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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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to him his liberty and property, is a most i !
io
Overalls, from
50 up.
PIANO, ORGAN and GUITAR
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transcendent thing and of a high nature.” ]
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.”
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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
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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
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