/P, Qlpus/ ---------- - _ 1 ò INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERE STS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. 9 ASHLAND1 OREGON FRIDAY. .JANI ARY VOL IV.—NO. 30. /fòo $2 50 PER ANNUM. “What has happened ?” she said, con­ ings toward me to the test One after­ An Old School Housewife. Hurrying to Port. fusedly. “Where is my father?” noon I entered her presence firmly re­ They may talk of their cocktails, their tod­ Then she gazed at me wonderingly. solved to declare my love to her and Mrs. Orrin 'Payne, who was born in Three more vessels of the whaling dies and punches, “ Oh I remember, ” she cried, in a abide the result. I could not be more Montague in 1790, was the oldest of fleet arrived from the Arctic yesterday Their fancy mixed drinks and their spirits Tssneal every Friday, heartrending accent. “Oh, sir, if you wretched than I whs , and my love might nine children—six boys and three girls. afternoon, viz : the barks Abraham taken straight, —Bï— Their tankards of beer, and their jolly cold knew why 1 did it ! Let me go to my at least teach her to respect me. She Verily she has lived a busy life. She Barker, Captain Smith, and Hunter, I lunches, father—pray, pray let me go I” was alone when 1 entered Somethin" o says she can’t remember when s*he did Captain Homan, aud the brig Hidalgo, LEEDS ¿e MERRITT. M ain Street, Ashland. • O’er which happy topers till midnight do- “ You shall, ” said I, -soothingly; “ I will in iny face must have alarmed her, for not have to work. When 19 she taught Captain Williams. Captain George A. bate; take you to him, for you are not able to she arose hastily, an 1 would have left one term of school, receiving five Smith, of the Abraham Barker, re|K>rts They oft are enjoyed; yet a sad enervation NEW DEPARTURE. OFFICE—-Ou M.un Street, (i.i -tecoad story of MvCall walk alone, Poor child ! it was a mis ­ the room had I not called her back. Is hid in each glassful so sparkling and shillings per week and boarding round, that in all his Arctic experience he A Btum'incw building.) free; take, and I was very brutal. Say no “Julia Windsor,” I said, calmly, “will always having bread and milk for never encountered such severe weather Job Printing. The undersigned from and after April And I fall back at last on abetter potation— more, but lean on me.” you hear me 1” supper, wearing a checkered tow gown, as they had in that ocean the present Of nil dev-riptioiM d<»io on ah >rt notice. Le/al Blank., That genuine comfort, a hot cup of tea. 18th, propose to sell only for “That is not my name,” she faltered, the cloth for which she had spun herself. season. He saw nothing ot the Jean­ She obeyed in silence, aud slinging Circula-* Bosinrsj <’.irdi, Billticad», Letterhead», Po*- ter», etc., gotten up in goad style at living price». No more will I draid to the clink of the my horse’s bridle over my arm, I led her turning very white. For the twelve succeeding years slia kept nette, although he spoko the Sea Breeds CASH IN HAND glasses, down the road until she paused before a “No"; but it was your name ^iat night, her father’s house, all her brothers (the after that vessel saw her, and was told Terms ot Siibwcriptiou: Those brain-stealing liquids, deceitfully miserable hut, whose battered aspect and in the far West., wl en you pointed a Or approved produce delivered—except youngest four and the oldest nineteen, by Captain Barnes that tho steamer had O.iecopy. one year.................................................... ....|2 50 bright; when by sjiecial agreement — a short unlighted windows gave sorrowful evi ­ pistol at my head and demanded my living at home.) Besides providing for gone north among the loose and pack ’• '* kix iiijnthi....... .. ........... 1 50 But fling them away for the cup that sur­ “ “ three tnonlns................................................ 1 00 and limited credit may be given. dence of the poverty of the inmates. money. Do you remember that night / the table, doing the washing and all the ice. Captain Smith is of the opinion passes Club rates, si> copies i'»r ........................................... 12 50 All others in taste without dazing the As 1 released her she suddenly seized She made no reply for a moment, but like duties of the household, she spun that a great error has been committed lertu» iu advance. sight; They have commenced receiving their my hand, and gazing up into my face stood with her face averted. Then she all the linen and wove and made the in sending such an expedition out in a Term* of Aose to do the largest How it braces their nerves and awiikeas their Windsor and his daughter named Julia. tongue of slander against me. Say that would make a man of anybody and a the Hunter, said that he was within 40 fancies; business this spring and summer JAMES R. NEIL, They had come from the East three onceiupon a time I lived in abject, pov­ good store customer for him. Mr. Payne miles of Wrangel Land early in October. Till husbands oft quail beforo feminino ever done by them in tho years previous and had evidently seen erty, under an assumed name, and that was three years her senior. He died in He saw no sign of the Jeannette. If ATTO R N EY-AT-L A W, lances, last »five years, and , . Nor dream they were pointed by one cup better days. Even now, miserably poor to succor a perishing father I robbed 1873. Her married life has been marked she was in the situation described by they can posi­ Jacksonville, Oregon. of tea. as they are, they preserved a dingy, passengers upon the road in male attire. by the same industry as her maidenhood. Captain Barnes when he last saw’ her, tively make The first four years they raised flax and he thought she might have got into the Then tempt me no more with your heart­ aristocratic appearance, so that their I do not fear you.” it to the burning liquor, neighbors knew little about them and “You need fear nothing,” I answered, made it into cloth afterward, when it jiack, and if so, it was highly prob­ advantage J. W. HAMAKAR, So cursed to the taste and so bright to the cared less. How they lived my inform­ quietly, “except that I shall love you too was superseded by cotton. She has al­ lematical when she succeeds in getting of every one to eye; ant could not guess. The father had much for your noble sacrifice.” NOTARY PUBLIC, ways had a loom and made wc-olen cloth, out. Captain Homan thought it would The mortal that driul s it may feel his mind call upon them in “ Love me ! ” she echoed, 'ooking at me been in feeble health for a long time, Link»ilk-, I.ike Co., Oregon. carpets, etc. She took in 100 pounds have been to the ultimate ml vantage of flicker, Ashland and test the truth suddenly, with filling eyes. “ 1 thought yet the daughter, a fragile delicate girl, His pride slowly sink, and his ambition die, per year to make into cloth “to halves.” Captain De Long if he had s)»oken OFFICE -!u r.xt'OtSee building. Special attention of their assertions. They will iven to eonvey iir ing. Down venders, to hell with your black occu­ had found the means to support him. that you despised me for my unwomanly She made about 106 yards of frocking to the Sea Breeze and availed himself spare no pains to maintain, more pation, , a year, at 8 cents per yard. She fur­ of the experience of her commander and I had learned one of those “means,” action." fully than ever, the reputation of their No more of your soul-killing venom forme; “ Then you wronged me deeply, ” I re ­ nished the material for the uniform of a other whaling captains in the fleet and I went away from the town with a I’ve broken your charm, aud the blessed po­ House, as the acknowledged turned, approaching and taking her well known non-commissioned military Captain lloman is the captain who, a deeper respect for Julia Windsor than 1 tation hand. “My remembrance of that night company that hailed from her neighbor­ few years since, struck and captured a That comforts me now is a strong cup of had ever felt for a woman. tea. Two years later found me permanently is full of admiration and respect. Since hood. Some years sho has woven 500 targe bow head in the Arctic, in which established in New York. I had nearly I have learned to know you intimately yards of carpeting. Her first carpet was found a harjioon belonging to a ship The Road Agent. For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries, forgotten my adventure with the road 1 have learned to love you—how truly, I was for Moses Bardwell; the price of that had been whaling off the coast of Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, weaving 10 cents per yard. Greenland four years previous. In fact agent, and should have forgotten it al­ have no words to say.” Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress “ But I threatened you with a pistol, ” My route, which was the only road j Sho has made all her own bedquilts he had on Lis vessel a boat steerer who together had it not been for the old pis ­ DR. W. 8. ROYAL, Goods,Crockery,Glass and she answered, demurely. between the town of Ireton and Chester, , tol, which 1 still retained. and great numbers for other poople; was on the ship Ansell Gibbs at the Tin Ware, Shawls, II03 permanently located in Ashland. “It was harmless,” I returned, smil­ always exhibited bedquilts, stockings, time the whale was struck, and lay for three miles through an almost One evening, during a reception at Wrappers,Cloak a, Will vivo his undivided attention to tha practice of ing. I kept it I have it at home socks and stocking-yarn, at the Frank­ recollected the circumstance of his es­ unbroken wilderness. The track had | the house of a friend, 1 observed among medicine. Has had fifteen year»' exiierienco in And, in fact, everything required for the now. ” been badly cut to pieces by recent rains, ( Oregon. Ofllce at Ilia residence, on Main slrevt, lin Fairs, so long as the society has ex­ cape, nft»-y the :x>at was fastened—a fact the guests a lady whose face seemed opnosite the M F Church. trade of »Southern and South­ “Do you remember the handkerchief isted, and always received premiums. which’ tiA>uKM.kht ¿¿taking the Northeast and my progress was much slower than strangely < familiar to me. Where 1 had eastern Oregon. was either safe or pleasant. »Sunset met , her before I conld not remember; with which you bound my head?” she She had tho caro of a considerable dairy; passage is no new thing with the whale found me still many miles from my des- ] but there was something in her appear­ asked slyly. “More faithful to the Rpirit made butter and choose; boarded the family. Captain \\ illiams rejiorts a se­ DR. E. J. BOYD. A full assortment of tination, and I began to reflect on the ance . that 1 recognized by heart rather of that night than you, I have always district schoolma’ms two terms a-year vere season in the Arctic, and a very DENTIST. kept it near me. I have it now." probability of a night’s lodging in the , than mind. for twenty consecutive years, besides rough passage down from Fox Island. “Julia,” said 1, earnestly, “answer me occasionally taking other boarders. »She Nov. Sth and 9th he had a severe gale of woods in no very comfortable frame of On inquiring who she was, I learned Linkville, : ; : : : Oregon. For Blacksmiths’ and General use. says kthat her present boarder, Ixrcke wind, which.blcw from nearly every |»oint mind. that she had lately returned from the truly, why ?” Otflce and resi knee, south »ide of Main »treet. “ Because, ” she returned, lifting her Payne, is tho only one from whom she of the compass within twelve hours, My horse stumbled so constantly in West with her father, who had experi­ A Full Line of soft eyes to mine, “ 1 loved you from that has heard complaint, and, like Oliver during which the Hidalgo lost her lower the increasing darkness that I was forced enced , severe reverses of fortune some hour. When I saw you again my love Twist, “found famlt with his victuals foretopsail, and fore and mainsails, the at length to allow him to pick his wav years :»go, but had recently reg. ¡lined his JauoL Wa.-nvr I' K. AuJi-ison. W II. Atkin*»n. at a slow walk. I had arrived at a par­ property. Her name they told me was took new strength, and though I felt and asked for more.” »She kept paupers wind blowing them clean out of the liolt Flannels, Blankets, Cassinieres, Doeskins, ticularly rough part of tho road, and that you despised me, it remained un­ when they were knocked off to the low­ ropes.—S. F. Call. Miss Lee. Clothing, always on hand and est bidder. Old Granny Sinclair, 14) halted to mako sure that no pitfail lay I had never known anyone of the shaken, as it shall to my dying hour.” for sale at lowest prices. “My darling,” I said, stooping to kiss years at 75 cents jier week; Betay Allen, I Connecticut Country Towns, in the obscurity beyond, when a form name but 1 certainly knew her. While sprang out of tho bushes and stood I was puzzling myself for a solution of her upturned face, “on that night you two years at $1; Hannah Coon, three The highest market price? paid for beside me. In the dull light I conld the mystery, one of the heavy braids robbed me of more than my purse. years; Olive Cary, two years; Granny A correspondent of the Troy Times We will continue to purchase wheat perceive that it was a small, slightly- which covered her forehead fell aside, You made wholly yours my heart, my Ellis, two years, at $1; and never had | } — ias ]>een ---- 1 visiting a town in Connecticut one able to do her own washing. built man, clad in shabby garments, ami I saw a small red scar upon her life, my future happiness. and writes : The editor has shown me - A T— —- -------- » <--------------- with a broad slouched hat concealing his temple. Then 1 knew her—it was my Within six years she has woven 100 over the place, and as we came to the Come One and All. Tho Use of Lemons. face, and that he held a pistol in un­ wbu 1 d-be-robber. Miss Lee or Julia yards of carpeting and doneconsiderablo enil of No. 5 of the five streets, the TAc Highest Market Drice, pleasant proximity to my head. spinning. Until within six years since conundrum of it all grew too much for J. M. McCAI.I. A 1'0, Windsor; I could not be mistaken in And will deliver Tire lemon is the native of Asia, al- she has been disabled by an accident, me to hold. “Will you just explain “What do you want?” I asked, with her identity. what composure I could muster. As may be readily imagined 1 was not though it is cultivated in Italyr Portu­ she has never hired help in the house to this riddle of a burgh ?’ I cried. “I ook “ Your money, ” was the answer. “ Fling long in seeking an introduction to her. gal and in the south of France. In the cost of $10. After Mr. Payne had at it. Here are 1,500 j»eople, alive at JACOB WAGNER, JAMES THORNTON, it into the road and ride oft.” If, on her part, she recognized me, she Kuiope, however, it seldom exceeds the got liis farm paid for, she began to save least measurably alive -good for three W. H. ATKINSON, E. K. ANDERSON’. Anywhere in town, The voice was gingu’jirly sweet fur a entertained her coiu|»osura admirably dimensions of the smallest tree, while in in her own name, and accumulated a meals a day, aud now, all in sound AT MII.I» VIIICESI. man—a ruffian at that-—and there was A small red spot rising in her cheek ami its native state it grown to over 90 feet considerable sum of money. houses with spacious gardens or lawns Hngner, Andernou A Co, The neighbors of her early life—the and the lawns kept up, too—and gen­ a tremor in it that belie d his threaten­ fading instantly was th»* only sign of in height. Every part of this tree is valuable in medicine, although we rarely bold yeomanry of Dry Hill—have all erally a barn and •stable; and every anxiety that 1 could detect. ing air. employ any of it except its fruit, that is, passed away. Antipus .Stewart went house, and barn ami stable, and fence and If I had th night her beautiful in her “The man is a coward,” I said to my­ tlu* lemon itself. And every one knows away and hung himself; two large fami­ pump, and hoe handle painted so white self; then aloud, “Suppose I refuse to ugly male attire two years before, I to employ this, as in lemonade: To lies of Bartletts; Darius, Daniel and it makes you ache to look at it. Now how comply with vein* very reasonable re­ found her doubly so now. Tim expres­ sion of care and grief had passed out of squeeze the juice into cold water, this is Litieous Pavne; Uncle Bill Greene; meals, and houses, and« repairs, and quest, what then ?” “1 shall blow your brains out,” was her face, but ¡1 had left its traces in her the shortest way, or cut it into slices Martin and Elijah Goodnow ; Tom and lawns, and horse feed, and tona of white the reply. “Throw me your money, and soft eye and the tremendous outline of ami let it soak in cold water, or to cut John Hurd, have all passed away. The paint, cost money. And the butcher her mouth. An air of quiet thought­ it in slices and then l»oil it. Either school has degenerated from forty to ten and the baker and the mechanics are be quick about it.” I raised my hand from my side as if fulness—the repose cf a sotd heavily way is good. Lemonade is one of the schollars. The old farms and houses are ¡»aid, too—otherwise they couldn’t afford ARE NOW MAKING FROM to comply with his demand; but instead chastened with sorrow -had jt supreme best and safest drinks for any person, occupied by foreigners and transient in­ white paint, and would die of shame. whether in health or not. It is suitable habitants, and Dry Hill seems to )>e des­ Connecticut is full of these sleepy of doing so 1 suddenly lifted my riding charm for me. to all stomach diseases, is excellent tined to become what it was apparently towns, and they all pay their way. 1 had not been sitting near her ten whip and brought it down upon the tem­ in sickness —in cases of jaundice, gravel, designed for—a link to hold the world Now, how do they do it t These folks I have constantly on hand the very best ple of my way layer. The blow was a minutes before it liecame painfully ap­ powerful one, and ho rolled under my parent to me that mv solitary life was a liver complaint, inflammation of the together, and grow wood and timber can’t all I m * retired wooden nutmeg mer­ « addle horne «. cold and seifish one. This beautiful girl liowels and fevers; It is a specific uj»on.—Turner’s Falls Reporter. chants, and they -can’t ait and make horse’s feet without a sound. BlAUlt;** AM> < V Hill AGES, money by looking at each other, any Springing from my saddle to grapple had lived and suffered for another. If against worms and skin complaints. Not by Chanoe. And can furnish my customers with a more than kept-in-school boys can get with him, I found him prostrate and in­ her experience had been a sad one, it The pippins crushed may also be mixed with water and sugar and used as a tip-top turnout at any time. had likewise been noble. »Somehow my sensible, with the blood flowing copious­ rich by swapping r> jackknives. They » Perliaps in some isolated instances a don’t seetn to toil nor spin; and yet ly from an ugly wound in the forehead. adventure with her that memorable drink. Lemon juice is the best anti­ BLANKETS, In the act of lifting his head upon my night seemed to give me a light to her scorbutic remedy known, It not only man niay become wealthy through a Solomon in all his glory never had HORSES BOARDED arm, his hat fell off*, and a coil of lux­ regard. Perhaps it was because I bad cures the disease but prevents it. series of circumstances very much re­ three coats of white paint on his front FLANNELS, On reasonable terms, and given the best uriant brown hair fell over my arm. never forgotten her, and that the simple .Sailors make a daily use of it for this sembling “luck,” but, as a rule, those palings like one of these. Once more, attention. Horses bought and sold Much astonished at this, I bent over the memory of had kept her always close to purpose. A physician suggests rubbing who would enjoy success must work hard how the mischief do they do it!” Here CASSIMERES, the gums daily with lemon juice to for it Twenty clerks in a store, twenty I leaned back Against a |K>st to get the and satisfaction guaranteed in lifeless body and beheld a pale beautiful* me. all my transactions. face, with small delicate features, whose Be that as it may, when I left her keep them in health. The hands and hands in a printing office, twenty appren lucid explanation. There was a slight DOESKINS, expression, even in unconsciousness, that night it was in an unhappy frame nails are also kept clean, white, soft and tices in a ship yard, twenty young men pause instead. “Well, I don’t know ». r. I’HILLIPS AND HOSIERY. was that of mingled sadness and despair. of mind; Emotions had ler, and become an influential braced our brains for the rush of in­ After a little search I discovered the hearted noble woman. cured by rubbing the part affected with citizen: and one of the apprentices will formation to come. The statesmau weapon with which she had threatened I had bojied that I had secured the a lemon. It is valuable also to cure become a master builder, one of the stopped a minute, and tat the question me. It was an old pistol broken and means of a familiar intercourse with unloaded. With an impulse that I did Miss Lee, by 'which I might be enabled warts, and to destroy dandruff on the young villagers will get a handsome farm | soak slowly through his short Roman not stop to question, I thrust it into my to enlarge mv acquaintance with her. head, by rubbing the roots of the hair and live like a patriarch—but which | curls; then a luminous theory rose, pocket. Then I examined the wound I But 1 soon found that I was mistaken. with it In fact its uses are manifold, one is the lucky individual I Lucky ! gleamed and died in his deliberate gray OLD AND NEW, had inflicted. It was a slight one, but Converse with her I might, but never and the more we employ it externally There is rarely any luck about it Tho eye, and then lifting the antique cameo would leave a life long scar upon her freely. Enter her house when and so the better we shall find ourselves. Nat­ young fellow who will distance his com known as his head, and looking even J. ». BVSSELL. Fraprielor. Are invited to send in their orders and temple. often as 1 chose, but her sympathy not ural remedies are the best, and nature petitors is he who masters his business, more like the twelve Ciesars than usual. are assured that they What should such a woman be doing at all. She seemed to hold me at a dis­ is our best doctor, if we only listen to it who preserves his integrity, who lives “I—don’t—quite—know—myself,” said in this desolate place ? What crisis of tance. With all my efforts I could not Decidedly rub your hands, head end cleanly and purely, who devotes his the statesman. ■' 1 1» ------------ Having again settled in this place misfortune had driven her to an act so even establish a cool friendship between gums with it, and drink lemonade in leisure to the acquisition of knowledge, i preference to all other liquids. — Boston and turned my entire attention to who gains friends by deserving them, and “ Jennie, what makes you such a bad dangerous and so unwomanly I There us. Gazette. the Marble Business, I am pre­ who saves hia spare money. There are girl?” “Well, mamma, God sent you just Did she rememlier me, then ? and was no time to reflect on the matter, for some ways to fortune shorter than this the best children lie could find and If At Prices that Defy < ’ompetitien. pared to fill all orders with neat she stirred slightly, and a faint moan of hate me for mv knowledge of that one A Philadelphia barber refused to color old dnsty highway; but the staunch men they don’t suit ydu I can’t help it.” ness aid dispatch. Monuments, dark event in her past history I It pain came through her pale lipa. Bob Ingersoll’s mustache, on the plea t Tablets, and Headstones, executed ___ little child, lost by With a sense of deep remorse for the seemed so, indeed. Yet she was blind. that it never should be said of him “that of the community, the men who achieve I __ A well-dressed something really worth having, good for- 1 some negligent nursemaid, was the center i^Tin anv description of marble. violence I had done the }>oor girl, I Could she not see that I loved her? Or he died an Infidel.” jj^TS|»ecial attention paid to or- tune, good nane, and serene old age( all I of a sympathetic crowd of gentlemen, bound up her wound with her handker­ was it because, while sacrificing herself ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS. They don ’ t know-how to mana >• it : travel along in this road. I C ------- from fc^Tdera from all parts of Southern for her father ’ s sake, I had inflicted the chief and slipped a good portion of the Questions poured — in upon the child St. Louis. The way to put life into u | fO^TUregon. Prices reasonable. wound whose scar she would carry to money I had about me into the pocket all sides, but with no effect At last a Beer drinkers will resort to Beersheba gentleman asked, “Where were you go­ of her coat I felt that her need must the grave 1 Either way, I was supreme­ walking match between newspaper re- Address: jiort- rs is to put a bloody tragedy at the Springs, Tenn., hereafter, under the im] ing to, my little dear?’’ “Nuss,” blub­ ly unhappy. be dejj>erate indeed. J. H. Russell, Six months elapsed before I sum­ other end of it and give the word an pression that they can get Beersheba bered the infant, “sed i’se to go to After a moment her eyes opened and moned up the courage to put her f^el- hour before the time of going to press there. SECRETARY she gazed wildly around. Ashland, Oregon. heben.” TEI ASHLAND TIDINGS. J. M. McCall & Co General Merchandise! Standard Goods! HEADQUARTERS! IRON AND STEEL Ashland Woolen Goods! THE ASHLAND MILLS ! 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