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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1891)
CONDEMNED. Ammonia Baking Bills have been introduced in the New York, Illinois and Minnesota Legislatures compelling the manufacturer of such baking powders to brand on the label in bold type, this powder "Contains ammonia." Physicians and chem ists condemn the use of ammonia in baking powders as a crime. Its constant use no matter how small the quantity deranges the stomach, neutralizing the gastric juice and destroying the complexion. It is the small quantities taken every meal that do the mischief. It is gratifying to know there are pure baking powders to be had on the market and at no greater cost to the consumer than some of these so-called "absolutely pure" ammonia powders. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder, the standard pure cream of tartar powder for forty years. Free from the taint of either ammonia or alum. None so purcjr-None so whole- Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is re ported by all authorities as free from Ammonia, Alum, or any other adulterant. In fact, the purity of this ideal powder has never been ques Ulothiiig me fcitrei Tuvar. Two Frenchmen appeared at a linen factory in Juroslav, in the Volga, four weeks ago, mid told the manufacturer that they were French government com missioners with an order for a cloth case in which to wrap the Eiffel tower in winter. They presented so many sealed documents and letters with the signa tures of celebruted Frenchmen that the manufacturer swallowed their marvel ous story and agreed to take the huge contract. The "commissioners re quired from him fl.aotl hs an earnest of his intention to turn uut the tower's new clothes, and left him with directions that he should go to PariB at once to communicate further with the city offi cials and to measure the tower. He went, with several assistants who were to help linn determine the details of the undertaking, uud thereby sient !KK) mora to learn that he had been swindled. -New York Silfc The Mother )Ibi1 Pint. Tuesday there wus a case before Judge Freeman in the probate court of a pecu liar kind. Home weeks ago Mrs. Ellen U'Neil died intestate. At about the same time her new horn child also died. The question to he decided was whether the mother or the child died first If the mother died first the child woukl have inherited her estate, and at the child's death its father would be its keir. If, on the other ham!, the child died first, one-half of the estate would go to the brothers and sisters of Mrs. O'Neil, and the other to her husband. Judge Free man gave his decision, which is that the mother died first. In accordance with this the estate goes to the father. Hart ford Couraut Summer Wear for Man. In town the straw hats will be worn with the tropical textures, for the cap would be out of harmony with the urban surroundings. Nor will the sash with Its dressified artificiality be deemed in chime with the hurly burly of business activity. The wiust bull might do, for it does not look so delicate. The flannel shirt is not the overhead garment of city wear, and a stiff collar upon it out of town would he a combination warrant ing excoriation by all good men and true. The oheviot shirt in patterns to the taste, and a wide cravat to tone therewith, seems to be the veriest inspiration of summer vogue in liothaui. Clothier and Furnisher. Poor, Indeed, but Hloh In Dost. One of the assessors relates an odd ex perience in Buuktown. near Indianapo lis. He called at the house of an old woman, whose furniture was valued at fifty cents. Under the law he bad to place the vulue at one dollar, which would make her tax a fraction over a cent As he was about to leave the house he discovered that the old woman was the happy owner of six dogs, on which she was assessed eleven dollars. Philadelphia Ledger. A Steady Hand at Eighty. Mr. Rila Kittredge, the famous pen man of this city, has recently received a number of books and a map of the Cuited State from Vice President Morton in acknowledgment of soma of Mr, Kit tredge's fine work. Mr. Kittredge is toon to write on the back of a postal card the last address delivered by the late Secretory Windom.Belfaai (Me.) Powder Must Go. WORKING A HOG. The Whole Tmvn Caught the Idea When II Was Too tutu When 1 entered the village, situated among the lulls of New York, at 10 o'clock In the murnitig, all was peaceful aud serene, and the pocket of every man who walked the streets had chink In it Wheu 1 left, at 4 p. m an excited mob had powewiou of the main street and every other man was dead brake, Ahout noon a man arrived from the north In a buggy He suid he was a drover and looking for bogs. He nought half a dozen be fore be ate dinner, and it was astonishing bow closely be guessed at their live weight He wus within two pounds on four of them and only bulf a pound more on the others. These bad been an attraction for a crowd of Idlers, and the general verdict was that the drover was as sharp as a barber's razor. Boon after dinner a tanner looking boy drove a bog into town and staked him out in front of the tavern. As be nauted to sell and the drovor wanted to buy, tbey soon came to gether. "Might take him on a pinch, but he's only a nubbins," said the drover as he sized the porker up "Nubbinsl Why, that pig goes over 800 pounds)" exclaimed the owuer. "Can't stuff me, boy. I've been in the business twenty years." "Mo one wants to stuff. That 'ere bog goes toSltt" "He does, eh VVisb your father had come i& I'd like to made a bet with him. Boy. you ought to have better judgment That bog won't pull down 180." "Guess you oro off, too," remarked stranger who bad quietly driven up hi a buggy "I've raised bogs all my bfe, and that boy bain't five pounds out of bis guess." "Aiu't net Raised hogs, have yout Ever raise any money I" "A little." "Perhaps you'd like to bet ou that bogl" "Perhaps.'' "Have you got 10 as says he goes 2001" "I have fifty a bundrsdl" "Then let's chalk. Anybody can blow." It was a chance to make a dollar, and the citizens improved it The man in the buggy was an accommodating chap, aud somehow or other the farmer boy managed to fish up about a hundred dollars from the hind pocket of bis overalls The oitizens stuck by the drover, having abundant proofs of bis Judg ment, and wheu every msu In that towu who bad a loose dollar or could borrow one had made bis bet the hog was driven to the scales aud weighed. "Gentlemen," said the drover just before the weighing, "1 was never deceived in my life This bog won't go to 100 pouuds." "I'll take evon bets that be goes over SOO," replied the mau in the buggy. This bluff rakwi out the last nickel in the crowd, aud the bog was driven upon the scales. The record was iill pounds. He was weighed and rewelghed, but the tlgures stood. "Well, It's my first error in a uog,"sald the drover, and ali bete were at once handed over. The farmer boy slipped out, the two men drove off in the buggy, aud half an hour had elapsed before a church deacon, who had laid bis ten with the drover aud lost, suddenly declared that it was a put up job to skin the town. 'Dura my buttons If It hnln'tl" yelled SOO men in ehorus, hut it was too lata The town had been skinned, and the trio bad escaped. All the mob could do was to turn loose and wreck an old viuagar factory aud pass a res olution to the street that liberty wus a slium aud a delusion. New Vork Sun. TaUeyrnnu'a Brevity. Two autograph letters of Talleyrand have just been sold iu Paris. They were writteu to a lady, the first on the death of her husband: "Dear Mudum Alas! YojV -demoted Talleyrand;" and the sec- remarriage: "Dear Madam Jkevoted Talleyrand." Saa Vgonaut , Garatng Chlldrea Parents have proudly told me of tick Ding battles with their children, will sttted against will, till at last the atrong tt physique gained the mastery, and the itild's "will wwt broken." Such Tic cries are worse than defeats. 1 have leen a father and his little boy stand pitted against each other, with a look in wch face that I could call nothing but latred; and when I thought of the tower of the one and the helplessness of be other 1 could not bat admire the Doy's pluck. There should be no such sccasions. The parent stands convicted If otter stupidity in finding himself in oy such situation..: There are times when it is wiser for fce parent to ignore some mood on the child's part The part of the parent mould be in ever seeking the wise jpportunity to impress the child with the virtue that is the reverse of tome fault it falls into. Children pass through various phases, and some dragon t a fault that one has been worrying ver and planning against suddenly van ishes into thin air and is no more. Some times one fixes a fault by noticing it too much. It becomes an expression of nervousness. The child repeats a fault through an inability to pass over it. It becomeB like a hard word in the spelling book that he has met before. He recog nizes the word without knowing its name, and at the same moment remem bers his struggles with it, and the pain ful impression fills him with nervous ness, his mind becomes confused and he cannot control his thought It is wise with a fault, as with the hard word, to let it go to escape it Omit the hard word: avoid anything to excite the ha bitual fault Presently the child for gets the fault. It may be said that in judicious parents often create their chil dren's faults. Harper's Bazar. Rapid Transit la Sew fork. A school inspector who is rather fond of finding fault with the teachers in his department was visiting one of the primary public schools, when the female teacher in charge asked a number of urchins the following question, "Now, children, if you hail a boat at Buffalo, and wanted to get it out on the ocean as soon as possible, and the distance by canal to salt water was 860 miles, and by the St. LawrenAjiver 1,122 miles, which would be t.J shorter way to bring it?" The -children were puzzled. This was rather irritating, in the pres ence of the inspector. "Why, you stupid little things." began the teacher. "One moment. Miss B ", Baid the inspector rising. "1 have found that teachers do not take enough pains to amplify the questions that tbey ask of children. It is very important, too. that analogies should be drawn from their personal exjierienoe. If more pains were taken in this respect, and an ap peal mode to the reason of the pupils, aofa, only yourself, Miss B , but a great many ot her teachers would suc ceed much better. "Now, children, it is only two blocks to the Third avenue elevated road, but it is eight blocks to the Sixth avenue road. Now if you wanted to get to an elevated road in a hurry to which would you go?" "To the Third avenue road," shouted the children in triumph. "Cer tainly," Baid the inspector smiling, "be cause it is the nearer. Now then, if you had a boat at Buffalo, and wanted to reach the ocean in a hurry, which way would you take it?" The children thought a minute, and then burst out simultaneously, "By the Third avenue road!" New iork Tribune. Excessively Polite. It is well to be always polite, but there are times when it is better to be natural than to attempt the elaboration of social courtesies. The safest rule iu any case is to be simple aud do the obvious thing: this will not only be most sincere, but will often save one from appearing ridic ulous.. A gentlemen who wished to give pleas ure to a young lady of his acquaintance, Miss Mott. arranged a boating party in her honor. The guests were chosen with her approval aud everything was done to her liking. Untortuuately the wind proved treach erous, and about the middle of the day the party found themselves becalmed on a sea which rose aud fell in the long ground swell that is sure to prove too much for all but experienced sailors. It was not long before most of the party were ill. Miss Mott being one of the first to succumb. She lay in a wretched heap ou the deck of the yacht, refusing to be moved, her hair in disarray and her whole appearanee that of unutter able misery. "I am so sorry that you are ill, Miss Mott," the host'said. "When I wish to give you pleasure again I will not pro pose a water party." With a supreme effort Miss Mott raised her ghastly face, about which the hair straggled, wet with the sweat of agony. An attempt at a smile showed itself on her white lips. "Oh, I am having a perfectly lovely time," she said feebly. The earnestness with which she spoke was too much for the gravity of her companions and, sick or well, they burst into a laugh, which so overcame Miss Mott that she fidl to weeping bitter tears. Youth's Companion. Au Kineiisive Lusury. "Do you expect to go away this sum mer?" '.Great Scott, no! Cant afford it I been engage . (Maths.. lEpooh, Detecting a Murderer, Sheriff Thorn, of Calaveras county, put in an appearance at the city prison on Thursday with James W, Smalling. There wen handcuffs on Smalling, and he was booked on Captain Stone's reg ister as en route to San Quentin for life, George Holmes, a rancher living half a mile from Benson station, in Calaveras county, disappeared. His absence from the ranch was not noticed for several days. He was twenty-eight years of age and married to a woman of forty, the sister of Smalling. . When a week had passed and Holmes did not show np in the vicinity of his holding inquiries were made, suspicions aroused, and Sheriff Thorn was asked to make a search for the missing man. Now comes the story told by the sheriff. "I went to the Holmes ranch," he says, "and looked around the place. There was an abandoned claim with a shaft forty feet deep that first attracted my attention. I noticed that the brush about the mouth of the shaft was disturbed. It was noon, and the sun was shining directly overhead. In my pocket was a small mirror 1 had purchased in San Francisco. I held the mirror so that it flashed the light into the well. There was a couple of feet of water at the bot tom of the shaft The beams of light re flected from the mirror pierced the dark waters and 1 saw the face ef a man. "1 sent for ropes, and in a few hours Holmes' body was brought to the sur face. There was a bullet hole in the back of the head. I worked the case up and proved conclusively that Smalling had lured his brother-in-law to the mouth of the shaft, fired the shot into his head and then pushed him over the brink." San Francisco Examiner. Beeening Stranded Fishes In reply to a letter of complaint pub lished in Forest and Stream the United States fish commissioners give an ex planation of their apparent neglect of the fish in the npper Mississippi. The complainant says in his letter that while on the river between Dubuque and bt Lonia he saw tons of black bass and great northern pike rotting in shallow pools, wherein they had been left by the tailing of the river, and asks why the fish commission does not scoop them up and transport them to safer waters. In 1888, say the commissioners, two cars of the commission were lent to the Illinois commissioners, together with the necessary number of men, for the pur pose of rescuing the fish left in the pools along the river. From July 15 to Oct. 5 twenty-Bix car loads of fish were rescued and transported to Illinois waters. In 1889 two cars were used, and in 1890 three. The fish deposited were from 4 to 14 inches long. Since then the government has been actively engaged in the work on a large scale, and has rescued many millions of valuable food fishes. The commission ers say that all states subject to any con siderable mortality of fish life should take steps immediately to rescue the fish. An English Itlnnder. There was an amusing literary blun der in the leading article of an 'evening contemporary" recently. It was a com munistic robbing of Peter to pay Paul, which was the more astonishing in such an uuexceptionably Tory quarter. Rid iculing American proposals to amalga mate with any portion of the British empire, and patriotically disparaging American claims to glory as compared with English, the writer proceeds to I quote, or, rather, misquote: O mother of a nihthty line, Be liroud of those strong-sons of thine ho wreuched their rights from thee. "So, he explains, "sang one of Amer ica's bards." Needless to say, it was not one of Americr)s bards at all who sang "so" or neufiy so Sor the first line should run: ' Klronguiolberofalion line. It was a bard no more American and no less English than Lord Tennyson. The lines, as corrected, occur in the poem, "England and America in 1792" (p. 00, iu Macuiillan edition of 1883). It is quite proper und patriotic, of course, to object to give America Canada: but why hasten to present her with Tenny son? 1 wonder what bis lordship would say to it? Pall Mall Gazette. Steering by Electricity. The excellent electrical device for giv ing an alarm when a ship deviates from her course, which was the subject of a recent invention, is being adopted on a large number of American ships. The compass card carries a light wire elec trically connected with a metallic cup at the center containing a few drops of mercury. This wire is bent over the edge of the compass, and as long as the ship- maintains its course the wire re mains out of contact with either of two metallic stops placed at a certain dis tance on either side of the bent end of the wire. Should, however, the vessel depart from its course the wire fixed to the card is brought into contact with one or other of the stops, closing the circuit, aud ringing a bell in the captain's cabin or the navigator's room. New York Commercial Advertiser. Put to Sleep by Lightning. A strange case is attracting attention at Anna, O. Ella Ragan was sitting in a doorway during a thunder storm one week ago, when lightning struck sonu object iu the yard, and is'' :' ''"") over ivlleep, aud has r- . -''' since. She cam" breathing and 11 ) Oor.X' THE BACHELOR'S EGGS. Tried le flet Then Rolled Soft They Came Out Stone Hard. A Scranton bachelor, who boards at one ( 3 the betels and rooms outside, got so tired 0 eating stale eggs a while ago that be thought be would see if be couldn't change the pro- gramme a little 80 be bought three doseo new laid eggs and took them to his lodgings, and when he went to toa that night hecarned. a couple of the eggs In bis pocket and told the pleasant faced waiter girl to have ttvm boiled soft They came back as bard as rocks, and the bachelor bourder declared that no one In thut kitchen knew enough to boil an egg. The handsome waiter girl said she was sorry that the cook hadn't done as she had ordered ber to, and she volunteered to have two other eggs tailed soft hut the boarder told her she needn't The next morning he took two more eggs over to the hotel and gave special directions as to how tbey should . be boiled, and he bad to swear when be- . opened them, for they were as hurd as base balls. At supper that night he took three eggs, got another girl to take his orders, and gave the same directiona Result: Three eggs as unyielding as bullets. The bachelor said be guessed it was time for bun to change his boarding place, aud he uttered other unpleas- : ant remarks regarding the interior manage ment of the culinary department of the bouse. But be was on hand the next morn ing, and he had three nice large fresh eggs in . bis pocket Calling bis favorite waiter girt be said: "Now, I want you to open these eggs, drop them in hot water and poach them very soft and, my dear, t want you to stand by them and see that they are cooked right." She said she would and away she went, but in a minute or so she returned looking sad, and with the three eggs in six halves on a , dish. "1 am sorry, sir," she said, and her light - soprano voice trembled, "but these eggs were already boiled as hard as they could be when 1 broke them," and sbe placed them on the table in front of the irate bachelor. , He smelled a rat right away, and be left the table at once and started out to verify his suspiciona His investigations were finished by the middle of the forenoon, and what he found out was this: A married friend of his, who lived in the bouse where the bachelor bad bis lodgings, is a practical joker of tba nrstorder . He bad taken all of tbeeggsto his kitchen, boiled them as hard as be could, and then placed them back in the bachelor's basket . "It's all right," said the bachelor to another friend, "but I'll lay for him with a trick that'll make him bate himself like Satan for a year and a half." New York Sun. , A Smart Boy and Bis Grandpapa. dra. Romero, wt. i v iiKnx lull hi. w 11 v . : ( .'-' " ' 1 ..-