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VOL. III.
LEBANON. OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1889.
NO. 24.
EXPRESS..
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ATTORNEY JLT LAW.
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ALBANY
OREUON
DR. FRANK R.BALLARD,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Ofllee at Kesldence,
URBASON - KEUOX
L. H. MONTANYE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
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Attorneys at Law.
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Medical College.
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ItEAL ESTATE
AND
Employment Agent,
SITUATIONS AND HELP
OP ALL
Kind Fmrnlahrd en Mhort Notice.
k 11 ..nL.tUi. niiAinittlv ftllQtVArAr
in either Etitfllun or Uortuau, when ac-
companion wim
Olllee on liluwortn street, opposite
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ALBANY
ORECON
Mrs. Morton. wife'CrtliS "Vlco-
ProBidont, has all her gowns and bon
nets made in New York City, bhe hits
exquinito taste and always knows
what to wear and how to wear it.
Mrs. Captain Tom is the mt me of
the richoht Indian woman in Alas'.ca.
She is worth about f'20,000, and lives
royally at Sitka, surrounded by slaves.
She is'said to be a regular tom-boy.
There i an able romancer out
West somewhere who is keeping; the
East supplied with excellent "items of
interest." Here ave a couple of them:
"Lightning played a quoer caper on a
ranch near Buffalo, Wy., Tor., recoutly.
It struck a barb wire fence, and for a
distiuico of four hundrod yards molted
the barb without injuring tho Btrands,
and pulled -one end of the staples hold
ing tho wires to the posts. The ex
tracted ends were nonUy turned into
corkscrews and nlckle plated." "Jim
Blevins, living near White Kook, Tex.,
killed a very large chicken snake a
few dtify's ago, and notioing the snake's
body wiis unusually largo and ill
shaped, mude an incision and found it
to contuin a large cow horn and in the
horn a prairie rat. It is supposed that
that tho snake clwsed the rat into the
horn, and to secure the rat swallowed
the horn ' '
TORNADOES.
The Beinlt of Eljrht Yean' Invettlratloa
By a Slg-nal Service Officer.
Lieutenant John P. Finley, of the
Signal Corps, has been studying the
phenomena of tornadoes for the past
eight years. Tornadoes are now so
well understood that it is believed that
trustworthy warning can soon be sent
out to the localities threatened In fact,
experimental predictions have been
made for a year, with good result. Ac
cording o Lieutenant Finley, tornadoes
have distinctly marked characteristics
and ara by no means to be confounded
with hnrncan 'S, "blizzTd," cyclones
or northeasters. Their tracks are never
more than a few hundred yards wide.
'I heir otary motion, which is" greatest
toward the center, ometiraes reaches
the enorm ous rate of 2,000 mib's an
hour, while thei forward movement,
alw y trorn southwest to northwest,
ordinarily doi not exceed forty or fifty
mile They are usually unaccompa -led
by electrical disturbances and are
believed to be uninfluenced by electrical
conditions, though violent thuuder
stormt sometimes folluw them a L-w
mi!cs away.
There is a distinct and carious rela
tionship ltween the tornado aud the
general storm center, which is always
apparent in their uniform relative po
sitions, the tornado always occurring
southeastwardly from the center cf low
barometric pressure, and at a distance
of from one to six hundred miles. The
shape of the general storm centei, the
direction in which its lowest barometer
lies and the appearance of tbe upper
and lower clouds entor as. minor ele
ments into the problem out of which
the weather experts hope to work a
complete system of tornado warnings.
Tbe visits of the tornado are common
ly between the hours of two and six
o'clock in the afternoon.' Its home is
an area which includes the whole of
Iowa, all of Missouri, except the south
eastern corner, the northwestern corner
of Arkansas; the northeastern part of
the Indian Territory, Eastern Kansas,
Eastern Nebraska, Southern Minne
sota, Southern Wisconsin and Western
Illinois. Here its season extends from
April to August inclusive. It is also a
frequent visitor to two other regions.
These are, first, a strip - along
tbe Gulf and South Atlantic coast,
which takes in the central portions of
Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina,
with termini iu Mississippi and North
Carolina, over which its devastations
are confiued to the months of January,
February aud March. The second in
cludes a portion of Southern and Cen
tral Ohio, a large portion of Pennsylva
nia, a small area in Maryland, a strip
across New York and a corner of each
of Massachusetts and Connecticut,
where it is in season only during Au
gust and September.
The conditions which are 'favorable
to the creation of tornadoes are present
when a cool, dry current of air meets a
warm, moist current, bringing wide ex
tremes both of temperature and hu
midity into close proximity. The cool,
dry currents come from the north, but
such as now over the Great Lakes pick
up in their course both moisture and
heat and their destructive forces are
thus neutralized. Those blowing from
the Northwest, down over the df
plains of Manitoba and Dakota, carry
something of their Arctic character-?
istics far South, and if in their course
they meet one of the heat
and vapor, laden breezes com
ing up from the Gull the war
of the elements begins at the point of
contact. The storm always has itf
birth in the upper air its first visible
manifestation being the ominous fuu-nel-ahaped
cloud, whose pendant trunk
is iu form not unlike that of an ele
phant. Within it the furies are confined,
and wheu and where its point touches'
the earth the path of destruction be
gins. When the isotherm of the morn
ing signal map shows tbe advancing
columns of air, with their wide con
trasts of temperature, in proximity;
when the geucral storm center is in
that relative position which seems
necessary to the exercise of its myste
rious iniiuence; wheu the pressure is
low toward the east, disclosing a
vaouum iuto which the deflected cur
rents may advanoe without obstruc
tion wheu all these conditions combine
it should become but a simple problem
for the experts to determine with rea
sonaole probability from the wind ve-
locities whether the threatening line of
contact will have advanced to or beyond1
the tornado's accustomed haunts by the
time of day when the powers of mis
chief shall' be loosed. Washington for
Philadelphia Times.
MONGOLIAN SCHOLARS.
The ChtneHO PuplU of a Chicago Sabbath
School anil Thxlr IiitclllKOUcc.
Thirty-niue Chinamen of pious in
clinations attended the Chinese Sunday
School at Dr. Goodwin's church, corner
of Ann street and Washington Boule
vard, yesterday afternoon. Many of
them had discarded the costume of
their native laud and wore tho druss of
this country, but by far tho greater
numoer nuci on their abbreviated
Mother Hubbards and sandals, and
wore their hats so as to display the full
beauty and symmetry of their cues.
All were scrupulously neat in appear
ance, deterential in manner, and atten
tive to the exercises. . These consisted
of prayer, the singing of hymns, both
in English and Chinese, and the ex
pounding of tbe Scriptures.
The ladles of Dr. Goodwin's church
have exerted themselves toward the
conversion of the Chinese, and since
the Sabbath School was established,
upward of a year ago, many of the
heathen have embraced Christianity.
Yesterday one Chinaman wai learning
the alphabet, while another, who baa
mastered the intricacies of the lan
guage, was wrestling with doctrinal
principles, and wanted to be enlight
ened as tj the meaning of the term
"heresy."
There is one teacher to each Chinese
scholar. If the latter can cot read, he
is taught the alphabet, and is then made
to spell words forming part of some
Scriptural text The whole text is then
made plain to him, and the Scriptural
idea contained in it fully explained.
The teachers say the Chinese are very
apt pupils. Generally one lesson is all
they ratjuie in which to master tbe En-
lish alphabot Information once ac
quired they do not forget Tbe "Chini
bov" who learns his letters one Sunday
attends school the next Sunday pre
pared to engage in spelling. A few
months later his text-book is the Bible
He is inquisitive and anxious to learn.
and his quicK. snDtie mmu reuuj
eompreheErJs an idea. The teacher
sav tbe Aiinese are model pupils.
When they sing the somnolent loo
vanishes from their faces and theii
smart countenances are lighted up wit!
joy.
The Chinese are a misunderstooc
people.'.' decjared a ladv nrcjaienth
iDentiffea 'nn 'ifa wt.",'i5y'nii
always respectful and it is almost pa
thetic to see bow anxious they are U
learn. Then they are generous almost
to a fault When this work was firsi
commenced we took np a collection
once every Sunday, but the Chines
gave so much that we were obliged U
limit tbe collections to once a month.
They could uot be taught to give five
cunts, but gave half-dollars and dollars.
Not long ago we plannod to give then
an entertainment in the church. The;
learned of it and in five minutes weni
among themselves and collected $G0.
Chicago Sew..
DANCING FOR LUCK.
The 0irr Kfinn't Brought About By th
Playing of Mo id Brown' Body.'
Lieutenant Chandler in an article on
Sherman's march to tbe sea, speaks oi
a halt at Shady Dale, Ga., as follows:
The column halted here for a short time
to rest and one of the bands struck up
"John Brown's Body Lies Mouldering
in the Grave." To us this was nothin,
new; but what was new was to see 4
number of negro girls, a dozen or more,
come out from the deserted mansions
and, forming a ring around the band,
with a weird aud plaintive wail danced
in a circle in the most solemn, dignified
manner so loDg as the band played that
tune. There was not a man in this
dance. There was not a word spoken
to any of the girls by any officer or man
in the command, because we were all
too much astonished, and as soon as
the music ceased they all scuttled oft
and disappeared behind the shrubbery
and in the houses. The modest and
serious deportment of these girls in this
dance made a deep impression on me.
The more 1 thought over the matter the
more I became interested to know why
they should have danced, and why they
had danced to that tune, but paid u"o
attention to several better dancing
tunes which the band played.
"I looked about for the girl to whom
I had spoken about the absence ot the
white people, but she was gone, and in
her place a big, fat, comtortable-look-ing
Dinah leaned on the fence, with her
fat black arms and good-humored face
shining iu the sunlight
" 'Aunty, do you know why those
jrirls danced to that tuneP'
"Yes, sa!j; it's a-cos dat ar' am de
weddin' tune and dem fool gals tinks
dat if dey don't dance every time dey
heahs it tley'll never git married.'
"'Whv, "that is no wedding tune.
That is John Brown's body.'
" '1 doesn't know nuthn' 'bout John
Brown, nor his body either. I tells you,
honey, dat am de weddin' tune what
dey plays and dances down heah at de
home-a-coming, when de darkies gits
married ami tlie white folks comes out
on de venuidys and dances, too, ef dey
is house han'da dat's married; and ef
dey is lielJ hands, de young massar an'
de gals comes down to do quartahs an'
dances; and c';ory foul niggah wench
dat aint married yet tinks she muss
dance eberv lime she heah dat tune.'r
else her olianoa is ;onj, sah.'
"Thus volubly the colored woman set
my mind at rent, aud convinced me that
the time was older whenj the words
were ui)ku vn than where they were
familiar. ' Jk ' ro it F. eo Frew.
t'ORTURcAT SING SING.
The Terr.ble Invention Exhibited By
' "rnl Keeper.
this moment the attention oi
evrybody was attracted by the keeper,
wbu was actually smiling. It was tbe
first time his features had relaxed dur
ing the day, and the crowd gathered
round him.
"I am going to show you a little in
vention of my own," he said, pleasant
ly, "which has been adopted al) over
the country. I suppose you know that
the criminals often get ugly. , The place
that harbors more than fifteen hundred
of New York's worst scum must neces
sarily have a number of hard charac
ters to deal with. Men here get rebel
lious, ill-tempered and unmanageable
pretty ottcn. in iormer years tney usea
the lash, the puddle, the douche, and
often calmed men by putting them in
the dark rooms. The fiercest spirits
are quelled by imprisonment in a
dungeon. The wildest case we ever had
turned to a lamb after twenty-fiv days'
imprisonment, without agleamof light
in a b'.ack cell. All that is settled now,
however, by my little invention. We
don't'have tow the black cells or
any thing else, and the men are so
thoroughly scared by what I call my
weighing machine.' that they no longer
fight'nor rebel." He then showed it to
us. If a convict became desperate at
ill-treatment, over-work or a realiza
tion of the awful duration of a twenty
years' sentence, he is dragged into the
keeper's room, and a pair of iron hand
cnll's are screwed tigatly about his
wrists, then the chain which connects
the two hanucuil's is drawn np until he
is almost lifted off the floor. Here he
hangs against the wall until his spirit is
subdued. The wall was smeared w th
the stains of blood from the wrists of
the poor wretches who had hung th"re.
"It's a daisy," said the keeper, radi
antly; "the toughest man in the whole
jail has never been able to stand it
more than three-quarters of a minute.
It cures rheumatism, blindness and all
the other ills that criminals are belr
to."
"It must be torture."
"Well, rather. It stops the circula
tion of the blood, you know."
And he still smiled as be stood with
his hand on the pulley, while the
crowd wandered away. It's a great
thing to have a clear idea of the humor
ous. Sing 8ng Cor. Cincinnati En
quirtr.
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CARRYING THE BANNER.
One Way la Which Poor Men Earn Their
Ilreuil In Large City.
"Do you want yer banner carried?"
said an indigent fellow to the proprietor
of a fifteen-cent eating-house on State
Street yesterday.
"No, I've hired a man for the winter."
"I'll do it for grub," again remarked
the fellow.
"No, don't want any one."
"What did he mean by "carrying the
banner?' " queried a reporter of the
proprietor.
"What did he mean, eh? 'Tis a long
stoiy, but I'll give it to you in a nut
shell. Do you see that fellow coming
up the street," pointing to a man with
a bill of fare on his breast.
An answer iu the affirmative was
made.
"Well, that's carrying tho banner. I
hire those fellows for carrying my bill
of fare, and I've found it to be a good
method of advertising."
The reporter bade the proprietor
adieu, and was soon in conversation
with the biunier-carrier. "It's a tough
business, but I can't starve," said the
latter. "It's the only work I can get
to do, as I'm tpo old to go laboring.
All I get is fifty cents a day an' my
board, but there are five hundred fellows
after the same job. I'm hired for the
winter."
"Are there many in tho profession?"
"There are over one hundred on the
West Side carrying the banner, and
they says they's paid well. On this side
it is new, but the boys is catchin' on.
After all, it's not bad; you get three
square meals a day, and ean lodge for
ten cents; there's forty cents prolit."
"Do you save it?"
"Never saved a cent in my life;
fifteen years ago I had a hotel on Jack
sou Street, but the lire busted me. I'sa
'specting to brace up soon an' get soma
good clothes. Then I'll travel."
"What's your name?"
"Slurk, sir; yes, Col'ntd Shirk's my
handle," and the banner-carrier, with
a restaurant biil-of-fare hanging from
his shoulders, passed ou his way.
Chicucjo Tribune,
John Wesley's copy of the Bible
was in use at the recent Centenary
Methodist Conference in Baltimore.
Bosides acting us his secretary,
Captain Zalinski's wife is of assistance
to him in a great many ways. She
docs not share the traditional timidity
of her sex. in regard to guns and is
quite capable of firing a cannon on an
occasion.
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