The Ashland Advertiser. Published Every Wednesday. flonarch of the Amateurs. THE FALL OF TALLAN. BY D. H. HAWKINS. [CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.] While loud praises are rung to the god of this race, Our true God, the I Am, hides his mer — TERMS. — ciful face; Subscription, One Year,.................. $.50. “ Six Months,.................. 25. And then, lo: where the Madros in gran deur uprise, Sample copies mailed freely. Flame and smoke, outbursting, stretch Advertising rates, Made known upon their arms to the skies. Discounts,........... application. —Hush’d the song of the choir and the Terms to Agents, voice of the priest; EW”A11 ads., notices, etc., when not Silent, all the people, e’en the highest paid in advance, run until ordered out. and least.— Entered at the post-office at Ashland, Now the thunder of Earthquake shakes Oregon, as second-class matter. altar and dome; | P. FISHER, NEWSPAPER AD- —All the gods of the Aztecs lie shattered vertising Agent, 21 Merchant’s and prone; Exchange, San Francisco, is our author ized agent. The A dvertiser is kept on While the columns of marble and idols file in his office. of gold, The “ADVERTISER” ha« the Largest Circulation Crash dire down ward, swift rending each of any Paper of its Class. ta pest rial fold. To the cry of the people through thunder ASHLAND,............. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1, 1896. and storm, EDITORIAL. Malabaun is silent and heedless with scorn. To-day, we greet you in our enlarged form. Next issue our paper will be But the hot stones and bolides, which batter the walls, still larger. The foundry has our pat tern for a larger chase, 10)4x15^ inches All rebound upon Tallan’s fair gardens and flow’rs. to bo used for our paper, so that we can Where the rivers lavatic rush down to print one whole side, or two pages at one the walls; impression. One whole side of this size The proud Temple of Virtue sways, top ples and falls, is printed at one impression, but the And the miser, in clutching his ill-gotten pages are not quite “regulation size.” gold, Next week, they will lie the proper size, Vainly hopes to escape from the shrine gulfing fold. 9x12 inches. With our new chase, we will be able to print a solid form 10l/2x Now the walls of the city are shaken in 15)£ inches in size. Our press is the fin twain; est job printing machine in Southern And the temples are sinking in sulphur ous rain; Oregon, a 10x15 Chandler & Price Gor And the round Orb of Day sinks down don, complete with throw-off and all red to the West, latest improvements and weighs 1800 And great Tallan lies crimson on Her tha’s hot breast. pounds. It is, without exception, the best press owned by any amateur paper. —Thus the voice of the winds moaning soft a refrain, Whispers oft of a shrine that lies hid in a plain. The city of Ashland is indeed very un appreciative of the benefits of the Ash land Foundry and Machine Shops in Central Point Pointer. operation near the Electric Light Plant. The foundry and shops wrere located Several new comers are located here here without the request of a dollar bon for the Winter. us, while an inducement of $20,000 was M arried .—At the residence of the bride ’s parents, Dec. 24, by A. S. Jacobs, offered by Portland for its location there, P., A. W. Roach, of Ashland, and and San Francisco offered a bonus of $15- J. Miss Maud Slagle, of Central Point. 000. M arried .—In the Central Point Hotel, When the proprietors of the foundry • Dec. 30, by A. S. Jacobs, J. P., James ask that the survey of a street running W. Bates and Miss Jenny Jardon, both to their shops be declared open, without of Medford. a cent of expense to the city—the found M arried .—At the M. E. Parsonage, ry offering to do the work—the modest in Jacksonville, Dec. 251, by Rev. W. B. Moore, Prof. J. C. Barnard and Nrs. Isa request is refused. Surely, the compliance with such a bella Nichols, both of Medford. The Christmas dance and supper request would be but a small return for the benefits the city derives from the proved quite a success. Proceeds ap propriated to procure a lx*ll for the Bap present location of the works. tist church. “M.” LOCAL SQUIBS. 1896. Look out for the 6. Leap Year.—A boon to the new wo man . Our business houses report a good holiday trade. For manzanita work, call at Sherwin’s Pharmacy. Remember the annual B Class enter tainment, which will be given January 25, in the Opera House. Emil Peil, doctor of sick plows, etc.' • * • Ashland Butte hams, bacon and lard at IX‘jK)t Grocery. At 12:00 o’clock last night, Father Time wrote “F inis ” at the bottom of page 1895 of the Book of Time. Last Thursday , while cutting wood, Ferd Strange had the misfortune to cut the second finger of his left hand near ly off. See Emil Peil al wait repairing that wagon. The ln‘st lantern made, only 65 cents at Depot Grocery. The City Council met Monday night to approve the 1 tends of the incoming officers. The first meeting of the new council will l>e held next Monday night. The stamp mill commenced crushing quartz from the Ashland mine Monday. They have about thirty-five tons of ore to crush. Tambarine Drills, Dialogues, Essays, Orations, Recitations, etc., etc., at the B Class entertainment, January 25. Extracted honey, only 10 cents per pound. Depot Grocery. It pays to advertise in the right journal; this paper is the one. Try it! The last quarterly muster and inspec tion for 1895 of Co.I). 2nd. Infantry.O.N. G. was held in the Company Armory in Granite Hall last Monday Night. The inspection was made by C. H. Gillette. Eight bars laundry soap for 25cents at Depot Grocery. • There will l>e a social dance in Granite Hall a week from next Friday evening, January 10. Tickets fifty cents. The dance is given under the management of Messrs. Hayden and Davis, with a view to forming a class in dancing in Ashland. The gentlemen are instructors of ability, and have a good sized class organized in Talent. , * F » ♦ • • Fifty cents buys a gallon of “Golden Drips” syrup at Depot Grocery. “London Assurance Again,” by ama teurs of State Normal School, was played in Ganiard’s Opera House last night to a large audience. A great im provement over the first local production of the comedy was noticeable. After the play, the Old Year was ush ered out ami the New Year in by a gen eral merry-making by the young peojile. Christinas night, in Medford, the com edy was greeted with a packed house and genuine appreciation of the true merits of the goo«' production of the play. About thirty dollars were cleared at that place.