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(Copyright 1 Í2 7 by FÔO Piotar
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f r » , O Lord, fo r ever. Psalm » * ; ! -
tad. make fry heart T b y borne.
Sixty-three of ttte IS fires In
C rttta N a tfrW Pbrk Xhto seaem
have beext ctaised by llgM ninff, ae-
ie rd liib to f o r t a t
Suttertateed-
ent Ranklto. 1 Nine biases were «1-
tr ih u te d 'to earCNsr ttaokere wttb
dropped lighted materials' on fn-
fla m a a b ls ground ' end three
W»M canned by (tampers Who ta il
e d to extinguish m a p fires. One
Was caused by a c a r which eatrgbt
find along tbe roadway and the
blase spread to surrounding te rri
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tory.
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Two fires, according to Rankin, u s stag
ware believed to have been of in-
cendlary origin. and one of these
in the B ib creek district was the
largest of t |u season eoverlng 576
aerex
Ninety nfrn were engaged
In fighting tb * blase before ft was
caught under control.
peering out of his hideaway-
The Orta« was beeomlag general
now. From hptfc eadeof the arroya
Steady streams Sf game .wees shoot
ing out lft answer to tbe marines'
steady barrage. K was thd letting
np of ibis owfi fire at tbe north end
Thg summer sun has finally broken down |he
lost frozen barrier on the rim road about Crater
lake and this magnificent miracle of still waters
may now be seen from every part of its vast circum-
Ference.
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Think what, it means to those unfortunates of
the East who-have never seen summer snows on
the mountains, to read of snow-blocked roads in
August. How much more it means to them, to stand
mi the precipitous bank of the lake and breath
the ozone4 coolness of the air, while they loojcout
upon the sea of silence.
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. To try to write about Crater lake is as futile as
to write about Niagara. Eapji is overwhelming in
its effect UpoA the ¿visitor. Niagara awes one by the
extravagant Uproar of its hurrying water. I t U
pow erat'lts utmost of thunderous activity. Crater
lake holds us* breathless by the stillness of ?ts
perfect repose, ft Is ’’power s6 confident that, it
m w h to , guns for a » o re wholetala
method ofroduetag t h e * toes into
A t the start the planes h a* «on-
centrated their drives on specific
trance had been «objected to the
eating tbe pardal success of their
first attempts, tbe planee grow
bolder.. * fcl f - ' • '
Following closely apon each oth-
tbe arroyo, aware of the fra t that
resistance had been rendered at-
most IrmwTtvni A t a height of bare
ly, a bwtaHwd <tat
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slowly to tbe north end, drench
ing tbe arroyo at evety hundred
feet w ith their gas.
T b e effect wa» Instantaneous. Aa
the fames penetrated, the bandits
K S t& S S S 3 S % S ^ 3 S
threw away their rlfies and rushed
• a t frto dba open holding *up their
bands la s|gn of surrender. >
Davis saw tbs debacle coming
and would have fought to prevent
11; hat ho wan belplesa U k a Grey
«bat «aro Davis hleflret Indication Bye hb was on Mn back facing the
sky, trying to ward off tbe cough-
tag and spluttering that shook bis
ised. » One of them bad broken from
tb e rank, throwing his r ile away.
Arresting the offender may be something .but it,
seldom affords restitution to the injured -person.
Society, of course, benefits when the wrong doer is
punished; th«;‘ offepdBd ‘ may Jjo hence, as legal
phraseology might siy It, and not even recover his
costs.
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....... A motor accident north of the city this week
leaves a sntarestion of ne4d for some new ph> virion
-rat least wfurin the motor or highway,
would etmbte p^reonfe who suffer loss by reason of
unlawful acts of others to recover damages without
resorting td 'riv’ll lawsuit.
' .One man lost hl$ automobile, completely wreck
ed, and his' family barely 'escaped alive. Tho other
man, the-officers-say, Was Intoxicated. They found
a bottle of liquor upon his car. He is under arrest.
He may 'not be able to restore thfe iost property to
the other »nan in case it |s eventually proved that
b e was criminally at fault«
There’s money aplenty ia the state highway
fund by reason of the gasoline fax and other taxes
levied upon motorists. Maybe one of these days
a* state legislature will provide that a small po'r-
Kenneth W illiam s of Giants
Pass, well known In thin city as a
ball player, now w ith the ijlnctn-
aatl National’ league, closed bis
firs« week in tbe big brush with
a batting average o f .141.
tiert ’MuBoard’B version of the Golden Bole
Do unto others as though you were the
*’ bat * d even ifiore top-to-^ate version is
ourself pnioh good and nd bad to ;other«.”
r soineffwig (w yourself ia reprehensible only
t is gottfm Rt the exjtenae of another.
C. W alker came In
rom bis summer re
lia tt prairie region
Paul W illiam s motorcycled out
to the M edfofd CdHtttry Club Sat
Mrs. S. J. Rhodes visited
a
urday and was an Interested apta- couple of days at the home el
Isaac Rhodes at Talent last week
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D. A. Applegate,
the
local
W ells Fargo express agent, will
leave tomorrow on a vacation ¿f
three or. four weeks,' abd w ill v jl-
Calif., la visiting kls mother, M m. it relatives and friends at Dral£,
Jennie Goodyear and other r«la- and w ill also spend some time fit
Portldnd.
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tlv e e ta Oto
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White House
of his mother. ) /
Norm al Notes— Miss L e t s
Nickerson sang a solo in chapel
Wednesday morning.
Hlgh-olaas vaudeville w ill be
resented at the Vining theater
hlii'evening in- connection with
ichleen M»or4 In "N au g hty but
Self Service
Many good folks are lamenting |he passing of
the era When men and women consecrated their
lives to tihselfisli service and prepared themselves
to become ministers, missionaries, teachers, or county
doctors, that they might administer to the spirittt<4,
mental and physical needs <»f humanity, without
thought of large worldly gain. They are not in
error when they charge that modern men and wo
man are chooring vocations today in Which they can
do 'the greatest service to themselves.
People today are coming to the belief that the
bast way to help otlieri is to produce much that
their profit shall be large and that they shall never
Kec<inm*aepehdent upon soc& ty/ The old idea
service was direct. The new service is indirect.
Twenty years ago it was still thought that only
muiihtars, doctors and teaebera served humanity,
tfeday every workman who carries his whole day’*
.wage home ia known to have earned that wage in
Carl Murphy was a visitor fa
Medford yesterday.
Construction of a ’’Wy-paas” or
large culvert which la to pass
around the lower reservoir of
Ashland's domestic water supply
Is to be started next week ac
cording to C ity dCngiaerr » . H .
W h ite r.
The by-paas w ill be a largk
c u lv frt constructed of cement,
passing around the reservoir, and
during high waters and other
flftie i when'tauch sand and other
te r e te * - m aterials are washed
into the reservoir, a large -gate
B. Donnely hiked to M«
WW bd closed attd the w ater w ill
and rétú rn ed yesterday.
tie1 fofced afodfid the ‘Reservoir,
Coat of construction, the work
to" h e ' done by employees b f the
c f t / w a t t a « » p tttfre u t, w ill ba
approxim ately $3,5 00 Mr W alker
stated.
Mrs. Helen Ralph, who
baa
Much sand has been washed
been spending several weeks on
into
the reservoir each year and
thè Siskiyou mountains, returned
cleaning of the big tank has been
to th e city Thursday.
a difficult tush requiring i con-
sidtaabi# exbsbditdVe: Thb ’'by
pass** w ill M ised to prevent
tbe fillin g o t this tan k w ith fori-
efgn'subetance.
Ed Farlow and Joe Kinney,
who have been ont in the K lam
ath Lake county for the
past
tw*b weeks, returned a few days
alnce. M r. Kinney bad' quit® a
painful accldeot whlto out there,
h n iln g fractured tWo Hbs ‘ In
Ipttlng o ft a log. W . A. Kropke
Who started out w ith the party,
refrained behind nt Pelican? W y
LOS A N O ELB 8, Aug. MS.— (IP)
tfrdge, where he w ill tarry uwtH
— A woman president w ill occupy
O b snow begins to fly.
the W hite HouSe WTthift JO yekW,
according to Mr». * Elisabeth* 0 .
T. M iller, head of the Republican
women of Ohio, how visiting
hyro,
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“Farsighted suffrage leadeVu
today are UTglng preparedtaess
for The approaching jtotKWai per
iod when women w ill share with
’¿n t Name %
BttiMW»
men the highest exeenttvo re-
spbnslbflitita ot the nation,” she
Advertising Ashland from the
rooftops to passengers in a 1 r
“The greatest danger )n t te
tttinaport planes, is suggested in-( suffrage field JUs
W e general
jftteetly by H erb ert Hoover, Sec decline in poTIflcal interest fol
retary of Commerce, through a
lowing a long, hard fight for
bommuntcation to Ooveraor I . L .
equal rights. Women of America
must' r é é lise th a t thg Vote is
Wlntlng o f, a e tt /’s name oa
mb?i than a plaything.
hlgheat building« of^respeo-
’'When they grasp the mean
towns In the state is a «II®-
t advantage aad aselatance to ing of their vote, ahd they w ill
in SO yearS, it* » aifrost dertafti
Itary aad commercial air pl-
that women w ill have an 9qusl
, according to M r. Hoover,
uggeetlon to made that tha chance with men to reach the
ie of Ashland, he painted .in very highest position in the
« . bold letters on rack bulld- land.”
Mrs. M ille r thinks th a t Presi
i aa the Ltthta Spring» Hotel
dent Coolidge w ill be a figure in
Chautauqua building. > ,
the coming presidential rase des
pite ‘hW ‘Mo not choôéé“ message.
. The t -‘ ^Navigator of A r t and
Nohaence" fn* d, ‘riotous act of
fun and m errim ent promise vaud
eville lovers. a real treat at the
local theater.
Members of the Vaudeville
troop have, been In Ashland for
N either man nor thli
iw q dpiyrf, and a ll accom plished
bo Judged by the abui
sWTmfrere, pave agent much tfrip
upon thorn.
ht thè Jèchtaii hoot: "They art»
regular ducks and yon ean’a kdeg
H ittin g a man to mighty risky thkfr away fyom swimming poofb"
buttata» uniese /p p do s «po* J.®1> according to the advance man, of
the. show. Acrobatic d an c in g ,' d
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character sketch o f "The d o u rt
R eporter ", atad Bylophpne muìlé
AU wt4e-op«n spaces are
occupied by fire pings.
I t you want to got a ll the fine
potato about kissing, consult
a
chambermatd.
Perkapa the best wav to craw}
o at bf Ï tig h t hole to tb1 qubte IBs
frííaded wlth ï h e -Narigfi!.
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’ on the hill.
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M IN N E A P O L IS , fila n .; Aug. > |
parts of the United 8tatea and
speakers from Canada were as-
aembltaT iaM ® teday for the open
ing sessloé¿at the N ational wom
an’s ChNsttaa Temperane« Unton
whteri wu T ho M If r eessions in the
First Baptist Chareh until Sept.
P O R TLA N D , Aug. S I.— CtP|—
Was reported to the district
rest office today that 14 Ilghtn-
g flree have been started since
Uruat IT In tbe Wenatchee for-
t where fit m®> have been sent
flg h t tbe M aw . T h irty qgrer
yellow pine, some mdtfata ttfr*
tr w a r burned in 'th e Q riesfkl
eek In eastern O r*W a , tti t M
filtam an forest and mucli fine
LONDON, Aug. J5.— (Ip V -N la e
persons - were killed and frore
than a score were Injured today
when a high-speed train, loaded
w ith vacationists, ran off the rails
• * » < W i lT tJ llI, dangbtovN tW T
Lon and aba Lawrence, who reside
oa Scenic Drive In this city, le ft
WkebltaF m o rn b to ®pe* d 'e ev eril
¿ays' vacation on the coast.
Laura bad escaped more fo rt»
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"Cover your f a c e r howled D avit.
Re was coughing and spattering, natoly. W ith the first Intimation
running wildly la an effort to o f , what was coming she had
thrown herself full length upon tbe
"By Oad. tear bombs,” Davto ground, knowing that the gas
m o ld rise again. Thus, with the
shouted, hitting on Ik e truth.
•The MB aomptvhsnsldk of the aid o f a handkerchief, she had
fate Ip store for them. Patosa they avoided the fa ll effects.
Sergeant Lyons had been waiting
coaid avert it, moved Davis to a *
for .Howard's orders. The latter
had taken in the a ir attack from
"Come on," he shouted. "This la a Commanding cliff. The sight of
no place fdr na (We can leave the helpless men running Into the open
girl here. She won’t he able to with raised hands was his signal
get tbTosdh CKht dBpble «he o f f if e that resistance was practically
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But It wake geingto save o«r skins ovs».
He Joined the head of the de-
tadbihant.: A musket fired thrbo
times In rapid succession again,
leeely eonum ptfrl of thd hall df was the signal for the men at the
ballets pouring both waya Rtfie In south of the canyon to advance ht
hand he took his stand ia t»e mid the same time. There was no
dle of the qpqven arroyo.
longer any reason tor delay.
A plane W*a swooping down
The advance was made cautious
overhead. Davis knew that In an ly, however: Howard led It, urglag
other moment a deluge of tear gas his men to take advantage of every
woald be loosened upon them.
bit of oover that the ground af
* He took aim deliberately. He forded. Now that the victory was
could have sworn his bullet pierced won, it seemed foolish to ran the
the wing of the aeroplane, and risk of sacrificing a life to some
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swyre because he bed missed the sniper.
i ■ When they reached the bandit
gat tank.
Tha pilot swerved upward Imme front line even Howard was amazed
diately hut before ha raise* the at the devastating effect of the
Mea stood erect or
maehlne three measeagars of Vto- tear , gag.
doubled, team streaming down their
ry"-kere loosened.
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“Cover your face," Davie howled. faces, like babies. Some of them
were crouched In abject docility
“B eat It"
He raehed haek to his eave. over boulders and tree stomps.
On command Sergeant Lyons
chief that he held, fttot fiver his qnlckly organised the details at
nostrils and then kept In place by surrender. Every bandit, ns he
was taken, was starched hurriedly
F Thoroughly frightened ha made and then turned over to a detail
the hiding place and to re * himself of etx marines. The orders left ho
to the ground before Laura. The room for doubt.
" If any of them try to make •
explosions hit: Davis could feel
the fumes spreading STWMl Ng». break—-shoot to k i l l / was Lyons'
'They might have been beasts la
at tha moment aa tha cause of all their natural elements bat thdy
dtoastar. The thought camo to him Wars more like lambs as the ma
rines gathered them In. For the
moat part they wars a sort-y look
the air. Before he oould translate ing o u tfit »seas that might hate
fra thpaght into action tha gas hit glared venom were washed, pos
sibly tor the first time in yeaia,
I bis Wfs4 to fight the with their own tears. The d irt «
*eot dta fill kystsm. He outdoor exposure sad the measly
waéïéi
a man. In spin of lin e r of their faces had bean re
»vs way. Huge tears duced to weakling imbecility.
They found ton survivors In the
bandit front tine at the south end
of the arroyo and of these tan, only
tour ware able to stand on their
fe e t The other» had to be dragged
up and brew beatan Into moving. 6
- Howard left the "mopping up"
work to Lyons and forged ahead
rapidly, kls mind Intent on Laura’s
t a time were the ration safety.
He had passed a quarter mile fur
to tbe helpless bandits.
> recovered, Davto had ther dojrn thy arroyo, by the plok-
r to survey the scene and eted homes and a n . overturned
• devastating effect of Ford, whan ha saw her. She wad
l Htannen wore heto- standing »gainst the cliff, an Iso
lated godemi holding bar fortress
Mfet we Mttpt gllrapeed her.
T h e fr jkbd something poetlo In
that poae, a symbol of the pioneer
mmum eOagtog tenaciously to her
pictured,
■way, if captured, and ha was will-
lag no at
lag to fight it o at
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