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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1893)
I 1 I Don't Blame the Cook If a baking powder is not uniform in strength, so that the same quantity will always do die same work, no one can know how to use it, and uni formly good, light food cannot be produced with it All baking powders except Royal, because improperly compounded and made from inferior materials, lose their strength quickly when the can is opened for use. At subsequent bakings there will be noticed a falling off in strength. The food is heavy, and the flour, eggs and butter wasted. It is always the case that the consumer suffers in pocket, if not in health, by accepting any sub stitute for the Royal Baking Powder. The Royal is the embodiment of all the excellence that it is possible to attain in an absolutely pure powder. It is always strictly reliable. It is not only more economical because of its greater strength, but will retain its full leavening power, which no other powder will, until used, and make more wholesome food. THE IMPRISONED ROBIN. We heard his cry this morning, and his wail Was like the sad Hong of a whippoorwiU. It seems that in his prison cage he still Has memories of the Holds, and he recalls the tale The lonesomo night bird sang at vespers till lie deems it is his own. His joy one thrill And natural pipings are now all in jail. How different from the notes when, wild and free. He sang his happy greetings to his mate And pleasure seemed the business of his daysT Nonight bird'sactiweremimickedlnhlswaTt When he strode o'er the lawn in pride elate Or filled the air with melody from a tree. , -Edward 8. Creamer in New York Sun. Sot Big Things Only Excite Wonder. It is not always the things of gigantic proportions that excite the greatest curiosity. Mastodons, elephants, whales and other creatures of monstrous size are and have been wonders indeed. Bo. too, are the pyramids, the great cathe drals, towers, monuments, etc., the great Corliss engines, the 16-drive wheel locomotive and other triomphs of me chanical skilL But while this is true beyond question, how about the wonders revealed by the microscope and the work of the deft fingered artist, D. A. Vr. Meer, who painted a landscape on the side of a grain of wheat? By the nse of a strong microscope only could the wonders of this minute painting be distinguished. , Yet when a good glass was brought to bear upon what appeared to be a spot of variegated paint upon the side of the wheat grain all was changed into a beautiful landscape a forest, a mill at the side of the river, a miller climbing an outside stairway with a sack of grain upon his back, a tall cliff at the side of the mill and a winding road along which nome peasants were trying to drag a re fractory pigl St. Louis Bepnblic. Gloves tn rinin Husbands and Lovers. The revival of light kid gloves for wear with walking dressis rather a blow to the thrifty minded. Those who have a limited dress allowance have delighted m the convenient black kid or brown suede, which could be worn quite a number of times without showing signs of being weatherbeaten in any way. Bnt light gray, pale' lemon and the new horrific green are soiled in an hour when worn with sealskin, dark cloth or serge. Fortunately four or six button length does very well at present, but there are some indications that in the season sleeves will be short and gloves long. If o,"light,kid will be atrociously extrava gant, even though they will not soil so readily when worn with light colored gowns. Cor. Chicago Herald. Marrying by a Formula. The woman that took part in a late marriage at Newcastle, England, had a mathematical formula to guide her. At 16 she married a man of 82. At 80 she married again and chose a man of 60. To conclude the series, she now at 42 names a man of 84. Her first husband .was a Quaker, the second a Catholic and the present one a Protestant. If she lives much longer and is determined to go on with her mathematical matrimo nial ventures, she will have to advertise in the want columns for a centenarian or two and specify a new religion as one of her provisions. Atlanta Constitution, ' , Tbe After Dinner Speaker. ' The after dinner speaker must not talk nonsense and must not talk about noth ing. But he must seem to be original, no matter what leisure he may have giv en to get at the sources the headwaters of his good thingsand he must be bril liant, even though his brilliancies should have been carefully thonght out in the dark. Wit is his province more than wisdom, although a dash of the wisdom may be tolerated if it is brought wrapped up in wit and humor, like the sword of Harmodius among the wreaths of laurel. London News. Kneniles of the "New Vansled." Some years ago an "auld kirk" minister wno luvu added a barometer to the furnish ings of his house on the west coast of Scotland found that it was not altogether safe to possess such mysterious inventions. During a prolonged storm the women of a neighboring village whose husbnndi were all at sea marched to the minister'. house in a body and requested him to "set the weather guide to (air." While he was trying to explain the nature of the ba rometer they impatiently took stones and smashed it. Within a few hours the weather changed lavoramy. -men one ileanle Gorm. a rino-. leader among the rioters, remarked: "1 tell't ye how It would be! It's inl that new fangled whigmaleeries that's set tin things wrang in the warld." Youth's companion. The Wardroom "Hoy." The wardroom "boy" on board a man- of-war is often as old as many of those he serves, but the old fashioned title and form of address stick to him. Wardroom boys usually are colored men or foreign ers. When a Haytian or Jamaican negro is ODtuinaDie, fie is regarded as a catch. This is truer still of the Jap. The hitter seems to understand by instinct to re member a multitude of details without effort and obey promptly and without question. Philadelphia Ledger. Living In the Suburb. It was several months ago that Mc- lavish, who had never lived in the sub urbs, moved with his family out to West a obtown. The other day one of the old residents said to him: . ., ,.' "Well, Mr. McTavish, how do you like West Hobtownr" McTavish sighed slightly and then said, "The merciful man is merciful to his suburb! -.-Cincinnati Enquirer. , Good For Another Term- Lobbyist (confidentially. disnlavine roll of bills) Of course money is ito ob ject, w hat we want, is to have this bill Alderman (indignantly) Bribe me? ft a. sir! 1 am really in favor of the Das- sage of the bill, butr-but I'll just hang myovercoat here in the hall before go- uig.iu. iruiu. .. A Friendly Hint, ; Postoffice Clerks-See here, rmrt No living mortal can read the address on this envelope you -hurt handed in. . Boy Well, if this 'ere postoffice de partment wants fine'handwritin, why orart you Keep Better pens at these desks, say? Good News. . The population of the kingdom of qpau, as reported a last census, taken sfX years ago, was 17,630,000. As the population is nearly stationary the count for this year would be about the same as that of the year in which the census was taken. - , As Japan was the first nation to have her exhibit completed for the World's fair, Major Handy says' that that coun try is the most advanced, businesslike and .newspaper sort of nation in the world. Celluloid 'is becominir quite Dooular for numerous fancy articles. It comes inseyerai Bnaue8,or tne delicate colors ana is an inexpensive material. Tbe thin transparent sheets are the prettiest. t Alabama boasts a i woman who was struck by lightning seven years ago, has never spoken since, and whose eyes grow luridly brilliant at the approach of a thunderstorm. In portions of' the south the old time negro still lingers, preserving toward the white race the exact relations of 40 years ago. so far. as outward deference goes. 03.fi web of our life ia 0f a mingled yarn good and ill together. Our virtue would ' be proud if our faults whipped them not I and our crimen would despair if they were I WtohBrUhwlbyourvirtuehakespeare. I WHERE SHE DREW THE LINE. Bpp ejrex were soft end dark m night, . Hur raven trewies vying. I took a oeat beside my love, 1 Ami hot m I foil to stalling. Sh DlnetHl her Imnil within my own What thrill began to quivor About my heart! Muid elie, "Jtoar John, What hi it nittkee you shiver?" I Brarcely know, and ttn I mid, "I'm wiirmor than n oimlor," And thon a dariner thought ooonrM , imy, what was thoru lo hinder? 1 bontabovt' her ruby Hps Tn steal the; tempting blimWri. "Oil, no!" said who, "it cannot bei I draw the lino at kitweti." Ah, who can tell the royal way To manage pretty mlsiws? Just wiien yon think thoy love you most They draw the line at kisse The years may come; the years may bo; I'll ne'er forget our meeting. Upon her cheeks a pretty glow The moments all too fleeting. And oft my heart doth dream anew Of aromatic hlissea, An when, hor little hand in mine, , Bhe drew the line at kisses. Chicago Dispatch. Mrs. Sleuth; or, The Lady Deteetlv. uHu!" "You will not give me a million dollars?1 "No." "I am your wife?" "Yes." "Therefore you are my husband f" "Jt is so." "And you will not put your property ia my name!" "Woman, what takeat thou me for?" "We will see." ' "Annette!" "Yea, madam." "Buy all the dittguiaea fn New York." "'Tin as good an done." "I may need one." , "Ha!" "Put them in a Fifth avenue stage." "I begin to comprehend." "They will reach the Union Leairue club oy tomorrow evening ' With industrybut it is Quite four OIOCKS," "Attach my -diamond revolver to mr waicn cnain. "Ha! the adventure is indeed hatardoua." "And put my knitting needle in its scab- Dam." "I obey." It ia a small room in the club. Two men are playing cards. The stake are a million dollars, Thoy are not two men. Nay, they are a man and a bor. The man holds four kings. The boy holds two aces. But they look to the man like four. He staggem from the table. "Iamrumed!" "Tt was I who won ymir million dollars." "What, you, my wife?" "Yea, II is my hat on straight?" -Truth. A KwMt Samaritan. Small Boy Oh, mamma, this poor old gentleman says he hasn't had a thing to eat lor eight months, so I've invited him nome to lunch with us. Harper's Itazar. Ilruldiab lluins In England. The Stouehenge, one of the most remark. able of the ancient monmnent on the Brit ish isles, is situated on the Salisbury plain about three miles from the village of Ames bury. It lies at the conjunction of two roads, surrounded by a bank and ditch, and Is as much of a nuzzle for the antiaiiarians of today as it was for those who carefully surveyed and examined it a thousand years ago. When perfect, It consisted of 80 huge upright stones varying in size and form, those at the entrance being IB feet high and some of the others 18 feet. They all average 10 feet in height, the majority of them be ing 6 feet square, , '."f . Ihese upright stones were joined toirath. er by others at the top, these last lying horizontally, like the lintels of a door post, and each about 18 feet long. The whole mode a huge circular cage, the use of which can only be conjectured. At ex actly 8.8 feet from this circle of large stones is on inner one composed of 40 stones stand ing on end, but much smaller than thoseof tb.eante.ring. Itissupposedtbatthisstrue ture was a Druidish temple. St. Louis He public. ' Soared Bymns of a Youngster. If only we could recognize that children do not mean to be irreverent! Little Lewis really as devout as could be exnectal from a 4-year-old and sang with great fer vor eunciay school hymns innumerable, sometimes revising them after bis own fosbion or jnmbling them up with scraps of other songs in a style leas shocking than comical. Whether he sat on the porch steps by the hour blithely warbling forth to the possersby the somewhat alarming as surance that I will guide thee with mr knife. announcing with lusty shout, Holy forks, for I am coming, " whose original I need not remind those who live within avoiding distance of a me lodien was the widely known hymn, "Hold the Fort," his intentions were of the best -Washington News. . S.- .: 4 . HI Choloe, ' "Old he marry tbe girl who could paint things on crockery warer" : t no: be married on wbo could cook things to put Into crockery ware." New York Pres.. Progressiva "We charge 15 a dozen: HO for three dozen; lit for alz dozen, and soon." 1 .unpoK av man tuk enough av nm 'u4 let nm go for nothinf" Harper's Ztt t One War ui Nuciirlnir u Custlv Honk, An aitiusiiiK story of how n cmtflrnird aid bachelor who combined with hiH bachelor hood the mmlHittt of the bihlioimuilaa came finally to marry Is told by an Kng lish newspitgwr. It appears that tho lonely old bookworm employed an old servant to I toko care of his rooms. Upou her fell the task of arrnugiDg and diluting the library, nnd she soon came to bo Bniittcn with taste for leading. She began to spend .11 her earnings In buying bonks, nnd, strange to say, tiiey were old nooks that she bought and read. One afternoon she oume In with a parcel of volumes picked up from the Bookstalls, out of curiosity the muster turned over tho leaves of her treasures, and we can woll imagine the moreoi less super cilious smile that played upon his coun tenance as be thought of the humorous piiowi of tblsold woman turned bibliophile. Suddenly his face lighted up. "How muoh did you give for tbisf" sold he, picking up a volume with great eager ness. "Fifteen pence," was the answer. "Fifteen pencef Why, this work Is worth 1,000," cried the collector. He re flected, when too late, how stupid ho hud been to sneak, and in vain tried to recall his words. "I will give you SO shillings for it," said he. 'Sir, you have just told me it was worth l,nooi" The old creature was not to tie cheated. and the bookworm at last offered 100. It was a first edition, extremely rare, of Mon taigne. He was a good buyer, but his serv ant would not take a fraction less than 1,000, which sum was more than be could afford. Thatnighttheconnolsseurdniumed of Montaigne, At last he could resist us longer. At any price he must !. the old book. "This woman takes until care of me. bhe appears to lie smitten with tbe same passion for old books," mild be to himself next "Why should I not marry herr I should then have my Montaigne." So he went to her the following day and "popped the question." Shooccented him. and they were married. The clever old dame brought him the book an a dowry. No Time to Do Anything. "It makes me mad," said the old engi neer, to hour people ask why a man don't do so and so when his engine strikes. It all comes like a stroke of lightnln. Whim we pueu era np In tho Whltesvlllo cut nnd killed eight, I was slttlu in my window that night Ionian ahead as careful as an. one could. We had started on the curve, and she was goln as fast as the wheels could turn. 40 minutes behind time nnd the deuce to pay If we didn't make it up by mornin. Jimmy llortseil was feedin 'or every minute. I thought I saw a glimmer of lit-lil. on the bank ahead. It was the Hash from the headlight around the other bend of the curve. Between the time I caught that flash and when I saw the headlight swing around tbe cut as big as a tub it couldn't nave been a hundredth part of a second W e were nose to noee Iwfore I realized nn don't think I realized-but I nut on the air who one yank, yelled to Jimmy and icii out oi tne window. When they threw wnir in my race, I s 'posed 1 was cut nil up. The wreck was on fire, nnd people was hoi- lerin underneath. I hlid there feelin of myself, expectin every minute to find a soft place, nut J was all right, and three davs afterward I went to Jimmy's funeral. Aft er that I don't wont no man to tell me what you ought todo." National Car and Loco motive Builder. Napphires of the Kant. Ceylon has always been famous for Its sapphires, as well as for other gems, and even the energetic rnpneity of the old Homan adventurers failed to exhaust It riches. Of all the brilliant gems wt.roctl from the soil of this richly endowed island. hardly any was piore highly esteemed by them than the sapphire. Its exquisite tint recalled to the exiled Roman the clear, cloudless azuro of the heavens over the seven hilled city. Tho treasuries and re galias of Europe possess sapphires of very large size. In the green vaults of Dresden are soveral of romarkalile size and beauty. In the Russian treasury are some of an enormous size, among them one of a light blue tint. The engraving of sapphires was hardly known before the days of the Homnu empire, and probably the most celebrated of all engraved sapphires is the great sig net of tbe Emperor Constantino, which weighs :M carats. Cincinnati Kuqiiirer. Arts of Oratory. At the council of the ministers of the church of the New Jerusalem recently held in.Brooklyn,.tbe clergyman who wasArst heard by the council took occasion to con demn those of his brethren who make use of tbe "art of oratory" In their preach ing, and went so far as to say that pulpit eloquence Is an enemy of gospel truth. He is in the wrong. What are the arts of or atory f Merely those artB by which tbe Ideas and the language of a discourse are so ordered as to be most impressive and effective. How con eloquence lie an enemy of the truth when It is but the best and most powerful method of presenting the truth f Swedenborg himself, the apostle of the Church of the New Jerusulem, was a man who paid great respect to tbeortaof presentation, and many of his works are of a very high order of eloquence and In very choice language. New York Sun. Bound to Get Out of It. Mrs. Blinks (after breakfast) My dear, I wish you'd .top into Bigg, Store & Co.'i Mid order seven-eighths of a yard more of that cloth I got yesterday and three-quar- Mr. Blinks I'm afraid I'll foniutifyoa give me the itemn now. Just sneak to mo ovbt the telephone this afternoon. Office Boy (In tbe afternoon Please, sir, Mrs. Blink is at the 'phone and wants to talk to you, - ' Mr. Blinks (hurriedly)-tjtty er tell her I'm druuk. New York Weekly. The Greatueu of Ohloago. Chicago has demonstrated hereAlf to be the matchless ml strew of tbe. world. She will yet be the commercial center of the world. Chicago will be the admiration and wonder of the world, and from henceforth will stand first among American cities, and therefore first among the world's cities. Chicago will be the solar and focal point of the universe. She has a wonderful career before her. FlamlujE Sword. I I l,,'l". I'!" "d l-'wr Illiessol Dropsy , U"vul ""' """w"1" m wn"1 1 THE BEST KIDNEY AND LIVER MEDICINE. Cure. 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