of her own making. Possibly she
might have lived to die a gentle old grandmother
had her youth been less ambitious, less intense.
It seems a sort of consistency of fate that her death
should have occurred at a time when Mexico again
looms rather prominently ou the’ international hori-
John 1). Rockefeller made eight holes <
in 45, according to a dispatch from Florida.
Bunday school teachers verified it. We .don’t
whether they got dime« or not.
ASHLAND
PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO
NEWS EDITOR
TURNING BACK
THE PAGES
The Browning Case
The notorious,—or it might be more appro
priate to say salacious,—Browning fiasco has become
history for the time being at least “ Peaches” will
rest after the “ terrible ordeal” she forced herself
to go through on the witness stand in an effort to
separate her “ Cinderella man” from a part of his
fortune. “ Daddy” finds pressing business awaiting
him and must get back to work confident that “ a
woman has ninety-nine chances out a hundred” to
win.
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Trials of the Browning type are a travesty on
justice, a mockery of our courts. To all purposes
and intents the Browning affair was merely a let
of monkey business between an “ old fool” with a
lot of money and young ideas, and a misguided
girl of sixteen, with a grasping, daughter-sacrificing
mother who offered her child’s right to happiness on
the altar of greed.
The whole thing is silly, is rot, is ridiculous.
<In the first place, the marriage was a farce on its
face. There oould be^tio attraction in aa old man
for a 16-year-old girt She must, like other girls
her age, want romance and companionship. There
was none of either in “ Daddy” Browning. He, ac
cording to,his own testimony, wanted a home wife.
He never expected to find that kind of a Wife in a
16-year-old girl. He wanted a companion, yet he
must.have known that “ Peaches” could never be
what he anticipated.
“ Peaches’ ” mother made a monkey out of her
self when she let her baby daughter marry an old
man like Biowning. The wealthy old man made a
monkey of himself when,he allowed himself to be-
• come a party to -suolf an unequal marriage. It all
> seems a lot of monkey businem. Perhaps some bio
logist will look over the evidence in the trial and
/ < give ns sume idea when evolution is going to begin.
W. H. PERKINS,
MANAGING EDITOR
Crater Lake
In Winter Time
BY JOHN MABIN
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Caretaker at Crater Lake
Ledge
10 Y ean Ago
Jese Smith, who has speat the
past few aroaths ea the Nell
Creek ranch at Dead Indian,
was In tow s Sunday.
Mrs. G. Y. Gillette and son of
Dunsmuir, visitad at the home of
Mrs. T. W. Sanford last week.
•wore that I wouldn't Araik over
the lias, bat oartoatty kfllod Ike
<*t; wfcra tha «all Wars you want
to sae wkp K f e ao V tka lisa la
working tomorrow rn tall for It.
• Worked on the telephone line.
Weather, partly cfoudy; wind,
southwest; snowfall aloes last oh-
aervotlon 0.00 inehhs; precipita Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . $2.75
tion, 0.00 inches; enow an ground
Tpeoday, Dee: 1«, 'M
70.0 Inches; temperature, H. f f , Ooed M M i ........ .. $2L$0
Although I didn't hay* my girl L. 3. B. 10, If. i f . » '
w, totrugged, as though tt ware the
per 100 lb*. ,.
sw most natural thlag ta the world tor with ate, aad the Nameless One
M bar to he where she waa. “Why, wouldn’t substitute, I enjoyed a
Cracked Oom . . . . $2.50
m , lor goodness sake, what’s all the little skiing by moonlight last
excitem ent, anyhowT"
night.
Strange,
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not
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Joan, who had regained ooatrol
' Dried Bnttennilk
ta. Of her serves after the first shook. member whether the moon was
_ lest them again now, hat for a dlf- full or not, bat I do know that it
K fore nt reaeon, aad started forward was his fault if he wasn’t, be
_ with a little eeream on if to rand
cause there was all kinds of
“ Oars Info Wta:
- ■ “You Immoral Uttla wretch! How moonshine.
T 10 yon dare to ho so lewd sad
No telephone connections to
bow r
day. I am going tq tot it ride for
“Steady, Mm. Forbes!“
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It waa Ltrlaaatone SUvaeris awhile and see if they won’t work
■ voice, crackling now In this cabin from the Port this way.* If they
* o f the roBtag yacht aa potently, as
* deadly oold aad ruthless, aa It svhr don’t I here to go oat la a day
bad across dlreotors’ tnbtoa or or two with some mail and then
afaiong the greet redwoods of his I can ran It v a t to the mill. I
bitterest lumber fights. Ha ranged
will increase the production of your flock.
ft himself, bristling, in front of Joan was dowa ever the line today
within a mile of Aaaa Springs,
►f aad between Glare aad Banny.
A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE, YOU OF THIS.
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“Leave this to met“
but didn’t find the break. Who
p Banny’s own rage against the .aver the half-wit waa who sug
e meddlesome, blundering Clare sud- gested patting the line off the
r> denly ooaed oat as he rend la M r-
If .gar's accusing Cnee and raging road ought to hare his pants re
mien a total switch of sympathy, a moved and dragged* the full
a devastating loss of faith,
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e ■Startled, Banny hastily scanned length of the line. It is a fine
Banda Emaleton for Backward Biddiea
e the circle pi watchers, it waa tbs to sit with your feet np on a ra
same all around. In every pair of diator aad tell what a great thing
it ayes ha encountered hostile see- U la to hare it out of eight of the
a ptclon—amusement In soma, aad
a not a little contempt, hat always road, bat It la a different story
e accusation.
when you -hero to chase through
K suddenly dawned apoa Bonny the brush and over the loga to
I that be was la a very, very deuce • hunt trouble. If they wanted it to
► a t a Jam I Par from being the In-
t fored aggteseor, by some erratic he out of sight why didn’t they J
s and unexplained twist of a xnallg- bury a cable and be through with {
1 neat lata ha found himself on the trouble for all time, winter and
r defensive.
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Burner wee upas! tug; la frigid. summer.
I guess the thing that makes I
I Incisive tones.
“Forbes, rn admit I don't quite me so sore. I fell in the creek
’
o»ts of your
t lltUe game y et No (tonbt there are and got wet. I was so mad that I
oertaln Utile underhand tricks of
i polo that can ba carried Into your
CUSTOM HATCHING
* J®®1*1 »rilvRlee. This much I do
Now Is the tim e for you to
toow; that you’ve pobllelv humO-
<!« your fencing. Ground Is
Hatch each week after February 22nd.
foted and dlagraeed roar wife, made
soft for setting yonr posts,
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04 yourself, a shameless
and we carry every slue,
exhibition of this — wonfan— and
height ami description in fenc
Morrbatt
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Ashland
abased my hospitality, and ofiend-
ing that to made ami at right
prices.
Harrows Plows aad all kinds
of tools carried In stock.
Herbert’s Grocery
Mark Trae aad w ife visitad
Mrs. Trne’s parents la Central
Point the first of the weak.
Leandor Neil has returned
from a business trip to Port-
OUR POULTRY. FOODS
ASHLAND
Albers, Cherro and Crown Feed
in stock
20 Years Ago
Dr. g. T. Songer was callad
to Portland' last week as a wit
n ess in th e big G. T. Myers will
White
oontest.
Ashland Fruit and Produce Asg’n.
Normal Notes— Miss Ethel Os
burn, a graduate of the class of
19««, hug been called to a posl-
delighted
lon M The Dalles nt a good
«alary. Mies Oynetk Lee o f Ash
wag an eminently sntfofnetorj
land will take her position at exciting grist to their appétit
Logan, Clackamas county. .
scandal which had been so ki
DAFFODIL FARMS
BABY CHICKS
Arthur F. Hunt, the w ell
tnown stockman and buyer for
■arstens ft Co., ? has gone on a
vusinesa trip to Alberta province,
in British Columbia.
ASHLAND
A fe w W h ite Sewing M a
chines le ft fo r RfiO.OO each.
wUl cost yen ftae.ee else
where.— A t
C. A. Eliason went ever to
Yreka today on a bastees« trip.
P eil’s Comer
Abram Bisk, who Mas boon
town la Canforata for «overol
«onths, returned to Ashland yes
terday.
caflMda here a moment before yon,
end that my wife waa here, if yq«
want any explanation, oak her I“ 7
Ranny Indicated Clare with a
savage fork of hie thumb.
“D e a l tot Mm pat yea off.“ cried
Jpan. oapltaltaing the unexpectedly
taverahle tide to her own fortunes.
“Make them BOTH explain I “
Bat 8tivner was heedlees of tox
ic. indifferent to axplaaatlone. He
waa kitting oat freely, recklessly,
like a wounded ball, letting the tm-
pliaatlons fall where they may. And
Indeed he waa wounded—to the
heart, with the dull, aching futility
ot • sfoo®«. rfoh man who can get
everything and anything In the
world, anoapt the one woaian he
Mrs. Dr. Webster and eea Max
toparted yesterday for Sacra
mento.
Jos. Kinney returned Prom
Sisk lyon county loot Friday.
J. A. Bailey has goae to Oold
m il to romain for soma time.
Lorna Beshnoll la ill with the
Uu at his home oa B street. Mr.
Bushaell has been employed by
<he Colttorato-Oragon Power Co.,
rt Prospect and expects to re
turn to that place when he re-
* U Take Poeeaekm—
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Mrs. John Cochran will again
ftke possession of her attractive
borne on Lincoln street, which
I ban been occupied for the past
roar by the William Robison fam
ily.
Mrs. Cochran spent last
nunmer visiting in Portland and
Salem and hoe been occupying an
»partmoat since her return.
predipgtoMit, the immodest clrcum-
euneee et her attire, the obvious
rags that was swiftly replacing
part amaaament la Banny’s tecs,
diaturhai Olart not at alL She
smirked at Banny, then with care
less and studied dedaaee met the
gleaming eyes of the crowd—gave
them back glare for stare, aad with
Interest
Three fuU mlautan peoeed before
Bahav found hie voice—three
soundtom eternitlee In which ho
lived and died a.thoueand deaths
et a thousand torture stakse.
n r e e minutes ta which the only
sounds were a shotting of font, and
the only movements were an invol
untary stepping forward from tho
•undock door of Olay aad the cap
tain. an edging etoeer of 8 timer
and the gaping mongers at his
heels, aad a brsma shrugging of
Ctoro*e dimpled ehoalders under
Bonny's open month ns the turned
the foil battery ef her baby stare
aad perpetually “mtonademtood’*
ay«* «pan him
Throe mhratea la which the only
LggKSw Pullets
We contract, to grow pullets and deliver them
1 d o » » —100 or 1000.
From P U B I BOLLYWOOD TBAPNE8TED 8. 0.
White Leghorns, e r a , bird guaranteed, also chicks.
Write at once for prices.
LANE’S EGG RANCH
GARDEN SEEDS
Willamina, Ore.
BLOX
GARDEN TOOLS
WOOD
Carson-Fowler Lbr. Co.
»lmpsoifs
Hardware
Thd Winchester Store”
OLD TIME FIDDLERS’ CONTEST
TO BE DECIDED FINALLY
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10
AT WALKER’S
2nd FLOOR, MEDFORD BLDG.
IN T H » COUNTY COURT. IB
AND VOR JACKSON COUNTY,
ORttQCN.
In the old time fiddler's contest that closed
Saturday night the votes ou the 5 leading con
testants were so close that all the 5 contestants
have decided to play again Thursday, February 10
to decide the final winner. Judges will be selected
from those present in the dance hkll that night
and the oontest will be decided there. Votes by
telephone, telegraph or màil will not be countdl.
The 5 leaders are Charles Pankey, Central Point;
L. B. Tucker, Ashland; Nick Kime and C. E,
Foster Medford; and 8. J. Sinclair, Eagle Point.
No advance in price.
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Tlie‘funeral of the late Emperor of Jap •an cost
$2,000,000, says a dispatch. No wonder’the • ix’opie
shout “ Long live the raipefcort”
How almnt indoor sport»? What color
guards should a parcheesi player wear?
11. H aitsoll, Jadae «f th« said
[County Court, aa executor of the
last wRl and te st am rat of the
» id Joseph V. Chisholm, aa well
tha guardian of the persona
[aad estate of tha minor betra.
Any aad all persona having
alatm again et the estate of th«
deceased ora re«alrod to present
the same duly verified, unto the
undersigned, at the office of
o s< a parfoAIy SBhd yachting
tetttMk had dspradsd aa bar an
swer. Cfiara oouM not'have dwelt a laBto •>< Abner himself appear
«mk mere roltah rara the leisure ed— ta adneafog gewn. drowsy, for
afid Ike Baiava «f bar drawled re- all tha world a man just awakeiisd
from a soand sleep.
Ttonrt YOU k p a w r She smiled
“Whero’s the Arar* he yawned
■Nkly lako Raany*s. hatted eyes. UgkOy-
Brigg, ft Briggs. .Attorneys, In
Pioneer Block, Ashland. Oregon,
within six months after the date
of the first »n bileet loe of this
aotlce.
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8ERVIOB AND QUALITY
in fuel as well as lumber,
man call ma
•side himself
grown on the ‘Coolidge farm are still
|ieck. '1 boHc Vermont folk certainly
Soft collars for warm weather and «¡xirls only
is fashion’s new rt ling. Out of tho trenches by
July 4th, boys.
Olean Beraich
$2.78 per 160 IlM?
Date of first publication, Feb-
ary », l#J7t
JOSEPH R. BANDER,
Executor.
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R. L.
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Admission 10c—Dance 50c
Dancing, 6 to 12
Tucker’s Orchestra
BROADCASTING ON KMED Î0 TO 11,