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EB ANON EXPRES H VOL. III. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 30, 1881). NO. 2. BOOIBTY NOTIOMiH. LKIIANON liOD'IK, NO. 44, A. r. A. .! mw ,1 their now ball In Mwumlc Itluolc, on HutunUy LEIIANON LOIIOH, NO. 47, I. 0. O K.: Mw; I Hat- i .k.i I -....I. ...L . ,1,1,1 Vrtllnw'a Hull MulH strait; llnlltng Wntlirttn onr.llully Invltetl to a....... Tiifui l A l IT W . T.hVMAII Oragmr. Meet ry Hint snd third Tliiinul.y oiiu- Inn In III. nioiiui, . ii. " in.j. .... RELiaiOUa NOTICES. M. K. CIIUBCH. niiinn (illnuinrlh imiiliir Hervloe each Klin itna Hi 11 a. u mill 7 1'. u. HlllldttV Behold Ht 10 A. m. each HmiilHy. VHKHI1YTKIIIAN CMUKfill, 0. W. (llbony, junior Services each Riinday at 11 A. M. milHlliy HCUOOI 1U At M. rjvrvn each Huiuliiy night. CUMBKHLANIJ MKMHYTKRIAN CIIUHCH. 1 VUknutrlnk l.u.li.r-.HiTVIPCR tllR 2ll(l mill 4lii Hiituluy Ht 11 a. M. and 7 P. M. Htiiulity Hl'lllllll I'lllUI WIIINIKV SI Ill A. M. K. WEATHERFORD. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office ovor Flint National Hank. ainawv . . . . OKKUOW DR. FRANK R. BALLARD. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Oflleo at IteHldcnce, L. H. MONTANYE. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND IS'OrrA.IlY 1UWJ1C ALBANY, OKKliOX. Will practice In all Court of the State, W. R. DILYEU, Attorney at Law, ALHAXY. OHKUOS. 1) ft, M. BLACKBURN. OKO, W. Hill II T. BLACKBURN & WRICHT, Attorneys at Law Will practice In all the Courts of the Htate. Prompt munition given to all business ou trusted to our core. Oflleo Odd Fellow's Temple. Albany, Or. O. P. COSHOW SONS, REAL EHTATE AND INSURANCE AGENTS, BKOWNMV1LK, OKE4.0W. Collection, made, conveyancing and all No tarial work done uu short notice. SPECIAL NOTICE. Ml. AV. C. IVISOUH, Graduate of the Royal College, of London. England also of tbe Boilevue Medical College. Tiik doctor hah hpknt a lifetime 'of study anil practice, ami makes a spec laity of chronic diseases, removes cancers, scrofulous enlargements, tumors Hint wens, without pain or the knife, lie alHO makes a specislty of ti eminent with electricity. Hum practiced in tliu Uurniaii, French end English hospitals. Calls promptly attended day or night. Hi" motto Is. "giiod Will to All." Ullloe anil reeidenee, ferry street, between Tliinlaud Fourth, Albany, UrcKon. J. I. COWAN. J, M. KAIXTON. BANK OF LEBANON, LEBANON, OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business AtCOl'MTM KKPT Kill J KIT TO I'HKC'K. Exchange Hold on New York, San Francisco, Portland anil Albany, OrttKim. Collections made on favorable terms. J, MVKKH. H. SIIKI.TON. SCIO LAND CO. SCIO, OREGON. Buy and Soil Land, join; .3UOIV13Y AND Insure Property. NOTARY PUBLIC. Any information la regard to the cheap er Land in the garden of Oregon f urnlehed NEIGHBORS. Vour name 1, Helen : are you dark or falrf Deep blue vour even, or black a .endow, are Thiit lie In woodH at midnight? Tell me, iwnct What form you wear lartje, medium, or petltol I never new you, nor you me, I ween, And yet our vera on the .elf-nainc ihnet Are printed In the latt new muf(a'.iuo. I fuln would know, fulr neighbor, If your tong Came from the woodluniM, or the olty'K throne From mountuin fatneii. or beHide the leaf ilreatlmd It In chambered Holltude, or free As birds on wing. amldHt Rome Nylvan toenel I pray you (.'row aisiiiialut, and let uu be Neighbor In thought a in the magazine. So may I ek if you are deeply blue (A to the horn. I meant, or JuHt a true, lirlght little womun nothing Host inene WboHe aong is lung without a thought to pleoic Aught but the alngerr Muy I rend between The Unci, and auk mich things an these, Hoping they'll print them in the muguzlnef Did hope deferred that is the weary time, DotwUt acceptance and the printed rhyme- Make your sweet heart, like my old batterer soul, Endure long agonies, and curie the whole Confounded tribe of editors whose keen, Cool, business sense would not once enroll Our burning thoughts in their next muguztael And did you anxiously each month e'er track, From leading articles to Uric a-Ilruc, Each page, lest haply they hud bid your verse between some dreary kind of proRey-or, worse, Lopped oft a line to pad a page, and then Misspelt your mine, the tender poet's curse? Alas, for poets In a magazine I 1 question idly. Chunce, and chance alone, Vpnn one puge my verso and yours has thrown. Hut, let me whlt.per e'er I drop my pen, I am tne steadiest of all married men, And write these lines oh, may they yet be sees, By your bright eyes ! in hopes they'll bring tut ten Or twenty dollars from some magazine. K. T. W. Duke. Jr., In Century. A PICKEREL STORY. Bo Wonderful That Thus Who Know It's True Dou't Dare Tell It. Of all the numerous guides and oars men ut Greenwood lake, young Tom GurriHon in one of the most industrious, and the nioet patient under misfortunes and adveree circumHtancon. Tom never hoe huon lucky lor himnelf. lie has hud a "bad leg" for several years, and laHt summer his grandfather died and loft $5,000 to Tom's younger broth er, locally known as "Snapper,1, since the jockey of that name became fa mous. Tom struggled through last season with his bud leg encased in six yards of elastic rubber, and did not make much money because the season was short and the fishing ruther unsatisfactory, for what reuson nobody knows. In previous years Tom was enabled to make considerable money by piloting unsuspecting anglers to a little lake on top of the mountain, inducing them to tramp there with him by means of the alluring story that the lake was so full of bass that another could not be put in without two being crowded out oo shore. The crop of strangers was not large last year, and the story had be come too threadbare for the frequent visitors. Late last fall Tom and Frank Hazen went eut after rabbits. A single shot from Hazen 's gun glanced from a stone and put out Tom's right eye. Thli was the worst luck Tom ever had, worse evon than missing a share of hie grandfather's inheritance; but it did not prevent him being one of the most skilful oarsmen and anglers at the lake, lie procured a perfect counter part of his gooJ eye in glass, und, while it was a hollow sham for all practical optical use, It certainly served the outward purposes of the eye he lost in the woods, and if it had not been for the fact that the glass eye was prone to weop at all times and was constantly suffused, Tom would not have minded it much. It wus a hollow shell of cun ningly blown and colored glass, and be haved well, inasmuch as it stayed straight in its socket and did not make him appear ridiculous by trying to turn Into the corners. Tom, while out fish ing a few weuks ago, took his eye out to wash it in the lake, and as he was rubbing it betwoen his thumb and fore finger it popped- out of his hand and foil in twelve feot of water. Tom spent two hours looking for it, and was finally compelled to sadly turn away and contemplate the neoossity of spend ing a large sura for a new eye. A day or two later he took Charles Mockridge, of Soho, out after pickerel, and they caught 115 fair slaed-fish be fore turning the bow of the boat toward the Lakeside Hotel. When they landed at the wharf Tom called Mr. De Graw's attention to the fact that he had recov ered his eye and was wearing it. 'How did you got HP" askod De Graw, and right there Tom became silent. Since then he has said rather 'um lose the respect of his patrons, who have al ways believed what he said, he would never toll how ho recovered the eye. Among the fish which he displayed was the largest pickerel which lAis been caught in Greenwood Lake in several years. It was a six-pounder and hud only one eye, tne other having evident ly been eaten out by the deadly "eye pincher" as the guides call a sort of water beetle which attacks the eyes of all fishes in the lake. Mr. Mockridge was almost as reticent as Tom, but he admitted that the recovery of the eye was so singular that he would not hare believed it if he had net witnessed it He finally and reluctantly said it was as much as he dared say at the time that the eye was disgorged lo the fish well of the boat by the bt pickerel. Afterward, however, in a moment of confidence, he told a Newark friend that when the big pickerel was pulled in it wore in its vacant eye socket the glass which Gar i son dropped over board a day or two before. He now absolutely refuses to say any thing about the matter, but he has the dried head of the pickerel and Torn Garrison has the glass eye. Cor. N. Y. Sun. THE LADY OF LYONS. To meislv. Hostile Clitics the Play IfM First Produced Anonymously. I am not old enough to remember the publication of the early novels of Edward Lytton Bulwer, and consequently am unable to speak of their reception by the public press; but when that gifted gentleman took to writing for the stage I perfectly recol lect the savage attacks that were made upon his dramatic attempts. There is no doubt that Bulwer had. In some way or other, made himself personally offensive to the critics; but, whether or no, be became fully per suaded that no play written by him, however good it might be, would be allowed to succeed upon the stage. Acting upon this conviction he, In counsel with Macready, who always played the hero in his pieces, deter mined to produce his next dramatic at tempt anonymously. Happy thought! The subject fixed upon was "The Lady of Lyons," and when the play was pro ducedabout the year 1842, 1 think the authorship was known to two per sons only Macready and Bulwer. Dickens was the Intimate friend of both actor and writer and on invitation of Macready he took his place among Uie audience on the first night, in total ignorance of any thing and every thing connected with the play. The curtain fell to a storm of applause. Dickens went delightedly behind the scenes to congratulate the great actor oa a well deserved success. In Macready's dressing-room Dickens found Bulwer, looking, at he thought, a little disturbed. "A capital play! good idea well and dramatically worked out The author, a young fellow, I suppose, has been looking a little at our friend here," in dicating Bulwer. "If this is his first work I predict a fine future for him; as for you, my dear Macready, you are in for a long run, depend upon it" Then, turning to Bulwer, Dickens said: "Did you see the play from the frontP I did not notice you among the audience." "No," said Bulwer, "I saw quite enough of it from the wings." Well," exclaimed Dickens, "you are not satisfied with it?" "Not a bit of it," said Bulwer. "It was capitally acted, fortunately for the author. Without our friend here it might have been a hideous failure." "My dear Bulwer, If I did not believe you to be free from the slightest tinge of jealousy of other writors, what you have just said would make me uneasy. The fellow has written a bright, capital play, and you should be the first to acknowledge such." "Not if I don't think so, I suppose," said Bulwer with a smile. In telling this anecdote, as well as I can remember, I have used Dickens' expressions as I hoard them from his own lips. The morning following the produc tion of "The Lady of Lyons" was a triumph for Bulwer, who was re quested by the papers to take a lesson from his rival, who had shown by his admirable play that he had dramatic powers which were conspicuous by their absence in such works as had hitherto proceoded from the pen of Mr. Bulwer. Frith' a Reminiscences. Tne complexion is improved by giv ing the face a hot bath each night Wash it thoroughly and dry with a soft towel. A rough towel is never com mended for the face, which really re quires soft fine napory, if one wishes the skin to be smooth. Vanity Griddle Cakes. One quart of flour, sifted, one tonspoonful bi-car-bonate of soda, about the Bamo of Bait mix with Bour croam or buttermilk, to a thin batter., Boat thoroughly for eight minutes and bakenlinmodiately in a hot and well-cri eased trriddle. OUR DARLING BABIES. How They Should bs Dressed Daring the Heated Term. One can not walk a half mile in any part of town at this time of year with out mdeting babies, and babies of all kinds. Poor little three-week-olds smothered in flannels until they can hardly breathe, and little toddlers pale with the effort to cut their eye-teeth and breathe city air at the same time. A baby of any age needs air at this time of year. The long cashmere cloaks that strain the necks of babies under four months are barbarous, and yet half the mothers in town use them. From sunrise until sunset while the thermometer is up to seventy-six, a baby just born or under three months old needs only a little flannel skirt high in the neck and long in the sleeves, a flannel band, knitted and put on loosely; a napkin, soft woolen ocks, one long flannel petticoat and one muslin slip. Do not put any thing else on the poor little hel pless thing. A' knitted jacket and a white muslin cap are suf ficient for outdoors, except when walking in the wind or driving; then a soft shawl or cape is best. The cloaks with sleeves should not be used until a baby is old enough to put out his hand for his rattle. Then he is old enough to hold up his head without support from the hand and can better bear tbe weight of the cloak. - Don't keep the baby bundled up all day. After his mid-day nap and meal place him flat on his back in the cen ter of your bed, turn his long frock up and let him kick and crow. It will help him to grow and will strengthen his back and legs. If it is very warm and the baby is fretful give him a mid-day bath in tepid water, and another one at sun down if he needs it Very little babies should not be put in the water but once a day, but arj easily sponged off, and are generally quiet and sleep well after a bath. A little vinegar added to the water will allay the itching from prickly heat Chafing often comes with June weather, and it is very painful to the baby. To prevent it baby should be sponged off and powdered a half dozen times a day. Fuller's earth is used when powder is not sufficient The former is a very fine dust-colored powder and can be obtained at any drug-store. Don't put the baby to sleep on a feather bed, and use a very thin little feather pillow for his head. One of the best summer crat&s has a bottom of wire-screen, and on this is placed a four-fold quilt lined with cotton, and a small soft hair pillow. A single eider-down spread is used. Hammocks are being used in town bouses by many mothers; a quilt be ing put in before the baby. They keep up a gentle swaying motion for a long time, are inexpensive and can be changed from one room to the other with but little trouble. N. Y. Journal. THE AUTOCRAT TALKS. O. W. Holmes' View of a Phase) or Two of Literature. "The question is, will this country ever see another such group of re markable men as Boston has pro duced. In history there are Prescott Motley and Parkman. In theology, Theodore Parker and Dr. Bartol; in oratory, Wendell Phillips; in philoso phy, Emerson; in poetry, Longfellow and Wbittier, for the latter, if not an actual resident of Boston, must be re garded, nevertheless, as belonging to the Boston literary guild. "There is Lowell, also. Others might be mentioned in addition to those already named. For real intel lectual force take the old Chestnut Street Club, or the Radical Club, as some choose to call it Where will you find its equal ? We have never had any thing like it in this country since. Indeed, the literary outlook seems hardly encouraging. I sometimes feel that poetry will become a lost art with us. To be sure we have a large num ber of writers of verse 1 refer to the rising generation of writers and it is very good verse, too, but very little very little of it rises to the scale of real poetry. It is not suffi ciently striking to impress itself upon the world to endure. The disposition isto indulge in fanciful triolet and the rondeau, all pretty enough in their way; but very few poems of this char acter haveever become immortal. "For example, the sonnet is one of the most mechanical and artificial forms of verse there is. To be sure, Shakespeare's sonnets are excellent, as tnuy do nonconform to the estab lished rules governing the construc tion of the sonnet If one is to succeed Jn poetry he must give free rein to his sentiment and imagination in the more simple and natural forms of verse. Take for instance. Tennyson's 'In Memoriam;' the form is simple and easy. This is a great poem and will live. Still, from these observations, I would not seek to discourage any young man from seeking to be a poet if he really feels the divine instinct within him. "But I would urge him by all means to adopt the most natural way of writing, and not by any means depend on poetry or literature, in any sense, for his bread and butter. Let him have something else for a staff; it is absolutely necessary, unless one be a genius, and even then it is far safer. Poe was a genius, yet his case ought to prove a warning to all who aspire in literature. I in my own case have had a professorship, the work of which has not always been congenial; never theless, it has proved a good staff." From an Interview in Boston Journal BEETLES ASTLftTRMS. Queer Dlscorery Made by a Reporter ta s Gotham Jewelry Store. An Industrious Mexican beetle in the window of a jeweler on upper Broad way furnishes amusement to large crowds almost every hour of the day. It is a curious looking insect and even persons well versed in natural history are unable at first sight lo tell exactly to what variety it belongs. It looks like a cross between a big black spider and a tumble bug. The beetle has a velvety blue black, with the legs of a spider. Around the neck is a gold band attached to a thread that holds the insect to a minia ture human skeleton. The beetle crawls up and down the skeleton with the regularity of clock work. So pre cise are the movements that nearly every one mistakes it for a mechanical toy. The other afternoon Walter B. Price and Senator Stadler spent some time pondering over the beetle. "I don't believe a piece of mechanism could be as perfect as that" exclaimed the Sen ator. Mr. Price, who la a great student of natural history, insisted that nature had never constructed such a looking Insect, and as a result of the difference of opinion a wager was made. I accom panied the two gentlemen into the store to decide the wager. The jeweler aid that it was a live Mexican beetle. "It is a most curious insect" he said, "and it is as busy as a bee. We have put on a false back of blue velvet to give it a brilliant appearance. We do quite a trade in them. Ladles wear them as charms to their chains. The Baroness Blanc set the fashion to wear ing them here in New York. I don't know just how long they will live, but I know of several that are over five years of age. "I am at a loss to understand how they exist, for they never eat or drink. We keep them in a show case with our watches. Some of them are very intel ligent, and one of the clerks trains them to do a number of cute things. If he whistles they will come and crawl up his arm. They are as cunning as 'possunw. They turn on their backs and pretend to be dead when they scent danger. They 6ell for five dol lars and upwards, according to their education." Five dollars soumls rather cheap for a beetle trained like a circus animal and dressed up like a Haytian field marshal, doesn't it? N. Y. Herald. There wouldn't have been any milk In the coimnut if Borne dairymen had had the construction of it Texas S'ftings. -Mr. Frills "What were you when I married you? Nobody!" Mrs. Frills (serenely) "Well, that's a good point; you're nobody's fool." Puck. A good many men who are talking very bitterly about the difficulty of get ting Jnto a church have never tried it Mistress fo Dinierj '"wen, ionn, I hear you have come into quite a lit tle legacy. I suppose you will be thinking of getting a wife now?" John "Lor' bless yer, mum, not if I knows It! I've seen too much of married life with missuses, beggin' yer pardin, mum." Life. The poorest memory on record U that of the fellow tried for burglary in Brooklyn the other day. He testified that he had never been arrested be fore, but when his memory was jogged by certain evidence admitted that he had a dim recollection of being con victed of murder once and given a '.wonty-year sentence. ') 1 II I?1 ft