The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-04-19


NO. 6.
LIGHT AND AIRY.
A Modern Crmsus.
He pressed his suit with urgent zeal;
She heard with downcast eyes,
As IL she feared they might reveal
The love she'd fain disguise.
At last she spoke, In accents low,
This wayward, winsome witch
"There's just one thing I'D like TO know
Pray tell me, are you richf''
His courage rose about mile,
And gladness filed his soul;
erich answered he; "well, should smilei
My father deals In coaln
-somervie Journal.
The Neatest Yer.
(Time-leap year. Scene--a tetc-a-tete.J
Lady Angela What, can you tell me, are
these 'trusts" one reads so much about
latelyi
Adolphus-A ''trustn Is a combination for
mutual advantage, so to speak.
Angela tconfusedlyl Adolphus-er-that
is-Mr.-
Adolphus-Yes?
Angela-Why may we not form "trustT
IThey combine. Tableau Lowell Citi-
zen.
Honor from No Condition Rises.
"The young man who remembers that
there is always room at the top and struggles
untiringly upward is bound to win fame and
fortune"
eyes, sir believe it."
''Many a time l have grown faint and
weary on the way, but still cried, Excel
sior, and persevered until today
"Well, todayF
"One Of the best brands Of cigars in Amer
lea is named after me."-Nebraska State
Journal.
Up from the South.
Soon the birds will sweetly warble
Meath the azure northern sky,
And the hammock swinging nabob
From their winter haunts viii fly.
Then though nature will be smiling
Southern hosts will writhe In pain;
and with groans and perspiration
They will sigh for frost again.
Hotel Mall
In Newspaper Office.
Telegraph Editor Ito managing editor)--
Big food. Two thousand people drowned.
Managing Editor-Good. Give it head
that would frIghten saint. Where's the
hoodi
7. En- China.
M. E. tcrestfallenl How many did you
say were drownedl
T. E.-Two thousand.
NJ. E.-Amounts to nothing. Throw It
away. .-Arkansaw Traveller.
The Cause OF the Failure.
81 understand that the firm you belonged
TO has failed in businessf'
"Yes. regret to say it has My partner
feels very bad about it, too"
"On what basis did you commence busi-
nessP
HE furnished the money and furnished
the brains"
''Its no wonder he feels bad. It wasn't his
fault that the failure occurred. Omaha
World.
Wen Need Them in Summer.
Let us gather up the billiards
AS they howl around our door,
Let us pack away the snow drifts
That now dot the landscape o er.
Let us bottle up the zero
That now cuts us like blade,
For Wen need it all next summer
When it's ninety in the shade.
-Dansyille Breeze
Polly Talks.
Barber Ito customer)-Do You want bot
tie of my Paradise Hair Elixira
Customer see you've got parrot
in the window can it talkl
Barber proudly)--0h, yes. sir; I wouldn't
take big money for that bird. TO parrotl-
Polly, brace up and say something.
Polly (bracing up with some dignity
Shoot the Elixir.-New York Sun.
The Eternal Fitness of Things.
Police Judge Young man, you are charged
with vagrancy.
"Yes, and it's an outrage. I'm merely out
Of employment, after having worked on some
of the best papers in the country -~,
"Oh, you're newspaper man, ehp
''No sir; I'm a journalist. Nebraska
State Journal.
Why We Refrain.
The brightest thoughts are those we never write,
The wittiest words are those we never say,
Some other fellow has the copyright
And SO for US to use them wouldn't pay.
-Somerville Journal
A Fatal Omission.
Old Man Ito daughter) Clara, / discov-
cred Nero lying dead in the yard this morn
ing.
DaughterI am very sorry, papa, but
cannot help it. You know very well that
young MI. Harvard was coming to see me