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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-01-06

The sul- buarl Of ceUN'jaa.lun last
saturday &rt down 70 work aud ac-
complishpd tie equaizt jon Of all
property eSeapg money, notes, ac-
counts ani mortgages. la all cOun-
ties in TIE s.ata, raiIroad, agricultural
swamp, wagon road and ether lands
raised ten per cent, This will add
ssn7 1a7 tn --etnn's assessment. Nc
change was made in county OH furni-
ture, carriages, etc, Merchandise and
implements were raised in every cOun-
ty tcn per cent. This will raise Linn
$76,9I9. Improvements and town lots
were also each class raised 30 per cent.
/ In the former the increase to Linn's
assessment is S6, 40, and in the latter
S343,372 Horses and mules were
raised 20 per crht i'll Linn, cattle 10
per cent, sheep 10 per cent and swine
70 per cent The increase in Linn will
nearly be million dollars and in the
state about % million, exclusive Of
mortgages. An otfort will be made to
assess them at face, but Multnomah
objects, and possibly mortgages may
be reduced IN other counties where
they were assessed a I face value,
The number Of deeds filed for record
with the county recorded during 1897
was 1925, representing an aggregate
consideration of 81 ,574, ,4A-Herald.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-01-06
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Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the
Photographic partnership of Dodsoa &
Ribelin 10 this day dissolved by mutual
consent, and hereafter the business
will be ncndncted by W. H. Ribelin.
w, H. RIBELIN,
7. l.. DoDsoN.
Lebanon, Oregon, Jan. 3, 1893.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-01-06
A.C0NTEMPLATED CHANGE.

A,CON IN / LA | Ell vi ANuL.
The Scio Press says: 1t is rumored
that the Southern Pacific Company
contemplates taking off one of the
trains on the Oregonian road, also the
trains off the Lebanon branch. In
lieu thereof a train is to be run from
Noodburn to Lebanon, and another
from Albany to Nation, This arrange
ment will probably suit nObo dy unless
it is the ). ?. Co. Wonder if the rail-
road commissioners could not he pre-
vailed upon to serve all injunction
on the railroad company to stop any
such contemplated move.
We are informed from good authori
ty that no such change is in contem-
plation. There il u move on foot to do
away with one of thelocal trains, but
which one or how it will be done or
whether it will be done at all has not yet
been decided, but Lebanon is not
alarmed but what they will be pro-
vided for all right.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-01-06

! have carrots for sale at $6per tol
at my farm four miles north of Lee
anon, or I will deliver them fc
per ton G. w. W.
For RENT. 20 acres of gar
near town for particulars @,
s, Nj
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
SACRED DEER IN JAPAN.
Tame Creatures to Be Found in Queer
Mountain Town.

Humphrey B. Kendrick, a former
resident of Santa Barbara, Cal. who
has just returned to San Francisco
from residence of several years
in Japan. gives the Examiner an in
teresting description of a little noun
tain town named Nara, in that coun-
try.
every one in Nara has deer" said
Mr.. Kendrick, "and they are as plen-
tiful there as dogs in an American
town, while around the temples are
great numbers, all sacred to the Jap
anese. And they are very tame, com
ing up even to the stranger, and al
most begging for gingerbread, OF which
they are very fond, and which the
tourists are expected to buy for them.
"When the emperor, great many
years ago, came into Nara, and Nara,
YOU know, was the first capital OF
Japan, he rode on white deer, and
that at once made the deer sacred, and
at the same time it became fashion
able to own one, and now they are the
most common thing to be seen in the
place, unless it be lanterns which are
actually without number and of every
kind and quality. A lantern in Japan
is very different from one here, for
there they are stone pillars, although
there are some of metal, and made to
be suspended. l saw some of bronze
in one of the temples, which had been
brought from Holland long ago. But,
while there are SO many, the Japanese
will never count them.
"That would be very wicked thing
in the sight of the gods, who keep the
number a careful secret. And though
sacrilegious foreigners have made the
attempt no two of them have evel
counted the same. Another feature is
the goldfish ponds-no such fish as
you see here, but II to IA inches long
and of such deep color, darker than
orange even. And those with the fan
tails are beautiful. All of the ponds
and lakes are full of them, and as the
water is very clear it is marvellous
thing to stand on the shore and watch
them dart through the ripples, ano
when out in boat the very bottom
assumes golden hue"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
Brutality of the Fortune Hunter.

Married her for her money. did he?
Why did he not kill her outright and
take it? asks the N. Y. Commercial i'd
VertiSer. Indeed, that is what a man
who makes a match with such motives
would really like TO do. He wants the
hard dollars, not the soft woman who
owns them, and he hates her because
he has had to take her also. Poor lit
tie heiresses, with such delightful
fortunes; poor little widows, with a
snug sum settled on you by the hus-
band who had your comfort at heart
how much better that you should be
penniless women, sewing for your
living at 10 cents shirt! Then some
strong, loving hand might gather you
up to tender heart, and you might
be very sure it was all for yourself
ALL every bit of it. Now. with so many
fortune hunters afoat, what are you
going to dop Married for money, was
sheP And that is why her face is SO
hard and her eyes SO cold. She knows
it, one can see. She remembers the
kisses that were so much cold "court-
ing" and did not come from the heart
at all; the VOW that was lie, when in
stead of saying, II take this woman for
better or for worse" he should have
said: Il take this woman for her
property" She understood that long
ago, no doubt. God help herp Mar
ried for money-and yet she was as
sweet and as pretty as many a girl
who is married for pure love-a rose
bud that might have been plucked to
wear over true heart. What did
the fortune hunter care for thatP A
man who woos a woman with mer-
cenary motives is rather apt to hate
her the more for being worthy of 8
better fate. And in any case, a man
hates a woman who reverses the proper
state of things, and "endows" him with
her "wordly goods" 1t is contrary
to the prayer book, and contrary to
nature.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
in ON THE GROUND FLOOR.
How a widow Made Use of What She
Heard Railroad Directors Say.

A few years ago widow and her
a Pullman sleeper on the Missouri Pa
cific railroad. The section next to this
lady happened to be occupied by
couple of directors of that railroad.
The partition between the two sections
was so thin that it was not difficult for
a conversation carried on in one sec
ton to be heard in the other. The
lady traveller heard the two directors
discussing a plan of consolidation
whereby the stock of the Missouri Pa
cific was bound to be greatly enhanced
in value. 1t was then but or cents
on the dollar. She was on her return
trip to her home in Hartford, Conn.
The conversation of the two directors
proved upon her mind. She revolved
it over and over again, until her homo
was reached, about which time $5s-
600 note due her was redeemed. She
sent for her attorney, detailed to him
the conversation she had heard, and
said she was almost resolved to invest
the 5000 in Missouri Pacific. The
attorney, mistaking her announced
resolution for irony, laughed, but the
woman of wealth persisted.
at is but $5.000." she said, @and il
1 lose shall have just as much to eat
as have always had and just as much
to wear. If the plans betrayed by
these two directors work out shall
make a good deal of money buying
Missouri Pacific"
The attorney obeyed the instructions
of his client, invested the 5000, and
in less than month the proposed con-
solidation was consummated and the
Hartford widow realized for her $4,000
investment $3.50, 900. At the first blush
this incident is set down as proof Of
luck, but the Cincinnati Times Star
holds that there was no luck about it.
1t was simply an exhibition of what in
Wall street vernacular is termed
nerve" on the part of a quick-eared
and quicker witted woman. Not one
person in 10000 would have given any
| heed to the conversation referred to-,
and not one of thousand who might
have heard and needed and who hap
pened to have the money, as the widow
had it, would have dared invest it.
| These incidents and illustrations
might be expanded until volumes were
filled. The evidence would be cumu-
lative that eyes and ears and brain
make what the thoughtless term luck.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
Irish and Yankee shrewdness


A correspondent of the Youths Com
p'1tor5 vouehes for new story of Irish
shrewdness:
A gentleman was sitting in the wait
ing-room of station on the New York
and New England railroad when an
Irishman turned away from the ticket
Office and came up to him.
Il have got the best of this ould cor
poration for once in me life," said he.
"How is that, Pat?"
81 have bought round-trip ticket to
New York and back, and"-in a whis-
per-"I amt comm back
Which recalls an incident in the Old
Colony railroad station at Boston last
summer. A tall, thin woman, hand
somely dressed, asked at the ticket of
fee for "half round trip ticket" The
agent pushed single ticket toward
her, naming the cost. "But that is
more than the half ticket would be.
want half round trip ticket" said
she, with dignity and determination,
and when the clerk failed to accommo-
date her she paid the price of the
single trip ticket with an air and ex-
preston that said as plainly as words
that she considered herself defrauded.
| Boston ADVERTISER
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
Better Looking Girls at Home.


1t is narrated of a distinguished
American journalist that when he vis-
tied Egypt for the first time he rode
out one morning to take look at the
pyramids. Mounted upon bony As
syrian mule he had inspected these
mammoth chefs d'evre of the lost arts,
when suddenly he was brought face to
face with the Sphinx.
"Goshl" said he in tones of astonish-
ment. "What's this?"
THAT" exclaimed Hassan Ben Ali.
the faithful mameluke guide, chat is
the famous Sphinx-emblazoned in
song and illumined in glory"
"Humph!" said the journalist, after
critical review of the placid DANES
features, $50, this is the Sphinx. chi
Well, l don't think she amounts tc
very much. We've got girls in oul
Office 100 per cent better looking than
she is!"- Waverley Magazine
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
New Use for Old Rails.

A most useful method. of transform
ing old and disused colliery bridge
rails into sleepers has been devised by
a Lancashire engineer. 1t is only
necessary to cut the old rails into
suitable lengths, punch two holes in
the web of the rail, into each of which
the tail piece of special fastening clip
engages, and the sleeper is complete.
Both the cutting and the punching
can easily be done in position if de-
sired. These sleepers are likely to be
especially serviceable and convenient
at collieries where rails have constant
ly to be taken up and moved about,
as there are no nails to draw or wedges
to drive in taking the rails up or
laying them down again, and the in
ventor claims that they are more dur
able than wooden sleepers and that
their first cost will compare favorably
with the low cost of the Globe
Democrat
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
The Enfant Terrible.

They had just settled down for din
ner, and the nervous spInster who had
the guests seat was still primping, as
persons of her class will, when the
family infant let out whoop that
told of grief and terror that could no
longer be suppressed. whats the
matter, dear?" inquired the visitor in
a voice of the deepest solicitude. "You
90 way from our house," was the
shrill and startling response; "you are
just killing mamma, so you are. :"
"Why. Mary, dear, how you talk, ;"
from the mother. "What do you mean
anyhow talking like that?" "You s.
said, mamma, that if that ol-old ma
maid st-st-stayed for dinner, sh-sh-she
b-be the death of you, so yo-you did,
boo-hoo!" Then there was scene
that beggars description, and when
the ancient maiden founced through
the front door she was coldly congrat-
ulating the mother upon having SO
charming and so courageous little
child as the one who had just saved
her life. A minute later the merry
sound of the maternal slipper in active
service was mingled with the cries of
the enfant terrible. Detroit Free
Press
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
He CAN TALK WITH THE MONKEYS.
Prof. Garner Announces the Success OF
His Mission to Africa.

Prof. Garner has written letter to
his brother in Australia in which he
declares that he has succeeded be-
yond his widest anticipation" in his
experiments with monkey talk in
Africa. He says: 81 am safe on the
coast, just reeking with quinine, the
proud possessor of a chimpanzee that
can say 'Tenakoe Pakeha,' which is,
you know, the Maori for Good day,
stranger a gorilla that knows about
twenty words of Fijian; and female
ourang-outang that has picked up
'Tonner und blitzen' from my German
valet, and has, judging from her ac-
tions, quite fallen in love with him. I
have also got written down, which is
more important, nearly 200 monkey
words. Here are few, spelt phoneti-
cally: 'Achru,' meaning sun, fire,
warmth, etc.; 'kukcha, meaning water,
rain, cold, and apparently anything
agreeable; 'goshku, meaning food,
the act of eating. You will see from
this that it is very primitive Ian
guage; there are, perhaps, not more
than twenty or thirty words in it that
l have not already got, 80 that my
task is now practically completed"
When his battery, phonograph and
revolving mirror began to work. he
says that the glitter of the mirror
soon attracted host of chattering o
monkeys. Watched them for an hour
and then cautiously approached. They
disappeared like magic when they saw
me-all but one, chimpanzee. When
| got close to it found that it took no
notice of me, but stood as if trans
fixed, with widely opened eyes and
dilated pupils, gazing at the mirror.
There was slight tremulous motion
in the limbs and spasmodic twitch-
ing of the ears. | could hardly be-
lieve it. The animal was hypnotized.
1t was making cultural sound like
'achru.' When l subsequently listened
to the gram | found that a similar
sound was frequently recorded thereon
amid what was then to me an unintel-
ligible tumble of monkey chatter. I
put the monkey in bamboo cage and
on examining him about an hoUr after
wards found him still under the hyp-
motto influence. Irevived him with
good strong sniff of ammonia and
held lighted taper before his eyes.
He was quite tractable and said .achru'
and few more tests satisfied me that
this word EN- bodied the idea of light,
warmth and brightness. Other words
followed, and it was wonderful to take
note of his awakening intelligence"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
BIRDS ON THE DEFENSIVE.
Their Traits of self-preservation Are De
veloped in Native ViIds.

The attitudes that some large birds
place themselves in would protect
them in comparatively open places,
says writer in Co77ahilL. Unless one
had seen it, one would hardly give the
raptores credit for this, but they prac-
tice it to perfection. This class of
birds has been my favorite study from
boyhood, and shall never be able to
finish the study, for something fresh
is continually coming before me. The
eagle. for one, places himself in strange
positions, mere bundled-up bunch Of
feathers to look at.
A friend of mine, who recently
visited Achill island, the island of the
eagle, was on the cliffs with his wife
and some other friends when a lady
saw in cleft of the rocks close to her
what she thought was splendid tuft
of feathers that had been blown there
by the wind. On STOPPING to pick them
up, out from the cleft dashed a mag
niticent eagle, leaving behind him a
tuft of feathers as memento. Vigilant
as the bird is, he is frequently walked
over. After gorging he gets drowsy;
indeed, it is only under these circum-
stances that such thing could take
place.
Falcons, hawks-the larger specie
can compress their feathers and look
very slim if they think it necessary to
do so. As to the owls, they can hump
up into any position they think most
suitable. 1t is useless to look for these
self-preserving traits in any of the
family kept in geological collections,
for the birds are SO accustomed to see
large mum bers of people passing OF
standing in front of them that they
treat the whole matter with perfect
Indifference. They know that at Ger.
tain time their food will be brought
them, and that they are otherwise per.
fectly safe. Then the raptores in q
wild state have a bloom on their
plumes like the bloom on bunch oi
grapes. which is not often seen when
in on Dfivity
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
All Held Good Hands.

The man in slouch hat was doing
most of the talking and the drummer
was doing the listening.
"Ever been in Blue GulchP" he
asked.
"Never," said the drummer.
"'Taint what it used to be. Fifteen
years ago there wasn't likelier town
in the West. Now it amt more'n a
graveyard. Gamblin' and shootin' and
whoopin' it up twenty-four hours a
day, and worse on Sunday. Iremem-
Der once settin' in a game there with
Dick Jimson, Half-breed Joe and a
man from Texas. The ante was $5
and the limit was nowhere. There
was $500 on the cloth and when we
showed down Half-breed Joe held a
straight. Dick Jimson held an ace
and three kings, the Texas man held
four aces, and"
Jerusalem" interrupted the drum
mer at this revelation, "and what did
you holdP"
The story-teller hesitated moment.
"Well," he said, "bein' as l was the
coroner at the time, l held an inquest
on the Texas man."-Detrott Free
| Press
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26

desolate by the loss of husbands, and
sons, and brothers; hundreds of hearts
ached with a sorrow that no earthly
remedy could cure.
The "little mother" of tall Capt.
Tom sat on the low sill of the old-fash-
ioned kitchen, in the shimmerino light
of the autumn moon.
Out under the tawny chestnut trees,
where the brook was babbling, and the
crickets chirping, amid the yellow
grasses, her husband lay in deaths
dreamless sleep, and the heart of the
widow was sore with her new sorrow.
"Oh, my boy!" she sobbed, tears
raining over her cheeks, "my tall,
| handsome Tom! Never to see him
again-never to hear his yoice-never
to feel the embrace of his strong arms
1t is very bitter! Oh, Tom, my boy!"
The crickets piped out their shrill
melody, the autumn winds rustled the
tawny chestnuts, and the noisy brook
babbled. The old cottage, under the
misty splendor of the autumn moon,
with bowed figure on the doorstep,
looked unutterably lonely and desc
late
And the mothers poor heart was
full of wordless agony, while her
strained, tear-blinded eyes seemed to
see that nameless grave far down in
southern valley-her sons grave, above
which her tears could never How
A quick, sharp step crushed the
crisp grass; a tall shadow darkened
the autumn moonlight lying in silver
riffs on the white boards of the kitchen
! Roor.
Little mother" looked up. There
was moment of breathless silence,
and then sudden cry-a cry of such
intense, unutterable joy that all the
silent night took up the sound, and
hundreds of echoes repeated it amid
the surrounding hills.
80 Tom! my boy is it youP"
eyes, it is l, little mother!'"
At his right side an empty sleeve
hung, but with the left arm he clasped
her close, covering her wet cheeks
with passionate kisses.
20 Tom, l have suffered sol" she
sobbed at last, 81 thought you were
dead. my darling! but you have come
back, my brave, handsome soldier!"
She raised herself from his embrace.
and, putting her hands on his shoul-
ders. looked steadily in his eyes.
They met her searching gaze, clear
and fearless
"Tom," she said, with little laugh,
that was half sob, you've come home
to me pure and true as you went-my
good boy has kept his promise!"
"Yes, thank heaven! Ihave kept my
promlse!" he answered, with solemn
tenderness in his handsome eyes; "and
it has been my salvation! The temp
tation was sore one, and, if I had
yielded, should have died, like sew
eral of my comrades, poor fellows!
Butthe thought of you saved me, as /
seemed to see your face between me
and the Turing glass. 1t was all your
work, little motheri'"
"And God has given me my reward!
He has given me back my boy. whom
| mourned as dead" responded his
mother, with happy tears.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
MONEY LEFT TO ANIMALS.
Bequests by Eccentric Persons for the
Care of Four-Footed Favorites.

There recently died in Paris lady
who had beautiful cat, to which she
was deyotedly attached. When she
died she made provision in her will
for the payment of rent for suit of
rooms for the use of the cat and left a
sum of money to pay for the personal
attendance of a man and woman. An
other woman left TO the town in which
she died sum of money on two con-
ditions. One was that her tomb should
be kept in good condition and the
other that the town should pay the
sum of $40 per year for the care of her
cat. She carefully stipulated that he
should be fed in the morning with a
quarter of pint of milk served in a
Sevres saucer; at midday with piece
of liver or fish from which tire bones
had been carefully removed, the same
to be repeated at night; his bed to be q
basket warmly lined with flannel; and
on each Sunday the cat was to have a
bath and have tied on his neck bow
of blue ribbon.
A writer in the Christian Union dis
| tinctly remembers, when she was lit
tie girl, an old sorrel horse that used
to stand usually under the one tree
that grew in a certain field, rarely
moving beyond the shade of the tree.
The horse had crooked legs, rough
coat, name and tail that might be
called molasses color, and yet he al
ways was an especial object of interest
because he was the heir to $500 year.
That is, the owner of that field was
paid $500 a year to take care of this
horse, which under no condition waI
to be put in harness. The woman who
left the horse this money had driven
him for twenty years, and she said thai
in that time he had shown more in,
telligence in doing his work than she
had in doing hers, and was entitled tc
this sum of money for the care and
wisdom he had shown while pulling hel
wagon. 1t was source of sorrow tc
the man who was paid the $500 a yeal
when the horse died, for the money
went to foreign country.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-04-26
Distance Learned by Touch.

Bishop Berkeley's theory that q
knowledge of distance is acquired by
touch and not by sight. and that the
eye judges only by the experience
learned with the other sense, is borne
out by the experience of those cross
ing the Brooklyn bridge. At the
highest point, when one sees only the
water below and nothing by which to
measure the distance, people do not
feel dizzy, because they do not appre-
ciate the height. But nearer shore.
where they can realize it by looking at
the houses and chimneys. they are
often troubled by head swimming
Detroit Journal.