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4 , THE ON EX VOL. III. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 16,- 1889. NO. 23. ..LEBAN PRESS 8O0IKTT NOT1CK8. LEBANON LOME, NO. 44, A. . a A. M ! Mwitt M th.lr uw hull ill Mwnnio Hlouk, on Muturdajr aulii, on w Ixllit. tli lull union. J WAHHON. W. M. LEBANON T.OI10K, VO.v7, 1. O O F.! Mw.ln H-.t- ....i J.I... ..( ....I. . fl.1,1 Hull. Mala Mrtut; UIUng hmllirmi wrIUII Invited tu . . ' " . . .... . 111 IKllA w e etwlia. 4. ri. vnAiuJit'A, n.i. RONOH LOWIK NO. 88, A. O. V, W fahtnon, OrKfu: MwU ry drat d tlilnl Ttiu(l mm tualu Mi. mouth. K H liUHCHE, M. W. " REUaious NOTICES. U. R. CHURCH. Walton Bklpvrorth, jiwitor Kcrvlopn eaoli Bnn day at 11 a. m. and 7 v. H. Hutitlay School at 10 A. M. caou HllllOHy. PHKHBYTKRUM CHURCH. 0. W. Glbonv, jiator Servlwi eeeb Sunday at 11 A. M. Bunday Hebool 10 A. M. Bervlcea each Hnnday ulghi, CIIHUKRLANU fRRKBYTKRIAM CHURCH. J. H. Klrkpatrink, pator--8prvlne the 2nd nd 4th Hiiiiduyn at 11 a. m. and 7 r. N. Bunday Bl'hlMII a(h MHIIOaV Ml 10 A. M, K. WEATHERFORD. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office over Flmt National Bank. -ALBANY .... ORKUOM DR. FRANK R.BALLARD. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Ofllce at Itealdence, LKBAKON - - BKUOS L. H. MONTANYE, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOIVVIfcY IU13L,IC ALBANY. ORKUOX. Will practice In all Ourta of the Stat. W. R. BILYEU. Attorney at Law, ALBANY. OKEUOS. I) B, H. RLACKKCRX. OIO, W. wailiBT BLACKBURN & WRIGHT, Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all th Courta of the State. Prompt attention given to all busmen en truated to our oare. Offloe Odd Fellow' Temple. Albany, Or. O. P. COSViOW & SONS, REAL EHTATE AND ' INSURANCE AGENTS, BHOWNKVILE. OKKUOHT. Collection made, conveyancing and all No tarial work done ou abort noUoe. SPECIAL NOTICE. Graduate of the Royal College, of London. England, also of the Bellevue Medical College. riMlK DOCTOK HAS 8PKNT A LIFETIME 1 ' ol' study and prat-tine, and make a spec laity of chronic dtneaaee, roiuovea canoei. eorofulous enlarKnieuUi, tuiuora and went, without pain or the knife. He also makes a apectalty of tieatinent with tloolriclty. Haa practiced lu the tiorinan. French and Kngllith lioeiiilalH. (Julia pruinptly attended day or niKht. Ilia motto la. "Hood Will to AU." Ollloe and reMideni!. ferry alruet, between Third and Fourth, Albany, Oregon. J. L. COWAN. J. M. KALSTON. BANK OF LEBANON, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Bnsincs; ACCOINTW KKPT Nl'BJKCT TO 4 II KI R. Exchange sold on New York, San Frunclaco, i'orlhtnd and Albuny. OrKon. Culleclloiiti niudo on lu.vortt.ble terms. J. MYKKH. M. Ml ELTON. SCI0 LAND CO. SCIO, ORECON. Buy and Sell Land,. AND - Insure Property. NOTARY PUBLIC. Any information la regard to the cheap, r Land In the garden of Oregon f urnished 'BucReuor to C, H. Harmon.) BARBER & HAIRDRESSER LEBANON. OREUOH. SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING AND BHAM pooliiK In the latent and brut ityle. Kpcclal attention paid to drwwlni I.adica' balr. Your patronage reiipevtfully nollclted. T". H. P1LLHBURY, JEWELRY, BBOWNMVILLE, OKHiON CHARLES 3IETZGER, REAL ESTATE AND Employment Agent. SITUATIONS AND HELP OP ALL Hlati raralahed ttkort Netlre. All communication promptly answer In either KiiKlish or German, when ac companied with postage. Oil Ice on Ellawortn street, opposite Revere Hotel. ALBANY ORECON tiameness Indicated by Color. Many people might smile if I said that a home's color was an index to his gumonetjH, but such is the case, as I have found from experience, says a veterinary surgoon. I have closely noted this fact and have had an oppor tunity to judge, having performed thousands of operations on horses, some of them sufficiently painful to test the gameness of the subject I have found that the most arrant cow ards among horses are sorrels and the gamost brutes bays or browns. Some time ago I performed an operation on a pair of chestnut sotrels and they groaned like human beings. A bay or brown will usually suffer without a noise of any kind, just rolling its big eyes in an appealing way which is almost human in its intensity. Gray and white horses, as a rule, are not particularly game. Chicago Tribune. A rhiladelphia lady says that Tol stoi is, in a great measure, respon sible for Miss Kate JDrexel's retire ment from the world, she haviog been early impressed with his works. The sweet sup of the maple nows more freely this spring than it has dona is many a year. It to a good year for paple sugar and taffy. HOW DIMES ARE MADE Bow the Mttla Colua Are Turned Oat by the Nan Francmeo Mint. The silver dime is a useful little coin, and just at present thy seem to bo in demand; so much so that the San Fran cisco mint is turning them out at a great rate. The process of dime-making la an Interesting one. The silver bullion is first melted and run into two-pound bars. These in turn are run through immense rollers and flattened out to the thickness of the coin. These sil ver strips are then passed through a machine, which cuts them into proper size for tbe presses, the strips first having been treated with a kind of tallow to prevent their being scratched In their passage through the cutters. The silver pieces are then put into the feeder of the printing presses, and are fed to the die by automatic ma chinery at the rate of 100 per minute, (8,000 dimes being turned out in a regular working day of eight hours. As the smooth pieces are pressed between the ponderous printing dies, they receive the lettered and figured v.'jiression in a manner similar to that f a, jmper pressed upon a form of tys-'l M the same time, the piece is expa.ii.ud in a slight degree, and the small corrugations are cut into its rim. The machinedrops the comploted coin into a receiver, and it is ready for the counter's hands. The instrument used by the counter is not a complicat ed machine by any means, asone might suppose. It is a simple copper-colored tray, having raised ridges running across its surface at a distance apart the exact width of a dime. Erom the receiver the money is dumped on the board or tray, and as it is shaken rapidly by the counter the pieces settle down into the spaces be tween the ridges. All these spaces be ing filled, the surplus coin is brushed back into the receiver, and the counter has exactly 1,250 dimes, or $125, on his tray, which number is required to fill the spaces. The tray Is then emptied into boxes, and the money is ready for shipment The dime does not pass through the weigher's hands, as does the coin of a larger denomination. One and one half grains is allowed for variation, or tolerance," in all silver coins from a dollar down, and the deviation from the standard in the ten-cent' pieces is so trifling that the trouble and expoDse of weighing coins of this denomination Is dispensed with. Golden Days. STYLISH PARASOLS. Koveltles Prodne4 for the Coming Spring and Bummer Deaaone. The new parasols for spring and summer are covered faille or armure silk In plain colors or richly brocaded, or with striped silks, plaids or bord ered patterns, and very dressy para sols have thin gauze, silk muslin or net covers brocaded wlth tinsel in de signs like embroidery. The handles are of natural woods holly, acacia, bamboo, cherry or ebony with curi ously twisted hoops or large hooks or knobs at the end, or else they are quaintly carved and tipped with silver or gold. Coaching parasols and those for general use have handles that ex tend fourteen inches beyond the edge of the silk cover when closed. The Dlrectolre parasols to be used with walking toilettes have much longer handles, like walking-sticks, extend ing eighteen inches beyond the cover, and these handles are now put to gether with a screw joint so that they may be taken apart and doubled small enough to go into a very small trunk. Rich brocades of the last century in dull colors and with metalic designs are appropriate cov ers for these parasols when meant for dress, while for morning walks the striped and bordered silk covers are used. A novel feature inside the new Cleopatra parwola is a ribbon trim ming winding around the stretchers that hold the parasol open as they ra diate from the stick; when the parasol is closed these ribbons show beyond the tips, and a cluster of loops is formed around the stick, giving a full, bunchy effect that is considered very stylish. Faille parasols of green or of gray shades are made to correspond with many of the spring stuffs for dresses. Striped parasols must be striped around iriitead of down the breadths, and those with wide stripes are pre ferred. The ferule at the top is very long, and Is pointed in parasols that have oane handles. Black parasols have new designs of moire, palm, ovals, or large balls on faille grounds. For mourning are nnauzimir pai aeots witu carved ebony sticks. For piazzas and carriage use in midsum mer are white and gold bro caded silk parasols, or pale old rose, or blue brocades in leaf and ostrich feather designs, or else em broidered silk muslin or net is put plainly over white, black, gray, rose or empire-green silk ot the shade as the transparent fabric A bow of the silk or of the ribbon is tied on the handle in full loops, and a loop of passementerie ccd is also added there, through which the arm is passed to carry the parasol when it is not hoist ed. Sun-umbrellas have a short eight inch handle tipped with gold or silver, and are covered with black taffeta silk. For the country are cotton satteen and? gingham parasols in large figures and plaids, with either short or long ban dies. India silk is also prettily mount ed for parasols to match the summer dress with which it is worn. Small turned-over shades for use in early spring are made up of silks, or they have lace covers all in one piece in the fashion of long ago. Harper's Bazar. "KEEPING COMPANY." A Singular Ca.tom Which la a. Indelicate aa It I Dangerona. A singular custom prevails in some of the rural parts of Pennsylvania and the other Middle States which will surprise such of our readers as are used only to the habits of city life. On Sunday evenings the parlor is aban doned by all of the family except the you r.g girls, who, arrayed in all their finery, sit there prepared to "keep company" with the young men who are supposed to be their lovers, or to whom they are engaged. Ko older person is expected ' to enter the room; the seance lasts until midnight On Other days of the week the engaged couple meet openly in the kitchen or elsewhere, and carry on their re searcheainto each other's character in the presence of the whole family. lu some villages of Northern New England it is common for young girls to entertain theirmale visitors alone until late at nlgbL-rcmg after the rest of the family are asleep. The Companion wouldNnot deserve its name, so far as the moJtiludes of young girls are concerned to whom it has been a friend since their childhood, if it failed faithfully to warn tlfera against any gross solecism in gooiij manners, or oi any nao:i wnicn may lead them into contempt or temptation In city life, among well-bred people whose aim it Is to make a young girl's life not only pure in reality, but in its outward appearance, such customs as these which we have described are rigorously condemned and avoided. A girl belonging to this class receives her male friends at night only in the presence of her mother or some other matron. It is probable that the young girls in the country who practice these habits are at heart quite as innocent as their more protected sisters. Their error arises from Ignorance, not viclousness. These customs have descended to them from the early pioneer days, when men were too busy at the plow in day-time and women In the kitchen to become acquainted with each other, prepara tory to marriage. They had to sit uy while others slept to find time for courtship. Their descendants are surely not so taxed for time as to make this necessary. American mothers sometimes do fend the laxity among our young peo ple by the plea that the Innocence of the American girl is her protection, and that she is too pure to need the guardianship of chaperones. To an axtent this is true; but no girl can place herself in the anomalous positions which we have described without los ing in a degree that delicacy of wo manly feeling which should accompany her us the aroma does a flower. Resides, however good and true she may bo. she places her reputation at the mercy of the tongue of a man who, It is possible, may be both sensual and and merciless. No girl of refinement and no thoughtful mother should coun tenance a custom so Indelicate and dangerous. Youth's Companion. "Call me a gold gardener." said Clnudi, the French miser. "Centimes are my seed, they grow into francs and Ntix loons, and then into hundreds and thou sands. I how and gather my seed." This is the age of germs and spores. A Swiss doctor thinks he lias discovered the cause of baldness to be a microscopic fungus. Young men should now submit their scalps to microscopic examination. The Flag with Forty-two Stars. Various arrangements have been pro posed for the new United States flag when the four additional states come in. The present flag contains upon the blue union the thirty-eight stars arranged in five rows across the field, three rows con taining eight stars each and two rows with seven stars each. In arranging the forty-two stars it has been suggested that there be six rows containing seven stars each. Another suggestion is that there be three rows containing eight stars each, as at present, and two rows with nine stars. But this would neces sitate changing tbe proportions of the blue field, which must not be dona A third proposition is to change the ar rangement of the stars altogether, and instead of in rows place them in the form of a six pointed star. This is the suggestion of the editor of The Youth's Companion. The Order of Delphian. For fifteen years past a great secret society called the Order of Dclphians has been 6lowly growing In this coun try. Its members are school teachers. Its main object is to advance the finan cial and social interests of the profession and to raise the standard of efficiency. Good teachers out of a place will be able to find employment through their brothers and sisters of the order. It Is claimed that a thorough organization of the teachers of the country will enable the pedagogic profession "to reach that high plane of usefulness the grandeur of its mission demands." The 'supreme lodge of the United States is at present in Lincoln, Neb. The lodge has been regularly incorporated. Within a' few months the order has been increasing rapidly, and teachers all over the Union are forming lodges. A question that has long been of inter est is how much beer makes a pint If it is sold fresh and foaming, then the measure is filled with foam. If, on the other hand, the vessel is filled with the liquid, then the liquid Itself to flat, stale and unprofitable. In this perplexity a brilliant thought has occurred to a num ber of liquor dealers. They are forming associations in which the members pledge themselves hereafter to sell beer by weight They fix the price at five cents A pound, probably in accordance with thd old saw, "A pint's a pound the world around." s Mayor Grant, of New York, has for a long time bet?n endeavoring to persuade the trustees of the Metropolitan museum in Central park t6open it to the publio on Sundays. The trustees refuse obdu rately. Boston's Art mdiseum to open en Sundays. Saturday to a free admission day to tbe Boston musduxi, and nine tenths of all the visitors attend 6a Satur day and Sunday. By far the greatest number of visitors to on Sunday. Tuey are largely working people with theirW families, Modern experiments with galvanior electricity afford curious confirmation of the assertion of the old phrenologists that certain faculties of the mind are governed by special localities in the brain. It has been found, for instance, that when the phrenological organ of cheer fulness Is touched by the galvanic cur rent, a smile is produced on the face. If the spot where the phrenologists locate cautiousness in similarly excited, the face assumes an expression of fear. Russia seems to be supplanting the United States in the kerosene oil trade In India. In 1880 we exported over 29,000,000 gallons of petroleum to India. That year Russia came in as a rival for the first time, with 1,500.000 gallons. Rut during the past eight months of the fiscal year we have only sent to India 14,000.000 gullona.while Russia Is crowd. Ing us very close with 11.000,030, ' The ieaPShetland pony is only thirty, or at most forty, inches high. Those commonly seen in this country are from the north of Ireland, being bred with tho horses there, and are larger than the real Shetland, for the . genuine pony is difficult to rear. Th country of which he is a native Is bare, and the farmer Is sharp, and when the little creatures survive the rigors ol the climate and the effect of having but little to eat, the farmer values hlra ' so hhly he only sells him at a .high, . , price. It costs a great ifloal teh. them, and they die on th voyaj of which goes to account :r tbf ' ., ... ing so few of them arqontf is.