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ATHENA, JANUARY 10, 1895
ENGLAND FIXED FOR WAR.
Now that our people are stumbl
ing upon the fact that England has
boon for many years past making
preparations for a contingency like
the present, with special reference
to an armedconflict with our gov-
eminent, the foresight, wisdom and
statesmanship of tho distinguished
, American, Samuel J. Tilden, be
comes apparent. His earnest rec
ommendation to spend the accumu
lating surplus in the treasury in
coast fortifications and naval de
fenses, if it had been heeded, would
have placed this country on a foot
ing that would have made her the
equal, at least, of Great Britain in
. that respect, sayH the Olympia
Standard.
There is always much bluster
when a foreign war is broached,
Tlio n-ifrintin imntiluA im mfidiftf pi V
runs tho blood up to a fever heat,
despite reason or judgement. It is
doubtless proper that this should
be. "Our country right or wrong;
but may she ever be right," is a
sentiment which is and should be
accepted in .all its entirety. But
Davy Crockett's maxim which
admonishes some care in keeping
tho powder dry while placing im
plicit confidence in Providence, all
worldly observation and experience
fully justifies.
Late issues of the S. P. Examin
er contain a series of articles which
go to show that our English cousins
have, under'the garb of friendship,
boon for a long time past searching
for tho precise places where they
could the most expenditiouly drive
a knife into;fhe vitals of our poli
tical autonomy. The labor of these
spies have been so perfect that the
English war office is supplied with
maps of our extensive coast-line
that show at once all the weak
points for naval assault. The
fleets to attack the Atlantic coast
are chosen and the officers to com
mand them havo been assigned
their parts. . -
One of the details in tho start
ling discovery possesses special in
terest to peoplo on Pugct Sound.
It is that for the past thrco
years work lias been quietly going
on in completing a great system of
land defenses at the southern ex
trcmity of Vancouver Island. At
Esquimau, tho fortifications cx
tend from Point Macaulev to tho
head of the harbor, encircling a
, well-constructed navy yard, a dry
. uoek, magazino and numerous
stone houses. It is tho base of
supply for the Pacifio squadron,
and by its position commands the
Straits of Ptica, tho commercial
highway to Piicet Sound. Tho for-
" tifications are of the latest and
most improved character, Tho
ordnanco embraces guns which will
carry shot and shell to rango only
limited bv vision, and these mon
sters have their station deep be
neath th- surface of the earth, from
which they rise to hurl their des
tructive missiles and then by hy
draulic machinery are lowered for
r recharging with tho facility of a
modern elevator. The guns aro
fired by electricity, and their opera
tion can be controlled by the samo
occult power, rendering possible an
awfully simultaneous broadsido of
tho most effective projectiles. The
use of smokeless powder may be
made M conceal tho location of
these gigantic batteries, so that an
invading fleet would not havo an
overhanging cloud of , smoke to
guide their return fire. This line
of guns extends upwards of four
miles, and commands every mile
of water inside of Race Ilocks, A
system of trenches and tunnels
connects the pita and the maga
zines, and the location of the latter
is utterly unknown to all except
those iirommand. Assault by
land, should such an improbable
effort be attempted," is rendered
practically impossible by a chain of
parapet forts through the hills and
forest whose exact location is like
wise only known to the engineers
who constructed them and the of
ficers in command. And tins is
not all. The entrances to Esqui
mau and Victoria-harbors are pro
tected by marine mines connected
with the fortress by a network of
wires for their explosion, should a
war vessel or" merchantman at
tempt to run the gauntlet of the
shore batteries. .
It is difficult to conceive of a
more thorough system of defense,
than that which has been perfected
at our very doors by a nation that
we had reason to believe entertain
ed for the American people the
ordinary feelings of consanguinity.
If we have been mistaken in the
estimate we have placed upon a
nation that secretly plots the des
truction of kindred separated by a
few generations of descent, it is a
mistake of the heart rather than
that of judgement, and whether
war results from present complies,
tions or not, it is probably well
that theso incidents have brought
to light a more thorough knowledge
of the sanguinary nature of our
next-door neighbor in the family
of nations. Our country is one of
wonderful resources, and to be
forewarned is to be forearmed. It
will not be many months before
the United States will profit from
this knowledge, and she will be in
a position to meet force with force
in every form of modern' military
appliance.
It may bo of interest to some
people to know that tho running
of a newspaper is a business just
the same as the running of a groc
ery store or a millinery establish
ment or a Btreet car system. A
newspaper proprietor payB rent
and insurance, contracts bills, col
lects money and disburses the same,
with the primary end in view of
keeping the receipts above the cA
ponses. The newspaper is fn"
manufactured product.
It is mailed
up of many ingredients contribut
ed from many different sources andf
the process of its manufacture is
complicated and expensive. When
the paper com,e'''froi& the p'reM it
represents tho labor of many 1i3js.
In that.respect it does not? iffer
from a hto or a suit of clothes.' In
stead of wearing a newspaper or
eating it we read it, and it is the
tulvantnge of having the news of i
the day arranged and printed in
conveniont farm and left at your
door that represents the value of
the paper. The newspaper is a
product it is manufactured to sup
ply a demand. If the market
value of 5000 newspapers is $250,
one paper should be worth an
amount of money in "proportion,
just the same as oranges, squashes
or toothbrushes. That's why news
paper proprietors don't hand out
their papers as presents to anyone
who may ask for them. They
have bought machinery, paid rent
and satisfied the.demands of a pay
roll in ordor to produce, not a tooth
brush or a yard of ribbon or a cigar
but a newspaper. On account
of its value as an advertising med
ium, space in a nowspaper is worth
money, just the same as seating
room in a street car or an opera
house is worth money. The in
sertion of a six inch advertisement
may bo worth a much as six seats
at the opera. The value in the
first instance depends upon the
character of the medium and the
extent of tho circulation. The
proprietor has fixed a price pro
portioned to the cost of providing
this medium and tho work of pre
paring this medium , and tho work
of preparing tho advertisement
for publication. The manager of
tho theatre fixes the price of his
seats to correspond with his outlay
in securing tho talent and piovid
ing'the opera house. These may
seem self evident truths. So they
are. But oven to this day you will
find thoso who do not know that a
nowspaper is a marketable product
and they are tho sort of people who
make it necessary for the grocer to
put screens over his apple barrels.
And there aro those, too, who think
that space in a newspaper may be
had for the asking and they are of
the sort that want their tailor to
present them with a neckties when
they purchase a collar. Tho news-
paper is a product, a refined pro
duct, developed from the raw ma
terial, and its value and price is
regulated by the ordinary laws of
business.
Wiiln a military commander
gives the order to his troops, on
crossing a bridge, to ''break step,"
he is only giving practical recogni
tion to the evistence of the force in
nature which the veteran invent,
or Keeley, pretends to- have tamed
and harnessed. , The law. of sym
pathetic vibrations has been known
for a great many centuries. The
great book of Jewish law, the Tal
mud, prescribes that, if the bark
ing of a dog shatters an earthen
vessel- belonging to a neighbor, he
shall be recompensed by the owner
of the dogl This is, we believe
the first historical recognition of
the law of rhythmic vibrations.
Then there is the old story of the
fiddler who while the workmen
were busy on the huge suspension
bridge over the Menai Straits in
Wales, being jeered at by them,
told them he could "fiddle their
bridge down," and began, amidst
their uproarous mirth, to draw his
bow across the strings of his in
strument till he found the note with
which the huge structure was in
accord, and continuing on the note,
soon had the bridge swaying in
an alarming manner! Keeley,
with a tuning-fork and a thimble
ful of water, developed a force that
was prodigious, but the question
was to harness this new-found
energy. He now, after many years
since his tuning-fork experiment,
thinks he has solved the problem,
and that present modes of securing
force will be laid on the shelf, even
electricity being soon to be regard
ed as a clumsy, costly, and waste
ful method of obtaining nature's
primal energy. If John Jacob As
tor is to back Keeley, who claims
to have a commercial engine driven
by his force ready to show, then
we may bo sure that "there's seme
thing in it," for Astor himself is an
acuto and original physical inves
tigator.
Pexdi.kto.V naoers last week ex-
hibited an immense amount of gall
in giving that townt credit for
closing the big wheat deal f and
claiming lor Pendleton the dis
tributing point of all the wheat
which passed from the hands of
T, J. Kirk, C. W. Hollis, TV P.
Pnge, Russell, the Rigby's and
others who have their wheat stored
in Athena warehouses. The un
limited gall of Pendleton in claim
ing everything in sight, East to
Weston, West to; Umatilla. North,
to Helix and ns far as the line of
Union county on the South is re
diculous in the extreme, and vivid
ly infringes on the sterotyped
methods of Great Britian in claim
ing everything in sight as
Come off the perch.
'our n.
When in Pendleton stop at the
Golden Rule Hotel. The best of
rooms and elegant fare. Free bus
to and from all rair.s. .
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair, San Francisco.
Damon
UNDER AUSPICES OF PYTHIAN LODGE,
of P., OF ATHENA,
The leading "Damon" of the Pacific Coast, has been
cured, and will be assisted by the following cast ;
Pythias Chas. Kinzie.
Dionysius F. B. Boyd.
Damocles ....... Lake France. .
Troclea C. D. Stansell. '
Philistius . . . J. W. Maloney.
Lucullus J. Ernest Bharp.
s. Child of Damon....... Eva. Hill.
Calanthe.; ..Miss Leolu Young.
Hermion .
The friendship of Damon and Pythias shines through the mists of
centuries, a glowing tribute to humanity of the past. No grenter lesson
of honor and friends-hip was ever illustrated. Damon, a Senator is con
demned to death by the tyrant king, Dionyius, Pythias plates himself
as a hostage, that Damon may go and see his wife and child. The lime
is short and Damon's home leagues away; a fond farewell and away he
epeedes to his loving wife and child. The time arrives for his return,
the last fond embrace is given; he starts to return and finds that his
slave, to save his life, has slain his 8teed. The hour arrives for Damon's
return and Pythiaa is led to the scaffold to he executed. The last fond
farewell is taken of his young bride; he mounts the scaffold, exclaiming.
''Tis sweet to Die for those we Love." ,t the Jqst moment Damon ar
rives and Pythias is saved.
A Pointer
C. W. Chapman, andryie....
Of Thirty Years Experience,
is Desireous of Locating in
Athena.
Sign and Buggy painting. Charges to suit the hard times.
Read These Prices.
11 cans Axle gfease $ 1 00
5 gal can Machine oil.. - 1 75
Binding twine per lb ' 8 cts
Draper 12-foot Hodge Header ', 28 50
Spout. draper...., 10 00
All Klnd ofextriw for the following machines. Threshers Pitta, Caw. Advance. Powers
-Pitts. Case and Woodbury. Headers Pitts, rnse. Randolph, Craver, Piano, Oregon Haines
MowinV machine extras for Champion any style, Whltely, Ktnpire, Woods, Buckeye- Binders
Whitely, Buckeye, .. Ix-erlng and Piano. Draper and draper-sticks for any kind of inn-
ChWe8can furnish repairs for any machine If not on hand at shortest possible time and at
lowest posslblo cost- If you do not see what you want you must ask for it we are sure to haveit.
THE C- A. BAEEETT CO.
.A.. ' j PARKER,
SHAVING,
THE
IIAIRCUTTING
SHAMPOOING,
HAIRSINGINGj
In Latest Styles.
tW HOT OR COLD WATER
Carpet Remnants
HALF PRICE
WALL PAPER THE SAME.
JESSE FAILING,
FIRST HETIONEL
BMK
OF ATHENS,
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Pays
L, D.
THE
FARMERS
Meat Market
The place to get your fresh
....Beef, Veal, Pork and
Mutton. Fish in season.
J. BREHM, Proprietor, Athene, Oregon-
-Pythias
NOV 29, K
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.Mrs. C. C. Sharp
All Jobs . . . .
Entrusted
to him will be
done honestly
Satisfaction is
guaranteed in
all his Work.
Plain and decorative
paper hanging, house
IPT'o-pxd.etoi' of
ELECTRIC BARBER SHOP.
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BATHS, 25 CENTS. J?J
Main Street, Pendleton.
South side Main Street.
CAPITAL STOCK,
SUKPLTTS, -
$ 5OOP0
$21,000
Interest on tlmo deposits. Proper attention
given to collections. Deals In forelgu and
domestic excbBPgn.
LlVRl.V. Cashier,
Athena, OregoD
All kinds of sjnoked meats
Hams Jard and Bacon...
The very best of Sausages
LODVR BIKEVTOKV
AF. & A. M. NO. 80 MEETS THE
. First and Third Saturday Evenings
Df each month. Visitinfj brethcren cor
dially invited to visit the lodge.
r o' o.V. NO. 98. MEETS EVERY
I . Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellows
a good stauding always welcome.
A 0. U. W. NO.' 104. MEETS THE
JA Second and Fourth Saturday of
month. Fred Rozenswieg
Recorder.
a THEXA CAMP. NO. 171. "Woodmen of the
n Worirt, meets 1st nnrt 3rd Wetlm-sduys of
?nch month. VlKitingrhFpo mway wci
Uti!, O. C. Osbvkn, Clerk,
PYTHIAN, NO. 29,
Thursday Night.
MEETS EVERY
P.
8, SHAKP,
Physician and Surgeon
Culls promptly nnswered,
Btreet, AUnna, Oregon.
Office on Third
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urt R ITIVK rROHTHKTIt DENTIST.
THENA,
OREGON.
E.DePeatt,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Athksa, Okk,
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder
World's Fair Highest Award. '
For Sale.
One of the best residences in
town. - Will sell cheap or trade for
cattle. . For particulars apply tl
hs office. X
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Silverware
to the Cash Trade
It is given away
as follows
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get 10c in Script, which is
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ware.
jfflrMention this paper when you are trading at
the BOSTON STORE
W. P. LEACH,--
LEADING FURNITURE DEALER
THE ATHEM MARKET
FRANK BEAL, proprietor.
MEAT ALWAYS ON
AFRESH e
Highest Cash Price paid
for Butcher's Stock. :Utl Hi idly
YOU GET THE VERY BEST AND LOTS OF IT.
WHEN YOU SPEND MONEY WITH
BEALE
Yes, wheat bought at
W. & C Go's railway
Athena every day this
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panies will take risks. He has the agency for the
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THE PRESS FOR THE NEWS-ONLY f 1.50 PER YEAR
to:
going
give away
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Athena, Okegon
AT?
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wmter, C F, BULFINCII,
....Agent for Dement Bros.
Northwest. He writes
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