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J'- ! "I, ' ' LEBANON EXPRE 4 He who thinks to please the World is dullest of hip kind; for let him face which way he will, one-half Is yet behind. VOL. V. LEIJANON, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17. 1891. NO. C. r. SS. W. B. DON AC A, -DEALER IN- Groceries and Provisions, Cigars, Tobacco, Furnishing Goods, Etc., Etc. First-Class Goods at GIVE ME A TRIAL Country Produce Taken iix Exchange lor Goods. KEEP ON HANI) A STOCK OF Shingles, Posts, Boards and Tickets. W. C. Petkrsox, Notary Public. PETERSON & GARLAND, Real Estate Brokers HAVE OX HAND CHOICE BRGrJCSrS In Larffe and Small Farms. Best Fruit Land In Valley. Finest Grain Ranches In the World. Improved and Unimproved Land, from $4 per Acre and up. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Have on hand sonie CHOICE CITY PROPERTY. Residence and Business. Bargains In all Additions to the Town. Houses Rented and Farms Leased. AORNTS FOR London ft Liverpool & Globe Insurance Co. Guardian Assurance Co., of London. Oakland Home Insurance Co., of Oakland, Cal. i ; ; State Insurance Co., of Salem, Oregon. Farmers and Merchants Ins. Co., of Salem Collections Receive Prompt Attention. iMvoBure m giving our patrons an lniormauoa aeeirea in our line oi Dusiness. DR. C. H. DUCKETT, DENTIST ' LEBANON", OBEGON. J. K. WEATH ERFORD, ATTORNEY- AT - LAW. Office over First National Bank. AU&AXY, ..... OREGON. W. R. PILYEU, ATTORNEY- AT- LAW. ALBA KTORBOOIC. J. L. COWAN. J. M. RALSTON Bank of Lebanon, LEBANON. OREGON. Transacts a General Banking Business. ACCOUNTS KEPT SUBJECT TO CHECK. 'Exchange sold on New York, San raneitio, Portland and Albany, Org Collections made on favorable terms R. L. McCLURE (SucfieMor to C. HL Harmon.) Barter : and : Hairdresser. Lebanon, Oregon. Shaving, Haircutting- and Shampoo ing in the latest and best style. Spec ial attention paid to dressing- Ladies1 hair. Your patronage respectfully so le i ted. LEBANON Meat Market ED. EELLENBEBGER. Prep. Fresh & Salted Beef, Pork, Mut ton, Sausage, Bologna & Ham. BACOK km IABD ALWAYS ON HAND " Mmtm Dtrmm ftlMHw. Ore. Reasonable Prices. AND EE CONVINCED. Sam'l 51. Garlaxd,- Attorney-at-Law, Notary Business a Specialty. We take G. T. COTTON, Dealer In Groceries and Provisions. Tobacco and Cigars, Smokers' Articles. Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Confectionery, Queensware and Glassware, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures. PAY CASH FOR EGGS. Main Street. Iebnn, Oregon I. Tt.BOllUM. Tonsorial Artist A Good Shave, Shampoo, Hair Cut, Cleaned or Dressed. Hot and Cold Baths at all Hours. Children Kindly treated. Calland see mc. The Catholics of Manitoba are vig orously but vainly protesting against the bill abolishing separate schools. The pope is confined to his bed with stomach troubles. 1 Earl Granville is dead. The Russian wheat crop is very un promising. Manufacturers throughout Germany are forming associations similar to that organized by the Hamburg cigar manufacturers, which carried them through to success in their struggle with the cigar makers. A woman who was once Miss Eveline Leal of Shropshire, England, has been arrested in Paris for swindling the forty-third man whom she has married and deserted before night with what valuables she could get. The Cork courthouse was burned March 27 during the trial of O'Brien, Daiton and others accused of rioting. The court barely escaped. "When the flagstaff bearing the Union Jack fell the crowd cheered lustily. The jury disagreed as to Gill and Daiton and acquitted the others. Minister of Finance Baltchieff was shot dead on the streets of Sofia March 27. It is believed that Prime Minister Stambouloff, who was walking with Baltchieff, was the object of the at tack of the assassin, who escaped in the darkness. The Russians have been massing troops on the Austrian and German frontiers and the assassination of Baltchieff, the Bulgarian minister of finance, is attributed to Russian em is- j sanets wuu ueaiit w kiu jrnme min ister Stambouloff. The Pamelhtes were defeated in the Sligo election. EAST AND SOUTH Southern Pacific Bouto. THH MOUNT SHASTA ROUTR. EXPRESS TRAINS LKaVK POKTLAKD DAILY I IrtW P. H.l l.v 10:93 P.M. I 1.7 10:1ft A.M. I Ar Portland Arf:3 A. M AtUauy Ar6:lB A. M. Bati Franolseo It 9 AW p. m. Above trains stop only at the following station north of Kuwburg : Kami Portland, Oreum (Illy, Wood burn. Salem, Albany, Tautfeut, 8httt, Ualaey, UarrUburc, JuucUan cliy, lrrtusand Eugene, Raieburg M allDally. li:UiXM.TLv" Portland At :rpT 19; J. M . 1 l.v Alt mu y Ar 19:00 M. S:o P. M. f Ar Koenburg ly t M A. Albany Loml Ifctlly Except Sunday.) 0f. H.TXt Portland rTtfli .v) 5:0 9 MO p. M. I Ar Albany !. Loral FaniiKr Trains Dally Sunday. Rxeept S5 aTm" 8 :10 A. M i:H P. N 3 tit) P. M S:3o p. I. Albany Ar I P. M. 7 d0 A. M. 8 :44 A. M. LabAuon Albany Labauou PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS. Tourist Bleeping Oars For accommodation of Reoond-Clana Paasengvra. attached to Exprena train. WEST RIIK DIVISION. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND C0RVAMJ8. Mail Train Dally (Exwpt Sunday.) T: A.M. I Lt Portland Ar j 8 3Ur.ll. la :io p. m. I Ar o.rvam la it &$ p. m. At Albany and Corvallls connect with trains of Orvon Partita Railroad. (Bxpmn Train Dally Eieept Sanday.) 4 :40 P. M. I Lr ortland Ar 18:30 A.M. t-Hlnurllle L.T I 9:45 A. M. I r. M. Ar SyThmuirh U-ktB to all points East and South. For tickets and full tnfonnatluii rrirut !u ru iimjw, etc, call on Co's agvut at!.hanoa. K. KOfciUI.KK, K. 1'. ROOK KM. Uanacer. Aat a. F. As P. Aft General News. The Canadian Pacific and New York Central have combined to make an international overland line from New York. A reciprocity treaty is under dis cussion between Mexico and the United States. Newfoundland refuses to allow Can adians to get herring for bait but soils UNITED STATES. The Arkansas legislature asks for election or united States senators bydUeet popular vote. Sprwkcls is reported to have crone ive ei ill k. into the sutrar trust, which will keep up the price and pocket thebountj All the directors of the New York Central railroad, including Chauncey Depew, have been indicted for heat ing ears with stoves, contrary to law, which stoves caused a tire and loss of life in a ease of a railroad wreck. The striking clothing cutters, trim mers and foremen of Rochester have OBr.v) ;heir connection with the Knights of Labor and many of them have gone back to work. Italian laborers on a railroad at Alton, V. Va., murdtred Section Boss A. B. McCauley because ho saiil the Matin members were served right in the New Orleans lvnching. Thev then stripped his body and dragged it over tne ground until it was torn in pieces. A double-barreled shot-gun was fired into a schoolhouse near Liberty, Miss., March 28, while the buildiug was full of colored teachers and pupils at an exhibition, and fourteen persons were wounded. There is no clew to the would-be murderer. Dr. F. H. Moleskey has been driven from the town of Freedom, 111., by a mob of women who became convinced that he was a quack and had been treating them with nothing but bread pills. Mrs. A. W. GifTord, a wealthy woman of St. Louis, who was cured of a nervous disorder bythe faith cure and then went to preaching and practicing the cure, has gone insane. The backbone of the Indiana build ing trades' troubles has been broken. The General Contractors' Association and Carpenters' Union arrived at a compromise. The agreement pro vides for a permanent arbitration committee, eight hours for a day's work, overtime at time and a half, and Sunday and holidav work at double time. The carpenters agree to work with non-union men in the other trades. A saloon at Bloomville. O.. was pulled down and the liquor destroyed. The saloon man, Miller by name, got a new stock and opened again, when he and his barkeeper were assaulted by a crowd of citizens and given an hour to leave town. The Cramp shipbuilding firm has bought the I. V. Morris iron works, one of the largest in the country, ad joining the shipyard. A counterfeit $2 silver certificate is out in which, for the first time, the government s silk thread in the paper is almost perfectly imitated. The government has stopped printing $2 certificates until it can get plates en- gravea ror a new aesign, varying from the counterfeited one. John Broderick. a New York letter carrier, cut his throat March 27, hav ing gone insane rrom tne excessive use of cigarettes. Texas fever is raging among stock in Missouri. The grip is raging in Chicago. William Brown, a striking steel- mill hand at Chester, Fa., was killed while engaged with others in an at tack on non-union workmen April 1. Nineteen Italian immigrants were refused a lauding at New York April 3 under the new law. Some were dis eased and others were paupers. The discovery of a mutilated body in a trunk at New York has been ex plained by the confession of a Span iard named Gonzales that. at. San .Tosa Guatemala, he lured Carlos Santi- Danez, a rich banker, to his house and, with the aid of his mistress and another Spaniard, murdered the banker, robbed him and shinned the body to New York. FOREIGN. The natives on the island of Aniimn in the Mozambique channel, have re belled against the Arab chief whom the French had placed over them and have massacred 300 persons. The island is twenty-six by eighteen miles in size and is packed with 13,000 people. Woman's World. An Ictoal S.wlnff-room. There Is nothing in the arrangement of the house that contributes more to the general comfort of all than set ting apart one room for sewing. Let this room be small or large, it serves well It purpose. If the family room Is used for the general sewing, when every one Is liable to be rushed with such work In the full and spring, and the family dressmaker and seamstress are steady members of the householi it Is in a continual litter, V is the source of continual care to save It f rom being so. In the sewing-room the machine may be kept securely locked up If necessary from children's lingers. Here may also be kept the convenient form on which dresses are draped and hung without the waste of the strength and time of some person who is selected to serve as " form." Such a room should be sunny, but as simply furnished as possible, except wltii useful furniture. A sewing ta'uie, a machine, a chest of drawers to con tain materials to be made up, patterns anil mending, low, comfortable sew ing chairs, a dainty, standard work basket and a low screen to be used when needed In fitting before the window may be Included In necessary furniture of this room. The floor of the sewing-room should be made of hard wood, polished or shellaced, but If this Is not attainable, a floor cover ing of matting or some material from which threads may be readily brushed will answer the same purpose. A closet should be connected with this room, with a shelf In which are hooks where skirts which are finished may be hung. The chief charm of the sewing-room lies in the ability of the worker to lay down her work in hur ried moments at night at any Btage, draw the curtain and lock the door, and take up the work in the same place the next day without the care of putting it away at night, or taking it out in the morning. A cabinet of simple construction should hang on the wall to hold small articles, includ ing tailors' chalk to mark out darts and other parts of patterns and other things, w here a sewing-room is im possible, a rug of linen crash under the machine large enough to half cover the room will be a great con venience. Almost at a moment's notice all the thrands and scraps may be gathered up In this rug and shaken on a paper in some convenient place. Such a rug may be purchased by the yard. Two yards and a half will make a sewing rug that will lost for years, and may be washed and Ironed when soiled. New England Farmer. tVomB M Angel. "Ahem?" says he, "Ahem, as it were-as I was saying, my dear madam, these angelic angels of our homes are too ethereal, too dainty, to mingle with the rude crowds. We political men would fain keep them as they are now; we are willing to stand the rude buffetings of of voting. In order to guard these sweet, delicate creatures from every hardship. Sweet, tender beings, we would fain guard you ah, yes! ah, yes I" Says I, "Cease instantly. Such talk is like thoroughwort or lobelia to my moral stomach." Says I, " You know that these angelic, tender bein's, half clothed, fill our streets on icy mid nights, huntin' up drunken husbands and fathers and sons. They are driven to death and moral ruin by the miser able want liquor-drinkin' entails. They are starved, they are frozen, they are beaten, they ar made child loss and hopeless by drunken hUB bands killing their own flesh and blood. They go down into the cold waves and are drowned by drunken captains; they are cast from railway into death by drunken engineers; they go up on the scaffold, anil die of crimes committed by the direct aid of this agent of hell. Wimmcn had ruther be a flvin' round than to do nil this, but they can't. If men really believe all they say about wimmen, and I think some of them do in a dreamy way if wiin- men are angels, give em the rights of angels .... If you want to be con sistent if you are bound to make angels of wimmen, you ort to furnish a free, safe place for 'em to soar in. You ort to keep the angels from bein' meddled with, and bruised, and killed, etc." " Ahem ! " says he, "As it were, ahem." But I kept right on, for I begun to feel noble and beside of myself : This talk about woman bein' out side and above all participation in the laws of her "country, is jest as pretty as I ever heard anything, and jest as simple. Why, you might jest as well throw a lot of snow nakes into the street and say, ' Some of 'em are female flakes and mustn't be trampled on.' The great march of life tramples on 'em all alike ; they fall from one common sky, and are trodden down into one common ground." Josiah Allen's Wife. Currant Punch. Boil one-half pint of currant jelly, the juice of two lemons, one pound of sugar and two quarts of water together for five minutes. Strain, and when cold add cracked ice. Cream Puffs. Put half a pint of water and two ounces of butter on to boil ; when boiling, throw in quickly four ounces of Hour. Stir until well cooked and a smooth dough is formed. Take from the fire, and when cooled or lukewarm, take four eggs, one at a time and unbeaten, that is, simply drop one whole egg into the dough, beat until mixed, thn add another, and so on. If the flour you use is winter-wneat nour, tnree eggs will probably answer, as four would make the batter too liquid. Drop the mix ture by spoonfuls on greased pans and bake in a moderately quick oven about thirty minutes. If the puffs should fall when you take them from the oven, they have not been baked unu. inorougniy done. Farm Notes. Impmrert Dairying. Competition from the cheap labor districts of the eastern states to be In the near future still further ad vanced by cheaper freights from the east, caused by the completion of other and competing overland routes to be built and Increasing business and volume of freight are, or Burely will be, constant factors regulating and controlling the prices of dairy products In the future, and will surely make the competition closer. How can the eastern duiryman, with long and cold winters, requiring so much feed to keep up the animal heat In his eows, and such lengthy periods of feeding to contend with, on lands equally valuable and investments relatively as lurge, pay a heavy per centage on hla produce as freight, and still make and sell his produce at a profit, and reduce our business almost, and In some years quite, to a lonlug one? What are their other advantages aside from the help of their families and cheap labor? Better cows, careful care and shelter, and plenty of good food every day, of the kind best adapted to produce but ter and cheese, in which the silo Is an important factor in the non-producing season ; improved methods for secur ing the full value of the milk for making butter and cheese; for making the best and longest and best-keep ing produce; organizations of the dairymen for selling at home on stated market days for cold cash, at least cost to them, their produce; and lost but not least, the careful saving of all the valuable manure and using the same on their luud to keep up Its protl uc.ti vo uess. I affirm that they thus gain advan tage of 60 per cent over our average dairy methods, and this I believe to lie a very conservative statement. This to many will seem to be a start ling assertion. Now I will try to sustain this asser tion by theory and facts. The esti mate of the most reliable eastern authorities is that the unregenerated eastern dairymen milk one-quarter of their cowb at a positive toss, and one- third at no profit, thus leaving the other two-thirds of theduiry for profit. So much for poor cows. Many years since I awoke to the fact that I was losing much of the butter fat by the old method of set ting milk in puns, but did not know how to overcome it save by the dis tent reports of deep setting, cooling creamers, etc. Directly I heard of the centrifugal creamer, when it first camo Into use in Europe. A frieud saw one work and told me that it saved the butter fat to within one-half of one per cent, and as soon as I in vestigated a little more, and over three years Bince, I purchased a cen trifugal creamer, and behold, presto I at once discovered that a saving of butter fat equal to 20 per cent was made. I soon got nuother. Now, brother dairymen, are not most, of you losing this 80-per-eent profit on your whole investment in the dairy business? Our eastern dairymen are not any more, and they will cinch the life out of us if we dont quit it, unless our beautiful and productive Califor nia saves us by its natural advantages. Again, I have got a milk teBter; in a few months I can tell the percentage in any cow's milk. The results are perfectly astonishing great eye openers. To illustrate, here is a cow that gives 40 pounds of milk daily for a good long time. This is a lurge milker and you regard her as a No. 1 cow; here is another that gives only 5 pounds of milk a day, and this is not more than or hardly an average. You test the milk of the two cows for butter fat. The 4Q-pound cow tests 1 Y, per cent, so makes .6 of a pound a day, while your little despised 25 pound cow alongside tests 8 per cent butter fat, and so makes 2 pounds of butter a day. Now these are not fan cies; I And them to be facts in my dniry selected and bred for the dairy business so many years. Two pounds of unchurncd butter fat is often left in 100 pounds of butter milk ; indeed it is not unusual. In a creamery that has 600 pounds of but termilk there would be a loss of 20 pounds of butter. According to this, many of the dairies in our country are throwing away 20 pounds of butter every day in the buttermilk. And now comes into view for favor and use the butter extractor, the newest important invention in dairy tools. It is a centrifugal creamer and churn combined. Put in the milk and it comes out butter in small grains about the size of turkey shot; the butter is run into brine or cold water, all the milky substance washed away and worked and salted at once. It is a new kiud of butter (sweet cream butter) and the best makes in the east are selling for forty cents a Eound, or at least some oi tne laney rands. In late experiments with this new favorite it made a pound of butter from 5Y, pounds less of milk than it took of the same milk with a Danish Weston centrifugal separator and the churn. An analysis of the buttermilk of the extractor in one case snowea remaining in it still .17 of 1 per cent butter fat. in the other .32 of 1 per cent, both infinitesimal. E. W. Steele in Ban uu xriDune. A Burglar Z.oseB a Band. B. F. Shepherd's son Frank dis covered a man entering his father's store at Placerville through a hole which had been made in the brick wall in the rear on the night of April 2. Frank took a shotgun and wilted till the man came out, when he ordered him to surrender. Instead, the bur glar presented a pistol, when Frank shot off the hand that held it and cap tured the burglar, who had on his person $76 in money and some jewelry which he had stolen. j Current News. Lalmr.Unlun Trouble. : The labor unions of San Francisco assert that there Is a combination of employers whose object is to break up the unions. The persistent refusal of the box factories to settle grievances is cited as an evidence of this. All the more important iron foundries have been unitedly defying the Mulders' union for over a year and the calling out of the molders from the Pacillc rolling mills, where all the steel (tastings made on the coast were produced, has resulted in the stoppage of steel easting. April 3 250 of the employes of Buck ingham & Hecht'sshoe factory struck because the company refused to dis charge a workman named Hpofford, who was running a machine on con tract In violation of a rule of the union. The Federated Trade dele gates declare that the shoe manufac turers Itave combined, as manufac turers in other branches have, and that a great struggle between capital and tabor has begun. The employers ip the several lines declare that they do not object to union men, but refuse to compel em ployes who do not wish to do so to join the unions. This statement is confirmed bythe statement of Secre tary Sullivan of the Shoemakers union that the trouble In the shoe factory arises from thr -.t "Buckingham & Hecht have tried to run their factory to suit themselves. They deal with the men and refuse to recognise the union. An assault was made by VHM) strik ing cokeworkera on the works at Morewood, Pa., early in the morning of April 9 but the hired guard flred on thein and drove them oft, killing.seven men and wounding about forty, sev eral of whom have since died. Troops were called out to protect the works and order was restored. All the men killed were unnaturalized foreigners. In fact there are hardly any Amer icans among the strikers. The War In Cbll. The destruction of Iqutque, hereto fore reported, was complete, and the bloodshed was not overstated. Fcbiuary S the insurgent attacked Tarapaca and captured it after a des perate fight, killing men, women and children wherever they could be found. Many buildings were burned. Churches were filled with corpses of women aud children who had been butchered while praying for their husbands and fathers who were fight ing outside. When the Infest authentic news left Chile, Feb. 2, an attack on Valpar aiso, the only important seaport still in the hands of Balmaceda's men, was daily expected. Valparaiso was well defended, but the revolutionary navy, which would make the attack, was powerful and flushed with victory. The law of Railroad Croaalas;. A decision has been rendered in the United States supreme court confirm ing the judgment of the lower court in New Jersey, in the case of a killing on a railroad crossing. The court says: "While those using a public highway are under a duty to keep out of the way of railroad cars cross ing it and to exercise such care as circum3tunces make necessury, the railroad company in moving cars upon its road is bound to exercise like care towards those who are obliged to pass over its tracks. The right of a rail road company to the use of its tracks for the movement of engines and cars is no greater in the eyes of the law than the right of an individual to travel over a highway extending across such tracks.' What French Workmen Want. The Paris workmen's congress has adopted a programme embracing the following propositions: That eight hours constitute a day's work; that minimum wages be fixed ; that chil dren under 14 be prohibited from working; that everybody declared by the workmen's syndicate to be unable to work receive public support; that masters be held responsible for acci dents to workmen; that municipal butcher shops, baker shops and bazars be formed ; that every trade organize in readiness Tor a general strike to vanquish the opposing employers. The socialist element dominated. Italy's Anger. Italy, through its minister at Wash ington, Baron Fava, asked Secretary of State Blaine for assurances that the New Orleans lynchers of Italian citizens should be punished and in demnity paid to their families. Blaine replied that he could not guarantee the punishment, as that under the constitution rests with the jury but that he recognized the claim for in demnity. Baron Fava was thereupon recalled by his government. Kudini, the Italian premier, has since stated that the American government had thus far done all that could be ex pected of it. - New Liwh. Among the bills signed by Governor Markham after the adjournment of the legislature and thus made laws are the following : For the semi-annual payment of taxes ; providing that the death sen tence shall be carried out only in the state prisons ; forbidding lawyers to advertise for divorce business ; pro viding the death penalty for train wrecking; giving preference to ex umon soldiers in public employment ; providing for police courts in cities of 15,000 and under 18,000 inhabitants; appropriating $5000 for the importa tion of parasites of plant pests from Australia. He -Worried About It. Tbe sun's heat will fire out In ten mUJtaa years tnor," And he worried about it; "It will Hiiro rive out them. If tt doo't be fore," And he wnrrte'1 about Itj It wmiM aurolr Vive out, so tbe tcientlet said fn all (K'lent iftea! boohs that he read. And the whole in is lit universe Uteri would be dead. And be worried about tti "And some 4r the earth will fall Into the tun," A nd he worried about Hi "Just as sure, aud as straight, at if Shot front asun," And he worried about It; M w hen ftt ruu arravltatloa unbuckles her traps Just picture," be said, "what a fearful ooW In toe 1 It will eume In a few million aires, perhaps, And be worried about it. TIe rarth will beeorae much too small for the race,' And he worried about It: "When we'll imr tiilrtj- doilaia an Inch for pure t rwe, - Awl he worrlfd about Itj The earth will be crowded so much, without doubt. That there'll be no room for one's tonjuc to stick out. And no room for one's thoughts to wander about." And he worried about It. "The Oulf Btream wilt curve, and New Bu gland grow torrider." And be worried about It; Than was erer tbe climate of southernmost Florida," And he worried about It. "The loe crop will be knocked Into small smithereens. And rrocodllos block tip our mowins; ma- chin?, And we'll lose our Sue crops of potatoes and bean," And be worried about It. And In lean than ten thousand rears there's no doubt ." A nd he worried about It ; Our supply of lumber aud coal win giro out,1' And he worried sbnut It; Ju then tbe loe Aj-e will return cold and raw Frocen men will stand stiff with arms out- stwtohed In awe. As if vatnljr bfeechlr a jreneral thaw. Aud he worried about It. Ills wife tfwik In waffhlnjr fa dollar a day), H didn't worry about It: His daughter sewed shirts, to rude ffroeer to Py. He didn't worry about It, While bis wlte beat her tireless rub-a-dub-dub On the washboard drum In ber old wooden tub. He sat by the store and he ttirt let her rub He didn't worry about It, s. w. Foes. HEXAGONAL POWDER. Why and How Cannon Powder la Rammed Before It Com lata the (ion. A large number of persons who vis ited the scene of the recent disastrous powder explosion at the Da Pont pow der mills carried away with them, as mementoes of the explosion, little six sided pieces of a black material which they generally supposed to be iron or some soft metal. These mementoes were six-sided, about 1 1-4 inches long, one inch in diameter, and were pierced by a small round hole. They appeared to be blank six-sided nuts ready to be tapped or threaded, to make thein available on the bolls of the mill ma chinery. They appeared to be inno cent little things easy to pilfer and convenient to carry, and served nicely as mementoes of the great explosion. In reality these innocent-looking mementoes pre lumps of concentrated explosive energy. They are prwnis or lumps of prismatic powder. The name js doubtless owing to the wcttliar shape given to each piece or block, which is that of a short hexagonal prism. Hits form is tne result of in tense pressure to which the powder is exposed in its passage through a pow erful hydraulic press. It was chosen for tbe same reason that the honey bee chooses to make the ceils in its comb hexagon economy of space; in build ing cartridges for big guns out of this ?owder tbe pieces fit snugly together, 'he compression has put every possi ble ounce of force into the prism, the small size of the prisms enable the gunners accurately to measure the force of each charge, aud the hexagons pack together without loss of space in the loaU chamber of the gnn. In the manufacture of this powder science has learned to ram tbe charge of pow der before putting it into the gnn barrel. The concentration of power by means of the hydraulic press is so great that solid prisms of this powder loaded into a gun would probably burst it, and if not would be wasted by ejectment from the gun before it was all burned. The round hole in the prisms of pow der, which mnkes them a complete duplicate of a blank six-sided iron nut, is to secure expansion equally in all directions and to insure the combus tion of all the explosive. The machines by which these prisms of concentrated power are manufact ured are models of compact, strong aud accurate-work ing machinery. One of them now in course of construction stands about 18 feet high, and will weigh about 50.000 pounds. It occu pies a floor space 4 feet 4 inches by S feet 4 inches, is capable of exerting a pressure of 135,000 pounds on a sur face of abont 64 square inches in area, and will make 54 prisms of powder at every stroke of its pistons. The most apparent feature of this press is its weight and strength, and its surprising characteristic is ease of movement and control. It is com posed of two water cylinders and two rams, connected by four polished iron rods about 4 1-2 inches in diameter, standing on a rectangular foundation. The cylinders aftd rains are at opposite ends of these rods. The rams work toward each other centrally with the rods. Between the rams are four cast iron plates 6 inches thick. 3 feet 2 inches by 4 feet 6 in area, three of which move with the ram and one is stationary. This stationary plate is perforated with tifty-fonr round holes, about two inches in diameter, that have been partially filled with brass bushings. Through these bushings are the six-sided holes in which tbe powder is compressed. Working di rectly over this 'plate is a similar one attached to the ram of the upper cylin der, and guided by the four polished iron rods which fit into a half-round recess at each of its corners. It is armed with six-sided brass plungers, which in its descent pass into the six sided boles in the stationary plate. Below the stationary plate is another plunger plate similar to tbe upper one, and below this is the needle plate. Tbe needle plate is armed on its upper ( BtirfnrA with f 5 f r v-fnur inner atul nncd. " les, which extend up through the! lower plunger plate and into the hex- agon holes in the stationary plate These needles make the round holes' ; the prisms of powder. : The power of these presses is ge '" ated in the cylinders simplv bv p ing water into them and'beh-". rauis. Tbe cylinders are 11. 1 inches in diameter. The y! ; has two compartments; thev ' the lower one and above- ,i der with a lifting pisto -..,.'. ram is raised af te- ... -,y -stroke in comr: . - v.. The lower - - ; , water under It, and Is lowered by" let- ting the water out, which will bey1 accomplished automatically. "-' In operation the parts of this preti6 are so adjusted that the plungers of tbe upper and lower plunger plates and the needles approach each other $ through the movement of the rams. The holes in the stationary plate are i stopped on the lower side by the ""Ms of the plungers, and tbe needled wtrtVrV log through the plungers extend up through the stationary plate. The hexagon holes are then filled with wet ' powder and the rams brought to gether, exerting a pressure of 2,60 pounds on tbe powder in each of the, boles, compressing into a solid hex a- S fonal prism 1 1-4 inches long, I Inch n diameter, with a hole of about S-8 inch in diameter through It loogi- tudinally. Wilmington Newt. . SURPRISING HEW HUSBAND, rha Disastrous Result of m Wetl-Msant -Attempt to Plaaaa It seems that Dr. Pi Us bury of the United States service was married bout three rears ago to a lovely IO Angeles lady, but was almost im nediately ordered to join the As is tie squadron. His wife remained here ays tbe San Francisco Examiner. From one emergency or another be was kept abroad until a few weeks ago. During his absence bis wife pre pared a surprise for her has band by studying medicine. Unfortunately, however, she entered a homeopath io college, her husband being of tbe allo pathic persuasion. She had just re ceived a diploma when her husband re turned, but they bad hardly exchanged affectionate greetings when a messen ger came in to say that a man had just Fallen out of a tbird-story window around tbe block, and for whom a physician was required at once. The husband made baste to obtain his in struments, but when be reached the seene of the accident be was astonished at beholding his wife engaged in feel ing the patient's pulse. 'What does this meanf said the iurprised practitioner. "I forgot to tell you, darling,1 ex plained his wife. "You see, I am a regularly qualified homeopathic phy sician." "Homeopathic?" sneered the bos band, getting very red in tbe face. "Yes, pet." said tbe doctress, sweet ly. "This closing people with bucket-" fuls of slops is gelling out of date, precious.'' "And so you have actually been roped in by the gang of pilule-peddling pirates?" "Don't be rude, dear, replied the) female specialist. "You eaa t expect to keep up with tbe march of science in China, Just Ltand back and let tne save the patient. "Save fiddlestick,1 snapped the allo path. "Go home, woman, and eease your trifling with human life, or per haps you bad better scrape lint wfaihrl resuscitate the subject." "Why don't yon two quit fighting and go to work f" asked tbe victim's wife, who bad lost concluded sba wouldn't look well in black. "When this female persou with draws1 said Dr. P.. stiffly, "I shall proceed in the regular way. "I will not be answerable for XYim consequences until this old fogy is re moved." snapped his wife. 'You're a quack V roared the male M. D. "You're a botcher f screamed tbe female one. And io tbis way tbey went on until somebody announced that the man was dead. And now tbe judge says that if he refuses their divorce petition he's afraid they'll begin practicing on each other, and: he thinks there have been enough murders committed recently as It is. Lincoln' a Vialon of the New Soq Once, as Mr. Lincoln lay upon hb Z!" xavonte lonnge in tne r&egtsters otnoe, whilst the Register and his messenger were engaged in their work, and, as he liked tbem to do. paying no attention to him. he broke into a magnificent outburst a word-painting of what the South would be when the war was over, slavery destroyed, and she had had an opportunity to develop her. re sources under the benignant influence of peace. Twenty yean and more afterward this scene flashed upon my memory with the vividness of an eleo -trio light as I recognized the word picture of Mr. Lincoln in the following words of welcome by an eloquent Southerner to a Northern delegation: "You are standing," he said, "at this moment in the gateway that leads to the South. The wealth that is there, no longer hidden from human eyes, n ashes in your very faces. You can smell the roses of. a new hope that till the air. You can hear the heart beats of progress that come as upon the wings of heaven. You can reach forth yonr hands and almost clutch the gold that the sun rains down with bis beams, as be takes his daily journey between the coal mine and tbe cotton field; the highlands of wood and iron, of marble and granite; the low-lands of tobacco, of sugar and rice, of corn and kine, of wine, milk, and honey. Such was the picture of tbe South pre sented to the eye of Mr. Lincoln's faith. I have written this account largely from personal knowledge, from what i myself saw and beard. It has been the regret of my subsequent life that I J did not at the time know bow great a man Mr. Lincoln was: that I did no" at the time write out and pre serve . account of manv other things said :r done by him. 'fbis occurrence w exception. 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