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15 PARK BAND PLAYS LAST CONCERT OF SEASON TODAY f - A f . i4-: . . "k ; . ; . ... i I . ; ; f ' " ' " " - - ' ' ' " l --' 'i J ' ' I i lit --J &i'&M&t&jMto - THE Park Band concerts tliU) Sum mer have been more popular than ever before. Three years ago they were started, and there is little use in reminding peo ple that music is welcome ajid beneficent In its effects that it is sought and loved by men, women and children, and that on a Summer afternoon, or in the salu brious coolness of a Summer evening, strains of music vivify the feelings and help everybody to think life bright and pleasant. For a city of this size the Park concerts this year have been on a scale that Is not small. Thirty-five musicians, on an average, have participated in each pro gramme, and there will have been 36 con certs in all. including the one at City Park this afternoon, which will be the last one this season. Aside from the educational value of LETTERS FOURTH STREET RIGHTS SOUTHERN PACIFIC HAVE XOXE TO BE ENFORCED. Present "Franchise" Should Be Re pealed and Revenue Demanded for Electric Cars. PORTLAND, Aug. 24. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonlan of the 23d inet. ap pears an extended article, headed "Elec tric Cars on Fourth Street," which pro ceeds to resurrect that old, antiquated rumor that the Southern Pacific Company Intends bridcing the Willamette and re placing its West Side line on Fourth street with electricity. This rumor, like other promises from ihe same company, is always paraded be !nre the public whenever any agitation ay the latter aeserts its rights, only to ;ie forgotten as soon as it subsides or las sueeeedPd in lulling the pubUc into a feelltiK of false security. We are still nalting for a realization of the promises :;, the same company of an improved steamship service to San FTancisco, a railroad to Nehalem and one to Coos Hay. Portland is destlned.to be a great ;ity, and such detriments and handicaps is the steam cars on Fourth street, which would not be tolerated by the citi jonsliip of any progressive city, must eive way here before the aroused de mands for civic betterment and improve ment. One of the few things adversely com mented upon by our metropolitan visitors irenerally during our Fair last year was their surprise and astonishment that we permitted our beautiful, progressive city to be invaded through its very center by a dirty, puffing, enortlng steam engine, and some who were better acquainted told us in no uncertain tones that no town in the East that had outgrown Its village days would permit this. No Vested Rights. That the Southern Pacific has no rights that they can enforce to permit the run ning of trains on Fourth street is well known, and any claim of a perpetual franchise would receive but scant consid eration from our courts. This is known to none better than to the Southern Pa ciflo Company, hence its energetic oppo sition to having the matter tested. It 9 these concerts, the delight-giving power of them is a beneficent public influence. BandplayJng in the open air is recog nized as the most potent and salubrious amusement factor that a community like that ft PoAland can have. Some few of the .old-timers may say tbat they did not have this sort of thing in the early days of Portland, and they got along very well without It, but this has become a vast, complex city, and it needs just this pleasing and uplifting force .from the gods that outdoor music provides. The concerts this year have been con ducted chiefly by C. L.. Brown, alternat ing with A. De Caprio and W. E. Mc Elroy, and the rule has been to put in each programme a standard overture, a selection from a standard opera, and fill out the balance with selections from comic operas and the lighter or more dis tinctly popular grades of music. Today they will even play the "Tannhauser" overture and selections from "Lohengrin." FROM THE would cost but little to have this matter adjudicated by our courts, while the bene fit would be Immeasurable. The Southern Pacific Company has no more right or claim that a franchise should be granted It to operate an electric line (and -none other should be permitted) than has any other company, but if in order to avoid delay and litigation it is decided to grant it the preference for such a 'franchise (upon proper terms) then if It is acting in good faith It should have no objection to the passage of the repealing ordinance now before the Council, and if it does persist in lte opposition it will show its Insincerity and It can easily be brought to time by the refusal of further favors that it is ever seeking at the hands of the Council. No Chance to-Deceive. Let us look at the facts: The Southern Pacific Company has been using one of the principal streeta of our city for 38 years and has never paid one cent there for to the city. It never had a franchise to run trains on Fourth street and is 'operating under the original permission and subjoct to the will of the City Coun cil. This permission can be withdrawn at any time, and the time has now ar rived to do so. The franchise on Fourth street is a valuable asset of the city and In addition to the removal of the steam cars the city should receive a revenue from the operation of electric cars On Fourth street, whether by the Southern Pacific or some one else. The Southern Pacific Company should not delude Itself with the idea that it can deceive any one with shadowy prom ises of an electric line. It may be sin cere, but in view of the fact that no where in the United States does the Southern Pacific Company now operate an electric line, would tend to justify the suspicion that it was all buncombe. , Repeal the Ordinance. . The public demands that the steam cars be removed as soon as the Southern Pa cific has had a reasonable time to com plete its entrance Into the city by an other route. The only way to accom plish this is to pass the repealing ordi nance now before the Council, and then to grant the Southern Pacific Company a franchise to operate Its cars on Fourth street for one year, at a reasonable com pensation, with the understanding that in the' meantime it will arrange for another entrance to the terminal grounds. If It is acting in good faith it will not oppose this programme, and if it does, it may force an expression of public opinion at the polls at the next June election which it can rest assured will speak in no un certain tone. P. J. MANN. That the public accepts with pleasure mu sic like the last named shows conclu sively the progress of taste and culture among the masses. Great credit is due to C. Ia Brown for his unremitting labors in helping to main tain the Park Band work, for it has been conducted- largely through popular sub scriptions. The city this year gave 1500 toward defraying the expense, the rail roads gave 41000 more, and it has taken altogether upwards of $5000 to carry through the season. Mr. J. D. Meyer, who has also been an enthusiastic abettor of the movement, says that the prospects are good for the ctty to maintain the concerts next year alone, with the help of the street rail roads. It seems fair that the city at large should stand the expense, for every one Is free to hear the music, and it is not fair to expect a few individuals to pay for it all. The street railroads benefit financially from the concerts, because the people nat PEOPLE ON CURRENT TOPICS ON SUNDAY OBSERVANCE Its Actual Origin Clearly Defined in History. PORTLAND,. Or., Aug. 22. (To the Edi tor.) In common with many readers of The Oregonian, I found much interest in your recent editorial on the Sunday ques tion. Indeed, a rationalist consideration of any question based upon theological or ecclesiastical claims, or assertions. Is always useful and interesting, for it has a tendency to scatter into flight the many sources of human superstition, and thus aid, the minorities in freeing themselves from- the brutal intolerance of tne ma jorities. ' Nor is this a mere figure of speech. For the very day on which the question was considered in your editorial columns, one of the self-constituted mediators be tween God and man deemed it proper, or necessary, . to go on the warpath against the Seventh Day Adventists for their re fusal to conform to Puritanic Sunday obt servance. This, of course, brought out some replies from a representative of the party on which the attack was made, as well as a contribution by a reverend cor respondent who employs a series of gen eralities, but no facts, in support of the compulsory Sunday observance scheme of the ecclesiastical combine. Now, it is not my intention to enter into an extended review of the "arguments" presented by the champions of legislative enactments for Sunday observance. Not even the quibbling about the translating of the Greek word Sabbaton appeals to my critical taste, for it is very much like unto the most celebrated controversy about Homoiousian and 'Homoousian. which so long and so bitterly distracted the saints and the sages of early ec clesiastical fame and enterprise. It is, however, well worth remarking here that the pious champions of Sunday legislation have never been able to produce as much as a single Scriptural authority in justi fication of a Puritanic observance of Sun day. Not even among the prolific writers of the theological Babylon of the first three centuries is there to be found any Scriptural basis for such Sunday observ ance. And for a very good reason there is none to be had. The claim that Sunday observance is based upon the supposed physical resur rection of Christ is certainly untenable. For in the Gospel according to Matthew (xxviii:l) w! are informed. "as It began to dawn toward the first day of the week.' i. e., on Saturday afternoon before sunset, at which time a series of celestial fireworks rolled back the stone from the tomb, and an angel there was urally have to ride to the spot where the concerts take place. Five concerts a week have been given, beginning July 8 and ending today. Sun. day afternoon they played at the- band' stand in the City Park, Tuesday they played at Hawthorne Park. Wednesday again at City Park, , Thursday evening at Holliday Park, and Friday at the Plaza. As the season has advanced the concerts have grown more and more popular, and the people would feel a loss if the con certs were given up next year. In the opinion of the promoters and the people most interested they will be continued on a basis that seems equitable to every one. They are a great thing for the chil dren, and indeed a desirable recreation for all the inhabitants of the city. It requires from $7000 to $SO00 to run the band as it should be run through a Sum. mer season.' There are some excellent musicians in town, and the concerts serve to keep alive the interest in music and amuse the people, beside furnishing work on hand to proclaim to Mary Magdalene and the . other Mary the tidings of the Lord's resurrection. Whence then does Sunday observance derive its actual origin? History, such as It is. Is not at all silent on the sub ject, though our ghostly practitioners so persistently ignore it. Indeed, it is but necessary to turn to ' the first Sunday edict, issued in the year 321, by that im perial saint and murderer, the Emperor Constantino, to find that such proclama tion was made in honor of the "venerable day of the sun," and not at all because Of its being the Lord's day. But In their strenuous efforts to re ceive into the fold the pagan world, the ecclesia itself was thus absorbed by old time paganism. Hence It. is 'that from the simple institution of the early patristic period the ecclesia became transformed Into veritable paganism, with all of its symbols, rites, ceremonies, including the scheme of organization, festivals, etc. That is all there Is to it. Whoever doubts it, let him look into the past as1 preserved in the world of letters, and though much has been destroyed by pious barbarism,- yet enough is to be had to convince any rational mind of the justice of all that hath been said herein. - PAX VOBISCUM. Preserve a Pioneer's Name.' PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 23. (To the Editor.) Numerous references have been recently made in the public prints 'about the intention of the new owner of a large portion of the Gearhart Park seaside- property to drop the name "Gear hart" and substitute some other, 'hlle no ong' canj question the right of the owner of a 'piece of property to give it any name he may choose, yet in this particular case It Is hoped by a great number of people that he will not drop the name so long attached to this excel lent seaside resort. The name "Gear hart" waft that of an honored pioneer and the first owner of the most of tbe tract for many years known as "Gear-hart-Park"; hence it would seem entirely fitting that it should be continued. In thus urging upon the present owner the retention of the original name, the writer speaks for pioneers in general, and for a large number of those who have pur chased lots in the tract. GEORGE H. HIMES, Secretary Oregon Pioneer Association. The Milky Way for Him. The Newest Boarder (sarcastically) How am I to distinguish the milk from the cream, Mrs. Skinner? Mrs. Skinner (of Sylvandale Farm) You'll alius find the milk in that there pitcher with the chip off'n Its snout! for the musicians and accelerating knowl edge of one of the . most lovely of all arte. - The Park Band will render the follow ing programme for the closing concert of the season at City Park this afternoon. Owing to the length of the programme, it will begin at 2 o'clock. Grand March from "Tannhauser" .. ."Waener Invitation a la Valsa , Von Weber Fantasia from "Iris" : Mascagnl Introduzione II Sole. Overture to "Tannhauser" ... "Wagner intermezzo, "La Rose" Asher Intermlslon. "Morning" Grieg Ase's Death, from "Peer Gjnt" Grieg Scenes from "Lohengrin" Wagner Album Leaf Wagner Grand selection, "Macbeth" Vardt Berceuse Celebre, from "Joeelyn" ..B. Godard Two-step, "The Masterstroke" Chambers Doxology Auld Lang Syne Charles L. Br,own, A. De Caprio, Conductors. New subscriber to thfe concert fund since last report are: W. M. Ladd - 20.00 Kerr. Giftord & Co lo.OO Baggage & Omnibus Transfer Company 10.U0 Glisan 10.00 Loewenberg-Going Company 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 B.O0 Labbe Bros. Oregon vFurnlture Manufacturing Co., Simonds Manufacturing Company ., Oregon Real Estate Company ., T. &. Brooke . Gerson & Hart 6.00 A. Swanson , 6.00 Peterson, Smith Pratt 6.00 6.00 6.00 A. H. Blrrell Dan Leatherman ....... John P. Sharkey Bills G. Hughea 6.00 B.00 3.00 Henry Jennings at uons Rlumien & Veiten 6.00 F. M. Warren - 6.00 McOarger 4 Bates 6.00 Multnomah Printing Company 6.00 J. Couch Flanders, - 6.O0 J. Thorburn Ross 6.00 Lewis, Stenger Barber Supply Company 5.00 William Gadsby 6.00 L. H. Parker 6.00 6.00 6.00 Fairbanks, Morse & Co. Imperial Hotel , . Hartman & Thompson J. E. Davis Ballou & Wrfrht Druschel Bros. Townsend & Van Schoonover J. R. Rogt'rs H. J." Leertre .lancke Drug Company Cash F. W. Baltes F. V. Holman .v.. Dr. H. F. New ton . S.UO 2.00 2.50 2.50 2.00 2.50 2. no 2.00 2.w 2.50 2. SO 2.00 Total SET UP A MAN OF STKAW Reply to Dr. Wilson's Talk on Social ism With Illusrratlon.- PORTLAND, Aug. 20. (To the Edi tor.) Dr. Wilson in his' discourse on socialism on Sunday night says, among other things, "I do not believe in building up a' straw man to knock down." . He did not build one, that is sure, for in order to build up a straw man you must at least have some knowledge of that which you wish to destroy. In order to deliver an in teresting or an instructive lecture, it is at least necessary to have some In formation of the eubject at hand. Dr. Wilson's- knowledge of socialism is limited to hearsay and a vivid im agination. He says: "The socialists forget we must uplift the individual." Wo do nothing of the kind, but we do know that in order to uplift the indi vidual we must first surround him with a , more 'healthy environment. Then he brings to bear the old moss covered argument of incentive. Can It be possible that after 1900 years of Christian teaching and uplifting, a minister of the gospel dares to stand tip in the pulpit and hold forth as an Incentive the golden calf? That a civilized people's only goal is the lust for wealth and personal aggrandize ment, at the expense of manhood? No, Dr. Wilson, this will not go. No great deed was evef done or ever will be done in which the greed for gold is the only object. . . Then we are charged with repudia tion. Well, what'of it? Any law or any statute In an land is a repudia tion of the law or custom in force preceding- It and outlaws all others. The laws in a commercial' country are class laws of privilege; in fact, all laws that so far have evr been written are, without .exception, based on privilegre. No ordinance in the City of Portland but what under close scrutiny reveals some interest or private privilege ex ists. Take, as an instance, the heavy license on hucksters, which some of the preachers so valiantly supported. How about repudiating the former right of the poor huckster to do busi ness Unless he had a certain amount of money? His poor business destroyed and himself deprived of his former means of gaining a livelihood. Your laws repudiated even the right of this person to work and took all he had. But he is only a workingman. Per haps he has not the fine sensibilities of an aristocrat. By the same means a law could be passed requiring a preacher to pay a license of J100.000 a yenr,and it would mean no more to Bishop Potter than the $.r0 did to the huckster. Who fought for and against this law? Privilege. Those who wished to get rid of fruit quickly so as to save loss before it would spoil were against the license. Those who wished to be protected against the competition of the peddler were for it. And the same old story, to protect the people. Then improvement demands an arena, not a nest. But Darwin. Wallace. Huxley all show that the terrible struggle for an existence is most keen among the lower forms mt life, but as we advance the necessity for struggle decreases, until with man, the highest form, no struggle for food need or shcfuld be. There was no struggle for food even under feudalism or slavery. There was a struggle for freedom; we have it yet. "No country Is truly free which contains a single - slave."- But the Cryptia still exists, and while the workers are not murdered in the fields they are destroyed as mercilessly as ever. The- Helots are here and the bent figure of the Man with the Hoe. Then you claim we wish to abolish inheritance. We wish to do nothing of the kind. Wo do not say what any one shall do with his own property which he has honestly earned, but we do object to the inheritance,, by a di vine or favored few of the sweated and tolled-for property of despoiled mil lions. Let us investigate Helen Gould's'millions. They were made and are being increased today, by keeping little boys out of schoolv robbing them of an education, denying them the gol den rays of childhood, by slowly poisoning thousands of the same kind of chHdren in match factories, the most terrible work imaginable, and by impoverishing a nation by excessive freight rates, and driving our sons to be "a thousand tobacco-stained, rum soaked, grabbing, loafing, lecherous and foul-mouthed men, gamblers, etc." (Thaw. Corey. Schwab, et al. exclud ed), and daughters to the restricted district, where some tjraes evangelists go and pray. But, monet non olet. The enterprises are too big for the people to manage. I don't want you to hook up my horse. You are too liable to get him at the wrong end of the cart. The Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the War of the Rebellion as near as I can Judge the greatest enter prises are managed by nations, not Individuals. - Then, what is done by individuals is better. How does the Carnegie armor plate that a brick could be thrown through compare with the guns turned out at the Government ar senals? Are not all the shoddy clothes .that fall to pieces tn the Army the work of private contractors? Has not the Government come out to Oregon lately to show the private people how to build a road? The Socialists should Join hands with the church. Every minister of the gospel that has yet Joined the Socialists or who has at tempted to do any Independent think ing has been fired out of the church. And it will be some years hence be fore most of the preachers draw their inspirations from any other source than the one from which they draw their salary. For further information along this line I would suggest the editorial in The Oregonian on Sunday, the 20th, "Under the Bough." There many of your Inaccuracies are plainly shownl 24 hours before they were ut tered. THOMAS SLADDEN. THE NEW SOCIALIST ERA W hen It Comes, Then, .Indeed, the Millennium Will Be Here. CORVALLIS, Or.. Aug. 20. (To the Ed itor.) Please permit me to explain, in re gard to a communication published In your paper some time ago. I really was quite innocent of any intention of pre suming to give advice to Socialists or anyhody else. I have long been convinced of the futility of Buch gratuitous exertion, and am fully aware that the world Is as much overstocked with advice as it is with misinformation. The' heading, "Ad vice to Socialists," was an error. My critic, Mr. Sladden, seems to have misunderstood my position. I was not opposing Socialism, but presenting a dif ferent statement of it. In this connection. It must be understood that there are as many different kinds of Socialists as there are of Christians or of chickens. We are not opposing nor antagonizing any truth or fact of any kind, -but merely wish to criticise some of the misconcep tions and crudities incident to the propa ganda of any programme for the conver sion of the world from one set of errors to another. A fundamental fallacy of Socialism is that, like Republicanism and Democracy like the whole present system of things it Is based on the acceptance of majority rule as inevitable. We New Dlspensation Ists consider majority rule as about the greatest evil and worst affliction there Is. and we wish to present a remedy for it to those who are reasonable enough to perceive the need of one.- The worst crimes that history records have been committed by majorities against minorities. The stoning of the prophets, the crucifixion of Christ, the burning of Christians by pagans and by one another all these were the work of majorities. What reason is there fott the blind belief that right Is Inherent in ma jorities, when the whole lesson of history is that right ha3 been orlsinated by mi norities ad advocated against the .opposi tion of majorities?. If a minority of predatory parasites now rule this country despotically under the forms of Republicanism or Democracy, they do so because a majority consents. Just as a majority consented to the rule of the Czar till a habit was formed which now with difficulty can be thrown off. It is to this majority, this brutalized mob, that burns "niggers" in the South, and persecutes Socialist street orators both Nortn and South, that the Socialists appeal. This is trie mass of the people, proletariat and bourgeoise, mainly j the former; and this ts the blind monster that the Socialists are going to convert till it becomes deified Into the Savior of the world. .Well, if they can convert this whole outfit and make eood, intelligent, obe The Doctors Who WE (I RE WEAKNESS'' because we employ a method that reduces prostatic enlargement, expels the germs of contracted disorders, and builds up tne wast ed tissues to a healthy condition. WE CI" RE CONTHACTEO DISEASES and speedily and permanently eradicate the I speedily and permanently eradicate the i s rl i . son from the entire system, and assist na- AvV T ' e to work her own certain cure. v V ' "C VB CIRK URETHRAL OBSTRl(TIO . --. ' a method distinctly our own; a safe, ccr- poise ture w bv a method distinctly tain and permanent cure in every WE CIRB SPECIFIC BLOOD POISON by a harmless vegetable remedy that goes direct to the seat of the dlsens.. 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It Includes the unterrlfied, who never voted anything but the Democratic ticket, and never will-. It Includes an even great er number of standpatters, who always vote the Republican ticket, and wouK wade knee-deep in blood to tear down a Socialist flag. It Includes the boats of poor farmers and farm laborers, who hardly stop working long enough to eat. and even if these could be induced to read Socialist literature they could not understand it any more than a Chinaman can understand Welsh. It includes the clerks and apprentices of the mercantile and professional classes, who look upon a Socialist agitator as a high-caste Brah min looks upon a pariah. It includes the Y. M. C. A. and pious church members, and preachers who undoubtedly believe that the world is going to be saved by a repetition and multiplication of prayers, and are so convinced that Socialism Is op posed to the word of God, that kiey would not risk the supposed safety of their im- mortal souls by even the thought of In vestigating such an ungodly proposition. It also includes the prosperous parasite classes, who, in the confusion of ttrts labyrinth of conflicting ideas and Inter ests, are at leisure to live by plunder. Let my good brother Sladden proceed at once to convert all these and gather them into the Socialist fold and carry them as lambs in his bosom. He is wel come to all he can gather. I envy hlni not his lot. It grieves me greatly that the suspicion of even putting the slight est obstacle in his way should ever have been breathed against me. But when he gets It done, then Indeed will the Scrip ture be fulfilled. The lion shall lie down with the lamb, the hyena cat hay like the ox and the gorilla wear glasses and be come a professor.- Mr. SUdden himself and his compatriots will be saint si greater than Booth, of the Salvation Army. But the ludicrous part of it is that Mr. Sladden's kind of Socialists always deride our kind of Socialists as dreamers. It. seems to me that there are some elements of dreamland in their own theory. They use a different kind of tobacco, perhaps. We New Dispensationists present a dif ferent programme. We declare that It Is impossible to convert the Job lot of con tradictory ""elements that constituto the present humanity, and that such people' are not worth the trouble anyhow. We merely call to those who will come, and if they don't come let them go or. stay. We want to find people, who have sense enough to size up the situation, and who are -capable of undcrstandinir the principles of orderly association and the ethics of really human relationships. Our plan is that such should withdraw from the competitive strife and form the nuclei of communities of the New Order which will become places of refuge when the old system collapses. And we expect this collapse pretty soon. Those desiring further information on the subject should communicate with me. I would cheerfully give It through the columns of The Oregonian, but I don't own the paper, and the management might require me to pay for space at ad vertising rates. I feel that I must be brief and that I am liable to be abbreviated suddenly and finally any moment the editor sees fit to cut me off. I don't like to exist with a sword or hatchet or iniunction or any other dangerous Implement forever hang ing over my uneasy head.' That ts the reason I want to get away from such a state and establish a new state. I don't want to watt till all the fools are saved and all the animals In the world led Into the ark. Two of a kind will be enough to start with. J: L. JONES. Acquire Land Now. PORTLAND, Or.. Aug. 24." As a stran ger, I am naturally impressed witli the opportunity that seems to be overlooked, awaiting those who have the foresight to Invest in uncleared land In the vicin ity of Mount Scott, southeast of the county line. It is doubtful If there is any city the size of Portland where land can be had at such a low valuation. All It lacks is a small amount of labor to make it worth a fortune in the near futifre. for it is not to be expected that U will remain In its present condition indefinite ly. It Is to be regretted the young men of today fail to realize the changed con dition that awaits them by their neglect to secure an adequate amount of land to sustain a home in comfort rather than rely entirely upon their salary in the city. In case of failure they cannot go further west to better their condition, as was the case In the past, and must Inevitably struggle against adversity. The same lack of foresight aa to pros-' pective value of realty still exists as to. land susceptible of agriculture tu the Willamette Valley. Its dimensions ara comparatively small in proportion to the Western states, and yet in less than thirty years it now takes a fortune to purchase a small holding in the vicinity of a city east of the Rocky Mountains. What will It be when the congested pop ulace are brought to a halt in their wild rush to obtain what is left for those with limited means? KANSAN. Sell lIojrH at Seven Cent. There -U good monry in lions at T cents per pound, live weight. That I the price paid In Athena by Walla Walla -buyers, aj-s th Athena Preos The largest lot purchtoed was a carload of prime porkers from A. L. Swag cart, the well-known farmer and stockman, residing nrrth of town. The stock goes to a Walla Walla firm. The nieat Hnd packing industry of the Garden City is rapidly advancing. It lma reached- the stage where most of the stock groun in the section i required to supply the demand of the Walla Walla buyers. It is now a rare occurrence when an Athena rancher makes a stock sale to Portland or t?ound buyers. The introduction of the hoK-tight fencing around the wheat fteldji makes It pot-Bible for every farmer to rale and fatten huge cheap!. and the number who arc giving their atten tion to hog raising Is notably on the increase. A carload or tw,, of hogs on hand ts pick up and fatten on the down grain tn the fiebl that otherwise -would be a total w-aste, la "like getting money from home." Through the efforts of Bishop Allen, of Mobile. Ala., mass Is now being celebrated In Tuskegoe institute for Tathollo students. Cure case. IV. OKTOX DAVIS, M. I- M. C . P. S. O. . TwTDty-ihree V ear a Speclallnt. r