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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1894)
ilNCOLX'S PL130 HAT. A VERITABLE "JOINT OF 6TOVEPIPE" WITH ROMANTIC BRIM. It-Semd m TUe llaek nud at One Tim Wh th Postofflee of .New Salom It! IJveUest Baperteoee; Was Whsn It Served as ft Football For Ladtse. There ate enough of f unny-ineidents -reported of Mr. Lincoln's hat to make it "fabled in song and Illumined in Btory." For example, It served as a football on the night of lie election to the presidency, when the ladies at the old homestead testified their glee over his good fortune. The scene wonld have done credit to the. great game between Yale and Princeton on Manhattan field. This is the story aa told by au eyewit nesB: - "A few of ns ladies went over and helped Mrs, Lincoln prepares little sap per for the fronds of Mr. Lincoln, who had been invited in to hear the returns. Every half hour or so we would pass around coffee and cakes. About 1 o'clock in the moming enough had been learned to warrant the belief that the rail split ter had been elected. I think it was when we heard the news from New l'ork. The men rushed on Mr. Lincoln and shook Mb hands, while some of the women actually hugged him, and I might as well admit it I kissed him. "Then some one went into the hall and took from the rack the old silk bat that he wore, and which was as long as a joint of stovepipe and about as shape ly to my mind, and it was thrown np to tho ceiling. As it came down some one gave it a kick, and then the women joined in the fun, and we played foot ball with that bat until it reason indis tinguishable mass. We were simply be yond control. What a ridicnlons scene it would have been to one looking in without knowing what prompted it! "It was all the more so, so far as 1 was concerned, for originally 1 had been a Seward woman. While the conven tion was in session in Chicago we were , waiting to hear the news. It had been arranged in case Lincoln received the nomination to fire a cannon. My near est neighbor was a Mrs. Dubois, with whom I had several friendly Bpats dur ing the campaign preceding the nomi nation. I heard the cannon shot, and the next moment I saw Mrs. Dubois running across the street. She bad been making s shirt for her husband, who was about the sizeof the late Judge Da rid Davis, so you may have some idea of the size of the garment she was wav ing. She rushed into the house and . flaunted it in my face. It made me mad, and I sat down and began crying. The good woman put her arms aronnd me, -begged my pardon and kissed me, and from that time we were Lincoln women. - She took part in the football match.'' ? As if not content with bis 6 feet 4 or 5 inches of gaunt stature, Lincoln bad his now historic hat made fully a foot high, with a brim almost as big as a , southern sombiero. It seemed to have been a combination of all styles then in existence, and in this respect it reflected his own early experience in having been a storekeeper, soldier, surveyor and finally a solicitor. It was a veritable "joint of stovepipe," and its remarka ble and romantic brim made it alike serviceable in rain or shine. It might have been called with propriety a "plug ugly, "after the name of the mob in Baltimore that threatened him in bis ; journey to the capital. . During-Lincoln's great debate with - Douglas the hat fairly loomed into space. The smallness of the latter's stature caused him to be nicknamed "The Little Giant," and when Lincoln stood beside him with his hat on the difference between the two seemed all but immeasurable. Curiously enough, when Mr. Lincoln came to be inaugu rated at Washington and took off bis hat on the stand preparatory to malting his inaugural address Douglas held the high hat go that no careless person might put hie foot in it. . Representative Springer, who hails from Lincoln's old borne, knew the hat well, and in speaking of it recently said: "Mr. Lincoln's high hat was the most indispensable thing of his whole outfit. In it he carried all his valuable papers. In fact, it was a sort of file rack. Here weie all the briefs of his various law cases. Curiously enough, he carried the accounts in his head, and that is why ho lost to much money. Had be re- vorsed the process and kept his accounts in his hat and the cases in bis head, he would have been tetter off, His bat served for his satchel on a journey, and all that was needed besides this wore his saddlebags and his horse. It was large and capacious, and a great many documents and data conld be crowded into it without seriously discommoding the wearer," ' - - - But Mr. Lincoln had still a better use for his valuable tile, which seems to have had more virtues than those re hearsed in the nursery tale of "Jack and the Beanstalk." When he was poat- iuaster at Hew Salem, his bat became a most important part of his office equip ment. As soon as the mail was received each day the young postmaster would " pot tho letters in bis bat and take a stroll through the village. The villa gers knew that he was a peripatetic postofiice, and of course everybody was anxious to know tho contentsof the hat, which seemed to promise as mncb to them as a hat in the hands of a sleight of band performer. Washington Cor. St. Louis Republic. Sweet Childhood, Tommy Europe's in the east, lan't it, papa? - . . His Father Yes. - '"'.'' Tommy And yon can get there just by starting west and going far enough, can't your ilis Father Certainly.; ' . Tommy Well, then, whereabouts on the way round do you stop going west and beirli to get east again? Chicago liiwoid. . A Prospector's Straiifre Discovery i In Doath Valley. Hq. Comes rjpoa a Full-Itlaffvd Ship In . tt Hldrt of an Inland llMort-Jts BuUder Expect an Inundt- tlon Souio ly. "One of the queerest and most sur prising sights I oversaw in all my wan derings over the wilds of this country," said E. C. Traver, a well-known pros pector and civil engineer, a few days ago, in the San Franeisco Chronicle, "was a newly constructed brig lying on the floor of Death valley. And it is there yet, so that anybody can see it "It was by the merest clmuce that I ran across the vessel," snid Sir. Traver, "because had I been a few feet further south I would never have seen it. You see I had been working on the eastern side of the valley for several weeks without success and concluded to go to Mount Darwin, where I would at least be sure of expenses, I was crossing the valley at the northern end, which is quite narrow, bnt about the lowest spot on the earth's Burface. I am not exactly certain, but I think that where the vessel is located it is about two hundred feet below sea level. "After the first surprise had worn off I began to iifrure out how the craft came there. That the vessel was a relic of a past age never entered my head for a moment, because it was con structed on perfectly modern lines and the wood had a yellow appearance, in dicating that it had not been cut, very long. I am something a sailor myself, and the first glance told me it was the work of sonic modern shipbuilder; but that only made the mystery greater. "Climbing onto the deck by a small rone ladder, I found everything ship shape. The decks were as clean and white as a man-of-war's, and every rope was in place. Entering the cabin I .found everything neat and clean and several bunks with bedding, ready to sleep in. Such, a thing, how ever, would have been impossible, as the heat was simply unbearable, and I had to go- to the door, gasping for "breath, before I had completed my in vestigation. The more I looked the more interested and mystified I be came. It was plain the brig had been built where she was; but by whom, and for what? "I spent the whole afternoon climb ing over the vessel. I went into the rigging and looked over the surround ing country, but could see no sign of a human being. When night came on I concluded to camp near by. bnt had no sooner got fixed comfortably when a voice from somewhere called 'good evening.' You may be sure J jumped, as my nerves were feeling a little weak through my strange afternoon's expe rience. "There wa, no need to be alarmed, though, for. a good-natured looking man with gray hair and beard was smiling at me. . , "lie said that his name was Frederick Evans, that he was a shipbuilder by trade and one of the California pion eerof '49. He had never made a big strike, but hod always kept prospect ing, and when the water rose in Salton lake a few years ago he was at work in the mountains around Death valley. It was then that he got it into his head that the water would eventually reach that locality, and he was determined to have the first vessel to float in the new sea. Evans was not a poor man, but had enough money to hire a couple of men to help him lay the keel of the vessel, put in the masts and do the other heavy work. At first the work was pushed rapidly, but when the water -commenced to recede - Evans took things easy and did all the work himself, because he thought the water could not come again for a year, lie lias been disappointed, every year since, but still thinks that Death valley will become a sea, and he is ready for It." WANTED TO SEE A CURIOSITY. What a Victimised Physician Replied to a Confidence Operator's Proposition, A group of doctors from the Keystone state ware chatting one day, says the Washington Post, and the conversation turned on the exploits of a rascal who victimized a large number qf physicians np in Pennsylvania some years ago. He worked a very slick confidence game on tha disciples of Galen, and after beating them to the tunc of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars fled the state. The victims were so sore over the mat ter that-thoy hired a detective to hunt i the villain down. After a lively chase that lasted for six months the swindler was located in another state. It ap pears that there was some doubt about the ability of the injured parties to bring him back for punishment. He hired good counsel and declared his in tention of remaining where he was. I inally a committee of the fleeced med: j icine men went to the scene and waited j on the swindler. He received them j with the greatest air of composure and j easy assurance,' appearing in no wise i abashed. "What do you gentlemen want with j me?" he said, Ml haven't a cent of the ; money. It's all been Bpcnt months ago. I If you want my body, take it. It's all 1 I've got to give up." Then he smiled complacently upon I the Committee, waved them a graceful salute and walked oft. "What did the scoundrel say?" re marked old Dr. Mcliride, who was quite deaf , to one of his colleagues. ' , "He said we could take his body." "The deuce he did. Well, I don't want his body, but I'd really like to have his gall." Gold u African MaUsv. Complaint has been made by the post master general of Cape Colony about the great weight of packages of gold sent through the mails. In one mail the gold weighed a ton and a, quarter. It is desired that miners and shippers end their gold in small packages or else use the freight trains. The postal and telegraph, departments of the colony .paid their wuy lust year for the first time in the colony's history. ' BiQGEST WAWSHIIJS Ar-1,0 AT. Tho Poverty-Stricken Kingdom of Italy Owns Twu rrcnmnrioUH righting Vesaunu. The '-'irpcst armor-dads in the world are tl.,. .talian Italia and Lopnntu, sis ter ships, each oi 13,000 tons displace ment, says the Iioston Transcript. Next to them come the monstor English bat tleships of the Royal Sovereign class, vessels of 14,150 tons displacement These in turn will be surpassed by the Magnificent and Majestio, each of which will displace 14,900 tons. The largest arinor-clad over which the French flag floats 1b the Admiral Bau din, of 11,900 tons, and next to her is the Lazore Carnot, only eighty tons smaller. Germany's largest armor-clad Is the Brandenburg, of 8,840 tons. Aus tria has never built any armor-clada save those of moderate dimensions, her largest, the Tegutthoil, being of 7,3(HI tons. Spain's largest is the l'eloyo, of 9,900 tons. The three United States battleships of the first olass which have been launched are the Massachusetts, Oregon and Indiana, each of 10,800 tons displacement. The Iowa, now build ing, will be 11,390 tons. There hi now a reaction against monster ships. Eng- . land 1b the ouiy naval power that per sists in the policy of building them, and apparently she is Hearing a halt, j The Italians have come to the conclu ! sion; that is indicated by the dimen sions of their latest armor-clad anthor , Ized, which will have 9,800 tons displacement. The determination of j France and the United States to keep j their battleships under 12.000 tons was I deliberately taken by each govcrn i ment, after weighing weight against I efficiency. In this policy Russia also agrees, the largest of her armor-clada in service being the Georgl Pobiedono- : setz, of 10,230 tons, while her naval con- ' structors regard 13,000 tons as about the proper limit. ' j Of the cruisers now afloat the Rus sian Eurik is the largest and probably, taking all things into consideration, the most powerful. She is armor belt. I ed and is of 10,900 tons displacement, ! almost 2,000 tons larger than the Uluke. The English have authorized two cruisers of 14,000 tons each, being .de termined to see the Gurik and go her 8,100 tons better. As in the case of I armor-clads England stands alone in accepting this challenge. Her Blake and Blenheim are notonly exceeded by the Iturik but by the Spanish Einpera dor Carlos V., which has 9,236 tons dis placement. The largest French cruiser in active -service is the D'Entrecaa teaux, of 7,900 tons, but the Jeanne i d' Arc is being enlarged to a total dis placement of 6,700 tons. The largest. cruiser class 01 the Italian service either afloat or authorized displace 6,500 tons each, which is 450 tons more ! than Germany's leader, the Eaiserin 1 Augusta.- The largest of our cruisers afloat is the New York, of 8,150 tons, while the Brooklyn, building, will be ' 1,000 tons larger. YOUTHFUL HEROISM. , New England Children Who flave Shown Great Courage In Rescuing- Playmates. A few weeks ago the Boston Tran script recorded the award of a medal by the Massachusetts Humane society to a girl of seven in Lynn who had saved froxi drowning another lass of the same age. Notable as the action was, it is interesting to hear that such incidents are common, though they have not always commanded recogni tion from the humane society. A cor respondent to Essex sendsus two Items which show that the nobler qualities of numan nature may be developed or at least manifested at a very early age. About a year ago some boys were playing on the railroad, when an ex press train came along. The whistle was Bounded, and alt but one little fellow got off in sample time, the one left being but three years old, and of course unable to appreciate his danger. One of the lads, ten years old, jumped for his companion and pulled him away just as the pilot of the en gine brushed against his clothing. The engineer said; "When I saw the bigger boy jump for the smaller one I thought that there would be two killed outright instead of one." On a recent winter day a boy of six fell through the Ice, and another boy, aged ten, catching him by the collar, tried to pull him out, but he was pot strong enough, so he called fop another boy, a lad of but eight years, and with his help they saved their companion. They were all in a peculiarly perilous position, and the wonder is that any of the three escaped alive, yet with the indiilerence to danger characteristic of moat boys when their sympathies r aroused, they spoke of the venture as though there were nothing remark able about it AN ODD WILL, Its Largest Bequest to the Heir Who Should Have the Most Children, The eccentric testator in Lord Lyt ton's "Money" certainly did not play a more cruel trick upon his expectant relatives than a Polish landed propria-! tor named Zalesky, who died in March, 1889, in the province of Taurlda, says the London Daily News. This man left a will in a sealed packet, marked: "To be opened after my death." When the envelope was torn off, another one was found underneath, with the words; "To be opened six weeks after the first envelope has been opened." At the end of the six weeks it was found there was a third envelope, with the inscrip tion; "To be opened in a year." After waiting impatiently for another twelve months the relatives found yet anomer envelope, wmcn said: "To be opened in two years." Finally the will was opened, when it was found that the testator bequeathed one hundred thousand roubles, or one-half of his fortune, to that person among bis relas tives who should be proved to have the largest number of children. The other half was to be invested for a hundred years, at the end of which time it was to be divided, together with the inter est, among bis descendants; ' It is not to be wondered at that this will has become the subject of t law suit, the family, with one exception, I declaring the testator to hove been of unsound mind. J;"E. Adi'ox, agent for the' AlbaityS steam laundry, sends waKliliigs down oil Tuesdays oiuy, Fugh mid Munwy have just received a new line of furnishing goods, price (hem Ih dire buying elsewhere. Read, Peacock & Co. have received a line of dress goods, something new. Ladles should see them before buying u new dress. You can get 20 yards of ohallle, 16 yards of turkey red calico, or 14 yards outing flannel for $1.00 at Read, Peacock A Co's. These hard times we want to save all wv can, but of course we have, to ent, still you will save some by getting your groceries at 8. P. Bach's. , , ; Go to Hiram Baker's fur your hop- picking supplies. Remember he car ries a full line nf groceries, drygoods, boots, shoes, huts and clothing. Every cash purchaser of $10 worth of goods at 8. P. Bachs store gets a crayon pnrtruteot themselves or frelnd free. See sample of work In his window. The best groceries and furnishing goods at the lowest prices at Fngh 4 Mtinsey'a. Try them. For pure black varnished finished carriage paint, call on M. A. Miller, "and don't forget It." , N. W. Smith keeps the Eldorado Castor maehliir nil, heat In the world for farm machinery. Those who patronize Pugh A IMuiiwy always get the liest there is in the ninr- kei; nt lowest priced. A.E. Ansorge Is now ready to do any repairing of organs, having hud long experience In llnt-clana faccrl. Will guarantee satisfaction. Lebanon, Oregon, Blua M. West Hive No. I, h. O. T. M. will admit members into the order for $S 25 fur the next sixty days from Aug. 1st 1894. Amob Hvnis, II. K. "I "know an aid soldier who had chronic diarrhoea of long standing ti have been permanently cured by tak ing Chamberlain's Collo Cholera and Diarrhoea llemedy," says Edward Hhuiupik, a prominent druggist nf Miuneuuolls, Minn. "I have sold the remedy In the city for over seven years and consider It superior to any other medicine now on the market for bowel I complaints." 25 and 60 cent bottles nf remedy for sale by N. W. Smith, drug- igist, There will lie one assessment lu the A. O. TJ. W. iirdor for the month of September. This makes eleven tmem- ments for nine months, or at tbe rate of $14.76 par year on a policy of 12,000. Clias, H. fielahaw, yesterday, thresh- ! ed the wheat for six acres of fall sow- , lng, the same measuring from the nia- I chine 207 bushels, 44j bushels per acre. In spite of the aphis uud dry season, j some good yields are being reported. j Eugene Guard. I Deputy Sheriff Vvntch, of Cottage Grove, reports that Hclfrlch, the j horse thief, received five buck shut from Constable Linton at the time nf their nit-vtiug near Creawell. Helfrloh I suys he will not be taken alive, and the officers think be Is hardly worth killing, so he may go his way tat some time yet. ' Fied Wagiur, who with H. L. Willed wwit over to Heaver creek fir a week's outing, bud a narrow escape from death one day last week. He was leading his pony along a steep hillside and carrying a shotguu in his hand. The saddle slipped back and the pony bucked charged, knock ed Fred down and danced up on (i(uj ' and discharged the gun, the loud, from which went through frail's coat with in an Inch or twoqf his body. Beyond some bad bruises and a cut on the leg where the pony dropped one foot, lie la not the worse for the trouble, nud will return from Ills present quarters In a day or twq,,aA,(h,Hid Tidings, An Oregon girl In exchange says in a very sound kind of a way: "Why do the young men do so much loafing? j Go to workl Push ahead! I am nothing I but a young girl; I have clothed my self and got money In the bank, und only sixteen years old, I lay up more money every year than any Uy or young man within (I radius of three miles nf my home. When they act a dollar I l.oy go to a dance and go home a dollar nut. My father is able to support mo, but I choose to support myself. I advise all girls to cut clear of loafing boj-B. Give them a wide berth, and never many a man unless he la : able la support you. And never put 1 your arm through the handle of a rum J"K'" Probate Court In estate of Husbrnuck, citation Issu ed; hearing sot for Oct 1, In guardianship of Fred Harris In- venlory filed. Cash, tlu-l.,'11. Allowed JilO per month. i'inal accounting In estate ftf A. WVsturvolt set for Oct 1st. In estate of Aloiizo Amis, inventory filed personal property, $o57.05. Iu estate of Abnrllla Metzgar, com mission to appraisers Issued, JiYeh toryflled.. Real etft(p JMft. In guardianship ,uf AuguaU Wlllcrt 2nd account filed and resignation of John Hoffman. as guardian wo accept cil, Jullustiradwhol appoluttal guard lau. Bond, ((MO. In order to make room for my LARGE FALL STOCK Which is now on tho way bore from the Kust, I have decided to CLOSE OUT MY ENTIRE STOCK OF SPRING AND SUMMEK GOODS At Cost. - Now is the tinio to gut 1'ARGAlNS , such as have nevor before boon ofVwed in Lebanon. It is to your advan tage to come and sue lis. f Don't forgot the plaoo. Building. , M. J. LEBANON, WeVWVWVWWiVW.V 1BALD What Ib the condlti m of yours? It your lialr drvjfif harsh, brif.ie? Doer, it split at the ends? Has it js lifeless appe.jnm.-c ? Does It fall out when combed f , brushed ? 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All old subscribers pnylng their siilwcrlptiiis for me yeut in advance will be entitled to the same oiler. , Kenneth Puxemore had the good fortune to receive a small bottle oi Chamberlain's Colic, Ohojei and Dlnri'hocu Ui'tuedy whtifl liirce mem bers of UU funiily was nlckwllli d ysen- icrv. Tills one snnill bnltl nnrml th-n. " "" .- an ana ne nan boiiic kti which lie g ivu toWen.W, linker a prominent is chant nf this place, j,cwlkou J. J., and It cured, Itlm of thu same com plaint. Wh'ih troubled with dysentery diarrhoea, collo or-dholeru morbus, give this remedy a trial and you will tv more than pleased with U,V rmult. The praise that niitiira'.iy follows. ll Introduction ant! use has nwdc It yery popular; and & c-m botlli s for sale by N, YfikJuittu, drnguM, In the Odd Follow' BENJAMIN. OREGON HEADSlI .j uf ttit titUr Rinl vent tikflf aeirviiinrt i ok urn t :nani.i iieiiuwr fl tO U(ILU!1IV. I 'iinsrAltncrom. 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