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C. J. READ, MANAGING EDITOR
ESTABLISHED IN 1876
W. H. PERKINS, NEWS EDITOR
PUBLISHED BY THE ASHLAND PRINTING CO.
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OUT OUR WAY
Abraham Lincoln
(An Acrostic)
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Again a grateful nation, your natal day reveres,
Beloved martyr. Let the great heart o f you
Rejoice, for through all the passing years
A flaming light o f patriotism your memory will
renew
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Holding high the banner, your "patient hands un­
furled.
A new democracy your gift, to bond, and freemen
too—
May our nation lead in righteousness, the vanguard
of the world,
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By W illiams
U961M MA-HA FOLD rfOMtROMCEf
ER IS IT T w ic e r — KUH ? WO—iT
HAPPOMO o u t in TB1 STREET— H u h »
WHWtCOMElM HERE, T Fix IT -GO l OO q T
K u H -P eefuv im Kt' s i b « e . ?
, some
vnimmin ’-B ot - uh -A’A- i dow T like . T' ast
OOMT DARE - OH- o H- aajeul K teKl,
FIRST v / a fold IT OORUERWAyS
UH ? GET WHuTTOH^eTy
U-HGME’ o h — J
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Reduced to an economic formula human life re­
mains a much more important asset to a community
than all its material possessions, it is asserted by
the insurance department of the chamber o f com­
merce of the United States. To support its state­
ment if cites the estimate of one of the countrie’s
outstanding statisticians that the value of the lives
of the country’% citizens, based on their future
earning power, is more than $1,500,000,000,000. This
would be five times as great as the nation’s material
wealth, valued today at $350^000,000,000..
“ The United S tates,” says insurance depart­
ment in a bulletin announcing a program upon which
it has embarked with the cooperation o f the com­
mittee on administrative practice of the American
public health association to enlist chambers of com­
merce throughout the country in health conserva­
tion, “ sustains a tremendous economic loss each
year due to sickness and death. The average citi­
zen is said to lose about seven days each year due to
sickness which would correspond to a loss of two
per cent in useful industrial or commercial pro­
ductivity. A s our national income is more than
$60,000,000 a year, it is apparent that this loss
alone totals considerably more than a billion dollars
annually. Added to this is. the cost of medical and
hospital service, which has l>een estimated to be at
least $10 per capita, or more than $1,000,000,000
each year. Sickness in the United States therefore
involves a direct cost of more than $2,000,000,000
annually.
A curious illustration of the ego prevading our
so-called statesmen at W ashington is to be found
in the solemn manner in which they debate the
use o f the radio for the transmission of political
speeches. Ju st now they have under consideration
an amendment to a lan d in g bill forbidding the use
of the government station at Arlington as a political
stump.
“ To permit such 'use of it m ight establish a
dangerous precedent,” says one serious senator.
These statesmen seem never to have observed
the opertion of a receiving set. If they had they
would have ascertained that not more thuu oue
speech in 50,000 delivered over the radio is listened
to. TherefÖre they could shout over the Arlington
station till they die of old age without making the
slightest impression upon a nation busy listening to
some other and more appealing program.
I f we eould find out what they taste like, some
of us imagine we might like winter strawberries.
An earthquake lasting thirty seconds oecurred
in Scotland last week, hut noliody loosened up,
. *
TF-IE s . o . s
*
The so-called Mexican war* scare . blew over
so fast our popular composers didn’t have time to
look through the old masters for a patriotic tune. “
It is expectod Washington will have the radio
situation well in hand before the proposed 42-letter
alphabet become* necessary to lal»el new stations.
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/sn'f It Odd?
A new town in Oklahoma
has been named Bowlegs. It
■asms the Charleston hadn't
toand Its wag out there yet.
Naming towns for lags is
a good idea, though. Phila­
delphia might be called F a ll­
en Arches, in memory of the
Ssequi.
Naw York eould be re-
ehristened either Bootleg, or,
in honor of the night clubs,
Clubfoot.
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Charleston, B. C., might ba
renamed Knock-knees.
Twenty - eight thousand
bottles of Canadian b e e r
ware seized in Florida. W ith
Canada wet, it seems that
boose is just hound to get
over into the border states.
Some of us are able to
make ourselves plain— oth­
ers needn't try to hatter Na­
ture.
Folks Would Turn The Dials
BT JO H N M A B IX -
Caretaker nt Crater Lake
Lodge
IB, 1«BB.'#
Being considered a day of rest
I took advantage of it and slept
until eight o’clock. I t was* then
too late to start back; so I wand­
ered around the town and count­
ed the dogs. I made it very well
until two of them began to fight
and then I became so interested
in that action of the owners that
I lost cquat.
“P O ffJ j e u . £H B W I F f atarris^tasne RMxi £ % Bfltarmr Bree.
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under an injunction
Msrty to walk quiet-
to MOMS th« , bther
red exit lights glowed ta the
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tata««« «f «ntahtap Atawr « re- shlp a t »Uh
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Speedwell
of it now;
‘ ‘ Let this Union be not sundered ’ ’—you gave the -
calm command;
Invoked your soul to strive, achieve, to suffer and
he strong.
Nobly you upheld the burden, aid D ivine upheld
your hand,
Cancelled strife and hate and righted, m ankind’s
most grievous wrong.
Oh needs not honor’s bronze or marble, nor a name
in. Hall of Fame
Like our F lag now proudly floating, o ’er one happy
glorious laud
Name of yours Immortal Lincoln, shall eternal
reverence claim.
—Em ily Loomis W aite.
Life, The Greatest Asset
Crater Lake
In Winter Time.
W hat this country needs
is either block stockings or
nog - splachlng automobile
tires.
W e wonld get more justice if
judges wars not lawyers.
Opportunity is worthless if you
don't know what to do w ith it.
The one thing that everybody
can do is tell you how to cure
n cold.
Whan times are hard, a man's
first stroke o f economy is to ent
down his w ife’s allowance.
D E N V E R — F ran k A lito,
a fru it dealer, was bitten on
the finger by a scorpion
while handling banes. Know­
ing that such a bite proves
fetal in a m ajority of cases,
he deliberately cat the .fing­
er off at the first join t.
Then he calmly went to a
physician and had the wound
dressed. He is back on the
job, handling more bananas,
only with more care.
K IN G S L E Y , III. — An
hour a fter she obtained an
uncontented divorce, Mrs.
Ethel Li. B arry remarried.
The new husband,
H arry
Kuhn of Oakland, the first
was H a rry Barrie of • L in ­
coln, Neb.
The word "m other” loses its
reverence when you see a woman
smoking cigarettes while nursing
her babe.
I t is best to have a couple
of marines on hand when
there are so many thous­
ands of those rough for­
eigners.
Hez Heck says: “ Innocence
don't git you much o* anywhere
when you take it Into business.
Today's definition: College
— A place where young
people go to study suicide.
(B aker H erald )
"The Woman Pays.” Tell
that to Chaplin and Brown­
ing.
McA'doo says he Isn’t
aiming at the presidency.
That needn’t keep-him from
going after the Democratic
nomination, however.
TURNING THE PAGE5 BACK
ASHLAND
ASHLAND
10 Yean Ago
20 Years Ago
F. L. Johns of this city was a
Charon Staples, who Is a stu­
business visitor to Medford this dent at the
C alifornia
State
morning.
University at Berkeley, has been
spending a few day« at home. He
will return to school la the near
r
N. W. Hawn of Boise, Idaho, future.
Is In this city and Is being shown
around by Mayor Johnson. He
Miss Agnes Elene George, who
has Mrs. Hawn with him, and has been having a siege w ith the
they came hack to look Ashland measles, has gone to her home In
over fcs a future home.' He has Jacksonville to recuperate.
She
been general caretaker of sup­ will have an indefinite vacation
plies for all the Grand Masonic from her position with Deuel \n d
lodges of the state of Idaho.
Hubbs in this city. ‘
Mrs. James Archibald, after
spending a week with her father,
George Stevenson on Factory St.,
returned .to her home at Browns­
boro last Saturday evening.
/ ASH LAND
30 Years Ago
W, W. Walters of the mining
firm of W alter and Johnson, left
Tuesday for a trip through the
mining counties of California on
business for some investors.
Rev. J. 8. Smith of the M. E.
church and Rev. O. W. Bieck of
the Baptist church started today,
for Los Angela« to represent the
Southern Oregon Chautauqua As­
sociation In a meeting of the Pa­
cific coast general assembly.
F. O. M cW illiam s of this city,
was over to Jacksonville recently,
where he let a contract fo r run­
ning a IS foot tunnel on the
A. P. Ball has gone to Jose­
Gold Standard mine, toeated near phine county, expecting to go to
Jacksonville.
work In a sawmill at M erlin noon.
I
Monday, December 20, 1020
Breakfast was over at * seven
and I shouldered my pack and
started up the read, didn't
any other way to travel. I got
CHAPTER Xli
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The captain’s uatrlmmed soggee- »hlch «Upped her how« with gusty
up the road about a mhe and I
tUn, delivered in that drawling • » « * » whan they were tilted out of
heard a Ford panting behind me. nnsai voice which bad been —nLipiZ | Gie
black waters, am d Plunged her
_
An early rising garage man had brittleness by many spumy winds deep on each trough dive. A light,
aeea me pass by and went and whiped from many far ssas, brought squally rain combed her. an with
awakened h(s Ford, by the sounds Banny's attention and hope slmul- the potato of a liquid raha,
, , ^ b,ner'8 <* bla WM Ucked and
Utaoneiy to the forefront again.
it was making it didn't take to
He thought it over, looking wide- lightless; bnt the low voice that
the idea
w ith pleasure. He eyed from one to another of hie re­ responded to Captain Marty's mnf-
fled knock aad command to open
landed me at the aaow line at flective compeaioa«.
GUy Variek sought to spar and gave no hint that Ito o v w r had
seven thirty, bid me good by and
encourage hie decision: -W h y not, been sleeping,
M erry Xmas aad was soon lost to Banny, old eonT W hat difference
-Whom, and what, have I to
makes the manner of catching, thank tor tke honor of this rather
me in the fog down the road
im f I admit that the hell, signal- -? n c o m m o n --rU ita tto n r
I rubbed the frost o ff the skis, h
lag his caddlshpeas to the world, I Abner, when the light "
and stuck my toes In the straps wna a ripping s ta rt— if It had work­ turned on and the four men had en­
and started my seventeen mite ed to schedule.
ueuina
I t didn’t
Yet tered and closed the door behind
hike back to the rim . Teu never things have so happened that be­ them. Despite his effort to main-
tain a hmsen, 1
front, his
thin k of tke length of your jour­ yond a ll doubt you have the goods voice quaked and his face
Eace wds
on him I * Clay held np the piece
ney, nt least you don’t let your c f doth, torn from Abner's eoat blanched.
mind dwell upon It, If you do you aad added with an apologetic grin, ''"I want to aee your hlaser—the'
ooat you wore during this evening."
very likely turn around and go “No pan intended, of course."
"Variek 1« right," put In Stivner, said Ranny ooldly, Ignoring his
back. In the absence of mile almost gaily. Since his own affair qnendoas qaafftion.
boards, deformed
trees, rcyiks
"Yon get to the devO oat of my
room!" retorted Abaer.
and hills, or, turns in the road
Ranay, looking quickly around,
become the mile posts.
saw the blaser through a half-open
They may not be placed exactly
door of the wardrobe aad drew K
o u t He held It aloft, while d a y
at the end of the mile, but a few
calmly measured the fragment of
feet in seventeen miles is nothing
cloth to ft.
to quarrel about. These are the
^ T h « match was perfect, undenia-
only markings along the road for
• There was a serious glint in the
the first three miles, and it is
ta ta Of d a y , stivapr, aad Captain
best to confine your thouglrts
Msrty, While Banny’s face began to
w ithin the lim its of the m ark
ooler with • alow hat terribly
«toaattamaage. ft
passed and the next on ahead.
Abaer, asbea aad desperate as he
A t the South Entrance I called
saw the dttlag aad realised that he
the operator at the Fort to let
was trapped, snatched the coat
away from Ranay.
her know that I was in the park
"Get out ef here, all o f yea,- he
and headed toward the Lodge.
shrilled. “Stivner, what sort of
The morning was crisp and the
way Is tils to treat coe of your
snow had a light-crust. There
guests? Captain. I appeal to you
as an officer to prob
was a chance of it staying so till
this Jealous tool’s susg
after I had passed Anna Springs,
“Them ain't any
ta-
the fog hanging low, almost to
Abner was left alone with the volved. Those are just plumb i
eight and storm.
the tree tops.
fa c to r drawled the captain.
Abaer, beside himself, acted with
' I didn't hurry and I didn’t
of the heart had been absolved the coaaiag lssttaot of a trapped
linger. My stride. If I didn’t run from oempllcity he regarded the snlmaL W ith a swift aad unex­
Into sticky snow, would land me thing an no end of a lark. "I think pected motion he switched off the
at the rim nine hours after I had the notion of giving somebody a light and made a break tor the door
ride in a towed dory la a bully in the confusion.
left the Fort. Tim s enough to one."
Ranny, by now, had reached the
punch the clock and take the
AU the pent-up
Stivner guffawed, then went on: boiling point
weather. Had I known what was
"It's the first red-blooded, hhlr- rages of months agslpst this man
to happen to me a few hours la­ on-tbe-chest, stunt that Tve ever who had come between him end his
known to he proposed in polite so­ wife, and who had so insolently
ter I would have hurried a little. ciety. Reminds me of my lumber- flaunted his hold over her so that
As I came to the Garden of the Jack flays, when a deceived hus­ aU the world knew Ranny’s uaea-
Gods I sized up the north wall of band could trip his rival headfirst vlable status, erupted In a frenzied
moment
,
the canyon. The sun was shining into the rotary saw, or drop a tree
He lunged after Abner; collared
en him, and no questions asked,
now and snow balls that had the and gouging oat ayes was a mere him.
form of jo lly rolls were pealing pleasantryI•
When Captain Marty reswitched
Captain Marty chuckled, and the lights it was to reveal Banny
off the snow near the top.
I
thought of maay hardshelled porta.
couldn't make it, the crust wai But M arty’s breed take their fun and Abner locked In a fighting,
clawing, kicking elutek of savage­
out. I stopped out fast enough to quietly, with few words; so, while ry. Abner fought with the insane
make three Julies an hopr,* to heartily in the spirit of frolic which rage born of deaperata tear; but he
pervaded his bops, he merely oom- was child's play in the strong
make up for the three added men
Led :
,
hands of Ranny, who subdued him,
miles.
,
“Taln’t that there’s real danger lifted him up bodily, and bore him
I stopped at Anna Springs and about this. It ’s just a right smart out of the cabin, up the stairs, out
made a cup of coffee and ate my way of showing a man up. Tossing lata the rain of the open deck end
around behind the M il of this yacht,
liinch. I tried to call Central but og a night that threatens to fresh­ along it toward« the atant
Captain M arty hurried on ahead,
something was wrong, I could en np tolerably, will give him the and under his directions two star­
hear her but I could not make best opportunity in the world to tled sailors loitered a dory.
The captain was prankful, hut
her hear my ring. I didn’t fool pine ever his sins. And I ’ll reckon
it ’ll work np more than—aa—appe­ net a potential murderer. “Lash it
with the phone long as I expect­ tite— in Bis Inners!"
stoutly, mind you, men," he order­
ed snow some time before night
Rsnny wan sold. AH he had need­ ed. " If It Broke away on at night
The skis continued to go w ith­ ed to inspire renewed enthusiasm like this it would mean— death."
tor his scheme to fix Aimer tor
Screaming maledictions, Abner
out a great deal of shoving bnt good and all, was the moral hack- was stowed la the boat, which was
I kicked them a little just the tag of his companions. He had allowed to drift about twenty yards
la the foamy wake— Just to the rim
same, the sky was getting black that, obviously:
"We’ll go to his cabin, confront of the circle of'light thrown by the
In the southwest and the clouds him with this evidence, and 111 stern lantern— betore it was made
were hurrying a little faster.
wring the truth from his neek—”
fast.
- —end then the captain and I, by
A t the last,
la
Clhr had pitched the
I t was between the tw o u and
virtue of our authority en the high box of dog
og biscuits into the dory
three mile signs that the trees be
w ill hold k summary court- beside Abner.
gan to moan and the first snow­ martial." 8tivner*s sens« of fun
Then Abner was left alone with
flakes of the storm fell, and I was effervescing, due pertly to his the alght add the «to m , in the dan­
sense o f fair play in the msa-and- gerously bobbing cork of a dory,
slowed down, knowing that I was
game, bnt mostly to the while the ya«ht forged drankenly1
too late. I stopped and rested, warming reaction of the many ooek- en through tumbling seas.
"Have an eye to him once In a
took a smoke and pnt on my coat tafis he had drunk at dinner, and
and ..m ittens. I would need all highballs since then, during the so­ while,** Captain M arty softly w a rn -,
cial evening. The full effect of this ed the watch.
the strength I bad when I reach
expensive inspiration had risen to
Descending atone to his cabin
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his head oa the exciting wtags'of after that, Ranny sdt tor perhaps
ed the fla t below the
Lodge.
By the time I started on the ^ ' ’ ita s ^ th e ^ ’m time that his an-hour plunged in deep brooding—
in morose reflections.
Ho felt
wind was coming In strong gnsts yacht had ever bean the scene of poignantly the emptiness of Joan’s
from all directions, it was the
o«>«r than the ordinary cabin. Even ta their most qnarrel-
. . . I insipid, banal cruise. But here was sdme hours ha had always felt,
back-lash, or swirls from
Gar
th» food' his strong, fundamentally heretofore, the comfort of knowing
field. The trees were swaying atavistic »»tore craved. This wesk- she was physically near.
The
and great bunches of snow began ead Justified the hundred dull par­ knowledge had always carried its
own promise and hope.
that had goes before!
to fa ll from their limbs and hit ties
7 "Somebody's going to ride tn the
Perhaps h« had b«en bitter, asi­
the snow with so great a force dory!" he Insisted sententlously. nine, hasty. He would e«ek Joan
that it made you think it wouldn’t -B might have been you, Forbes, it this vary minute, apologize, apd try
be nice for one to mlas the snow w fl hadn’t come clean with me to reason out with her a bSais tor
about Mrs. Clemoneau. But -It’s toooaclliatlon, tor a new start.
and hit your head.
bettor to «taka Gratmaa the goat.
(Tq Ito oonttauad)
When I came to Government
Camp there was a temptation to
•d, bo I headed into the fla t above to drifts of soft snow that almost
shovel out the door of the rang­
put me on my ear, but my akls
er cabin and spend the night the camp. The wind got a good
were
working flhe. They were
there. But when would It quit? shot at me here. I t was almost
M ight as well go on, I wasn't tlr- dark at time« and I would run in­
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