Ashland tidings., July 25, 1879, Image 1

INDEPENDENT ON ALE SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON.
82 50 PER ANNUM
ASHLAND1 OREGON, FRIDAY. JULY 25, 1879
\OL. I\
A Self-Appointment.
logs and brush, that filled the whole gul- ' ting the lines on the triggers. The guns
“Mr.” or “Esq.”
ly to the height of fifteen or twenty feet. were then cocked. Each one had been
Two boats rocked on the river,
Causeur has a friend, a journalist of
Some heavy freshet had lodged it there. loaded as heavily as we dared to load it.
In England to-day the lines
In the shadow of leaf and tree,
distinction,
now holding a very promin­
The
brook
roared
and
gurgled
beneath
it.
closely
drawn
as
in
earlier
days,
wiUi
By the time we got our guns set it
One was in love with the harbor;
Issued <»vei*y l’’i*i<lnx
ent
and
resjionsible
position on one of
The hounds stood at the foot of this was fairly dark, and we went off’ homo reference to the mode of epistolary ad­
One was in love with the sea.
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jam of stumps and old brush, near a i as fast as we could. Early next morn­ dress to a freeman and a gentleman. the best-known papers in the country,
The one that loved the harbor
Main Street, Ashland.
hole between two mossy logs. They ing, before either George or I was up, a That is to say, the city or freemen of who had a peculiar experience once in
LEEDS
MEBHIT
The winds of fate outbore,
whined when wo came up, and Ohl Jim boy from the house where we got the olden times, and in many cases now, is getting a position on the staff of a New
But held the other, longing,
Forever against the shore.
gave another long howl. We looked twine came in. The family had heard addressed as Mr., while the gentleman York daily. He applied to the editor­
NEW DEPARTURE.
OFFICE—On Main Street, (iu licund story ot McColl
about the place. There were many the guns go off late in the evening. As has his name adorned with an Esquire in c]i ft f, who knew him well, and was
The one that rests on the river,
A Baum's new building )
In
the
shadow
of
leaf
and
tree,
bones, old ones and fresh ones, ■with bits i soon as it was light the boy had run at the end. Woe be unto the writer of aware of his ability and experience.
The undersigned from and after April
Job Printing.
With wistful eyes looks ever
of far and wool scattered around.
< down and looked over the top of the an epistle to a non-city man who omits “I’ve nothing to offer you,” he said,
18th, propose to sell only for
Of all descriptions done on (hort notice. I.e/al Blanks,
To
the
one
far
out
at
sea.
“Here’s her den’.” exclaimed Ned..,
<
crag,
and had seen the old wolf down on Esquire. It is an evidence of the under­ “but perhaps you had better see the
Circulars. Business Cards, Billheads, Letterheads, Pos­
ters, etc., gotten up in good stylo at living prices.
CASH IN HAND
The one that rides the billow,
bred or ignorant. You may flatter a managing editor.” To the managing
Tt was a dark, vicious-looking liole í» the pebbles, “kicking,” he said.
Though
sailing
far
and
fleet,
under the old logs. Al and George
We were soon out of bed and down city man by giving him this affix to his editor, who also knew him well, the ap­
(ir approved produce delivered—except
Tern»« of Subscript ion
Looks back to the peaceful river,
climbed over to tho other side, to see by the crag; and sure enough the old name, but would not offend him by the plicant went. “There’s nothing I can
when by special agreement—a short
To the harbor safe and sweet.
....$2 50
O»ie cop^, one year........ ;...................................
if there were more holes leading under pest, that had done so much mischief, prefix of simply Mr.—. In the case of give you,” he said, pleasantly, “why
and limited credit may be given.
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One frets against the quiet
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three months
lay stretched out there, not kicking, but the noil-city man being addressed by let­ don’t you see the editor-in-chief ?” The
or out.
Club rate», oix Copies for .................................. ..... 12 50
Of the inoss-grown shaded shore;
ter as Mr., offense is created. You next day he applied to both again, and
Sand and earth had been washed in stone dead.
T«.rtn» in advance
They have commenced receiving their
One sighs that it may enter
from above. This lower holo was the
She had gone some fifty feet or more would hardly think that this matter is the next, each time receiving the same
That harbor nevermore.
New Spring Stock, and that every
Term«« of Advertising:
from
the mouth of her den, though both dwelt on so strongly in this age. It is ; answer. Dropping in on the fourth
old wolf’s only “door,” so far as we
day’will witness additions to
LKOAL.
One wearies of the dangers
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One square (ten lines or less) 1st insertion.. .
her fore-legs w’ere broken by buck-shot, and I know of cases of friendly relations day he noticed a vacant desk in the re­
could see.
the largest stock of
Of the tempest's rage and wail;
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Each additional insertion..................................
The dogs would go into it a few feet, and a bullet had traversed the whole being served by the application of trades­ porters’ room, kept for any one who
One dreams, amid the lilies,
LOCAL.
Of
a
far-off
snowy
sail.
and
bark, but they did not seem over­ length of her body. Three of the guns men Mr. to the impecunious West End might want to use it. He called the
Local notices per line....................................................... 101-’
office boy, told him to clean up the
Regular advertisement« inserted Upm liberal term«.
anxious to come to close quarters with had been discharged when she tripped gentlemen who demands Esquire.
Of all that life can teach us
In the plays of Massinger I remem­ desk and bring writing materials. Hav­
There's nought so true as this:
its occupant. Old Beave charged in the lines.
Ever brought to this market. They de­
The winds of fate blow ever;
ber
numerous illustrations of this dis­ ing “moved in,” he sought the city edi­
once, and was greeted with a savage
She was a great bony, gaunt, long
sire to say to every reader of
But ever blow amiss.
tinction.
Yet, as far as my reading goes, tor’s assignment book, picked out a job
snarl For a moment we thought there beast, the very embodiment of rapacity
this paper, that if
would be a fight. But the dog backed and fierceness. From muzzle to the tail and I must confess to a weakness in that he thought he could do, did it, laid
An Exciting Wolf Hunt.
she measured but an inch short of five reading old books and old subjects, I can­ the result on the city editor’s desk and
out, and we didn’t blame him.
ASHLAND,
We had little doubt but what the old feet. We received a bounty of eight not recall a single evidence that the word went home. The next day he did' the
''old at tin* Lowest Market Prices, will
freeman was not prior in its creation to same thing, and the next, and the next
wolf had whelps in there. George said dollars on her seal]).
I well remember the morning
do it, they projtose to do the largest
the word gentleman. But Mr., a cor- On the fifth day the editor-in-chief
that we had better get axes, and by cut­
started after that wolf. It was an
business this spring ami summer
cuption of master, an employer of ap­ passed through the room while he was
ting and dragging away the old stuff,
Epidemics Among Insects
she-wolf, and she had been doing
ever done by them in the
prentices in trade, is an after appellation at his desk. “So you’ve got to work!”
work into the den.
chief for more than a year. It
last live years, and
W ,
“But Wilts said : “No boys; I be­
Dr. Hazen, of Boston, in a paper read of either. In the time of Richard III., lie said pleasantly. “Yes, sir,” an­
about the 20th of April.
they can ]>osi-
She had been al>out the farms the lieve the jam will burn if once we can in that city a few days ago, gave the “a city man was a Mr., but no gentle swered the self-appointed reporter. A
Jacksonville, ( Jregon.
tively make
into it and well going, and we can following information about epidemics man,” and to-day the distinction obtains day or two later the managing’"" ”.5r
Fall before, as a dozen sheep and one I fire
I
it to the
the old thief out.”
among insects: “ A really pestilential more or less discriminate. At parties, came in. “Got at it at last, ehl” he in­
calf had I »ecu found throttled. Deer roast
1
advantage
Al then got some chips and sjilints, epizootic of the common barnyard fly dinner parties especially, you will see quired. “Yes, sir,” answered the latist
had come out of the woods and joined
J. W. HAMAKAR,
of every one to
tho cattle in the pastures—through which lie tucked into the further end of was observed in 18G7. Not only those, the plain Mr. singled out for the minor addition to the staff, going on with his
call upon them in
N O T A R Y P U B LIU,
jam, where it was the dryesl, and but many other insects died in the same places, if he be out of the three liberal work. Things went on in this way for
fright, it seemed, at having been pursued. the
I
Ashland ami test the truth
Linkvillv, L-ike Co., Ore-run
During the Winter, a large gray wolf set
1 them on fire with matches that he locality and in the same manner; also professions, divinity, law and physic,and two weeks, when one morning the chief
i
of
their
assertions.
They
will
came in. “How Jo you like your posi-
brought along. The lire was some other species of flies and gnats, the cat if he be in trade.
had been seen three or four times near had
1
OFFICE In I'ost O®ce liiiildiip'. Sf.evi.J attention
given lu conveyaiv iug
span' no pains to maintain, more
I rcmomlier on one occasion a wealthy tioni” he asked. “First rate,” he an-
in starting, but after a while the erpillars of moths and of phalaenids, and
the logging camps, ten miles above. One time
’
fullv than ever, the reputation of their night a man shot at it from his cam]) old
banker,
now of some note as the. succes­ swered; “there’s only one trouble, I
< stuff got well wanned u]>, and then the common hairy caterpillars. Of some
M. L. M’CALL,
species the destruction was so complete sor to a great American financier and haven’t had any money yet.” “No
door as it was snatching at some meat it began to take flame and roar.
House, as the acknowledged
scraps that had been thrown out.
( “Capital! We’ll soon have our game, that the next year they were very rare. philanthropist, whose bronze effigy is in money? How’s that? Perhaps the
SURVEYOR «v CIVIL ENGINEER,
roasted too,” shouted Wilts
As soon as the snow was off and the and
i
During recent years the caterpillars of the shadow of the Royal Exchange, managing editor forgot to put your
Ashland, Oregon.
And it seemed—as the flames roared two species of moths had destroyed pine being given a secondary place at a dinner name on the roll. Never mind, I will
cattle had been turned out again, the
began to wrap the whole great pile forests belonging to the State valued at table to a glowing uniformed captain in How much did ho say you were to
For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries, wolf renewed its depredations. The sec- and
i
U prepared to Jo any work ii> hid line on short notice.
Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes,
ond night our sheep were out, three were of
< drift—that we had got the old “tor­ seven millions of dollars, and a larger the navy who could not put a penny have?” “He didn’t say sir,” said the re-
Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress
killed and partly eaten; and only two ment” into limbo at last, and stood a calamity was imminent, when suddenly side by side with every thousand pounds porter, telling the truth very literally.
DR. W. B. ROYAL,
(roods,('rockery,Glass and
nights after this a neighboring farmer chance of not only burning her “house” all caterpillars died from the same fun­ of the banker, ami who had not an The chief fixed the pay then ami there,
Has permanently located in Ashland.
Tin Ware, Shawls,
lost four. That same afternoon, too,one over her head, but of burning her up gus. Similar observations have been equivalent proportion of brain or pedi dated it back two weeks, ami the “hang­
Will give his undivided attention t«» the prartiu? <•(
Wrappers,Cloak i,
of Mr. Murch’s (another neighbor) cows with it.
made in other places in Europe and here. gree, but who ranked the banker in his er-on” became a full-fh'dged meml>er of
medicine. Ila* had fifteen year»’ experience in
Oreg’on Ottk’o at hi* residence, on Main street,
We could hear her growling at the Mr. Trouvelot formerly began in Med­ status by reason of his profession. One the staff on the s|»ot. And the l>cst of
And, in fact, everything required for the came to tho barn worried and bloody, as
opuosite the M. E. Church.
trade of Southern and South­
if she had been attacked by some wild lire, but she was tough and wily, and not ford, Mass., the raising of the polyphe- was a plain Mr., the other a titled cap­ the joke was, that it was not until twe
animal.
! disposed to give in without a savage mus moth for silk, and was successful tain. One was a plain man, the other a years afterward that either the editor-
eastern Oregon.
DR. WILL JACKSON,
in-chief or the managing editor knew
“It is that wolf!” everybody said; fight for life.
enough to get a prize in the Paris Exhi­ gentleman.
how it came about, each supposing^ the
Not
until
you
go
into
English
society
DENTIST.
Just as the fire seemed to enwrap the bition of 18G4.
A full assortment of
and the following morning six of us
Unfortunately, ho
other
had dime it. Two Leads certainly
turned out to hunt it down.
' whole jam, the wolf made a sw ift bolt brought some eggs from Paris of another thoroughly do you know how rigidly the
Jacksonville, ; : : : Oregon.
Besides my cousin George and me, out through the blaze, and all singed and species from China, which purported to lines are drawn in such weak trifles. were better than one that time—for the
For Blacksmiths’ and General use.
Will vüit Ashland in Maj and November,
there were Wilts Murch, Ned Wilbur, sparkling with lire, flew at Old Jim like be superior for silk-raising in the o]>en Some say they are becoming weaker and applicant
and Kerbyviile the fourth Monday in Octo­
ber, each year.
and a young fellow named Walt Evans. a mad hyena.
air. Those eggs proved to be infested less. Others say the contrary. Of a
A Mosquito Factory.
Ashland, Sept. 15, 187S.
A Full Line of
Although we were on the lookout, we by fungus, and the caterpillars hatched rank so vague and so difficult of a clear
Evans was a cousin of the Murch boys,
and was up from Portland to visit them w’ere not quite prepared for so sudden from them died, but not those alone. and concise definition as that of gentle­
A physician corresponding with the
that Spring. Al Churchill, a boy who a spring as the one the old beast beast All caterpillars of the polyphemus moth man, comprising as well those who have Scientific American says : For several
Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeres, Doeskins, worked for us, was another of the party. had made.
became infested, and even most of the a superior specific station by birth and years past I have noticed in warm
Clothing, always on hand and
“
Look
out!
”
shrieked
Al.
“
Shoot,
Grandfather was too old for such a
other indigenous species living on the manners as those who, if they possess weather that my wooden cistern, which
for sale at lowest prices.
chase; Mr. "Wilbur was sick; and Wilt’s shoot!”
twelve acres of shrub land which Mr. any at all, possess no other,-it is very is above ground, has been infested with
George fired—Wilts fired—Al slung Trouvelot utilized for this purpose died awkwaid how to determine a precise peculiar looking little red worms. I
father was not living. The business of
The highest market price? paid for
the farm fell largely
to us bovs,
and we | the axe, and Ned and I were both cock­ rapidly. After two years of a similar period of English society when the word have heard many others like myself
O
•/
v 7
thought it belonged to us to rid the ing our guns, trying to get aim.
calamity, Mr. Trouvelot was obliged to originated. For ages after the Norman complain of these worms, and I have
We will continue to purchase wheat
neighborhood of that wolf.
1 But the savage bride flew from .Jim stop his experiments, which might have forays here you cannot find the word taken it for granted that they were a
—A T—
1 remember carrying
a double-bar- I I across the brook towards Al. He ran developed, perhaps, a new source of used; and I am at a loss to say when sjtecies of earth worm. However, last
w
O
Come One and All.
reled duck gun, both barrels loaded with up the side of the gully, shouting, wealth for this country. A similar pest “the fine old English gentlemen,” so rare, Summer 1 procured a glass jar and
T/ie Highest Market Brice,
B. B. shot and a bullet. George
had an I “Shoot! Shoot her!’’
of an indigenous species of moth stopped appeared first on the soil.— London sprinkled the l>ottoni of it with a
J. M. MeCAfcL A CO.
O
old Sharpe’s carbine. Walt Evans car­
No wonder lie ran, for she was the only last year the interesting observa- Letter in Baltimore Sun.
And will deliver
very small quantity of sand and clay.
ried, besides his gun, a policeman’s ugliest-looking thing 1 ever saw.
tions of Mr. Tiemers in Newport, Ky.
1 then half filled the jar with clear,
“billy” and a knife in a belt. Ned and
JAMES THORNTON,
She got past us all, and scoured away “ The common silkworm in Europe has
JACOB WAGNER,
Playing With Firearms.
fresh water, and, after putting a
W. H. ATKINSON,
E. K. ANDERSON.
Wilts both had guns, but Al Churchill down the hollow’. Tl.e dogs started after recently been extensively affected by a
dozen
of these warms in the jar, 1 tied a
Anywhere in town,
had nothing O but an axe.
at full cry, down the gully, off sickness which is also the consequence of
| | her,
One of these practical jokers who piece of cloth over the tnouUi and placed
We were a warlike party, so far as through the woods to the northeast.
a fungus. Similar fatal epizootics have joint firearms, supposed not to be load­ it in a light, airv place. The woAtak
AT MIDI, PIUCF.8.
I
weapons
went,
and
we
were
determined
We
rallied,
too,
loaded
up
again,
and
been observed on the honey-bee, and one ed, at persons “in fun,” was tieated ac­ were from half to three-fourths of an
Wagner A Aniierson.
to hunt the wolf down.
followed for a mile or more. Then w’e killed several years ago in Brazil nearly cording to his deserts in Iowa recently, inch in length, of a bright red color, and
I
George and I then owned two bounds. lost them from hearing altogether, and all beehives. In entomological journals us we learn from the report of State had rather a jointed ap|>earance uliout
One of them, “old Jim,” was a big sav­ being now’ j>retty tired and hungry, we are reported fatal epizootics of leaf lice, against Hardie, 47 Iowa, G47. The hu­ body. They would crawl on the bottom
age fellow'. We took him with us. went home.
of grasshoppers, of the cabbage butter­ morous gentleman in question under­ of the jar, swim through the water by a
Wilts took along his fox-hound, too, and ; But just as George ami Al, and I, fly and of the currant worm, both im. took to frighten a lady neighbor with a rapid bending of the body backward or
Mr. Wibur’s watch dog, “Beave,” came w’ere finishing a most hearty meal, Ned ported here only a few years ago, und revolver. The weapon somehow went forward, and occasionally come to tin?
on after us.
j came running to the house to say that Loth very obnoxious.”
off, and the lady died of the fright. The surface of the water and float. Within
We went first to the pasture where the hounds had come round from the
court thought this was manslaughter,and twenty-four hours after placing them in
Mr. Wilbur’s sheep had been killed. I northwest w ithin hearing again. We Study the Appetites and Habits of sent the joker to prison for one year to the jar I noticed that they had all gone
ARE NOW MAKING FROM
The spot was a little hollow near a grove went into the yard. They seemed not
give him an opportunity for reflection. down to the l>ottoin of that vessel and
Animals.
of willows and alders.
Main Street, : : Ashland.
I | more than two miles off, going in full
The despair of the unfortunate man, his had enveloped themselves separately in
The sheep had been lying there to be cry toward the “pond woods.”
It is profitable ami advantageous to threats of killing himself, and his vio­ a kind of tem]>orary shell made of earth
out of the way of the cold, biting wind, | “Come on !” shouted George. w
cultivate in domestic animals a lovo of lence, necessitating the tying him with and sand. In a few days after this I
I have constantly on band the very hebt
probably. In tho dark, the wolf had 1 Guns were brought out in hot baste, home. Much time, labor, and anxiety ropes, when he discovered his mistake, saw one of these worms crawl out of his
SADDLE HIIRNEN,
throttled ono after another of them; for and away we went. But after running are often expended in looking after were not deemed of sufficient account to temporary house at the button of the jar
BL UG1EM A XI» < V URIAH ES,
sheep, when attacked in the night, will a mile or two we lost sound of the dogs; wandering stock. A majority of cows dispense with the restraint of the prison. and swim to the surface of the water.
rarely run far, but stand huddled to­ and it was not till near 4 o’clock that and horses that voluntarily go astray, do The prisoner’s counsel requested the Here, after twisting aliout for a few
• And can furnish my customers with a
gether.
i they came round from tho south eml of so because they find better food, more court to charge the jury that he was second, he ruptured a thin membrane
ti|»-top turnout at any time.
Ono of tno sheep had been dragged the pond. Not many minutes after that attractive associates, or better treatment not blameable if his act was what any that enveloped his body, and out
BLANKETS,
into the thicket and partially eaten.
we heard the long howl of Old Jim. It abroad than at home. Every wise own­ man of ordinary prudence and caution came a full-fledged mosquito ready for
HOJiSF.fi BOARDED
Old Jim snuffed eagerly about it; was down by the east shore of the ])oml, er or manager of stock may soon learn might have done. The court declined, business. I noticed many of the other
FLANNELS,
then, with a loud, fierce challenge, he where a crag, called the “ overset,” front­ by a few simple experiments that there observing: “No jury would be warrant worms going through the same perform­
On reasonable terms, and given the best
bounded off on the wolf’s track. The ed on the water.
are several articles of food or relish for ed in finding that men of ordinary pru­ ance within a short time afterward.
attention. Horses bought and sold
CASSI MERES,
other
hound
and
Beavo
followed.
Wilts
and
George
had
already
started
I
which cows and horses have as great a dence and caution so conduct themselves. Some of the mosquitoes were much
an<J satisfaction guaranteed in
You
may
be
sure
that
six
more
ex
­
to
go
down
there.
The
rest
of
us
fol
­
fondness as children have for cakes, jell­ When persons engage in such reckless larger than others, but as I lia^e already
DOESKINS,
all mv transactions.
cited boys lever set off after the lowed them round the head of the pond ies and camlies. Horses, cows, and even sport they should be held liable for the stated, some of the worms were also
AND HOSIERY. hounds. We ran through the brush and down through the woods to the sheep enjoy fondling and a soft, loving consequences of their acts.”—Albany larger than others.
after them, down into a swamp, crossed “overset.” George ami Wilts were at voice as much as do children. If to this Law Journal.
a muddy brook, and entered the old some distance ahead.
Julius Caesar’s Tunnel •
treatment be added, occasionally, sugar,
growth woods beyond. And it was not I The dogs were whining about the rock. fruit, salt, confections, and the like, Never Find Fault With Your
till Ned’s gun went off from accidentally There was a great crevice, two or three these animals will never forget the hand
In the time of Julius Caesar Lake
Tools.
feet
wide,
between
two
huge
rocks
which
hitting the hammer against a stub, and
Fucino, situated in the Appenines, about
that bestowed them, nor the place where
came near shooting Al in the legs, that lay at the foot of the cliff. Upon these they were received. If, at the time of
To do this is the infallible sign of a bad fifty miles southeast of Rome and some
we settled down to a more cautious and other great boulders had fallen down. the evening milking, the folding of the workman. Real talent makes use of 2,200 feet above the level of the sea, was
The crevice looked like the mouth of a sheep, or the stabling of the horses, some whatever lies nearest at hand. Faraday a source of great annoyance. It re­
steady pace.
The hounds, of course, soon left us den.
little delicacy is bestowed, these animals mastered the secrets of electricity with ceived the rainfall of a large district,
“
The
old
brute
is
in
there,
sure
behind.
But
we
followed
on,
guided
will soon remember time and place, and an old bottle. Sir Humphrey Davy threw and was constantly varying in extent,
01.1» AND NEW,
»
XIT/X IITT
enough
!
”
Wilts
said.
“
How,I
wish
I
by their loud baying.
be theie with the regularity of a hen to light on the laws of chemistry by rude frequently destroying the labors of the
had a bucket of nitro glycerine to tuck her usual roosting-place. Indeed, the instruments of his own contrivance. Fer­ tillers of the neighboiing soil and pro­
The
old
wolf
’
s
lair
was
nearer
than
J. II. RINSE LI., Proprietor.
Are invited to send in their orders and
we had supposed it to be. We had not in after her!”
appetite of animals for saline and alka­ guson calculated the distance of the stars moting disease. Julius Caesar therefore
are assured that they
Finally,
we
concluded
to
set
our
guns
gone much more than a mile thiougli the
line relishes seems so natural and strong with a handful of glass beads threaded on planned the drainage of the lake by a
thick forest, when we heard Old Jim —the whole of them—spring-gun fash­ as to not only attract them, but to resort a string. Watt’s first model of the steam subterranean tunnel, but was killed be­
Having again settled in this place
I give a prolonged howl. The steady bay­ ion, pointing into the crevice.
to these places at any risk. Feeders of engine was made out of an old syringe. fore this could be done. In the inter­
and turned my entire attention to
ing had ceased.
Ned went up to a house about half a stock, of large observation, inform us Benjamin West took his first brushes vening centuries since his death various
the Marble Business, I am pie-
“They’ve run the old brute into some mile off’, and got some hemp twine. that to mix salt and pure hard wood from a cat’s tail. Dr. Black detected speculators have proposed to complete
At Prices that Defy Competition.
pared to fill all orders with neat­
ledge:” cried Wilts.
While he was gone the rest of us cu ashes, in equal proportions of weight, latent heat with a pan of water and a the work, which at length has been ad­
ness and dispatch. Monuments,
W e hurried on, and came to a deep, crotched stakes to rest the guns in, ant combined by barely enough water to couple of thermometers, George Stephen­ mirably carried out at the instance of
/Tablets, and Headstones, executed
wooded gully, between two high hills, set them in the ground round the hole. make them a solid mass, becomes a most son mastered the rules of arithmetic with the great banker, Torlona, at a cost of
^gFin any description of marble.
down the bed of which ran a brook, Five guns were set pointing into the den. attractive relish for all domestic ani­ a bit of chalk on the grimy sides of a coal­ $10,000,000. The work has taken tw en­
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wagon. The inferior mechanic is always ty-four years, and 35,000 acres of excel­
foaming over mossy, shaded rocks. The i
"When Ned came back with the twine mals.
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finding fault with his implements. His lent arable land has been redeemed, on
tracks led up this gully.
a perfect network of lines was laid across
(^“Oregon. Prices reasonable.
jackplane
and chisel have no edge, his which the farmer can exj>end his labor
George was ahead, and we all followed I the mouth of the den, and each of these
“My dear,” said a gentleman to his
as fast as we could run. The hollow • cross-lines ran round a stake to the trig- wife, “our club is going to have all the auger will not bore smooth, his handsaw without fear of inundation. As an en
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grew narrower, with steeper sides; and l gers of all the guns.
home comforts.” “Indeed,” replied the sticks in the groove; but the trouble is in gineering feat this ranks very high.
J. JI, Russell,
fifty rods farther up, we came to what ; I It was a nice job to fix them, and a wife ; “and when, pray, is our home to the brain, not in the tool.—Davenport
Lidies do not talk across the street.
Ashland, Oregon.
SECRETARY. looked to be a huge jam of old stumps, , | rather efitieal one when it came to put- have all the club comforts ?”
Adams.
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