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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29
Burdens OF Memorx.

..I saw Phil Kearney brought dead
into camp" said an old ex-soldier the
other day. ut was the sadest moment
of my life. He was my ideal of .
soldier and of a man. It was he of
whom the ruler of Egypt said. With
a thousand soldiers like him 1 could
conquer the world The Confederates
wrapped him tenderiy about with our
own flag and wept over the body Of the
fearless man.
The saddest hour of my life was
when Sedgewick fell. . said another.
.And Lincoln. when he died. !" said
another.
Il had young terminate. tender
boy" said a fourth. He was engaged
to marry my youngest sister. We
shook hands at Gettysburg for the last
time When l found him he lay dead
still. His red cheeks were colorless-
He had walked distance and he lay
upon his side Before him ON the
ground lay a letter from home Now
don't think my grief has ever sur
passed what i felt them
Curious, is it not, after = many
years, SO many gray haired "a
carry as hrdens of me-
of war these davs
Journal.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29
In Popocatepetl's Crater.

Mr.. Mouvel Los Tanos Of Chichihan.
Mexico has been visiting friends in this
city recently. Mr. Los Tanos Is Mex
ican mining engineer. He told yesfer-
day OF his descent into the crater Of
Popocaiepetl the volcano which Is
now practically extinct:
Il went down into the crater Of she
mountain further probably than any
other man TO examine the sulphur
VERY few persons of the United States
have even made the ascent Of this
mountain. It is worse than climbing
the Mafterhorn. 1t costs about $50 In
the first place. takes several days. and
is very exhausting. L was let down in
to the crater the same war that the
Mexican miners who dig sulphur aF
this elevation of IS. 600 feet-by R1eans
of wiudlass and rope The mouth
of the crater is more than half q mile
across The mine is owned by Gen.
Ochoa who lives in the city Of Mexico
I saw there and examined carefully
thousands of tons of the purest sulphur
ever mined. When Cortez and his
soldiers visited that country they need
ed sulphur for ganpowder and ascend
ed the mountain for the first time In
its history. the natives said. tell you
it must have taken q vast amount OF
nerve to go up an unknown mountain
like Popocatepetl and then descend in
to q crater ike the mouth of that vol
cane. l think. everything considered.
it beats anything have ever heard OF
in history or fiction. The natives who
gather the sulphur now 0aly secure
small packages of it which they fasten
to their backs. They then slide own
the snow on the mountain after the
manner of woodeutters of France. For
this venturesome work they get about
20 cents per day. y.n-Kansas City Times.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29
Chinese servants.

While the Chinese do make good
servants. it is not always easy to capt
ure &l$rize; and while hunting for one
among the wilderness of incapa5ies. q
housekeeper may meet with some very
disagreeable experiences Some of
them are the natural outcome Of the
state of affairs Since the passage Of
the Restriction Act the Celestial. whose
commercial instinct at once appre-
ciated the law of supply and demand.
advanced his price and became more
exacting as to his accommodations
No more out-buildings for him. He
must have a hard-finished room. even
demanding that he might sleep mp
stairs with the family OF course.
such q demand was made for the adj
ded facility it would give him for pick
ing and stealing For it cannot be
denied that the majority of Cinnamon
are thieves. With the exception of
provisions. which they will carry Of
bodily if they feel so inclined. or hold
a banquet in q neighboring Chinaboy's
room, the refreshments haviH&-all
been contributed BY heathe1 purloin-
ing from their employers. while he in
tends to remain in the place, he will
be scrupulously honest as to money
matters, or to articles of value, reserv-
ing himself and his opportunities for
one grand sweep. after his apparent
honesty has dispelled any suspicious
or prejudices that his employer may
have had towards the Chinese as an
honest race. But when he does make
steal, he takes all that there is in
sight There is this peculiarity about
3 Chinese robbery. the stolen goods
are seldom recovered; let the thief but
reach Chinatown with his booty. and
as well hunt for the proverbial needle
in haystack--Good Housekeeping.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29

After a business meeting of the
Woman's Press Club in New York the
other day Mrs. Candace Wheeler pre-
sented plan for an apartment-house
for women which met with the appro-
baton of the club. The plan is for a
building which shall contain suits of
rooms and single rooms, together
with restaurant for those who do
not care to keep house. She said !:
"That such need may be understood
it is desirable that the professional
women of New York should cooperate
by forming an association and tchoos-
ing a committee who are qualified to
decide upon the necessary require
ments of a building for woman's oc-
cupation. The opportunity for invest
ment would be made apparent to cap
italists and substantial proof of the
demand would be given them
Miss Caroline Guelph, the neglected
daughter of George the 4th of Eng
land, who was born at Kensington in
1916 and baptized in the church there
that year, as shown by the record, is
dying in the CamberweH poorhouse.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29
FOREIGN.

The grip has proved fatal in many
cases in London. Seventy members
of parliament have been down with 1t
at q time.
France has decided to allow pool
selling on races under a tax.
Portugal is the scene of a financial
panic and everybody expects the out
break of q revolutionary movement.
Some unknown persons exploded a
bomb in the department of the interior
premises the other day.
The government was sustained in
the Spanish election.
Rebellion has broken out in Dutch
Guiana.
In the conflict between the power of
Parnell and that of the Catholic church
Parnell is fast losing ground.
General Brock, chief of gendarmerie
at Warsaw, suspecting the police of
duplicity, ordered the students quar-
tiers searched alta certain hour, prev
ious to which he himself searched the
quarters and found nothing of an
discriminating nature. The chief
awaited the arrival of the police and
discovered that they had supplied
themselves with revolutionary proc
lamations with the intention of man
ufacturing public sentiment.
The body of Madam Blavatsky was
cremated.
Fighting between England and
Venezuela over the boundary ques-
ton is considered almost unavoidable.
Terrible anti-Hebrew atrocities are
reported at Corfu, Greece, where
corpses of murdered Jews lie unburied.
An investigation by the commander
of the United States steamer Kearsage
shows that contract laborers who have
been lured to Nayassa by the phos-
rhate company are being treated as
slaves and abused, dubbed and muir
dered.
B A Chinese mob has burned and
looted the British consulate and Gus
tom house at Woo Hoo, treaty port
in the province of Ngan Holi. The
British consul was wounded and his
wife escaped by Disgusting herself as
a Chinese woman.
No other element is so inimical to
the success of American wool growing
as the large use of the lime and sui
phur dip. 1t injuries the fibre and
lowers the quality of our American
grown wool.
Six persons have died of trichinias
in Meining, Germany, and fourteen
more have the disease. It was caused
by eating diseased pork of local pro-
duction.
Queen Victoria has become very
feeble.
When the czarowitz reached Otsu,
Japan, in swinging around the circle,
a policeman, Tsuda Sanzo, tried to
=, ? y y - ~ eicting severe sword cut
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29

.1n the morning, 1T cur usual time.
9 O'Clock. our guests came to The
dining-room, where my wife sat By the
samoyar. and |. u expectation Of col-
fee, f. sat a,, at the i;a nd Ct the ,.a table" e
..Turgenis my wife's right
b hand ans on . the lsfs; know-
time described to the education Of his
daughter, my wife asked him whether
he was satisfied with his English COVER
ness. Turgenief began TO sing her
praises. and. among other things. said
that the goyerDess had asked him. with
English exactitude. how much his
daughter might spend in charity.
Now. said Turgenied. she wants my
daughter to collect the ragged clothes
Of the poor and mend Them
land do you consider that TO be
good?' asked Tolstoi-
OF coursel it brings the charifable
person closer to the poor replied Tur-
genieff.
a.And I think. said Tolstof. that =
well dressed girl who takes the dirty
rags in her lap acts an insineere and
theatrical part
81 request you not 70 say So. said
TurgenieH. with quigerisg nostrils.
.sWhy should 1 not s4y what am
csss1nced osPs answered Toistoi.
.sf had no time TO interpose." con-
tinued the writer. when Turgeniea
said. pale with anger: Taen will
force you to silence by an insultp With
these words he rose from the table;
then suddenly clasped his hand excited
ly over his face and left the room.
After moment he came back and said.
addressing my wife:
II beseech You to forgive my rT
ness / am deeply sorry for it Their
he Withdrew. Understanding that the
two late friends could no longer re-
main together, ordered separate car
riages for them.u
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29
Current News.


Terrible forest fires had been raging
in Pennsylvanlaan and May II at Moore's
Run, on the Sinnamahoning road, a
train load of seventy willing men,
sent out from Austin the preceding
night, had been fighting back the
fire by every conceivable means. They
made trenches, piled up eart5. and
lighted fires but were finally obliged
to retreat.
The men hastily boarded the train
and started to make the run to another
point, when it was found that they
were hemmed in by forest fires on one
side and huge skidway of burning
logs on the other. It was finally de-
eided to dash past the burning skid
way, and the engineer and fireman,
with their faces covered with damp
ened cloths and their hands and arms
wrapped In wool, pulled through the
wall of fire.
The seventy-five exhausted men
gathered In groups ON the fiat cars
for protection or lay on their faces on
the floor. The engineer had forgotten
that such great heat would surely
warp the rails. Suddenly there was a
lurch, an ominous heaying and a
shrek OF dispair as the train toppled
over into the he'll of fire beneath. The
ars caught fire like SO many play
things and the men within, half
blinded, and scarcely realizing any
thing except that they were being
slowly roasted to death, struggled
fearfully TO regain the track, where
safety lay, Tor time at least. Those
uniniured from the lail and only
srnarting from the pain of the intense
heat, bravely turned Their burned,
blaekened hands TO aid their more
unfortunate fellows.
Superintendent Badger OF the Sin
namahoning Valley railroad, who was
in charge of the train, went down
under some of the wreckage and un-
doubtedly burned to death. Six others
also miserably perished at once or
died soon afterward, and thirty others
of the party were badly burned, many
probably fatally, having inhaled the
flames.
The works and stock at thirteen oil
wells have been burned at Pine Grove.
Numbers of people from the burned
districts in Michigan have asked the
railway companies for transportation
to places where they have friends, as
they were not able to save more than
the clothing they wore. Clinton,
Claire county, and Walkerviile, Oceana
county, have been burned. A tract
six miles long and three miles wide
has been burned over at Beyos.
Over 100000 square miles of virgin
forest in Wisconsin has been de-
stroyed.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29
slany Belgian strikers are returning

many Belgian strikers are returning
to work.
The strikers in Pennsylvania con-
tinue to induce many new men to quit
work and the employers continue to
flood the region with laborers from
other parts of the country.
Oakland was drawn into the San
Francisco mill hands strike.
The New York lumber trade associ-
alton has stopped building operations
IN that city by refusing to deliver
lumber where union men are en-
ployed, in retaliation for a boycott
placed by the union on member of
the association.
Strikers with shotguns attempted
to prevent Davis q Son, proprietors
OF briekyard at Denver, and a num-
ber of non-unfon recruits, from going
TO the brickyards and f. N. Davis
ordered his men TO shoot, and shoot
to kill, and they did. killing one man
and wounding several.
At Ghent $500 weavers have struck.
All the union cigarmakers in New
Hampshire are on a strike for an ad-
vance TO 81 50a thousand.
A strike of spinners, followed by
riots, is reported at Warsaw. The
leaders are German socialists.
The employees of the National tube
works, Pitlsburg, got a nine-hour day
litter strike of fifteen weeks.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road discharged all its $50 union
switchmen at Chicago May IA because
of their insistence on the re-empIoy-
ment of a discharged member and
filed their places with new men.
All the breweries at Portland and
the brewery at Vancouver have agreed
to employ National union men and
the Pacific Coast union men are out.
Rivals of the Fricke coke combina-
ton are openly aiding the strikers.
The Oregon Improvement company
has imported 450 negroes, with their
families, to take the place of the
strikers at Franklin, Wash.
The Pacific coast brewers union
will test at Portland the anti-boycott
law passed last winters Awx.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
case OF catarrh that cannot be cured by taking
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY l. CO., Props, Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned have known +. ]. Cheney
for the last Is years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions, and dn-
ancially able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm. 49,
WEST TRUAx. Wholesale Druggists Toledo, O.
wALDING, KINNAN MARvIS. wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure isNtaken 4, ternall. acting
directly upon the blood and muSASs surfaces Of
the system. Testimonials sent frl& ce 49,.
per bottle Sold by all druggists.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29
FRIDAY, MAY 80. 1891.
General News.

Blaine says there is as yet nothing
to arbitrate between Italy and the
United States In the New Orleans
affair
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-05-29

Emperor William has forbidden
court preachers to make their sermons
longer than fifteen minutes.
The Helena independent., 1891-12-06
He dismissed the thought as Mr.. Locke

| He dismissed the thought as Mr.. Locke
and young Gather came up.
That's laundering slick hoss you're
| riding" said Mr.. Locke. He'd DE-. fine
| work III a fox hunt. Where's the nigker?''
! 1.-The dogs can tell you more about il
| than I can," said Joe.
WELL" remarked Mr.. Locke, with sigh,
| II knoWd I'd miss him if he ever got to
! the ferry here and found the boat on this
side. Why, dang his black skin!'' exclaimed
the negro-hunter vehemently, as be glanced
| down the river and saw the batteau foat-
| ing away in the distance, ''he's gone and
! turned the boat loose! That shows we was
pusbin' i'm mighty close. I reckon you
could 'a' seed i'm if you'd looked clos't
when YOU first come up.''
No replied Joe, he was out Of sight.
and the boat was drifting around tho elbow
yonder. You were not more than five min
utes behind me-
BLESS your soul buddy exclaimed Mr..
Locke, five minutes is q mighty long time
when you are trying to ketch q runaway"
SO ended the race after Mink. 10 Joe
Maxwell ii was both interesting and in
structive. Flo was great lover Of dogs.
and the wonderful performance Of Sound
had given him new IDEAS of their sagaoity.
A few mornings after the unsuccessful at
tempt to catch Mink very queer thing
happened. Harbert was sweeping ont the
printing office, picking up the type that
uau kleou OrOppeu OH Lu6 uOOr, Hllu Joe
was preparing to begin the days work.
Suddenly Harbert spoke:
"Marso joe said he, when you rid
out ter do river Sunday, is vou happen ter
see or batteau tloatin' 'roun'?"
Joe looked at Harbort for some explana-
tion Of the singular question. but the negro
pretended to be very busily engaged iii
picking up scraps Of paper.
Yes" said Joe, after a pause, II saw II
boat drifting down tho river, What about
it?'
well, sub, speck Of de trufe wuz ter
git out uat dev wux one eryo' ole quaint
The Helena independent., 1891-12-06

oversee:s are mighty hard to get now. i
tell yon right now, that when I get grown
I'm not going tol let any oyerseer bang my
niggers around.s @
Mr.. Locke said nothing but Jos heartily
inlorsed young Gaither's sentiments.
When they arrived ut the Gnither place
Mr.. Locke asked to be shown the house
that Mink had occupied. I'hep lie asked
for the blankets on which tho nogro had
slept, these could not be found. Well. an
old coat would do. ANYTHING that the negro
had worn or touched. Finally dirty,
greasy bag, in which Mink had car
ried his dinner to tho field, was found
This would do, Mr., Looks said, ana taking
il in his hand he called his dogs and held i
toward thom. Joo observed that Sound
smelt it moro carefully than Music.
:, Nov, then said Mr. locke, where
Friday night? All right. we'll ride around
thore ana kinder send him message"
Joe was very much Interested III all this.
and he watched Mr. Locke and his dogs
very closely. When they arrived At tho
hog pen tho negro hunter diamounted from
his horse, and examined the ground. Then
he spoke to hia dogs.
The Helena independent., 1891-12-06


the thne!e OF scent. More than once
ne seeiheu 70 be Dissatisfied with himself,
anel = maun little excursions in search of u
1fesner cleW, but always returned To tho
polht Whafa he had left off, taking up the
Ihlnt thread OF scent, and car1Sing it fur
thef away trom the hog -pen. The pntienoe
Aha ,ho'usttS of this dogs were marvellous. Mr..
l1ooiSe hlIhself was patient. He encour-
agea ne Mound with his voice, but made no
"It's colder finn n cravestone $, snia Mr.
LOCKE, nhally. "It's been II long time
henee bhut nlErer stepped around here.
Atiu eno around ID high and dry. II we can
WORK tie 'rhil to the branch yonder, he's
mi" ~ ~
Gradually tile dog worked out tho prob
luiM .'i!. " NV TRAIL Across the hill lie went,
M..,,. M.en many ~ turninga and twistines, until
~, nl,a.,S .,. ~ sNtuck tho path that led from
Tue ,ht' negro Charters TO the spring where tho
,'a..n waaa,hR Il. Waa done. Down thia path the
nouhu !ls .a tan Without deigning TO put lila nose
NJ to tne II, ground. At tho branch he Tapped
,,na,>Ia., n,s y! o. water, and thon took up his
pvnplen lap 4ARain. A half-do2en waaA-pots
were hoa1tered around, aud under the
The Helena independent., 1891-12-06


long head md it kills by crushing, while
q poisonous snake darts at you. Tho ana
condas hardly over bite, and i'll Brazil it ID
quite common for householder to keep 4
few Of them around his residence for the
purpose of killing the rats, which are a
great pest in that part of the world.
Among the poisonous snakes there is the
variety known as the coral, which ia found
i'll Venzuela. Anyone bitten by coral
snake dios in the most horrible agony, his
blood bursting or oozing out through the
pores of his skin. Any snake that meas
ures over seven or eight feet is not poison
Gus; in fact do not know any that grow
over six feet long. Tho rattlesnake il the
largest poisonous snake we have i'll this
country. Then there are the deaf adaur
the black water snake, the mocoasin.
These are about the only poisonous snnkes
we have III the United States,
The men who call themselves SNAKE
charmers' do not handle poisonous snakes.
Ii they have a rattlesnake they extract his
tnnps, and in that way render him perfootr
ly harmless. This operation is easily per-
formed by means Of ~ silk handkerchief.
which Is waved in front of the snake who
snaps ut ~ viclously, when the hnndker-
chief IL suddenly pulled away. bringing tho
fangs with it. Or, you can cut the artery
that feeds the poison bag and thus destroy
the source Of supply. That 10 a rather diff
iioult operation. however, although have
otton had occasion to perform 1t On rattle
snakes. Something, generally a. plece Of
cork, is put III the snakes mouth TO keep
it open; the teeth OF tho reptile becomes
imbedded in the cork and you have oltanoe
to out the tory. Taking the teeth out OF
u rnttlesnake is like pulling Feathers ont Of
birds they will form again. Snakes shed
their teeth just the same as a,oat sheds its
claws.
Another point about snake charmers:
After you have handled snakes for Il con-
siderable length of time they become very
quiet. 10 a certain extent you oan make II
imals, and, Az I have saiu, tho larger VA
The Helena independent., 1891-12-06
ara 9ound,' yon dof 'he exclaimed sharply. what

Sounds he exclaimed sharply, "what
are you aoinR? Look about. Music! what
are you hese for?'' '@ :
haa,1 ane ,aaa snaaahby little dog seemed to have
peen s ssuta,denly transformed. He oircled
aronna ana ta. yhe pen rapidly, getting further
ana Iurtner away each time. MI. Locke
hevgl ..f.,s 1ook K his eyes from the dog.
conld-mighty cold," he said pres
lilly. .:rn hen he spoke to the dog again.
oouhu: Some here, sir Now git down to
youf ~ h,n1lt1eang! Come, knuckle down! Try
etT; Ill., oau FELLOW, try 'em!n
\. thus 1h encouraged, the dog, with his nose
q tne Rroand, went carefully around the
noG-MRen. M Pen At one spot he paused, went on,
anu ~ 1nen Game back to it. This performance
= - , lepeased several times, and then began
e WoLK MS way toward an old field. going
vefy 1EyrI1y rsl1oWly and carefully.
W., slr, said Mr.. Locke heaving q
M s.Rn Of relief, II thought it was gone
got him." - n 80" q =
Maybe y, y the dog is trailing somebody
me ~ ~ y,;M Maxwell suggested.
J. .,M,l. Mr. Locke laughed softly and pityingly.
Wy ,ttell YOU what, buddy lie ex-
piA5nea, # oil the niggers in the country
nag !, tranped around here, that dog wouldn't Z
trnoK none Of 'em but tie special nigger
working!' 80 f'App'' ~" - \
Ana truly it was an interesting if not 4
peau'A' ~ Sight to SEQ the dog untangling
The Helena independent., 1891-12-06
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT SNAKES,
How to Recognize Poisonous VarietIes-
Removing the Ennrs,

Written for TuE HEDESA IypEpENpENr.1
The Helena independent., 1891-12-06
|ON THE TURNER PLANTATION.
BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.


Joe. Mr.. Locke looked at the lad almost
pityingly, and smiled.
We'll git the Niger he replied, "if he's
been seed sence Friday noon. We'll git
hin hin # b ant too1 Wings ~ l. ast tha
ground, and he's mine"
"Why did the negro run away?'' SAID Joe
to Young Gather.
''Oh. he can't get along with the over
seer. And don't blame HIM much.
told pap this morning that if ! had to
choose between Mink and Bill Davidson
I'd take Mink every time. But the trouble
with pap ID he's getting old and thinks he
can't get along without an overseer, and
The Helena independent., 1891-12-06

lii SNAKES A II II
naturally vicious, but
they are not all pois-
oilous, and you can al
ways tell u poisonous
snake by the forma-
lion Of his head, which q ,
il shaped round; back
of the eyes there is a
high lump, rising from
inside the head. The
h 81, ,.y., noo ~, 1ro 1,na =
The Helena independent., 1891-12-06
auoe in dat boat. an bat a thrip dat il
you'd hollered howdy they'd u holerad

IinFbert was Still too busy to look up.
Hits de funniest boat what | yever
come 'osos,' he went on, "agwino tloatin'
long down by itsa'f, an den, on top or dat.
come tloatin' long back agin."
''llow do you know about the batteau?"
"Whiles YOU been gwine long de road,
Mnrse joe" said iiurbert, still making u
great pratense OF gathering ZIP the trash IL,
tho rqpm, "ant you never is see all den,
littlo birds tlvin 'monRst de bushes an
long do renoe2 Well. sub, dem little birds
close dan all deze yer papers what YOU
bin printin'. Deyer mighty ou'us an dey
o. mighty onnnin'. Dey tole mo lots mo-