The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-10-11
ANARCHISTS ARE VAIN.
Nothing Pleases Them More Than to Get
Their Pictures Published

Nothing Pleases Them More Than to Get
Their Pictures Published.
M. Lepine, the French minister of
police, thinks vanity has good deal to
do with the anarchist craze, says the
London News. That is why he hegs
the papers not to publish the portraits
OF men who are arrested for being con
cerned in bomb-throwing and other of
fenses of the kind. II consider that
all the anarchists says NJ. Lepine,
5"have mental twist, although do
not class them as madmen. But it Is
noticeable that thereis in them desire
for theatrical display that must not be
encouraged. They have very high
opinion of themselves, and are much
concerned with regard to what is be-
ing said about them Whether they
are at a public meeting or in a prison
cell, they always keep their eyes upon
the public. Sec what happened ut
Z Montbrison, at the execution of Rava-
ehol, As project Of the Loire at that
time, | had to take charge Of that an
archist. He had written an abominn-
BILE song which he hoped to be able to
sing on his way from prison to the
place of execution, before great
crowd Upset his calculation by hav.
ing the guillotine fixed at distance OF
only couple Of PAGES from the prison,
When he found he would be without
an audience, his fortitude forsook him.
All who were present will tell you that
he collapsed so utterly that he was, as
itwere, dead before the knife fell"
FACTS ABOUT GREENLAND.
Wonderful and Impressive Scenery--Great
Rivers Moaning Under the lee.
A lecture on Greenland was given in
London not long ago by Clements Mark,
ham. His history Of the early discoy,
cries included the voyage Of Eric the
Red.
Hall was the first Englishman who
laid his bones on the shore of Green
land.
In 1721 Hans Egede, the apostle Of
| the Esquimanx, landed in Greenland.
1t has been found impossible to pene-
trate for any distance into the vast in
terror The natives believe it to be in
habited by enormous and malignant be.
ings.
IT is $4,000 square miles in extent,
the whole being mass of ice. A Dan,
ish professor in 1920 made his way for
thirty miles inland and described the
scene he saw.
There is nothing but white world
supporting blue vault. From far be-
low ones feet there comes the moaning
noise, the voice of rivers flowing far be-
meath.
Occasionally there are loud reports
from the opening of the cleft, vast
mass of water pierces its way in the ice
down to the underlying granite itself
for thousands of feet.
AT thirty miles from the coast tho
height above the sea was 1900 feet and
the ice was still rising.
( A wonderful sight is that Of the CO
lossal rivers, deep and broad, which
flow between tall blue banks, and pour
at the end Of their course down cleft
with a mighty cascade, which is con-
spicuous from distance from cloud
Of mist which always hangs above ii,
On the strips Of the land near the
coast the Greenland fora, though
scanty, Is very pleasant to the eye.
Vegetation covers the ground in thicl,
masses, forming turf in the level
places, while it fills the chinks and
crannies Of the rocks and creeps over
the surface Of the stone, giving a bright
appearance to the land in summer.