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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1896)
Lebanon Express. H. Y. KIRKPATRICK, Editor - and - Proprietor WHEAT MARKET. Wheat ib again reaching out for the dollar mart, gays the Ore- gonian, and, while it is not making . the great bounds that distinguish ed the first rapid advance of a few weeks ago, it is steadily moving toward a higher plane of price?. In Portland Saturday it again reached the 80-cent limit, from which it dropped back about two weeks ago, and it has again passed that mark and Valley wheat is quoted at 81 cents, with Walla Walla bringing 78 cents. These figures probably mean more than dollar wheat did a few days ago but notwithstanding that, the fact a bushel of wheat can buy a great many things, there is still a pros pect for its buying even more be fore the year is out or before another crop is on the market. There is but very little wheat changing hands at the present time, and the amount still in the hands of the growers is variously estimated at from 35 to 60 per cent crop the former figure probably being the nearest correct When wheat advanced to a figure that netted the inland growers 50 cents a bushel at the nearest railway station, they disposed of a large amount, and it is the movement of that wheat that is now taxing the railroads and enabling Portland to surpass all previous records as a grain shipping port. The total crop will fall short of that of two years ago, but the indications are favorable for Portland shipping as much or more grain than was die patched from there in that banner year. This is on account of the failure of the SonnJ to retain the business which formerly went there. The ditpositiin of the growers to hold their wheat has had a tendency to cause dullness in charters, and there is but little business in this direction. Ex porters have ships enough to handle their wheat, and wheat enough to fill the ships they have already chartered, so that they are now bidding up prices on the cereal, but are calmly awaiting de velopments, and announce their willingness to pay a dollar a bushel for wheat as soon as export values will warrant it; but in the mean time they are not particular about loading up for speculative pur poses. At the same time, many buyers express the lielief that the price will go still higher, and are not inclined to blame the growers for holding on, althongb 80 cents a bushel is a highly remunerative figure for the grower. BRYAN CONGRATULATES. "Senator Jones has just informed me that the returns indicate your election, and I hasten to extend my congratulations. We have submitted the issue to the penp'e. and their will is law." Mr. Mc Kinley telegraphed in response: " "I acknowledge the receipt of your courteous messa?e of congrat ulation with thanks, and beg you will receive my best wishes for yonr health and happiness." The men most deeply interested in the election have exchanged the above friendly greetings. This is a good example fcr the followers ' of each and should be heeded by the people. Thousands of men and women breathe, move and live pass off the stage of life, and are heard of no more. Why? None are blessed by them; none could point to them as their means of redemption; not a line wrote, nor a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished; their light went out in darkness, and they were not re membered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die? 0 man, live for something! Bo good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the torms of time can nerwr destroy ( r. ChalsMr Roseburg Review: After all the Oregonian's talk about Mayor Peu noyer "Bryanizing" the Portland police foruo, it is known now that for the first time in many years the police were kept out of politics and the toughest wards in the north eud of the city gave Mc Kinley majorities. Special deputy sheriffs recruited among the thug6 of Portland did considerable dirty work, hut the dreaded policemen of Mayor Pennoyer remained neutral. The election is a thing of the past. Its fruits, whether good or bad, will be shared alike by the people. No straw should be put in the way of the new administration. We all want the good times that have been so faithfully promised, to be Boon realiied. The victors have a big contract in hand.' We hope, for the people's e'ike, that it will be speedily fulfilled. It is reported that Mr. Hearst, proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner and the New York Eve ning Journal, will start a daily paper in Portland, soon after Jan. 1, 1S97. It is to lie hoped this re port is true, as the people of this state need a daily paper with an editor who can hold the Oregonian level and Mr. Hearst is the man who can do it. The Oregoniau of November 4, Bays: ' Yesterday's election was a most emphatic indorsement of two public servants Cleveland, the retiring, and McKinley, the incom ing president The one leaves to history record of which the most exacting ambition might be proud; the other enters upon an oppor tunity the most aspiring hopes might welcome." The legislature meets early next year, then the fun will begin. Political sores were nicely healed temporarily for the election of Mu Kinley. Then they will 'reopen with renewed irritation. A senator if to be chosen. 1 he emigrant 'from Mart may be naturalized by (that time and the contest will go Imerrilv on. I i The Wasco News pointedly says 'that when it comes to bonrishness and bad language, the Oregonian is so far ahead of Tillman that he may be 'voted a polished gentle man. The Oregonian .talks about such men doing injury to party. If such is the case the Oeegoniin has done the republican party irrepara ble injury. One more election and then the people of the citv will have a jmuch needed rest from politics, j City officers will be chosen next month. We have abundant ma jterialoutof which to make good officials. Let capable and honest men be chosen. Coquille City won the county sent of Coos county over Empire City by a majority of 550. Thos. But kman. populist, defeated J. W. Bennett, gold democrat for repre sentative by five majority. They tied last June. Roseburg Review. We are all anxious to see a permanent prosperity, and the people are capable of doing much toward it. It may be predicted that the McKinley administration will see the necessity of increasing the currencv. The people of Celifornia have put the stamp of disapproval upon Huntington, railroad "boss," and Johnson, his concubine, by defeat ing Johnson for U. S. senator, on November 3. R. P. Bland, (Silver Disk) was elected to congress again this year from the eighth Missouri district. Jerry Simpson goes hack, having also been out two rears. The election is now over. Let us all, democrats, populists and republicans, nut our shoulders to the wheel and do something fo suffering bumanilr. After McKinley i ineuguiatei! political heu'is will soon begin W drop off. It was a nek and neck race be tween Palmer and Levering. Re-Tiew. OUB THIRD EYE. Scientists Claim That We Have an Sxtrm OpUo, Of JJea IB MMM 1 U Lawat- i tt Is Recent researches prove that man and all vertebrates aeem to poems tbe rudimenta of a third eye. This discov ery a not only very interesting-, but also remarkably instructive .since the rudimentary third eye of a man has, by one of the most noted philosophers of modern day6, been looked upon as be ing the seat of tbe soul. As organs by proper use develop in strength and perfection, so they be come weak by lack of use. If formacy generations an orfmn should remain without use its structure in time be comes Bimpler and more imperfect. If such a process continues throughout Pes, an organ, by constant disuse, will become reduced to a mere rudiment of what it was in the species using the ame. Thus, species of birds that only v. u!k and run, but never fly, have only rntlimcntary wings, as the ostrich; while in the eagle and the albatross tlie wings are seen In a state of perfec tion. Now. in closely examining the skulls of certain lizards, it iris found that near the top of head, under the dark, opaque skin, and often in the very bone, an almost perfect eye exists, although no ray of light ever could reach it. This eye shows a crystaline lens, a retina of very complex structure and an optic nerve; in fact, all the essential parts f a perfect eye. But being covered by the opaque akin of the animal it is ab solutely useless. If this optic nerve is traced to the brain it is found to con nect the eye with the se-called pineal gland of the brain. This pineal gland is. of course, in no sense of a word a real gland, but a definite portion of the Mt-rrotis tissue of tbe brain, invariably Inccted just back and partly over the cerebrum, and in front of the rounded hrainrnass which generally is consid ered to correspond to the corpora qiuutrigemina in a man. ThiB third eye of the spotted lizard is called the pineal eye. on account of (lie nerve connection of the retina witlr the pineal gland. Now, while in cer tain lizards this highly developed eye is useless because it is covered by tipaque skin, and in others even deep ly bedded in bone, it would seem proba ble that in aa earlier stage of develop ment this pineal eye was not rudi mentary, but in constant use. A very slight modification would accomplish Ibis namely, the transparency of the skin covering the eye. This is exact ly the condition of the normal eyes in reptiles to-day; the skin covers them, but it is transparent where it passes "ver the eye. In the skulls of some of tbe gigantic reptiles of the earlier age of this globe, paleontologists have long ago found a large round perforation. Probably thiB was the socket of the third or pineal eye of the ichthyosau rus, the plesiosanrUE and the labyrin thodon. But a much more important conclu sion must be drawn from this discov erynamely, that in all vertebrates, even including man, the traces of thia third eye runnin to-day. The pineal i ye of lizard.'; b-iuj: connected with the large pineal gland of the same, it would seem that the pineal gland itself is but the nerve center or optic thalmus for this third eye. In all reptiles and amphibia the pineal gland is large; so it is also in fishes. In higher animals the cerebrum develops very much, over growing tbe more posterior portions of the brain. By this preponderance of the nerve masa the pineal gland be comes covered by the cerebrum and as sumes more and more rudimentary forms. But it remains with obstinate pertinacity. It is even always present in man though here only of the siie of a pea and rudely resembling a pine cone in shape. It seems also degenerated in structure, having hardly any nervous tissue. These facts of form and st rucv are have given rise to its name, that of pineal gland. Popular Science Monthly- Bess ID tbe Chagipafas. A em-tons incident occurred at Ascot recently. While a large number of luncheon parties were enjoying the de lights of an open-air repast in the gar dens behind the grand stand, a great swarm of bees settled down on the guests around a table in a comer. They buzzed and buzzed everywhere. Ladies had bees in their bonnets and gentlemen found their hats turned into striking likenesses of "Catch-'em-alive-ohs." Some of the swarm settled on tbe cold salmon, and other members of it tumbled into the champagne cop. In fact, the bees created the greatest eon rornation among the ladies and gen-R-men in that quarter of the grounds, "hey were gradually drawn off the :ocheon party by a gentleman to -'horn occurred the happy idea of trcat i,T them to a little music on a metal .-ay under a tree. After the tapping - 'inkling on the article had continued j - two or three moments, the queen ute settled on the branches above to listen to it, and was at once followed by all tbe swarm. It was an extraordi nary sight to see hundreds of the in sects hanging like great black and gold clusters on the tree while the tinkling continued. It ceased with the lunch- WANTED. To trade fruit trees' for lumber, oats, wheat, hay and dressed pork. My stock of trees f r this year is very fine and will be sold for becf roek prices for cash. Send bill for prices to M. L. Fokstxk, Tangent, Ore. M'KINLEY and HOBART Will be our next President and Vice President BAKER is yet alive, Selling1 Rubber Goods, Dry Goods, Boots and Sboes. FEATHERBONE CORSETS are LEBANON PRODUCE MARKET. IChauged Every Week.l Wheat ttbV Oats 25 to 28c Hay to to $7 per ton. Flour $1 OOfS.l.lO per sack Chop tl 00 per cwt. Bran 80c pit cwt. Middlings f 85 per cwt Potatoes 10c. Applttv Dried, "c per lb Plums Dried, lie. Onions lie. Beef Dressed, 4 to 5c Veal 3j(J4c. Pork Dressed, 3j. Lard 9. Hams 12 per lb. Shoulders 8c. Bides 8c per Ib. Genie 13 50 $5 per dor Ducks $4 (5 $5 per dots. Chicken fl .50(5:2 50. Turkeys 8c er lb. Eggn 16c "wr doi. B .tier 10 15c pr lb. 1 1 ides Green, 3c; dry, 5c. How's This? "tt'e offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any casw of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHLNEY CO.. Props., Toledo, 0. We. the undcrsifjiifd. have known F. J. Cheney for the las: 15 years, and believe him jerfectly henoralile in all business tranaacuons, and financially able to carry out any obligation made bv their linn. West & Tri-ax. Wholesale Ifriiinrista. Toledo. O. Wald:xg. KciSAH A Maivis. Wholesale lmiinriste. Toledo, O. Ball's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly up n the blood and mucous Mirtawaoftlieniem. Price 7,V. ir bottle Sold by all ItniKumtj. Testimonials free. Hall's family Pills are the beat. BUSINESS LOCALS. 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Tin (rest j f.Jla"rteI 01 H""1', sarararllte In j you In believing toat a taitnlul use of Hood's Barsapsrliia will cure you If yon sutler Iron any trouble osusud by Impure blood. Sarsaparilla tT.bOtif Trie Blood Pnrlfier. andmegist. L IV rr'ar'-ttoiity bye. L Hood a Co., LowsU, Mass. . . .. ... , , are eay to take, easy H00d' Pills to tvstsu. av earns. lHood's XV." Y-.JP V j?W Bey ( , 1 , Yf l- O I if. Thos. F. Oakes, Henry C. 1'ayne, Henry C House, Receivers. N ORTHERN PACIFIC R. U N Pullman Sleeping Cars Dining Cars Sleeping Cars Elegant Tourist st. rui ( rttokittiiB Hfilmit am) Butte THROUGH TICKETS-P TO !!5!!l! whiirtois i ft'hlia'iripiiia j Nrw York ( ii,.ton and all j FolnU Ki BUd Rl,u.h - or information, time cards, rim;, and j tickets, call on or write W. C, PETEESOH, Agent, LEBAXOX, - - OREGON. : OK j. . rtnPIfnl led D,n. Irfi a, v, vunuu j vm, njJi. Ubui. itua. agl, Portland. Oregon. Rlpans Tabnlea cure dizziness. Ripans Tabules cure flatulence. 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