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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-07-27
THEY DENY THE REPORT.

New York, July 26.-United States
Senator James Smith, Bernard M. Clay
and other wealthy men who are reported
as about TO form syndicate which is to
take up all uninsured stock of the New
York-New Jersey Telephone company
and push the completion of its line, de-
ny all connection with it today.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-07-27
REACHED Low WAITER MARK.

New York. July 26.-lThe market price
OF bar silver reached low water mark
to-day Government assay bars were
quoted at SO, which makes the silver in
the standard dollar worth 1858 cents, as
against 45.70 IN 1894. .he market open-d d
az 5g1S cenls an ounce, and later declined
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-07-27
THE OLD RELIABLE
Bessener and Birmingham Railway VIII
5 Resume Iits Double Trains
81 This Morning.

On learning of the above action of the
Bessemer authorities General Manager
McC1ary at once gave instructions to re-
sumo the usual schedule on That line,
which means a train out of birmingham
and Bessemer every sew nty-five minutes.
The "Old Reliable" is still on deck.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-07-27
FIFTY -EIGHT YEA RS

Have THE Grand Old Man and His Wife
Spent Together.
London July 26.-Mr. and Mrs Glad-
stone yesterday celebrated the fifty
eighth anniversary of their wedding.
Both ar. in excelen health, Mr.. Glad
stone walking off with as much vigor as
alt any time in the last ten years, shaking.
hands erlsrgetically and conversing with
great anima ton.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-07-27

the Lonsdale mill began to run on full
time. The shut down was ordered on
account of the dull condition of the cot
ton market
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15
sohoolhox sixty Years Old.

To find man of 60 engaged in the
study of a new profession is an unus-
ual thing, and the Maine Medical
School of this place thinks it has the
only student of this age at present TAX
ing an undergraduate course in this
country.
James Scott, of Crow Harbor, Guys
boro, n. s., has entered upon the three
years course at the school, and when he
receives his degree of NJ. d. he will
have passed his Goth milestone. He is
a native of Dumfriesshire, Scotland,
and went to Nova Scotia at the age of
1S. He has been a Baptist minister at
Grow Harbor and other places in Nova
Scotia for many years. Within the
last four or five years he has been
studying and practicing medicine in a
desultory way, especially in cases of
accidents, and he finally made up his
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15

A funny story is told of James O'Neill
when he was at Missoula, Mont The
rehearsal of the orchestra of the local
theater was called for O'Clock in the
afternoon, and Mr.. O'Nefll happened to
be present. After the Missoula mu-
s;cians had struggled through the over
ture the actor turned to the local man
ager and said: For heavens sake,
Hartley, cut that flute out in to-night's
performance. 1t will upset me so that
1 can't go through my part If you
DON'T The flute player overheard the
remark, got up from his seat and said
to Mr.. O'Neill: Now, look here, sir;
1 intend to play that flute if you intend
to play Monte Cristo.' L am the Mayor
of this town, and if 1 can't play the
flute and see the show I'll revoke Hart
Iey's license and you can get out of
town tonight" Under the circum-
stances it was deemed wiser to let the
honorable Mayor of Missoula play the
flute
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15
BILLS in TROUBLE.


I've got a letter, parson. from my son
away out West,
An my OF heart is heavy as an anvil in
my breast
To think the boy whose futur' had once
SO proudly planned
Should wander from the path O. right an
come to sich an end!
I told him when he left US only three
short years ago
He'd find himself plowin' in a mighty
crooked row
He'd miss his fathers counsels, an his
mothers prayers, too,
But he said the farm was hateful, an he
guessed he'd have TO go.
know thar's big temptation for young
ster in the West,
But l believed our Billy had the courage
TO resist,
An when he left 1 warned him O the
ever-waitin' snares
That lie like hidden sarpints in life's path
way everywheres.
But Bill he promised faithful to be keer-
full, an allowed
He'd build reputation that'd make us
mighty proud,
But il seems as how my counsel sort O.
faded from his mind,
An now the boys in trouble O. the very
wustest kind!
His letters came so seldom that some
how sort o knowed
That Billy was trampin' a mighty
rocky road,
But never once imagined he would bow
my head in shame,
An in the dust'd waller his OIL daddy's
honored name
He writes from out in Denver, an the
story's mighty short;
I just can't tell his mother; it'll crush her
poor OF hearti
An so l reckoned, parson. you might
break the news TO her
Bills in the LegisIatur', but he doesn't
say what fur.
Denver Post
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15

in that of his prospects and his humble
four-footed companion, through whose
services he Is able to prosecute his
work In the middle of winter in coun-
try where the whirr of the snowslides
passing down the adjacent mountains
is the only music that enlivens the te-
dium of the long evenings. Deep
Greek is of the regular trails that lead
to Sawpit. and thus is separated by an
area of snow that would not stand the
weight of an ordinary pony, especially
during the warm hours of the day,
when the surface snow is soft. Wilkes
is poor-too poor to lay in n winters
supply of grub, and only capable of
buying as he gets out small quantity
of ore He thought himself of a st.
Bernard dog. which he had brought to
the cabin when the first SHOWS of the
winter fell. and after q little appliea-
tion managed to break him to harness.
Having accomplished this much Wilkes
next built rough sled and now goes to
town every Sunday for his grub. The
dog makes good time, while his master
accompanies him on snowshoes. The
trip is made with an average of 200
pounds of tools and merchandise. The
intelligent animal trots off with the
load at gait that makes it warm for
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15
The Slaughter of Birds.

The outcry over the slaughter of
birds for millinery purposes is said to
be without cause. The honor of sup
plying a large part Of the demand is
claimed for the humble barnyarl fowl.
while large part of the para ling
p1umes and ospreys are clever imita-
tions. Regarding the real osprey, buy
ers say that it is absurd to suppose
that it is obtained by killing the mother
bird on her nest, since that would soon
eNterminate the species, whereas the
supply is Increasing in response to the
demand While buyers and storekeeT-
ers claim the above is true, the mem
bers of the different societies to pre-
won't the killing of birds declare that
the little animals are now being slaugh-
tered in greater numbers than ever he
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15
A Prncely DANDY.

The greatest dandy in the world is
Prince Albert of Thurn. This fastid-
ious young men attires himself in n
new suit every day, enough yearly TO
keep twenty experienced workmen GO
ing. and to run up a bill of $4,000.
Each suit of wearing apparel is highly
perfumed with altar of roses at S25 an
ounce. He wears no less than 1.001
neckties during a year, being an aver
age of three day. A laundry employ
ing twelve people is kept specially for
washing his soiled linen, which he
never wears more than twice, and his
cast-off boots number 200 pairs year.
The cigarette bill of this highly-scented
young gentleman reaches the respecta-
BILE total of 81 900 per annum. and the
different sports he engages in, includ-
ing hunting, shooting, fishing, golfng
and bicycling. cost him more than ST5,-
OOQ.-AnSwers
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15

mind to acquire a thorough medical
education
When Mr.. Scott first came to college
here few of the college boys knew that
in the neatly attired old school gentle
man with the kindly face, whom they
met on the campus, was a schoolmate
of their own. Later on, though, this
having become generally known, some
of the would-be smart ones made a
midnight visit on Mr.. Scott, intent on
smoking him out They were gracious
ly received
Atthis juncture one OF the boys, keen
er than the rest of his companions,
walked across the room to Uncle Jim's
chair, thinking the smoke pretty thick
in the immediate locality, and found
the sturdy Scot contentedly putting
away at little black ST. D." an inch
and half long, with the blue ribbons
of smoke curling above him, and smil-
ing beamingly
The gang shortly departed, and no
further attempts have been made to
fumigate the medic's room. Mr.. Scott
has a wife, three daughters and n son
at Grow Harbor.-Portland Daily
Press.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15
THE POISONED SPEAR

s'It is rather bad hole, boys, sure
enough and the Lord bless you, it was
nip and tuck between ,nc and the devil
for a little while, l tell you. l can't
even think of the thing now without
feeling my blood run cold
Does it ever Lurt me? Well.
should say it does. can feel the
blamed stuff ranking in my bones this
very minute
.sEh; what stun? Why the poison, of
course
We'll, if you must have the story, I'll
tell it. seeing as I'd have to anyhow;
but as its getting late and I'm as
sleepy as a 3-weeks-old cub, I'll war
rant it'll not be very long and strung
out.
$50 you want to know how come to
have that big ugly hole in my arm
there, do you2
-.All right, boys, all right: you shall
know; you shall know. Give me 4
match, somebody. This tobacco must
be wet, or green, or something. It's
forever and eternally going out on a
fellow
EARLY in the fail of the year 1868
or 1869, I'm not sure which, there We're
some ten or twelve OF US hunting wild
horses on the Upper Rio Grande, in the
northern part of the Territory of New
Mexico. The Indians We're quiet enough
at the time and game wasn't scarce, so
what with plenty to eat, tobacco galore.
a cask of rum and pretty fair luck
with the lasso, we watched our corral
getting full with contented hearts.
1--WE had been some six or seven
weeks in camp when one of the bows
an Irishman named Mike Moriarity,
came in from an antelope trail that he
had been following two whole days.
with the startling intelligence that
there were Indians on the creek about
three miles above camp.
HE hadn't stopped to get close sight
of them, but from the fact that they
were mounted and that they numbered
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15

4, Glasgow lady has had a singular
experience. About the beginning of
November last she paid a hurried visit
to her business premises, and while
there lost the diamond from a favorite
ring. Search was made everywhere for
the precious stone. The shop was
given an extra sweep. the dust placed
in '.hair' sieve and washed, but not
trace of the lost jewel was got. Con
cluding that the diamond was gone for
good, the ring was reset, and the loss
almost forgotten. when the owners
daughter. who had accompanied her to
the shop on the occasion, remarked:
Mother. there's something in the heel
of my right boot which catches the car
pet every step l take" See what 1t
is was the reply, and there, firmly
imbedded in the solid leather, was the
missing diamond. Singularly enough
during the past two months the young
lady had been in the count and walk
ed over the hard macadamized roads
Diamond, in no way injured, and boot
heel are to join the heirlooms of the
family.-t delaide Observer.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15

| posed the flight of his followers with
fiery vehemence When he found him
self alone, instead of joining the stam-
| pede, he turned on us fiercely once
more 1t seemed as If he sfngle-handed
and alone proposed to assail us again.
LAS he whirled his mustang about
drew bead on him. He caught the flash
of the sunlight on my rifle barrel, and
| raised his spear Then came a report
and a whiz in the air at the same time.
The Apache dropped backwards from
! his saddle, and clapped my hand over
a deep spear wound in my arm.
THE lance had struck me in the
| fieshy part of the left forearm and
| dropped to the ground. Moriarity, who
was an old Indian fighter, snatched it
| up and examined the head, which was
a section of an old knife-blade ground
to razor-like edge. He dropped it in
moment and turned to me with
very grave face.
IT thought So he said anxiously.
Thought what?' 1 asked, endeavor-
ing to staunch the flow of blood that
streamed over my hand. What do you
mean?'
II mean it's pizened, SIR was the
reply.
And so it was. Upon the point of the
spearhead were still some spots of
thick green substance, vegetable poi
son used by the savages to render their
primitive weapons more deadly in ef-
feet Within five minutes 1 tainted
with the inexpressible agony of the
wound
Boys, I've been partially scalped;
I've been torn by the claws of savage
beasts; I've been bored through and
through with leaden bullets, and I've
went for days at a time. under hot
broiling sun, without so much as
drop of water TO drink. but never be-
fore or since have experienced the in
tense suffering, the terrible misery
which 1 endured during those few pre-
ceding minutes.
When l recovered consciousness,
half pound of flesh, more or less, had
been taken from my arm. The opera
ton spoiled its usefulness in meas
ure, but ii saved my life.
'HThe Indian? OH He turned out to
be Hawkeye, one of the most famous
chiefs of the Apaches. He and eleven
of his followers reached the happy
hunting grounds at about the same
time. My bullet had found his heart"
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15

The female mosquito, after she has
filed herself with blood-the male in
sect is not a blood sucker-seeks out
some dark and sheltered spot near
stagnant water.
At the end of about six days she
quits her shelter, and, alighting OF the
surface of the water. deposits her eggs
thereon She then dies, and, as a rule,
falls into the water beside her eggs The
eggs float about for a time, and then,
in due course. give birth TO tiny swim
ming larvae. These larvae, in virtue
of a voracious appetite, grow apace,
casting their skins several times TO ad-
nit of growth
Later, they pass into the nympha
stage, during which, after time they
float on the surface of the water. Final
Iy, the shell of the nympha cracks
along its dorsaI surface and a young
mosquito floats on the surface Of the
water while its wings are drying and
acquiring rigidity. When this is COM
plete it flies away.
The young mosquito larvae, to salts
fy their prodigious appetites, deyour
everything eata Bile they come across;
and one of the first things they eat. if
they get the chance, is the dead body of
their parent, now soft and sodden from
decomposition and long immersion
They even devour their own CASTOR
skins. In examining mosquito larvae
one often comes across specimens
whose alimentary canals are stuffed
with the scales, fragments of limbs,
and other remains of the maternal in
scot
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15

The daughter of DR.. Edward Hodges.
the organist, says that her father had
a delightful way of calling all the ehii-
dren musically One Sunday morning,
when he was playing in st. Johns
Chapel, New York, he said to her:
Il am going to call Jubal Watch
him.
Jubal was sitting in his accustomed
place near the middle aisle Doctor
Hodges voluntary began thoughtfully
and smoothly, but in the course of 1t, a
significant phrase of two notes was
twice repeated. 1t was distinct, and
yet so truly a part of the improyisa-
ton that no stranger would have no.
ticed it at all.
The first time, JubaFs attention was
arrested; the second, he turned and
looked up, but saw no sign At the
third call, he deliberately took up his
hat, left the pew, walked straight up
to his father, and said:
do you want me, sir?'
Yes said Doctor Hodges. go
home and get my gold snuffbox."
The errand was speedily executed,
for the house stood near. Jubal hand
ed the snuffbox to his father, and re-
turned to his seat.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15

no women among them he was pretty
certain that they were a band of
Apaches on the war-path.
sgFhis news was somewhat alarming,
to say the least, for we well knew what
our fate would be if we fell into the
hands of the red devils, and a strict
guard was set that night for, previous
to that time, we had been living hap
py-go-1ucky kind of life, secure in our
fancied isolation, leaving the camp to
take care of itself, after we laid our
pipes by and rolled ourselves in our
blankets. No attack was made, how
ever, and three days afterwards a
reconnaissance of the creek above
brought the welcome news that the red
skins were gone.
early that afternoon some one sug-
gested that we should visit the aban-
doned camp, and five of us, including
myself and Moriarity, set out for that
purpose. AS had been reported, the
savages were gone and all that re
mained of the late cantonment was the
ashes of the dead fires and the debris
of some of their barbaric feasts.
I'VE were still wandering over the
apparently deserted plateau when a
hafr-raising yell behind up brought US
about with a start to see a score of
mounted Apaches urging their mus
tangs at the top of their speed towards
us.
There was no time for hesitation.
We were close under a row of small
cottonwoods, which fringed the creek,
and in a moment were out of our sad
dies, for we were mounted, peppering
away at our assailants for dear life,
and making pretty much every shot
tell, too.
1.-THE conflict was a brief but decis-
I've one. Within fifteen minutes it was
ended by the complete rout of the
Apaches. Or rather of all but one. He
7-sSas a heavily built fellow, radiant
9Th warpaint, and bristling with tom
x, knife, arrows and a long spear
evidently the leader and op-
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15

and thus demonstrating anew his right
to the title of the worlds CHAMPION
ship. His brother. Merrett II. De
ment, who taught him his first lessons
in the art, was one of the best stenog-
raphers in the country in his day. An
other brother. james E. Dement,. is
one of the leading members of the pro-
fession in Chicago. 1t will be seen that
the Dement, family is well represented
in the great army of stenosraphers
Mr.. Dement, looks upon stenography
as an art and science, as well as
profession. He has been making hooks
and curves since he was a boy, and
has yet TO find the individual who can
dictate faster than he can write. All
public speakers are alike to him in
that he has never met one who as
much as bothered him The ones who
have tested his powers of speed most
fully were DR.. Phillips Brooks. the
noted preacher. and Rev. H. V. Reed
who used to preach several years ago
in Chicago to a congregation of pre-
millenniStS. The latter talked to Mr..
Dement, once at the rate of $50 words
a minute for half an hour and this Mr..
Dement, regards as the hardest propo-
sition he ever encountered For the
past four years he has been out of the
field as an active reporter. devoting his
time and abilities to the business of
publishing his textbooks on short
hand. In his spare moments Mr.. De
ment gives his literary genius a chance
and writes novels. In addition to this
he finds time to exercise his inventive,
powers. and has patented several use,
full mechanical devices
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15

finger of the left hand. Should he dis
cover that the bit of metal is very
minute and not to be readily seen, he
calls an assistant, who focuses the light
upon the eye by means of a large six
inch reading lens. When he finds that
the particle can be seen nicely he takes
the gouge or the bistoury, the two
dainty and yet terrorizing instruments
of the eye specialist, and with the point
of either he makes an Insertion beneath
the particle, and in a moment, if the
surgeon be skillful, the metal is out
upon the surface.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15
Paper Bags ana Hard Times.

The manufacture of paper bags is an
industry which depends largely on its
prosperity TO a prevailing condition of
hard times The more stringent the
financial pressure becomes. the more
paper bags are used. In the grocery
stores customers will come in who. in
stead of ordering Il bushel of potatoes,
will order quart of potatoes and carry
them home in a paper bag. Groceries
Of all kinds are purchased in small
quantities, and the paper bag is used
almost exclusively to do up. not only
groceries, but fruit, vegetables and can
dies 4 customer in hard times will
drop in and buy half a pound of tea. In
a few days he viii come again and buy
another half pound In good times he
would have bought couple of pounds,
and one bag would have wrapped 1t up
1t is so with all kinds of groceries and
everything purchasable far which pa
per bags can be used. and the only real
complaint which will be found coming
from the paper bag manufacturers will
be on the occasion of prosperous times
coming on us again The paper bag
mills are doing a thriving business
now. and until the growing evidences
of prosperity culminate in a general re-
sumption of business activity through
out the country, they will not lack for
a constant and large demand for their
goods. But when the mechanic begins
TO buy potatoes by the bushel, apples by
the peck. coffee by five-pound packages
and -four by the barrel, then the paper
bag will hide its diminished head and
prosperity be with us once more.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15
MAGNETIC SAVE eYesleHr.
Powerful Instrument Causes Metal
Particles to CONG Forth

AauSc6 metal
Particles to Come Forth
Every man who works where parti-
cles of metal fly about is liable to get
one of them in his eye. Time was
when such an accident meant blindness
in one or both eyes, but nowadays this
is not so. There Is In the New York
City Eye and Ear Infirmary a magnet
which has repeatedly drawn out of the
human eye such an atom as used to
destroy sight. The magnet is of suffi
cient power to lift sixteen pounds and
1t takes 120 volts of electricity from
the ineandescent light circuit to actuate
1t. When an eye which has become the
unhappy possessor of fragment of
iron or steel is brought near this mag
net the presence and location of the
metal is Immediately made manifest by
a bulging of the coats of the eyeban.
This is the exact spot located, and
with the attraction continued at full
limit the matter of the extraction of
the particle becomes simple When a
patient comes to the doctor to be treat
ed for an injury to the eye he Is seated
in chair with a headrest. facing a
good light. The doctor first steadies
the eyeball with the thumb and fore