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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26


door Of the Widow
widows son Dick lounge
He had been witness oil the
his own hopes. long seton jimmy and
for some rostson always frustrated,
caused him to say.
II low ez the preacher he'd no cause
ter look at ye that-a-way, Jimmy. same
ez if We wuz doin' somwot sinful. an
we 'nns all. too, a-tlancin' In this we're
house. Ef he cIyn't abide it, it wer
better fur him ter 20 further on an not
stand thar 50 solemn like"
But Jimmy only answered tartly:
An eli | wuz you. Dick Davis.
wouldn't say words about them ez he'd
more book larnin' an every other kind
nv larnin than what YOU 'uns and we
'uns hev.
Meantime the man thus lovallv be-
ing defended had tied and fed his
horse. and now slowly passed down
between the dozen clustering houses of
the settlement toward the mill and the
creek. The mill was now idle. The
creeks frosty crust was locked between
its boulders aud its overhangino
clusters of evergreen laurel and knot
ted roots and trunks of pine. The
waning afternoon was crystal still. Be-
yond the creek small log cabin
showed beyond a bare clump Of oaks.
Brother Cheyne walked with steady
step never pausing. Two years il was
since he had hast been to Big STAG
Valley. Two wears since he had
crossed the threshold of that cabin.
The bowers of darkness had been hat
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26

TUITION
And now the blockade mt the tlool
was dissolving mechanically. each mar
moving back aS the preacher cam,
forward. aud the cause of the aghas
visages was no longer a mystery. 70,
with white face Cyrillv followed. held
hrmly by the hand of Joci Chevue.
There was II death-lke silence in tn,
room.
My friends said the dee D voice o
Brother G ,eyne--it hal Il curiousl,
resonant sound as If some chord hac
ceased TO vibrltc in it-..my friends,
am here to do restitution. so far "A,
may lie in my power. You see bef or,
YOU man who. while he exhorted YOU
20 lives of virtue. was concealing from
The world his own mortal sin. Too
ong this woman has been summed of
lll, alone in her shame. Let the one,
hitherto unknown, who should have
shared the condemnation. bow his neck
% it now in the utmost"
Still no one spoke. Each and every
guest of the Widow Davis might have
been turned TO stone.
Il shall go from among vou. NV
ministry may have done vou more
harm than good. l have been Il mis-
cradle sinner and a miserable coward.
Before God. before the week is over
this woman shall be my wife. But
see you now, perhaps. for the last
time. No further words / could sav to
you would be of avail. To all only
say. God Almighty who pardons all
those who truly repent be with you
through the coming year and all the
years that follow.
He turned. and still leading Cvrillv
by the hand. passed out under the
frosty stars. to new life. TO a life of
still harder labor. of daily expiration,
by good works and the Christening OF
the heart, of the committed sin.
At the Widow Davis dancing had
not been resumed. The business of
the night could not be continued.
What had occurred was too unheard
of. too unprecedented. The old peo-
Pile wondered if they were dreaming.
The young people were white and
subdued
To jimmy the greatest change had
come. She had trembled at first, but
now she had grown very quiet. She
saw Rick Davis at her elbow. and her
eyes no longer turned impatie ntly
away from his rs they had done a
while before
'S'ri'ly an you was good friends
long ago. Jimmy. ventured Rick. who
was a kind hearted fellow, and who
wished TO say something eommiserat-
ing.
Yes. we'uns was" assented jimmy.
softly. Her pretty eyes were moist.
A higher power had touched her; her
unconscious sonl vibrated to some
mysterious. unformulated perceptions
of the great moral world beyond and
about her narrow. little. hitherto con-
tentedlv selfish life.
"Ycs. We'uns was"
Some note of softnesS new to her
voice fell on Rick's ear. and his heart
beat tumultuUuslv
jimmy" he said, his voice thick
with that pounding that appeared to
leap up into his throat. the new vear
IS powerful good time fur people ez
likes each other to think about marry.
in.
Not knowing what he was about he
had put out his hand.
And Jinnv-all her gI'aces gone. AND
still very w hiie and gentle and sub
Yes. Rick"
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-,

MOTHER, on, MOTHER; DON'T YoU KNOW
Mgf"
upon the ground if Grant had no,
caught her in his arms
Katy jumped from her horse and
rushed 10 the assistance of her mother.
who soon recovered from her shock.
anu then there was Il scene of unsDeak-
able joy.
They went into the house. while
poor Barty" was led to his old. fanil-
lar quarters, and they all sat down TO
dinner that was truly a feast of ioy
and of Thanksgiving, for one of the
lost was found
During the happy meal Katy told
the story of her escape from the saw
ages
Immediately after her capture she
was hurried south as rapidly as the
horse could go for five days and nights
until she arrived at the Cheyenn
camp on the Washita, bevond the
Canadian River. Here. TO her sur
prise. she was treated kindly. and
placed in charge of some old .quaws.
but nearly frightened TO death, because
she expected some horrible fate But
she was safe. for the Indians antici-
pated large sum from the Govern
ment for her surrender nnharmed.
She was watched very closely for
weeks, until size appeared to become
resigned To her position. Then they
relaxed their vigilance somewhat. and
that was what the sensible girl was
waiting for. as she had determined to
attempt an escape, feigning content-
ment, though her mental torture was
almost unbearahle.
Katy had been IN excellent scholar
in the public >c.,uois at her old home
in the East. and. when arrived in
Kansas, became an earnest student of
Nature. She KIN, something of as
trouomy. and wa p,rfrrIiv familiar
with the fora of l,r new home; she
discovered, independently of text
books, that the ''rosin-weed. - which
grows all over the great plains of the
West, always turns the edges of its
broad leaves to the north and south.
their surfaces coincidiny with the line
of the magnetic meridian, hence
termed the compass or pilot-plant. and
she used her knowledge to advantage,
or she would never have found her
way home across the trackless prairies,
three hundred and seventy miles
away!
One dark night, having taken her
hearings during the daytime for more
than week by the compass-plant, and
now having the North Star for her
guide. Katy carefully crept out while
all the savayes were sound asleep.
She stood for moment perfectly quiet.
Not n sound disturbed the stiffness.
The dogs never uttered a growl; she
had taken particular pains TO cultivate
their friendship. and they merely gath
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26
CDMlNG BACK TO ATONE;
Nex Year At Big stag valley.


New year had come To Big Stag
Valley. It had come with DAYS Of
crisp cold not uncommon in the vim
fefs of these Southern mountains. The
:lsis we're coated with snow and ice
aa hard for mules and oxen 10 travel.
he trails that led abruptly over the
anountain decliNitieS were impossible.
save for the accustomed feet of the
hardest mountaineers. joel Chevne.
the missionary Observation-Disclosures
Ihexne. they called him in the valleys
found difficulty in urging his raw
boned. underfed horse over the stony
slopes and through the rocky beds OF
s-zssse rasines
But there was dancing at the Widow
aayIs'. and the Young men and maid
~ could not be expected TO mind such
sleriat impediments rs the weather
sw in their path. They had come
u ten miles and more, fioeking from
sides to the settlement As for
ny, she hail come from the further
eys. driving her OK cart twenty
Is over the from roads 1t was
only that Jimmy wished to par
4pafe in the -Slancin at Widow
avis. where She felt. with some par
tonable vanity, that she was reason
2bly sure of being Sthe prettiest girl
E7<&tlu the one most IN uemanu by part
neIs- But she had not been to Big
Stag Valley since she was small enough
. pass under her fathers outstretched
S'1n. That worthy had been person
sof some enterprise for these regions.
He had moved to spot somewhere
more thicxly populated. leaving the
old log cabin where Jimmy first had
played in childish games with Cyrilly,
whose father. IN turn had owned the
cabin bard by on the other side of the
feek- He was dead now, as was
Innyss own father. But where jimmy
lad been left prosperous. with a min
ute frame house. having a coat of paint
on the outside and with mule and a
Of oxen and a cornfield or two
only the old grandmother to pro-
se for, Cyrillyss father had sunk in
bad ways before his death and sold
patch OF land. and departed at last,
wing Cyrilly with hard work to live
8nt-here jimmy drew up her small
ID. with its fiaxen plaits-there were
.5rse things than barely having
enough some days to bake '.pone.n
And to Cyrilly. truly the worst of these
things had come
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26
wHY rHg YOUNG MaN sMILgp.
Also Why the Youug Woman aud He
Escort Left the Train

Escort Left the Train
A gentleman riding on an elevated
train in company with handsome and
fashionable young lady became much
annoyed at the persistently offensive
manner with which an ornamental
young man opposite stared at his COM
panion. The fellow fixed her with his
eyes and his face was an expression of
vulgar enjoyment which amounted al
most to grinning amusement. In vain
did the gentleman scowl across the car
at the Insulting person. The latter did
not notice the formers rage, having
no Interest in any ore but the girl
Finally matters were brought to
crisis by the Young man, who. when
the Young woman CHANGED to turn her
gaze in his direction. smiled deliberate
" at her and made sign to her. This
was too much for the gentleman to
bear, so he rose in his wrath. and.
making one step across The ear, leaned
over and muttered iuto the Young
mans ear:
IF you don't stop | will throw Won
from the train at the next station"
The Young man looked back into the
infurated ewes of the gentleman with
the most astounding placidity. aud re-
marked quietly:
Suppose you ask the young lady
to look out for her laundry
The gentleman turned and looked at
the girl. On her lap was a bundle. the
paper of which had hurst. Down at
her feet reposed crumpled stocking
and from the oritice caused by the
broken paper projected the edge OF an
unnlistakable garment. Greatly taken
back, the gentleman returned to his
se;r and deftly picked the stocking
from the flour mt the same time grasp
ing the bundle on the girls lap. pre-
snmably with the intention of hiding
with as little awkwardness as possible
the tciltale garment that was obtrutl-
ing itself. He would better have left
it alone, however. for rs he clutched
at the paper it burst entirely. and
pretty girls laundry was outspread to
the view of a car full of amused spec
tators. The gentleman. now thorough
~ uncomfortable, hastily jammed the
clothing under his overcoat aud made
the girl leave the train with him at
the next station.-N T. Sun
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26
Great BLACK CocKatoo.

In the islands of the Malay Archi.
pelago is found the great black cocka-
too. whose special food is the kernel of
the kanari nat. and the shell of which
is said TO be harder than that of any
other nut, and to protect Il kernel of
most delicate flavor. The kanari tree
grows to a great height and bears Il
tieShy fruit which incloses an exireme-
y hard she'll of glass-like smoothneSs
of surface. Within this shell are from
one to three kernels covered with a
thin skin; when this is removed the
nut falls into number of irregular
lakes of snowy whiteness and delicious
taste.
The fieshy part of the kanari fruit is
eaten by many bir,ls. particularly by
the large wood-pigeons, but ONLY the
black cockatoo is able to get at the
nut. which it does by the great strength
of its immense. sharply pointed and
hooked beak. Taking a nut end-wise
in its bill and keeping it firm by a
pressure of the horny end of its tongue,
the cockatoo cuts notch across the
shell by saving motion of the sharp
edge of the lower part of the beak.
This done. the bird takes hold of the
nut with one foot while biting off
piece of thick leaf. This it wraps
around the nut 10 prevent the CLASSY
shell from slipping. while it uses the
upper part of its beak to hold the nut
and the under part to insert in the
notch already made and wrench off
a piece of the she'll by powerful nip.
Again taking the nut in its claw tie
bird inserts the very long and sharp
point of its bill into the hole just made
and picks out the kernel. which is
seized flake by fake by the horny end
of the long and flexible tongue. More
time is required to tell about this nut
cracking than the bird takes to per-
form the operation, for the cockatoo is
very rapid feeder and will consume
great many nuts in an hour.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26
A Forest Giant.

Among boom OF logs at Leamy g.
Kyle's mill. at False Creek, Vancouver.
is tree cut into four 24-foot logs taken
from one tree, which is one of the larg-
est specimens of tie Douglas fir that
has ever been cut in this province.
whose record for giants of the forest
is worldwide. These four logs were
respectively 81 inches, 76 inches, 20
inches and go inches and in none of
them was there a knot or other defect.
The total number of feet of lumber
that can be cut out of this tree is 26.-
Ola.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26

Passing slowly by the closed door of
the cabin near the icebound creek,
turned her face away from the
Zion of her childish playmate
friend. just as any one of her fur
ve4vet clad sisters would have done
ON tie sight of an erring fellow
ortal. The door was closed. As
as but natural. thoHght Jimmy For
hen every one from all the country
round WIS Fastening to the Widow
1avis'. Cyrilly, not being hidden, must
.ieae her countenance.
The sun had come out from the
souas when Jinnys ox-cart reached
e heart of the settlement and the first
rson whom she saw was Brother
eyne. Just dismounted from his
agre horse. jimmy biushed and
led. The preacher was a Young
1One who stood tall in his stock
and whose blow could be as
full as one from a sblacksmith's
III arm He had strong. irregular
>1ace In which the good and the evil
that swayed mankind held combat. had
one eyes to read the lines that character
draws on mouth and check and brow.
Bnt Jinnx's eyes were not attuned to
such readings She only knew that
Brother CheyBe had fallen in the habit
Of stopping more and more frequently
at the small frame house in the farther
valley and talking to her in desultory
undertones. while the old grandmother
4ozed over her corneob pipe and jimmy,
b2ing young and weil-favored, be-
'des being able to bring the husband
thom she might choose some ',stuff'
rot to be disdained. it was but in the
course of things that she should have
come to regard these visits in a Ger tain
ot wholly pastoral and other-wor Idly
Eht. The more that she was quite
aHscious that if there were any hus-
md she would be at all liable to
tose It would be one of Il pnysiog gnomy
3nderfully like that of young Brother
seyne.
s.Yon'uns hey come to the dancin',
safS. jimmy springing from the
seal Of the ox-calt with coquet-
feet of not seeing tie preachers
retched hand. A knot of young
in store clothes for the occasion
Sd about the steps of the school
use few feet away closely regard
& the girl. who was fresh and bloom
q. as though she had not been iot-
ng over the country since long before
ne rising of the late Winter SUM-
any was conscious of these stares
q enjoyed in her harmlessly So
isticated soul the footing of quasi
niliarity upon which these young
4 might perceive that she stood with
-eacher. She rather accentuated
~-lappearance of ease, indeed,
aothing of this effect might be
Brother Cheyne's face was set
nes strange and new to her to-day,
sras she looked more closely at !L::ln
er cqauettishness dropped from her
md she tossed her he@d and bit her
lip.
s Il lowed it ear no hurt tn ask
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26

The merry. merry bells rang out upon the
frosty morn,
They chimed the song that angels sung when
Christ the Lord was born:
70 peace on earth. good will to men," the
chorus rolled and died
In far reverberations on this blessed Christ
mastide.
OF bring the holly branches and the boughs
of mistletoe
And twine them both together here within
the fire-light glow,
Forgetting all of bitterness, of rambling and
PRIDE
Let each be reconciled to each this eiadsome
Christmastide.
Let all the sweet old songs be sung, the dear
old stories told,
The dross of Life. all overlaid with what is
Hte's pure gold,
Let pain and disappointment be but chaste-
nings sanctifed,
And heart shall answer unto heart this joyous
Chrfstmastide.
Long long our silvern-throated bells shall
echo out their chime
Far-reaching waves of promise unto every
race and cline.
And year shall follow after year until the One
On Calvary, shall come to claim his own ut
Christmastide.
-'aary Clark Huntington.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26

10 snfddIe Of hts
ssSsenead, had abrupgiy stopped play
ing with bow suspended ia the act.
The other musicians bad paused like
wise.
Rick. who was tall, pushed forward
to look over the heads OF the mon
blocking the door. The first thing he
saw were the powerful shoulders Of
Brother Joel C6eyne.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26

Bling ye honghs OF spicy pine,
Wreathe tho ivy's IS csinainV vine.
Spraee aud hemfoek 10 the sense
Like the MagfS fiankincense,
htsta& ye in the holly green.
WIZ the herri s &c riet sheen
1sanret 1T for hefS'S brow.
k'rsaR rant hox bring hitiser now:
Ali that winter rsVs d III snare
In oaf iovoaS feast may share.
Boneh aud berry. leaf q vine
We viii offer Al His shtine
Who for us in fsfle ST cid
Left HIS e5oris : ma. ifo d.
Left His King fsiral. oil His or wn
And ~ ~ wing Y. cam dawn.
Here \ Il tie c iii he
Grail ! IN humility
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26

Artesian wells have developed such
an abundant supply of water in the
desert of Sahara that French engineers
are confident of being able to extend
their railroad to distance of n weeks
journey from Algeria right through the
desert
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26

~ Aahnr 49, Isst x
Gently Aslu *sls ssf.sts
tain J. Y. Lord ar
San Francisco wer6
-Four Sacramento
Killed eight deer nea
compelled by n snow
In December to Ieava -
guns and blankets to make
]. s. Rose. a railroad flrer
on his engine near EIrnorn
stipposlng 1t was on the gro
on q trestle sixty feet high
fatally injured in his fall.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26
BOOKKEEPING. SHORTHAND, I TELEGRAPH
ENGLISH BRANCHES
POISON IN A PIPE.


Few smokers fully realize the dan
ger of smoking new OF improperly
cured obaeeo. The medical staff Of
the German army discovered this was
a fruitful source of throat disease.
The subsistence department of the
Z. S. Army have adopted Seal OF
North Carolina Plug Cut as the Stand
ard Smoking Tobacco for the army.
Beware of limitations. The genuine
Seal of North Carolina costs son no
more than poisonous limitations.
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Fighting wltt the Riata-ssme Remark
able t,eadiy Encounters.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-12-26

OF u bitter df
She could not have forml
simple heart Jimmy hnrrit
door Of the Widow
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A mulatlo girl has charge of the
Nashua. n. H., telegraph Office.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1890-02-17

OMAHA, Feb. lG. The bodies Of an
old couple, named Jones, living siS miles
west Of Omahs. we're discovered hidden
behind the oafu oo heir farm. Both
we're perforated with bullets. They had
evidently been dead some days. No clue
to the murderers.
Frank OAitt and Jarry Dee, two resi-
dents of South Omaha, we're arrested
and charged with the murder. 1t is
found that they sold the cnttle stolen
from the place to South Omaha com
mission house.
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TIE WORLDS FAsg.
The House Committee Cornp,etes ats
Report.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is The House
COMMITTEES, to which the various Worla's
Fair bills were referred, has completed
its report. It found 1t impracticabie o
report one bill to cover all the localities.
L, therefore, submits two substitute bills
90 the question Of selecting a site. It
offers a resolution to the effect that at
the close OF he debate on the bills, the
House shall begin voting on a site and
continue till one is selected.
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nR. A. ri. ALLEN,
RFsEDENT DENTIST.
DENTAL oP aRATfoNS skilliully performed
Omec: ABoye Post0fice, In DuholhS
formerly occnpled BY Dr. Holden
wrNSESUccA, KEvApA.
tau15H
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POsipOnement.

The delinqu ne day ~ owe assessment is
POSTPONED to F'h l7th. 1897, and TIE day OF saIe
70 MONDAY, NJ IeA IL, ls9D. Rv order - the Rorw,f
Of Directors. w. II. III. GRAVES.
Seo'ty pro tesu.
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STORMS 0N Tag ATLANTIC.
Tae gOaghest weafhvr Experienced in
20 Years.

Tae goaghest Weaiagr Experienced kn
20 Years.
BALTIMORE, FEB. l5.-"To twenty
years experience | can tTuthfuily say l
never saw such weather a. has just pre-
vailed on the Atlantic Ocean" So spake
Captain K. D. Wilson, Of the steamer
Dormia, which arrived yesterday from
Glasgow. Captain Wilson said he
thought many time he would n8ver
reach port. He was Al days on the
passage from Glasgow. From January
5th TO February 6 n there was sncces-
sion OF hurricanes with seas that swept
the vessel from port to starboard and
from stem to stern. A wave struck the
ship that swept clean over the bridge 40
feet from the water line. A hencOop on
the upper deck with a quantity Of
chickens in it was torn from it's fasten-
ings aud carried high in the air, and the
last seen Of it was on the crest of the
great wave, the chickens cawing loudly.
On the afternoon Of January 10Th great
etorm prevailed. James Laurie, the I5-
year old mess room boy, was going for
ward with the mess for the crew when
huge wave swept over the steamer board
rail. The boy made desperate attempt
to save himself, but another great wave
rolled from starboard to port, ADD forced
him through the narrow railing which bad
been doubled to provide for just sueL an
emergency. The Ettle ffllow was
native OF Glasgow where his parents live.
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KILLED IN TmB RING.
A Fatal Blow at Riiraia's sparrfng
Maach.


ST. LOUIS Feb. l6.-A special from
Dallas, Texas, says: Jake Kiiraiu and
hls sparring troupe exhibited at the
opera house Friday night. 1t was an
nounced to be only sparring and wrest-
ling match. Tom James, Of Dallas, err
couotersd Blnzie, the combination cham.
pion lighs weight, fer S25. the CT llti ns
being that James shonld atay four rounds.
Baezia had it his own way from the 6r.t.
In the third rouod B ,azia stuck James
~ the neck kooebios hin limp o. the
stage. James was unable to rise. He
was spouged and gestoratves vera ap-
piled, and the show continued. no one
supposing that James was hurt seriously.
When the entertainments was about con
cuded Muldoon announced that James
was unconscious AMI called for physi-
clan. James died next morning. Kill
rain cried like child. The entire COM
binstioa was arrested on a charge Of mur.
der. 1t is supposed that James neck
was broken. Oae doctor says death re-
su ted from paralysis Of the heart. The
hearing 10 court is now 10 progress.