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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1893)
A CAHCANET. Not whitt iherhemtMts nay the) b Am pearls-tutty aver trrew; fher owns not from the hollow aes Tltey come from beavea In dew I Down In the Indian m It slips, Tnromtli itrtwn and briny whirls, Where grat ffbells catch it lb their Hps And kin It into pearl If dew ran bo w bnanfoas made, Oh. why hot lew, my girt? Why not your tears? Be not afraid 1 do but kit a pearll R, B. Stoddard. A MOURNER'S HORSE. Recently on my way across the downs 1 overtook the national schoolmaster and walked Mine little distance with him dh cussing free education and what would come of it. The schoolmaster is town brad a thin, clean shaven man, whose black habit and tall hat, though considerably bronsed, refused to harmonise with the tcenery amid which they move. His speech is formal and slightly dogmatic. On the nbjeutof free education be talked with angry posttiveQesa, ei one acquainted with the facta, H in cold eyea sparkled behind hie spectacles, and, tucking hit umbrella tightly under his armpit, be ticked off his arguments, tapping hia right forefinger on the palm of hi left hand, Thua occupied, we were passing the wall of a farmhouse on the edge of the downs when an ugly sheepdog, a griuled, tail less brute, cutnt leaping over it and Sew at our leg. i had wheeled around and my ash sap Img was lifted for a blow when the school master arrested me with a peal of horrible, discordant laughter. He waa crouching, with a biuid on either thigh and his spec tacjes almost on a level with tht dog's jaw. His hat had shifted to the back of bis head, and the look of derision on bis face was something devilish. At interval of about three seconds he Rung a yell of unnatural mirth straight in the dog's face, Down went the brute's tail, and be slunk around and back over the wall, rubbing his belly on the coping in his abject di com fit ure. Toe schoolmaster straightened himself and resumed bis somber respectability at cnoe. I stared back on the empty road without speaking. The man's impish out burst, to tell the truth, bad startled me not a tittle, 1 saw its success, of course, but somehow it bad been too well done, and 1 wondered if be would take up his argument again. Instead be chuckled dryly after a mo ment aad begun: 'That's a better weapon than a gun." "Ridicule f" fie nodded. "You used it uncommonly well," said !. "Oh, it's easy. The teat of any creature mail or dog is, Can be parry It I I never : met one that tauld. You see, every Irving being has some secret shame; man or dog, , we all preteud to be what we are not. It is all very well to say 'like to the crack ling of thorn under a pot but the point Is that we're all iu the pot and liable to be cooked." He walked on a dozen steps and resumed fci a tone altogether lighter: "I'll tell you a tale on this poiut that may amuse you at my expense. I am Lou don bred, as you knowa cockney in the grain to this day, thoueh when 1 came down here to teach school I was barely twenty and now I'm flfty-slx. Twas dur ing the summer holidays that I first set foot in the neighborhood, a week before school opened again. 1 came early to look lor lodgings and find out a little about the people and settle down a bit before be ginning work. "The vicar the Late vicar commended me to the farmhouse we had just passed. It was occupied in those days by an old farmer called Reuliack, a widower and child lew. His istttr, Miss Jane Ann, kept bonse for bim, and the were the only two souls on the premise till I came and was boarded by them fur thirteen shillings a week. For that price they let me have a bedroom, a fair sited sitting room and as much as f could cat. "A month after I arrived Farmer Retal lack was put to bed with a bad attack of colic. This was on a Weduesdsy, and on Saturday morning Miss Jane Ann came to my door with a message that the old man would like to see me. So 1 went to his room ami found him propped up in the bed with pillows and looking very yellow in the gills, though clearly convalescent. ' 'Schoolmaster,' said be, 'I've sum mat of a favor to twg ' ye. Vou give the chil dren a half holiday, Saturdays hey? Well, dy'e thitik ye could drive the brown haes into Tergarrick this afternoon? Fad is, my old friend, Abe Walters, that kept The Paekhorsw, Is lytn dead, un they bury en at half after 8 today. I'd tie main glad to attend the feast an tell Missus Walters how much deceased 'II be missed, but 1 might so well try to fly. Now if you could attend an just pass the word that I'm laid on my back with colic, but that you've come to show respect 1' my place there'll be lash ins o' vittles an drink; no Wal ters was ever interred under a kilderkin, exceptin their second child that died in teeth in-an he took a nine gallon cask, be sides port an sherry wine to an uncertain amount. 1 had that from the mother,' "Now the fact was, I bad never driven a horse in my life and hardly knew, as they say, a horse's bead from his tail til he be gan to move. But this is just the sort of ignorance no young man will confess to. bo 1 answered that I was engaged that evening. We were just organizing night classes for the young men of the parish aud the vicar was to open the first, with a short address, at half oast b. "You'll be back in loads o' time,' the farmer assured me. ' 'To tell you the truth,1 said I, Tm not accustomed to drive much.' "lie declared that it was impossible to come to grief on the way, the brown horse being quiet as a lamb and knowing every stone of the road by heart. And the end Waa that 1 consented. The brown horse waa harnessed by the farm boy and led around with the gig while Miss Jane Ann and I were finishing our midday meal. And I drove off alone in a black suit and with my heart in my mouth. "The brown horse, as the farmer hod promised, was quiet as a lamb, lie went twaasA At .a stead?. jQ& iuiA even. h&ith good sense to quarter on his own account for the one or two vehicles we met on the broad road. Pretty soon I began to exper imeut gingerly with the reins, and by the time we reach Tergarrick at lifts was band ling them with quite an air. w hile observ ing the face of every one I tet to make sure 1 was not being laagixit al. The prospect of Tergarrick Fore ieeet fright ened me a good deal, and there was a sharp corner to turn at the entrance of the inn yard. But the old horse knew his busi ness so well that bad I pulled on one rein with all my strength I believe it would have merely annoyed without affecting him. He took me into the yard without a mistake, and 1 gave up the reins to the ostler, thanking heaven and looking care less. "The inn was crowded with monrner. eating and drinking and discussing the dead man's virtues. The assembly room at tbe back, where tbe subscription dances were held, was tilled with a suffocating crowd, a reek of hot joints and tbe click log of knives and forks, I caught sight of the widow moving up and down before a long table and shedding tears while she changed her guests' plates. She beard my message, and welcoming me with effuaion hurried away to put on her bonnet for tbe funeral "More than an hour later t hurried hack from the churchyard to the inn and told the ostler to put my horse in the gig The funeral was over and I bad not much time to spare. 'I beg your pardou. sir,' the ostler said, 'but I'm uew to this place. Which is your horse?' " Oh, I answered, 'he's a brown. You'll know him easily enough.' "The man returned in about five mm tttes. 'There's six brown hosse in trie stable, sir, Would 'ee mind cotuin an piciin out yourn?' "1 followed htm with a sense of eotuin evil. Sure enough, there were nix brown horses iu tbe big stable and to save my ! life I couldn't tell which was mine. Of I any difference between horses, except that of color, I'd no idea. 1 scanned them ait j anxiously and felt the ostler' eye upon me. i bad an impulse to con one my dim J culty to bim, but reflected that this j wouldn't help me in the least. After a minute, pulling out my watch carelessly ; 1 said; ' By George, I'd no idea it was so early : Never mind. 1 won't start for a few min utesyet' "This was the only course to wait until tbe other live owners of browu horses bad driven borne. I went back u the inn and talked and drank sherry, watching tbe crowd thin by degrees and speediug the lingering mourners with ail my prayers Tbe time dragged on till nothing short or a miracle could take me back in time for the night class. The widow came and talked to me. I answered her at random "Twice I revisited tbe stable, and tbe last time found but three brown norm left. 1 went back and consumed more sherry and biscuits. Ten more minutes ftassed. aud there were left only the widow berwlf and a trio of elderly men. As 1 hung about trying to look unbon tided sympathy at the group, it dawned on me that they were beginning to eye me un easily. I took a sponge cake and another glass of wine. One of the men who wore a high stock and an edging of stiff gray hair around his bald head advanced to ma ' 'This funeral,' said be, 'in over' "'Yes, yes,1 I stammered, and choked over a sip of sherry 'We are waiting let me tap you on tbe back we are waiting to read the will. "1 rushed out of tbe room and down to tbe stables. The ostler was harnessing the one brown horse that remained. 1 was thinkin you wouldn't be long, sir,' be said; "you're the very last, 'a b'lieve, an here ends a hard day's work." "1 drove off. It waa uearly 7 by this, but I didn't even think of the night clans. I was wondering if the horse 1 drove were really Farmer lietal tack's. Somehow whether because bis feed of corn pricked bim or no, 1 can't uy he was a deal more lively than on the outward journey. 1 looked at bim narrowly and began to feel sure it was another horse. In spite of the cool evening a sweat broke out upon me, "Reaching home, I found tbe farmer dressed and leaning on a stick in the door way. " 'Lor bless my sou 11' be hailed me; 'I've been that worried about ye 1 couldn't stay in bed. The parson's beeu up twice from the school bouse to make inquiries. Where, in the name of goodness1 " 'That's a long story said 1, and then, feigning to speak carelessly, though 1 heard my heart gothump, 'How d'ye think the brown horse took after tbe journey?" "Oh. he's right enough,' the old man replied indifferently it'd take a lot to hurt he. But'- "But I bod never felt soglad in my life," Arthur T. Quiller-Coucb in Speaker. "Choke Off" In Eugtlab Prlwms. The greater number of men who daily complain of sickness in a convict prison are undoubtedly shamming in order toob tain lighter labor or a spell in the hospital, Generally it is no easy task to impose upon an experienced prison doctor, and "fly men" trying it on have to devise and con trive tbe most ingenious of dodges to throw dust into bis eyes. In most case the medico Is too sharp for the koowfug gentleman and prescribes, by way of re prisal, a dose of what convicts term "choke off," to be taken there and then "Choke off" is compounded of several of the nastiest aud most nauseous drugs in the pharmacopoeia ingeniously blended to Insure a lasting impression on the palate. It takes days so I have beeu assured to get tbe taste of this horrible mixture out of the mouth; and as garlic and asafcetida are two of its Ingredients, the sense of smell is likewise offensively exercised when a dose of "choke off" is partaken of by an unhappy wretch suspected of shamming i have never seen auythiug in the way of a pantomime more comic and diverting than the grimaces and facial contortions of Bill jSfkes on receiving a strong and liberal ! dose of this powerful antidote to laziness j and humbug. 1ondon Tit-Bit. During a masked hall at Covent Oar den theater thieves made off with valu able diamonds and jewelry which they are said to have cut from the ladies dreaBee. I THE PARIS AMBULANCE SYSTEM. Careful Trannfer of Patient with Conta ! giou Dlae to the Hoapltat. The ambulnnces of the Do Stael and Chaliogly street stations in Paris have four wheels provided with rubber tires and are drawn by one horse. The corners sre rounded in the interior, and the sheet Iron sides are painted and varnished. They contain a flexible metallic seat for the nurse and a litter for the patient. A rub ber tube permits of communication with the driver. They include no drawers for the carriage of the clothing and bedding f the patient, this service being incum bent upon the disinfecting nut ion. In winter they are heated with cylinders of hot water, . Each of these vehicles is capable of carry ing one adult patient or two children af flicted with the same contagious disease. Tbe ambulance Is closed by the driver, who must keep the key in his pocket, but tbe door can be opened from the interior. So no outsider can open it by inadvertance. The litter put in use In the ambulance stations of Paris is jointed, so that the pa tient can be either seated or placed in a re clining posture without having to be dis turbed. It Is arranged as an armchair for descending stairways and as a bed in the ambulance. The invalid rests on a cushion of pure horsehair, which can lie passed through the disinfecting stovean indefinite period. The patient having been brought down stairs the legs of tbe litter are placed upon tbe rollers designed to facilitate iu intro duction or removal through rails arranged in the vehicle. This litter is made of iron I plate, painted and varnished. Apertures ! are punched in the bottom of it in order to i give it greater lightness. For children a litter in the form of a hand barrow is used, j It Is easily seen that this apparatus can be very easily disinfected, j The carriage is effected as follows: Each I station comprises a superintendent, two drivers and a groom. The nurses, who are trained, put on for the carriage of the patient a long Mouse of unbleached cotton, well adjusted to the neck and wrmta, de scending to the heelsand buttoning all the way down. The head covering is a cotton cap, which incloses the hair and falls upon the neck. The road costume of the driver is a blouse and a pair of trousers of cotton worn over his ordinary clothing, and an oilcloth cap which can lie easily washed with a disin fecting solution. The ambulances may be ordered direct by the public verbally, by letter, by tele graph or by telephone. As soon as the notification is received the station superin tendent calls up the driver and nurse through an electric bell, tbe number of j strokes sounded giving tbe number of tbe ' ambulances to be got ready. The ambu lances, moreover, are always ready to start and a horse remains constantly harnessed. In the office there is posted a list showing to what hospital the patient will have to be sent, according to the nature of his disease. Tbe ambulance must not stop at any point of iu travel under any pretext what ever. As soon as it bos deposited the pa tient at the hospital it must return to tbe station, where it first enters tbe yard set apart for disinfection. This operation is effected by means of a liquid pro jected by a vaporizer. The outer clothing of the nurse and driver are placed in the disinfecting stove, Theambulance and iu litter are afterward placed in tbe wagon house. The nurse, before retiring to her apartments, enters a room where she makes her toilet with disinfecting liquids, and takes cai'j not to neglect to brush her hands and nails with care. Paris letter. Making the Bench. A good story is told of a United States senator who began life as a carpenter. "1 will not always be a carpenter," be used to declare, for it seems he had set his heart upon some time entering the legal profession. Be did not slight bis carpen ter's work for his day dreams of what be should do and become, but was noted for bis honest, conscientious labor. One day the young man was planing a board that was to become a part of a "judge's bench" when a friend, observing ' his painstaking, inquired: "Why do you take so much pains to smooth that board" Instantly tbe young carpenter replied: "Because 1 want a smooth scat when I come to sit on it." His friend laughed and thought the joke so good that be reported it in tbe shop, and the young man waa bantered not a little about tbe "judge's bench." He always replied, good naturally: "Wait aud see. He laughs who wins, and I may sit there yet." And he did; but the distance between the carpenter's and judge's bench was paved with heroic struggles and self sacri fice. Youth's Companion. Scared by a Voice In the Box. A baggageman on a midnight train, while taking on board the usual toad of freight and baggage, placed to one side a parrot cage. Further up the line, at a small station, he took on board a corpse, and as the next stopping place was a long distance, the baggageman, in order to be i comfortable for the ride, stretched himself at full length on the coffin. He had not ridden far when to his great horror he heard issuing as he supposed from the coffin these words, "Iet me out." The baggageman immediately made up his mind to get out, but was stopped at the end of tbe car by the mail agent. They decided to investigate the matter, and while thus engaged again heard, "Let me out," in decided tones. They determined to open the coffin and liberate the corpse, when to their great surprise they heard the same voice ex claim, "Polly wants a cracker!" That solved the mystery. New York Itecorder. Snow In June, but Jftme Iu Winter. Persons returning from the hills re port that a foot of snow fell Wednesday. It extended down within 2,000 feet of the plains. A shower of "round" snow fell in the vineyards between Fresno and the base of the Sierra Nevada moun tains, where no snow fell at any time last winter. Fresno Cor. Han Francisco Chronicle. Siinatrnkq Stops theV editing at ti and SS. A tnarnuse was interrupted Thursday night by the groom becoming suddenly overcome with the heat and he had to be taken to his hotel, where he bus been confined to his bed ever since. The groom in question Is Mr. W. 8. Fowler who boards at the Enterprise hotel. Until a short while ago he con ducted a livery stable on East Market street, but retired about a year ago with a comfortable fortune. Mr, Fowler is a widower, seventy-five years old, and has several grown children. A short while ago he met Miss Lillie Townsend, a young woman twenty-five years of age, who is employed by J. Bacon & Sons at the glove counter. The courtship did not last long till the engagement was announced, Mr. Fowl er's children, it seems, objected strongly to the marriage and did everything in their power to break off the match. They were unsuccessful, however, and June 15, the day set for the marriage, arrived. The wedding was to take place where Miss Townsend has boarded for several years. Everything was in readiness at the time appointed the guests, the min ister and the happy couple. Just before the time for the ceremony Mr. Fowler became very faint and would have fallen but for the support of one of the guests. He soon lost con sciousness and was taken to the Enter prise hotel in a carriage, where he waa put to bed aud the doctor summoned. His condition was found not to be seri ous, but he was suffering from a slight case of sunstroke. Louisville Courier-Journal An Imprisoned Genius, Alberto Lopaz, who was taken to Yuma recently to serve a two years' term for burglary gave hie personal ef fects to his friends about the jail. Deputy Barry was presented with a fac simile of the Episcopal church made out of pasteboard. Lopaz could see the church from one of the jail windows, and he reproduced it almost perfectly. He borrowed a knife from Deputy Sheri dan with which he cut up the paste board, and then made paste from flour with which to stick the pieces together. It is a piece of workmanship to be proud of. The greatest production of Lopaz while confined in jail here is a reproduc ! tion of the magnificent Merchants' ex i change building in Guadalajara. The entire affair is constructed of paper. On the inside of the building are the stairways, etc., each perfect in its con struction. The prisoner must be pos sessed of a memory much stronger than most men are, to remember every detail of that large structure for a number of years. However much genius the man possessed, he hamade bad use of it. Phceniz Herald. . Troublesome Seal. The salmon fishermen down the river and bay are having trouble this spring from the seals, as usual. These pesta are multiplying rather than decreasing and are causing great losses to the weirs. While the Beals of the arctic regions have the reputation of being slow, stupid animals, hunters killing them with clubs, those on the Maine coast are the sharpest game to be found. They will go in and out of the salmon weirs, either by force or strategy, and eat all the fish they want. They are very hard to get a shot at, and when hit sink to the bottom, the carcass thus being lost to the gunner. One fisher man remarked on a recent Saturday that there was a small fortune in store for the man who would invent a trap that would catch seals and hold them. The bounty upon them doesn't seem to do a bit of good. Bangor (Me.) Com mercial. No Buyer for Raleigh'! Yougliall Ho nue. Sir Walter Raleigh's Irish home in Yougliall, County Cork, which belonged to the late Sir John Pope Hennessy, M. P., was put up for sale by Messrs. E. & H. Lumley, in the Auction mart, To kenhouse yard. The house is a fine specimen of Elizabethan architecture. It was there that Sir Walter smoked the first pipe of tobacco in Ireland and received an unexpected bath from a faithful servant maid, who, on seeing the blue smoke emerging from her mas ter's mouth and curling around Iub head, thought Sir Walter was falling a victim to spontaneous combustion and threw u pail of cold water over him to extinguish the con migration. Only 1,250 was bid for the property, which was according ly bought in by the auctioneer, who said he could not think of selling a his torical mansion like it for 6uch a figure. Loudon Telegraph. Telephone from Paris to llordeauz. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the new telephone line between Paris and Bordeaux was opened. Complimentary messages were exchanged between the presidents of the chamljers of commerce of both cities, and the minister of com merce, and the mayor of Bordeaux. The telephone works exceedingly well, every word being clearly heard. Before con cluding the Elysee telephone was hitched on and a complimentary message sent through from Bordeaux to President Carnut, to which he replied in suitable terms. Oalignani Messenger, Cold Water la a Stimulant. According to Dr. Lauder Ur unum, cold water is a valuable Btimulant to many if not all people. Its action on tbe heart is more stimulating than brandy. His own experience is thatsippiug half a wine gla of cold water will raise his pulse from 70 to over 100. i Luke. BUT rULL OF GRIT. Whnt a Plucky Woman Did to a M.'iB Who Tried to Impose Upon Her. "Talking about 'pure grit,' "said awom an who was lunching the other day at th Colonial club, "I knew a woman once who was full of it." "Tell us about her," exclaimed the other two women of the luncheon party. "Who was she?" . "Why, she was my mother," answered the first speaker, "She was the littlest lit tle woman I ever saw, but there was cour age and fight enough In her to stock a regiment. I don't mean that she was a nagging creature, making trouble for everybody. She was the sweetest, kindest woman in the world. It was only when somebody tried to impose on her, or on some of us girls, that she came out us a fighter. Iiet me tell you a story about her, and you'll see what I mean. "Well, we were living iu Iowa when my father, a minister, by the way, died and left mother to manage a farm and to cure for a big family of girls. The grain was high in the field and ft hod to be cut at once. Mother entered into negotiations with a neighbor and was just about to close a trade with him when she discovered that he was trying to overreach Insisting on terms that were exorbitant and ab surd. "Mother told him that she'd get some body else to cut the grain, and that made him so angry that he was quite rude in his speech. But mother shut the door in his face and left him to have his sputter out all by himself. "That night about 1 o'clock mother was awakened by a noise out in the yard. She slipped out of bed and peered through the window. There was that same farmer en gaged in taking down the bars of the fence that surrounded the field of grain that mother wouldn't let him cut. The bars down, the man went out into the road for a minute, and tbe next mkiuse he came back driving a yoke of oxen, which he turned loose into the field." "What did your mother say to the man?" asked one of the listeners. "She didn't say anything." "Dkln't she tell him to take tbat cattle right out of the field?" "No, indeed; that was not her way of do ing things. What she did first was to dress herself. Then she Bfcole quietlydown stairs and went out into the yard. Then she went to the bam and got an ox goad. Then she bounded to the grain field and drove the oxen out of it." "And then she went back to .bed, I sup- , pose," said one of the women. "Ordid she' watch the rest of the night r" , "Neither. She drove those oxen a mile and a half down the road till she came to a great field of corn which belonged to that awful man. Then she took down the bars and wished the oxen good morning. "On the way back she stopped long, enough to open the gate of a posture in s which wits quite a herd of steers and to) set some of them moving toward the corn field, and they found that field, I can as sure you. , "Next morning mother told us what she had done, and we just hugged her aud kissed her till she cried." "in1 nrltul- .n,i,u "Oh, yes that's the best part of the story. The neighbors somehow found out what had happened, and they were so pleased over it tbat they came and cut mother's graiu for nothing. "But just think of thatlittlemnetv-five-pound woman driving a yoke of oxen a mile and a half in the middle of the night on such an errand! I always feel proud of my little mother when I recall this epi sode in her life," New York Times. Color Blindness Professor Bering undertook a series of observations upon three normal-sighted persons, namely, upon nimsell ana his two assistants, Doctor Biedermann and Doctor Stilling. These experiments were designed to elicit whether any constant differences could be detected in the color judgments of tbe three normal sighted persons who were the subject of experiment. The ques tion proposed for judgment was the de termination of the point at which a red which hud been graduated off on the one side into a blue red and on the other into a yellow ml, could be regarded as at tbe neutral poiut ut which it did not incline either to the one or tbe other of these col ors. When the mutter was put to the ex perimental test in this manner, constant differences were actually discovered to ob tain between the judgments of the three individual observers. The one observer, Dr. Bledefmanu, in all cases still continued to see a yellowish tinge when the red proposed for judgment had already, in the judgment of the two other observers, long ceased to contain any trace of yellow. Similarly, when it was a ques tion of transition from a blue red to a pure red, the blue faded out from tbe red first to Dr. Biedurmauu, next to Professor Her ing, and last of all to Dr, Stilling. Iu fact Dr. Biedermann had regularly begun to see a yellow shade in the red before it had well ceased to have a blue shade for Dr. Stilling. Professov Hering was ascer tained to occupy a kind of intermediate position iu respect to his susceptibility to yellow and blue rays. Nineteenth Cen tury. Horrors of War, Mrs. de Fashiou The papers are again hinting of a war in Europe. Mrs. de Style That would be terrible, Mrs. da Fashion Perfectly dreadful! We'd have to stay at home this summer.-" New York Weekly. That's All. Susie (in stockyard )Oh, Johnnie look at that big cow a-sleepiu over therel Johnnie (with a show of superior knowl- not sleepiug; he's only bulldozing. Truth. No Kxeeutlona, Tom Barry Did your girl friends remem ber you on your birthday? Perdittt No, but you may he sure every one of my girl enemies djd. Brooklyn Life, Not a goal Ad, Rivers (taking a good look at the infanta) Hasn't she rare self possession? Banks-Yes. She's a wdniun of Castile, -iihictttfo Tribune, , L,