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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.
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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.
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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.
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r VM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor.
South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore.
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nothing more, nothing less and
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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. ...
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Fence posts in quantities to suit.
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