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GBORGE MADDEÑ GREEN,
ASHLAND DAILY TIDINGS
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It Isn’t Far To Christmas
By the sign of the toys in the window it is
almost Christmas. People who stand and look at the
toys.are Hving their own childhood again. Chil
dren who gaze in these windows think they shall
never-grow op, or give no thought to it whatever.
There are many on the streets, breasting the gray
wind, and all are in a great harry. Nevertheless
great numbers of them pause to contemplate the
toys. By this sign Christmas draws near.
Yon would know that i t drew near even if the
calendar did not supply this information—even if
there were no calendars. A wistfulness in the weather
and wistfulneee in the heart. It has always betfi so
when the year approached its end and Christmas
came forward from its month. .A certain feeling
in the atmosphere and the spirit. By this sign.
Christmas is known not to he far away.
It is a time, this space before the coming of
1 Í4 E O LD H iltH E M STOVE,7 HOW COME VdE 4 T U L L O V E » ;
Christinas, when people think of friends they have
“0IOSE. OLD -JÉUUtìrS THAT C A U S E D O S S O M U C H M lf iC P W /
loved and lost a while; a time when they find them
selves, oddly enough, remembering the years that
cannot come again, the friends that are far from
hers. At all ordinary seasons we a n too busied with
our own affairs to think, of the years that are gone.
But now, aa though It were decreed by providence,
* A friend Is a person who tells
and quite as though it were the moet important recol
AND
you he Is going to be “ fra n k ”
lection of all, there is an inclination to think often of
w ith you, and then proceeds to
those who are not here. By this sign also Christmas
Insult yon In a way he knows
cannptx be ta r away.
dames M . ’rtunnpnea, publish you would not stand fro m on en
How pleasant was the past. How excellent were
er e f the Mew Orleans Item and emy.— North Powder News.
the frisode e f long ago. What gladness there used
A fte r a thousand years, sclen*
That America must w ork out
ta he fat the worid at thia season of the year. A
a proper dividing line between tints who are making exhaustive
ley hl a afeoekiag, aa orange in ,the toe, a pine from t G overtm ent ownership and oper researches into the genealogy of The im portant thing in mal
money is to get it.
the thicket—< pine all Bedizened with tinsel and
that
ation and private enterprises. W e vitamlnes have discovered
papconi. It is a quality that the past possesses of
must reader unto Caesar those ham and eggs are twins.— Banks
Any man who knows what not
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ceasing itself to be gently remembered— for the
thinaa th a t belong to
Caesar. Tribune.
to do can come close to fitting any
Thera
is
very
little
doubt
that
past is cleansed of all care and complainings When
the Batted States mails could
Thomas Edison says the tim e
the present is the post, it is so that we IhaU regard
be handled more effectively and is coming when the United States
the days that are now. When the present Ok we past, eounomtaolly
by private enter -of Europe w ill make w ar on the
W h a t the world
needs
is
these days «hall be the golden days that «Ztao. no
prise, hut the people demand United States of America. But if stockings that won’t run and
more. To think of the past, and with affection, la that the Government own and they mind their own busli
cloeks-that w ill.
Operate the post office for rea- conscientiously as we do,
ohe of the Christmas omens.
there
Yet if we think of the past, we are thinking •eos 0 ^ public policy. The same w ill bo no troublé.— St. Helens
Mo man can hope to succeed In
thing is - true regarding streets, SontiM l.’
also of the present. There.is much warmth in that
politics un til he can keep hls con-
highways, sewerage, drainage and
worry which concerns itself over the coming of
science under fu ll control.
matters relating to public health
Christmas. There is warmth in the kettles at the
and publicf safety. W e must pay
e rr is human— to lie about
corners, where the tells ring not for dole, but for the
a premium for protection in pub
more so.— Monmouth H er- • Perhaps the thing th a t hurts a
lic operation.
privilege of giving. There is warmth in the purpose
man’s feeling most Is the first
The dangers of Government
dents he gets on a new fe p d y .
that bids people hasten along the streets, on the
ownership have been impressed
missions of diristmas. There is more warmth than
This often seems to bo the land
upon the American people by
ever June has known, when the butterflies wtere
of
the free and the home of the
th e ir experiment in Government
A fte r getting through paying
easy.—
Vernonia Eagle.
drowsy on the sweetbrier. By this token also, it is
C ontrol, of the railroads during
fo r jnstlce at the court
house
not far to Christmas—Morning Oregonian;
the W orld W ar. Under Govern
moet men are* w illin g to
sell
And Now Congress May Be Flooded
’ There will be no “ drouth” of projects when
the United States Congress takes up the question
of flood control. On the other hand, there are in
dications of a flood of measures dealing with this
subject. The situation may easily become such that
Congress itself will feel impelled to construct meta
phorical dams, storage basins and reservoirs for
control, not of the floods but of flood-control pro
jects, an inundation of which might easily submerge
it in a sea of indecision.
Ideas, however, are what Congress needs and
undoubtedly wants. Able engineers from all over
the country have been most cautious in proposing
remedies for flood conditions. They appear to be
in general agreement that not one, two, nor three,
individual plans of control will suffice, but that many
things will have to be done, and these only after a
most exhaustive survey of the situation.
Congress protebly will call for the opinions
of engineers who have studied the issue and who
are capable of contributing something to the prob
lem, but Congress also will have to give some r e c o g
nition to the scores and hundreds, and perhaps
thousands, of suggestions which the laymen of the
country—particularly of the areas affected by floods
—have to offer. All sorts of schemes, from the post,
sibly practical to the practically impossible, will be
submitted. Home of these may be worthy of the
most serious consideration, and Congress, therefore,
will find itaetf constrained to face this incoming
flood of opinion with some effort to sort the wheat
from the chll».--C^riHtian Science Monitor.
Every n
ed cornea lip
nd then Komeone yon haven’t migfi-
t d b you he i# bark uicuin
LAND PRINTING CO,
Managing Editor
W A S H IN G T O N — ' confidential
stenographic report o f the first
meeting of the Dugfubrious Lucu-
brators, a new society of wistful
Republican
presidential
aandl-
datee who adopted as their p o t
to "W h y Don’t He Speak Up?”
and as th e ir official anthem the
ditty , entitled, “ Is They Meet * n
That BoneKor Is They N ot?" & V
" W e lt he ain’t said
“ Nope and maybe he nfh’t gout*
somethin’ he generally
don’t he?”
r
says
it,
“ Course he does, unless he’s
scared to.”
’’Yeah, maybe he*« scoped.”
“ I f he wasn’t scared he’d say
It, wouldn’t he?”
T h at W ord Again
“ W ell, nobody knew what be
meant when he said choose,-did
they?"
“ How can yon tell w hat he
meant?”
, .
“ I f nobody knows w hat be
meant, than nobody k n o w s
whether he meant he w ill o r he
won’t .”
“ I t ’s just as lik e ly he w ill as
he won’t .” 7—7^ /
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“j don’t care what he meant
¡bant choose. ,1 want to
know
that he meant whed he said he
didn’t choose to ru n .’’
“ Yeah, what did he mean by
run?”
“M aybe-« guy can run some
times when he jgst sits s till.’’
“ Sure, a guy m ight mean he
didn’t choose to run away from
It,’ either.”
“ But he said h e ’d id n ’t choosy
to rnn for it .”
“Nor awdy from It, eith e r.",
“ I f he was goln’ to take it why
B it towyar, Brandon, JaUt to etefca
Faaquea «ell. Brando«'« nephew,
Tsr/y, t o r s * Dotoroo, gueJktsuti
plant to void Vaeguet land grant.
(Terry «cam« Fosflao and off ere »id.
Twgues won’t listen end tcllt Aim
Dolores mast marry yowto Span
iard, Boarthroteon, Terra tries to
lo rg tt bur by a wild ntpht along
Barbery Coast, Dolorot teaks Tar
ry 't aid to saving ranch, but rs-
tarn« home disillusioned token «be
(tods Aim on dmnken party. Buck
soeU wtossssod her visit and. to-
tripned, goes io Tatquet ranaA.
CHAPTRR IX —Continued
“No trouble at all; . besides 1
could endure many troubles tor the
privilege of coming to the Chapel
to m nhip. end perhaps to see you
—aad your Orandfather," he added
beamy. “And, by the way. 1 em
a fM E he Is in no condition to go
to We city now.“ Her trusting
lovelinaua hod inspiradsblm with a
mad- desire to get her away from
the rancho and alone with himself.
Dolores looked at her Grand-
father, obviously troubled. “The
excitement might bring ea another
stroke—is it absolutely necessary
for him to go?“ turning around she
found BuckweU’s dork eyes watch
ing her.
In a Bena he ettanged his expree-
sioa to as impersonal /ro w s . “It
may be necessary tor some member
of the fondly, to sign an application
at the Oourt Hones tor permission
- “Ruady?“ he repeated aa tt pre-
occupied. "Ah. yea, to be cure!“
e turned toward her and Ms eyes
>ened in surprise.
“Ready Indeed^-ready tor M m !“
be thought to htfiself. She was far
more beautiful than the moetnoto-
rtons celebrity of the etty aad In
addition to being lovely tt was
plain to s m that Ute bad taught her
nothing o r the ways of men. Con
trolling
bis
ram pent,
hidden
1 thoughts. BuekwUU finished pleas-
aaUy, “Then shall we leave?“
"Tee, pleaee," 'agreed Dolores,
and she permitted Buekwell to as
sist her dawn the abort steps end
Into hie enrriage. It had been at
the side ot the read, awaiting hls
signal tor quits some time.
Back in the Uving room Vasques
slept soundly and on the table the
open hd of the strong box revealed
the fact that the age old land grant
' docum ents were gone. They were
In Buckwell’s pocket and as the
. carriage jogged along he decided
that they, as wen aa the young girl
by hls side, ward to remain In his
pos seat ton— as long os he wanted
. them.
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AflUAND
Medford and Grants P e e s
“tow n ” football teams w ill meet
la Oranta Pass on New
Y e ar’s
day I * the annua] struggle btween
the two cities.
Perry Ashcraft,
graduate of Ashland high, la man
aging the Medford teem end prob
ably this year a* In the peat eev-
eral ot the local “ has-beens” w ill
reinforce the^ Medford talent.
1s visiting
leaves
Austin 8. Hammond, the-M ed
D. Henry Baróeburg wes 1«
Ashland Tuesday, making prepar ford attorney, same to town yes
atlons to relaove her*.
terday-
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Through the klndnem of M r.
and Mrs. Scheble the Start« So
ciety was held on Raturday eve
ning at th e ir residence, 14 Bfiah
street.
J. H. Driscoll, chief deputy
gemd warden, tor southern Ore
gon, w ith headquarters in Ash
land, baa returned borne from the
R. A. M in k le r’s handsome new
eouveatlpn
held
recently
In home on the Boulevard la a Impôt
ready for occupancy.
Stattar tad refuse. There woe no
eaa etas eh* cpuid turn to—her
Grandfather wuh elek. Den Luis
hod pleaded ether engagements
aad Terry—well, Doloret dM not
Zhn to think of the way ehe bad
feqnd him spending his time. Ang
minute she end her Grandfather
m ifn t be forced from their home
and It going to tea with Senor
Buekwell would make kina work
any harder w help theta she would
M C ttN A N re. K IN G
B Y DOC R E ID
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“Thank you. It will be very nice “K Is «0 good qf you. to help us!”
Sixty-four yeaip ago today,
to go to t M if it will not. ee you she said warmly, and tor the first
tbe ‘world*« heavyweight ebam- nay, take long.
Shall we leave time reloaed bar rigid poattle* la
plonstitp
woe
<Mermln»d. at a e w r
the corner of the carriage.
Buqkwell gathered up the papers
Buekwell noticed and with an
Wadhuret, England, when Tom
Mrs. Squire Parker and chib
aad
followed bar example by rta- effort raOtralned hlm nelf from
K lug, champion of Great B ritain
tag. “I am at your disposal—when grasping, her graceful hands and
dwn have moved to the city for
and John C. Heensn, champion ever you are ready I"
drawing her toward him. There was
the w inter from P a rk e r’s station.
“In only a tew moments, then.“ a time apd plane tor everything
o f Ataertea, clashed hi a flninh
6be fairly skipped tram the room is and bath would come a little later.
ring battle for the w orld’» tltlg
bar bast* to have the trip o*er%
(To bb continued.)
and a side het o f 1B.0Û0
K ing won the fight and title
by knocking Heennn opt 1« the
_________ _______ _______ ont
th e English champion. A t
2M h («and, but the réunit qf that Heenan w a i either under ’any raté, both K tn < sod Heensn
the ’affnir M t a nasty flavor In ' the influence o f dope when ho
jetired from chi *a)nk immedlate-
the mouths of the sporting ele- lbet tp K ln g * o r etae had told iy a fter the battle. ,
Congress, yesterday,
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The Trap fa Zprung
Chris Buekwell did not own a
carriage. He felt that bis where
abouts could not be so eheily «pot
ted when bo summoned a public
hack to carry him to appointments.
But he always Insisted upon im
maculate madam equipment aad
fast horses. He found the latter tar
more satlsfaettttf then the anto-
mobile whlctF w n growing in popu
larity with his political contempo
raries.
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Dolores* second trip to the City
was consequently effected In less
time than the regrettable experi
ence of her call on Terry.
“Do you come into San Francisco
often?” Inquired Buekwell watching
closely through narrowed eyes.
“Grandfather ban sever permit
ted such trips,“ sbFleplled truth
fully after a mement’A hesitation.
“You see It ta customary for Span
ish women to remain a> borne.”
She bad decided that the hideous
experience o t the Poodle Dog was
her own eecred—she woe too
ashamed of the incident to ever
mention it to anyone.
“And do Spanish girls always ad
here to their native customs apd
paternal dictates?" asked Back-
well In e ’ tooe th«t Invited confi
dence. He was curious about why
she went to Frisco on ttas previous
night Buekwell abhorred reticence
le a woman.
“1 don’t know.” replied Dolores
uneasily, “but I prefer to remain
at the hacienda—Ob, you con eave
it tor fie. caa’J you?*
"W ith your help, my dear, I am
sura that your Grandfather will be
abjp to «pend the re tt of Me days
there."
,
Buckwell’s bidden meaning was
lost on Dolores. Row ooold the
have guessed that be wanted her
to seise* tS>
plkBa
*
TURNING THE PAGES BACK
F ro f. T . W . Miles
Portland tomorrow.
lost no time in oeeklng their only
servant. “It is necessary that I go
to town. Kindly look after Orand-
tother and if he should hare am
other attack try and reach me—
soma way—I «hall be at the Crystal
Palace, and the Court Hones with
Senor Rockwell.“
The old peon stood aghast with
month opeo at the m e n thought of
a daughter of the Vasqpe« going out
in this unconventional manner. He
crossed himself devoutly a n d ’ Im
plored the Good Mother to watch
over hla mlatrees two trips to the
city in »a many days! I t was un
heard of.
•
But Dolores had not waited to
see what he thought. Quickly pos
sessing herself of a shawl and para
sol she hastened back to the tir
ing room and stood looking at her
Grandfather with a mlqgttng of
loro, pity and regret that she must
leave. Gently lifting hls feet to a
stool, so that he was stretched out
in a more comfortable position, she
spread a soft blanket over his
knees, placed a pillow at his side
and after a tight k in on bis brow
turned sway to Mde the tears. Ha
wpe all ehe had iw toe world aad
he felt so miserable!
“I am ready,“ she announced,
joining Buekwell at toe mantel
where he had been examining the
utter contempt.
•“ The Maine woman who knits
mental direction there was a
The man who has started to for h a lt price.
70 pair of mittens every year
proper increase in wage»-in some ■all around the earth along the
must be aa adept at handing out
lines, but there woe a tendency equator probably w ill get ell the
the m itten.
to overload the rhilroads w ith so credit, but I t ’s juet possible there
H o t Heck eays: “The best im
Is the hand of a Janitor in
it plement I ever uked In research
W hy play golf?
You can get.
somewhere.
clable fam ily game of bridge and
work was a fine-tooth comb.”
(liable fam ily game or brdige an<
time.
f
J. W . Bell and O. Bnrkm an a r
O. B. Allen le ft Saturday night
rived last Thursday from the N ig fo r ■ trip do K lam ath Falls.
ger Boy mine in northern C ali
fornia to spend the Christmas
holidays w ith their families her*.
J. B arrett and N. Natstead of T a l
Mrs. Mita Cook came up from
ent were, paresnger» on the same
Jacksonville
the first of. the week.
train bound from the mine to
th e ir borne« for the holidays.
Following Agr with Me eyes,
Buekwell gloated over her graceful
fighre and charming youthful Inno
cence. It had been a long time
sin c e ho had taken each pains to
make plans that Included a woman.
He smiled—partly at himself and
partly In anticipation of the pleas-
ores that would ba Ms within the
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leavlag the room Dolores
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