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I P’ 23 ¿1/ \ -, u k ASHLAND TIDINGS ASHLAND ASHLAND ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. W. II. LEEDS. Editor and Publisher, Terms ot Subscription: One oopy, one year...................... “ “ six months....;............ •• “ three months.............. Jlnb Rates, six copies for........... Terms, in advance. VOL. X ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1886 MERCANTILE PROFESSIONAL CARDS. AND MANUFACTURING THE REGISTRY LAW. Following is the full text of the de- : ciaion of the supreme court in the regis Attorney and Counsellor at Law. try law case: ASHLAND, OREGON. Will attend to eases in the courts of Oregon, In the supreme court of the state of render advice snd prepare papers in the set Oregon, March term 1886. Eugene D. tlement of estates, make applications for patents under the V. S. mining laws, snd White, appellant vs. the county commis may be consulted on all matters pertaining sioners of Multnomah county, respon to Government lands. School and Swamp dents. Appeal from Multnomah county. lands, and claims against the I.'. S. for ser vices or losses. Opinion by Waldo, C. J., Lord, J, con OFFICE—Main street. [10-39 curring, Thayer, J, dissenting. Townshift plats on file in the office. This suit is brought to determine the j constitutionality of the late act provid ' J. T. Bowditch, ing Jor the registration of voters. T[ie constitution of Oregon, article 2, Attorney and Counsellor at Law section 2, provides “In all elections not ASHLAND, OREGON. otherwise provided for by this constitu Will practice ir. all courts of the State. tion every white male citizen of the Uni Collection* promptly made and remitted. ted States of the stage of 21 year« and 9-4 ■ upwards who shall have resided in the state during the six months immediately T. B. Kent, preceding such election, and every white Attorney atid Counsellor at Law. male of foreign birth of the age of 21 JACKSONVILLE, OR. years and upwards who shall have re- ■ CB^Will practice in all the courts of Oregon. sided in this state during the six months Office in the court house. 110-3 preceding such election and shall have declared hia intention to become a citi Albort Sosuaoad) zen of the United*States one year pre ceding such election, conformably to the CIVIL ENGINEER and 8URVEY0R, laws of the United States on the subject ] ASHLAND, OREGON. of naturalization, shall be entitled to ! Will attend promptly to any busincM-iu the line of land aurveyinx. lo-atiruç ditches, etc., vote at all elections authorized by law.” i and everything pcrtafulng to civil engineer Counsel for the plaintiff pointed out i ing. Satisfaction guaranteed. in detail the extraordinary provisions of { d^Office at the postoffice. 10-12 the law. The district attorney for the fifth ju- i J. S. Howard., dicial district, as a sample of the work- j Notary Public and Conveyancer ings of the law, explained how he would MEDFORD, OREGON. be deprived of his vote by the mere fact of necessary absence from Clackamas All kinds of real estate business given careful attention, and Information furnished con county during the period of registration cerning property in the new town. in attending to his official duties in other counties in his district. We find it Dr, John S. Parson, necessary, however, to enter into an ex PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON amination of the details of the act, for it is met at the threshold by a fatal ob- i A shland , O regon . jection. As we construe the constitu- j ESrOftice for the present at Chitwood’s tion, every law which requires previous > drug sto^e. [6-4. registry as a prerequisite to the right to ' Ever exhibited in Ashland. Following is a partial list of Clothing just vote is ipso facto void. The legislature ' C. J. Sochrist, M. D., would have the power by implication had arrived : it not been expressly conferred to pre- ; PHCENIX, OREGON. scribe the uiamier of regulating and con- ; ducting elections; but the right to vote Office lor the present, at Dr. Kahler's drug $10.00 to $20.00, 25 Black Diagonal Suits, Store. [10-40 itself has been placed beyond their inter 12.00 to 2O.OO. 20 Elegant Plaids, all the rage. ference or control. This fact seems to have been forgotten in framing the act. 20.00 to 25.00. 18 Wine color suits, cutaways. Dr. D. B. Bice, And how different apparently were the PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, 15-00 to 20.00. <5 Handsome blue P-k, framers’ conception of the important A shland , O regon . 9.00 up. nature of the right from that of L’d. i 25 All Wool Blue Flannel suits, from - Office at the City Drug Store; residence near Holt nearly two hundred years ago, a 11. 00. to 7.00 Heavy Cassimere suits, from the woolen factory. 30 judge who was never accused of being Special attention given to diseases of wo - 6.50 25 Pair Tailor made spring-bottom pants, recreant to the liberties of England, men. [9-1 3.00 to 6.00. “That a right which a man has to give IOO Pair Cassimere pants, all styles, from his vote at the election of a person to Miss Aleaa Weber, y, 2.00 3 Dozen pr spring-bottom Jeans, good < represent him in parliament, there to Teacher of music at Ashland College, will give 4 < “ straight cut Jeans, good quality - i-5° concur to the making of laws, which are instructions in 3 4 to him his liberty and property, is a most i ! io Overalls, from 50 up. PIANO, ORGAN and GUITAR I ] transcendent thing and of a high nature.” ] C t To a limited number of pupils outside her 2.50. to 50 Over-shirts, front <5 2, 8 Rayne., 953. If the attention were college class. Residence at Mr. A. G. Rockfellow's on Church not permitted to wander beyond the act street. O itself, the thought would hardly occur that the legislature were dealing with a S. T. Bartlett, right vested in the citizen by the consti J tution—a right of which “no depart- ; CONTRACTOR and BUILDER, ment of the government nor all of them A shland , O regon . combined,” said the court in 2 Stew. I ■ Will furnish estimates and take contracts for (Ala.), 239, “has the power to divest an All at prices that cannot be beaten in Oregon. In Buildings of all kinds. individual otherwise than is prescribed , A share of patronage solicited. [A-35 by the constitution." So in Brown vs. | Shop located just below the livery stable. Hummel, 6 Barr, Collier J., said; “The . most important of all our franchises, the * - 7 right of an elector and citizen, cannot in A. L. Willv. I have received but few, but am having a fine line made up, which will be a confined sense be called property. It I here in a short time, and will be sold as low as a first-class article can he ‘ is not assets to pay debts, nor does it descend to the heir or administrator. offered. A shland , O re <» cn - But who does not feel its value, and who It prepared to Rive estimate», to furnish mate- but would turn pale if he thought he rial, and complete all kinds of buildings could be deprived of it without hearing IN OR Ol'T OF TOWN qp reasonable terms. AU work warranted to And money refunded in all cases where goods are not entirely as repre or by trial by act of assembly?" Important, however, as the question ■ give satisfaction. may be, wo approach its consideration sented. HHOI*—on Mechanic street, over Youle <k Gil roy’« store-houte and office. [10-40 without solicitude other than an anxiety i to understand and declare the law of the land. That inveterate argument, the E. DePEATT, gravity of declaring act of the legis ATTORNEY 4 COUNSELLOR at LAW Odd Fellows Block, Ashland, Or. lature unconstitutional the gravity of not declaring it to be so is, also, worthy of MNLAH. JACKSON oountv , omoon . consideration. Our constitutions are “written securities of liberty,” as Ch. .1. Will practice in all courts of this state. Office In Odd fellows' building up stairs. Buffin has expressed it. That sound and able judge, Mr. Justice Campbell, of Michigan, well said in Sears vs. Cottrell, Agent tor the following named 5M cli., 283, that “every unconstitution fnmiraiice Companies: al law which is made to stand creates a The Liverpool and London and Globe. permanent and deadly evil, by overturn The State Investment anil Insurance Company Takes occasion to remark to his old friends and patrons and ing the only safeguards we have against public usurpation. ” The judiciary as The Western Fire and Marine Insurance Coin pany. the public generally, that being unable to dispose of his the guardians of the people’s constitu tional liberties, must in duty observe The London Com niereial isu rance Company, General Merchandise business he has concluded to of London, England. that vigilance against constitutional en croachment, which is said to be the price SOCIETIES. of liberty. The rules of law are beyond the control of those who are merely to declare what the law is. In every case IZasoaic Directory, Ashland the gravity consists in ascertaining vhat law is. A text of the famous Little SISKIYOU CHAPTER, No. 21, R. A. M. and run the thing for all there is in it this Spring and Sum the ton has come down to us in the year Regular eonvoeatiout on the Thursday next books, Y. B. 6 ed 4, 8, H 18, Se <ij est after the full mwn. mer. A full and complete line of W. H. A tkinson , H. P. tout uit en yreind cl meind, “the law is A. E. Hammond, Sec y. [9-'® all one in great things and small." ASHLAND LODGE NO. 23, A. F. <fc A. M The right to vote under the constitu tion is a vested constitutional right. Stated communication on the Thursday of or before the full moon. “When I say a right is vested, I mean H. C H ill , W. M. that he has the power to do certain ac A. E. Hammond, Secretary. tions; or to possess certain things ace jrd ALPHA CHAPTER NO. I. O. E. S. ing to the law of the land, Chase J. Stated meetings on let and 3d Tuesday in Colver vs. Ball, 3 Da'l 394. If the right each month. ... „ M bs . A nna C arter . W. M. be vestod by the constitution it denotes Miss Anna Anderson, secretary. THESE GOODS ARE a right that under the constitution can not be taken away; Rich vs. Flanders, Ashla&cl Loifffl No. 45, 29 N. H. 385; Eakin vs. Roule, 12 S. A R. 360. It would seem that every case I, O. O. F.. from Capon vs. Foster 12 Pick., down, Hold regular meetings every Saturday even ing at their hall in Ashland. Brethren in good In Chicago, San Francisco and Portland, and 1 am consequently prepared to give which lias sustained against similar ob standing are cordially invited to attend. jections the constitutionality of a regis bargains H. T. 1SI.OW, N. G try law which requires previous registry .1. 1». Fountain. Secretary. as a prerequisite to the right to vote, has PILOT ROCK ENCAMPMENT NO 16, IOO F. taken it for granted that such laws were Me«tt in odd Fellows'» Hall every 2d and 4th mere rules of procedure. It was as Monday in each month Member» iu good sumed in Capon vs. Foster that the right itnn iuur cordially invited to attend. E. J. F aklow , C. P. E. K. ANDERSON to make investigations into the qualifica JAMES THORNTON, Rol>t. Taylor, scribe. Vice President. tions of voters necessarily implies the President. HOPE REBECCA DEGREE LODGE NO. 11. right to compel the voter to furnish pre- lious ¡»roof of his qualifications; that Meets on the 2d and 4th Tuesday in each mouth ill Odd Fellows'» Hall. Ashland. such a law was but “a reasonable and Mas. M. F. C askv . N. G. convenient regulation of the inode of ex J. K. Helman. Fec'y. MAX! EA< TI KEKS OF ercising the right of voting.” It was placed on the same footing with a law Ashl&ncL Lodge, A. O.U.W. which required the voter to offer his vote Meets in lodge room in Odd Fellow's Hal' in writing. Now, voting viva voce, as every first «»'I T hird Wednesday in each by ballot, is a pure rule of procedure. month. Frecent hour of meeting 7:"0 r. w. All Brethren in ijood standing are cordially So are laws regulating polling places, invited to attend. and the times for opening and closing J. W. A lni rr. M. w. the polls. He who takes a check to a A. L amb . Recorder. bank to cash it must endorse it. He who pays money is entitled to a receipt. Ashlaai W« C. T. V. Tins is procedure. But if a cantract be Die Ashland Woman's Christian tem to pay money on a fixed day, a subse perance Union meets every Tuesday after quent law requiring the payee to give noon at 3 o'clock in the Reading Room. Ali ten days' notice of the time and place of interested in the work of the order are in payment, or no obligation to pay shall vited to attend the meetings. Mas. S cott , Pres. arise, affects the substance of the con M in. G. F. Billings, JJec. tract and is void. It is conceived that laws are of like nature, which require previous registry in order to vote. Where the right is se cured by the constitution such laws hav ing merely a legislative sanction arc void. The true view of this question seems to be that stated in State vs. Baker, 38 is only a part of beauty; Wis., 86—that where registry is required as a prerequisite to the right to vote, but it is a part. Every lady such registry is a condition precedent to may have it; at least, what the right itself, and therefore a rule of Plain and Fancy Cassimeres, Flannels, Hosiery, Etc. substantive law. This principle vuw * ub- looks like it Magnolia sequently practically applied in Dells vs. Balm both freshens and Kennedy, 49 Wis., 555, in which a reg OVER and UNDERWEAR. - GLOTHING MADE to ORDER. - beautifies. latry law of Wisconsin was held to l«e Office and Sales Rooms in Masonic Building. void. It results as follows: A right has I W. II ATKINSON, 8eeretary «nd General Manager. been defined by Mr. Justice Holmes to Geo. B. Currey, HERE AT LAST! My long lookcd-for stock of Men and Boys’ SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING As usual, every dollar’s worth of this stock was bought for spot cash, and all bills heavily discounted, thus enabling me to offer STRICTLY FOR CASH, One of the Largest and Finest assortments of Custom and Tailor made Clothing, Men’s Furnishing Goods, H2ATS, C2VPS, Etc., Í Men's Sock Suspenders, Silk Handkerchiefs, Neck-wear, Gloves Woolen and Cotton Underwear, Hats, Caps, Etc., BOOTS AND SHOES, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Orders by Mail promptly attended to, O. H. BLOUNT, The Leading Clothier and Hatter of Southern Oregon. J. M.M’CALL STOCK UP Ladies’ Dress Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Gent’s Furnishing Goods. Groceries, Crockery, Etc., Etc. BOUGHT FOR CASH, ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS. WHITE and COLORED BLANKETS, I I Clear Skin A I I TIDINGS be the legal consequence which attaches to certain facts. The common law, 214. Every fact which forms one of the group of facts of which the right i.«i the legal consequence, appertains to the substai.ee of the right. The right to vote under the constitution may be defined to be a Vested right in prasenti, to be exercised in fuluro on a fixed day. When that day arrives, and.the right is to be exer cised, every fact essential to the exist ence of the right is a substantive fact. Previous registry, in order to vote, is precisely such a fact. It is a condition precedent which must be performed, or when the day arrives no right will exist. 1 roccdure ex or termini appertains to the mode of engagement or enforcement of a right. No rule of procedure can operate anterior to the time when the right is enjoyed or enforced. It cannot 1 ive effect to determine a right before the right accrues. The distinction, there fore, sought to be drawn on this subject between what constitutes a qualification and what in contradistinction is called a mode of proof of qualification, is un- suliatantial. We may say of the at tempted distinction in wold« of a chief justice in England centuries ago; “Therefore we must take oft' this vail and cover of words which make a show of something and in truth are nothing.” “Every definition (.f the qualification of voters, ’ said Mr. Drake, the author of the law of attachment, arguing in Blain v. Ridgely, 41 Mo., 163, “is but a state ment of the terms on which men tnay vote; and in every instance such defini tion refer to what a party has done as I I well as to what he is They say to the voter; ‘If you have done certain things you can vote.’” He who does not reg ister is not qualified to vote, and hence is not a qualified elector—a phrase that is used five times in the constitution to signify those who are entitled to go to t e ¡»oils on election day and legally vote, See Byars vs. the State, 12 Wis., 524; Sandford vs. Prentice, 28 Wis., 363. But under this act he who goes to the polls on election day possessing every constitutional qualification, may find that the legislature has stepped in be tween him and the constitution. He finds liia vote denied because lie has not done something which the legislature has required him to do. He discovers that he is not a qualified elector, and yet he is told that his omission to do the act which had effect to disqualify him is not itself a disqualification. Or if he have performed the act, that his performance does not constitute a qual ification. The logic of facts is not to be thus answered. The distinction between right and remedy is confounded. He who has a right to do something to-mor row can never be secure of his right be fore to-morrow conies. If this can result then the constitution does not mean what it say». McCaffetty vs. Guyer, 59 Pa. St., Ill, very aptly says: “Can the legislature then take away from an elector his right to vote while he possesses all the qualifications required by the con stitution? This is the question now be fore us. NN hen the citizen goes to the polls on election day with the constitu tion in his hand and presents it as giving him a right to vote, can he be told, true, you have every quaification that instru ment requires; it declares you entitled to the right of an elector, but an act of assembly forbids your vote, and therefore it cannot be received. If an rhe legisla ture is superior to the organic law of the state; and the legislature, instead of be ing controlled by it, may mold the con stitution at their pleasure. Such is not the law." And so must we say in this case. NVh ere a constitution provides a« does that of New York, “that laws shall be made for ascertaining by ¡»roper proofs the citizens who shill be entitled to the right of suffrage,” the power to pass a registry law seems fully implied. See United States vs. Quinn, 8 Blotch C. O., 59. The case of State vs. Inuits, 81 Kan., 554, was grounded on a like con stitutional clause. The difference be tween these cases where a power has been conferred and a case where it has not so. On the other hand, a qnestmu can never arise under a constitution like that of Texas, which lias declared in un equivocal terms that “no law shall ever he enacted requiring a registration of the voters of this state." See the United States vs. Slater, 4 NVoods C. C., 358. The right of the plaintiff to nimtain this suit is set at rest by the decision of this court in Caunen vs. NVoodruff, 10 Or., 133. The opinion cites, with many other cases, Pago vs. Allen, 58 Pa. St., 338, which ¡»resented this very case. The decree must be reversed, and the court below directed to maki tho injunc tion perpetual. G. A. McBride, NV. D. Fenton and John Burnett, attorneys for appellant. Jos. Simon and John M. Gearin, for respondent. TIDINGS. Terme of Advertising: LBOAL. One square, first insertion....... Each Additional insertion........ 00 . 1 50 LOCAL. NO. 43. RAISING OSTRICHES. DOLPH OX WOMAN SUFFRAGE. The Bonanza Burst—No Money Now in the Business. [London Field.] In the course of his speech in the sen ate on the bill to admit Washington ter ritory tc the Union, Mr. Dolph, speak ing of woman suffrage, said: “Mr. President, there is another matter which I consider ¡artinent to this discussion, and of too much importance to be left entirely unnoticed on this occasion. It is something new in our political history. It is full of hope for the women of this country and of the world, and full of p'oniise for the future of republican in stitutions. I refer to the fact that in Washington territory the right of suff rage has been extended to women «-f proper age. I do not believe the propo sition so often asserted that suffrage is a political privilege. It is only a nat ural right. It is regulated by the constitution and laws of states, 1 grant, but it needs no argument, it ap pears to me, to show that the constitu tion and laws, adopted and enacted by a fragment of the whole body of the peo ple, but binding alike on all, is a usur pation of the power of government. Government is but organized society, whatever its form. It had its origin in the necessities of mankind, and is indis pen8able for the maintenance <>f Civilized society. It is essential to every govern ment that it should represent the su- pieme power of tile state, and be capable of subjecting the will of its individual citizens to its order. Such government only can derive its just powers from the consent of the governed, and can be es tablished only under fundamental law, which is self-imposed. Every citizen of suitable age ami discretion, who is to be subject to such government, has, in my judgment, a natural right to participate hi its foi mation. The lamented Lincoln immortalized t4»e expression that ours is a government “of tho people, by the people, and fur the people,” and yet it is far from that. There can be no govern ment by the people where one-half of them are allowed no voice in its organ ization and control. I regard the sttug gle going on in this country and else where for enfranchisement of women as but a continuation of the great struggle f ir human liberty which has, from the earliest dawn of authentic history, con vulsed nations, rent kingdoms and drenched battle fields with blood. 1 look upon the victories which have been achieved in the cause of women's en fianchisement in Washington territory and elsewhere as the crowning victories of all, which have been won ill the long continued and still continuing contest between liberty and oppression, and as destined to exert greater influence upon the human race than any achievement on the battle-field in ancient or modern tunes. Should this bill pass we shall witness the spectacle of a state govern ment founded U| m > o the principles of equality, and have one state at last with a truly republican form of government.” Local Notice«, per lin«.............................Loe Regular advertisements inserted upon liberal terms. Job Printing Of all descriptions done on short notice Legal Blanks. Circulars, Business Card« Billheads, Letterheads, Posters, etc., got ten up in good style at living prioes. A DETERMINED MINER. [Chicago Herald ] McKim is an honest Irish miner who drifted ott from Arizona a few years ago into Sonora. He had a little money, but a great deal m<>re faith. Benham says: “I should say here that every mine that has ever been worked in Sonora, or, in deed, anywhere else in Mexico, has its early history recorded in the archives in the district. Thus, if a claim has lain idle for half a century, and one wants to get its record, he has only to go to the prefect, or local authority of the district, and he is giveu access to the huge volumes that contain the information. McKim got hold of a claim that had not been worked for twenty years, and studied up its history, lie found that the last year it was worked it took three shifts of eight men each to pack the water out of the mine. He also found ’.hat the water increased so fast on them that the mine had t<> be abandoned, and from that he argued that it was by no means exhausted. •“The problem then was to get the water out. But how? McKini had no money to put up pumps, but he did have a good deal of courage and a strong arm. He went down the hill and resolved to run a tunnel for the mine to strike the ledge below the water pocket. Nearly live years ago McKim began work, and four long years he pegged away at that tunnel. He had fully 600 feet to run. For about a year McKim had a brother Irishman to help him, but the latter got weary of the hopeless task, and for the remaining time McKim went it alone. “About a year Hgo he noticed that the face of the tunnel was in moist, crumbly ground, and he got fearful that it would tumble in on him. He did not go near the tunnel for several days, fur he was afraid of it. One morning he went up and found the water pouring out of the tunnel like a mill-race. The water pock et had broken through, and the tunnel was draining the old mine at the rate of l'JOO barrels a minute. McKim was be side himself with j<>y. In a week he ex plored the mine through the old work ings, and he found almost a bed of pure silver. Actually, he cut oat cabinet specimens with a chisel. He sacks and ships the ore, and the little property is turning out §100,000 a year, with no other labor than that of McKim and two Yaqui Indians, So much for patient in dustry and four years of faith and hard work. Contemporaneusly with the discovery of the diamond field in South Africa, al though with much less rapid strides, but slowly and surely forcing itself to the front and almost entirely revolutionizing the whole system of pastoral farming, came the practice of rearing and fanning ostriches. Ostrich farming may be fairly said to date no further back than the year 1865. In 1868 —69, J. Booysen of Graaff Reinet and Joel Meyers of Aber deen entered into the business of ostrich farming on a somewhat elaborate scale. If I an not mistaken, tho first advertise ment of domesticated ostriches for sale in the colony emanated from the former gen tleman. lie ¡»luckily persisted in the then very novel undertaking with a varying fortune, until it had reached it meridian of success in 1878, 1879 and 1880. when, in return for his unwavering perseverance and faith in its ultimate possibilities, he / reaped a substantial pecuniary reward. In 1874—75, Messrs Douglas of Gra- hamtown, Hobson of Ebenezer, Graaff Reinet and J. S. Parkers of Wheatlands commenced fencing and ostrich farming and breeding on an intelligent, and ex tensive scale. The first named gentle man was the introducer of the artificial incubator into the colony, when breed ing became a matter of science and in telligent study. So engrossed was the colonial world with this all absorbing topic of ostrich farming that go where you would, ostri ches (Vogelstreuse) were the universal theme of discussion, as diamonds had been some half-dozen years previously. Here was an El Dorado brought houie to every mail's door. The plethoric, lethargic Beor, sitting on lus stoop, with pipe in mouth and cup of cotfee at his elbow, would revel in day dreams of auriferous showers. Every chick that hurried at his call to pick up the scatter ed fragments of domestic refuse repre sented so many bank notes, and every snowy graceful feather on those of a large growth betokened each a solid piece of gold. Who, in lieu of this, would “grunt and sweat under a weary load" of stock and agricultural cares? What were the ravages of bnmdzickte, geelzickte, rust, locusts and drought to him now! Noth ing but a mere idle, troublesome dream of the past. 1 knew a Boer who had been repeated ly offered £'700 for a ¡ air of breeding birds. He declared he would not take A Numerical Family. £1000. They were the most remarkable pair of prolific breeders I ever saw or lArkansaw Traveler.] heard of. Four broods a year, as regular “Do you not find in Arkansaw many as clockwork, with an average of fifteen queer Christian names!" a gentleman at a brood; these lie would sell when asked of a friend who had just returned four months old at £'15 apieee, thus re from a visit among the hills. alizing a gross income of £900 yearly. "Yes, for Christian names—or rather On the other hand, many ¡»airs are utter in this case 'given' names, for some of ly or next to worthless—irregular layers, them are decidedly un-Christian—have and slovenly, inattractive hoiisekeei»ers, ever been of interest to me I found the consequences of such dereliction be just this side of Bear Willow, a young The Successful Furmer. ing nestful after nesiful of addled eggs. fellow named Logdistilled Peterson, ana I knew an amusing instance where a hen The most successful farmers are not a little further on I fell in writh a gentle would not take her legitimate share— those who work hardest at manual labor; man named Allwood Jones. Allwood always a joint affair—in tho work of in they woik, nevertheless, with all their Jones was a circuit rider, he informed cubation; and I have known the old male energies. None are exempt from laixu ; me, and he asked me to stop at a small to literally kick his unwilling spouse on but in all it is not equally well applied log church and hear him preach. I did to the nest every morning, so as to keep and directed. If we take any two men, so, and must say that All wood’s sermon up the warmth resulting from his own ¡divsically equal, the one will accomplish was something more than a yard wide. devotion during the previous night. The most who excels in brain power. There One afternoon I stopped at a bouse and meridian of success was, as 1 have re- fore, let that small enclosure within his addressed a young fellow who sat on th« warked, attained in 1878, 1879 and 1880, own skull be cultivated as assiduously fence. when nearly every available plot of and as carefully by the farmer as in his “ ‘Who lives here?” ground suitable for tho purpose; even choicest crop. NN hatever fanning may “ ‘We do.’ back yards in towns and villages were have been in the ¡cut, the time has come “ ‘Yes, but who are we?" improvished for the time into breeding when the highest intelligence is demand “ ‘Pap, mur an’ the rest uv ns.’ and rearing paddocks. Feathers were at ed as a necessaty qualification on the “Just then a man came out and, as he their maximum prices in those days, part of the agriculturist. approached, said: ‘Six git down often Book-farming, however, is descried, that fence an’ he'p. Four chop some prime whites ranging from £‘40 to as high in some instances as £70 per ¡«»mid; and “farmers are not a reading class.” wood. Stranger, addressing me, 'won’t first-class breeding birds from £‘200 to NN'e, on our part, neither underrate the git down!" As 1 was in much need of £‘300 per pair, young fullgruwn pluck practical knowledge, nor overrate the im rest I dismounted. The man yelled. ing birds from .£’24 to £‘35 each; nine portance of the scientific study of farm ‘Come here Seven an' Lake the stranger's months’ old birds, with chicken feathers ing. The one is needful to the other, boss.’ oil from £12 to £15; chicks, just out of and science is futile if it does not help “I was conducted into the house and the shell. £5. As a natural consequence practice to do its woik better and cheap in that cordial manner the peculi ir social of such high prices, speculation during er. But there is one great want in most property of Southern backwoodsmen, these years became very rife. As an in I of our farm houses, and that is the al was urged to make myself at home. My stance, 1 remember purchasing in 1878 most entire absence of agricultural liter host’s uame was Beasley and was kin to 100 young birds of mixed ages, ranging ature both in book and periodical form. old Hani Bledsoe what lived in middle from four to nine montis old at £T0 ¡»er The volumes one most expects to see on Tennessy, near Drake's creek, summers.’ head. I ¡»lucked them twice, the pro a faniiei's table are generally conspicuous Mrs. Beasley moved a lot of clothes ceeds gave me au average of £8 per bird. by their absence; and, will it he believed, which she liad hung in front of the fire, 1 then immediately after the last pluck there is many a farmer who does not take kicked the cat, spanked with a shovel an ing sol'l them at £25 ¡»er bird all round, an agricultural newspaper. Boys and enormous bundle dog, and told m« to gnls glow up on ‘.he farm, and speud feel easy for she would get a snack to eat thus realizing a very handsome ¡»rofit. And so the merry game went round, those years which will so much influence after a w hile. I had never seen so many until at last, as had long been anticipated I their future lives without ever once being children belonging to one family. Look by the less sanguine ones, the fatal "bust • led to realize the momentousness of what which way I might, I caught sight of up” came, involving in its train a series is before them. They grow up, too, dirty faces and tow heads. of disastrous and ruinous failures, It without a taste for reading, and so miss “ ‘You have quite a family,’ I said to was in 1882 that the great tidal wave of ; a never-failing source of happiness, not Mr. Beasley. prosperity began to ebb. Diseases of an t<> speak of mental culture and refine “ ‘Rather, but we live io er big neigh obscure nature of the liver and lungs be ment. For all this, the want of suitable borhood whar we all have room.’ came prevalent. The ¡»rice of feathers books and papers oil the farmhouse table “ ‘I should think that you would have came down with a run to 'ess than a is to bo blamed. The bodily toilers found some trouble in selecting names i third of their former value. Chickens a come in thoroughly wearied, and often for all your children.’ drug ----- — in --- the ---------- market ------- at 2s Gd. ~ per chick! --- I with a longing for relaxation of some “ ‘1 didn’t though. I know a great Breeding and plucking Link almost, if . kind; but there is no paper, and no in many folks have had trouble in that way, not quite, unsalable. Panic general de teresting volume that they can turn to, an' I was determined to steer cl’ar uv it, pression and insolvency rampant every-] and so they live within themselves, as it so I dropted a rule, an’ when the fust Rewarding flonesty.” 1 where. What overproduction was gradu were, and, in too many cases, sleep away chile was born we called him One. The (Chicago News.] ally threatening to achieve, disease and a their existence. next was named Two, the next Three an’ But just let the young farmer think so on. Wy, it worked like a charm, an' A very small newsboy stood at the falling market finally accomplished. A corner of Superier and Clark streets the i friend largely engaged in ostrich farming for a moment of the forces, the proper we didn’t have a bit of trouble. I would other afternoon. Under his arm was a at the time wrote to me in 1882; “We ties, principles, influences, the laws—de advise every ono to 'dopt the rule. One is solitary and bespattered copy of the are in the middle of a crisis; ostrich veloped and undeveloped—with which lie married to a sorter slouch uv a woman noon edition of the Daily News. Satis farming has entirely collapsed; insolven must come in contact, and understand if an' live down yan or the branch. Two fied either by the plethoric condition of cies everywhere; A, B and C (men whom he would succeed. So far from being a hoss trader. All the rest are at home. bis pocket, caused by a successful run of I knew) are insolvent; I am insolvent less dependent upon the arts and sciences is Three thar’ turning to a blushing girl,4 is I usinees or by the warmth of the sun, he myself, and where is it going to end than those engaged in other occupations, cld anufl' to get married. Eight, don't disdained to call his wares. heaven only knows. " This catastrophe the farmer stands in need of a far wider stan’ so dost to the fire, you'll, scorch A rotund and austere officer of the has. however, not been without its salu range of knowledge than is requisite *in North Side Street Railway Company tary lessons, and let us hope that a re almost any other business. And fann yer britches. Mur, make Nine an' Elev passed. He stopped abruptly, approach turn to the old love (wool) will produce a ing need not prove the unvarying round en behave tharselves. Twelve go now an’ rock the cradle, fur don’t you hear ed tha lounging youngster, and said; better state of things. and monotonous life it is often said to be; Sixteen cryin'l “News, boy,” at the same time slipping for every operation on the farm is an in “Yes, it was a very large family and I a coin into the hand of the urchin, who, centive to inquiry and stimulant to Brilliant Hunters. don't know how Mr. Beasley could have in turn, dexterously deposited it between thought. Men of one idea cannot suc managed had he not adopted the numer ‘Worcester Spy.! his teeth. Delivering the wrinkled pa ceed in farming, and tlvse engaged in it, A party of eleven West Ruthland fox- the young especially, should lose no op ical system.” per, the boy sent a dirty hand into his trousers pocket and produced four pen hunters, with their dogs, ran a fox all portunity of adding to their present, A Fable. nies and a nickel, which ho emptied into <)ay recently, and at night tho dogs stock of ideas by reading, by investigat [Chicago Tribune.] the extended palm of tho dignified pur brought up at a hole, around which they ing for themselves, and through inter howled, to the great delight of the hun course with others.—[American Farmer. chaser. Two Phrases were out Walking for “You should be moro careful sir,” said ters, who procured pick and shovels to their health when they chanced to Meet the rotund gentleman, glancing at the dig out the game. After two and a half ; in a narrow lane. There was mud on Poker on a Sick Bed. hours' hard work they were rewarded by 1 each side of the ¡>ath, ar.d the more ven change, and then handing it back to the [New York Times.] youngster. “ I gave you a three-cent pulling out a big woodchuck erable of tho two phrases wanted tha piece, not a dime.” Poker has been committing dreadful ’ other to step aside and allow him to To make a serviceable telephone from Not a muscle of tho boy's face moved. ravages among good folks in this town , ¡»ass. one farm bouse to an other, only requires The same dirty little hand went up to , within the last few months. Some of 1 “I am older and of more importanoa his mouth and returned with the three- enough wire and two cigar boxes. First I the preachers have become much exer- I than you," he explained; and it is your select your boxes, and make a hole about cent piece. Quick as a Hash tl.c coin half an inch in diameter in the center of j cised. Ono up-town clergyman sent in- ■ Duty to give Way to me.” had again changed ovfiiurs. ' vitations to a number of his fellow-miu- I The younger and sturdier phrase re “NN hat’s thia for? gasped the dignified the bottom in each, and then ¡»lace one isters last week to meet nt Ins home to plied haughtily: “It is you who must in each of the houses you wish to connect; official. . discuss “«oine of the features in social step Aside into the mud. 1 tnay be “Keep yer money.” replied the boy, then get five ¡stunds of common stove- I ' life that arc menacing Christian prog- younger, but I am even more Pretentions with a wave of the dirty hand; “I likes pipe wile, make a loop in one end and I re«s.” The meeting was held on Friday and Ponderous than you. Get out of put it through the hole in your cigar box ■ ter reward honesty.” 1 evening, and four hours were spent upon the way! Who are you, anyhow?" The dignified gentleman blushed to fasten it with a nail; then draw it tight ] . the one subject of card p'aying. One The elder phrase drew himself up stern to the other box supporting it when nec- j the roots of his hair and stood for a mo i pastor of a fashionable chmch said that ly and re ¡»lied in a crushing manner: “I ment gazing at the back of tha self- essary, with a stout cord. You can easi- j ! he had discovered an epidemic of poker am ‘Usufruct’!” possessed urchin, who bad turned on his ly run your line into the house by bor- I ■ in his church, the ladies and boys and Instead of being abashed, the younger ing a hole through the glass. Support • girls indulging almost universally. He phrase heel and sauntered away. replied by a cold, harsh laugh. ing your boxes with slats nailed across i i had gone the other day to give consola- “Ah,” he sneered, “are you that old the window, and your telephone is com- ' ] tion to a member <>f his church -a Sun relic! Well, I'd have you know that I am plete. The writer has one that is 200 day-school teacher—whose death had ‘Innocuous’ Desuetude' Get out of the yards long, and costs 45 cents, that will I been expected. He found her propped wav!” carry music, when the organ is playing, ' up on the pillows of her bed, e»c aiming The venerable phrase made noresponse, "JO feet away in another room.—[Ex. • to companions as he opened the dooi: but Bowed his head and stepped asido sadh into the mud. “I was indeed pro- 1 “Can you beat a straight flush?' John H. Yates, of Batavia, N. Y.. say«. sumptuons," h« tnurniured to himself, as "I cheerfully cotnruend Shiloh's Vitalizer is what you need for the Other stalked proudly away. Your Aromatic Wine It did new life and vigor send , C«>nsti|>ati(>n, Loss of Appetite, Dizziness i Through thia weak frame of mine. and all other symptoms of Dy«|>ep«ia. 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