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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1896)
THE PRESS has the circulation, its advertising rates are within the reach of all. THE PRESS "touches the spot." $1.50 per year' ATHENA PRESS Published Every Friday Morning By J. W. SMITH, Pboprietob. F. B. Boyd, Editob. Entered at Athena postofflce as second-class mall matter. Subscription Rates: Per year, In advance, - - Single copies. In wrappers, 6c. Advertising Kates! local reading notices, first Insertion, 10c per line. Each subsequent Insertion, Sc. All communications should be addressed to be PRESS, Athena, Oregon. ATHENA JULY 10,1896. Owing to the depression caused by the low prices of all kinds of farm produce there has been little attention paid to the really remark . able progress which has been made in framing operations in the Pacific Northwest during the past few years. Five years ago we were im porting from the East a very large bhare of the butter :onsumed in our cities, nearly all of the cheese; eggs and poultry in large quantities and by far the greater portion of the bacon, hams and lard required to supply the demands of pur chasers of these artcles. In the ag gregate the imports of these articles amounted to millions of dollars per year. At the present time we have become exporters of eggs and poultry. We also produce prac. tically ail the butter and cheese required for home use and will commence very soon to export these articles. We are yet importing a considerable quantity of hog pro ducts, but the home supply will soon equal the demand in this line also, and already our bacon is be ing shipped to San Francisco in a small way where it is in demand on account of its superior quality. Perhaps, if all the live hogs which are now shipped East from Oregon and Washington were butchered at home, there would be no occasion for the importation, even now, of any bacon, hams or mess pork from the East. If the develop ment of the swine industry contin ues to progress at the same rate in the future as in the post two or three years we will, inside of five yearB, be exporting large quantities of hog products. We acknowledge reoeipt cf an elaborately printed pamphlet, is sued and circulated by the Pacific Northwest Immigration Board, of Portland, Oregon. The book is well printed and contains valuable information as to the resources of the Noithwest. However, we are of the opinion the board should send competent men to write up the different sections of our prolific country, and not confine elaborate descriptions to certain localities. Umatilla county is poorly written up, and Milton, one of the chief fruit shipping points of the North west, is not even spoken of, There is no toadyism about Henry Watterson. In the course of an interview with the represent ative of the Loudon Chronicle a few days ago, he said: '.'We are re publicans, wherens you are mon archists. We detest yojir social system thoroughly. Shoddy Amer icans who came over here in hot pursuit of social recognition we re gard with disgust, as you regard with disdain. There can be no affinity between democracy and aristocracy." The Walla Walla Union places Oregon, Washington, California, Kansas and West Virginia among the states that will surely go for McKinley on account of the finan cial plank in the republican plat form. Surely the editor of the Union has not beon a close observer of the recent election in this Etate, for it was unmistakably a voice for silver, and if he is as badly off on his estimates of other states as lie is on this, they are of littlo value. The following communication appeared in the National Bimetal list of June 24, and it is well worth reading: You will have noticed that when the gold redemption fund had been drawn down to to about $100,000,000 the Fccretary of the treasury called in the baU ance due on the bond contracts, which had been left on deposit with the banks that had acted as agents of the treasury in the de livery of the bonds. The Econo mist of this week says in the most matter-of course way: "The free gold in the United State's treasury is down to $103,000,000. The New York banks turned in $1,300,000 on the bond contract, but it was in the form af greenbacks." The paper makes no comments. For unblushing effrontery the New York banks are entitled to the fullest recognition, and it ought to be in the form of an outspoken con demnation from the people. Hav ing captured the republican paity organization, which they are con fident will win in the election, they no longer think it necessary to mask their iniquity. They do rot even think it necessary to go through the tormality of drawing the gold out of the treasury in ex change for greenbacks, but they take the short cut and pay for the gold bonds directly with green backs. Oh, the patriotism of Wall street! There is some consolation in the thought that -the election is several montha off yet, and "whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad." It is certainly a remarkable po sition which W. R. Ellis now oc cupies on the financial question. It can be explained only on the grounds that any position upon vital questions is permissible in the great. He likes the fiinancial plank of the St. Louis platform and still remains a silver man, which proves that Mr. Ellis is in deed a great man. And then, again, he thinks, does Mr. Ellis, that the tariff should not be lost sight of in the coming election. Now there is nothing original or statesmanlike in his thinking so laboriously. There are others, many others, who have thought of this before Mr. Ellis, but the idea won't take. It falls fiat because we all know that he was not re elected because of his views on the tariff, not a bit of it. There was, however, lurking in the public mind a suspicion that Mr. Ellis was an uncompromising silver man. It would seem that Mr. Ellis is equal to the occasion, he can rise equal to any emergency, The voters of the second congres sional district of Oregon may find this out somewhat late, but they can take such comfort as is ex pressed in the old saw, "it is better late than never." Cold comfoit this may seem, but not half as icy as Mr. Ellis would get at the hands of the voters of this district were the election to take place again tomorrow. No man in con gress rests under greater obliga tions to the 6ilver men than he, and none in Oregon has less causo for prating about the tariff. The tariff can not be made an issue in this campaign to Berve any politi cal party, because the rival candi dates will both stand on an equal footing, that is they will both ad vocate a sufficient tariff to meet the running expenses of the govern ment, and that is all there is wanted. The silver question alone commands attention and will alone receive it, and if the republican party parrots think for one moment that they can divert the issue into tariff nonsonso their shallow pates will learn something before the campaign is half over. And so will Mr. Ellis. Tomahawk. ; Time rolls onward but never backward. It is like a stream in this respect. It bears the youth onward to manhood, and those in manhood to old age. Such is the order, and it is never reversed. Those who have passed out of the season of youth never return to it again. A person may wish that he could begin his life anew and live it over again that he may shun the mistakes that he has made; but it is a vain wish it cannot be grati fied. Hence the importance of improving the season of youth wisely and well. This has been characterized as the spring season of life. The spring of the year is tho sowing season, and every wise husbandman is careful to improve it well. He is diligent in casting in his seed and in making timely preparation for a harvest, for he is well aware that, if he neglects the appropriate work of the season, he will not reap in the autumn. And in like manner should the youth improve the springtime of life; be should then eo w with reference to a harvest in the autumn of life. Neglect to do this will be sure to be followed by unhappy results. A good deal of attention has been paid by the house committee on postofnees to the question of one cent postage, and although this reform is not in sight this year it is understood that a favorable re port will be made on a bill to en able buisness men to send out circulars, or letters, or postal cards with returned envelopes on which prepayment of postage shall not be compulsory, but may be collected from the firm sending out the orig inal letter, circular or card. The device by which this is to be regu lated is simple, yet effective. The investigation undertaken by the postofflce department precedent to its recommendation of the measure satisfied it that ' this innovation would result in an enormous in crease in the sending out of "re turn" letters and circulars because the loss of postage to the buisness man from careless and unscrupu lous correspondents who now use the stamped envelopes for other purposes would be entirely ob viated. It is at last discovered that the government has not sufficient evi dence to go to' trial in the case against 1. Ruddock, on the charge of robbing the Pendleton postoffice. There never was the least eVidence against Ruddock and everyone in Pendleton familiar with affairs were more than confident that he was not the man who robbed the postoffice. There were other rea sons for his arrest in the first place than those alleged. The govern ment officers have allowed them selves to deprive a man of his lib erty on a charge which they can now find no evidence 'to sustain. E. 0. If you would increase your hap piness and prolong your life, for get all the slander you have ever heard, forget temptations, forget the fault-finding, and give a little thought to the cause which pro voked it. Forget the peculiarities of your friends, and remember only the good points which make you fond of them. Oregon a Silver State Portland Evening Tribune: By a somewhat vague proccess of reasoning, our ultra gold papers de duce from the recent elections in the first and second Oregon dis tricts, that this state is in favor of the single gold standard. During the campaign it . was made the issue sharply defined, that a vote for Quinn, Ellis or Bennett, was a vote for silver, and a vote for Northup was a vote for gold. In the first district a vote for Vander barg or Myers was a vote for silver and a vote for Tongue was a vote for gold. On this issue, invented and kept clearly before the people by the gold men, the vote for Quinn, Ellis and Bennett, was in round numbers 30,000, and for Northup, the gold champion, 8000. In the first district Vanderburg and Myers, silver, had 26,000 votes, and Tongue, gold, 19,000 votes. Thus it will be seen that upon an issue as clearly defined and as di rectly brought as the gold men could make it, the total vote stood 56,000 for silver against 27.C0O for gold. If there is satisfaction for the gold men, the silver advocates surely ought to rest content. Mrs. Rbodie Noah, of this place, wta taken in the night with cramping pair and the next day diarrhoea set in. Bhe took a half a bottle of blackberry cordial but got no relief. She then sent to me to see if I had anything that would help her. I sent her a bottle of Chamberlain'a Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and the first dose relieved her. Another of our neighbor! has been sick for about a week and had tried different remedies tor diarrhoea bat kept netting worse. I sent him this same remedy. Only four doses of it were required to care him. lie save he owes -his recovery to this wonderful remedy. Mrs. Mary Sibley Kidney, Mien, ror sale by Uebura. Deafness Cannot. Ba Cured by local applications aa they cannot reach the diseased portion of tbe ear. There is only one way to cars deafness and that la by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con dition of the mucous lining of the Eus tachian lube, when this tube is in flamed you have a rambling sound or imperfect hrarinr, and when it is entire ly closed, deafness is the result, (and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed for ever ; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an (inflam ed condition of the m aeons surfaces. We will Rive One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars ; free. F, J. Chunky A Co., Toledo, O. -8old by Druggists, 7c. Painting In all Branches Neatly done by Chapman. HOUSE PAINTING .U.l.J..JU4U.,.JUJUJU.Ui ATHBNA PRBSS m0m THE LARGEST OF carried in Umatilla county, composed of FIRE ARMS, FISHING TACKLE, HAMMOCKS. CRAWFORD and SYRACUSE . . . BICYCLES ... BICYCLE REPAIRS can be found at . TAYLOR'S, the Pendleton Hardware Man. AND DECORATING. J. W. CHAPMAN, Athena. i..ll.i..JUlU.UiUJUJUJl. CTfunrntmrmwimmtr AH Sv- W WAMMEM AY imr -wr w -w r r LINE SPORTING COOPS Erotic to ().Q) Q) Q) )) Q) ) S)J) You can purchase our Drapers and Extras for all Headers Threshers and Horse-powers from Will Mosgrove, Athena, Oregon. . . . GILBERT HUNT & COMPANY, Walla Walla, Wash. Machine Niger's Shop, at Helix, can repair Ma chinery. General W. L. ZEIGER, W. D. HANSFORD & CO., SSWsS Dealers In Vvy Hardware.... Pumps, Pipe, etc., PLUMBING A SPECIALTY. 629 Main Street, J VI SMITH, ATHENA, OREGON, w. P. LEACH, -N. A. MILLER, THE , LEADING FURNITURE DEALER 41 11 Carpet Store HI HI Largest Stock ever brought to Pendleton. Better Goods and cheaper Prices. Agent for the Standard and White Sewing Machines. Carpets and machines at about half former prices. Come and be convinced. THE ATHENA MARKET FRANK E3EAL, proprietor. AFRESH MEAT ALWAYS ON HAND Highest Cash Price paid for Butcher's Stock. YOU GET THE VERY BEST AND LOTS OF IT, WHEN YOU SPEND MONEY WITH RFAI Main Stkeet, - - Athena, Obegon FIRST HMOESLn BERK ' OF KTEEKR. Fays E, A.t . . , . . FISCHER'S NEW HARNESS SHOP Onboth Harness and Collar, You can save the dollar; Wliile the pennies take care of themselves. Nouth side Main Street. Fai"mrs Shop . . . Blacksmithing. - Helix, Or and Stoves. TIN AND COPPERWARE. Baker Barbed Wire. v ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Pendleton, Oregon. k . NOTARY PUBLIC SUCCESSOR TO II JESSE FAILING, Pendleton, Oregon. V We buy for Cash and sell foi Cash strictly . South side Main Street. capital stock, surplus, : $ 60000 $21,000 interest on time deposits. Proper attention given to collections. Deals in foreign and domestic exchange. L. Barhett Cashier, Athena, Oregon Athena, Oregon.