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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-17

The Chinese minister was present, ac-
companied by several Of his secretaries
and attired in Il costume Of remarkable
beauty. The silks and fabrics Of which
it was composed must have excited at
once the admiration and envy Of half
the ladies present. On his head he wore
cap Of a mandarin Of the highest rank
and relative Of the emperor In place
Of the yellow button which usually sur
mounts the top was a magnificent opal
as large as pullet's egg, blazing with a
myriad light and surrounded by circle
of diamonds the smallest of which could
not weigh less than two carats. The
opal would have turned Col. Pat Donan
green with envy. The whole headgear
must have cost the minister not less than
5000. and lie has several others equally
gorgeous and expensive Hardly the
sort 70 leave ON the hat rack with the
front dooropen. are theyl With oriental
sagacity the worthy ambassador from
the Golden empire wears his cap in
mixed company. and has the others pad.
locked in a bonnet box. and carries the
key up his sleeve. = Washington Post
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-17
SOME NEW LIFE
In the Wholesale Trade Of San Fran
cisco.

\ new hardware concern has Just been
started under the name Of Miller, Sloss ~
Scott, in San Francisco, to do q iobbing
business only.
They have secured the four-story build
ing, Nos. H. II and ~ Pine street, formerly
occupied by Mcssrs j. e. johnson 4 Go.
The building has been completely fitted
up for their business, having three hydraulic
elevators to facilitate the handling Of goods,
two of which have been Just constructed.
The firm was incorporated May 10, and Is
composed of Charles II. Miller, President;
A. W. Milligan, First Vice President; John
A. Scott, Second Vice. President; Joseph
Sloss, Secretary and Treasurer. These Of
iicers. with A., l.. Scott and Leon Sloss,
constitute the Board of Directors.
Charles Il. Miller, the President, is q ma
tive Californian and well known among
hardware dealers on the Pacific Coast.
Starting as an Office boy with Hooker & Co.,
he served them seven years, and in 1876 en-
tered the service of Dunham, Carrigan &
Co., in whose employ he continued for a
term of fifteen years, leaving there last
month to engage in the new enterprise
headed with his name,
A. W. Milligan, the First Vice-p President,
has, until the corporation of Miller, Sloss
n Scott, been connected with the Durham,
Carrigan 4 Hayden Co. Is New York branch,
in charge of their iron, steel and pipe de-
partment. He represents the new concern
at l45 Broadway, New York, and attends to
all its purchases and placing of orders in
the Eastern States.
John A. Scott and A. Lowndes Scott have
also been identified with the Durham, Car
rigan Il Hayden Co, and with their oppor-
tunities have acquired large acquaintance
among the trade, both in the city and
throughout the Coast.
Joseph Sloss, the Secretary and Treasurer,
will have control of the office and financial
department, being specially fitted for this
work through his experience of several
years in the Anglo Californian Bank, I'D.
! Messrs. Joseph and Leon Sloss are SONS of
Mr.. Louis Sloss, whose name is known in
all business circles in the West, as promi-
nent in many of the leading industries and
the progress of that section of the country.
They have also secured the services of w.
A. Rice, W. A. Leonard and Carlton Il.
Moulthrop, men thoroughly posted in the
business, having occupied responsible and
leading positions with the Dunham, Carri-
gan 4 Hayden Co.
II is proposed to carry complete line of
shelf and heavy hardware, tools, mill and
mining supplies, engineers and railroad
supplies, iron, steel, pipe, sheet iron, fit
tings, globe and steam fittings; in fact,
everything that goes to make up first
class assortment and stock in their line.
All the members of the firm are young,
enterprising and energetic, and will try for
a fair proportion of the hardware trade.
With their stock of new goods in, aided by
all the improvements in conducting the
business that their experience has suggested
to them, they are fully prepared to meet all
the requirements of intending purchasers,
who would do well to give them call.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-17

Brown county has a prodigy in the
shape Of lO-year-oId boy with talent
for days and dates. Roy Odenweller,
son of Mr.. s. P. Odenweller, of Industry
township, is the infant wonder. Give
him any date in any month of this year,
last year or next year, and he can at
once tell you the day of the week upon
which il falls or has fallen. For exam
pie, ask him ON what day of the week
will Oct II. 1889. fall, and he will
promptly anwer Thursday which is
correct And 60 Of any date Of last year
or the year TO come, How he arrives at
the solution be does not know. Numer.
Gus gentlemen Of undoubted veracity
have repeatedly tested hisstrange power.
The little fellow is bright youngster
but does not exhibit any unusual preco-
city beyond this peculiar gift. lie says
that beyond the three years-the current,
the last and the next-he cannot give
correct answers, Next year be will lose
all power over S(with which he is now
conversanu and his mind will grasp that
Of 1891. of which he now knows nothing.
He has no rule or method, nor does he
know how lie arrives at the true answer,
but il is certain that lie is correct when
answering. Quincy Qlls.) Cor. Chicago
Tribune.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-17
Eashion's .favorite

Tnshion's .favorate
fad, centers in that famous, fascins-
ting game--lawn tennis.
But there are women who cannot
engage in any pastime. They are
delicate, feeble and easily exhausted.
They are sufferers from weaknesses
and disorders peculiar to females,
which are accompanied by sallow
compilations, expressionless eyes and
haggard looks.
For overworked, "worn out"
"run down." debilitated teachers,
milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
"shop-girls," housekeepers, nursing
mothers, and feeble women gen
orally, DR.. Pierce's Favoritc Pre-
scription is the greatest earthly
boon, being unequaled as an appe-
tizing cordial and restorative tonic.
It's the only medicine for women,
sold by druggists, sndcr a positise
guarantee from the makers, Of sat
isfaction in every case, or money re-
funded. This guarantee has been
faithfully carried out for years.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-17

Recently, In Washington horse car, a
colorel dude was seated among the passen.
gers. A young woman Of his own color en-
tered, and be Immediately rose and offered
her his S at. She gracefully demprred and
said; u do not like to deprive you, sir, Of
your seat "oh, TO depravity, miss was
his reply; mo deprayity at all Iprefer to
ttanG. .--'rhe .Asonaat.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-17
August .
Flower

Perhaps you do not believe these
statements concerning Green's Au-
gust Flower. Well, we can't make
you. We can't force conviction in
to your head or med
Doubling icine into your
throat. We don't
Thomas. want to. The money
is. yours, and the
misery is yours; and until you are
willing to believe, and spend the one
for the relief of the other, they will
stay SO. John H. Foster, rI22
Brown Street, Philadelphia, says:
my wife is little Scotch woman,
thirty years ofage and Of a naturally
delicate disposition. For five or six
years past she has been suffering
from Dyspepsia. She
Vomit became so bad at last
that she could not sit
Every Meal. down to a meal but
she had to vomit it
as soon as she had eaten it. Two
bottles of your August Flower have
cured her, after many doctors failed.
Shecan now eat anything, and enjoy
it; and as for Dyspepsia, she does not
know that she ever had it" q
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-17

MERCHANT HOTEL, Third and D streets,
Rates, 81 to sl.50 per day. Jacob Haas, Prop.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-17

Many man who has had the key to the pitua.
tion has lost II because he was not in condition
10 discover the ey-hole.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-17

Try GERMEA for breakfast.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
About Sample Copies.

Whenever 1 write anything that
l ought not to write, l have orders
for Sample copies" Of my paper
from all over the country.
1t shows that the world is not
ripe for the millennium yet.
l cannot always take the time
to send these single sample copies,
so that | just put the name of the
party who writes on my regular
mailing list.
Nobody can tell the style of a
scatter gun paper like mine from
a single issue. When 1 am jolly
the paper is jolly, and when l am
blue, like l have been ever since
the issue before last, the paper is
blue.
So that l ask Of these friends
as l hope they are-to whom my
paper may come, that they will let
it come just long enough to make
up their minds about it, and then
either pay me for it or say they
intend to pay me for it at some
reasonable date, or that they do
not intend to pay me for it.
And this is what l ask of every
body to whom this paper goes who
has not paid for it.
Any of those three answers will
be satisfactory to me, and will be
thankfully received.
Nearly all the communications
that come to ME are kindly ex-
pressed; but yesterday l got two
BLADES wrapped together and re-
turned to me indOrsed with this
superscription, ''DOn't want it at
any price,"
Those two gentlemen have been
taking it for nearly five months
now, without paying for it, and
now that l have said something
that many of my friends and l re-
gret, they take this occasion to add
to my trouble.
If there is good world that all
people will get to hereafter that
only try to do good, even though
they fail, l am glad Of that chap.
ter in the New Testament on the
subject of "stars differing from
one another 10 glory and that
goes to show that there will b'
different ranks in the other world
| hope these gentlemen and
will all get there just the same, bu
somehow l can't help hoping tina
We will not have rooms on tn
same Hat, so to speak.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14

; least comparative failure. re W,
preserve the dignity of our prin-
ciples by holding to their appro
pirate name which is their true
index, we will be the greatest
party that this country ever saw
and only such a party will have
the courage to take up new moral
issues, and settle them rightly.
For persons outside the party
to object to the name, take it,
is a good omen. for it shows they
are thinking about US, and that
their consciences are in process
of adjustment, and the more they
sec the tenacity of our manhood,
and the more they contemplate
our principles, the more they will
admire and have confidence in
our party.
I think that with the fact that
we have stood so long against
unprecedented opposition, while
so many other parties have gone
down, and that we are gaining in
strength, prestige and influence,
we should have added faith and
courage, and less Houndering.
IF we are constant in fidelity to
our name and principles, they
will carry us through in Gods
own good time, and we can afford
to "labor and to wait"
What we must guard against
now is impatience.
We must expect the flying me
teOrs to spend their force some
what before the power OF our at
traction shall be brought to bear
upon them in perfect degree.
The principles of the Prohib,.
ton party are so humanitarian,
so universally applicable, so free
from prejudice OF class or section,
so divine that they form the very
center of attraction for the moral
universe; and will, in due course
of time, draw all men to it who
have any natural affinity.
Patience, courage and persist
ence will winn. Let us not talter.
j. b. MARTIN.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
About Fred Henry's"Ciarion.'

A. gentleman from Versailles
who has jest called to pay his re
spects and hissubscription for THl
BLADE, is one of a number OF fin,
people from, Versailles who hav,
expressed tp me regret that Free
Henry's new paper, "The Clarion
Of Versailles. does not reflect the
distinguished Prohibition sym.
pathy of his parents.
This gentleman told ME he had
subscribed far the paper under the
impression that it would have q
color OF this. kind, and another
gentleman tcld me yesterday the
same thing.
I can but H;ink that Mr.. IIenry's
political sen1ms.i, are in sym
pathy with iosh of his parents,
and while I ~ not ask him to
make his paptra Prohibition sheet,
unless it is his conscience to do 80,
l do think that in justice to his
rearing, to himself and to the
community, Sis paper ought at
least to reflect the sentiments of
that large ami better element of
the Democratic party that is get
ting ashamed4pf the liquor intlu-
ence in that party.
understand that The Clarion
has in its last tissue, which / have
not seen, q reply to my previous
illusions to il, the nature Of which
/ have not heerd.
have beenengaged in Journal
ism a little lpnger than Brother
Henry has, AMI [ am satisfied that
if he will letAhis "CIarion" be
trumpet thatiwill give no uncer-
tain sound fir Prohibition and
Woman Rights. it will make a
financial succsss, and there is no
reason to SUPPOSE that he will do
this unless ne gives his paper this
turn.
l can cut Tut Of The BLADE
good things t'lat his mother has
said that he might simply reprint
in his paper acl make better pa
per than 10 Blackburn could edit
to save bis lifH
Thales of MI tus said in Greek
what in my fish type looks
like Gnothi AHh.
l hope that young Brother
of the quillwi pdiate upon this
before his- p sgets crystalized
into the old democratic hum
drum.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
A Call by Chairman Harris for
Amounts Pledged.

H'DQU'Rs STATE PROHIBITION, |
Executive Committee of KY.
To HE Prohib,tionists Of Kentucky.
BY order of the Executive Com.
mittee of the Prohibition party
of the State, l am directed to
earnestly request every person who
! has subscribed to the "pledge
fund" for the organization of the
State, to send al once the full
amount of their pledge up to the
first day of March, 1891, to the
office OF L. Ii. Ferrell, treasurer,
$40 West Jefferson street, Louis
vile, Ky.
Your committee has engaged
two organizers, who will begin
their assaults on the rum power
aud rum parties in the State
about the first of March next, and
your committee must have your
pledges paid to that date. 1t will
ueed it all. Aud your committee
earnestly, in the honored name
of Prohibition, and in the name
of enslaved humanity to the rum
traffic, appeal to every prohibi-
ZIONIST in the State, and every
friend to good government, pure
homes, aud exalted citizenship,
to send your pledges to this fund
ii you have not heretofore done
80, and thereby come up to the
help of the right against the dark
minions of crime and vice, cor
ruption.. and money, ana aid in
strangling to the death the de-
stroying beast of the rum power
in our land, and expelling from
the State the shameless licensed
system of the traffic.
Prohibitionists, your commit
tee have faith and confidence in
your exalted patriotism and fear
less manhood in this dark hour
in this gigantic struggle for home
and country against the insatiate
enemy and destroyer of the peace
and honor of your State.
JOSIAH HARRIS, Chm'n.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
MILLERsBUaG, KY, Feb. 1, '91.

MILLERsBUaG, KY, Feb. 1, '9l.
Mr.. q. Q. Moore.
Enclosed you will find twenty
cents. In return kindly send nc
several copies of the last issue OF
the Blue Grass Blade. Your
editorial comparing Mr.. Atherton
with highway robbers l regard
as the very best thing that wal
ever published in Central Ken.
lucky, and it you could be per-
suaded to print it in tract form il
would do much toward educating
our people in temperance reform
Respectfully,
MRs. 8. NJ. BAsBRE.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14

vention, in session at Omaha,
adopted q resolution favoring
woman suffrage. This action will
not meet with appreciation in the
South. The women Of the South
do not want to vote.-Heorge.
town Times.
I believe the most intelligent
women of Georgetown would say
that they are willing for other
educated women to vote.
The Prohibition party simply
wants intelligent women who
want to vote, to have the right to
do 60, and no man or woman can
offer any reason why they should
not have that right.
Withholding suffrage from ed
ucated women is the domination
of brute force over the broadest
enlightenment of the age.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
An Open Letter from Chairman
Harris.

HEADQUARTERS PROHIBITION !
STATE Elk. COMMITTEES OF Ky.
Paducah, February 9, 1891.
The Chairmen of the Congress
sional District Committees OF the
Prohibition party of the State are
hereby urged to the immediate
discharge OF a duty that cannot
be delayed longer without seri-
GUS and damaging results to the
party, and the final triumph Of
the grandest principles actuating
or impelling political parties to-
day in this country. We urge
each chairman in his respective
Congressional district to put on
the whole armor of his faith in
aud his loyalty to the only party
OF exalted and prominent reform
in the land and 60 forth to the
discharge of his whole duty. We
urge you that you see to it that
there shall be an active. brave
and determined chairman in each
county in your district; make this
appointment in each county at
once, and make them OF such ma
terial as has convictions OF duty
aud the courage Of their convic-
tiOns, fearing no man, no party,
when right and duty call them to
action. And the district commit.
teemen should see to it that the
county chairman organize with.
out delay their respective c0un-
ties, form Prohibition party clubs
in each county, and take subscrip-
tions to one or more Prohibition
party newspapers, and thereby
scatter the truth, inform the peo'
pie and they will not then be
content with the false utterances
Of the liquor press of the coun-
try.
The Prohibition party organi,
GERS tor the State at large will b.
in the field in short time snd
begin the assault on the run
works of the State. We mus
stand by them. We must holo
up their hands as were the hands
Of Moses, the leader and captain
OF Isrssls' hosts, by Aaron and
Herr, aud - it did to Isrssl, so
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
The "Queen City" Heard
From.
CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 8, 81.

CINCINNATI, o., Feb. 9, 81.
G. c. Moore, Esq.,, Ed. Blade,
Lexington, Ky.
DEAR SIR-Your last e lition OF
the Blade is just before me-
have read the first two articles
on first page, and have to say
"rhem's my sentiments" The
centrifugal force of the old par
ties is throwing Oft the reforma-
tory elements in them, and what
we want to do is to keep up q
corresponding centripetal force
and take them all in: remember.
ing all the time that if we begin
to compromise, in any way, the
principles Of our party, this cen
tripetal force will be weakened
and we will fail to crystalize the
flying fragments of the disinte'
grated old parties.
Sterling principle and eterna'
fidelity to that principle in q
party will tell in time; just al
manly principle and true moral
courage in a man will conduce to
his strength and favor with the
people.
As to the talk that few "a
very few l am glad to say of our
people have about changing the
name Of our party, | think il
weakness and folly.
Christ, when ON Earth, said il
we were ashamed to confess Lii
name before men, He would b'
ashamed to confess US before Hi,
Father and the holy angels.
So if We have not the courage
to stand for our name because i,
ls q definition OF it's principles
and because the Devil hates it
we will find ourselves on the in
cline plane OF degeneracy befOr
long; for one compromise alway
leads to another; AMI the tirs
little compromise We make is tn
most insiaious. I believe if W
should change our name the Oh
gels OF Heaven would blush, be
cause further compromise woul
w inevitable.
We mean to abolish not onl,
the liquor traffic but all otheI
forms OF evil when we get int
power, so that the name Prohibi
ZIONIST would be just as applies
cable when the liquor business
destroyed.
The main provincs OF govern
ment is the PrOhlDitlon OF evil
otherwise it would be superhuou
for without restriction, peopl
need no party to say they ma
do 80 and so.
l hold that q change Of nam
wosld be the harbingsr Of
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
will victory come to Prohibition.
The committee hope, by and
through theae means. to thOrOuUh.

Will victory come to PrOhlbitiOn
The committee hope, by and
through these means,to thorough.
ly organize the party in every
county in the State, to arouse the
slumbering energies of the best
citizenship of the Commonwealth,
sound the token, "to arms! to
arms!" against the common and
deadly enemy of both State and
people, and drive back demoral.
lied and beaten the criminal CO.
horts of the liquor traffic in their
unholy advance under the lead
ership of the old political parties,
with crime-stained hands and
hoofs, against the citadel of Lib.
srty.
The call for q party Prohibi-
ton State convention will be is
sued soon for some day in the
month of May next. Let each
county be prepared to send rep.
resentatives to that convention;
let each county have q voice in
that convention, and let that
voice be heard for Prohibition;
let no county be silent. This can
only be effected by organization.
Prohibition patriots will now
come up to the full measure of
your duty in this crisis. Do it
like brave men, and leave the re.
suits with God.
BY order OF the State Execu-
tive Committee.
JOSIAH HARRIS Chm'n.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14
A Tale Of fTwO (kentucky " Cities

There are lying nearly equi.dis-
tant around Lexington the follow
ing towns: Georgetown, Frank
fort, Versailles, Nicholasville, Har-
rodsburg, Danville, Winchester,
Richmond and Paris.
These towns are all in the same
kind Of Bluegrass country, and are
! filled with people who come from
the finest families ut thia-Staas.--
There is hardly a newspaper
man in Bluegrassdom that will not
tell you that all of these towns
except one have a record of hor-
rible crimes.
The exception is Danville.
Twelve miles from Danville is
Harrodsburg. The reputation OF
Harrodsburg is simply appalling.
A sample OF the way they do things
there occurred at their last court
day, when a sixteen year old boy,
in a drunken debauch, shot dead
a young man in the presence OF
his wife, that he married on last
Christmas, for no reason in the
world except that the boy was
drunk.
When l was Baltimore coffee
drummer l used to stop over at
Danvllle every time that l could
when l could not get home, and l
avoided Harrodsburg, and many
drummers did the same.
l never knew until years after
that at that time, and for years be-
fore, Danville did not allow liquor
sold within its limits. 1t is the
only one of these towns of which
this is true.
Ii had any business interest to
take me to Danville, l would not
hesitate to take my family there,
but my boys and | will dig in the
dirt to make our living for long
time yet, before l would take them
to any other Of those towns.
The Presbyterians drove the IL
quor traffic out of Dauville be-
cause they wanted to help their
college there. There are plenty
of them in this city to drive it out
of Lexington if they wanted to do
so; for they are wealthy, intelli-
gent and influential. But as soon
as l say in print that the Presby.
Ierians have no college here, and
that their business interests make
it safer for them not to oppose the
liquor traffic, then good people here
say l am introducing my peculiar
religious views, and am ridiculing
and prosecuting particular re.
ligiOus denomination.
| One of the best Christians and
Prohibitionists in this city, a few
days ago, said to me that one Of
the most prominent Presbyterian
ministers in this county had said
to him of another OF the mosl
prominent Presbyterian ministers
of the county, that he was 9TH.
most worldly wise man he eveI
knew"
u l do not think can be mis-
taken in saying that there is a re
cognized difference here on tn,
! question of opposing the liquo
traffic between the Christian an,
Baptist and Methodist Churche
ON the one hand, and the Presby
terian and Episcop pal Churches OF
the other.
Blue-grass blade., 1891-02-14

There are questions upon which
even the Farmers Alliance will
not agree. The National Con-