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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1897)
Lebanon .Express. H. Y. KIRKPATR1CK, Editor - and - Proprietor THE LEGISLATURE. The Oregon legislature meets on Monday next. This county will be represented by three republi' cans and two populists. They have all repeatedly promised to work for many sadly needed reforms. These reforms must come, or our representatives will prove either unworthy or inefficient. The populists are in the minor-; ity. and too much most sot be demanded of them. The republi cans have a handsome" majority and can do what they wish. For this reason, the people will hold the republicans to a striot account ability for the eyil done and the good left undone. If the legislature gets itself tied up with the senato- " rial contest, and thus neglects its business, they will have to answer for it. The memory of the last legislative tie-up will not admit of a recurrence. A senator should be elected on the first ballot, and tbe rest of their time should be devoted to the people's affairs. The manufacturers of white newspaper are perfecting a trust to control the output. This is pros perity for the newspaper man with a vengeance. If he could only put the price up on his subscribers and make them believe that some foreigner was paying the extra ex pense it would be all right; but he can't. Oregon Scout. The banks were all going to fail if Bryan was elected. Bryan was not elected, but still the banks are failing faBt., Confidence was to have been restored and prosperity was to come all in a rush, if Mo- Kinley was elected. McKinley is elected, but no confidence, no pros perity has returned worth a cent. Party spirit, prejudice and en thusiasm often bind men very closely to their party candidates, and induce them to believe that prosperity will inevitably follow the election of their favorite. This idea induced many men in this county to vote for McKinley, when their better judgment told them differently. What has become of all these entic ng promises? None have been fulfilled. "TimeB" are even harder than, before election. Bunk failures are piling high on each other. Robberies ire increas ing at an alarming fate. There is no work for feven willing hands to do. Men honest, hard-working men have not even one week'6 food laid by for their wives and children. Somebody has been de ceived. McKinley bas'beerj elected but prosperity has ootTghown up! The final decision of the supreme court in regard to the lauds em braced in what is know as the quadrant land grant, which has been in litigation between the set tlers arid the 0. & C. Railroad company, is a matter or gratifica tion to the settlers; ai they now know, whether by homestead or- purchase, where they now stand and what the conditions ;are of their holdings. Those who occupy homesteads will have only to make their final proof as required by law, and the railroad company will have to refund the money for land it sold to which it had no title. Senator S. B. Hiuton, of Hillsboro, deserves much of the credit for bringing the matter to a successful termination. Over 600 settlers are affected by the decision and em braced in the grant. Dispatch. If a second vice president of a busted bank happens to be a free silverite, according to the Oregoni an, that is sufficient explanation for the failure. The fact that the president and first vice president are goldites exempts them from all responsibility. A goldbug can do no wrong. Dispatch. IN ROYALTY'S PRESENCE A Peouliar Custom That Has Long Been Observed. Linn county used to take many premiums at the Salem fair. She now has two "exhibits" on file; one for the presidency of the senate, and one for the speakership of the house. She may not get either prize, but Bhe is certainly entitled to first premium on cheek. v? The Oregonian is fighting Mitch ell. Between Harvey Scott and John H. Mitchell, as between "the devil and the deep sea," we will take ' Mitchell. John H. is young and may laforrn; Harvey can never be anything' but the cold, selfish, egotisou! Scott. .' Speaker Iloed has a sharp tongue in bis bead. He remarks: "They say McKinley's the advance agent of prosperity, but I'm afraid he's only brought his sample case with him." Frater. Tbe democrats can be silent but interested spectators at this legis lature. They have no responsi bilities to shoulder. The Southern Pacific will have a finger in the senatorial pie at Salem. Senator Mitchell is its attorney. There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other ilisruses pat to gether, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, .and by con stantly foiling to core with locaHreatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo,. Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on tbe market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. Ii acts directly on the blond and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to.cure. Bend for circulars and testi- timouials. Address, F. 1. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Fills are the best. "Don't expect prosperity to come back with a jump," says Major McKinley's personal organ over in Chicago. "We won't," says the Kansas City Times. "If she enters with a glide, or a three o'clock-in-the-roorning stagger; if she moseys in on one leg; nay, if she even sashays backward on her sircingle, or waltzes gently forward on her ar, we'll welcome her and brush the dust off the best seat in the house for her to sit in. It don't make one 'dif of bitterence' how she comee, but the whenness of her coming is a matter of great interest." It makes a man's head dizzy to figure out tbe numerous combina tions to be made by the members of the legislature in its distribution of honors. Just think of them the senatorship, the presidency, the speakership, the chairmanship, and the endorsements for fat offices to be distributed by McKinley. It all reminds one of an intricate spider' web with the taxpayer for the poor fly. Senator Mitchell will be at Salem, with a fine line of fat offices to offer for rates. He called on the president-elect on his way to Washington, and probably "fixed" ihingi. LEBANON PRODUCE MARKET. fChaiiged Every Week. Wheat-76c. Out 30 to 88c Hay B to 7 per ton. Flour-tl 001.10 per sack Chop fl 00 per cwt. Bran 80c per cwt. Middlings $1 00 per cwt Potatoes 30c. Apples Dried, 7c per lb Plums Dried, c. Onions lje. Beef Dressed, 4 to 5c. Veal-8J4c. Pork Dressed, 3J. Lard 9. Hams 12 per lb. Shoulders 8c. Bides 8c per lb. Geese 3 60 $5 per doz. Ducks $3 $4 per doz. Chickens l 002 50. Turkeys clO per lb. Ejrgs 20c nor doz. E.itter 12 fi) 15c pr lb. Hides Greon, 8c; dry, 7o. ,i Land Opened for Entry, Uniled States Und Office. I Oregon City, Or., Oec. 28, 18).f Notice is hereby given that the annroved fractional plat of survey of Township 18 ooutn, itangeg hast, has been received from the Surveyor General of Oregon, and ou February 8, 1897, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, said plat will lie filed in this office, and tbe land therein embraced will he subject to entry on and after said date. - KuBKt A. Mii.ieh, Register. Via. Qaimjkay, iiecelver. In Leaving; the Royal Imnn u L the Vorrsot Thln to Walk Backwards Origin of the Custom i Still In Doubt. It Mr. Lanoueliere continues with his avcrnffe assiduity to aeoirch for the ori ffin of customs thajt have come down to these days from prehistoric times, his siwceRsors in that interesting line of inquiry will have nothing to do but to pore over the pages of his unique publication, London Truth. Whence cume this custom of walking backward before royalty? is one of the ques tions to tie aolutiou of which Truth has recently addressed itself with char acteristic unergy. We do not know that the prosperity or happiness of mankind or the advancement of civil ir.ut.ion is in volved in this inquiry. We could im agine the nations of the earth going ou for apes to come, growing wiser and l oiter iu the future, tie they have done .in the past, and not curing a continental whore or when or how that, old habit got its start, Indeed, it requires no gteat stretch of the Imagination or of the probabilities to picture a time when all royalties ahull have walked or been walked off the stage, backward, or for ward, never to return. Humanity has but to go on as it has been going on for some centuries in order to arrive at the end of the monarchical institu tions. But, inasmuch as Truth consid ers tliiB query worthy of considera tion, we must conclude that it possesses some importance, some claim to human interest, even though that claim is not , within our visual range. . One of Truth's correspondents grave ly suggested not long ugo that the ous lom of walking backward before roy alty was due to an instinct in man im? planted by Providence. In other words, nature Is responsible for the habit. In I a certain senBe thiB is true. K at ure en dowed the earliest specimens of the human trace with power to walk, and it must have given them that veneration for superiors which prompted them to amble backward before kings and queens. We suppose nature is, to some extent, responsible for toadyism iu nil countries. It is nature that makes the English people "dearly love a lord," and 1 nlure causes a great many Americans to moke fools of themselves and bur lesque their own democratic govern ment whenever they get a chanee to pay homage to a.titlcd aristocrat, real or bogus, from the old world. But it is perverted nature, and the growing democratic spirit of the age is getting tae better of it. Another correspondent of Tru, writing from the far east, w here he is supposed o have seen much of savnge life, makes a philosophical suggestion that seems to us to throw a great flood of light on thin question. His notion is that the custom of always turning the face toward royalty originat'.-d m the stern necessities of rude and poor people who had little skill m tailor ing. He says the first kings were rulers ol savage tribes, whose clothing .was extremely limited, and rarely constated ot more than . a scanty garment mod' eled on the primitive tig leaf. Ho re spectfully submits that when a mihjoct thus appareled had to present himself before royalty, courtesy, not to any decency, would suggest, that he should present to the sovereign only that por tion of his nnatomy which was con cealed by clothing. He therefore kept his back averted in approaching, and retiring. 1 his explanation is highly creditable to tbe rough and simple pifopie from w nom modern notions hove descended. That necessity long since ceased to ex ist, but the custom of walking back ward survives because etiquette now demands what decency colled fur when the world was younger. Washington Post avaataaa E ye openers. TO THE LADIES: The following prices Regardless of Cost:' Sixty Pahs of French Kid Shoos, sizes 2 to 5, retail price ... ,,..$4.00 To close them out we soil them now for 2.00 Savin g to buy them now ....... ; $2.00 288 Pair Dongolas, sizos 2 1-2 to 6, retail price .. A Great Bargain at...: ;''; Fifty Cents Saved, , 29 pair Fine, Worth To close out : $2.25 1.T5 ; $ .50 , $1.50 1.00 Another Fifty Cents Saved $ jjQ A line of Misses' and Children's Shoes closin out at Low rnces. All of this at H. BAKER'S. HE QUESTIONED THE CAPTAIN. Rlpant Tabulss cure dyspepsia. Rlpam Tabulea assist digestion. KnftebulMrrae ctoeMsMef . aV Haw York Traveler Violate. Sail Walsr Xtlquatta Only One. "Once, on an ocoan steamer,' said a trareler to a New York Sun writer, "we had a heated shaft bearing or something of that sort, so that the en gines stopped for five or six hours. I had often read and heard about how the captain was the great mogul aboard ship; how about all things per taining to the affairs of the ship he held aloof and must not be approached by the passengers, and that it was a sort of violation of the unwritten rules of the sea for a passenger to ask the captain anything. And there may be some reason in all this. If one pas senger might ask him forty might, and surely the commander of the ship ought not. to be unnecessarily dis turbed by useless questions. We had been lying there three or four hours waiting. There was no danger what ever, but it was a delay and an incident of interest, and, of course, all the pas sengers talked about nothing else. The common information was that tha de lay was due to a heated bearing. "I was standing on the upper deck by the door to the main companion way leading to the deck below. The captain came along the upper deck from the after part of the ship and went below by that companionway. He must pass within a foot of me, and, under the circumstances, it did not seem like a violently unreasonable breach of salt water etiquette to ask him what was the matter, which I did. A passenger who stood on the other side of the doorway looked at me with the amused smile of an older traveler, The captain said nothing; he simrjlv passed on, to all outward appearances quite unconscious of my question or even my presence." Tm king of Biam who, according to late reports, has had a palace con structed which he can submerge iu the sea at will; and so live under water whenever he chooses, is not the only monarch who has Indulged la crMHMIItttilMii A 6slentlflo AmorlsM Afonoy toA Iiwm. TUBUS MAWS DISIQM ftSTCHTa. - . . wfirioht, axo. -PPi CO.. Ml llnoiDWii, Nsw Yobs. Oldest bureau for aeeiirlaB patent, in America. Every mitent taken out by us le broiiolit before Uie uuuuo by a nolle, given five otaUarge In tba ,f Jttnman larmtt dmnallrm of any ailenttflo imrrr m the tiiirid. Si, eiuhtlly Illustrated. K lutrlllapui lu.in siimiU, bo wituou it. Wwkiv, ea.uoa i ;r: 8I.UI Hi mouths, jlnilmi, huVn Jt (S J". .ilttj::a'. brw.itwtty, .New lurk rir.r School Report District No. 79. The report of Pleasant Valley school district, for mouth ending Deo. 25, is as follows: New pupils enrolled, 4: names of new pupils, George Mayfleld, David May field, William Geeoh and Isaiah Tucker; total number of pupils en rolled, 27; average daily attendance, 21; names of those neither absent nor tardy during mouth, Alma Horner. RtifiiB Hortier, George Homer, Nettie Hearing, Oun Hearing, Linnie May field and Wllda Mayfleld; visitors present, John Fronk, C. F. Bigbee, Chas. Bwink, Mine Ollie Hearing and Wins Dessie Hearing. Monna Fkonk, Teacher. LETTtK LIHT. The New York Weekly Tribune FOR Farmers and Villagers, FOR Fathers and Mothers, FOR Sons and Daughters, FOR All The Family. nun tlie close of tm Tw;,;,.! vuiuviiiiai TTnmvT , iicoiueiiuai eamnait'ii THE fRlBUJsE recognises the fact that the America , tie are now anxious to give their attention to home an fi lZ interests. To meet this condition. ,nn ,..;n ,1 . , 68 mu nave iar less rV j'luiuineuoe , until another State or National wca- Hlm rli.monHu n ,..,,,...., 1 ..t.i.. , i . . w"uat wu.tt- wh oh TU V tt t r eCg, T tlje triples for Mhich THL TKIBUE has labored from its inception to the present dav. and wan to m.QOi :,......:.,.. 1 w roiiowing is me list of letters re maining uncalled for la tire Lebanon postomce, for the mouth ending December 81, 18MI. Jacob, Charles. Deffenbachor, Martha. Miller, Mrs. May. Miller, Miss Maud. Morris, J. P. C. A. Bmith, K M. Save the Wrappers. They are worth a cent apiece if taken from Hue Cake soup. Baker carries the best corset Featb erbone, $1 .26; a good comet, 06 cte.;B cheaper corset, 60 ots. Featlieibone corsets are warranted, and If not satis factory the money will be returned. When Iu Waterloo call on Olty Drug Store for headache cure. M. A. Miller bus a .full and complete line of cough syrups. Scrofula Makes life misery to thousands of people. It manifests Itself la many different ways, like goitre, swellings, running sores, bod, salt rheum and pliuplos and other eruptions. Scarce ly a man is wholly free from It, in some form. It clhigs tenaciously until the last vestige of scrofulous poison is eradicated by Hood's Sarsanurilla, the One Tru Blood Purifier. Thousands of voluntary testimonials toll of sufforlmj from scrofula, often inherited and most tenacious, positive, ly, perfectly and permanently cured by r3ood's Sarsaparilla Prepared only by 0. 1. Hood si Co., Lowell, Han. De lure to net Boon's and only Hood's. Every possible effort will lie put forth, and monev freelv mI'At11 WEEKLY TJUBUNE IS a NATIONAL FAMILY NEWSPAPEll, , 2 5 uSlprta,'ling B1,d indiKl,m,eable t0 member le furnish the "Express" and "New York Weekly Tribune" One Year for $1.50, Ouwh In Advnnoe. THE "EXPRESS.' Address all orders to Lebanon, Or. Write your n .me and address on a postal card, send It to Geo W Kt rrllmne Ofllee, New York City, and a sample copy of the New York Weekly Tribune will mailed to you. 2S aoer popular siwino maohini WRITE FOR CIROUlSrs. The Few Home Sewing Machine Co 6J1ujraiioo,0Al. AmAi'A7i5lru' FOR SALE BY TASTELESS L HnnJi, Dill- "'u" oe" "'Munnw nOOU Fills tun, aM iitutm ajfc NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Ollicc nt Oromin city, 0r.,l Nov. 24, lWKi. Notice is lierehv irivim t.lmi. ti,n r,.u.,n.i . ,,..., acuiuriiua niiiii nonce ol Ins lutein. I tldll to niukl' flint nmr.F ,.,,....... claim, and tliut sulil i.rout' will l niudti be. fore the County ;lrk of Linn County at Albany, Or., on January 11, Miff, via: HUt AM 1. PICKENS; H. E. M77, (or the H. or 8. U. UjukI E u of W. W. y, ol ,..!!, . 13)., luT A He iiuiiiiis tlm followiiiu witiiesww to prove bin iwiitmuuiia rwidnnce mmi, un( uultivitlion of Miurl land, viz; ,1. I), i(nf j A.Btilt, J. Kimihurt and Juinra Lewis, 'uli ot l'uHtor, Oivkoii. ItoussT A. Miuwi, Register, IS JU8TAS COOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 60ot. P.rM,,8Oo.,8fSi;irI',,I,l'1,, (.(.tUWuiiuii; We mid lant roar AM bntti OKOVK'S TA8TISUM ill'lK TONICmi to buiiKht Ibreo snaa nlmiul, tlila ,our. i Mlimril " Z0?"'. 1,1 a"'K H,lnota niiTor uold nil iirtlnle tliiitiflive imoE uulvoiaalaUla. tUon m jour Touta. Vouralmlj" AliNy,CauaAOo. . For sale by N, W, HMJTH. Wanted-fln Idea S Who can thlnfc of (tonus Hlniilsi ' iwiiniiKiiiii u. o for their il mil orlMnilu. lid iljt,t io IwUreii'liirVulliu. vSiffi " Rlpaim Tabulea oure bad breath, I