The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-04-17
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We have read our article again, rs you
advised. and have also s'retiected.n You
nsk who we are, as our name implies we
have been globe-aruttvr. We have reclineti
beneath the shade uf orange groves nnd
listened 20 the tinkle Of guitars played BY
hark-eyed rcnufitas; have steod ON the
warm side OF icebergs Ia the frozen north;
have wandered from the Atlantic to the Pa
cilic, and at present are tarrying here awhile
In search of health and pastimc; aud II IL
needless To remark we find the lutter In
great abundance.
You seem tu make a song OF the word
.gentleman.m Gould man born under
the Southern Cross be anything else but Il
gentlenanS You 'supposen we are gen
tlenan. Were not the days of the field OF
honor over. we would instantly choose
squirt@guns loatled with soda water at three
paces land IL would be death 10 hothl.
You still claim the best spring In the
State. We will give you some more "infor-
nation" In M early day-hefore you or
came gracefully down to slake their thirst.
and the festive pigeon, high overhead, Mt
last settled down to wet his beak In the
sparkling pool-then y2n had spring
villel long long before the ruthless hand Of
man had reared a paEoda, pagan-like, above
the bubbling stream. (And we want 10 say
reared that grand and noble piece of archi-
lecture had a Henry Clay head-morc clay
than Hsnrye
You dwell at length ON your improve
nents. How did you get those Improve
ments9 BY having q live marshal and n
corporation who siexe and convict for trivial
offences their nearest friends. t"rhere was
red on his cheek and down on his lip-he
was only boy, you know" Every brick
in the fortitieation around your spring,
every shovelfil of dirt on your graded
has caused mothers heart to bleed or a
fathers tears to flow. Dear. Mr.. -z, par
don our emotion; we pnuse 10 weep.
Again, you quote Brutus before the Ro-
man senate. Oh, Mr.. -E, we love TO hear
that, for at one time In our young and cal
low youth we figured on the histrionic stage
in the capacity of heavy tragedian. II You
but quote such lines as thoss, thinking to
use them as a dsgser against ms, you, like
Brutus, will slay yourself with your own
dagger. Thus runs the saw. when In
for your love, hut death for your ambition"
We could repeat lines applicable to your
case from the days OF Patrick Henry to the
trial before PLATE. Now, dear Mr. Last
letter-in- the alphabet, won't YOU hcarken tn
our gentle cnckle and he warned9 We were
| educated by the best master under the blue
canopy aboye-ENperience. And don't stir
up our hot Southern blood by prolonging
this sorrow full affair. II you do YOU will be
hopclessly lost. But We were always gen
erous to foe-if you wish to capitulate,
You shall have all the honars Of war.
You speak of saving something to the
gentlemen of the EKPRESs- We suppose
| niter You have said Your say you will leave
the floor To u.s. and Ii we succeed in gaining
recognition from the chair we are prepared
To make an able defence.
We send You our latest campaign song.
and until we meet before the bar of the l.EB-
AMOS EXPRESS, will bid you "au revoir.a
Soda again sounds her alarms
in the EMPRESS our spring she harms:
We will never lay down our arms
As long we ean WELD pen.
Aud may the breeze from Waterloo
Wan cur kisses up TO Nou
And give YOU .'information'' too
As long can WELD q pen.
How very strange II Is To me,
My dearest friend, kind Mr.. u,
We will not drink your bug tea
As long as we can WELD a pcn. o. r,