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A WINTER IIGHT STORM. Woundlnir the hfttiRhH that have no loaves, Tho northeast blast assaults these oaves, Whereat In dravl I huld m breath, As thouah 1 lieurd the voice or Heath. Anil 'nnath tho cloud strewn tortured sky, Where yt it uioou's Khost wamlors by, Tim pluoa form, iiu yondilllstile lone, A 'twere, nu are of some strange aoue. The iieirmont of Home olrnle vast From mysteries of gloom upcast, Bom only visible to sight Hid the temiioat'ii evoking might, Hushl la my pule lump listening To hootch I lull those wind Hindu bring? biioouu i kmow not, yet can fear, As close It whispers to mine earl " WUllitm strutbors Is boston Transcript. NAUTICAL OXEN. Among hie neighbors Job Hainet wit considered a pretty fair tort of a man. He had nettled in the little town in the outhern part of Kansas, where he lived as an iiwnigrant from New Hampshire, and he brought his Yankee sharpness with him, but as he dealt fair and at tended to his own business he passed. The only member of the family besides Job and his wife was Ike, a nephew whom Job had taken to bring np, as he had no children of his own. Ike was a typical New England boy about fifteen years old. He had been brought up in one of the coast villages of Maine, and had a great love for the sea. ' Job, like the majority of Yankee farm ers, was a firm believer in oattle, and did most of his work with oxen. One day he said to Ike: "Ike, if you'll take that pair of yearling steers and break them to work yon can have them." Ike was exceedingly well pleased at that, and at ouc assumed charge of his new possessions. If ever a pair of young oxen were well taken care of they were. He groomed them as carefully as the horses, so that their sleek coats shone as glossy as silk, and he was so kind with them that they were as gentle as sheep. He named thein Jack and Billy. In his western home Ike never forgot the far off ocean. It had been the one hope of his life to lie a sailor, but his being sent west had destroyed it. When his nncle gave him the steers to break, the idea came to him that though he could never expect to tread the deck of his own ship, he could nse ship phrases in the education of his oxen, aud thus aiwajB tie reminded of his own home be side the sea. Thus it was that Jack and Billy wore educated to work, "broken' totally ignorant of the usnal commands by which oxen are managed. "Gee' and "haw," "git np" and "whoa" had no meaning for them whatever. It was "haul away" and "port" and "star board" and "belay." "Stem all," was batik. The oxen grew and waxed stronir. aud his uncle often remarked that he never saw a team that could do more work than those oxen and Ike. No one but Ike ever thought of handling them. The nearest neighbor to the Haines' was Deacon Merwin, a good man aud pillar of the church. The good deacon saw that Ike's yoke of oxen were work ers, and a desire came over him to pos tern tliem. He offered to buy them sev eral times, but Job always said that they belonged to Ike and were not for sale. The deacon asked Ike if be would sell them, but met with such an indignant refusal that he felt angered, but did not give np the idea of possessing the cattle. Finally he went to Job and said: "Neighbor Haines, if them cattle'U work good every way I'll give you rt00 for 'em. They're too much property for a boy like Ike to bare, and it is apt to create in him a bad sjieiTit and make him feel above his elders." "Well, I don't know, deacon. The boy sets a deal by them cattle, and a promise is a promise. I gave them to him if he would break 'em, and he has, so I'm bound to keep my part." "That's all true enough, neighbor Haiues, but Ike's only a boy, and then, remember, UK) ain't offered every day for a yoke of cattle. Wliyuot sell me these and give him another pair to break: that 'u.l do him jist as well." The deacon's 100 and persuasions finally weakened Job's scruples, aud he gave in. The deacon was to try them, and if they worked all right wits to have them for f 100. Uow to toll Ike what he bad done was a poser to his uncle. His aunt declared it a downright mean pieoe of business, aud .told Job plainly what she thought of him. It was ttually decided not to say any thing to Ike until after the sale had been made aud the cuttle gone. In order that Ike might not be on hand to see his pets old he was giveu a holiday, aud sent to spend the day at a neighbor's, a couple miles ttwuy, .where there was a boy of his age who was sort of a chum of his. The next morning lite Was off bright and early, and the deacon was on hand shortly after. It would nut be fair to Job to say that lie diil nut have any mis givings. He would have backed out of the bargain at the Vast chutiue, and be really hoped that the deacon would not be sutitilied with them. The oxen were brought out and yoked to the cart with- I out .difficulty, though .the deacon re- marked that they did seem "kinder stoopid, Job and the deacon climbed up into the cart. "Gee up! The oxen turned their big eyes round inquiringly. . "dm .up, there!" repeated Job; bnt they did nut move a hoof. "That don't appear like good break ing," remarked the deacon. "They're broke all right," replied Job. "Come, goe.up, there!" at the same .time be gave each a prod with the goad. In response to the prodding the cattle walked off toward the open gate, in which direction their heads' happened to be turned. Job did not wantthem to go in the road, so he shout? I out, "Hoy! hoy!" to turn thorn around; kit the oxen had no idea what "hoy" n, int, and to kept going straight ahead, .lob shouted louder and struck Billy w;th the goad. They craickened their gait into a trot and turned out into, the road. Then Job shouted, "Whoal whoa!" but they did not mmu tnat either, . . "They don't appear to be as well broke Mi 1 reckoned on," remarked the deacon. as he stood in the cart and viewed the proceedings. "They're broke well enough," replied Job, rather nettled, "bnt I'm strange to them; nobody but Ike ever drove them." "Well, turn them about," said the deacon. .: . . -.' , But they paid no heed to any com mand, and finally, exasperated, Job struck them both with the goad, and they started at a full run down the road. Clattery bang! the cart went, and both Job and tho deacon were compelled to hold on the cart stakes to prevent being bounced ont of the cart. "Stop 'em! .Stop 'emf shouted the deacon. "I want to get out. Whoa! whoa! whoa! ye varmints!" But the oxen only tossed their heads and ran the faster. "Stop 'em, can't ye?' Job was downright mad by this time. "Stop 'em yourself, you old fool!" snapped he; "yon know as much how to stop 'em as I do." We'll be ohucked out aud killed!" shonted the deacon, as the cart banged over a stone. The oxen were now thoronghlv friaht- ened and miming away for fair, and botb men were badly scared and holding on for dear life. All at once an idea struck Job. 'Bay, deacon, can't you talk some sea talk to 'em? That's what I've allers heard Ike talk to 'em," he called out as the curt bnmped along. Brother Haines, such sea talk as I've heard ain't proper fer a pillar of the ahurch to repeat, and I'll call meetin' on you fer this if we git out alive," replied the deacon, with as much dignity as he could aseuuie while holding to the stake. "Do try. deacon!" shouted the terrified Job; "it may save onr lives." Just then the cart gave a fearful lurch. and the deacon banged his head against the stake he was holding to with consid erable force. This made him boiling mad in addition to his fear. "Splice the main brace! Shiver my timbers! Pipe all hands to grog!" aud then, as that had no effect on the frantic team, "Boat ahoy!" and then losing all control of himself, "Ahoy! Ahoy! drat ye, ye blaukety blank brutes!" and the deacon let out such a string of profanity that Job turned a shade or two paler. While this was going on the oxen had ' gotten over considerable ground. The people along the road gazed in open mouthed astonishment to see two such Btaid citizens going along so furiously witn an ox team, and were terribly scandalised at their apparent hilarity. Ike, totally unconscious of what was going on at home, was plodding along toward his chum's, when he heard a fearful clatter coming behind him. He turned, and could hardly believe his eyes. There came his nets Jack and Billy at a furious pace, and his uncle aud the deacou in the cart. "Stop 'em, Ike! stop 'em!" shouted his uncle when he saw Ike. Ike stepped to one side of the' road. and as the cattle dashed up called out, "Belay, Jack! Belay, Billy!" At the sound of the familiar voice and com mand they -stopped at onoe, aud went quietly up to their young matter. "i ll have the law of you for tnis. Job Haines," snarled the deacou, as he pain- tuuy oescenaea rrom tue cart. "And I'll call church on you!" retorted Job as he rubbed his bruises. "I won't belong to any church with a man that kin Bwear like you kin. A purty deacon you he!" : "If 1 had a brat like that I'd skin him alive!" roared the deacou as he glared at tne oowuuered ike. Isaac, take them cattle home at once,' suid his uncle. "Ab for this wicked man here, I shall never notice mm again." J Ike took the cattle home, HiB nncle walked. His annt told him about the contemplated sale, and though he ex pressed commiseration for his uncle it is doubttul if he felt auy. His aunt said it served them just right Ike kept his oxen, Texas Sittings. The center of population in this country. which at the close of Jefferson's term was forty miles northwest of Washington, is now twelve miles east of Coluuibus, Ind. Suicide is less common among miners than any other class of people, aud self de struction, strangely enough, is said to be most prevalent among soldiers. Early in the fifteenth century a Paris firm annually sent toother parts of Europe over l.lKJO dolls, dressed in the latest styles, to serve as models of fashion. If weeould penetrate the earth's surface to a distance of two miles we would find the place where water could not exist ex- oept in the sta,te of Btoant. The overflow of the Nile begins in June every year and lasts till August. During that time the river 1b a turbulent stream twelve guiles wide. The Jewish synagogue at Brighton it ttated to be oue of tliu few places of wor ship Illuminated by the electric lijjht, AFTERMATH, I think 1 have rend the riddle aright; Tide Is the desolate end. An Incident told umld laughter bright. The last hand clasp of "a friend." Ob. never hie eye or his tone spoke praise Bin speech would hurry after. To Ibrnst a sting In the honeyed phrase Or hide the look with laughter. The air of the room is close! Let me breathe How my heart beats, dull and slow! . The smile Is checked that my pallid Upa wreathe Dear Hod, Is ll always so? Thus ever a glimpse of tho stin's swift ray, That hides In the clouds and rain; But never one long, sweet comforting day After joyless nights of pain. , Was ft the wine Id my heart and brain That so stirred a pulse long sllll? The sweeter vine of a voice, did I drain? Or ? Letltbeasltwllll- It has all gone under the clooda again. The glint of the snn on me: While all that remain are thedrops of rain. Through which I can hardly see. -Cora Smart Wheeler In Once a Week. An Ordinary Life. ' Birth, growth, maturity, decay, death tnch is the normal history of man. The three periods of life should sustain a cer tain proportion to each other, twenty years or growtn, sixty years or maturity, twenty years of decay This is what might be counter! upon as the ordinary course of unman me tint tor the fact that we labor under a load of ancestral transgressions of physical and moral law, supplemented and intensified by our own personal delinouen- ciesana roiues. How pleasant Is the picture! Twenty years of happy childhood and youth, sixty years of intellectual progress and achieve ment, with domestic and social joys, and then twenty years of slow, almost uncon scious decay, characterized by serenity of mind, pleasing memories and joyous antic illat ions of a itrander life beyond the grave. Sadly different is human existence as we tee it. We look with wonder upon Glad stone, past eighty, still vigorous in body and mind, still strong and wise to lead the great uneral party of England. We ac cept threescore and ten as life's natural limit, and expect only labor and sorrow if this limit is passed. We are doomed, we think, by onr inher itance; and to some extent this is true. But we should remember the law of re cuperation. The torn flesh heals; the broken booe reunites, Diseases tend to ward reoovery. The weary toiler rises from Bleep strong for new labors. The wise physician bases his hopes upon this law. And this tendency of nature to heal her self may be greatly assisted by careful and intelligent living, so that it is always pos sible that the man of unfortunate ancestry may secure for himself a good old age and ttart his posterity upon an ascending plane. Youth's Companion. How to Balse Mushrooms Easily. It is not very difficult to raise mush rooms by hand if one will take a little pains intelligently. They are grown in enormous quantities in France in caves, largely for export, being picked while yet they are only buttons and at their most delicious stage. Collect a quantity of fresh horse dropping as free from straw as possible, and lay them in an open shed in a ridge shaped heap. While the pile is neating" it should be turned from time to time, and when the beat has mostly subsided it should be packed in a very olio oen, over tne surface of which pieces of ("pawn, which rosy be bought at the seednuuTs, may be put into holes three inches deep Two or three weeks later cover the heap with an inch of loam, patted gently with the spade, and the mushrooms may be expected in about six weeks. Earth dug from about the roots of growing musbrooms will always furnish spawn for planting. Washington Star. - Couldn't Pick a Quarrel, General Fournier was an apostle of the unique In duelling. The mayor of Per Igueux was his bitter enemy, but as they moved in widely different social circles the general found some difficulty in picking a quarrel. His opportunity oaine one day as he was showing off before some ladies his expeitness with the pistol. The mayor passed, with a rose in bis mouth. It was a considerable distance from the general's balcony to the mayor on the other side of .tkdl"tl,bntlie,v "Pf l!?T,1'i,!;cott'Poseilof 3.5Wfacets-that is to say, pick the mayor's rose." He raised n, .pi... .1..1...... . . f'w". ins wuim-ti surieseu tnat ne should desist, but too late. The hammer t fell, and the rose and the mayor dropped the latter, only from fright. The general's; expertness defeated his purpose. The ; sureties of his aim terrilled the mayor out or sending tne riesired challenge, An Electric Itetouchliig Pencil. A device rlpsirneil fnn t.lta B,vtna rxt nt,n tographers is an electric retouching pencil, j A miniature motor is mounted on the end ! of the pencil and gives to the oincil Doint 1 which is attached to the armature shaft of hairs growing along the lines at the and not to the holder tube-a very rapid junctions of the facets, The simple motion. The pencil is suspended by a eyes are supposed to have lieen given the iSulX!'0 enableit 10 ve its head the apparatus, it is only necessary for him the cnl of ttoWBrs' Probably this may to apply it to the proper point on the nega-1 1)9 one reason, but it is likely there are uve. ana tne lime instrument win do it own work. Such au arrangement is also expected to become applicable to dentists' tools,-New York World. A Tale ot Heroism. "I weut for a bath yesterday," said l auvergnat. "I had been in the water some time when I suddenly perceived an enor- mous shark advancing toward me with ita jawsopen. What was I to dof When he was a yard off I dived, took out mv Docket. knife and ripped up the belly of the mou-' Bber, "What! Then you are iu the habit of bathing with your clothes onf" said oue of the listeners. Courrier du Midi. A Dellnttion. "What is meaut by the 'bone of conten tion f" asked young hopeful, looking up from his book. "The jawbone, my son," replied hit father solemnly "the jawbonel" Exchange. ROYALTY ON HALF PAY. Eilled Mnnarrhs Who Are forced to Dead Lines of Kconomy, Royalty without a civil list or a large private fortune is about the most trying situation to which a human creature can be subjected. I have come across in my day not a few illustrious person ages to whom tbiB test was applied by fate, and do not remember one. unless the late king of Hanover, who went through it like a first rate man or wom an, though some of them bore reverses better than most persons of far lesser rank known to me, who had fallen in the world and prided themselves on hav ing seen "better days." Don Juan of Spain, father of Carlos, and husband of the beautiful and splen didly dowered Archduchess Beatrice of Este-Modena, was a lazy old loafer. When "at home" he lived in the Regent's park with a lady who was not at all archducal and seven or eight children. who unfortunately for themselves were every inch Spanish Bourbons. When on the continent Juan was sometimes "Mr. Johns.'' sometimes "Mr. King." or "M. le Roy," and again, "Mr. Bliss" (a trans lation or ms wife s name), lived gener ally en garni and dined at cheap tables d'hote. His breath used to smell of mutton ragout, a dish that ttickt to the breath like garlic. Tho king of Naples also loafs through life, but in a harmless, gentlemanly fashion. He has hopelessly lost his bear ings since the Italian confectioner at the corner of the Place do la Bourse was, through having given credit too freely to the king's followers, obliged to shut np shop. The poor confectioners sup plied dinners for an age to one of the king's brothers, and will have to wait for payment until the Neapolitan Bour bons are restored. Going to lunch at that confectioner's, which he always did on foot, enabled Francis II to get through several hours every day, and afforded him an easy walk to and from the hotel to the Rue Bossy d'Anglais, in which he has lived ever since he came to abide in Paris. He shares so little the tastes of his wife, who goes in for race horsea. ss in point of fact to live alone, though en menage with her. The august pair rather camp than reside here. J. he Duke of Aquila, having run through his own and his wife's fortune, was ages ago obliged to auit the beauti ful villa in which he lived for some years in the Avenue du Bois de Bou logne, and he is now a pensioner of King Humbert to the amount of $100 a year (lu.uou lire), ana also lives en garni tie, uowever, makes np well when he goes to dinner parties, and has a touch of naval frankness that is pleasant He drew a good pension so long as the Brazilian empire lasted as its lord hich admiral and filled a corresponding situ ation in the kingdom of Naples before istio. 1 do not suppose that he is much of a seaman, but he was formerly always entertaining or being entertained by naval officers, itnd his manners took a color from theirs. He manages to keep up jovial spirits under depressing cir cumstances, which 1 think creditable to him. Couite da Bari. hiB nephew, has found consolation for personal and family losses and crosses in marriage with a lady of the corps de ballet, and has adopted a son who is nearly his own age, to the great disgiiBt of the ex-king. In Italian law the adoptee is a member of the Bourbon family, whatever he may be in blood, and is supposed by it to be a grandson of the illustrious Arch duke Charles and of Ferdinand II of Na ples. Paris Cor. Loudon Truth. The Byes of a Bee. Every bee has two kinds of eves the two large compound ones, looking like hemispheres on either side, and the j three simple ones which crown the top ' of the head.. Each command eve is . ' L ... """"" Bunace. averv one oi tnese rubers is , - : , , th.e ba8e of "'verted hexagonal pyra- nila' wuoso apex is titted to the head, Each pyramid may be termed an eye, for each has its own iris and ODtio nerve. How these insects manage this mar velous number of eyes is not yet known, They are immovable, but mobility is un necessary because of the range of vision "forded by the position and the number ot facets- They have no lids, but are Protected from dust and ininrv hv mun otuer uses tor mem not yet ascertained. Pearson's Weekly. Kate of a Uretu Crllio. Friar Conecte was iii!c.iitminH a l,o uLcloseof his aeriiinna m rl, tait ..i go through his congregation battering ; i ,,,.., . ; t"LV"u "I.unuiw ,NU UiMUO U11UOI 0,8 ""pleasure. Conecte's crusade was continued m every country in Europe SU. reaching Rome, he attacked the , clothes and morals of the cardinals, was accused of heresy aud burned at the take. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Too Couslderate. i "Are Oharlelou, Hicks &Gorniley uuerai witu tneir employees? 1 "very, Wh tl, ha.1 l U ,. ..j, fii.ouuo i resignation rroui tneir employ typewrit- ten at their own expense and sent to hint, I just to save him time, postage and trou ble. 'Harper s Bazar. "Plots" An Very Rcarca. James Payn recently told this anec dote to illiwlrate the difficulty of secur ing good plots: "Trtillope was at one time almost alone in not Heeinff t.tia imwinnitv n? u. ing any 'story' in his books. Wilkie Collins once suid to him, 'Your fertility, my dear fellow, amazes me: where do you get they are not much, bnt still yon have to find them your plots from? 'Well, my good air. to tell you the truth, from you. A very little bit of one of four plots and, you see, yon never miss It does forme.' "The fact is, a good plot is a difficult thing to get, A very clever acquaint ance of mine, a divine who had distin guished himself in literature, once con troverted this. He said he had himself quite a talent for plots, only, being in the theological line, they were of no nse to him. 'Well,' 1 said, a little irritated. yon are always wanting money for votir chancel (1 had never heard so, but I knew the cloth, and the shaft went home), and for every good plot you give me. if it is only in ten lines, I'll give you ten pounds.' After awhile not the next day, as he had led me to expect he sent me a dozen. 'I didn't find it quite to easy as 1 thought,' he admitted in his letter, 'but here they are.' "Six were as old as the hills' and the other six not worth a farthing. 1 have had hundreds of plots or the hint of them, which is all that is required given me in the course of my 'literary career,' but only two good oneB, and one 1 bought. They are very rare aud valu able articles." , -. How an Old Phrase Originated. The phrase "That beats bobtail," it not uncommon even now in manv narts of the country, especially in the south. its origin is traceable to a race which occurred about 1840 or shortly before that year on the famous Fairfield track on the Mechanicsville turnpike, near Richmond. In those days Bob Poin dexter lived in Richmond. He was a sporting man, wore fine clothes and owned a number of horses. Among his animala was one he named Pizarro, a plain bay gelding, with black mane aud tail, the latter bobbed short. There was nothing extraordinary abont the horse, and nobody looked upon him as a racer. But Poindexter took a no tion that he could run. ; He used to drive Pizarro about Richmond hitched to a buggy. On the day that he was ad vertised to annear on the trnrdr a trvaat crowd was present and excitement ran high, for a good deal of money bad been put on the other horses. To the aston ishment of elbrybody Pizarro beat every horse on the track, and the people went fairly wild, BobtaileU Pizarro never made much of a record. He won two or three races, and theu went to pieces. For years afterward, when anything extraordinary happened in that section it was said of ' it, "That beat bobtail." Baltimore American. ' She Took Them All Back.. They had quarreled, and the high . spirited girl said as she handed him a package: "There, Mr. Fergnson, are the presents you have given me. Now that all is over between us, sir, there should , be no reminders of the fooliBh past." "You are right. Miss Keezer," ho said humbly, "and I suppose 1 must return the gifts you have presented to me." "I never gave yon anything, sir, that I remember.'' "Indeed yon did." "Sir. I" - "Miss Keezer Kiltie!" he exclaimed. with something that sounded like a sob : I value them beyond evervthina else in the world! It would break my heart to retorn them; but there is nothing else 'e't ',r Ule ,x ('-" "Will you kindly tell me, sir, what you are speaking ot?' i am speiming, natie, or the kisses VOtl llllVH trivmi fllfll Tltau Dra nnt n.In, -,.. ..... ., .. ' . "ww uuiy io restore mem. p 1 , . torgive me, darling, but I cannot go away without" "Oh, Ueorget" When the clock struck eleven, about three hours later. George was still re turning them.-Loudon Tit-Bits. Clmrcli Chimes Are Common, Within the last sixteen years only two "Bew chime8 na ll'" Put up in this city those of St.;Micliael's church and tn08e of St- Andrew's, lu 1876 there were thre" chimes-those of Trinity, church aud Ht Thomas. At that to"" writer in one of the prominent Jhnl(11 ne . -''''' w"y oft in Eureka, : 'm three sets in Troy, N. Y., one in "" uiumugiuuii, uonu., and one in Savannah." There are many chimes now "away off in California," ami all the laree cities haVQ them, That there are only five 'u" chimes iu New York is Bood evi- uuuce lnal onl3' nve cnurclies care for them, for u ,m,i uui .. h- hi,t . . ' " O"" "mu ," u0"!lrs not tU8 naw " churches. New or !"u- A German hiolotrist mivm tout tan turn tides of a (ace are uever alike. Iu two cases out of live the eyes are out of line; one eye it stronger than the other lu seven persons out of ten, and the right ear is generally ' uisimi i.imM bile leiu tTlirlMP t.hn nhi hlnu li r.1 O .1-.., ."'""" : .".' --WUHUt -any man wuo snail stand by and sea two dogs light and uot try to separate tbem shall be deemed guilty of a breach of the peace, and shall lie in fail the lenut.li f seven days and nights,"