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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1891)
A LITTLE GIRL To the niTN ot mommfc, WhW, rliKtwi mtiml h.f bid om, ( WtiM ag my but?' Jim tttirteai. Vou tl Uiink 1m wan fr ohir 0 wium.njt eytw i. nwn mora km, Her tw, tno. make tm ooldar. Hut bow ehUdhood wttta a wturi I luv lhw " lit Or Kir);" Tnday aba wona UiIn emitting . Hit an, my lady, through lh yeji Wbteb git uj VouLfa their iJeniy Of kwt tad t?rW. of hopes ud fort, Till A$p proclaims you tweut Tbi. a fch yr Tim mmk a curt Aod dttnplc from yea (doubtinir MMtiiok I'd oJI yon 'Ituto 108" Without dbtdalnful puuUng -Waiw U Kiuboia la ikMoo Traoaoript EXHAUSTIVE. The smoking, room of a transatlantic steamer is the protest ptaoe in the world (oratories. On ewry trip there it always some one who liu a special gift in that direction. The hut time I went across there waa a Mr. Scott on hoard who told ua anme or hia wonderful adventures. One day heauid- "I new Uike passage on a steamer until the wry lam moment." "Why la IhatT aoige one asked. "I should think you would sometimes run the risk of nut gluing a froud room." "Oh, 1 don't mind that," answered Mr. Scott, "what 1 am anxioua about ia to aoid Hohus." "Who'a HobbsT three or four asked together. Well, it'a plain you never met him or you wouldn't have forgotten him. Ilobhs an inventor, who turns bis intellect towards marine improvement The first time I met him lie waacruing over try ing 10 (?et his patent nnnwnKiekable berth adopted. The ateaunship company had refused to put in the berths, but allowed him to go on tlie xteamer and put in a berth if a passenger wanted it in. The consequence wan that Huhlis made life a burden for all of ua Some ordered in the berths in order to tret rid of hia can vassing ami explanations. The improve ment Kenerally mode them an seasick that they alepl tlie rest of the voyaKeon the sofa. It was an oscillating air air, and the chances were that if you did succeed In getting into it the thing would pitch you out on the floor More morning We worried through that trip, but my next voyage with Mr. flohla was a terror. As a general thing I have a room to myseif when I cross, but this time I found that aome one else was 10 lie in with me. The brut day out 1 came down to my room and found it tilled up with all aorta of paraphernalia, so inucb ao 1 could hardly enter, borne one was in the upper berth and was stretching himself half way across the room tacking canvas to the oeiling. "Hellor 1 cried. "What the deuce are you up to? I want you to understand that this is my room." "Mine, too." cried the other fellow, with his mouth full of tacks. Then looking down at rue he dropped the tacka ou the floor and shouted gleefully, "Hel lo, boott! That you? Well, this is luck. 1 diffn't knutf but I would have aome stranger with me this time, ao I hurried to get lltrougb with my little plan before be could object." - He waa ao covered with dust that at Brut 1 did not recognize him, but as be )umied down 1 saw with horror that It waa Ilohlm, and I felt sure that 1 would have another siege with the oscillating berth. "What is all this anyhow? Some new improvement on the berth?" "No, I've been studying this thing since I have been over here, and 1 find that it is not the motion of the vessel that causes aeasickneM at all. No, air. It ia the foul air. Vou have noticed tlutt when passengers stay on the deck they are not half so bad as when they remain id their staterooms. Now there is just aa much motion on deck aa in the state room, so it is evidently not tlie motion that makes the difference. Now what ia it? Why it is tlie fresh air. That's the whole secret. I've perfected an exhaus tive apiuratus which will keep tlie state rooms and cabin 4s pure as the deck out side. Like all great Inventions it is very simple. AIJ we have to do is to exhaust the air and there you are." The Ann four days out we had an aw ful time, llobbs worked at that thing night and day. There was no rest for me, all the time ho was at it. fie talked incessantly. He wanted to fix it so that ooJy a certain amount of freeli air would get in, and he hud arrangements for stopping drafts and preventing Hie foul air from the rest of the ship getting in, and all that sort of thing. At last one sight the lifth night out be announced tliat everything was completed and that he would get the puuip attached that mght or uext day 1 fell into a troubled slumber, and aome time in the night wakened up with a strange feeling of op pression. 1 found it almost iiupussibleto breathe. I lay there panliug for a few moments, not knowing what was the matter with ine. The air seemed as rarefied as at the top of a mountain. AU at once 1 recognized a new sound. It was a sound of auction, and Out whole situation flashed on me. liuubs had started bis internal machine and it was drawing all the air out of the room. It was exhausting tiie air faster than tlie crevioea let it in, 1 knew tfeat if I waa to save my life I must act miick.y. 1 sprang from the berth andatrurk a match. If glimmered for a moment and then weniouL There waa not enough 0x5 gen In the room to allow it to hum. Then I thought of the I electric light. That, at Ira-, waa Inde pendent of air. I groped anuind for the , knob and turned Hon. Hoi waaaleep-1 ing peacefully in the up 1 berth. I tried to open the door, hut I. waa locked, j and I saw with ilisnuiy that tlie key was not there. To make sure of his murder ous experiment, Until had hidden the key. At that momenta wild desire to murder tlubbs seized me. 1 forgot that he must necessarily suffer the same fate as myself, 1 reached upand grabbed him by the arms and Hung him on the floor with n crash that ought to have broken every bone in hia body. I sprang on him, and. with both hands, gripped his throat, pounding his head against tlie carieted floor with all the energy of des peration. . "Uobln, you villain." 1 yelli'd, "where lathe key?" "Wh wha what key?" gasped the awakened man lietween thumps. "The door key you know what key." "11 never saw it," stuttered Bobbs. , Then it occurred to me that 1 bad bet ter leave llobbs to the fate he had pre pared for himself and save my own life if ptmiblu. I gave his head one farewell tliuulpand then flung myself on the floor and breathed through the aperture under the door Tlie cool air from the outside waa very comforting to an exhausted man. 1 heard Hohba getting slowly up, muttering to himself. He sat down on tlie sofa, apiatrently to think over tilings, "Look here," he said at last, "if you're quite through with me I'd like to go back to bed again." "Bed," I cried. "You'll be a dead man inside of live minutes. There is no air in this room. Your idiotio exhaust ing machine lias" "Then open the door: It Isn't locked. It's bolted." 1 unlulted tlie door and it came open all right. As there was no rush of cold air, 1 began to feel that I had not been as wide awake as I thought 1 waa. 1 had a suxpirinn. ton. that 1 had not acted in a gentleiuunly manner toward Hobba. "I'm afraid I've been dreaming, Hobba," 1 said, apologetically. "Oh. no." replied liobba, "you're merely stark crazy, lliat's alL You think this ship is a lunatic asylum. Now, if tliis sort of matinee is going to occur every day or so you'll excuse me if 1 prefer to sleep in tlie lower bunk.. It isn't so far to fall." "Thus it is," concluded Mr. Scott, "tluii 1 always try to avoid Hobba. "1 know one man who will he grateful for your avoidance." said a smoker. "Who's that'" asked Scott. "lioobs." Luke Hlutrp in Detroit Free Press. A Unman Almsiiae. Brown county has a prodigy In the shape of a 10-year-old boy with a talent for days and dates. Roy Odenweller, son of Mr. tt P. Odenweller, of Industry township, is tlie infant wonder. Give bim any date in any month of tills year, last year or next year, and he can at once tell you the duy of the week upon which it falls or has fallen. For exam ple, ask bim on what day of the week will Oct. 1". ltlB9. fall, and he will promptly enwer "Thursday.' which ia correct. - And so of any date of last year or the year to coma How he arrives at tlie solution he does Dot know. Numer ous gentlemen of undoubted veracity have repeatedly tested his strange power. The little fellow is a bright youngster, but does not exhibit any unusual preco city beyond this peculiar gift. He aays that beyond the three years the current, the last and the next he cannot give correct answers. Next year be will lose all power over 1888(itii which he ia now conversant) and bis mind will grasp that of 1BIJ1, of which he now knows nothing. He lias no rule or method, nor does he know how he arrives at the true answer, but it is certain that he is correct when answering. (juincy (Ilia.) Cor. Chicago Tribune. TU. CIiIiwm Mluiiiter's OpaL Tlie Chinese minister waa present, ac companied by several of his secretaries and attired in a costume of remarkable beauty. The silks and fabrics of which it was composed must have excited at once the admiration and envy of half the ladies present. On his bead he wore a cap of a mandarin of tlie highest rank aud a relative of the emperor. In place of the yellow buttou which usually sur mounts the top was a magiiiticent opal as large as a pullet's egg, blazing with a myriad light and surrounded by a circle of diamonds the smallest of which could not weigh less than two carats. The opal would have turned CoL Pat Donan green with envy. The whole headgear must have cost the minister not less Uuin (ki.UOO, and he has several others equally gorgeous and expensive. Hardly the sort lo leave on the hat rack with the front dooropeu. are they? With oriental sagacity the worthy ambassador from the Oolden empire wears his cap in mixed couiiany, and has the others pad locked in a Ixinnel box. and carries the key up his sleeve. Washington Post A Pol i to Colored ad. Recently, lu tt Wttxblntoa borae car, colomj dude wum twuted tunoug tbe pasaeu gin, A voim; woman of hiuowu color en Wrwl, ami lie .iiiimtd lately rune and offered uur inx s at !iio ynvieiuUy demurred aud tiaid; do not like to d prlve you, sir, ot ' your 'tttM "Oh, no depmvity, miw,M woi ' Lid if tly; uno di gravity at uli. I pruler to j Ktaiui." 'i'lie .Vtoiiuut. J V MAKING A BOOK. ftM Ordinary Novel The Neieatl6e Bonk, Maontcrlpu Eteelrulyptng, etc I How Ih a book made? V.'oll, it depends ! upoii what kind of a book it Is. An of 1 dinttry. every day novel f j made in this 1 way: First the manuscript is received at ' the' literary dciartmcnt of the publish j ing house to which it is sent, and is ! quickly consigned to the mercies, tender ! or otherwise, of a corjM of readers, nuin I bering hi a larrv publishing house any, , half ailo.-en, A fuvoruble opinion of "a j majority of the readers will in most cases determine the value of a manu- Boript. and if it nveives thnt then nego tiation arc entered into with the author. Ofton a roBlty is paid, and aHOtten, wr haps, the munuwript is iKiught outright. Of course this depends lately upon the author's 'reputation, if he lias ufv, and upuu uif fcumui uuima ire mm wimeii. For hiwlanco, mure risks could be legiti mately taken by the publisher on an author who has previously written books which had txdd well than upon a novice. As naturally, also, there is a larger Rule for a Uiok on a populur subject than for one on a scientific or abstruse subject. Sometimes the author nays for tho electrotype plates from which the book Is printed, but this ia not done very often, for authors are not rich as a class. The manuscript having teen accepted and carefully edited, and negotiations for its use having leen successfully concluded, It is sent to tho comicing room and then divided into "takes," as they are called, among the comjiositors. After it is sot up proofs are struck off and sent to the author for re vision. (Sometimes he gets tlircc sets of proofs before everything is all right. From the galleys of type elec trotyjio plates, from wliich Uio book is to be printed, ure made and these ore fitted into the presses nnd the printing begun. If a large first edition is wanted a large number of presses are set to work, and vice verm if a small edition. As the book comes from the Dresses it is sent in certain quantitiesto the drying room, whore the paper and ink are thor oughly dried. From the drying room it goes to the t indery and is "bound. The biggert expense connected with the mak ing of a Itook is prolsiblr the cost of elec trotype plates. Few publishing houses issue but one liook at a time, for by pub lishing several together expressage and other incidental items of exwnse ore saved Jl;my pulilislwrs count the second edition of a book nearly clear profit, all the expenses linving been reckoned as coming on the first edition. The illus trations on the covers of books ore mostly made by artists whose sole business it is to do tliat kind of artistic work. To a publibluug house like Harper's, for in stance, a fiixx iul corps of these artists is attachl, and they ere paid good sal aries, if a scientific lxk is to be pub lished, inrtend of sending the manuscript to the ordiiury corps of readers it is sent to a scientific man whose reputation as an cxjiert in the jiarticular science in question is high.ew York Press. fMjmnnm Dinnrr Etlqnrtta. When the guests arrive, say for din ner, tlie politeness of paradise is turned loose, w ith great apparent hesitation they enter, bowing low with their hand- on their knees if they are men, or drop ping on their knees and touching their fond jeads almost to the ground if they are ladies. The Crbt Japanese salutation cor responds exactly to the Norwegian "Tak for tid t" "Thank you for the pleasure I had the lart time I met vou' Tim. however, it but the merest beginning of Japanese greeting. A conversation some thing aitcr tiiis style ensues: "I beg your pardon for my rudeness on tlie lust occa sion.1' "How can you say such a thing when it was 1 who failed to show you due courtesy' "Far from it! 1 received a JiUKun in good manners from you." 'Howcan you condescend to come to such a oor house as thisy" "How can you, indeed, be so kind as to receive such an unimportant person aa myself uuder your distinguished roof:" All this punctuated with low bows and the sound of breath sucked rapidly in between the teeth,, expressive of great empressercent. At lost, amid a final chorus of arigatos, tho quests come to anchor upon the iloor. Various objects are handed to them, lo entertain (hem, a cu rio or two, a few photogp-apiis, anything, no matter what, for it is de rigueur in Japanese etiquette to affect a great inter est and admiration ou bucIi occobions.- Boston Transcript. A Jail Ulrd'. Good Luck. If Whittington's cat cannot bo placed among well authenticated Felidie. many a man has attained the glory of lord mayoralty in ways fully as romantic us those of vVhittington in the nursery talo. Stephen Foster was a debtor confined in the jrtil of Ludirute, which once stood over the gate on the hill, a very little way west of Kt. Paul's. There was a gate at which even' day a prisoner was allowed to tit to collect alms for lus fellows, and here one day Foster sat. A wealthy widow jmssing by gave lum money, in quired into his case, and took him into her service. He saved bis wages, traded euccessfullv, married tho widow, and in due time oecjuuc Kir Htephen Foster, lord mayor of liondon. In his prosperity he forgot not his day of adversity, anil founded a charity for prisoners which was long kept up in the jail of Ludgate and commemorated in his epitaph. -The Century. Why They IMtlu't Come Down. "Miss Coolbroth," said the landlady to the ancient boarder at the Sunday din ner, "let me give you the wishbone of this chicken. Of course you know that if you put it over tho door the first gen tleman who passes under it is fated to bo your husband." "Oh, thank you," said the blushing boarder, as she gkinced coquettishly at the long rows of hungry clerks at tlie table. "I'll put it over the dining room door, and these gentlemen will have to beware." "Dear me. said the. landlady the next morning, "the breakfast bell rang half an hour ago and not one of the young men has come to the table yet. I won der what can be tlie motterr "I'm sure I can't unflfrine," replied Miss Coolbroth, dolefully. Chicago .News. 8OMK NKW I.IKK In the Whulesale Trade of. San srsn- .... elseo. :."!.. -. ; 'i ; A new Imn.warc concern Just bwn (Murtcd mirier tli name of Miller, HI'wh tt Hcntt, in Huu I'L-unciuuo, to do u julilmtg biiNincHs only. 'iln'V have Mm urn! tlw four-ntory huild ii'K. N'W. 12. M urnl UJ IHne Mtreut, formerly ttic.iipiint by MoHsm. J. C, JoliiiHou Co. Tlw huildhiK Inut been completely titled up Ibrthdr liuinenf having three hydraulic elevator to lucilitate the httndliiiKuf floods, two 01 which imve been jtiHt iMiiHtructfU The (inn was incorporated May 1ft, and Is icoinpouru oi uiiarles H. Miller, President; A, W. Milliunn, V'rit Vice-President; John I A. Hrott, Heuond Vice-President: Joseph i ISloss, Ijecretary and Treasurer. These of j ticcrx, with A. L, Hcott and Leon tilotm, j constitute the Hoard of Directors. ('hnrleri K. Miller, tbe President, in a na ! tive Cahlbrnian and well known among i hanlwaru dealers on the Piioitio Coast. HtarthiK as an otlice boy with Hooker & (Jo., he served them seven vears, and in l7t en tered tho service of Dunham, Carrigun & i Co., in whose employ he continued for a ! term of Jit teen years, leaving there last month to engage in the new enterprise headed with his name. ! A. W Milligan, the First Vice-Prcsiflent, : haw, until the corporation of Miller, Hloss & Scott, been connected with the Dunham, Currigantfc HaydenCo.'sNew York branch, in charge of their iron, steel and pipe de partment. He reiments the new concern at 14o liroudway, New York, and attends to all its purchases and placing of orders in the Eastern States. John A. Hcott and A. Lowndes Scott have also been identified with the Dunham, Car rignn & Hoyden Co., and with their oppor tunities have acmiiml a large acquaintance among the trade, both in the city, and throughout the Coast. Joseph Hioss, the Secretary and Treasurer, will have control of the office and financial .department, being specially fitted for this ' work through his experience of several vears in the Anirlo-Caiifomian Bank. L'd. i Messrs. Joseph and Ieon Sloss are boiib of j Mr. iiouis Hloss, whose name is known in alt business circles in the West, as promi nent in many oi me leading muustnes ana the progress of that section of the country. They have also secured the services of w. ! A. Kice, W. A. I.unurd and Carlton F. Moulthrop, men thoroughly posted in the business, having occupied responsible and leading positions with the Dunham, Carri eart A Ilavden Vo. it is proposed to carry a complete line of i sneu ana neuvy nam ware, coots, nun and i mining supplies, engineers' and. railroad supplies, iron, steel, pipe, sheet iron, fit tings, globe und steam fittings; in fact, everything that goes to make up a first- class assortment and stock in their hue. All the members of the firm are young. ! enterprising and energetic, and will try for a fair proportion of the hardware trade. - With their stock of new goods in, aided by all the improvements in conducting the ' business that their experience has suggested to them, they are fully prepared to meet all i tlie requirements of intending purchasers, i who would do well to give them u cull. Mmiv a mf.n who hnfi hud the key to the plttia tlou lino lout it hp ciuiHe he wan uot io eoudtlion to discover the key-hole. 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