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l be PREBS Athena, Oregon
ATHENA, JUNE 10, 1904
When anyone tells you that this coun
ty belongs politically to the republicans,
just dig up the returns from Monday's
election. The democrats don't own it,
either, but from the official count they
evidently cut some figure in filling
county offices. If the Pendleton Tri
bune can find a grain of comfort in the
legislative portion of the ticket, the
Press is not narrow enough to envy
any solace that the editor of that paper
may derive from it, even though the
East Oregonian put forth its untiring
effort in giving it to him. The "milk of
human kindness" is ofttimes adulterated
with water that even lacks the quality of
purity, and all fairness that a, democrat
ever got from the Tribune or its editor
was either through ignorance or mis
taken identity, parboiled with a retrac
tion. The Strain incident, for instance.
The Salem Journal reads a lecture to
the business men of the capital city that
will apply to those of every other city in
Oregon. It is applicable everywhere. It
says: "Let those who want to see any
thing done about a railroad to Dallas
and about another $2000 state fair purse
i
attend the city hall to hear the propo
sitions, and act. Let us drop long
winded ragchewing. If Salem capital
ists and business men do not want to
take up these matters, well and good,
Let us say to the world, and quit hold
ing out the idea that we are prepared to
consider such things. . Newspaper talk
and speechmaking are at a discount un
less we back them up with action. The
less talk and the more action the better.
Money talks and nothing else will build
railroads or run horse races."
The Argus, a Walla Walla paper, the
existence of which was unknown to us
until a marked copy was sent us the
other day, advises Walla Walla people
when in Athene to keep their hands on
their pocketbooks. Ihe advice which
is given as the result of professional
pickpockets relieving a Walla Walla
carpenter of Lis money while entering a
train here, is to bo heeded, but what
about Athena people who go to Walla
Walla occasionally? Past experience of
Athenaians at the garden city would in
dicate that they would not be consider
ed over cautious it they deposited their
pocketbooks in a bank vault before
leaving home.
The completion of plans for denying
the use of the mails to all newspapers
and magazines carrying objectionable
advertisements is announced from. Wash
ington. All classes of suggestive litera
ture, get-riuh-quick schemes and ques
tionable patent compounds are under
the ban, and postmasters throughout
the couutry will be notified to forward
periodicals giving space to such adver
tisements to the department. Judge R.
Goodwin, attorney general for the post
office department, is to be the censor,
and objectionable matter will be sent to
the Association of American Publishers,
which will notify the newspapers that at
a given date the advertisement cannot
appear. v
An Illinois insane asylum will try to
cure its patients by having them play
baseball. Well, baseball has turned a
good many people's beads, and possibly
it will serve to restore their reason.
The Dalles Times-Mountaineer gives
it straight from the shoulder when it
says:
'Nebraska democrats have elected
Willium J. Bryan a delegate to the
national convention. That was the
right thing to do. Bryan should have a
Ft at in the national convention and
should be giveu an opportunity to state
his position on party measures, but it
does not follow that he should be allow
ed to dictate the platform or came the
candidate. No one man power should
be tolerated in a democratic convention.
Majority rule is the right idea."
And now Seattle's mayor and chief
of police are threatened with death un
less they cease trying to enforce the
law. No wonder. Seattle has been
such a lawless place so long that it is
not surprising that certain elements ob
ject to being controlled.;
They have decided over in England
that Lhassa must be reached. Col.
Younghusband will therefore continue
to make it lively for the grave diggers
along his line of march.
Mr. Rockefeller says the money he
made when he was a boy did not burn a
hole in bis pocket. It was at a later
-period of his career hat he began to
have money to burn.
A Kansas City man has been enjoined
from seeing his children within forty
eight hours after he has taken a drink.
Such a decree would make some child
ren fatherless.
We trust that the late Herbert Spen
cer's hitherto unpublished letter on war
will be translated into Russian and
Japanese -
Experts test a man's sanity by watch
ing him at a game cf baseball on the
theory, probably, that a man is crazy
then, if ever.
If the Japanese progress as rapidly for
another half century, they will be giving
lessons in civilization themselves.
The summer girl and the sweet gradu
ate are beginning to worry at the slow
ness of the dressmaker.
' TO RETURN BOER BIBLES.
Issuance of British War OflUe Order
with That Object in
View.
The following memorandum by Lord
Roberts has been Issued from the Brit
ish war-office, reports the London Times
of late date: "It has been brought to
the notice of the commander In chief
that, on the conclusion of the recent
war In. South Africa, a large number
of Doer families found, on returning to
their farms, that their family Bibles had
disappeared. It appears that the Boer
inhabitants of the South African col
onies set great store by their family
Bibles, which often contain family rec
ords of some antiquity, and even In some
cases are the only repository of such
records, in consequence of the unavoid
able destruction of church registers.
Lord Roberts feels sure that if any per
son's have In their possession any of
these Bibles they will willingly return
them when they learn how they are val
ued by their former possessors; and he
thinks It unnecessary to emphasize how
much such a kindly act would be ap
preciated by our new fellow-subjects.
He therefore wishes it to be known as
widely as possible among all officers
and soldiers who are now serving, or
have been retired, discharged or rele
gated to the reserve, whether they be
longed to the regular army, auxiliary or
colonial troops, and also among any of
their friends to whom they may have
given them as relics, that Mr. W. H.
Alexander, of 12 Bishopgate Without,
London, E. C, has kindly consented to
receive and dispatch to their owners
any such Bibles which may have been
taken from Boer farms, He feels sure
that the above facts, and the knowledge
that it is his wish that all such relics
should find their way back to their
formerly owners, will be sufficient to in
sure that their present owners, however
much they may value them, will readily
part with them for this purpose."
Knows Kalian Llteratare.
Rev. J. F. Bingham has returned to
his home In Hartford, Conn., after IS
months' absence In Rome and Flor
ence. In the latter he had been occu
pied for the last year in carrying
through the Italian press an extended
work on that literature and written
wholly In that language. It Is pub
lished in Florence by the famous an
cient house of Barblra and in London
by the Oxford University presa. Sr.
Bingham is well known In Italy as
"the learned American Italianista."
Crrlas Shams.
"My, but this is a sad play," remarked
the gtrl In the balcony.
"It certainly la," rejoined her escort
"Why, even the seats are In tiers."
Cinicnnatl Enquirer.
Giaat Grarea at Bosaa.
Die Berliner Post publishes the fol
lowing paragraph: "The cairns, or
giant graves, at Bosau, near Eutin, art
being excavated under the direction of
Prof. Knorr, of the Kiel museum ol
antiquities. One grave has already
been opened up, in which two urns and
a gold bracelet , 12 centimeters in
length, were found. A stone grave,
three meters long and 170 centimeters
wide, containing a skeleton supposed
to be over 3,000 years old. was alsc
laid bare. The work is to be contin
ued, as It is supposed that an ancient
cemetery or place of sacrifice existed
there formerly." ti. irs
Caret Old Sores.
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Second Sam, Minnie M.
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Grand Dam Atlas 2:15j
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Dam of-Pathmont 2:09 (p.) Altao
2KM, grandam Bill Frazer (p) 2:14,
Atlaa 2:154, Trumont 2:21$. Path
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Fourth Dam Sally Come Dp
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AVXVrfAVAA wlft west. He won lirst prise In standard bred class at th walla Walla
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They are Seed & Sons, noted for
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The Steger, musically equal to the
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Whitman College
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ByAltamont 3600- sire of Chehalis
,liM4 Del Norte, 2:08, Ella T. 28,
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Patbmont 2:094', Altao 2:09, and 42
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