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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1896)
ORIGIN OF THE AZTECS. A Recent Explorer Thinks Tbsy Came from SoaadlnaTta. Gnat Bans Dm b; ska KM -traettaa at IlltMrk Iwi mt b Urn eltw On MM Ib "I am glad to note that scientists, nd particularly philologists, are at, last making good headway in decipher ing tho hieroplyphica of the Aztecs," said Dr. Wondail Mees, of Ithaca, N. Y., to a writer of the 8t. Lonls Globe Democrat "I have just returned from tin extended visit to our sister republic, during which I made the most careful researches, with results which are high ly gratifying to me There remains ne doubt in my mind that the warlike and highly civilized tribes which Cortes found in Mexico were of Scandinavia origin and very closely allied to oar own Saxon forefathers. I believe we phall soon be able to establish this fact beyond a question of doibt. Indica tion point to the Scandinavians having ic over tram the great northern peninsula at early as the fourth cen tury B. C. "Speaking of Cortes and the Spanish conquerors raises a perfect storm of pent-up indignation within me every time I hear, the name, for the world will never be able to fully realize the harm they have done by their wanton destruction of the records .they found nud the stumbling blocks they have put in the way of scientific researchers. There are not enough of the hieroglyh ic records of the Aztecs remaining to ever complete our knowledge of their civllization, but, In my opinion, the worst barriers have been successfully passed. Many of our scientists have befogged a very plain question concern ing Mexican hieroglyphics. Therenever was a uniform system of written or printed roeards anywhere. They all contained the principles of several dis tinct systems. This is true of Egypt as well as Mexico. A majority of the hieroglyphics of nomenclature in ETypt wore based on the rebus, or sym phonograpu, where the pictures -give t he sound, but not the sense. This im plies the oxiotense of two languages ha "that country, one which gave the meaning and the other to which the picture belonged. "The same system was used nt Mex ico. Tho hiooroglyph for Huaseyacac, pronounced VYashyca, is a twig of the huase fruit coming out of the nose, or yacac, of a human face. "The meaning, however, is quite different Wash or Washu most have been the name of the god of war, and, as Kali, or Oao, means red, and the Culwas were red men. Huaseyacac must have meant the Red God of War. The peculiarity of the word is that it presents what we may coll the Scandi navian di&lectio formula of a name of great antiquity found in many coun tries and not originally belonging to the red men of Europe and northern Africa. In these peoples, who can J directly traced to the mingling of the three primitive savage races with the prehistoris white races of northern Eu rope, the Azes, or Asar, we have the root Wash, as in Washington, Waaboe nud like words. The older form was Has. as in Basinghall, Bflshinsoke.Baas, ilasqueses, etc., in actual nomencla ture, and Bes, Bessarla, Bosna, in I'.ncient times. Huitzilipoctli was a title and not a name, and the lolling tonrne is hisoroglyphic f or the word Lap, shoeing that Huitzilipochtil was the demon Lap, or the god of war, as viewed by the red races. This hiero glyphr? ia baaed epon the Saxon svord Lar, to tal-e cp water with the tongue, am" v -c-f positive of the Scsndlna Y'ui rMi if the Azteea, "iTOiii-7 further mte this we havo f-rand tii.il the hieroglyph for Lap was tvv rahM because Lepus rebuses vrith Iny. we infer from that that the rs'jMi ffod of ,the Algonquins is a jmrjf tliEf the A'-rtees must have had in-t'.-r .'(mr:,'j by some means with the civ iliz d raee, from whom the Romans jro t v:ir rr-jru leputi. In every nation tltat r .'fused to cat the hure there must hare lieen similar intercourse, no mattcr rudor what jrretcst it was declined as an art;-'''" ' " "1 WOMEN IN OFFICE. The Nw England ilrl aud the Widow am tin Ones who Itamata. In the offices in Washington the principal rival of the widow is the New England young woman, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. There are Massachusetts girls who taught school twenty and thirty years ago who got into the departments and are there yet In the iirst place, the New England girl has been educated to the idea of making her own living and to regard marriage as very improbable. She is, first of all, a scholar, and a scholar of natural capacity and breadth of character. She can doanything any man can do except, possibly, climb a tree. But she can climb a civil service examination, which is infinitely of more importance to the government and to herself. She may be a widow, but she gets there, and ahe stays to a ripe old age. In fact, there is no rec ord of any widow or New England girl . dying or getting married from a gov ernment office. Any one of them would scont the idea of leaving a salary of tl,000 or 11,200 or 11,600 or 11,600 a year to do housework for some man who can't earn as mnch himself. So the New England girl and the widow stick to a salary and leave romance to cal low fools. As the civil service record shows that about one woman out of every sixth i Jerk is called for by bureau officials, nothing but superior adaptability and trying powers will account for the me idy increase of women in all the de rav.mente. Perhaps the permanent rcn.r.'al of the subordinate places wiv.-r the povemmeut from tho polit i is! Iniluoncea which once controlled .them lias done more for every class of eniiiloyea who con rely upon their own i:.c." :la than anything else has done. Hipans Tabulee cure headache. Rlpans Tabular, pleasant laxative. HIDDEN TilEASUEES. A Golden Cavern In the Moun- ! tains of Utah. Tha Strang Story of a Convtetsd Wlfs urdsnr Who Was GimuM at salt lake CUT Takln( ths Most with HtOL I I Many stories are told in the east about great hidden treasures in the , ; mountains of the west In some in ! stances those wild remarks are but the I imagination of thoughtless brains, ' while in many cases the stories ore true. The west is tilled with treasure vaults whose gold and silver deposits ' are numerous, says the Chicago Inter . i Ocean. ' Old Spanish residences, now going to decay, contain secret rooms : lined with gold and filled with precious ( ' stones and rich jewels. The moun tains contain dark cauyons where-' mines of fabulous wealth have lain I dormant for ages. The humblest sheep- ' herder or range rider may accidentally 1 discover the greatest mineral deposit ever known, and the most timid ex plorer may find the treasured wealth of a French millionaire stored away ia the caverns of the old dwellings. Utah was once Mexican property, and its fertile valleys were peopled by a wealthy class of men. The old cliff dwellers of the Colorado left most vol-' . uable homes containing gold aud silver bathtubs, vases and ornaments, while ! the workings of miners living a cen tury ago show the vast wealth taken ! ' from the old arastras and sluice Dozes, i A strange story of fabulous wealth was related by Enoch Davis, a wife-murderer recently executed in Salt Lake City. He found the most wonderful mines ever seen by man, and exhibited nuggets of gold from the sluice boxes which excited the curiosity of court i officials so that his life was spared for many months. I About sixty miles from Salt Lake ! City k an unexplored section of the Utah Indian reservation. No man has , ever penetrated the deep, dark can i yons of this Indian land since the days I of Brigham Young, the well-known Mormon leader. After the California i gold excitement it is said a gentleman i named tieorge Knowles oame from the diggings of the Golden state and set tled in Utah. He agreed with the president of the Mormon church to give him his weight in gold for one of the numerous women of the -'oung harem. The proposition was accepted and Knowles was given six weeks in which to produce the gold. Knowles, with a son about fourteen years of age, started from the Mormon Mecca Monday morning and within two weeks returned with eighty-five pounds of gold nuggets. Young ac cepted the money, but swore his .slave to absolute secrecy as to where the gold was obtained. At that time the church people were opposed to the opening of mines, and no man was per mitted to prospect in the territory. The old man Knowles lived and died in Salt Lake City with visions of wealth haunting hU deathbed, but he never returned to the secret mines. In after years the son determined to disobey the orders of the church and seek the gold fields he hod seen in his youth. He was accompanied by Enoch Davis, the wife murderer. One dark night in the month of June the pros pectors dropped down from the high, sandy mesas into the gold-lined cavern. Ilere they found thousands of nuggets ! with the mountain waters flowing over them. Every pocket and knapsack J were filled v. ith the valuable treasures. ! When moruiiig dawned they were met i nt the summit of the canyon by a band of Indians. The red men fired and t Knowles dropped dead. Davis feigned death and fell to the bottom of the cavern. The Indians could not get j down the bluffs, and the white man I lay there in on apparent state of death j until nightfall, when he arose, and 1 after two or three days succeeded in es caping from the savages. When Davis escaoed he made his wev the Indian rtservation. In this village he took up his abode, expecting some day to be enabled to return to the fields of wealth. He married and set tled down to the duties of a home life as the village blacksmith. His mind became troubled, he resorted to drink, and at last in a fit of Jealous despon dency killed his wife and buried her in a potato pit near the house. The crime was discovered within a day and Davis was arrested and imprisoned on the charge of murdering his wife In the prUon all the nightmare of golden treasures haunted the doomed prisoner. He drew a map of the coun try and presented it with the facts to the court officials as a ransom for his liberty, liauy thousands of dollars have since been expended in seeking this famous gulch, but nothing has been found. Davis, after repeated postponements, was finally convicted and shot without again realizing the fulfillment of his dreams. The lost gulch is yet a subject of mnch thought, and prospectors seek the place as soon as the winter's snow pelts from the mountain slopes. He Wat Going Far Away. "Gond.hvA. Miu ftillvflmwA,. T , going far away I will not return." i "But you will write to me often, j won't you, Mr, Mushy?" ! "O. tllHir It I Hill lint daws 4a ,.L... 0, Miss Gillyflower! Your feelings toward me must have changed that you permit it!" "0. no. You see some of us girls are to have a hund-ed dol'jars for the Fetagonlans if we co lect a million postage stamps, and every one will kaln U It 1 It. Hwyi jwuauuiv, i una - . ..ouiiur - uui, that man Is fro ; tug to defend me? Why, he couldn't j liriuif an inaoeciit person through!" I i'luyewle lllaetter. -"Tell mc, guide, why so few people -...u,,u mm mngniueent mountain. "Because no hus ever fallen off it." -f liegende lliaatter. MONEY IN PEANUTS. ; I Ten Mlltlon rtollsrt sntat Annmllj In Amrrtm tor This "fruit." A man incidentally asked a street vender if his peanuts were first-class, and the rr.roiiso to the inquiry was surprising, toys the Chicago Tribune, "No," said the vender. "You do not get first-elabit peanuts in this country in -this way. The best peanuts are used for other purposes. They aro mode into meal aud grits by scientific men, and in Germany they are prepared for sick people in the hospitals. The pea nuts you get in candy aro the very poorest prade. And some of the 'burnt almonds' .vVtoh you get are nothing more than fourth-rate peanuts." "Where did the peanut come from?" "Prom Central and South America. They grow there in long pods, and ths pods contain from four to five kernels. They wore carried to the old world In the early doys, aud in the seventeenth century they -.constituted the chief staple of Africa. You will find if you look it up that the slave dealers of Africa in those days used to load their ships with peanuts to be used as food for their human cargoes. The negroes who wore imported from Africa to this country brought over the peanut and they were scattered and first grew in Virginia. And now this country id rais ing the crop, and, owing to American shrewdness, the nut is ground and used for various purposes and shipped all over the world. "I reckon you know," the vender con tinued, "that peanuts in a certain condi tion are more nutritious than beef. When specially prepared they rank with beans and peas. The peanut is said to contain 3D per cent of protein and 40 per cent of fat. What is known as peanut meal contains 03 per eent of protein and 8 per cent of fat It Is the chenpest of aU food materials." In 1SB1 and 1806 peanut oil was man ufactured largely in four southern states, and was employed as a substi tute for olive oil. In fact, one drug gist admitted, some of the "olive oil" sold now in this country is nothing more than peanut oil. Nearly all of the olive oil sold in the United States is mixed with part of the peanut Pea nuts furnish from 30 to 60 per oent of the weight of their kernels in oil. Sometimes peanut ot) is used for light ing, and again it is utilized to advan tage in the making of soap and as a lubricant in machine shops. The American peanut Is larger and better flavored than any other, but it does not contain so much oil as the Af rican nut The "cake" which is left after extracting the oil makes excellent feed for cattle, and is used very largely for that purpose in Germany, where it sells f or 130 to 133 a ton. This country owes to Germany the suggestion it has received in relation to one edible quali ties of peanuts, and the department of agriculture is now investigating the method of Germany in the way in which that country has handled the nut and the result ia to be published by the department for the benefit of the farmers. The United States now produces 4,000.000 bushels of peanuts annually, or 88,000,000 pounds. The total world's supply amounts to about (00,000,000 pounds. The exportation from Africa and India to Europe during the last year amounted to nearly 400,000,000 pounds. Of this quantity 333,000,000 pounds wore delivered at the port of Marseilles, France, the bulk of it being pressed for oil It is estimated that 110,000.000 worth of peanuts are eaten every year in the United States, and most of the quanti ty, it is said, is consumed between meals and at odd times. CHANGED HIS ELEOmiC PIANO. A Saloonkeeper Finds Tost W Kot Batted for s Barroom. A certain saloon, wishing to please its patrons without the expense of hir ing a long-haired pianist, bought an electric piano, says the Indianapolis Sentinel. These pianos are very funny to watch, for they start up a tune and go straight ahead and play t to the bitter end without anyone near them. To a person who does not understand the motive power, the thing appears uncanny; and the boys prepared to have lots of fun. The saloon was full of patrons when somebody slyly turned on the current and the phrno started. Out came the solemn, mujisslic strains of "Tannhauser." A man who was drinking at the bar set down his glass and shivered. Three men playing cardB began to get nervous and, finally, with a cuss word or two, gave up the game. Still the piano thnndered out the heavy chords of "Tnnnhmiser," and the audience, not being familiar with Wagner, got bluer and bluer. The owner saw flint the piano had made a mistake and hastened to assure his patrons that he had other pieees and would put a new one in. This he did, and the men lin(','lite!:ed up a little while waiting to huur the new piece. Many expressions of li!-;nirjt at hearing a funeral dirge on such an occanion were hurled at the ownor. Everyone had about ris'iim-d lib. '.T!;:im:l atti tude when the piano was- given another trial. This time !r ivq;; "Lohengrin," and while the piec was u little bright- er, it was not ,fi-.h'.ive. One man de-. : clared it had been played at his grand j father's funeral or sister's wedding, he ; forgot which. This piece was taken out and a third tried, but it was an ar rangement of the national hymns with i variations, and was just as solemn. The piano was closed for the night and in the morning trie -proprietor rushed to find some more suiUtMe pieces. ow the piano plays "The llogie Jlan." "With Danny by My Side" and the "Washington Post slurch." and the crowd is delighted. Hut the piiinn came near wrecking the saloon the first night. If it lmd been Meyerbeer instead of Vaguer perhaps the nnmo would hnvp curried the music through. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS, -They oay that Cholly has lost his mind." "Is that so? Does he know it?" Boston Courier. "He said I was bis life's iiinshine." "J guess you will find that all moon bla,"weoite Courier, - GOOD MANNERS. Keffai-4 to Courtiwy m a iNt of soola. OusUity, Tlio lil-tier a periou rises in the Old World1 tin? ln'tter Mb mauuera, one is m rtici'tful of nu cnpsgeuunL to meet other K'Opio ttH the crowned Uwul. Queen VU-tovm would not Rppolut nn Lour to niwt n l'!y i.uti croaray auil forit it This ctt! :KRiiiftM of forum &t?tl cere mo -Wiit e ignorance; paotmiilyit Is, ImtiU i i 1 Ignorance wblcli Ia cu.Mible. IViIiuti y i reverse is true. A newly, rii-dp iii-march commits thtunrnrn which married ih career of Sancho I'luiznon the IhIu of Ifctratara. HIb mw wine had made him drunk, and he insults the 2t'M.e to hhow his frreatness. K Amoricttn citixen should allow hts family to come up without nome idea of good maimers, for there is no end to the privileges of thoer who ImvefKtnd man ners; no remuneration could, cover those from which a person te debarred by the liu'rt of good manners. It in tuo duty of every educated Ameri can to disseminate this knowlrdii. It is ths duty of every uneducated American to condeauBiid to learn it. "Merit, without manners, is a flower without perfume, or a tree without leaves." s Ber Loaf Walt. An obliging Isdy customer in a certain store iu oue of the two cities Friday In ststed that she always traded with the pmprlcterand not with more clerks. "But the proprietor is not in," said the clerks. i: "Oh, well," was the reply, "I'll alt right down nnd wait for him." She n-Hited, aud ss the half hours sped she iirew lmiwttent. "When will he be hack)" she ssid, loft ily. "In about four weeks, madam," was the reply. "Be is now on a business trip to Montana." She traded with the clerks. Lewlaton Journal. Charming but Unseen. It Is astonishing how pretty the homely girl ynu have never ssen can look when she Is snftly talking uonaense to . : -uu;h the telepaune Crenturos of the Night. Nocturnal creatures assume night ac tivity for some other reason than that they cannot see by day, or that they ste bettor by night. The bat sees aci : uiirably in the brightest sunlight, as ; avyone knows who hus ever t tiMd one i by poking a Btlck at it. It will open iis mouth and make an angry grub nt ' the Ptiek, when it is not near it by j .tfvcrol inches. Prof. UuUes says it is the same with owls. They sef perfect - 1- iu bright sunlignt and hotter a' j "-lit than mo?t T'jutures. 1 A rt!!U. at Ji'orristown, Va., ..f.nekcd wiv tiolhnelie, left the th'-;-' .-. and j.,,;,, t:, , neighboring denti .t nl tho or. . miliar extracted, t.'.t. ;bh fi1 '10 '' re- i Suherrlne for ' tie Exphhss. During our elosiuir out Bale tin goods will be sold except fm p"t cash. Rrad, Pkacocr A Cn, I)r. Clit'iuile is glad tn see the li-liihlrHii and I'Xitiniii' their twlli. Me extracts tcinptirury teeth fur I ehtldren free. Tiiin O'tflimiltr for Mill's and elilhtren in all the recent cImiIih mid dvlvf, and from clf to SI SO, at Miss DuinondV Pugh & Minify have ,ul opened up the hieeHt Hue uf ladies au:l gent Mackintoshes eve brunch! lo Lebanon and the price will suit yen. Money to loan. A limited iiiicunt of money to hem in gisnl farm secur ity, (.'all upon or write to 8. V Kleele & Co., A 1 1 u. 1 1 y , Oregon. Necessity denia ids that we Iniint in all tliiwc Indebted to us mi milwrl thin, or otherwie lo call and 4lle . once. We will take wheat, outs or liny ut the highest market pi ices, I have money to Ioiiii ut H per cen Interest on good farm or pcnnim! security, J. M. IUu-tun, Mbi ti Block, All uity, Or. Farmers, ntlei thin: do not furgit that I'ugh 4. Munrty are always In tin lead on grncerk, boots and shoes, hat anil chi, gents' furnishing goods 4c. 8ee them for prices. drove's Tantehss Chill Tnnie is a perfect Malarial LIvurToiiiciind lSltmrt purlller. Ibminvc liillotwnes without purging. 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