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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

An Enthusiastic Correspondents De-
scription of the .ssouI-Poetess."
While the writing room in her own
Tome is in itself a perfect inspiration.
ieayy with an atmosphere distilled
from a husbands ; most cuItiva, ed
taste. wife's most poetic fancy. she
can sit in room anywhere with a
;aIkaiive lady. two or three chatting
rirls. ewing-mschine, trouble-
some baby. a singing bud. and no.
lnly compose her most intense and
ssul-stirring verse in the melee. but
keep in sympathy with the spirit of
The place. In this. rs all else with
her people stand first. things af err
ward. She would ut any time let her
grandest poem fall in fragments about
her feet rather than wound the feel
ngs of the smallest child about her.
So she answers their questions, gives
directions when helpful. ,ins in the
mirth if necessary TO the success of
the joke that she seems pleased
with kisses the baby, takes
hold of some millinery or dress
making experiment needing push
ing'' 10 Success ssfal completion. and
goes right on with the poem. from
wh ch it must have cost supreme eff
ort to turn aside. she neither wrig-
is nor writhes. uplifts her eyes nor
drops her head. But for an unusual
light in the wine-co.ored eyes and a
slightly increasing color. one might
imagine her engaged in writing an or
binary letter to friend.
The only gesture which can be sad
to bctoken a moving of the compo ing
waters IS dainty little thrust of the
,ft hand outward. just as you have
seen bird on a perch stretch its leg.
with little kick, on waking. She al
ways looks at hor finger nails, of
which she is very careful, on drawing
it back. This. with peep at little
mirror which she keeps on her writing
table for this purpose, invariably
lrings the word. turns the sentence OF
arranges the idea almost as quickly as
# can be written. She likes 10 dress
laintly always. bui especially when
writing. - Chicago Times.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
The aArrLesnAkE.s eye.
It's Malignant. Terrible and Dangerously
Fascinating Expression.


Fascinating Repression.
Never seeing a snake charm bird or
animal. / concluded it was a negro
superstition or fancy. devoid of fact.
So | continued to think until a few
days ago when farmer friend OF mine,
living four miles south of Abilene, told
me what he had lately witnessed. He
said he was riding along on prairie,
and saw prairie dog within few feet
of him, which refused to scanper TO
his hole, as prairie dogs usually do
when approached by mAn; on the con-
trary, he sat as IL transfixed to the
spot. though making constant nerv-
Gus, shuddering motion. as IL anxious
to get away. NY friend thought this
was strange. and while considering the
spectacle. he presently saw a large rat
tlesuake coiled up under some bushes,
his head uplifted. about six or seven
feet from the dog. which still needed
him not, but looked steadily upon the
snake He dismounted, took the dog
by the head and thrust him off, when
the snake. which had up to that
moment remained quiet. Immediately
swelled with rage. and began sound
Ing his rattles. The prairie dog for
some time seemed benumbed, hardly
capable of motion. but grew better, and
finally got into his hole. Ny friend
then killed the RATHER. Now. was this
q case of charmingP II not. what WAS
IL? NY friend who told me this is
named John Irving Mcclure, farmer,
well known to me. good and truthful
man. now give il mp that snakes do
indeed charm, or so paralyze birds and
little animals with terror. when they
catch their eye. that they become help
less and motionless, almost as good as
dead. What say the scientistss
And TO one who Is familiar with the
eyes Of rattlesnakes it does not seem
unreasonable that they should have
such power II you will examine the
eye Of one when he Is cold in death.
you will perceive that it has an ex-
treniely malignant and terrible express
sion. When he is alive and excited /
know of nothing in all nature of so
dreadful appearance as the eye of the
rattlesnake. 1t is enough to strike not
only birds and little animals but men
WIN niS Suttiiaie- haNe On acNtti oG-
easions examined them closely with
strong glasses. and feel with all force
what state, and l will tell you that
there are few men on the face
of the earth who can look upon an
angered rattlesnake through good
glass-bringing him apparently within
foot or two of the eye-and stand il
more than a moment - Forest and
! Strsafn.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
or GENERAL INTEREST.

discriminating prairie dogs at 50
much an acre is the occupation of sew
eral men at Wichita Falls. Tex.
The Hanover (Mich-) Times an
nounces that it viii take in payment for
subscription wheat, potatoes, old stove
pipes, turnips. beets. parsnips, bees
wax, onions, cider, butter, lard. cast
off clothing, old rubber shoes, oyster
cans, old iron and money.
j. T. Campbell, United States Con-
sui at Auckland. New Zealand. says in
his latest report to the State Depart
ment that twelve million dollars has
been expended in New Zealand in the
last eight years in the effort to over
come the rabbit plague.
1t was believed for long time
that shaft of the Balm Lode. near
Butte, NJ. T.. was haunted. but the
recent discovery of a half starved goat
at the bottom of the shaft Is supposed
20 account for the mysterious appa-
ritions that terrified the miners
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
FRANCES MINERALS.

Statistical Reports Showing Increase in
ore Production.
From the Bureau of the Minister of
Public Works has been recently issued
q statement of the iron and coal pro-
duelion of France up TO the end of
1891. which shows both in that and the
previous year fair amount of in
crease. The total WELD of iron ore for
1881 was ,. .6S9, ,0J9 tons. an increase
of 5 per cent. over that of 1880, which
We; less b. 15S. 00o tons The proiue-
ton of Algeria was 65T 900 tons for
1881. an increase of AZ. 900 tons Iron
ore is worked in France in 50 depart
mcnts, half of the whole amount
1.796. 600 tonsD being furnishes hT
the department of Muerthe de Moselie.
Next comes Artieche. with I97, Coo:
Haute Marne, lsa. 900; Saone ct Loire,
l62. 600; Pyrenees Orientales. 1S3. 900.
Besides the increase of production,
there has been similar increase of inn
portaIion from Algeria. Spain, Ger
many, Italy and Belgium. the total
amount being 1,2S7, 600 more than in
the previous year. The consumption
of iron ore during 1881 in the various
smelling works was 4.2Sl. 600 tons. of
which 6 per cent. came from Algeria
and "a per cent. from foreign sources
The production of coal, anthracite
and Ignite. for the year was IS, 766. 600
tons. an increase of 5S2. .o09 over that
of the previous year. The depart
ments of Nord and Pas-de-C Calais figure
for s. 992. 600, followed at q respectful
distance by the Loire coal basin with
3,516,o00. Gard with 1855, 900. Bur-
gundy and Nivernais with 1865, ,oo0.
Tarn and Ayeyron l.0S0. 600. Bourbon
nais e51. .ooa. All these minor coal
fields have fallen off in their prodHc-
tion. and the increase for the year is
solely due to Nord and Pas-de-Calais.
/ The impert of fuel into France in 1881
was 10. 22i. 900 tons. of which o.396, 600
came from Belgium, S.569. .0C0 from
England and 1925 from Germany.
( Coal importation has been steadily in
ereasing for several years i'm France.
that of 1872 being only 7,7o9. 600. The
exports of coal are very small and are
as steadily decreasing, having been
COS, 900 tons in 1880 and 601. 600 in
1881. The peat fuel industry is also on
the decrease, for in 1872 the working
of peat bogs amounted to 325. 600 tons,
and in 1881 to 233. 900. The peat is,
however. still largely used, there be-
ing upward of LOIS reorganized peat
beds in the State, on which are s.400
separate workings. employing about
$4,000 hands. London Times.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
LITERARY cRITIcs.

A Learned Discussion OF Books and
Authors by Two Scholarly Bostoness
Dansels-
They meet in a horse-car; each gives
little scream Of surprise and delight;
they shake hands furiously, kiss. giggle.
and finally settle down into the follow
ing learned discussion of books and
authors:
What you reading this winter. any
how. Mame?n
'-Oh, Browning. to be surei''
so am r." (This happened In Bos-
tom
'Isn,t he just perfectly splendidT''
.sOh, perfectlY.''
s-But it's hard to always understand
just what he means. "
Yes. 50 it is: but then I just rave
over him. anyhow.
.-Oh. do. too; he's just grandf'
You reading Howells this winter?' p
..Oh. yes; I've read the Minister'S
Charge Isn't it good2''
Splendid, Only was just utterly
Disguised with the way that 'Manda
and Statira carried on .
Wasn't you. thought 1t was just
perfectly awful
Yes. and to think of that splendid
Lem going to sacrifice himself to that
Statifa, as he was; declare | cried all
night over it,
so did Il And / could hug HoweIls
for getting Lem out of that scrape the
way he did. / just think HoweIls Is
perfectly and utterly lovely, anyhow -
Isn't he? l read every line he
writes the minute it is out. =
Are You reading Craddock any ?"
Yes. indeed! Some of her charac-
tsrs are just too lovely for any
tfingr'
Il E1oU it But her descriptive
parts are so awfuIIy long. Do you
know always skip them?''
SO do L She has full moon in
every chapter. hasn't she9''
'-Of course she has. And it's always
popping up over the Tennessee mount
aims on the slightest proyocation-
That's so. But wasn't Lethe SayJes
just perfectly splendid?''
s-Oh, / just screamed over her. But
then she couldn't step outside the door
without the full moon or .sibilant
wind coming mp Immediately.
4 know. Perfectly ridiculous. wasn's
it? They say James is going out .
.-0h. / think he is just too utterly
splendid for any use in some things "
Yes. but one has to read so much to
get so little in mis- books.
.'Oh. how funny you are. Name. .
Il don't care! It's so. Lol He takes
two solid chapters to tell how woman
gets up from her chair and walks across
= room. =
'-0h. you ridiculously funny girl.
you. / shall die laughing"
But, / tell you. Name. when want
to read something perfectly splendid I
fall back on Dickens David Copper
field.
| .s0h. Lol. hush right up. or I shall
| just boo-hoo right out in this car. /
| ShaVi l Just want TO be of where
can cry real hard every time think of
Dora
Il tell you. Name. these modern
writers don't get right squarely down
to the heart of things as Dickens and
/ Thaekeray did =
No. they just don'tr'
Now you iust-do you get out
heres''
Yes. goodbye. dear.
Goodbye
You'll come real soon to see mef"
..Yes. 1 .ciH .
s-Do. now
Yes, indeedt Goodbye"
Goodbye,
| Goodbye. =
.Good-bye.''-zenas Dane, in Paes.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
FARM DETAILS.
why Every Aericuiturist Should Keep =
Strict Business Account

why Every Aericuiturlst Should Keep
Strict Business Account
There are farmers who investigate
the details of their business 50 little
that they can not tell what branches of
it bring profit and what are carried
ON at loss They know, in general
way. whether they are as well of ut the
end of the year as they were at the be-
ginning. but they can not tell just
where the loss or gain was made. If
strict account Is kept in detail, It can
be easily told whether a particular
crop cost more than its value in mar
ket, and thus the farmer be enabled TO
decide intelligently what crops his
farm is best adapted for Lack of bust
ness methods cause many a farmer
to go on from year TO year making
little or no headway. and claiming
that farming does not pay. Nor is
this lack of systematic business meth
ods confined to those who devote their
farms to grain-raising? How many
stoek-raisers are there who can tell
what it costs them to raise a horse or
steer and prepare him for market?
How many dairymen are there who can
tell just what the returns from each
COW of the herd are, so they can tell
which cows should be disposed of and
which retained.
Now is good time for change in
this respect. More system and atten-
ton to the details are necessary in
these times of lower prices and closer
competition with the producers in other
countries. Those who understand their
business the most thoroughly and give
it the closest attention. will secure the
best results. National Lfcs-Stoc
Journal
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
THE ORIENTAL HARem.
A Brief Glimpse OF One Of the Peculiar
Features of Mohammedism.

A Brief Glimpse OF One Of the Peculiar
Features of Mohammedism.
One of the conditions upon which q
woman enters the harem is that she
give up all family ties and connec-
tions with the outside world While
polygamF is permitted in Turkey, not
more than five per cent. of his Maj
esty's Moslem subjects have barems.
General Wallsce depicted in humor-
Gus vein the curiosity of American
women to visit the harcms. They al
ways have a great desire to see the
poor creatures at home, and to devise
some means to raise them from their
degraded condition. After a visit many
of these ladies change their minds
about the fearful fate of the Turkish
women. The Turkish ladies assemble
in common reception room richly
furnished. They are attended bg q
throng of slaves, white and black, who
do their every bidding. The mistresses
of these harcms wear costumes which
the speaker, after apologizing for his
deficiency on the subject of feminine
apparel. undertook to describe Their
clothing is of the richest material of
the general intelligence of these women
their American sisters who have seen
them do not speak in Hattering terms
The conversation between the Turkish
women and their visitors nearly slways
runs about this way:
Where are you from2" inquire the
luxurious wives of the Mahommedans.
''From America"
where is Amcrica?"
t'It's over the ocesn.
'.Do you ever go out there without
wearing wells? Aren't you ashamed
before the Inen?n
we don't pay any attention to the
men.
II is the general opinion that ladies'
of the harem are prisoners This is
merely delusion. Every Turkish 9om-
an has her own quarters and her own
slaves TO wait upon her. She can take
4 ride whenever she wishes, and she
wears what she pleases without any it-
reference. The Turkish heaaIdress is.
with due Difference to the STYLES of
Paris and New York. the most becom-
ing of any in the world. It makes the
homeliest women handsome and the
handsome angelic. The Turkish wom-
en- are. next to our own American
women. the most beautiful have ever
seem Gimpses of them can be caught
ON Fridays. the Turkish Sunday. or
from their carriages. They do their
own shopping 1t is theirs TO buy a.
they please and their husbands to pay
for it 1t is incorrect to say that there
is no home-life among the Turks. Lay
ing aside the tie of husband and wife,
there remains that almost as dear
parent and child. The residents of the
harem. which means q sacred or secret
place. are passionately devoted TO their
children. upon whom they can shower
all the tenderness of woman nature.
From Lecture BIZ General LeW Hal
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
BAD PRAYERS.


xdo not like to hear him pray
On bended knee about an hour,
For grace TO spend Alright the day,
Who knows his neighhor has no four
I'd rather see him go to miJ
And buy the luckless brother bread
And see his children eat their fIl
And laugh beneath their humble shed.
do not like to hear him pray:
Let blessings on the widow be-
Who never seeks her home, to say:
IF want o'ertalSe you. come to me-"
Ihate the prayer so loud and long
That's offered for the orphans veal.
BY him who secs him crushed by wrong,
And only with his lips doth feel.
do not like to hear her pray
With jeweled ear and siIken dress
Whose washerwoman tolls all day
And then is asked to work for less.
SUCH pious shavers despise:
With folded hands and face demure,
They lift to Heaven their s'angel eyes,
And steal the earnings OF the poor.
do not like such souiless prayers;
II wrong. hope to be forgiven.
No angel wing them upward bears:
They're lost million miles from Heaven
-Raytforf Times.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22

h or soft fingers his tired eyes. and
they closed In long and und s.
turbed sleep. never to open again till
the last trump sounds through tho
startled skies
No more weary miles; no more days
of hunger and loneliness and cold.
Rest. perfect rest. for feet and hands
and heart and brain. Emma Lyndon.
in Ydnkee Blade
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
Revenge is Sweet.

She wasn't very young. but she had
money. He didn' want the earth.
Dearest, he began, but she stopped
him.
II anticipate what you are about to
say, Mr.. Sampson, She said. ssand
would spare your feelings. for it can
never, never be. esteem YOU highly,
and will be a sister TO ="
81 have four sisters already" he re-
piled bitterly, flour grown sisters. and
life is hideous burden. But, oh
Clara" he went on passionaiely. .sif
you can not be my wife will You not
give me mothers protecting love?
I'm an orphan. Life.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
PITH AND POINT,

"A new book is entitled The Key
lie Country" 1t Is undoubtedly full
conversations accidentally over
,ard.
-She-I think any man ought to be
ble to support . woman. He-Well.
don't know about that; some women
re insuppOrtable, you know Wash
IlgtoH Globe.
-"One Hundred Years" is the title
# new Thanksgiving poem. 1t is a
erribly long sentence, but after read
.ng the poem we are convinced that the
poet deserved it.-Burdette.
Some fireman, somewhere, evident
ly smitten with somebody, gave the fol-
lowing toast: Cupid and his torch, the
only iucendiary that can kindls flame
which the engines can not queneh."
-Gus-Have you put the important
question to old Moneybags' daughter,
Jackp Jack-No. / hear there is a
prior attachment there. Gus-You
don't say SOP Jack-Yes. the sheriff
has attached every thing the old man
owns.-N. Y. Stn.
Professor Ito students) Pray, go
on smoking, it doesn't annoy me in the
least; on the contrary, like TO see 9TH
crs enjoy it. 1t is the same with to-
bacco as with hay; l don't eat any my
self, but am delighted to watch others
enjoying it--M. 7. Telegram.
Servant Ito woman at the door)-
The mistress was taken very i'll last
night and can't see anyone. Them's s
my orders. Woman-Yes. Will you
please say that Miss S., the dressmaker,
is at the doorp Servant (after briei
absence)-You are to walk up stairs,
mum.-N Y. Herald.
If he had mind
The dude he would go accounting.
Then said his mamma kind,
'sYou must not CO." and he answered,
It'll go II have mind"
The mother smiled sereuely, II
Then said, In accents low,
ssIf that Is the case, my darling,
You certafnly will not GO
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
..AYhnt sort of a W

-" What sort of a watch is this?'
asked gentleman. picking up Curl
Gus old time-piece in the shop of deal
er of curiosities- THAT" replied the
dealer. lis a real curiosity. 1t is
watch that belonged to Alexander the
Great when he died on the barren
Island of St. Helena" The deuce il
is! Why, man alive. in the days Of
Alexander the Great there was no srch
things as watchesr'- "That's just what
makes it such rarity" s.And Alex
ander the Great didn't die at St
Helena. He didn't. ehP Well, that
makes it still greater curiosityI' And
taking up the rare relic, the dealer
locked it up in his burglar-proof safe
IN :. Ledger.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22

A flock of blackbirtls, said to have
been three miles in length and nearly
hundred yards wide, lately passed over
Edenton bay. North Carolina They
obscured the heavens like dark cloud,
and the noise of their flight was like the
rush of mighty wind.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22

Following are some of the high dwell
ing-houses in New York City: Osborne
flats, III feet in height; Dakota flats.
155 feet; Munro flats, 155 feet; Navarro
flats. 1424 feet The measurement is
from the curb level to roof.-N +.
Herald
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22
oLo-TIms vAeARlgs.
How Ague and Nightmare Were Cured in
the Good Old Days.

How Ague and Nightmare Were Cured In
the Good Old Days.
In the early days of credulity and
superstition the popular mind was pre-
pared to receive as a remedy any thing
of a mysterious character. A ring
made on the hinge of a coffin was cred
tied with the power of relieving cramps.
which also received solace when a
rusty old sword was hung up by the
patients bedside. Nails driven into
an oak tree were not cure. but a pre-
ventive against toothache. A halter
which had served TO hang criminal
withal. when bound round the temples,
was found an infallible remedy for
headache. A still more efieaeious
remedy was found, of course. in the
moss" growing on a human skull.
which moss was dried and pulverized
and then taken by way of cephalic
snuff A dead mans hand could dis
pei tsmors of the glands by stroking
the parts nine times; but the hand of
man who had been cut down from tho
gallows-tree was, we need not say.
remedy infinitely more ef1icacious
Some of these remedies still exist
among the superstitious poor of the
provinces, although the formula, of
course, is not now strictly adhered to.
the game being emphatically "hardly
worth the candle" To cure warts,
for instance, the best thing was to
steal piece of beef from the butcher,
with which the warts were to be
rubbed, after which it was to be in
terred in any filth. and as the process
of decomposition went on the warts
would wither and disappear.
The chips of gallows OH which sew
eral persons had been hanged, when
worn in bag round the neck. were
pronounced an infallible cure for the
ague. The nightmare. supposed. of
course, to be caused by supernatural
agency. was banished by means of a
stone with hole in it being suspended
at the head of the sufferers bed. This
last rcmedy went by the name of a
''hag-stone, because it prevented the
witches, who of course wrought the
mischief. from sitting on the patient s
stomach.
It's effect upon these mischievous old
crones was singularly deterrent The
poor old creatures who could not have
sat horse the moment he began to
walk were credited with riding these
animals over the moorland at heHdlong
speed in the dead of night. when bet
ter disposed and less frisky people were
wrapped in slumber. A "hag-stone"
tied to the key of the stable door Mt
once pat n stop to these heathenish
| vagaries.-TiTHe.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22

The newest kind of thief is one
in Bellevue, O.. who steals thermome-
tiers exclusively. Cleveland Lsades.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22

"A few years ago a school ma'am in
Cumberland County. Maine, was pre-
sented by her beau with deeds to some
California lands. Both considered
them worthless; but woman hates tc
part with any thing, so she put them
away. Recently she received an offer
of $250,o00 for the land. valuable
mineral deposits having been dis
covered. which she promptly accepted
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-22

Mr. Minks-I met an old school
mate to-day for the first time in forty
years and we had a grand talk about
old times. Mrs. Minks-It was a man,
1 suppose. ''Ol yes, and as long as
I've lived never saw such a perfect
example of contentment and earthly
happiness as he isl s.Did he marry
any one / knowp'' mo, he never mar
ried. 49, Omaha World.
-Bagley (who has just been intro
duced) )-Colonel Trump, of the Hog
town Hotoler? Happy to meet you. My
wife sent several poems to the HoacteT
in earlier years. They never appeared,
believe. Colonel Trump-Possibly
not. You see, am compelled to send
back or destroy interesting matter
every day; receive so much. Bagiey
-Indeedl Why don't you put some OF
it in the Hovler occasionally 3-Phfla-
delphia Call. -