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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-09-27

4.uu Equality, wnicn In the dawn OF ex :
istence is mere inertia, torpor, and
death. is 1t TO become at last the
natural form Of lifep Or rather, above
the economic and political equal
ity to which the socialist and non
socialist democracy aspires, taking 1t
too often for the term OF its efforts,
will there not arise q new kingdom OF
mind, church OF refuge a republic
OF souls, in which, far beyond the
region of mere right and sordid utility,
beauty, devotion, holiness. heroism.
enthusiasm, the extraordinary. the in
finite, shall have II worship and an
abiding cityP Utilitarian materialism,
barren well-being, the idolatry OF the
flesh and OF the Il. OF the temporal
and OF Mammon, are they to be the
goal OF our efforts, the final recon-
pense promised to the labors-Sf our
racep | do not believe it. The ideal
of humanity is something different and
higher. But the animal in us must be
satisfied first; we must first Danish
from among US all suffering which has
its origin in social arrangements, be-
fore we can return TO spiritual goods.
From Amiel's J Journal.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-09-27
WRITER'S pF lNFLUENcE
The Newspaper Man as the Unrlvaled
Molder Of Public Opinion.

The Newspaper Man as the Unrlvaled
Molder Of Public Opinion.
The famous writer's of our time are
not those who have made speeches in
Congress; or supplied squared and
compassed" articles for the great
monthlies. The potent writer OF to-
day, and he who governs and directs
the thinking and thus the law-making
OF the country as nodded by popular
opinion, is the newspaper man. No
magazine writer or editor has ever
welded the power of Greeley, of
Dana, William Cull;n Bryant, or Wat
terson, or Curtis, or Halstead. The
restraint put upon fecund newspaper
writer by rules of essayists and of the
magazines constrains invention, sup
presses vital force. A writer who
thinks rapidly and earnestly finds the
fires of genius burning low when he
begins the tedious task of filing ten
or twenty pages of a magazine.
Thirty years ago the admirSbfe liter
ature of the country yds only in the
magazines. For tlte tasteful and
beautiful and ornate. cultured taste
then sought books and periodicals,
like the Orion and he Southern Liter
ary Messenger To-day one may find
as admirable specimens OF faultless
rhetoric in daily papers, and especial.
ly in their special editions. as in
choicest books and most ornate
monthly publications.
In fact the purely literary and philo-
sophical monthlies are giving way be-
fore the pressure and power of the
great newspapers, whose best editions
are veritable magazines of choicest lit
erature. The restraint put upon arti-
cles of genius, full of force and inspira-
tion. and ready at moments notice to
discuss a.y conceivable subject wisely
and tastefully. by the straight-laeed
editors of magazines, warps intellect,
restraius its forces and stills fancy to
tremulous repose. No wonder that the
fierce, earnest logic and vigorous sem
tences OF Horace Greeley refused 10 air
themselves in the covered vehicle OF
thought and eloquence in which the
neat and tidy and scholarly "litera-
teurs" of Boston aired the delicate
children of their genius. The writer
of the soft, sweet history of the Dutch
Republic could never have figured in
that partisan prize-ring in which Dana
is a 'slugger" and Watterson most
graceful and dangerous acrobat But
the men governing the thinking OF
mankind to-day are the great Journal
lists, and not the magazinists OF the
age and century.
There is no American Macaulay or
Jetfries or Christopher North, and
there will never be. The newspaper
has supplanted the magazine Il. I,
Dupre, in Birmingham (Ala.) News
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-09-27
THE RATTLGsNAks's BITE.
No Sure Cure for the Venom Known TO
the Medical Fraternity.

No Sure Cure for the Venom Known to
the Medical Fraternity.
Speaking Of people bitten by rattle
snakes. Mr.. J. II. Estill, OF the Sayan-
nah News, says: "Out OF a thousand
people bitten by rattlesnakes | do not
think dozen recover. There is no
known cure. In spite Of the fact that
many people have said that they were
cured by whisky. You may depend on
1t when man says he was cured OF a
rattlesnake bite, though necessarily
not a liar. he is at least lyboring under
q misapprehension Of thetacts There
Is small snake similar TO 8 rattle
snake In appearance. whoSe poison Is
not so yensmous, and negroes bitten
by 1t place lihe upon the spot or less
drink enough whisky TO coun-
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
DIR. w. G. NEGUS.

Graduate OF the Royal College. of
London. England. also OF the Bellevue
Medical College.
THE DOCTOR HAS SPENT A LIFETIME
Il Of study and practice. and makes spec
ialty OF chronic diseases. removes cancers,
Dcrofulous enlarRements, tumors and wens
without pain or the knife. He also makes &
specially OF treatment with electricity. Has
prAoticed In the German. French and English
hospitals. Calls promptly attended day or
night. His motto 10. good Win 70 All
Office and residence. ferry street, between
Third and Fourth. Albany. Oregon.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-09-27
THE AGE OF MEDIocRITY.
Reflections and Reverles OF Wise Poet
Philosopher.

Reflections and Reveries OF q Wise Poet
Philosopher.
The age of great men is going; the
epoch OF the ant-hill, OF life in multi
plicity, Is beginning The century Of
individualism, II abstract equality tri-
umphs, runs great risk OF seeing no
more true individuals. By continual
leveling and division Of labor, society
will become every thing and man moth
ing. As the floor OF valleys is raised
by the denudation and washing down
OF the mountains, what is average will
rise at the expense OF what is great
The exceptional will disappear. A
plateau with fewer and fewer undula-
tions, without contrasts and without
oppositions--such will be the aspect
OF human society. Tho statistician
will register growing progress,
and the moralist gradual de-
cline; on the one hand, progress
OF things; on the other, decline OF
souls. The useful will take the place
OF the beautiful, industry OF art, polit-
lcal economy OF religion, and arithme-
tic OF poetry. The spleen will become
the malady OF aleveling age. Is this
indeed the fate reserved'for the dem.
OcratIc eraP May not the general
well.being be purchased too dearly at
such priceP The creative force
which In the beginning we see forever
tending TO produce and multiply dIi-
fereRces, will It afterward Srelrace III
steps end OBJ 1-ate them y
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-09-27
SPEED or oAME-BIRDs.
What an Old Sportsman Related to an I'm
Qulsitlvo Reporter.

what an Oid Sportsman Helatod to an In
quIsitivo Reporter.
IL have held my watch on several
kinds OF ducks and geese, but the main
part Of what / am going to tell you
comes from several old hunters who
have favored me with their experience,
and one OF these old-timers in letter
says: i can tell you just about to the
sixty-third part OF a dot how much
space any one Of them can get over In
an hour. There Is not railroad train
that can hold candle to the side OF
the slowest duck that flies.
THE canvas-back can distance the
whole duck family, If it lays itself out
to do it. When this duck is taking
things easy, enjoying little run around
the block, as it were, 1t goes through
the air at the rate OF abuut eighty
miles an hour. II it has business
somewhere and has to get there. 1t
puts two miles back OF itevery minute,
and does it easily. II you don't be-.
lieve this, just fire square at the leader
in a string of canvas-backs that are out
on business cruise some time. Duck
shot travels pretty fast, but II you hap
pen to hit one. you see il 1t is not the
fifth or sixth one back OF the drake or
leader A drake does not always lead,
but it generally does If there is one in
the flock; if there are more they will
seldom take the lead. II you wish to
bring down the leader you must aim
at space Of at least eight feet ahead
of him. and if he falls you will find
him long distance, probably two or
three squares of.
"The mallard is slow one; it is all
he can do to make mile a minute,
but he can do it If he wants to. His
regular rate is about forty-fve miles
an hour.
"The black duck Is Q slow coach.
He is about as good as the mallard.
and. the fntail widgeon and wood duck
can not do much better The red heal
can go easily, and make ninety miles
an hour as long as he likes, all day II
necessary. The blue-winged teal. and
its beautiful cousin, the green-winged
teal, can fly side by side for one hun
dred miles In an hour and take it easy.
THE gadwale, you see them here
very seldom, though we'll known
further West on the Allegheny river
and at Kishammock, though looking
like the mallard is smarter duck and
harder to shoot 1t can make ninety
miles in an hour and not try hard.
'May be you may think goose can't
fly. Why, it can double the speed OF
the fastest trains on any OF our rail-
roads OF course l mean wild goose.
Well, it has big corporation, but it
can get from feeding ground to feeding
ground so suddenly that it fools our
best wing shots.
'1f you see a flock OF honkers NOV
ing along so high up that they seem to
be scraping the sky with their backs,
you would not think that they are
making close on hundred miles an
hour, but they are. The wild goose is
not much on foot, but 1t means busi-
ness every time.
1.-The oad-bill goose comes next to
the canvas back duck in speed. Put
the two together and in an hour the
broad-bill would not be more than ten
miles behind. Wilmington OeLl
News
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MRS. oRUMMuP's LIST.

OF Her Victims Didn't Know II.
II seems that the business OF collect
ing subscriptions is no exception to the
rule that there are tricks In every
trade. A man or woman with gin
for the business may collect OF the
same men at least twice as much as
another would. A little incident will
illustrate.
They were getting up subscription
little while ago for the Home for De-
cayed Apple Women. There is no more
deserving institution. as every body
knows. than the Home for Decayed
Apple Women; and moreover, an in
fluential coterie OF Back Bay women,
headed by Mrs Charity Drummup.
had become interested in the home,
and were pushing the subscription.
When Mrs. Charity Drummup sails
into counting-room with subscrlp-
tion paper in her hand, the bankers
and men OF business know perfectly
well that 1t is OF no possible avail for
them to turn her cold shoulder. un-
less they are anxious to lose caste or
custom among the wealthy circle which
revolves around her.
Down town there are two solid men,
In business, one as a retailer in large
way. and the other as fna1cier, who
are very good friends. The tinancier
is mercurial, excitable. and passes for
a free-handed, generous sort OF per-
son. The merchant Is phlegmatic and
slow. and has the reputation OF being
eory shrewd and close in money mat
ters.
Well. when Mrs. Charity Drummup
came down In behalf OF the Home for
Decayed Apple Women, she made one
Of her calls upon the fnancier and
promptly showed him apaper, already
signed by at least a dozen bankers,
merchants and other wealthy men; and
upon this paper there was not single
subscription for a less amount than
$50.
"You see what they're all doing"
said Mrs. Charity Drummup, with an
engaging smile.
The financier gave a low whistle.
Nothing but fifty dollar subscrip-
tions, eh?" he said. swell, I'm afraid
this is a little too steep To- me. You
are quite right, Mrs. Drummup, in as
suming that should not care TO lead
the break-off into smaller figures; but
see here. is this the only paper you
have got, Mrs Drummup?"
The only one,r said the lady, with
3 little confusion. "Why, this is the
subscription paper. SIR"
but is 1t the only one you have
got?"
Pressed for an answer, Mrs. Drumm-
up produced from her reticule pa
per. upon which there were several
t25. $40 and even IS subscriptions.
"Ah! this looks more like 1t, said
the Rnancier. You may put me down
there. il you please. for $25." And he
went down there, high up on the list
That nightthe fnancier and the mer-
chant met at the club.
WELL" said the merchant, did
you have a call from Mrs. Drummup
to-day?"
Yes"
"Stuck you for $50, I supposed"
"Oh, no; ! only gave $25."
WHAT Why, there wasn't single
subscription on her list for less than
s5Or'
mot on the list she showed you, my
friend; but you should have called for
her other paper"
He explained the scheme to the
close-fsted merchant, who became
fairly black In the face with chagrin.
He felt that he had been overreached;
and the financier, who seemed to have
com in for share OF his wrath, is OF
the opinion that he did not sleep that
Il 1.A 4 sa11.1
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-09-27


A waiter at the Metropolitan Hotel
on Washington street says there is a
rat of unusual intelligence which haunts
the hotel kitchen, and, when occasion
offers, steals food from the cook. He
says this rat ought to be caught and
exhibited as marvel at the dime mu-
seums. Several stories OF precocity
are told about this rodent, OF which the
following Is one: "a few evenings
ago." said the waiter. 1,had occasion
to go down into the kitchen. II was
dusky when | arrived, and as soon as
my eyes would permit me to get used
to the light saw large rat walk de.
liberately up to a dish Of donghnuta
and begin to take them out one by one
and string them on to his tail, as YOU
would string beads. When he had put
on Ave and loaded stall all up. '
turned around, tookt
between hiatAeth nv
49, aknWm
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-09-27
,ract the poison. Wnlsky

goes directly into the blood
and counteracts the poison Of the
snake. But the regular Georgia rat
tier, from five to seven feet in length,
is deadly customer TO meet. II does
not give any warning but strikes the
moment it is disturbed. and it can
strike an object as far distant.as 1t Is
long. A friend OF mine was riding
along In the saddle one day and big
rattler lying In the road leaped at him
as he passed. 1t closed to his boot
leg. driving one OF its frangs clear
through the thick leather OF his boot
and through his trousers, just escaping
the flesh. 1t required considerable
kicking TO shake that snake off, and
when he was finally got rid OF he
started in pursuit My friend faced
bullets in the army with nonchalance,
but his hair stood on end when he saw
that snake coming, and he jammed
spurs TO his nag and didn't stop until
he had gone quarter-stretch. Ny
plantation is full o. 'attlesnakes. and
only last week my hands killed twenty.
ak in field Of twenty acres"
SILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY.
Asne OF the Wise Sayings Of the Lamentsd
Josh.
The way TO git ennything IL to ackt
just az tho yu didn't kare whether yu
got it or not
1t izaz diffikult to define sickness
az 1t IL to ackount for the meazles
1t is dredful eazy for man to dis
pize ritches who haz got about two
hundred and so thousand dollars we'll
invested.
II fortune haz emmy favorites, It IL
not the indifirent, but it IL thoze
whom we hav to pay to git rid ov their
teazing.
Luv IL like the meazles; II we hav
really got them, they are sure to sho.
When man IL puffed up with
harmless kind ov pride that don't do
any hurt, 1t IL krewel piece OF bizz-
ness to take the konsait out ov him; it
IL az krewel az to pull the feathers out
ov pekok's tale.
Every one who trades with the devil
expekts to git the best ov him, but ]
never hav seen 1t did yet
One reason why advise costs so little
IL bekause every one haz sum Of 1t TO
spare.
We are so avarishus that even when
we trade with ourselfs we 90 for git
ting the best end ov the bargain.
My philosophical kreed iz-'Giv a
bear the whole OF the road IL he will
take it,"
The harte IL MYSTERIOUS thing; we
kan almost always find out what IL in
a mans he'd, but the things that sleep
in the heart are often unknown even to
the possessor.
My sentimental kreed iz-"Straw-
berries and kream If they are handy;
II not, kream anyhow"
1t may be diffikult to decide which
men persew the most eagerly, interest
or fame.
Yu kan find men who will sumtimes
repent ov sin, but seldum ov blum
der.
Thare IL nothing so natral az TO lie,
and then dodge behind It.
Mankind kan be divided into two
heaps, andi not wrong them mutch-
heap ov geese and heap ov gan
ders.
Iobserve l more phools among the
old men than / do among the old vim
min.
! think ! am honest when say thare
IL no man who luvs TO be praised more
than do. or who hates to be nattered
worse.
/ would rather watch two raskals
than one phool
TOkno how 10 talk IL a grats art.
but to kno Uhen IL a crater.
The only sure way to keep g skeret
IL to forget It. N. Y. Weekly
- -
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SOCIETY NOTICES.


LEBANON LODGE, NO ~ A, r. A. NJ: Meets
a. their new hail In Masonic Block. on Saturday
evening, on or before the full moon
y WATSON, w. NJ
LEBANON LODGE, NO. a., l. o. o. ": Meets Bat
urdAy evening Of each week. st Odd Fellows Hall
Main street, visiting brethren cordially invited 70
attend j. J. UhAhLroN, ~ %
HONOR LODGE No. y, A. Q; Y; W. Lebanon,
Oregon: Meets even ART aud third Thurday even
ingr Ia the month " n ROSCOE MN
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
x.E. CHURCH.
Walton skipworih. pastof--services each sun.
day at II A. ". aud n. NJ sunday school NJ ~
A. u. each Sunday.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
CIV. Gib0ny, pastor-services each Sunday
MllA. NJ Sunday school 10 A. N. Services
each sunday night
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
J. r. kirkpatrick, pastor Services the 2nd
and ath Sundays at ii A. N. and z 7, NJ SUNDAY
school each sunday at 10 a. Y.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27

IT is related of Jew that was
travelling by railroad out West that
the train on which he was riding,
was stopped by gang OF robbers.
When they came to him, they de-
manded that ne fork over all his
money or they would blow his brains
out. The Jew delivered up three
hundred dollars and remarked,
dot is all | hat, by sheminy gra-
cious." Just then they detected
him hiding six dollars about his
person, and with an oath told him
to deliver that up too. "Well,
mine Colt" said the Jew, won't
you let man keep back two per
cent. where he advances money
midout security"
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Give The JOURNAL your orders for job
printing. We are doing frst-class work at
bottom figures. Then there is solid satisfac
ton in patronizing home institution, you
know.
Bar100 RECEIPTS IN BOOK
for 25cts at Journal Office.
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AGENTS FOR The JOURNAL.

The following Agents have clubs anC
will take subscriptions to the MARIETTa
JOURNAL at One Dollar per year in ad
vance:
Mableton-J. n. Barber and s. r. Coch
IAN.
Ponder Sprjogs-R H. Marchmar
md j. J.. Camp.
Sto'y-T J. Lunsford.
Smyaa--J Payne
Due WeSt-B. W. Griggs.
Lost Mountain-E. L. Mayes.
Gritter. C W. York
Acworth-H. NJ. Putnam, +. L. Litch.
field and B. Rainey.
RoSweH-J. B. Watson.
4AuSteU-W. P johnson.
Big Shanty-Ioe Lacy and c. n. Price.
Oakley MNsEW S. Dodgen.
Marietta DiSt.-Martin W. Frey.
UpShdw-J B. Moon.
DIE EdSt-L. NJ. Power.
Now is the time to subscribe. Agents
are in the reach of every man in the coun-
ty. and the price as low as the cheapest
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27

SAYS the Boston Herald: "It is
another sign of coming events when
a Georgia iron firm underbids all
its competitors for an iron contract
here in Boston. To be sure, the
Georgians nave the advantage OF
freight rates by water, but the re-
suit of the bidding is none the less
significant for that"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27

BILL SPARKS. OF Atlanta, pri-
vate in the late war, suggests,
through the Constitution, meeting
OF private soldiers. He hasn't seen
any since the war, and longs for a
renewal Of old comradeship. Bill is
a good fellow, bat is on a cold trail.
There are none on 'em" in Georgia.
augusta News.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27

Don't weary yourself about plans
and schemes for buying goods, but
study hard how not to buy them. If
you would fight trusts and combina-
tons successfully, you must have
your crib well stored with corn and
your meat house we'll supplied
Alliance Advocate.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27

The McDonough Weekly says
We know a young lady who made
last year ten bales of cotton, work
ed two acres in potatoes, MIXED
three COWS, did the churning, did
all the washing and ironing, work
ed the garden, made hundred and
fifteen gallons of syrup, twenty-five
bushels of peas and sold them last
week for s33. She sold her potatoes
Tor SO; her cotton brought her S451;
she made s62 taking in sewing,
making in the aggregate 1921. She
did most all the work herself, and
only paid out few dollars for ex.
ira work. She is as pretty as Cleve.
lands wife.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27
A Pertinent INQUIRY.

How is the hay supply? Have you
suffieiency to make the crop! If
not, what have you done to meet the
deficiency? Sown German millet,
peas or planted fodder corn? Or
have you stuck to the rut of giving
up the profits of the crop for north
ern hay? 1t is not yet too late to
have an abundant crop of each of
these great forage crops. A little
labor and a small portion of land
properly prepared will do the work.
IF has been neglected, give it i'm
mediate attention, and try all three
with at least a few acres. Better
have super-abundance than not
a suficiency. The surplus will come
III w0ff "'1vs- ~'-~--A---r--------1-
count A fat, we'll fed horse can
do more work, the milk cow will re-
ward the dairy with a richer and
more generous yield, the sheep will
show their appreciation in an in
crease of the flock and a Large crop
of wool, while profits of the farm
will augment to an extent that will
make life enjoyable and farming
pay.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27

ROBERT j. Possl Libel for Divorce.
vs. In Superior Court for
SARAH Poss. Cobb Co, Ga. To
March Term 1889.
1t appearing to the court that the de-
PENDANT does not reside in said county nor
in the state of Georgia, and did not 80 re-
side at the commencement of this suit,
but resided in the state of Texas 1t is
ordered by the court that service in said
case be perfected on defendant by publica-
ton of this order in the Marietta Journal,
a newspaper published in Cobb county.
Ca. once month for four months, be-
fore the next term of this court. and de-
PENDANT is required to appear at said term
and answer said case or said case, will be
considered in default. This March IL, 1899.
WILL j. VIM, Judge S. G. B. r. &.
A true transcript from the minutes Of
Cobb superior court. This April II, 1889
w r. MONTGOMERY, clerk.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27

There are times when feeling of lassi-
tude viii overcome the most robust when
the system Graves fer pure blood, to furnish
the elements of health and strength The
best remedy for purifying the blood is DR.
j. II. Mclean 5 SarsaparilIa
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27

Sick headache, biliousness, nausea, cos
tiveness, are promptly and agreeable ban.
ished ty DIR. J. H. McLeans Liver and
Kidney Pillets Qittle pills)
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27

Pimples, blotches, scaly skin, ugly spots
sores and ulcers. Assesses and tumors, un-
healthy discharges. such as catarrh. ecze.
ma, ringworm. and other form OF skin dis
eases, are symptoms of blood impurity
Take DR.. ]. Fl. McLean's Sarsaparilla
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1889-06-27

Faults of digestion cause disorders OF the
liver, and the whole system becomes de-
grained DR.. j. Fl. McLea., Sarsaparilla
perfecis the process OF digestion and assim
ilation, and thus malses pure blood.