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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1893)
Athena E Advertltlng la to business what (team povr er la to machinery the grand motive power. Thera la'but one way of obtaining buxiaps-. publicity, bnt one way of obtaining publlc-lfy-adTertlnIne. i Blackwood. VOLUME 7. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, DECEMBER 81893. NUMBER 4 5 A Chance of a Hie TO A I have 1250 acres of excellent wheat land, located in the Helix country,. and 480 acres North of Athena, which I will sell and allow the purchaserto pay for the same irvf IK AT 1 50 cts Per Bushel All the land is well improved, has good houses and plenty of water. Will sell in tracts to 1 to secure a good farm, call and I suit you. I am not in the Real Estate Business; it is individual property that I wish to dispose of, aud I also have some choice resi dence property in Athena, which I will sell very reasonable. FOR FULL PARTICULARS CALL ON OR ADDRESS, J. W.SMITH, rOvVUili 3ST PERFECT MADE. '"'? Cream of Tartar Powder. Fre monls, ASum or any other adulterant. iO YEARS THE. STANDARD, V: . present dent. Ifyo of sort Dimmr n Time I0IE suit purchaser. If you desire see me. I will make terms to Athena, Oregon. FARM. Of - w - "As oH as the hills" and never excell ed. "Tried and proven" is the verdict p f millions. Simmons Liver Kegu lator is the only Liver and Kidney ; medicine to which you can pin your faith for a cure. A mild laxa tive, and purely veg etable, act ing directly on the Liver and Kid- an Pills 1 neys. Try it. ' Sold by all Druggists in Liquid, or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea. ' ' The King of Liver Medicines. ' " I have used your Simmons Liver Regu lator and can conscienclously say It is the king of all liver medicines, I consider It a .medicine chest In Itself Geo. W. Jack son, Tacorna, Washington, Ai-EVERY PACKAGE-54 Ha the Z Stamp in red on wrapped The BlailD. Mail closes for Pendleton, Portland, and all poilits east, except the Dakottts, Minnesota and Wisconsin, at 5:30 p. m. For Walla Walla, Spokane and North Paci fic points at 7 5 Mall arrives from Pendleton, Portland and the east at 7:45 a.m. From Walla Walla, Spokane and North Pa cific points at 6 :5 p. m. Office hours General delivery open from 8 . in. to 8 p. m, Sundays, 8 to 11 a. m. Honey irder window open from 9 a m. to 4 p.m. Geo. Hanbull, Postmaster. KODG8 D1BECTOKY AF. & A. M. NO. 80 MEETS THE . First and Third Saturday Evenings Df each month. Visiting bretheren cor dially invited to visit the lodge. IO. O. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY , Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellows in good standing always welcome. A 0. U. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE Second and Fourth Saturdays of month. li. A,. Githens, Recorder. Pythian.no. 29, meets every Thursday Night. PE0FESSI0HAL CARDS. p ', H. SHARP,"- " ' - Physician and Surgeon. Calls promptly answered. Office on Third Street, Athena, Oregon. . DR. JOSEPH J. BILL, . Graduate M. E. C. V. B, London, England-, ( VETERNIARY : SURGEON. Office at Froome's Stable, Athena, Oregon. , .; t. D R. I. N. RICHARDSON, OPERATIVE PROSTHETIC DENTIST. VTHENA, - - OREGON W. & C. R. Ry. Co. in connection with . NORTHERN PACIFIC R. R. - ' . , , - Forms the . QUICKEST AND BEST ROUTE Between Eastern Oregon and ashlngton ana ruget sound romtg. as well as the -Popular and direct Line to all Points East & Southeast Pullman Sleeping Cars. Superb Dinning Cars. Free 2d-Class Sleepers. ROUGH TO CHICAGO VIA THIS LINE Passenger Iralus of this Company are run ning regularly between Dayton, VVaitsburg, Walla Walla, Wash, and Pendleton, Oregon. 'Making close connections at Hunt's Junction with Northern Pacino trains for Tacoma, Seattle, Victoria, B. C, Ellensburgh, North Yakima, Pasco. Hprague, Cheney, Daven port, Kpoksne, Butte, . Helena, St. Paul and Minneapolis. . AND ALL POINTS EAST. TOURISTS-SLEEPIHG CARS. Foe Accomodation of Second-Class Passenger Attached to Ex press Trains. , , w,F. WAM8LEY, Gen'l Fr't and Pass. Agt., Walla Walla Wash W. D. TYLFB, Pres. and Gen'l Manager. ,. . J. A MUIRHEAD. : - Agent Athena, Oregon. PROF. J. S. HENRY, INSTRUCTOR - ON , PIANO AND ORGAN Will be In Athena on Thursday's and Wed nesdavs of eaou week hereafl.tr. Iave order witb i Rozeusweig, at C. w. llollis' Athena. For Gang and walking plows, harrows and seeders the C. A. Bar ret Co., will give you special bar gins for the next 60 days. Better OPIUM FItOM CANADA. Smugglers working the Drug Across the Border Line. " . In Spite of Government Precautions a Terr Large Amount ot the Nar eotlo Is Secretly Brought Anross. A prominent Boston physician says that . it .would startle the people of Boston generally were it known to what great extent the use of opium had already gone in this city; not only among the Chinese, for it has been understood that this class of the population use the drug, but among the white residents. The physicians of this city have fought vehemently against the use of opiates to quiet children, and they have accomplished something in that direction; but It Ja still evident that a far larger quantity of opium is used in this city than is ac counted for in the druggists' state ment of sales. Says the Boston Adver tiser: "More than one Boston physician could, if the principles of their profes sion allowed, give some grave facts re garding the 'ruin wrought by the drug in Boston homes. Now and 'then the police make a raid on some opium room, but their efforts have not suc ceeded in checking the use of opium to any extent. A special agent of the treasury said lately, in reply to some questions in this connection, that j opium smuggling was carried on across the Canadian border to-day in spite .of the arrest of so many gangs of smug glers in the past. The stuff can be bought for $0 a pound in Montreal and can be sold here at $10 or more per pound, according to its quality. The drug is easily carried in large weight, and one man can carry from twenty five to fifty pounds and can escape de tection. The trade of smuggling opium is, of course, a very profitable one, and as the smugglers have about one thou sand two hundred miles of border over which they can crQss they have a good opportunity to do business without being caught.' The favorite method of the smugglers is to take the train from Montreal to a way station not far from the boundary, and to cross the line in carriage to some small station on the American side. In this way they es cape the search of the regular customs officers whose duty it is to examine the luggage of railroad passengers at the boundary. Some smuggling is also dona by hiding the opium in bulky packages of freight. At best the, gov ernment has a small force of customs officers along the - border, and the smugglers do a thriving trade. They can sell opium more cheaply than reg ular dealers, of course, and a large part of;the opium used in Boston comes over the border without paying duty. Only ten years ago 27,000 pounds were imported into Canada. Last year the amount was about 150,000 pounds, and it is said that 100,000 pounds were smuggled across the line last year to United States consumers In view pf the-inorease in thi na6.of .opium in this section it is a matter of some interest that the Canadian government is at last considering the. plan of putting a watch on the opium refineries in the dominion, practically compelling the refineries to carry on their work in bond under government inspection. If this should be done -a prompt check would bo put upon the smugglers and it would no longer be easy to get opium so cheaply in Boston. The great increase in price would serve to close up some of the opium 'joints,' and would probably put a check upon' the growth of the opium habit." SCENES AT THE SEA'S BOTTOM. A Tutor at the Paris University Sueceed In Taking Submarine Photographs. M. Louis Bouton, a tutor at the Paris university, who has been for some time distiaguished by his submarine investi gations and zoological treatises on the Eed sea, has now, says the Paris Figaro, succeeded in taking photo graphs of sights which he encountered in the depths of the sea. Descending by means of a diver's dress, this gen tleman manages to carry with him a small camera specially constructed for the purpose. After, trying for some time to operate in the natural light to be had at the bottom of the sea, he found that it was too weak to produce photographs, so he next attempted with magnesium to obtain a flash that would enable him to take by the in stantaneous process. He contrived a small spirit lamp resting on a bottle of oxygen and covered by a glass shade, and into this lamp he threw some magnesia by means of an india-rubber ball which was pressed for the pur pose. " . " . . At each flash thus obtained a photo graph was produced. These experi ments have been made in a quiet bay near the coast, in the ichthyological laboratory at Banyulser-Mer, but the success which has attended them leads to the hope that soon we may venture further ahead. Already dreams of au tomatic .apparatus are not wanting which could be sunk and return with pictures, of the deep sea such as no mortal eye has ever beheld. M. Bou ton relates that while he was busy with his experiments large numbers of fish and other creatures that inhabit the depths of the sea gathered round the spot with evident curiosity about the nature of the proceeding. But they showed no fear. When he tried to touch or catch them they merely moved aside to evade his grasp, but were not disturbed, nor did tbey move away to any great distance from the spot in which they were interested. An Old Orchard. - In 1794 Joshua Pine settled , on a farm near Walton, N. Y., and planted a fine orchard. Although it was near ly ninety-nine years ago when the trees were first planted, they do not show much signs of their great age, and a number of the trees are yet vig orous, giving promise of many years of life and fruitage. The largest meas ures 117 inches in circumference, the next largest 105 inches, and another 102 inches, all of which are bearing a good crop of fruitthis year. . A DlrKCUuT FEAT. Bailing a Locomotive Thot Had Been Plunged Into a Muddy River. . On August 10 last, says the San Fran cisco Call, a locomotive 'went through a big ferryboat and plunged pilot first into the water of Carquinez 6traits, the tender and cars remaining on the ferryboat. The water was deep enough to cover the cab, bnt not enough- to let the boat out of the slip; The locomo tive stood -practically vertical, and its nose was deep in the mud. On the night of the 15th a large pair of .shears made of twelve by .twelve, inh tim bers crossed at the top, waa built up on the end of the boat and some large pulleys . hung where the timbers crossed. - Then a diver spent several hours in fastening a number of cables on either side of the frame under; the boiler. Four engines were attached to the ropes, but could not start the lo comotive, although the strain was so great that a cable nearly three inches in diameter was broken. Finding the appliances of insufficient strength, the shears were doubled in size, and a fifth engine taken on board. On the 17th another trial was made. It was hard to get the engines to pull exactly together, and as their wheels would slip and revolve the cables would snap and the tackle generally would be badly strained. . Finally a simultaneous - pull started the mass and the cab slowly appeared above the water, and the engine was gradually lifted unul somewhat higher than the floor of the ferry boat. Tackle from a steam dredger stationed in front of the slip was then attached to the. forward end of the. "locomotive, which was pulled out in this way. The shears were then swung slowly backward over the deck of the ferry and the engine gradually lowered to the tracks it had left. When it was hauled to the neighboring roundhouse" and the mud washed off it was found' that but little damage had been done beyond the splintering of. the cab by the cables. ; , LOST ATLANTIS NOT A MYTH. A Toronto Professor Believes It Wat the American Continent, . Ignatius Donnelly finds a supporter of his Atlantis theory in Sir Daniel Wilson, president of the University Of Toronto, who declares, after a great deal of search, that the lost Atlantis was not a myth, but that it was really the continent of America. He accounts for its disappearance from view in a different way, but that is merely inci dental. s .' , , i Donnelly's theory, as summarized by the Milwaukee Journal, was that the land was submerged by some great volcanic upheaval, and that from those who escaped in the continents of Eu rope and Asia came the tradition of the deluge. Sir Daniel rejeots this expla nation as being disproved by the fact that there are no traces of such vol canic action either on the continent or in the ocean bed. He believes that the ancient Egyptians, the most progres sive and adventurous people of ancient times, discovered the continent, but that in the decline both of their learn ing and power it became . lost to view and existed at the time our knowledge of Egypt begins merely as a shadowy tradition. ' , . It is his opinion that traces of the Egyptians of those days are to be sought in the ruined cities of Central America, whose origin has never been determined or even been made the basis of any reasonable theory. Such a dis covery '. would furnish a substantial basis for the legend of the lost Atlan tis and the theory invests those won derful ' ruins with a new interest for the antiquarians. j i : ,A Lover of Fresh Air. Queen Victoria seems almost Imper vious to draughts and cold, and no doubt this makes her somewhat incon siderate to those around her. Her sons and daughters frequently com plain of the coldness of their mother's home. She is quite unlike most old ladies of her age in many of her tastes; and while they enjoy the cozy arm chairs before the fire the queen is tak ing her daily drive. It has to be very bad weather to stop this regular out ing; for, though rain and snow may close the carriage, her majesty is al ways very loath to give up her drives. And they are drives! The pace at which she likes to go is another . in stance in which the queen differs from most of her sex and age. - They are, as a rule, content with, and even anx ious for, a very slow and dignified man ner of progression." But not so her majesty. Twelve miles an hour is the pace at which she' insists on being driven when she is in the country, and, as she knows the distances of all the drives in the neighborhood of her dif ferent homes, she at once detects if her commands are not being carried out. Directly a horse is unable to go this pace he is no longer eligible for her majesty's use. i ., . insect Pests. An English scientist 'is quoted as authority for the statement that there are five time as many species of in sects as there are species of all other living things put together. ' The oak tree alone supports 450 species of In sects, and 200 kinds make their home in the pine. Forty years ago Hum boldt estimated that the number of species preserved in collections was be tween 150,000 and 170,000, but scfentiflc men now say that there must be more than 750,000, without taking into con sideration the parasite creatures. Of the 83,000 species in Europe, however, not more than 2,500 are obnoxious or destructive. There are more than 100, 000 kinds of beetles. Banking in Scotland. Probably in no other country In the world are banking facilities so ex tensive as they are in Scotland. Ia every town, large or small, there is a branch of one of the great city banks, and even every village with the least pretension to aize can boast of one. While in England there is a bank or a branch bank to about every teu thou sand of the population, in Scotland there is one to about every four tkon sand. . OUR PKOGKESS AT SEA. Amarloan Ship Builders Make the Beet of Ships. j General Ignorance of the People Con- eernlng Achievements la Building Fait Ocean Steamer For elgaere Aatonbhed. ' .' There is a serious side to our con tinued yachting triumphs, in impor tance transcending far the sporting world, says the Boston Transcript. Some time ago Emperor William was quoted as saying that in building up j tho German navy he would look to the j United States hereafter.. Whether the j emperor said this or not, the fact that j it in attributed to him in Europe dem onstrates that the revival of American skill in shipbuilding is attracting at tention abroad. We should not be surprised at learning that it is attract ing more attention abroad than it is at home.; American enterprise has looked inward from the seaboard so long that it has but recently, accus tomed itself to the idea of looking sea ward. That it is waking up to the possibility of reaping the harvest of the deep, seas many Bigns betoken. Thoughtful Americans have for years seen the folly of abandoning the ior cign doep sea carrying trade to for eign steamers. They have ' grown weary of figuring up the millions that go to foreigners for freight money on American goods. But the masses of our .people have been too busy, have made money too easily on shore, .to think of turning their thoughts sea ward, to appreciate the extent of, the demands of freight money, or even to realize the progress of the countrt in '.shipbuilding, : much less the possibil ities of development of ; our money making power on the seas. - I : J How few are the people who realize all that is meant by the statement that a newly-launched cruiser has made twenty knots on her trial trip! There are not many who know that a twenty-knot ship waa ten years ago ajme c.hanical impossibility in this country. Of; tho materials entering into the Con struction of such a vessel there were in this country in 18S3 only the inge nuity and the ore. " Since thattime the' steel-plate industry and numerous al lied businesses have been built tp to build the ship. England looked with amusement on the undertaking of , the United States to build flyers. It said thatthe Americans were clever people, but they had built no fast steamers, and they had so much to learn that they would never catch up with. Eu rope; the. Americans might turn out some vessels only a little less fast than those, launched from the European yards, but they would not equal! the latter. Nqw the tone of English com menthas changed.- The' London En gineer, a high authority, tells English men that even if the present congress should pass a free-ship bill, its bene fit to English shippers , would be exceedingly limited. A few Clyde built flyers might be bought by Amer icans and put on American registers to form the nucleus of a fast ocean serv ice, hut that would be all. Its rea sons for ; tlis belief are not only the American preference to wait until - im provement of processes has offset the difference in cost between the 'two I countries, but the extension , of our ship-building plants. Some of theso establishments, it declares, "are al most as well able to build ships as ourselves, and. the 'almost' may be. omitted in regard to two of them." The great plant at NewportNew es pecially moves its admiration for its completeness, area ; and ' appliances, and it says of the Cramps that the cruisers . built by them wpald do no discredit to Elswick, Fairfield or' Clydebank. . ,r' . j . Skill in handling vessels comes nat ural to Americans. We have seen" it illitKtvateMn many ways. The yacht race itself has more than a merely rHpoifiDtf significance. It signifies that we retain our skill in building fast ves sels and can adapt that skill to special and peculiar types with the best re John Gumming, : - ; ::WEST0N,i0REGON):: : has THE',UxGEST ST GENERAL MERCHANDISE IN THE COUNTY, ' New Goods V " " : Am they wil1 be sola for t at the very lowest figures. Fall Trade, yf FOIlOwfilG ARE SAMPLE PRICES: Arriving , fi per CENT. DISCOUNT Daily. ' . ' . f I U - FOR CASK PURCHASES S PryjCranulated Sugar, ! 12 pound for f 1.00 or f7.60 pcrfu-k. Bxrra e Sugar, 1 , ,' ; 13 " , " 7,00 erM.'k. 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CAMT. Choloa Oregon Cured Bacon, HliOuldr, Wjs, Bides, ltiJ,V HAji'. .Jw lb. Best Quality Lard, In 10 ft eaaa, 13S I,., . 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CASH, r . i. Comfort, ll.2fi web and upward. lUankete, nock, 30c per pair. Ladies wool bote, 2Sc : em, $1.00 each ! S . - 10 PER CENT. DISCOUNT, FOR CAbll. AND EVERYTHING ELSE AT PROPORTIONATELY LO PRICES. COME, SEE FOR YOURSELVES. ' a.cooo oao JOHN CUMMING, , Weston, Ore sults. We have a grea t coastwise fleet, both steam and sail, we have fast cruisers, and if we do not have a fast foreign carrying trade under our own flag we shall have only ourselves to blame. ' 1 A Hlval of the Bicycle. ' A rather formidable competitor of the cycle has made . its appearance in . the Midland in the .shape vl a pneu matic road skate., Jt.lm.v laUly been , seen in the" iCree'tn ;bf Birm,fauh and. judging- from Jidioir. WJ soon iil-iTaH parts 'of JJtliVounr ' TW- inventioHr-which vaa-rt:ited , shy"rt tiiue n by a iwjiWh.nnri, isi-s oVnAiy-derived from the oliJuor " skate of skating rink :eeie?7ri. M4,t, whereas the ordinary roller sLfj, jius. four wheels, the pneumatic slr. has " only two placed in line at etfln-f ex"i""' tremity of the skate. The wheels are. rather larger than those of the 'roller skate, and instead of solid rubber ttre covered with pneumatic tires. The V patentees ciarni ior tnem tmu one cau skate over ordinary turnpike roads with them the same as on ice and at even greater speed, while at the same ; time they will easily ascend and do- ( soend hills. ' Six or seven miles an ' hour, however, is the maximum Speed . attempted in the streets of .Binning- !, : ham, and that only on smooth roaUs. One obvious advantage of the pneu matic' skate over the- pneumatic cycle is that punctured tires may be readily'V... replaced, as the skater may carry sur- . .. plus tires, or even reserve wheels ready fitted, in his overcoat pocket - Fottage Stampe In Parlf. " i It may not be generally known that Paris is the ; great postage stamp mar- x. ket of the world, There is a regular bourse held every'Thursday and Sun-' day in a corner of tho Champs Elysees,' where- hundreds of men, women and . boys congregate with their postage stamp albums and packages of stamps " for sale and exchange.. It is said that thousands of francs change hands-'"' there every market day. ' ' ' An EnglUh Tradition. ' Thero is a large bowlder lying in a field near Foremark, England, which ia known throughout Derbyshire as "Hangman's Stone." The exposed por ' tion - of the bowlder rises about six feet above the surface of the surround ing field and has a narrow ditch or in- dentation running across tne top.- xne mark, so tradition says, was made in this way; A sheep thief in the dead of night, while leaning 'against the. bowlder to rest, placed his booty above on the flat surface of the stone. The man had the sheep tied with a rope and in its effort to escape the creature slipped on the opposite sideVand the rope catching under the thief's chin choked him to death.' 'The indentation in th rock was made by the friction of tha rope while the dying man was en gaged in an effort to extricate himself. , , Animal Food In Japan. There are still many people, especial ly Ini tb Interior narts- of Jannn. who have never tasted any animal (oilfff their lives and look -upon it w jtfi hor ror, while a great many conservative women do not touch' it evn at the present day, Moreover, auimkl food l ' expensive in Japan 'and is'herriore considered a luxury' "whyil is quite out of the reach of the ftaor. During the whole year of lSaiiny, 87,711 bulls and cows were killed in Jiipan to supply meat ; 6r 40,000,000: people, and' it is worthy of note that .there we'ra 1,021, 803 bulls and cows in the country dur- lug that year, while the number of the -slaughtered probably included many animals which were not slain for sup-: plying human food. Uncle Sam furnishes forty-ona per ' cent, of the world's silver. - . ' In Europe there are 518,400 insane; in . the United States, 108,000.. , , , Three hundred and sixty; inountain!i in the United States are over ten thou- -sand feet high. - ; , j, . AlA the glaciers in the Alps wonh1 , not equal one of the largest in outr-. ritoryof Alaska. ' - and' Best Selected Stock S1.A0 prrpalr and upward, tft-- t per pair, men's woo) undei ui I 1 ; 'A, I" 1 V. A'-J " .11 w . s if ' .