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e Salvation Array held a three President Cleveland went dock hunt .1 ;i convention in New YurkC.ty dur- ing in South Carolina on Monday, but k.e week. A scheme is on foot to the game flew wild and he got a light a farm near the metropolis toestab-- shoot. The People’s Paper. a rescue farm for ex-convicts. The recent populist candidate for the The assest of the First National bank ’ vice-presidency, Mr. Watson of Georgia, ASHLAND, Or.. ..Thursday, Dec. 24,189»>e is expected in Washington immediately of Silver City, N. M., which closed some! after the reassembling of congress to years ago, and its affairs wound up by contest the seat now filled by Mr. Black i receiver, were sold at public auction a HOW HE SETTLED IT. few days ago. of the tenth Georgia district. Senator Warren of Wyoming under-1 Hermann the noted magician died of [Special Correspondence.] A story appealed in a New York pa went an operation for appendictis a1 heart failure in his private car near Salamanco, N. J., en route to Bradford, per on Deo. 1 according to which a few days ago. George Harvey, who was an English Pa., where he was billed to give an en clergyman, Rev. Mr. Ditmars of Wil liamsburg, claims to have found out that nobleman at Nogales, has been arrested tertainment on the night of the 17th. any man who wants work can get it. as a common thief at Ysleta, Tex. • And now on the 17th comes a news Here is the story: Manuel Riveroil has returned tc dispatch which claims that Macqo is * ‘A clergyman started out determined San Diego from the City of Mexico, still fighting, and that he had received to see for himself whether men are idle where he made charges that have a slight wound only. from necessity or from choice. He dis started an investigation at Ensenada England was visited on Thursday guised himself so that his own wife did that threatens to put some leading Dec. 17, with the most severe earth not know him. In his worst suit of officers, including a Judge, behind the quakes that were ever experienced in clothes, with a slouched hat and grimy bars. Riveroil claims that he was that country. face, he started out bent on getting falsely imprisoned on a charge of steal Postmaster J. J. Hetsch of Newport, work. He inquired at several places and ing a gold bar left in his charge. Ky., is missing. So is about $6000 gov was told that there was no work. At Price Vaughan was sentenced by ernment money. It is surmised both last he got a job at driving a sprinkler. Judge to serve twelve years absentees left about the same time. The man who did it as a regular thing at San Bridgeford Quentin for murder of A. M. was suffering from a ‘jag. ’ As the cler Phillips at Arbuckle the A bill to appropriate $50,000 to con on the 6th of last gyman started to drive off he was told September, a jury having struct a monnmental statue at Wash found him by the contractor, ‘You want to drive up guilty of murder in the second degree, ington to the late James G. Blaine has and down the block in front of the recommended him to the mercy oi been injfoduced in congress. church all the afternoon. ’ It was the and The British steamer Hazel Moore the Court minister’s own church, but he had faith was picked up at sea and towed into A. J. Ridge of Grass Valley, Cal., is in his disguise and went on with the Queenstown with a broken propeller. work. All the afternoon he drove back contesting the election of Frank T. She had drifted for sixteen days. and forth in front of his own church and Nilon as superior judge, alleging ir- At Barcelona, Spain, twenty-eight met several of his parishioners, none of regularities in tlie counting. anarchists just been sentenced to whom recognized him. His hands were Senator Mitchell of Oregon has in- death and have fifty-seven others to penal cracked and aching from the unusual troduced a bill to set aside government servitude. exertion and his back almost broken. lands for use in producing salmon in The Von Cromer match factory at Hu did not return the next day, having Oregon waters. Aschaffenburg, Germany, had an ex received bis day swages before learving. The fisheimen*b union on the Colum of chemicals which killed fif He had earned $1.50.” bia river is organizing a company to plosion This is an improbable story, and I pack their own catches next season in teen womeh in the building and injured many others in adjoining buildings. hope it is not true. In the first placo it stead of selling to other packers. is probable that a minister who had Nathan Webb, the oldest survivor ol The historic “ Jimtowh” mining town civil sense enough to try to find out for him war, has just died in Steuben self how the matter stands regarding in Tuolumne county, Cal., was nearly county, N. Y., at the age of 100 years. the unemployed would have too much completely burned out on Thursday His wife died recently aged 96. His sense to come to a conclusion from one night father lived to be 107 years old. Miss Annie Evans of Eureka, Cal., has day’s trial. He would know that it was Marion Hatfield, one of a notorious no fair test. His condition was so differ sailed for Japan to become the wife of gang of that name, was hanged at ent from that of the average man seek J. C. Putnam, whose business engage Sneadville, Ky., on the 16th, for the ing work that no comparison can be ments prevent his coming to the states murder of Jones Trail. Five thousand drawn. He had on his worst suit of to claim his bride. people witnessed the execution. clothes and knew that no matter what The coroner’s jury found that Mrs. I The supreme court of Nebraska has happened to them he could at any min Sarah B. Cooper, who was found dead ute change for glossy broadcloth. He in her bed, had been asphyxiated by declared that the state sugar bounties had passed years in a comfortable home, her daughter Hattie, who was alsc of Nebraska cannot be legally paid. A nt easy work, and if he had taken care killed while insane. She had closed all defective clause renders the act null of himself as a clergyman, maybe had means of ventilation and turned on the and void. Ian Maclaren, the eminent Scotch fortified his system by a generous diet gas while her mother slept. author, has sailed for Liverpool after a and healthful, systematic exercise. The The Yolo county supervisors have night before he started cut to look for prohibited pool selling and will stop two-months visit in this country. work he probably had a good night’s President Cleveland bagged 61 ducks sleep in a clean, comfortable bed and in gambling games. in one day’s shoot a few daysgo. J. Henry, a miner, lost his way dar the morning ate a good breakfast with Rev. James Rankins, formerly presi ing a storm on the Applegate, in Ore a cheerful heart in view of hie day's dent of Hobart college, died at Geneva, gon, and was frozen to death. play—for that is what it was in his an N. Y., on the 16th, aged 68 years. The supervisors of Yuba county are ticipation. He doubtless had money The novel discovery has been made in enough in his pocket to buy him a good considering getting stripped suits for the United States prison at Fort Leaven dinner and pay his car fare home in case the prisoners confined in the county worth, Kan., of a full fledged counter he became in his search for work too jail. feiting outfit in operation, making $5 weary to walk there. Ho had the feel Justice Brewer of the L’nited States bills. ing with him all the timo that a good, supreme Court has denied the applica- permanent job in his pulpit was await tion of Sheriff Newman of Lake county,secretary of the navy makes ing him. Wlmt, then, lmd this minister, Co!., for a supersedeas to prevent the public the findings of the board of playing at h> king for work, in common execution of an order of the Colorado naval inquiry on the condition of the battleship Texas. The report finds the with tlio genuine workingman out of courts deposing him from office. a good ship and subject to no employment? Need I draw the contrast? La Grande, Or., has twenty-two se Texas All that the minister has in his favor as cret more mishaps than is usual to ships of societies. her class. Naval officers are forbidden to environment tho average workingman Cloverdale will have a farmer’s insti to criticise war vessels for the press in has not. Often he is broken in health and spent tute in February. the future. The Santa Rosa flour mill is now being by long years of servitude and could not The National Wool Growers’ Associ possibly summon to his aid the debonair operated to its full capacity. ation has passed a resolution asking manner in which the actor clergyman San Pedro is considering a proposi that a tariff on wool be enacted at the would ask for a job. He slept the night tion to establish a shipyard. earliest moment ' ' . before, quite probably, in a comfortless Mojave county mines are yet hardly A general fight occurred between the bed, with insufficient covering, so that than surface diggings, but they i passengers and three robbers in a chair he was obliged to exclude the fresh air more car as the train approached Sedalia, in order to keep warm. He may have i have produced $40,000,000. Moi, a day dr two ago. The robbers Coyotes are reported as doing some left a reproachful wifo and hungry, poorly clad children in the miserable damage to stock in the hills surround escaped from the moving train with considerable plunder. place the average workingman can se ing knight’s valley, Sonoma county. The force of men employed at the cure for a home. His breakfast, if he At the assignee’s sale of the Adolph had any, was probably not as nourish Weske stock near Windsor, the price Brooklyn navy yard will be reduced by ing and satisfying as the clergyman’s in ¡ of well-bred horses averaged $15 a head 600 men, as the appropriation is ex- I hausted. our story. Ho wears his best clothes, i and the cows $14. which are not as good as the clergyman’s It is reported that the contractual) An immense area of oats is being worst. He has perhaps not a cent in his seeded in Sonoma county this year, and 1 William J. Bryan for a lecture tour has pocket. So if he gees far from home— not much wheat, because of the fear of been sold by the original contractor at supposing he has a home, he must beg his the Hessian fly and the high price ol a profit of $25,000. way back. Now tell us, standing these seed. Two women at Bethel, Ohio, quar two men up side by side, which is the reled and one of them threw a pail ol All of Wasco county, Or., was cov contractor going to choose? Tho-man in hot lye in the face of the other, burn less need of tho job would bo tho one ered with snow last week, and stock- ing out the woman’s eyes as also those men were compelled to gather their more likely to get it. of her little girl. The latter died of If this clergyman really wants to put herds at the home ranches and begin her injury and the woman is not ex feeding. himself in the way of findingout wheth The grand jury in Portland has been pected to survive. A mob is in pursuit er or not work is to be had for the seek and threatens lynching if the fiend be ing, I can give him a few hints that investigating the sale of morphine and caught. will help him to this knowledge. First, cocaine to fiends who are addicted to Near Crawfordsville, Ind., Mrs. Mar be must resign his present situation and the use of these drugs, and as a result tha McGill and her seventeen-year-old several prominent physiciansand phar dispose of all the outward advantages which hiB years of ministerial life have macists have been arrested, and more daughter met death in a shocking man given him over the average working are to follow. It is claimed the doctors ner. They were crossing on a railroad man. (I repeat average workingman so have been violating the law in prescrib trestle when the daughter missed her footing and fell between the ties. The often because the average is the only fair ing the poisonous drugs. mother tried to rescue her when a train type to take.) If he has money more Farmers on and near the Umatilla than the average workingman, he must reservation in Oregon are complaining | ran them down. give it away. If he owns a home, he of being almost eaten up by spotted The French Deputies have adopted a must give it away, for the averago work rats. Only a few days ago seventy of credit of 549,000 francs to provide for ingman of today is only a renter. He them were killed in one manure pile. i the official participation of France in must take up his residence amid sur There were twenty-four carloads of the Brussels exposition. roundings suitable for such as he. We ore from Washington shipped through Smith Whipp and his brother, Owen, will even allow him the $1.50 he t urn-. La Grande, Or., last week. were badly injured by an explosion ol on the sprinkling cart, and he shall go powder they were thawing in a cabin Dr. Joseph Rodes, a well known phy the next day with "cracked hands and i near Irwin, Col. sician of San Diego, met with a tragic almost broken back” to find that the Cecil Douglass was killed and three other fellow has recovered from his death on Sunday. The boat in which "jag” and is again driving the sprin i he was rowing was capsized and struck members of the train crew fatally hurt by the derailing of a wrecking train kler. Our clergyman workingman now i the doctor, crashing his skull. The flouring mill of €’. Bachtold of near Monticello, Ind. starts out to seek for work under vastly different conditions from thoso which Selma, (’a!., was destroyed by fire early The Executive Committee of the Na surrounded him on that auspicious Mon Sunday morning. It is thought to have tional Association of Manufacturers has day morning when he started out mer been set on fire by incendiaries. adopted resolutions favoring the re rily to solve the labor problem. It is "a 1 The German bark Potrimpos is the vision of the tariff as early as possible. condition and not a theory” which con latest wreck reported on the Pacific The strike of Italian laborers on fronts him. Let hint get some real ex coast. She went ashore during a heavy Erie Canal improvements is broken, perience and then talk. fog a few days ago a few miles north of and work is in progress on all sec If his story is true, it is more than the Columbia. tions. Warrants have been issued probable that the contractor recognized The postoffiee at Oregon City and also for the arrest of the leaders of the him and set him to sprinkling in front at Hubbard, Or., were robbed by com of his own church as a good joke. But petent mechanics. At the first named rioters. The Chinese Congress will shortly whether jt is true or not it is much to City'the liaut hetteK dose to $3|J0o*in name a commission to arbitrate the bo desired that some clergymen would cash and stamps. differences between the heirs of Bern learn by actual experience what it is to During the past year a Sweetwater stein, the concessionnaire of tire North seek for labor. These men are looked to valley rancher received §3000 for lem and South American Construction Com as representatives of Jesus of Nazareth. pany, and the Chilean Government. Are they as careful, are they as well able, ons from ten acres of trees. L. C. Rogers of Umatilla has made to represent him to tho great mass of During the coming week large quan living, bopiug, fearing, sorrowing, arrangements to import large quanti- tities of provisions will be shipped working humanity as they would be if i ties of corn from Nebraska w ith w hich from New York to Cuba in order to be they understood from actual experience I to fatten hogs. i entered before January 1st. On that the life of a workingman as Jesus un A stage line from Baker City to Cor date Weyler’s order raising the tariff derstood it? C eua B. W hitehead . on imports 5 per cent goes into effect nucopia, Or., has been established. VALLEY RECORD. Continue tho Fight. ■ • * •. _ . The expression used by the prophet Electric Bitters. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for Joel with regard to the locusts—that i any season, but perhaps most generally I ! "they darkened thesun”—hasoften been needed when the languid, exhausted feeling corroborated by subsequent observers. prevails; when the liver is torpid and slug Even in southern Europe swarms of lo gish and the need of a tonic and alterative' custs have been seen in such numbers is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious that they quite obscured the light of the fevers. No medicine will act more surely sun. in counteracting and freeing the system , from the malarial poison. Headache. In Every-Day Excursions digestion , Consumption. Dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. 50<-. and $1.00 per bottle i' To all parts of the world can be arranged at E. A. Sherwin's Drugstore. I for any day in the year, for one or more The fight for the regeneration of tho republic is just commenced, sotospeak. It will be continued until the poor man shall have the same rights before the law as the rich. It will be continued until tho farmer ha3 the same rights accorded to him and his business as the money shark of Wall street. It will be continued until prosperity shall settle among our great plain people, give them an opportunity for honest endeav or whereby they may earn their liveli ---------------- I i persons, upon application to any princi- j pal ticket agent of the Chicago, Milwau hood by honest work, whereby they may Deafness Cannot be Cared educate, nurture and protect their fam by local application, as tbev cannot reach kee & St. Paul railway. Itineraries ai*e ilies the same as the rich. In other i the diseased portion of the ear. There is care ullv prepared for excursions to Cal ifornia, Florida, Mexico, China, Japan, words, this republic must be a republic ' only one way to cure Deafness, and that is and to any part of Europe. Estimates ; by constitutional remedies. Deafness is which is a blessing to all, and until caused by an inflamed condition of the furnished including expenses. Tickets this state of affairs shall bo consum mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. furnished for the complete journey. It mated too fight will be continued. It is | When tlrs tube gets inflamed you have a is not necessary to wait for any of the so sound or imperfect hearing, and an old fight, the fight of the oppressed rumbling when it is entirely closed Deafness is the called • „ "Personally Conducted Excur- .” In these days of progressive en- against the oppressor and the fight of result, and unless the inflammation can be ■ slave against the tyrant, the fight of taken out and this tube restored to its nor i lightenment, with the English language poor, stricken humanity against its op mal condition, bearing will be destroyed spoken in everv land nnder the sun, one forever; nine cases out of ten are caused bv does not need to depend on the services pressors.—Kearney (Neb.) New Era. catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed I of guides for sight-seeing, but can go it condition of the mucous surfaces. alone or in small family parties, with We will give One Hundred Dollars for Are You Made any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) great comfort and security, and at one’s own convenience. Write to C. J. Eddy, Miserable by Indigestion, Constipation, that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh General Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee & Cure. Send for circulars, free. Dizziness. Loss of Appetite. Yellow Skin? F. J. CHENEY <fc Co., Toledo, O. St. Paul railway, Portland, Or., for par Shiloh’s Vi talizer isa positive cure. For Mia by T. K. Bolton. fl^Sold by Druggists— 76c. ticulars it you are contemplating a trip. Major C. T, Picton is manager of the It is denied that General Maceo was THE “DELIGHTFUL POISON.” State Hotel at Denison,Texas, which the led into a trap under a white flag, be traveling men Bay is one of the best Peculiar Manner In Which Winemaking trayed by his physician, and murdered hotels in that section. In speaking oi In Persia Originated. by the Spanish troops. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and "In the Kingdom of the Shah,” by Dr. Diarrhoea Remedy Major Picton sayB: William Keenan of Chicago had a Treacher Collins, the author tells of the "I have used it myself and in my family christening party ou Sunday and a origin of winemaking in Persia. It was for several years, and take pleasure in funeral on Tuesday. John Meehan, during the reign of King Jamsheed that saying that I consider it an infallible the godfather, is in jail charged with the vineyards of Shiraz, as today, were cure for diarrhoea and dvsentarv. I qiurder. noted for the superlative quality of the always recommend it, and bavefrequent- Chicago refused to issue a permit for grapes they produced on account of the Iv administered it to my guests in the lie proposed public electrocution of a variations of temperature—the intense hotel, and in every case it has proven it worthy of unqualified endorsement, vicious elephant. cold of winter and extreme heat of sum self For sale by Ashland Drug Co. The salvation army has undertaken mer—to which they were subjected. lie Wanted It Cheaper. the novel commission of finding lost King Jamsheed was exceedingly fond friends, using its War Cry and wide of Shiraz grapes, and in order to enjoy It was one of those restaurants-whore spread organization as the means of them throughout the year conceived the they charge according to the service, and carrying out such undertaking. idea of preserving them in a jar. Fer you can get anything in the line of serv mentation, of course, took place, and ice that you want from a private dining The Georgia legislature is asked to make a law for the protection of doves when tho jar was opened and found to room to« cafetiria help yojjyself coun which in the past have been slaughtered contain a quantity cf acid Liquid it was ter. And the men in search of some looked upon as poison by tho king. He thing to eat had wandered In among the as a nuisance to farmers. placed it in bottles and labeled it as private dining rooms on the seoond floor. Sterling Turner, a member of the After he had settled himself comfort junior class at Vanderbilt University such. Ou a certain occasion one of bis at Nashville, Tenn., suicided from the female favorites, who was sorely afflict ably in his chair and had secured the ed with a nervous headache, discovered attention of a waiter he glanoed at the effects of overstudy. the bottles marked “poison” and swal 500. and $x.eo. All Druggists. Samuel P. Putnam and Miss May L. lowed the contents of one in the hope of bill of fare, and the next minute he I Collins, two prominent free thinkers putting an end to her life. The effect, straightened up as if he had received an and lecturers on religlo-philosophical however, was to throw her into a deep eleotric shock. “Roast beef, 45 cents!” he exclaimed. subjects, were asphyxiated at a hotel sleep, from which she awoke much be- in Boston. It is supposed to have been freshed. The result was S3 delightful "Do you serve a whole cow for an order here?” accidental. • that she frequently repeated the dose un , The waiter said that was the regular Bq An Atlanta doctor accused one of his til all tho supposed poison was con price. But it makes no differences^ lady patients of having picked his sumed. "Well, when I want to be robbed,” pocket while hugging him in his office. The king, who missed tho bottles, returned the man, "I’ll go out and hire In court the doctor was asked to show caused inquiry to be made, and the se a thug to do it Just now I’m only aft how it was done. She could not reach cret of their disappearance was revealed. er lunch, and I didn’t think to bring my the pocket alleged to have been picked. This led to the manufacture of a wine checkbook along.” . . . are lower thaa ever! Weyler issues a statement to the from Shiraz grapes, which to this day is The waiter politely suggested that the effect that Maceo was slain in a legiti known as Zeher-c-Khoosh. or "the de prices were not quite 60 high on the first Men’s fine striped underwear, suit. ..$1.00 mate manner—died while in retreat.at, lightful poison." Thelawsof the Koran floor, where the service was a little less 60 Men’s white Merino underwear, suit the head of a small band of discouraged4 ’agaiust the uso of spirituous liquors are perfect. Men’s grey Merino fine underwear,suit. .86 Men’s sox, heavy, per pair........ .06 soldiers who fled at the scent of battl^ generally yery rigidly observed, paiticu- The patron declared that he didn’t care Boys’ grey Merino underwear, suit ... .50 larly*among the poorer classes. Dr. Col whether the service was good or bad, as Joseph IL Choate, one of the most Men s extra tine dress shoes, pair....... 1 50 Boys’ and Mens’ caps, each............... .25 eminent lawyers in New York, was ar liris says that he never saw an intoxicat he never ate it, and then he started for Men’s fine heavy pants, per pair........ 1.00 rested on the street and taken to the ed Mohammedan, even among the cha- the first floor. Men’s fine hats..............50c. 75c, $1.00, 1.60 vadars, men who do the most laborious "Roast beef, 80 cents,” he said, look police court and fined for violating art ordinance by driving on the street with work. Unlike their western prototypes, ing at a bill of fare before taking his Mett’s suits upwards from . . who cannot exist without beer or spirits, seat. ‘‘That's better. I've come down out having a lighted lamp. they refresh themselves only with a suck 15 cents ’ worth of stairs. ” The armor plate steel in the Newport Then it was that a brilliant idea oc News ship yard is found to be glaringly at a hubblo bubble pipe or a cup of very Yonre Truly, defective, and will be rejected by the strong, sweet, hot tea in either the curred to him, and he beckoned to the sweltering heat of summer or tho in head waited. government. tense cold of winter. Tippling in Persia "What’s in the basement?” he asked. The federation of labor is in annual is confined exclusively to tho richer JOHN M CLUNIE “Our cafetiria,” was the reply. convention at Cincinnati. During Sun? classes and indulged in only in the se “How much is roast beef down there?’ day night President Gompers and some clusion of the anderan. Tho Persians "Twenty cents. ” other delegates were robbed by sneak make two sorts of wine, a red and a He started for the basement, but stop thieves of what money they had in their white. Tho latter contains an excess of ped. pockets. alcohol and is in greater favor with "Say,” he said, "if you’ve got a sub The long strike at Hamburg, Ger; those who indulge in secret drinking. cellar I’d like to eat there.’’—Chicago many, among the dock laborers, lias Arrack, a crude, fiery spirit, is likewise Post. practically ended, and the strikers are distilled. It is probable that when Sure Safeguard. returning to work as fast as they can. Persia has railroads and the vineyards Just around the corner from Depot, Ash Among the numberless stories of the The Illinois Central railroad company of Shiraz beebme accessible, the superior quick wit and felicitous sayings of Dr. quality of the grapes for winemaking land, Oregon. Mrs. W. H. Bush, Prop. has established an experiment that will be watched with more than ’ordinary will attract the attention of western Oliver Wendell Holmes is one connected with the breakfast given in his honor interest It is that of selling shares of manufacturers. by the publishing firm of Houghton, its stock to employes on easy terms of Osgood & Co. on the occasion of his A Welcome Usher of '97. payment. Out of 22,000 employesit is stated that nearly half are stockholders The beginning of the new year will have seventieth birthday. Not long after the breakfast be met a a welcome usher in the shape of a fresh All trains stop here for meals. Meals at of the company. Almanac, descriptive of the origin, nature friend who had been a guest on that and uses of the national tonic and The secretary of the treasurer has all hours; price 25 cents. Special rates to memorable occasion and had written sent to congress a statement of the re alterative, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. ono of tho many bright poems which boarders. The Hotel and Restaurant is with the descriptive matter will ceipts and expenditures of the govern Combined be found calender and astronomical calcu formed part of the entertainment. under good management. ment for the fiscal year ending June lations absolutely reliable for correctness, In referring to tho late festivity the 30, 1896, including the postal service. statistics, illustrations, verses carefully doctor said to his friend: er a . call , and other mental food highly The total receipts as reported were selected, "I knew there would be a good many profitable and entertaining. On this pam $409,475,408, and the expenditures were phlet, published and printed annually by things said that would be calculated to $434,678,654. The Hostetter Company, of Pittsburgh, draw tears. I was resolved that I would bands are employed in the mechanical Junius S. Morgan of New York has 60 department alone. Eleven months are de not cry—that nothing should make me presented to Princeton university a col- voted to its preparation. It is procurable cry—and so I went to tho breakfast de lection of early editions of Virgil. The free of druggists and country dealers every termined to maintain a rigid upper eye books are said to be worth $50,000. where, and is printed in English, German, lid. ”—Youth’s Companion. French, Spanish, Welsh. Norwegian, Hol ALL KINDS OF The gift comprises 312 volumes, tweuty- land, Sweai°h and Bohemian. one of which are 15th century’ editions. G ents ; I have been taking your Sarspa The Needle and the Pin. sarilla. and think it a wonderful remedy. 1 The army appropriation bill reported s. A pin and a needle, being neighbors have had catarrh of the bead and throat for to the bouse carries an appropriation years, and have been treated by doc of $23,126,344» which is about $766,000 in a workbasket and both beiug idle seven tors. I got Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla less than the estimates of the secretary folks, began to quarrel, asidlo folks are, and took it for about five months, ana from ant tn ’ - to do. - ~ - ■ «vriii ■ that day to this I have never been trou- of war and $158,000 below the appro apt Order Work a Specialty.------ "I should liko to know, ” said the ited with catarrh, and I believe I am entire priation for the present year. ly well of it. I have found it matchless. Chicago has prssed an ordinance fix pin, "what you are good for and how It is a good thing to have handy. ALSO HANDLE ALL KINDS OF-------- ARRY L. FIMMEL. ing the legal street car fare at 4 cents, you expect to get through the world Little Lake, Cal. Without a head?” to take effect on Jan. 4th, next. “What is the uso of your head,” re W hite to those people and they will It is said that Congressman Dingley plied the needle sharply, “if you have TELL YOU HOW GLAD THEY ARE THAT THEY RE FUSED A SUBSTITUTE. of Maine is to be the secretary of the no eye?” . - treasury. "What is the u^bf ah eye,” said the’ Alexander S^Lvini, the Italian actor, pin, "if there is always something in Let Us Give You OUR FIGURES Before Ordering died at his father’s home near Flor it?” Elsewhere. ence, Italy. "I am more active and can go through The French steamer Marie Fanny more work than you can,” said the Upper Flamng Mill. Ashland, Oregon. was lost off the island of Alderney a needle. "Yes, but you will not livo long be few days ago, and all the crew except Of severest trial and test prove the captain went down with the ship. cause you have always a stitch in your in regard to Hood s Sarsaparilla side, ” said the pin. Smallpox is raging at Kobe, Japan, "You are a poor, crooked creature, ” said to be of an unusually violent type st, Greatest Merit said the needle. and the death rate is very high. I Secured by a peculiar Combina you are so proud that you can The Three Friends has succeeded in I not "And tion, Proportion and Process bend without breaking your back. ” unknown to others — which landing a cargo of arms and ammuni I’ll pull your head off if you insult naturally and actually produces tion on the south shore of Cuba and • me “ again. ” escaped pursuit by two Spanish war ; 4 ‘1’11 pull your eye out if you touch 2d, Greatest Cures ships. me. Shown by thousands of honest, ■ - - Remember, - - - . - your - - life - hangs on I a The Atlantic states are experiencing single I thread,” said the pin. voluntary te stimouials—which severe winter weather, with snow naturally and actually produce While they were thus conversing a storms prevailing. Many wrecks are little girl entered and, undertaking to reported among the shipping. d, Greatest Sales sew, she very soon broke off the needle An epidemic of yellow fever is rag at the eye. She then tied the thread According to the statements of druggists all over the country. ing in Hayti. around the neck of the pin, aud, attempt In these three points Hood’s It is said that Almighty Voice, the' ing to sew with it, she soon pulled its Sarsaparilla is peculiar to itself. Indian murderer of Sergeant Colbrook ' head off and threw it into the dirt by of the Canadian mounted police, lias the side of the broken needle. been located in the Bad Lands beyond 1 ‘ ‘Well, here we are, ” said the needle. Edmonton, Mont., and the police ars i “We have nothing to fight about now,” said the pin. "It seems ntisfor after him. has brought us to our senses. ” Judge Woolson of the Federal Court 1 tune “ A pity we had not come to them at Des Moines has postponed action on sooner, ” saith the needle. "How much Is the best — It is the One True Blood Purifier. the prosecution of the Soldiers’ Home! we resemble human beings, who quarrel r>: 11 ~ are the only bills to take Trustees for withholding pensions oi: llOOCl S 1 lllS with Hood's Sarsaparilla. inmates. Tlie Trustees agree to cease about their blessings till they lose them and never find out they are brothers till —LIST OF SECOND HAND— holding out any part of the pensions. they lie down in the dust together, as Quigley & Mullen, wholesale grocers 1 we do!”—Household Words. of Wasliiugton, D. C., have confessed j judgments amounting to $70,000. The I Quite Another Sort of Man. B. P. NEIL. TOHN X. PELTON. failure was contingent upon the failure A distinguished divine of unusually of the Golden Scepter mining company, j solemn and impressive appearance went in which company Dr. R. 8. Law of San to a country town to lecture. He arrived Francisco was interested. early in the afternoon, and all the town, Daniel F. Rouke, the custodian of the of course, spotted him within five min ---- AT----- —Retail and Wholesale dealers in— federal building at Worcester, Mass., I utes as a very great and very saintly HEADQUARTERS FOR and Julius M. McMartin, deputy col man. Ho went into a chemist’s shop and lector and entry clerk in the customs J in tones that froze the young blood of HARDWARE, service at Port Huron, Mich., have been ! the shopman said: - JLT -A- STOVES and removed from office for implication in "Young—man—do—you—smoke?” political assessments during the reeent 3 "Y-yes, sir,” said the trembling TINNWARE campaign. All Kinds of Fresh Meats One 12 & 18 >4x14x10 Worthington Com clerk. "I’m sorry, but I learned tho hab pound Duplex steam pump. John J, Thornton, editor of a news it young and haven’t been able to leave Two 30 H. P. portable tire-box boilers. paper at Ashland, Ala., was assassi it off.” One No. 6 vertical boiler with fixtures "Then,’’said tho great divine with nated in his home by a gunshot fired one injector. Kept constantly on hand, Fair living and F ALL KINDS and GRADE8 One No. 8 Metropolitan injector and pipe through the window. No clue to the out the movement of a muscle or the Miners’ Tools, Giant Powder, Caps connections for same. abatement of a shade of the awful so murderer. and Fuse. A tine line of Electric Cutlery, prices is all that we ask. Steam and exhaust pipes for pump. lemnity of his voice, "can you tell me aud a large and complete stock of Fishing One length pipe to nt 10 in. discharge and He Knew n Thing or Two. Tackle. Plumbing goods, and plumbing of where I can get a good cigar?”—Pear increasing to 15 in. all kinds done on short notice. All work interets to Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, a former son’s Weekly. We will make it to your One length pipe reducingfron\J5 to 11 in. gue^nteed. feb 1 ’92 One length pipe reducing fromil to 9 in. premier of the Australian colony of deal with us. One double cylinder single drum 5x10 iflWin Shop in connection. Victoria, was once made the object of a Pills Do Not Cure. hoisting engine. First-class go: ds, and prices as low as the peculiar embarrassment. A mau ou a One reducing length from 8 in. to 6 in. Pills do not core constipation, They lowest. public occasion presented himself to Sir only with one 5 in. coupling on same. aggravate. Karl’s Clover Root Tea One reducing length from 8 in. to 5 in. Charles, who had been appointed to gives perfect regularity of the bowels. For with one 5 in nipple on same. some petty government offleo after a sale by T. K. Bolton. 23 ft. 12 in. suction pipe with one 12 in. campaign in which there had been ques elbow. SPECIAL CLUBBING OFFER, tionable electoral practices. 10 ft. 6 in. suction pipe. One 2J4 in. foot valve and strainer. "I suppose,” said Sir Charles, "that NILI IA.M FOX. ALLEN HILDBETH. The Oregon Statesman Till March 1 One piece heavy wire cloth for strainer. you are oue of my supporters?” One siphon for steam gauge. for Only 25c. OR LEASE------- "Three of them,” answered the man, Six 1 in. Jenkins globe valyes. Every tax payer should read a Salem Two % in. common valves. with a wink that was impossible to mis paper this winter. The Oregon Weekly Ona 2 in. plug, drilled for siphon. understand.—Pearson’s Weekly. Statesman is the biggest, brightest, cheap I The Cough ' which Lingers diti °n of J? o system, and is not affected by ordinary cough medicines, will yield readily to Swtls Uint listen, because it gives strength to the weakened body and enables it to throw off the disease* Our Goods DON’T Others DO NOT $3.50 Shannon House Restaurant and Hotel ASHLAND FURNITURE AND FIXTURE CO. Work. Wood LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIAL. X" Rays ROBT. FREY & F. D. ROBBINS, PROPS. 1 It is a Bald Headed Fact. RECORD 3 Hood’ s Sarsaparilla ID. H. MILLER MEDFORD, OR Turns out the best JOB WORK at the Lowest Rates. MARKET. ASHLAND PELTON & NEIL, Mining Machinery Prop’s RIDDLES» 0R. Beef, Po k and Mutton. Builder’s Material O D. H. MILLER. FOX & HILDRETH, Escaped by a Neck. "Alas,” 6he exclaimed, “I shall be thrown upon my own resources i” In order to understand the situation it has to be known that her face was her fortune. However, her apprehensions were groundless. She was thrown upon the back of her head.—Detroit Tribune. The Roman naval crown was given to the admiral triumphant at sea. It was of gold and its decorations were the prows of ships. OÆ8TORIA. Ths f»S- IÍE11J «Izsa-.ure ti « * !l CT •very est and best paper published at the cap Ashland, Oregon. ital. The legislature meets in January. Needed laws are to be passed and a U. S. senator to be elected. Everybody will City Passenger want to read a good paper from the seat of war and to all we cheerfully recommend ■the Statesman. It is fearless and free and Truck Transfer spoken. It urges economy along all lines of state government aud is waging war in -----All kinds oi treight, baggage the interest of the tax-payers. Taxation household goods, etc., transfer- must be reduced by abolishing all useless ed with promptness and safety. commissions and correcting abuses. The Hauling on a large scale con Statesman is the only reliably republican tracted for................... , . . Associated Press paper in Oregon It con sists of twelve pages weekly. Its subscrip tion price is 21.50 per year, but by a special WOOD FOR SALE arrangement with the publishers we have -------ICE IS SEASON— arranged to supply our subscribers from now until the adjournment of the legisla WIL handle ice lu Ashland during the te— three months good reading—for only summer season. Delivered at your door 25c. Forward all subscriptions to the every morning. STATESMAN. SALEM, OK. Send your ¿^•Passengers delivered to any part of orders right away -the sooner you send ths more you get for the money. the city Hotel For Sale Hotel Moo, Two pressure gauges.. 1 air receiver. 110 ft. of 1 in. pipe. ¡1 sight feed lubricator 100 ft. of 2 in. pipe, il 1 2 in. busbmg. 100 ft. of % in. pipe. 1 reducers to 2% in. 30 ft. of 2% in. pipe 1 reducer 2% to 2 in 5 2 in. elbows. 2 reducers 2 in to 1 m 6 1 in. elbows. 6 reducers 1 to K in. 6 % in. elbows. 2 reducers % to % in Pokegama, Cal. Ona 2% in. tee. 2 in. unions. 3 2 in. tees. 2 1 in. unions. OR SALE OR LEASE on Reasonable 4 1 in. tees. 2 % in. hose bibs. Terms. Call on or address : 4 % in. tees. 1 2 in. plug. 2 2 in. short nipples. 4 1 in. plugs. 1 2)4 in. short " 4 % in. plugs. F H. S. Prendergast, Pokegama, Cal. Mrs. L. Hessig, Beswick, Cal. Address : J. M. Arthur & Co., Machinery Merchants, Portland, Or