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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1894)
1 , FULL DRESS. .v!wi A Hlbarlaa Travel: rM Prouttaa Afanut tho CM. Tlu- author of "OnlSfedire and Horse I 'ch.ti the Siberian Lepers" wasde v. mined not to freexe to death. Slio , I a whole, outfit of woolen under . u tlion a loose kind of waist lined villi iiiu-Jel, a very thickly-wadded i :utcm'.i.wn ulster, with sleeves long enough to cover the hands entirely, and ; fur collar reaching high enough to eovur '.he head and face. Over all thia Ue had a sheepskin reaching to the font, ncd furnished with a collar which enuic oror the fur one. Then over the i iie -pjlan she wore a dacha, which is a fnrcoat of reindeer skin. But this was only the beginning. ln my feet were Stockings made of Vmg hair; over them a pair of gentle man's thickest hunting stockings; over them a pair of Russian boots made of felt, coming high up over the knee; an:l over them a pair of brown felt valenkioa. Then I was provided with a large fur bag or sack, into which I could step. My head-covering was a fur-lined cap, and the etceteras consisted of shawls, rugs and wraps. The sledge one of the elevated kind had to be mounted. I stood beside it trying to solve the knotty problem of how to get in. There was no step to to help me; and there was a crowd men, women and children gazing at me. Three muscular policemen attempted to lift me gently into the sledge; but their combined strength was futile under the load. So they had to set me on the ground again. Then I attempted, in a land of majes tic, contemptuous way to mount with out assistance; but alas! my knees would not bend. My pride had to s cumb; I was helpless. Two policemen came and essayed another manoeuvre. T hey took me by the anna, and then, at their signal, I made one desperate, frantic effort, and I was in. I was in, but I had to be packed and stowed awav. The men pushed and pulled and dragged and coaxed, and at last, I and my clothes were ready far starting. As to bowing and thanking mr assistants, that waa impossible; just sat, and fairly gasped, and longed lo get away. A LANDLUBBER SURPRISED. UolefcaM of British Tars BattlMBlp for Aetna. At the words: "Clear for action" there is a commotion which a landsman might mistake for a panic, as men rush from point to point A bluejacket says the London Daily News, never walks when an order is given, but does everything at the double. Everyone knows his station, and goes to it by the quickest and shortest way. With a rapidity that seems wonderful. panion ladders, with their ponderous gangways, are unshipped and stowed away; railings around the low decks, fore and aft are lowered; the ventilat ing cowIb and chimney stacks disap pear, to be replaced by covers flush with the deck; hatches are battened down, water-tight doors closed, and tackle rigged for hoisting ammunition from the magazine. Between decks everywhere something of the same kind is being done as quickly and as quietly, and then the men stand to their guns. When the bugles sound for firing to commence, the great barbette turntables revolve slowly, trained by unseen power, and the quick-firing irans in maindeck batteries are worked with surprising celerity by detach ments of royal marine artillery. At a prize shooting recently a de tachment" fired sixteen shots in three minutes from one of the repulse guns, scoring nine direct hits and planting all the other seven shots so close to the target that they would have riddled the hull of a very small ship, The seventeenth round was in this gun when the "cease fire" Bounded, so that one gunner, who was loading, must have lifted seventeen hundred pounds in three minutes. This incident gives a vivid idea of the work that would have to be done in action by crews of these quick-firing guns, aa well as of the snmrtnesB with which the "blue ma rines" set about their task. Fire dis cipline will be a potent factor in any future battle at sea, and there can be no better means of acquiring it than by such exercise as one has seen at general quarters daring the maneu vers. , CURED BY LAUGHTER. When Health W Ttmraf b. Illi of atlrthtnlnm The remedial effects of laughter are really wonderful Cases have been known where a hearty laugh has ban ished disease and preserved life by a sudden effort of nature. We are told that the great Erasmus, the eminent theologian, laughed ao heartily at satirical remark that he broke a tumor and recovered his health. In a singu lar treatise on "Langhter" Joubcrt gives two similar instances. A patient being very low, the physician, who had ordered a dose of rhubarb, counter manded the medicine, which was left on the table. A monkey in the room jumped up, discovered the goblet, and, having tasted, made a terrible grimace. Again putting his tongue to it, he per ceived some sweetness in the dissolved manna, while the rhubarb had sunk to the bottom. Thus emboldened, he swallowed the whole, but found it such a nauseous notion that, after many strange and fantastic grimaces, he ground his teeth in agony, and in a violent fury threw the goblet on the floor. The whole affair was so ludi crous that the sick man burst into re peated peals of langhter, and the re covery of cheerfulness lea to neaun. A Baeev. Apropos of the fact that those who "came over in the Mayflower mostly bore such surnames as Winthrop, Jlay- throp. Xiothrop and Lathrop, the Corn hill Magazine tells of a New York parvenn who loudly proclaimed to a Plymouth Winthrop: "My people came over in the Mayflower." "Indeed!" was the crushing answer. "I didn't know Ut Mayutmvr tosh ttaalrsf JpeMafe- V.V.THE BOER -tAtlQUAGE. i DUm Matsrlaiu tnm Ska at Hai ku. The "Afrikaansohe Taal" U not the Dutch of modern Holland. In itaort gln it represents the old Dutch of the country districts in the Netherlands, together with a tendency towara me Flemish dialect It has incorporated a great deal of English and a little French, says the fortnightly Review Above all, tta pronunciation is quite, different to that of the classic Dutch, and it lends itself much more readily to English tonpuea and pais tea. It is almost Impossible for a Dutchman of Holland, on arriving in eoutn amca, to understand the native Dutch dialect Words are greatly clipped, and, al though the abominable guttural "g" la still retained, the equally fatiguing Dutch pronunciation of "s-c-h" is hap pily changed into a simple --as.- ine vowels are pronounce 6 almost aa they would be by an englishman, i or in stance, "beast" is pronounced like beast," not like "baste," aa It would V la Holland. A Cape Dutchman talks of "Da Beers;" he does not pronounce It "De Bares," aa the real Dutchman waald da Needless to say, the "Afri kaansehe Taal" has no literature be hind it and all the beat things written la Holland have either made their ap pearance in Latin, French, or even English, or have rapidly been translated Into those languages if Intended to be widely read. The adoption, therefore, of the English language throughout South Africa la a necessity forced on that community by- eommeroe, manu factures, sunning enterprise, ana ail dealuurs with the outer world. . As a matter of fact a young Boerwui learn English as quickly aa a raw Scotchman would exchange his harsh dialect for the Incisive, clear, quick speech of southern England. EARLY USE OF OXEN. nr rtmais the bo at Agrimtam The help which our bovine servants render us by the power which they exert in traction, as in drawing plows, sleds or wagons, appears to have been first rendered long after their introduc tion to the ways of man. The first of these uses in which the drawing strength of these animals was made serviceable appears to have been in the work of plowing. In primitive days and with primitive tools, hand delving was a sore task. The inventive genius who first con trived to overturn the earth by means of the forked limb of a tree, shaped in the semblance of a plow and drawn by oxen, began a great revolution in the art of agriculture. To this unknown genius we may award a place among the benefactors of mankind, quite as distinguished as that which is occupied by the equally unknown inventors of the arte of making fires or of smelting ores. After the experience witn the strength of oxen had been won from the work of plowing it was easy to pass to the other grades of their employ ment where they were made to draw Next after the contribution which the kindred of the bulls have made by their strength we must set that which has come from thair milk. Although this substance can be obtained in small quantities from several other domestic ated animals, the species of the genus Bos alone have yielded it in sufficient quantities greatly to affect the develop ment of man. It is difficult to measure the importance of the addition to the diet both of savage and civilized peo ple, which milk affords. It is a fact well known to .physiologists that in it simple form this substance is a com plete food, capable when taken alone of sustaining life and insuring a full de velopment of the body. WHAT A FLIRT IS. A Wart Whleh Has a QoMr Baalish Defflvatloo. , I remember a long time ago hearing a singular definition of a term very well understood by most of us, given by an old Scotchman, who spoke with a strong accent "What's a flirt?" said he. "A man who proposes and is re fused.'' How he came to be in such a state of benighted ignorance is more than I can say, but so it was, and I am reminded of the story by seeing in a book that the verb "to flirt" means "to move to and fro with a pert motion, as, to flirt a fan." The fan being used for coquetting, those who coquetted were called "fan flirts." Lady Frances Shel ley introduced the word. While on this subject says a writer in the New York Journal, I should like to mention, aa the result of observa tion, that flirts are born, not made, and that unless the faculty comes by nature, it is pot very much nse to try and acquire it because not only docs (be effort recall sometimes (he at tempted gambo)s of a cow, which only draw attention to the natural heavi ness and solemnity of the animal, but it is as likely as not that in putting on a manner and "ways" that are not con sonant with one's temperament, one may make hideous mistakes, just as when a very shy person tries to be cool and assured in bearing it happens often that the coolness seems like rudeness, and the assurance like inso lence. I don't believe we can really alter our natural selves even external ly, spy more than we pan change our physical appearance much without its being found out It is the "ass in the lion's skin," after all, ; ; , r .. . , ; Terr Palatable. The Mexicans have a way of making a kind of hot bread, called tortillas, that is quite appetizing to a hungry man. The cooking utensils used in the making of it are simple in .the ex treme, consisting merely of a smooth, flat stone about two feet long and a thin plate of iron. On the stone is placed a mass of corn that baa been thoroughly soaked in alkali, Thia is mashed until it becomes a smooth paste. It is then taken up in small handful, patted Into thin cakes and seasoned with cayenne pepper, after -which each cake is wrapped In a leaf of corn and placed on the hot iron yiM i m wwm tjm fra. DISLIKE THE TELEGRAPH. Ik Guam aUcard It aa .. . of BvU. . Two American bicyclers, Allen and 8achtleben, tell In the Century of their meeting with a Chinaman in the heart of the flowery kingdom who electrified them by addressing them in the purest English. "He was one of that party of mandarins' eons whioh had been sent over to our country some years j ago, as an experiment by the Chinese , government, to receive a thorough American training. We cannot here ' give the history of that experiment aa Mr. Woo related it -how thoy were i subsequently accused of cutting off I their queues and becoming denational ised, how, in oonsequence, they were recalled to their native land, and de graded rather than elevated, both by the people and the government be cause they were foreign in their senti ments and habits; and how, at last they gradually began to force recogni tion through the power of merit alone. He had now been sent out by the gov ernment to engineer the extension of the telegraph line from Su-chou to Urumtsi, for it was feared by the gov ernment that the employment of a for eigner in this capacity would only In crease the paaver for evil which the na tives already attributed to this foreign innovation. The similarity in the phrases telegraph pole and dry heaven had inspired the common belief that the line of poles then stretching across the country was responsible for the long-existing drought In one night several miles of poles were sawed short off, by the secret order of a banded conspiracy. After several decapita tions, the poles were now being re stored, and labeled with the words: 'Put up by order of the emperor."' PARIS SEWER BOOTS. How Tkev An IIUUiMl m Hating Via Bbeat for LadiM. ' Speaking of the fashions brings ns to an odd discovery which has recently been made. There is a small shop on the other side of the Seine, in the Rue des Ecoles, which deals exclusively with the second-hand boots of the men who work in sewers. These boots, says a Paris letter, are furnished by the state, and come half way up to the thigh, and each man is allowed a new pair every six months. When new they cost nine dollars; when sold second hand they realize the modest sum of fifty cents; but as at least six thousand pairs per annum are sent to the Rue des Ecoles it makes quite a booming industry. . The leather of these boots is, so to speak, tanned by the alkaline and greasy water in which the sower-cleaners so perpetually paddle, and they are eagerly sought for by the - great Parisian bootmakers; for this leather, being at once tough and light, serves to sustain the curve of the LouiB XV. heeL At first this was done by a piece of iron; but that was heavy and clum sy, so finally the ingenious denier hit upon this substitute, to the delight of the sewer-cleaners, who realized a modest sum, and the content of the fashionable bootmaker, whose shoes profited by the ohange; but the great lady whose satin-shod feet glide over the earth with such majesty of gait little knows that one of the component parts of her dainty footgear has risen from a sewer to reach her. THE GRAVE OF LAFAYETTE. An amsrlia Plac Has Always Wand OverJU "'While In Paris a short while ago,' said a traveler recently, according to the Washington Post, "it occurred to me that it was a fitting act to make a pilgrimage to the tomb of that illustri ous Frenchman dear to the hearts of all American patriots. Marquis de La Fayette. I asked a number of peo ple before I could find anyone to en lighten me as to the spot, but after re peated inquiry ascertained Its location. The grave is situated in old Paris. within the grounds of a convent that the ancestors of La Fayette founded. and where repose the remains of many "The first thing that attracted my attention in connection with the hero's tomb was that above it floated a silken flag, bearing the Stars and i)tripc3. It seems that a good many years ago an American gentleman left in bis will a sum of money to be used for the special purpose of keeping an American flag forever flying above the grave of La Fayette. Jt has done so without inter mission from the day the will went Into effect, and whenever through the wear of the elements one flag becomes unserviceable, a new one straightway takes its place, inrougn untold cen turies the emblem of the country, which in its early struggles lor liberty bad his VBuenwsntald will wave above his ashes.'' Misunderstood. A young man, who looked every Inoh the bridegroom, ctood in the rotunda ol tne ureal northern the other dav. ays the ChiMiW Times, tellings friend of the manner of his proposal to his nriue, fine nad known of his wild ways and fondly hoped to reforui ftlm through marriage. "After I had nupped the question and she ha.d accepted tj," ne sasH, i at once began to talk -the wedding, itye will Ko. J where by oursehaa, my ? ."Tr ceremany'-hcre ,he interrnd wd, with i dignified sweep of her arm declared: 'Mr. . , I .hall certainly in sist upon a oeremony.' " The Hotm. Em ' ""en the horse sleeps It is said that one ear Is directed forward, why is not known. A writer in the English Me chanic thinks this is to g uard against danprcr, being a survival of their orig inally wild habits, ne says: Watch a horse asleep through the window of hla stable and make faint noise to the front That ear wiU be aU atten tion, and probably the other will By round sharply to assist. Now let him go to sleep again, and make the same noise to the left The forward ear still will keep his guard, with possibly a lurnwing nicK rwttna. Maw fa K NtrUa .. MISCELLANEOUS. The Lit Cieule academy at Dull has beeti sturled up uguiit. Corvallls has two women's chilis one of single and one of married laities. Every cash purchaser of HO worth of goods at 8. P. Buohs store gels a crayon portrute ol themselves or freiud free. Bee sample of worlt in his window. tiuit has bteu Instituted ill the Kluinutli circuit court against the bondsmen of ex-County Treasurer Howe to recover the amount ol his ahoruuje, 8,16143. The ladies of Lebanon and vicinity are cordially invited to call ut the Ladles' Bazaar, when in Albany, and examine llioir elegant full stuck Kverytbiug new aiN of the very latest styles. I John Manning, the Coos bay lu- eeudeudiury, fur whom a rewuid is ollered, has been seen frequently in the CouuiUa woods by auquaiunuia, the past lew days. Uood potato sacks 6c apiece at Leba non Warehouse In any quantity, i'ui- tiea desiring to do so can ship poluloes or liojis through the house lor bo i-tn. pur ton. Music lessons at Ihe ueadi-mv liuve been reduunl iruui aK-uU to (2 pel mouth, Huruiouy free to siudenu luKing lessouB iu any iitlit-r oi tue music courses. A petition fur the pardon ul Thomus Godfrey, who kuieii u puling uiau named tmiiUi on the ei.skiuu iuuu- taiu while niimiug aim wa tonvimed a lew mouths since ut uie uiwi.e ul manslauguier, is suun In in, pouileti to Uovuruor Pennoyer. ii juu want to uy, suit or Hade a arm, town lut, uoiaes, uuus in laul uiiytuiug, vull oo fetoreuo a Uui- puiey, aud Uiey will Uud yuu i deal ii huere la uae to be tuunu. The suow is already driving deer from Hie ejuuthuru Oregon mountains down into the fiaiUiilia auu huulibg la lively. A local authority esiiuiuies that the deer cannot he axleriniuuteu yetfurlUO years. ,: . if you want to go East write or vail on V. 0. Peterson, local agent of the Moilberu Pacific it. K.Co., at Lebuuuu Oregon, for your tlukeua. '1 ne rates ure low, aud acuuiiiuiHUattous ure not eil- celled by auy load running east. Tillamook cuumy is netting lis dt liiiqueut lax lul published ut about out-iuurih in( usual rate. TheCuunly court took charge of the matter unu asked for bids from both papers iu the oourity. Place your insurance with Peterson it Uuiphrey. They represent a number of reliable couipauhw that pay when there la a Ions, and uo not keep y.ou waiting ior your money. For a paiu lu the side 'ir chest there is nothing so good as a piece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Paiu Balui bound on oyer the seat of paiu. It anords prompt and permanent relief and if usee in time will often prevent a cold from resulting In pneumonia. This same treatment is a sure cure fur lame buck. Fur sale by N. V- rimith, druggist. The new owners of the Mouulaiu Liuu mine iu Josephine county paid nut over $2,400 to their employes lust week. It was reported that a lurge amount of amalgam had been stolen from the plates previous to the clean up, but those in charge uf the works are very reticent over the mutter, W. A. McUuire, a well-known citizen of McKay,- Ohio, Is of the opinion that there is nothing as good for children troubled with voids or croup as Chamberlain's cough remedy. He bus used It In his family fur seveml years With (he bent ruil liinl always keeps a bottle of It In the b"jse. After having la grippe he was him self troubled with a severe cough. He used othei remedks wltb; beui'fit and' Concluded to ,r-y the children's medicine (,fld to his do'.'.gbt it soon afl'eted a pernuuicot cure. 60 cent bottles for sale by N. V. Huilth, druggist. Ladies' Cosh and jaoketa, I am now receiving xay j j winter stock of ladle. - olilldi-eii'a g.irHVfl T "i d Include nov- e tie, mid .U- , , 1 tan. Bamitkl E. Younci, Albany, Oregon. A Clubbing Offer. A great many of our readers Linn county like to take the weekly Oregon ian. We have made arrangements whereby we can furnish It at a reduct ion from the regular price to those who want bdth the Exi-bbsb and the Oregonion. The regular price of the Oregonian is $1.60 per year, i nd of the Exi'KEtw $1.60 when in advance. We will furnish both for $i per year in advance a saving of one dollar to the subsorlper. The Oregon lau gives all the general news of the country once a week, and the Exhrkss gives all the local news once a week, which will make a most excellent neas service for the moderate sum of $2. per year. Those who are at present subscribers of tne Expki8 must pay In all arrear. uges and one year in advance lo obtain tola tpwial nriM, SAVE MONEY! . By Buying Your Groceries, Crockery, Feed aud .Flour t PEEBLER'S GASH GROCERY AND BAIEET. 1 Cash Paid For Produce. 1854. Santiam Fall Term Commences September 24th. Normal, College, Preparatory, Business, Primary and Music Courses. Circular Containing Tuition, Courses of Study, Text-Books, Etc., Cheer fully Mailed on Application. S. A. RANDLE, Principal, LEI3ANON, A. H. CRTJSON mm Paper Hanging To Advertisers. If vou wish to obtain the best "etuTiig from your advfirtisem.op,ls Don't forget ,be ir,iportant fnot that The Lebanon Express will give the desired results, us it Is The Best O Advertising Medium in Linn County. If ynu want photos made and havn't the money Boyd will lake your pro duce. fi!!...'7S. ii! a. flu, ' v,.t. ,ir,!.r,r'ntly. Sy' T!,nni ui .1 (riHtitMt i - ''lfi' Ant iftiV.fvi' B 5. ,i - .'..hl . -i-n(t mul'. if Ii, V.iH- 1894. Full Information regarding: - OREGON. mm and Graining. East and South '-VIA" ,. - : THE SHASTA 10ft SontoPacico, SspuHui tralr leave Portland dally: U:l6, M. io:aa. lull . TVirtlind....Ar. 120 ..a 4:HU.K Lv.,.AIImny ..Ar. Ar.Hsn Kntneinco.Lv A. M. 7 The snuve trains slop at all stations train 1'nrtl.nil to Albativ lncluiive;al0Tiimt, Hhodd, Hsiaey, llrriliunt, 'ianction City, Irvins, Kiiinne and .U.staUtfrts from, Kom burg to Ashland inclusive, , Konelmrg mail dally : "ifSO A. M. iTr."PorBnd ... Ar. , : .75". 12:46 t. . hv...Albany Ar. 12:3pr. at. 8:80 p. si. Ar,llo(bnrK Lv, T:00a. N. Local pussnger trains-dally (ncspt rummy. 1:20 r. M. 2:u9 r. a. 8:10 A. M. 0:00 a. M. Lv.AIbsny....Ar. 10:21 a. u. M A.M. :.. a. 2:8r. M. Ar.uiiiaium.iyv. Lv.Alliaiiy Ar, Ar... Lebanon. .Lv. Dining Can on Og&en Rou te. Pullman Buffet Liiptm AND Socood-Class Sleeping Can At tached to U Through Truin.. Wt Sid. Division. BrrwtEB Poaruxo akd Coavauia, Mall train daily lexo.pt Sunday): 7:80 a. u. 12:16 r. m. Lv..,'ortlnd ...Ar.1 :Wa.m. 1:0. r. h. Ar.Uorvslli. 4-v. I At Alhanv and Corvallls eonnwt with trains of Oregon facing railroad, Exprwu, train lav (except tunday); 4:40 r. H. I LvnKrllaiid ...Ar. J iiaZul 7:36 p. a. I Ar.MeMliiiivlllt l.y J 6:80 a, m, THROUGH IICaETSI0" nU h w Bututt. vaa ada and Europe can be obtained at Jow.it raws irora i, a. Bennett, agent, Lebanon. ' K, KUEHLEH, Ifanamr, H P. KO0ER8, AsrtO,. i PmA jr. Prlce't Cr.am Baking Paviar VVavW't Fair High Awwik Academy