JR¡ »*• • IL Y T ID IN G S (Copyright 1 Í2 7 by FÔO Piotar o u tia * was stretched [ÔU8B:— Thy testimonies are very aere: IfoUness 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 COPUMP tory. ’ : ' ' * ' 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. J 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. z . 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 J “ '0®**4* 1 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. ' * ....... 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 .n ,.. 'T '. ’ 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. ‘‘ tlv e e ta Oto 1 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, • * .» “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 bl®T.-. . : ............. 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!. * ,,.4 ^ 1 ’ on the hill. ’k Ä 0» 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» I/' / a. "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 -i 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 ' I 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. “, “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 « bo continued)