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About Valley record. (Ashland, Jackson County, Or.) 1888-1911 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1889)
A PEARL RING. PROGRAMMI EACH PAY* H*A OWN WAY. Making te. In Florida. In Florida, wixere ice is so desirable She looked Cown at her hand; How the l adle« Boy Their Seat! for the for cooling food and drink, it is not T ttm slender quite; the band Matinee Performances. OF THE naturally formed, and so must be Of sold so brightly gleamed. Four ladies stood at the box office made. I visited an ice factory. Each day it yellower beamed. *'My love, he’ll come,” ah- said— window at Palmer’s theatre recently They have twenty tons of ice form The days and weeks fast sped. just before the performance began and ing here all the time They lift a tank spent five minutes in selecting seats. every thirty minutes, tako out the ice, She looked down at her hand; ------OF TFÍ2E------ There were not many to choose from. refill the tank with water and replace The pearl set in the band Seemed strangely dark to grow, The bouse was nearly all sold out, and i it. The freezing takes forty-eight ‘’lie'll aome, yea soon, I know.” four scats in one of the rear rows in hours. The tank they have just emp Th- leaves turned red and fell— tho orchestra and a few in the balcony I tied will be filled soon, and a new "My lore, he lores me well.” were all that were left, save an isolated block of ice will be taken from it on She looked down at her band; chair hereand there. The ladies finally , “the day after to-morrow.” “1 w onder in wbat land concluded to sit in the orchestra, and Now, it seems that this freezing He rove?, and if this ring as they announced their decision each takes place so gently that a spray of Could mo to sorrow bring* pushed a bank note through tho win roses may bo put into a tank of water 0. does this shining gold Portray my love untold ? dow to tho ticket seller. They were and frozen into the mass of ice with- intimate friends, evidently, and had i out stirring a petal from its place. And can the pearl, so dark. como to the theatre in a party, but 1 There it lies imbedded, in all its Set forth a faithless heart: False emblems, you deceire! each paid her own way. beauty of form and color—a marvel I'll die first than believe “I wonder why it is,” said the ticket ous thing, I think. The icemaker.- H* could unworthy be— seller, when tho rush of business was like to tierform this experiment, as it 1 know my lore loves me. over and ho had a chance to breathe, shows tno clcai iicxs of their ice; and She looked down at her hand; “that everybody pays his own way at pride is taken in freezing pieces of un With age and toiling tanned. a matinee.” usual beauty and transparency. And loosely in the gold. “Is that tho rule at matinees any I A delicate spray of Howel's, a cluster Now worn, but bright ot old. more than it is at evening perform i of ripe fruit, or a brilliant colored fish The blackened pearl remained She sighs, “He’s long detained ” ances?” a Star reporter asked. ! arc favorite subjects. Exhibitions of —New Orleans Times Democrat “Why, yes. For tho evening per ; such freezings are occasionally made formance a largo proportion of the at fairs, and a particularly beautiful A Horrible Story. scats are sold in advance. A man will or interesting piece makes a very at- I read, or rather had read to me, the buy a couple of scats during the day, i tractive gift for a birthday or for I other night a very horrible story of or perhaps several days ahead. If a Christmas. : Griffiths Wainewright It was out of 1 party of four people ora greater num What a pretty way to preserve ob- , a book written by an Australian ber intend to visit the theatre to ' jects! 1 would like a collection of I clergyman, and, though the poisoner’s gether, some one of them will secure ! Florida specimens so preserved. No naino was not mentioned, there could seats for the whole, and long enough ’ dried out herbarium specimens; no I be no doubt of his identity’. When ahead so that ho can get them in a faded and distorted alcoholic prepara Wainewright was released from block and in a desirable part of the tions; no unnatural taxidermist prison, it appears that for some time house. But even if several people at mounts, but everything in its natural b. Citizens on Foot. I. \xlilan*l Silver TromlHim- Band. •» Co. I», Sccoml Reg. luí., O. X. <». he acted as a kind of assistant surgeon tend in a group and get their seats on color, its perfect outline, its living !>. Citizens in Carriages. •» 10. l.in<‘ of March: Form in Plaza, at a hospital. To this institution a man, I the spot, one of the gentlemen in tho beauty. Here, a clear little block «>. Burnsiilv Pont, (i. A. R. inan li up Main street to First ave., i hated by Wainewright, was brought i party will select and pay for them, with a chameleon; here, 3 larger one 4. A. II. Co., No. 1. down First ave. to Spring street, in a dying condition. J opt before he and if he is notentertaining will settle i with a coiled rattlesnake; there a .». Secret < Irganiziitions ami Federated along Spring street to < l-.ik, up Oak I yielded up tho ghost a scene took the little financial pool with his friends > young alligator, a cluster of grape Tradin. to Main, through Main to Helman place, which, as an example of un- , afterward, if be has not levied an as fruit or oranges, a spray of flowers or H. I.ilicrtyCar with New States. I street, down Helman to Factory, abated revengefulness, surpasses any- I . sessment before they have reached the 7. Presidents of the Ihiv, Orator and or a series of foit .l leaves. But alas! up FiU'torv to Main, thence to the thing I ever heard before. Reader, Chaplain, Mavor of the house. You seldom 6ee a ‘Dutch treat' such a collection would not last a sin < »rove. City and Memls rsof City Council. Wainowriglit gained admission to evening.” gle week.—St. Nicholas. I the. man’s bedside, and, in a piercing in “ the LITERARY EXERCISES, 11:30 a . m . A ‘Dutch treat?’ ’’ whisper, loud enough to be heard by Some Superstitious Statesmen, “Yes; ‘Dutch treat,’ ‘Pennsylvania I 3. 1. Music. Prayer by Chaplain. the next patient, said: “ Listen! 1 treat ’ Everyone pays his own way, Nothing can induce Senator Voor the Honorable B imikk 4. Oration bv Reading Ihclaration of Inde|s'iid- have one word to say to you before f ou know, and pays it on the spot. hees to ride in a street car drawn by a H ek . m an . anee. you die.” The dying patient^ as if t’sa matinee institution. Sometimes white horse. suddenly magnetized, lifted his wearv two men will come up to the window Senator Joe Blackburn not only eyes and stared at tho person who ad at an afternoon performance and each j takes the white horse, but also one dressed him. “In five minutes,” said ( buy his own scat, but not often. It is having a white spot on it, or one white his malignant tormentor, “your soul a sort of woman s fad. It makes a big foot will bo in hell, and before your body ; difference in the work of handling Senator Edmunds regards it as un is cold, my- dissecting krfifo will be in I tickets whether wo sell them lucky if the first person ho meets on your entrails.” Those who were pres singly or in pairs or in blocks emerging from his house is a woman, ent could never forget tlie horrified of four or more. Men are nat and will return for a fresh start. expression of tho man’s face as liis urally liberal—extravagant, if you Senator Sherman will notextend his dying ear caught the frightful words, please—in such matters. A man will left hand in greeting or receive one ex and his dying eyo took tho impression ask a friend to go to the theatre with tended to him—a familiar habit with AFTERNOON PROGRAMME. of the gleaming Mephistophelian face him, and at his cost, with the same politicians. bending over his death bed.—London grace that he will offer him a cigar. Senator Call will bury or burn a pair Globe But women very rarely entertain each I of socks one or both of which be has other outside of'their own home when put on wrong side out The U-e ot Cocaine. it costs money to do it” Representative Kennedy, of Ohio, FREE TO ALL. _ Cocaino has been in use in the medi Tho ticket sellers at other theatres wears a voudoo charm which he ob cine of this country about live years. similar stories to tell. The man tained from an old negress in tho Conducted <?• I was the first—or at least among the had who sells you “the best in the house” swamps of Louisiana. first—in this city to use it, and my | at the Fifth avenue said that women When Senator Harris, of Tennessee, I 6’. first patient was' a dog. The first ap I from the suburbs had a monopoly of is in doubt as to a course of action, be I plication of cocaine was in ophthal the “matinco Dutch treat” at that decides it by spitting at a mark. 2. RUNNING RACE, 100 Yards, Free to All, for Purse. mic surgery. I read a long article on house. “And each one of a party If Senator Vest, of Missouri, meets 3. FAT MEN S RACE, Free to All Over 200 pounds, for the subject in The New York Medical passes i<j a big bank note, usually a a beggar in the streets before he has Journal. Soon after that a gentleman ten dollar bill, he continued, “and I spent any money lie invariably gives a Price. came to see me about a very title hunt I havo to make chapgo four times in to the mendicant. ing dog, who had got a thorn in his what is virtually a singlo sale. I won If the first person Representative 4. FOOT RACE FOR GIRLS Under 18 Years of Age, for prize. eye. 1 looked at the dog, and, re der how it is that they always have Breckinridge meets in the morning is membering what I had read about co big bills. Women who como to a mat a colored man or woman he crosses to “ 5. FOOT RACE FOR BOYS Under 15 Years of Age. caine for eve surgery, I went to a drug inee very seldom havo tho exact the other side of the street. He claims store and fixed up a decoction of about change to offer, and rarely hand in a if lie continues on tbo same side he 6. THREE LEGGED RACE, /or 5 per cent, of liydrochlorato of co two dollar note i» payment for a seat. will be hoodooed for the entire day. Senator Evarts is a great admirer of 7. GRAND DISPLAY OF FIRE WORKS IN THE EVENING. caine. I applied some of this to the Almost always it is a ten dollar note dog’s eye, after a good deal of trouble. that is pushed in through the window, the flaming beauties of tho circus While the cyp was under this influence and it is usually folded up When I posters and theatre announcements on I I pulled the thorn out without any havo unfolded four ten dollar nctes j the billboards, which taste ho has in trouble, and the dog soon trotted home and handed out four piles of change of! common with Hale, of Maine; Butler, as well as ever.—Surgeon iivSt. Louis $8,50 each, as I frequently do, I have of South Carolina, and Pascoe, of Flor Globe-Democrat. dono about all the work I ought to in ida.—Washington Letter in Cleveland »V. selling four seats,”—New York Star. Plain Dealer. GRAND CELEBRATION AT ASHLAND 4th of July,’89 1. Salute of thirty-eight Guns at Sunrise. 2. Music by Band. Meeting in Uniform of all different Organiza- tions of the City on Plaza Square. 3. Inspection and Review of Co. D, Second Reg. Inf., O. N. G. 4. At 10 o’clock A. M., Military and Civic Parade, Consisting as Follows: 5. MUSIC. 6. GRAND BARBECUE DINNER IN GROVE FOR ALL % 1 CLKY PIGEON SHOOTING, under the Auspices of the Ashland II. Club. Full particulars next iceek. Price. 8. GRAND BALL in the Evening, (¡icen under the Afana grin ent of Co. D, Second Ilei». Inf., O. (I. .1 cordial incitation extended to .111. Stone Steps or Death. “I want stone steps to this house,” she said to the architect as they were discussing tho plans. “Yes’m, but stone steps are danger ous in winter.” “I don’t care. Mrs. Blank has stone steps to her house, anti I’ll have to mine.” “Yes, but she fell on them and | broke a leg the other day.” “Then 1’11 fall and break both legs. . I’m not going to let her crow over j me!”—Detroit Free Press. A Grim Counterpoise. What Is Electricity? As the use of electricity becomes Two telegraph linemen were at work in a suburb painting poles. The moro general there is increased curi painter was hoisted to the top on a. osity to learn v. hat it is, says The Elec boatswain’s chair by his companion, tric Power. It is considered a mys who stood sentinel below, rope in terious force, because in its normal hand. Tlie latter became weary, hun condition it cannot be seen. The wire gry or thirsty—or something—and which conveys the current gives no sought relief at a neighboring inn, manifestation of tbo energy which is without notifying the man aloft To I passing through it. Just as the poet “We take no note of time save guard against accident he availed said, himself of an old tomb stone—the line from its loss,” So with electricity, it At a Bargain. ran alongside a burial place—and fas must bo measured as it flies. It is true, that its laws arc perfectly tened the rope thereto without telling however, A. IV. .«suit, the ( niitravtor and Builder, lieing called back to Portland by busi- understood. Is it necessary that we Bow the Hosbaail Gave It Awaj. i the man up the tree. When the lat ness interests, offers lor sale the following property, which will Is- a Imrgain for Here is another good smuggling I ter had paiuted down to his reaching should know what it is? Nothing is soiiic I mh I v: story from tho Belgian frontier: A powers, ho looked down, saw not his more familiar to us than the action of newly married couplet were returning partner, and, holding on to the oppo gravitation. We know that it is the to Germany after a tour to Brussels. site rope, kicked theono he wasswung attraction of the earth. It holds the As the train approached the frontier to. It yielded, and down he went, atoms of the earth together and en Near the Itcvlin Tract out on the Boulevard, less than two mil«* from Ashland. the bride grew uneasy and presently though slowly. This astonished him, ables us to jierform all of the opera This is choiiv laud for peach«* or other fruit—such land as that of the (»••'ey Peach confessed that she had a quantity of but he was more astonished when lie tions which make up our daily life. • tn liard, which is already well known to horticulturists all over tlw '‘ate, and the finest of Brussels lace in her bag. was brought face to face with the It is, however, a mystery, but its laws which sold for 4<i00 |K*r acre during the last few weeks. Aimut 4 acres c. «red and . on which a high dutv would have to gravestone, with its “Sacred to the are as well known, and if we violate ready for the plow. This will lie sold, if applied for soon, at $100 pcr’acre. Will lie be paid. “Put it iusido your hat,” she memory-’’ and so on, which had them by jumping off a precipice ■«dd as a whole or in 10 and 7 acre pie»-«*. pleaded. This was done. The custom pulled up just the distance the man should wo consider the force of gravity ' house officials looked all through the had descended. There was trouble in necessarily dangerous? Steam is also boxes of the elegant young lady, tliatcaiup of painters, and it reached something of a mystery*. It has been familiar to mankind since the dawn of knowing by experience that such are 1 head«!uarters. —Boston Transcript. civilization, yet how rnauy people the most daring of smugglers, but V tlie junction of t'nion. (iresliani and Iowa streets in the neighliorhood (.i the A M.n Trilli a HHtory, know that it is transparent and therc- found nothing. The chief officer. •1°« live r. < art- r and F.dding- n*id> ihi ». I’rive now, ♦.’V’". Private \\ . G. Merviu, stationed at ! fore invisible UDlil it come.® in contact • ■harmed bv the amiable manners oi fttC Lppl» lo r A It- Im. \. r. Ki|> or*;. I . Billing.-. tho husbxud, accompanied the couple Fort. Le;-.v* u t tsiili is a man with a I with the air.' to the train, when the wretched hus history. His right name is Gerlock, » < liepi-i s Music»I [ ikes and Dislikes. band. forgetting bis secret in the joy and he is one of six children, heirs to Ho worshipped Mozart, and was t of haring escaped, raised his hat to to the Gerlock brewery, Milwaukee, the officer and was instantly enveloped which returns a princely income. In •zealous student of Bach. One day, in a soft white veil. Tableau!—Pall 1885, after recovering from a serious Halle played to him a Beethoven sonata illness, he dropped out of sight, leav (one from op. 31). Chopin found the Mall Gazette. ing a young wife, behind him. All i last movement vulgar. From this efforts to ascertain liis whereabouts Halle concluded that ho could not Vaccinati«!!. were fruitless. His mind had been have mado a deep study of the VaccinatioUj which is com ipulsory impaired, and when, in San Francisco, masters works. Lenz, indeed, lias 2V s 1 x 1£ lxi . c 19 - - - Oregon in England, is optional is France. he realized what had happened he de said: “Chopin did not take a verv Post lioc* (whether is be propter hoc termined to enlist in tlie army and serious interest in Beethoven. He Ur are now stocked up and are prepan-d to nirnish a lull line of or not), the smallpox death ’ average work out his own salvation. A notice knew only his princi[>al compositions, U 0.31 per 1,000 in is >■> the mv .«.go largo cities vi of in a pa]M.-r some time ago informed the last works not at all.” Chopin France, as against 0.04 in triis this country him that a Mi«. Gerlock, of Mil 1 cared little for Mendelssohn, and—if during Of course ’ t ‘ the same .. period. ' ’. c: ...... waukee, was dead, and thinking it . the statement of Schlcssinger betrue this looks conclusive, to the ordinary Ordinary was his wife ho determined to know i that he did not consider Schumann's man, in favor of our own practice. the truth and wrote a letter to that I “Carnaval” to be music at all—still No doubt, however, the anti-vaccina anti-vaccina- purpose. Au answer came in the per less for a composer who thorougljv tionists « will give v quite quite uiivmcr another rvumul reason son of the wife herself aid the re appreciated and admired his own gen , . . . . . • I .1 ... ............... .... uuunis in gn At lowest pn. es Als., any s|H, ial sizes cut. < edar als., turmslnsl. Bills for the difference.-London Globe union was a happy one. —New York ius. He preferred Bellini to Berlioz.— hgurvd on and cut to onivr on short notice. Nicok a Life of Chopin. World. TWO CHOICE PIECES OF SEVENTEEN ACRES OF LAND Two Choice City Lots ROWE & MORE, LUMBER! 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