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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1879)
INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. VOL 1\ ASHLAND? OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1879 NO. 15. 82 50 PER ANNUM. I "j know, too, unless they’re idiots, that and their horses off the wild grass till it ! Here his eyes glared upon me, and I Improvement in a Fashionable MORRIS BAUM. J. M. m ’ c AI.L. when it can’t climb over obstructions, matures and then we ll get Greasers and I . could see by the paling of the harvest Woman Beyond the mountain’s dusky mass it plows through ’em. The piers o’ that Kanakas to harvest it; and we’ll have ' moon that daylight was dawning, else I The sun his warm descent delays; bridge were too broad and too close to the mules and horses to pack it through j should have been badly frightened. Some years ago a beautiful voting The lowering cloud its loth last rays I mmikm I <»v<'i\v l^r-klny. gether. .The water wanted its level; the to Downieville when its baled, and then | “ Do you know what I resolved to do married woman attracted a great deal Suffuse with crimson veins, that pass B y To melt in mellow haze. wouldn ’ t give wav hnd the soil we’ll make some money.’ bridge cf attention at fashionable watering next?” said lie. Main Street, Ashland. did. It ’ s clear enough how ’ t came X Al ElJRI l r. “ Sam agreed, and T sold my two best places, notably Long Branch. She was “ Commit-suicide ?” 1 asked. O’er the great hills a ruddy sea about. ” The cloud-rack lifts and underlies; American horses and bought grub, and “No; it’s strange, but 1 really didn’t a mere girl when she was married (only Above th’ aerial headlands rise, NEW DEPARTURE. After many miles of travel over the hired the Greasers, and we guarded the think of that. I meant to wait till seventeen); had been brought up rather OFFICE-On Main Street, (in • ■ <.n.| -t. -i ..Î M<('all Glowing with hues that change and fire arid plain, our road changed from a hay, and when mowing time came I dark, and then go and rob somebody's strictly, but was launched at once in the A; ILiuni'« ni w buiklin; ) To faint in orange skies. comparatively level to a positively worked with the rest of ’em, day and house ! And I’d have done it, ma’am, very gayest of society by her husband— I’lie undersigned from and after April .fob Printing. There like a pilgrim band, depart mountainous one. Horses were changed night. 1 was ragged and bronzed and j but for a woman. She saved me. You a successful politician ami a man of 18th, propose to sell only for Of all descriptions done on short notice. Bl.i’ike, Of russet clouds a lessening train. CirenUrs. Business Cani.«, Billheads, Letterheads, Pos every twelve or fourteen miles, but the dirty as ever you see a fellow, but I see, Mrs. Chatham was keeping hotel at means. For a few years her name was That as in distant heights they wane tera, etc., gotten up in x»>od style at living prices. BASH IN HAND driver kept on; and for hours we toiled looked forward to clean profits and a Downieville, and I’d often patronized in everybody’s mouJi, her dress .was Quick into delicate flame out-start, ( i >r approved produce delivered except along over rocks and ridges on the mar biled shirt in the Fall, and so I stood it. her when 1 had money, but now for quoted, and the impression generally And die in splendid pain. gin of the zigzag heights, The hay was all cut and cured, and the three days I'd b?en skulking past her given that she was one of the most when by special agreement a short Watch how the deeper fires die out; ....$2 .. 1 few spare inches of rocl.x ami limited credit may I** given The clouds that thicken from the west house like a famished wolf because 1 was frivolous of the frivolous leaders, with a ! men were baling it and waiting to be ... 1 Dark on tho somber Catskills rest; tween us and eternity. paid oil’, when we’d make some sales dead broke. I was walking aimlessly little tendency to be “fast. ’ Gradually, ... 1 ' i’hev have commenced receivin';- their Gray grow the mountains round about, after the fust pack train of it would be along the street pist after I’d resolved to however, lcr name dropped out of the Behind us, in the far, far distance, i Aud dim Taconic’s crest. N»w Spring Stock, and that every sold in Downieville, and I had been oil' commit burglary, when she ran over watering p’ace gossip, and becani“ assn lay - the rivers Payette, W eiser and Boise. ’’I From the broad valley comes no sound; dav^will witness additions to gleaming like threads of molten moon ■ to a rancherie for more grub. It always from the porch and said, ‘.Mr. Rankin, i ciati'd with New York charities. Still, > 50 But from the thicket’s close retreat few gave her credit of self denial, or real the largest st<xk of I DO light among the sage and grasses, while ; costs like the very dickens to feed is that you I Come over here. ’ The birds sing drowsily and sweet; Greasers, you know. ” desire to do good. What would have “ ‘ What do you want C says I. The twilight throbs with peace profound - away, away in the distant foothills, ‘ been praiseworthy in others was in her 1 did not know, but ¿wisely concealed .... Ilk Peace for the soul most meet. “ ‘ 1 want \ on to come and stop nt the Snake river ran, looking like a monster ostentation or eccentricity. Whit be hotel like a gentleman.’ anaconda as it wound its tortuous my ignorance. Now draw the infinite Heavens near; came of her during the Summer month-. “ The day had l>een a mortal hot one. ' And swiftly blending into white ‘ But 1 ve no money. ’ Ever brought to this market. They 11,- lengths through the ghostly solitudes. The last tints deepen into light no one knew, except that she ha 1 a ‘That's no difference. ’ sire to say to overv read» r of Boise City lay asleep in the shadows, Some suspicious looking Vaqueroes had I Intense and tremuously clear; place in the country, ami spent Lei this paper, that if and a few’ lazy midnight clouds hovered been lurking in the vicinity for a week i H ‘ Nor no good clothes.’ Dry’s message to the night. DR. J. H. CHITW003, Summer months with her childien. The or two, and 1 didn ’ t feel altogether easy j ‘ Brother Jack has clothes, plenty of above the church spires as if to protect other day fate willed that 1 should i mil «■ in my mind, and one night I waked with ASHLAND, OREGON. them. Come right along.’ The Stage-Driver's Story. them from intrusive eyes. “vVhata beautiful night! I exclaimed a stifling sensation, as if I was smother- j “ 1 forgot, that I was lient on burglar a brief but delightful visit in her viem Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will BY MBS. A. S. DUNIWAY. in transport, as 1 roseto a half standing ing in smoke, but 1 didn’t mind it,though I izing, and I was soon hid away in the ity, and I was interested to see what, a do it, they propose to do the largest it’s since clear to me that it was a warn bath room, scrubbing oil' the accumulated few years had done for the gay belle of posture. business this spring and summer dirt and arranging myself in Jack’.* Long Branch and Saratoga seasons. I “Have wc a very hard ride before US “It was just such a night as this, only ing. J 5. MES R. NEIL, ever done by them in the found a still young and handsome wo “I’d been oil’ all day with one of the clothes. to-night, driver ?” hotter, when my hay was burned on the last five years, and A T T O R N E Y AT- 1. A W , man in a dress of conventional plainest*, mules after grub, and I ’ d been delayed a “ When 1 came to the dining room “Middling, ma’am. You’d better ranch about sixty miles from Downie they can jiosi- take an outside seat, along wi’ me. ville,’’ he said, aud again relapsed into little, and when I got back to camp it the widow asked me to sit at her table, black (walking length), with deep linen tively make was night, though it was light, like day, and introduced me to Jack. He proved collai aud black bow. Her face had lost You’ve nothing to fear up here, ma’am. silence. it to the as it is now, almost, and the men were to be a fine fellow. He gave me em none of its beauty, but bad gained in Aside from the danger of sea-sickness I wanted very, much to ask alxmt that advantage messing by a camp tire, a id I knew ployment, ami I was soon in comfortable strength and sweetness, and she had which you’ll miss by being in the open conflagration, but the remembrance of J. W. HAMAKAR. of every one to air, you'll have an easier seat. The the Boise bridge intimidated me, so I something was wrong the minute I came circumstances, the only trouble being developed administrative capacity of th«- call upon them in N o T A R Y P V B L I C , that I would take too much liquor now highest order. The place which is now hind wheels of the old coach spring over only said, “This would be a grand night in sight. Ashland and test the truth l.inlp ille, l.ike (' ■.. Orr, 'll “ ‘ Guess what ’ s up ? ’ says Sam, and 1 and then, which, when Airs. Chatham so beautiful was one taken by her bus the rocks like a whip cracker, and with to burn a hay harvest. The air’s as dry of their assertions. They will could tell by his pale face that there was OFFICE In |l‘<>Ht oi’i < luiililinv bl Jk discovered mv failing, caused her to set band for debt, and in a most discourag her load so light as it is, your spinal col as tinder and lighter than lucifer I i»j.n to coiivejmicini.’ spare no pains to maintain, more trouble. me afloat again, and so I’m destined to ing condition, lie himself dislikes the fully th in ever, the reputation of their umn will be telescoped before morning matches. I wish I could see a genuine “ ‘ The hay ’ s burned, ’ says 1. be a drunken stage-drive'- for the rest o’ country exceedingly, prefers to live at if you don’t rifle a top o’ the for’ard pyrotechnic display among these wilds of jtels in Summer, and persistently re “ ‘ How d ’ ye know f says he. mv days.” House, as the acknowledged wheels, where you’ll have one jolt, and nature. ’ fuses to consider the idea of making a “ ‘Felt it in my throat,’ says 1, and as “ But can vou not break off the then it’s all over till the next one.” “You needn’t ever make a wish like country home. But the young wife, ’ I shuddered involuntarily. Not that that, ma’am; and I guess you wouldn't sure as I hold these ribbons I did feel it habit ?” who was supposed to be so mere a but in my throat at that minute, like the “ What good would that do ? 1 never J was a novice in staging. I had al if you’d had my experience. terfly, had thought the thing all out for smoke of a burning haystack, exactly. ’ ’ For Staple ami Fancy Goods, Groceries, ready pursued my journey in this way get drunk when on duty, ami when I'm 1 halt cuspected that tlm driver's herself. She was nauseated with the I did not question the peculiar sensa off I drink to kill memory.” Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, for five hundred miles eastward, accom growing loquacity had been induced by life she led, sick of the very tion. “ But, would it not be well to go home Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress DR. W. B. ROYAL, plishing half the distance upon a sort of the shy and rather frequent use of a name of watering place, and so “ ‘ What are you going to do now !' to your dear mother in New York State, < !oods,Crockery,Glass and railway “buck-board,” that plies in mysterious flask, of which I could only 11U3 permanently locateti in Ashland. heartily tired of fine clothes that she and make her declining days happy? Tin Ware, Shawls, places between the Dalles of the Colum see an outline, as he held it to his says Sam. Will give his undivided attention t > the pr.u-tiee of i “ ‘Let her rip!’ says I. Excuse lie, You don’t imagine how devotedly she wished only to be where she would Wraj »pers,Cloak i, inedieine. Has had fifteen years’ experience in bia :md Baker City, of Eastern Oregon. mouth under thè cover of a soiled ban i Oregon otHce at his residence, on Slain street, neither see them nor be obliged to wear madam," and the man made a bow in loves you.” And, in fact, everything required for the I had also crossed the plains with teams danna. opuoaite the M E. Church. them. She begged to be allowed to visit the moonlight that would have done no “It’s too late, ma’aun. Besides, in y trade of Southern and South before railroads were, occupying six “ I had as good a home and as true a eastern < Jregon. months in the transit from Omaha to mother in York State as ever blessed an discredit to Beau Nash; “excuse me, but cousin married Mollie Winters, and the the depised country acquisition which DR. WILL JACKSON, sight of the old place would waken old had found so little of a welcome to her Oregon City, a journey full of inci lents ungrateful son, ma’am. I was young that’s the slang of the road.” DENTIST. “ All right, ’ ’ said, “ please proceed. I memories, and drive me deeper than ever husband’s hands, and was struck with its A full assertment of and experiences well worth remember and passable looking, and, as my father into drink. There’s no more stage-driv possibilities, ft occupied a lovely site ing, many of which passed befsre me had a good farm and was considered fore am deeply interested.” .Jacksonville, ; : : : Oregon. “ ‘ Let ’ er rip, ’ says 1, ami Sam ripped ing in York, and 1 wouldn’t do anything on the edge of a thriving and fashionable ike a mental panorama as I looked out handed by those who knew him best, For Blacksmiths’ ami General use. Will visit Ashland in M.iv and November, out some awful oaths. Not that he else; sol’ll fight it out on this line to village. The seven acres of land which upon the wide expanse of sage and my prospects were average to say the and Kcrbyville the fourth Monday in O> to- belonged to it contained some beautiful swore as a general thing. He had to be the end of the swing.” ber, each year. grease wood that lay in a spiritless level least.” Ashland, Sapt. 15,1S7S. A Full Line of awfully worked up before he would swear. “ What of the hereafter ? ’ I could not old trees, and sloped at the back of the beyond the pleasant homes and irrigated “Molly Winters was a pretty girl. house down to the edge of what was “ Then the Greasers and the Kanakas help saying. gardens of Boise City. Her eyes were as clear aud blue as the wanted their pay, and there was nothing called the ¡>ond, but was in reality a “ I’ll never find a hotter hell than The disciple of Jehu.haul mounted the Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeres, Doeskins, box and gathered the “ribbons,” six sky over Alturas, yonder; ami you to pay ’em, and they’re ugly devils when this!” he answered, striking his breast, lovely little creek, which looked like a wouldn’t have thought there was any Clothing, always on hand and long, strong, unwieldy lines of leather, thing on earth but constancy in ’em. they’re stirred up; so things looked blue, “ and I can stand this, so 1 11 risk the lake, and was shut in by hills thick with for sale at lowest prices. foliage on the opposite side. She ob attached to the stiff, cruel Spanish bits She was deuced smart too. I never see 'fhe Vaqueroes had tramped with the other.” It was early morning now. and we tained permission to remain and begin of as many well-kept and well-broken the girl that could beat her at a churning horses, and we had left only the one The highest market price? paid tor pack mule I had away after grub. drove up to a lonely station in the midst her improvements, and, finally, her hus sorrel horses. or a washing; and she could make bread “ I’ll sell the mule and the men may of an arid desert, where a pale woman band discovered that she really had The driver’s a born gentleman, mad- equal to my own mother. I loved her, with a fretful baby prepared us a hasty found a vocation in rescuing bis unde am,” said the landlord, aside. and we were engaged, and 1 thought divide the price among ’em, if they’ll call breakfast. sired pro|>erty from its waste and dreari —A T “Doesn’t he drink ?” I asked, a little everything was right, and was going on it square,’ says I. < 'onie One and All. ness, made it over to her entirely, to be Rankin ate a few mouthfuls and ex i “ ‘Agreed,’ says they, and there hap nervously. in the old way, centented and doing The Highest Market Price, “Oh, yes; but that’s nothing. Most well enough, as I thought, when who pened to come along a prospector whose cused himself. When next J mounted her own and do with it as she pleased. J. M. McI'AIX A CO. of them drink and gamble when they’re should come home from California but mule had a sore back, and he gave me a the box lie had disappeared and a new And what a transformation has been ef Ami will deliver fected ! The house has been enlarged off duty; but give ’em the ribbons, and Hez. Baukin, my cousin, a snobby sort hundred dollars for the onl'r hoof the el river took his place. its “Is this the terminus of Rankins without destroying its cosiness. you’ve nothing to be afraid of. Rankin of stuck-up specimen, and what should pillagers had left me. The Greasers JAMES THORNTON, JACOB WAGNER, lawns are green and soft as those of any and Kanakas divided the money, leaving line?" said I. reveres a respectable woman.” W. If. ATKINSON, E. K. ANDERSON. Molly do but cut me clean and marry Anywhere in town, “ No, not when lie’s sober ; but he vernal region in England. There are “All set, ma'am ?” asked the driver. him. He was rich, and that was what Sam and me without a red of it. takes periodical sprees, ami 1 11 do double masses of iieliotrop? and clumps of be “As fate would have it, Sam Withers A'V MILL 1’IIIUES. “Yes; thanks.” did it; and lie made his fortune in the The ladies of the Overland hotel were gold mines; so I thought the most desir struck luck right away, for the fellow duty till he gets over this one rather gonias, and beds of geraniums, but away Wnx'ier A- Anilcrson. congregated on the front stoop of the able thing left for me, since I couldn’t that bought my mule gave him a job at than have him discharged. Don't report from the (haded piazzas, rich hanging I him please. There never was a better- baskets, and red tubs of flowers, the gen once. second story; and, as the driver, with a have Molly, was a gold mine. “ ‘Never mind me, Sam,’ says I, 1 hearted fellow ; and if the old man knows eral effect is of emerald green lawn, with peculiarly graceful flourish of his long “My mother didn’t want inc* to leave though 1 did think a little hard of him of this spree, hell be out of a job. terraced vistas through the noble elms whip that ended in a snapping report home. I was the baby, and she’d have that he seemed ready to abandon me in Many a poor fellow that goes to the bad down to the boat-house, which stands like the explosion of a mammoth Chi upon the water’s edge died for me. Mothers are always true, my sorest streak. But I would have is more sinned against than sinning. nese cracker, started the six sorrels into It is a large and hospitable establish- The “old man thus alluded to was died before he should have known how an eighteen-mile stampede through the wives and sweethearts never.” • ment. The coach-house holds horses “ 1 wouldn ’ t slander my own mother the gentlemanly superintendent of the miserably used up 1 did feel. Guess 1 | ashlike plain, 1 looked back to answer and carriages, and acres of kitchen gar-.v in that way if I were you, Mr. Rankin. line, and knowing him as 1 do, I could was born under an unlucky star, for the parting salute of the friends afore den stretched away to the left ; the; said, and in so doing lost my balance Was not your mother your father’s I’ve never had any good fortune, except readily comprehend why it was that it was well understood among all the em i broad arms of the apple trees almost en and came near falling from my precari wife? and wasn’t she his sweetheart as a stage-driver. A -bland. Main Street, once ? ” ployes that the dissipation of any driver folding the currant bushes, and the corn*- “Well, I went to Downieville. On ous perch. Had 1 so fallen this story “ 1 beg pardon, ma ’ am. There may be my way a wagon overtook me, and 1 when on duty would be met w ith prompt waving its silken tassels in the wind. 11 ; would not have been chronicled, for the horse’s heels would have finished the exceptions. At least there was one ex had a bundle of clothes, the only thing dismissal should the facts be known at is a home in every sense of the word, 1 planned throughout, made and tilled under the sun I had left, and I gave j “ headquarters. work of demolition that the lumbering ception in my mother.” NAIllH.r IIORSEH. I “ And in mine too, ’ ’ said 1. BUGGI KM A.NI» IIIUIIIM'. Stage drivers arc always gen< rous with with divine sweetness by a woman who them to the teamster to carry in the coach would have then and there inau “And in yourself, doubtless. But, wagon over to town and leave ’em at each other. Their life is a hard and re was once only a watering place belle. gurated. sponsible one, and I often wonder how- How infinitely greater she seemed, what From my hotel window in Boise City as I was saying, i was determined to the hotel. “Then 1 trudged on. It was night many letter-writers, and magazine and heights and depths of grace and sweet I had several times observed the Boise Eave gold, and plenty of it. 1 little BLANKETS, river bridge, and was much surprised thought that I’d fetch up at last at the again; just such a night as this, madam, newspajier readers, ever stop to think of ness and dignity she soemed to have HORS ES BOAR D ED when wc came to a ferry where we pro end of those ribbons, with forty dollars and I had only fifty cents—the price of the hardships of these men in transmit gained, as she stood with her radiant FLANNELS, ceeded to cross in a clumsy boat. Peer a month and night drives and all the the plainest meal was a dollar—and I ting the mails from post to post across face, her marvelous form clad in its sim On reasonable terms, and given the best ing through the thickening twilight, I hardships of a frontier castaway thrown didn’t know where to go, or what to do. the continent. If there are degrees of ple black dress, tossing her youngest boy CASSI ME KES, attention. Ilorses bought ami sold I’ve wandered a long way from religion, exaltation in the great hereafter, where in the air, three other children about her, saw, away about two hundred yards to in.” and satisfaction guaranteed in “Y ou were saving something about . ma’am, but I remembered the Scripture merit meets its just reward, faithful and Long Branch and Saratoga years as the right of us, the ghostly frame work DOESKINS, all mv transactions. of the bridge 1 had seen from the win conflagration on ahav ranch near Down- and realized what it meant as applied to stage-drivers will occupy some very high well as nnle%away.—Jennie June’s New in the Baltimore American. dow; and there it sat, high and dry ieville,” said 1, anxious to change the my case at least when it said, ‘The foxes seats, despite their temptations and falls. York Ixitter — ------ have holes, and the birds of the air have —Phrenological Journal. among sand and boulders, mocking the subject How rapidly, says the Burlington “Well, yes, that was a fire ! You see, nests, but the Son of man hath not lazy, shallow river whose bed had shift Women with Hat feet are poor house Haw keye, a man looses all interest in Sam Withers and I had been prospect where to lay his head.’ ed to its present channel. keepers and bail calculators, and you politics and national finances when lie “That was Jesus,” said 1 timidly. “The river took a new departure ing at Red Bluff, and hadn’t raised the won't forget it if you marry one. Choose shuts a door on his own thumb. “It was me, madam, that night, and when the snow melted, and swinging color for a month or more, and grub got < )ne man asked another v. hy his I »card round the circle has left the bridge low, and Winter came on, and we for several nights after, as sure as you’re a wife with a high instep if yon want a hard worker ami a shrewd planner. weathered it through on mule straight, born. ” was so brown and his hair so white. beached, as you see it,” said the driver, which isn ’ t a very palatable dish, but all I did not controvert further, and he “ Because, ” he replied, “one is twenty A Syracuse undertaker went down the as chary of his words as though in the tilings considered is better than nothing, continued his story. track to bury the victim of a supposed years younger than the other. habit of retailing them at a dollar apiece. “ I went up to two or three different by a long odds. railroad accident. As he lifted the worn 1 looked and marveled. There was A doctor to his son: “Johnny, wouldn t OLD AND NEW, men when morning came and asked for “ I wasn ’ t lucky as a miner; 1 wasn ’ t an’s body tenderly into the wagon she you like to lie a doctor?” “No, father, something both solemn and ludicrous in lucky as a marrying man; 1 wasn’t work. Appearances were ag’in me, I Are invited to send in their orders and the ghostly bridge, and our present ef lucky as a hay farmer, and I’ve never ’ ma’am. I hadn’t changed, or shaved, Dr nibbed her eyes and exclaimed, “Hello, “Why not, my son?” Why, father, I could J. II, RI Ssp.i.i. Proprietor. I guess I mnzzer lieen asleep' He drop not even kill a fly.” forts to cross the stream in a loat be are assured that they succeeded yet at anything but driving ! washed, or brushed for two months, and ped her. low it. Very kind gent—“Do you know, my “The river looks little and harmless stage. Everything strikes their level I the scallawag who took my bundle on to “ Tis said that absence conquers Having again settled in this place sometimes, and I ’ ve hit mine at last. Downieville homswaggled it. ’ ’ dear, that we have to-day the shortest enough now, but you ought to have love,’’quoted a husband, in writing home and turned my entire attention to “What 1” “You must have encountered many seen it when it plowed this channel,” he to his wife, from whom he had been some day of the year?” Lady—“Very true! the Marble Business, 1 am pie- “ Stole it, ma ’ am. Beg pardon. It ’ s added, closing his lips and tightening embarrassing vicissitudes before you set time away. “I hope, dear, it wont be But your presence makes me forget it. At Prices that Defy Competition. pared to fill all orders with neat the slang of the road. So I had nothing the ribbons as he again made artistic tled in this niche,” said I. It is a fact generally observed, says the so in your case?” “Oh, no, she replied ness and dispatch. Monuments, “Well I’d say I had. Sam and I got to eat, no place to sleep, and nothing to in her next letter, “the longer you stay Troy Times, that the man who denounces flourishes with his obedient whip. Tablets, and Headstones, executed “Please tell how it came about,” said through the Winter by the very skin of wear. 1 bought me fifty cents’ worth of away the better I shall like you. ’ the institution of marriage is generally ^£Tin any description of marble. I, gazing earnestly at the ghostly bridge i our teeth. I had four mules and six crackers, and spent all my capital, I Worthy magistrate: “What! a man the jierson who thought he was ^tting (^"Special attention paid to or- and anxious to beguile the time by con teen horses left, for I’d been a packer ate sparingly, strolled idly through the ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS. a rich widow, and didn’t. £4Fders from all parts of Southern versation upon some theme, of the na till the process proved too slow, then I town by day, slept in an old stablo at can be cruel enough to maltreat liis law i^“Oregon. Prices reasonable. A mother on Cottage Hill s®* ture of which I did not much care, so it went a prospecting and reached a lower night, and woke every morning half ful wedded wife, and even hurl a plate at her head? ” Prisoner: “ But your honor, little daughter draw her sleeve across her frozen. My rations were reduced to had some sort of bearing upon the road gait than ever, so I said to Sam, ‘Sup Address: do you know my wife? ” Worthy magis mouth, and said: “Tilly, what is your pose we go down into the Mokolumne three crackers a day. I couldn’t look and its adventures. J. IL Russell, trate: “ I have notthat honor, ” Prisoner: anybody in the face. I felt wolfish, and handkerchief for?" “To flirt with, mam Flat and take a hay ranch. There s “Nothing to tell, ma’am. Everybody ‘ 'Then just go slow. ’ ’ I believe I was wild. ” ma,” w as the innocent reply. SECRETARY. knows water runs down hill. They monev in it, and we’ll herd the Indians Ashland, Oregon. SUNSET. J. M. McCall & Go I General Merchandise! (4 U Standard Goods! HEADQUARTERS! I RON AND STEEL the ASHLAND MILLS ! Ashland Woolen Goods! Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, Lard. Flour, Feed, Etc., THE ASHLAND. ASHLAND WOOLEN MANUFAC’G CO., STABLES The Very Best < HMARBLEM I WORKS. S pur patrons ! SHall Receive Prompt Attention ! 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