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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-08-09

he at first Intended. Only the
more intimate associates OF the editor
remain long in his sanctum, and few OF
them have any desire to form closer
acquaintance with the pipe. while only
one or two persons have had the nerve
TO use it. A surgeon borrowed the pipe
one night and made the rounds Of the
hotels, smoking it, much to the hor-
ror Of the guests and bar-room habi-
tues. The mechanism Of the pipe is
simple, and precisely the same as that
OF the chemists, "wash-bottle." II is
exposed by removing the top Of the
skull The pipe-bowl is placed on one
side Of the place occupied in the natur-
al state by the middle lobe Of the brain.
A rubber tube goes from it into bot
tie containing water, which rests in
the deepest part OF the skull, by the
side of the orifce. through which the
spinal cord enters the cranial cavity.
Another rubber tube goes from the
bottle to the mouth of the smoker.
DThe editor says he prefers smoking
his skull to the best meerschaum. The
smoke is cool and considerable nico-
tine is removed from it by the water in
the bottle, through which the smoke
passes and which has to be changed
daily. The smoke also seems to be
condensed and to produce an effecs
different from tobacco used in other
pipes. The owner of the pipe is not
yet twenty-five years old. He formed
a taste for horrible things by reading
medicine and making post-mortem ex-
aminations for several years. Although
this pipe and the stories told of his
grave-robbing exploits shock some OF
the people Of the village in which he
lives, he is highly esteemed and trusted
by his townsmen, and is a consistent
church member. Syracuse On. ~
Journal.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-08-09
OREGON
ALBANY

II Was Better That They Should Find It
Out in Time.
they had been engaged a week.
Together they had been to see Little
Lord Fauntleroy." and were returning
to Brooklyn on a Bridge train. When
the train stopped Angelina got up and
walked TO the front OF the car, think
ing that Algernon was close behind.
Algernon walked to the rear door,
thinking Angelina was tripping along
at his elbow. Two blank faces, a
hasty search and a meeting on the
platform.
81 thought, Algernon, that Of course
you would follow meF'
"And ] thought, Angelins, that OF
course you would follow mer'
Both fell to meditating as they
walked down the passageway and took
a Kings County elevated train. When
Vanderbiltayenue was passed Angelina
at last broke the silence.
perhaps Algernon - we - we
might not--agree. Don't you think
you had better take 1t back" and she
pulled a dainty little ring from her
finger,
Algernon hesitated. The train be-
gan TO slacken speed for Franklin
avenue. Then he took the ring in an
absent-minded way as they both arose.
Its SO much BETTER Angelina
added, softly, that we should find out
in time and they disappeared
through the door N Y. Tribune.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-08-09

IcoTives 10 the limits OF Saturn aLmos-
phere, where, heated by friction as
they rush through the air, they will
disintregate and fall on to the planet as
dust. After time, of which no esti-
mate can be formed, the ring will have
vanished. leaving the ninth satellite
as Its descendant But it must be adj
mitted that all this is highly specula-
tive, and we can only hope that further
investigations will give us frmer
grounds for a forecast. Prof. George
Howard Darwin, in Harper's Magazine.
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INDUSTRIOUS MExICANs.
An Americans Visit to Cooperative WI
1age Near Orizaba.


iage Near Orizaba.
While stopping at Orizaba, Mexico. ]
heard that there was a village near the
city which was run on the cooperative
plan, and / visited 1t to ascertain the
effects of cooperation in practice in
stead OF theory. Tenango, the co-opera-
tive village, is located in little ~"
shaped niche in the angle where two
mountains join. Itfaces the south and
is as pretty spot as could have been
found in Mexico for a cooperative
colony. The population Of the village
consists OF small tribe Of Indians,
probably four or five hundred in num-
Der, who annually choose an Alcalde
and Ayuntamiento, or chief magistrate
and council to receive and disburse all
moneys received from the products OF
the village and look after the general
welfare of the place. These officials,
like the more common members of the
community, wear cotton suits, which
are made by their wives, and probably
cost about one dollar, leather sandals,
and cheap sombreros, and work the
same as those who hold no office.
A small church is located in the
center OF the village, and jolly,
round-faced padre or priest, who
is supported out Of the funds
OF the community, ministers to the
spiritual wants of the villagers. The
village was in fair sanitary condition.
considered from a Mexican point OF
view, and the people appeared con-
tented and happy. The principal prod
ucts OF the village are coffee, lemons,
oranges, bananas and vegetables, and
these. along with corn, furnish good
portion OF the PROVISIONS on which the
people subsist. The coffee raised is far
in excess of the amount necessary for
home consumption, and the surplus
when sold brings in much more than
enough money to clothe the people,
thus leaving snug amount in the
treasury. There appeared to be no
DIR les in the village, and during the
time when the help OF all was not re-
quired in the village those who had
idle time improved it by going up on
the mountains and burning charcoal
and hewing out boards or planks and
taking them to Orizaba to sell. This
industrious disposition on the part OF
the co-operators caused enough money
to flow into the treasury to enable the
Alcade to deal out liberal portion to
each one and still keep an emergency
fund in the treasury. The only thing
which saw to give me bad impress
sion OF the village was the condition in
which every one who had been to mar
ket, returned. An ordinary Mexican
can get pretty drunk and enjoy him
self, but when Tenango co-operator
comes home from market it can be
safely calculated that he is drunker
than anybody, can yell louder than
anybody, and can lick anybody between
the ages of eight and eighty, and will
get satisfaction by pounding his poor
burro if he can find no cause to pound
one of his neighbors. Cor. Chicago
1ournal
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MADE OF A SKULL.
A New York Country Editors Unique But
Ghastly Pipe.

New York Country Editors Unique But
Ghastly Pipe.
Byron wrote lines to a drinking-cup
formed Of IL skull, but it remained for
the original mind of newspaper man
to conceive the idea OF making dead
skull breathe by turning the dome OF
thought into II tobacco-pipe. II you
enter the private Office of the assistant
editor Of a newspaper in a village not
far from this city, you see young man
sitting at desk, writing and smoking.
This commonplace sight is made one
of horror by the fact that the pipe is
made OF human skull. 1t sits on the
table couple of feet from the editor,
and is connected with his mouth by
rubber tube which enters the head
through tie cavity which once con
tained an eye. From the cracks in the
skull smoke slowly issues and some
times for moment a vivid spark OF
fire CLEANS where the light Of love or
the fires Of hate used to burn. Listen.
and from the skull comes sounds that
resemble gurgling OF blood. The man
who called the apparatus an infer
nal thing spoke with more truth than
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0TNgOnlan Railway Co. {LlmitGd Line.
ON. SCOTT. Receiver.
10 Take Effect June S3. 1850.
IO'Cieek. D. M.

IDWWuIHIIUn UfktIA HL IWV ttIlIH pet InIIe on
sale at stations having agents.
Connection At Mt. Angel with gtAges for and
from Wllboit Mineral Springs
Tickets for any point on this line for sale Rt
the United Carriage aud Baggage Transfer
Companys office, Second and Pine streets and
T. 4 w. Y. Ry,
CHAs. n. SCOTT. Receiver o. Ry. Co. C.dl
Line. Portland. Oregon.
Remember the Oregon Pacific popular sum
mer excursions 10 Yaquina. Low rate tickets
are now on sale, good every "Wednesday and
Saturday from Albany. Corvallis and Philo-
math.
HENRY W, GODDARD. supt o. Ry. Co. g.d.l
Line, Dundee junction.
General Offices ". w. Corner First and Pine
Streets Portland Oregon.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-08-09
A SOLDIERS DARING.
Running Bridge in storm of Bullets 20
Save Train.

Save Train.
Stories OF the late war have been re-
cited without number, but the follow
ing true incident, although told, has
never been published:
1t was. as near as | can remember,
in the fall of 1868, while on night
picket duty, the subject of this story,
Thomas A. Smith, of company A.
Forty-second regiment. was suspicious
that the enemy was in closer proxim-
ity to his post than it was safe for all
hands to have them. and he had scarce
ly made up his mind to reconnoiter
when he heard a musket shot from
the post next to him. and in few
moments an excited German ran up
to him breathless, totally disregard
ing the command "Haltv excaiming:
81 shot him, shot him." After quiet
ing the dismayed man. my grandfather
told him to go back to his post imme-
diately; but, subjecting himself to Sc
we're censure, and possibly the guard
house, he left his own post, and pro-
ceeded to crawl through underbrush
in the direction OF bridge over which
ran railroad, suspecting that the
enemy might have made mischief
there.
1t was beautiful moonlight night.
and objects could be discerned at some
distance. He reached the left bank
OF the railroad, and, peering over into
the woods, could distinctly see men,
one after another, leaping over log,
and he knew that if discovered he
would stand little chance OF es-
cape He made his way on
the bridge, dragging himself along
by inches, and to his horror found
that the rails had been misplaced
about the center Of the bridge, and
not mile from him came the train,
laundering along into the Jaws OF
DEATH He had no time to lose, and,
at the risk of his life, ne arose to his
feet and ran the other half OF the
bridge towards the train. His pre-
sence OF mind and true heroism were
further shown by his lighting a match,
applying the flame to newspaper
which be happily had upon his person,
and thus signaling the train. Bang!
bang came from the retreat OF the
miscreants, who were expecting to
see Wholesale slaughter Of Union
soldiers. Fortunately none of their
shots took effect
The train, on which Rev. A. r. Mil
ler now OF the Methodist Church, was
a passenger, came to stop, explana-
tSon was made, the boys in blue sent
up many hearty cheer and gave
many warm hand-grasp to their pre-
server The bridge stretched deep
and rocky ravine, and the whole train,
with Its human freight, would have
gone down to certain death.
A squad Of men was hastily made up
and chase given to the iiends, but
they had made good their escape
ltwould seem to me that all the
qualities OF a hero are embodied in an
act as intrepid as this Edna M.
Smith, in Philadelphia Press.
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Willamette River Line Of Steamers

The "wM n. lIOAG,' the "N. 5. BENrIl. :.
The THREE SISTERS"
Are In service for both passenger aud freight
traffic between Corvallis and Porand and in.
trrmedinte points, leaving compnnys wharf
Corvallis, Aud Mcssrs. ilufnan x Co.'S wharf,
Nos 100 aud ~ Front strst, Portland, Mon.
days, Wednesdays and Fridays making three
round trips each week as fUllGws
NORTH ROUND
leave Corvallis Mcuday. Wednesday, Friday,
6 n. IN. leag Albany :SO H. m.
Arrive salem, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 3
y. IN: leave salem, Tuesday, Thursday, satur.
day. s a. 10,
Arrive Portland, Tuesday, Thursday, Satur.
day, $3.50 p. IN,
SOUTH ROUND.
Leave Portland, Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Gu. IN.
Arrive salem, Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Tl5 p. M; leave Saeg Tuesday Thursday, Sat
urday, a. M LeaYG albany 1880 p. N.
Arrive Corvallis Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
$3.50 p. m.
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R. |. Mcclure,
Successor to c. II. HARMoN)
BARBER & HAIRDRESSER
LEBANON. OREGON.
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~ a., la4 and kast Ktr - nj

GHAvING, HAIR CUTTING AND SHAM
- pooling In the latest and best style. Special
attention paid 10 dressing Ladies' hair Your
patronage respectfully solicited.
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SOCIETY NOTICES.
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

ME. CHURCH.
walton skipworth. pastor-seryices each sun
day at II A. NJ. aud r. NJ. sunday School at 10
A. NJ. each Sunday.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
q. W. ebony, pastor--services each Sunday
Mt l1A NJ Sunday school 10 A. NJ. Services
each sunday night
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
]. r. Kirkpatrick pastor Services the 2nd
and ath Sundays at III A. NJ. and IN. Sunday
school each sunday ut 10 A.,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-04
GOOD NEWS FRoMMERRY HILL

MERRY HILL ALLIANCE, No. 1851.
Mr.. EIToR:-I see but little Alliance
news from our county in The PROGRESS
sIvE FARMER, and it might be inferred
that we are not progressing in the
work of the fraternity, but | can as
sure you our County Alliance is Off
cered by such farmers that no good
work undertaken can ever fail to go
forward while under their care and
guidance, and from the reports of the
various Sub-Alliances our cause is
progressing with much zeal and har-
mony throughout the county.
The Alliance arrangements for pur-
chasing fertilizers have saved our
farmers quite sum, and other ar
rangements and cooperative plans for
selling and building are being per-
fected and systematized by competent
committees to be reported on at the
next meeting of the County Alliance.
Our Alliance, "Merry Hill," No.
1851, was chartered the 18th of De-
cember last, and we now number over
fifty, whose interest is shown by an
almost universal attendance at our
regular meetings, the first and third
Saturdays of every month. None of
us aspire towards leading in any move
ment, but feel safe in following the
plans and management of our efficient
State and county officials Our mem
bership consists almost entirely of
laboring men, who are poor, but
majority have contributed one dollar
each to the State Business Agency
Fund, and we expect soon to build an
Alliance Hall and probably establish
a cotton yard on our lot, and these re-
quirements only, precludes the using
of any of our treasury funds towards
the State Business Agency.
Much credit is due The PROGRESS
I'VE FARMER for the work it is doing
and has done for the farmers of our
State May Heavens blessings attend
you. Fraternally yours,
j. G. FREEMAN.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-04
FROM NOBLE OLD SAMPSON.

IaoiALLIANcE, No. 577, Hobton, N. c.
81 ysh so1 D. ~ May 20, 1889.
Mr.. EDIToR:-At regular meeting
May 4th, u An Act to incorporate the
State Alliance of North Carolina and
Sub Alliances, ratified by the Legisla-
ture March 7th, I889." was read in
open Alliance and unanimously
adopted. l also read circular from
the Executive Committee of The North
Carolina Farmers State Alliance and
received subscription of $6.25, and
aim to leave nothing undone until a
handsome amount is secured by 1.-THE
first of next November. 1t is dull
season now to raise cash, but am hope
full of securing 1t in the near future.
Every member of my Alliance seems
willing to be assessed 70 cents per
capita, provided it was made universal
by the State Alliance. Ihave hereto
fore collected and forwarded to the
proper authorities $85.75. We have
a wide-awake and working President,
II. @. Giddens, whose head and heart
dIC 1u1Iy 1luUuCO WILL b1 uO AA4nAOC-
ism, and he assists me at every meet
ing in endeavoring to impress upon
the minds of the members the neces-
sity and paramount importance of
raising the State Business Agency
Fund. This Alliance discusses queries
and has other highly important ALI
ance business that keeps it in session
three and four hours at each meeting,
of winch we have two per month,
which makes crippled Secretary's
work pleasant and agreeable. He was
also appointed Corresponding Secre
tary for The PROGRESSIVE FARMER
when this Alliance was organized.
We have at present 63 members.
We are surrounded by lodges but
Notwithstanding, initiated three brand
new members at the last regular
meeting. All true members will stick
to their beloved order "through thick
and thin" The members are busy on
the working like Trojans, and
should kind Providence smile upon
them their labor will be richly re-
warded
Excuse imperfections, for this scribe
has been sick week.
w. j. CRADDoCK, Sec'y.
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EASTERN ITEMS.
MAY 20, 1889.

MAY 20, 1889.
Mr.. EDITOR:-While we have been
pleased to read the many friendly let
tiers and animating reports of brethren
in other counties of our State, we
would have been more than gratifed
to have seen single letter from the
noble county of Colum bus-the land
that is lovely and fair, with soil that
is as fertile and varied as the best,
having encompassed within it's bounds
the largest fresh water lake in the
State, vast sheet of water clear,
sweet and glittering, sbounding in
fish and water birds of the finest
kind; a most pleasant resort for sum-
mer excursionists. But suffice fE to
say that / have been appointed Cor
responding Secretary of Cheerful Hope
Alliance, No. 1858, and while it is
cheering for my people to hear through
the columns of your valuable paper
the noble Alliance work and consecra-
ton to her equitable and inalienable
principles from brethren of other
counties, they no doubt would like.
to have it reciprocated, especially
when it can be done in the strongest
terms of friendship and union of SEN
tlments and action. Our officers are
Jealous and efficient in the Alliance
doctrines and principles; in fact we
have about 80 members, male and
female, who have been run in the
Alliance molds. When we count rank
and file, we are behind many of our
sister Alliances in the State. but
though we are few in number. we are
firm and unyielding in the principles
of our order, and our actions and
resolutions shall stand out in bold re-
lief against all organized capital com
bines and trusts, believing as we do
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THE IMPENDING EVIL.

CASWELL Co, N. O., May %, '89.
Mr.. EDIToR:-I have been much
SUR 4rised and disappointed to see,
among the able contributions to our
organ, SO little stress laid upon the
Importance of inauguratipg better
system of public schools in North
Carolina. [ conceive this to be Of
greater Importance than any question
that can be considered by the Alliance;
it is also a question which cannot be
much longer held in allegiance.
Politicians, in order to delude the
masses of the people and effect legis-
lation, ever so detrimental to the in
terests of the farmers, have only to
cry: Elf you don't stand by your
party (that is us, the politicians, and
such measures as we propose) social
equality will be forced upon you" This
is the whip with which they lash us
back into ranks and quell any spirit
Of insubordination manifested against
their despotic rule or hurtful meas
ures. No doubt our members at this
time are smarting under the defeat of
the Railroad Commission bill in the
last Senate, and many Alliances are
publishing resolutions condemnatory
thereof. There is also no doubt but
that these same politicians who effected
its defeat, are laughing in their
sleeves, well knowing that but one
kind of paper bullets can penetrate
their skins, and they have to be fired
from the 6allot-bor, of which they have
not the least fear, having only to raise
their old s0ar cry of "nigger equality !"
and the political surface will at once
became calmn and placid. The truth
is, General Grant, if living, with an
army, could not force social equality
upon us. How absurd, then, to sup
pose any political party, by civil pro-
cess, could be more successful. No;
it cannot and never will be forced
upon us, but there is great danger of
its accomplishment, and that, too, at
no distant day. The process by which
it is being brought about is so grad
ual, like the minute hand of chro-
nometer, its movement is scarcely
perceptible to the naked eye, still each
circuit around the dial denotes the
rapid progress of time. So each year
marks the downward mental progress
of the county children in our State,
all that is necessary to bring them
to the bottom of the social ladder is
for us to fold our hands in apathy and
Indifference in the next twenty-five
years as we have done in the twenty
five past and the bottom round will
have been reached by them. Pouerty
and ignorance laugh at all cast distlnc-
tions, break down all social barriers,
and force all their victims to one COM
mon plane, from which self-respect is
banished and all social shades and
colors are blended together into one
mass of degradation ond crime. This,
my brothers, is the thing for you to
fear. Fear yoasr oaOn apathy and an
difference. You realize you are grow
ing poorer and poorer, and that under
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that the incentive that actuated the
originators of the order was the out
growth of pure philanthropy, we want
our comrades over this broad land to
know that we are in sympathy with
them in every good work Believing
in things essential there should be
unity, let us stand shoulder to shoul-
der and never falter until reforms
may be accomplished and the reform
ers respected.
Much success to THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER and Farmers Alliance.
-. Fraternally yours,
~ NJ. w Bordeaux.
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NOTES FROM DOWN EAST.
GOOSE CREEK ISLAND, n. c.,
May 2l, 1888


May 2l, 1889.
Mr.. DEMONSTRATING been elected
Corresponding Secretary of Unity
Alliance, No. ,445, and the brethren
being anxious to see something III
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER from our
Alliance, l will endeavor to write a
little.
Our lodge was organized ON the
10th day of December, 1888, with
seventeen charter members. Wenow
have a membership of fifty seven,
thirty five of them males, some of
whom are as energetic and successful
farmers as there are in the county.
We are moving on with the work
about as fast as could be expected,
considering our pecuniary circum-
stances. We have cut and hauled the
timber to build large and commo-
dious house for school room and ALI
ance hall
We ale also making a strenuous
effort to raise our quota of the State
Business Agency Fund.
would say to the brethren, let us
stand by the Alliance, not falter in
our duty, carry out the principles of
the order, and let it never be again
truthfully said the farmers will not
stick together. If we fail this time,
what will be our condition Where
will our oppressors stop? No, breth-
q 1t L. e.
Let us stick by this organization and
carry its principles on to glorious
and grand success Learn to subdue
your passions, practice self-denial and
live within your income.
This is land of mosquitoes, cur
lew bugs and bad water, and if we can
stand the strain, we think you fellows
up there ought to. @. LEWIS,
Cor. Sec'y.