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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1896)
Lebanon Express. H. Y. KIRKPATRICK, iiditor - and - Proprietor LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT. Bmdstreet's, Deo. 25, said; "The arrival of the holidays, the close of the year, and the period of annual Btock-taking have further checked the volume of wholesale trade. Only filling in orders are being re ceived and trade is slow. Retail demand for holiday goods has been active, but it is for cheaper grades than in previous years. In other lines the distribution of merchan dise has been Bnialler at a number of distributing centers. Failures of important banking institution. at Northwestern points tend to un settle confidence in commercial and banking circles. Few sales , men remain on the road, but most of them are preparing to go out within a fortnight. ' The moderate trade reyival which followed the last presidential election has been disappointing in that, aside from Christinas demand, business has been more unsatisfactory for a month past than for a like period in many years. There are A2 Dusiness tailureB reported in the United States this week, 12 less than lost week, and 11 more thin in the corresponding week year ago. There are 45 business failures reported in Canada this weec, against 39 last week, and 30 in the week a year ago." The municipal election held re cently in the manufacturing town of Lynn, Mass., resulted in the surprising election of a Bryan man for mayor. This was brought about largely by tho cut-downs in their local shoe factories Btnce the national election. The citizens of that city evidently didn't like that kind of prosperity. The Oregon legislature will meet January 11th and soon thereafter will follow the senatorial election jangle. Until senators are elected by the people many good and just laws will he unmade and many of the evil and radically wrong ones will go unrepealed. Medford M a:l. NOVEL JMlUlWItAMIS. Some I'rosh Wonders Performed ., . by the Oauxora. Kxtrmonllnftrjr Combination! Froriuee.1 by AH Ingenious Amn)cniont of Mlrrori Home t'arlout Kmuple. That President Cleveland has a warm spot in his heart for bonkers there is no question. The day the Bank of Minnesota failed he ap pointed one of its chief owners, Robert A. Smith, postmaster of St. Paul. Col. Wattersqn thinks that Pres ident Cleveland will want to be the candidate of the democratic party "for the presidency in 1900. Col. Watterson is one of the most astute of the democratic editors of the country, and prooably guesses very near to the mark as to what Mr. Cleveland may desire, on the line of his own feeling on the sub ject, but he will find he is not much of a prophet as far as the democratic party is concerned. Al ba ny Herald. . Cleveland stands a better show of being the republican nominee I in 1900, than he does of being nominated by the democrats. His financial views are similar to those of the republicans, and it is prob able that he could easily "flop" to a profession of belief in even as high a tariff as the most ardent republican could wish for, as he is rich enough to buy everything he. wants even if the the manufactur ers should demand an exorbitant price under cover of the tariff. As for the laboring people, it would cut very little figure with him how thoy would get along and that seems to be another principle of the republican leaders. Senator Mitehell, of Oregon, is vigorously fighting to pass a bill in congress that will elect United States senators by a popular vote and in this Mr. Mitchell is voicing the sentiments of his constituents. Medford Mail. Suit has been brought to fore close a $108,000 mortgage on the Perkins Hotel, Portland, indicating that prosperity is not yet sweeping full blast through Portland. Al bany Democrat. Here's a good resolution to make to-morrow, and keep: "Resolved, 1 hat 1 will atteud to my own business, and pay my debts as best I can, so help me God." Hermann, the wizard, recently performed one feat there was no magic" about he died. The Jackson county judje has discovered something to the credit of the state railroad commission; he says it cut down one bull pine in that county. He does not state whether the act was beneficial or not, but it is to be presumed that it was; also, that there are no other bull pines that are a menace to the public weal. Having, therefore, at an expense ot some $75,000 during the past ten years, gotten rid of that tree, might it not be" well to relieve the state of the expense of the commission lor the future Welcome. LEBANON PRODUCE MARKET. rcoanged Every Week. Wheat 70c. Oats 30 to 38c Hay $5 to $7 per ton. Flour $1 001.10persaok Chop $1 (10 per cwt. Bran 80c per cwt. Middlings 085 per cwt Potatoes 25c. Apples Dried, 7c per lb Plums Dried, Be. Onions ljc. Beef Dressed, 4$ to 5e. Veal 34c. Pork Dressed, 8. ' ' Lard 9. Hams 12 per lb. Shoulders Sc. Bides 8c per lb. GeeBe $3 60 $5. per doz. Ducks M $o per doz. Chickens tl 502 50. Turkeys 8c per lb. Eggs 22c nerdoz. Butter 12 15c pr lb. rlldes Green, 3c; dry, 5e. Deafness Cannot be Cured A French photographer has pleased Paris, always charmed with a novelty, by producing extraordinary photo graphic combinations through an in genious arrangement of mirrors. Tho results ho attains are novel, surprising and sometimes sensational, ns, for in stance, his bona fide photograph of a well-known Parisian being ridden in the street by his ham. UroU'sque eom- i), nations such as tilts are, of course, familiar to us all, for photographers have long been able to produce very curious effects by embodying figures from several negatives in one print. The beauty of this last photographic novelty is, however, that the prints do not "give away" the process, as the old fashioned built up photographs invari ably do by the stilted postures and in congruous discords of the composition, but appear to be single, Instantaneous glimpses of real scenes of an altogether impossible nature. They are clever enough to deceive an expert, or t make a superstitious person almost believe in miracles. All Paris is enthusiastic over one of his pictures in particular. It is a pho tograph of a gentleman in evening dress, with the face of his fiancee daintily poised on his Immaculate shirt front. The girl's face seems to be as much a part of the man's figure as is his head, and not merely a piotureatamped on the white linen bosom. This ieat is accomplished by posing the figures in such a. way thnt'they are reflected from the maze of mirrors di rectly into the eye of the camera. Some times the woman's face is reproduced in a smaller form, and in tho shape of n heart, and is so arrauged as to take thr place of the organ in which the god of love is popularly supposed to dwell. Photographs taken by the mirror process show people in every conceiv able position. For instance, two broth ers are photographed to appear as one balanced upside down on the other's head. As both are in evening dress. Irom patent leather pumps to crush hats, it is difficult to decide when one has the picture right side up. Pictures of airimals in all conceivable positions' are a fad of this photographer, whose art often takes a humorous turn. A very small snake in the. act of swallow ing an unusually large elephant is a fn vorite with those who have a sense of the ridiculous. Other pictures, how ever, lean to tragic rather than the comic. A pyramid of babies, to the number of a score, is another picture which at tracts a great deal of Interest, for, though the tots are still in the long clothes period of existence, tliev appear to balance themselves with all the sang Irani oi professional acrobats. One large photograph which the Pa risian camera jug-Her lately exhibited at an exhibition of pictures, noted inore for their oddity than the popular char acter of their subjects, Is probably the most grewsome of any he has yet, taken. This photograph portrays an exceeding ly beautiful woman dressed as for ball, through whose body the bare arm of a man is thrust, tho hand rfayping the handle of a sword that is dripping with hlood. The woman's face is dis torted, as though with pain, and she seems about to fall to the ground. N. Y. Herald. e openers. TO THE LADIES: The following prices Regardless of Cost: . Sixty Tails of French Kid Shoos, sizes 2 to 5, retail price ,.$4.00 To close them out we soli thorn now for., ,. 2.00 Saving to buy thorn now $2.00 288 Pair Dongolas, sizes 2 1-2 to 0, retail prico , $2.2" A Groat Bargain at , ,' : 1,75 : Fifty Cents Saved ; $ ,,50 29 pair Fine, Worth., ,'. , ji.q To close out , 10Q Another Fifty Cents Saved $ ,50 A line of Misses' and Children's Shoes out at Low Prices. All of this at H. BAKER'S. closing: Tlios. F. O.ikes, Henry C. Pay no, Henry C House, Itaeeivers. f JORTHERN 111 PACIFIC R. R. R U N Pullman Elegant Tourist Sleeping Cars Dining Cars Sleeping Cars Afliiiieniiiilla Fnrjro The New York Weekly Tribune FOIt .. Farmers and Villagers, FOR r.,H,.r. ..,1 11.11. 1 tUUCIS dUU iYlUUllTS, FOB Sons and Daughters, ' FOR All The Family. 1 l'ri'uirlnnInl ITTT. TRlTUTNr ...., - . , wwiiijuijmi inn, .w .in.g ,, , met mat the America., people are interests lo meet tins oo.uLtion, politic,, will have far less space and proiumonco, until another Slate or National occT Z!L ?fBllof.t,, fiB.ht ""' t'e principles for xu uuM nas labored from its inception ..u pu uuy, tutu won its greatest victories vnc v,iunt; tji Lilt Winnipeg Hnlena and THROUGH TICKETS-p ption to HnUonmkeTHli WEEKLY Till BUN E orZZ in . ., , ... ...r- uvery pohHUUo cllort will be put fortl t, to make THE WEEKLY Timm n NATTniMAT I?AnrTTV mr.,,,o . - lYwarAJiiK, interesting;. Itiutl'lllflirn ii..1....!. !.. .. . 1 1 . . T T":; """"'""e " indispensable to each member ol the family. Tacoma has been wont to call itself the "City of Destiny,'' but a more appropriate name would be the "City of Distraction," and if it keeps floundering in financia swamps much longer it may be known us the "City of Destitution" or the "City of Destruction." There appears no end in sight of its wretched story of mismanagement, negligence, malfeasance, embezzle ment and litigation, with regard to municipal finances. Welcome. Only a few weeks ago, the man agers of these recently bursted banking institutions were telling depositors that the election of Bryan meant that they would be paid off in fifty-cent silver dollars. Now these same depositors will be lucky to get ten-cent dollars and 'f that, too, in spite of the fact that. ; the "advance agent of prosperity" was elected. Roseburg Review. by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lininj! of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets intiamcd yon have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroy ed forever: nine cases out of ten arc caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflam ed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused hy catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh j Cure. Bend for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO,, Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 76c. Hull's Fandlv Pills are the best. Ripans Tabules: gentle cathartic. fa SI I P P1 Um 'tatements of lea WdlCJI jug druggists averywherc, show that the people hare an abiding eouftdeuce in Hood's Sarsaparllla. Great Qitppo V'mi by tie voluntary tato W U I Cis meats of thousands of men and womcu show that Hood's BursapariUa ac tually does possess Pft Wr 0Ter "MaM hf Purifying, en- Vti riciiing and Invigorating tin blood, upon which not only hoalu but Ilia Itself depeuds. The great W14tVS.33 curing others warrant. you In believing that a faithful use ol Hood's BarsapariJta will cure you if you suffer fxota ny trouble owned by Impure blood. U Mi gS' i Oarsaparilla Ti the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. . F.v lured o:ily by C. I. nood Si Co., Lowell, Mass, Hood' pnki''Z'zT' BALLROOM BICYCLING. A Musical Bide at Lord and Lady lira. ley's llouse. The all-conquering bicycle Las bad many triumphs, but its InW conquest in Its greatest. It has invaded the ballroom and when Lord and Lady Brassey gave their bull of the seasonat government house, .Mel bourne, some weeks ago, a musical ride on bicycles was an important item in the programme. It was an adaptation of the musical ride of the Household brigade. The ladies wore cycling costumes of piiie oiouses, with dark blue ties and dark blue skirta, The dress of the men was a return to knee breeches aud stockings, and in color harmonized with the dresses ol the ladies, Some days before the ball a rehpnriml was held in a large suburban drill room with peculiarly appropriate en vironments, lor a, ball had been held the night before. The floor was so highly polished that French chalk had to'be used to minimie that dread of all cyclists, side-sliding. Both the figures and the commands indicated a blend of uic cavairy rme and the quadrille. Al- tnougo one lady in particular same down several times, she did It so deftly that there was barely an interruption to the movement. Another lady in a Holland costume, turning sharply too near the wall, was unseated, but re mounted so quickly that only an ex pert cyclist could detect that the move ment, was not part of the rehearsal. We have not yet heard how the real ride went off, the mail not having brought the account to hand, tendon Hail, Jurtp ami Chlcngo Wafliihiftton i'hllaile.pliin New York It (in ton anil nit Wilnt Kant niiri Houth For information, time curds. tickets, call on or write W, C. PET3BS0I, Agent, LEBANON, - - OREGON. OH A.D. CHARLTON, MM Pass. Agt. Portland, Oregon. We furnish the "Express'.' and "New York Weekly Tribune" One Year for $1.50, Ad vnnuo. THE "EXPR'ESS," Lebanon, Or. Wrllo your nmw ,,d , udtlress on ,(,,! card, lt t1 Oeo. W. Jtart, ' K "(y' """ u """I'l" ly "f the New York Weekly Tribune wlll.be mailed to you. OlIMll 111 Address all orders to A Shower of Ants. A correspondent Jescrlbesaremarka ble phenomenon witnessed in Jerusa lem at the beginning of July. Aawarra of flying ants settled wpon the city and filled the air from sunrise until nine o'clock. Visitors to the Holy Sepulcher were obliged to use their handkerchiefs constantly in order to keep the insoct out of their eyes and nostrils, The na tives asserted that this extraordinary flight of ants was the precursor of an earthquake. Whether there was nnv real connection between the. two phe nomena or not, as a matter of fact two slight shock of earthquake were felt In Jerusalem on the waning of tlu same Wy-CMinM, CONCRETE and CEMENT WORK Of all kinds done at Lowest Prices. Cement Sidewalks and Curbing a specialty. All pre miaranweci, by Lebanon Electric Light and Water Co., J. S. HUGHES, Propr.and Mgr. LEBANON, OR. J. M. RALSTON ii n o k M ,ie , MiiHton llloi k, Atbuny, )j Honey lo loan on farm security, also small loans made on persona! security. City, county and school ivurrame bought. Collections made on favorable terms. Fire insurance written In three of the largest companies In tho world, at the j0Bl. est rstcs. p:. t fire insurance. Insure Your 1'roporty with GEORGE RICE -1N- Itoyul, Hartford, Ilumhur-f-tSrc-iueu, Flroranii'di Fund, Itellable old Hue companies he reurtweiiUi. All business placed wltU him will he at tended to promptly. Onice on Main ,St LEBANON, Or, TASTELESS Ripans Tabules cure headaebi). Ripans Tabules cure flatulence. Ripans Tabules cure blllo usnesB. Ripans Tabules cure b?,a brealli. RiaaBj41lmlaKi ff),rfn0f OAViraTa. DS8IQN PATCHTS. OOPVPInUTfl Af-n. MIJNN & CO 1101 DitMiiwiV. Nv Ymic. OI.luBt bureau for jweurlnir at.'Htji In Amt-rlea. f;vrr piuiiit taken out l,y Ufi In IjrotiKht before tlin iiiibllo by a uotioo given tree of oliarge lu uie I "TwiUlmuTfiMr.n of ttnv clfntlflo patit In Wio WiMi.ar lllu .trau-x .,. li,.ll::..,it '";'"'' vIUu.ut If. Wwilr, .. Slnui Tabttlaa our eon-Klpatkm, IS JUST AS COOD FOB ADU I TS j WARRANTED. PRICE 50cts. o ..... . OAMTIA, H.I.S., Nov. 16, 1693, Paris Mmllolno Co., Bt. Inula, Uu. " 0nllpnien:Wo stln Innt year, flOO bottles of GHOVli'H TASTlllatsS CHIlL '1'ONIO u" haTO boilBlilllircoiiiimiiliiiiiityUiWyoHr. In nil osroi:. puilwiico or 11 yorn'H, In tho ilruK buHlnoHH. Iinva inivnr nolo nn n rl Iclo tbat gnvo nn,R imlvoraol satlk tuOtom m your Tonlo. Voura inily, Aoati, CAliniCo. For side by N. VV. FMITH. Wan!ed-iln Idea Who Mn Of BOIIIO I t.. . .. 1 1 IU1-' to iinti 'A ithlnkY J . -1