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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1893)
If You Want The Best. ALTHOUGH you may have had good luck with . but Tew failures in making cake and biscuit in ' the old-fashioned way with soda and sour milk, or soda and cream of tartar, you will have better luck and (following directions) no failures with the Royal Baking Powder. The truth of this must be evident when you re member that in the leading hotels and restaurants, and in the homes of our city cousins, where the, latest and best methods are invariably employed, and where the most beautiful and dainty food is always set out for the guests, the Royal Baking Powder is exclu sively used for all quickly risen food. Royal Baking Powder never disappoints ; never makes sour, soggy or husky food ; never spoils good materials; never leaves lumps of alkali in the biscuit or cake ; while all these things do happen with the best of cooks who cling to the olef-fashioned methods, or who use other baking powders. If you want the best food, Royal Baking Powder is indispensable. The God of the Gypsies. The gypsies know nothing whatever of heaven or a fntnre state of rest for the righteous dead, their vocabulary having no word that conforms with our words "paradise." "heaven." "beautiful city." etc, They know of a god which they call "devel" and of a devil called "beng " "Beng" has a home, or an abiding place, called "bengipe." but their "devel." or god, "hath not where to lay his head." and is only recognized as a wandering pint floating about in the upper regions of the air. They have a mortal terror of both "beng" and "devel," but this does not prevent than from cursing both god and devil whenever anything goes wrong. They believe "beng" to be much su perior to the "devel." not only in point of physical proportions, but in his powers ' over the world and the human race, as well as in his greater intellectuality. "Devel" can be eiorcised with pure cold water, bnt "beng" will , take nothing short of brandy or wine. Edgar Wake man and other experts in gypsy lore be lieve that they were the original fire wor shipers, and cite many facts to prove the correctness of their conclusions. tit. Louis Republic. , A niter's Last Wl.h. A Greek died in the small town of Caracal, having always lived on the alms of his compatriots. Before dying be made his wife swear that she would bury him in the dirty old overcoat which he wore every day. The poor woman had to ask the Greeks of Caracal to help her to provide the costs of the funeral. A good hearted Greek went to see her in her affliction, and pointing to the body aid he would give her a better coat 6 bury the man in. Then she told him of the dead man's last wish. The Greek, ; whose suctions were awakened, told her that sue should certainly not part with the body before she had well exam ined the coat, for there must be some particular reason for the request. The widow unpicked the lining of the over coat and found 85,000 francs in bank notes which the inist-r wished to take into the grave with him. Vienna Cor. London News. The Danger r OfQeehoMiog. Many a poor yonng man seeks a gov ernment clerkship in order that he may cam his snpport while he is studying his profession. He is playing with fire. He in taking up as a' staff that which is likely to become necessary to him as a crntch. He is in danger of discovering, when his profession is learned, that he has not the moral courage to drop hi government stipend. It would have been infinitely better it might have been his making if he had toiled for scantier dollars in a manlier way. Har per's Weekly. The Shape of Sea Fowls' Eggs. Boa fowls' eggs have one remarkable peculiarity. They are nearly conical in form, broad at the base and sharp at the point, so that they will only roll in a cir cle. They are laid on the bare ledges of high rocks, from which they would al most rarely roll off save for this happy provision of nature. Boston Transcript. - -. " A Sharp Bargain A valuable diamond, which Hnl Car penter, of Columbia county, N. Y., . wears in his shirt bosom, was purchased by him years ago in the Orinoco river' region in South America for two boot legs of plug tobacco, which the natives' valued more highly than gems. Chicago Herald. The Prickly Pear. The prickly pear of Africa is so tena cious of life that a leaf, or even a small portion of a leaf, if thrown on the ground, strikes out roots almost unmedi ately and becomes the parent of a fast growing plant Puzsled BngHHhinen. "At a private dinner in England I told the very best story 1 could think of." says Chauncey M. Depew. "It was greeted with a little laughter. Nen day 1 met my host on the Strand. He advanced to me smiling, began to laugh as he grasped my hand and said: 'Do yon know. De pew. that was a capital thing yon got off last night capital? And do you know I have just this minute been thinking what a capital thing it was? The point of the joke has just come to me.' "I said. 'Why, it must have traveled to you on a freight train.' " 'My dear Mr. Depew,' said the Eng lishman, i assure you I have not seen any freight train. I assure you I haven't, "pon honor.' " Mr. Depew told this story to an Eng lishman who had been in America for a long time. One of the officers of the Central road was with him in Mr. De pew's office when the story wan told. The Englishman gave a courtesy laugh, a forced and feeble "ha. hat' When lie turned into Duval' office and the door of the president's room had been shut he remarked anxiously "1 say, what the blazes did Depew mean by that freight train?' New York World. Caught by Slug-alar Krror. "Some queer accidents happen in this world." said A. U. Sinoto, a noted thief taker, who was talkiug shop in the La clede corridors. "In 1876 a particularly atrocious crime was committed in Cleve land. An old lady was robbed and murdered. The perpetrator was arrested and jailed, bnt succeeded in effecting his escape. Nothing was beard from him I for fifteen years, though the world was ! scoured for him time aud again. About j a year ago 1 concluded to change my residence and put an advertisement in a morning paper of Cleveland for a fur nished room. Among the replies was a letter from the missing murderer, writ ten to an old friend in Cleveland. The Cleveland man had a room be desired to rent and answered my advertisement, bnt by mistake inclosed the letter he had received from the fugitive instead of the one intended for me. , I learned from the letter that the man I wanted was night watchman in a railway roundhouse in New Mexico, aud a week later I had him in irons en route to Cleveland, where he was tried anil Kent np for lire." tit. Louis Globe-Deium-rul A Strange aitperttltlon. in regard to the habit of partridges flying into civilisation and a popular su perstition regarding them au Augusta man says: "One Hew ou onr premises and was captured Then caiiie up the j question whether we should kill the bird or allow it to live. At that time there was a general anuerstition that if a par tridge came to a bouse where a sick per son lay and the bird was killed and the sick person ate the broth, it would effect a cure. There was a sick girl at onr house, and the doctor hail given pp ber case as hopeless. "Some of the family said kill the par tridgeand give the sick girl the broth. But the sick girl and others were for permit ting the partridge to live. We wore equal ly divided and agreed to let one of the neighbors whom we saw coining to the house decide whether the partridge should be killed or not. He said kill it, and we did, and the sick girl ate the broth and got well." Philadelphia Times. A gentleman performed the clever feat at a Birmingham Shakespeare club of proposing the toast of the poet's memory for nineteen years without re peating himself a feat which most of us will envy. A Kansas City man swallowed a door key early one morning. The Trenton (Mo.) Tribune says anyone who" mis- litakes his mouth for a keyhole should retorm at once. Destroying Spneleii, When pimple set ahoul getting rid of en tire species oC animals by a systematic per secution they usually llml It u ilillienlt job. Set a prlco uu the Itwul of the wolf or the wonttchuck anil the creature seems to realiite the importancoof Its life. A bounty on crows must he vltnveil iw a plejwant joke by those sliroml olisorvurs of men and things. The case of the wolf in Kilrope In a historical one. A price has been sal on the creature's head fur centuries, and yet there is hut a small portion of the conti nent from which the animal has Iweu ex terminated. The Netherlands is free of wolves from the character of thenmiutrv. The whole land furnishes not a single rooky don suitable for a wolf's lair: neither Is there a forest for the creature's shelter. It Is true that the wolf has been exter minated from Ureal Britain ami Ireland. This result has heen reached, however, by indirect means rather than by a direct at tack. The clearing off of the forest left the wolf no place iu which to hide from pursuit. The islands were too far from the continent for their thinned ranks to be recruited from the main land. In Spain aud .franco the wolf has at no time been unknown, although a price has been set ou its head for hundreds of years. The animal has developed cunning in pro portion as the pursuit has become closer. Like the crow, it has learned to toko care of itself. On the other hand, species receive very little help toward their continuance from the well meant effort of mun to that end. In proof of this we are told that there Is an ancient act of parliament still in force in England and Wales prohibiting the tak ing of the eggs of certain birds, of which six kinds are expressly named. In spite of this protecting law, four of the six species have ceased to breed iu those countries. The indirect ways in which such results are brought about are shown in the de struction of the quail of New Zealand. Tho birds were once numerous; no one wished to destroy them. Hut the land was burned over for other pnrposes at season when the eggs and young of the quail were exposed to destruction, and a few years brought the species to an end. Youth's Companion. Dauily Darkles. The colored gentry of Sixth avenue form a curious and interesting feature of the cosmopolitan crowd that makes upthoaum total of New York's imputation. Thodnrk tide ttows into Broadway at Twenty-third street at certain hours of the -day. as the turbid waters of the Missouri flow into the broader and grander 'Mississippi; and go ing with it but not of It, This tide is dis tinctly colored, but it not wholly of the negro race. In no other city of the United States can beseen the real colored gentleman in all his glory as he can be seen in this section of the tenderloin precinct. The dandy negro cannot oo lounu in tne south. On Sixth avenue he outswells the swells of swelldom. For the most part the negro dandy is "loud" in his attire, and if that style of dress can be said to become any body it is most becoming to the colored dude. But the Sixth avenue dandies are not necessarily of that stamp. You can see many of them d ressed in good taste and in a style creditable to any whiUtcxquisite. The distingue air with which they carry this personal magnificence is that of the born aud bred aristocrat. No amount of "guying" disturbs their outward calm. And they stand enough opeu comment ami running satire to kill a white dude with mortification. Whllethocoloreddaudy Isa good dresser his opposite sex are, as a rule, absolutely chaotiu in taste. Thelotterspend a good deal of money on tlieir personal adornment, but usually with result akin to the horrible purples, heliotropes, lilacs, blues, greens aud almost anything made up almost any way except the most be coming. A dressmaker says that the col ored ladies are obstinate with their own ideas but liberal with their money. If you want to see them iu ell their gorgcous ness try Sixth avenue some Sunday even ing. New York Herald. Advantage or a Cross (Eyed Clerk. During a rush in trade a large firm In Boston employed as an assistant clerk a young man who was exceedingly cross eyed. The especial duty assigned to him was to act as watchman and prevent the pecula tion of all sorts of small fancy articles that were lying about the counters for exhibi tion at that time. One day a half grown boy came into the store, and after looking around, pricing first one thing and then another, among which were some very nice socks, he dual ly started to go out of the door. At this moment the new clerk touched him lightly on the shoulder, and Inviting him to come to the back part of the store said to him politely, "Oblige me by giving me at once thesocks that you havo in you r back pocket." "How do you know 1 have any socks in my back pocket?" demanded the boy in a boid tone. "I saw you put them there," said the clerk, very gently. The boy looked up In the young man's face in utter amazement. "Are you look ing at me now?" be asked earnestly. "Do you see me this very minute?" he asked, still more earnestly. "Of course 1 do," replied .the clerk. "Good Ijord, mister!" cried the boy, with a blanching face; "here's your socks." And with a bound he was out of the back door, over the fence and away, having learned a lesson concerning all Beeing eyes which is to lie hoped he may never forget. Dry Uoods Itetailer. Accounted Ifer, Mrs. Gazzam There's always a kind of sheepish look about Mr. Javsmith tlmf. I can't explain. Gazzatn It comes from his mutton chop whiskers, I suppose Epoch. Like Grandfather's Cloek. Bessie Why do you pessist In referring to George as "Grandfather's Clockf" Jessie Because ho has nod so little "go" In bim since tho old mau died. New York Herald. Who Enjoyed It. Algy(to hunters) Which one of you had the most fun while out hunting? i HunterThe rabbit. -Texas Sittings, One Chance Lett. A decade had claimed. In that period vast changes had been wrought, women wore udiitillcd to all fields of human endeavor mid the nvuea tions formerly considered to belong to the sterner sex exclusively wero open to all. . In a quint resort, somewhat removed from tho busiest thoroughfare, ottoman chanced to ask another for a ohow of to bacco. Thence the conversation turned by easy stages upon the evils of tho day. "Bill" Tho man with a look of settled despair in his dark brown eyes was subdued iu his address, "it's getting so a fellow without a wife has just about got to starve." "Yes." "It's a shame tho way the women havo crowded us out of business." "True." Both remained iu silont meditation for a moment. "But then" The look of settled despair was some what less pronounced for a moment. "we should bo grateful that Prov idence has left us pre-eminent in one call ing. Thank heaven, they can't compete with us in dressmaking." It was a comforting thought, to be snro. Detroit Tribune. Among the Ho.es, Bags full of roses, baskets heavy with roses, carts latleu with roses; rosea, roses, a feast of roses, a surfeit of roses, if that is possible. The women stick roses in their long, braided hair, tho men in their belts, tho children pull them and play with them and leave them on the road to die. Thcro is roeeleaf jam to eat very fresh and sweet it is and there is rose leaf sirup to drink. Every vase and ves sel is full of roses; they drop on yon from unexpected places; groat bunches of bright pink heads lying on the ground admonish you as you walk; you can make a bed of them if you will ; go to the granary rosary, I suppose it should be called and there you will find as soft and sweet a eouch as was ever laid in the "Arabian Nights" for eastern princes to dream upon. This is how it camo about that I saw such a multiplicity of roses. We ful filled a long cherished scheme and went to Kezanlik, the Valley of Roses, in the Balkans, once the famouse rose garden of Turkoy, Blackwood's Magazine. The Ibos on the Hlger. Ivory anklets, often very heavy, are only worn by the Ibo women of wealth and importance, Imt the metal anklets worn by others may lie many pounds in weight, and some of them wear huge brass plates, perhaps a tot in diameter, which, once fixed to tho ankles, are never removed. The men wear a singlo strip of cotton cloth, but those who coino much in contact with the Europeans are norf learning to wear trousers. Their weapons are Hiutlocks, bows and spears the latter both for hurling and thrust ing. Tho huts are built of mud and mat ting and are quadrangular in sluipo. Tho center is an open courtyard, at one end of which is the apartment of the head of tho house, while the wives and family are accommodated iu other rooms on the right and left of the courtyard. There is no furniture or ornament, and but a few household utensils and weapons. AU the Year Round. Store Thnn He llurgained For. "When I used to travel about tho country lecturing," said a retired tem perance tulkcr, "1 carried with me as a frightful example a man with a brilliant red nose, and during my remarks I would call upon him for testimony. On one occasion we struck a small town whore we had anandience of about a hundred people. Iwasinakingfiuoheadway with my lecture, and at the proper time I glanced over the crowd and said, "Will the gentleman with tho red nose please rise to his feet?" Of course my man got up, but before he could do so thirty-seven men had risen slowly to tlieir feet, and I don't think I was ever moro embarrassed in my life." Toledo Blade. Man vermin Plea, A flea can jump straight upward and vault Over u huri-ipr aim timaa Ira num height. If a man could display as much agility he could clear a wall a mile high, at a single bound. If he could jump as far forward according to his weight as a nea can no could make Si trips around the world at one lean. St. Louis Renub- lic. Commencement Days uro iienr. And w Hre rewilv with tho iHrfiTiht, iiuwHSt itock of 1JOYH' ttml YOUTHS' HU1TH lo be found in the I'aclile NorlhwtHt. Mothers tihoi.hJ mini fur ruled for nelf-iiitisiiiy-mvnt for tlieir Imva. BcIkioU rihI mIIlum should gut our prkos, A, B. Steinbach 4 Co, Cor. First and Morrison Streets, PORTLAND, OR. WalMD.Ihn..,1 . ... low cut priuoi. DniKfnpD'o Oregon Blood Pubifier! WDNEy Sr LIVER DISEASES. DYSPEP8IA. J PIMPLEB.BLDTCHrQAMn,KMl niericrc I IrVHriQACMT v nntsTiururoQ JH&H . , . - y Olds&King,' JATAl.OUUB ii hounds hi hurtful us of tlornt, himI wo hiivo nw onoi nrrlvlnn lnn- POtJTLRp, f inimy, nere the littcHL: LA D KH K M H H 0 I l- OREGOU: ffi'Kffi rillKir NMUtlo tiny Mildred nn receipt of )7 Ct NTS nuil CENT oxtm tor .irwinm). mi ury unguis for thi'S'l'AN t)Altl) I'ATTKUN I'.it I'. KUMILOVKf nnil the HOY Ah WOIUJKHTKH COKHBTH. Hml for our llhutrHted UhIrUjhiui. Wo mull It freu of aunrgo. CURES SCROFULA Mn. R, J. Unwell, Me 1 1 ford, Mailt., eayn hur mother boi beon en mil of Bcrofula by tins am of four bottlei of after having bad much other treat- CjffifflJfl incut, and bolntj reduced to quite a low condition of health, ui It was thought she could not live of heredi which ap peared all ovor his face. For ayoarl of his I was i von on all hone recovery, when finally Afewho ttlettcuredhlm, amino eymptomn of tho dieao remain. Mhh. T. L. JHatiiriw, Miithervlllo, Mlu, Onr book on Blood uv I Hkm WiM.wm nulla! frtc. BW1KT BvauviC Co.. AlUntA, Gt. "German Syrup" Two bottles of German Syrup cured me of Hemorrlinge of the Lungs when other remedies failed. I am a married man and, thirty-six years of age, and live with my wife and two little girls at Durham, Mo. I have stated this brief and plain so that all may understand. My case was a bad one, and I shall be glad to tell anyone about it who will write me. Phiup L. Schknck, P. O. B0X4. Anril rgnn Mn could ask a more honorable, busi ness-like statement. Letters from Mothers speak In warm terms of what Scott's Emulsion has done for their del icate, sickly children. It's use has brought thousands back to rosy heulth. Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil with Hypophos phitcs is employed with great success in all ailments that re duce flesh and strength. Little ones take it with relish. Pr.ilml hv (tall Howm.W.T. AlUnumtd, IT CISTS 1 WIS Town thin Watch, but when you havo aeeri It nun I r. uu itu vm nun ti.n , , . 10 am titlco it. iiL irwL.. l... unii i ittourwipeitue, IHM. nUMbt 1 trnKliy Wbtclu which are no iwttor tluti hraNM. We KuurHiitiia r 1 our frooMfl, ami can tell you anything iu Iho SEEING IS BELIEVING fti'cSs! v. u. v. ujeci w. examination. EXCELSIOR WATCH CO. 637 Market St., - - San Franoiioo. HAVE YOU GOT JTOHTNO Ttlit!9 known by Mftlatni Ike ieri.plriltyi, chum intoiitvt Hulling Wlwn wnrm. Thin farm IuhI Jl UN It UhhSlUWa or VUOTJ.lUDINa vliaJ YIIXI) ATOmjCTO DR. BO-SAN-KO'3 PILEHBMFDY, Wti1li ftotsj dirwUy on parts iifleetivl. Off C O priTtisUi'"H''tirn. J.'rl(irtfino. bniKRliitri unurinutiuorH.uuAYuiiAjuaB.ejioplinrl Curat, my littlB boy tary acrofula SJt FREE fFREE 20 yoar II' Jjf nickol caso. jCi jjr rnov'int N. P. N, U, No, 41)48, B. N. U. No. 671 ft. i