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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1893)
u DECISIVE Baking Powder Tests The United States Official Investigation of Baking Powders, made by authority of Congress, in the Department of Agriculture, Washing ton, D. C, furnishes the highest authoritative informa tion as to which powder is the best. The Official Report Shows the ROYAL to be a cream of tartar baking pow der, superior to all others in - leavening power A SONG OF VIOLETS. Vake, notets. wake! By risrer and lake; Tour purple ranks rally O'er hillftjue nud valiuy; Awaken and follow The brook id the hoikm. : Thromrli lone mountain puM 'Mid raU nusMtow Rrneaw; Fw cowslips are y til low. And thrush twagfcaro ukUow, And orioles sins;. Til! t,ipray wkkI lands nog. Wake, violets, wake! Bloom, violets, blooin! While fatm with per fame The bee, the pay rover. Drones drowsily over Trie tuaru aud lilies Aral riai7atia"ndilkes. And trim no i dnrjnuag Of nc6 REfl fimunior. The false, fwkMj hummer, Thnrajrh forea! and uuie. By roadside and jilain. UhMim, violets, bloom! Fade, violets, fade! On brea.nf the mud, lathe hand of tbe nntid Aad the youEli aiidcfHed. Your short itfeiii gladiietss 1 Is full of wwetft jjulumss. Awake, flnwen of trotli! Use the oope of our youth. But) and bloom with rue lean Of the swift coming years. Above and around Lai.-b newly made mound, fade, vinlL'U. fade! iioufivcepera1 Weekly Experiments -with Firedamp. Some French chemists have been investi gating tbe nature of firedamp niixtnres in relation to colliery explosions with im portant results For this purpura mixtures of pure fonnene and air were employed, and of those mixed with ordinary iliumi catiDg gas, which were made fay passing tb gases through multiple Hansen burners into ft wooden box placed against granite and porphyry blocks, and so disposed that by striking them with a pick the sparks fell into tbe box. it appears the mixtures of iMuimcating gas nod air were easily ex ploded by tbe sparks whenever tbey were large enough to remain incandescent dor fug an appreciable time, a result obtained with nearly every blow, the sparks being formed of metallic particles burning strong ly and forming globules of magnetic oxide. Ob tbjB other band, it appears tbatwith mixtures of formene and air no inflamma tioncooiu t obtained, although more than hundred experiments were made under conditions io which a mixture of illominafr fnq gas and sir would inevitably have been ignited a difference thought to be due to the inflammation of fonnene req airing ft much iougerUmethantnatof illuminating gas, and the sparks becoming cold before it can be effected. Further experiments were made with mixtures of formeue, illu minating gas and air, the result being that when the mixture contained equal quanti ties of two gases explosions were in some cases obtained, but with mixtures em ployed that contained tbe proportions of 75 per cent, of fonnene and 25 of illuminating gas no explosions took place of any kind.- Jiew York Sun. Tw Railroad Presidents Meet. Judge AlcWhorter is president of tbe shortest railroad system in the world. It la something more than three miles in length, between Crawford and Lexington. Of this road Larry tiantt tells a good story on the judge. "Bump was in New York a few months ago," said Larry, "and while in Colonel John I&man's office be met Jay Gould. He was introduced to the wizard as the president of the Lexington Terminal. M 'Ves.' said Mr, Gould, 1 am glad to meat you. Vou have s nice road. By the way, Mr. McWhorter, how many miles are there in your system?' 'Nearly five,' replied Ham p. Ali under one management' asked Mr. Gould from force of ha bit. "Atlanta Constitution. TIm Horrid Boy. Miae GnsiungtonHnch exquisite mel ody! And such a lovely basso Signer Jiologna! Bo handsome! 1 do wonder what hie ago isl fimaU Brother Bologna's age! 1 know iti Mi, Ton darling! What is it? 8, B. (triiimjihuiiriy) Saaaage. -Pirts-borg Bulletin. To Much of a Good Thing. BetuTDed Traveler You say Mrs. fthete bas quite lost her lore of the antique. What has happened? Resident--Her hnaba&d got squeezed bt Wall street, and she must now go and live in the old shanty that her grand father was born in New York Weekly. A Burner's ItUMk Montaigne soys that a man's wit Is a man's danger unless he knows hoi to use it But a witty Florida bunter .-bowed himself master of bis situation. He proved his property and covered hi risks. Many years ago, near a place called Enterprise, on a point juttinj; into Lake Monroe, dur ing all bright days a big ailigator used to lie basking in tht- sun. He was well known to the whole ntrsb burbood. The entire cotene of siMirtaiue-i at the only hotel used to call him Biff Ben, and proud buulera would talk and even dream of the time when a well aimed rifle shot would eud hi long career, ilut Bis lien was as cunning as a serpent, and whenever auy one, alout or afloat, came unpleasantly near he would slide off into the water, which meant goodby for the rest of the day. One fine morning a sportsman paddling up the lake, luckily with hi rifle in but canoe, came upon Bis Ben so sound asleep that he stole up within range and put a hulietthrotigb the alligator's brain. What to do next was a problem. He could not tow the monster ail the way to Enterprise with bis tiny canoe. A bright idea struck him. He put his visiting card into tbe beast's mouth and paddled swiftly back. Several hunters were at the wharf, and the slayer of Bug Ben haxtened to inform them that while out paddiiug he bad come within easy ramie of tbe 'tfutor, which was no doutft stitl lying motionless on tbe point. A flotilla of boats and canoes, manned by an army with rifles, instantly started for the pomi, Toavoid couftmion, it was agreed that all should go down together, and that the entire party, if they were luckrenougb to find Big Ben Btill there, snould Are a volley at the word of command. As tbey approached tbe point the hearts of all beat quickly, and when, with strain ing eyes, tbey say Big Ben apparently asleep and motionless upon the bank even tbe coolest could hardly control his feelings. Bang! bang! went a score of rifles, and Ben, riddled with bullets, lay motionless upon the point. With a ebeer of triumph tbe excited sportsmen leaped ashore, and fastening a rope round the dead alligator towed him to Enterprise. There the original slayer awaited them on the wharf. When the creature was laid upon the shore he opened its mighty Jaws and disclosed his visiting card, at theasme time thanking them most politely for their kindness in bringing his alligator home. Exchance. ' - j -, ttavioc Banks and Their Oriels. Savings banks, in the sense in wbich they are known at tbe present day, are strictly a modern institution wnose histo ry belongs to the Nineteenth century, for previous to tbe year Psuunota savings bank existed anywhere in tbe world. The prog ress that has been made is the eighty or ninety years of savings bank history may be understood when it Is stated that at the beginning of the year 1881 tbe deposits in the savings banks of the entire world were reckoned to have reached the enormous sum of four billions of dollars. - Barings banks had their origin in Eng land in 1&06, and were suggested as a means of encouraging thrift among the poor. Samuel Wnitbred in parliament in 1607, proposed to establish a national savings bank under the direction of government officers, the deposits in which were to be invested in government securities, and tine repayment to be made by the sate of the securities when required. This scheme was not found practicable, and with others of a similar character was abandoned. In 1810 tbe Rev. Henry Duncan, of Butb welL Scotland, organized in his own parish a savings bank which, when compared with previous efforts, was s decided suc cess, and a number of similar institutions were established in various parts of the kingdom. Dr. Duncan has ieeo called "the father of savings banks." TheKdinburgh Savings bank was established in 1614, three years before the savings banks came under government control. New York Kecorder. Captare f a Whal am to SaM Cot. A whale nearly fifty feet in length was captured in the River Crouch, near Bnrnham, Essex, The river is a mile wide, and tbe whale had become strand ed on the bank. Special trains conveyed tbxrasande of people to inspect the mon ster. It was adzed by the customa offi cer and told for seventeen pounds ster ling (or exhibition purposes, it is in tended to preserve tbe skeleton intact Thoughtful "James was a thoughtful boy, any how, in spite of his crimes." "Be wasn't thoughtful when he rob bed the bank." "Yes he was. He got arrested under an all; rather than dhsgraoe his father's uame.' Jiew York Epoch. ME siUlLDS Th NEST. Tbe good God always builds the blind bird's So runs a Turkish irovcrb sweet and wte. Bow calmly way she fold her wing in ittt, Kuowlng hi touch upon bvt tbuduwrd eyvsl Thou, who hast known his lave in siroue iuil . grand, Kwtu too, to bfc right hand. ' "Behold:" becrteth."! will bring the blind by wavs they have not kuuwu,'aiuraiice sweot- "iftrftightttQ the crooked para, make life more kind. Turn durkntws Into Itybt before their feet. h thy sight darkened, frleud? Thy tiod can see. Let that suftlee for thea, Unsheltered birds his providence nhsll shield. Tbe helpless soul shall lean upon his strength. Our need, grown eTttoi, to greater love shall yield. And help, though long delayed, shall come at length. Watt for him. doubting not. Bp kuowpth beat Who builds the blind bird's ucsl American Israelite. A Talking Canary. It seems almost incredible that a canary could be taught to apeak; nevertheless, there have been well authenticated cases iu which ibis twemingty impossible feat has been accompliKhed. ! Tbe most notable instance ,wo that of a canary exhibited in I Andon in 1953, and It had a most remarkable history. Its parents had previously succeattf uliy reared several broods, but in the early part of the year in question hatched out but oue of four ecss. Strange to say, they entirety neg lected the little one, and immedintely re built a nest over it. The owners of the birds accidentally discovered this fact and removed the forsaken one almost dead. It was placed in flannel by the Are, and after the greatest attention was restored and raised by hand. The fact of its being treated in this man ner, separated from all other birds, cainwd ft to become very familiar with its foster parents, and its first singing notes were en tirety different from those uttered by or dinary canaries. Being continually ad dressed in endearing terms by its mistrew, it astonished her oue day by suddenly re peating the words "Kinsiel kksiet' This became an everyday occurrence, and from time to time other terms were added to its vocabulary. For hours together, except during the molting season, this extraordinary bini would call out in tones almost as clear as if uttered by a human voice, such sen- tenoes as "Dear, sweet Titchie!" the name given it by its mistress '"Kiss Minnk!" "Kiss me, dear Minnie!" "Kissiet kissie! kisaie, sweet little TUohieP' "Weel gee, gee, Titchie, sweet Titchie!" It also devel . oped a faculty for whistling, the first bar of "God Save the Queen" being its favorite air. Another talking canary is said to have been exhibited in London in IStft, but all authorities agree that tt was in no way equal to the one described. Detroit Free rress, Why Albino Io Not Be Wen. According to Dr. A. D. Williams, the white, flaxen hair of Albinos shows that there is a deficiency of coloring materials in their bodies. Further proof of this fact is found in tbe absence of the necessary amount of pigment in their eyes. Such per sons nave pink eyes because there is not pigment enough in the iris and upon its posterior surface lo prevent the red reflex of the the fundus from shining through tbe iris. Albinos are always greatly annoyed by strong tight, because there is not suffi cient coloring to prevent the ingress of s flood of it, the bright glare entering not only through the pupil, but through the substance of the iris as welL The choroid being likewise deficient io pigment, the excessive amount of light dazzles and greatly confuses tbe vision. Furthermore, tbe deficiency of pigments in the choroid prevents the light after it has acted on the retina from being ab sorbed, that being the main function of the choroidal pigment. Albinism is an unfortunate condition, as there Is no way to supply the deficient pigment to the iris and cimnkL tot. Louis iiepiibftc Bow a Poor Man Studied Law. Tbe Rev. Dr. George & Ellis says: There is a story about a certain distin guished orator, lawyer and statesman of Massachusetts that has never been told, and 1 daresay the gentleman wouldn't like to have bis name mentioned now. Besides, the story is very old. and H ail happend something like thirty-five years ago. But it is a good story, and its value is only very slightly diminished by the necessity for withholding names. - As 1 say, something like thirty-five yean ago I lived in the Highlands, and in my house there was a young domestic who was very bright and very industrious. One day I discovered her in earnest conversation with a braw young mat) at tbe beck gate. Bbe talked with him long and tenderly, and when he went away 1 chaffed her about her company. But she surprised me very much by bursting into tears, and declared that she was ready to give np her place, but that she had meant no harm. I questioned her farther, and discovered that she had loaned some books out of my libra ryo the young man, and be had come to return them. The young man was her brother, and he was studying taw, but be had tittle money to buy books with, and he bad taken this means of pursuing knowledge under diffi eulties. Today men call that young man "general," and if i told you bis name you'd be startled, 1 assure you. Cor. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat ' Thy tepuke ? roach. When the English envoys, Trevelyan and Lemon, were introduced at the Aus trian court Count Kaunits asked, "Do they speak French f "Excellently well," replied Lemon. "For my part," said the count aside, 41 prefer tbe English who Used to come; tbey spoke French so de lightfully ilL" "in that case," answered the introducer, "you will be charmed with thk pair."--Kxcbange, A ftegleatttd Muss. ' Beturned TravelerIs yonr daughter as fond of music as ever? &otesfr-$he has not touched toe piano for two years. Betnrned Travel or!nded! 1 flM not know she had married.--trood News, Governor Hoard n the Santtor. Ex-Governor Hoard is one of tbe heit story tellers in th country. On the t rip toGnletia his fund offltoruw wwrntni mux haustibi. One of them was tins: "I was down at a little elnmbftke in New Jersey last sttmmer, and after dinner was called ou to wake a speech. I started off by saying that 1 had eaten so many of their low nevk cbmia that I wasn't in the tt sort of condition to make a eiweeh. W heu 1 used the expression "tow U(uk' clams an old chap, sitting directly across th table from me, whom face was long enough to enable him to eat outs out of a chum, scowled at me, and then said, la a stage whisper, 'Little neck clams, little narks not low necks. I paid uo attention to the interruption and f tmshrd my fcptwoh. V lieu dinner was over be trail nil me out iuto the hall and said. ' on are from Wisconsin, ain't youf M 'Yes,' I replied, You don't have many clumit up there 1 reckon?' U4WcIl,' 1 said, 'we have some, but it's a good ways to wr and In driving them across the country their feet gut sorsnua they don't thrive very well.' "He gave me s hmk that was worth dollar and a half, and m a tone or the ut most disgust naid, lLordl clams ain't gut no feet!' "He turned away, and approaching one of my friends inquired, 'Is that fellow governor of WUcoitNin?' 'Yes, said my friend. , "W-a-l-I,' drawled the old man, with a good deal of feeling, 'he may be a smart man in Wisconsin, but he is a fool on the seashore.' " Chicago Tribune. The Huuey bid It. An Italian resident of this city telle the following incident of a countryman in his native land: Among devices employed to evade the three yean' requisite service in the army is that of feigutng to he deaf and dumb. Tbe man la question was so sue eessf ul in this deceptiou that, though lie was kept for three months among booming cannon and rifle reports, he never once be trayed tbe fact that he could hear either, and was allowed to go free. However, two men were sent to watch him, and when he walked up tbe stone steps of bis house some money w us thrown down behind him. He immediately turned around on hearing the jingling coin, and was seized and car ried off to serve eight yean in the army, the five additional years being the penalty for bis deception. Portland Argus. - Carriags Travel n the Bride The length of the carriage way on the Brooklyn bridge is t,m feet. The number of carriages and other vehicles erossitig amounts in a day to 4,000. From B io the evening until 0 o'clock next morning about QUO carriages or wagon crass. Then the number increases to luQ between ft and 1, and m between 7 and e, and to m in each hour between 6 iu the moruing and 4 in the afternoon. From 4 to 5 and from & to 6 the crush is greatest and reaches 400 an hour. Between o and 7 it falls to 200, and between ? aud B to 100, after which business again be' rues dull There are, of course, average figures, as the traffic varies according to the weather aud tin season, but is always greatest between 4 and 6 In the afterncou and least in night hours. New Ydrk Sun. When Mroe Biavstaky and Colonel 01' eott began to preach theosnphy in Nrw York in 1S75 they could muster hardly half a dozen adherents, flow the assertion is made that the movement has lUu.tiuu fol lowers in America. The sublimest state of misery is endured only by a man with a stiffly starched white waistcoat, a collar that won't stay but toned behind, a pair of tight shoes aud a seed from the raspborrv jam between his front teeth. KEWIKI r 01KTMEHTM FOR CA TAJtKH TBATCMNTAIK MEUCUKT, As mercury wRl surely destroy the sense of smeU aud oompintely detinue the whole system when entering it ibrotiKh tbe mueons surfaces. 3ubsrticteiihnald never be ued exoept on prescript ion from reputable physicians, as the damage thuy wtil do in tenfold tw th pood yoa cait po'slltiy derive from thm. Hull's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by t, 1. Cheney Co., To ledo, 0 .contain no raernury,nd li taken in ternally, srtimt direct! - npon the blood ana mu cous nirfs of the fyitoro lo mivinr, Hall's Catarrh Cure ba sure you et the leuuiue. It U taken internally and nude in Toledo, 0., by J. Cheney A Co. Testimonial free. Jtf hold by drmitfUiiB, pries, 76 cents per botue. Society KAHONH, ODD FEtf low, Knight of Pyth ian and aft other soci eties nhmild write to us for prieea on superior nadires. buttons, med Badges. als aim wattth charms of their reHpectlve so cieties. Our specialty. A, FKl-PKNim.MtK, First and Morrison streets, 1'ortland, Or. PrUtJDER'S. Obd$n BloodPubifiebi KIDMCVUIVCR BBCASCS. DSPCP8IA.; piMPLEaBurrcHCSAKos asuscs CA0Ht HEHVENCSS TRADE 5 ERADICATES BLOOD POI SON AMD BLOOD TAINT . Cevekai bottfea of Swill'. Specific (S.S. J entirely cleansed my system of contagious Mood pouon nf the nry worst type. W m. a, Loomu, Shreveport. La. C U R C SCROFULA EVEN IN ITS WORST FORMS. I had sctnruLA In Ifflf, and ctanvd my tystimi entirely from it by Liking scv.rn bottles of 8. . a. I have not hiul any symo' .torn since. . .C. W. Wilcox, Souunourf, &. G. umiiiwaf HA8 CURED HUNDREDS OF LkkuJ CASES OF SKIN CANCER. TreatiiK on Wood and Rkln Diseases mailed int. tswircii"cLfu.Ci),AlUiii,t.a. A J" 1 r. tin Mr, JL If. ChvrchiU Kl Vernon, "SVaah, An Honest Medicine ttheumatlsm Cured "With Ilullt TJp, Mr. Ohurcblll. formerly of riiiircbfll ft Tnvlor, surveyor Hint etvil enulnei'iti, hit. eruoit, Viwliliuvnm. wrtt!: "houthehi CWtfornia was mv lumic 1m iitiinv yearn, W'Unu I cams hare 1 besau to itv afltlcted all over with Rheumatism And slnn pains In my back anrl a genera) feeling at being itHPil tip. Sly liuHlnesii hikes me out la Uie eli'iiifMiu nli Ute 1 1 mo, and 1 found my seif unfit for work. Iteadlns an advertise ment of flood's ftarsitjinriila, and .minting alio tlmt Utp mndlrlne ivn eomtmtiiHlod in my own NiuhY of Mitisnehn'tis, 1 eom'litUnd t!i mi.v it"im Itasioal Htrdirisie, 1 took U ami am so niueU uuprovml that I a. jx eut Hood's Cures in all wfiithers and travel all day with no fruffiin and turd feeling. To any nnt that SmU bad all over I say take Hootr Sarsaji. rills. It lias cured ino.1' Jt U.Ciit'nru.u. HOOD S PiULS eure iJver Ills, JaumUoe, Uu)uiiiM!!ts, tuck Ueadavhe and Urasti patios. "German Syrup William McKeekan, Druggist tt Bloomingdale, Mich. "I have had the Asthma badly ever since I came ont of tbe army and though I have been in the drug business for fifteen years, and have tried nearly every thing on the market, nothing has given me the slightest relief until a few months ago, when I used Bo schee's German Syrup. I am now glaa to acknowledge the great good it has done me. I am greatly reliev ed daring the day and at night go to aleep without the least trouble." It's Just as Easy Ti pti Chaici Flow en u tt li tt pw csibh esss If foi STUT I1SIT. atthsr am rf thi foUrrwInf collections ts a earthm Is um1 nud your KxrrtfQ I not oraplts without Uitm. Tbay art alt bcauUful and ranhionsbi fl"W rt and the iitaaw an all airon. btauhy and ro gnnnt, sad scat, aortas- trm, tur lbs pnos Dams. IKE TIMSTHT IDFtllS WlttM Of SWLLT ftlS OmrrttttH It inului VoHdla. A LfftHckM tada tf Aiir fl.U, tr AkM of Mat 14 mm arfctt mUMdff ', a aoni n.00 12 Carnations a 1. 00 13 falarsonluma SI.00 13 Chryaanthamuma 11.00 rirT or CCnC Ctioie. VuletM BIM t (tmBU uLLUO tnar m w MIMton) , : 'OB OHB DOLLAR. SNEBWOOS MALI IIURSEIIY C8. 1 8. to, brant t Ciq fc, --bifnula CiL A WE KNOW VKHV f j mA ikLiffL well that few uouutry 1 llfl III 17 If (wI'l that we UUUIILI V can lit tb.-m t'KKriUTi.r w I m t hundred or two ll miles away; but we a can. Hotid forrulesfor II lr 41 f4gifm setf-meastiremont, and I I fZll l 17 V we shall m you. Our Ul Uul Js ynX im!k of ClothlnB to mnde undnrourown BiijrtirvisiuH, Our f 10, 12 and fififtutt have no(ual. You save money by buying from us, TryuaONCB. 1. 1 STEINBICB 2 CO., Strictly" One-Price ' Clothiers. POKTI.AND, OR. We makes olds Wnm ental col Portlafil Or. ' (Hi. BOxf inches, not mess tirl ne (rinjo), whloh we will mail to you for 1 rents sent tis, with 22 emits (or noKtflRe. It's a Muegestion from our hoiisc-furnfshiii)! line for mnkiriK your horns attractive. Our special oflers are not to Ret your money for the article mentioned, but to get your attention to our prlees and qualities. We know they'll convince rou that you are assured of honest goods and honest values from us every time. Our Hpring CauliMjue is sent free for the asking. KMARK er not stmisw me right BICYCLg roe mm Atimu- Tstti vovausAsevr BICYCLES Or evCMY DesCNIPTION." M?jswh Bwumw -PownAwo OwtgONj .nrrPBaBtr, "Ns I was K. P. B. B. Ko. d'ju-8. g. H. U. fio. 6ti7.