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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1893)
y Lebanon Express. CITY WID1AI.S, M.VYOii ........ iiKCORIHH! .:. TBKAKUKKK,. MARSHAL..,.. :.VI, A. JiIU,Eli. V. M. 'llliXliR. ., i, KnHKKTB. V. . SluUttAN. ( ED: KKii.l'.'HEKjCU, .1. ti. m.F,s, COUNdlLMIINl 1 G. IV. CI!l'lS. ! N. 8. lUUll.KINH. City Council uuwts ww tin1 firal and liiird Tuesday evening of each nnwtti. ; OITYitJUMNANCk, Nu ! A' ORDINANCK t nnieml He ion ?.of ' Ordinance No. HI, entitled "An MU ''' nance (elating tw City 'Elerttetis end the City (traaiiisatioii, and the nu nor of CMKluctliiK lilwtions within Alio airport' t limits of Hie City f bUbanon." Thi PiorusonHK City oi Iekakok Oruahi as Follows: SkiuoiU. Tliat.er.tion 7 of Ordinance! do. Unentitled "An Ordinance sslatinir to City Elections and illie City Onjaniaation, and the manner of conducting Elections within Hie corporate Jimits of the City of ijjcuanon," W, and she same is hereliy, amended sons to read as follows: "Here after them tdml! be chosen at the annual election, .one Mayor, ono Recorder, one Marshal end one Treaaerer. to serve for the term of one year; and ahosix Counoilmen, to serve fur the term f one year each. Every officer, besides uosciessing the quali fications of An elector wWiin the City of Lebanon, must have resided in said City of tcbanon three months next jireceeding the day of election.1' v ' 8kc. 2. All parte of Ordinaawsinconflict herewith arc hereby repealed. Sec. 8. This Ordinance Bbal! be and re ruaii) ii. full force and eliect, on, from and after ita approval by tlic Mayor, Approved hy the Mayor this 21t day of November. H. : M. A. Miller, Mayor. Attest; F. M.JIiu-su, Uecorder, Prawning nt tint Ilnptist church every Sunday at 11 n. iu. and 730 p. ui. Sundry siihra.l at 10 a . hi. ( IYuycr meeting Wiiimsiliiy fit 7:30 p. m. . C. II. IjAMak, I'asior. BARWELL-:. ...n. I used to have several customers ill Bilverado. It is only a pleasant ride out "from here in the beautiful summer morning, long before the snn begins to peep above the Sierras and when the dawn is just beginning to break bright and fair, as dawn never does show any-, where except in this semitropical clime. The road to Silverado is bordered on both sides with long rows of pepper trees. Now, other fellows may have a different taste iu trees, but for me there never was anything in trees so pretty as row of peppers, with branches looking down like the eyes of a modest girl when sho sees her lover coming along the road, and the tint glint of day creeping through them and making little gold paths ill them till you don't know whether the tree itself is green or yel low, and the morning breezes blowing through them till they ripple and shine all over as if they were laughing. There never wau anything else so like a pretty woman with a smile on her face as those pepper trees in the morning with the wind blowing over them that kind of a smiie that creeps oyer the face in a soft, lazy way and laughs in the eyes and hides away in the waves of hair. I used to think that the pepper trees were what made me like to drive my milk wagon out to Silverado. But that was before I had seen the little maid at Barwell's. Barwell's was a boarding house. Bil verado was a kind of health resort, and people used to come from the east and go out there winters and board at Bar well's. Maybe it did their health good, but 1 don't think Barwell's ever im proved the health of the little maid very much. If it did, she must have been a light to behold before she came. The first time I saw her she came out with the milk can. Usually it stood on the stoop waiting to be filled, and 1 would pour in the milk and leave it standing there for the first servant who was up to come out and get it. But this time it seemed to have been forgotten, and the little maid had crept out in the early dawn to bring it and stood shiver ing in the morning chill, for the dawn of a semitropic morning near the sea is not warm, however the mind may tend to romance concerning its balminese. And the was such a very little maid I could scarcely see her on the other side of the milk can and thought at first that the can had just taken a notion to walk out alone and get itself filled, "Hello!" I aaid. "Yes," she replied, quite as a matter of coarse. And then I saw what a very thin and white little maid it was. "Where did you come from?' "If you please, I'm Mrs, Barwell's girl I work for my keep." Now, I did not please in the least. 1 should have preferred, if she must be anybody's girl, that it should be any one else in the world whom I had ever seen. And as for the "keep," if there is any proof in looks, it must have been very ..small.. I chanced to lance a big orange in my kwagou that some one on my drive, who had an orange oxeburu, had given me. t threw it to her when 1 had tilled the can. She caught iteagrly,and when I looked back as I drove an d saw her going up the walk with tlie-orange pressed tip olose to her month. After that I never forgot to have an orange, or a nectarine, or some apricots in my wagon when i stepped at Barwolli. Sometimes the milk can would be on the stoop, and I would not see the little maid for several days, but when I did see her again I would give her all the good things that had accumulated in any wagon since the last time 1 saw her. And good tilings had a way of accumulating very rapidly at that time. Once when Mrs. Barsvell happened to be up early to get a picnic party success fully, off her hands I saw her seize the littleimaidand drag her into the kitchen, Aud i thought she struck her just as the door was closing. 1 grew hot all ovei and thought savagely that if Mrs. Bar well had been a man I should have called her out. As it was, I had a fancy that it would do me good to get out and assault Mrs. Barwell's kitchen door and fling my opinion at her gratuitously and forci bly. But neither course seemed quite feas ible. I picked np my whip, furiously and looked around for something to lay it nto. As J could see nothing available for that purpose but my patient, good tempered horse, who never gave me the slightest excuse for savagery, I put it down again with a resolution to niak; things more ven some day, though it never entered uiy ridiculous head in whit particular way 1 could accomplish the leveling process. But the little maid got a whole apronfui of the nicest peaches and nectarines and pomegranates in th: market the next morning when I stopped to deliver the milk. So time went by until the little maid had grown into a slip of a girl and would have been a pretty one, too, if she had not been so thin and white as to the cheeks and staring as to the eyes. She had beautiful eyes, but they in company with her other features had grown so starved that it made anybody hungry only to look at them. About the time that I began to notice these little things about her eyes and features generally, I thought she began to be a little shy. The milk can always stood in its place on the stoop, and 1 had uothrng to do but ponr in the milk ant) drive off. which you might say was n nrcch more convenient way. But as day after day and week after weeli passed and I did not see her it did not seem so very comfortable after till. I wondered if she were ill or bod gon away. 1 remembered bow she used to look as she stood in the fuiut. light of the morning, holding the big can in her arms. I wondered if Uc-r eyea were still so big and wan and hungry and half frightened looking. 1 wondered if her face was so pallid and pinched, and if eho still shivered so in the morning wind that came up chill front the sea. By that time quite a largo pile of good I'jings had gathered in my wagon, for 1 could not bear to throw them away and thought every morning that maybe the little maid would come out. I thought once of piling them up around the milk can and leaving them for her to hud, but was afraid some one else might come and find them first. Bo it went on till one morning just as I had filled the can and was going down the path the kitchen door was thrown open with a bang, and the little maid rushed out, Mrs. Barwell hard after her with some heavy thing in her hand, lifted up high to throw at the girl. Quick as a flash I caught the little maid in my arms, and put her into my cart, and jumped in after her, and drove off faster than I overdrove before in my life, Mrs. Barwell running after us down the street. But she soon gave np the chase. Down the lane we dashed, under the low hanging branches of the pepper trees, that touched me softly in the face as we passed. Tho breeze blew softly over us, laden with the fragrance that drifted from the rose trees that bloom perennially in the dooryards along the way. Presently the little maid looked up at me with a face so rosy that I should not have known her had I met her anywhere else. There was a look, half frightened, half confiding, in her eyes, and as I met that look I knew all of a sudden why it was that I had missed her so, and why 1 had wondered so much about her eyes and her face. I bent over her and shouted; "Will you marry me?" for the horse was gal loping, and the wheels were crunching, and the cans were rattling, and if I had whispered the question as men in stories and poetry do she would never have heard me. And when she- slipped her hand into mine and looked at me with the fear gone out of her wide eyes an only the confidence left I thought it jn as well as If I had done it according all the rules of propriety. There was a chum of mine lived alon the way that had just been made a ju tie of the peace, and I wh.: ped up -o the gate and lifted the little maul out and almost carried her into the house, "How long will it take you to marry ns, if you go at top speed?" I asked my astonished friend, He did not answer me, but went to work in his liveliest style, and by the time Mrs. Barwell rat tled up in her old chaise the little mold had passed away from her care forever, M. E, Turrence in Pittsburu Leader. DALGLEISH OYERETT DKAI.KUS IN Furniture & Hardware, Carpets, Wall Paper, Window: Shades, Floor Huttings, &c. ALH() WindoM s, Doors, Builders' Hardware, &C, Aic. LEBANON, OltKilON. BARBER SHOP Best Sliavtn, Ilnir Cut or Hhtmipun at BORHM & KIRKS' Shaving"' Parlor. NEX T DOOIITO ST. CH A KLES HOTEL. Elegant Baths Children Kindly Treated. Ladies Hair Drawing n Specialty. CAVEATS, MARKS, DESIGN PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, eto. Yot information and free Handbook writ to MUN.N" & t:u.. ki Hhoadwat. New Your. 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