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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1893)
! ) 1 BROTHERS. ftpfrittr, At wy window Hp) tin Inn, Weaving cirltw wider, wider, from tliw tluft boKiuumg. Running WlieolH and pokwt until yon Build your hIIIchu deatlitrai) ounnlnfc Blmll 1 uulob you, kill youV Hprawllnu. , Nimble, shrewd An Olroe, rtnnth'n your only aim untt nailing Why should you have meruy? Htrlku tliesr Not for rapluo willful. Man lilniHitlf In too utuuli like thee, Ouly uotsoekillfu.. Rife In Thee liven our Oreatnr, Thou'rl aftlmpe to hold a life 1m 1 am uotuliiK r ter. -yeorao HortoD Id Harper's. iMY GHOSTLY COMPANION An rAprimnt Tlmt Mak- tJs A.u, "What In Coming?" Mr. W. H. Pram chief engineer anil electrician to the pontoffk. han ptit tips wire a mile Ioiik on the count near Lav- h i hni ernock and a shorter one on Flatholm, a He said noi . word, bat, ..... ....... ., ., . - . .. D . ulMe immiu miiito uuiuB uu in mu xjuniui channel.' Ho fitted the latter wire with & "sounder" to receive messages, and sent a message through the former from "Come at once. Mr. Thomas Warring loo is dangerously 111 and wishes to see proo." I This was a tolegrnphio message which 1 neeived one cold January morning labont six years ago. Surprise was my chief feeling at the moment, for Mr, Thomas Warrington had never been more than a name to me, although be was my uncle. 1 had never seen him, and had never felt any particular desire to do so, not from any dislike or grudge II bore the old nian, but simply because 1 had forgotten all about him. Certainly be was my uncle, my fa jther'B elder brother, but for years before twy father's death there had been a feud between them relating to a small estate which my father claimed, and which my uncle, though a rich man with much property, also claimed. Acourt of law settled the matter after much delay and anger on either side. My undo waB able to pay for exjiert counsel, my father was sot, for, except this small estate which caused the quarrel, he bad nothing but Ithe precarious Income of an author. My ancle fought hard, grasping old man that he'was. and won his case. Hut this had all happened so long ago, in the days at my extreme youth, tlait I bad never given a second thought, certainly never serious one to the story. Hard words had passed between the brothers, I be lieve, very hard words, and my uncle had worn loudly and deeply that he de mited the sight of my father, and hoped paver to set eyes on biui or his again as long as he lived. Perhaps you think it was unusual for young man of no means never to give a second thought to an uncle who was (the possessor of money and lands, but it really is a fuct. and although my uncle Eras rich and childless, 1 knew that he eteeted me and my connections, and trig estate win unentailed. 1 myself was very young barrister, with enough to think about, and, up to the present, as xnucb as 1 could do to get through my examinations. Lbouie friends of mine were talking the her day about strange things which had happened to them, and it set me thinking abont the only really strange (thing that ever happened to me. and I iword the cirouinstaiices, hoping that some reader may be able to afford me an explanation. Well, to go back to the telegrum. I was certainly very mnch surprised, and Ifur a minute or fm stood staring at the up of pink papr in an absent uiinued sort of way. Then it occurred to me hat 1 was wasting time. The telegram demanded my presence, and I had no time to waste. 1 looked at my Brad ahaw, found that 1 bad an hour before rthe next train started, so ate my break last calmly, and packed a portmanteau, Ming glad for the first time since 1 had become a full blown barrister that no measure of work detained me in town. I i soon found a corner seat in a smok ing carriage, and resigned myself to a sairly long journey on this cold January Uay. 1 had taken my place in very good itiiue, so amused myself by watching the people hurrying to and fro, and was a good deal attracted by a white Paired told gentleman who slowly passed back ward and forward at short intervale be fore the carriage in which I sat, and who, every time he passed, seemed to look at me with a Car away expression in bis eyes. 1 wub beginning to feel inter ested in the old fellow, when the train tartod, and 1 soon forgot all abont him. I By bad luck the train which I had managed to catch was a terribly slow one, which stopped at almost every sta tion big and small, and I was surprised always to see the same White haired old gentleman passing to and fro on the platform every time we stopped, He never passed without looking at me with the same faraway expression in his eyes, it the first few stations 1 scarcely no ticed him, bin after a bit I began to wonder who be was and why he paraded snout in that manner, and took a sort of lasy interest in him, pitying the poor old fellow for having to travel on such a bleak day. The Jonrney was certainly a tedious one, bnt I found a good deal to occupy my thoughtsmy uncle, whom I bud never seem the old quarrel; the chances of his relenting in the matter of my father's estate, fur surely be would not luinuion me from London for no other purpose than that I might make personal inquiries as to bis health. The day wore on, and the short winter ifteruoou began to close In. We bad passed most of the larger and busier towns, and were coming to villages and small stations All my fellow travelers suul left the carriage, being mostly busi ness men they had reached thoir several destinations in the larger towns, and I sat alone in my corner, when the old White haired gentleman, whom I was be ginning to look upon as rather eccentric, turned the bundle of the i-itrriage door. came m, and sat down in tn corner op posite tome. gazed out at the landscape in a dreamy manner, while I took the opportunity to lexamine his appearance more closely, llle was tall, thin and looked emaciated, with dearly cut features of a waxen kiolor, and wonderfully blue eyes. He jwors an old fashioned, low crowned silk hut, and a long, thick coat with a fur collar. The expression of his face re minded me of some one, but I could not remember of whom J did not notice all this at once, for 1 did not like to stare too long at the old gentleman, but 1 need not have troubled myself, for be never turned hiB eyes from the window. The evening drew on, the daylight faded and the lamps were lighted, and (till he kept his eyes fixed and gassed ont ' of the window into the darkness, while the dim light of the oil lamp shone down on his pale features, and 1 smoked hard Hid said nothing. I I think I must have dozed for a little ' wiuie, then I heard the guard calling "Ashbndge roadt Ashbridge road!" and 1 started up, grabbed at my portman- , teau and prepared to get out of the car- 1 riage, for 1 had reached my destination; but my companion also rose, turned and looked me full in the face with a look which seemed to make my biood grow chilly, stepped out before me and 1 fol lowed. The station was certainly very badly lighted and the night was pitch dark, but 1 was rather surprised when 1 got outside neither to see uor hour any sign or sound of my fellow passenger. How ever, 1 thought it did not mutter to me where he had gone, so finding a carnage awaiting me 1 got in and in the rush of other thoughts 1 soon forgot him. How is Mr. Warrington by this time?" 1 asked the coachman. He died this morning, sir," was the reply And then followed the details of his illness and death, which lasted until we reuched Ashford Hall, my uncle's house. 1 rang the bell, and was soon admitted by a Btout. comfortable looking woman. who showed me to my room, where I be gan to wonder what 1 hud better do. It was rather an awkward position to come. a perfect stranger, at the bidding ol an other Btranger. and find him dead on arrival At length 1 went down stairs, and the same kindly looking woman met me in the ball and gave me more details of my uncle's illnesH and his great desire to see me. Then she supposed that 1 should like to see the curpse, und so evidentlv ON THE VERGE OF THE UNKNOWN. AN AFRICAN THRMOPYLE. A Natural and Impregnable Fortress In MaHhonalaml. South Africa is now the land of romance and Anglo-Saxon enterprise. . All east Af , rica Indeed is the land on which England's 'eyes are fixed, for though tbe Germans hold part of the coast, and consequently havea "sphere of influence" back of it. Eng lishmen complaisantly assume that Ger many will not lone be in their way. Hgypt is now England's, and thenoe far to the a powerful telephonic generator. That southward, while from cape uoiony sue ai- jnessage on the j lening section Is not so wide as the al- beard on tbe island, though nothing con nected the two, or, in other words, the possibility of a telephone between places unconnected by wire was conclusively established, There is a possibility here of Inter planetary communication, a good deal more worthy attention than any scheme for making gigantic electric flashes. We do not know if we can communicate by telephone through the ether to New York or Melbourne with or without cableB, bnt we do know that, if we can not, the fault is in our generators and sounders, and not in any prohibitory nat ural law. Will our habitual readers bear with us for a moment as we wander into another, and, as many of them will think, a supra sensual region? The thought in a roan's brain which causes him to advance his foot must move something in doing it. or how could it be transmitted down that five or six feet of distance? If it moves a physical something, internal to the body, why should it not move also something external, a wave, as we all agree to call it, which on another mind prepared to receive it fitted with a sounder in fact will make an impact having all the effect in the conveyance of suggestion, or even of facts, of the audibility of words? Why, in fact, if one wire can talk to another without con nection, save through ether, should not mind talk to mind without any "wire" at all. None of us understands accurately, or even as "yet approximately, what the con ditions are, but many of us know for certain that they have occasionally, and by what we call accident, been present to particular individuals, and that, when present, the communication is completed without cables, and mind speaks to mind Independently of any machinery not ex isting within itself. Why, in the name of science, is that leged desert between our Iowa ?nd Califor nia was when the overland telegraph was setup. 6 A telegraph from Cairo to Cape Townl It is a proposition that almost takes one's breath, but Englishmen say they will soon have it The first difficulty in their north ward march is Mashonaland, not so much on account of the present hostility of the black savages as on account of the awful possibilities in case of future troubles. There is one natural fortress at Zimbubwe which is approachable only by a narrow cleft, a great fissure in the rock, and it is Thermonylie indeedl A handful of men could hold it against the armies of -the world till starved out no easy task, as the savages would have an open country be hind them till an immense army could sur round them. Captain Jack and the lava beds were not in it for comparison. Feminine Tact, Hostess (at dinner) You own a veTy fine telescope, I understand, Mr. Do Science. Guest Yes, madam, I waB fortunate enough to secure a most excellent Instru ment. Hostess Are you interested in micro scopes r Guest No, madam; I never had One, Hostess Marie, pass Mr. De Science the cheese. New York Weekly. Christmas Kve An Alarm. Choms What win datf Didn't yon hear sunfin? Life. more of a "miracle" that is, an occur rence prohibited by immutable law than the transmission of Mr. Preece's message from Lavernock to Flatholm? London Spectator. Unsatisfactory "We had depended on you for a Christ mas story," said the publisher, "but listen to this from the manuscript you gave us: . 'It was a moist drizzling day, the clouds had obscured the sun all morning, and there hadn't been a snowflake within sev enteen miles of the place for a week. The sleighs had last year's rust on their run ners, and tbe inhabitants wouldn't have known the sound of sleigh bells from the explosion of a Gatling gun. It was just a common every day Christmas, on which Santa Claus had to take off his skates and drag out bis overshoes.' It won't do; I don't think the reading public will have It." "And yet," sighed the author as he rolled up bis copy and put it into his pocket, "you said you wanted something a little different. "Washington Post. A Rainmaker to Be Depended Upon. Frederick W. Boot is a good deal of a hoodoo. He gracefully acknowledges the charce himself. It is a sinirular fact expected me to auswor in the affirmative that whenever he appears to deliver a that 1 did so. and she led the way up the lecture the rain begins to fall. He is so Dioaa staircase unu aowu a long pussuge. g00n producer that he has serioUB- At the eud of this passage she opened v considered the idea of utilizincr his the door of a dimly lighted room and we talents for that nurnose in the arid re entered, she carrying a candle. We went gjon8 f the west. togetner to me obubhib, ana sue, naming WhileutBilverljakeAssembly.inNew tbe candle high with one hand, gently york tate, he delivered a lectured on lifted the sheet with the other and dis- musical tastes or a kindred subject. He closed the white, oleur cut features of hoJ delivered the same lecture a half my traveling companion. dozen times in the west, and tbe refresh- ThiB was the first and last thing of the big shower came alonir each time before kind that ever happened to me, and is j,e hod half finished it. still unexplained. I But when he reached the Silver Lake 1 stayed on at Ashford Hall for the 1 Assembly erounds the skv was brieht. funeral, and found myself, on the read- Mr. Root congratulated himself ing of my uncle's will, Bole heir to all his npon having shaken off his evil spirit. possessions. True Flag, He mounted the rostrum, cleared his throat, and when he had got aa f or as "FriendB and follow citizens" the rum ble of distant thunder grated harshly upon hie ears. Yet he gathered up his courage and went on, and before he had A Typical ISoubellever. "Do I believe in slms and luck, and superstitions and all that blooming non senso? Of course not," said fat and jolly Henry Thornbnrgh at Hurst's hotel to a delivered a quarter of his lecture the group or pniuwupners. -i nave some rain came down in torrents, sort of respect for the people whoso su-1 "Indeed," said Mr. Root, "I never saw perstition is a religion. The Egyptians, it rain bo hard before." After the ad- who worshiped the dog and cat and even (Imss a witty young Chicago woman who the crocodile; the Romans, who put thoir fcnew of the hoodoo business suggested, faith in divination and oracles and ma- for the convenience of the public, that gical powers of amulets; the Greeks, who next year Mr. Root should write a lec- ucineu Dees ami ants; even ine mysteries ture upon a dry subject. Chicago Post. ana aosuruitiesoi astrology anuieicnemy Keeping Him a Lover. Mrs. Sharptongue r- D'ye mean t' say you've been married ten years, an' never had a quarrel with y'r husband? Fair Stranger That is true, madam. "And ye always let him have the last word?" "Yes, madam; I wouldn't for the world do anything to lessen my husband's love for me. He might get careless." "Careless?" Appkoach TO the fortress. "yes. We are jugglers by profession, Mr. .7. T. Bent F. S. A., and a scientist ' and at two performances every day I stand of abilitv. has lust DUblished an account against a board while he throws the of the "Ruined Cities of Mashonaland," I knives." New York Weekly. which he lately visited, and it fascinat ing as any novel. Long, long ago the gold mines were worked by a people who built fortified towns. They were evidently con structed by a people who came from a great distance for a special purpose and took the most elaborate precautions to secure themselves against attack. There seems tobanoreaHontoquestionthe conclusions of ethnologists that these ancient sojourn ers in Mashonaland burrowed for gold, which they carried buck to Arabia. Their monuments are extremely primitive, and they were so thoughtless as to leave no inscriptions for the benefit of the specula tive theorist. The most iuteresting dis covery is the trace of Semitic blood in the population today, utruck of inquiry which may carry the Musbona pedigree back to Ham. All railrouds in South' Africa are owned and run by the government, and it iB now pushing a line northward into Mashona land at considerable expense, as some of the mountains have to be tunneled, and the occasional swamps are very unhealthy for white men. The natives are described by Mr. Bent as remarkably moral and honest, and "the great chief, Kliama, is a sincerely religious man, who prohibits the brewing of beer, holds sen-ices twice every Sunday, rigorously enforces the observance of that day, regulates the price of every commod ity, and when he sells a horse which subse quently falls ill always returns the, money to the purchaser." The explorer humor ously suggest tU-t Khama send mission aries to England. The greatest lack in all that region is a permanent supply of wuter. all have my Bymputiiies and at least re spectful consideration. Bnrlal Customs In Kentucky. In the mountains of Kentucky when i done West. ' ' "My friend George has gone to Seattle," . said the obituary editor to the funny man quite seriously. "Ah," twittered the funny man. "What has he gone to see attle for?" . "I should say," responded the obitnary editor with great solemnity, "that he has gone to Seattle, Wash." - And the funny man felt the gray matter In his brain slowly congealing. Washing ton Star. " A Transparent Lie, Friend If you are so bad off why don't you apply to your rich brother in Boston for assistance? Poor Man I did write to him to assist me, and what answer do you suppose I got? "I have no idea." "He wrote me that my letter asking for assistance had never reached him." Texas Sittings. . , An Artful Girl. She You men hare canes and gloves to carry, but tell me, Mr. Cassimeer,(wbat can we girls do with our hands? He Really, I don't know. (With a sud den inspiration) Why, give 'em away, of course! Evelyn, darling, I love you; slip this ring on yours, and I'll run up and strike the old manl American Grocer. But the horrors of the dreadful figure husband dies his funeral sermon is not 18 and tho fears some people have of preached until after the death of the making ono of that number; the refusal wife, nor that of a wife until the hus to start a journey or undertaking on band also is dead. Thon a preacher is Friday; all sortB of ghosts and spectral sent for, friends and neighbors are warnings, with second sight, etc., have called in, and the respect is paid to both my supreme contempt. I have known together. men to shudder upon seeing two mag- - More peculiar is the custom cf having pios at the same time; a friend of mine the services for one person repeated, so left my table not long ago because one that the dead get their "funerals'1 of my children spilled some salt while preached several times months and years moving his plato; ono of tho firm in our after their burial. I heard the pitiful bonse would rather suitor fine and im- story f two sisters who had their moth prUonnient than to put on his left shoe er's "funeral" preached once every sum first when he goto up in the morning, mer as long as they lived. And in most respects these people are all In strange contrast with this regard sensible people. for ceremonial observances is their nog- "Stopl Don't walk in front of me; lect of the graves of their beloved, which there's a pin on the Uoor right there with they do not seem at all to visit when once its head toward me. You say what of closed or to decorate with those symbols it? Why, don't you know it is a sign of affection which are the common indi- tbat What s that? superstition? Oh, cations of bereavement. "Blue Gross well, you know there are some things Well, all right. Shut up! Whafllyou have?" St. Louis Globe-Democrat : It. Some argue that light, the astron omer's only basis of search in the un fathomable regions of space, expands and decomposes in its progress, and that at best it gives lis only very imperfect data upon which to base calculations. Placer county, Nov., lays claim to a valuable specimen of petrified vegeta tion. It consists of two pieces of rook which are believed to have been water melons, as they have the exact shape and appearance of that fruit, Region of Keptucky." Dull Eyed Scientists. Mrs. Haynian Who are those gentle men ruunin into our bam to get out o' th'rain? ' Daughter They are a party of scien tists who are staying at the hotel. They've been ont on some expedition or Other. Mre. Hayman 1 don't see wheretheir eyes was las' night. Anyone might a known from th' uew moon it was goin to rain. It was tipped up so it couldn't bold water if it tried. New York Wsokly. Obettity, LeitmieM and Beauty Some persons are boro with ft normal tendency to become (at, others wkb a tendency to leauuess. It is tbe same among the lower animals. Tbe bog is a sort of machine for transforming the odds and ends of food into fat; but the farmer knows beforehaud that a little pig with long legs and snout will work off tbe fat as fast as it can be made. So a long legged person sel dom inclines to obesity. Temperament has much to do with tbe bodily condition in this respect. In lym phatic people the life processes are slow, and the fat is largely deposited rather than burned. This temperament furnishes some of tbe best types of surface beauty. The person of nervous temperament, on the other hand, by excessive activity of body abd mind, and by predisposition to haste, worry, fret and impatience, naturally re mains lean; but while the features of such a person will probably lack softness and roundness of outline, they may exhibit in a marked degree the higher beauties of mindandaoul. People who incline to obesity may hold the tendency in check by appropriate food and stirring exercise in the open air, thus both lessening the amount of fat forming food taken .into the system and causing a more rapid consumption Of such fat as is produced, and those who incline to undue leanness, by pursuing the opposite course, may largely increase the amount of fat de posited. Youth's Companion. Silent Evidences of a Tragedy. H. Johnson and J. Bishop, who have been prospecting for minerals in the wild moun- Knew Him at Once. "You are from New York, sir," remarked the barber to the man who had just left the chair. "How did you knowf" "For the reason that you didn't kick be cause you were the seventeenth man I used the same towel on." Philadelphia Times. They Are a Necessity, . The Boston Transcript recommends the arrest of any store boy who sweeps oil the sidewalk of a crowded street between 8 and , 9 o'clock in the morning. 'The Transcript is perfectly right. Tbe boys must leave the sidewalks where they are. Lowell Citizen. A Faglty Proverb. Gryce That old Indian rascal; Dough-face-full-of-prunes-up-to-the-ueck, is on the rampage again, I see. I guess it's true that the only gooi Indian is a dead Indian. Bryce But did you ever know a real mean Indian to die? Spirit. Absent Mliided. ' Professor (a little distracted) I'm very glad to see you. How's your wifer "I regret it. professor, but I'm not mar ried." "Ah, yes, then, of course, your wife's still single?" Fliegende Blatter. A Season for Everything. Walker Weeks has got fearfully round shoulders, hasn't hat He never does any work, does kef Wentman No, but you ought to see the load of debts he has to carryK-American Grocer. , The search for the golden fleece had not for ita sole object the conquest of a! Paine, or a precious fleece, or to rob the ! tainous region south and east of Mount treasure soarefully heaped by the ava- Rainier, Wash., found in a wild and almost ticious Aetea. inaccessible place the remains of a camp, with cooking utensils and some tinned pro visions scattered about, and Bhortly after, about a mile away, they discovered the bones and antlers of an elk and the remains of a human being mixed together and scat tered about on the bottom alongside of a mail creek. They judged that the man was a hunter, as the barrel and half decayed stock of a gun were found near the bones, Champagne owes its quality to thftj toil, a mixture of chalk, sihea, light, clay and oxide of iron, and to the great care and delicate manipulation in mauu-' factum A book of a thousand pages could be written on "Wonders and Curiotuttat and It is supposed that he had wounded the 1 Respecting the Crab Family' and each elk and it had killed him. 1 chapter made apropos to the title too.
