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OREGON.
OFFICE At tl.c Ashland Drug Store.
JAMES R. NEIL,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Jacksonville, Oregon.
J. W. HAMAKAR,
NOTARY
PUBLIC,
Linkville, Lake Co., Oregon.
OFFICE—In Poet Office building. Social attention
iven to conveyancing.
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NEW DEPARTURE.
M. L. M’CALL.
The undersigned from and after April
18th, propose to sell only for
CASH IN HAND
Or approved produco delivered—except
when by special agreement—a short
and limited credit may be given.
They have commenced receiving, their
New Spring Stock, and that every
day will witness additions to
the largest stock of
General Merchandise!
Standard Goods!
Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will
do it, they propose to do the largest
business this spring and summer
ever done by them in the
last five years, and
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
fully than ever, tbe reputation of their
PURVEYOR <1 CIVIL ENGINEER,
House, as the acknowledged
Ashland, Oregon.
HEADQUARTERS I
la pre|KU*ed to do any work iu his line on short notice.
DR. W. B. ROYAL,
Has permanently located in Ashland.
Will give hi. undivided attention to the practice of
medicine. Ila. had fl (teen years’ experience in
Oreçon. Office at hi. residence, on Main street,
opposite the M. E. Church.
For Staplejand Fancy Goods, Groceries,
Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes,
Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress
Goods,Crockery,Glass and
Tin Ware, Shawls,
W rappers, Cloaks,
And, in fact, everything required for the
trade of Southern and South­
eastern Oregon.
DR. E> J. BOYD,
A full asscrtment of
DENTIST.
Linkville,
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Ever brought to this market. They de­
sire to say to every reader of
this paper, that if
DR. J. H. CHITWOOD,
ASHLAND,
MORRIS BAUM.
j. M. m ' call
Oregon.
IRON AND STEEL
For Blacksmiths’ and General use.
Office and residence, south side of Main «treat.
A Full Line of
JOcob Warner.
E. K. Anderton.
W. H. Atkinson.
THE
ASHLAND MILLS !
We will continue to purchase wheat
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Ashland Woolen Goods!
Flannels, Blankets, Cassini eres, Doeskins
Clothing, always on hand and
for sale at lowest prices.
The highest market price? paid for
Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, Lard.
Come One and All.
The Highest Market Drice,
J. H. MeCALL A CO,
And will deliver
Flour, Feed, Etc.,
Anywhere in town,
JAMES THORNTON,
W. H. ATKINSON,
JACOB WAGNER,
E. K. ANDERSON.
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Wagner, Anderson A Co.
ASHLAND
Livery, Sale & Feed
STABLES,
Main Street,
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ARE NOW MAKING FROM
Ashland.
The Very Best
I have constantly on hand the very best
SADDLE HOBNE9.
■VCHiEKM AMD CABBIAttES,
And can furtaish my customers with a
tip-top turnout at any time.
HORSES BOARDED
NAITIIIVIEI WOOL!
BLANKETS,
FLANNELS,
On reasonable terms, and given the best
■ attention. Horses bought and sold
and satisfaction guaranteed in
all my transactions.
CASSIMERES,
DOESKINS,
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OLD AND NEW,
WORKS.
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J. II. BIISELL, Proprietor.
Having again settled in this place
and turned my entire attention to
the Marble Business, I am pre­
pared to fill all orders with neat­
ness and dispatch. Monuments,
Tablets, and Headstones, executed
* <yin any description of marbla
(^Special attention paid to or-
fj^ders from all parts of Southern
42T Oregon. Prices reasonable.
Address:
Are invited to send in their orders and
are assured that they
SHall Receive Prompt Attention I
At Prices that Defy Competition.
ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS.
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J. J7. Russell,
W. H. Atkinson,
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Ashland, Oregon.
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John Harvey sat upon his porch,
smoking his pipe with great content,
while he looked down upon the waters
of the Ohio and watched the passage up
and down tbe stream of steamboats and
vessels whose broad sails were filled by
the soft winds that came from the direc­
tion of Lake Erie, sweeping across the
State in fitful currents.
John Harvey was a man verging
upon three score and ten. His hair was
white and his face somewhat wrinkled,
but he was yet erect of carriage—a stal­
wart looking man, who, in his youth
and in his prime, must have been active
and powerful—a very Hercules in form
aud strength.
John boasted being one of the early
pioneers of Ohio. He early entered
that wild country and commenced in
the woods clearing a home for himself
and his young wife—a very attractive
girl she must have been when she first
became Mary Harvey, for even at the
time of which I am writing, when she
was well past her sixtieth birthday, she
still presented the appearance of having
been beautiful.
Her eyes were yet
bright, large and black, and when at all
excited she looked like what she had
proved herself, a daring woman—just
such a one as a pioneer would wisely se­
lect to accompany him into a strange
land, into the wilderness, to be his
friend and helpmeet in more wavs than
one.
“ When Mary and I first came into
this wilderness,” said Johh, as he re-
moved his tobacco pipe from between
his lips and looked up toward his wife,
who was standing near him, partly rest­
ing her body by placing it against the
side of his great home-made arm chair,
“it was full of Indians—treacherous
fellows they were, too—but they’ve all
gone; they’ve just died out—melted
away as srow disappears before the
heat of the sun, and as silently. They
came very near settling me,” he added,
after a short pause. “ It was when I
built my cabin and commenced to fix up
a bit. And but for Mary here, I guess
they’d have finished me.”
“ Tell mo the story, grandfather,” I
said. I had heard something of it be­
fore, but never in detail from bis or
grandmother’s lips.
“Well, it happened in this wise,” he
began. “ When I entered the wilder­
ness I thought I’d act justly toward the
red men, and see if I couldn’t buy a
hundred or two acres of the land they
owned. By doing this I hoped to se­
cure their friendship and thus save my­
self from future trouble or danger. At
that time the village of the Indians was
placed at the mouth of the Licking
river, in Kentucky, just opposite where
Cincinnati now is. Well, I saw the
head men of the Ohio tribe, and for
a dozen blankets, a few iron tools, a lot of
cured tobacco, powder, shot, some old
hats and clothes—they wanted whisky,
but I wouldn’t give it to them—they
sold me nearly a thousand acres. It
was just the land I wanted. Every­
thing was done in good faith. I re­
turned to my cabin. Mary was wit
me, and I w’ent to work to make things
homelike and comfortable; for, you see,
we expected there’d soon be an addition
to our family.
“ Well, things went nicely for nearly
two months ; the Indians didn’t come
near us, and we supposed from that
they considered our land sacred where
they had no right to enter. But at the
end of the second month trouble came
upon us in a heap. It grew out of an
accident. I was in the woods hunting,
and perceiving an object moving cautious­
ly at a distance, having a cover­
ing on it that looked like the skin of a
black bear, I thought I'd have a shot at
it. Covering the animal, as I supposed
it to be, I pulled the trigger, and when
I’d lowered my rifle, the smoke clearing
away, I saw it lying on the ground mo­
tionless. I hurried up to it and to my
surprise found I had killed an Indian of
considerable reputation as a brave or
sub-chief. He had, I supposed, put on
a bear’s skin the better to hunt It was
a common practice among the red men.
I carried the body of the dead man to
my cabin and hastened to notify his
friends.
When I’d related how the ac­
cident happened, I own that there were
groaning and sullen looks turned upon
me. However, I returned unharmed to
my house, and shortly after a number of
Indian bucks followed and carried away
the corpse, but not until they had exam­
ined the place where the ball had
entered the bear’s skin and the dead
buck’s body. For several days after this
unfortunate event I could see Indians
hovering about the place but I paid no
attention to them, supposing they were
hunting and fisliiDg or gathering nuts.
As I felt the killing of the Indian an
accident I had supposed that they were
of the like opinion.
But I was soon to
be undeceived.
“I must here say that my wife had,
by practice, become accustomed to my
rifle and was as good a Bhot as myself.
She has killed deer and other large
game that I had failed to bring down.
But at the time of which I am speaking
she was in no condition to tramp in the
woods.
“One day, quite late—it was near
sundown—I was chopping wood at a
good distance from the house. Just as
I was about to throw my ax on my
shoulder and trudge homeward—the
shadows of the trees becoming longer
and the light duller—I heard the break­
ing of dry twigs near me, its if some one
was cautiously stepping on them. 1
looked about me but could see nothing.
Now it happened that I did that day
what I had never done before; I forgot
o take my rifle with me.
“When I had got about half way on
my journey I found myself in a dense
piece of woodland, but thinking no harm
I trudged into it, singing to ¡>ass the
time. I had just about got into the
heart of this wood when I found myself
suddenly surrounded by flitting, dancing
figures. I stopped and watched these
shadows, not imagining danger.
“Suddenly a terrific war-whoop, sent
out of a dozen throats, filled the forest,
and then before I recovered from my
astonishment 1 found myself surrounded
by painted devils flourishing weapons of
every savage fashion. f attomuted to
use my ax upon these fiends but they
had calculated upon this, and before I
could get it from my shoulder I was
struck on the right arm with a heavily
loaded stick. It was paralyzed for the
moment, and the only weapon I could
use in my defense lay at my feet. It
was instantly picked up by one of the
crew and I wras hurried to a large beech
tree, and tied with ropes, which I saw
had been stolen from my own barn !
“When they had so tied me that I
could not move a torch was lighted, and
by the reflection on each face 1 saw that
they were fiends and relations of the
man I had accidentally killed.
“I began to talk to them of their evil
conduct, but they only laughed and
howled. They informed me that if 1
was brave it was now the time for me to
show how a palo face could endure fire I
“At this four or five of the painted
fiends ran into lhe woods, one carrying
my ax, iu order to gather up dry twigs
and branches that would readily be
piled about me and fired, destroy me.
While these preparations were going on
I thought of my poor wife, the condition
she was in and the danger she would be
exposed to if the devils, after they had
destroyed me, should venture to the
cabin.
“While I was thus meditating, the
torch being momentarily pushed so near
my face that the skin was blistered, the
report of a rifle was heard, and one of
the Indians who had been dancing
around the tree, standing oftener on his
hands than on his feet, while in that at­
titude tumbled over dead. There was
instant commotion among the savages ;
but before they recovered from their
surprise, a second fiend, dressed in a
long deei skin robe, and who had been
standing before me exercising his ora­
torical powers, fell flat on his face, tiust
us a report of the second gun was heard,
a ball crashed through his skull. They
forgot me and made toward the river;
but they had hardly run a dozen yards,
•when a devil who held the handle of a
scalping knife in his mouth, and who
had more than once threatened to raise
my hair, was, as I heard a third report,
struck in the stomach. He fell and
writhed at my feet in terrible agonies.
I pitied him. The third shot, no one of
which had failed to miss its object, so
frightened the crew that not even stop-
ning to gather up their dead, they ran
sWifely away.
“While I was thus rejoicing in my
he&i ‘ at the timely assistance that had
thus c? >e to me, I tried to look in the
direction in which the shots had come.
The torch had been extinguished, and
for several minutes I stood bound to the
tree in a silence as dead as the night
was dark.
“After a while I faintly heard, as if
it were the steps of a panther or wild­
cat, something walking cautiously ovef
the dry brambles that filled the forest
I thought it was one of the savages who
was making his way to where I was to
brain and then scalp me. But when I
had worked myself into this belief, at
the same time straining every nerve to
burst asunder the cords that bound me,
I felt a hand touch mine.
“I cried hoarsely; ‘Who’s this 1’
“Aud to my astonishment, my wife in
a low voice, her limbs trembling in ex­
citement answered :
“ ‘Hist, John.’i
“I was about to speak, when she put
a finger on my mouth, and then with my
hunting knife, she cut the cords that
bound me.
“ ‘Hush, John !’ she repeated. ‘Take
this gun. It is yours. I have mine,
also.’
“I took it in one of my hands, and
then putting an arm around her waist,
half carried her out of the woods to the
house.
“When we had entered, and closed
and fastened the door, Mary fainted. It
was many hours before she recovered.
In the meantime your mother was born.
“Weeks after this,” he added, after a
pause, “your grandmother 4told me that
fearing some accident had happened to
me, as I was away so late, she resolved
to go in search of me. She took some
ammunition and balls (but never dream­
ing of Indians assailing us), and her own
gun and my heavier rifle. In passing
through the woods, she saw a light
Approaching cautiously and noiselessly,
to her horror, she saw me bound to a
tree, and the painted fiends around me.
Instead of fainting, she became calm
and resolute, and loading the rifles, she
fired them, each time tumbling over a
savage. Then she hastily reloaded the
guns. But she had only an opportunity
to use one of them before the gang dis-
appeared. The rest of the story you
know.”
A Disciple of. Cowley.
Enoch Arden Outdone.
A Novel Strike.
Under date of Greenfield, Ohio, Feb.
1st, the New York Times publishes the
following : Lying upon a small pallet in
a room in a little one story frame bouse
on Lafayette street, last evening, was a
little chihl whose sufferings could hardly
be fathomed, except by one who has
been a victim of frozen limbs. It ap­
pears that one year ago this month Wil­
liam Diehl, a shoemaker, bound out his
little girl, then seven years of age, to a
man named J. W. Jackson, living in
Jackson county, five miles from a sta­
tion called Berlin, where he owns 85
acres of land and is well to do in this
world’s goods. Himself and wife consti­
tute the family. This child was given
to them with the understanding that
they were to educate and dress her un­
til she became eighteen years old. I^ow
far this contract was kept will be seen
by the story told by the little girl be­
tween sobs and groans of pain. The
following arc not her words, but the
import is the samo: After going to
live with the Jacksons she was treated
very well for a few months, when they
began to treat her badly, Mrs. Jackson
whipping her until welts were raised all
over her body. These whippings were
administered mostly with a stout switch
to her nude back. Iler back and arms
still bear marks which corroborate her
story. These* she says she got because
she refused last Fall, when the ground
was frozen to go out in her bare feet
and pick up apples and bring in the
wood. She was also made to work on
the bare floor washing clothes, and go
out and hang them up shoeless and
stockingless during the cold, freezing
weather about Christmas. At this time
her feet '‘were frozen. After this she
was provided with a pair of heavy cow­
hide shows, which hurt her feet so badly
in their already painful condition that
she could not wear them. Attending
physicians think amputation of the feet
will be necessary to save the child’s
life.
Some time prior to the war a young
couple met and loved. After a short
courtship they were married and lived
happily together. Children came to
bless the union and they prospered well.
When the war broke out his patriotic
soul would not allow him to stav at
home, and he shouldered a musket and
sought the battle-field in the defence of
his country. Letters came regularly for
a time, and then ceased entirely. Word
was sent home that he had been taken
prisoner, and soon after the dread news
came that he was dead. The news was
considered se authentic that the Govern­
ment allowed the widow and tbe chil­
dren a pension. After a reasonable
time she listened to the pleadings of
another suitor and married him. They
came to Atlantic, where her father
is an honored citizen, having moved
here from the eastern Iswa town
which had been the home of the family.
The second husband proved to be a
worthloss drunkard, and after a time
spent in mutual bickering, 6he got a di­
vorce on the ground of intemperance
and general cussedness, so to sjieak.
Not content with her bad luck, she
concluded to marry again, this time a
man who wras even a worse failure than
her second husband, and who deliber­
ately shook the dust off his feet and
“lit out” between two days, after living
with her for a time. In the meantime,
a quiet, unassuming man had come to
Atlanta and hired to a prominent con­
tractor here. He formed an acquaint­
ance with the lady and her husband,
dropping in at various times to spend
an evening, and was on intimate terms
generally. To have seen him, no one
would have thought for a moment he
•was acting out a strange romance. Time
passed on, and the husband skipped out,
as atoresaid.
One evening, after a
little preliminary conversation, he re­
vealed himself to the astonished woman.
He was the veritable first husband,
so long considered dead,' on ac­
count of which the pensions were still
coming to the children. Explanations
followed in which it appeared that he
had, after being released, written sev­
eral letters home, but the family having
removed from their former home, and
despairing of again hearing from them,
had let the matter rest. He came to
Atlantic without the slightest idea tthat
he would meet anyone he had ever seen,
but recognized his former wife at once.
Finding that the recognition was not
mutual, he concluded not to disturb the
couple, but went on with his daily du­
ties as of old.
The above are the Jacts in the case
as given us by the attorney for the
woman. What the outcome of this
strange affair will be, we have no idea,
nor do we believe have the parties
themselves. We have not mentioned
any names, because the lady is quite
sensitive in regard to the matter.—
Iowa Messenger.
Strikes amon? working men have be­
come so common as to hardly cause
comment beyond the simple statement
of the fact, but a strike of working
women is a new feature in the labor
movement that was witnessed at Troy,
N. Y., a few weeks ago. We give tbe
details from the Troy dispatches to the
New York Times of Jan. 27-28:
The laundries here employ thousands
of girls in starching linen collars, cuffs,
and shirts after they have been man­
ufactured. This branch of the business
has been as profitable as the other, and
it has grown during the last five years
with remarkable rapidity.
Formerly,
manufacturers used to send work to
laundries conducted by persons who had
not capital to embark ia tbe other
branches. Of late years, the tendency
has been for manufacturers to do all
their own work, including laundrying.
The work is hard, and laundry girls
have been better paid thtn those who do
the sewing. The price has been 3 cents
a dozen for starching collars and cuffs.
Last week the operatives in one laundry
struck for 4 cents a dozen, and their
employers yielded.
Strikes in other
laundries followed, and to-day several
hundred girls in different laun­
dries went out.
The strike has
now reached the largest concerns in the
city, and it is apprehended that it will
be followed by a demand for an advance
by sewing-girls. Tim <fcUo. have adver­
tised for men to learn the business of
collar and cuff starching, which consists
simply in straightening out tbe article
and distributing the starch evenly after
the goods have passed through the
starch tub. Under the old rate the
wageB of the laundry girls have aver­
aged $8 a week, of 54 hours.
The strike among the collar, cuff and
shirt-sewing and laundry operatives is
spreading. Recently 1,200 of these
men were out. Tim
Co., who em­
ployed men in place of the strikers had
their establishment beseiged by a crowd
of 500 girls and their sympathizers.
The men when leaving work were pelte^l
with mud, and tendered the loan of
dresses and skirts. Mr. Tim, who is an
excitable man, drew a revolver and
ordered the girls away. The arrival of
the police prevented further trouble.
The manufacturers have held a meeting,
at which it was unanimously determined
to resist the demand for an advance,
which was characterized as exorbitant
and unwarranted by the condition of the
trade. They agreed to offer employment
to all comers at one half the advance de­
manded by the strikers. The offer was
refused.
Mrs. Brassey and Her Revolvers.
Next morning we made an early start,
and traveled for seven hours and a half
straight on, only stopping a little while
every now’ and then, when it became
absolutely necessary for us to rest The
pleasantest halt was ai Jeba, where we
ate cur luncheon in a grove of olive
trees. Just after that we passed a most
beautiful cavern, hewn out of the rock,
and supported by two pillars. Every
part of it was covered—tapestried, I
might say, with maidenhair fern; pil­
lars, roof, walls, every inch of rock,
were hidden and made green by the del­
icate, close-growing fronds. Partly to
look at this cavern, and partly because
I could not ride fast, Tom and I had
lingered behind the rest of the party.
We noticed that a large number of
Turks and Greeks had passed us, and
overtook those of our party who were
in front, but no sooner had they done
so than it became evident that some sort
of scrimmage had begun. We - could
see that Karam was off his horse, and
had his revolver out, and it seemed high
time, for one of these strangers was
holding bis revolver unpleasantly close
to Karam’s head. Other men, too, were
galloping up, and it really looked rather
formidable. We immediately pulled
out our revolvers and cantered as
quickly a3 possible to the scene of ac­
tion, where we met some of our mule­
teers and servants hurrying to the
rescue. Whether we were too large a
party and were evidently too w’ell pre­
pared for a fight, I know not, but peace
seemed to be restored in a moment, and
we all put up our revolvers and rode on
as quiotly as possible without further
annoyance, while our would-be assail­
ants remained behind, vociferating and
gesticulating—Mrs. Brassey, in Fraser’s
Magazine.
Old Facts in New Dresses.
The Huntsmen a Hunting.
Three remarkable incidents, if they
may be so called, of somewhat similar
character, are worthy of being cata­
logued together. A gunner in the
neighborhood of San Francisco fired into
a clump of bushes at what he supposed
to be a wildcat, and fetched down a lit­
tle girl and wounded her older sister.
In Rhode Island two huntsmen fired at
a covey of partridges; they did not get
a bird, but they iatally wounded their
horse which was hitched to a barn in the
vicinity. In Louisiana two New Or­
leans editors went out on the sanguinary
field, their eyes glistening with deadly
fire, to shoot one another in the old
fashioned French manner. Each fired
two shots, neither was harmed, but, ac­
cording to the official protocol drawn up
on the field of conflict, it ’appears that
“After the second shot, in consequence
of representations and expostulations
made by mutual friends present, and in
a parley called by the seconds of Major
Hearsey, it was proposed by them and
agreed to by the seconds of Major
Burke, that the latter, on behalf of
their principal, should express their re­
cognition of Major Hearsey as a gentle­
man of honor and courage; upon which
Major Hearsey’s friends declared them­
selves satisfied, and hostilities were by
general consent terminated, and the
seconds hereby take pleasure in testify­
ing to the brave and honorable deport­
ment of both Major Burke and Major
Hearsey.”
Affairs of this kind might be encour­
aged witfi beneficial results, and sensi­
tive people can no longer object to the
operations of the code duello as an alle-
viative of suspecWd wounded honor. A
large circle of friends will be glad to
know that by either the providentially
distracted bullets, or bad marksmanship
the lives of these two brave journalists
of the crescent city have been preserved
for further encounters with the pen, and
perhaps the pistol.—Rochester Herald.
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The editor of the Elmira Gazette ad­
vertises for a bible which was taken
from his editorial room. How the
Bible first got in the room, the Chicago
Journal says, is not explained. The ex­
planation probably is that the editor
stole it from a railway car in which he
was riding on a free pass.
Railway Employes.
In Lis sermon to railroad men at
Rochester, Rev. C. P Colt reviewed the
history of railroading. The first train,
he said, made the astonishing speed of
twelve miles an hour. In 1829 the di­
rectors of the Manchester and Liver­
pool railway offered a prize to any en­
gine that would draw a train three times
its weight at a speed of ten miles an
hour. Three engines competed for the
prize, the winning one making fourteen
miles an hour, which was consideied at
that time quite remarkable speed. He
spoke of the first locomotive in America,
made by Peter Cooper, which made but
ten miles an hour, ’lhe speaker con
sidered the locomotive as one of the
main forces in advancing civilization.
It was also one of the chief instruments
for spreading the gosjiel. According to
a late report there were 82,000 miles of.
railway in the United States, valued at
four and one half billion dollars, whose
gross receipts last year were five hun­
dred million dollars. One . road em­
ployed fourteen thousand men, and many
of them live in this city. Many more
of them would live in this city if the
common council were not so foolish.
He referred to the many hardships en­
dured by railroad men, and said we owe
them a debt of gratitude for carrying on
so large and safe a passenger traffic.
These men are subjected to temptation
more than most other men. We used
to think that a man that returned from
the army without any bad habits de­
served great credit, but he thought
when a railroad man resisted tempta­
tion, profanity and evil associates, he
had a piety of the right kind. He
knewjthe severity of their temptations
when far from home and among strang­
ers. Yet some of the best Christians
were to be found among the railroad
men.—Rochester Horald.
The kerosene oil can—the servant’s
royal road to glory.
The goat—the butt of many a joke
but still butt’ning his kids.
The mother-in-law—the unwelcome
helmsman of the matrimonial bark.
The front gate—it has swung many a
couplo to unceasing hatred of each
other.
The clothes line—you never see it
until it is within a thirty-second of an
inch of your nose.
The front stoop—romance without
upholstery.
*
Hash—a compound to test the sub­
limity of faith.
The old man’s boot—a rear elevator
“Moik, phat’s iftigy 1” asked a Miles­
in the front hallway.
ian matron the other morning in San
The minister’s slippers—a good deal
Francisco, looking up from the Post,
of overwork and a good deal of under­
“Sorra a bit do I know,” replied her
size.
hueband, “Is it something to ate, I
The parlor sofa—the shorter it is the
dunno V
“Ate, yer ownadhaum !
longer you like to sit on it, with good
Sure it’s Dinnis sez he’ll burn Giant
company.
.
in if-i-gy.’ “Begorra, it must be wan
Boarding-house butter—cut off its
o’ them big wurds he brought back wid
hair and, Samson like, it will lose its
him from Bostin.
I’m thainkin’ it’s
strength.
Frinch for the Foorth warrud, so it is.”
— ■
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And the pair shook their heads in
The recent statement that Mr. Robert
speechless admiration of the lingual re­
Packer, Superintendent of the Pennsyl­
sources of Mr. Kearney
vania Railroad, while traveling in Ne­
braska, had conversed with his family
They have a very sad affair at West
two thousand miles distant by means of
Point. A lady at Cozzens told her
a telephone, proved, upon investigation,
mamma that all the cadets wear white
to be incorrect. The telephone’s per­
James Grant, a wealthy, childless ciM' pants, whereupon a man said, “So do
formance fell short of the newspaper re­ izen of Ohio, has brought up in his their sisters, then cousins and their
port some nineteen hundred and ninety- house, educated, and set up. in business aunts,” and he had to be shot through
I nine miles and a fraction.
I the heart.
fifteen orphan boys.