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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1897)
"MOTHER'S APRON STRINGS." When I was hut a verdant youth I thought Um truly great "Were those v.-ho had attained, In truth, To man's mature estate. And none my soul so Badly tried Or ioke suc h bitter thing As hp who sail", that t was tied To mother's apr?i3iringa, I loved my mother, yu It seemed That I nust brc:ik away And tlnrl t!ic btoauer -nirld I dreamed Jieyond hor presence lay, But I have sighed and I have cried O'er all the cruel stings I would have misaf-d had I been tied To mother' apron-strings. Oh, hippy, trustful' girls and boys! The mother's v;ay is host. She leads yr,u r.i:ti the fairest joys Through paths of peare and rest If you would have (he safest guide, And drhiU from swoonfc snrinn. Oh. keep your hearts f&rover tied To mother's apron-strlnjrs. Nixon Waterman. In L. A. W. Bulletin. SUGAK Oil SALT. bi bib jomnoif. It was an old-fashioned home, In tlio,. suburb of an old-fashioned town. Nancy Moore stood upon the porch and watched the carriage until it disap- eareu uruuuu tne oena near the bridge; then, turning, danced gleefully into the pleasant kitchen. "Miss Nancy Moore, 'Missus' for the day, If you please," she mid aloud with a sweeping' courtesy, though her own bright self was the only Ming visible. Then dropping into an easy chair, placed 'invitingly near an open window through which the sweet morning air came in delightful little puffs, she proceeded to plan her uay s worn. "Mamma and papa are off for the day, ana i may work my own sweet will wmie they are away. There's rhyme to begin with, you silly thing. They will be gone until near five, and Cousin Hal is coming home with them to tea. 1 am to prepare that tea, or rather dinner. Let me see, what shall we have? There's beautiful bread, but ter and honey for a foundation. I'll make some of those mock mince pies papa loves so dearly. Then a white cake and a cream layer, a mold of variegated apple jelly to please mam ma, some lemon jelly to please Hal" (witn a Hush at mention of that name) ; then there s potato salad, creamed potatoes, fried chicken there that will do, Nancy, you must remember the darling old papa is not rich." Springing up, the happy girl took ctown a huge gingham apron from a convenient nail, and after donning it, roiled ner sleeves above her dimpled .elbows. The fire was rebuilt In the cookstote and the dampers were regu lated. Then seizing a pan she ran lightly down the cellar stairs to the potato bin. "Two cupfuls and a half of grated potato," she said, as she selected tubers, "and if I have any over I shan't put it in as I did last time. Strange how easy it is to spoil a nice dish by not following the directions implicitly." Nancy sang merrily as she pared, washed and dried the potatoes. Then she proceeded to grate them coarsely, but unfortunately rubbed her thumb over the grater, thereby interrupting her song for a minute. Hut she was too happy to oare for a wounded thumb and was soon warbling away in rivalry with the birds who were singing their October melodies preparatory to a flit ting. "Two cupfuls and a half of grated potato, two cupfuls of boiling water poured over them, one cupful of vine gar, one of molasses, one and a half of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon and one of cloves. Butter size of an egg and a cupful of raisins," she re peated aloud, as she added each in gredient in turn. "There, that's all. Now for my crust and papa's mince pies are made." In a very short time she had four dainty-looking pies in the oven, and the savory odor they emitted when she presently opened the oven door was a wonderful imitation of the original to say the least. While her pies were baking, she pre pared her mold of variegated apple jelly hy peeling and cutting up a pound of sour apples and putting them to cook in a stewpan with three ounces of sugar, a cupful of water and the juice and grated rind of a lemon. When they were cooked to a pulp, she put them through astrainer and added an ounce of gelatine, which she had dis solved in a gill of water. Half of the apples she colored with a teaspoonfui of cochineal, and then she filled her mold with alternate layers of the colored and uncolorcd fruit. When it was cold, she turned it out upon a glass dish and it was to be served with a pint of whipped cream piled high on the center. This done, she made the cream for her layer cake. Hy that time the pies were done and the cake making followed. Everybody has a favorite recipe for white cake, but perhaps Nancy's simple formula for layer cake may fill the need of some one whose pupa like hers is "not rich:" "One cupi'nl of white rsugar," said she aloud someway she had talked to herself all da; "one egg, half a cupful of saleratus and one of lemon. Now just Hour enough for a running batter, and into the three tins you go." Everything turned out splendidly, and Nancy felt a thrill of pardonable pride as she surveyed her finished pies, cakes and apple jelly. "Now tor my lemon jelly," she said, if ter n short rest in the easy chair by the window, and a few breaths of the pure fresh nil- that had a hintof frost in it. "I shall lie all done by twelveand ran climb the hill for those autumn l.-tvves this iillernoon." Half an hour later a. row of fancy clii3 of gnlilen jelly flood upon one r the v. itle old-fashioned window sills. V !-r;?,k mid energetic war was then . '"ml v.'!!!i the various articleo used in ?tt''irr. Of course they wereispeedily vanquished; and when they Were ail r't in 1 licit' plaeMl 1 sbiniiif detail' neas, th tired yet happy girl hung up her guifrluuii apron and rolled down her sleeves with a figh of relief. The chicken was in the cool collar all ready for the frying pan, the potato salad must be prepared later on, for It could not stand too long, while It would only take a few minutes to cream the pota toes while the chicken fried. Nancy thought, of all this while Bet ting the table. The wide kitchen was also the dining-room, but It was built before people began cutting their houses up into so many rooms. The east end with Its matting covered floor, windows full of sweet smelling plants, and duuiUly set table with its snowy linen and shining glass, formed so pretty and inviting a picture, no one need look further. The girl gave a sigh of satisfaction as she surveyed her finished task, then covered all with a length of netiting. An hour's rest, a lunch for which slic brought, a good appetite, and then she set out on her search for October treas ures. She was back long before the hour of her parents' return, and when they ar rived she stood at the gate to receive them. Hal Dinsiey was with them, as she had expected, and he thought he had never seen so fair a picture as she presenred ill hr soft brown dress, a spray of belated goldemod at her throat and another in her hair. There was a happy look in her dark eyes, aud a deep flush stained her cheek as he held her hand ill greeting. Hut someway he did not like the "Cousin Hal," so freely bestowed. A nearer and dearer title would have been far more to fhis liking. They were a little late, so made haste to prepare for the meal which Nancy said was waitingforthein. How everybody did enjoy that tea. It was not considered ill-mannered in that section, if anything was particu larly good, to say so, and Nancy found herself loaded with compliments. Now, here's a pie a man can eat without a haunting fear of indigestion or nightmare," said Mr. Moore, as he deposited a generous triangle of the mock mince upon hb plate. "You have excelled yourself, dear, they are splen did." ihus it was with everything un til tne calces were passed. Nancy sat with downcast eyes, blush ing under Hal's admiring glances, when a sudden and complete silence on the part of all caused her to look up. Mr, Moore was evidently on the verge of a fit, or mailing a heroic attempt to sup press a laugh. She glanced at Hal. He, too, was smiling, despite all efforts to the contrary. "My dear," said her mother in a queer voice, "where did you get the sugar for your cake?" Nancy looked surprised. "Why, after 1 used what was in the bucket, I opened teat paper papa brought yesterday. Oh, by Oeorge, I thought so," and Mr. Moore burst into a ringing peal of laughter. Mrs. Moore could not speak, but mo tioned tor Nancy to taste her piece of cane. She obe-ed, but the expression of dig' srustal amazement on her face which followed was too much for Hal, and he loined the chorus. Nancy sat a mo- nent the picture, of mortification. Her Mautlful eahe, which rivaled the snow .n whiteness, and her cream laver of which she had been so proud, were both made of salt! But renlly, it was too comical, and a moment later she was laughing as heartily as any of them. H, the supper was a great success. notwithstanding her awful blunder: and ere she laid her head upon her pillow tliat nirrht., Cousin Hal, who really was no cousin after all, had asked her to sweeten his cakes for all his life. And she had prom .-tcl to do so, provided he furnished nothing but salt. Naney now mistress of a home of her own, and has become a notable housewife. Hut she never uses the con tents of a package without being sure whether it is sugar or salt. Good Housekeeping. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Not in the Mood. First Clulmnn "Are you going to Mrs. lie Slv:i:tV uusicole to-night?" Second riubiu.it -'No. I'm not in a mood few tulkui.' N. Y. Weekly. Big Success, "What do you t.l.l: of my tragedy?" asked the self-sit r fled playwright, "It's great. Neve: laughed harder at anything lnniy life." Detroit Free Press. ''Folks dat is alius lookln' for. trouble," said Uncle Ebens "hab jos'oitf t'ing tCr brag erbout. Day doan' hnrtir eber git disapp'lnted." Washington Star. "Say, Weary, wot are you walkln' 'round In yere bare foots fer?" "I'm try- in dis yer Kneipp cure. "Wot fer, Weary?" '"Cause some dlnblnsted snoozer stole me slioesl" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Her Level Head. "Madame, can 1 sell you this valuable book, "WhJt to Do Before the Physician Comes?' " "No, sir; you don't catch me doing the work and then letting the doctor draw the pay." Chicago Record. Nell "Miss Bjones uses French phrases in the most peculiar manner." 1'ell "Does she?" Nell "Yes, indeed! Why, at breukfast yesterday I asked her how she lilted her eggs and she said they were very chick." Philadelphia Kecord. She "I don't see how you ever had the nerve to have your tooth pulled be fore the whole class of dental students Did you scream?" Mayme "I dor.': know whether I did or not. As scoi: as the professor tackled the tooth llttvtto htrritl students set up their college vol' tind scared nie so tlmt I don't even knov. whether it hurt." Indianapolis Jour nal. . regon Centra Of & Eastern, II. II. CO. Yaquina Bay Route. ENGLISH DRINKING SONGS. Fletcher's Happy Efforts aad4he Varia tions of Xt. The bestof the English drinkingsongs were written by the dramatists of the seventeenth century, men who trolled out their vigorous sentiments, linked sweetly together in flowing verse, with out the smallest thought or fear of shocking anybody. Frankly indecor ous, they invite the whole wide world to drink with them, to empty the brim ming tankard passed from hand to hand, and to reel home through the lrost.y streets, where the watchman grins at their unsteady steps, and quiet sleepers, awakened from dull dreams, echo with drowsy sympathy the last swelling cadence of their uproarious song. Where there is no public senti ment to defy even Bacchanalian rioters and Bacchanalian verses cease to be defiant. What admirable good temper and sincerity 'in Fletcher's importun ity: i "Drink to-day and drown all sorrow, J You shall perhaps not do It to-morrow; Best, while you have It: use your breath; There is no drinking after death. "Then let. us swill, boys, for our health, Who drinks well loves the commonwealth, And he that will to bed go sober . Palls with the leaf, still in October." Upon thre song successive changes have been rung, until now its variations are bewildering, and to it we owe the ever-popular and utterly indefensible glee roared out for generations by many a lusty tavern chorus: "He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, and dies In October; But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest .fellow." Atlantic. WEATHER AND BRAINS. Psychological Effect of the Former on the Latter. " The psychological effect of th weather ha. long been a n-or? interest' 1 study, Most people feel the influence of dull days, east winds and extreme cold on their spirits and energies, men tal and physical. An arctic cold and tropical heat are. unfavorable to literary composition, for example, and we speak oi coiu "freezing our wits," an expres sion which is. not altogether figurative, but rests on a common experiemv. Goethe found that his capacity for m;r. tal work depended on the height of 11' barometer and other instances n meteorological influence on the mint: could be collected from the writings of celebrated men. ' Suicide occurs most frequently ii summer, perhaps owing to the heat ami exhaustion, and not, as might be sit" posed, in winter. The American Jon nal of Psychology has an article on t subject in which the head of a ln" lactory is reported to state tlmt a t!; agreeable day causes a reduction of In per cent, in the output of the worire. Fine days make jeople trer.ernus .n-" accessible and opinions given on sin-' days are held by some to be Iho tf, The influence of the weather upon It" logical faculty, the nerve and t':e oyrs has also been recognized in n T-fiint'- vi v aj. n.'rvuiif,cxeiiani':n:;v irase: blepersonsaro prone to feel themfli,ncf of bad weather and blame '.heircin-iirn- stances. Certain functional troubles of the liver, a chronic catarrh, n rheu matic joint, even a bad corn, m-nllenose people to suffer from weather charges. Providence Journal. rv.tnafftnu nt Yaiminn llftv with tllC Hall Francisco ami Ywiuina Buy 8tenmslil. Company. , Steamship "Farallon" Bulls from Yaquina Bnv every eight tiny. for Ban it rsnciMtu, oos nay, i-un unuiu Trinidad and Humboldt Bay. Passenger Accommoda tions Unsurpassed. Shortest Route Between the Willamette alley and Caliloi ma. Fare Irani Albanv and Points Went to Ban rrtmcisco: cabin IQ rtteerairc . 4 To Coos Bay and Port Orr'ortl : Cabin $ 6 00 To Humboldt Bay: Cabin I 8 00 Bound Trip Hood for CO Days-Special. RIVER DIVISION. Mean. er ALBANY, eleeantly furnished, inclixluiir iiuw imuio. will run between Corvullis and Portland on the following sciiflunlu: Down river: Tuesdays, Thunmaya and Sunduvs, Ltwve ('orvnllia (I a. m, und Albanv. 7a. in. Arrive Portland, IS d. Up river: Mondays, . WwlneHlnyn and Fridnvs. Ienve Portland. 6 u. tn. and Albany, 0:IA) p. m. Arrive Corvallis. U:U0 p. in. J. C . Mayo, Edwin Htohe, Sup't Kiver Division. Muiuitrer. H. B. H.u ky, H. L. Waldbn, Afc't, Cj Kevcre House a Rent, uepot Aioany, Tfaot. F. Oakes, Henry ('. Payne, Honey C Bouse, Receivers. s ORTHERN PACIFIC R, R, R U N Pullman Elegant Sleeping Cars Dining Cars Tourist Sleeping Cars MtniiftniMill. Fnrgii A Turfed Railroad Bad. Grass will grow on a railwav bed If the ties are covered with soil and scd sown. This can be verified by a visit ui UK l airinouiit park trolley line ik-u: the Beliuciitavenue entrance. Tnumc tion of ti.o track resembles two parullc' rails laid ti,rou''h a trreen meadow, inl ine pieint'i'ition is that the railwa-man-:.;;!.:r.tnt intended to make the en tire truck from end to end like it If the p'a can be kept green in drv r,3 well ::s wet, seasons the presence of New v.irk me iracn will Hardly martheliintWur," at Men tlio pole anil trolley w! r cre not as uasftutlyasthselectricr.v I'oi'js and wires which have bcu. ; lowed to dUfitruro Ihe park in ir.i . .- rection. There is a possibility.' courw, tliat the frross between I' trat.'ft tt.ny prove a himlra xe to ti. operation of the line even if It iaorm. n;cntal, but this is hardly probable i I the si-ass is kept nell mowed. A rail way line with no t:es in s'fiiit n;nl car peted with a luxuriant ffr!:svo.-d v. ill be a novelty at least. Ph'lalclphia iiDies, (Irniitl Fork. Cronkiton Winnipeg Iiel.na aud THROUGH TICKETS Just Like Monkeys. The Behozy, who occupy a densely wooded country among the bills of Bemaralia, jump from tree to tree just like monkeys, and are not easily fol lowed, inasmuch as their territory is exceedingly rocky. They are very timid, and it is said thev die of Irutht when ITrepzliiB Air. Most students of cherristjy hnvc seen wnier rrozen in the avcrafta ttnipera- iuht; ui a room, t,ut lew have ever seen the air1 solidilicd so 1hat It could be handled like ice or any other tangible article. But this has been done by Prof. .iojucb jjewar, ot jjjnuon. The opera tion is carried on throntih revcm! stages and with various agents. Oases are reduced to liquids under great me chanical pressure, then suddenly llb- muicu. i,enain gaeses under pressure give a temperature 145 degrees below zero, and the evaporation of theseis one part of the process. Pressure of almost 8,000 pounds to thesquane inch has been employed for the gases. The cxptsri nientn are enormously expensive with present appliances and are. of mo m,W as deiiionttRilionsof possibilities. With f tirtiier research may come more-simple and less costly method? and materials. The future of freezing has great prom ise and its value cannot be estimated. N. Y. Ledger. Thinly Lauds. " The enormous basin drained hv th Missouri river absorbs no less than 88 per cent, of nil the rain that fulls upon it wliereaa the basin of the Ohio rive absorbs only 70 per cent. The nmount of rainfall In the course of a year is proportionately greater in Ohio than in the Missouri basin, and so the former rr. cr, jinnoiign much the shorter of the Ivo. contributes more water to the Mis sissippi than does its gigantic rival (1 ow i ng from the weW American Jour nal of Boi.Re, i "ill Ki r Hl ' Ml 11 I fVL very best ! IX" Ipl Smoking If: Tobacco. 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