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I r 5 INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. ASHLAND1 OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1879. VOL IV.—NO. 12 ASHLAND TIDINGS J. M. McCall & Co Issued every L^ritley, ----- BY----- Main Street, Ashland. MKRUITr. OFFICE -On Main Street, (i i iecuiiJ story <>( McCall A Baum', new building i Job Priutlug'. Ui all desci ipciun. done on .hurt notice. Legal Blanks, Circulars Business Cards, Billheads, Letterheads, P<*s tvrs, etc., gotten up in good style at living prices. NEW DEPARTURE. Î The undersigned from and after April 18th, propose to sell only for CASH IN HAND Or approved produce delivered—except when by special agreement - a short and limited credit may be given. Teriu« ot Subscription: U *e copy. une year............................... $2 •• •• b ¡ x tuoulhs ........ .................................... 1 •• “ three month»............................. 1 Club rales, six copies for ....................................... .12 It rm* in a<J vanee. 50 50 00 50 They have commenced receiving their New Spring Stock, and that every day'will witness additions to the largest stock of Terra« of Advertising: LEOAL. One square Hen lines or less) 1st insertion........... 32 50 Each uüditmnal insertion............ 1 00 General Merchandise! LOCAL. Local notices per line . 10v- Regular advertisements inserted upon liberal turma. Ever brought to this market. They de sire to say to every reader of this paper, that if PROFESSIONAL. DR. J. H. CHITWOOD, ASHLAND, Standard Goods! OREGON. Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will do it, they propose to do the largest business this spring and summer ever done by them in tin- last five years, and they can posi tively make it to the advantage of every one to call upon them in Ashland and test the truth of their assertions. They will spare no pains to maintain, more fully than ever, the reputation of their House, as the acknowledged OFFICE- At the Ashland Drugstore. JAMES R. NEIL, ATTOR N F. V - A T - I. A W , Jacksonville, Oregon. J. W. HAWIAKAR, NOTARY PUBLIC, I.inky ¡lie, Lake Co., Oregon OFFICE-- In 1‘mt Office building. S|>eeul attention Iven to eon eyancing. M. L. M’CALL, SURYEYQR A CIVIL ENGINEER, HEADQUARTERS! Ashland, Oregon. For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress Goods,Crockery,Glass and Tin Ware, Shawls, W rappers,Cloak 3, And, in fact, everything required for the trade of Southern and South eastern Oregon. b prepared to do any work in his line on short notice. DR. W. B. ROYAL, Has permanently located in Ashland. Will give hie undivided attention to the practice ot medicine. Ha. had fifteen years' experience in Oregon. Office at hi. residence, on Main street, opposite the M E. Church. DR. WILL JACKSON, DENTIST. ; Jacksonville, : : A full assortment of IRON AND STEEL For Blacksmiths* and General use. Oregon. : Will visit Ashland in May and November, and Karbyville the fourth Monday in Octu ber, each vaar. Ashland, Sept. 15, 1873. A Full Line of A Ashland Woolen Goods I THE ASHLAND MILLS I Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeres, Doeskins, Clothing, always on hand and for sale at lowest prices. The highest market prices paid for We will continue to purchase wheat Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, Lard. —A T— Come One and All. The Highest Market Price, J. M. McCALL A CO. And will deliver Flour, Feed, Etc., JAMES THORNTON, W. H. ATKIN8ON, Anywhere in town, MILL PIIICKW. JACOB WAGNER, E. K. ANDERSON. THE ASHLAND Wnfner JL Auilertou. ASHLAND WO OLEN Livery, Sale&Feed MANU FACT J co., STABLES, ARE NOW MAKING FROM Main Street, COTTAGE GATE. MORRIS HAI M Ashland. The Very Best 1 have constantly on hand the very best SADDLE 1IORMEM, BIWUILM AND CARRIAGES, NIAITIÜVIEI WOOL! And can furnish my customers with a tip-top turnout at any time. BLANKETS, HORSES BOARDED FLANNELS, Ou reasonable terms, and given the best attention. Horses bought and sold and satisfaction guaranteed in all my transactions. CASSIMERES, DOESKINS, AND HOSIERY. H. F. PHILLIPS ASHLAND 4 KMARBLEM » WORKS. I J our patrons ! OLD AND NEW, J. II. RUSSELL, Proprietor. Are invited to send in their orders and are assured that they Having again settled in this placo and turned my entire attention to the Marble Business, I am pre pared to fill all orders with neat ness and dispatch. Monuments, Tablets, and Headstones, executed any description of. marble. OTSpecial attention paid to or- d«rs from all parts of Southern (SUOregon. Prices reasonable. SHall Receive Prompt Attention ! At Prices that Defy Competition. ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS. Address: J, H, Bussell, Ashland, Oregon. W. H. Atkinson, SECRETARY. i lu the sultry time of mowing When the fields are full of hay, Pretty Janet brings her sewing To the gate, at close of day. Do you wonder that she lingers— Often glances down the lane? Do you ask me why her fingers Seem to find their work a strain. Love dreams hold her in their tether; Love is often (as we know) Idle in the Summer weather, Idlest in the sunset glow. Now the toil of day is ever; Janet has not long to wait For a shadow on the clover And a footstep at the gate. How is this? The slighted sheeting Has been taken up anew; Very quiet is her greeting, Scarcely raised those eyes of blue. Now he leans upon the railing, Tells her all about the hay; Still his pains seem unavailing — Very little she will say. If yon think it strange, my reader, Learn a lesson from the rose, From the garden's queenly leader, Fairest flower that ever blows. Not at once she flaunts her petals; First a bud of sober green, By and by the stretching sepals Show a dash of red between. Breezes rock her; sunbeams woo her; Wide and wider does she start, Opens all her crimson treasure, . Yields the fragrance at her heart. Ab! the rose bnds will not render All their secrets in one day; And the maiden, shy and tender, Is as diffident as they. Just, Before Generous “I wish you would leave me fifty shillings for Alary Brown, Joe,” Mrs. Hammond said to her husband, as he stood putting on his overcoat before starting for business. “Fifty shillings, Nettie !” he cried, while a look of displeased surprise came over his face. “How can you owe her so much ? I gave you the money for the washing everv week.” “Well, it slips away; I scarcely know how. There was the little impromptu supper we had the evening/the Elliott’s were here, last week, and 1 saw some bargains in ribbons the week before, and —oh, I can’t remember every penny !” “She must need her money, ami need it promptly. Women don’t work for amusement, Nettie, as a general thing, but for a living. There is the money, V 9 but don’t let this happen again. Noth ing is more contemptible, to my mind, than owing small sums of money to those who depend upon daily labor for daily bread.” 0 Then, as if to make a mute apology for the severity of his words and tone, Joe Hammond gave his little wife an unusually tender kiss, and started out for his office. They had been only a few months married, these young people, and rented a wee cottage, where they kept house after the pattern only too common to young married couples. Nettie was the youngest of five daughters of a merchant, and would probably be something of an heiress when her father died. In the mean time her only idea of housekeeping was founded upon that of the large house where she had lived all her life, and where she never had a care. Her mother, foreseeing the difficul ties in the way of the petted girl, had spared one of her own most valued ser vants, and Nettie had given into her charge all care. Every week Joe hand ed his wife such a proportion of his in come as he felt he could afford forhouse- hoid expenses, fully satisfied that it was more than sufficient for the results he saw produced. Bridget was a treasure, and there was no fault to find with the well-cooked meals, or the orderly arrangements in the little cottage. After the master of the house left, Mrs. Hammond, having a dainty piece of sewing to finish, was busily stitching, when one of her dear friends, Mrs. Mer ritt, came in. She was older by ten years than Nettie, and a childless widow. A good woman in every sense of the word, she gave the time that hung heavily on her hands, after her husband died, to the cause of charity. Her Qwn means, which were ample for her support in luxury, were freely given; but many of her charities were on a scale that required contributions from others. This was not the first time Nettie had been called upon to give to some cause in which her friend was interested. She looked up brightly’. “Don’t speak till you are warm,” she said, drawing a chair toward the fire and taking her friend’s furs and hat. “You look half perished.” “It is a bitter day. God help the poor 1” Mrs. Merritt said taking o the chair.” “What brings vou so far this cold day ?” “I called to see if you would help us in a fair we are getting up for the suf ferers at the fire last week. I have been amongst them, Nettie, and they are utterly destitute. We have raised some thing toward the sum we think necessary to start the fair, aad I thought you would help us ” Nettie’s purse was already in her hand Beside the money for the washerwoman there was only a little change, and for a moment she hesitated. Then, thinking, “I will tell Joe, and he will give it to me again,” she took the gold and handed it to Mrs. Merritt. “1 wish it were more,” she said gently, her heart full of pity for the sufferers, ‘•but 1 will begin to sew for your table at the fair at once. Suppose I make some of those wax crosses you admire so much ? 'I’liey sell well.” “Anything you make will sell. By the way, if you are going to buy wax, 1 am going down to L’s now. Suppose you dress while I warm my feet, and we can go together.'’ “After lunch. You will stop to lunch! “I can’t, indeed. You see, dear, w e want to strike while the iron is hot. A month from now some new horror will crowd this out of memory, though the poor sufferers will L? no better oft’.’’ “Then I will be ready in five minutes.” And it was very little more when she stood ready for her walk. The wax was purchased,and a quantity of other material bought for fancy work; and then, as she was so near her old home, Nettie took lunch there, and in terested all the ladies of the family in the good work. The Winter afternoon was closing when she came home, tired, to meet Bridget, whose face was very long. “Please, ma’am, Mr. Hammond’s sent word from the office that he won’t be home till late this evening. And Mary Brown’s been here, ma’am, with the clothes, and she’s in sore trouble, ma’am. The landlord is pressing her for a mouth’s rent, and there is two of her children sick. She was awfully disappointed not to see you, for she said you promised her some money today. If you are willing, ma’am,” she said, hesitatingly, “I’ll take it after dinner, for they are badly off when she complains—.she ain’t one of the whining sort.” “I’m sorry, Bridget; but I can't send it till to-night, when Mr. Hammond I comes home.” Bridget went to her work, very heavy, for Mary had told her more than she liad repeated to her mistress. And Nettie ojiened her packages, and thought of the many pretty things she could make for the fair. Dinner over, she stitched busily at dainty bits of silk and ribbon, till the latch-key rattled in the «loor, and she sprang forward to meet her husband. There was no smile on his face as usual, and he asked her harshly— “What did you do with the money 1 gave you for Mary Brown Half frightened at the expression of his face, Nettie told him of Mrs. Merritt’s visit and the result. His face softened a little, but he said, very gravely— “ You should have waited to conti ib ute to the fair until you liatl other money; that was not yours to give. Willie Brown met me. He had been waiting, on this bitter night, three hours for me, and asked me, humbly and piti fully, for one shilling on his mother’s bill. Sure that you hud paid her while the boy .was out, I went home with him. Nettie, the room was fireless. The poor nother, wrapped in a shawl, was crying bitterly, while she tried to warm her poor little sufferer.” Nettie by this time was weeping hit ter tears, and sobbed out— “Oh, Joe, I never thought she needed the money so much ' Oh, what did you do I” “ I paid her ; and 1 told her in the future to send to me every week for the money she earns by hard, honest labor.” “ Oh, Joe, it shall never happen again. I am so sorry ! But I did not use the money for myself, and I felt so sorry for those poor people Mrs. Merritt told me about.” “But justice should come before gen erosity, Nettie. I would not stay your hand from any charity we can afford ; but the money you owe to a hard-work ing woman is hers, not yours to give or use in any way. And, Nettie, remem ber another thing: if you had paid the woman every week, you never would have owed her a sum that is large to her, although it may seem small to you. I wonder you allowed a bill to stand, knowing, as you do, my liorroi of debts.” A burning crimson suddenly flooded his wife’s face. “ Have vou deceived me al>ont others? Do you owe money in other places ?" “A little, Joe,” she faltered. “ I don’t know how it is, but I seem to run short so often.” Joe looked so pained that Nettie,s tear’s started again. “ I don’t spend a great deal on my self, Joe—indeed I don’t. I gave five pounds to the orphan asylum last month, and there was that poor family Mrs. Merritt told me about, whose father was killed on a railroad.” “ And the money was due for some bill you had hidden from me ?” “ I didn’t mean to hide it exactly, Joe ; only each week I thought I could save something.” “Well,” he said, wearily, “you must bring me an exact account to-morrow evening of all we owe, and it must be paid. After this I will pay the bills myself.” “ No, Joe, no! you shall not take that care in addition to all your business duties. Trust me once more, and I will not let this happen again. I will be just before I am generous—just to you, Joe, as well as to others.” He was ready to kiss heri‘and accept her promise. 'The statement of her^debts her hus band required caused her another fit of sobbing and fright. She had no idea that a little charged here and there at the butchers could mount up to iv large bill; that the little accounts start«?*1 on I* » a few shillings could run up to pounds so fast ; and when the sum total of fifty pounds stared her in the face, she felt, penitently, that she did not deserve any further trust or confidence from hei hus band. It was a large sum for a struggling man to raise unexpectedly, and doe de nied himself many things to meet it; but it was the last time he had to do so, for Nettie kept an account of every shil ling, amazed to find that when all just claims were promptly paid, a’.l extrava gances cut away, and the week’s money carefully divided to meet the expenses, she had still many shillings for charity, given far more happily when her con science was clear, and she had practiced being just before she was generous. Teasing Children. Teasing children is at best a doubtful amusement; but when sensitive child hood is made the object of it, it degen erates into cruelty. Yet there are some very good people who indulge in this outrage against the innocent and help less. We know people who never miss an opportunity to torment a child. It seems impossible for them to come near one without making it miserable. They cannot be at their ease, unless the child is suffering fiom heartlessness. As a consequence, children soon learn to hate as well as fear them, and no won der. It is true that these people would shrink from inflicting needless bodily pain on any little one; but they never think of the keener torture which their senseless teasing inflicts on the sensitive child. They would tell you that they do nothing which should give pain; that they are only in fun and the child ought to know it. When they threaten to swallow a child, they don’t mean to do it, vf course; but the child is irritated or frightened all the same. Do they know how very real all such things are to a child, particularly to one that has never been hardened to such cruelty ? They may mean nothing by their silly threats, but the child that has learned to rely implicitly on what its parents say—and all children should learn this —will accept as truths what its tor mentors mean as lies invented for its an noyance. It is true that the child will in time learn to doubt the truthfulness of those who thus abuse it; but while it learns to distrust the false, it also learns to distrust the true. A child cannot be expected to exercise discrimination; and you, sir, who give it its first lessons in falsehood, are to blame for such subse quent distrust of things that ought to be believed. Childhood should be a period of joy ous innocence. It is no time for doubts or misgivings. They come soon enough with the entrance of the youth upon the scenes of busy, practical, anxious strug gle for self-maintainance. Then, good friends, you who thoughtlessly mar that innocent enjoyment and implicit trust which characterize the uncorrupted child, stop to think what you are doing. You are committing a grave offense. Y ou are ruining the temper of one whose mind is yet so plastic as to yield to every touch. You are darkening the days of one whose life should yet be all sunshine. You are inflicting the keen est of pains on one whose innocence should shield it from the tortures even of barbarians. You are poisoning the morals of one that is yet too young to resist your evil influences, You are do- ing wrong for which you can never atone, a wrong whose evil effects may follow that child to the grave.— Phrenological Journal. How Rain and Hail are Formed. When the particles of water or ice which constitute a cloud or fog are all of the same size, and the air in which they are sustained is at rest or is moving uni formly in one direction, then these part icles can have no motion relatively to each other. The weight of the particles will cause them to descend through the air with velocities which depend on their diameters, and, since they are all of the same size, they will move with the same velocity. Under these circumstances, therefore, the particles will not traverse the spaces which separate them, and there can be no aggregation so as to form raindrops or hailstones. If, how ever, some of the particles of the cloud or fog attain a larger size than others, those will descend faster than the others, and will consequently overtake those immediately beneath them; with these they may combine so as to form still larger particles, which will move with still greater velocity, and more quickly overtaking the particles in front of them, will add to their size at an increasing rate. Under such circumstances, there, fore, the cloud would be converted into rain or hail, according as the particles were water or ice. The size of the drops from such a cloud would depend simply On the quantity of water suspended in its descent, that is to say, on the density and thickness of the cloud below the point from which the drop started. This is the actual way in which rain drops and hailstones are formed.— Nature. 82 50 PER ANNUM The Pope’s Garden Evolutionist Scriptures. Let me relate, says a Roman corres [GENESIS—CHAPTER II.| pondent, a visit to the Pope’s private 1. Primarily the Unknowable moved garden, which is supposed to be inac cessible to the outside world, Its par upon cosmos ami evolved protoplasm. 2. And protoplasm was inorganic and ticular interest is in the fact that for undift ’erential, containing all things ip a eight years the Popes have not stepped out of the Vatican Palace except to go potential energy; and a spirit of evolu tion moved upon the fl •lid mass. into this garden, and naturally it is jealously secluded from profane intrud I 3. And the Unknowable said, let at ers. However, we bribed the officials oms attract, and then contact liegat and were let into the garden surrepti light, heat and electricity. 4. And the Unconditional differentia tiously with permission to remain an ted the atoms, each after its kind; and hour, ami we improved the time to the combinations begat rock, air and utmost. Until recently it has been their water. only a place io stroll about in on foot. 5. And then went out a spirit of evo But now the Pope is having a carriage lution from Unconditioned and working road made through it, and has just had an elegant landau constructed in Rome, in protoplasm, by accretion and absorp tion produced the organic cell. with the papal escutcheons upon it, es 6. And the cell by nutrition evolved pecially to drive about the garden in. primordial germ, and germ devekqied The principal avenues are bordered by protegene, and protegen? begat eozoon, flat hedges, and in passing along you and eozoon begat monad, and monad be get glimpses, through green arches, of gat animalculie. the sweetest little sylvan retreats that 7. And animalcula? begat ephemera; you can imagine; birds singing, fountains and then began creeping things to mul bubbling, light and shade playing tiply on the face of the earth. through the flickering leave.;, the air 8. An earthly atom in vegetable pro full of the scents of orange blossoms and toplasm begat the molecule, and thence roses, shady paths winding in ami out, came all grass and every herb in the up and down in the most distracting earth. way, the ground covered vuth a thick 9. And animalcula? in the water matting of deep leaves, the accumula evolved tins, tails, claws and scales; and tion of years. Here an ancient sarcop in the air, wings and beaks; an I oil the hagus, with sculptured figures in relief, land they sprouted such organs a ¡ were there a marble statue gray with age, necessary as played upon by the envir and a something inexpressively weird in onment. the twilight gloom, the solitude and air i 10. And bv accretion and absorption of neglect and decay. Again you emerge came the radiata and mollusca, and mol upon open, snnny spaces, and the prom lusca begat articúlala, articúlala begat enade skirts a quadrangular space sunk veitebrata. en fifteen to twenty feet, with perpendic 11. Now these are the generation of ular walls, originally, perhaps, the walls the higher vertebrata, in cosmic period of some ancient construction. This is from which the Unknown evoluted the laid out in an immense dower garden, bipedal mammalia. and in the midst the gorgeous papal ! 12. And every man of the earth, monogram traced in lit ing verdure. while lie was yet a monkey, and the A pretty surprise was a small grotto horse while be was a hipparion, and the in rock work, representing that of “Notre hipparion before he was an oredon. Dame de Lourdes,” in which stood a 13. Out of the ascidian came the am little fancy figure of the Yirgin, at her phibian and begat the pentadactyle, by foot a little grating through which offer inheritance and selection, produced the ings were dropped, and three tiny hvlobate, from which are the siuiiada* in streams of water flowing from the words: all their tribes. “Drink and be healed.” Of course tinv 14. And out of the miniada? the lemar streams spout into a little basin, and prevailed above his fellows, and pro above these we applied our mouths to the duced the platyrhine monkey. little streams and drank the consecrated 15. And the platyrhine begat the cat- water. We thought we had explored arrhine, and the catarrhine monkey be everv nook and corner of the garden, gat the anthropoid ape, and the ape be but had failed to find the place we were gat the longimanous orang,and the orang especially in search of, the famous Casino begat the chimpanzee, and the chimpan where Pius IX. used tj sit on runny zee evoluted the what is it. days, and which is said to be a famous 16. And the what is it went into the resort of the present Pope for study and land of No«l and took him a wife of the writing. We met a servant who went longimanous gibbons. with us to show the wav, and gave us a 17. And in process of the cosmic |>er bouquet of exquisite damask roses. The iod were born unto them and their chil casino is completely enclosed and bidden dren the anthropomorphic primordial by high hedges, entered by a single arch. types. Following a path through shrubbery, we 18. The homunculus, the prognathus, passed under a deep stone archway, lined the troglodyte, autochthon, the terragen with mosaics—three inches each side —these are the generations of primeval filled with ancient statues—and came man. upon a small circular esplanade with the 19. And primeval man was naked ami mosaic pavement, enclosed by two semi not ashamed, but lived in quadrumanous circular loggias or porticos supported by innocence, and struggled mightily to liar marble columns, the ceiling and inside monize with the environment. walls covered with beautiful but faded 20. And by inheritance and natural frescoes and curious mosiacs and shell selection did lie progress from the staole work, with niches occupied by busts and and homogeneous to the complex and statues. All around was a wilderness of heterogeneous—for the weakest died and flowers and shrubbery, and close by’ the the strongest grew and multiplied. great dome of St. Peter filled in the view. 21. And man grew a thumb for that Finally, through a distant arch, we .saw he had need of it, and developed capaci a vista of trees, and following it up came ties for prey. out upon an elevated terrace, where, 22. For, behold, the swiftest man under the shade of old trees covered caught the most animals, and the swift with purple blossoms, was a large basin, est animal got away from the most men; of water upon which was a man-of-war wherefore the slow animals were eaten in bronze, eight or ten feet long, the and the slow men starved to death. rigging complete, rows of cannons pro 23. Ami as the types were differenti jecting from its sides, the mariners at ated the weaker types completely disap, their post. peared. ¿ From this terrace was a view of the 21. And the earth was filled ‘with city, the castle of Si. Angelo prominent violence; for man strove wi^i man and in the foreground, and Monte Marie on tribe with tribe, whereby they killed op \ the left, the valley of the Tiber beneath, the weak and foolish and secyte.1 th and the Campagna stretching out to the survival of the fittest. Alban range in the distance. « * 'V 71 Bedstead Superstition in Germany Having ordered a neatly-constructed single bedstead, says a correspondent of London Notes and Queries, with some what high and ornamental sides, I v as surprised when it was brought home to find that the ornamentation of one side of the bedstead was not repeated on the opposite side, it being, in fact, quite plain. I expressed my surprise and dis satisfaction to the maker, saying that when a bedstead was placed with its head against the wall of a room, the -sides, then showing, will appear quite unlike—one ornamented and the other plain. At this the maker expressed Lis surprise that I should be ignorant of a German custom and prejudice ; “ for,'’ says he, “ in Germany, single bedsteads are only placed sidewise against a wall or partition, and only removed from this position and placed with the head against the wall to receive a dead body.” And the worthy maker assured me that no where in Germany could a native be in duced to sleep on a single bedstead which had not its side placed against a wall or petition. The same objection does not hold against placing two single bedsteads ------------------ »<«i»----------- - side by side, with their heads against a A wife «anted her husband to sytnpa* wall. thize with her in a feminine quarrel, but A Boston clergyman speaks of “a he refused, saying: “I’ve lived long enough to know that one woman is as mustached gentleman holding a piece of good as another, if not better.” “And wood to his shoulder and frantically I,” retorted the wife, “have lived long drawing poor horse-hair over the dried enough to know that one man is as bad viscera of a dead feline.” Hang up the as another, if not worsdr’ fiddle and the bow. 1 o a What Becomes of Our Bodies. With a very near approach to truth, the human family inhabiting the earth has been estimated at 700,000,000; the annual loss by death is 18,000,000. Now, the weight of the animal matter of this immense body cast into the grave is no less than 634,000 tons, and by its decomposition produces 9,000,000,000-, 000 cubic feet of gaseous matter. The vegetable productions of the earth clear away from the atmosphere the gases thus generated, and decomj>osing and assimilating them for their own increase. This cycle of changes has been going on ever since man became an occupier of the earth. He feeds on the lower ani mals and on the seeds of plants, which in due time become a part of himself. * The lower animals feed upon the herbs and grasses, which, in their turn, become the animal, then, by its death, again pass into the atmosphere and are ready once more to be assimilated by plants, the earthy or bony substance alone remain ing where it is deposited, and not even there unless sufficiently deep in the soil to be out of the insorbent reach of the roots and plants and trees. It is not at all difficult to prove that the elements of which the living bodies of the present generation are composed have passed through millions of mutations, and formed parts of all kinds of animal and vegetable bodies, and consequently it may be said that fractions of the ele ments of our ancestors form ourselves. Î I « V