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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1894)
an 'unlucky imputation. The VHlwtr Followed' the LpmI of tli Mayor With Lui1icrouConqii0nes. On one occasion, while on a jonrney through Italy, the pope halted at a small villaRe, tlieinlinbitantoof which resolved to eend some of their principal men as it deputation to his holiness. The mayor, .who was to head the deputation, pro- poseu to present mm wuu suuie 01 uio chief proilui-e of the country, consisting of pineapples, figs and cream. It was accordingly arranjced that each member should carry some figs and cream in sil ver basins, the pineapples, however, be ins dispensed with. Before setting out the mayor thus ad dressed his followers: "As you do not know very well how to conduct your selves before eialted personages, you must watch me closely and do as I do." The procession was formed, with the mayor stalking majestically In front, furnished, like his followers, with a ba sin of &s& in his left hand and another of cvcaiu in his right. There was a step down into the room, but the mayor fail ed to notice it. Ee stumbled, and the shock sent his face and beard into the cream basin. Trying to recover himself, he only made matters worse, for he fell upon his knees, with his hands and basin under him, and his creamed face raised imploringly to the holy father. The members of the deputation, think ing that this was the proper ceremony to observe in the presence of such a distin guished personage, dipped their beards in the cream, threw away their vessels and bent down on their knees, at the same time casting a half inquiring and confident look at their leader, as if they meant to say: "Ton see we are all right. We have carefully followed your exam ple." The pope was at first astonished, but soon burst into a fit of the most boisterous- laughter, while the attendants, thinking that the deputation had come to mock theirmaster, began pelting them with the saturated figs. The mayor hobbled out of the room, closely followed by his brethren, one of whom whispered to him: "Bow lucky it is for us that we did not bring the pineapples! How nicely our heads would have been battered by them!" Loudon Million. Mrs, Sterenaon In the Chain - Mrs. Stevenson presided at the recent couventionof the Danghtersof the Amer ican Revolution. The wife of the vice president has evidently never openedthe covers of her husband's authorities on parliamentary order. But she was not blind to her own defects, so she supplied them quite easily by engaging as adviser a mild mannered man, who neverthe less knew nil about overruling and quashing and laying on the table. This man sat at Mrs. Stevenson's elbow, told her what to do next in all cases and scut tled a number of ships in the shape of resolutions offered by 'adventurous Daughters. The first little incident of this sort was when a motion was offered by a distin guished looking woman from the Mount Vernon chapter. Mrs. Stevenson'waa standing at the time, and without wait ing for any discussion asked the yeas and nays and got them, too, beforo the little man or any one else had a chance to draw a long breath. Immediately then was a storm of opposition. Then the mud parliamentarian whispered some thing to Mrs. Stevenson. She pounded in a ladylike manner with her pretty gavel and said: "The question before the congress, la dies, is the resolution. We can do one of two things with it. We can either we can either what?" she blandly and frankly asked, turning to the blushing rorhamentarian. It was so openly done that it brought down the house. Mrs. Stevenson laughed. the little man laughed, everybody laugh ed, and order was not restored for sev eral minutes. Then they hud the reso lution on the table and went gayly on about their business. riew Sort Sun. Treatment of the Veil. A writer in Boots and Shoes has been interviewing a chiropodist on the care of the feet and has got this information from him concerning the treatment for heated, tired feet after walking or stand ing: lie says, truly enough, that authori ties differ as to the value of the various foot baths. "Hot water enlarges the feet by drawing the blood to them. Wheu used, they should be rubbed or exercised before attempting to put on a tight boot. Mustard and hot water in a foot bath will cure a nervous headache and induce sleep. 'Bunions and corns and callousness are nature's protestations against bad shoe leather. Two hot foot baths a week and a little pedicuring will remove the cause of much discomfort. "A warm bath, with an ounce of sea salt, is almost as restful as a nap. Pad dle in the water until it cools, dry with a rough towel, put on fresh stockings, make a change of shoes, and the person who was 'ready to drop' will then be ready, to stand up. But the quickest re lief from fatigue is to plunge the foot in ice cold water and keep it immersed un til there is a sensation of warmth. An other tonic for the sole is alcohol. It dries the feet nicely after being out in the wet. Spirit baths are used by pro fessional dancers, acrobats and pedes trians to keep the feet in condition." The ice cold foot bath seems rather a dangerous remedy to persons unaccus tomed to it, and the caution is suggest ed to experiment with it in very mild Weather. A Practical Woman. Mrs. W. (i. Harris, president of the Ladies' Benevolent society of the First Baptist church of Boston and an active worker in the Ladies' Needlework guild, has started a new scheme for collecting funds for the poor. Shu has put up dainty mite boxes in the corridors of the Parker House and the Treiaout House, with cards attached asking for contribu tions to be used only in ewes which she has personally investigated and found deserving. She has visited and relieved aucut 00 persons during three weeks.-' bojsUu Commonwealth, THE YOUNG QUEEN VldTDRW " Bar Majestr Actions on Being Xotlled el She King1! benilie, William IV was dead. The arch bishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyng ham were dispatched to inform the Princess Victoria of the fact It was a warm night in June. The princess was bleeping in her mother's room her cus tom from childhood, and bad to be sum moned out of her sleep. The niessen- (en awaited her In the long, unlofty room, separated only by folding doors from that which was inhabited by the puchess of Kent and her daughter. Th jonng girl entered alone, in her night dress, with some loose wrap thrown hastily about her. The moment she was addressed as "Your majesty" she put out her hand, intimating that the lords who addressed ber were to kiss It and thereby do homage. Her schooling and her instinoto were admirable irom the first. Self possession combined with perfect modesty came naturally to her. A tew hours later, at 11 o clock in the morning, the child queen met her council. In the corridor at Windsor there is a picture which commemorates the event. Never, it has been said by an eyewitness, was anything like the first Impression she produced or the chorus of praise and admiration which was raised about her manner and be havior, certainly not without justice. Ber extreme youth and inexperience and the ignorance of the world concern ing ber for she had lived in complete seclusion excited interest and curios ity. Asked whether she would enter the room accompanied by the great officers of state, she said she would come in alone. Accordingly when all the lords of the privy council were assembled the foldiug doors were thrown open, and the queen entered, quite plainly dressed and in mourning, and took her seat for the first time, a young girl among a crowd of men, including al the most famous and powerful of her subjects. She bowed and read ber speech, hnnded to her by the prime minister, Lord Mel bourne, in a clear and firm voice and then took the oath for the security of the Church of Scotland. , Immediately the privy councilors were sworn, the royal Dukes of Cum berland and Sussex first by themselves. It was observed that as these two old men, her uncles, knelt beforo her, swear ing allegiance, she blushed up to the eyes, as if she felt the contrast between their civil and natural relations. . Her manner was very graceful and eagag ing, and she kissed them both, and ris ing from her chair moved toward the Duke of Sussex, who was too infirm to reach her. Fortnightly Beview. f Borac The great seciet of boredom is to be found in two leading qualifications. A bore must be unable to find amusement in himself, and he must also be unable to find amusement in any one else. He must depend for his amusement neither on bis own mind nor on the minds of his friends, but simply on the gratifica tion which it is to him to give a special direction, or at least to suppose that he gives a special direction for he is a creature of the most unlimited credul ity in the art of magnifying bis own in fluenceto the minds of his friends. He is in despair unless he can imagine himself a person of influence, and un luckily he can never imagine himself a person of influence for he is a man of very limited imaginative power unless he is taking overt steps to convince somebody of something, whether it be of some technical doctrine like Dagald J: wfter-works plant with a reservoir Dalgetty's strategic principle, or simply of bis own importance, or even of the importance of his patrons, like Mr. Col lins in "Pride and Prejudice." To be a first rate bore you must have no re sources in yourself and no resources in your friends, but must depend for your satisfactions on the real or fancied power of making your friends either think or do what they would otherwise not think or do. London Spectator. DID"OT WTlirTrTuPT TRAFFK3. A MsUread Bridge In BnlUorlnmt Woigh-' tax SAO Tons Raised X'lvo Feet. ' 'Tho raising of a bridge in Switzer land upon the line of the International railway, from Paris to Vienna, has at tracted considerable attention from the methods pursued, which are ile serlbed by Locomotive Engineering1. The occasion for the change was that the river orossed the Rhinehad lost in the sectional area of the passage be tween the piers about tweuty-tivo per cent in thirteen years, owing to tho deposition of gravel and sediment, while the high water level hnd risen to such an extent as to pile floating de bris six foot deep on the bridge floor in 'times of flood. The alterations includ ed some reinforcements, besides the raising of the whole structure about five feet The bridge was continuous over a center pier, and had two main vertical posts there and four vertloul end posts. To each of these posts uu inclined strut was attuched in a trans verse vertical plane, presenting a sur face for the top of a hydraulic jack to act upon. Eight' special one hundred ton jacks were used, with an eighth inch Btroke and a working pressure of four hundred atmospheres, the piston being nearly seven-tenths in diameter. The fluid used was a mixture of water, alcohol and glycerine. Sixteen mcu operated the jacks, their movements being synchronized by a code of sig nals, designed to secure uniformity of action. The bridge was raised a font, or two by short lifts, followed up by thorough blocking, and then building under one course of cut-stone masonry. The total load was five hundred and forty-six tons, and the maximum loud on a single jack was eighty-seven ''tons. The bridge 'was raised in four stages during intervals between trains. The longest interval between trains was about two hours. Tho weight of trains was rigidly restricted during the tune tne oriage was unuergomir re pairs, and their speed was limited to three miles an hour in crossing- t?m bridge. In addition, a special bind; system was organized upon that sec tion of the line upon which the bridge is located, so that operations could be suspended and the track restored five minutes before the arrival of a train at the site. ; IRRIGATION IN THE WEST. Tt Vast engineering Works or the Limit American Decert Keglon. Very few people realize what va,st engineering and construction problems ire being solved out west in whnt a few years ago was termed the (hvnt American Desert region, says Land and Water. The same desert region ih of remarkable fertility when water it, supplied by irrigation plants. The Sweetwater dam, in southern Cali fornia, is the pride of its builders and Is worth many millions to the lands it renderB fertile. In Arizona an immense canal is being built, which will r.tili.e a part of the surplus waters of Colorado and irrigate 200,000 acres of land. In New Mexico, in Eddy county, is the second largest irrigation plant in the United States. To secure an abund ance of water at all times, two im mense reservoirs were constructed capable of storing 6,000,OUO,ooo cubic feet of water. Some idea of the size of those arti ficial lakes may be had when it is mentioned that one of them is thirteen miles long by four miles wide. The water from these reservoirs is con ducted through some 1.'. - miles of canals and ditches and irrigates or will irrigate 250,000 acres of land, mostly fruit and garden land. Imagine i:STJKN .COAL FIELDS. Vuluublo Rnnrtos Throughout the Paciflo Ooast lib Point of View. An odd illustration once given Emer son, the philosopher, of the fact that tne laws of disease are as beautiful as the laws of health is repoited In bis lecture on "The Comic." "I was hastening," be says, "to visit an old and honored friend, who I was informed was in s dying condition, when I met bis physician, who accosted me in great spirits. " 'And how is my friend, the rever end doctor?' I inquired. ; " 'Oh, I saw him this morning.' It is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen face and bands livid, breathing stertorous, all the symptoms perfect.' And he rubbed his hands with delight, for in the country we cannot find every i aay a caseinatagreeswiinineaiagBosis of the books." Youth's Companion. - 000 feet square and having l.too mil. -;i of mains. It took three years to liuml this plant Yet others as great or greater are projected and Will be con structed. ' The future effect of all tli is vast labor and skill is not cr.r.y to pre dict. In many places they have sure! y made! the desert bloom and turned poverty into wealth. HUMOR ON THE BENCH. A Remarkable Diary. A mat who died in Berlin. Rensselaer county, at the age of 78 left (record1 which be began when 18 years old' and continued for S3 years. The book, filled with methodical entries, shows that in these 02 years the man had smoked 828, 715 cigars, of which be received 48,829 as presents, while for the remaining 085,086 he paid about 1 0,433. In 52 years, according to bis bookkeeping, be had drunk 28,788 glssses of beer and 86,081 glasses of spirits, for all of which be spent 15,830. The diary closes with these words: "I have tried all things. I have seen many. I have accomplished nothing." Albany Express. A Quotation Ripped in the Dud by a De ' mand for the rage, P ,When, in a trial about limestone quarries, a barrister called Oaldecott, according to the Argosy, had said over and over again with dull verbosity that they "were not ratable, because the limestone could only be reached by boring, which was a mutter of science,'1 Ellenborough gravely inquired: " Wou I d you, Mr. Caldecott, have us believe that every kind o boring is a matter of sci ence? With, finer humor1 he nipped in the. bud one of Handle Jackson a flowery harangues. "My lords," said the orator, with nervous intonation, "in the book of nature it is written" "Be kind enough, Mr. Jackson," inter poserPLord Ellenborough, "to mention the page from which you are about to quote." One. of the best "legal" pmiB wits made by Lord Chelmsford when he wan Sir Frederick Thesiger. lie bad ob jected to a learned sergeant who, in ex amining witnesses In a case iuwltie!) he wasengaged, put leading question. "I have a right," maintained the ser geant, doggedly, "to deal with my nessesas I please." "To that I oiler no objection," retorted Sir Frederic!!; "you may deal as you like, but you shan't lead." .Snake Swallowed Snake. When the keeper of the snakehousc at the Philadelphia zoo counted tho slimy reptiles in the cage reserved for the indigo species he was astonished t o find one missing, lie first counted heads and then, with a pole, he sepa rated eaih .snake from the mass into which they Had woven themselves, awl still the most liberal application be could make of his mathematics rc- KK'h Veins In Washington-Future Poast utlUUvt of 11 Ui;llim Hitherto Sup 1 postal to He lovold of I Fuul I'rospectc ' , 1 Tho magnitude of the coal deposits in t'le stute of Washington is little rculMeU away from the laciflc coast Kct uli tile Atlantic states combined' eiut tin such a supply, according to a j writer in the New York Tribune. j W'.r nible veins are known to exist in , 1 l.-h i.-n out of the thirty-four coun ties, and they cover an area of more thin 1,000.000 acres. The coal ranges in ei,:,rueto'v from caunol to semi-an-;!iru dte. throu;yhallgradeaof domestic, ;- is. stenminrr. coking and smithing 1.0 ib . Willi the exception of the Hos- ; !'" n lines iu Kittitas county, the pro d'i": ve measures lie west of the Cas-It- Minsre. They are all lignite aud oiaruiuivus. Anthracite has been found in ! U Olympics nnd in the Cascades, ;',n,i tiiero in a line deposit at the base 01 Mount lliiiiiier. . These,' however, , lir.vi; not iH'en developed, sufficiently to j ,v.i'';m of their values. The lignite n. azures extend from Itritlsh Columbia on tile north to the Columbia river; n:i:l east from Ptigot sound fifteen :uiU ). The' area covered is estimated :-M).ixm acres. Less than 2 per cent ; 1. ulKii is territory has been worked, ultliouj'h about 5 por cent of It is I owned" by companies prepared toopon u; vlu. us lioon as the market Is ready f".-t'e output. Many hundred acres :ire held by prospectors who lack the mowy to develop their claims. Of the inincH already in operation the New Cnr'lo, owned by the Oregon Improve iwist cnmiuny, lies twenty-one mile front Scuttle and consists of four veins, the dmllov.-ost of which is three foot, tin: deepest twelve feet The coal Is excellent for steuming purposes. The ; idtman mine, forty-two miles from Scuttle, is now working two of its five ; veins. The output is high-grade lig nite, with small streaks of bituminous; too small, however, to warrant separa tion. The C'cdnr mountain mine is j working two veins, one of them eleven f ict sbc inches in depth. At Franklin ' the ctxil is of a semi-bituminous char sclcr, the de posit being of a somewhat -' oiaor freolo:;icul formation. The same U true of the lllack Diamond mine, thirty luilcn from Seattle. This mine empioyn something like 500 men and r:, cupucity is estimuted at 1,000 tonB ' per day. " ' The Minrrit county mines bid fair to le of .move immense value in the near future, The preliminary tests made I13 the Yorktown indicated that this coul is the host for steaming f.urposes on the sound. It also makes a very suiwrior coke. The bituminous nieiu urcH join the lignite on the east uiil extend to the Cascade range. The i ''ii.s arc so twisted that It is impos : 1I1I0 to dcterpiiite their number. The 1 urbon river group is developed more thiin the others, four veins being worked, the product high grade gas and steam eoal. Twelve miles north is the Having river group, consisting of eight veins, four of which are being worked. Tliu ltoslyn mines are 125 milts cast from Seattle. Their veins lie ucarly horizontal, near the surface, and cover an area of 100,000 acres. The mines have been in operation since l!;i ',. (ivcv l.ooo men are employed, :mit the daily output is about 2,500 tone of bituminous lump coal, well .adapted to domestic and. steaming purposes. The first discovery of coal in Vr'ushhi(;ton was made In 1852, at 1'cUinghum bay, but no export of im portance was made until 1870. Last year over a million and a quortor tons were marketed, which for a season of depression is no bad showing. The Washington coal veins are easier mined than those of the eastern states on ac count of the angles at which they dip, allowing them to be opened by tunnels, and saving the expense of hoisting the output. Timber for bunkers, etc., is cheap and ubundant) water for washers is to be found every where., This, of course, has a great lwiiriiig on the values of the measures, It seems only n question of time before Washington will be the largest coal producing district in the United States, and probably the largest in the world. j ITiul of tlie Hub. i lloston has one new fad which is dls i tinguished by being sensible. It is the' : drinking of new eggs. At a leading : Indies' restaurant it is a common sight, especially on Monduy, Commonweal avenue's shopping day.'or Wednesday, i after the matinees, to see a whole line of fair damsels file past the man at the counter busy in breaking eggB in wine glasses. With experienced gusto the glowing golden balls are lightly tossed down at n single swallow. As a rule ! thoy art taken perfectly plain and un 1 broken, but some prefer them seasoned j with salt and popper, which gives them, quite the taste of an oyster,' The ( other day, just as a Beacon street bride was quitting her parental roof, she . paused at the threshold and gasped: 'Oh, I have forgotten bring me my egg quick!" With trembling haste the j servant Hew and quickly returned with Ian egg in a wine glass. Throwing j back her veil, the bride tossed down the i-i'K, nnd, thus sustained and I strengthened, she rolled away to tread j the path that leads to the altar. Pope Leo's Banter. Leo XIII has iuade inerrv noon the subject of church music in his dignified j sealed but five snakes, where Wciiue? way. "Imagine, be once said, St, Augustine, the African one, contesting that bis heart had been touched by high notes and fiddles. The repetition of words is another feature objected to by this lettered pontiff, wbo when arch hisop of Perugia whispered to his chap lain during a grand musicul function, ' Do you Uiiuk they really mean 'amen' this time?" ban Francesco Argonaut ' dav there were six. - He wi.nl i, Superintendent lirown, and that scientist discovered thut the sixth rep tile was sleeping his last sleep iaii elongated stomach of one of his cap -mates. Investigation proved thut the iwsllower was six feet long, while the swallowed was five. Outside of lib, in. creased size the gourmand wua none the worse for yielding to his cauuibal-istie-tendsncies, ' , t I Kuynl Writer. The latest addition to the ranks of royal authors is the ameer of Afghan- istan. He is writing his autobiography, ;' Once the ameer was exiled; he trl-. ; umphed over his enemies, however, i cod by the. exercise of some very flue j -work in the way of practical politics 1 (lefcaWd all their machinations, then ! curried dismay into their ranks by p j pearing suddenly before them at the j head of on immense host of warriors, j All his. former opponents are either dead or in exile and now the ameer ! promises the interesting story of how , Ids adroitness foiled all their bast-laid AT COST In order to make room for my , LARGE FALL STOCK Which is now on the way here from the East, J have decidwl to " CLOSE OUT MY ENTIliE STOCK OF SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS At Cost. Now ia tlio time to got BARGAINS 8iich aa have never before been offered in Lebanon. It is to your advan tage to eomo and hoc uh. ' j vr"rrTWimrii7rr',vrivmYiiM Don't forget the place. In the Odd; Fellows' Building. M. J. BENJAMIN. LEBANON, OREGON nVWWWWWWWWWWW BALD HEADS!!! . k. 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