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,
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If you do not already give him your patronage try him,
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In Courtney's Brick. Next Door to Bank.
Santiam
1803-4.
Fall Term Began
For information, ask for
address,
S. A. RANDLE, Principal,
LEBANON, - -
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Great Clearance Sale
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