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VALLEY RECORD VALLEY RECORD. I88UED EVERY THUR-DAY. a. A. JACOBS K i. KAIMEK JACOB? Ac KAISER. Publisher» and Proprietor» i i 1 VALLEY RECORD. ASHLAND, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25. lt-88. VOL. I ,i , NO. 24. .H..-. LOSS AND GAIN of the Bowser family didn't have liolil THE BOWSER FAMILY. through noisy rapids and the quiet tried to stop a stream in its course. The of the rope when theXo'id L iberty bell dog caught up with the bear, and again I sorrowed that the iroldea day wanulead. They Celebrate the Fourth in the Good Old waters of dark pools, among treacher MECHANICAL AND OPERATIVE It» 1 eht no m >re lb- country aide adorning; sent its notes of freedom foaling forth Bruin chased him back to the tree and Way aud Have a High Time. Hut watlst 1 grieved, heboid—the East grew ous root» and around the projecting around it as he had before. The re DESTISI'. Betseen Ma » •<■<! Spring. I I kn?w by the way Mr. Bowser to the world, and he wouldn't saswer. red angles of the dangerous rocks, For sult was the same, and the bear once looked across the supper table at me I pinned up his torn shirt and inquired A»hla.<d. OreROM. With morning. ASHLAND. OREGON. twenty good minutes had fought that more retreated in disgust. Three that he had something to propose, and whether he had ever visited the spot f sighed that merry Spring was force 1 to go, monarch of the brook before he had Mrs. W.C. OHZR. Ih-opridn-wi. - Nltnm« OviAe Gia *<i miniate red fcr the ? An t doff the wreaths that did to well become I turned his burnished, quivering side times after that I started to leave that I also felt certain that his proposition where Cornwallis surrendered, but he ! • m H Ml »4 per week p dole»» «nttrartiou of le th. refused to tell. Even when I told him i her; Office over the i>aak. upward and surrendered—and here was : tree, and every time Bruce started out was mixed up with the glorious Fourth. that it was the duty of every good ; But whilst I m-jrmure ! at herabsenee, to!— Hlnghi M« a U, 2ÒC. MHngl • BuU, 2**. and fetched the bear back to have that Pretty sbonhe said: 'Twas aummer a mangey, refuse-eating thief of the I K. liePKATT. First titer .,f olino «J-kiou» atf r led I “We are to go on a steamboat ex patriot to get out on the glorious I swamps, dining on its delicate, savory ! circus repeated. I at last realized the I mon med bec-iuse the daffodils were killed the pnhfM. fact that it wasn't the bear that was cursion to Harsen’s Island on the Fourth and whoop 'er up and let the j By bu-n:ug «¡ties that scorched my early richness! It was more than I could ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT eagle scream, he would not open his I keeping my life in the balance, but Fourth. ” posies; The be»' Ei ing Howe In town. stand, and I advanced upon the sacri LAW. mouth. It was only after we got home But whil.t for these I pined my bands were that my own dog was the animed re “ Please don't. We can enjoy our legious brute with murder in my heart tilled that he found voice to remark: ‘-Mrs. | sponsible for my periL If I had had selves far better right here at home. ” Awhland. Oregwn. With rosea I am sorry to confess that it didn't get "Mrs. Bowser, your forefathers Bowser, you’ll pay for this!” out of my heart, for the best thing I a revolver I’d have bored a hole M 111 prartiee in »II Courts of the State. Hill f-broUen hearte ' I bewa ted the end “Why, dear, what have I done?” through him. but I had none, and so fought , bled and died that we might be Of friendships than which none had once could do w;m to pick up a big stone Offii-w adjoin ng Well’» .Fargu & C j .’» ^ “Done! Look at me! Who made me my only hope of escape was that, the a free people. ” •eemed nearer: E. K BRIGTHM AN, Prop. and chuck it at the bear. The stone l.xpre»» Oittap. the wreck 1 am?" But whilst I wept I fonn l a newer friend bear would eventually overhaul the “ Yes. ” hit the bear on the side of the head, And dearer. “A few select patriots of Harsen’s and pack him snugly and effect “It is a time when every patriot OREGON. ASHLAND, J. T. HCWIHTtll. and Bruin yelped like a whipped dog. dog Island.” ually away. And ti ns I learned old pie mures are estranged should show his colors. I propose to But he kept right on with his meal of On'y that som thing better may be given; “Yes; and how did we come to go “The bear, the last time his attempt go off with a select few and have a Ra.oraU'd il. roti «Rout and newly fur- ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT tTntll st last we tin I this Earth exchanged trout. At that moment, much to my there? Just go right away from me! to let me escape was interferred with good time. ” For Heaven. LAW. ttiaiied. surprise, Bruce reappeared on the You and I must have a settlement to —flood Words. by Bruce, had reached the very edge “ But nothing is select on the Fourth. ” scena He had evidently discovered “I don't believe you care two cents morrow. This is the last straw—the Ashland. Oregon. that he had ceased to be the one alto of the woods. The dog was a little A LIVELY TIME. late in starting that time, but he got whether we are slaves or freemen!” he very last!” gether lovely in the bear’s estimation, But I think he will forgive me. He oft The bear had disappeared in the hotly exclaimed. WIB practice in all Coarta of the State. and had slipped back to reconnoiter. can save the teeth aud the eye is “Yes, I do.” -Covel Adventure in the Wilds of Seeing the sudden and unexpected woods before Bruce got there, and the UollreHoii» promptly made “Then get ready for the excursion. rapidly getting better.— Detroit Ere Pennsylvania. burst of courage on n.y part he had dog dashed in after him. Time passed. J. C. PLUMERTH, Dog nor bear appeared in the open. Only a select few are going. We shall Press. GRAVES & SONMICHSON, ------------- <• ♦ w, braced up himself, and as the stone I Hope grew so strong in me that I let have a nice, cool ride, a basket-lunch I A Fl.hertnarT» Iltaayrcesble Encounter threw struck the bear the dog sailed in CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, FARMING IN CAPE COLONY. with a Hungry Hear—Uow H im Ovg with amazing fury and attacked Bruin myself out of the tree and flew. I on the island, and return in time for A Picture of Agricultural Life and Condi tu t.nliveu the ASHLAND, OREGON. in the rear. The bear turned and reached my friend Finnegan's in safe the fireworks in tho evening.” tions ¡ q South Africa. Occasion. “But if :iny thing happens you’ll made an ugly dash at Bruce. Bruce ty. I was there two days afterward. “At six o'clock euch morning—earlier lay it to me. ” Bruce had not turned up yet He is j retreated with neatness and dis I w II give estimates to erect all k'nda John Hughes Duly, Esq., of the patch, and the bear promptly following that bear yet by easy stages, “Any thing happen? Lay it to you? in summer—after Sallie, our Httlc A l work guarenteed. Repairing neatly of building* in and out of the city, fur- Ninth ward, caterer to the Criterion or has served as refreshments for him. Mrs. Bowser, do you know who you Kaffir maid-of-all-work, hits brought to doaa. f n »fling ia'»>r, mater al, plaint aud »peciil- returned to his pleasant task of each of us, while in bed, the matutinal calions, upou rta»oi>abie terms. All work Club of this city, has returned from a absorbing my catch of trout I chuoked I incline to believe that the latter is are talking to?” LEATHER MA1UFACT0RY. few days’ outing among the trout true, and I fondly hope it is.”— Ed. "But you'll say I dragged you off, cup of coffee, without which no Cape guaranteed. stones and Bruce returned to his nip farmer, British or Dutch, begins the Reside' cc on Spring street. Mott, in New York Mail and Express. and that it was all my fault.” streams of Monroe County, Pa., fetch That have on hand a atn-k of better ping the bear's heels, but the bear sim “1 will, eh? Very well. You and day, one of our number rises and goes ing with him a few trout and some calf ekiu, grain calf «kin, kip. dongola and A. L. WILLEY, ply howled when he was bit and dashed buck »kin han ever imported to Aabland, most remarkable tales of adventure, our wall-eyed infant can stay right to the adjacent kraal to count the UNPARDONABLE CRUELTY. at the dog at convenient inteivals. As goats as they issue forth in charge of which lh»v offer for »ale to th- trad* ot (e especially delights in some retai- here! I’m going on the excursion!" Sontliern Or-g >u at rwMonabl- H^uie». A Specie« of Torture to Which Invalid» the trout (.{¿appeared one by one, and I yielded the point after awhile, as a their Kaffir herds to pasture on the Highest tRarsAl price paid for hides aud CARPENTER. BUILDER AND AR uiscenpes of bear that trespass over Are Frequently Subjected. mountain veldt. N’quami. our groom, with aggravating rapidity, my courage pelts. the border of the extraordinary. CHITECT, The horrible brutal speeches to in wife always does, and the excursion Shop on Main Street, bppo-ite plan. “You remember that line collie dog, gradually acted as Bob Acres'did, and, valids that are made by visitors appar was agreed upon. We were ready and a long, lithe Kaffir from Galekaland, AS I ILA SD, OREGON. I U now prepared to give estimates to com .truce, of mine?” remarked Mr. Duly arguing to myself that Bruin in ail ently friendly and apparently sane are on time, and it did seem as if we were more commonly known as John, has 1 Id» 1» ■' *' !■■.» -- ip—- plete all kinds of biiildiugx, and to fur- at the club last night. “Well, you’ll probability now had it in for Bruce inexcusable. Some of them are so hor a ttain of enjoying ourselves until we slaughtered at the hack of the house (a single-storied, brick-built messuage, I iiirh al) lalmr, material, plans, *p*c- lever see him again. If I am not and me more than ever, and that as rible that one must laugh at the very rot »o the boat. Then Mr. Bowser’s H. S. EVANS, flat-roofed and white-washed, and soon as he had encircled the last of my iflcalioua and details for the " -vlqet few ” tnrned out to be a mob of very much mistaken, he now linos the remembrance of them. ^parehed high on the mountain side trout he would proceed without hesita •a-ne, npob reasonable lomach of an interesting member of To a dear old gentleman who had four hundred people of all sorts, sizes 'near a perennial fountain) the goat tion to give his attention to us, I be terms and short notice. the bear family that honored me with been confined to the house for some tnd oolors, and we had scarcely found j which each day is sacrificed for the m interview one day. I had been gan to put more space between myself time came the cheerful inquiry: “Does I1 -eats when a man came up, slapped : needs of our household, and the kid- and the bear preparatory to a grand at the head waters Reaidencc. West Ashland Hillside. Ishing the grave look pleasant to you, him familiarly on the back and called ' neys, fry and a chop or two are grilled and masterly retreat when the time out: of the Big Bushkill, and, Fost-office l*ox 113. Mr.----- ?” "IIcllo! old rutabaga, did you bring j for breakfast. Honey, found in abun- I having filled my creel with big came. I backed away. Bruoe had ap A lady sorely and dangerously ■ diince in the rocks around us, takes the parently got on such good terms with your lung-pad along?” Gluiflff, Calciming, Paper Hanging. Etc rout, was thinking about returning to afflicted with dropsy, unable to breathe place of marmalade. Breakfast over, himself that he imagined the bear was Aits Bowser tumod very red and ‘he farm house of my friend Finnegan, except in a sitting position, worn out I oue of us rides off to the shallow kloof All Work Guaranteed. with whom I was spending my little afraid to engage him in actual conflict, by sleeplessness and suffering, was then very white, and I had to talk to three miles further away in the mount ARCHITECT AND BUILDER, vacation. Bruce was with me and had and so he remained on the field, nag thus comforted by a sympathetic neigh him. I told him that this one loafer ging at Bruin. hail slipped in by accident, and that no ains, where our horses and mules are S hop .— In rear of Wilson’s Furni wandered off into the brush. I was bor after viewing her with eager curi one should notice him. He must re run, under the core of Tobias, our The last trout disappeared. The ’ MANUFACTURER AND winding my line on my reel, when I ture store <>n Maiu »Irret. osity: “Well, Mrs.----- ,-you do look Dutch servant. Another of us busies heard the dog barking and snarling in bear turned and bore down on Bruce awfully! I do hope you will die before member Washington, Paul Jones, Put himself marking goats, whilst a third like an animated cyclone. I turned nam and the host of other patriots, WOOD WORKER. i peculiar way, and I went into the you burst!” (there are three of us—one married) C. A. HUTLEY, and let nothing vex him. „ brush to see what he had run up and ran. Bruce, tn some way or other, i To a nervous old man, depressed by takes on his back a dead kid well evaded the rush of the bear and fol When the boat finally got away it Shopon Pint Avenue near Main Street igainst The sight that met my eyes a long struggle with disease, and primed with strychnine pills, meaning would doubtless have carried joy to a lowed me. The bear followed Bruce. feeble, yet very anxious to recover, wr.« loaded down and every body was to deposit it in a small kloof across the The procession was a lively one. The smoking cheap cigars and feeling good >ear hunter, but it froze my blood, and bear, being loaded with trout, didn 1t came this cheerful observation: “Dear natured. Even the dozen fellows who valley for the benefit of one of the my blood was at fever heat at that. A me, how you have failed lately! Why, numerous leopards which infest our Will tn ike estimate- and bids on •' Mordwint, bear that seemed to me to be towering make as good time as he might have you're as white as a sheet! Your blood had had their heads punched or their farm. This is the only method of Buhdingv, public or private, and furnish done, but it was good enough to suit me. eyps blacked while waiting seemed to up into the air at least ten feet, stood is all turning to water! You can't last forget it as patriotism bubbled up. I keeping dow-n these night marauders, al) material, plans and spe ifleatious for A »blatte. Or. on his haunches and kept dashing at I was twenty-five feet ahead of Bruce, long." the couatrurtiou of the same. and Bruce was twenty-flve feet ahead of was looking around for the “select which do cruel execution on our flocks Hruce as the dog circled about him. Pash, Djors and Mouldings on hand By the bedside of a sensitive woman the bear and gaining. The indications few” when a young man who didn't j and foals. Then attention must be All kinds of fruit bought and sold on When Bruce saw m 3 he ran to me and and for sale at attacked with pneumonia, I heard a were that Bruce would soon put me die at Bunker Hill, because he wasn't | given to the little patch of alluvial land deal t between my legs, from which -**««** oM enough, eresrded RltMgM» m «nd AfflMMMli»- the »wee» whaffliwgM ffly *** woman say in clear tones: “There Is St: 14 i to to ---------- Mr Bowser- 1 8U“cietit gram for our wants, and odd foe t in a root and tumbled heele over ljovvewt Utatew! ™ - with renewed vehemence. This dis no hope. I see the death mark on her “Shay, ole Van, we licked’om, didn’t jobs have to be done. A gun or rifle SKÌacpL I play of cowardice on the part of my head. I rolled over and over and face.” is usually carried; for game, feathered came up on my feet without mak ing a W? ” General shop work done in dog appeared to embolden the bear, OYSTER & ICE CREAM PARLOR and furred, is plentiful, and is ever a You will find, if ill for several weeks, Mr. Bowser turned red, but I touched stop in my course, but my remarkable I Tor he cams slashing right toward me welcome change from the monotony of him with my foot. that some of your best friends will drop and my pick-up seemed to confuse O Min every day except Sunday. like a locomotive. It wasn't me he SHORT ORDER. study your appearance and report with “Shay, ole man, give us a little goat-flesh. Meanwhile the wife of the my dog, and he fumbled around in the Next door to Postoffice. “teemed to want, though, for he startling frankness: “Why. my dear, Fo’th Shuly speech, will you?” con- Benedict amongst us is busy superin evidently set his mind, brush so that the first thing he knew how you have changed! I really don’t tinued the pr triot. Stair building a »pecialty. All work had tending the washing, cooking and the bear was dead onto him. There KU ranU ed to be flr»t-class and of latest heart and stomach on Britco, as Mr. Bowser turned white, but I got other matters of domestic economy, as was an immediäte entanglement of believe I should have known you. You ! could see by the way Bruin glared at design. well as the education of her little are paler or more unnaturally flushed, him by the elbow. ’he dog alone. A slight of that kind boar and dog, and during the diversion “Sho you won’t speech, eh? Then fair-haired girl, our pridnand delight. as the case may be, since I was here I made for a tree. I bad never climbed ( was willing to overlook, as I was out last; and, yes, you have perceptibly lost you are an old Tory, you are! I’ll git Katje. our cook, a yellow lady of H. JUDGE, for pleasure aud did not want any a free in my life, but I wasn’t the whisk flesh. But you must get well. We all er boys aud pitch you overboard, I mixed race (Hottentot, Kaffir and of a lamb's tail in shinning up that one. MOSLEY & PELTON, Prop’s. feeling of selfishness or jealousy to Bushman intermingled), attends to love you too much; we can’t get on will!” mar tho harmony. But the boar had As soon as I got there I turned to take without you.” This is said with the I had to talk with Mr. Bowser. I the baking of our ‘cookies,’ cakes of a survey of the field. his mouth open, all the same, and Who Male and retail dealer tn MANUFACTURER. “I don’t know how it ever happened, kindest meaning, but to tho “puir sick had to tell him how Washington suf unleavened meal which usurp the while I loved my dog I was not alx>ve body” it means faintness or increased fered at Valley Forge—how the true place of bread, and which are baked a suspicion that as the boar advanced but my dog had managed to disen fever, or a cry after the visitor has de patriots of the revolution starved and —aud capitally baked, too—in a hole tangle himself from the bear, and was Ashland and Linkvilla the dog would avoid those jaws by parted. Whatever may be your dis hungered—how we fought on until in the ground, heated in the native ’aking to his heels, and that the bear even then busy in putting great gaps ease, the conversation, instead of turn victory came at last, and by and by fashion. If we do not make money of daylight between himself and Bruin. All work order, d will be made to rive would do the next best thing and take It may have been that my trout had ing upon the cheerful and engrossing I quieted him down. He had just got nowadays as we did a few years since, to my legs. So I anticipated the re topics of the time, is too apt to be his patriotism back when a middle- when the railways were being built, Cored Meato constanti; on hand. treat of the dog and retreated hastily, amply rewarded the bear for his day’s fastened to your condition, and in aged man, who had always felt very we live in a rude plenty; meat in ENTIRE SATISFACTION. sport, or it may have been that in the but in good order, myself. The talent little wrangle between him and the stances are given of Mr. * So-and-So, sorry that he didn't see Cornwallis abundance is ours, dried fruits— Terms Cash. Pass-book accouuts pay Repairing neatly and promptly done, Bruce developed in sharing my re who died of the same, or Miss This-or- surrender at Yorkton. came along and quinces and peaches, excellent when treat. but at the same time maintain dog the latter had developed points That who at last recovered, but lias chucked me under the chin and said: and at low rates. stewed—bought from the Boers who able monthly. that surpassed the bear, but which ing his position between my legs, pass us occasionally with wagonioads “ Shay, sis, got yer fel ’ r ’ long? never been her old self since. We a! ’ , ever it might have been, Bruin stopped ASHLAND might, at a time when I was less ab of produce; orangos and grapes in ’ Cause if yer got yer fel ’ r ’ long I kin know now the imagination acts upon finally, gazed after the dog, cast a New Butcher Shop. sorbed in other things, have excited lick him in two mizzen by er watch! season from the irrigated farms of the body, even producing death in a glance at me safely crouching in the my greatest admiration. Hooray ! I’m forefazzer, I am ! I shed Boers out beyond the Poort, whence The and •rsighed ha« opened a new FEED AND LIVERY STABLE “Under existing circumstances it an branches of the tree, and then turned perfectly healthy person. Then how 'er blood, I did !” we emerge from our mountain home, hatcher shop in careful we should be in a sick room.— and slouched back toward the brush. noyed me, especially as the heart of and porridge of pounded mealies and Chicago Journal. I held a conversation with Mr. Bow “I was not inclined to lay the slight the bear was still set on the dog, and ANULAND milk occasionally. Goat’s milk we ser. It was about how we whipped est obstacle in the way of the bear ’ s his legs were extremely ready in fol have in plenty, but no butter or —A large turtle was caught in the the British and gained our indepen Oil Main street, under the MrCill H ill. lowing the promptings of that heart. departure, but Bruce, who had stopped cream, for cows and oxen do not flour dence. and why, for that reason, every first door north of Masonic building. 1 in his wild flight seemed suddenly to Uau Claire river, Wisconsin, with the Consequently, I was compeled to ish upon our zuur veldt. Game prop me to supply the public with the best true patriot should go off on a Fourth extend to Bruce the assurances of have come under the control of the date 1810 cut in the shell on its back. of frssh abounds with us. Our mountains sup- of J ” ,ly excursion and have a good old boy himself; and what did he do —A Connecticut colt is said to have my esteemed consideration by fetch l>ort several kinds of antelope—the ing him a kick that separated but bristle up and start after that re been found getting pears to eat by rub time, and he was in pretty good humor killspringer, rhebok of two sorts, vail when th * boat landed. Circumstances treating bear as if be hadn ’ t had ex bing himself against a pear tree until us as much as ten feet. The recoil of perience enough with it already to sat the shaking brought down the fruit, were against me, however. We had and rooi (gray and red), duykerbok, the kick sent me sprawling on the In season. A liber*! share of the pat scarcely got seated in the shade when and an occasional koodoo; the latter ground, and the impetus it had given isfy any dog that ever lived. The bear which he would eat, and then return ronage of ths people of Ashland and Proprietor. Mr. Bowser discovered that some one one of the noblest of the South African was either unaware of Bruce's advance and shake the tree again. vicinity respectfully solicited. the dog gave him a good start of the fauna, carrying magnificent spiral or didn't care any thing about it, for it —Russian soldiers have lately suf had changed lunch baskets with us. horns and weighing from four hun Having purchased the old stable on bear, and he never looked around, but was not until tee dog nipped him in The one wo had contained only two All Orders Promptly Filled. M un street near the bridge, and »»num d tore wildly into the brush. The bear, one of the hind legs that be turned. fered from night-blindness (hemeralo sandwiches aud a euchre-deck. When dred to five hundred pounds.”— St. the management of the same I am pre now imprt seed with the fact, I suppose, pia), an affection generally due to lack James' Gazette. pared to •■tier the public better accoiumo- that a prostrate fisherman in the hand The turn was a fierce one, and Bruce of proper food. An epidemic of this he made this discovery he turned on dutions than ever before uffirded In me with: She Was Merely Joking. DAVID PAYNE. was worth any quantity in the bush, came tearing back toward my tree disease at a time when bread was the Southern Oregon in the livery buaineea. "I’ll hunt this island over anfi find again, faster than he had gone away. chief diet has been known to disap hushed the promptings of his heart for Ore*»» They were on their bridal tour, and Aahlaatl, that thief ar.d break him in two!” Bruce and set it beating wildly for me. The bear stood a moment gazing after pear on a return to animal food. she sp id, gaily: But he didn't. I interested him in the dog, as if undecided what to do —America is a great country. kt least I interpreted the situation to “Now, Fred, we don't want every Horses Boarded and Fed mean that when I glanced over my with him. Then he seemed to have Twenty years ago a cow that would the revolution, and finally made him body in the car to know that we are realize it was his duty as a tiue par At reasonable rats«. shoulder and saw Bruin steering made up his mind that the best thing give 5,000 pounds of milk a year LINES. to do would be to settle the pestiferous was a very good sort of an animal, I triot, to make sacrifices. Washington newly married, and have them all New and handsomo turnouts, reliable straight for me. I didn't wait for his i had staked his all that we might staring at us. Let us act like real old TUB and safe buggy team», am good »addle arrival, but scrambled to my feet, dog once and for all, aud he started but now comes a gentleman of Cuba. married people. It’ll be such jolly after Bruce at a rate of speed that homea alw ays to be had at these stables. N. Y., with a Holstein cow (Pieterge ! breathe the air of liberty. Couldn’t fun. rhe bear wasn't more. than four feet I the Bowsers stake a lunch basket that Mount Shasta Route! away. Scarcely knowing what I did, would have surprised a race-horse. 2d) which hasa tested record of 30,318} WILL BUY AND SELL HORSES. “All right,” said Fred, calmly, “You brief study of Americans might continue to wear just let me have that end of the seat; I jerked the strap of my creel off my Bruce apparently Xooked upon a posi pounds for a year. Colirarala Mapreaa Trala» Kan Ikallj i their hats on their ears. He 3aw the Brtwrra shoulder and turned on the advancing tion in under my tree as a safe and how much a cow must eat to produce it’s lots pleasanter than this, I’ll take sear, and. swinging the creel, weighted impregnable one, but the bear quickly such a yield as this is interesting.— i point and we ate the two sandwiches, the pillow, too, and I guess I’ll go to drank some river water and sat and Portland and San Francisco Washington Critic. with its twenty pounds or so of trout I stormed it. fought mosquitoes for three hours. sleep for three or four hours. You “Bruce started and ran in a circle brought it down on the head of that UtAVK AHKIVK A Curious Instrument. We were not left entirely to ourselves, wake me when we come to the dinner bea- with all the force 1 was capable around and around the tree, and the Portland 4 XM) p m 1 Ashland 8:30am I however. On several different occar station. Spread that shawl over me, It is a curious thing that the Italian Aahlai.d 95MJ a ni SanFranc’eoîUOa in of. It fell on that ponderous skull bear followed. For at least five min ! sions some of Mr. Bowser's “select and-----” SanFmnciscodtAtp ni i Ashland f.ln pm vith a sickening thud. The bear utes that' circus was kept up. The bear ocarina, or earth-flute, has not received Ashland 4:40 p iu | Portland 10:40 a in “O, I don’t care who knows that : few ” approached us and sought to in stopped. The lid of the creel flew couldn't get nearer than one good jump more attention from music lovers in terest us in the proceedings. They we’re just married,” she said, Sit this country. Of course it is sold in >pen, and in a second the ground was to Bruce, but the dog wasn’t at all I called him by such familiar terms as where you are, dear, and hold my »frewn with my crimson-spotted tro happy for all that. At last the bear the stores here, and you occasionally “old man,” “old bow-legs,” “bald hand.”— Time. hear it in a minstrel show, but not one phies of the rod and fly. I got tired of the chase and stopped. H. S. EMERY —Something new in the line of di- oted it with a pang, but hastily Then if he had had his wits man in a hundred knows any thing 1 head” and “sawed off,” and they ad- concluding that the pang would be as about him he 'Would have had Bruce about it. I have heard it played in ' dressed me as “Hey, Susan,” “Ah! rectory information is included in the nothing compared with the one that foul, for the dog was going so fast that Italy, and the music from a quartet of there!” and “Your gal.” At every list of names of tho inhabitants of Plym would follow the meeting of the bear's he plunked right into Bruin’s rear ba the instruments is exquisite. Its range I such at tom pt to draw out our patriot- outh. Octogenarians and older peo The O A C '. R. - . R. Ferrv make« Conner jaws with my person, sadly, but with- fore he could stop. The shock of the is limited, but the quality of its tone ■ ism Mr. Bowser would rebel, and I ple generally have their age stated as ‘ regular ‘ ' Von with all ‘ the iraius on the A full »apply af < affla». <ut delay, I turned and hastened away. collision threw Bruce back about ten when skillfully played is pure and 1 would have to talk to him of the suf- well as their calling and residence. East Side Div. from foot of F street. ferings endured by our forefathers un- Presumably this is done “by consent Ca»keta. Kobe» af all queer. It has a pastoral flavor, re [ i til ! ran two or three rods before looking feet, and before the bear exactly un I til Tin he riolmzwl calmed rlzxwrr» down. Miar». Silave». Crape«. West MIAe l»ivl»len ffletwee» minding one of piping shepherds, and ucii. I tneu threw my eye over my derstood the situation the dog had ete_ ete_ etc. A climax finally came. A double of parties.” In fact, they probably I I a classical environment The ocarina like it. for it is a weakness of man picked himself up and made a safe re I Portland and Corvaiìis. full-jeweled, diamond- ; (and sometimes of woman) when he Office and warerootn at railroad cross shoulder. You will remember that I treat. The bear gazed after him and is very simple. In shape it is some distilled. ing, Helman Street mentioned that when I first caught growled savagely and started back thing like a ¡»ear or a small gourd. It mounted patriot, who had perhaps | reaches a certain age to brag of his sight of the bear that day, my blood again for the woods. Bruce came back is made of baked clay. Its range is taken out his first papers the day be- I years. OREGON ASHLAND ARRIVE LEAVE froze. Well, when I caught sight of to the tree, squatted down and watched about twelve notes. No instrument fore, threw a biscuit and hit me on i —In tracing the gradual opening up 7 a ra CorvallM 1p ta Portlaiui him as I was hastening away from him the departure of the bear with appar can be more easily learned, for it al the ear, and Mr. Bowser went over to : of the African continent, during the 1:30 p in I Portland 6:i5 p ni Corvallis IV. H. PARKER, my blood thawed instantly, and not ent regret The bear had got a good most plays itself when one has mas interview him about it. When he came j last hundred years, geologists find that At Albany and rtOrv<«llU connect with trains of Oregou Pa ifle. only thawed but rose at once to boil distance away, and I made up my mind tered the scale, and there are no keys back he had a black eye, his nose was i the days of pioneer exploration are Setary Pnblle and »’•■veyaaeer. ing heat. The bear's heart had in turn that I could safely venture to leave the nor any elaborate fingering to embar out of “true,” and some of his teeth ' not yet over. A few patches of the Iteareher af Keeerda. •Ciprea» Trai». proved untrue to me and was now firm tree and fly for home. I had just rass one. The North Italian peasants were loose. He had met the enemy,and surface have been surveyed with seme leavt arrive Abstracts of Titles, and Probate Col- . ly fixed on the scattered contents of my started to let myself down when what use it constantly in the fields, and he was theirs. I took him down to the , care, of others we have a general Portland 4-50 pm M'Minnvili«*: 0pm creel. Bruin was lunching on my did that crazy fool of a dog of mine when you hear one of their peculiar boat, got a state-room, and we locked ' knowledge, and in others lines of travel McMinnville4:4 am i Portland am lector, Etc. trout, and I stopped and gazed In in do but spring up and tear away like melodies from a practiced quartet you ourselves in. I felt like talking, but have been run through, but there are For infiwmation remrding rates, map-, dignation. As 1 gazed the bear raised mad after that bear again. I called wonder such simple means can pro he didn't. When I had washed his . still great regions—as in parts of the •fee., appi» V' company - am-nt. Office—Opposite the court-house. B. KOEHLER. E. P ROGERS, aloft a noble two-pounder with which and begged and whistled for him to duce so beautiful a result— Chicago face and laid a wet rag over his eye , long-traveled Sahara even—that are Manager. Aset G F A Pass AgL Ore («a I had struggled up stream and down. cojne hack, butj might as well h»v News. Aar k««a rille. I asked him if he wasn’t.sorrsJhat om j an absolute blank to civilized man. PIONEER HOTEL A. C. CALI4UKLG. Central House BOOT de SHOE MAKERS, House, Sign and Car riage Painter. Produce & Commission Ashland Market BEEF. PORK and MORON BEEF. PORK OR MUTTON GEORGE STEPHENSON, PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS. Funeral Director Published at Ashland, in the flourishing Rogue River Valley. The leading town of Southern Oregon, population 1,80). junc tion of O. & C. and S. P. R. R. Leading industries—fruit raising, mining, manufacturing, stock- raising and farming. WORTHLESS MANUSCRIPTS. How l*ul>ll»h«rs Diaporn or Most or the Works Submitted to Them. Of the vast multitude of manuscript« offered to book publishers every year, probably seventy-five per cent are worthless, or, at least, are not worthy of publication in book form. It is astonishinghow many j-eople there are in the world who imtgine they are capable of writing a book. It is still more astonishing how few ever dis cover the truth of the matter, and ac knowledge themselves mistaken. Even though their manus'-ripte may have been rejected by half a score of pub lishers, they go down to their graves believing themselves the victims of a base conspiracy to crush aspiring genius. Such loyal self-confidence were almost sublime were it not so ridiculous. There seems to be a widespread be lief among would-be authors that pub lishers are their natural enemies, and they take a peculiar, not to say fiendish, delight in rejecting manuscripts aud crushing the hopes of those who aspire to the honors of authorship^ This is an altogether mistaken idea. Publishers are human, like the rest of us. They follow the business for the money there is in it, and they are quick to take up a good thing whan they have the opportunity. Nothing pleases a publisher more than to secure a really valuable book for pub lication, especially if he thinks it will sell well. He is glad to recognize the ability of the author, thoughAhe latter may be utterly unknown to fame, for henceforth their interests are mutual, so far as that book is concerned. Neither will the author have any diffi culty in securing recognition from other literary men. There is no "charmed circle” in literature which an author of genuine merit may not enter. Publishers are generally correct in their judgment of manuscripts. Long experience enables them to see their merits or demerits almost at a glance. A page here and there will give them a key to the general style and character of the work and will reveal to them ■aults the existence of which the writer has never even suspected. The manu script is returned with a polite note “regretting that the present depressed state of the book trad e compels us to de cline its publication,” etc. This, with a few words commendingthegood pointe of the book (if there are any) serves to sugar-coat the bitter pill of disap pointment. Publishers are kind-hearted as a rule, though their kindness is not always appreciated. In rejecting an unworthy book the publisher does the author a real favor, though the latter seldom has the perception to see it or nw 1I1MM to WbM greater favor can one man do another than to prevent his making a fool of himself before the public ? Very often a man's best friends are those who save him from himself over his own protest. There arc two essentixl points In writing a successful book—the writer must have something to tell and he must know how to tell it. As to the first, of oourse every one who under takes to write a book thinks he has something worth telling. Nine times in ten this is not true; and this mistake on the part of authors &c ?ounts in a large measure for the failure of so many books. When the took fails to command the attention anil respect of the reading public. It is useless for the writer to rail at the public for the fault iff pretty sure to lio at his own door. The man who has something worth telling and knows how to tell it is sure of an audience. A great deal depends on this second point—knowing how to tell a thing. There is a certain tact in the use of language that Is indespensahle. Usually this tact is gained only by years of ex perience, and by many 11. is never gained at all. Very few people have it intuitively. This tact teaches what not to say as well as what to say. It is a valuable accomplishment to be able to express one’s thoughts both briefly and clearly. The gods favor but few mortals thus. There is no royal road to successful authorship, unless one is born a king —that is to say, a genii.». Is it any wonder that so many aspirants fail to secure the coveted recognition from publishers? Unless you are very confident that you have something of great import ance to tell, and that you know how to tell it, don’t tempt the fates by put ting your ideas between the covers of a book. "If a man co lid be sure That his life would endu re At least for a thousand years,” you might possibly live to get over the disappointment; otherwise, not— IntH- anapolis Sentinel. —A California paper relate« that as a train was pulling out from Salida a wild steer rushed upon the engine and a moment later was lifted by the cow catcher and landed squarely on the platform. The steer hooked the head- iight into pieces and then climbed on top of the locomotive. It fooled a while with the bell, and then tried to out! loose the whistle. The engineer had enough presence of mind to stop the train quickly, and the shock tumbled the steer off into a ditch. By rhe time the train was started the maddened animal had regained his feet and was following with the evi dent intent of trying an attack in the rear, but the train was too fast for him. —An Albany physician say» Amer icans suffer more generally from Bright's disease and nervousness than any other people because they sit down so persistently at their work. While Englishmen, Germans and Frenchmen walk and exercise, an American busi ness man will go to his offics, take his seat in his chair, and «it there all day without giving any relief to the tension of the muscles of the back. The result is that the muscles sur rounding the kidneys become soft and flabby. They lose their vitality. The kidneys themselves become weak and debilitated. If business men would walk more and stand instead of sitting at their desks their health would ba much improved. _ . .