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, S. F. Sharp. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to all calls, both night and day. Call promptly amwered. Office on Third Street. Atbeua, Oregor OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS AFRICA rOB THE AFRICANS. T will not do to exaggerate the weight and Importance of the so-called EtWopian move ment, the keynote of which Is expressed by the cry of "Africa for the Africans," and yet underlying It Is one of the gravest prob lems awaiting the solution of the civilized world. That problem has to Co witn we future relations of the white and black races In Africa. Shall the latter be permanently relegated to a position of servitude and subjection, as the inevitable fate of an Inferior race associated with one more highly developed, or shall the attempt be made to treat both on terms of equality before the law? Shall the majority of the Inhab itants of the country, bearing a proportion of not less than twelve to one of the whites in Natal, for instance, be deprived of political rights by the white men who have come into the land to till its fields and develop its mineral resources? In a word, shall this great continent, with its teeming millions of black natives, be turned Into a "white man's country," regardless of the Interests and wishes of the blacks? That the questlou Is vastly more than an academic one Is shown by the unrest among the Zulu and Kaffir populations of South Africa, and by the repeated upris ings of the Mohammedan negroes of the Niger region. So long as the country Is governed from above, as in Nigeria and In the undeveloped portions of South Africa, the problem has not risen to vex the white rulers; but where the attempt to lutroduce democratic self-government Is made as lu the Cape Colonies it is acute. The men upon whom rests the real burden of the problem, the colonists, have small use for the humanitarians and the theorists. They frankly declare that the cherished doc trine of equal rights for all men Is not for them, and that the occupation of the country was for motives with which ethics have nothing to do. Philadelphia Ledger. A "BLACK LIST" OF F00D3. iNE of the most Interesting things to the student of political history and progress Is the way In which federal statutes often stimulate State legislation and encourage the enforcement of State laws. The Lacey act for the protection of game by the na tional government has done more than any other one thing to secure the passage and enforcement of State game laws ; and already the pure food and the meat Inspection acts passed at the recent session of Con gress have borne fruit In several States. In Massachusetts and In New Hampshire particularly the State Boards of Health have made public the results of chemical analysis of many articles of food in dally use. These articles were bought In the open market, of local grocers, Just as any householder buys them for his own use. VVheu they are found to be adulterated or other than as represented on the labels, the State Boards of Health have published the fact, naming the packer, giving a de scription of the label, and telling Just what and how much adulteration was refund. The State Boards have long been carrying on this work, but what Is new Is the fact that the newspapers have taken much more Interest In It, and now print the re ports In full. The Boards of Health in many other States make similar examinations and prepare similar reports. Even If the reports may not be printed in the newspapers, they can usually be had on application, and the Depart ment of Agriculture works in the same field. The restraining and reformatory effect of these reports will be of great importance. Even a manufacturer who would like to cheat, if he could do so In safety, will hesi tate to deceive when he knows that the reports of the State Board tell the. truth about his products, and that the reports are accessible to alL , Henceforth the house holder can buy in greater confidence than ever before. Youth's Companion. H TO CUBE THE HARRY THAWS. ARRY THAW'S mother ruined her son when she changed the will of the boy's father. The latter left the spendthrift $2,500 a year. Mrs. Thaw changed it to $80,000 a year. It was a case of too much mothering. She put a handicap on the son's life, cheated him out of bis chance. , Young Thaw never had the satisfaction nor the experi ence of earning an honest dollar. He never knew the keen Joy of work. The exultation of the youth who turns from a wood box filled or a lawn mowed a job well completed never came to him. He was denied the opportunity of labor with his hands or the working out of an Ideal with his head. The curse of idleness was upon him. For idleness is a curse. The dictum that man must earn his bread by the sweat of bla brow Is a bless ing. Work is the universal law of nature. It is the normal, sane business of man. What could be expected of a young man who had more money than he knew how to spend and who made diversion his only purpose? There's a limit to having a good time. When you get so far natural pleasures pall and if the human has no occupation the craving for new emotions begins to pull on the appetite. Self restraint is overborne. Life is warped. Tastes are vitiated. Ex istence Is artificial and false. There Is one cure for a thousand ills useful labor. No man can live a sane existence without some healthy occupation. We are built that way. St Louis Star-Chronicle. THE 1ST. NICHOLS HOTEL ? I J. E. FROOME, prop. : -iff t Only First-class Hotel in t the r.itv. 4 If? THE ST. NICHOLS Is the only one that can accommodate commercial travelers. i?r Can beiecomended for Its clean and well ventilated rooms. k Cob. Hair and Third, Athena, Or. N CHICAGO'S FREIGHT TUNNEL. O other American city Is In the happy po sition of Chicago In having a large system of freight tunnels, by which business houses can load goods from their cellars right Into cars. The tunnel company connects its trunk tunnels with the larger houses In the down town district, ' so that drays, teams and strikes of draymen are at an" end. There are forty-five miles of tunnnel equipped with rails and overhead trolley In the district bounded by Chicago avenue, the lake, Hal sted and Sixteenth streets, constructed In the last five years at a cost of $30,000,000. The railroads are to re ceive freight from the tunnel company at a minimum of expense. The system of underground freight tunnels la not a municipal enterprise, but was begun, It is alleged, by a subterfuge and carried on against the wish of the city fathers. Baltimore American. A TYRANT IS DEAD. den. Trepoff Wu the Moat Hated Man In Itaniila. Escaping time after time the knives and bullets of those who would have assasslnnted him, the man most hated by tho Russian people, recently died a natural death at the palace of the Czar at Feterhof, near St. Petersburg.. He was Gen. Dlmltrl Feodorovlch Trepoff, the most detested and the most cruel tyrant who stood between the people and their hopes for reform. He was one of the most remarkable men In his life were made In one week. While none of the assassins was ever success ful in reaching him, they were really the cause of his death, for the con stant worry and terror of his position broke down his health and led to his end. Trepoff was a typical Russian very tall, very strong, with cold blue eyes and a hard expression. He had no mercy in his soul and thought noth ing of ordering the Cossacks to mow down the people on the slightest prov ocation. He was vulgar and illbred Dtp if-W GEN. DIMITItl TREPOFF. Russia. Ills father was a foundling and never knew who his parents were, bat he rose to be a power in the em pire and the sou followed lu his foot steps, rising even higher. No man stood so firmly for despotism as did Dlmltrl Trepoff, and his life was con stantly In danger. He was shot at over and over again. Three attempts to tat?8 and possessed none of the gentlemanly qualities which attach to the Russian of good breeding. Withal, he was fear less and stood between the Czar and those who would have reduced the pow er of the Imperial ruler. He was the protector and savior of autocracy. He even prevented the Czar carrying out his reform Ideas. He was the one bar rler between the tempestuous sea of mobs and popular passions that rageil around the throne on one hand and the tqually cruel autocracy on the other hand. He plotted for M. Wltte's re moval and upset every plan for change In the form of government. As com mandant of the Imperial palace he con stantly had the ear of the Czar and his Influence was boundless. His removal by death Is a great blow to the autoc racy and clears from their path the strongest man in the way of the liberals. Hundreds of those whom he had caused to be publicly flogged or sent Into exile will rejoice that the tyrant is dead. Nobility Ran to Seed. The death In an almshouse at Kings ton-on-Thames of a man who claimed descent from King Edward I. and col laterally from Archbishop Cranmer Is only another of the many instances of the slow extinction of noble families, Instances well known, to those who study genealogy from the eugenic stand' point The garrulous Burke mentions how one co-heir of our Plantagenet kings became a shoemaker, carrying on his trade in a suburb of London, how another was a butcher at Halesowen, and a third a tollbar keeper near Dud ley. And up and down the country may be found many men who are the sole representatives of great and pow erful families that once held undisput ed sway over lordly acres. Hardy, as every bookman knows, made splendid use of this fact In 'Tess of the D'Ur- bervllles." rail Mall Gazette. Poorly Trained. A brakeman retired to a farm and started to lead a simple life. Having a piece of new land to breik, he hitched up a team of mules, wrapped the lines v. 1 1 . . . . . urouuu ma wrist iu larmer lasnion ana started to work. He had gone but a short distance when he saw a stump ahead and Immediately began giving the railroad "stop" signal with both hands. The plow struck the stump and the brakeman went head first over the plow. Picking himself up he ran an grily to the mules and roared: "You flop-eared scoundrels, don't you ever look back for a signal?" Atchison Globe. COMMERCIAL LIVERY STABLE HARRY M'BBIDE, MANAGER Best Stock and Rigs in the City. Competent Drivers. Stock Boarded by the Day, Week or Month at Reasonable Rate. NORTH SIDE STREET, ATHEAN, ORE "Saving at the Spigot Wasting at the Bung" That's what buying poor paint means. Paint may be low priced by the gallon and be extravagant to use owing to to it's poor covering power and wearing quality. After the paint is applied it's too late to save. 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