HAJR-DYE FOR WORKMEN.
tmmm tn ! It hi Order t Kp l'p la
the Kaea with the Toon-;.
There is now going on a mighty
"ta-ugj-la which is almost essentially a
SuHtiou of a-. Yet it is one which
n3TcoU thousands and thousands ol
mn and women who are toilers and
brr4-winners.
On all Bide preference is siren by
employers to youth ovor more ad
vanetd year Absalom, in the vior
of his juvenility, is content to receive
twenty to thirty per cent "Um money
than hi more mature rival. In whole-
Hale warehouses, in public compauies,
in retail establishments, in the street.
on the road and the rail, men and
women who are still hale and hearty
is mind and body have been set adrift
to make room for the younger and
cheaper generation. They are will
ing to work for the same w.tge, but
the masters will have none of them.
in uittir distress taey turn to a
wmforUir not to the work-house, if
it -J . .
mej can avoia so jioing; not to tne
charitab icstitutjm, not the trades
union, but toFigaro himself, the per
ruquierKff "hairdresser, the barber.
Ttm amount of hair-dye used by arti
san and laborers of all sorts is not
en!j enormous, but increases day by
cay. It is not vanity which impels
th&m to the practice, it is life, for
which it is woil worth dyeing.
The testimony on the subject is un
den labia. A koipht of the razor in
tie north of London testifies that he
is diisj a tremendous trade in hair
dys with working-men lor the reasons
f i ?ea a bora "They take it home,"
i iu'.d, "and pet their wives to lay it
;l In many cades it is an absolute
rovfrtity with female employes. Pro
prietors of big millinery establishment
wrn'thave women with gray hair on
the premises. ,
. '"You've no idea what misery I've
Vn awa -e of in families from gray
i.wr. i toew a man. a lather of six
I'LIUren. All of a sudden, from ill
1 think, his hair whitened, and
rtook the earliest oppor
tunity of piviuj- him the sack, and
rutting a younger man in his place.
Ha couldn't obtain another situation
ftEywhtre, and the more trouble he
Lad the older he looked. At last, when
L was at his wit's end. some one told
Lisa to got his hair dyed. and. what's
more, lent him the money to have it
done. Well, he's got another place.
It's kas money; but you'd hardly
l.oow him again. I've seen scores
like him Your young folk may sneer
f t t'ye and crack jokes on the subject,
but as true as I'm not a Dutchman it's
:H'jn the salvation of many hard-work
It; na and women." A lady deaidaf
'3 Luasun hair near St. fancras, when
h','-::iii;d on the subject, admitted the
-;-:.; end allowed that she dealt
-fry largely in dye, nearly all vended
to thue earning their living in large
r-.-a: Trriul establishments.
Tiie same tale was reieatl by
( tc v. ho. did a good deal of
t-;."e in this way with ladies of
tie theatrical persuasion. "Lor'
I'-f you." he esciaimed. "with-
.1 bair-dye some of thoe women
would be nowhere. What would you
say. if you was a manager, if a girl
wUh gray locks came to you and
wanted an engagement? I expect
you'd ishow her the door pretty quick
ly. I'm not talking of , Ihoae vain
young: females who turn black to gold
or red to brow a I mean the chorister
it Clrty-five to forty, still good look
isg. but !i0 is beginning to show the
powder ptiflf on her head. There isn't
xm tbre ifia't twenty, there ian't a
hundred. Inst I'd like to bet there's a
tLoufnnd or more in the United King
d j'a Th ,:ir great-grandmothei-s had
to woer wigs: their descendants are a
'-'.l core comfortable with a little
':!-;iif s coloring matter on their
hr." And so the story runs ad
;. Zi.lt.am. London Telegraph,
"Oid Hickory" Was Tough.
Traveler in a sparsely settled region
.-, 'i crtetM (cominjr down with red
t u breakfast) You say, madam,
i V i.-rii.' Jackfon once slept in the bed
3 to;t:ji-ed last tight?
A;,:d iaaiUady of country tarern
IU ClL Ut a facie
ja v.;';r Was it er-the same bed
i.a ;1 nvpt-e'A it i nw
Ai"A liitit'htily Jo th same.
l'f;s.vulcr And bs tf-uailiy iejt in
I'? Vu; he s!fpt?
A.ri-A Iumiiudv- SartinY ThiV
v , ; t i vt. i'ym'. il'l fclfp' in it.
Jr r fui'dsrinc-ly) AVh.it a
- 1 Li..:t httv Chicago
i ;y by Con-parson.
('t'v'.lx, you look blue.
, i.,v n,'..:r?"
"'i 1 1 r Boil on the back
L- '
."", old f'jl'.ow, 1 pyrapa-
n ; Ou'."
'..i u x- not looking romarka
f'l.t yourself, Whackster.
r ; i,ug with you?"
in i l.'uniiig houHft."
y ) "Thank ' lluaven for
" - L'l. 'c so Irinunc
SUICIDE BY HARA-KtRU ;
Msry of an Kr-WitnH t tlia ChMtly
Hara-kiri m a legal form of punish
ment has been abolished in Japan for
about twenty-five years. Trior to that
time a class of political offenders of
high rauk or title were allowed thu
choice of the headsman's sword or sui
eide. This was a concession to caste
that was meant to remove the disgrace
of an execution at the hands of the
law. llnra-kiri" signifies "cut-belly
or, if the words are arranged as in the
Japanese term, belly-cut. " The
usual method of solf-murder contem
plated by hari-klri was for the victim
to drive a long, broad and very sharp
blade into his abdomen and draw it
across his body in a manner that would
disembowel him. Instant death was
usually the result
An officer in the army of one of the
feudal princes was the last person to
commit an official hara-kiri lie hated
all foreigners with a patriotic bitter
ness, and in a hot-headed outburst of
temper one day ordered his soldiers to
fire on some Europeans who were
crossing the street The British Am
bansaior. Sir Harry Farkes, was on the
scene and had a narrow escape, white
some were killed. The representative
it the foreign powers demanded the
ummarT punishment of the younjr
officer. The Prince yielded to the de
mand and the offender was condemned
to death. He chose the alternative of
hara-kiri. Mr. J. A IL Walters, a
mining engineer of Chicago, then
living in Japan, thus tells the story ol
the execution:
Representatives of the foreign pow
ers were invited to be present" said
Mr. Waters, "and witness the execu
tion. Through the courtesy of a mem
ber of the British legation 1 was one
of the witnesses. The execution took
place in a large; gloomy, half-lighted
Buddhist temple. The ceremony w
conducted with the rigid formality and
decorum of a religious rite. On one
side was the foreigners, pale as ghosts,
breathing in gasps and trembling with
excitement The dim light and dank
airgave a supernatural, uncanny thrill
to the scene. Opposite w ere the Japa
nee officials, unfiincning as stoics, a
unmoved as statue. In front on a low
diaa was the condemned man. He sal
tailor-fashion, bare 1 to the waste.
brawnv follow with muscular arms,
and deupcheted as an ox. On a low
table near him was a J apanese short
sword with a blade nine or ten inchet
long and keen as a razor. Behind him
stood his beat frioud the condemned
being allowed to select some one tc
strike off his bead io the event h
failed to kill himself and was liable to
suffer a prolonged agony before death
ame. The man was apparently the
only agitated native in the temple.
The muscles of his face twitched. H
clutched the broad sword nervously
with both hands, waiting for the mo
ment that should demand his services.
The condemned was the coolest
man present Through an interpretei
he said he was not sorry for what h
had done for his beloved country. He
was proud to give bis life for her. lit
would show the cowurd foreigners how
a Japanese gentleman could die. Ai
he finished his speech he picked up the
knife. A moment later he plunged il
to the hilt in the left side of his abdo
men. He paused an instant but it
seemed an hour to us white-faced,
shivering Knglirihmen, as we held our
breaths. Then, with a powerful effort,
he pulled the blade across his body,
the blood gushing from the long gatsh
In a torrent fcither from pain or pur
posely, he leaned his head tlighly for
ward. A swish of the sword behind
him and his head leaped from the body
to the floor in frout of him. ,
"The Japanese had not apparently
moved a muacle through all this ghastly
scene. A pleasant-voiced dignitary
arose and said he hoped he had proved
that Japanese justice would be vindi
cated and aked if the foreign repre
sentatives were satisfied. The British
Ambassador simply nodded an affirma
tive and the shuddering witnesses of
the bara kiri hurried with bloodless
features into the open air.
I wsirt long haunted by that dread
licene, and ever und anon it would rise
before me the dark and gloomy tem
ple, the im pasture Japanese, the awe
stricken foreigners, and, above all, the
faces of the principal actors, the con
demned man and his closest friend; the
one calmly content even proud to give
up his life, the ottier crouching behind
him. w atching with a deadly intensity,
pale and anxious, fearful, perhups, ol
bundling at the supreme moment It
looms up clearly before me yet, al
though years have gone by." Chit-ago
Newsj.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Lewis Mintbort of Shawano, Wis.,
is the father of twelve children. He
has the distinction of being the father
of a family composed entirely of trip
lets. There is a man in Warren's who
has a mania fur whistling ail the lutest
tunes. He has whistled so much that
he has blown the center of his mus
tache awity, and it only grow at the
corners of bis mouth Waitham
'Ma.) Free l'rest
Hlalurtvat amuankiiiiM ul tli luUuoniNtal
Han'i Intltwttv Fnoully.
Within ten days after the suicide ot a
man in a full-dross suit in this city
three similar oases wra reported in
othor parts of the country, and doubt
lees others will follow as a result of
these. The Influence of morbid Imita
tion in causing what seem to be epi
demics of crime against the person or
property of others Is equally potent in
determining not only the number but
the character or method of suicidal
crime.
The murderous criminal, whether
suicidal or homicidal, is invariably one
in whom appvtite and instinct the es
sentially animal qualities predominate
over the will; in whom reason and judg
ment are subordinate to imagination
and impulse. He is the result of an
imperfect human development which
favors and fosters an abnormal devel
opment of the mimetic faculty, shared in
common with the monkey by unculti
vated, uneducated man. Student ot
this class of crime hve accumulated
multitudes, of illustrations of the influ
ence of the mimetic faculty. In hit
Anatomy of Suicid'' Dr. Winslow
furnishes a curious collection -among
them the following:
"Sow yr aeo s man hunsod himself on
the thmaholJ of one of the door of the com-
dor t the Hotel dee Invalids. No euielde had
omnrred in the eeUthllHbment for two -ears
previous!, but lo the nucoeedliiR fortnight Bra
Invalids hanged thrmwlvr- on the lame crow
bar, and the governor vw obliged to shut np
the paMage. "
Lccky, in his history of European
Morals," recounts amcr? the epidemics
of purely insane suicides that strange
mania which raged in the NeaHlitan
districts from the end of the fifteenth
to the end of the serocieenth century,
the victims of which "thronged in mul
titudes toward the s3. tnd often, as
the blue waters opened to their view.
they chanted a wEd hymn of welcome
and rushed with passion into the
waves." An epidemic of mimetic sui
cide occurred among the women of Mi
letus, who killed themselves in great
numbers bemuse their husbands and
lovers were detained by the wars. This
epidemic, like a similar one among the
women of Lyons, was only checked by
an order that the bodies of ail suicides
should be' dragged naked through the
streets and exposed in the public market-places.
If the dress-suit suicide continues to
grow in popularity it may be necessary
to check it by threatening to expose
the bodies of its victims in unfashiona
ble and badly-fitting garments. This
seems to be about the only kind of ar
gument that will appeal to intellects of
the dress-coat type, -Chicngo Xews.
Ma JAROtNES PATIENCE.
A Maa's Kxperleae la Xmlnra
lr-
iiuode tliUbllatttueiH.
"My dear." said young M s. Jardine
to her husband the other morning,
"would you mind runniug into Plush
and Knttina and getting me a half yard
more of cl .nille cord like this sample?
It won't take but a moment, snd I'm to
anxious to finish this cushion to-night"
So Jardine, giving himself five min
utes extra time to catch las homeward
train, "runs in" to the two-and-half
acre establishment of Piush and Sattin's
that evening, and asks the lir.tt sulea
duchess he meets
"Have you chenille cord liko this?"
"Fourth counter to - the left."
she replici, without Interrupting for an 1
instant her gum diet.
Have you cord like this?" asks Jar- I
dine, at the fourth counter.
Next counter."
"I would like half a yard of chenille
cord like this," he says at the "next
counter."
You'll find it on the floor above, in
the upholstery department; take ele
vator to the left."
He doesn't wait for the elevator, but
goos galloping up the stairs, and blun
ders wildly m ound until he finds the
upholstery department.
'Half a yard of fringe li.ie this, as
quick as you can. please."
'You'll tind it down stairs in the
fancy goods department"
Down-stairs goes Jardine, with set
teeth, his breath coming in short,qulck
gapa.
"Where's the fancy goods depart
ment?'1 he asks in deep oas tones of a
floor-walker.
"Pour countors to the left wall
counter."
I' want half a yard of fringe like"
"You'll have to go to the worsteds
counter for it third counter to loft
from main entrance."
Pale aud panting, with a Btily, mur
derous gleam in his usually laughing
eyes. Jardine apjieurs at the worsteds
counter.
Half a yard of cord like that," he
says, fiercely.
"Have we cord like this, Mbw
Miggs?" axks the saleslady, languidly,
of a partner ia iniquity, who drawls
out:
"Naw, I sold the last of it just this
minute- lie might find it down-stairs, in
the "
But Jardine is tearing through the
streets, gnashing his teeth as he runs,
hoping to catch a train that is already
half a mile from the station; and the
next one doesn't go for forty-five min
utes. -Puck.
LZUCH THE NEWEST,
Nobbiest and
CLOTH
In the County, is now to
Of Albany, Oregon.
EST When you want to "drewuip," wc would In: glad to hov
through and make the right price.
Merchant Tailoring a specialty. Mr.
has charge of this department. We guarantee tutiKfaction.
P. COHN
Declares that he will again pay
MORR tOH
WOOL EGGS, BUTTER,
on-
Any kind of Produce, than any
- other house in Albany
AM
Will Sell Goods Cheaper
If you want to Make Ma-iey,'
Call on Him.
ct7cT)ttow,
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Groceries and Provisions,
TOBACCO & CICARS,
SMOKERS' ARTICLES,
Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
CONFECTION E R Y
(taeeiiawar and ;! a cr,
iimp avd !,ani fr'la ttirra.
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Meat Market,
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Freenand Saltsd Beef and Pork
MUTTCN,
PORK,
SAUSACE,
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Bacon and Lard Always on Hand
Main Street, Lebanon, Or.
Largest Stock of
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5
E. A. Schefki.er is an fxtcrt, and
si
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For Sale by C. C. Hackleman.
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Dental Parlors
i Office: Breyman Bros. Building,
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