' ) ( I THE LEBANON EXPRE VOL. III. LEBANON, OREGON, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1889. NO. 29. f SOCIETY NOTICES. LEBANON KDflK. NO. 44. A. t a k. M ! MU M th.il hall In VmD lUoek, on HaUnlnf '"J tT80H. W. M. UBAXOW t-OWIK, KO. 4T. I. O. O f x Hum Mn.il vMUof tw.Uirra ennUallt invited to HONOR LOIMI KO. 3. A. O. U. W., Lb.non, IIM: M.U 7 an and third T1ur.Llt- ttua m vo nonuL .www... . BEuaiousiJdTicia. M. K. CHl'tCH. Walton Bklpworth. paetorrrrles each Sun day at 11 A. u. and 7 r. M. Suutisy School at 10 a. u. each Sunday. rKiitRYTTRUN camcH. 0. W. Glbony. pator Services each Bunday at 11 A. a. Banday (School 10 A. H. Bervtces each Sunday nlicbt. CUMBERLAND MIKSTTIllUK CHURCH. J. R. Klrkpatrlrk, pator--ervlees the Jnd nd 4th Sandays at It A. M. and 7 r. M Sunday H. hl eai-h ennrtav al 10 w. K. WEATHERFORD. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office over Flrt National Bank. ALBANY - - OBEUOX DR. J. M. TAYLOR. D E X TI S W Will be In LeUnon the first week of every month, second week in Sclo: third In Stayton, and the fourth week in Jefferson to perform all operation, apprrtuning to Dentistry in a skillful manner. L. H. MONTANYE, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND ' NOTARY IUI3LIC A LB AS Y, OKEUO. Will practice In all Courts of the Sute. W. R. DILYEU. it: Attorney at Law, ALBAS Y. OKEHO. D . . RLAt aSfS. CIO, W. WRIUHT. BLACKBURN & WRICHT. Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all the Courts of the Bute. Prompt attention given to all business en lr uUyl to our cre. Offloe Odd fellow ' Temple. Albany. Or. O. P. COSHOW & SONS. REAL EHTATE A!D IXSUKA2?CE AGENTS, BROYYSftVILE. OBEVOX. Collection, made, conveyancing and all No tarial work done on short notice. SPECIAL NOTICE. IR. AV. C. NISGS UH, Graduate of the Royal College, of London. England also of the Bellevue Medical College. THE DOCTOR HAS SPENT A LIFETIME of study and practice, and makes a spec laity of chronic dlae, removes cancers, scrofulous enlargement", tumors and wens without pain or the knife. He also makes a specialty of tieatment with .lectriclty. Has practiced in the Ueruien. French and Kngli.h hospitals. Calls promptly attended day or night. His motui la. "good Will to AU." Office and reaidence. rerry street, between Third and Fourth. Albany, Oregon. I. L. COW AM. 1. M. RALSTON. BANK OF LEBANON, LEBANON. ORECON. Transacts a General Mn Baste AtXOl WTl It KIT HUMECT TO CHECK. Eichange sold on New York. San Francisco. Portland and Albany, Oregon. Collections made on favorable terms. t, MYEK. R. SHKLTON. SGIO LAND CO. 8CIO, ORECON. Buy and Be! Land, LOAN AMD - Insure Property. NOTARY PUBLIC. ; Any Information la regard to the cheap er land In the garden of Oregon furnished MRS. DRUMMUP'S LIST. It Covered Considerable Ground, Rat One of ll.r Victim. Didn't Know It. It eoms that the business of collect In; subscriptions Is no exception to the rule that there are tricks in every trade. A man or woman with a gift for the business may collect of the same men at least iwlce as much as another would. A little incident will illustrate. They were getting up a subscription a little while ago for the Home for De cayed Apple Women. There is no more deserving institution, as every body knows, than the Home for Decayed Apple Women; and moreover, an In fluential coterie of Back Bay women, headed by Mrs. Charity Drummup, had become Interested In the home, and were pushing the subscription. When Mrs. Charity Drummup sails into a counting-room with a subscrip tion paper in hex hand, the bankers and men of busioess know perfectly well that it is of no possible avail for them to turn her a cold shoulder, un less they are anxious to lone caste or custom among the wealthy circle which revolves around her. Down town there are two solid men. In business, one as a retailer in a large way, and the other as a financier, who are very eood friends. The financier is mercurial, excitable, and passes for a free-handed, generous sort of per son. The merchant is phlegmatic and slow, and has the reputation of being ory shrewd and close in money mat tors. Well when Mrs. Charity Drummup came down In behalf of the Home for Decayed Apple Women, she made one of her calls upon the financier and promptly showed him a paper, already signed by at least a doze a bankers, merchants and other wealthy men; and upon this paper there was not a single subscription for a less amount than foO. "You see what they're all doing," said Mrs. Charity Drummup, with an engaging smile. The financier gave a low whistle. "Nothing but fifty dollar subscrip tions, eh?" he said. "Well, I'm afraid this is a little too steep lo"1 mo. You are quite right, Mrs. Drummup, in as suming that I should not care to lead the break-off into smaller figures; but, see here, is this the only paper you have got, Mrs. Drummup?'1 The only one,' said the lady, with a little confusion. "Why, this is the subscription paper, sir." "But is it the only one you have got?" Pressed foran answer, Mrs. Drumm up produced from her reticule a pa per, upon which there were several 25, 1 10 and even 5 subscriptions. "Ah! this looks more like it," said the financier. "You may put me down there, if you please, for $25." And he went down there, high up on the list That night the financier and the mer chant met at the club. "Well," said the merchant, ';lid you have a call from Mrs. Drummup to-diiy?" "Yes." "Stuck you for 50, I suppose?" "Oh, no; I only gave 25." "What? Why, there wasn't a single subscription on her list for loss than 50!" "Not on the list she showed you, my friend; but you should have culled for her other paper." He explained the scheme to the close-fisted merchant, who became fairly black in the face with chagrin. He felt that he had been overreached; and the financier, who seemed to have come in for a share of his wrath, is of the opinion that he did not sleep that night, and that it was, indeed, several days before h regained his usual calm. Boston Transcript THE RATTLESNAKE'S BITE. Jfo Dare Care for Hie "Venom Known to the Medical Fraternity. Speaking of people bitten by rattle snakes, Mr. J. IL Kitill, of tho Savan nah News, says: "Out of a thousand people bitten by rattlesnakes I do not think a dozen recover. There is no known cure, in spite of the fact that manv dcodIo have said that thev wore cured by whisky. You may depend on it when a man says he was cured of a rattlesnake bite, though necessarily . . I .1. 1 f .n.. not a liar, ne is at toast ivuonng unuor a misapprehension of the'acts. There Is a small snake similar to a rattle snake in appearance, whoe poison is not so vesemous. ana negroes omen by it place libe upon thus spot or less drlnlf. enough whisky to coun teract, tue poisuu. WniBKy ll taken in a large quantity, goes directly Into the blood and counteracts the poison of the snake. But the regular Georgia rat tler, from five to seven feet in length, is a deadly customer to meet It dooa not give any warning but strikes the moment it is disturbed, and it can strike an object as far distant. as it is long. A trlend of mine was riding along in the'saddle one day and a big rattler lying in the road leaped at him as he passed. It closed to his boot leg, driving one of its frangs clear through the thick leather of his boot and through his trousers, just escaping the flesh. It required considerable kicking to shake that snake off, and when he was finally got rid of he started in pursuit My friend faced bullets In the army with nonchalance, but his hair stood on end when he saw that snake coming, and he jammed spurs to his nag and didn't stop until he had gone a quarter-stretch. My plantation Is full a! -attlesnakes. and only last week my hands killed twenty six In a field of twenty acres." BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY. of the Wise Saylnce of tb. Lamented! Josh. The way to git ennything ix to ackt just az tho yu did'nt kare whether yu got It or not It izaz difflkult to define a sickness az it iz to ackount for the meazles. It is dredful eazy for a man to dls plze rltches who haz got about two hundred and 50 thousand dollars well Invested. If fortune haz enny favorites, it lz not the lndifirent, but it iz thoze whom we hav to pay to git rid ov their teazlng. Luv iz like the meazles; if we hav really got them, they are sure to sho. When a man iz puffed up with a harmless kind ov pride that don't do any hurt, it iz a krewel piece of blzz ness to take the konsalt out ov him; it iz az krewel az to pull the feathers out ov a pekok s tale. "' Every one who trades with the devil expekta to git the best ov him, but I never bav seen it did yet v One reason why advise costs so little U bekause every one haz sum of it to spare. We are so avarishus that even when we trade with ourselfs we go for git ting the best end ov the bargain. My philosophical kreed lz "GIv a bear the whole of the road If he will take it" (The harte lz a mlsterlous thing; we kan almost allways find out what iz in a man's bed, but the things that sleep in the heart are often unknown even to the possessor. My sentimental kreed iz "Straw berries and kream If they are handy; if not, kream anyhow." It may be dlffikult to decide which men persew the most eagerly, interest or fame. Yu kan find men who will aumtimes repent ov a sin, but seldum ov a blun der. Thare iz nothing so natral az to lie, and then dodge behind it Mankind kan be divided into two heaps, andj not wrong them mutch a heap ov geese and a heap ov gan ders. I observe more phools among the oil men than i do among the old wim mlm. I think I am honest when i say thare iz no man who luvs to be praised more than i do, or who hates to be flattered worse. I would rather watch two raskals than one phool ToknoAowto talk Is a grate art, but to kno when lz a grater. . The only sure way to keep a skeret lz to forgot lt-K. Y. Weekly. A scientist has discovered the ad vantage of a dark skin as a veil against tho heat In hot climates. The carboh layer in the skin of the negro, boinj! opaque, like other forms of carbon must form an effectual veil, and thu protect that most Important organ be low tho true skin, a bodily envelope or tissue presenting a vast surface of cir culating blood, which Is certainly sub ject to brilliant illumination when only protected from sunlight oy the thin translucent cuticle. Old potatoes are wonderfully Im proved in flavor and appearance by having them pared and thrown into cold water several hours before cook ing. Then, if they are put into boiling water and kept boiling till just "done and then drained immediately, they will be as wilta and "jnealy" as whes first dug in the autumn. Rural Mew Yorker. SPEED OF QAME-BIRDS. What an Old flportsman Belated to an la qui.ltlve Reporter. "I have held my watch on several kinds ot ducks and geese, but the main part ot what I am going to tell you comes from several old huntors who have favored me with their experience, and one of these old-timors in a letter says: 'I can tell you just about to the Ixty-tblrd part of a dot bow much pace any one of them can get over in an hour. There is not a railroad train that can hold a candle to the side of the slowest duck that files.1 . "The canvas-back can distance the whole duck family, if it lays itself out to do it ' When thU duck is taking things easy.enjoylng a little run around the block, as it were, it goes through the air at the rate of abuut eighty miles an hour. If It has business somewhere and has to get there, It puts two miles back of it every minute, and does -it easily. If you don't be lieve this, just fire square at the leader In a string of canvas-bocks that are out on a business cruise some time. Duck shot travels pretty fast, but If you hap pen to hit one! you see if it is not the fifth or sixth one back of the drake or leader. A drake does not always lead, but it generally does If there 1b one In the flock; If there are more they will seldom take the lead. If you wish to bring down the leader you must aim at a space of at least eight feet ahead of him, and If he falls you will find him a long distance, probably two or three squares off. "The mallard la a slqw one; it is all he can do to make a mile a minute, but he can do it If be wants to. His regular rate is about forty-five miles an hour. "The black duck is a slow coach. He is about aa good as the mallard, and. the fintall widgeon and wood duck can not do raucli better. The red heau can go easily, and make ninety miles an hour as long as he likes, all day if necessary. The blue-winged teal, and its beautiful cousin, the green-winged teal, can fly side by side for one hun dred miles in an hour and take it easy. "The gadwale, you see them here very seldom, though well known further West on the Allegheny river and at Kishammock, though looking like the mallard is a smarter duck and harder to shoot It can make ninety miles in an hour and not try hard. "May be you may think a goose cant fly. Why, it can double the speed of the fastest trains on any of our rail roads. Of course 1 mean a wild goose. Well, it has a big corporation, but it can get from feeding ground to feeding ground so suddenly that it fools our best wing shots. "If you see a flock of honkers mov ing along so high up that they seem to be scraping the sky with their backs, you would not think that they are making close on a hundred miles an hour, but they are. The wild goose is not much on foot, but it 'means lousi ness every time. "Tho broad-bill goose comes next to the canvas bock duck in speed. Put the two together and in an hour the broad-bill would not be more than ten miles behind." Wilmington (Del) News. THE AGE OF MEDIOCRITY. Reflections and Reveries of a Wise Poet Philosopher, The age of great men la going; the epoch of the ant-hill, of life in multi plicity, is beginning. The century of Individualism, if abstract equality tri umphs, runs a great risk of seeing no more true Individuals. By continual leveling and division of labor, society will become every thing and man noth ing. As the floor of valleys Is raised by the denudation and washing down of the mountains, what is average will rise at the expense ot what is great The exceptional will disappear. A plateau with fewer and fewer undula tions, without contrasts and without oppositions such will be the aspect of human society. Tho statistician will register a growing progress, and the moralist a gradual de cline; on the one hand, a progress of things; on the other, a decline of souls. 'I he useful( will take the place of the beautiful. Industry of art polit ical economy of religion, and arithme tic of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a leveling age. Is this Indeid the fate reservedfor the dem ocrats era? May not" the general well-being be purchased too dearly at such a price? The , creative force wblohjn the beginning we iiee forever tending to produce i.nd nfitltlply dlf foresees, wllUt afterward retraoe its steps and obVato them o .. '--' V-a- uuu mjuniuy, wiiiua in tne dawn of ex istence Is mere inertia, torpor, and death, Is It to become at last the natural form of life? Or rather, above the economio and political eaual ity to which the socialist and non soclullst democracy aspires, taking it top often for the terra of its efforts, will there not arise a new kingdom of mind, a church of refuge, a republic of souls, in which, far beyond the region of mere right and sordid utility, beauty, devotion, holiness, heroism, enthusiasm, the extraordinary, the In finite, shall have a worship and an abiding city? Utilitarian materialism, barren well-being, the Idolatry of the flesh and of the "I," of the temporal and of Mammon, tiro they to be the goal of our efforts, the final ' recom pense promised to the laboi's-fif our "'" race? I do not believe it The Ideal . of humanity is something different and higher. But the animal in us must be -satisfied first; we must first banish from among us all buffering which has its origin in social arrangements, be fore we can return to spiritual goods. From Amlel's. JournaL WRITERS "OF INFLUENCE The Newspaper Man as the Unrivaled Holder of Publlo Opinion. The famous writers of our time are not those who have made speeches in Congress; or suppled "Bquared and compassed" articles for the great monthlies. The potent writer of to day, and he who governs and directs the thinking and thus the law-making of the country as molded by popular opinion, is the newspaper man. No magazine writer or editor has ever wielded the power of Greeley, of Dana, William Cull n Bryant, or Wat-' terson, or Curtis, or Halstead. Tho restraint put upon a fecund newspaper writer by rules of essayists and of the magazines constrains invention, sup presses vital force. A writer who thinks rapidly and earnestly finds the fires of genius burning low wbenh-" begins the tedious task of fillinen ' or twenty pages of a msazlne. Thirty years ago the adjir3ie liter ature of the country jvs bully in tho ., magazines. For ts tasteful and beautiful and orrite. cultured taste then sought boot and periodicals, like the Orion and he Southern Liter ary Messenger. To-day one may find as admirable specimens of faultless rhetoric in daily papers, and especial ly in their special editions, as in choicest , books and most ornate monthly publications. In fact the purely literary and philo sophical monthlies are giving way be fore the pressure and power of the great newspapers, whose best editions are veritable magazines of choicest lit erature. The restraint put upon arti cles of genius, full of force and inspira tion, and rv&dy at moment's notice to HiaoilK rv fnnrni vnht i,Vtl..-t wl.ltr j and tastefully, by the straight-la;ed restrains its forces and stills fancy to tremulous repose. No wonder that the fierce, earnest logic and vigorous sen tences of Horace Greeley refused tp air themselves in tho covered vehicle of thought and eloquence in which the npnt. nnd tlrlv flnH .nhnlui.1v t1!tnia teurs" of Boston aired the delicate children of their genius. The writer of the soft, sweet history of the Dutoh Republic could never have figured in that partisan prize-ring in which Dana is a "slugger" and Watterson a most graceful and dangerous aorobat But the men governing the thinking of mankind to-day are the groat journal ists, and not the magazinlsts of tha age and century. There is no American Macaulay or Jeffries or Christopher North, and there will never be. The newspaper has supplanted the magazine. I T. Dupre, In Birmingham (Ala.) News. A waiter at the Metropolitan Hotel on Washington street says there is a rat of unusual Intelligence which haunts the hotel kitchen, and, when occasion offers, steals food from the cook. Ha says this rat ought to be caught and exhibited as a marvel at the dime mu seums. Several stories of precocity are told about this rodent, of which the following is one: "A few evenings ago," said the waiter, "I.hiul occasion to go down Into tha kitchen. It was dusky when I arrived, and as soon as my eyes would permit me to get used to the light I saw a large rat walk de liberately up to a dish of doughnut and begin to take them out one by oue and string them on to bis tail, as you would string beads. Wien he had puf on five and loaded 1 ' U all uo. w turned around, took t between Wseth, i li.t . wer i