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■> INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OE SOUTHERN OREGON. ASHLAND' OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1879 VOL IV.---NO. 13 82 >0 PER ANNUM “I ‘low she’ll be along pretty soon,” elderly lady living near here took pity sick 1 was attacked with a violent fever Statistics for Girls. was the unconcerned reply. on my isolated life and sent me to the that brought me very' low. Jim nursed “I t ’ s only a little grave," they said, “Ought to be here now,” said the academy at B----- . I had not one me through it, and after weary weeks of A young English statician, who was “Only just a child that’s dead," driver. “ The tide ’ ll turn pretty soon, friend all the time 1 was there. Other convalescence told me tl e truth about paying court to a young lady, thought And so they carelessly turned away every ITridny, From the mould the spade had made that day. then it ’ll take her al! night to get up girls had sisters, brothers, cousins of I Celinda. She was dead. J saw the little to surprise her with his immense erudi ---- BY----- Ah, they did not know how deep a shade the bay.” their own age. Even if they were or grave that held all that 1 had loved, but tion. Producing his note book, she Main Street, Ashland. That little grave in our home had made! “Does she always make connection phans, they were white and easily found 1 was glad she was gone. There were onlv thought he was about to write a love MERRITT. I here ?” was my next query. I know the coffin was narrow and small, friends; but I’’—her voice quivered— i frowns for her here. My friend per sonnet, but was slightly taken back with One yard would have served for an ample pall ; “ Hain ’ t missed but once in three NEW DEPARTURE. “ was it for any sin of mine that I was suaded me to revisit the East with him, the following question: One man in his arms could have borne away ! weeks,” said the host assuringly. OFFICE—On Main Street, (i.< m .- oix I story ui McCall ’ an outcast I Only a few even deigned to we engaged in business and prospered. “llow many meals do you eat ?” The casket frail and its freight of clay. & Baum’s new building ) “ Como Cis, never mind if the boat is i notice that I was a human being. There A few years ago Jim returned to the But I knew that darling hopes were hid “\Yhv, three of course; but of all The undersigned from and after April Job Printing. a little late, let’s take a walk,” called | I is no place in the world for me.” Beneath that tiny coffin-lid. Pacific Coast, but I had no desire to re oddest questions !’’ 18th, propose to sell only for Of all description.« dvilc on »bort notice. Legal Blauks, Circulars Business Cards, Billheads, Letterbeads, Pos John cheerily. “My child!”—John Williams’ voice visit the scenes of my suffering. Inali “Never mind, dear. I’ll I knew that a mother had stood that day ters, etc., gotten up in good style at living prices. CASH IN HAND I went half sirikiiy, for I thought my was now broken with intense agony — these years I had With folded arms by that form of clay; not thought of mar about it in a minute.” companion might Lave relieved my curi I knew that burning tears were hid, “ if 1 could lay down my life that you ; riage or a home. Or approved produce delivered except His pencil was rapidly al > Tcruia ot SubMcription; “ ’Neath the drooping lash and aching lid, osity concerning his residence at the might be spaied further suffering, how when by special agreement a short 1 had forfeited that makes life last, fondly clasping her sh Uw copy, one year..................................................... $2 50 And I knew her lip and cheek and brow wayside cabin. Then, too. I was anx- gladly would I do it. I can only strive happy and buried and limited credit may begiven. “ “ six months.......................... 1 50 # chances fur earth “ Now my darling, I’ve g. Were almost as white as her baby’s n-w. I “ “ three months ....................................... 1 00 ions lest the steamer should fail to make to bear your burdens with you. All ly peace in that lonely little grave by you wish to kiioW how mile Club rates, six copies for ...................................... 12 50 I knew that some things were Lid away, connection that night at Olympia, where these long weary years I have believed the blue waters of Puget Sound. Only through that adorable little Terms in advance They have commenced receiving their The crimson frock and wrapping gay; 1 intended meeting my wife. We you dead ; my heart has hungered for a few months ago I received a I t ter the last seventeen years, 1 e: New Spring Stock, and that every Tcruit of AdvertitHugt The little sock and the half-worn shoe, walked along the beach admiring the your love; you are all that 1 have in from Jim, savin" that he was sure of the exact figures.” LBQAL. dayjwill witness additions to The cap with its plumes and tnBsels blue; Owe square (ten lines or less) 1st insertion.......... $2 50 And an empty crib with its covers spread, ever changing skies reflected in the the world ; come to me, my daughter, death in a short while, as his physician the largest stock of “Goodness ! Gracious! What can you Each additional insertion .......................... 1 00 As white as the face of the precious dead. skies at our feet. The tide was turn and let my love atone for all the past had given him up; he must write and mean ?” LOCAL. ing and the waves lapped higher up the years of loneliness. Cannot my little tell me that my child was not dead. He ’Tia a little grave, but oh, beware! Local notices per line ................................................... 10c “Now, just listen, ' says lie, “and yon Regular advertisement« inserted upon liberal terms. For world-wide hopes are buried thore, sands with that ceaseless murmur with girl love her father, even though he has had seen how I was wasting my life will hear exactly what you have been And ye, perhaps, in coming years, which all of ocean’s children lull the sinned ?” away in vain regrets, so, during my ill obliged to absorb to maintain those Ever brought to this market. They de May see, like her, through blinding tears, PROFESSIONAL. earth to sleep. “ Father, father, do not think that 1 ness he had taken the child and placed charms which are to make the happiness sire to say to every reader of How much of light, how much of joy, “ Ohl Peter ’ s camp used to be here, ” do not love you, I do, ” sobbed the girl, her with a poor but kindly family, who of my life.” Is buried up with an only boy. this paper, that if DR. J. H. CHITWOOD, said John, as we paused on a grassy “and I will go with you if vou wish me hail taken it into their home as one of “But 1 don't want to hear.” A Western Romance. point that projected into the bay. “This to.” their own. He had regularly paid them ASHLAND, OREGON. “Ah, you are surprised, no doubt, but is a familiar scene to me,” he went on ; 1 started quietly as I realized that J a small sum for her maintenance, but statistics are wondeiful things. You Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will OFFICE-At the A»hland Druz Store. BY MRS. ELLA GIVENS. “many a night like this 1 have stood had been listening to others’ secrets, and had taken no pains to have her educated, are seventeen years old, so that in fif do it, they propose to do the largest watching the rosy hues fade from the walked hurriedly. The captain of the supposing that the mother nature in her teen years you have absorbed oxen or business this spring and summer I shall always remember that day skies and the moon rise white and still, little steamer was bustling about in all would eventually lead her to ruin; but calves, 2; sheep and lambs, 14; chickens, JAMES R. NEIL, ever done by them in the among the glorious woods of Western while the tide ebbed and flowed. I was directions, and in answer to my anxious since his return he had seen and con 357; ducks, 204; geese, 12; turkeys, last five years, and ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, versed with her and was impressed with 100; £ame of various kinds, 824; fishes, Washington, I had known my com- young then, very young;” a sad smile questioning, said firmly: they can posi flitted over his face. “I even had some “ Can ’ t start back till midnight sir; her superiority to her surroundings, so 160; eggs, 3,124; vegetables (bunches), Jacksonville, Oregon. panion, John Williams, for years, and wild thoughts of making an Indian of tide dead against us now, very strong. he begged me to come at once and undo, 700; fruit, (baskets), 603; cheese, 102; tively make it to the hitherto he had charmed me by the myself.” Get you to Olympia in time to take the if I could, the harm he had wrought. bread, cake, etc., (in sacks of flour), 4^, advantage I shrugged my shoulders as I thought stage,” and he bustled away to attend to He died with a prayer for forgiveness wine (barrels), 11; water (gi'lons), 3,- genial kindness of his manner, but on 1 W. HAMAKAR, of every one to of the dirty savages we hail seen the day some one else. on his lips. You may be sure I needed 000.” the particular day of which I write ho call upon them in NOTARY PUBLIC, “ Cis, ” said John ’ s voice, calm now as before. no urging to come, but you, who have At this the maiden revolted, and seemed lost in a fit of abstraction, and Link »¡lie, Lake Co., Oregon. Ashland and test the truth “The Indians now,” lie- replied to my usual, “walk up the hill with me, I have known my outward life for ten years, jumping up exclaimed : as all my efforts failed to rouse him I shrug, “ are entirely different to the bet something I want to say to you.” of their assertions. They will OFFICE—In Post Office building. Special attention little imagined the hope that brought “I think you are very impertinent iven to conveyancing. spare no pains to maintain, more left him to Lis apparently gloomy ter class of Indians of those days. To We walked to the crest of the hill me here.” and disgusting besides, and I will not fully than ever, the reputation of their thoughts, while I admired the beauty day they are in a transition state from and seated ourselves on a fallen log. “And Celinda?” I enquired as he stay’ to listen to you !” upon which she M. L. M’CALL, “Twenty years ago,” began my com paused. flew into the house. House, as the acknowledged nature spread around us. The stage barbarism to civilization. They are neither hunters in the forests or workers panion, “ I landed at this point. There “ She has consented to go with me, He gazed after hoi in an abstracted SURVEYOR Jr CIVIL ENGINEER, road wound through tiny valleys, cool on farms, but eke out a miserable exist was then only an Indian camp here, and and to-night we both leave this place to air, and left, saying to himself: and green with waving foliage, and up ence, neither white men nor Indians. my journey hither was made in a canoe build up a new home in some land Ashland, Oregon. “If she kept talking at that rate 1. prepared to do any work in hi. line on .hurt notice. For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries, steep hills where the slanting sunbeams The present generation, all fostered in with a young Indian called Wildy who where her mother’s race will be no stain twelve hours out of twenty-four her jaws would, in twenty years, have traveled a Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, checkered the yellow road with waving idleness, have lost their independence had promised to show me some good on the worth of my beautiful girl.” hunting. I was young then and impul The night had grown darker and cool and love of the wild, free life of the distance of 1,332,124 miles.’ Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress DR. W. B. ROYAL, shadows. Up, up we went, our stout woods, sinking into lives of inanition. sive. Some severe disappointments had, er. As he ceased speaking, I took his The maiden, within three months, Goods,Crockery,Glass and horses panting at the steep pulls, and Has permanently located in Ashland. A few will rise above their fellows, but however, rendered me cynical as re hand in unspoken sympathy fot his sor married a well to-do grocer who was no Tin Ware, Shawls, WUl give his undivided attention to the practice of stopping often to rest, then whirling us the majority are doomed to destruction. ’ garded the benefits of civilized life, and row and hope for his future. statistical!. W rappers,Cloak i, medicine Hu had fifteen years’ experience in Oregon. Office at his residence, on Main street, on over the rocky way until another hill I was only too ready to think that all the “ Thank you, Cis. ” he said heartily, “ 1 “ It is but the universal law of And, in fact, everything required for the opposite the M E. Church. The Walking Fever trade of Southern and South came in view. In a few hours we began nature,” I replied, “ that the weak shall virtues were embodied in my friends of cannot help feeling that much is forgiv eastern Oregon. to descend the mountain, not all at go down and the strong survive. The the wild woods. Well, of course, I en en me, for I have suffered much. But 1 DR. WILL JACK80N, Hear the San Jose Mercury man’s once, but by gradual inclines, sometimes Indians must give way before the supe joyed the life we led. There on that find my gill modest and gentle, anil DENTIST. though she, too, has suffered, our Jives slope stood Old Peter ’ s camp. We fished rior white race, just as the foiests disap eminently correct strictures on the walk A full assortment of passing a quiet little lake sleeping among will still hold much of happiness. ” in the streams and hunted through the ing mania which is now spreading over the trees, with the Summer beauties of pear to make room for wheat fields and Jacksonville, ; : : : Oregon. forests. Oh, the enchantment of that A tinkling little bell rang the signal the land: “It is said that over twenty its surroundings embowered deep in its homes.” Will visit Ashland in May and November, For Blacksmiths’ and General use. “ I grant you that they are going time; the wild freedom of that woodland for departure. We hurried on board thousand people visited the Mechanics’ I bosom, then along little ridges with and Kerbyville the fourth Monday in Octo ber, each year. the little steamer, and John Williams Pavilion, in San Francisco, the other down fast enough," he replied ; “ but let life.” sweet, pale, wild flowers, nodding dainty Ashland, Sept 15, 1878. A Full Line of and his daughter left behind them the night, paying four bits a head, and all to He rose and walked to and fro, then bells on either side, or rattling down us return and see if the belated steamer dark land of their sorrows anil started see a half dozen fagged out tramps, with came and stood before me. into cool, dark depths where starry dog has put in an appearance yet.” “ Cis, ” he continued, in a tone of out hopefully in the dawn of a new life. sore heels, sprained ankles, and caved in No steamer was there, and we obeyed wood blossoms stared at us, and foamy Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeves, Docskins, ocean spray nodded a greeting. All at our host’s summons to supper, feeling agonizing entreaty, “you will not judge corporosities generally, hobble around a Clothing, always on hand and Ballooning and Reporting. sawduct track—‘only this, and nothing once we came upon a deserted house that to reach Olympia that night was me harshly ? 1 had lost my best friend, for sale at lowest prices. more.’ We see thousands of |»eople walk that stared blankly at us with open something not to be hoped for. As we my father. My world had proved full Sometimes a reporter goes up in a bal everv day, and think nothing of it— care doors and windows, No smoke curled took our seats at the table an outer door of vain delusions. I drifted out to this The highest market price? paid for from the chimney, The well sweep swung noiselessly open, and a tall, slim coast, soured, disappointed, bitter; but loon with an aeronaut. It would seem nothing about it. Then why should v.v All girl of eighteen or twenty entered and those long Summerdays when I wandered at first sight that the balloon man had pay half a dollar to sec a half dozen per pointed plaintively skyward. We will continue to purchase wheat seemed vainly beseeching some one to sat down by the hostess. 1 was at once in the woods were full of peaceful con the reporter completely at his mercy, sons doing exactly the same thing in a - AT— stay and give life to the lonely place. charmed and puzzled by her face. She tent. The petty ambitions of civilized but such is not the case. He laughs very different and tired out manner? If Come One and All. Set between two hills by a still stream was fair, with dark eyes and delicate life seemed so far away. It was then”— best who laughs last, and the reporter there were any particular novelty in The Highest Market Price, with the marsh grass growing rank and features. Her dark-brown hair hung in his voice grew hoarse—“that I built that has the writing up of the aerial voyage. their walking—any new style adopted J« M. MHALl dr < 4». green around it the placo seemed singu wavy curls. There was something in cabin in the woods and I—yes—I took Recently a balloon ascension was made calculated to make walking a more de And will deliver larly desolate. No sound of animal life the lithe form, shadowy, dark eyes, and Old Peter’s daughter for my wife. I near Montreal, and a reporter of the sirable method of locomotion—then* broke the stillness. We crossed the subdued yet proud manner, that spoke believed that her very ignorance was New York ll°rald went up. The ac would be of some sense in paying for the JACOB WAGNER, JAMES THORNTON, stream on a bridge made of split logs. of mixed blood in her veins. “ She is a purity and innocence, she seemed so count of the trip shows that it was one privilege of witnessing it. Even as a W. H. ATKINSON, E. K. ANDERSON. Anywhere in town, Beside it an older bridge half torn up half-breed,” was my mental comment ; modest. 1 thought she lived only for of the most terrible on record. But the matter of novelty, if the walkers would i was decaying slowly. I wondered yet her face seemed strangely familiar to I me, and I reasoned that there was as mind of the reader turns with pleasure amuse us by walking on theii ears, or MILL PRICES, vaguely when the old one was built ami me. Where had 1 seen her, or some much sanctity in our union as though from the harrow of the situation to ad sliding aiound the ling on the cheeks of Wagner dt AnderMu. who had tried to make a home in the one who resembled her ? I glanced at blessed by all the ministers in Christen mire the wonderful bravery of this dar their managers, twenty thousand specta depth of this wilderness. The silence Williams, whose frowning broward pale dom. Oh, the heart of man, that deceit ing reporter. The balloon would swoop tors might consider themselves paid for was broken by my companion asking face told me he was making a strong ful thing! But how bitterly was 1 down on forests, then bound to the skies, visiting the show. We have had our the driver if the old road to Big Skoo- effort to control his emotions. Some punished for my great sin. We had or nearly there, then dip into a lake, attacks of velocipede, of roller-skate how, all this jarred upon me. I was been married a year and a half, my little then turn a double somersault without ami of base ball; we have made perioJic ktim was open. “I don’t know no old road,” replied half vexed with Williams for being so girl was just a merry crowing baby when touching the ground ; in fact, it acted in fools of ourselves in various ways; but that worthy. “This yere’s been the agitated, when I had always regarded I first began to realize the enormity of a most outrageous and undignified way. never till now have we demonstrated to road for six year past,” and he spit con him as one of the most impassive of men. my crime against God, myself and, most The balloonist was pale as ashes, his the universe exactly what double distilled 1 was startled, too, by the face of the of all, my child. The scales dropped teeth chattered and his knees knocked idiots we can make of ourselves as in templatively on t he wheel. ARE NOW MAKING FROM girl, whom our hostess called “Celindy.” from my eyes and I saw that I was lead together. But his reportorial friend, this last manifestation of lunacy known “Twenty years ago,” said John, half to himself, “the trail ran two miles west There was some secret of Williams’ af ing, not a life of freedom from base and oh, where was he? With a calm smile as the walking mania." Main Street, : : Ashland. of here. I built that old bridge,” he fecting him, but how could this girl be sordid cares but a soulless, degraded ex at danger, and a look of unruffled connected with it? Cogitating thus, I istence. I longed for educated compan serenity on his marble brow, he gave his added, turning to me. History ot Yellow Fever I have constantly on hand the very best w * “You,” 1 replied in astonished in maintained a subtle silence, devoting ionship. Then I saw the wrong that I order in the same quiet tone he would The history of yellow fever in this credulity. “Built that bridge ! Did myself to my plate and refusing to be had done in taking this Indian woman have used in ordering a beefsteak rare, SADDLE HORSES, BlUUIES AND (ARRIAUES, you do it alone ?” with a half sarcastic drawn into conversation by the good for my wife, my soul loathed the bond ar a j>enny restaurant. The trembling country shows that it has hardly been natured hostess, who finally turned her age. True, our marriage had only been balloonist was bid to lull his fears. The the exception when the fever appeared emphasis. And can furnish my customers with a “No,” a flush deepening in his brown attention to John. That gentleman, to in Indian custom, yet it seemed a greater reporter mildly informed him that the as an epidemic the year following an tip top turnout at any time. face. “I had some help ; I lived there my surprise, threw oft’ his reserve, and crime to desert her. A sense of guilt next thing to do was to get down out of epidemic. In 1847 there were 2,259 BLANKETS, in that cabin two years.” And he they were soon chatting easily, the lady weighed me down when I looked at my this and ordered him to throw out some deaths in New Orleans, and 850 in 1848, turned and looked at the desolate place bemoaning the scarcity of travel and the daughter’s face, so like my own, and more ballast. The balloonist was utter and 737 in 1849. In 1853 there were HORSES BOAHDED FLANNELS, until a turn in the road hid it from general monotony of life in those parts. realized that life to a half-breed Indian ly prostrated by fear that instead of 7,970 deaths in the same city, and there On reasonable terms, and given the best “ I declare for ’t mister,” she ex is a curse. I almost dreaded to meet doing this he opened the valve and the were 2,423 deaths in 1854 and 2,67,0-* y sight. CASSIMERES, attention. Horses bought and sold claimed in a burst of pathetic confidence, the fjaze of her bright eyes, and hear her balloon started down. The balloon in 1855. In 1858 there were 3,889 I was astonished at my friend’s asser and satisfaction guaranteed in tions. I had never heard him speak of “some days I'm so beat out and lone lisping prattle. One day my wife eloped struck a forest and tore great oaks up deaths, but none the next year. In 1867 DOESKINS, all my transactions. being on the western coast before. But some-like, a little bit of a dog fight ’ll with a dashing young fellow’ who hail by the roots and left a track of fallen there were 3,093 deaths, and none the been working at a logging camp near us. trees in its wake. The reporter, desir following year. In the same proportions AND HOSIERY. I was forced to content myself with this just work me all up, nigh into fits.” I was watching Celindy’s face as the The fact came like a stunning blow to ing to stop this wholesale slaughter of the fever appeared in the smaller places meagre statement for he vouchsafed no H. F. PHILLIP». further information at that time. Our good lady made this plaintive assertion, me. I had longed for release and it had valuable timber, climbed on the netting, in lxmisiana and Mississippi in those road now lay acioss a thinly wooded and I saw a bright smile flash into the come, bringing added shame to my child kicked open the valve and brought up years. In 1848, when it reappeared in plain for several miles, then again dark eyes lighting her countenance won- and myself; but I had my baby still; I the festive balloon against a bam. Hav New Orleans, it came in June, while the plunged into dense woods. We had drously. It was like a revelation. In named her Celinda. I loved the dear, ing saved the life of the aeronaut sever epidemic of 1847 began in August. The gone but a short distance when the road that instant I saw the resemblance which old-fashioned name. It had been the al times, he completed his good work by great epidemic of 1853 began in May, . sloped suddenly downward. As we had eluded me at first. It was John name of my little sister. I determined carrying the fainting man into a farm and the epidemic of the year following ' came to the edge of the hill a glorious Williams’ face over again, only softened then to return to the world I had thrust house and there resuscitating him. came in July, and in the next year in I scene spread out before us. At our into feminine beauty. Here was a clue aside and bring Celinda up amid sur When you let a New York reporter June. The epidemic in North Carolina feet the tossing waters of Puget Sound to the mystery surrounding my friend, roundings that would obliterate all the tell his own story you will find him the in 1862 was followed in 1864, two years OLD AND NEW, sparkled in the evening sun like some but my puzzled brain could comprehend Indian in her nature. I secured a posi bravest, most daring hero on record. afterward, by one of increased moitality, huge jewel set in circles of dark green only the exact likeness between the two. tion in a thriving store at Olympia, for but not in the same cities and towns as Are invited to send in their orders and hills that faded into azure against the One of Marie Antoinette’s finest points a general thing. In 1797 Philadelphia’s Supper was over, and we went out educated men were scarce then. But J. H. RmSELL, Proprietor. are assured that they glowing horizon. An exclamation as of again into the dim twilight, through the few ladies of the town would have was her hand and arm, and she greatly death list was 1,300: in 1798, 3,500; pain escaped my companion, but I was which a few bright stars were beginning nothing to do with me, not because I admired a similar advantage in others. and in 1799 there were 1,000 deaths. delighted with the beautiful prospect. to gleam. Far down the bay we heard had lived with an Indian woman. Oh, One night at the opera a Russian lady, So it was in 1802 three-fifths when Phil Having again settled in this place and turned my entire attention to The stage whirled down the long hill a solitary steamer whistle, and presently no, men whose lives had be**n one long who sat opposite the Queen’s box, exhib- adelphia next had the fever as an epi the Marble Business, I am pre and out upon an open grassy place in the Old Crow rounded the point and debauch were welcomed eagerly. It was ed a berutiful arm with a magnificent demic. In South Carolina it Las been At Prices that Defy Competition. pared to fill all orders with neat front of a comfortable looking house, worked laboriously toward us. John because I kept my child with me; not diamond bracelet on it, and it was ob almost invariably the case that the second ness and dispatch. Monuments, where our driver drew up with a flour had disappeared immediately after sup one of them could be hired to care for served that the Queen’s glance was fre year brought an epidemic. Memphis Tablets, and Headstones, executed ish informing us that “folks most always per, but, as I stood by the little front the little thing. I struggled along, how- quently directed to that quarter. Pres and all other points which were infected”^-- M2Fin any description of marble. gits supper here if the steamer ain’t gate watching the approaching boat, I ever, the best I could and succeeded ently a gentleman, splendidly dressed, in 1873 escaped the second year. In (^Special attention paid to or- ready to start back when they gits here. was startled by voices in the dusky gar very w’ell with the help of Jim B., a good came to say that the Queen Lad greatly that year the fevei l>egan at Shrevej»ort A8HLAND WOOLEN MILLS. ders from all parts of Southern She ain’t here nuther,” shading his eyes den below me. The first was a girl’s hearted but shiftless young fellow, w*ho admired the arm and the diamonds, and first, and did not come until the latter (¿T Oregon. Prices reasonable. “bached” with me. But I suppose the begged to be permitted to inspect the part of August, reaching Memphis Sep voice, wild with passion : and gazing down the bay. child missed a woman’s care, for after latter. The lady, highly flattered, at tember 14th. August has been the fa “ Father, ” it said, “ you ask me to go “What time does the steamer usually several months she grew ill, and I be once sent them. But he was merely a vorite month for its inception. Last out into the world with you, but you arrive ?” I inquired of our host as we en- J, H. Russell, teied the cool, dark sitting-room with will not, cannot blame me for shrinking came worn out with anxious watching; member of the swell mob, and she didn’t year it began near the first of that month in the South. from the ordeal. Three years ago an I was worn with work, and while she lay see them again. Ashland, Oregon. SECRETARY. its bare floor and yawning fireplace. ASHLAND TIDINGS. THE|LITTL.F. GRAVE. MORRIS HAI M. J. M, McCall & Co General Merchandise! Standard Goods! HEADQUARTERS I IRON AND STEEL THE ASHLAND MILLS I Ashland Woolen Goods! Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, Lard. Flour, Feed, Etc., THE ASHLAND ASHLAND WO OLEN Livery, Sale&Feed MANUFAC’G CO., STABLES, The Very Best NIAITIIIVIE IWIOIOIL ! ASHLAND < MMARBLEM » WORKS. lOUR PATRONS t SHall Receive Prompt Attention ! W. H. Atkinson,