t 5X- - INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTEI} >0 THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. -J— -.......................—■ — . - - - - -IJ -, , __________ ASHLAND’ OREGON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1S79 VOL 1 V.---NO. 28 82 50 PER ANNUM a ASHLAND TIDINGS. iKMued every Friday, J. M. McCall & Co ----- BY----- i£R i * rrr. lei : ds OFFICE—On MJn Strvet, (in s cond »t«>ry <4 McCall Baum » new budding ) NEW DEPARTURE. Î I Job Prinliuff. The undersigned from and after April 18th, propose to sell only for Of all detcrlptlons ne on tlurt uoti-s». Legal Blanks, Circulars Busin» m Car«ls, Bill.’iead», Letterheads, Pos­ ter», etc., gotten up in »'.vie at liung prices. CASH IN HAND Terms of Subacriptiou: Oae oopy, one year............................................ •• “ six innnths....................................... “ •• throe mouths.................................. Club rate«, six copi«» for ........................... Perms In advance. ....$2 ... 1 .... i 12 Or approved produce delivered - except when by special agreement—a slioi i and limited credit may be given. 50 60 o» 50 Term« of A.lsertisiug: They have commenced receix ing their New Spring Stock, and that every day will witness additions to the largest stock of i UOAL. One square (ten lines or less) 1st Insertion......... $ ’ 50 L.'-h add Moa kl Law lion......... ..... ten miles awav; The Panic of ’73. ? > so vou can ride over as often as vou choose to see vour daughter. I said it in tlio meadow path— Please say yes, grandpa.” i It is just six years this month since I eay it on the mountain stairs, Tears tilled the old man ’ s eyes again, the panic, as it has been called, or prop­ The best things any mortal hath I bur this time they were tears of pleas­ erly, the financial reaction and depres­ Are those which every mortal shares. ure. “My precious child, you don’t sion, began in this city, and soon ex­ The air we breathe—the sky—the breeze— know how’ much you are taking upon tended throughout the country. In Tho light without us and within— Life, with its unlocked treasuries— yourself. \ ou don’t know Low much September, 1873, Jay Cooke A Co. were God s riches—arc foi all to win. trouble an old man like me would be in tho first bricks that tumbled down, and » a house.” many other bricks, all over the land, The grass is softer to my tread For rest it yields unnumbered feet; “I do not know’ any such thing, 1 as­ followed sflraightway. Six years ago the Sweeter to me the wild rose red, sure you; but ! do know’ how much joy Stock Exchange was closed, confidence Because she makes tho whole world sweet. and comfort it would be to us, and what was nearly paralyzed, credit sorelv crip­ Into yonr heavenly loneliness a real blessing your society would be, pled, and the whole republic was in com­ Ye welcomed me, O. solemn peaks! long days, when George’s business calls mercial distress. The first thought was Ami me in every guest you bless him away from horn«*. Indeed, 1 could that confidence would be restored, and Who reverently your mystery seeks. not keep house witliGUt'you, I am afraid; that business w-ouhl revive in a few* Atul up the radiant peopled way, so we will understand that we have set months at furthest. But the exact con­ That opens into worlds unknown, tied this point, will we not !” trary proved true. The second year was It will be life’s deligbt to say, “ Heaven is not Heaven for me alone,” “I shall be too happy to go any place w orse than the first, the third worse than Failures everywhere in­ Rich through thy brethren’s poverty! on earth where you are Katy, « ven to a tho second. Sccii wealth were hideous! I am blest strange town. I know most all the old creased; ¡»rices dealined more and more; Only in what they share with me, people about you there in Horton, and it general dullness augmented; the de­ Iu what I share with all the rest. will seem enough more like home than spondency of merchants, bankers, man­ ufacturer«, agriculturists, steadily deep­ The Old Man’s Sunset Home. this place, which is as strange to me ened; even real estate, always regarded now as it was five years ago, when I as the basis of value, was stagnant, it first came here. But what will Martha could not be sold at half price; its “Your old uiair is very much in the sav, Kali '! Can vou tell «' wav, grandpa; I wish you would be con­ “I have talked with her all about it, largest owners suffered from pov- tent to sit somewhere else besides at this and she consents ; on condition that you erty. It seemed as if the mon- etarv trouble would never end. west window,’ said a dashingly «Iressed ride over often.” young lady, as she swept into the family The kind-hearted girl did not care to The country had never had such an ex­ sitting room. She had not been long teil th»* eagerness with w hich the pro­ perience. All talk and all predictions home from a fashionable French school posal had been accepted, “only for the of better times proved empty. Hopes in the city, where her selfishness, at children s sake,” il was clearly’ to be un­ were excited only to be disappointed; least, seemed to have developed fully as derstood. tho trade of the land languished in Kpite of every effort to restore it; many much as was desirable. And so the arrangtincuts weie made, “1 camo here because the sunshim*uas ami the month quickly rolled away. people had well-nigh come to the con­ so pleasant, Sophia. ’Pears to warm up The little cottage had received its simple clusion that prosperity would never re­ my stiff-, old limbs bett'-r than tho fire. furniture, and the best room in it was turn. The Republicans looked to the 1’11 give vou the ¡»lace if you want it, fitted up for grandfath«T as nearly like 1 resumption of specie payments for re­ though.” tho old familiar home as possible, The I ■ lief. The Democrats asseverated that re­ “The window of your room is a west light buggy drove over to A—, ami in a I ' sumption was impossible. Resumption one; 1 ought to know, I think; it used to few hours afterward the old man was I i came, however, and business has been be mine. ’ walking hand in hand w ith his darling mending over since. The contrast be­ ‘ I know it is, Sojiby, but it’s kind of Katy' over the establishment, listening tween September, 1873, and September, lonesome up there all alone. Guess I with keen delight to oil the little details; 1879, is very marked. It is more than had better go back, though. Grandpa and at last comfortably settled down in obvious; it is conspicuous at all points. is always in the way now, 1 am his easy chair, lie talked with his new Every’sort of trade is reviving. The afraid,” lie said sorrow fully, as he rose to grandson over bis present home ami fu­ metropolis reflects all cities and towns. leave. ture prospects, till Ivatv called them to To-day the business quarters here are “Where are you going, dear grand­ their tea. 0, how sweet tho simple thriving. The down-town streets and pa ! ’ said a brown haired, sunny faced boardaj»[»eared withits snow ' cloth and wharves are crowded with bales, boxes, young lady, who had just now glided white tea-set; its light biscuit, fresh packages; with drays, carts and trucks. into the room; “I have come on puqiose butter, stewed cherries and plain cake ! The hotels are full, exports are enor­ to have a visit with you.” The burnished silver ami cut glass of mous, money is active, new buildings “1 am going anywhere to be out of the home he had just left never looked are going up, houses are in demand, im­ the way, Katy.” half so beautiful ; and with a full heart migrants are coming in, manufactories “Why, dearest grandfather, ho-.v can he bowed his silvery head and asked that have been closed for years have re­ you talk so ? No room is so cheerful God’s blessing on their evening meal. sumed active operations, the republic and sacred in all the house, as the one has unquestionably entered upon a new An old-time friend was asked to spend which your presence blesses. What era of prosperity, the long-looked for, have you been raying, Sophy !” .she tho evening, and a lively conversation constantly-deferred better times have ac­ added, turning reproachfully toward her was sustained till long after his custom­ tually come at last; the United States ary hour for retiring. He wemed ten stands forth as one of the most favored cousin. “Nothing in the world worth making years younger when he t«»ok his place at and thriving countries on the face of the such a time about,” said the young ladv, breakfast next morning. globe. Every American citizen is en­ “Are we too early for you, sir !” said couraged and in good spirits, unless it be sweeping hastily out of the room. George, “I was afraid we were.” the Democrat who feels that his party The seat by the window was resumed, “ Not a bit ; I never sleep a wink af ­ shall be beaten by the ripeness and suc­ and Kat«* drew a low’ rocking chair very im- ter five o ’ clock. Early ’ rising is all cess of the entire land in the face of all near it. portant to young people just setting out his lugubrious prophecies.—New York “I have boen leaning on this arm till in life, and I am glad you have the I imos. it is all asleep,” said the old man. “O ! habit. ” just see,” and unfastening the white - The Royal Wedding. When the meal was ended, the morn­ wristband, she chafed the thin arm I and hand till the customary circulation was ing hymn was sung, and an earnest Preparations have already commenced prayer for God’s direction ami protecting rest or cd. for the dresses to l»o worn at the King “Thank you, Katy, darling; it is well care through the day was offered ; then of Spain’s wedding. His bride-elect is now. Grandpapas fingers used to be us the young physician started on his daily to have two trousseaux—one made in voung ami quick as yours. Don t seem rounds. “I give the little ho ¡o into vour Paris, the other at Vienna. The most so, do<‘3 it I I don’t think your hands Don t let superb fabrics are to be used for this are quite as white as vour cousin Sophy's, charge today, grandfather. event. First, several new velvets, with but they are a thousand times prettier, Katy get lonely or work too hard scrub brown prune, blue and violet grounds, bing imaginary dirt off the wood work, in my opinion.” he added, with a smile at his wites embroidered with flowerets, particularly “Mine haie to work, you see, said pinks of bright colors mixed with gold Kate, laughing; “it would not do for the scrupulous neatnessr “If the gardener threads; then there are shot satins of little folks to go hungry at home because should come, could you talk with him a most original coloring, such as vert de sister was afraid cooking their dinner little, and direct about the plan of the gris and silver, salamander and copper, would brow n her hands. George likes garden ' Kate «lues not know much flume and celadon blue, which last, in about such things, I believe.” them just as well brown. close proximity, show a most extraor­ “I should delight to do it, said the “He may well be thankful to get dinary pink-blue shade. The wedding them any wav. l’hey are a treasure old man, a bright j smile coining toilets now in hand are composed of three into liis facte at the idea of his possibly worth anv man’s aspirations. colors and of threo materials. For ex­ “Shall 1 read to you, grandpa—1 see being of any service in the world again;« ample, a seal brown satin skirt; a tunic, you have a new book open—-or shall we “I was a master hand at making a garden I draped, of Carmelite armure, the hem talk ! I must go home to-morrow, you in my day.” of the tunic turned up with brown satin The day was warm and bright, and know.” embroidered with a quantity of gilli- “To-morrow ? I hail forgotten that. the old man spent most of it out of flowers in shades varying from the O, I am so sorrv, so sorry !’’ he said, doers, superintending the Englishmans deepest orange to the palest gold. Seal­ operations, who listened respectfully to very sadly. brown plush coat, with large satin col­ “Don’t read, Katy; talk, if I can only all his suggestions, and obeyed them lar, embroidered with gilliflowers ; satin hear vour voice one day longer. You strictly. The day s work was most satis­ cuffs similarly embellished. Another are a ray of sunshine in this house, and factory on all sides; and when night wedding dress is of moss green velvet vou w ill be in any house you enter. came Katy's delicious tiu/ Store Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will do it, they proj»ose to do the largest business this spring and summer ever done by them in the last five years, ami they can posi­ tively make it to the advantage of every one to call upon them in Ashland and test the truth of their assertions. They will spare no pains to maintain, more fnllv than ever, the reputation of their JAMES R. NEIL, A T T O R N E Y - A T - L A W, J. W. HAMAKAR, NOTA R Y i i PUBLIC, Linkville, Lake Cx, Oregon. OFFICE In Post «Jltes building. S|>»cul attentiou i»en to uuuve.vant'ing M. L. M’CALL, SURVEYOR A CIVIL ENGINEER, House, as the acknowledged Ashland, Oregon. HEADQUARTERS! 1« prepared to do any work in hi» lino on »bort notice. For Staple ami Fancy Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress Goods,Crockery,Glass and Tin Ware, Shawls, VV rappers,Cloak ■>, And, in fact, everything required for the trade of Southern and South­ eastern Oregon. DR. W. B. ROYAL, Has permanently located in Ashland. Will giv» hi» inidiviJe-l attention to the practice of medicine. II m had fifteen year»' eiperience in Oregon. Oflke at hl» reeidence, on Main sire»«, opposite the M. E. Church. * OR. E. J. BOYD, A full assert ment of DENTIST. Linkville, ; : : : : IRON AND STEEL For Blacksmiths’ and General use. Oregon, otflee aud residence, eouth aide of Main street. Jacob Warner. E K Anderson. A Full Line of Ashland Woolen Goods I W. H. Atkinson. THE ASHLAND MILLS ! Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeres, Doeskins, Clothing, always on hand and for sale at lowest ¡»rices. We will continue to purchase wheat - A T— The l/iyhes* Market Price, J. M. MHAIJ. A CO, And will deliver Flour, Feed, Etc», JAMES THORXTOX, W. H. ATKINSON, Anywhere in town, .M I I’ll IC' I2M. JACOB WAl.S’En, I’. K. INPERSON. THE ASHLAND Winner, Amlerson A Co. ASHLAND Livery.Sale&Feed 1 I The Very Best I have constantly on hand the very best naddij : iiormf .«. Hl'CmitS AND CIKRI.IUES, And can furnish my customers with a tiptop turnout at any time. fTOJiSES BOARDED BLANKETS, i Un reasonable term-, and given the best attention. Horses bought aud sold and satisfaction guaranteed in all mv transactions. CASSINE KES, DOESKINS, J The Sealing Process at Salt Lake City. f A corresjiondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal writes : After we got through we saw Joseph F. Smith sitting at a table recording the names of those who were candidates for marriage, lie wrote the names in a book, (the exist­ ence of which marriage register this truthful apostle has since denied, so that a polygamous marriage might not be found out,) and then he wrote the two names on a slip of paper, to bo taken into the sealing room for the officiating priext, so that he might know whom he was marrying. After having given this slip of ¡mper to the priest ( Daniel Wells) we knelt at a little wooden altar, (they w’ere all alike in the Endowment House.) He then asks the man if lie is willing to take the woman to wife, and the woman if she is willing to take him for a husband. They bot h having an­ swered yes, he tells the man that lie must look to God, but the woman must look to her husband as her God, for if he lives his religion the spirit of God w’ill be in him, and she must therefore yield him unquestioning obedience, for he is as a god unto her, and then con­ cludes by saying that ho having author­ ity from on high to bind and loose here upon earth, and whatsoever he binds here shall be bound in heaven, seals the man and woman for time and all eter­ nity. He then tells the man and wom­ an to kiss each other across the altar, the man kneeling on the north side and the woman on the south, and so it is finished. Sometimes they’ have wit­ nesses, sometimes not; if they think any trouble may arise from a marriage, or that tho woman is inclined to be a little jierverse, they have no witnesses, neither do they’ give marriage certifi­ cates, and if occasion inquires it, and it is to shield any of their polygamous brethren from being found out, they will positively swear that they did not perform any marriage at all, so that the women in this church have but a verv poor outlook for being considered honor­ able wives. When the marriage cere­ mony was over we came out of tiie “sealing room,” and I crossed “ Heav­ en ” into the ladies’ dressing room, where, after having dressed and my husband having paid the fees, we took our departure, together with that of the “Holy Spirit” It was 3:30 P. M. when we left, I having gone there at 8 o’clock in the morning. You can prob­ ably imagine how fatigued one feels after listening patiently ali the time to their incessant talking. Certainly at the end of the time one feels like taking m nourishment rather than listening to the prompting of the “ Holy Spirit.” One Cause of Suicides. The New York Mail gives five causes of the increase in suicides, and of those five, all are insignificant except one—the increase in wholesale gambling. To that, more than to any other cause, is due the fact that so many take their own lives. We are a nation of reek less speculators in everything. Wo gamble on all, and it is not gambling at faro or with the dice box that is the worst feature. We have a fault worse than those, w’orse m its nature ami much worse in its consequence —gam- bling in stocks. Theie is the prolific cause of rum ami sviai« le; there is the class of wild and criminal speculation that drives men to a disgraceful and cowardly death, It has lured many a poor vie­ tim on to il is awful end, and it still cries, like some horrid monster, for more human blood. It has its victims in all ranks and conditions of life, low ­ born and high l»orn, rich and poor, edu­ cated and ignorant, men and women. In this mad, wild, wicked race for wealth are thousands floating, and of these many sink beneath the wave never to rise again. The cemeteries have many of its poor, deluded victims, and are daily receiving more. Can a practice w’hicli produces such fearful re­ sult« be productive of any good for a state I Can it aid in its prosperity or help- to lighten its distress I Rather, does it not darken the sunny days and render more black the blacke.-t of nights 1 ——----------------------- -------------------------------- — — The Acceptable Juror. I _ A shland < mmarbl : {OUR PATRONS f III WORKS Are invited to send in their order« and are assured that they J. II. Rl'MSILt.I., Proprietor. Having again settled in this place and turned mv entire attention to the Marble Business, 1 aui pie- pared to till all orders w ith neat­ ness and dispatch. Monuments, Tablets, and Headstones, executed ^3Tin anv description of marble. I^^Special attention paid to or- ders from all parts of Southern ^ro regon. Prices reasonable. ! SHall Receive empì Attention ! At Prices that Defy Competition. I ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS Address: J. U. Russell, Ashland, Oregon. W. H. Atkinson SECRETARY Council (in New Bedford) Do you know anything of the case? “No." “Ever read of it! ' “No.” “What! Neverf’ “No.” (Applause.) “Have you formed an;» opinion as to this easel” v “No.” “Anv opinion aliout anything?” “No.” “Never have opinions?” “No.” “What! Never?’ “No.” (Applause.) “Ever hoard Pinafore’; ’ “No.” “(Groans.) Remarks: “No wonder lie didn’t do it. Sold.” “No sympathy with anything pertain­ ing to the public interest?” “No." “No information, no knowledge, no taste for reading, no desire to know what’s going on in the world ?” “None whatever.” “Good. You’ll do for a juryman. You are accepted.” The ,{Plzen-Clean ’ Woman. Cleanliness is an excellent acquirement. It is so great an acquirement that one does not wonder that the sentence “Cleanliness is next to Godliness” was popularly supposed, for an indefinite |>eriod,Mo l»c a quotation from the Bi hie. Cleanliness is the chief distinction between the tramp and many million aires who could not claim even this ad­ vantage over the tramp. But the sen tence, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness,” cannot be found :n the Bible, nevertlie less. You cannot have too much Godli­ ness, too much teuq»erance, too much discretion, too much wisdom, but you can have too much neatness. There have been overnoat men. We hav^met one or two in our time. They always get up in the night to eat, and are ene­ mies of sleep as they are of dirt. But they are not so numerous nor pestiferous as the overneat woman. Who has not met the overneat woman! We do not need to describe her But we will. Revenge is sweet. She makes her husband exchange his boots for slip­ pers on the door step, no matter how low the thermometer or barometer, the poor fellow must doff his boots in the porch. Is lie wet 1 He must stay on the stoop till ho has done drooping. Consumption I What is that compared with a soiled carjiet ? The small l»oy, what a life ho loads with such a mother. Followed about by a «lust pan ami brush, and a scolding voice (the hyper­ neat woman is always cross) all of child­ hood’s days, he early runs to a club room or beer saloon where he can see a little rubbish and find the luxury of dirt. We once knew a lady of this character who, w hen lightning providen­ tially struck her house and killed a ser­ vant, swept up the evidencing dirt the shock had dislodged, before the coroner could be called. These “pizen-clean” women always hate to have corn]»anv. “Guests are so dirty, you know.” The parlor is kept dark and unused from year to year. The caqiet would fade and dust would accrue. Wo once knew a woman who refused to open her parlor for the wed­ ding of her daughter. “The street is too dusty,” she said. She is dust now. They opened the parlor for the funeral, and one almost wonders that she did not turn over in her coffin. The overneat woman cleans house twice a year. Twice a year the uncom­ fortable husband and children ai-e made doubly uncomfortable. The weakness of the flesh alone deters her from house­ cleaning every moon. The ovemeat woman delights to make jieople uncom­ fortable. She is thin, dyspeptic, has nerves, is troubled with dirt on the brain. Dirt on the brain is very wear­ ing on the constitution, and the hyper - neat woman nearly always dies young. If she did not, nearly all her household would. Her husband always has an other chance. This is a «lisjiensation of Providence. We write with some feel-* ing on this subject, although, thank God, we have only seen th«* ovemeat woman afar off. But we have seen the lives of good men embittered, we have seen boys driven to ruin, and girls im hued with such a hatred of cleanlimwa that they have la’coine verv slatterns, l»v overneat wives and mothers. Ah, mothers, do not mind a cluttered floor, a little gravel or sand on the caqiet, a finger mark on wall pu|»er or mirror. The day may come when a little dirt spread by baby feet or laid on by busy baby fingerswould be the glad dost sight in the world. A Prodigy. There are many persons who, if wo are to ¡»lace full credence in their biog raphers, must have been extraordinary marvels of precocity and cleverness. Annie Maria Schurman, for exanqd«*, who was the boast of Germany, was one of this description. At the age of six, and without instruction, she cut in pa­ per the most delicate figures ; at eight she learned in a few days to paint flow­ ers, which, il should l>e added, were highly est<*emed ; ami two years later it cost her only five hours’ application to learn the art of embroidering with ele­ gance. Her talents for higher attain inents, we are told, did not develop themseh es till she was twelve years of age, when they were discovered in the following manner : Her brothers were studying in the apartment where she sat, and it was noticed that whenever their memories failed in the recital of their lessons, the little girl prompted them without any previous knowledge of their tasks ex eept what she had gained from hearing the boys con them over. In her educa­ tion sh<* made extraordinary progress, and is said to have perfectly understood the German, Ixiw Dutch, French, Eng­ lish, Latin, Greek, Italian, Hebrew, Sy­ riac, Chaldean, Arabic and Ethiopian languages. Her knowledge of science and her skill in music, painting and sculpture were also extraordinary ; and her talent for mo«leling was shown by the wax ¡»ortrait she contrived to make of herself with the ai«i of a mirror. When it is added that her letters were not only valuable for the elegance of their style, but for the beauty of tho written characters, which caused the said epistles to be preserved as cabinet curiosities, we may judge what a prod­ igy of cleverness was foreshadowed by the talents she displayed aa a child.— .Chambers’ Journal