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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
He Surprised Eliza.

John Roberts of North East is q
farmer we'll enough 10 do. but he had
ALWAYS been eccentric about his clothes.
saws a Salamanca letter 10 the N. 7.
Sun. Until n week or so ago he had
not been known TO buy new suit of
clothes for year. The ones he wore
had been so often patched and re-
patched that no bit of the original
warp aud woof was visible. This per-
sonaI slovenliness on the part of her
husband was source of constant an
noyance to Mrs. Roberts. who is a
woman of exceptional neatness. She
long ago became SO ashamed of his ap-
pearance that she would no longer ac-
company him TO town TO do her trad
ing. This singular characteristic of
the farmer was not owing to penurious-
ness, for he is liberal man in his deal
ings.
A few days ago he went TO town to
do little trading. and. to the utter
astonishment of tie town.he purchased
a new suit of clothes for himself. His
new clothes were done up in a pack
age, and he placed the package on the
wagon seat beside him when lie started
home that night. Farmer Roberts had
got half wav home when a brilliant
idea struck him. He stopped his horse
on bridge where the road crosses the
branch.
..I'n do it. by gnmr he said. ..Tll
do it and surprise Elizaln
Thereupon the farmer rose up in the
wagon and began to take off the patched
and repatched clothes he had worn sc
long. As he removed "A garment he
tossed it into the creek until he had
TOSSED them all in and had nothing on
but his shirt.
Great apple sassr' he exclaimed
but won't Eliza be surprised"
Then Farmer Roberts reached for the
package that had his new clothes in
1t wasn't on the seat. Farmer Robert:
got down and reached under the seat
The package wasn't there. Then hi
felt all over the bottom of the wagon
The package wasn't anywhere on tn,
bottom. Farmer Roberts rose up il
the wagon and looked back along tn,
pitch-dark road.
Then he climbed back in his seat auC
/ away the horses went for home. Th,
night was chilly and there was thre,
miles to go. When Farmer Robert
reached home and climbed out of hi
/ wagon he paused.
'9The hull idee didn't work" sal,
he, but I'll bet 50 that l su'pris
Elizal'
That he did no one doubts. but whei
he got up in the morning and wen
out to the barn. clad in the hired man
overalls. and saw his package of ne,
! clothes hanging by its string on tn
brake-handle at the side of the WACO
he was little surprised himself.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
Agricultural Fair ApproprIations.

The appropriations for the agricul-
tural fairs amount to $213,O 900, as
against 1857 900 in the last appropria-
ton bill. From 1881 to 1884 the society
was given SIS, 900; in 1885 and 1886,
$50, 900; in 1887 and 1883, $35, 600; in
1889 and 1890, $4,000.
The various agricultural districts,
in their regular numerical order, are
allowed the following amounts: San
Francisco and Alameda, $1,000; San
Joaquin and Calaveras, 5000; Butte
and Colusa, 5000; Sonoma and Marin,
$4,000; Santa Clara and San Mateo,
$4,000; Los Angeles, $4,000; Monterey,
$500; Ell Dorado, $4,000; Del Norte,
$500; Trinity and Siskiyou, s45OO
Plumas and Sierra, $450O; Mendocino
and Lake, 5000; Sutter, Yuba and
Yolo, $4,000; Northern Santa Cruz,
$4,000; Tulare and Kern, $4,000; San
Luis Obispo, $500; Nevada, $4,000
Alpine, Mono and Inyo, $4,000; Santa
Barbara, 5000; Placer, S45O0; Fresno
5000; San Diego, $4,000; Contra Costa,
$1,000; Southern Santa Cruz, $4,000
Napa, $1,000; Sacramento and Amador
$4,000; Shasta, $4,000; San Bernardino
$500; Tuolumne, 5000; Tehama
$4,000; Ventura, $4,000; Orange, $500
San Benito, $4,000; Modoc and Lassen
$500; Mereed and Mariposa, $4,000
Solano, $500; Stanislaus, $500.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
The Deserted East.

The other evening | came upon a
party of gentleman just returned from
their summer outings and comparing
notes thereupon. says writer in the
N. Y. Star.
II travelled about through eastern
Massachusetts good deal last sum-
mer," said one of them ''and of all the
forsaken places | ever have visited
parts of the old Bay State seemed the
most desolate. In certain parts of old
Plymouth County there are acres of
abandoned property once used for
farming purposes which are now
grown over by forests of stunted pines,
with a thick carpet of brown pine
needles stretched under them. In the
undulations of this carpet one can dis
tinguish where once were hills of corn
Occasionally the ruins of an old house
are met with-part of the foundation
wall bit of old chimney standing
sentiuel-like, above them, and some
times a we'll with broken curb and
dark, scum-covered water. visible
deep down, with pale weeds springing
out of il.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
Women as Educators.

II Is pleasant TO see women coming
more and more to the front In educa-
tional affairs. as teachers. as school
committee, us supervisors of schools,
aud as originators of methods and adj
visers IN the execution of those meth
ods. II Is strange that this has not
come about earlier; for 1t would seem
as IL nature herself had intimated an
opinion In this regard, since 1t Is the
mother to whom the first formative
processes of the child's mind are in
trusted, and whoever gives the subject
any thought will confess that these
first processes are the most important
of all. that they are the beginning of
development. It is in them that the
memory sets about laying in its stores
that the tendency TO good or evil is re-
ceived that all the growth is given its
bent. that health of body or of mind Is
secured or hopelessly impaired. Bacon
remarked three centuries since that a
gardener takes no more pains with the
young than with the full-grown plant,
and Comenius said that the great
boughs which a tree is to have sprout
4 from its stem in the first wears OF it's
growth. 1t is evident to all that the
mother, the aunt. the sister, the people
who are always ut home and at hand.
| and who make il their business. have
the control of all the first impressions
/ of the child. That great thinker
4 Frobel declared that the unfolding aud
/ feeding OF the higher life of emotion
was the most diili cult part of the rear
4 ing of children, and that from that
/ springs all that is best in the race; and
that, we all know, Is almost exclusives
/ ly in the hands of women-of mothers
aud grandmothers. aunts and elder
sisters. If, then. women are the ones
to whom, both by nature and the GUS
toms of society, Is given the care of
children in the most crucial period of
their lives, it certainly follows that
they are capable of taking care of them
in periods less vitality important, TO say
nothing of the fitness they acquire
through their previous work in training
during the earliest and confessedly
most Important periods. The thought
that saws otherwise is hardly to be called
thought; it is habit of prejudice. and
ranks with the barbarian wisdom oi
the Turk. who leaves the boy in the
harem during his first seven years. rs
years of no account. 1t is but a few
years, comparatively speaking. since
women were allowed to take the work
OF tue niShef euucalioh III manu- out
so far, not only the apparent fact thai
nature designed them for the wori
speaks for them. but the vast measurs
of success that has followed them. and
the reforms that have already been IN
stituted through their means. in tn.
constant decrease of corporal punish
ment. in the gentleness of method in
spired by them among teachers, and ii
the ioftiness of aim among students
Hdfper'S Bazdr.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
NIischievous Types.

If the witty lady who wrote about
'the total depravity of lnanimate
things had been a proofreader she
would have said the most depraved of
all are the types. Only those behind
the scenes know what unceasing vigi-
lance is required to prevent them from
doing mischief.
Some years ago an editor at the
south, wishing to congratulate General
Pillow after his return from Mexico as
battle-scarred veteran. was made by
the types to characterize him as a
''battle-scared veteran
The indignant general. rushing into
the editorial sauctum, demanded an
explanation, which was given. and a
correction promised in the next days
paper.
Judge of the editors feelings on the
morrow, when. as if to heap horrors
upon horrors head. he found the gen.
eral styled in the revised paragraph
.'that bottle-scarred veteran!'-Y Young
Folks at Home.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06

In the Solomon Islands the market
quotation on good quality wife is
10000 cocoanuts. The money of the
Islanders, SAYS Al the Year Round.
consists of strings of shell beads about
the size of shirt button, we'll made.
and strung in fathom lengths of two
kinds, red and white" money.
This is the base of the currency, above
which comes dogs teeth. which are the
gold of their coinage. Only two teeth
from Il dogs jaw are legal tender. A
hole is drilled in each. and when Il
native has accumulated sufficient
number he strings them together and
wears them as collar. Such a collar
may be worth as much as G20. Por-
poises' ieeth are one-fifth the value of
dogs teeth, and rings of marble-like
stone are also current coin.
The following is the basis of Solo
mon Island money aud exchanges:
Ten cocoanuts. one string of white
money, or one stick of tobacco; ten
strings of white money, one string of
red money, or one dogs tooth; ten
strings red money. one lisa" or fifty
porpoise teeth; ten isas, one good quail
ity wife; one bahika Cor marble ring),
one human head; one bahika. one very
good pig; one bahika, one medium
Vounp man
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
an watches Cempasses.

A few days ago | was standing by an
American gentlemen when | expressed
wish to know which point was the
north. lie at once pulled out his
watch, looked at it. and pointed to the
north. | asked him whether he had
n compass attached to his watch. '.All
Watches he replied, ''are eompasses.
Then he explained to me how this was.
Point the hour hand to the sun and
the south is exactly halfway between
the hour and the figure MI. on the
watch. For instance suppose that it is
o'clock. Point the hand Indicating
To the sun and III. on the watch is
exactly south. Suppose it is 8 o'clock.
point the hand indicating to the sun
aud the figure Y. on the watch is due
south. My American friend was qaite
surprised that l did not know this.
Thinking that very possibly was ig-
norant of thing that every one else
knew. and happening to meet Mr..
Stanley asked that eminent traveller
whether he was aware of this simple
mode of discovering the points of the
compass. He said that he had never
heard of il. l presume. therefore. that
the world is in the same state of ig-
norance. Amali is proud of having
been the home of the inventor of the
compass. | do not know what town
boasts of my American friend as a citi-
Zen.--LOndOn Truth
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
Had Been wasting .rime.

Il hope. Mary" he said. gently,
'the suddenness and intensity of my
love will not come upon you like a
shock. Possibly" he continued. and
still more gently, and taking her hand
with respectful tenderness, you are
not prepared for this avowal. The
language of passion may be new to
you. Am / the first man, my dear,
timid little girl, to address you in this
way?"
mo, Horace. - she replied. Il have
never spoken of my past life because
there are portions of il full of pain and
sadness. But was beloved once by
as good man as the sun ever shone
upon. He's dead now. but during the
short year of our married life"
You are widow, then. MaryP"
Yes. Horace. I--why, Horace, dearr'
For the young man had strained her
to his heart with force that took her
breath away. He had been wasting
valuable time. adds the Milwaukee
Journal in conclusion.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
what a Man Eats.

made calculation the other day of
the amount of food an average high
liver-that is, man who always has a
good appetite and treats himself well
would consume during a natural
lifetime of sixty years. Suppose he
eats a pound of beef mutton or other
flesh every day, in year he will con-
sumo 365 pounds and in sixty years
81, 900 pounds of meat. He will eat
the same weight of vegetables aud
quite as much bread. so here are 43. 800
pounds more. He will drink every
day two quarts of coffee. tea, wine,
beer or water. making total of TO-,
$50 gallons, or about 175 hogsheads of
liquid. This estimate does not include
the probability that he will eat forty or
fifty lambs with mint sauce, couple
of thousand spring chickens, about
five hundred pounds of butter and 40,-
600 or $4,000 eggs, and four hogs
heads of sugar. If all this supply were
piled up on the scales it would weigh
over forty-five tons, and if stored would
fill cotton warehouse from floor to
ceiling. Yet. give man time and he
will eat and drink it all and pay for it.
too, and that's how restaurant keepers
manage to live Exchange.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
.cLlMRERs.n .
The Very --latest Addition 10 the yocah
uinry OF society.


Two fair members of the 400 were
overheard discussing the merits of one
OF their sisters ia society the other day
to this effect:
Yes, dear. she means very we'll.
said the elder one, "bnt she really
doesn't know how. After all. she Is a
climber. don't you knowp"
Yes, that Is true.n asscnted her
companion.
.Climbern is the latest addition to
our vocabulary. says the N. Y. Sun.
Thus far IL has been used only i'm the
upper ranks of swelldom. but with
such introduction 1t will undoubtedly
soon be common property. Elbridge
+. Gerry the other day gave this ex-
PLANTATION OF It's origin:
There are in society he said. some
newly admitted members who. with
the best intentions imaginable. are
never able to do things Ia Just the
proper style. They are persons of
wealth. fairly good breeding. and pos
sessed of desire to entertain. They
try TO establish reputation as hos
pitable people. but they really don't
know how 10 entertain. With all the
good-humored witticisms that the
newspapers indulge in upon this sub
ject, il Is nevertheless Il fact that the
art of entertaining requires deep and
careful study rs well as natural apti-
tude Some of the greatest authors
have stated this. even way back to the
early days of Greece. Entertaining is
science pure and simple. rs my friend
McAllister will tell you.
The new name for those unfortun-
ates who have not learned this. and
still insist in parading their iguorance
is derived from Sir Walter Raleigh.
remark apropos of Queen Elizabeth
/ You will remember il:
'''Fain would l climb, yet fear ! Il
fall.
"A typical member of this class re
Gently gave a dinner 10 a number 0
I persons in society. Ii was very dul
/ affair. There was prodigality Ia
I everything. but no taste aud no refine
ment. The fellow amused me somi
time thereafter by telling me that h'
l had no difficulty in getting up fin
dinner. All that he had TO do was Il
/ tell his butler and his chef to get up
meal for so many persons. and h
/ found il unnecessary to bother his hea,
further. There are few persons fortun
ate enough TO possess chefs and butler
! of that Kind, and his certainly wer
not. OF the persons who attended tn
dinner nine out of ten were displease,
and will never attend another.
doesn't take long for the thoroug
members of society 10 know whether
host or hostess is qualified to entertain
and the climbers always find ii diif
cult to secure guests. | think the me-
title "a varv IiffinD nm -
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
How Japanese women smoke.

Railway cars have ALWAYS been con-
sidered good places for studying the
manners and customs OF natives, and
Japanese cars, as may be imagined,
are no exceptions to the rule. If some
of the Japanese cars have a separate
compartment for non-smokers this is a
mere concession to foreigners. for Jap
anese women are almost as invariably
addicted to the use of tobacco as the
men. and one of the most novel sights
to be witnessed in these ears is that of
- woman. young or old. taking smoke.
Japanese pipes. as used by both men
and women. are not as large as a
ble-about the size of Chinese
opium pipe. and hold about as much
| tobacco as makes a pinch of snuff.
The woman fills and lights her pipe.
takes three or four whiffs. and then
! knocks the bowl against her wooden
shoes or clogs, so that the CLOWN g
ashes fall in lump on the floor. She
Immediately refills the pipe, but does
not relight it with n match. but tries
to pick up the lump of glowing ashes
with the bowl. which requires skill and
| practice. But after few attempts she
| generally succeeds. whereupon she has
three or more wliitfs; and this process.
is repeated several times before The
pipe and pouch are put away to rest fol
an hour. The men smoke in the same
way but many of them have lately got
into the habit of smoking cigarettes
and cigars, mostly imitation goods done
up under foreign labels, although there
is no good reason for this, as som,
very good tobacco is raised in Japan
| -Tok.iO Letter
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
.rn OF the Road.


Flpsy ~ PISSED from the golden rods
so pnTpe.hucsi sisters sun ilnecr in bloom;
ne afreh IS bright yellow, tie sntnachs are
sna1ies iiAe torches flame overhead.
slsd Winters Wild herald is blowing his basti
Ftf me duh November is sweetcr than May.
Fer my Icve is Its sunshtne-she meets me to-
dAys
Wilt she cornss WIN the ring dove return 70
wfi tie needle swing back nom the east or
ID tie stroke Of The hour she viii be At her
u friesa may prove iaggara-love never comes
late.
Do < see her. asar in the distanees Not yet.
1sssFhen I cross tue old bridge where tho brook
she viii hash fdli in sight at the turn of the
road.
pass the low vali where the ivy eptwines;
trend the brown pathway that leads throngh
haste IS he 6owlder that lies in the nela.
Where her ironiise At parting was lovingly
win she come hy the hillside orronnd through
win She wear her trown dress or her mantle
ne minus draws near-bst her watch may
afs heart viii be asking. what keeps her 50
ionR2
Why doubt for a tno1nentg More shame IL dol
Why question: Why trcmble7 Are angels
me would come 10 tho lover who calls her his
Though She trod in the track OF a whirling cy.
clonei
IL crossed the old bridge ere the minute had
passed.
loOkeds lcs my Love stood before me at last
Her eyes. how they sparkled, her checks how
they glowed.
As we met face 10 face at the turn of the road
-Oliver MendeII Holmes in Atlantic.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
EstremeIr PolIte postmen.

II do think that Washington post
men are the most obliging ! have ever
met. said lady the other day. Il
never think about bothering TO mail
my own letters. but simply hand them
to the carrier when he comes. aud he
is so amiable as to convey them to the
post office for me and so save me the
trouble of dropping them in the box on
the next corner. The other day
ehaneed to be going out for a call.
and, meeting the carrier coming up
my step suddenly remembered that
| had forgotten something.
'.Oh. Mr.. Postman, | exclaimed. i
have left postal card on my sitting
room table which i am most anxious
to have go of by the earliest possible
mail. You will oblige me exceedingly
II you will see 10 its being posted. May
ask you to get it. since / am in great
haste? You will find it addressed TO
Mrs. Theophidax Robinson. Be SO
good as to add Baltimore. Md. TO the
superseription. which an interruption
prevented my completing in pencil,
and make sure that it gets off,
And do you know that polite letter
carrier said Thank you. ma'n.' and
did Just as / told him, even TO shut.
ting the door of the house when he
came out. as l requested. know thai
| he put on the address all right. because
Mrs. Robinson told me subsequently
that she received the postal card.
And, to take another instance. wher
we had another carrier on our street
last winter met him at the corner ont
day aud asked him if he had left AM
mail at my house.
".Nothing but a postal card. main.
he replied. from Mrs. Spoopendyk,
Browne. inviting you to take lunch in
formally with her on Monday at
o'clock puuctually."
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-03-06
RslIc OF 4 pAsr GENERATION.
The oldest Inhabisant OF Rhode fsisnd
Meets = Cruel Death.


The oldest inhabltant of Rhode Isl .
and. who had been hacking lot 4
local history slowly about the wood
and pastures at Potler's Hill. met death
In cruel way one afternoon recently.
says Westerly correspondent of the
N Y. San. On that day Harvey G.
Burdick was swinging sharp brush
knife in the bushes OF wild sprout land,
and accidentally hit something hard
aud something hollow. He had cleft
very big. old fashioned, and handsome
box turtle. and shell roof was taken
completely or the old fellows house.
The she'll was wrinkled old looking,
and parti-eolored. Mr.. Burdick ex-
amined the turtle closely. On the bot
tom shell. near and below the joint.
were the figures 177e. and right above
was the time worn. inscription, j. p.
On lower part of the shell. and still
more worn. were repeated the letters.
j. p. and near them the figures. 1906.
Mr.. Burdick recognized the turtle at
once. aud WAS sorry he had cut it up,
for II was the best-known turtle in
Rhode Island. Scores of farmers had
met it at different times wandering
about the fields of southern Rhode ISL
aud. aud no one tried to harm 1t. 1t
was known as - 4. 3 turtle Like the
wandering jew IL was always moving
on. had seen many generations of
Rhode Island people pass away. yet in
a hundred years had not seemed to
grow very old. aud was still vigorous
| and well.
The letters j. p. on the SHE'LL were
the initials Of Joseph Potter's name.
after whom the bill village was named.
and who WAS the grandfather of Miss
Maria l., Potter OF Potter's Hill and
Joseph III. Potter Of Westerly. Joseph
Potter was II years old. aud the turtle
a matured animal when he cut the first
| figures, 1776. in the turtles shell. and
lie was AZ years old when inc added the
other date, 1906. Joseph was bern In
1859 and died ia 1922. No one at
tempts To say Just how old the turtle
was. but it is quite likely it was pad.
ding about Rhode lsl;tHl when King
Philip with his painted Indians in the
big swamp at Hope. Il. l.. deiied-the
warriors of Plymouth colony.
IF the turtle could have talked. '
said the village antiquarian OF Potter's
Hill. ''what tale he might have un.
folded! For interest and importance
the period of thirty years from 1776 Il
1906 and that Of eighty-four years
from 1906 10 1890. have not been par
allied in the history of the world"