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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1896)
A KENTUCKY RABBIT HUNT. Ail Sorta of Costumea md Horse ' Are Used. , " ' "fe .. - Study Dltrefpird ot AU Conildm tlotu of Form Kitting Crop Are Merer Used, Hut Whip Art Carried. The men are droned as they ploaso, the Indies as they please. Eug-llsa blood gets expression, as usual, in In dependence absolute. There is a sturdy dwegard of nil considerations of form. Some men wenr lcg-frlnps, some hih boot; a few have brown shootlng-conlx. Most of tliera tide with the heel low and the toes tunned ticormllnR to tem pcrtuuent. The nonthern woman's long Tldincr-sklrt hns hamiltv bin laid aside. These young Dianas wear tlie usual habit; only the hat is a derby, a cap, sometimes a beaver with a white veil, or a tain-o'Blionter that hna slipped down behind ami left a frank We head of shining hair. They hold the reins in ' either hand, and not a crop is to be , seen. There are plenty of riding-whips, ' however, and sometimes one runs up . the back of Mime girl's right arm; for that 1b the old-fashioned position for the whip when riding In form, On a trip like this, however, everybody rides to please his fancy, and rides anywhere but off his horse. The men are sturdy country youths, who in a few years will make good types of the beef-eating young English squire sunburned fellows with big frames, open faros, fearlem eyes, and a manner that is easy, cordial, kindly, in dependent. The girls ere midway be tween the types of brunette and blond, . with a leaning towards the latter type. The extreme brunette 1b as rare as is the unlovely blond, whom Oliver Wendell Holmes differentiates from herdiizzllng sister with locka that have caught the lightof the sun. Kadiont with freshness these girls are, and with good health and strength; round of figure, clear of eye and skin, spirited, soft of voice and slow of speech. There u one man on a sorrel mule. Ee is the host back at the big farm house, and he has given up every horse he has to guests. One of the girls has a broad white girth running all the way around both horse and saddle. Her habit is the most stylish in the field; she has lived a year in Washington, perhaps, and has had a finishing touch at a fashionable school in New York. Near ber is a young fellow on a black thoroughbred a graduate, perhaps, of Yale or Princeton. They rarely put on sirs, couples like these, when they come back home, but drop quietly into their old places with friends and kin dred. From respect to local prejudice, which has a hearty contempt for any thing that is not carried for actual use, she has left her riding-orop at home. He has let his crinkled black hair grow rather long, and has covered it with a black slouch hat. Contact with the outer world has made a difference, however, and it is enough 10 create a strong bond of sympathy between these two, and to cause trouble between oountry-bred Phyllis, a plump, dark-eyed, bare-headed girl, who rides a pony that is trained to the hunt, as many of the horses are, and young Farmer Corydon, who is near her on an iron-gray. Indeed, mischief is brew ing among those four. At a brisk walk the. line moves across the field, the cap tuiu at euvu uhu yeiiuig iu uie iura only the men, for no woman is ever anywhere but where she ought to be in a southern hunting-field to keep it straight. "Billyl" shouts the captain with the mighty voice, "I fine you ten dollars." The slouch bat and the white girth are lagging behind. It is a lovers' quurrel, and the girl looks a little flushed, while Phyllis watches, smiling. "But you can compromise with me," adds the captain, and a jolly laugh runs down the line. Now comes a "rebel yell," Somewhere along the line a horse leaps forward. Other homes lump too; everybody yells; and every body's eye is on a little bunch of cotton that is being whisked with astonishing speed through the brown weeds. Tliere hi a massing of horses close behind it; the white girth flashes in the midst of the melee, and the slouch hat is just be hind. The bunch of cotton turns sud denly, and doubles back between the horses' feet. There Is a great crash, and much turning, twisting and sawing of bits, Then the crowd dashes the other way, with Corydon and Phyllis in the leaS. . The fun has just begun. John Fox, Jr., in Century. DrlnMof Kali Drops. The interesting doings and peculiari llca of the young king-bird, kept a cap tive, are thus described: The king bird lives on insects, which it generally captures on the wing, and the young bird that Mr. Bumpus experimented with caught falling drops of water by striking at them with its beak, but could not be induced to drink from a dish after the manner of a ohickcm This leads Mr. Bumpus to suggent that kiug-blrds may be in the habit of quenching their thirst by seizing falling drops of rain. Science. 1 Mexican Mortals. The Mexicans have a queer way of burying the dead. The corpse is tight ly wrapped In century-plant ninit.ting .and is placed In a cofOn hired for about a .shilling. One or two mil Ives, us the case may be, place the colli u on their binds and go at a trot to the grave, where the body is interred, and the coftn is then returned. The wealthy class use the tram cnirs as hearses, and the friends-follow beside the car on loot Cincinnati Enquirer. Batldliifr Made of Afthes A building hut recently been erected by Herr Wagner, cn architect in Lim burg, solely of mat-rials formed of sshes, without any admixture of sand, It is claimed that bard, natural stones of almost every variety hn" been suc cessfully imitated with this vfcry cheap Mtrial,--9Utatl tufiUtWi THE ACTOR'S DOUBLE. ; We were talking about spirit mani festations at the Thirty-nine club, an retailing the usual second or third linn; accounts of deceased ladles and gtu tlemen showing themselves to their sor rowing relatives. "It is strange the tricks which oui brains will sometimes play us," saM Dr. Macpherson. "I remember once seeing a ghost myself, and I can tell you that the sensation is a very curious one. It was a good many years ago, in my examination days, and I had been sitting up until the early hours 'cram ming.' Everybody in the house had long since gone to bed, where 1 ought to have been myself, so I was rather sur prised when I glanced up from my book to see somebody sitting at the table where I myself had been a few momenta before writing. I felt quit startled for an instant, until I recog nized the intruder. He was a little hazy, but I could see plainly enough who it was," "A dead relative?" asked Maj. Den nett, who was a firm 'believer in the good old-fashioned ghost. Macpherson answered in his pecul iarly quiet way; "No, It was myself. The experience of seeing one's own ghost is not altogether unusual, I be lieve," "Now, I do not think your experi ence was half so remarkable as one of mine," said Gilbert Dane, the well known actor and manager of the How ard thenter, who happened to be there that night. Dane is not a member of the Thirty-nine, but had come with Macpherson. Most of the bruin spe cialist's friends are in the profession, a fact which is perhajis due to the year which he himself spent on the stage as a young man. "My story begins prosaically," said the actor, vJir-n ve begged to hear it. "I lost the latohU-y with which 1 lei myself Into the tbeuler, and took some body else's to (the locksmith's to hove a duplicute muile. I agreed to coll for it the following morning as I was going up to town for rehearsal. I was living at Tutney them, and we were actively preparing a play which deserved a bet ter fate than It received, if thought and prearntion go for Anything, for I came near making myself ill over it. 1 was feeling out of sorts on the momin; that 1 called for the latchkey, and whix the locksmith swore positively that he had given me the thing already that less than ten minutes previously I had come in for the key, paid for it, and taken it away with me I will confe that I lost my temper, and stormed w the fellow; but I could not get him to budge a line from his story. II seemed to have an idea that I was play ing a practical joke, and the only re sult of my talking was that I newly lost my train to Waterloo. It was mov ing when I reached tha platform, and 1 had to run for the oi;ly oompartmcut of which the door was open, near tin end of the train. "The compartment contained two other passengers, but If I glanced at them- at all, I noticed nothing except that each was pretty well hidden be hind a daily paper. I had fortunately bought my own pnper before calling at the locksmith's, and I speedily followed their example. So far the story is painfully commonplace. Now comes the truly remarkable experience which has stumped the doings of that day in delibly on my memory." The actor paused to strike a match and relight a cheroot, which he had al lowed to go out. and we all watched litir In sileii'.-e, wondering what was coming Mucplii'inou only had the air of a mar who hud henrd the story before. " "I hud become rather interested li my puiier," Dane went on, when tin cigar was lighted again, "and did not notice my companions talking until one of them started telling an anecdote. "The story and voice startled me, but it is difficult lo describe my feelings when I put down my paper to glance nl the narrator." "it was yourself?" asked Maj. Den nett, excitedly, as the actor paused; and Dane nodded. "Yes, f;cntleinen, I saw seated at the other end of the compartment by thi window, op;oi.lte his companion, a fig ure that win; an exact ftu-siuiileof the reflection which I cue in my glass every day when I have dressed for the part of a respectable citizen. It was myself complete in every detail of face and at tire." "An optical delusion, I suppose?" I suggested; and the actor shook his head. . "No; tlhat was the first idea that oc curred to me that I had been working and worrying too much over the new play, and my brain bud played me n trick. The unconcerned wuy in which the third man glanced at me encour aged me in the belief, for the likeneBS. unless I was Imagining it, was enough to attract instant attention. I won dered whether there was actually ti man sitting and talking where I had seen and heard my luo-sinillej for the third man, an ordinary, everyday Indi vidual, had not spoken a word to him, and might from his expression have been listening to his anecdote or simply thinking. I was relieved when he laughed at the point when 'my double,' as I began to cull his companion, came to the joke of the. story, but when he opened his mouth it was only to in crease the mystery of tlie affair, for it showed me that 'my double' possessed my name, as well as my voioe, my dress, my face, my figure. "I began to wonder then, not whether the mau at the window was a reality, but whether I was reality myself, and It certainly would not have surprised vie if I had looked in a mirror and 'rand It reflect back a face that was un 'imilinr to me. It is strange how 'iiU'Uly a slnjrle phenomenon will some :mes change 0,1 0B(' opinions or i subject of the supernatural. . I felt I must speak to the men If only to prove rhetor I wit swk r ituminti iMMiiouifKivivt kM er nmmnti m i i seized the opportunity of Introducing myself ouured by hearing 'my double' culled by name. " 'Kvcusc me,' I said, addressing him, 'but t heard your friend just call you "Mr. Dane," I wonder whether we arc related at all, for that happens to be my name, and we seem to bear a strik ing similarity to one another.' "'My double' turned and surveyed me through a single eyeglass in exact ly the siinic manner as thut with which 1 should huve surveyed a stranger who addressed me in the train. " '1 really do not know whether wo are related or not' he said, in the voice 1 use when I wish to be slightly patron izing. 'I am (Silbert Dano, of the How ard theater,' anil he actually handed me one of my own cords. "There was something in the sub stantial nature of the familiar bit of pasteboard that brought back a little ot my common Bense, and relieved me from the state of stupefaction into which the phenomenon had driven me. " 'Come, this is a very clever trick,' 1 Raid, wilh a smile, which I am afraid was rather feeble. 'You have certainly succeeded in startling me. Now T should like your own card, so that 1 may kuow whom to congratulate on a very clever performance.' " "And what did the Mystery do?" I in quired, with interest, when the actor ponscd. "He did exactly what I should have done, if a'stranger addressed me in the some manner. Ho became angry, and asked me what I meant, and whom I called myself. ' 'Well, until to-day I havo been ill the habit of calling myself Gilbert Dane, of the Howard theater' I wa beginning, keeping aa cool as I could, when 'my double' Interrupted me in a tone which 1 still recognized perfectly as my own. "'Weill you had better not do so iiny more,' he said sharply, 'or you will find yourself in the hands of the police. I see that you have been imitating my dress, too, which I cannot help, but the use of my name is another thing.' "We had just reached Vauxhall, our first stopping place, as he spoke, am) a ticket collector who knows me by sight came to the door. My double caught bis eye first. " '1 wish you would tell this gentle man who I am,' he said, and the man answered promptly: " 'Certainly, Nir, you are Mr. Dane, the actor.' "He looked startled when I asked him the same question. " 'I should cull you a very good imi tation," he said, w hen he had recovered from his surprise. "Tills was becoming decidedly un comfortable, and I began to wonder how I could prove to anybody that I was not a good Imitation of myself. The ticket collector's ready acceptnncc of my double as the real 'Mr. Dane' showed how helpless I should be iu an appeal to anyone who did not know me v eil. But I felt that it would not do for two Gilbert Dunes to remain at large; the question which one v.-as to surrender the title must be settled at once. It st. '.id; me that the easiest way to do it would be to go tgcther to the the ater, and submit the question to the company assembled for the rehcaryul. I suggested this course tomyfac-simlle, and be surprised me by accepting it readily. " 'I warn you that I shall detain you when It is settle, and send for the po lice,' he said, in my hnughtiest voice. "It was what I was intending to do with him." The actor paused to light another cheroot. "And did you both go back?" some body asked. Dnne nodded. "Yes, together. The third man left us at Waterloo," he said. "You may not believe it, but I felt ruther uncary as 1 approached the stage door, and the feet that I had no Iutchkey to open It for myself seemed a calamity. My double calmly produced his, and marched m Into my own theater with the nir or a proprietor. Then he closed the door behind him, and, changing his voice and manner, suddenly turned quietly: 'And now, Mr. Dane, I will puzzle you no more, but npologize for giving you so much trouble, which I hope you will think repaid by the enjoyment of a unique sensation. The fact in thut I am very anxious to go on the stage un der your auspices, and I thought that this would be the best way to obtain an introduction to you, and at the mm" time show you a specimen of my act ing In the part of your understudy. You will admit at least that I under stand the art of making up. Now are you going to give me on engagement or send for the police?' " "And you gave him the engagement, I suppose?" I asked. "Yes; I have always regretted that he threw It up before the year was out, und returned to his former profession, that of a medical man." "It was he, of course, who called for the latchkey in the morning?" "Yes; he had been in the shop when I ordered it, and the fact finally detei -mined him to carry out the affair, wb'cl he had been pondering for some tim"." "But lie must have haunted you 1" n shadow beforehand," put In Maj. Dc: nett, "to learn all your gestures an ' that. I should hardly think the result was worth the trouble." Macpherson, who had been eittinr quietly In the background, surprised us by replying for his friend. "Excuse me, major," he said, in his usual quiet way, "but you make a mis take there. Any man, would have been glad to give f 100 down for the engage ment which Dane offered me straight way. It cost me less than 10 fo clothes, and about a month of stud;" and my time was not worth 90 a month then, or I should not have thought of giving up medicine and tak ing up the stage," TIt-Blts, St. Louts is ths largest tobacco iuattiMttia Mottf jjjjjjrtrle. M. A. Miller has a full and complete line of cough syrups. 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