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One square (ten lines or lu«n 1st inserti •»’ ...X..,? ! - Each additional insertion ..................... 1 LOCAL. Local notices per line........................................................ 10 Regular advertisements inserted up >n liberal temw. Ever brought to this market. They de sire to say to every reader of this paper, that if DR. J. H. CHITW003, OREGON. ASHLAND, Standard Goods! OFFICE—At tl.e A<.hla>><l I»ru ' Store. Sold at the Lowest .Market Prices, will do it, they propose to do the largest business this spring and summer JAMES R. NEU, ever done by them in the ATTOR N EY-AT - L A W , last five years, and they can posi tively make it to the advantage J. W. HAMAKAR, of every one to NOTA R Y PU BLIU, call upon them in Linkville, Lake Co.. Oregon. Ashland and test the truth OFFICE—In Poet OCieti building. Special attention of their assertions. They will iven to conveyancing. spare no pains to maintain, more fully than ever, the reputation of their M. L. M’CALl, House, as the acknowledged PURVEYOR & CIVI L ENGIN EER, HEADQUARTERS! Ashland, < Iregon. la prepared to do any work in his line on ahort notice. For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Cap«}, Millinery, Ih-ess (Joods,Crockery,Glass and Tin Ware, Shawls, Wrappers,Cloak«, And, in fact, everything required for the trade of Southern and South eastern Oregon. DR. W. 3. ROYAL, Has permanently located in Ashland. Will (five his un<livi le<l attention to the practice of medicine. Has had fifteen years’ experience in Oregon. Office at his residence, on Main street, opousite the M E. Church. ‘ DR. E. J. BOYD, A full assortment of D F NT I ST. Linkville, : ; : : IRON AND STEEL For Blacksmiths’ and General use. I : Oregon. Office and residence, s>>uth side of Main street. Jacob Wagner. E. K. Anderson. A Full Line of Ashland Woolen Goods! W II. Atkinaon. THE ASHLAND MILLS ! Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeres, Doeskins, Clothing, always on hand and for sale at lowest prices. I I Come One and All. J. Sf. MH AI.I. & <<». Flour, Feed, Etc., Anywhere in town, JAMES THORNTON, JACOB WAGNER, W. IL'ATKINSON, E. K. ANDERSON. M1I.T. T»I€I<T7M. T1IE ASHLAND WAgiu-r, Xmlcrson «< <«» ASHLAND WO OLEN Livery,Sale&Feed MANUFAC’G CO., ▲ STABLES. The Very Best Bl'tiGIES ANI» --------------- ----------------- • ■ .............. ASHLAND! OREGON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1879 VOL IV.—NO. *2 1. OFFICE—On Mam Street, (in & Baum's new building ) 8 iloiisEs. < VICHI KUS. I I NAT IVEI WOOL! And can furnish my cuMoim-rs with a tip-top turnout at any lime. HOUSES DO All DEO FLANNELS, On reasonable terms, and given the best attention. Horses bought and sold and satisfaction guaranteed in all mv transactions. II. F. pmi.l.l I»«. __ ASHLAND 4 HMARBLEM I WORKS. Il I'*»"« El. !.. Propri«* lor. Having again settled in this place and turned mv entire attention to the Marble Business, I am pi©, pared to fill all orders with mat ness and dispatch. Monuments, Tablets, and Headstoms. executed in any description of marble. ^¿r'Special attention paid to or- ^gF’ders from all parts of Southern (^‘Oregon. Prices reasonable. DOESKINS, i AND HOSIERY. }0ÜR PATRONS} Are invited to send in their orders and are assured that they SHall Receive ompt Attention ! At Prices that Defy Competition. ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS. Address: J. //. liu fitteli, Ashland, < >regon. W. H. Atkinson, SECRETARY. in my garden, setting out some rose slips, when Air. Maynard came to the Dear Ben, how few at present know fence and said : “Miss Lane, excuse What hearthstone meant long, long ago, me, but it is rather late for slips, and When you anil I were boys. allow me to suggest that you water your The very backlogs ot those days, With hickory fagots ablaze, plants in the evening rather than in the Illumed <>ur family jova. morning when the sun shines directly upon them.” I was very much sur The brazen fire-dogs silent stood. The forestick both at once bestrode, prised, but it was so kindly said that I And suiq; »nd sputtered long; V managed to stammer : The live glowed beneath it all. “Oh, thank you, I am very ignorant Anon the peered firebrands fall about the plants, but I love them dearly And cease the forcstick’s song. and mean to have a garden of them if I The angry blaze mounts upward quick, can. Ami sparks fly outward fast and thick lie smiled and said he hoped I would As pent up lightning Hashes; succed, and then he bowed and walked Close to the backlog, glowing red, The live coals find their nightly bed, away. It was really wonderful the All covered up with ashes. change that smile made in his face. I have thought of it so many times to-day. The candle on the stand bums low; Against the panes the flakes of snow, It made him look quite handsome and so And driving hail and sleet. kind. I wish his wife would come back, The frosty air comes creeping in then 1 might get acquainted and learn Through every crack and clapboard thin, so much about my garden, and perhaps With steady noiseless feet. get a peep into their conservatory. There gathered in a circle round, June 22d.—This morning Air. Afay- The family at home are found, nard gave me a beautiful boquet of his All bent on one desire; choicest tlowers and said lie thought it The wintry storm without assails; Within the wish that most prevails was too bad for me to work all summer Is getting near the fire. and then not have Howers, so wouldn’t 1, accept a few of his. I think it was so Close ami closer still they pressed; At length the children were undressed, very kind in him to think of it. 1 am But not a whit too soon; afraid his wife can not be the sweet lit For colder grew the frosty air, tle woman that she looks or she would And back was put each vacant chair, not leave him here alone so long, for 1 To give the others room. urn sure he is lonely and sad. It is only But two remained at last to dread for a moment when he is talking that The icy coldness of their bed the sad look leaves his face. Ami listen to the storm. The heating pan was then bro’t forth, July 5th.—It’s too bad ! I thought So well was known its real worth surely Airs. Maynard would be back to To make the bedding warm. spend the Fourth with her husband ; but At last the sickly camlie dies, slie was not. lie started ofl’ early in the The last spark up the chimney flies, morning on that great black horse of And all have gone to bed. LtlOj his, IL and did not come back till nearly * ♦ ♦ * * I don’t believe she loves him at dusk, Where are they all at bedtime now? “Around the hearthstone,” sayest thou? all. It’s a great shame for such a noble Nay, most of them are dead. man to lead so lon«-ly ami unhappy a I declare I’m so sorry that here I life. True we arc left, but growing old; am crying about it. The night approaches and the cold ’ When we must to our rest. July 8th.—Air. Maynard has been so We ne’er may meet again on earth, very friendly of lat«t that yesterday I But may we ne'er forget the hearth, asked him when hr expected Mrs Mav- Where we in youth were bless’d nard back. He looked surprised and And if we reach that better sphere, said : May not our spirits hover near “ Airs. Alaymird 1” The hearthstone of the past? I blushed for I knew lie must think There meeting, as in days of yore, 'I'he dear ones that have gone before, me very inquisitive, but I managed to Be welcomed home at last. say : “Yes, you know I saw h«-r when we Susie's Diary. first came here.” His eyes twinkled for a moment and nv MYRTELLA he looked as I never saw him look, but May 1st.—Well, we are fairly moved almost immediately grew grave again and L am really too tired to write to and said : “I am not sure when she will come,” night, but as I promised papa that I would write something each day, 1 sup ami lifting lus hat he walked away. pose 1 must try. We have hardly had No danger ot my asking any more time to see the place but think we shall questions, but what a shame it is for like it very well, at least I shall, for I him to be treated so. I wish he w-as have always longed to live in the coun well acquainted with papa, for he will try. cheer any one up, and I am sure Mr. May 2nd.—The house is quite conve Alaynard needs some one to cheer him- nient and there is plenty of room for mv J uly 25th—The strangest thing hap gardening; but, oh ' how I wish we pened to-day. While I was at work in could have got that sweet little cottage the garden Air. Maynard came to the next door. I wonder who lives there; I fence and said : half suspect it is some newly-married “Miss Susie, von have never been couple, for I caught a glimpse of a little through my conservatory ; the flowers creature in a gray dress and pale blue are at their best just now, if you care to shawl, through the honeysuckles this see them I shall take great pleasure in morning. Well, I hope if ever I am showing them to you.” jiarried I can have just such a little Of course I went immediately anti bird’s nest to live in. Such a lovely truly I was rewarded, for never Indore garden too; they must have very refined had I seen such a collection of rare and taste whoever they are, for the Howers beautiful plants. It seemed like fairy are all of the choicest. Perhaps I may land. When hje showed mo through his get some cuttings for my garden after a garden telling me of the plants and their while, but I am afraid it takes a great names, and introduced me to the sweet- deal of work to make such a garden as «*st looking old Quaker lady who keeps that. house for him. As he opened the gate Al ay 5th.—I am more and more inter to let me pass out lie saitl : ested in our neighbor; I am the man of “So you are pleased with my little the bouse to-day for the first time, and place.” I don't see how that sweet little girl “Yes, indeed,” said I, “I never saw could ever fancy such a gloomy, stern anything half so lovely ; you ought to be looking man. 1 don’t seem to prosper very happy.” But the moment it was very well with my garden, it’s harder sai«l I felt sorry, for the old sorrowful work than 1 thought for, but 1 suppose expression came back to his face, and he I must have patience. simply said : May 10th.—Our next door neighlxjr, “I hope you will come to stay longer the pretty little lady, has gone away, I some time.” saw her drive ofl’ this morning with a I sup|x)se he means when his wife gentleman who came in a spring wagon, comes home, if sh«* ever dcx*s. I «lon’t perhaps her brother; he looked so hand se«? what kind of heart she can have to some and kind that I don’t wonder she stay away so, and she looked so pretty was glad to go with him for a while,and an« I good too. leave that bear, her husband, for I have July 30th—I do wonder what is the fully made up my mind that lie is a matter with papa to-night, he acts so bear, though she always looks very hap strang«*lv. Every few moments he would burst out laughing, and when I py • May 15th:—The little house is still asked him what was the matter he without its mistress, the master evident turned, it ofl' by asking some question ly consoles himself with music, for I about my garden, or the neighlxjrs, or have heard l»oth an organ and flute there when Mrs Maynard is expected home. lately. But why, I wonder, does lie al I’m sure I don’t know when she’s ex ways play such mournful airs ! I sat on acted and «lon’t care; it’s my opinion the porch listening last night, and found she’s a heartless flirt I told papa as myself crying just in sympathy. I much, but instead of svmpathyzing with don’t see what great sorrow lie can have, Air. Alaynard he only laughed more with so sweet a little wife. This even than ever. Perhaps papa’s planning ing I had been playing on the piano,and some surprise for me, but I shall l>e sure on going to close the blinds 1 saw him to find it out, for I always do. with his head liowed upon his hands in August 15th—How can I write what an attitude of jx*rfect despair. I do has hapi»enetl to-night. As I was walk hop-, for his wife’s sake, the man is not ing up from the village this evening, and sentimental. ha<l got nearly homv, Mr. Maynard June 1st.—I wonder what is the mat overtook me, an«l said: ter with my garden, nothing does well. “It is a pleasant evening, and I have 1 have hardly one thrifty looking plant something I wish very much to say to except the old rosebushes that were here you; will you extend your walk a little?” when we came. By the wav I have and as we just then camo up to the found out the name of our neighbors. house he sai«l to The postmaster asked me to-day if we “Air. I jane, I am going to carry Miss did not live up next to Phillip Maynard, Susie ofl’ for a little while, but will see and when I told him I did not know the that she gets safely back. ’ name of any one 'in »he village, said Papa laughed and called out, “AVhat “He lives in a little house with a pooty will Mrs. Alaynard say ?” garden, and is a mighty queer chap.” *1 was so provoked, for I thought Mr. Mrs. Maynard has not come home yet. Alaynard would think it so rude. AVe If I had a husband I don’t believe I’d walked on for a long while in perfect leave him alone so long. silence, then Mr. Al. spoke, and so low June Gtli.—I was out, as usual, to-day that I could hardly hear him: “Susie, 82 50 PER ANNUM I love you, will you be my wife?” then The Critics. A Penguin Rookery. for a moment I thought all the world had slipped from under my feet. That the best men in politics? In penguin rookeries the grass covers this man whom I had trusted and be Mr. Francis 1). Parkman, shaking for wide tracts with a dense growth, like lieved in so completely could speak such llu* so-called scholarly class, says in the that of a field of standing corn, but words to one who knew he had a wife ! North American, that the best men are denser and higher, the grass reaching What could it mean i But one look into not in that special attitude. Are the over one’s head. * * * Most of the the clear honest eyes satisfied me even best men found only among the literary droves of penguins made for one landing without another word. Ashe was wait men—-those, for instance, who are count place, where the beach surface was cov ing for an answer, 1 could only say: ed as men of letters because they can ered with a coating of dirt from their “The lady whom I >aw—” “was I i attach two symbolic imitials to their ieet, forming a broad tract leading to a my sister Helen, who came to names, as a result of owning a piece of lane in the tall glass about a yard wide make me a visit this Spring, sheepskin, printed in academic Latin? at the bottom, and quite bare with a because I would not go to her,” he ex- Is it necessary to purity or superiority smoothly J »eaten roadway ; this was the jlained. / A feeling of tumultuous joy of political character and action that the entrance to the main street of this part had seized me and 1 was crying and candidate for political action or reward of the “rookery.” * * * * Various laughing together. Then I felt myself should have written a history, composed lateral streets lead oil' on each side from fathered in two strong arms, and mv a thesis, conjugated a Greek v«*rb or the mai.i road, and are often at their ips pressed in a long kiss, and 1 am so declined a Latin noun? It looks very months a»4iig as it ; moreover, the road lappy. Coming home he told me how much as if some specimens of the “schol sometimes divi for a little and joins years before he had loved a beautiful but ar in politics, ’ considered these things again ; hence it is the easiest thing in leartless girl who had promised to bp as an indis|»ensable prerequisite to pos the world to lose one’s way. * * It lis wife, but when he, having left town sessing a vote, expressing a political is impossible to conceive the discomfort ‘or a few weeks, came back to find her opinion or holding an office. Are there of making one's wav through a b»g rook married to another, he had renounced all otherwise no best men nt the polls; no ery, haphazard, or “across country,” as society save that of his beloved music, honorable men lx-fore the ¡»eople, no one may say. You plunge into one of plants, and books, but when I came, character in party organization, no pat the lanes in the tall grass, which at once :rom seeing so much of my home life he riotism at conventions, and no integrity shuts out the surroundings from your lad learned to love me. I don’t know in office? An* all these qualities con view. You tread on a slimy, black, why, I’m sure, but I’m so glad it is so. fined to the business men who stay away damp soil conq»osed of the bird’s dung. Papa laughed heartily when I came home from primaries and ]>olls, because there The stench is overj»owering, the yelling and commenced to ask for Mrs May- is no profit in them ; or do the men of of the birds perfectly terrifying; I can nard until I lied up here leaving Philip the study, the closet and the. class-room, call it nothing else. You lose the path, and him together. alone possess the characteristics which or perhaps are bent from the first in December 24th.—To-morrow we are best befit the “best men” in or out of making direct for some spot on the to be married, and I am going to the lit politics? other side of the rookery. Now you tle white cottage as its mistress, for I In 1876 the popular vote aggregated are, the instant you leave the road, on would not hear of living any where else. nearly eight and a halt million ballots. the actual breeding-ground. The nests Papa’s merriment has not subsided yet, 'I’lie population could not have exceeded are placed so thickly that you cannot but I am too happy to mind his teazing, 40,000,000, which would then have giv help treading on eggs and young birds apd I hope by my love and devotion to en about 9,000,000 qualified voters. Do at almost every step. A parent bird make happy a life once darkened by an the doctrinaire critics who are al wavs sits on each nest, w ith its sharp beak other woman’s faithlessness. complaining when the men of their erect ami open, ready to bite, yelling choice are not before the people, that the savagely: “Caa, caa, urr, urr,” its red Women Who Smoke. best men are not in ] »olitics, mean to eye gleaming and its plumes at half-cock suggest that the one man in twelve or and quivering with rage. No sooner What one thinks in America of cigar thirteen who stayed away from the arc your legs within reach than they are ette-smoking women one soon ceases to polls was or is, in reality, one of the only furiously bitten by 2 or 3 birds—that is if think of it in Eurojie, where it is so fre l»est men in the nation ! Probably they you have not got on strong leather quent. For does not fat, famous and do not. But pushed to a logical coni- gaiters, as on the first occasion of visit frolicsome Emily Faithful smoke like a pleteness, this is practically the sum- ing a rookery you probably have not Michigan tugboat? Doesnot the Duch ming up of the critics’ outcry, Of At first you try to avoid the nests, but ess of Edinburg enjoy a quiet puff now course it does happen, and haj’pen con- soon find that impossible; then, madden and then, and even the Prineess of tinually in a popular government, that ed almost by the pain, stench and noise, Wales have her pretty little cigarette- the “best men” are not always chosen you have recourse to brutality. Thump, case which she hides profoundly from for the fitting place, But we opine that thump, goes your stick, and at each the smoke-abhorring nose of her royal current as well as precedent history will blow down goes a bird. Thud, thu<^ mamma-in-law ? Madame Ratazzi, in establish conclusively that tho “liest you hear from the men behind, as they Italy, is said to lx* a groat smoker, and men for the work in hand get into kick the birds oil' the nests, and so you so also is Elizabeth Thompson, the artist power quite as much, in a popular gov go on for a bit, thump and smash, whack, in England. Two daughters of the Due ernment, by the untrammeled choice of thud, “caa, caa, urr, urr,” and the path d’Orleans, one of whom was the beauti the people, as they art* in the habit of behind you is strewed with the dead and ful Mercedes, Queen of Spain, were fond doing in other systems by the will or dying and bleeding. * * * But you of a quiet smoke, as is also the wife of appointment of the ruling class or per make miserably slow progress, and, wor the Pretender Don Carlos. Although son. ried to death, at last resoit to the expe smoking ladies are numerous in Europe The egotistic growl that the best men dient of stanqieding as far as your one often hears it insisted uj»on here are not iq polities is either caused by the breath w ill carry you. You put down that American ladies are the greatest muttering of mental dyspepsia, or the your head and make a rush through the habitual imokers in the world. “I outcry of disappointed vanity, or proceeds grass, treading on old and young hap never saw a lady smoke in America,” I from a want of faith in popular institu hazard, and rushing on liefore they have had occasion to frequently say in France, tions. AVe do not pretend to say that time to bite. On the Challenger— and always with the unsatisfactory feel the latter is tlie native in all cases, but Moseley. ing that I was not half believed. Once we assert it is so in a largo majority. upon a time in Paris I lived several There is an Italian proverb, born of the European Armies. months in an extensive pension des Napoleonic spoliation of palace and pic demoiselles. In this flourishing school ture gallery, that asserts “that not all A Vienna corresjxjndent, writing to was Mlle. N., a young American of 22’ Frenchmen are thieves, but most of the London Standard, says : In Ger from Boston, a sort of parlor boarder, them ar«*.” *So w<> say that a large many the reorganization of that army who had many extra privileges be prop<>rti«»n of the scholarly’ critics was fully carried out in 1866, since side that of a private bed-room, when who complain continuously that the which time the annual recruiting has every other pupil slept in 'a tiny couch best of men are not in politics are produced 1,300,000 mem After mak in a dormitory that looked exactly like themselves intellectual unbelievers in ing due deductions for dead, sick, etc, a hospital. “Ab, but your American popular government, supjiorters in the strength of the German army may ladies do smoke, and smoke a great deal some shap<* or another of the idea of now be fairly put at 1,250,000 men of more than our Frenchmen,” said the ma limiting the suffrage, advocates of ap- the line, and the reserves and the First tron of the school one day. “Mlle. N. pointed, not elected, officials, and too Landwehr, all of whom are thoroughly smokes much more than Al. le Profesteur, often an* opposed even to a generous drilled ami ready to enter the Held at and if you don’t believe it, 1 will some public educational system. AVe are not any moment. These m«*n are of various day show' you the ashes that come down overstating the fact that our literary as ages, from 20 to 32 years. Besides from her room.” I said nothing. And sailants of American jxjlitics and jxiliti- these, the German government can call yet I could have told that which would cians themselves are more or less con out the Second I¿andwehr and the Lan«l have made madame’s golden wig stand sciously antagonistic to both the ideas sturm, which include all the drilled sol up like quills on a fretful porcupine and and form# that constitute the vital force diers from 32 to 50 years of age. These reduce the matron to a state of gibber and expression of a genuine republic. would, after making due deduction, ing idiocy. I could have told that, in I hey are, in fact, the enemies of repre- number 1,300,000 men. All these 2,- deed, many cigarette’s were smoked in sentativ«* institutions, perhaps both un 550,000 soldiers can be marched in Mlle. N.’s room each night, ami that consciously and unwittingly so. This twentv-four hours after their being great Avere the ashes thereof; also could can be seen by an examination of the called out, as all the Quartermasters’ ar I have told that every night when that ! books, journals and periodicals in which rangements are made in time of ]>eace to huge dormitory full of pupils was still tor ten years past, their opinions an«l enable this to Is* done. From this total and every girl asleep, four of the criticisms have b«*cn set forth. — Alail. must be deducted 200,000 for the for teachers, all girls themselves of from tresses, 150,000for thecoasts and against twenty to tw'enty-two, whose business it Denmark, and 100,000 for depots; so that The Vengeance of the People. was to watch and guard that sleeping 2,100,000 men are available for real wai- fold, stole softly from their bed up to fare, and the last of whom w’ould only No wonder Russia is anxious to di the attic stairs, across the roof, down a require a fortnight at the most to lie on skylight, and thus into Miss N.’s room, vert her jieople with a foreign war. A^ the frontiers. The Ixjrder fortifications where, with a bottle or two of beer and dispatch, which we publish to-day, savs on the French side are completely unlimited cigarettes, they smoked ami that the Nihilists of that country finished and ar«- fully armed. They are chatted till—goodness only knows how kindled 2,987 tires in the month of Au furnisheil with large stores of provisions late—as if this w’ere, indeed, not a pen gust; many of them, as we know from and communicate with the interior of the sion des demoiselles, but a popular bras previous dispatches, consuming entire country by means of good railways. serie in the Latin quarter.—Letter to villages, and that the loss is estimated France, of course, goo«l fortrosses also at 50,000,000 roubles, or about fifteen Chicago Inter Ocean. on the German frontier, and these are millions of dollars in our money. The strengthened by smaller barricading forts He Made a Mistake. number of tires in July was 2,883, and but in addition to the fact that they will the loss 6,000,000 of roubles, or 84,200,- not be completed and in thorough work One of Gilroy’s prominent citizens, 000. ing order Iwforo 1881, Germany has the acconqianied by his wife and children, That is reform with a vengeance; but advantage of a convex frontier which came to San Jose last Friday for the ex it is the only method of reform left to would facilitate concentric attacks, suchl press purpose of seeing Grant. He sta the Russian people by their govern as are reganled by military authorities tioned himself on the Court House steps ment Such a thing as a public meet the most successful. The strength of in order to obtain a good view of the ing where a citizen can express his hon as the French army is, on paj»er, 3,G00, 000 distinguished General when the proces est sentiments is not known in Russia. sion should pass, and afterwards went to The press dare not print a line which men, but Sir Garnet Wolseley, as well the fair grounds and saw the General questions the infallibility of the authori- as other authorities, calculates it at only and suite when they went to lunch. Re ties. A young girl not long since was al»out 1,800,000, among whom are more turning home was accosted by a neigh- arrested and sent into exile for calling than 600,0<K) undrilled men. Besides l»or who asked, “Well, did you see out to her father in some excitement this, the state of the territorial army Grant ?” “Yes,” was the reply, “and J that a certain Nihilist has been convicted. and the Garde Mobile is so doubtful that was very much pleased with his ap|«ear- What can the people do under such a France is considered to have have ready ance. He is a man, sir, of intellect and system of goverment? To remonstrate for the beginning of a war not more ability.” “How doc-s he look I” was the will even invite imprisonment and exile. than 1,000,000, of whom 400,000 must next question. His face is smooth, with There is no alternative but to submit or be d«-duct«‘d for garrisons, etc., leaving the exception of a gray moustache ; his secretly conspire against the govern 600,000 really available for action. head is bald ; he w’ears spectacles and ment The torch, the dagger and’ the Russia’s force, although given on |»a|)er has the brightest eyes I ever saw on a revolver are all the means of n-dress the at 1,800,000, cannot, as was explained human being.” The neighbor smiled government has left to its people. at the beginning of ths recent «lispute, and said nothing.—San Jose Herald. Extraordinary tyranny justifies extraor exceed 400,000 men on the German frontier. . dinary resistance. If every year we rooted out on” ’• Yeast helps jxjor j»eople to raise bread we should soon become perfect mv. Marriage is often a mirag for a family. 1 i