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INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. ASHLAND) OREGON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 187!) VOL iy.—NO. 21 $2 50 PER ANNUM 1 Poor Mrs. Figgins’ ¡wile and anxious face, a prolonged shout from Mrs. Keen been An Income of §1,000 Per Month The Shells of Commerce. which ho caught sight of as she returned followed by an assertion which sent a South Down, though charmingly sit from her scanty marketing, had by no thrill of hope through every heart. But it is not alone in mining opera Few’ persons have any idea of the ex “ They’re coining ! hold up, Mrs. Raw- tions that fortunes have been made. tent to which shells are used in industri uated in one of tho eastern counties of means disturbed his enjoyment of it, and, I.MMII4M1 every ITrhlay» England is not a place of general resort. with the same unmindfulness regarding ley 1 We’ll soon have him out now!” Airs. Sarah Ray, an old Irish washer al process«», or of the large number bo ------- RY-------- Here and there a cottage or two may the wants of others he prepared to set she exclaimed, and still continued to woman, who was among the earliest set employed. In the jiopular mind the Main Street, Ashland. wave her handkerchief. be found, making a pleasant variety in out for his work again. tlers, has a somewhat romantic history. pretty poetical conception of tho “mur M EKIUTT. “You’ll aliout have time to shell the Ere many seconds had passed half a Her stock in trade when she came con mur ” is generally associated with the a landscape rich in nature’s loveliness, NEW DEPARTURE, but as our narrative lias only to do with peas and get tho supper on afore I’m dozen swarthy nun their faces ilium- sisted in a jiair of tubs and a washboard. “ shell,” but beyond the merely senti OFFICE—On M:un Street, (bi ..nd xi.>r> of M<-> J! that part of South Down in the imme back,” were his parting words to his mined with the rays of the setting sun— She began business under an old jiine mental interest, little concern is as yet ft B luin’s new building ) The undersigned from and after April diate vicinity of the chalk-pits, we will helpmeet, and, with no thought beyond bounded over the hedge ami rail to the tree on the hillside, having no means of manifested either for conchology as a Job Printing. scene of jieril. briefly introduce the reader to Adam the present, the sjieaker started. 18th, propose to sell only for hiring a house. She soon, however, got study or for the practical purposes to Of alt daser iptionn done oni»hort notice. Legal Blank*, The following quarter of an hour was Rawley and his wife, an old couple occu- Their brawny hands and arms were together with her own hands a rude which the tiny houses of their mollus Circular*. Buaintm Cards,'Billhead*, Lrtterhuad», Pus CASH TN HAND ter», etc., gotten up in ¡.’o'Xi style at living prices. pying one of the little dwellings near to passed in fetching the horse and cart soon earnestly engaged in the work of slab cabin, and as business was good at cous inhabitants are put The sheila of . ---==2 from Farmer Kirby's. Then Adam filled rescue ; and while the women comforted §2 50 per dozen for washing, she gradu commerce may be conveniently classified Or approved produce delivered -except this locality. Terms oí Mhil»»<*ri|»tion: Adam spent most of his days in cart his cart with tho collection of rubbish old Deborah, her husband got out of his ally began to jirovide for her wants. under the following sections : 1. Moth when by special agreement -a short, ....$2 Mi ing aw.iv mud ami rubbish from the and, leading old Derry by the bridle, very dangerous position. and limiteli credit may l>egiven. She got a camp stove, and, after furnish er-of-pearl shells, for making buttons, ... 1 60 ** “ six luontha ..... .... 1 <>•» •• •• three uiontlfs ... • • • • • proceeded leisurely in the direction of roadside, ami at other times he would He made no movement as they bore ing her cabin comfortably began to ac card coses, and other useful articles, and ,.12 Club rat«*, six co|Mes for................................ tho chalk-pita. work in the pits, earning enough to keep linn to the surface, and then to his cot cumulate money. The town began to for ornamenting papier-mache. 2. The 1'rrnis in advance. Steadily and quietly tho willing ani himself and his wife in comfortable cir Stock, and that every tage, where it was found that life was grow in the direction of her cabin, and different kinds of small shells extensive TernM <»t A«l»ertisi mal plodded on, past the lime cottages, not extinct. He was fearfully bruised after a while she employed laborers to ly used for flowers, bracelets, head-dress cumstances. LROAL. One square (ten lines or less) 1st insertion .......... ?! '0 i‘? old people lived on from day to down tho curve of tho road within a and shaken, however, and was some put up a log house. As there was a es and fancy groupings of various de These ......................................... Ea-h lulditiuiul insertion............................ 1 VJ <lav, from season to season, without few feet of the deep hollow in which weeks in recovering his usual health. great demand for boarding houses, Mrs. signs. 3. Shells usedfor carving cameos LOCAL. the load he was carrying was to be de They were changing their mode of life, This incident wrought an entire Ray concluded to aliandon the washtub to set in pins, brooches, studs, etc J ...,l(k Local notices per line • Regular Advertisements inærted U|«> liberal leruM. quiet and orderly, causing neither posited. change in the old couple. Whether tho ami start a boarding house in her new 4. Shells used for sjMxms, lamps But suddenly a loud “Whoa !” accom attention and sympathy of the neighbors edifice. In this idea she received great knife handles, snuff boxes, etc. 5. For Ever brought to this market. I bey de trouble nor annoyance to their neigh- PROFESSIONAL. panied by a tug at the reins, announced had anything to do with it cannot be encouragement, and the house was manure, in the form of shell sand and r all this they were no favor- I tors; but for sire to say to every reader of that something was wrong; but this said ; but it is very certain that few are opened with flattering ites. prosjvects. shell marl, for making the finest sort of this paper, that if DR. J. H. CHITWOOD, The fact is, Deborah Rawley and her I failed to rectify matters, for the horse, proof against kind words and losing In this venture she proved to be lime when calcined, and when crushed, Imsbaud lived only to please themselves. suddenly checked at the moment of step deeds ; sneers and reproaches may hard very successful, and made money and for glazing or enameling pottery ware. ASHLAND, : : : : OREGON. Possessed of every comfort—for, be ping, was unable to recover his footing, en, but who can resist the sunshine of saved it. By the growth of the citv her 6. In various parts of North America, Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will sides the bread-winner’s earnings, they I and after one or two ineffectual attempts, love ? OFFICE —At Ute Aehland Dmr Store. house finally got to be in the very cen Africa and India, shells are used as cur do it, they jirojose to do the largest hail a little income of eight, shillings a his kneo3 doubled under him and down ter, and, as the streets w’ere laid out, it rent coin, and also as counters in cer business this sjuing and summer Charles II. week coming in regularly—and, en he went. proved to occupy a location on the cor tain games. 7. To the painter and art ever done by them in the JAMES R. NEU, Then began a struggling ami scuilling, grossed in their own concerns, they ner of Harrison avenue and State street. designer shells afford suggestive studies last five years, and never troubled themselves about being as Adam exerted all his strength to get ATTO R N E Y- A T-L A W, Shy, reserved, accustomed to stand Business was good and she continued to in form and color. 8. Some of the big they can juisi- neighborlv; thus much of the sunshine Derry to his feet; but the ground, much upon his dignity, except to the make money, which she invested wisely. gest are used for vases, fountains, fog tively make Jacksonville, Oregon. of life was unknown to them, through which was composed of loose sand, was very few friends who possessed his confi She built another log house and rented horns and trumpets; while in China a it to the the unapproai hablmess of their own unfavorable for the purpose, and the dence, as Prince of Wales Charles had it. Then she put. up a frame building particular kind is employed as a substi advantage characters. > horse’s struggles brought him nearer to never come prominently before the na which was rented before it was finished. tute for glass. These eight sections pre J. W. HAMAKAR, of every one to They were certainly a striking con the pit’s {edge. In bewildered dismay, tion. The grasp of his mind was lim About this time some of the land grab sent at ono view the different ways in call ujion them in tract to the rest of the inhabitants of the old non gazed affrighted around as ited, lie had many prejudices and few bers disputed her title to the laid, and which shells are made commercially use N O T A R Y P U B L I C , Ashland and test the truth Lime Cottages, as the collection of little he endeavored to pull the animal back. ideas, the flow of his thoughts was slow tried to disjiossess her. But the old ful, and it would only complicate mat Link ville, Lake Co., Oregon. of their assertions. They will dwellings was called among whom i In vain he shouted and called for and labored, and he was by nature reti lady had so many determined friends ters to give examples under each head OFFICE—In Poet OtSce building. Special attention spare no jiains to maintain, more iven to conveyancing. there was a feeling of friendliness, and help. No living creature was visible, cent and reserved. Conscious that his among the miners that the effort was ing, for in doing so we should have to fully thin ever, the reputation of their manv helpful deeds made life’s day and no sound broke the stillness as his gifts did not tend to shed a lustre ujion given up. Several months ago she re introduce rugged names that would agonized tones died away without re his father’s court, he had held himself fused an offer of SI0,000 for her prop make our readers, like Quintilian, M. L M'CALL, briglder to many of them. House, as the acknowledged But the Rawleys were strangers to sponse. aloof from its more boisterous festivities, erty, and since that time has built a two “stare and gasp.” SURVEYOR & CIVIL ENGINEER, acts of kindness, and so long as no mis ! “She’ll be over as sure as fate, and and from the homage of the vulgar. The story block fronting on Harrison aven How Old is Glass? fortune happened to themselves they draw me in,” he gasped, frantically, feel loquacity, tho pedantry, the vanity of ue, and as desirable a piece of jiroperty Ashland. r» Oregon. o never thought of relieving the ills of ing his strength failing with each his coarse self asserting sire jarred upon as there is in Ijeadville. She still lives is prej«red to do any work in hta line on short notice. The oldest sjiecimen of pure glass bear plunge of the horse. While large beads the sensitiveness of the young Prince, in her log house, but she now intends to other folks. ing anything like a date is a little molded JJfcMrs. I'iggiiH, their next door neigh of perspiration stood on his intensely and caused him to withdraw from the tear it down and eiect a two story block DR. W. B. ROYAL, lion ’ s head, bearing the name of ai* bor, whose husband was down with I 1 puckered face, his thoughts (lew to old society of those who, by their servile in its place. When her improvements Has permanently located in Ashland. brain fever, and required constant Deborah, who was sitting in her kitchen flatteries, had wormed themselves into are completed she will have an income Egyptian King of the eleventh dynasty, Will give hi. undivided attention t<> tho practice < watching day and night, had three of caln.ly shelling a fine gathering of mar the intimacies of the throne. The select of more than 81,4)00 a month—a pretty in the Slade collection at the British medicine. Has hail fifteen tears’ experiein-e in her children laid up at the same time rowfats, little guessing the peril just and limited few, however, who had been good record of business success for an old Museum. That is to say, at a |>criod Oregon. OiH«‘e at his residence, ou M.iin street, ..poog^e the M E. Church. with intlamation of the lungs; yet in then happening to her husband, within afforded the opportunities of judging the washerwoman.—Corr. Boston Herald. which may be moderately placed as more than 2,000 years B. C., glass wras not ------- - - --------------- - her dome tic difficulties she never ven a short distance from her dwelling. character of Charles were strongly DR. WILL JACKSON, only made, but made with a skill which Having finished, she rose from her impressed in his favor, tured on asking aid from Mr.’. Rawley; Dynastic Suecessions He was shows that the art was nothing new. hut Mrs. Keen, a bony matron, with seat as some ono hastily passed her open not a ready talker, but when lie A full assertment of DENTIST. half a dozen little ones of her own, and door, and in another moment she heard spoke he showed that he was able to The oldest of the European dynasties, The invention of glazing jiottery with a Jacksonville, ; : : : Oregon. engaged nearly every hour of the day in Mrs Figgins’ eldest girl explaining bring to bear upon the subject under dis which claims a succession of 260 heads, film or varnish of glass is so old that ‘ft1 For Blacksmiths ’ and General use. Will visit Ashland in May and Noveinbor, ministering to their wants, jiroffered the something to her mother. cussion, if not much original thought, at during 1813 years, and which gives 1 among tho fragments which bear in- and Kerbyville the fourth Mondvv in Octo necessary help, even before it was so The tones were hurried and the least much reading. He hail a keen ap something like proof of the consequence scriptions of the early Egyjitian mon . ber, each year. A Full Line of Ashland, Sept. 15, 1873. sounds confused; and she might have preciation of the fine arts, and in his of 217 Pontiffs since the year A. D. 1 archy, are beads jwssibly of the first licited. Of later glass there are numer The whole community, with the ex little heed to them, had not her own travels on the continent had struck 327, was independent of the law of de- dynasty. ' ous examples, such as a bead found at ception of old Deborah and her husband, name fallen with familar distinctness on those who surrounded him by the depth scent. The present head of the royal , Thebes, which has the name of Queen Flannels, Blankets, Uassimeres, Doeskins, vied with one another in heljting jkk > i her ears. and judgment of the criticisms lie passed house of France can trace an unbroken Hatasoo or llashep, of the eighteenth Clothing, always on hand and “Wliat have they’ got to talk about upon the different paintings that met his descent of 26 generations from Hugh Mrs. Figgins through her troubles. dynasty. Of the same period are for sale at lowest prices. Not even a kindly inquiry as to how me for ?” she murmured grutlly, - - as . pro • I view. In an age of much license he Capet; but during that cycle of 840 vases and goblets and many frag the invalids were progressing, passed tho ceeding to tho door she was going to had worn the white ftower of a blalnejess years the regnant liqe has thrice been old couple’s lips; and as to a few of the close it; but her attention was arrested bfp, anj had been sneered at bv the broken, and tl;o descendants of younger ments. It cannot be doubted that - of ---- - new-laid eggs that Mrs. Rawley’s hens by what seemed to be an outpouring of , wits branches have twice been called on to the story jirepared by Pliny, which as Versailles as - being as virgin We will continue to purchase wheat supplied her with so plentifully finding all her neighbors, as though moved by L his sword. So far as externals w<*nt,na step into the front rank. The longest signs the credit of the invention to the | their way into their sick neighbor’s one mind they rushed in the direction f ture had been most kind to him. llis male line among the nobility of Europe, Phoenicians, is so far true that these ad —A T— ( 'orne Ono and All. venturous merchants brought sjiecimens | house, such a thing was never thought I < of the chalk pit. face was expressive, and the features that of the Montmorencies, which claims to other countries from Egypt. Dr. T/ie Hit/best Market Price, Mrs. Figgins alone stood stationery, * I of. Sooner than give them away they I ’ | marked by that purity and refinement to have raised its “cri” of “Dieu aide au J. M. Nei'.UI. A < <» were allowed to ornament the shelves in : and her countenance paled when she t which are termed aristocratic, his figure premier Chretien !” in A. D. 497, is Schliemann found disks of glass in the And will deliver the little jiarlor until they became too 11 saw’the look of fear that overspread old was graceful, his manners though some now represented in France only bv two excavations at Mycenip, though Homer does not mention it as a substance I bad lo be eaten by any one. i Deborah’s faje as she inquired : what haughty, were eminently courtly aged lad«es. The 22 dynasties of China known to him. That the modem art of JAMES THORNTON, JACOB WAGNER, The faculty for jierforming kindnesses “What’s the matter -what’s they all ami winning. As it was said of hjs un do, indeed, cover a longer period than W. H. AîklNSON, ' E. K. ANDERSON. the glass-blower was known long before 1 certainly did not belong to these old gone down there for ?” Any where in town, happy descendant, tlw Young Pretender, the 33 dynasties of Egypt (including is certain from representations among people. Ail their lives they had closed “Oh, Mrs. Rawley, don’t lx* frighten on his first entrance into Edinburgh, so Alexander and the Ptoiemies). Their MII.I. I’llIC’KM. their hearts to the works of benevolence ed; the horse has fallen down and your it could be said of Charles, lie “not only slowly changing order has endured to the pictures on the walls of a tomb at Wagner Ander non. and now, in their declining years, no husband cannot get him up again — and looked like a king, but like a gentleman.” our time. But the era of hereditary Beni Hassen, of the twelfth Egyptian gentle promptings from heaven or from we—” Kings of China ia fixed not earlier than dynasty ; but a much older jiicture/ —The Westminster Review. I earth ; cemed to arose them to deeds of Her |listener staid to hear no more. the commencement of the foreign reign of which probably represented the same I love. i With a wild scream she ran off, and Education During the Lagt Decade the Hokos of Egypt. When Fou Hi manufacture, is among the half.oblitera- I Once only an angel’s whisper reached reached the scene of the accident just invented the art of writing in China, ted scenes in a chamber of the tomb of I Adam Raw ley, making him for a moment I as, with an awful crash, the horse van I President Gilman, of the John Hop the hieroglyphic system of Egypt was Thy at Sakkara, and dates from the time I troubled and uneasy; but the bright I islied over the jut’s mouth, dragging kins University, presented an able re already perfect both in significance and of the fith dynasty, a time so remote that is not jwasible, in spite of the assid spark, which, had he allowed it to kindle, I along with him old Adam. view of American education during the in execution. The founding of Mem uous researches of many Egyptologers, I would have filled his rugged countenance I The half howl, half shriek, which last decade, in bis paper before the phis preceded that of the Great Pyra I with sunshine, was quenched as he I broke from his wife’s lips, long rang in Science Association at Saratoga. The mid by a period equal to that which di to give it a dite in years.—The Satur • I day Review. muttered: the ears of those who heard it. common school system has been the sub vides the reign of Queen Victoria from --------- —— Main Street, : AshlamL I “What is it to us if they do want new I ’ “My Adam ! my Adam ! oh, let me ject of bitter controversy in the last ten the Norman conquest. If we add to Tho Book Agent’s Speech. laid eggs ? Lol them keep fowls of their get to him !” and had it not been for years, both as to the religious exercises this the whole period of tho Papacy 1 have constantly on hand the very best own and they’ll get some.” I kind but vigorous arms, the j»oor crea it should admit or prohibit and as to its from the fabled Primacy of Peter to “Now, ladies and gentlemen,” shouted So the communication which he had ture would have thrown herself into the financial administration. President Gil Leo XIII., we shall not have treasured the book agent, “before the picnic con NADD1.F WORSES. overheard Mrs. Figgins make to a friend pit in her agony. BIWUIKM AM) C% lUll AGFA, man has no sympathy with the theory a period so long as that which, commenc cludes, 1 want to sell every one of you a concerning the requirements of her sick I “Nay, stay ye here; he’ll be all that instruction in the common schools ing with Menes, preceded the establish copy of the Life of Pocahontas. She was And can furnish my customers with a family was blotted from his mind, as he I right.” should be confined to the fundamental ment of the mighty eighteenth dynasty an Injun girl, Poky was—they called tiptop turnout at any time. convinced himself that it was not needed But as the soothing words were spok branches, and that the State should re at Thebes. We must add a term equal her Poky for short—but she wasn’t the to bother himself with other jieople’s en the speakers looked around with be duce the educational advantages which to the duration of the French royalty, kind that went around ¡«ddling baskets BLANKETS, troubles. j wildered faces, as they saw no possible it offers its inhabitants. We are sure from Charlemagne to 1789, l»efore we and blow-guns. Not frequently. She HORSES BOARDED Nevertheless, he repeated what he had I way of making good their promise, for, that education is one of the foundation reach the period of final docedence, stayed at home playing croquet in the FLANNELS, overheard to his wife, and as a woman’s | to use their own expression, “ the men” stones of the Republic, and therefore it when Persian i\nd Ethiopian Kings front yard, or went to the 1 Adies’ Aid On reasonable terms, and given the best CASSI MERES, attention. Horses bought and sold influence in whatever rank of life, is were all away. is poor economy to withold a liberal strove for the sj>oil of Egypt. We may Society, and didn’t take no copperas off powerful, Mrs. Rawley’s reply, had it and satisfaction guaranteed in Not a man was within call ; the cot- support of the schools in which the“ ma well ask, in wonder, are these veritable o’nobody. The celebrated John Smith DOESKINS, ls-en in favor of a charitable action, I tages were jveopled by women aud chil jority of the people obtain their educa . records of human life and empire ?—The came traveling through them parts as all mv trannctions. might have done much toward its accom- dren at this hour of the evening, the agent for a family paper, but Poky AND HOSIERY. i plishment, instead of which her verdict, bread-winners being away in the fields. tion. What is greatly needed, as Presi Edinburg Review. II. F. Pill LUI PS. dent Gilman says, is a system of thor wouldn’t let her father raise a club. She “Let them get eggs for themselves if Expectancy. “ If he’s alive now, he'll be kicked to ough inspection which will increase the married Smith afterwards, and the last they want them,’’ strengthened her hus death before he can be got out,” wailed efficiency of the common schools. The act of her life was to die of consump band in his opinion that the matter was Deliorah, as the horse gave a restless most noteworthy administrative change A belated jiedestrian going.up Fourth tion.“ Just here Officer Uncle Sammy I no concern of theirs. plunge, and once more she made desjier- of the decade, the admission of women Rtreet east at a late hour the other night Jones approached with a shotgun and I So, while others with far scantier ate efforts to reach her husband. to the local school boards of Massachu thought he observed a figure crouching the meeting adjourned.—New Orleans means deprived themselves of even little All unkind behaviors and past disa- setts, may open the way to the needed in the latticed jwrch covering a front Times. necessaries in order to relieve the jiress- greeablene.ss were forgotten by the j»oor improvement, although President Gil door. The matter bad a suspicious look, I ing wants of Mrs. Figgins’ household, I woman’s neighbors, as they wound their man pronounces no opinion upon that and he haulted and looked over the A well-know joker, being one night at | this couple, who, in comparison, could arms strongly about her, striving by innovation. The ladies may astonish fence. a theatre, fancied he saw a friend some OLD AND NEW, “Go on, now!” called the voice of a three seats in front of him. Turning to | have given of their abundance, shut their word and deed to moderate her anguish. the oation by the reforms they inaug eyes and ears to their neighbors' necessi “ Oh, if the men would only come !” urate when they share in the adminis female through the gloom. his next neighbor, he ¡yiid: “Would you “Do you live there?’’ inquired the be kind enough to touch that gentleman Arc invited to send in their orders and ties, though more than one of the invalids and springing on a high railing, Mrs. tration of the common school system of J. II. BVKSEI.I., Proprietor. might have been making rapid progress Keen—who had |ilready sent her chil the Old Bay State. President Gilman man. are assured that they with your stick!” “Certainly,” was the toward convalescence, but for the lack of dren sci ambling off in all directions in unites with President McCosh, of Prince “Indeed I do. ’ reply, and the thing was done. But projier nourishment. “Can't you get in?” search of [them—looked wildly towards ton, and President Porter, of Yale, in Having again settled in this place when the individual thus assaulted turned The Rawleys were not in ignorance aa the fields, as she waved her handker the opinion that there should be better “Indeed I can.” and turned my entire attention to round, the wag saw be w’as not the man to the feelings of disfavor with which chief high above her head and shouted connection between the common and the “Well, what are you waiting for?” he he took him for and became at once ab- the Marble Business, 1 am pie their fellow cottagers regarded them— frantically for help. asked after a |»ause. pared to fill all orders with neat At Prices that Defy ('omj>etiti<»n. so rived in the play, leaving his neighbor “ uppei” schools by a regular gradation but wliat eared they ? How slowly these moments of never- of studies. “What for?” she demanded. “Would with the stick to settle the matter with ness anil dispatch. Monuments, Possessed of all they required, able to to-be forgotten agony crept by,, as, bend Tablets, ana Headstones, executed a resjiectable woman be crooked over the gentleman in front, which, as he had wait on themselves, endowed with good ing over the pit’s edge, Mrs. Rawley lis anv descrijition of marble. Among the graduates of the New here at this hour of the night wth a no excuse ready, was not done without g^TSjiecial attention paid to or- health, they solicited favors of no one, tened for any sign or sound to denote I York Deaf and Dumb Institute is Jessie club in her hand if she didn’t exjMict her considerable trouble. When the hubbub . ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS. ^¿^Tdcrs from all parts of Southern and, with blinded eyes and well-nigh that her husband was living ; but only Bunker, a son of Chang, one of the Sia- husband every blessed minute? was over the victim sai<l, “Didn’t you ^^’Oiegon. Prices reasonable. unthankful hearts, they lived for them the jilunging of the horse was to be ■ meso twins. Chang left two sons am The amount of tobacco sold in Dan ask me, sir, to tap that man with my heard, and. in the violence of her sor five daughters, one of the latter being ville, Va., for the year ending Septem stick?” “Yes.” “What did you want!” selves only. Address One afternoon Adam Rawley had just row, the distressed woman might have also a deaf mute. Jessie goes to Mt ber 30th will reach 29,000,000. “Oh,” said the joker, with imperturbable J. //. RuMtll, partaken of a very comfortable tea, broken from her conqianions and cast Airy, North Carolina, to take charge o : I I gravity, “1 wanted to see whether you I Ashland, Oregon. SECRETARY. which his wife had prepared for him. herself into the hollow beneath, had not a fine farm left by his father. I Second-handed—a watch. would” .MORRIS BAI VI. ASHLAND TIDINGS J. M. McCall & Go General Merchandise ! ii Standard Goods! f IRON AND STEEL THE ASHLAND MILLS I Ashland Woolen Goods! Flour, Feed, Etc., THE ASHLAND ASHLAND WO OLEN Livery .Sale&Feed STABLES, > i' . ' ' The Very Best NAITIliVIEI WW ASHLAND__ 4 I «MARBLE WORKS. lore patrons ! SHall Receive Prompt Attention I W. H. Atkinson, The Old Chalk-Pit.