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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1894)
Lebanon Express. H. Y. KIRiCPATRICK, Editor - and - Proprietor, The woods ftM fuUofwndidate. Already" "the Plitioal Pot bttS begun to boil" Wonder if Pennoyer sent Grover n comic valentine? Owing to the hard times the corn ins June election promises to be the most interesting one this state has evor witnessed. The Oregon colony of office-soek-,. in Wanhinaton is breaking up. Thcv concluded that it wouldn't be mm! walking in the spring and had bettor come home while the roads are dry. . Atshnrah society down in Ken tucky raised some money to buy rani for a poor family. The money was eiven to the family, who, in to. .,f huvinn coal, had their photographs taken. The Oregon City Herald, the populist oraan, gives it out straight that the populists ore not in for fusion this year. They propose to keen in the middle of the road be tween the democrats and republi- Bland is making better progress with his silver agitation than he did in the special tession. The last few months has been a great object lesson in finance. A great many statesmen have learned how much thev didn't know. Fifty of the sixty members who compose Chicago's city council, are charged with selling out to a new gas company. The council hap granted a franchise to the company without any conditions that will provide against their tearing up nvfirchareine. etc. The Chicago papers, regardless of poli- tics, denounce the council a corrupt body. A dispatch from Washington savB that Representative Hermann nnnniinnea that he would not he a candidate for governor of Oregon, but would be a candidate for eon' areas again. A seat m emigres with a salary of $5,000 a year is good deal richer plum than to be governor of Oregon on a salary 1 SOO. Hineer Hermanu knows whicli side of his buead is buttered, Hon. C. B. Moutague's numerous friends are urging him to come out as candidate for the office of Secre tary of State, on the populist ticket, Mr. Montague is by far the strong est man that the party has, in this part of the state, and we believe if; they have a man that can reach Salem he is the person. He will carry more votes with him, from the democratic party, than any other two men in Linn county. An editor declares that the world needs a religion to day that will make a man's word as good as his note; thut will make its professor pay 100 cents on the dollar, sell IB ounces to the pound, 36 inches to the yard, 4 pecks to the bushel and 128 cubic feet to the cord; that will make a workman do a full day's work for a full day's pay, whether the eye of his employer ig on him or not; thH will make cap ital disgorge the lion's share of the profits and divide them equally and justly with labor; that will cause the manufacturer to cease from adulterating his goods, the clerk from robbing his employer, the official from embezzling the funds committed to his trust; a r& ligion that will make men upright, holiest, pure and trustworthy in all the walks of life; a religion that not only makes men happy bnt righteous. This is what Christian ity teaches; but the trouble lies in the number of black sheep in the wrong colored liveries. Sabbath religion is of no avail if it does not go with a man through the weok, j m;u ik. nV,rio as it does with the genuine chris - tion. WHEAT AN. P SILVER. May wheat touci'le the lowest mint'in the history of the trade at Chicago yesterday This is njt exactly the "change" many farm ers voted lor irbv nuvmnuoi. ,jrtj. gonian. ' No, it is not the chanf they voted for. Owing to the Cleveland' Sherman combine agair.ist silver, the change that the fanners voted for has come to grief. Thcv voted for the Chicago platform, which declared for low tuxes and free coinage. If the Chicago platform had beeu adhered to, the chances are that the change the farmers voted for would have been realised. Wheat and silver are inseparable companions. They are tue mam ese twins of commerce. When one 1b sick the other is siok. When one prospers the other prospers. We can furnish statistics showing that during the last 1Q0 years wheat and silver have never parted ways. Nor will they in the next 100 years. It w no wonder then that when silver dropped yesterday to the lowest point in the history of the London market Chi cago wh'eat should drop to the lowest notch in the hiBtory of that market. It Is the operation of an unerring, unalterable law of commerce that cannot be ignored. The responsibility for this state of things does not rest with the farmers who voted for a change It rests upon those who failed to bring obout the change that the farmers voted tor. When congress. under the direction of John Sher man and Grover Cleveland, struck down silver, the way was opened for the drop in the wheat market. It had to come, for there was noth ing to check its downward progress. Nor will there be any revival until the change that the farmers voted for is brought about and silver is restored to its place as money on an equality with gold. Tolegram. The death of a tew members has enabled the lower house of congress to Uke a day's rest. It would be a good thing if all of them would die and give the country a rest. H. Baker is uow agent for the cele brated Jiug!assli(w. How to make the "mighty dollar" go a long ways Go to Baker's and buy your boots and shoes, that have bees cut down to hard times prices. I have just received my spilog and summer samples, and will be glud to have every one call and examine them before going elsewhere, for I am pre pared to make clothes to order cheaper than ever behre. Genuine Black Clay Worsted suits, from $25 up; business a-:Ite, from 120 up; pants, from $6 up. Fit oud workmanship guaranteed Don't forget the address, G. Lovbi.ee, Merchant Tailor, Lebanon, Or. THE CABECILLA. The good father was finishing his when they brought him the prisoners. It was a wild spot among the Arichnle eui mountains. A fallen rock in which fig tree had plunged its twisted trunk formed a sort of altar, covered in guise of a cloth with a silver fringed Carlist standard. Two cracked water coolers took the place of vases, and when th sacristan Miftuol, who was assisting the priest at the mass, arose in order to change the position of the holy books, the cartridges were heard jingling in his cartridge box, All around the soldiers of Carlos wore silently ranged, their guns slung across their backs and one knee on the ground upon the white beret, The bright sun was concentrating it dazzling heat hi this burning and sonor ous rocky hollow, where the flight of a blackbird alone, from time to time, dis turbed the psalmody of the priest and the servant. Higher upon the jagged peak sentinels were standing, forming motionless silhouettes against the sky. What a singular sight it was this priestly commander officiating in the midst of his soldiersl And how plainly the double existence of the CabeciUa showed itself upon his countenance the ecstatic air, the hard features, further accentuated by the bronzed com plexion of the soldier in the field, and ancetum without pallor, in which was lacking the shadow of the cloister-, imsU black, very brilliant eyes, the forehead traversed by enormous veins which seemed to bind the thought as with ropes, to fix it In an inextricable obstin acy. Every time he turned toward the spec tators with open arms to read the Domimis Vobiecum, one saw the uni form beneath tho stole, and the butt of a pistol.the haft of a Catalonian knife up lifting tne rumpled snrpuce. "Wait is he going to do with usr" the prisoners asked themselves in terror, ami while awaiting the end of tho mass they re- 1 U)c o( fero(,jty been rolutei) of the Cftberilla, nnrt whjfih ,on aim special rsnown in tb "V'tllat amy. By a miracle that morninz the father was in a clement mood. The mass in the open air, his success of the previous day, and also the cheerfnhn of Easter, yet nui oy wis strange priest, cast upon Ml face a ray of joy and kindness. As soon as the service was over, while the sa cristan oleared off the altar, fastening up uie sacrea vases in a huge box, which was borne on the back of mule in the nor of the expedition, the cure ad vanced toward the prisoners. They were a dozen of republican carbineers, ex hausted by a day of battle and a mailt of anguish in the straw of the shtepf old, when they had been penned up after the action. Yellow with fear, wan with hanger, thirst and fatigue, they clus tered together like a flock of sheep in the courtyard of an abattoir. Their uniforms full of hay, their belts in disorder, pushed np in the Sight and in sleep, the dust which wholly covered them from the tufts of their caps to the points of their yellow shoes, all con tributed well to give them that sinister look of the vanquished in which moral discouragement is betrayed by physical objection. . The CabeciUa glanced at them for an tostantwith a little laugh of triumph. Be was not sorry to see the soldiers of the repuhllo humble, wan and ragged mid well fed, well equipped Oarlists, (tavarra and Basque mountaineer a brown and hard as oarob beans. "Viva Diosl my children!" said he to them with a good natural air, "The re public nourishes her defenders very ilk Why, yon an all as thin as toe wolves of the Pyrenees, when the mountains an covered with snow and., they come Into the plain to sniff the odor of the table by tne lignts wnicn shine under the doors of the houses. One is treated otherwise in the service of the good cause. Would you Uke to make a trial of it, hermanosr Cast off those infamous cape and put on tne white bent. As truly us tins is the holy day of Easter, to those who will shout, 'Long live the king!' 1 will give their lives and the same campaign food I give my other soldiers Bef on the good father had finished all the caps wen in the air, and shouts of ''Long live King Carlos!' "Long live the Cabectllar resounded on the moun tain. Poor devils! They had been in such great fear of death, and so tempt ing wen all those good victuals which they smelled close to them, about to be broiled in the shelter of rocks before the bivouac fires, pink and faint in the bright sunlight, I believe that never was the pretender acclaimed witb such good will. "Give them something to eat at once," said the can, laughing. " W hen wolves yelp with that strength, it's because they have sharp tecthf The carbineers went off. But one among them, the youngest, remained standing in front of the chief in a proud and resolved attitude, wbicb contrasted with his juvenile features and the fine down, scarcely colored, enveloping his cheeks with a blond powder, His capote, which was too large for him, was wrin kled at the back and on the arms, was turned up at the sleeves over two alight wrists, and by its tidiness made him look still younger and more slender. There was excitement in his long, bril liant eyes Arab eyes, intensified by Spanish flame. And this fixed flame annoyed the CabeciUa. "What do yon want?" he asked of him. "Hothing. I am waiting for you to decide on my fate. "Your fate will be that of the others. 1 named no one. The pardon was for aU." "The others are traitors and cowards! 1 alone did not shout anything The CabeciUa gave a start and looked him full in the face. "What's your name?" "Tonio Vidal." "Whence come you?" "From Puycerda," "Whatagei" "Seventeen." "The republic then, has no more men, since she is reduced to enrolling chil dren?" "I was not enrolled, padre. I am a volunteer." "Yon know, feUow, that I have more than one means of making yon shout "Long live the kingf " The youth assumed a superb look. "I defy you to do so!" retorted he, "So you would rather die?" "A hundred times!" "Very well, you shall die!" Then the cure madeasign, and the ex ecution platoon came and ranged itself round tne condemned, who did not winos. This sublime courage touched the chief with pity. Be demanded: "Have yon nothing to ask of me first? Don't you wont something to eat? Don't you want something to drink?" "No," answered the youth; "but I am good Catholic, and I don't want to go before God without confession." The CabeciUa stUl wore his surplice and his stole. "Kneel," said he, seating himself upon rock, and the soldiers having with drawn short distance, the condemned began in low voice; "Bless me, my father, because I nave sinned!" But in the midst of the confession a terrible fusillade burst forth at the en trance of the defile. "To rmsP cried the sentinels. The CabeciUa gave a bound, issued bis orders, distributed the post and scattered bis soldiers. Ho himself had salted a carbine without taking the time to remove bis surplice, when, hap pening to turn around, he perceived the youth stUl on his knee. "What an yon doing there?" be thundered. "I am awaiting absolution," was the reply. "That's true," said the priest. "I had forgotten you." Gravely he raised his hand and blessed that bowed young head. Then, bef ore go ing away, after glancing around him for the platoon of execution, dispersed in the disorder of the attack, he drew off a Up, took aim at bis penitent and shot hua.-qAlntoiw Daudet, A Mnn I.imt, . One day luu weuk a man was pinn ing down Main street, unit all iitmiei dl8!ip,mii Into linker's Dry Goodx, Bool and Shoe store, where he fell hit, Bukor'n low pricmund wtss lost toull. O. W. O. Hardiiiiih, Htwrlft of Tyler Co,, W. Vu., appreciates a g.md tlilny and does not nvsltnte to sny so. He was almost prostrated with a cold when he procured a bottle of Cliniiiber laln's Cough Hemedy. Hp snys; "It gave me prompt relief. I find it to be an invaluable remedy for coughs and eolds." For sale by N. W, Hmlth, druggist, i. . "Is Your Name Written There?" Written whoro? Why, on the subscription list of the Lebanon Exphkss. If you are not a sub scriber to this paper, und wish to obtain reading matter for the win ter evenings, now is the time to subscribe Subscription rates, (pay able in advance) $1.50 per yoar. To Advertisers. If you wish to obtain tlin best returns from your advertisements Don't Forget the important fact that ' The Lebanon Express will give the desired results, es it Is The Best Advertising Medium in Linn County. A SPECIAL OFFER! 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