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Press. r There Is but one way of obtaining busln publicity; but one way of obtaining public ity advertising. Blackwood. : Advertising is to business what steam pow er Is to machinery the grand motive power. aUCAUUtV. Athena ft ll it VOLUME 6. The Balls. r Tiiii niosoii for Pendleton. Portland, and all points east, except the Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, at 5:30 p. m. For Walla Walla, Spokane and Korth Paci fic points at 7:5 j . Mali arrives from Pendleton, Portland and From Walla Walla, Spokane and North Pa cific points at 6 :5 p. m. Office hours General delivery open from 8 a. m. to p. m. Sundays, 8 to It a. m. Money order window open from 9 a. m. to p. m. Gf.o, Hanskll, Postmaster. KODGR BIBECTOBT A F. k A. M. NO. 80 MEETS THE A . First and Third Saturday F.venings of each months Visiting bretheren cor dially invited to visit the lodge. 4 a - . -r O. O. F. NO. 73. MEETS KVKKX f I . Fridav nlsht. Visitine Odd Fellows j in good standing always welcome. A, 0. U. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE Second and Fourth Saturdays ol lach month. L. A. Githena, Recorder. PYTHIAN, NO. 29, Thursday Night MEETS EVERY PROFESSIOKAL CARDS. p a SHARP, Physician and Surgeon. Calls promptly answered. Office on Third Street, Athena, Oregon. TjR. CARLISLE, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. Calls promptly attended to day or night. . Office : Main Street, Athena, Or. D R. L N. RICHARDSON, OPERATIVE PROSTHETIC DENTIST. VTHENA, OREGON. W. & C. R. Ry. Co. , " ' in connection with V- NORTHERN PACIFIC R. R. - Forms the QUICKEST AND BEST ROUTE Between Eastern Oregon and ashington ana Fuget souna romt s, as weu an uio . Popular and direct Line to all Points East & Southeast Pullman Sleeping; Cars. Superb Dinning Cars. Free 2d-Class Sleepers. THROUGH TO CHICAGO VIA THIS LINE Passenger trains of this Company are run- . mng .reguiariy uetwnu Dayton, Waltsburg, Walla Walla, Wash, and Pendleton,' Oregon. - Making close connections at Hunt's Junction with Northern Paciflo trains for Tacoma, Seattle, Victoria, B.C., EUensburgh, North Yakima, Pasco, Spragne, Cheney , Daven port, Spokane, Butte, Helena, St. Paul and Minneapolis.-. ,, 7 AND ALL POINTS EAST. TOURISTS-SLEEPING-CARS, For Accomodation of Second-Class Passenger Attached to Ex- press Trains. , w.F. WAMSLEY, O en'l Fr't and Pass. Agt., Walla Walla Wash W.D.TYLFR, Pres. and Oen'l Manager. , J. A MUIRHEAD. , " '" Agent Athena, Oregon. SOMETHING NEW! Prof. Lane, the artist, has leased rooms over the First National Bank which he has converted into a .v STUDIO and ia now prepared to instruct a large number of students in oil painting and free hand pencil draw ine. Nice quite rooms. Prices reasonable. PROF. J. S. HENRY, i IISTEUOTOE -ON AND' PIANO ORGAN- Will hn in Athena nn Thnmdiv'a and Wed aexdavs of eacn week hereafter. Leave oider with F. ftozenswelsr. at C. - HoUis' Athena. T. F. FORD. Bvaneelist. i)f Des Moines. Iowa, writes under date of , , March 23, ISSir v S. B. Med. Mro:, Co., 1 :. Dufur, Oregon.,, : tlentleraen: ' On airing home last week, I found air well and anxiously awaiting. Oar little girl, eight and one-half years old, who had wasted away 10 39 pounds, is now well, strong and vigorous, and well fleshed up. S. B. Cough Cure has done its work well. Both of the children iiKe it. Your S. B Cough- Cure has cured and kept away all hoarsness from me. So give it to every one, with greetings for all all."; Wish ing vou rrosDeritv. we are Yours. Me.& Mrs. J.F. Ford. If yon wish to feel fresh and eheerfuL and eady for the Spring's work, eteanne y yntrra with the Headache and Liver Ci our ure. by taking two or three doses each week. 10 cents per bottle by aU druggists. Sold under a positive cuarantee by the Pioneer Drug store. ADiEUl Too hart a brtof fire and gold Nor gold nor fire for ma is bright: ' I would forget those days of old, Waloh seemed to show your heart anght. Net mine to mil among the crowd ' Who worship you and bend the knee- To sing year praises long and load; Love's sllanoe u reserved tor me. Hy lore, that Is both dumb and deep, U freely given, as tia true; What secret still the fates may keep I know not, but I say adleul I say adlea because my part Must be to leave that winning tram. Where every moment U a smart. And every dar a year of pain. -Walter H. Pollock in Longman's Magazine. IN THE CAB. "He oilers was queer, Del was." The observation was given without so licitation. Jerome Bonner was not the man to wait for an invitation to express bis opinion. His long habit of sitting on the box with his hand on the throttle ready to "pull her open" did not influ ence him ia conversation. Only In the cab, with the schedule before him, was he amenable to signal. There he was trusted. The superintendent considered him the safest engineer on the road. When he took a train oat, the dis patcher breathed easily, for there were some daredevil engineers in tee employ of that company. They would rattle train around carves ' and shoot down grades with the greatest disregard for the passengers' comfort and fears. There were men who delighted in the shrieks of the whistle. How they would laugh when echo was frightened and screamed back the strident voice of the engine, There were many suoh men in the pay of tiie Kane and Carney railroad, but 'Jerome Bonner was. not one of them, nor was Delehanty. He was a fireman and had been on the road two years when the wreck ocourred on Kane hill. It was the memory of the wreck that led Jerome Bonner to remark to a passenger about Delehanty's eccentricities. A little group had surrounded Jerome at the water tank and signal Btatlon on Kane hill, where a danger flag had pulled up the train. The conductor was up stairs waiting for orders. There was a wreck aeove some coal cars on the track and there was a prospect of a long delay. Jerome had got out of the cab and was sitting in the sun on one or the ground timbers of the tank trestle. The fireman had made himself comfort able on his box and with feet sticking but of the window was taking a snooze. The engine snorted occasionally as impatient. Most of the passengers were wandering about aimlessly, somo chat ting, others looking in the bush for ber ries of the wintergreen, and all were be ginning to fret. Even those around Jerome were Hoping ne wouia uuce mai- ters in his own hands and run the tram over the hilL He, however, attracted their attention when to one of them he spoke the words of the opening sentence. "Tell us about nun, won t you, pieaser asked a mite of a woman, an excursion ist. -. .-- r ...v "Oh, do, if it is a story. I am so tired of this stupid wait," said her companion, not an overlarge woman herself and ap parently blase. ' " 'Fraid Delehanty won t inrresi yon ladies much. He was a oommonplace man, but popylar mighty popylar with the boys Jspite er his queerness." "Then do tell ns aDout nun. "Waal, he and me courted the same gurl, Susan Briggs, a black eyed gurl as ever you see ana purty, no nustaae. And mebbe that's why I thought Del queer aotin, and mebbe he'd the same "pinion nv me. Sence then I have allers noticed that men in lnv with the same gurl see each other "bout as a delirium tremens subjeo see snakes. Costy, try ihemeatures." Host, the fireman, awoke oui or ms snooze ana iriea icq gauged. u cine was not supplied with an injector, and Jerome was desirous oi mowing me depthef water in the boilers. If it was low he would have to run the engine up the track to "pump up," and that would interrupt the story. "Two and a hair," called Uosty, and fixed himself on the box again, while, satisfied with the report, Jerome resumed his story. - ; "I was on the road, and Del wanted work, but there was no ob lor mm. wanted to fire: One day Jim JViorga: got sick, and when I went to the round house the next mornin there war Dele hanty in bran new overalls rubbin the brass on No. 12. : No. 12 was my engine. I nodded to him and then hunted up the foreman of the roundhouse. 'Del g goin out with you this trip. Jim Morgan's too sickr There was no help fur it, so I went back, jumped into the cab and run her out into the yard. Del looked up from the handrail on the boiler with a kind nv hurt look on his face, j "The firemen usually bring out the en gine. Lettin him do it was a way of sayin he could be trnsiea to ran an en gine. Del kept on rubbin the rod and makinit shine as I backed down and coupled. I mind iookin at him. He was between me and the track, and I had to look outer the side winder. He was big, and I knowed tilings were not right be tween ns, and I said nothin. Heseenud hankerin fur a fight. Minute we cou pled Del came in through his winder, throwed the waste in the box and jerked open the door of the firebox. Jist then the gong rang, and 1 give 12 the steam. Del shoved in some coal, and as we got under headway he eame to my side of the cab and stood between it and the tender. j "I knowed what he come fur, and it made me mad. Susan Briggs lived jist at the edge nv the town and was allers but fur my train, and Del knowed it. So he wnr train to let her see him on the same cab with me, and in overalls. war so dura mad I jist looked straight ahead, while he nodded and laughed at Susan, and she nodded and laughed at him. He looked back till we got round xbe curve and then wentgrinnin to his box. Tarnation I I wur so mad I could scarcely see the track, and I run like fury. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, SEPTEMBER 22 1893. "Del and me didn't talk much on that trip. , When 13 wur in the roundhouse agin, I went right off, but Del hung round, polishin and furin up. I felt 1 wur in for it and made up my mina Susan would have to settle which she would have mighty quick. If she took Del, all right. But she had to come to the point But, Lord!" and here Jerome glanced at the lady passengers, "I could allers run an engine, but manage a wom an wur more than I could do. "The long and short nv it was that Del and me run on 12 for about two year, and Susan would not make up her mind. Del and me wur good friends, so far as the world knowed, but we wur far apart in our hearts. We never had a wheel off before tne night when Del pulled 13 through on KanehilL We had stepped at the tank fur wa ter. Del war at the spout, and I wur leanin out, looking back fur his signal. Susan had been sort of prefernn me uv late, and I wur feelin good. Del wur sulky and stood with his head down, waitin fur the tank to fill "Men will think the truth if they don't speak it, and lookin at Del I says to meself, 'He's a finer lookin feller than you, Jerome Bonner, and Susan Briggs knows it' I shut oft the safety valve. The steam had been blowin off and maMn a good deal of noise. The moon light made it very ghostly, and once in awhile I looked up at it When it were shut off, there rose a rumble out uv the stillness that reached Del quick as it did me. We both looked up the hill, and there, roundin the curve, wur a shad der. We knowed at once it wur a run away train comin down on ns. Waal, runaway trains with nobody on them had happened before, and we knowed what to do. " 'Cut her loose, Del,' I yelled. "He dropped on the platform and call ed: " 'Back a little.' "I reversed 12 and eased the link. " 'Go ahead,' he yelled. "And as I opened the throttle I heard the link drop against the drawbar. We wur free; 12 wur loose, a-goin to meet the train smashin down on her. I patted the iron gurl, fur Iwuz fond uv her. and she went up the hill as a bird, and I, f or gettin all about Del, stooped over to lock the door uv the firebox. A great big hand grabbed me by the throat, and looking up over my shoulder I saw Del. His face was as black as mid night when there's no moon, and in his right hand he had a couplin pin. Yer have got to jump, Jerome Bon ner,' ne saia. " 'Let go uv me,' I managed to say, while I hung on to the reverse lever. " 'I won't Yer have got to jump and IH pull 12 through.' r "He loosed his grip on my throat " 'Do you want to make me talked uv as a cowardr I asked. "We both of us could hear the train gettin closer. " 'Jerome, if you jump you'll save me from bein a murderer. If you don't get out of my reach, I'll kill you and take my chances nv gettin through all right, Then I'll marry Susan Briggs. Quick make up your mind. Promise me you'll jump, er Til kill yer, and I don't want ter be yer murderer and if I die in the bump you will be alive to marry Susan. She likes you best and me next. Jump!' j "He pulled me off the box and shoved ' me across the cab.' The train was leapin ! on us. One more second, and all would be over mebbe. Del was still behind me holdm the pin up ready to strike, and I knew he would. He wur strong, and I had to go. Out I went, and I landed safe. No. 12 met the train plucky and stopped it dead. The cars piled all over her and buried the cab. Just be fore she struck Del throwed the safety valve open and shut her off. Then he stood still. '-"' "He wur knocked part through the window when the bumb came, and I found biy there. I felt like a sneakin coward. Del had pretended he would kill me jist to get me off the engine, and there he wur dead and me livin. My mouth wur shut to the world, but I went home to Susan and told her how Del had died for her. 'He believed you liked me best, Susan, and if I got killed you would feel awful bad, so he jest drove me off 13 with a couplin pin, and then stood by her.' . "The tears came into Susan's eyes, and she wiped them on her apron. I wnr holdm her hand, and she took it away I liked her fur weepin and lettin go uv me. iisnenaan ii, l aa-turneuaginnur. Feelin that she'd like to be alone, I went away. "I met her at Del's funeral. She wur quiet and sad, and I only nodded to her. The people all wondered "bout my jump in and thought me a coward, but nobody dared say so. Susan knowed I wurn't, and I didn't care what the other people thought "I didn't say nothin to Susan about gettin married fur about six months after Delehanty wur buried, and when I spoke uv it at last she made up her mind. " 'Jerome,' she said, 'I allers believed I liked you better'n Del, but ever since he died I've felt like his widder, and I know you ain't courtin me that way.' "And I wurn't So I left her, and I ain't made np my mind yet to court her as Delehanty's widder, but I am wishin all the time that Del wnr livin and I wur dead. Then mebbe Susan would be my widder. "Ladies," said Jerome as he arose from the beam, "would you like to ride on the engine? I am goin to run up the hill to pump water into the boiler, arid m show you where Delehanty died." The lady travelers accepted the invita tion. Jerome gallantly helped them in the cab and started the engine up the hilL Alfred L. King in New York Dis patch. Method In Her Request. Little Girl (ready for bed) Mamma, will yeu tell me a ghost story? Mamma What! A ghost story now, dear? Little Girl Yes, mamma. I want to get awfully scared so that I can sleep with you. Texas fiifttegs. , Two Doctors. In the current magazines two widely different individuals offer their remedies for the present business depression and hard times. One is Dr. Albert Shaw of The Review of Reviews. Being an edi tor, of course he is a wise man. The other gentleman is Mr. Newton L. Bun nell, an agriculturist, who writes in The North American Review. Being a farm er, Mr. Bunnell is of course an honest man as well as a wise one. Dr. Shaw declares emphatically that If the last congress bad repealed the sil ver coinage law of 1890 "practically all of our recent business troubles would have been avoided." He declares fur ther that our monetary laws, "far from being of any advantage to the silver men or of any value forth future realiza tion of bimetallism, either American or international, are of the most serious detriment to the silver cause." He re grets that the silver men show them selves so devoid of the higher principles of statesmanship as to fatuously refuse to let the present silver coinage law be repealed jmlesait is followed at once by absolutely free coinage of silver at the present ratio. He saysi It has now been determined to postpone the adjourned session of the international silver conference until November. Our readers will remember that when the sessions at Brussels were ended last winter it was the intention to resume them in May. It has been intimated by European governments that nothing of val ue can be accomplished by the conference un less the delegates from the United States shall have submitted a definite programme to which our government Is virtually if not formally committed. If President Cleveland should bring oongress together in September or early in October and should succeed in persuading both houses promptly and unconditionally to repeal the silver purchase and coinage acts, the financial situation would be cleared up at stroke. It would then be perfectly easy for our delegates to go to Brussels in November and to submit a proposition for the free coin age of silver under conditions of international identity to ba agreed upon by treaty among the leading commercial powers. Under those circumstances this proposiuon would have immense weight, and in the course of a few years it would almost certainly be adopted. Hear now the other doctor: Mr. Nel son Bunnell regrets that while farmers are almost a unit in the demand for free coinage city men are almost a unit in, the demand for the single gold standard, and thus city and country are arrayed against one. another. He rightly ob serves that while the cities are so de pendent on the country for prosperity it is most unfortunate that they should be divided in their ideas as to relief for the financial difficulty. . Farmer Bunnell believes the only remedy is free coinage of silver and -that very quick. Here is his philosophy; When the business of a country is growing at a Bteadily in creasing rate, a constant regular increase in the quantity of its circulating medium is not enough, but the supply of money should stretch in proportion io the in crease of business and population.- For instance he remarks: "Business is in creasing at the rate of 8 per cent a year, and the circulating medium is remain ing comparatively constant. The added $54,000,000 a ye nr to our currency Farm er Bunnell doo3 not think is nearly enough, while Dr. Shaw is dead certain that the too muchness of that addition under present circumstances is the main cause of our troubles. Farmer Bunnell maintains that the in crease of currency is at present only suf ficient to keep up with tho growth of population, not of business. He ob serves: At the present time any person may take gold to the mint and receive its full weight in gold coin. We are only asking that the same privilege be extended to the holders of silver. The law now in force is an unjust discrimina tion against silver in favor of gold, and it Is this alone which has brought about the present disparity of their values. Silver at one time under free coinage was at a premium above gold. It is not that silver has lost but that gold has gained in the last decade. This has been brought about partly by the larger output of silror, partly by the relative decrease in the gold produced, but most of all by the demone tization of silver. It is claimed that free coin age would bring inflation. All the silver in the world amounts to about $3,700,000,000. If itwero all dumped down here at once, it would only make about $58 per capita. The same authority claims that it would bring contraction. As to that, for 80 years silver and gold were coined free, and there was no more disturbance in the markets about one metal than the other. Experience has shown that the price of Amer lean farm products at home is governed by the amount of legal tender money in actual circu lation. To Satisfy ourselves of this fact we have only to examine the prices of farm, prod ucts during a period of 20 years, beginning with the year lifra. As to whether I am sound or not on this ques tion, look at the action .of our United States senate twice repeated in passing a free coinage bill. The senate is presumed to possess the best brain tissuo of our government, although not always in accord with classic theories. It appears that the Austrian and Ger man imperial governments are profound ly interested in the American school question. They both oppose as openly as they dare and secretly with all their might instruction in the English lan guage only in our public schools. They try to foster the un-Americanizing spirit among our immigrants and throw all the weight of their moral support on the side of schools where instruction is giv en in German and other foreign tongues. They can have only one object that of insidiously working to destroy this re public. With knowledge of the depths ef treachery and meanness to which the desperate monarchies of Europe are will ing to descend every American citizen will know how to act. The existence of this noble and prosperous republic is a perpetual menace to kings. Self preser vation impels them to resort to every means, no matter bow unworthy, to dis integrate and destroy it ', The fruit trade of California is in creasing enormously, and she flatters herself that she will soon be able to sup ply not only the United States, but Eu rope as well. That may all be, but with cherries, for exainplo, at 40 cents pound in the large American cities, what good wilt her abundance do anybody? SOME EOt-Of AMERICAN HIGHWAYS. The Magnificent Roads of the Anoient In. oas Were Unsurpassed. A hardy race once dwelt in a high val ley shut in by snowy mountains. Cold rains often drenched the unfriendly soil. In this its native home the potato was dwarfed and bitter, maize was stunted, the hardy barley would seldom ripen, and no other cereals afforded food for man. Bearing the hard burdens of their rug ged life made the people brave and strong. In conquering many difficulties they becamo cunning, patient and per sistent Having grown numerous and powerful, they seized another and fertile valley and established there their central stronghold. They developed agriculture and the arts and taught a tolerant reli gion. By persuasion when they could, by force when they must, they allied with themselves many other people and so became strong above all other nations on the continent on which they dwelt They climbed the barriers that hemmed their mountain home and cultivated all the valleys that ran from them down to the sea. Their gardens terraced every mountainside. They tunneled the liv ing rocks and led their waters far over sandy plains scorching under rainless skies. They made the barren deserts bloom and compelled the wastes to give to man abundant food. They moved whole communities to conquered prov inces, to make there new homes, to min gle with the subdued race and thus to continue the work of subjugation and of assimilation. To hold fast all so gained they estab lished arsenals and magazines at short distances. They realized, as our Own nation has not, that without food at com mand the largest army is weaker than the smallest, therefore stored abundant sup plies along the lines of march. And from post to post, from colony to colony, from city to city, they made roads, broad, smoothly paved and walled by stone, shaded by fruit trees and by flowerB. A ROADWAY OF TODAY. Of such roads they had nearly a score. They stretched hundreds of miles across plains of shifting sands and. through fruitful valleys. They afforded solid paths through deep morasses, spanned dizzy gorges by suspension bridgos or on masses of solid masonry, scaled the faces of precipices and tunneled the eternal hills. They led through regions of deep snows and across wide wastes where no drop of rain ever blessed the parched ground., They equaled the best roads of the old world in magnitude and work manship and were four centuries ago the best and greatest highways ever yet known in the western world. The great Humboldt pronounced them tho most useful and stupendous works ever made by man. The way from savagery to that high state of living, of government and of art doubtless extended through scores of centuries. The destruction of those mag nificent works began with the Spanish invasion of Peru. Since that ill omened time no approach has been made on the American continents to the excellence or the roadmaking of that ancient race, Yet they had comparatively little bulky commerce to move long distances and possessed no knowledge of the mighty power of steam, nor had tney explosives nor even a tool or iron to aid them in their gigantio work. It has been said that the road is that physical symbol by which one will un derstand any age or people. If they have no roads, they are savages, for the road is a type of civilized society. A leader in the cause of improvement of our public roads recently said that Co lumbus discovered America in vain if after 400 years we are still behind those ancient Americans and are not ashamed of it. D. E. Veras. The People Will Have to Fay. Roadmaking is easy enough for any body to comprehend from the road which is made by one wagon following the track of another till the grass is worn away by hoofs and wheels, to the road that is laid with care and regular ity and presents a hard" and even surface that is neither very dusty in dry weather nor very muddy in wet. That we have not as many of the kind of roads last described as we ought to have is due to the fact that the country is new and sparsely settled in compari son with its extent, and also to the fact that we have not paid as much attention to the subject of good roads as we should have done. We are beginning, however, to make up for lost time in this respect that is, we have advanced to the point of discussing the subject, and that pre pares the public mind for the next step, which we may assume will be the count ing of the cost The people will have to pay that, and so it is possible to interest even those who have no idea what bod roads there are in the vicinity of greet cities in the matter. Exchange, Spring Reads. A snow bank here, a puddle there. With mud between a lion's share And then a strip of slanting ice, Washed glassy by the sun's device. Where one may sail along, then slip In some pond a foundered ship With broken ribs and tattered sails, A victim for some jester's rails, And though 'twere Joy to "run aground There's uot a solid bit around. There's tufted grass upon the sides. But tbon, alasl the gutter's Udes - . Of slush and slop a warning moat Will not our longing footetep float. The rutted track holds fast Urn pace ' We oxerclse with donbtful grace. And though we sltrb. for earth or snow In one unbroken stretch we know That spring affords in measure rife -Variety the spice of life. EjffaloNews. ClasmUneu Saves Life. With the approach of hot weather the question of clean, healthy surroundings is oue that must command the attention of every one, and especially in view of the fact that reports have been published that cholera can always be prevented by keeping things clean. The physician should be the preacher of cleanliness, for cleanliness saves m6re lives than all of the drugs known to us. This includes body cleanliness as well as that of sur roundings. Use water, deodorizers and disinfectants steadily through the hot season. ' There is a sanitary condition of our bodies as well as our surroundings. Bad matter ia continually exuding from the uores of the skin, and if this is not washed off frequently it will become the breeding place for disease germs. Fatal germs are in dust dirt and particles that float in the air, l nese ciing to me Doay, and under the warmth of the heat from the body they multiply. Many who are filthy get infectious dis eases, while those who are clean escape. It is the safest protection that one can obtain to surround the body with a clean skin. Our surroundings must also bo clean, sweet and pure. Filth creates in fectious atmospheric conditions that baf fle the wisest sanitarian, and every epi demic begins in dirt. Decaying animal and vegetable matter, imperfectly cleansed clothing, person or bed, are all breeding places for diseases that may in time be come epidemic The physician should work to prevent all of this, and every one who has the good of his country in mind should aid him in trying to keep the sur roundings of the community clean and sweet in hot weather. Yankee Blade, Immigration For May. The immigration figures just issued by the bureau of statistics of the treasury department for the month of May show a very considerable reaction in tne airec tion of increased immigration from the falling oil of last year. For the five months ending May 81, as compared with the corresponding period of ; the previous year, there was a f ailing off of 40,000 and upward, and for the 11 months a falling off of 110,000. But for the month of May, as compared with the corresponding month of 1893, there was a gain of 8,143. The details of the showing are interesting. The largest gain over last year was in Italian immi gration, 7,602. The largest loss was in German immigration, e.iuu. 'i'nere was a falling off in the immigration from Great Britain of nearly 2,000, and a gain in Austrian-Hunpiarian of 1,800. There were considerable gains from the Nether lands, Russia, Sweden and Norway; and a small gain from France. The account with Denmark and Switzerland shows losses. The aggregate for the month was as follows: Austria-Hungary Bohemia, 1,000; Hungary, 5,150; other Austria (ex cept Poland), 7,883. Denmark, 1,101; France, 691; Germany, 13,980; Italy, 17.- 638; Netherlands, 2,112; Poland, 2,18 Russia (except Poland), 11,281; Sweden and Norway, 10,261; Switzerland, 007. United Kingdom England and Wales, 5,634; Scotland, 1,688; Ireland, 11,018. All other countries, 8,011. Total, 95,885. Detroit Free Press. , Pensions and Internal Revenue. ', Texas paid last year $606,875 of inter nal revenue taxes and received in pen sions $905,230. South Carolina pai4 $71-, 812 revenue taxes and received $171, 129 in pensions. Tennessoe contributed $1,278,863 and drew out in . pensions $2,484,508. Alabama's revenue taxes were $106,771; her pension receipts were $400, 729. Arkansas paid $95,718.86 revenue taxes; received in pensions, $1,470,901.77. West Virginia's revenue tax was $807, 588.86 and was paid in pensions $3,158, 708.13. Louisiana and Mississippi to gether paid $784,832.29 and received $847,553.45 in pensions. Maryland, Dela ware and the District of Columbia paid $3,263,878.77 internal revenue tax and received in pensions $4,220,890.13. ; Step over into the northern states, and the conditions are reversed Illinois paid in revenue tax $36,795,888 and received in pensions $9,348,096. New York paid $17,670,978 revenue tax and received in pensions $11,703,490. The aggregate amount or internal revenue taxes paia by the 10 southern states and the Dis trict of Columbia was $o,6UU,Bira.za, ana the receipts from the pensions were $12, 609,661.87, nearly twice as great. Cor poral Tanner in Brooklyn Eagle. ' ' . i Had He But Had I but saved the boodle I in other years have blown, today I might have had a little nest egg of my own; I might be now well heeled enough to join the the happy throng, to spend a month at Jackson park and take my folks along. O poverty I thou art indeed a ragged man's distress! the robber thief of human hones and earthly happiness, and count less thousands mourn today the fate one go abhors but somo have fun while oth ers stay at home and do the chores. So must I stay and toil for bread and miss the great world's show, but what a mot ley crowd there'd be if every one should go, and in a few days at the most I'm bound to quit the fight and visit lands beyond that beat this World's fair out of sight Nebraska state J ournai. ( On to Mecca. ' The pilgrimage to Mecca has been ex traordinarily lartte this year, tho total number of pilgrims already being about double that of last year. Over 40,000 have passed through Suez alone, and it is estimated an equal number have ar rived at Mecca by overland caravans, The usual resultant conditions of the pil grim season favorable to epidemics have been consequently aggravated, and the Egyptian quarantine board has declared all the Hedjaz littoral to be foul and ap- tlied severe measures to prevent the spread of cholera and other disease-', Cholera has been rife at Mecca for sotus time, and the number of deaths has been great Exchange. - The well known Berlin painter of ori ental subjects, Von Meckel, committed suicide after the jury for the internation-t al art exhibition rejected five of his pic tures. The artist had been suffering from poverty during the last few years. NUMBER 45 Overdoing Things. . No one of the recent commercial fail ures has a stronger lesson for men of un bounded enterprise than that of Erastns Wiman of New York city. For a num ber of years past Mr. Wiman was special representative of a prosperous com mercial agency, ancVthe connection gave him an income of $25,000 a year, enough to satisfy ordinary ambition, and to earn which it would seem that 800 and odd Working days are none too long. Never- theless, Mr. Wiman for five or six years has been interested in a variety of enter prises, each of which was enough to tax one man's capacity for administrative work. One of them was a rapid transit steamboat and railway line from New York city across the bay and threading Staten Island, lines aggregating over 80 miles. After making good progress a couple of years Mr. Wiman retired before the system was half complete, leaving the control and management to others. A second scheme was to thread the island with electrical railways, motive power to be furnished by a lighting and motor plant which has been under construction over a year. Another enterprise has been the erection of homes for the mid dling classes, to be sold on installments, with a life insurance policy to secure the payment and to secure the family of the purchaser in case of death. As a preparation for this enterprise Mr. Wl- 1 man Becured the title to about 1,000 acres of farm land accessible and suit able for the purpose. Incidentally he has advocated and devised plans to carry out a building and loan association with the insurance feature attached to the loans. A racing association on the beach rt Staten Island is another project towl. . i Mr. Wiman has given some attention. All of these projects are feasible and in line with publio needs, and Mr. Wi man's intimate business associates de clare that if he had devoted himself to any one of them exclusively he might have made a fortune for himself and created a publio benefit as well.h But aside from inability to attend to so many irons at once Mr. Wiman had insuf ficient capital at the start, although he was fortunate in possessing good credit With inceptive enterprises resting upon foundations liable to be shaken in every financial flurry, the final outcome might have been looked for. And along with Mr. Wiman tumble the schemes. All of them feasible and reputable in them selves, they must carry the stigma of having broken an enterprising man and wait a long time for new investors. Meanwhile the people who stand in leedofthe Improvements must be the chief sufferers. ' Does that sort of a mania for doing things pay? ; r Of Interest to Whist Players. The whist players of America are greatly interested because of the pres ence on this side of the water of Henry Jones, the Englishman who writes on this noble game of cards over the slgna ture of Cavendish. Mr. Jones is here for the purpose of taking part in the whist oongress that is to be held in Chicago, and he is in great demand wherever he goes. Whist players and newspaper men beseech him for interviews, the first class for the purpose of having knotty points of play settled by his auto cratio tips, and the second for copy that maybe sold for shekels. The players are delighted because the great British expert says the "American lead" has been adopted by progressive English players, and the reporters occasionally secure enough of his time to enable the making of a salable story. , ! It should be understood by the publio that the whist congress is in no sense a "part of or held under the auspices of the officers of the World's fair. It is an an- nual gathering of whist players, who de cided to meet in Chicago this year pos sibly because tho fair is held there, but its arrangements are entirely in their hands and have been made independent ly of the Columbian exposition's commis sioners. ' Vacation time is coming, and the sea shore dweller is getting ready to go to the mountains, the tired city man is pre paring to go to the country, the dweller of the interior is looking forward to a visit to the city and the shore. Each de sires change, and so illustrates the law that rest and recuperation come not so much from cessation of activity some times as from variety of occupation and now surroundings, new faces and new scenery. It is well that this is so, for the visiting of new places and the mak ing of new acquaintances tend not only to strengthen and refresh the tired toilor, but to make him broader in bis views and fitter to understand the large prob lems that as a citizen of this age of change and progress he must grapple with. The company which runs thegambling hell at Monte Carlo won 28,000,000 francs last year. Its capital stock is 80,000,000 francs, and its expenses, which include hotel and railroad bills for dead broke victims, are over 10,000,000 francs. Its dividends are about 60 per cent per an num. "" in ' i '" Professor "Natural-Law-In-the-Spirit-nal-World" Drummond had the courage or the cheek or the effrontery, according to the point of view, to tell the" Boston women that the "difference between the sexes is fundamental and eternal." Icha bodl , " - "- ' . Let tho hospitality to Eulalio continue unbounded. Everybody likes her. She .unnerves) a wxu uut. . , Are there any more tails to theDwig- gins hito?-