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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1893)
THE GIRL I LOVEa AT SCHOOL Wum the mellow days of autumn ttai t,'to hills in purple haze, and the huh seems all the dearer for the short ness cil' the days. Comes a lovely apparition throuiih the mists of other years, and 1 ilou'l know why It la o that my eyes will swim with tears For 1 hate to Juljie emotions by the textbook's rote and role, Aid 1 only know I'm thinking of the girl I loved at eohooL Of tnedcettcst, brownest velvet are the sweetly thoUKiitrul eyes, and UteolieeHH are like the roses Uiatonj gran nies used to prize lot the pampered, pinky blossoms that the hot house man deals out At four dollars foradoaon and with pasteboard wrapped about But the dear old damask roues that would bold their tints till Vule Just the sort I used to italhor tor the girl 1 loved at school. And the hits no, nol uot rubyi for the coldness of the mine Dbllls the Jewel's burnlsbed surface, tliuut'li the ftery rays nuty shine In the glaring or the itaaluilit; fitter far do tliey compare With the warm kIow iu yon chalios; the same fragrance lingers there; Ihe same tltrill runs through me as whon on the organ stool Mr lll hrst pressed the pulsing Una of borl loved at school. And the form, it grows dlstincter as the misty veil grows titln. And the silver belt that linked her, like the ser pent shutting iu All that earth retained of heaven, Jiisees out, "Then Jealous fool!" For 1 parted In my anger from the girl I loved at school. And J know not If the fleeting of the purple autumn days Brings us nearer to the greeting at the meeting of onr ways; If It he i may uot meet her till we've crossed the Htygiun peel, Tel I think that l.W greet Iter as the girl I loved at school, Sinus City Journal. Ancient Cures. The iucantntionB of Apuleis are Bonse and soberness compared with those of his Christian successor, Mareelius (A, I). 48(1), "If a man's nose bleeds whisper iu his far on tha game side, 'soesocam skyma' thrice nine times, and you may still go on saying it." Toothache, if it occurs on a Tuesday or Thursday and if the moon is waning, may be cured by repeatiug seven times "argidmn Diargidum stargidura." Even his prayers compare unfavorably with those of Apuleis: "In ophthalmia look out for the first ewullow, then ran silently to the nearest spring, wash your eyes and pray God that yon may tie free from it for that year, and that all the pain may pass into the swallow." The whole book is full of similar absurdities, which he defends by the invariable empiric argument that pa tients have got well after practicing them. We most not, however, Buppose that this superstition was in any way ravored by Christianity. It was m- deed a Christian bishop who intro duced the disastrous doctrine that the signs of the zodiac preside over the various organs of the human body, but the church disapproved both of the science and (lie theology of Prisoillian, and he was executed as a magician and heretic A. U. 3i5. London Hospital. A Itural Iteglott Near New l'ork. Just west of the Hudson and above Weehawkeu is a region as rural and antique as any 150 miles from New York. Although this region is almost within rifle shot of Riverside drive it is sparsely settled and difficult of ac cess. Its inhabitants are descended from Dutch settlers, who found their way into the region alter better and more accessible lands had been oectt pied. It was part of this districtthat was bought up ten or fifteen years ago by a syndicate including William Walter Phelps and Rutherford B. Hayes. The expected developments never followed, and those of the syn dicate who were not rich enough to hold on sold out to those who could afford towait. Mr. Phelps now holds a great deal of the syndicate s orig inal purtiiase. , One of the purchasers has held on to his land uuiid all sorts of difficul ties and at the expense of much self sacrifice on the part of himself and his family. The prophecy that a re gion so near New York must in ten years have a population of many thousands has fallen ludicrously short of fulfillment, as even now the inhabitants scarcely number more than they did twenty-five years ago. New York Bun. The Valno of a Pension. . Some of the hardships resulting from the fall of the rupee to persona with fixed incomes are inevitable! some, on the other hand, seem to be due quite as much to red tape as to the condition of the currency. For instance, daughters of deceased members of the Bengal civil service whose fathers contributed to the pension fund are each entitled to a pen sion of 100 a year. If they reside in England they drawtheir fidl 100 a year. If, however, they reside in India, it is paid to them in rupees, which work out at the present rate of exchange at the Talue of forty-five pounds a year. The loss is so great as to be almost ruinous, London Truth. Is the Husband to Klamef I do not agree with so many who pronounce the gonial,, pleasant hus band a myth. He is' not, but he is sadly in the minority, Without be ing partial to my sex 1 klieve it is generally the fault of t! husband that the wife lacks aniii: ion when in his presence-. tA wo; an to he agreeable, charming, delightful must have an incentive, and there is no greater one to be found than the in nate feeling that the person with whom you are thrown is waiting anxiously for your opinion and watches your every expression and gesture with loving glances. Why. I have known the harshest voire and most abrupt mannerisms to soften and refine under such tute lage. Love! It is all powerful-a woman needs it; must have it to grow and develop. What does she care about politics if she feels that an expressed opinion is likely to subject her to ridicule . What interest isshe going to take in the current events of the day when she must needs go away from home to discuss them ? Strang est of all strange things, once upon a time this woman's word was law, and the man who does not now care a ha'penny what she thinks, fa days gone by hung upon her words as if they were bo many pearls of wisdom. undoubtedly the women have a right to complain, for man's indif ference to the woman whom he has chosen for a life partnor is made to furnish a background for two-thirds of the word pictures drawn. . The stage seems to revel at the fact. On wholesome jests are tossed about in airiest fashion. Poetry and prose have many a fling at the luckless being who has wagered her all in the chance game of matrimony onlj to lose. Cincinnati Commercial Ga lette. i Bough, lint Kind. , Immediately after 1 had left the emigrant train 1 am told that I looked like a man at death's door, bo much had the long journey shaken me. i sat at the end of the oar, and the catch being broken and mvself sick and feverish, 1 had to hold the door open with my foot for the sake of air. In this attitude my leg barred the newsboy from his box of merchan dise. I made haste to let him pass When I observed that he was coming. but I was busy with a book, and so. once or twice, he came upon me nn awarcs. On these occasions he most rudely struck my foot aside, and though I myself apologized, as if to show him the way, he answered me never a word. I chafed furiously, and I fear the next time it would have come to words; but suddenly 1 felt a touch npon my shoulder, and a large, juicy pear was put into my hand. It was the newsboy, who had ob served that I was looking ill, and so made me this present out of a tender heart. For the rest of the journey 1 was petted like a sick chud ; he lent me newspapers, thus depriving himself of his legitimate profit on their sale. and came repeatedly to sit by me and cheer me up. "Across the Plains." Hints on Social Calls. In the evening a young society man should don his best suit of clothes and most attractive bouton- niere and go to call on some charm mg young lady mend; arriving at the, bouse and making himself thor oughly comfortable upon a divan bolstered up by artistic cushions, and as the result of an active day of business lite which he has lctt. be hind he should yawn, 'twould be bet ter to so well disguise it as not to be seen. But having felt all the relief one can feel from having a "good old yawn," and having been oh served by his hostess, then he should, with all the fortitude born of an emergency, yank -himself from the too comfortable divan and re solve himself by all the gods uot to yawn again. Not having done so, perhaps the aforesaid charming young hostess would conclude she had made a greater success at enter taining him.. Galveston News. Bettor Than Polities. Friend What are you working at now! Inventor Greatest thing of the age a dollar in the slot voting and weighing machine. It collects the poll tax, counts the votes and so beautifully disa'itninates that there'll be no more trouble, no more politics, no more speeches, no more brass bands and, best of all, no more boodlers. "My stars I What's the idea?" ' "Simple as A B C, The machine only counts the votes of those under a certain weight. Quick as the party in power beginB to get fat on the spoils of office their votes are thrown out, and the half starved minority walks in, and when the new party gets fat it goes out, and so on." GETTING SQUARE. How a Circus Attendant (lot Even with a Cranky Skeleton; The general public is not acquaint ed with the manner in which somo employees are hired for a circus. Some of the situations in the "side show" are irksome, and in order to retain the right man in a place he is Hired with what is called a "hold back" that is, he is to receive, for instance, fifty dollars a month sal ary, but gets only fifteen dollars a month, the other thirty-five dollars being retained until the close of the circus soason, when it is always paid to him in a lump. Messrs. Hagar and Henshaw, the managers of the "side show" of the Barnum circus, have alwavs had con siderable difficulty in getting a man to stay the season out and take care of the living skeleton, owing to the general "cussedness" of all such 'freaks." In the case of the skele ton he had to be carried to and from every performance, to meals, etc., in storm, rain and hot weather, and the attendant was compelled to bear all die grumblings and complaints of the skeleton with the added phases ot in temper and abuse. One season when the show closed and theattendant of theskeleton had received all the money due him for the season's work, including his "hold back," he felt as if he would Eke to square accounts with the skel eton; so, after the last performance, taking the skeleton in his arms, he carried him, not to the sleeping car, but away off in the fields, and plac ing him beside a fence left him there with the remark: "There 1 You have abused meall summer, and now, darn you, I'll get square. You can stay where you are until I come for you next season." After an hour or two the skeleton was missed, and all hands were sent in search for him, when at 4 o'clock in the morning he was found lying in the wet grass chilled to the mar row, as it was an easy thing to chill him to the bone, owing to the ab- i senco of flesh. New York Tribune. Dangerous Bacteria. aii Doctena teast upon organic matter, and develop m great num bers in fermenting solutions of it. Their number is generally approxi mately proportional to the impur ity, and therefore may represent the relative danger of potable waters, t A water that contains a large number of them should not be used for drink ing without first being boiled. By boiling polluted water for half an hour all the infectious (but not the harmless) becteria in it will be de stroyed. It it is then filtered to re move the vegetable substances, and aerated to render it potable such water can be used with perf ect safety for drinking. Since the infectious bacteria are the agents of all filth diseases, it ehould.be the aim in all sanitary analysis ot water to determine wheth er they have actual existence in the water, or, what answers the same purpose, to determine the conditions favorable for their development. Whenever a chemical analysis re veals the presence of sewage in a water its use should be discontinued for dnuking. Engineering Maga zine. The division of Salvage. When the engines of the big liner, the City of Paris, on her way from New York to Liverpool, broke down several hundred miles off the Irish coast on March 25, 1890, the Utile steamship Ohio, although unable, by reason of a shortage of coal, to tow the big ship into a harbor, stood by her for eleven hours, until the freighter Aldersgate, from Galveston to Liverpool, came along and made lines fast to tow her to Liverpool. In the award of salvage, amount ing to $10,500, the Ohio received $3,- 000, although she had really rendered no aid. The balance was given to the ownera and crew of the Aiders gate, the owners receiving $30,625, the crew $4,025, and the master $2,- 250. New York Evening Sun. Do not criticise the writer who be sprinkles his composition with French phrases. It is easier to hide one's Ignorance in a foreign tongue than In a language with which all people are familiar. People do not at this age of the world go for amusement to arenas to see men and women put to death, as they did in ancient Rome, but some times this is what they see. The cellular prison system in Hol land, where the offenders are com pletely isolated, is asserted to be most effectual in repressing crime and re forming criminals. Pennants, the great traveler, hated wigs and got into innumerable broils by snatching oft the head covering of every man he met who wore a wig. Hard tu Kurpi-ltio. She dropped wearily into a seat in I Broadway car, and the girl who ac companied her said sympathetically: "Aro you all tired out, dear? It's awful work, isn't it?" "I should say so," groaned the "dear." "But, Helen, you don't know anything about the misery of it all. iou aren t engaged! No but Jack is so nice I shouldn't think you'd mind choosing him a present." , "I know he's nicel That's the trouble. He doesn't smoke, and I've always been glad until now ! But I can't get him a pipe, a cigarette case, an ash receiver or anything! He doesn't drink, and I can't give him a traveling flask. He wears an incon spicuous watch chain made of his mother's hair, and I always thought it so sweet and thoughtful, but I can't give him watch things, you see. He hasn't a single vice, Helen, and you can't give Christmas pres ents to men who haven't! Why, even a photograph frame would be useless, for he has only his mother's picture and mine out, and they re al ready framed! What shall I do?" And Helen replied tersely; "Break it at once." New York World.' Smallness of Hlstorlo Places. The strongest impression made npon the American traveling in Europe for the first time is usually astonishment at the small size of the historic places which he has so longed to sec. The royal chamber where the grande monarque received brilliant crowds of courtiers, foreign diplo matists and nobles before rising is too small to satisfy an independent Irish-American cook who knows her rights in this country. The apartment of Mary, qneen of Scots, at Holyrood, still garnished with her mirror and bed draped with gold embroidery, is still more cramped, while the supper room in which Rizzio was murdered is but a narrow, dingy closet, reached by tiny winding stairs such as usually lead to a garret. The dwellings of the great Scotch dukes and earls in Edinburgh in ancient times were reached for the most part through dark, steep alley ways or closes not three feet wide, and the homes of the great races of Hamilton, Moray and Eglinton were smaller, darlcef and moro uncomfort able than those of an American me chanic today. Youth's Companion. Pt'or Rich Men. Countless young men who coveted everything of the late Jay Gould ex cept his coffin may be surprised to learn that Mr. Gould generally want ed and needed money quite as much as they. Property isn't money, as many able business men have often learned to their cost and misery. The larger a man's operations and the more frequently he wants to make a "quick turn" or a "big strike" the oftenor does he feel poverty pangs quite as keen as those of the young man who longs to sport a totting horse and buggy, but has to content himself with a secondhand bicycle. Chauncey M. Depew is credited with the statement that the late William H. Vanderbilt, one of the three richest men in tho United States, was alwaj-s poor and in debt. Many business men can understand this strange statement, though the young men aforesaid will take no Stock in it until they become business men themselves. Harper's Weekly. Forcing Antiquities. The forgery of antiquities has been a recognized industry in Europe for many years, but it is little known that the famous English "Flint Jack" has his counterpart in this country in one Burnett, ''a small, dull, yellow man," as a neighbor described him, who lives on the French Broad river in North Carolina, For a long time he was in the habit of riding to the townsand selling "fake" arrowheads to dealers and visitors, as well as mortars and pestles that had the ap pearance of having been long buried. isut he lost one customer bv takmir him a mounted figure of pottery that he said he had unearthed from an Indian mound. He had made the mistake of putting shoes on the horse. New York Sun. The Mecca of Visitors. That New York is a mecca for all America and the resort even of for eigners must be impressed upon any man that frequents the clubs. There is no conspicuous club in town t hat is not visited every month by men from nearly all the states and terri tories and by strangers from remote foreign parts. The visitors' list of one club for a single week shows the names of persons from Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Cleveland, Paris and small cities in North Dakota, Maryland and New Hampshire, while one name is that of a Chinaman, New York Sun. TOLD BY DETECTIVE DRUMMOND. How Ho Protected Raseomh from n Green floods Mitn Ho Could Not Arrest. 1 Chief Drtimmond, of the United States treasury secret service, tells a good story. A man named Bascomb came up from Tennessee. He had received a green goods circular and had determined to trap the swindlers. Drummond was detailed to go with him. - "I put on a flannel shirt," says Drummond, "an old pair of trousers, a rough pair of shoes and a soft hat and followed Bascomb to the meet ing place. He was accosted bv a man who took him into a buhVng. I followed and stood upon a stairwav where I could watch the door leading into theofliceof the swindlers. After awhile the door opened and Fowler, a noted green goods man who was then employed by the Davis brothers, Btepped half way into the hall. He had a valise in his hand and was neither in the office nor out of it, but stood in the door. Bascomb had his eye on Fowler all the time, as I after ward learned. While Fowler was in the door a colored boy darted across the hall with a valise in his hand. The exchange was made so deftly that Bascomb didn't see it. "In a minute Bascomb came out and he and Fowler started for an express office. I followed. They took a stage and I took one too. Their stage stopped quite often, but nihie didn't, and at times I found I was abreast of them. Fearing that Fowler might recognize mo, I would he down flat, upon the floor of my stage whenever I got near the one I was followhur. The passengers were amazed, and thought, I suppose, that I was an escaped lunatic. .. Fowler and Bas- . comb left their stage near the Adams express office and I alighted from mme. Just as Fowler was in the act of handing the valise to the receiving clerk I tapped him on the shoulder and told him that I wanted him, and mat, too, pointing to the bag. "Bascomb was delinrhted. Tve eot - him! I've got him!' said he. 'The valise.' he continued, 'is full of coun terfeit money.' 'My mend,' I replied, 'thev grow smart men in Tennessee, but there are smarter ones iu New York. ' ' "Then Fowlor put in: 'Look here,1 said he to me, 'let the jay have the valise. If you do I am a century " ahead and you will get fifty cases.'" "What did he mean by that?" asked Drummoiid. . "He meant that the Davises were to pay him 8100 for the part he had taken in the swindle, and that they would give me $50 if I didn't inter- fere." "I led Fowler and Bascomb into a hallway next to the express office," continued Drummond, "andcutopen the valise. . It was filled with damp paper and a block of wood. 'I'll be teetotally goldarned,' said Bascomb. 'How did you do it '(' he asked Fowler. " "And you arrested Fowler?" said I. "No. I let him go," Drummond replied. "There wasn't a point to be made against him under the law. There waB no counterfeit money in the bag. On the other hand, Fowler ' could have had me arrested for high way robbery, butof course hedidrt'fc. He was glad enough to make bis es cape. "And Bascomb?" "Oh, he returned to Tennessee with his comb cut." Cleveland Leader. - A Fortunate People, The American people arc descended from, economically, the most effect- : ive race in the world. Th"y settled in the States, taking with them a highly developed civilization and habits of law and order confirmed through many generations. They : have half a continent at their com mand, there is even yet a vast ' amount of unoccupied soil, there is diversified climate, there are re-''" sources almost limitless, and there is ' absolutely no enemy they have cause to fear. Except to maintain internal ' order they are free tit this moment to ( disband their army and navy, certain mat no roreign toe will attack them. : : The world has never seen a neonleso ... happily circumstanced, with such marvelous opportunities for progress , anu improvement. London Statist ;j. When a Disabled Ship Is Saved. ' Any gross misconduct oh the part ' of the salvors, and especially any em- ' ' 1 ' bezzlement of the property saved, ! forfeits the whole claim to salvage. ,! The responsibility of salvors respect-' i ing the preservation and protection of property continues as long as the . i' property is subject to the decree of -thecourt. , , ,i j Salvors in possession have a quali- ' fled property in the ship or cargo , taved, and they cannot be divested of this interest until it is taken from them by adjudication. It is not nec essary, however, that they should , remain in actual possession in order to maintain their rights. New York 1 Evening Sun. V