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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

To wash clothes without fading them,
wash and peel Irish potatoes; then grats
them into cold water. Saturate the ar.
ticles to be washed in this potato water
and they can then be washed with soap
without any running Of the color. have
taken oil out Of carpets with this potato
water when simple cold water would make
the color run runously. Have also set the
color in figured black muslins, in colored
merinos, in ribbons and other silk goods
Often the potato water cleanses sufficiently
without the use Of soap; but the latter is
necessary, find, where there is any grease.
In such cases without soap) ! take the
grated potato itself and rub with flannel
rag. In wooen goods it is necessary to
strain the water, else the particles will ad-
here, but this is not necessary on goods
from which they can well be shaken.-Cor.
Detroit Free Press.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

People in the Central Street station at
O'Clock Saturday afternoon saw very
odd and decidedly novel chair put aboard
the train leaving at that hour. 1t is
about SIX feet high. being built after the
manner of the furniture used in lodge
rooms.
Charles Roberts was the maker, and
the chair is gift from him to his BROTH
er. }. q. Roberts, engineer on the Man
chester express.
The chair is made out of wood col
lected in different localities and en-
braces twigs and small limbs of trees
from Pelham and Lake Winnepesaukee,
and from the outskirts of the city.
There are walnut, birch, butternut,
Eastwood. ash. willow and maple limbs
in it, all blended prettily together in
rustic fashion. Lowell Citizen.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

Very few persons have ever engaged
in such a hunt for rabbits as party Of
young men living near Homer partici-
pated in one day recently.
In the absence Of all large game and
the prohibition as to shooting chickens
and quails, the young farmers pass away
the monotony Of the wintry days by or
ganizing hunting parties, which enter
into competition as to which party will
bring in the most game by a given time
Usually these competition hunts are be-
tween the young men Of different neigh
borhoods. and neighborhood honor" 10
big thing in this country.
A very exciting hunt was made by two
parties of farmers living near Homer,
which. on account Of the number of men
engaged and the amount of game bagged,
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

A recent occurrence recalls a story of a
Prussan general who wished to make his
world dance and failed His wife's recep,
tions, for some reason or other, were uncon-
genial TO the youths under his command
and unfrequented by them. The general,
a strict martinez and the head Of college
Of cadets, was inprudent enough to re-
proach them with their shortcomings in
this matter and to demand a change in
their manners At his next ball, when all
the guests were assembled, the tramp,
tramp Of marching feet was heard upon
the staircase; the door was thrown open,
and there marched into the room whole
corps Of cadets with their young officer at
their head, halted and stood at attention.
"What is the meaning of this" shouted
the general,
"The first corps Of cadets, to dancing
commandedp' replied the youth, saluting
as though on .,rade.
"Take them away" screamed the gen
eral, beside himself with fury.
Fright about face, marchp was the
calm and unmoved answer, and the cadet:
marched out in the same order as they hac
entered. London Spectator
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

A we'll known doctor once complained to
the writer that he had the greatest trouble
when treating sick children in getting any
lucid and helpful resume Of their symp-
toms from day to day from the mother
''Here is case in point" said he. "a few
days ago young mother came to me about
her little boy, who had what she called a
pathetic little cough Now pathos in a
cough is symptom Of which pathology
takes no note. So asked more definite
particulars What kind of a cough is itP
ssked again,
"'oh, such a pathetic cough, she an
swered, But is 1t loose cough, or a
wheeling cough, or tight cough, or a
bark coughp persisted
"'Im sure don't know she said, sadly
puzzled, but 1t Is sad little cough And
that is fair sample Of the way great
many physicians find themselves puzzled
about babies. The mothers or nurses
seem to have 80 little skill in interpreting
their symptoms"
Women and mothers, this thing ought
not to be. A young mother with first
baby may find herself little puzzled for
the first few weeks to recognize the most
striking symptoms In baby's illness, but
she ought soon to be able to make q very
Intelligent diagnosis Of ordinary ills. She
ought to be able to tell whether the baby
Is In acute pain or not, and in most cases
where the pain Is located; whether his cry
is tired cry or hungry one or a sick one.
She ought to be able to take his tempera.
ture and his pulse beats as accurately as
physician, to discriminate his coughs and
his way Of breathing, The condition Of hii
bowels should be significant to her also
and eYen Of his skin. These are all mat
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

'hON" OHC plOieociOh Va
his father, rose to the same rank and OBJ
tanned the distinction of G. c. B. The
present admiral is therefore the third Of
the family to achieve commanding rank in
the navy. He succeeded his father in the
baronetcy in 1880.
The fate of the Victoria has recalled
list of not less than seven similar disasters
since the beginning of the eighteenth CEN
tury in which admirals of the English navy
persisted with their vessels. The first Of
these disasters occurred in 1908, when Ad-
miral Beaumont went down in the Mary
during a gale in the Downs that destroyed
13 men-of-war and drowned 1,500 seamen.
Four years later Admiral Sir Claudesley
Shovel, who had narrowly escaped from
the storm in the Downs, went down with
his ship, the Association, during gale off
the coast of Wales. His body was washed
ashore and buried in Westminster abbey.
Thirty-seven years afterward Admiral Sir
John Balchen, in the flagship Victory, was
wrecked and lost near the coast of Alder
ney. That at least is the supposition, for
the truth was never positively learned.
Some years later the Victory's rudder was
washed up ON the beach near Brighton.
The historic disaster to the Royal George
in 1852 was, like the sinking of the Victoria,
due to blunder worse than crime An at
tempt was made to heel her over and exam
inc her bottom. For this purpose the heavy
guns were all removed to one side Of the
deck. The precaution Of stopping her lower
deck scuppers was neglected, and the water
came in and sank the vessel There were
nearly 900 persons drowned, including Ad-
miral Kempenfelt and over 200 women.
In 1907 Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge,
whom Nelson had dubbed ''the Bayard Of
the navy" went down in his flagship, the
Blenheim, while on the way to the Cape Of
Good Hope. Rear Admiral Carthew Rey-
nolds persisted with the St. George on the
coast of Jutland in 1911, the last disaster OF
the kind in which an admiral persisted un-
til Tryon went down on the Victoria.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08
pebt paId After Many Years.

In the town of Dexter. away back in
1867. a mill operative was approached
by another young fellow and impor-
tuned for a loan of ten dollars for a few
days The operative had just that
amount, but having wife and aged
mother to care for hardly dared spare
it, for fear Of need, but finally did di-
vide. loaning the fellow five dollars.
Soon after the borrower disappeared,
and nothing more was heard from him
until last Christmas day, when the
lender, who is now Il leading business
man Of Skowhegan, received letter
containing a check for the five dollars.
accompanied by the most beautiful dia-
mond solitaire stud he ever saw, The
incident had long passed from his mind,
but the letter and present recalled that
loan of twenty-five years ago in Dexter.
1t remains to say that the borrower is
now a wealthy leweler in western New
York. Lewiston journal.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

That there is not much sanitary or
strengthening influence in the operation of
busting is evident, and yet many women,
disdaining heavier work, reserve this do
nestle duty for themselves and waste
much time upon it. Muscular motion is
of little value unless vigorous and swift.
The slow walk and lettering movement do
not rouse the blood from its torpidity.
The lowliest labor when zealously per-
formed may be followed by an unexpected
hygienic effect. There is the instance of a
penniless young man, threatened with fe-
yer in II strange country, shipping as a
deck hand to return and die among his
people. During the voyage he scrubbed
away the dirt from the shipboards and
with it the disease that had invaded his
life craft.-Alice B. Tweedy in Popular
Science Monthly.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

Fashionable bed dressing having vetoed
pillow shams, housekeepers owning a sup
ply of these squares have sought various
methods to utilize them. One woman
turned her fine pair of hemstitched linen
and embroidered covers" into tea cloths
by adding some gay little buds and pan
sizes in natural colors. She might easily
have left them all white, since such tea
cloths are equally used for the permanent
s O'Clock tea table as for the occasional one.
Another woman converted some of her
pretty ones into show pillow slips by add
ing plain side. She kept one pillow thus
incased on the family sitting room lounge,
"of which," she said, 1--WE are all SO fond
that it is seldom vacant. and its stuff pill
low cover was difficult to keep clean. D.
Her Point Of View in New York Times.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

The other day. while MIR. q. l.. Emrey,
Of this place, was away from home his
horse got loose in the stable and, gain
ing access to the feed chest. overloaded
mis- stomach with good things and pretty
soon was crazy with the pains which
colie brings on, He broke out of the
stable and ran as fast as his feet would
carry him through the streets to the
Patterson House, where he had been
doctored some time before. The horse
by mis- actions soon showed himself to
be a pretty sick horse, and was taken in
charge by DR. Bechart, who brought
MIN around all right The horse was
not very wise In eating too much, but
displayed good horse sense in hunting
up the doctor. -Honeybrook Pa.) Ga
ZettA
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08
No Profit in Money Orders.

There does not seem to be any prospect
that the money order business can be
made to pay profit to Uncle Sam in
future. 1t was started in 1865 with an
appropriation by congress of 100000,
and during the first eight months there
was loss of more than $1,000 As the
system grew it became more remuner-
ative to the government. until it began
to show margin of gain about ten years
ago. For the last three years. however,
there has been loss on it, mainly be-
cause the average sum sent by money
order has diminished.
The average cost to the government
of money order. whether for a small
or large amount, is a trife over ten
cents. while the average fee paid now is
only fraction more than eight cents.
However. the loss on domestic money
orders is made mp to some extent BY the
profit on international money orders
During the last fiscal year the postoffice
department cleared SlS9,00O on the pur-
chase of bills OF exchange to settle bal
ances with foreign countries on account
of money orders issued Washington
Star.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08


Woman's societies will reach their high
est goal when the predatory ''woman'sn is
discarded. Exclusive organization on the
part of one sex has reached the extreme
where the upward turn now leads back, on
the line of male nclusions-meaning SIM
ply the union of husbands and wives in
the common cause Of benefiting humanity,
Doubtless thousands of busy men today,
apathetic regarding general human vel
fare, would bound to their place at the
wheel If appealed to by wives converted to
the new mission and needing brawny aid.
The best way to disarm an opponent is to
throw the cause on his hands, appealing
for his support.
Let such titles as "Woman's Suffrage
association" give place to the United So
cieties for Womans Franchise"
There Is no fear but that the modest
source from which all these benefactiona
have sprung will be ever and gratefully
remembered
But in the full realization Of social re
forms accomplished only by the addition
Of mans effective power, women working
for that end can well afford to relinquish
the initiatory which at most can no more
than propose higher mission for them
and new progress for all. Margaret w
Noble in Chautauquan.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

One of the most practical suggestions
for service is that of the woman who comes
in to work "by the day" There is very
much more in this idea of daily service OF
Of employing woman who in common
parlance, docs days work." than has
ever been fully developed. Washing and
scrubbing are at present the principal
duties of such workers. But these, al
though they represent the hardest labor
cover only small part of the daily house
work
The sweeping and dusting, the sewing
the cooking, the dish washing the clear
ing up"-most interminable of tasks-the
mending and the chamber work-all these
come into the home life and into the line
of housekeeper's duties,-Harper's Bazaar
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08
How to Cure a Nervous Headache.

hOW 10 Jufe u NerVous uehuuohes
You know that means II nervous head
ache and night of agony unless some
thing is done quickly.
Try this Slip off your bodice and bare
your neck. Twist your hair into loose
knot on the top of your head. Then take
sponge and basin of hot water-just as
hot us you can bear It,
Pass the hot wet sponge slowly and
steadily over the face and forehead for
eight or ten minutes, keeping the sponge
as hot as it can be borne. BY that time
your face will look and feel as If 1t were
parboiled. But don't worry.
Then bathe the back Of the neck as you
have done the face, carrying the sponge
each time well up the back of the head.
Keep this up for the same length OF
time; then, without looking at yourself in
the glass; because that would be sure to
disquiet you, dry your face and neck softly
and go and lie down fat on your back.
Close your eyes and think Of just this
one thing, How heavy you are on the
couch and how easily it supports you.
That is really an important part Of the
cure.
Lie there for half an hour, If you don't
fall asleep, as you probably will. Then
get up and take the deferred look in the
glass;
The tired look has gone; the muscles
have regained their tone; the wrinkles
have disappeared. You look like your
Younger sister. Best Of all, the darling
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

Awest Springfield teacher has applied q
good deal of effort to the teaching Of her
pupils to speak correctly, particularly drill
ing them not to say 81 see it" when they
mean 81 saw it." The lesson has been
we'll learned, at least she thinks so, for
yesterday when she asked one Of the chill
dren, "Did you see the car go byi" line Of
winks, nudges and wise looks went around
the room. One little fellow couldn't stand
it, however, and piped out, Teacher,
teacher, you said 'seer "-Springheld
Homestead.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08
Color of the Bridal Dress.

Married in white, you have chosen oil
right.
Married in gray, you will go far away
Married in black, you will wish yourself
back
Married in red, you will wish yourself
dead
Married in green, ashamed to be seen.
Married in blue, he will always be true
Married in pearl, you will live in whirl.
Married in yellow, ashamed of your fel.
low.
Married in brown, you will live out Of
town.
Married in pink, your spirits will sink
Old Rhyme.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08
why the Grumbler Is Entertaining.

No one offers the systematic grumbler
the tax Of sympathy. He does not want
it, moreover. His woes and grievances
are his stock in trade, 1t is an under
stood thing that without them he would
be a very dull fellow. As it is they save
his reputation, and set the ball of small
talk moving mo matter in what direc-
tion.-All the Year Round.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08
Wheat Raising in Mexico.

Recent studies into the matter Of
wheat raising indicate that the high
tablelands of Mexico will soon be used
for that purpose Lack Of railroad fa-
cilities has kept that region from COM
peting heretofore, but the prospect now
is that the railroads will soon be con-
structed. New York Times.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

During last year there were 100000, 900
feet of timber cut in the Adirondack
forests Of the whole quantity two
thirds was made into lumber and the re-
lnainder into paper pulp, and all by the
wood pulp mills in the Adirondack re-
gion, the product being 100000 tons Of
wood pulp. Exchange.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

call a naval fam
lily. His grandfa-
ther, Michael Sey-
mour.capturedt the
French frigate La
Thetis in 1908 aft
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08
Curious Facts About Rutternut Trees.

The butternut is tlee that likes best
rocky, uneven soil, and in whose shade
neither shrub nor herb will thrive. The
bark is used as dyestutf for woolens,
Curled and birdseye maple is wood Of
the same family that sometimes has Gu
riously arranged fiber, one with curves, the
other with eyes, hencs the me.-Hons
and Farm. +
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08

ters that come with little attention in
watching and little knowledge In inter
probation and brains. st. Louis Globe
Democrat
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-12-08
ADMIRAL rRYoMs SUCCESSOR.

Vice Admiral Cuime-Seymour Comes Of
Naval Family.
Vice Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Sey-
mour, who succeeded the unfortunate Try
on in command of the British Mediterra-
mean squadron, comes Of what the English
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-03-15
POINTS IN BurTER.MAKrNe.

During the hot weather butter. makers
are greatly troubled with soft butter.
This is largely due in most cases to i'm.
proper handling of the milk, cream and
butter. Where persons have spring
houses or refrigerators butter that Is soft
when churned can soon be brought into
a firm, presentable appearance, but it is
far better hat it should come from the
churn in the right condition. Grass
butter, made from rich, old pastures,
free from weeds, and from such varieties
as June OF Kentucky blue grass, orchard
grass, req top, wire grass and white clo-
yer, or from mixtures of some OF these
sorts, if churned at a little below sixty
degrees and properly handled, should be
of a texture that will give little or no
cause for complaint. During the hot
spells, however, there is a tendency for
the butter to be soft, Notwithstanding
any care which may be taken of it.
AS the result Of experiments made at
the Ontario (Canadian) experiment sta
ton, to test the effect of food on milk
and butter, Professor H. H. Dean reports
that the addition Of a small quantity of
meal, especially cotton seed meal, to the
food, has a tendency to make the butter
irmer and raise the melting point from
one to four degrees centigrade. During
the last summer about one pound per
day Of cotton see1 meal was fed TO each
COW at pasture, mixed with bran or
some grain meal, and not a churning of
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-03-15
II You We're on the Mon,.

II lunar conditions are favorable TO
human existence, and 1t is not certain
hat they are not, and you could be trans
ported to the top Of Pico or some other
.all peak or rock on the surface of our
"silvery sister world" how do you sup
pose things would look from such want
age groundl You would probably first
turn your eyes in the direction Of our
earth, the world you had just quilted,
but to you it would be a stranger. In
place Of the somber globe you would
naturally expect to behold your eyes
would be greeted with a most wonderful
sight. The earth would appear to you
to be sixty-four times larger than the sun
appears to the residents Of this mundane
sphere; this because the earth has eight
times the diameter Of the moon, there
fore she must necessarily show the
moonites slxty-four times as much SUR
face as the moon shows us. The sun,
on the other hand, would appear no
larger to you from your observatory on
the noon than it does from our globe.
The earth's atmosphere being blue it has
been decided that the earth must appear
as a blue ball to all outside onlookers.
What a glorious sight it must be to our
lunarian neighbors to look upon a bright
blue, swift revolving ball sixty-fouI
times larger than the soul.--St. Louis
Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-03-15
SIZE OF CUT SEED POTATOES.

The eye of a potato is a bud upon the
thick, feshy stem known as the tuber,
for potatoes grow on underground
branches above the true roots. j.. G.
Arthur, of the Indiana station, has
studied the best size of cut tubers for
planting. Pieces of uniform weight
gave but a small increase IN the number
Of stalks by increasing the number of
eyes to a piece. An increase in the
weight of the pieces caused a decided
increase in the number of stalks. The
dense group of eyes at the seed end of a
potato acts physiologically as a single
eye, anil not as a number of crowded but
independent eyes. The question of the
right number Of eyes to the piece of
seed potato tuber has long engaged the
attention of experlmenters. The results
of the Indiana trials show that the num-
Der of eyes per piece is of little conse.
quence, but the weight of the piece is a
very important factor. The indicated
manner of cutting potatoes for planting
is to divide them into pieces of suitable
weight and size without regard to the
distribution Of the eyes. Instead of try
ing to have one, two OF three eye pieces,
as the case may be, the approximation
should be to one, two OF three ounce
pieces, OF some other definite weight.
The larger the size the greater will bC
the probable yield. -Americau Agricul
turist.