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I ft FOR THE : i i r : - - i j J) Price ofone(?1.50m B(tvnnwtytra ran j it gettheViK!saui the IVdn Farmer.' t FOR THE mi S Benefit of our Republican waders and H others, the PRE89 ana Oregonian for 2, YOLUME 8. ATIIENA, UMATllXA, COUNTY,. OREGON FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12, . 1895. ;nu3iber;j:28 t ' ": 4 t. . ) o tODCK DIRECTORY -I'.'ft A. M. NO. 80 MEETS THE t.." ' First and Third Saturday Evenings if each month. Visiting bretheren cor iially invited to visit the lodga, T 0. 0. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY I, Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellow n good standing always welcome. A 0. U. W. NO. 104. MEETS THE Second and Fourth Saturdays of month. Fred Rozenswieg, Recorder. A TTIENA OAMPNO. 171, Woodmen of tho Worid, meet lnt and 8rd Wednesdays of 3dch month. Visiting Choppers always wel come G. C. Osbcbn, Clerk, DYTHIAN, NO. 29, MEETS EVERY JL Thursday Night. '. P 8. SHARP, Physician and Surgeon. Calls promptly answered. Office on Third Bireet, Athena, Oregon. R. I. N. RICHARuSON, OPERATIVE. I'l'OSTIIK Tit OKNTIST. ATHENA, - - - OREGON. E.DePeatt, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Athena, Ore. ! THE ATHENA RESTAURANT : Hf MRS. HARDIN, Proprietress. I : : : H. P. MILLEN, Manager. ;! V ' iff . j : Can be recommended to the public as being fl rat-class in every particular. We Employ White help only. t MEALS AT ALL HOURS t $5, - t-. -THE- ll 1 i; ' 00I1ER0IAL Iff. LIVERY FEED '. .: SALE '. STABLE . . , J The Best Turnouts In Umatilla County Stock boarded by tho day, week or month. ' v Main Street, : Athena. - AT COMBS RESTAURANT Main Street, t MEALS, 25c. BEDS, 25c. ' - . ". Meals At all Hours Day or Night. WHITE - HELP " EMPLOYED. DO YOU KNOW 1 You can buy the best ' 3-ply Carpet for 80c; z ' good Br usse lis for 50c Rugs, Lace and Silk g Curtains and House Furnishing Goods con siderably cheaper ' than any place in the . State of Oregon, of Jessee Failing at Pen '; dleton? : : : : : : Sewing achines r Warrented 10 Years jt For S25. - - t mmim i mi i Jess-j Failixg, Pendleton, Or Do You Believe in Silver? Ifso Read the Portland Sun. M)-SUmER;Mi -OF- REMNANTS, ODDS AND ENDS ODDS AND BOBS AND LEFT-OTERS - Which must be closed out at KTY MEN'S SUITS $i2.oo, 15.00 and .iS.oo Reduced to . '''''' JIO.OO,- Biggest . stock of : in Pendleton, at the 7 BOSTON STORE, MAXV LEWIN'S LEADER OF Green Plantation Costa Rica Coffee 4$ lbs. ; Borax Soap, per box ..... v ....... , . ;;. Favorite Savon Sonp, per box, . . . . '. Small White Beans 20 lbs. . Celebrated Antelope Tea per lb. .. ...... Mapel Syrup per gallon can..V .'. . . . A fresh line of Candies, Nuts, ?ons constantly on hand. ma a w FOR. QUICK RETURNS, ADVERTISE IN THE ATHENA PRESS FIRST HST10HI BMK o OFJTHEHH, Pays L. D. -iff THE ATHENA MARKET v FRANK BEAL, proprietor. FRESH -MEAT ALYAYS OH r HAND Highest Cash Price paid We buy for. Cash and sell for for Butcher's Stock. Cash strictly YOU GET THE VERY BEST AND LOTS OF IT. - WHEN YOU SPEND MONEY WITH BEALE Main Street, " '' """'1 ' low-priced : Shoes Peiidletbn. CASH GROCERY. LOW PRICES. $100 1-25. 100. 100. 35. 125.' Dates, Figs, Oranges and Lem. ; Main Street. JUiU South side Main Street. CAPITAL STOCK, STJEPLTS, - $ 60000 $21,000 interest on time deposits. Propfer attention given to collections. Deals in foreign and domestic exebapgo. . ,. Livbly, Caahler, . ; Athena, Oregon it simmonsS sav; REGULATOR Reader, did you ever take Simmons Liver Regulator, the "King of Ltveb Medicines?" Everybody needs take a liver remedy. It is a sluggish or diseased liver that impairs digestion and causes constipation, when the waste that should be carried off remains la the body and poisons the whole system. That dull, heavy feeling is duo to a torpid liver. Biliousness, Headache,. Mai aria and Indigestion are all liver diseases. Keep the liver active by an occasional dose of Simmons Liver Keg ulator and you'll get rid of these trou bles, and give tone to the whole sys tem. For a laxative Simmons Liver Regulator is better than Pills. It does not gripe, nor weaken, but greatly refreshes and strengthens. Every package has tlie Red Z stamp on the wrapper. J. II. Zeiliu & Co., Philadelphia. Remarkable Growth of the South . Afrloan Republic Settlement of the Transvaal and Its Mar velous Industrial Frosress Com- position of the Gov- . eminent. , The territory comprising the Trans vaal or South African republic covers an area larger than that of France. It. Is peopled by the Boers, who fled from the tyrannical form of government which the English sought to. impose up-! on them further south. The Boers are the descendants of the ' sturdy Nether landers, who constituted Holland a re public and a formidable power in the sixteenth century, andof-jthe Hugue nots, who were driven from France by the revocation . of the edict of Nantes in 1085 by Louis XIV. Thus in the Boers of South Africa there is a com bination of the characteristics of two people who are conspicuous in Euro pean history for the struggles they waged for political and religious lib erty. Since the days when, the first band of hardy immigrant Boers crossed the Yaal riveri where England's tyran ny stopped at , following, them, and planted their cabins on the broad and sunny slopes of the Transvaal, the country has gone through the changes and throes which mark the life of in dividual and nation alike. Within the past five years a marvelous devel opment of population, resources and industries has followed on the success which gold mining has achieved. Rail way communication now connects Johannesburg via the diamond mines of Kimberly with the Cape of Good Hope, a distance of nine hundred and forty-five miles. Other connections are rapidly progressing from Natal and Delagoa bay, centralizing at Pre toria, the capital and seat of govern men in the Transvaal. The constitution of the South African republic, says Goldthwaite's Magazine, is based on Roman Dutch. Tho . legis lative power is vested in the volksraad, the members of , which are elected by their constituents for four years. The executive consists of the president, elected for five years by a general elec tion throughout the state, the state secretary elected by the volksraad for four years, and four unofficial members chosen for three years by tho volks raad. The chief officer in each d istrlct is the landdrost, who acts as magis trate and civil commissioner, with the assistance of a clerk, who is at the same time public prosecutor and dis-H tnbutor of stamps. Each district is further provided with a baljuw or sheriff, 'gaoler and a staff of constables. With the exception of a corps of mounted artillery and police, com- manded by three officers with about sixty men, the republic has no armed force. The president, with the concur rence of the executive, has the right to declare war and call up a commando, in which the burghers are placed under the field cornets and command ants of each district. The whole force is commanded by the commandant general, who is elected by the country for the term of ten years. All inhabit ants of the state between sixteen and sixty years of age, not exempt accord ing to law, are liable to service on commando. President Kruger is now occupying his office for the tiiL-d term. He is a patriot, a man whose heroic life posterity will honor. Among the Boers he Is known exclusively as "Oom Paul," "Uncle Paul." Though a man of rugged exterior, untutored even as regards the most elementary branches of education, he has shown a practical capacity for government that has been a match for the most finished diplo macy and statecraft. For the conser vation of the interests of the mining class, almost entirely English, he in fluenced the volksraad to establish a second chamber, to which they could send their renresentatives. This cham ber legislates in the interubt of tlio English class and for the local inter ests' of the country, the volksraad holding the right of veto over its pro ceedings. PEFtfUME MEASURED BY CENTS Shm Wanted Visitors to limtU the Dollar-nd-s-Half Rosea. - "All flesh is not the same flesh," and there are people who cannot under stand the esthetic delight in what to a grosser sense is at best a more matter of sensuous pleasure and in many in stances simply an affair of dollars and cents. . : What flowers are, for instance, to some feminine natures is incompre hensible to less poetic beings, who, however pleased they may be with tho costly beauty of exotics aro quite in capable of feeling the tine spell of their loveliness. - One of these true lovers of flowers,' calling on Mrs. Midas the other day, says the New York Tribune, was, shown into her. sumptuous drawing room, which, in accordance with the delightful fashion of the day, was filled with costly roses in the greatest profusion,, and was redotent of their perfume. ' ". - Quite entranced, the "lover of flow ers' wandered from one fragant speci men to another, and finally was hang ing with delight over a large bunch of hMme. Cousines," whose exquisite pink looked most enchantingly fresh in a large bowl of clear cut crystal, when her hostess entered. - ' "Admiring the-roses, are you?" said the latter, after the first greetings had been said. "Yes, they aro pretty nice this morning; I gave carte blancho to Blank to fill my va3es every other day, so I have no trouble about them at all, But don't waste your praises over those twenty-five-cent .things; only smell these," pointing to tlve superb cluster of American Beauties. "They cost one dollar and a half aniece." ; A TERRIBLE HAWK. , An Enemy That Strides Terror to Feath i ered Deuilxciu of tho HuMi. The author of "Tho Nnturalist in La Plata" gives an impressive description of the terror produced by tho appear- ance of a rather small hawk, of a spe cies unknown to him, although he has seen it a hundred times. It is a marsh hawk. That is to say it seeks Its prey in marshes. r ' . I have frequently seen' all the inhabi tants of a marsH struck with panic, act ing as if demented ami suddenly grown careless to all other dangers. On such occasions I have looked up, confident of seeing this particular hawk suspended above them in the sky.- All birds that happen to be on the wing drop into the reeds or water as if shot. Ducks away from the- shore stretch out their necks horizontally and drag their bodies, as if wounded, into Closer coveri Npt one bird is found bold enough to rise and wheel about the marauder a usual proceeding in the' case of other hawks; while at every sudden stoop of the falcon a low cry of terror rises from tho birds underneath -a sound expressive of an emotion so contagious that it quickly runs like a murmur all over the marsh, as if a gust of wind had swept moaning through the rushes. , As long as the falcon hangs overhead, always at a height of about forty yardti, threatening att intervals to dash down, this murmuring sound, made up of many hundreds of individual cries,, is heard swelling and dying sway, and occasionally, when he drops lower than usual, it rises to a sharp scream of ter-, ror. . , Sometimes, when I have been riding over ' marshy ground, one of these hawks has placed himself directly over . 1 '.. .1 M net. a. t my ueuu, wibtuu uitucii or iweuiy vards. ' It has nerhans aenuired the. 5 " . . habit of following horsemen in this way, in order to strike at any birds, driven up. ' Once my horse almost trod' on a couple of snipe squatting, terrified,. in! the short grasN. The instant they rose the hawk strupk at one of them, the end of his wing smiting my cheek vio lently as he stooped. The unipo escaped by diving under the bridle, and im mediately dropped on tho other siito of me; and the hawk, rising, flew away. GAME OF THE DEVIL. It Halls Originally from China and Used to lie Played in Europe. What is called the "Game of the Devil" dates back to China, where it is called Kouen-gen, to a very remote an tiquity, and has been played in France at different epochs of modern times, especially at tho beginning of tho present century. ' The "devil" is thrown Into the air by means of a string Which the player keeps taut by the skillful use of two sticks, and upon which he is to catch' it. "I remember having often seen this game in the hands of one of my friends," says a contributor to a French periodicaL "According to him, the game was in great favor in Belgium in Jiis boyhood, about fifteen years ago, ... . i nnatrH whwp t,lli. T-OUntr neignt of more man uri,y xtxu. i Something less than a quarter of a century ago this game was much played at Paris. Tho devil wa made of two hollow boxwood balls. Combustibility of Celluloid. A London (Eng.) paper reports the case of a lady, standing near a bright fire, who suddenly found herself en veloped in smoke. A gentleman who came to her rescue succeeded in crush' ing th4 ignited portion of her dress, not, however, without severely burning his hand. On investigation tho fire was found to have originated from a spot where a large fancy button had been, but had disappeared. Similar buttons were subsequently examined, and were found to be highly inflammable, being made of celluloid. Of all the dairy cows slaughtered in Edinburgh during the pleuro-pncu-monia scare, not less than twenty-two per cent, were found by the official in spection to be more or less-affect-" with tuberculosis- The fact Js ' ' ,"u pleasant revelation of tho ' ritt i1 Highest of all in Leavening Power, -Latest U.S. Gov't Report . . . .... v A )&&OUfl)TEW KJESE . ,, , ,,, ,, A yUEJSK COMluflATlOS.; . J Tha Breakfast of a -Rounder After a Nhjrhtt)ut j. An Institution of Uncertain Origin Tet FamUlar to All Waiters Opinions of Fhyslclans on the Try- ; lug Allxtare, , ' t Take six men of the world gentle-: men, I mean, of an all round social ex- perience, who have been unfortuqato enough to stay too long with their liquor once in awhile and probably five of them will tell you what is meant by tho term, "drunkard's breakfast,", says the New York Herald. ; For tho enlightenment of the sixth member it may be explained that a "drunkard's breakfast," so called hx many swell clubs and restaurants, con sists of a salt mackerel, boiled, not broiled; a dish of milk toastk and a pot of strong, hot tea. This is a repast which is supposed to be peculiarly' adapted to the stomach of a man who permitted himself to be tempted to look too promiscuously upon the wine the! night before. 1 j My wife's absence from home couij polled me to take my meals at tho restaurants recently. For my first breakfast I went to one of the final hotels in the immediate neighborhood. The restaurant was chilly, and that added to a severe cold in ray head, must havo given-a watery appearance! to my eyes and a nervous tremor to my hand as I toqk a seat and picked up a bill of fare. An obsequious waiter stood at hand to receive my order. J ran over the list of meats a second time, pausing, mentally, midway 'twix "a steak and. a chop. The waiter noting my indecision, but utterly mis-j taking the spirit behind it all, stepped! to my sido and with perfect politeness said: "Eef I inaybo permit, I recomi men' ze salt mackerel, wis ze ineelk, toast and ze tea-ver' nice. It eez zei breakfast populair wis gentlemen after ze excitement of ze long night." j The fellow had actually recommend ed a drunkard's breakfast for my con-' dition, although as a matter4 of fact I hadn't taken a drink in a year and a half! - QNext morning I went into another restaurant near by not exactly a first-: class plaae, but an extraordinarily good second-class one where the busi-j ness is enormous, the cooking excel-' lent and the service generally satis-! factorj'. My eyes were bloodshot and; watery still, the result of a neuralgic! attack? The waiter, a decorous, hand-' some German-American, handed moj the bill of fare, eyed me suspiciously,! but not rudely, fo an instant andj then remarked in an undertone: "llowi would a nice salt mackerel, boiled, a' plate of milk toast and a pot of tea suit you this morning? That is what many of our patrons order for breaks fast after 'they have been out late.: Much better than cocktails, I assure you." : ' ; There was no impertinence in the man's voice, or manner. He didn't dream of feeing intrusive. He merely , thought ho was doing me a friendly: service in suggesting a, regular brac ing "drunkard's breakfast." Tlio same suggestion will be offered in many first-class restaurants to any man whose appearance or manner . in ; any way excites the suspicion that ho drank too much the night before. The hint is always offered politely and quietly, and only after the waiter has convinced himself that his purpose in : making the suggestion will not be mis understood. And thus, in some mysterious way, it has come to be believed among res taurant waiters that for a man who has iiad a long drinking bout the cor rect breakfast should consist of salt mackerel, milk toast and teal It is an extraordinary combination,, surely," and why it is peculiars adapted to the condition of a pan recovering. from a spree Is as mysterious as tho identity of tho itiius who first pro posed it. ' . . A popular physician who was spoken l "ta with reference to this fad said: "Yes, I know what a 'drunkard's brcakfast'Js, but why any man suffer ing from over-indulgence in drink should eat such a meal is more than I can tell. Halt mackerel is harsh, acrid, hot and irritating to an already con gested stomach. I can think of no -arttde wf food more likely to increase the digestive disorders due to drink than salt mackerel." Another physician of long practice and wide observation said: "It would be interesting to know how and with whom the 'drunkard s breakfast' origi nated. It is a ridiculous idea. None but a normal stomach in healthy con dition can digest a salt mackerel with out discomfort, or at least unpleasant reminders of its presence. It is a fish that I am very fond of, but if I eat of. it even after drinking moderately 'ft; causes au attack of indigestion. ; My' only theory of its supposed popular! J l,.,1, ,l!l. .. , 1. . J taken a drop too much is thif ;js salti ness excites thirst for gr;Miflci o "reaV'bcmefiT" m with ibS" Bt0IBacU -'cverei him fto J -w twUatton. .,11 enables stor . .u-ink water copiously until th ? ,ach Is cleaned and cooled, and thi -Icohol in his tissues becomes so di luted that it Is the more easily climir nated from his system. As for its ali mentary value in such cases, I can't ee that' it has any. The milk toa4 would be all right, but salt mackerel Be!.''-'v"jtf:' llmnlrirm and tea what an insult and crime it is to force them upon a stomach al ready smarting and burning under the abuses of alcohol!" . . Nevertheless tho "drunkard's break fast" is an institution .and a. fixture. , If you don't believe it just go into an up-townrestaurantsome morning when you do not feel oa particularly good terms with yourself and allow the waiter to infer from your manner that you were somewhat off ..the coast the night before. Jf that waiter is up to date and estimates you as one of kind ly spirit, he will discreetly suggest a breakfast consisting of salt mackerel, milk toast and tea. - , RAINFALL AND POPULATION. The Growth of the Latter Depends on the Vomer. ,; y - a The results of tho last census have shown that tho distribution of the pop ulation in tho United States la regular " ted by the abundance ox scarcity of rain. The largest part of the popula tion is distributed in those regions where the annual rainfall varies -from thirty to forty inches, ' These comprise three-fourths of the jwople. ' " The density of population diminishes rapidly where the amount of rainfall differs considerably', in either direction from these figures, which may be taken as of mean value. - . Greatest density Is found where forty to fifty inches of rain fall yearly, the number of inhabitants in such, dis tricts being fifty-nino perssqtiare mile. Where the rainfall is thirty to forty inches per annum tho mean density of population is 43.1 per square mile. ! ',, . The dry regions of the east, where less than twenty inches fall in a year, which includes two-fifths of tho terri tory, contain actually loss than three hundredths of the people otatho states. The population has multiplied mos! rapidly, with a rainfall of twenty tt thirty inches, in the great plains ex tending from Texas to Dakota, whei'i . the density has increased 10 to 18.1 pel milo. .1 ... ' " ' These figures show that, as might naturally be expected, in the variety of. climatic conditions found in the great expanse of territory constituting tho United States those most favorable to increase tho number of inhabitante are a moderate temperature and a mott erato annual rainfall. ' ' Singers of tho Plains. People who have read about the rough manners of cowboys will bo sur prised to know that they are habitual Ringers of hymns, and tho strangest feature is that they sing the cattle tc sleep. A herd of steers is as skittish as a flock of sheep, particularly at night. Anything or nothing will start a stampede, and when the cattle get funning they are almost as difficult to cheek as a prairie fire. So a part of a cowboy's duty is to ride around and around tho "bunch" of cattle, singing a hymn as melodiously as ho can. Gradually the animals come to a halt, drop down oik; by one, until at length they are all asleep, and tho tired singer can rest his throat. SUBJUGATION OF WILD CATTLE. How It Was AccomiillHlted by "Primitive Kuropeitiis. Tho first and simplest use made of tho animals from which man derives strength appears to havo been brought about by the subjugation of wild cattle the bulls and buffaloes. Several wild varieties of the bovine tribe were originally widely-' dissemi nated in Europe and Asia,, and these forms must havo been frequent, objects of chase by the ancient -hunters. Al though lu their adult state these ani mals were doubtless originally intract able, tho young wci'C 'niild-mannered and, as wo can readily conceive, must often havo been led, captive, to. the abodes of tho primitive people. . As is common with all gregarious animals which have long acknowledged tho authority of U'eir natural herds? men, the dominant malesof their tribe, these creatures lent themselves to do mestication. , . Even tho first generation of the cap- . tives reared by hand probably showed a disposition to remain with, their mas ters, and in a few generations this na tive impulse. might well have been so far developed that tho domestic herd was established,' affording perhaps at first only flesh and hides, and leading the people who mado them captives to a nomadic life, that constant search for fresh fields alid pastures new which 'characterizes people who aro supported by their flocks and herds. . - ' Clilneite Slarkumen, " ' '' Tho-accuracy of. the Chinese mark man is marvelous, when it , is remem bered the gunstocik rests on thq hip, In this way he brings down with great facility birds on the wing, and even the snipe, whoso zigzag course renders them difficult to snot with the western fowling piece; .In addition,, too,, he uses no exploslvo cap, but fires it with lighted fuse. ; ' ' ' " ' l ' A Celestial Barker-" --' -! An Egyptian shopkeeper had a deity to whom ho offered sacrifico eVery -morning, and whose duty it was mrc : turn for this rcvereiico. tostand.ia . front of the shop during tho day, a sort of celestial "harlcer," an-l ' " ' attention o-V '" : 1 ; rec tQ ; 1 " people passing by. to. me saop ana its contents. . . , j , . 'Some Inhuman 'wretches hava just Wen arrested in Biskupifz, ' Austria, who pursued a shocking calling: TUy stole .ehttdit:), then deformed them, fix "begging purposes.;' " ' " -; ;" ' j 1 1 1 1 ' i ' 4 V, Athena, Oregon A- .....