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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16
HEDGEU ABOUT by A PROsCRIP'
TIVE TABOO.

lam not aiming to convince mental babies as
indeed that would be fruitless without the nee,
csgary cultured intellect that makes logic appli-
cable. Force, brilliancy and originality even
are no weapons to attack slave with. For many
centuries the medical art was hedged about by a
proscriptive taboo which 1t, us yet, has not sur
yiyed The brand for numbering truth is the
penalty Of imbecility stamped upon the mental
calber OF the average individual-in relation to
medicine and medicine men The sun OF the
nineteenth century has not yet dawned upon his
intellectual horizon He, together with his ideal
medicine man, still hibernates in the good old
days Of the dark ages, when 1t was bud form TO
be inquisitiye. He still believes" in bleeding,
blistering, vomiting, purging and sweating. He
! loves copious doses Of horse medicine. He de-
| lights In assafmtida and caOinel and carbolic
ncid They are considered Indispensable; no
well-regulated family, with pigmy intellects and
abdominal development considers itseli saie
without those family lares. These do not wish
1. to convert; they are the Rip Van Wrinkles that
will continue to slumber through this and prob
ably through the next century. They play no
role In the worlds history. They liyei they die.
| No monument marks their forgotten sepulcher.
| Humanity was not enriched by their entrance;
IL mus lObl mourning Dy tnelf chll luey ART unit
wood on the shores Of time and font with the
ebb and tide Of opinions they have inherited
from their ranthrOpomOrphie ancestry. No, it is
not to these wish to address myself, but to the
thinking ones, whom thought does not throw
into m epilcptic paroxysm; who love knowledge
for its own sake who are willing to Investigate
the truth or iulsity OF any proposition, and, once
convinced, will stand by II through all the grim
aces Of u chattering and delayed civilization.
To these--not the chatterers, but the thinkers
commend the IIistogenetlc System for investiga-
ton, and will elucidate with pleasure any ques-
tion not sufficiently clear in book, which will be
sent free to nny address.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16

CouGHs. Bro,On's Bronchial 1roches" are
a sure remedy for Coughs and Sore Throat
25 cents box,
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16

Miss Joyce Yes Jack and are to become part
ners for life. Miss Means--And you will be th'
senior partner. How nice!.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16

To the indolent man every movement is
labor movement
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16

Kidd you read the account OF the big horse
race yesterday? Y-No; ] am not acquainted
with the language.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16

Wanted THE name OF the goldsmith who omadt
the welkin ring,
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16

The safe carriage of dynamite is now an ex-
ploded theory.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16

Try GERMEA for breakfast.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-16

Use Enameline Stove Polish; no dust, no smell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12

method Of robbing q steamship, boarded the
British steamship Namoa at Hong Kong. II is
of course, only by going aboard in port. dis
guised as coolies. that the Chinese pirates can
expect TO take a foreign steamship, for il would
be impossible for their junks TO overhaul or
stop her. When once on board, unsupported
and themselves perfectly safe, il is easy for
them to rise at a preconcerted signal and take
the ship into their possession. This was what
happened in the case OF the Namoa The de-
tails Of the tragedy will be well remembered.
The captain and several Passengers were killed.
many more were wounded and. after thoroughly
plundering the ship. the robbers decamped in
the junks that had been waiting for them in the
place to which they steered their ship. The
Namoa. her crew crippled, was finally brought
to shore and the whole Of China rang with the
news OF her capture. There was Of coarse an
instant demand Tor the fresh suppression Of
piracy and also for the immediate punishment
of the culprits. That the culprits would be
brought to justice none of the resident Euro
peans were very confident. however. The
hiding places of these sea-going gentry are
innumerable. their brotherhood is close and
compact, and their facilities In this case for
losing themselves among the vast mass Of
the vast population of China we're of the
very best. But on the other baud il is TO be
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Woman Suffrage In Australia.
From the London oueen.

FROM the London QUEEN
As in England, the premier is In favor OF the
change in the law. But the Hon. David Nouro
has been enabled to do more than Lord Salisbury
has yet seen his way to ACCOMPLISH has
promised to bring in bill giving some meas
ure OF effect to tie principle. The bin now be-
fore the legislature is that all women possess
ing the municipal franchise should have the
parnamenthry vote. Tins proposal, We learn,
has The support OF q considerable proportion
OF ihe press.
Among the Australasian colonies South Aus
tralia viii i'm all probability lea the van in car
rylng the parliamentary acknowledgements Of
women into law. Yet, be IL noted. eristocratic
Quee ls!and has formed a womans suffrage
league: TasmaRa viii not be likely long 70
bold aloof. and when western Australia has
fully settled into the working Of its newly OBJ
tained responsible government il Will doubt
receive the womans suffrage wave.
Progress all along the liue SCENE at no dis
tant period inevitable. The forces which have
hitherto given strength TO the movement are OF
a permanent nature. In the public schools all
over the country, which are of a very high
character, the girls enjoy the same advantages
as the boys. There H.. IN fact. what seems 10 US
in England wonderful intermixture of the
sexes, and the result Ii that the rising woman-
hood OF Australia is remarkably well educated
aud that The maldens read the newspapers with
no less avidity than do the youths neu in Al
men are absolutely equal. At the present time
there are l6O women graduates at the University
OF New Zealand, seventy or eighty an sydney, az
many In Melbourne and thirty in Adelaide. In
deed the assertion has been hszaraed that they
are outnumbering the men. In this connection
II IS curious 10 note that In no country Of the
world Is the percentage Of unmarried woman
smaller than in Australia
The mode OF propaganda across the seas
naturally differs somewhat from that with
which we > rn 1era fap r.. a,,.t
memorandum WAS cent 20 the most important
religious body in South Australia--the WESLEYAN
and a resolution that in the opinion Of the
conference women were entitled to the vote
with men was carried not only by the Me--
leyans, but by the Bsltists, Congregational
lists, billie Christians and il neea scarcely be
added, the Society Of Friends. The Church Of
England has not been approached, but there
seems q Likelihood Of sympathy in that di-
rection, for the Episcopalian authorities in Aus
trsiia have just passed resolution that women
communicates should have the same power al
election in the synod men.
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remembered that in China as in nowhere
else in the world the emperor's will is law,
and as the mandate went ont to secure the
offenders the whole populations which on
another occasion might have served as a pro-
lection to the fngitives from justice, was in
this case turned into a stupendous detective
force. No good Chinaman who had informa-
ton to give withheld it when questioned or
delayed to proffer it so soon as he had the
opportunity to give it to the authorities The
consequence was that not only the half hun
dred pirates directly concerned in the looting
of the Namoa were laid hold of. but hal. a
hundred more were taken and brought to trial
at Annoy.
The prisoners have. so FAR, been accorded q
regular trial. but there was no question about
their occupation or their guilt. The courts
are not yet through with them, but those who
have been brought TO the bar of Justice have
been only condemned and executed in the reg
ular Chinese fashion by beheading. or. perhaps
1t should be called the most usual Chinese
fashion, for there are other methods of execu-
ton quite as regular. though not SO generally
resorted to Torture is frequent in the celes-
tial kingdom, but the death sentence is ordi-
narily carried out by the ak. Our illustrations
show scenes at the most recent execution,
which took place at Annoy and at which nine
teen pirates were decapitated. These final
proceedings in the grim routine OF Chinese
justice took place on the SEA beach in the
presence of the requisite native officials and
performed by the executioner under the
formal protection of guard of soldiers. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12

before Cortez ever set foot there and harried
the west coast of Peru ages before Pizzaro
reached his peak in Darien. Not even in
Norseland was piracy SO recognized and so
honorable profession. The government Of
China was. of course. utterly powerless
to deal with it. When the United States
and the European nations came knocking
at the gates Of the Brother of Heaven
there were half million men en-
gagged In freebooting. In 1910 fleet Of 600
junks. under regular leadership. a floating ma
ton in ITSELF infested the coasts of Kwangtung,
working chiefly in the estuary of the Pearl
river, whose numerous harbors and channels
afforded protection and escape to their vessels
when pursued. while the towns upon the island
were plundered and the inhabitants killed if
they resisted. The combined Chinese and Por-
tuguese fleets attacked and blockaded them,
but would have been unsuccessful had not the
leaders OF the piratical forces quarreled. The
pirates broke up into two fleets, which fought
each other and after severe losses on both SIDES
made their subsection TO the government. This
was after nearly fifty years of warfare upon
these bands by the foreigners, especially the
Portuguese.
Slow as the work of exterminating the pirates
was, however, the fact is that no mercy whatever
was shown to them and that when pirate vii
iaSe was destroyed it was utterly wiped out. its
inhabitants being e1tirpated. The English,
whose trade was at stake, pursued their usual
method of blowing the robber junks out of the
water. The Portuguese and Dutch set the
pirates to fighting each other. At last the pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12

10 all tho big and little towns west Of CAsc.r,
have been in 80 far and I am aurpri.ed 90 -.
10 here IN Denver in the best hotels I nsve
saw - done anywhere else.
CHICAGO MOTHERS
IL Is fashionable In Chicago aow Tor the rich
est ladies TO take care Of their own children
One OF the prettiest sights in the parks and
bonievares is 10 see we'll attircd Young matron,
running their baby carriages. or n they ars
GIVING holding their babies. am told the
nurse glrl u truly the mothers assistant aud
not the habys. and the baby's mothers boss
as site Is 80 often in Washington. The practice
Is general. they tell me in the vest ana roall,
adds feature to street life that every com.
mon sense individual must admire.
ADENvER SUNDAY
Is just like all the rest of the region about Che
Rockies. Churches are plentiful and crowded.
Parks and pleasure resorts just a. numerou,
and more crowded. Some stores open and
dong thriving business. more closed and the
section deserted. just TO round OF the pic,
ture hear drum and women voices joinine
n lingling hymn and find u 60 be the SALIVA.
ton Army On the road 60 their barracks for
the Afternoon war with the enemy 81 souls. Il
takes large variety 20 MAKE up Denver ana
IN her $4,000 she thinks she has some spcct-
mems Of all humanity. II. Nee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12

not hnd certain decoy letter in IT, which was
last checked at Heavy Tree Crossing, shall
know that it remains in Green's possession OF
Hickory Hill"
She was sitting back in her chair, white and
breathless. He glanced at her kindly and then
took up his hat. Come, Mrs. Baker. don't
let this worry you. A I told you at first, you
have nothing to fear. Even your thoughtless-
show your own innocence. Nobody will ever
be the wiser for this; we do not advertise our
affairs in the department.. Not q soul but your
self knows the real cause Of my visit here. will
leave You here alone for awhile, 30 as to divert
any suspicion. You will come. as usual, this
evening, and be seen by your friends. l will
only be here when the bag arrives to open il.
Goodbye. Mrs Baker; it's nasty bit OF BUSH
ness, but it's all in the days work. I've seen
worse. and, thank God, you're out Of it."
She heard his footsteps retreat into the outer
office and die out of the platform; the jingle of
his spurs and the hollow beat Of his horse
hoofs. that seemed to find dull echo in her
own heart, and she was alone. The room was
very hot and very quiet; she could hear the
varying Gnd creaking of the shingles under the
relaxing OF the nearly level sunbeams. The
office clock struck T. In the breathless silence
that followed a woodpecker took up his inter-
rupted work on the roof and seemed to beat
out monotonously in her ear the last words of
the stranger. Stanton Green-a thief! Stan
ton Green, one of the ''boys" John had helped
out Of the falling tunnel Stanton Green,
whose old mother in the states still wrote let
tiers to him at Laurel Run. in few hours to be
a dlsgraced and ruined man forever. She re-
membered now, as a thoughtless woman re-
members, tales of his extravaganza and fast
living, of which she had taken no heed and,
with u sense of shame of presents sent her,
THAT she now clearly saw must have been far
beyond his means. VIVA: should the boys say2
WHAT would John have said? All. what would
John have done?
She started suddenly to her feet, white and
cold rs on that day that she had parted from
John Baker before the tunnel. She put on her
hat and mantle and going to that little iron
safe that stood in the corner, unlocked 1t, aud
took out Its entire contents of gold and silver.
She had reached the door when another idea
seized her, and opening her desk she collected
her stamps to the last sheet and hurriedly rolled
them up under her cape. Then with glance
at the clock and rapid survey of the road from
the platform she slipped from it, and seemed
to be swallowed up in the waiting woods be-
yond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12
He Had Faith.


N. Quad in New York World.
young man about twenty-five years old was
sitting in the waiting room of the Erie depot
the other day with year-old baby on his knee.
and his alarm and helplessness when the
young un' suddenly began to howl was SO
marked as to attract attention. By and by a
waiting passenger walked over to him with
smile of pity on his face and queried:
"A woman gave you that baby TO hold while
she went to see about her baggage, didn't she?''
Yes"
"Ha! ha ha! I tumbled to the fact az soon
as Isaw you. You expect her back, suppose.'
''Of course"
"Ha! ma! ha! This is rich Looking for her
every blessed minute amt you!''
II think she II come back"
"Well, this makes me laugh-ha, ha hal I
had a woman play that same trick on me in a
Chicago depot once. but no one ever will again.
Young man, you're stuck. You've been played
on for a hayseed. Better turn that thing over
to policeman and make skip before some
reporter gets on to you.
"Oh, she'll come back" replied the young
man. as he looked anxiously around.
''She will, Ell? Hal Ia! ha, Joke grows
richer and richer! What makes you think
she'll come back?''
Because she's my wife and this is our first
babyr'
"Oh-um-I see," muttered the fat man,
who got over feeling tlckled all at once, and in
his vexation he crossed the room and kicked
a dog which a farmer had tied to one Of the
seats with piece of clothes line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12
THE CHINESE P1RArEa

The Nineteen Who Were Decapitased In One
Day Mt Annoy and How They Met Death.
From the philadelphis Times.
THOUGH THE ENGLISH FORCED THE
l. opium trade on China, they made up for
the injury thus done the Chinese in opening up
to them the benefits Of civilization. And az
these can only be secured by the protection Of
commerce. tho English put down piracy in tho
Chinese seas At least they thought they did.
The Chinese pirate is, for in spite of the
English he still exists, the kinsman and con-
queror Of all freebooters Of the sea that ever
we're, and has the longest history to show Of
any rovers now existing. The very first
visitors to China knew him and dreaded him:
the old Dutch navigators wrote him down in
their records as most bloodthirsty and cruel;
he whipped the China sea and the Yellow sea,
the Indian ocean and also the Archipelago.
Long were his voyages, and if Chinese history
is to be believed-indeed, there is nothing to
contradict it-he discovered Mexico centuries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12

fession seemed extinct and vigilance was little
relaxed, both by the foreigners and by the inn
perial government The consequence was that
the hereditary instinct of the Chinese criminal
classes broke out again, and the shores of the
scienceless crew ready to fall on their seafar-
ing countrymen and plumber their coastwise
vessels of their loads. For ten years past,
therefore, the entire craft have been suffering
at the hands Of these rovers, and the depreda-
tons have gradually grown in extent, though
without attracting particular attention, for so
long as foreign vessels were untouched tho
world was likely to hear little of the matter.
1t was in December last, however, that a
band of pirates, resorting to their old-rime
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12
Narrow and Broad Gauges.
From the London Daily News.


How many people remember tho famous
''battle Of the gauges?" The victory Of what
was once known as the narrow gauge" but is
now the standard or national gauge, since mar
rover ones are no. unknown, is to absolute that
this is the last year of the existence of Bruners
measurement for the Great Western Railway
Companys permanent way. For many years
on that line the broad gauge has been dis
appearing, and, as announced in our re-
port of the company's half yearly meeting,
the change is to be complete by the 10th of May
next. The disappearing gauge, originally
adopted on the Great Western railway on
Bruners plans. is seven feet. The common
gauge, now roughly called the four foot way, is
really four feet eight and half inches. That
is the distance between the rails. the fractional
measurement being, we believe, explained BY
thu fact that originally the width OF the rails
together made up an additional three and a
half inches, and gave o wheel track Of exactly
five feet to suit the earlier locomotives and
trains. The heads Of rails are now much broader,
varying on the different lines from two and .
half to two and three-Quarters inches, or to-
gether from five to five and half inches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12
No Help for Him.

From tho Chicago Tribune.
A man who seemed to be trying hard to buy
bureau looked through the stock on hand at
large furniture store on State street yesterday
morning and said as he turned to go:
Il reckon might as we'll give it up. have
been in a dozen stores already and can't find
what want"
is 1t any particular pattern You are looking
for! asked the salesman.
'N-no," replied the man, walking absent
mindedly around an antique oak affair and ex-
aiming 1t ON all sides. I'm not hunting for
any particular style Of bureau, but I'd know it
mighty quick ii came across it,"
Perhaps your wife"
anything that will suit me will suit her,
''Or your daughters"
"Got seven Of 'em!" CIRCULATED the man, talk
ing off his hat and wiping his forehead ner-
vously.
My dear sill" said the salesman PROMPTLY,
II know what you are looking for. There ism t
bureau of tine kind you want in this market
Chewing gum will stick to the back of any of
EN-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12
Lucky Nine.

From the Chicago Herald.
The figure nine is curiously and intimately
connected with all the great gold mining excite
ments of the nineteenth century. The great
Algerian gold bubble formed and broke in 1909.
Next came the Mantazan mountain craze in
1888, when solid boulders Of gold as large az
hour barrels were reported. The California
gold fever broke out IN 1849 and ragged until
coulteracted by the Pixies Peak boom in 1859.
Ten years later, in 1869, "Old- Virginia. the
celebrated miner, struck the lucky lead which
made Virginia City and Nevada famous in the
mining annals of the world. Eighteen hundred
and seventy-nine came in on time with the
Leadvllle frenzy and the famous ''carbonates
Of Lake county. Cal. Eighteen hundred and
eighty nine bfoke the charm, but 1899 may
make up for lost time, there being two mines In
that date.