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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-08-21
Lousy Hops

A correspondent to the Eugene Jour
nalakesa gloomyview wofthe situation.
He says the hoplouse has already be-
gun working on the hops and growers
tell us That they have found hops turn,
ing black and rotting from the effects
Of the louise. ii such Is the case the
chances for the hop growers are very
poor this year Lust year the louise did
not begin working on the hops until
about picking time and then large
quantity Of hops were spoiled before
they could be saved, and as the louise
hns already begun working on the hops
this year the chances are Tint the hops
Will be spoiled before they are ready to
pick. Mr.. JAS Ebbert tells us that he
found hop lice awayup the Mckenzie
on Il lone hop vine twenty-five or thirty
miles from any hop yard. Healsosays
he has found them on the leaves of
maple tret Ifthehop louse has come
to stay the hops must go.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-08-21

State Treasurer Metschan has just
finished the distribution Of theinter,st
on the common school fund. Douglas
county reports 4,4O8 children Of school
age und gets SG,5l4S5; Coos gets S4,-
$3.50; Jackson S6,o2i.75 Josephine So
62l,55. This shows Douglas county
still ut thehead ofthescuthern Oregon
column.-R Rosehurg Review.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
Where Paternalism FlOurfshes.

In these days when paternalism is
so much discussed it is interesting to
note just one act of absolute paternal-
ism that these true blue Democratic
congressman have been indulging for
many years without ever uttering a
word of protest 1t is supplying the
people with garden seeds, free, as a
gift Of the government. Not one OF
them has ever failed to employ this
fundamentally with which to cleo
tioneer with the people; but that pater-
nalism was for their individual benefit
and did not violate the great principle,
because of that fact There is not a
single principle embodied in the Ocala
demands. but has a precedent in the
action of congress to sustain and just
ify, and nearly all have also the en-
dorsement of the supreme court of the
United States that what has been en-
acted into law, in cousonance with that
principle, is constitutional. Alliance
Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
Constructing Engines.

As is we'll understood, in the ordin--
airy construction of double-expansion
steam engines. and in all the COM
pound locomotives that have thus far
been built a single low-pressure cylin-
der of about twice the sectional area.
of the high-pressure cylinder is used
with each high-pressure cylinder-an
arrangement which frequently necessi-
tates a low-pressure cylinder of rather
cumbersome diameter, and on this &C
count is regarded with special distavor
by some locomotive engineers; some
OF the English compound locomotives
are constructed on the plan of having
only two cylinders, one high and one
low pressure. But a radical depart
ure from the ordinary practice in this
line has lately been announced, the
plan consisting in the substitution of
two low-pressure cylinders of about
the size of the high-pressure cylinder
for the one large low-pressure cylin-
DER according to the well-known ar
rangement In the carrying out of
this method the pistons in the low
pressure cylinders are coupled by their
rods to a single crosshead, and they
move together.-N. Y. Sun.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
A Gentle Reminder.

The Economist would respectfully
call the attention of President Harri-
son to the following paragraph from
the inaugural of William Henry Har-
rison, his grandfather, fifty years ago.
After calling attention to the fact that
congress had been intrusted with the
power to originate appropriations, the
address continues:
Connected with this subject is the
character of the currency. The idea
of making it exclusively metallic,
however well intended, appears to me
to be fraught with more fatal conse-
quences than any other scheme, having
no relation to the personal rights of
the citizen, that has ever been devised.
If any single scneme could produce
the effect of arresting, at once, that
mutation of condition by which thou
sands of our most INDECENT fellow-citi-
zens, by their industry and enterprise,
are raised to the possession of wealth.
that is one. If there is one measure
better calculated than another to pro-
duce that state of things so much de-
precated by all true Republicans, by
which the rich are daily adding to
their boards, and the poor sinking
deeper into penury. it is an exclusive
metallic currency. Or if there is a
process by which the character of the
country for generosity and nobleness
OF feeling may be destroyed by the
great increase and necessary liberation
OF usury, it is an exclusive metallic
currency.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
REAGAN AND THE TERROR.
How the Future Senator Threw Bully,
Out OF a Window.

How the Future Senator Threw Bully
Out OF Window
The resignation of Senator Reagan,
of Texas, recalls story OF how he
CHANGED to remove to the state that is
now his home, and which has so sig
nally honored him. He was living in
Sewer county, Tenn. in 1889, and was
sent by his father to grist mill to
have a sack of wheat converted into
flour. He was big, raw-b oned, strap
ping country boy.
According to custom, he hitched his
horse at the mill, took the sack of
grain from the shoulders of the ami
NAL, placed it on his own shoulders and
toted it up three flights of stairs and
took his place in the line, as people
are wont to do still at country post
offices, waiting for his turn to have his
wheat ground. Half an hour or so
after Reagan arrived at the mill we'll
known local character came bringing
sack of grain to be ground ALSO This
last character was a local terror, fond
of brawls and fighting, and in the habit
of having his own way.
He had to take his place In, line with
the rest, but when it got to be Reagans'
turn to have his grain ground 1.-The
terror" said:
See here, Reagan, am in a hurry.
You let me get in your place and you.
come back here where / am
Reagan demurred, stating that he
was in a hurry, too; that he was en-
titled to his place and meant to keep
it. This angered the brawler. He
cursed young Reagan, and said he
would fling him through the window,
and suiting the action to the word,
made a rush for the future statesman.
Reagan, like all the rest of the people
in the neighborhood, was more or less
terrorized by this desperate, and in
fear of his life rushed for him, met
him half way, butted him in the
stomach with his head, and literally
lifted him off his feet and threw him
through the window.
When the desperate disappeared
through the window the consequence
of his act flashed upon young Reagan's
mind. He instantly supposed that he
had killed a man, that he would be
hanged for it. and scared almost to
death. he rushed down stairs, un-
hitched his horse, and lit out across
the country for Texas. The man was
not killed, but got bad shaking up.
He soon moved to Texas, and was a
friend OF Reagan in after life
Chicago Mail.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
The Real Enemie. of the People.

The real moulders of party policy
are men who neither ask nor desire
Office. Their interest in politics is
pecuniary and sometimes quite large.
They would no more run for Office than
would the millionaire turfman consent
to mount his own entry for the Derby
or the organizer of baseball league
pitch in a champion game.
And as the turfman may be largely
winner though his horse be beaten, or
the league manager reap large reward
whatever club carry the pennant so
may the machine manager be the
gamer by failure to succeed on the
part Of the party he apparently cham
pions. The caucus is the inner circle,
and the average party man has no
means of learning what its decisions
are or that its aim is not to defeat the
party it pretends to serve.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
For the HOusekeeper.

To polish up an oil cloth use, occasional
ly, a bit of soft flannel sprinkled with sweet
Don't trim a lamp wick with scissors
Scrape off the charred wick with piece
of paper and your light will be better for
it.
Boil the clothes line for an hour or two
and dry it in a warm room to make it pill
able, keeping it firmly coiled or stretched
while drying so that it will not kink.
1t is best to soak all onions for an hour
or two in cold water. This removes their
greenness and if baked afterward they are
more delicate. Boiling seems to concen-
trate the odor of the onion.
The white of an egg, with little water
and sugar, is good for children who are
troubled with an irritable stomach. It is
very healing, and will prove an excellent
remedy for diarrhoea, as well as a simple
preventative for bowel disorders.
They say there is remedy for every
evil, and at last one has been found for ink
stains on the fingers, those unsightly
blotches that no soap or rubbing with the
nailbrush will eradicate. Moisten the ink
stained spot and rub it gently with the
head of parlor match, keeping the skin
wet, and the stain will rapidly disappear.
Violet ink stains can often be removed by
rubbing them with coarse flannel
The best way to take ink out Of table
linen is to soak the spots in sour milk Put
the cloth in fresh milk and set it where it
will sour. The process Of sOuring seems
to assist in drawing out the stains. Rub
the spots after they have been soaking
twenty -four hours in the milk after it has
curdled just as you would wash any spot
in water. They will finally become very
faint, and may now be washed out In
water; and the first time they are put
through the weekly washing the probabili-
ty is that all traces Of the ink stains have
disappeared.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
Gentlenasa.

All Of our domestic animals should
be treated with gentleness. It pays in
every sense of that word, for it pays
in dollars, it pays in the satisfaction
we feel in having animals that are
gentle-for gentleness in man begets
the same in the animals he cares for
and it pays in the reaction upon our
own characters; the nervous, irritable
man who compels himself to be gentle
to his animals will find that if he can
conquer his irritability for the sake Of
'gentling' young COW, for instance.
he can learn to control it under all
other circumstances. But it is in the
dairy herd that gentleness will proba-
bly, pay larger per cent. of profit
than with any other class of farm
stock. The gentle cow that is never
afraid of receiving blow or a harsh
word from her owner will pay him for
the exemption every time he milks
her. 1t has been proven that every
thing that tends to excite or worry a
cow tends to lessen her milk yield and
to make what she does give poorer.
1t may be fancy on our part, but we
think that COWS that are treated with
gentleness will treat one another bet
ter than COWS that are ill-treated by
man, and we know that gentle cows
are much more easily handled than
those that are wild and ill-tempered.
In case of sickness or accident to an
animal the gentle one can be handled
with so much less trouble than the
wild one that in this case alone it pays
to cultivate gentleness. In short,
there is no time when the gentleness
shown to our domestic animals is not
a great advantage.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
Poultry Notes.

A stolen nest nearly always gives full
hatch, because the conditions are favor
able.
One advantage with poultry is that with
good management the harvest, although
small, comes in every day.
When the fowls appear droopy and lose
their appetite a small quantity of linseed
oil can be given with benefit.
Even when the poultry are confined it
is not usually necessary to feed meat more
than two or three times week.
Leghorns Matched IN May or June will
lay in November or December; they are
considered quick maturing breed.
A coop with board frame for the sides
and top, and with tight board floor and
the sides and top covered with muslin
makes good shipping coop.
One advantage of the farm at least in
having only one breed is that they can be
given free range and there will be very
little danger of mixed breeds.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
Dairy Dots.

The best butter contains nothing but
pure butter fat and little salt water.
You can sun the churn for awhile, then
put it away where the air is not too dry.
Don't put sugar into the butter; what is
called ''sweet butter'' has all the sugar
washed out of it.
If the churn gets musty smell fill it
full of water and put in a handful of pearl
ash. After standing an hour or two rinse
out with brine.
If the butter comes too soft fill the
churn with cold water; if you put ice in
contact with butter before it is worked, it
will not work right, it will be crumbly.
If the cows udder and teats are not
dirty don't wash them; simply rub them
off with cloth or brush or even the hand.
All you want is to get rid Of the loose
hairs and scales.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14

changed. Additional food and shelter
must be provided and more regular
system of feeding practiced. This will
increase both cost ane care. and might
in some instances entail a loss where
a lesser number would bring profit.
Some kinds of business, like this, can
be successfully carried on in a small
way with little care and cost; but when
the business is enlarged, there is adj
ded an expenditure which materially
changes the conditions. These things
should all be carefully considered be-
fore the business is entered into on a
large scale. Rural World.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
CAUSES OF WAR.
Brought About by the Most Trifling Cir
cumStances.

cumstances.
Among the curiosities of history is.
the oft-recurring fact that many of the
directly brought about by trifiing cir
cumstances. One of the wars between
the Turkish empire in the zenith of its
splendor and the Venetian republic
was brought about by the desire of
the sultan's physician to marry rich
Spanish heiress. The lady and her
mother escaped to Venice and the
sultan sent an official after them to
bring them back to Constantinople.
The Venetian republic was at first
willing to comply with the sultan's re-
quest but the ladies succeeded in.
making their escape to Ferrara, and
from thence to Lyons, in France. The
Porte complained that the Venetian
republic had not used due diligence,
and ultimately a terrible war broke
out over this trivial circumstance A
contemporary historian says: The
agent of the Venetian government at
Constantinople informed the council
that the reason of the dis
patch of the Turkish Envoy to Venice
was, to require on the part of the Grand
Seigneur that a Spanish lady, named
Mendez, with her daughters, should be
delivered up to the Envoy and by him
brought to Constantinople. The COM
mon rumor was, that the lady Mendez
had promised to marry one of her
daughters to the son of man named
Rodriguez, doctor to the Grand .Seig-
neur, The lady, however, changed
her mind, and fled with her daughters
to Ferrara, where they remained under
the protection of the duke for some
time. It is now said that they have
gone from Ferrara to Lyons in order to
realize funds invested there by the late
husband of Lady Mendez. The ennis
sary Of the grand seigneur was by no
means content with the loss of his prey
and there was trouble in consequence.
This information is contained in a
letter written from Venice in July,
1549, by M. Morvillier to Henry H. OF
France, the object being to induce the
king to use his authority for the pur-
pose of sending the Lady Mendez and
her daughter to Constantinople. The
king sent to Lyons for this purpose;
but found that the ladies had again,
taken fight, and were supposed to be.
at Antwerp. -American Register.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
Bug Food.

Some time ago we decribed a con-
trivance on a German estate which
consisted of powerful electric light
that attracted millions of insects, which
on approaching were drawn into
mill by a suction apparatus and ground
up. We are now informed that some
clever persons have utilized the pulp
thus produced, mixed with -four for
poultry food. This is a better method
than flinging paris green about
urday Evening Post.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14
Beginning, Go Slow.

We believe it better for one going
into the sheep business to begin in a
small or at least in moderate way.
A few sheep can De kept at q nominal
cost on every farm. They will largely
pick up their living by browsing around
during The summer, and by disposing
of refuse in the winter that would 9TH
erwise be thrown away and wasted,
save as far az It goes to add to the
manure heap. But with large num-
Der, the conditions are materially
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-14

The Labette County, Kan, States
man: About this time of year the
farmer and his boys climb out of bed
at o'clock i'll the morning and work
until s o'clock at night. The old
party boss, the tool of the men who
gamble on the product of the farmer,
dOzes until 8 in the morning. then
arises and puts on his morning gown,
has his coffee brought to him. sips
1t at mis- leisure then Tolls back in his
chair, closes his eyes to think mo-
ment, and then takes out his pencil to
write an editorial in the Republican
press, beginning, If the Alliance
doesn't keep out of politics it will
drive capital out of the state. The
farmers should work harder and
practice economy" All farm organ
izations have been listening to and
following this advice for twenty years,
and things have gone worse with them
all the time. Men are now working
for about half what they received
twenty years ago. Is it not high time
to discard all advice from the authors
Of our calamity
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-24
Wide Awake for October

Has pleasure in store for all young
lovers of English literature in the form
of a narrative by Miss G. III. Garland
called "The Maidens of the Lakes"
Dorothy Wordsworth, Edith Southey,
and Sara Coleridge). lovely girls, TO
whom Wordsworth addressed his poem,
THE Triad;" with portraits of the three
girls, and other illustrations. 1.-THE
Trouble Grandpa Nature had with the
Horse" by l.. J. Bates, "Bee- Hunting"
by Rowland E. Robinson, and "A Joint
Snake" by E. Olin, are three peculiarly
interesting Natural History articles.
"a Night with Russian Wolves, " a blood
curdling true story by Lieut.. Col. Thorn
dixie, "Jessie's Chickens" a home-life
story by Hattie Tying Griswold, "Edith's
Guinea-Pig," a travel story by Esther
George, and Bronson Company Limit
ed)," another home-lite story by J. ii.
Jameson, are very entertaining. A
Moqui folk-tale OF 'sThe Genesis of
Earth and Noon" a Morse folk-tale of
"Why the Sea is Salt" the Margaret
Patty Letter." the drawing of the
Child Figure" Miss Runners art-pa-
peri are readable and instructive Mar
garet Sydney's Peppers Serial is in
tensely interesting this month. men
and Things" is full of good original an
ecdotes, and there are many readable
poems and enjoyable pictures, puzzles
and the Children's Letter-Box. $40 a
year, 90 cents a number. ID. Lothrop
Company, Boston.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-24
"COURTING STICKS"
The Unique Fashion of Making Love
Olden Times.

The Unique Fashion OF Making Love in
Olden Times.
In the early New England days, rs
far back as the middle of the eighteenth
century, when hospitality was prac-
tice as well as virtue, there was in
most houses large assembly room,
and there the family and all the guests
and chance callers gathered on winter
nights about the blazing fire logs. We
know that youth was youth, and love
was love, and Young men were timid
and maidens were shy, and courtship
went on in those days.
How was counting possible in this
common room, where every word was
heard and every look taken notice of?
We read in the admirable volume of the
recent Centennial of Longmeadow,
Mass, by Prof Il. s. Storrs of that
town, that i'm the winter evenings for
the convenience of young lovers, since
there was no next ROOM" counting
sticks were used; that is long wooden
tubes that could convey from lip to ear
sweet and secret whispers. Was this
invention peculiar to Longmeadow?
1t is charming picture that this calls
up of life in a Puritan household, this
tubular love making, the pretty girl
NEARLY every girl is pretty in the fire.
light of long ago. seated in one stiff
high backed chair, and the staid but
blushing lover in another, handling the
counting stick, itself an open confess
sion of something more than liking, if
not of true love.
Would the young man dare to say II
love xrntnf' fhrntaerh n ttth and xxnIllH
he feel encouraged by the laughing,
tender eyes of the girl when she re-
piled through the same passage "Do
tell?" Did they have two sticks so that
one end of one could be at the ear, and
the end of the other at the mouth all
the while? How convenient, when the
young man got more ardent than seem
ly, for the girl to put her thumb over
the end of the tube and stop the
flow of SOUL Did the young
man bring his stick, ard so an
nounce his intention, or did the
young lady always keep one or pair
on hand, and so reveal willingness or
expectation? 1t certainly was more
convenient than the telephone. Lovers
can make love with anything. even
with telephone; the successful court
ing of a deaf person flor there is one
word that nearly every one likes to
hear, as we know, can 60 on through
speaking trumpet; but these counting
sticks seem to us the ne plus ultra of
tender communication-whe a third
person is present They would be use
full at large parties where there is such
din and babble one can only court a
pretty girl at the risk of bronchitis or
laryngitis. Sometimes in the jam you
can not get near the object of your de-
votion, but with long counting stick
you could vile her away from her too
ardent admirer. This invention seems
worthy of revival for many reasons
Civilization in its progress drops good
many things that ought to be retained.
Christian at Work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-09-24

A year or two ago the people who
owned round dInilg-table envied
those who possessed :; square one, and
now the matter is reversed and still
the madame with the o6long table is
out of fashion. / heard lady say of
her square table, which, of course. is a
long one when few table boards are
put in it: This is hopelessly suggest
i've of boarding honse. this long ta-
BILE; so | have had great cover made
for it, which is seven feet round and 1T
which can seat eighteen people" And
so it goes. We who have Oblong tables
are worried because they are not round,
and those that are square are in fashion
one year and mt of fashion another,
and things have to be kept going. so
that trade may boom and that those
who are afraid of the dictates of fashion
may be kept miserable. Toledo Jour
nal