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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1891)
hUni: Eiprcfs. WHY? w hy do I love youf 0! Tell me why Tho gnllc-ii stnrs love the purple sky? Why do the flower all tow the sun. ' Ami weep soft tears when the day is done? Why dors the sea low the land, my dear? Why doon It sins in the twigs we hearV Why- does it climb tor a closer kiss? . Twice each day, dear, answer me this, Why do the birds We thee ether hhio? ' Why to the pole is the needle truu? Answer me this, dear, and till you do ; How win I tell why l love you? , Why does your faee still haunt my mind! Why forgetfulness eau I never ttud? Why do I think, when far away, Of you, my dear, both night and day? Why should wo never meet again. Who wrote' the words "It mlsht have been," While this Bnall world revolves, my dear? Some dav you will find me very near, -X. Y. z. DECLARATION or PCRVOSES. Profoundly iuiprcsml that we, the Farmers' Alllsm-c, united by strong and faithful lies of It niutcial and home interests, should em forth our di elumtlon of intentions: wo therefore resolve Fi as rTo labor ior tho education of the agrl cnlturol classes ill the science of eeonouiio (foveru laeut in a stricty non-partisan spirit. Bwosn To endorse the motto' "In things es fccmial, unity; and in ali tliliuis, charity." Tmiui To develop a heuer state, mentally, morally, socially, ami tiiianeislly. Fi"iiTH To create a K-uer understanding for sustaining ch 11 oiliccrs in uaintainitu; law and order. Kirru To eonstantlv strive to secure entire har mony and good will among alt mankind, and hrothei ly love among ourselves. aixnt To suppress personal, local, sectional, aiu) nioioiial prejudice, all mihealthfnl rivalry and stilish ambition. Skvknth The brightest jewels which it gamers are the tears of widows and orphans, and Its lint-endive commands are to visit the homes where lacerated hearts arc bleeding: to assuajre the suf ferings of a brother or sister; bury the dead; care It is bard for people to enjoy religion very much who keep both hands In their pockets. Tho devil has to work extra hard to get hold of the children who have good mother. People who can patiently bear all their small trials will never break down under their great ones. "Why don't you run a nowspa per like that?" said a merchant in this city to the local editor, throw ing out a Chicago daily. "For the name reason that you do not run a store like that," the editor replied, pointing to a five column adver tisement of a Chicago house show ing a twelve story building. The merchant looked attentively at the picturo for a moment, and then said, "I never looked at it in that way bofore." Ex. V.'IIITCOilll KCIIOES. Trout fishing Rood. Crops doing well. New potatoes, Mr. Weddte ia up here on a hunt, but timber wolves and bears are too plenty for bis dog to work well, Big Bottom can now boast of three stamp mills all paying expenses aa Messrs. Ham ilton and Andrews can testify, who buy the golden product. . SI. E. W. Surveyor O'Connor is working this week Axing up plans und specification for the canal and dam. Marshal Coyle had a warrant Issued yesterday for the arrest of John Dodge for fast ridingon Main street. We are glad to report Alvin Will iams able to be on the street. Monday moruiugC. 0- Hackleman, K. N. Wright, J. A. Roberts and Chas. Miller left for the mountains for a few days outing and fishing. Wednesday night the city counci had a call meeting to pass a few ordi nances, but as tho ordinances were not drawn up to suit them they adjourned to meet next Monday night and wrote to W. R. lillyeu to come out and draw up the ordlnaiiees by that time. A do; bit a Spokane constable. The constable Is all right, but the dog died from blood poisoning, and the owner wants the constable shot. Mrs. H. E. Piirrisli has been suffer ing with rhumatism this week. . Mrs, Ella Howe whj has been visit ing her mother, Mrs. Hiudman, left for home Wednesday: llev. Jockey, of Oakland, t'n!., preached in the First Presbyterian church last Sabbath and will preach there next Sabbath. He is here lo see about taking charge of this church. Thermometer Uo in the shade Wednesday. Albany team defeated tho Jefferson boys at Albany. Monday, 517 lo 16. Miss. Lucy Gttrd, of Albany, is in ' town this week visiting leintivcs. Mr. t..t. Wistfall left tins morning with his family for the mountains. lln Iiih-ikIs returning iimiiediHiuly, littl lilnfrnilly will probably spend the toinnier up there. CrusoW & iiiiTrjit2 ii:A.i-.:rcs Heavy and Shelf Hardware Of every description. Agricultural Implements, Wagons and Plows. 0 T Cotton 'sstore has been treated to a new coat of paint Post-master Miller has had 140 neut boxes made for temporary use In the post oflice The new fixtures are ex pected soon Mr Willis Calder, the handsome Jun ior editor of the Brownsville Times, eamo np to-day mid la getting in a good work for his paper Mr, A Jack Adamsof tho Eugene Ad vance was up to-dav (Saturday) circu lating among the alliance folks, Hon R A Irvine is enthused over the ill I in nee work and Is doing more in this comity than most any man to further the interestsof the order Mavor Miller made the address of welcome to the County Alliance HIb remarks were well tinted, being atten tively listened to The i.ddress reflects credit upon the Mayor and through him upon Lebanon awuer, Will practice in all the courts of the State. ' Will furnish abstracts of title, ami examine titles of land without addi tional charges for trip to County Seat. Collections and all legal matters given prompt and careful attention. RELIABLE REAL ESTATE and LOAN BROKER. Lebanon, Oregon', AOKXTFORTHB CONTINENTAL FlKK Ins. Co., of Hew York. Buy and sell Real Estate on reasonable commissions. Large and small tracts of Fruit Farming and Grazing lands for sale and exchange. Money to loan on first-class real estate securities. Lebanon people know the Exi'ltwss has a good job printing oftlai " should give It all of their work. MenziB BNTEHS' -TOOK. Bust Lebanon, July 25, 1801 Mr. Editor: j I am real down glad to see an Alliance' column in tho Express, and as you ask for contributions I will try my hand on acolunn. , . I see in the Oregonian of to-day a long editorial of abuse of the Alli ance, but we are 'glad to bo thus advertised. They may call us "Pof forites" or "Simpeonites", if they choose, but we will got there all the same. The truth of the matter is, the Oregonian is more concerned 'or its party interest than it is for the farmers, and we don't mind being called "Grasshopper Politi cians;" we will hop high enough here in Oregon to hop over the Oregonian and everybody else who gets in our way. We hopped over Wade Hampton in South Carolina, and hopped over Ingnlls in Kansas and we are going to keep on hop ping until we get out of the way of tho way of all Monopolies, King Masters, Boil Road Kings and Boss Politicians. The truth is the old parties have both failed to protect the farmers and now a guilty conscience is lushing then into a fury when they see the farmers are going to take matters into thoir own hands. From what we can see the Demo cratic pnpers in Democratic states and the Jtopublicau papers in Re publican slates are both alike wag ing a continuous war on the Alli ance, and crying "crush the mon ster." Mow the Democrats and Republicans are making the third party by fighting the Alliance, and we are willing for them to keep on picking away at ua. Thoy art umly uniting more and more ths great producing class that will not go down at their bidding. Now if the Express will just note the signs ot the tunes on the polit ical horizon, the hand-writing of " eigheu in the balance and iound wanting, is already cone out against the old parties and they niav drink ull tho wine from thoir golden cups, and rvcl in their po- litical debauch, but the decree has gone furth and their end is nigh. The Alliance is growing at the r.,t.. ,if Ml HI o dnv nr,l ot H.lo I ruin will a.irm hidrl tho Iviln n .f power in Oregon. We want no war with organization, party or combination, but we do not propose to be dictated to by any other con corn. We invite everybody to come to Lebanon to-morrow (ISatitrday) and learn more of us, our aims and objects. The more question is ven tilated and investigated the more will all farmers seo the necessity of organization and the less will tiny fair minded man object, More again, . , .. pRoiincr.li. While other slates arc suffering from the loan of crops, Oregon ia revelling in bliss A lull tire of crops is unknown to Iter It Is as Important that Linn county lie represented at the Portland Exposi tion and the Mate Fair as il is that Ore gon has an exhibit at ihu Werld's Fair. Our fanners are beginning to see tho need of action to prelect .themselves from the high-ha titled games of corrupt political rings Alien orgalilzatiousure i furjjic-r The low price of cotton is causing great dissatisfaction among South Carolina plant ers. Tho farmers alliance of Marlboro, in that State, has resolved upon a desperate remedy. It has formally pledged its members to plant but ton acres of cot ton to the horse in 11892, providing it con get the cooperation of all the cotton states in the plan, so as to decrease the j rod no tion and realize soniothing for their labor. The Stato al liance is urgod to call a meet ing not later than December lBtofthis year, to consider tho proposition. If overpro duction is what is the matter .with the price of cotton, the organization has taken the rational means to relievo the planters. If a man cm make as much off of 10 acreB of cot ton as he can oft' of 100 acres he had better devote the rest of the era to something el.ie. The partial failure of crops in Kausas and other states taug lit ctrn growers this lesion, A superabundaiut surplus glut ted the market year after year running the price dowa so low that the farmers were for ced to burn corn hecause they could not afford to buy fuel. They found that a smaller surplus would enable them to sell what thoy had, purchase fuel, and have something left for interest on mortguges. When any product bccoiuos so plentiful that it will not pay the cost of transportation to send it to market, the pro ducer should take the hint and produce something else. The law of supply and demand are invincible, and legislation di rected against them is effort wasted. -Oregonian. The citizens of King's piairio on tho 17th secured tho services of sintc organizer R. A. Irvine and formed a farmers alliance Hpoeoh es were made, and Mr. Irvine ex plained the objects and aims of the alliance in a speech of an hour's length, Ths result wne tliore were but few listeners unconvinced, and a union was formed of twenty members. As soon as hafing i's over tho membership of the organ isation will be trebled. As one old party man said, "There will not be many democrats or republicans left.'' nM, ...,..!.. .1.. .1. i'in iiAj;iu UU Will, W!HU 10 pull down anything good that has been done by either of the old par ties, but demand, as the colonists of old did, voice in making na tional laws. With a millionaire senate holding the final vote tho demands of the nine hundred and ninety-nine out of a thousand is not heard. . The ollicors onosen are: J. R. Geddcs, president. Don A. Hmith, vice president, W. B. Robortson, secretary, W. H. Davis, trewi. Jennie liarzeo, chaplain. ' E. S. Rarzoo, steward. .1. T. McOlarv, lecturer. Honry Miller, Mate 1). K. i...,..;,-ac,.rr,iiii,.-nn. CRA'ltCTtRH ClUJMim. Farmers sro all tmsy, raaldttR liny wlille the sun shines, Tito elltilt of the mower 'Is beuril from every side, and a tarnc buy liar vent will be tho result. Some irrnin i n!sH lining cut. Mr. Paul ha Just cut a Haiti "f -to aertui of wheat the quality of liirli will mnviniT any one that wheat ran ho raim'tl suneonsfnlly In the "li'orlw." The ip-nnml bud been summer fiilloiveil. . Mmili of the sprinc frnlti will lie lnivvwleil late, but prospects for a largo yield were novor better. . The spirit of Improvement Is moving many of our tiinniiw, iintl Kovcrul new buildings arc underway. Aside from tlitwo already nolieefl in twnninnlmtlon from tills place, is a line burn being built Ity Mr, 0, Calncs on laud recently piuohusod ot O O. Moon, of the old Ullintt fnrnt. , "At. Allen Cliarltnn Is also building a new burn on bis plaeo. Mr. K. Arnold lias Juki completed a burn, and bus hmiln'r on the ground for a new bouse, on land lately bmiuhtof Mr. Yuuug, no.nr the Orange Hull, Mr. OluiH. Craft was so unfortunate as to have bis barn, with all Its contents, consiat tlujr of buy, grain, wngoiw, barnoss and liirminp implements, burneil one tiny lust week. The rim wun started by a Ultle boy : with nintchcii, Mr. lliisbrml Hamilton, on old nnd high ly rpf led resident, died lust wcolt, at (he ajte nf.iiivenl j'-oiiiht yam. The family of Mr. Jusper Oniliirce Is be. log greatly alliictcd, himself, He, and old est daughter boimr down with typhoid fe ver, anil the youngest ebilil ant expected to live. Mr. John Hay Is convalescent, Mrs. Martha Smith l able to ho out among bur friends again, after a long and serious illness. : y Mrs. Frank Cruhtrec returned to lior home in Lebanon Sunday. M rs, l'hube (Srubtreo accompanied lior exp -etlug to remain sev eral woeks. Jlrs. Joseph (irlftes who has for several weeks heen visitinir the family of Mr. Law son (Irigirs of this place returned to hot home at Springfield last Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs. L. A, Tucker have rcemi. siilercd their decision to remove to Salem, and will remain here for the present, great ly to the satisfaction of their many friends. Mr. 11. f'owull has returned from .Max. well, Oat., alter an absence of several months. - . . Mr. Oeo. M. Paul, of Taroma, Washing--ton, is visiting bis piuvuts, Mr. and Mrs, W. A. Paul. Mr. Paul has some of lite liuest specimens of lam work we have evor seen. ..Sninlay School organized at Providence List Sunday with .Mr. John t'ompiuu i..i Supt. Meets at lo. i. Sunday School every Hunduy aftcrnnun at 8 at. Crubtreo Hclustl house. Olmrch at Crubtreo School house next Sunday at II a. u. and 1 v. M. Prencluiig by ltov. O.-M. tlanleitcr. lluskot dinner. CraUteo, JulySl, 1SIII. WATi.ui.oo wuisruits. Waterloo is steadily on the move ami caiajHirs are still coming. There Is eonsiilerrble Interest taken by our christians in our protracted meeting. Several mcniliers wen? taken In this week. All prolMibilities arc this meeting wilt run fill Sunday, Soda water Is iplondid this hot weather. The campers enjoy the soda and shady plucos ari'iind the river. The sbiule is one feature of improvements on the spring. Surveyor O'Connor and company depart ed for Uibaium tin's mom where he will do some work and will return the lirst of next week and cumplele his work here. . Kcv. S. H. Shiinglc, who has been assist ing in tho meeting during the week left for ' Aihauy on Tuesday. ltov. Howard Wallace ami McOee are still carrying on the meeting with good effects. Hev. Douton left for homo Saturday but will return this wed;. Among those ruiUjculliig at tlio springs are! Mr. 8. Davis, Merle, Uthel and Clura Davis, Mrs. O'Connor and two children, of Albany; Mrs, Jessie Wtlby, Mr. und MrB, Sea, Itoscbm-g; Mrs. W. 11. hlaucliurd uml daughter Miss Kjiitua niunchurd, Mr. and Mrs. McFyrrou, tlmwnsville; Mrs Ilimbnal) and (laughter Miss i-'oilliyilu.slot, Lebanon i Misses Howard and McOee, Hev. Howard ami wife, Urn, McOeo, TahgeiA Hev. With, lace andwifc, Corvaltls; Mrs. Itainfonl and and family, Mrs. A. Mclli-hle, Sbedds; and many others whoso names are unknown. ' Mr. Chapman and wile, of Albany, re turned home Monday. They spout a week' oi-so at tills place. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Moi'iruti, of Ilalsey, have been visiting rcl iilvc- at this i-.lu.-.. Quito a crowd of .Lebanon's jolly youn people visited the springs Tuesday eve. This is the kind wo care to get. Come again We nioiiru for the loss in the Lebanon fire; for post otflee especially, for no doubt we lost oursharo ol mail, bid those that huve mast lose. ' ' - . As time is precious will conclude till next, X. Y, ii. Five United States gunboats arc now lying in tho Yung Tse Klung river, fur tho prntoullou of American residents III China,