The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, February 06, 1906, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextAN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. TwiOE-A-WlEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY r. B. Boyd, Publisher. Entered itecon d.class matter, March 1, 1904, at the poitofflce at Athena, Oregon, under an Actol Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription ftataa: I'er year, In advance 12.00 Slngleeople In wrapper!, So. Advertising Tlata! Uci reading notice, Bntlniertlon.lOcper ne. Biob. subsequent Insertion, 5c. Ml communication! should be addressed to i PRK88 Athena, Oregon ATHENA. FEBRUARY 6 1906 Congress is contemplating repealing tbe law which provides for the pur chase of timber land under tbe stone aot, for tbe reason that tbe timber syndicates of the country have been abusing tbe law and gaining tbe con trolling interest in all the large timber areas. Tbe remedy proposed is to have the value of tbe timber ap praised by government employes and then sold at auction to tbe highest bidder, at price not less than tbe appraised value, tbe land to be retain ed by tbe government. The new re medy may be better than the old law bat there will still be plenty of room for jobbery. John Temple Graves, editor of tbe Atlanta, Qa., News, is a candidate for the U. S. senate, bnt tbe court enjoined bim from using his news paper for advancing bis own candi dacy. , Tlat is government by injunc tion sure enough. The business man ager of tbe News secured tbe injunc tion. Buyolog is tbe science of knowledge where to buy ' goods to tbe best ad vantage, and the art of patronizing the borne merchant It is an inter esting study and buyologioal students learu lnnoh by reading tbe ads. in locul newspapers. Ten years ago how we would have smiled at tbe imaginative novelist who described a ship steaming twenty knots an hour, 300 miles from laud, keeping in constant communication with a point 1100 miles distant! A ploy is to be brought out iu New York with John D. Rockefeller and Ida M. Tarbell as two of tbe principal characters. Let us hope, iu the in terest of prosperity, that there may be no wig pulliug. Walter Pierce, joint senator from Umatilla, Union and Morrow coun ties, has announced that be will again be a oundidate for the primary elec tion for the nomination on tho demo cratic ticket. They have recently finished thresh ing ououmbers in Nebraska. No, you arn't expected to smile. Is it possible yon don't know cucumbers are raised for seed and the seeds extraoted by nmcbiuery? Such iguorauce! Chuuncey Depew says he can't un derstand why the newspapers are in clined to ridicule hiiu. Evidently Cbauucoy's understanding upparatus U not iu good repair. Mail your urder-t to us right now A ml we will vmltrnvur to bundle them so I ntelli igently and Send us Your L ong list of pleased and satisfied customers. rders sent us eceive careful R D E epartmeuts, whose business it is to see that verything you order is carefully Bhipped. R emember that we handle your largest and -S mallest orders with equal care. Use Our Rest Rooms THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 13 14 16-18 20-22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, :- WASH. Kalamazoo, having a monopoly on all the mint, should hasten to make an alliance with Kentucky, which has the other end of the combination. "' They "say Kansas corn cobs make good Vermont maple syrup, such is adulteration's artful aid. It's gen erally made in Chicago. That Minnesota boy who has bad 4000 bits of rock taken out of his body mnst have bad almost as much fan as if he had played football. The president has tackled' a few difficult jobs, bat preserving Niagara Falls from the commercial vandals will try all bis metal. "Russia's year of unrest" is entirely too mild a description. "Russia's year of looping tbe loop" would come closer to the facta. Doubtless the Grand Dukes have it in for Witte because be baa brains. The contrast must be very embarrass ing. ' George Bernard neither shaves nor wears a collar. Some day be may attempt to start a new religions sect. . HOW THE BOYCOTT SPBKlD. T. F. Millard in Scribner's. Tbe chief agency employed in tbe extension of the Chinese boycott agi tation was, naturally, publicity. Several channels were used; news papers, placards, and cartoons being the prinoipal ones. In the course of several months hundreds of thousands of placards, pamphlets and pictorial circulars were circulated throughout tbe empire. I have seen a large num ber of these publications. Some were amusing, some interesting and some alarming. The cartoons usually rep resented a Chinese being maltreated by a white man, presumably an American, although no particular pains were taken to preserve national identities in many of them. How these posters were circulated was at first hard to discover. Naturally, tbe provincial and local officials were anxious to keep their skirts clear, fearing retribution in some form, and pretended to, and in many instances did prohibit tbe distribution of boy cott ciroulars and cartoons. But a convenient agency was found. Within tbe last few years thousands of Japanese, many of them Buddhist priests, have gone to China and are now scattered to tbe remotest parts of tbe country, where other foreigners are seldom, if ever, seen. Some esti mates place the number of these Jap anese now in China as high as 50, 000, although probably this is a mere guess. However, it is certain that thousands of Japanese tradesmen and commercial agents have settled in various remote parts of tbe empire, adopting tbe life of tbe people and often their dress. Sinoe other for eigners are not permitted to live or engage in bnsiuess out side tbe treaty ports, it will be perceived that con siderable present and prospective com mercial advantage promises to aocrne through this condition, which will not be shared by other nations. Dis missing this phase'of the matter, there is good reason to believe that these Japanese were instrumental in fur thering tbe circulation of the boycott propaganda. In faot, many instances wbere they did so are positively known. As time passed and reports of the spread of the movement in tbe interi or began to reach tbe foreign popu lation centers, it beoame known that many of tbe placards and cartoons circulated outside the established sphere of foreign contact were of an absolutely incendiary obaracter, couched in tbe same general anti-for. eigu spirit that the "boxer" movemeut took root in. Turning to purely international evi dences of tbe awakening of China, promptly that you will be on our by mail invariably attention by the heads of Make Your appointments Here tbey may be fonndj on every side. And while foreign and quasi-foreign influence will be deeply felt in tbe forthcoming transformation, the fun damental factors are to ' be found in tbe people and country ; for whatever political manifestations attend tbe evolution, these will always remain tbe chief elements with which they mus': be worked oat After several visits to China, and observations with the association with them in peace, internal disorder and war, I confess to a sincere liking and admiration of the Chinese people. This is no sudden or sentimental impression, bat rather one which has evolved gradually from an originally adverse predisposition. ' In so far as any general characteristics can be associated with a race it seems to me tbe Chinese are industrious, re liable, law-abiding, good-humored, capable, and tolerant These are good qualities, and intelligently di rected in the path of modern progress cannot fail to accomplish great re sults. In the prevalent western concep tion of tbe Chinese there are, I think, several radical errors. One is that they are adverse to modern improve ments; another that they have no military capacity ; another that they are incapable of playing a significant part in the political regeneration of tbe nation, owing to the absence of a national spirit Without pausing to discuss these propositions in detail, I will ask if these things could not have been said, with a considerable sem blance of truth, about Japan half a century ago? And tbey were no more true of tbe Japanese people then than they are of the Chinese people today. The Chinese as a people have never been averse to modern progress, ex cept as their government has incited them to be, and used its authority and influence to keep them as tbey were. And this is true, I think, of the history of all peoples. Take the matter of railroads in China. For many years, or so long as the official classes circulated among tbe people fantastio reports about the foreign steam monsters, so long as they were taught to believe that tbe passage of a railway would be a desecration of the graves of their ancestors, tbe people were bitterly hostile to the building of such roads and were easily incited to attack surveying parties and the like. SWAYING OF COURTS. . Portland Oregonian. Tbe machinery of the law as it stands seems inadequate to deal with combinations like Standard Oil and beef trust. Several reasons may be imagined which partly acoount for tbe impotence of tbe law to restrain or control these dangerous and un scrupulous combinations. Their en ormous wealth makes them masters of the best lawyers in tbe country, for one thing, while the small salaries paid by the public naturally secure only second or third class ability; though to this rule there are notable exceptions. Mr. Hadley, attorney general of Missouri, for example, seems both able and loyal. Courts are swayed in tbe long rnn to the opinion of the ablest lawyers who practice before them. This may not happen in one year or five, but if a long line of very powerful attorneys consistently and .unremittingly argue that a certain thing is law, in the end tbey will win over the court and make it law. This has been tbe case with the trusts. They have succeeded fin ally in gaining an interpretation favorable to themselves of almost every existing statute and legal prin ciple. They have even reversed the plain intent of legislation directed agains them and made it tell in their favor. One is almost driven to be lieve that it makes little difference what legislation may be enacted re garding tbe trusts; tbey will obtain court decisions in tbeir own interest, no matter what laws may pass. The impotence of the courts to deal with the great corporation magnates is illustrated by Attorney General Hadley's experience with H. H. Sog ers, of tbe Standard Oil trust No one has forgotten Rogers' contemp tuous aud flippant refusal to answer tbe questions put to bim iu tbe suit to oust tbe trust from Missouri. Hid cynical impertinence surpassed tbe ordinary limits of millionaire scorn for tbe law and became for a day or two tbe wouder of the nation. Mr. Hadley appealed to the supreme court of New York to compel Rogers to answer, sinoe tbe proceedings were held in that state. Tbe result of bis appeal surprises nobody, for tbe way of a court with a trust magnate is always easy to predict An excuse was found for declining to compel Rogers to answer the question. No matter what the excuse was, it served his purpose Any other wonld have done as well. The important part is that the supreme court of New York sustains the Standard Oil man in big contempt for the law. Contempt is contagions. Mr. Rog ers thinks the courts are unworthy of respect The courts themselves seem to confirm his opinion. What is left for the rest of us but to agree with them? And when we all feel for the law the same contempt that Rogers does, what will become of the Stand ard Oil dividends? Public Notice. Notice Is hereby Riven that I will apply to the Mayor and common council of the city ot Athena, Oregon, at x meeting tnereof to be held on the '7th day of Kelt. MM, (or a license to sell nplrictious, malt and vtnou liquors tn lean qiu.utith, (linn one quart, swld liquors to be sold only in a building situated on the west one-hair of lot No. H, In block &, of said city. Bert CartHOO, Itoted Jan. SB, 1908, Applicant. To Cera CoiiKtipation Fore. fake C-.ufca-ets Camiy Cathartic. 10c or SSo. U O. C fail 19 euro, druysulv refund wuaex DANQER AVERTED. If a mar. should cross a deadly snake In his pathway, lie would quickly crush It bcnoatli hi heel before it could sink its p ionoiis fangs Into his flesh. Ho would n t Kt ) out of the way and temporize with the danaor- ous rouillo. And A. 1 1 li i M yet how many people are there who temporize with a still mora deadly enemy consumption. Like a silent serpent, it glides along almost unnoticed. First a cold, or sore throat, then a slight cough, then catarrh, then bronchitis, then bleeding from the lungs and finally death. The way to crush out the threatening evil is to fortify the system and purify the blood with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Every weakness and abnormal condition that precedes consumption is cured by this non-alcoholic remedy. At the first sl&n of derangement of stomach, liver and blood, look out! It is only a question of time until the lungs will be attacked through the impure blood, and then the danger will be most deadly. It should be known to every sick person that Dr. R. V. Pierce will give carefully considered, fatherly, professional advice by mail to all who write him at Buffalo, N. Y. No charge or foe of any nature is asked. Mr. Moses Ilorner. of Stahlstown, Penn't, writes: "Lust fall I took a severe cold (the result of wet feet) and ihls brought on ca tarrh and bronchitis which lasted all winter. I used three bottles of I)r. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and two or three vials of the "Pleasant Pellets," also one package of Ir. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. I am now cured. Many thanks to you." An honest dealer will not try to per suado you to take a worthless substi tute in place of the "Golden Medical Discovery " for the sake of a little added profit. siooo ssrws $30.00 We pay three'per cent interest on i certiticates or Deposits lor amounts of f 5 and upwards, and the money may be withdrawn any time. This is a state bank, incorporated under tbe laws of the State of Washington, with a capital of $100,000. Tbe stock holders are also liable for $100,000 additonal, making $200,000 standing between onr depositors and any pos sible loss. Wrtie or call and see us. ELAH'S BANK, WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON. THE PALACE DRUG STORE r VM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor. South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. You know your doctor is all right, but bow about the tilling of prescriptions? Our Prescriptions are precisely as the doctor ordered nothing more, nothing less and always exactly right. THE WRIGHT LIVERY AND FEED STABLE COOD HORSES AND RIM REAJQHA3LE PRICES DRIVER FURNIviiLO WHEN DESIRED- Horses boarded by Hie day, week or month Htables on 2nd street, South of Main street f. F. Wright, - Proprietor- If You WANT CASH For Your REAL ESTATE YOU CAN GET IT. No matter where your property is located or what it is, I have the ability aud the facilities to sell your property. That is why I have the largest Real Estate busiuess iu "Walla Walla today. Why not put your property among the number that will be listed and sold as a result of my advertising? I will not only sell it, sometime, bnt be able to sell it quick ly. I am a specialist in quick sales. If you want to buy any kind of a farm, home or business in any part of the country, tell me yonr requirements. I guarantee to fill them promptly and satisfactorily. Andy T. Cope Walla Walla. LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME. wMimmm iAT11ENA- - oregon. I til' WA:' Tjtysf'-ISk r : ' AI i ' : -VC - - ,4 PARKER . "-Q- i .i'v . ,e:W -.V 'i I Claw - Jin ilrrn Tba- COMMERCIAL LIVERY, FEED and SALE STABLE. Best Turnouts In Eastern Oregon Stock Boarded by the Day, Week or Month KING BROTHERS Prep fO seasonable CONTRACTING Hereafter I will engage in Contracting and building in all its branches. I am in a position to carry on this line of business in a thorough and satisfactory manner, in connection with my Lumber Yard. I will employ the best workmen money can secure, and before you let your cod tract it will pay you to get my figures. ... A. M. CILLIS, PROPRIETOR, GILLIS LUMBER THE Peebler & Chamberlain Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co. Agricultural Implements WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES, MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC. '""'' i .', . iTiS-' I Hiid I'u-t.. -.Intel Umatilla Lumber Yard Ed Barrett, Manager , ' : ; Building Material Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Paper, Building Paper, Brick, etc. Special inducements on orders for carload lots. Fence posts in quantities to suit. Roslyn Coal, Puget Sound Wood CONTRACTING. ESTIMATES FURNISED ON ALL KINDS OF BUILDING ON SHORT NOTIFICATION HENRY KEEK'S .Barber Shop. Shaving, Haircutting, Shampooing, Massage for Face and Scalp. .HOT BATHS. Shop North Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. BLACKSMITH AND REPAIRING SHOP A. II. LUNA, Proprietor. Shop West of King's Barn, Athena. AND BUILDING YARD! CITY .MEAT MARKET C. II. Sherman Prop. Nothing too good for our pat rons. We cut the beet meat money can buy. Fish and oysters in season. Give us a trial. lp' v S0UTH SIDE hm "