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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1893)
V i By Authority of Congress. U. S. Gov't , Baking Powder Tests. The report of the analyses of Baking Powders, made by the U. S. Government (Chemical Division, Agl Dep't), shows the Royal superior to all other powders, and givesitsleaveningstrength and thestrengthof each of the other cream of tartar powders tested as follows : LEAVENING OAS. 1 'Weral Cubic lo. una. ROYAL, Absolutely Pure, 13.06 . . 160.6 U.58 . . 151.1 The OTHER POWDERS I 11.13 . . 133.6 TESTED are reported to con- 1 10.36 . . 133.1 tain both lime and sulphuric ( 9.53 . . 114. acid, and to be of the follow- J 9.29 . . 111.6 Ing strengths respectively, 8.03 . . 96.5 7.28 . . 87.4 1 (8) These tests, made in the Gov't Laboratory, by impartial and unprejudiced official -hemists, furnish the highest evidence that the Royal " is the best baking powder. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., IOC WALL ST., NEW-V0RK. Batermtaatlat s. Fond Fish. The cupidity of itw fisherman on the Atlantic count n rapidlr destroying near ly every kind of sen food npon which tne people bare been ai-cnslomed to rely. The complaints of tbe inen who control the Hub markets are long and lond that the supply of fish is much lata for thia season than it waa the last. The lobster factories on the Maine coast are all closed, and one baa to go down aa far east as Prince Edward island to find a lobster with a shell on bia back at a fair price. The herring factories have be gan to exhaust the immense schools of herring that gather around brand Ala nan and work then: way into the Bay of Candy The mackerel have been so scarce dur ing the season, from the wholesale de struction of schools, that a single mack erel is today more expensive thao a pound of beef. The blnehsh are still plenty, but there are signs that even thia species of hah v beginning to be preyed upon oytue methods employed by the fishermen in catching them. The tinner men say that they are obliged to use these destructive methods in order to protect themselves from the encroach ments of those who refuse to keep to the 01a metbods, and so the wholesale de struction goes on witbont restraint. The time has come when if the sea is to yield to ns much longer the delicious food which makes life on the Atlantic coast a delight to the people of the west, aa well as to the natives, different methods of catching the fish, and a pro tection for them in tbe close season, must be established by law. for which the proper enforcement must be ar ranged. The necessity is urgent There is not a single species of fish used for tbe table wbirii is not now in great danger of extinction. The salmon and the shad have been protected, but protection is squally demanded for tbe cod. the her ring, the lobster and tbe mackerel. Boston Herald. right BetwM Shark and Whale. On the trip to fiji and back of the steamer Ovalau, nat concluded. Cap tain A. W Cameron and his officers saw a strange encounter. Tbe steamer was going along at about ten knots in nudocean, when a commotion waa ob served in the water ahead and the body of a huge marine annual or fish, with what appeared to be great dippers, was to be seen rising and falling Captain Cameron steered direct for the stranger. On approaching close the commotion was found to De caused by a whale, over thirty feet long, fighting with a thrasher shark. Tbe latter apparently was having tbe best of tbe combat, as the whale kept on the surface of the water comparatively quiet, while tbe shark ever and anon threw itself out of the water and brought its tail down with a terrible blow upon the whale. The Uvalau was so elose to tbe animals, which were too much occupied to heed tbe vessel, that eitner could nave been touched with a pole. Tbe captain could not stop his ship long enough to observe the result of the conflict. iiew Zealand Herald. It ia from the rootlets or small fibers of s tree or plant that its subsistence is obtained, and in the performance of its 'duty nature has given these delicate, tender parts wonderful strength and persistence when exerted within rules. In their search for food supply they will sometimes even penetrate soft rock to reach favored spots. The consumption of tea in England during 1802 reached the highest point ever touched since its use has been gen erally diffused among tbe masses, the total' quantity used Owing 207.000,000 pernios. . Cbtldre. ml the Aalum. I five not very far from an imposing brown structure set somewhat back from the street and overlooking by a story or two on ita side its more worldly neighbors whose front doors open on an avenue. Id touch, then, with prosperity this building stands, but so silent and inscrutable is it that but for some unobtrusive lettering over the en trance, announcing It to the seeker as a place of refuge, no passer by could pierce ita mystery. How tbe outcast or sufferer finds the way within is one of its secrets, unless one is right in supposing tbat be hind a portal Bits some personage, with book of entry, who. after credentials and all the rest are offered, will allow a way tareriu. But who these wayfarers are 1 could not for some time discover. I grew to believe they were those who from bean break and sorrow had vowed themselves to eternal speechlessness. For even with its windows wide open in the summer, nothing could be heard outside. 1 never thought to asso ciate any or them with another Hound I near, one tbat Sunday after Sunday comes up 10 me-out 01 cne strait. 1 hear then the creak of little hoots, the trump of msny tiny feet, as a silent throng goes by. Never a voiee. nor a cry of delight, nor a half re pressed laugh, nothing but tbe uneven, fal tering trump of little feet. Clean starched are they, these children, and presided over oy a man or gentle mien, who leads them into that grim old building beyond. They are neither deaf nor dumb. Nor are they maimed. Vet one never looks at them without a tightening at the heart. It is their silence indoors and out of doors that hurts one No boisterous cry could pierce theearwith greiuersharpness. Why should those who shield repress them so? For the voices of children no man can live willingly without hearing, for they are part of the world's best music, and travel ers who have gone up over great towns in balloons tell us that after every sound of earth has faded and is lost the voices of the little children have found their way above and touched them in the clouds. Earner's Bazar. Th. Bleed Girl Famine. The one want which civilization fa un able to supply to order is tbe hired girl Minneapolis has almost inexhaustible re sources in all tbe necessities, comforts and luxuries for which man and woman yearn, except in that dire necessity, that exceeding comfort and rare luxury the efficient, nea faitbfnl and responsible hired girl With an output of clerks and typewriters equal only to that of flour and lumber, a profusion of pretty girls as remarkable as our possession of lakes and parks, and an overflow of brainy and useful femininity like unto that of onr proverbial enterprise and water power, Minneapolis must yet con fess that in the line of a first class article of hired girl we have ascdrcity approach ing famine. But the scarcity does not seem to be confined to this city: Even in the fertile homhed Frenchman of rank tbat notb country districts of ths state, where sen-1 g of a lower grade than the imperial sible and industrious girls are supposed republican bead of a great nation, in to grow np in prolific plenty, there is representative capacity, could win the same sharp demand and pitiable 'rom her a bend of the knee. Tbe paucity. I princeleta, male and female, were but Onr country readers even advertise in ' everyday folk in her eyes, quite without the want columns in the faint hone that social "divinity," and to them she re- a housekeeper may be bribed from her , city position to accept a station as qneen of a rural kitchen. In short, tbe hired girl famine is general. It is getting to be the principal occupation of the mis tress of a bouse nowadays to bunt hired girls, and a necessary qualification of a wife that she be able to successfully steal, bribe or persuade away her neigh bors' girls. Doubtless a prominent cause of the hired girl famine is the fact that the girl who snccessfnllv mairtoni the acinnm. and arts of cookerv and bokerir i. Immediately besieged with matrimonial offers. Girls of such accomplishments are never in danger of becoming old maids. Women of blood and brawn, neaiin ami uumesuc capacity, win oe in deraand as long as the home is the cradle of rivUizatiott-Miuneapous Tribune, i A DREAM. I dreamt thai over the winter world The :nter winds were sighing, And H: . i ne orioles' eaipty uests Thi- li: .:k of anow were hying. The vltieg aumg the Harden wall With crystal ice were gleaming. ' And in the itunlen dull and bare The summer Sower were dreamlns. The snow lay deep over withered m-asa. The Mfcies were eold slid ir-iy, .And slowly the dreary niaUfuune on To end the weary day. 1 wiixu. Man op In thearchsrd booses A hundred birds were sinning. And in the biruh trees' pleasant shad. Tile nrinies' nests were swinging. Alone the river, tall and green, i saw the ntii-w growing. And daisy ptuulu white as snow Among the grasses showing. The dowers held tie sunshine bright, The breexea were at play. And swiftly the dreamy night came on To end the happy day. Angelina W. Wray in Harper's Balar Th. J'amps of the Egyptian. A representative piece of mechanism occurs frequently on the sculptures of early fcgypt. it has the appearance of and is general ly believed to be that of a portable pump. The livdruulic screw ii also attributed to this people, but their mam reliance seems always to have been the Shadoof, seen everywhere along the nanus or the a ue. an invention so sim ple and so well adapted to their needs that it remains today substantially the same as it has through all the centu 'es amce history began. The same may be said regarding the cnain pump in China, an invention the origin of which antedates the Christian era. This simple machine, which seems never to have been improved upon, ia in anoh common use that every agricultural laborer is in possession of one. Where irrigation ia conducted on a larger scale the chain pump ia made proportionately larger and moved by a very simple tread wheel, and still larger ones are operated by yoking a buffalo or other animal to a suitable driving machine. The application of steam to raising water is of uncertain origin. Long be fore the Christian era certain applica tions of fire to vessels containing water, by which effects were produced calcu lated to astonish ignorant worshipers, were practiced by the priests of Egypt. Greece and Rome, but their knowledge seems never to have been turned into any channel of secular usefulness. En gineering Magazine. W. Ow. th. Hat to Asia. We owe the bat to Asia, for it was in that country that the art of felting wool was first known, and from the most re mote periods the art was carried on by me orientals, in India, China, Burniuh and Siam hats are made of straw, of rat tan, of bamboo, of pith, of the leaf of the Tallport palm ami of a large variety of grasses. The Japanese made their hats of iaper. The modern hat can be traced hack to the ietasurs worn by the ancient ilomans when on a journey, and hats with brims were also used by the earlier Greeks. It was not until after tbe Roman con quest that the use of hats began in Eng land. A "hatte of biever," about the middle of the twelfth century, was worn by one of the nobles of the laud. Frau sort describes bats and plumes which were worn at Edward's court in 1840, when the Garter order waa instituted. The merchant in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" had "on hia head a Flannderish beaver hat." and from that period on ward there ia frequent mention of "felt hattes." Washington Star. Ko Law Against Bemoving a bead Body. "Where in the world," asked the law yer who volunteered information witb ont a retaining fee, "did people espe cially people in the country get tbe idea that one cannot touch or remove a body until the coroner has arrived? That is almost a general belief in the country, and there never was a more ridiculous and absurd piece of nonsense than this. I have seen a body lie in everybody's way because the people thereabout thought that it was unlawful to touch it. This foolish tradition amounts almost to a superstition, and you may be sure no coroner takes the trouble to enlighten stupid ignorance upon the subject The coroner is only too willing to aggrandize his influence and power, and therefore rather encourages than discourages this silly superstition." New York Tribune. Beading h. Km. to ror.lgn.fm. A clever New York woman of assured social position frankly admitted to a fuse! to make obeisance. The lady's distinction is self respecting and truly American, and as a rule of conduct it commended as an antidote for the in- discriminate courtesy craze. Vogue. Enough Said. Old Lady (to druggiat) 1 want a box of canine pills. Druggist What Is ths matter with the Ana Old Lady (Indignantly)-! want you to' know, sir, that my buILd b a iaStEi man. (Drumrist Dutaunaom.nninin. -ill. In profound ailenctl-Boeton Horn. Joor. , nr. tw .,i,i i my affection ao that you will not doubt Itf btie X bere ia. Marry sister. She b older than L, and mamma b determined not to let me marry till sister is disposed of.- I THREE ON A BENCH. , Th. Boy Bntl a Future, the Croak a Fasti Ih. Vagrant Had Nothing. It was 3 o'clock in the morning. The electric lights were still blazing in the silence of Madison square. A number of shabby figures sluuiliered or moved about on the seats beneath tbe trees ol the park. On a bench beside the little fountain sat a gronp that arrested my attention. Three figures were reclining here with their heads and shoulders al most touching one another. One was but little more than a boy. A bundle done up in a calico handkerchief was in his baud. His sunburned face and his sturdy shoulders gave evidence that ho was from the country probably a farm hand who had trudged in to try his luck in the city. His boots were covered with red clay. Be was leaning against a thiu figure clad in somewhat shabby gar ments. This man possessed a dark and sinister countenance. He was restless, and his hands, which were thin aud white, twitched nervously in his sleep. His lii moved spastuodicully. His was an evil conscience. There was plainly a shady side to his past life. Here were deceit and honesty side bv side. Next to the dark man slumlwreil a very old and decrepit one. He wits clad in a linen duster. A battered grav hat sat on his head, and his toes were peeping out from the tips of his worn shoes. The face of this old fellow was seamed with deep and careworn wrin kles. His hair aud beard were snowy white. He was possessed of a palsy that made him tremble constantly as he lay dozing. It was youth, manhood and old age typical of life. These three reclined here in a stolen sleep. A park policeman came gliding along from the distance through the twi light of the trees. He crept along like a gray ghost on the lookout for those weary souls who were transgressing the law by surreptitious alumber. His eye lighted with satisfaction aa he beheld the three figures on the bench. "You see that seedy fellow in the middle?" he whispered. "That's Tony McElroy, who cracked three safes over in Jersey City last summer. 1 spotted him at once by his mug. Be just come out of the pen last Tuesday." Tbe officer seized the crook by the col lar aud shook him till hia teeth rattled. The noise awakened the boy, who grasped the aituation at once. Seizing bis bun dle he akurried like a rubbit across ths grass toward Twenty-third street. Once feeling himself safe he stretched his limits and began to whistle cheerfully. The crook arose aud stood in sullen silence a few moments until the police man pushed him on. Ho thrust his hands into his pockets, humped up bis Bhoul dors and shambled up the avenue. The old vagrant tottered to bis feet He was dazed, aud it took linn quite awhile to collect Ilia senses. He shuffled across the square with bowed head. Be scanned the bnildiugs and the streets about him with a hopeless, helpless glance that was pathetic to see. Then he, too, vanished in the gray of breaking dawn. The boy had a life of hope before him, the crook bad a past behind him, but the old vagrant bad neither past nor future. New York Kecordor. A Legend About Loeemnkina. Lacemakiug is by no means ao old an industry as most persona suppose. There is no proof tbat it existed previously to the fifteenth century, and the oldest known painting in which it appears is a portrait of a lady in the academy at Venice, painted by Casiiaccio, who died about 1523. The legend concerning the origin of the art is as follows: A young fisherman of the Adriatic waa betrothed to a young and beautiful girl of one of the isles of the lagoon. Industrious as she was beautiful, the girl made a new net for her lover, who took it with him on board his boat. Tbe first time he cast it into the sea he dragged therefrom an exquisite petrified wrack grass which he hastened to present to his fiancee. But war breaking out the fisherman was pressed into the aervice of the Venetian navy. The poor girl wept at the depar ture of her lover and contemplated his last gift to her. But while absorbed in following the intricate tracer; of the wrack grass she began to twist and plait the threads weighted with small beads which hung around her net Little by little she wrought an imitation of the petrification, and thus was created the bobbin lace. Washington Star. Th. G. A. U. Bennlon at Indianapolis. In providing for tbe entertainment of the Grand Army in September tbe executive committee has kept in view the fact that Indianapolis needs toapread herself in order to outdo other cities, in certain lines at least. Xhe Indiana parade and reunion will be a spectacle for all old soldiers to go wild over. Filled with the enthusiasm of old times, they can go from the bivouacs of the Hoosier boys to those of the corpa in which they themselves served. Indiana veterans will of course hold brigade and regimeutal reunions. Ohio and other near by states will do the same. Soldiers from any state whoserved in regiments brigaded with Indianlaiis will drop in around the campflretoshakethefrateriial band. Aside Zm 'mTL""" ,' old frlend" hwm tottoratmltaiarf varloua armies ana apeciai veteran societies, ahe armies . '-umnerionu tue lenneasee, the fo- tomac, the James, the frontier, the Missis sippi ram fleet, the United States sharp shooters, the ex-prisoners of war, the Maimed Soldiers' league and the Marine le,fio11 b?"' aca' u1 iaW appointed to "m,u mi. ntiiyiog cueera ao la- mUlsfwb t'ray bearded men of today bM"!! bom It'S RATHER TOO Mt'CIl FOR YOU the ordinary, bulky pill, Too big to bike, and too much disturb ance for your poor sys tem. 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