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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1895)
-- ..i-.-svS.I ill RICH BUT UNCULTURED. Om of th MdLiM Crwl T Saewssfal 4 Operation-Ld WMHn auniui . There la a man in this olty, soya the New York Telegram, whom pwuiiar America misttA of the tu Men m narmuuj wivu , - . . THE GREAT INLAND CITY. Wait Bm BtliMd Chlroco In H Pba lomml Growth. A generation affo, soya the London MrMT peculiar character. He was bom in the south, tag nan tome eauoauuu, uiuug" he cannot be considered an educated man, and has lived in many parts of the world. He Is one of those men whose indomitable will power makes success with them a foreiffn conclusion. He is now about forty-five years of aye, the possessor of a tremendous fortune, which he has made by speculating In western mines since 1876, when ho lost a comparatively small fortune which ho had inherited. This calamity, instead of depressing him as it would many men, seemed to bring out all the latent power In his nature. He went west im mediately with his large family, lived with the greatest economy and was happy In the confidence of his ultimate success. This success came to him in a very short time. He found himself to be the possessor of an admirable judg ment of the value of mines, and showed an extraordinary skill of driving a hard and close bargain. As one of his friends has said of bun: "lie has mane nu money by squeezing it out of others. He would, by taking advantage of man's embarrassed financial situation, get all his property out of him, and then, with a fine magnanimity, present his victim with fifty dollars as a gift" A few yean after his advent in the west he found himself a millionaire. Aa soon as the discovery was made It dawned upon him that the west was too small a place for him. Bo he came to New York expecting to take the town by storm. Hut, strange as it may seem, he has not succeeded in (his ambition. On the contrary, there are few people who know that he lives in this big city. He, the possessor of two millions, in thrown into the shade by scores of New Yorkers, each of whom possesses many millions more.. But he is well content His experience in New York has taught him to affect a contempt for wealth, though lie still continues to ac cumulate it "Money," he Bays, with a fine scorn which is very amusing to those who know him, "money is not worth striving for. There are other things in the world of greater impor tance than mere pelf." He is particu larly fond of making this remark to those persons witn 'wnom ne nas business relations. He certainly con vinces them that there is no use in striving for money with him, for in the struggle for it he is sure to win. iius, however, is only one of his many aphor isms. He loves to pose as a philoso pher and to scatter bite of wisdom around him, some ox wnicn nave strangely familiar sound, as though they had been said before by some one else. He is also very religious, and he invariably throws the cloak of hia re ligion over his little prevarications and hard business dealings. His life in tbe wild west seems to have inspired him with an intense desire to be a gentle man and to Burround himself with gen tlemen, and his efforts thus far have re sulted in some curious episodes. His rude speeches to us guests at table are the talk of those who have met him. and his peculiar manners have already "' Inspired one novel writer to put him in a story. He has an Intense admiration for Napoleon, whom he takes for his model, and imitates in a manner which gives delight to those who can appre ciate it. Altogether, he is a most curious example of a civilization which is rap idly dying out, of the typo which is -neither boor nor gentleman, but a-cross between the two, the result of a state of social transition which produces in him a mixture of natural vulgarity only Imperfectly concealed by a veneer of spurious refinement 1 ( . . DESCENT OF THE BARINGS. History of a Grmt Commercial Family Extending- Tliroaffii CtMturlM. Two centuries ago there lived at Bre men, in Germany, a pastor of the Luth eran church named Franz Baring,, or Baering. In those days, says Spare Moments, the ministers of his order might be men of great learning, but their circumstances were at the best moderate. Hi son, John Boring, went to England and established himself as clothmaker near Exeter, in Devonshire. From the ranks of the cloth drapers and the linen drapers, quite asoftenosfrom among the goldsmiths, the merchants and bankers were then recruiter!, jonn Baring's son, Francis, born in 1W0, was sent at an early aire to learn the an, trade and mvstcrv" of a merchant, and before he died he made himself, by con sent, the first merchant in the world. He was a director in the Honorable East Indian Company, then one of the highest rewards to which a merchant might hope to attain; for a time he was ' the irreat company's chairman; for twenty-two years he sat in parliament, then a far more exclusive body than it has become nnder the extended suf frage; in 1793 he was made a baronet: in 1810 he died. But his first title to honor is that he founded the home- of Barings. Hi" sons were t!: first Baling t brothers. 1 1 A CbmlMl Triumph. The complete isolation of flourine ical triumph winch has excited much interest. Flonriue, a described for the popular understanding, ha a smell resembling that of hypocliloroun aen which is somewhat muul.ed by the odor of ozone, from its aeVjm on wa ter vapor. It, of course, a,;.t;j .veriul- ly on the respiraory or even rthen greatly diluted, and it -..uumcs in- senslbilty, lasting as long a:, a week more, of the mucous membrane of the ...v. nose. It is of a yellovish-?rciiu color, somewhat .lighter, and. yoiii.wor ;than chlorine. It combines explosively with hydrogen, even at a CTuat cold and in the lark, and sulphur, oolcn- ium and tellurium take fire in it at or dinary temperatures, llruinino and iodine burn in it with a Hums of low temperature, and amorphous carbon, amorphous boron, and eapjg tally crys talline silicon, with the evolution, oz great heat. Jluny other substances burn tn it, oxyann and iittro(ran ap mrlnt tn ! th ouljr ttasMau ttttk ness settled northeastern and southeastern states and of the great expanse of more or less wild continent behind them. Year by year, however, the population has been spreailiug west, and every fresh census has pushed in land the mean line of population the line on either aide of which the population is equal. The significance of this gradual withdrawal of Uiemeun population line from the coast must not be missed. The. fact means that the Anrlo-Saxons in the United States are becoming what they have never been before in their history, an iniuuu people..- v !j In a very little time- the vast major ity of Americans will not only have never seen the sea, but will never have been within a thousand miles of it. The destiny of the American people is to be--come as much a people of great inland plains as the Russians, and this fact will be made clear to the world when travelers leave the ocean at New York, and after traveling inlariB ovor thousand miles find themselves in a city as big as Vienna, and ten times as rich and energetic. The existence of a great city so rar removed from the sea is probably unique in the world's history. Delhi in the days of its greatest prosperity had no doubt a very large population, but unless Moscow can be called great we can recall no other great oity of an cient or modern times situated -in the heart of a continent It may be said that Chicago is an exception only in name, and that it could never nave achieved the position it has achieved but for the fact that it is situated on the shores of a great double-armed in land sea. No doubt the great lakes have helped Chicago, and no doubt also the fact that they require from the populations which surround them all the sea-faring qualities of the Eng lish race will prevent Its inhabitants from becoming too inlandish in their habits. Chicarro. however, is not enough in the middle of the continent to hold forever the position of the typical American city. As the center of popu lation shifts westward her relative po sition will decline, and she will ulti mately have to give way to some younger rival in the west and south, possessed oi a pjuiusi"" injainwu suited to the commercial capital of a nation of some two hundred millions of inland people. Still, as we have said above, Chicago for the time will serve u on nh,Mr. IffHKmi in refrard to the irreat chawre which has come over the conditions nnder which the American continent is inhabited. Cam.ot b? per;KU ealiy cured by thi dm of o; i.-Uaar.dMtHlnilvaoompoundi. It la too dcply sealed. It ii e.-wsrd by an (' -v. ..".vMirl ravdttlon of bl ofi, in. n wlit-.-li tl'o r.crves depend f jr suste nance. TUla Is tho true and only natural c:;:!nnat!o; t ir ncr.-ovnneM. Purlfy,sn rich n.id vMija tin blood with uars and nervouiuesf will disappear. Hood's BjruparJlla will give vitality toths blood nd will sond it coursing through tu yelas and arteries ohirgad with the life giving, strength building quslltiw which make strong nerves. If you are nsrvous, try flood's Barmpirllla and find the same relief of which hundredsof psopl.nrs til ling In their published testimonials. Get Hood's J Hood's BeotuM Rood's BtrMparlUft I the only True Blood Purifier prominently In the public ey today. Bold by all druggtiti. ' tloa. PtIm 31. tm tox. The Unenterprising Business Ian .-. lia.- jLSOToft ACftSC IT WILL NOT rUHk. i An Bmmihia TA-Mtivn and Nnm Toirra Bold by Drumrlsts or sent by mall, ma, W sndfcOOperpaoxaira. Samples tree. IT A Ylf ThePnvorttelOWBrWBil iiO iiUforthoIeoLUanaUreaUi.aw. Far sale uy n. w. Biniiu. : fin . . . PANSY. M AYER & KIMBROUGH Have jiiKl received lb' intent lino ('i' ( JHH.'KKKY and GLASS WAKIS evor lmun;lit to Loliaiion, which they' in vito you to call and innjioct. - Their price are ae low, if not lower than ai yvhero else, in the valley. . Highest Prices Paid for country 1 'reduce. Uses a small amount of Print ed Kttitionery find otlior Ad vertising matter, and an a consequence his business dies awny and he is then like the marl whoso picture appears above. INCONTESTABLE POLICIES. Life lararaaM -Companies lime Them Only In Karepe and Centrml America. The policies written by some of the i leading life insurance companies of this country are incontestable for any cause whatsoever. If a policy holder commits suicide immediately after pay ing his first .premium, and before the ink is dry on his policy, his heirs will receive the money just the same, That is because the companies know that life is the most precious possession of every individual, and that very few in deed will throw . U away in order to benefit an heir. ' The "incontestable clause" is found, however, only in -the American policies. Those :issued to Europeans, Central - Americans ana South Americans do not have them. One of the chief officials of a leading ompany recently said to a reporter for the New York Sun: I - , "AH our foreign policies are written subject to cancellation. It is true we discover very little fraud among !the European policy holders, but that is because thair schemes are so clever we cannot .run them down. ; The -' dliluf son for our writing less li beral pol icies abroad and in the southern por tion of this continent is, however, be cause wars are so frequent and so lia ble to occur at any momeut. -Europe is always on the brink of a great war, and if we should write incontestable policies there we might be ruined any time. In the Central and Mouth Amer ican states revolutions are in progress all the time. If onr policies were not subject to cancellation there we should be subjected to great losses continual ly. Our method is to write policies freely, but to cancel them whenever a revolution occurs in the countries in which the policy holders reside." . The Enterprising Business Man . , Uses a great amount of Adver- tiBing matter ut all Kinus, Consequently lus Business in- meAHes and he becomes- as happy as the individual who is represented, by the picture just above. , Job Printing of All Kinds Is done at this Omce in a Workmanlike Mannor, and at Prices to Compare with the Times. Your Business will be Increased by having Your Job ' Printing done at tins umce, - THE LEBANON EXPRESS, LIVERINE THE GREAT LIVER, KIDNEY AND CONSTIPATION cuius. Pleasant to take by old or young. iNo griping. The root of the Liverine i j : plant ib exietiBivoiy uau m Norway for the ouro of Tiles. Sold by all first class drug gists. Wholesale Manufactures. ASCHOK SCiiKMICALCo. Lebanon, Oregon. Lumber Cheap AT THE WATERLOO MILL (Two miles west of Wuluiluo) Tho nearest mill by eight miles to any point in the Valley. Lumber at bottom prices, with liberal discount for cash Will fill orders at once. Save money, time, your wagon and team by buying of WATERLOO MILL You can haul 1500 feet at a loud as the road 1b good to this Mill. "drape Fruit." . "Grape fruit" is a citrous fruit closely resembling, and by -some eniti to be identical with,; the shaddock, named from the growth of the fruit in clusters. Its production in this country is chiefly confined to .Florida. The tree is larger and handsomer than that of other fruits of Its class; The fruit Ms large, frequently" five., inches in diam eter, has a smooth, light-yellow skin, ripens later than the orange and is found in the northern marlieta from December to Slay.' It has m&licinvl properties, and when well ripened in by many oeonle considered 'superior to t!ie orange. The bitter membrane that di vides the pulp should bo removed be fore the latter is eaten or. the riili should be scooped, out from it. There are several varieties, and the number is enlarged by importations. The grape fruit is known also as tbe -pomelo, ponipeunouse ana by other names. Fotsoiiing from CharcaL . A new form of lead paralysis has ap peared in Paris among the hands of a chemical charcoal factory. The char coal was rendered more combustible by being treated by nitrate, and thus better fitted for lighting Ures. Nitrate of soda or potash onght to-be used for tins purpose, but the factory proorie. tor found it more advantageous to use nitrate of lead, which increased the weight of the product. Naturally, the workmen soon exhibited symptoms of lead poisoning. It is proposed to pass law forbidding the dangerous process pnuer penalty oi Heavy fine and im- 1 1 , . . . lra-IHHIIHSHfl Notion of AtlmliilHtrutlon "Notice is hereby given, that, by order of tbecounly court of Linn comity.Oregoii.tlie undersigned has been duly appointed and now in the duly qualilied and acting ad- iHilnUtralor of the estate ol Nancy Marks, deceased. All parties having claims against suid estate are hereby required to present the same, properly verilied, tvllinn six months from tho mh day of July 1885, the date of the first publication hereof, to the undersigned at the office qf Sam'l H. Garland, Ubanou, Oregon. . Jons 11. Masks. . Administrator. Atty. for Adinr. Estate of Nancy Marks, deceased. BARBER SHOP Best Shaves, Huir Cut or Shampoo at B. F. KIRK, Shaving Parlor. NEXT 1)0011 TO ST. OHAULH8 HOTEL. Elegant Baths. Children Kindly Treated. Ladies Hair DreBBiirg a Specialty Stoves Tin and Plumbing Goods. TINNER and PLUMBER. Rojiaring and all kind of Jod work done at hard time priees. LEBANON, - - OREGON." Oregon Central & Eastern R, R. C o. YAQUINA BAY ROUTE, . Connect at Yaqttina Buy with the San Francisco and Yaquina Bay rlteam- sbip Company Steamship "Farallon" ; A 1 and flrstclass in every respect. Bails from Yaquina for San Francisco about every 8 days. Passengvr ncconmiodutions unsur passed. Hliortrat route between tin Willamette Vnlley am) California. Fare from Alliitny or poiiils west to Saii Francisco-; - (:ahiii,,'...:;.,:;..: ...fi2 oo Steerage,..'...;...,. X:;': .... - 8 00 Cabin,rpuiidtrip,G0d8. 18 00 Forsallinifdaysapply to . ; H. L. Walden, Agent, Edwik &roNE, Mu'ger., Albany, Corvallls, .. - . Oregon. ; Oregon. -, Cha. Clakk, 8iid., Cervullili - Orngom Albany Steam Laundry RICHARDS & PHILLIPS, Proprs, lba-iiy, ' Oregon All Orders Receive Prompt , Attention. Special Rates lor Family Washings, Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Kehindecl. J. r. HYDE, Agent, tiebanon, - Oroiron. r nvr iruTC L. vur i rviun i s Srompt answer anil ail oonoit opinion, write to U H N & !0 wIjo have hurt ntarly fifty yeari' experlenoe in the patent bmmu. Cnruniunlca. tloiw utrictiy o)nndntlAl, A II induiiK of In tnrmmm ooncemloa lntfntu tuid liow to ob in mem iwnt irra. ai DvMii thuM are brouifht wldolr out coat to ttiw inventor. isoa eatitlutfue 0 in tttnt frm. men Munn k Co. 111 notice in the HclonttllR AmerlcKiii and iforotlJO public wttti This Dldiidlcl Darter. Iuued weekly, elegant ly illustrated, ban by far th irgert circulation of any acionMfio work In Uit .itlri fit a vmr. fintnnlA nmloi Unt iM. Building E'iUloujsioiitfily, riOa year, fllnfrl ayiniai 'itt oAiiLtL Kvflf nuiiitiHr contn ni buuu tifui plater In eolort, and ptiotOKiaphu of unit Hlfe. Will ridUB, iiBuiuiK uiiiirrsy mitiw urn W. E. CHANDLER, Dealer lr that KAMI) 1,000,000 People Wear U. L. DOUGLAS 3 SHOES 00, $1.00, $3.50, $ 50, $1.25 T T " & ii Hen $3-' $2,5P- ?.00, $ 1 .75 Tor iy''y?jt,AllSirt,vtryHtfr'r' f .1$ -.".3 -TULl. Jl X''f -". CAN FIT ANY FOOT. Wear W. t. Itnwrlnt Atom an Hive arum 1 .1111 10 au.uv a ynlr. TI10 atlvAiioe In laatlnr haa l(ILTt!M)U wit) vucm 01 hdw iiiwtDB, mi qunmy buu pnuM (if W . Is. UimgUM noea rvmom im ww. Uxocktoi. Mass For Sale by Hiram Baker, Lebanon Or. HS of Bicycf LIQHT, 5TR0N0. 0V "NEST MATERIAL- SPEEDY, HANDSOriE. 6Qf 5CIENTIFIC WORKMANSHIP Four Hodek-gSS and mm. VERY MACHINE FULLY GUARANTEED. - SEND 8-CENT STAMP FOR CATAL0QU Monarch Cycle Co. mry Bnmnln OH!cj Lake ond KalsUBta., CHIC t?. tVli tS-lefl nnr ),n-: Ml