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THE SB ANON s 3 IOA HI. LEBANON, OREGON. FRIDAY. NOVty IBEIt 20. 1881). 8CKIKTY NOTICES. LKBANOH LlUHlK, HO. 44, A. F 1 A, Mi MnH .1 Ui.lr now bull In Mumie Block, an Saturday euui, on o union tin run mm, . J WA8HON.W.M. LEBANON IWOK. NO. 47, I. O O. t: MwH nnUf viilnf of moh wvrk. .1 lM! Krllnw Holl, kUI. KUMt; fUlliuf tirMhtvn omllull Intltwl la HONOR LOTXJS NO. SI A, O 17. W. W.nno, Oren.m; M-U mij nnl wnl tlilnl Tlmm.lv mta- tag in u nuioui. r. n. Mumma,. n REUaiOUS NOTICES. M. t. CHI NCH. Walton Rklnwnrth. Tator Service each Ann day nl 11 a. M. aud 7 r. M. Bimaay School at 10 A. M. each Sunday. rRKniYTKRUi) nimm. G. W. OlhonT, )tnr -rvlt each Sunday t 11 A. M. Sunday Hrbool 10 A. H. Bervicei each Kttndav nldit. tiniima.M rmtmYrmuH cra'am. J. R. Klrknatrick, BtOr--ffT'le4 the Ind and 4th MtiiiUyn at 11 a. m. and 7 r. a. huuday tu-hnnl f.h Htiiiitur at l . . DR. C. H. DUCKETT. DENTIST. Office over C. 0. Hackelraan's store i.i:haov, orf.uox. K. WEATHERFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Offloe over Flrt National Hank. ALR4XY .... OKWiOX D. J. M. TAYLOR, i e rv T 1ST, lf.haxox. oni'.iiov. L. H. MONTANYE, ATTORNEY AT LAW - ASD - IVO'lVItY 1UIJLIC Will practice in all Curu of the SUUs. W. R. BILYEU. Attorney at Law, ALMA XV. OKF.4.0X. p. k kLAt'Kra. also, w. vaiwur. BLACKBURN & WRICHT, Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all the Court of the State. Prompt .tieuuon give u ail nuaineae en truated to our care. Office Odd Felluw'i Temple. Albany, Or. O. P. COSHOW & SONS, REAL EHTATK AND INSURANCE AGENTS, BROWXKVILK.OKKGOX. Collection, made, conveyancing and all No Urialntork doue ou aburt noUoe, SPECIAL NOTICE. DJX. AV. C- .NEGUH, Graduate of the Royal College, of London, Englan-. also of tbe Bellevue Medical College. rpHK IX)CTOK HAH Bl'KNT A MFKTIME A - of etuny ami pracUue. and manee a apec laity of chronic diiwaae. remove rancera, ecrofuloui eoLnft-menl, tumor, and wena without pain or the knife, lie alao make a apecialty of tieatmeut with lectriolty. Ha. practiced iu the Uenuan. French and Knjf liuli botpiul. Call promptly attendrd day or nirl't. ilia motto ic "Kootl Will to All. " Othiwand reaidenoe. ferry aueet, between Third and Fourth. Albany, Oregon. J. L. COW A. 1. M. B ALSTON. BANK OF LEBANON, LEBANON, ORECON. Transacts a General Eankins Basiness Att'OlVKTM HKPT M( MJKCT TO IIIKCH. Exchange aold on New York, San Francisco, Portland and Albany, Ort'Kon. Collection made ou favorable term. I, MYBK. k. aiiKLroN. SCIO LADN CO., SCIO, ORECON. Buy and be Land, TuOAJS MONEY AND Insure Property. NOTARY PUBLIC. Any information In regard to the cheap er Laud iu the garden of Oregon furnished IN DREAMLAND. Flunh a-by, htoy. clone thin eyed Mother will ting tweet lulluble.; Softly the rad(e will be rooked Till pretty eyelid aleep bat lockea And you are away In Dreamlund, , In Dreamland. nmh a hy, little one, dayliitht did While I am ilnjlng lullable. tVhere doe. It vunnU. buby -f art mn that land to far, ao near, Tho lund of alerp called Dreamland, Callrd Drcimlandr Iluh a-by, babe. Whatdlmi nine eyet While I am Aiiigmt lullabirtf What if the darknea knew no day I Whut if my darltnir atayel aly, To evermore dwell in Dreamland, In Dreamland 1 William a Lord, in Good Houtekeeplng. THE PRIZE PUMPKIN. Rosa Proved Iloraelf b Good Farm er's Wild, After AU. "So John Is married! Sort of onex pocted. Hint it?'' said Deaoon Talker, rs. in Ms lay capacity of proeor, ho weighed out fourteen pounds of crushed sugar for Mrs. l'armalee, who eat upon a tall stool on the customers.' side of the counter. "John." continued the Dciicon. iw hecxircfully returned about aU nsi'oonful orer-weight to bar rel "John nlwoys seemed kindor still when he rns amongst thn gills, and I inlculatcd he'd be one of ourold baeh- siors; but there's never any telling. " Mrs. l'armalee pavo a slight groan ind shotik her head, 'if you feel that way about it, how must feeir she said. "As for bis pa. he's a changed man. And Aunt Abby took to her bed. And my daugh ters have cried till I thought they'd cry their eyes out We're an afllicted family, Deacon." I want to know!" ejaculated the Deacon. "He aint married the hired jal, has he?" "I wish he Aa4," said Mrs. rarmalee. 'She'd have helped about the house." "I dunno," said the deacon. "My irrandmotber's youngest son an uncle of mine, that warn't much older'n me he married his ma's hired gal, and she jest folded her hands and wouldn't fetch the water to wash em with arter the ring was on. Tlsn't one of the Jorkines you've had the famerly quar rel with fur so lonjf a time?" i wish it was one of tho Jorklns flrls," said Mrs. Parmalee. " want to know" said the Deacon, in italics. "Is it a widder with suthin tgln her character, like Samuwell I'enmelon married?" "Xo, said, Mrs. Parmalee. "She's a let-up city thing, with all the airs you ever saw. She's fresh from boarding tcbool, and talks French, and sinps Italian, and plays. I must say, like a professor. "She's all style, and de spises us, and hates the house and the farm; and she'll wean John from us. He's said more hateful things since he was married than he ever said in his life before. We gave him th? best bedroom, and she's got him to new furnish it. And I wish it had pleased the Lord to take me yttars ago, for I don't expect ever to be happy again while I live" ' "Pretty bad; pretty bad," said the Deacon. "But perhaps she'll turn out better than you ealkerlate, as she prows older. PYaps It's childishness. My" wife would begin by giving her a regulur setting down, and settle her for (rood." "My spirit is broken," said Mrs. Parmalee. with a sigh. "Did I say a pound of raisins, and a paper of all ipice, and Oh, yes, I nearly forgot the tea the same we always got; & pound. And put them in the car riage. I'm goiner next door to tbe milliner's to get my new bonnet. I saw my daughter-in-law looking sidet ways at my old one lt Sunday;" and. with another groan, gMrs. Parmalee carried her budget of woes to Miss rimtner. who was even more sympa thetic than the Deacon. Meanwhile, John's new wife was having rather a forlorn time of it at borne. John was lecturing her. "Don't you think you could take a little more interest in country life, dear?" he was saying, "it would please the family so much." "1 do John," said Rosa, with her big blue eyes full of candor. "I'm sure 've sketched every thing. The spring, tbe well, the locusts on the hill, and Bossie. tbe calf; and I've got grout bunches of grass." "Yes but I don't mean an artistic interest." said John. "A real solid one Couldn't you feel a little like a country girl if you tried, Rosa?" "I have driven my own pony, and whan. I could drive the reaper," said tvb(i, pimnuvety. , Anu i uuma mind giving the pigs their gruel, what ever they eat; I'll churn." "The hired men and the sorvnnts do all that, Rosa," said John, rather se verely. "Don't pretend to misunder stand mo. I'm a plain farmer, nn'I my wife must not be too much Above things I take an Interest i'.." "I'm not, John," cried Roia, "What do I io?" John could not say. He only knew that his home, which had been a place of peace and comfort in the days when, as the bachelor brother of fiye-and-thirty, he hud been the adored of the homestead, the idol of his mother, and the Admirable Chrichton of his younger sisters, had turned into a sort of cabinet of torture; that the little beauty who had left boarding-school to marry him and whom he had thought perfect was spoken of as a "stuck-up," as a thing of airs and graces, as one who "put on airs." The family woro the air of having been through a frightful trial. Sharp things were said bitter ones, also; and his amiable parents, his cheerful old aunt, and bis lively little t-isters were changed. Tnto fleTbgs as solemn a grand Druids. The change had been brought about by him giving them what he supposed would be a pleasant surprise in mar rying Rosa, lie had quarreled with them, now he was lecturing bis wife. She was wiping awuy a tear when Jane the servant, knocked at the door, and brought in a batch of letters. "Speer's folks fetched them from 5e office," she said, as she dumped them on her master's desk, and showed by her glances that she plain ly saw that his wife had been crying, and that b wu t.h ianu- nd he Dent over the letters, pretending to examine them. . Jiosa, however, was forgiving. She to the table. Two for me." she cried. This Is Kjii mamma, and this is from Lilly fcr?jy, I know. And what a pretty en velope you have there, John the god dess Pomonia, is it not, amongst her fruits?" "A notice from the managers of the Agricultural Fair," said John. Father got the prize for pears last year. We generally get prizes." lie banded the document to his wife, who perused it carefully, and the little tiff was over. Still life was not what it used to be in the old farm-house. .You can im agine it all The detail of days of chilly coldness, of evenings once spent in the general sitting-room passed in up-stairs bed-rooms, of formal meals and haughty politeness. John often thought that a regular quarrel, like those that took place in the cabin of Mike Granburg, on the railroad bor ders, where plates and glasses and chair-legs flew about, would be. pre ferable. He went out as much as pos sible. And Rosa had asked him for a little piece of ground for a garden of her own. He bad given it to her, of course, and she spent much time there, but she never asked him to look at it. His sisters avoided it carefully. The spot chosen was an out-of-the-way one beyond the corn-field. They worked in their own as usual; and even over flowers these gir'w did not meet on friendly terms. His mother rather ostentatiously read the more severe of the religious works in the library in her arm-chair on the porch. His father talked of his time being nearly over. His aunt knitted as sternly as though she were one of the Fates in charge of the web of destiny; and nobody called him Jack any more. He was aware that the ladies spoke of Rosa's remote little garden as the open air "conservatory," or the "Gar den of Eden," and once when he asked them why they did not go and look at it, Kdna replied: "Uh, our glances might blight it" And Ruth added: "It is too, too utterly, I presuma We country girls could not appreciate it." Whereupon he called them "ill- natured idiots," and they began to sob violently, and alluded to him as "a brute." And really Rosa did carry herself in stately fashion, and mot their Roland with an Oliver, as fur as coldness went. It was not a pleasant August, and it was a more unpleasant September. His only comfort was in his grape vine. Ho hoped to get the prize for grapes at the Agricultural Fair. His fathei was doing all he could with his peal's for the same purpose, ihey would have other exhibits, also, and the Parmalees had never failed to get iufo 'vL .... aprifoi some son you Thj evening of the third day of the fall came at last. The Parmalee v ere all going the family in the car riage, John and his wife in the little vehicle of his own. She looked very beautlfut, and her dross was perfect Her sistors-in-law had not disdained to make a sort of rival toilet, and Mrs Parmalee was very grand, but John felt that he was loft out in the cold and Rosa was rather pale and silent; but they all warmed up a little when they entered the halL A sort of proscenium surrounded the stage at the end of the great, room. Vines clambered over it water played amongst rock work, and pots and tubs of rare plants filled In the foreground. A miracle of the scene painters' art arose at the back of the stage, where the sun was setting over distant mount ains, and in the midst stood Pomona amidst a wealth of the fruits of all countries, while at her feet lay a Yan kee pumpkin a veritable miracle so large, so flawless, so golden, so perfect that it was the object on whiih all eyes lingered. It dwarfed every other pump kin ever seen by the oldest farmer present All the tables were loaded down however, and the Parmalee exhibit looked well. People walked and talked, and the band played, and at last appeared upon the stage the figures of three sages who were to bestow the prizes. Smiths and Joneses, Williamses and Browns, in turn grew happy. The Widow'Watkins almost fainted when she received the first prize for onions. and the new member, who was a wid ower, whispored words of comfort Farmer Pagindarm thought the com mlttee unjust because they overlooked the merit9 of his "Jackson -whites," but Mr. Parmalee received honors for his Katharine pears with calmness he was used to it John's grapes were ouly third best His mother felt it to be a judgment and was proud that her tea roses were successful. One after another the names of the successful were called, but as yet no mention was made of the great pump, kin.' Whose was it? There was nause: the band plaved "Yankee roodle;''a calcium light was turned on the pumpkin; the orator waved his hand toward it; all were attentive. "Next to pork and beans," began the speaker, "our National dish is pumpkin pie. I suppose nobody here can deny that this pumpkin now before us is the finest they ever saw. It is almost miraculous. It is the first ex hibit of its exhibitor, and I am proud to announce that she is the wife of one of our most esteemed young residents. It is in the family to get prizes at our annual fairs, and she seems to have got hold of the secret Mrs. John Parmalee, I have pleasure in offering to you the first prize for pumpkins. John, bring her up to get it You'vo got a first-class farmer's wiie, and no mistake." The Parmalee family sat motionless, their faces slowly turning pink. That was the result of Rosa s sly gardening, jthen. Her "conservatory," her "Gar den of Eden," had produced that mighty pumpkin. There she was on John's arm, with hor beautiful little face all pale with excitement; and here she came back again with the medal In her hand, and she stood bofore her motbjcr-iu-hi nd looked into her eyes. "You can't think I don't take an in torest in farming after that mamma," she whispered. "Tell me I am going to be a good farmer's wife." And there and then the elder Mrs. Parmalee kissed hor, and said: "I'm proud of you, my dear." As for John, he wanted to cry. He knew the miserable coldness of the past year was over. , So It was. The girls called him Jack again, his aunt petted him, his mother made him little turnover pies, and knitted wristlets for him. The girls appealed to him as authority in all things. The miraculous pumpkin bad healed the family wounds. They adopted Rose as a favorite sistor and dnughter. Rut this year the Parmalee family are not so much interested in the Agricultural Fair as usual. They wish, from the depths of their souls, that there was a buby fair in the coun ty instead. For. assuredly, if there were, Rosa's boy, little Jack, though only four weeks old, would win the principal prize. He is more beautiful, more churming, larger for his ago, and In evory way more wonderful than Bven the miraculous pumpkin. M. Cady, in N. Y. Ledger. MUSCLE The Two I'rlme h : bent . Gold-beating is ' judgment. There 1. ing how to strike th the stone, . muscle a clock-like rise and f -is one of the wrist. . elbow joint stiffens, tin and rebounds nearly t-. point So, actually, it physical effort, it seems, t the hammers, one for ea7 weigh eighteen, twelve, pounds. .' Each beater receives fift. weight of gold, rolled from th the form of a crinkly ribbo yards long and an inch in widt. into 180 pieces these go intc "cutch." This consists of deta leaves of a vegetable fiber, bet each of which Is placed a piece of gd Slipped Into a tightly-fitting pad, -V package is laid on the stone, and hammer falls again and again, the being to drive the weight towar,' edges. From the "cutch" the st then leaves, are picked putj-u, curious boxwood pincers. Handlin; with the fingers, especially at the lat ter stages, would be most likely t break the leaf. Each leaf is then quay tered by a section of bamboo cane r little implement known as a "wagi but in reality a tiny sled. The second pad is the "shoder. has 720 leaves and U A inches squ The force of the blows here is gret The leaves are beaten out to the ' edge, as they were net before, and ' gold oozes out , These particles It' carefully brushed off into an apron t tached to the stone, for the workmi must account for every one of his iif ' pennyweights. ' ': In the third piocess there are thrt "molds" of 900 leaves each and fL Inches square. Each mold, requir some four hours' work. The lea are now so thin that the slightest m judgment will produce disastrous suits. In spite of tho heat genera by the blows dampness creeps in tween the edges. Dryness is positi essential here; so, whenevp neceg' the mold is placed " '-- v" like an ordinary t taken from an oven. liberates the moisture When sufficiently beaten v. go to girls, who with pince wagon" make up books of twe'JtJ leaves each, three and three61 inches square. Each workma1 his beating of three molds ?, eighty books. That is called a For it he receives f 5. The raol a total number of 2,700 leaves. books need but 2,000. For V- book he can fill, perfect 1' being used, 6J cents Is paid, every leaf was perfect, he wo 1.75 extra. . As the "wagon" cuts the U inches square there is a co waste. This, with the imp leaves, is put in with the ishodor It is all melted into x! "buttf weighed. This mus t pome to 3 weights. For the 80 books 17 weights is allowed, but they ma whatever the workman can ma The thinner the leaf, bo long ai the better. Whatever the wast over 33 pennyweights $1 t weight is paid the workman. ery pennyweight under 1, is & Thus, although the gold Is us again, it takes 50 pennyweights ; out 17. And, again, a rosv though he turns out an over r books, may have such short wastes as to bring his bala wrong way. Three beatings a week is t number. The skilled woi make f 20, and perhaps a ' The actual number of men t small, there being only 175 ! Most are Englishmen. G is done principally In the E v nd Philadelphia furnish!) the other workmen. It is 1 ! city that the largest shop io States is located. A'unio wages and matters of the ' fltingoutof a gold-boaters' a numbor of men arf Km ather. expensive maiter. , personal outlit is tfolh sol molds alone costing K) ap Mail and Express, There were 016 "'.or 16 -'M accessions In tho mw served by students of f Institute last year. The MassHchuiie College at Amherst scholarships for yc residents of the Sta " A--' I