INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON. '•ASHLAND OREGON FRIDAY, fSEPTEMBER 10. 1880. VOL V—NO 14. ASHLAND TIDINGS. J M. McColl W. A. Wilshire W. II. Atkinson McCall, Atkinson & Co., Ashland Oregon. OPPICI—On Main sireet, (in second story ot McColl * Benn’s new building. ) JeBFrlatia*. NEW GOODS!! NEW PRICES!!! Terme ot ■aberri>Si«at O*« «opy. otw rear.......... ............ —|2 50 “ ” rtx«Matha___ __________ ____ -.......... 1 » “ “ tara« inooth»________________ _____ - 1 W ....1- 50 (Sub rat«, iii oopies for.................. Cwau 1« «dronov Tara«« af Adv«rU»lu»i LWiL • m iq«*» (Un lima or le«) lit inaertio«.. ..„™.|2 50 ■Mb «SSitioael inaartion ......................................... - 1 0U . We are now receiving our New Spring Stock, and everyday will witness additions to the largest stock of LOCAL. General Merchandise! PROFESSIONA1 Ever brought to this market. We de­ sire to s^y to every reader of this paper, that if 10c Lucei noCioca per liua .............. ... Raglili t advcrUaemaut» iaurtod upon liberal Verni» DR. J. H. CHITWOOD, ASHLAND, : : : : OREGON. A j UU u J Ums Store. R. NEIL, Y - A T - L A W , Jacksc nville, Oregon. ! 1 W. HAMAKAR, PUBLIC, NOTARY Llakvill«, Laks Co., Oregon. OmCt-Ii Poet OtSce building. Special attention tree to eooTeyaneinrf MJL M’CALL, PURVEYOR A CIVIL ENGINEER, Ashland, Oregon. B préparai to do any work In his line on short notice. DR. W. B. ROYAL« Ha* permanently located in Ashland. Will gfrra hi. undOiilthl attention to tbo practice <»t Medici««. H m h*dlflfto*n year»’ «xnerUnce in Uragoe. Ottico at hi. miUenee, on Main itreet, •pouaito th. M. E. Church. ; : : : - : Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will do it, we propose to do the larg­ est business this season, ever doie in Ashland; and we can positively make it to the advantage of every one to call upon us and test the truth of our assertions. We will spare no pains to fully maintain the reputation of the House, As the acknowledged HEADQUARTERS ! For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Dress Goods, Crockeiy, Glass and Tin Ware, Shawls, W rappers,Cloaks, And, in fact, everything required for the trade of Southern and South­ eastern Oregon. IRON AND STEEL DENTIST. Link ville, tandard Goods! A full asscrtment of DR. E. J. BOYD. Oregon. For Blacksmiths’ and General use. OSo. and renden«*. «outli »ide of Main »treet A Full Line of I DR. J, M. TAYLOR. SURGEON. PENTIST Main street, Ashland, Oregon, OFFICE—In iiœixi «vorv of Mtaoni<- H»U. huera, trvra S to li A. M.. and from lJOtolP. M. Ashland Woolen Goods! Flannels, Blankets, Cassi meres, Doeskins, Clothing, always on hand and for sale at lowest prices. Th» highest market prices paid for Wagon Manufactory, Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, Lard. MeCALL, ATkI iSOX A CO, W. W. Kentnor, Prop’r, MAIN STREET, - - ASHLAND. Wagons, Buggies, Carriages, Wheel Barrows, Plow-Stocks, etc., made and repaired at shert notice. BEST EASTERN STOCK ALWAYS ON HAND. Alt orders left at my new shop, north •t the bridge, will receive prompt and satisfactory attention. W. W. KENTNOR. A i UIL axd , April 10, 1880. JAKES THORNTON, JACOB WAGNER, W. H. ATKINSON, E. K. ANDERSON. THE ASHLAND WOOLEN MÄNÜFÄC’G CO., ARE NOW MAKING FROM H. Atkineou. E. K. Anderton. THE ,ASHLAND MILLS I The Very Best .We will continue to purchase wheat —A T— TWe Highest Market Price, And will deliver BLANKETS, FLANNELS, CASSIMERES, Flour 9 Feed< Eto*« DOESKINS, Anywhere in town, AND HOSIERY. AT MI LI- PRICES, Wtfitr, Aaderean * ASHLAND Livery, Sale & Feed STABLES, Main Street, : Ashland. 1 have constantly on hand the very best ■ABDLE HOBMFA. BVOeiES AMD CLBBIAGES, » lore patrons ! OLD AND NEW, Are invited to send in their orders and are assured that they SHall Receive Prompt Attention ! At Prices that Defy Competition. And can furnish my customers with a tip-top turnout at any time. HORSES BOARDED On reasonable terms, and given the best attention. Horses bought and sold and satisfaction guaranteed in all my transactions, H. r. FBILLIH. I di that lie could have spared himself the trouble, for it’s not likely that I shall have any more'money' then than now. J must go away from here or go crazy !” And poor Aunt Clara burst into a flood of tears, which seemed a little service in the comforting line, for they brought uo relief whatever. “ What in the world is the matter, auntie, dear ?” said her niece, drawing near and trying to soothe her. “ Matter ! 1 owe the butcher for a month’s moat, the grocer for two month’s groceries, the gas man, the paper man, and my house rent has been due over a week.” “ But why don’t you see these people, and tell them how you are situated, instead of sending Kate to tell false­ hoods I” “ Louise Griffin, you don’t know what you are talking about. You don’t know what it is to be alone in the world, sti ug gling for subsistence ; you don’t know what it is to be cheated out of your hard-won earnings. I never thought I should come to this. I—” “ Ting-a lirg a ling ■” went the door bell again. “Are you in now, Mrs. Beresford?” inquired the kind hearted servant girl, poking her head in at the door, as this fresh appeal wa3 heard. “In? No. For mercy’s sake hide mo somewhere! I have a great mind to crawl under the bed, just to get out of sight ! Dear, dear. What shall 1 do now ? ’ Louise said no more, but turned away and nervously tapped on the window pane, wondering if her good-natured, even-tempered Aunt Clara had taken leave of her senses. “Come away from the window,Lou.se! Are you crazy to stand there knocking in that style ?” exclaimed the poor, tired woman, frantically. “ I don’t owe anybody, auntie,” re­ plied Louise. “ But they may think it is I. I don’t want them to know that there’s a soul at home. O dt ar—O dear ! This load is greater than I can bear !’’ “ It was Mr. Barlow, ma’am ; says he’ll call again this evening, and—” “ Why didn’t you tell him that I shouldn’t be home, or that I was sick in bed, or something, to—to have kept him out of sight un*il 1 should get things in order ?” “He asked, ma’am, if you weie quite well, and how Nell and Josey wero ; he said he would come in a few minutes if the children were at home ; he appeared kinder sorrowful like when he went away, ma’am.” “ No doubt of it,-” replied Mrs. Beres­ ford. “ Folks are apt to be sorrowful when they can’t collect the money due them. He’ll look kind of angry by night—mark my words 1” Again the bell resounded through the house. “ Is this kind of thing to be kept up all day f Are we to have nothing else from morning till night ?” exclaimed the thoroughly exasperated woman. This time Kate didn’t ask what mes­ sage she should convey, but returned with this intelligence— “ The gas man. I told him you was out, and he said pleasi to tell you that he hated to leave such a message, but it is the company’s orders that if you don’t send up the amount of your bill to-mor­ row at 12 o’clock, they will come and cut off the gas." “ xksk him if he couldn’t kill two birds with one stone, and cut off my head at the same time.” “ Aunt Clara, I believe you are stark, raving mad,” sobbed Louise. Just then, little six-year-old Nell burst into the room, and, with a merry laugh and shout, held out a letter, say­ ing— “ Ob, mamma, a man gave me this to give to you! Which man does you i think it was? Guess now, mamma History of Zero. Clara.” “ Zero, on the common thermometer, “ One of my creditors», probably." “Oh, no, mamma, it ‘wasn't him—it like the fanciful names of the constella­ was our dear Mr. Barlow, and he kissed tions, is a curious instance of the way me ever so long : lx: said he had been to wise men’s errors are made immortal by It may be call, and you was out voiu rum uecummg popular. popular, it oe worth worm out; ; ana and 1 told him i becoming my mamma wasn’t out;* that bad-men while to sav that the word itself (zero) came around every single day asking for I comes to us through the Spanish from the Arabic, and means empty, hence money—” “ Nellie Beresford, did you tell Mr. nothing. In the expression 90’ Fahr., Barlow that ? What did he say ?” And the abbreviation Fahr, a Prussian mer­ chant of Dantzee, on the shores of the Mrs. Beresford was as pale as %a ghost. “ This is what he done, mamma. He I Baltic Sea. His full name was Gabriel put his hand this way on his chin—” Fahrenheit From a boy be was a close observer of and the little one imitated the gentle­ man as he stroked .bis whiskers—‘I i nature, and, when he was only 19 years thought so and then ho kissed me old, in the remarkably cold Winter of again, and gave me this to buy’’ a hoop 1709, he experimented by putting snow with,” holding up a five dollar note. and salt together, and noticed that it Mrs. Beres-ford tiled to reprove the produced a cold equal to the coldest day child, but she broke down, threw herself that year. As that day was the coldest on the bed, and buried her face in the that the oldest inhabitant could remem­ ber, Gabriel was the more struck with pillow. “ 1 had rather any other man in the the coincidence of his little scientific world should have known of this than discovery, and hastily concluded that he Mr. Barlow, lie is so particular about had found the lowest degree of temper­ honor. O dear, dear ! How can I ever ature known in the world, either arti­ ficial or natural. He called that degree look him in the face again ?” ****** * zero, and constructed a thermomster, or “Come in here a minute, won’t you a rude weather glass, with a scale grad­ auntie,” said Louisa, r.s Mrs. Beresford uated up from the zero to the boiling entered the front parlor after dinner. point, which he numbered 215, and the freezing point 32, because, as he thought, “Here is a friend who wants to see you the thirtv-second of The next moment Mrs. Beresford mercurv • contracted e * a volume on being cooled down from the found hoi self face to face with her land­ lord, Louisa -leaving them alone together. temperature of freezing water to zero; “Mr. Barlow,” said Aunt Clara, with and expanded 180th ou being heated a sob in her voice, “I am exceedingly from the freezing to the boiling point. Time showed that this arrangement, mortified that you should have to call instead of being truly scientific, was as again for your money; but the truth is, arbitrary as the division of the Bible 1 am in trouble; I shall bo compelled to. into verses and chapters, and that these ask for a few days more grace.” “Have you finished?’’ inquired the two points no more represented the two elegant looking gentleman. “Because if extremes of temperature than “ from you line, I should like to' speak, 1 did Dan to Beersheba” represented the not call here to talk about house rent. boundaries of Palestine. But Fahren­ I have been trying for the last three heit’s thermometer had been largely months to muster up courage enough to adopted, with its inconvenient scale; ask you to be my wife; but your manner and none thought of any better until has been discouraging. I ask you this his name became an authority, for Fah­ question now. If you think you ever renheit finally abandoned trade and can love me, say so; and if not, act like gave himself up to science. Then habit a sensible little woman, and tell me all made people cling to the established your troubles; let me be a frknd to you, scale, as habit makes people cling to if 1 may not occupy the position my their old system of cumbrous fractional money. heart craves.” # Our nation began to U3e Fahrenheit’s What do you think her answer was? thermometer about the middle of the As true as you live,a flood of tears! Ami Jast century, or not far from the time the next thing she knew a pair of arms « were thrown lovingly about her, her when old Style was exchanged for New head was pressed close to his shirt-front, Style in the writing of dates. The three countries which use Fahren and it looked very much as if the little widow had found the rest for which she hoit vre Holland, England and America. Russia and Germany use Reaumer’s sighed. thermometer, in which the boiling The gas wasn’t turned off’ the next point is marked 80* above freezing dav, 1 ut every boarder was out of that establishment before the next Sabbath, point. France uses the centigrade ther­ and—well, Mrs. George Barlow sits by’ mometer, so called because it marks the my side, and or. her knee crows a baby boiling point 100’ from freezing point On many accounts the centigrade sys­ just four months old today, and his tem is the best, and the triumph of con name is Geoige Barlow, Jr. venience will be attained, when zero is Mortri—it is best to “face the music” made the freezing point, and when the under all circumstances. | boiling point is 100* or 1,000’ from it, — — —— and all the subdivisions aro fixed deci A Dark Seance mally. If Fahrenheit had done this at first, “Great aches from little toe corns or even if he had made it one of his grow,” and the most momentous affairs many improvements after the public sometimes lung upon insignificant cir­ adopted his error, the luck of opportun­ cumstances. For illustration, the other ity, which was really his, would have night a small boy got into the eloset secured to his invention the patronage where the meter was kept, in a large of the world S Market str^bt lodging house, and, as an inevitable result, accidentally turned off The Planets. the gas. This occurred at 10:30 P. M., and the consequences were various. A correspondent of the Providence On tho first floor a dignified citizen Journal, in speaking of Jupiter as a and church member was reading Platt's morning star, and his approach toward refutation of Ingersoll to his children, his perihelion, speculates on his supposed and swore like a pirate when the total action on the sun, in producing sun eclipse set in. spots and other disturbances, and the On the second floor a lot of amateur effect of these again on the earth. I*, voca ists were practicing in the hope of he says, the planet Neptune was discov­ being rung into the Tobin troupe chorus ered, or supposed to exist on account of one of these days. The whole lot nat­ certain pertnrbacions in the movements urally supposed that heaven had stricken of Uranus, and if the erratic movements them with blindness for their persist­ of Mercury reveal the presence of planets ence in making other people wretched, within ins orbit, why should not the ami so straightway fell ujon their near approach of Jupiter to the sun stir knees and began to pray, as if prayer up a commotion in his fiery elements? could do anything for a San Francisco The sun is still diversified with spots, amateur. and the planet is near enough to perihe­ On the third floor a gentleman was lion to make his influence felt. Astron­ mixing a hot scotch for his sick wife, omers have been wise prophets thus far, and in the darkness drank the result by as to the influence of the commencement mistake, giving her syrup of squills in- of the sun ¿pot cycle. Tornadoes and s cad. cyclones of extreme severity have born On the fourth a woman was hunting witness to abnormal conditions of the a tom cat from under the bed with a atmosphere, and a wave of intense heat, broomstick. The animal .took advantage such as has not occurred for a quarter of of the obscuration to scalp tho woman’s a century at this season of the year, has nose and smash tho transom into fori y confirmed the exactness of previous ob­ thcusand flinders in going out. servations. We must still expect the On the fifth floor a Second Advent­ usual storms, waves of heat and auroral ist, author of the thrilling tract, “Al­ displays that follow the maximum of ways Ready,” imagined the world was sun spots; we have yet to learn whether coming to an end, any acquaint­ ance, bearing a family name well known in the English aristocracy, while sitting at a table d’hote dinner in Switzerland, next to a party of English tourists, heard one of the ladies, who had read her name on the hotel register, referring to herself, ask her companion, “Is the Honorable Miss------ of London V' “No,” was the reply, in a pointedly contemptuous tone, “she's only an Amer­ ican,” knowing anfl intending that her remark would be overheard by the ladv herself. To give greater sting to the gratuitous impertinence, another added: “You know no American goes in good society in London.” Comment is un­ necessary on this species of cultivated vulgarity in high life, which is first and w’orthy cousin to the W’omen-beating of the lower classes. But how is it with ourselves ? British colonists carry their home traits wherever they settle. In America these have been modified by new conditions of climate and the inter­ blending of the ideas and manners of other European immigrants. Out of these combinations fresh types of men are rapidly forming, whose ideal effigies begin to appear on our social horizon. How far they may be better or worse than the European types remains to be seen. Wherever intellectual traits aro strongly marked, manners become cor­ respondingly emphasized. This inten­ sity of local or individual convictions is a powerful factor in human life and his­ tory, and none the less energetically op­ erative if, as is too often the case, it re­ gards all advantages as the culmination of its own innate virtues and the re­ ward of an appreciating Providence in the pursuit of its special interests and pleasures. The early Grecian states, particularly the Athens of Per­ icles, and the Italian despotisms and republics ot the middle ages, were conspicious examples of the concentrated self-interest and a selfish pride of local existence. Every man in them, not a citizen born, was considered cither as a slave, active enemy, or an unsympathetic alien. But the intense self assertion of the dominating caste was always a reser­ voir ot strength, which nourished the growth of the city for which its tyrant* or its citizens zealously wrought and fought, Their patriotism was genuine of its kind, albeit more one-sided and narrower than that which took its place after the rival communities were consol­ idated into broader nationalities. But its spirit has now degenerated into mere pride of family names and ties of caste, and is no longer a jiolitical force swaved for the domination of a petty state which was identified with tLe existence of a ruling class. Instead modern times have developed varied systems of social tyranny, based ou petty sentiments and aims, seclusive and exclusive in princi­ ple, and ruled l^y individuals whose hor­ izon of aspirations is bounded by their own hearthstones. What is now called aristocratic society is an outgrowth of the older and broader civic ambitions, toned down to the modern standards of life. It shapes itself into multiform castes founded on the one-sided, strictly personal ambitions which have supplant­ ed the larger, if in practice less humane, idealisms of the older epochs of civiliza­ tion, gradually deteriorating in aim from the city or association to the family now settling more and more on the mere in­ dividual by sheer force of the Democrat­ ic drift of ideas. Family name and dis­ tinction, however, still continue to be in England the chief keystonesof its strong arch of caste.* Each individual member cherishes himseif.es an integral portion of the social structure he represents. In consequence, there is formed a certain unity of manners and *one of speech in high life which corresponds to its homo­ geneity of aims, and any pressure brought to bear on one part of the sys­ tem is felt and resisted by the whole.— N. Y. Times. a Tired Women. All through the country one meets with tired, careworn women who seem to have entirely lost health, hope and ambition. They are forced in the posi tion of drudges, and, too often, meet with no sympathy from their husbands, who sneer at the idea of woman's work being so burdensome when they remem­ ber their own laborious tasks. But sneering does not lessen the labor of the wives to whom kitchen, pantry, milk room, dining room, suggest drudg­ ery. The man has a constant change of scene with all the excitment incident thereto. He goes from breakfast to the plow, the barrow, and the constantly varying duties of the farm. Hi* meals are prepared for him, and after supper he can enjoy his pipe in peace, his work over for the day. But with hi* wife it is different. Early in the morning she rises to kindle the fire, dress the chil­ dren, cook breakfast, wash the dishes, send the children to school, get the din­ ner, wash the dishes—and if there is a moment to spare between dinner and supper, to spend it in sewing—get sap­ per, wash the dishes, put the children to bed—and if a momont more offers, to sew, besides taking care of the morning and evening milk, churning and working butter, and a hundred, things that must be done every day, in exactly the same way and order. She has no time for pleasure. She does not attend any lodge or society meeting; she visits a neighbor but very seldom, “ she's so bu3y ;” she does not walk out after tea to meet a friend to drive away care- by social con­ verse ; her duties vex her till bedtime, when, anxious and careworn, it's long ere she can sleep, or if she can, the teething baby or the Bick child demands her care; and she may spend half the night in quieting it to be roused from a troubled sleep all too soon, to re-com- mence the weary routine. Is it any wonder that farmers’ wives so often leave the scene of their thankless toil for the insane asylum 1 The True Gentleman. Any one who wishes to may become a gentleman. He will not form a habit of telling smutty or vulgar stories. He will be careful not to offend persons; will keep his face clean. He will never lift his voice in a small room when talk­ ing to men as if he rere in a field driv­ ing oxen. He will never be loud­ mouthed or overbearing to his inferiora He will not speak so as to pain or wound the heart of any person under him. He will never speak of super­ ior family connections or give those whom he is with to understand that he is of more conkequence than they. He will never pry into the private’ affairs of any other person or meddle himself with the affairs another person should attend to. He will be above the petty suspicions born of ignorance, and proof of bad breeding. He will never try to bully or beat his way or assume a super­ iority that it is entirely lost the mpment it is boasted of. He is never obsequi­ ous, but prompt, polite, discreet and courteous to all with whom he comes in contact. He will never quarrel with a servant or use profane language to any one. The gentleman always has his friends even under adverse circum­ stances because he deserves them. The If you would make a thief honest, success of a true gentleman |is always trust him, lasting. . 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