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
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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
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Afonoy toA
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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
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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.
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They are worth a cent apiece if taken
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Baker carries the best corset Featb
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cheaper corset, 60 ots. Featlieibone
corsets are warranted, and If not satis
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M. A. Miller bus a .full and complete
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