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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-04-05
Tenness ssee.

Potatoes have raised from thirty to
forty cents on the hundred.
Farmers are getting ready to put in
their spring crops.
School has begun with its new
teacher, Miss Anna Blacklaw. 1t will
continue for three month and half.
Mr. j. O. Swink has been clubbing
with his new stump machine.
Last Thursday evening the Spicer
League Society sent an appointment
to Tennessee, hut they failed to appear,
1t was only attended by few Tennes,
seeans.
The base ball game was attended bv
II large crowd last Sunday,
Miss Nellie Hamou was visiting in
this neighborhood Saturday and Sun
day, At the Literary, she delivered
one Of her speeches which was highly
appreciated by the society. She de.
parted fer Knox Butte Sunday even
ing.
Mr.. 9. D. Mcknight left this place
Tuesday for Knox Butte, where he
will live for the next three months,
working in the logging camp. The
people regres his departure as he was a
good worker IN the Literary and was
their only base singer. CESAR.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-04-05
Council procaedings.

The city council met last Monday
night in pursuranceto to adjournment.
Roll called, Mayor and councllmen
all Rgeasgt except ). Q, Long,
Minutes Of previous meeting read
approved
The report of the city marshal for
the first quarter ending March 81, was
read and by motion the report was ac-
eepted and ordered placed on file.
The recorder read his report for the
first quarter, which was accepted by
motion and placed on file.
The ways and means committee re-
ported that they had met with the
chief Of the fire department and had
ordered him to procure five hoesc cup
lings and some bell cord.
The committee on ways and means
to whom was referred the account of A.
+. Stowe, reported in writing that the
city owed A. +. Stowe S2,l5. Moved
aud carried that the report be accepted
and placed OH file and warrant he
drawn in favor of George w. Rice for
the S2.l5.
The committee on ordinances then
an amendment to ordinance
No, 81, by the insertion Of two sections
granting license opera houses. The
amendment was accepted,
The committee on streets and public
property reported that 1t would re-
quire three pieces Of timber to fix the
bridge in the northeast part of the city,
and recommended that it be fixed by
contract. By motion the report was
accepted and the committee ordered to
have the bridge fixed by contract
Ordinance No. 81, regulating the
City license was then brought up for
the last reading which was UNANIMOUSLY
pasted,
Moved and carried that the petition
Of the bicyclists be indefinitely post
pone.
Moved and carried that The matter
of erecting hitching posts be left to the
committee on streets and public pro-
perty.
Moved and c,Fried that rlles be sus-
pended and the following bills be al
l7wed and warrants be drawn on the
treasurer for the same:
Lebanon Eleetrict Light and Water
company, $50.
P. w. Morgan, $50
S. NJ Garland, $725.
w. NJ, Brown, $7.85.
L. A. Crandall, $l75.
G. W. Rice, S2l5.
BY motion council adjourned.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-04-05
The Rel Crown Mills.

Another meeting Of the creditors of
the Red Crown Mills Co was held Mon
day afternoon in the city council
chambers of Albany.
j. a. Wilson, of the committee ap-
pointed to examine the books, Submit
ted a reLort, which showed that a
shortage Of 900 bushels Of wheat ex-
listed on May 80, 1898, when the COM
pany went into the hands Of ]. R.
Stockman as receiver, 1900 bushels
Of which was due to Mr., w. H.
Goltra.
On August l, 1893, there were 24,66S
bushels IN storage; on March Is, 1895,
there was shortage Of 81, ,999 $3.50
bushels The amount of accounts is
So 952S3, Of which about $4,000 is in the
hands of Wadhams q Co, part of
which only were transferred to them.
The report showed that John Isom
while running the mill alone, after it
had passed out Of fhe hands of the re-
eeiver, from July Is, 1898, to February
26, 1894, drew out Of the business Sl2,.
9554l, which was paid TO Goltra, and
account of Isonls soda works, etc. Af-
ter the incorporation of the Red Crown
Roller Mills from March 10, 1894, to
March, 1895, he drew out Oh personal
account, $4,000.
The report showed the shortage
of Goltra made good in November,
1898.
The amount paid out for wheat and
other expense from July |, 1893, to
March |, 1894, was S55, ,0j5.3S. The ac-
counts showed net gail Of $l2 547. .0S
FOR eight months.
The amount due the First National
Bank is about Sl400.
On recomm ndation of the committee
the creitors decided to take no further
action toward organizing new com
panN, as the liabilities appear too
heavy to justify such co urse. Ac
eordlngly the meeting adjourned -
Herald.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-04-05

When in need Of ovaralls always buy
those which are warranted not to rip.
Can't bust 'em overalls with five pock-
cts and continuous fly. They are the
best and strongest in the market and
cost no more than common ones.
Don't forget that the largest clrculat.
ing library In town Is at the Racket
store, with books at less than half the
register Hsses,
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-04-05
A Clubbing Offer.

A great many of our readers Linn
county like to take the weekly Oregon.
ian, We have made arrangements
Whereby we can furnish it at reduct.
ion from the regular price to those who
want both the EXPRESS and the
oregonian. The regular price of the
Oregonian is Sl,50per year, and of the
EXPRESS 81 80 when in advance. We
will furnish both FIR s.. per year in
advance q saving Of one dollar to the
subsciper. The Oregonian gives all
the general news Of the country once a
week, and the EXPRESS gives all the
local news once week, which will
make a most excellent news service
for the moderate sum of $2. per year.
Those who are at present subscribers
Sf the EXPRESS must pay in all arrear-
ages and one year in advance to obtain
this special price.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-04-05
JUST IN

Dotted swiss, the newest goods for
summer dresses, with swiss embroidery
In two widths to match each piece,
White, pink, blue, yellow and red
dots.
Red Point Venise, Point d'Irelande,
Valenciennes aud Chantilly laces.
Lots Of embroidery.
l56 bolts of staple and new shade
ribbon. s, E YoYNa.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1895-04-05
Cedar Posts.

Frstclass cedar posts for sale cheap.
Call on or address Walter Brown, Al
bany Office, at Trenches jewslry store
VI sse i, A, Ebalsessou ~ Iabmueoi
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Letter List.

Following is the list Of letters re-
naming uncalled for in the Lebanon
postotfice for the month ending March
81, 1896.
Breed, J D Flonderi VIM
Green, ] L Hurlbnrt, J NJ
Peterman, Jas shatfer W
swink, 0rville
pa4s A saaislx " NJ
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-07
JOHN BELLS THANKSGIVING.
BY NJ. E. KENNEY.

THANKSGIVING eve, was
clear and cold. Til e
streets were crowded
with people hurrying
along intent on doing
their holiday shopping.
The single market
which the little town
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-07
THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.

An extraordinary circumstance that
has been noticed with interest, and that
always creates surprise when first
learned, is the entire absence of foreign
matter in the deeper part Of the oceans
floor. OF all the vessels lost ia midocean,
of all the human beings that have been
drowned, of all the marine animals that
have persisted, of all the clay. sand, and
gravel let fall by dissolving icebergs. of
all the various substances drifted from
every shore by shifting currents-not
trace remains, but in their place water
from 1000 to $500 fathoms in depth
covers the uniform deposits of thick,
blush, tenacious slime called globigerina
ooze.
A bit of this under the powerful lens
is revelation of beauty not readily for
gotten. The ooze is composed almost
entirely of the daintiest, most delicately
beautiful shells imaginable. At the
depths greater than $500 fathoms the
bottom of the sea consists mainly of
products arising from exposure for al
most incalculable periods to the chemical
action of sea water and of volcanic mat
tiers.
Carbonate of lime, which, in the form
of the shells of foraminifera, makes up
SO large a part of the globigerina ooze,
is here almost entirely absent. Sea
water is very nearly universal solvent,
and before any shell, large or small.
reaches the bottom of these tremendous
abysms, it is chemically eaten up, liter
ely dissolved-a result which the enor-
nous pressure of the water must ma
terially hasten.
At 1000 fathoms the weight of the
water pressing on all sides of an object
immersed to that depth is very nearly
one ton to the square inch, or more than
100 times that sustained at the level;
and at the greatest depths the pressure
is so increased that it would seem moth
ing could withstand il; in fact, heavy
metal cylinders let down with the sound
ing apparatus are sometimes, on being
drawn up again to the surface, found
bent and collapsed; strongly made glass
vessels which the metal inclosed are
shattered into fragments.-Ou Sunday
Afternoon.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-07
SHEEP.

Under present conditions all profit be-
gins and ends in excellence of the sheep.
Care in selecting and breeding are i'm
portant factors in improvement. and in
NJ way can this improvement be pro-
cured at so low cost. With good man
agement good sheep can be made to re-
turn profit, but in all cases the poorer
sheep will prove burden to the rest of
the flock.
1t will be better for the sheep and for
the pasture if the flock is turned from
one pasture into another every week or
two; and it is the best of advice never to
change suddenly from dry to green feed
ing, or from green to dry. At least dur.
ing the spring and fall months should
the practice of little dry feeding be
maintained.
Feed lambs for the best profit by be
ginning with them with great care, first
using small allowance and gradually
increasing the ration until they can di-
gest all their appetites crave. The point
is to get them to eat the most grain
possible in limited time; this is sure
to result in profitable mutton.
Ii turpentine is given to lambs for
worms, let it be done after "a hours
fast, and when the first stomach is
empty. 1t is not unlikely that the whole
flock is affected il we find worms in one,
The turpentine and linseed oil can be
administered with milk, or the turpen-
tine poured upon the salt allowed them;
they will eat it readily.
The time is near when it will be i'm
possible to sell at any paying price any
animal merely having the name of sheep,
but without quality, yet good sheep is
still the farmers good friend, and he
should not be abused even though he is
not on top just now. Consider the NUT
ton; do not worry over the wool; enough
else to worry about
1t is the income which each sheep will
yield that determines the value of the
flock, whether it be from wool or mutton.
Under present conditions scrub sheep
give no profit, whether they are kept for
tn one or the other An Improbable
animal should not be kept nor fed one
d ~ longer.
Fight the hard times and the low
price of wool and mutton by improving
the quality and quantity of both the
fleece and the carcass. Every clean
pound added to either is just SO much
clear gain, as is every cent added to the
price by improving the quality. Do not
fool with sheep in which there is no out
come.
Sheep are low; SO is feed; but while a
sheep can be wintered at considerable
less cost than it could few years ago,
it yet remains true that the value of
this feed is the same. whether fed to
good sheep or poor one. 1t is impos-
sible to figure out any economy in feed
ing poor animal at any time.
The wool can be made to pay the cost
of keeping, at least; then the lambs
should be the profit. If the best profit
is obtained therefore every eve should
bring good, vigorous lamb. See that
they are all bred, and to something
worthy the occasion.
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with Tim curled up beside her fast
asleep. His arms were full of his
purchases, and the light of his new
purpose shone in his face.
"Oh, Father, you did get the dinner,
didn't you?" shouted Tim in an &C..
stacy of delight, as he opened his
eyes. ooh, l am SO glad, SO glad!
We will have real Thanksgiving af-
ter all, won't we, mother7"
And it was real Thanksgiving.
Tins mother felt that she had good
cause for thanksgiving when her hus-
band told her that he had signed the
pledge, and meant henceforth to live
a new life.
1t was hard struggle for him. The
downward path is always easier than
the upward one, but he won the VIC
tory over his appetite, and retrieved
the character he had lost.
And Tim dated all their happiness
from that thanksgiving eve, though
he never knew that his words had had
a part in effecting the change which
had taken place in his father, and
made him as kind as he had formerly
been unloving.
"It seems like Thanksgiving every
day now," he said to his mother once,
with loving look at the father who
had won his heart again-Ne1C York
Observer,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-07
AGRFCULTURE.

The farmer of no other country lives
better or SO much enjoys life as does the
American farmer who raises stock and
variety of crops. The great factor in
cheap production with tie tiller in the
Argentine republic is the fact that he
is content with conditions of life which
no farmer of England or the United
States would accept.
AS every housewife knows, there are
many other uses for ice on the farm than
in the dairy. The time for filling the
ice house comes when all the farm teams
are idle, and when the time can be we'll
spared. 1t will pay to draw it two or
three miles, but it will pay better to
make an ice pond of ones own. Do not
store it near other buildings, for ice at
tracts lightning.
Green corn is easier to keep in the
silo than clover, for clover is more nitro.
genous and heats with so much greater
violence upon exposure that it is hard
to keep it. Fodder heats so moderately
that the carbonic acid generated by the
slow fermentation remains in the silo
and helps to suppress it, as does smoke
from dull fire.
Potatoes should be we'll dried before
storing, and should be kept SO. 1t is
said to be an excellent plan to put in a
number of ventilators here and there be-
fore the tubers are stored. All moisture
is thus given an opportunity to escape
readily, and the potatoes do not sprout
nor spoil.
TIE lumberman grinds his axe before
he undertakes large job. These long
evenings allow the farmer much time to
prepare himself; to study the leading
principles and become familiar with the
approved methods of practice which re-
late to his affairs. Discovery and inven-
ton have done wonderful things to make
his work pleasant and his rewards
abundant. Some of the agricultural
colleges have prepared courses of home
reading which are extremely valuable,
and no farmer can afford to neglect the
printed agricultural page. Grind the
axe.
Scott as we will, the reading farmers
are the prosperous farmers, not because
of their intelligence only. nor because
they learn what is done by other men,
but because of their ability for successful
management which has come to them
through the mental development and
discipline which their reading has given
them. Their intellectual powers are
quickened and their business capacities
enlarged.
An Ohio farmer says that he has con
tinued proof Of the value of COW peas as
a preparation for potatoes in clayey
loans. This year his peas were worth
more as plant food for potatoes than was
an average crop of wheat. He has Is
acres of peas growing to be turned under
for next years crop. They add plant
food and mechanically improve the con-
dition of the soil. His neighbors are
following his lead, and all feel that they
have made one more step forward.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-07
CATTLE.

The vanishing OF the ranches spoils
the production OF horns. AS we improve
our herds we grow fewer horns at home,
too, and manufacturers must use sub.
stitutes or import them; but the abso-
lutte hornless age has not come so long
as Mexico and South America raise the
class of cattle they do-more horns than
beef. as one writer says.
We can now finish off our cattle more
cheaply than can our British neighbors,
who must buy much Of their feed from
ue. If our farmers could but appreciate
the advantage they have in the worlds
markets, and continue vigorously their
farming and stock raising, improving
their herds, good cattle will pay them
far better than grain growing.
There is a strong and growing demand
for the best grades of cattle for the ex
port trade. and our own reviving indus
tries will demand more meat and better
meat. The short supply is becoming
more evident, and prices must advance.
Feed up the strong. best grades to
good condition, and the market will call
for them.
We learn slowly. To develop an ami
NAL early and to it's best requires a we'll
balanced ration, regular feeding, com
Portable bed, good shelter in winter and
conscientious care; and all this will the
farmer find paying him and delighting
him. He reaps an equal reward in dol
lars when his steer is two years old that
his old time neighbor does when his is
three.
The most gentle bull will at times de-
velop bad streak and take his owner
unawares. The leading staff should be
used on all aged bulls, and it should be
strong and the nose ring secure. Take
no chances. Never give the animal a
chance to use his strength against yours
for sooner or later he will use it.
A considerable advance in hides is
now followed by that in horns, and
helps out the price in cattle. The linn
tied supply of horns and an increasing
demand for them for the making of
combs, handles and novelties has more
than doubled the value of them. Eager
agents are now besieging the packing
houses, buying them. and not at their
own prices.
Combined weight and quality in
beeves are not necessarily money max
ers in these days. There is superiority
in early matured beef which is meeting
the demand of the butchers, and the
consumer is more than ready to accept
the change. The heavy steer is passing
away.
There is ever danger that the farmer
will attempt to keep more cattle than
can be well fed. Only he who has out
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-07
HORTICULTURE.

Babach, Warfeld and Haverland
Strawberries have done we'll in nearly
all regions this year. Among the older
sorts Captain Jack, Sharpless and Cum
berland are always to be depended up
on. The Parker Earle is such prolific
bearer that the plants should be we'll
fed, otherwise much of the fruit will be
30 small as to be unsatisfactory.
The Duchess of Gutenberg is Rus
sian apple, and has long been favorite
in the Eastern States; it has been late
ly tried in Colorado and neighboring
States, and is there equally esteemed.
and is reported as thriving remarkably
we'll in that climate. Doubtless we shall
find other apples from the Cossack
country worth our trying.
Even the hardest sorts of raspberries
do better when covered in winter, by
bending them down and throwing soil
upon them, and no one will regret hav-
ing taken the trouble to do it. Cut
away all but about half dozen canes.
and top these to about three feet in
length. If this is not already done. do
it yet.
The farmers table should not be with
out seasonable fruit single day. Ju-
dicious planting will bring on most de-
sirable succession. Strawberries, cur
rante, gooseberries, raspberries, black
berries, grapes, each have place. and
overlapping these come in the cherries.
peaches. apples and pears. If any one
should live like king. it should be the
man who grows his own living.
1t is not possible for tree 10 be as
we'll off without pruning as with it.
In digging and planting some of the
r OTIS are lost and as there are not new
go many rootlets at work, it is we'll to
cut away some of the branches to make
things square. Again, if the tree is I'M
shapely. trim off the stragglers, to make
symmetrical growth. Sometimes there
ara too many branches to admit the air
freely, or for development of fruit, or
for the strength of the limbs; svch con-
ditions should suggest their own remedy.
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side range of lands in excess of his needs
for tillage should endeavor to raise all
his calves. When it comes to feeding
corn, little oil meal will help to get the
profit out of it.
About the weaving time of the spring
calves there come to them the double
hardships of colder weather and poorer
fare. They should have little skim
milk all through the winter if it can be
spared. Add to this pcrridge of oat-
meal, boiled in water. with little lin
seed meal. Give also some clover hay,
and they will come out all right and be
ready to breed at Is months.
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Time "Dnndee."


Our Father. while our hearts unlearn
The creeds that wrong thy name,
Still let our hallowed affairs burn
With Faiths undying flannel
Not by the lightning-gleams OF wrath
Our souls thy face shall see.
The star of Love must light the path
That ads to heaven and thee.
Help us to read our Masters Will
Through every darkening stain
That clouds his sacred image still,
Aud see him once again,
The brother man. the plying friend,
VINO weeps for human woes,
Whose pleading words of pardon blend
With cries of raging foes.
If mid the gathering storms OF doubt,
Our hearts grow faint and cold.
The strength we cannot live without
Thy love will not withhold.
Our prayers accept; our sins forgive;
Our youthful zeal renew
Shape for us holer lives to live,
And nobler work to dol
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-12-07
THE FlERCEsT BEAST OF PREY,

The white dawn DER the sleeping forest rose,
And woke each beast and bird to feed or
play.
To pass in Natures temple of repose,
Their happy, harmless day.
When crashing onward through the thickets
dun,
Aud strong with dreadful arts to main and
Stay,
Took man the hunter, with his dogs and gun,
His devasting way.
Fear went before him with her visage wan,
And each beast owned his dread and ruth
less sway;
All Natures children fled the face OF man,
The fercest beast of prey.
REGINALD GoURLAY in the November Cen
fury.