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ATHENA, ORE., AUGUST...... 7, 1906
The consumptive power of this
country is enormous and indications
point to tbe faot tbat it in steadily
overtaking production. Though last
year's wheat crop was abig oue.it is al
ready practically , consumed, and
when tbe new crop reaches tbe market
clean bins will await it everywhere.
Tbe northwest stock represented about
oue half of the visable' supply two
mouths ago, bnt it will all be used up
before tbe products of the present
harvest have appeared in the principal
grain centers. From this it would
seem tbat we do not have to look far
into tbe future to see the wheat of
tbe Inland Empire gronnd into flour
instead of exporting the wheat for
milling purposes. Wbeo tbe time
comes it will be belter for all con
cerned. Senator Pettns of Alabama, 86 years
old, lawyer, soldier, politician, says if
ho bad to live his life over again be
would chose tbe "high calling of a
farmer." Tbe drift of tbe young
man is always from the farm ; it is
difficult for them to soe its attractions,
but as they grow old and have en
gaged in the struggle for wealth or
pluoo or for mere subsistence in other
occupations, I be independence of the
farmer's life appeals to them greatly.
This yearning o f the elderly for rural
existence ns the ideal condition is a
sou timeut so common as to bo almost
universal. It is the working of a
primal impulse drawing man back to
tbe soil whence he came.
We have seen several comments on
the death, characteristics and accumu
lated for tuuo of Russell Sage. The
list wonld bo incomplete without this
oue, from tbe Pilot Rook Record:
"Ilussoll Sugo loft every dollar of
bis fortune to Mrs. Sage. Not a dol
lar was loft to charity or to auy of his
poor relations. Tbe fortune is osti
um tod at 100,000,000. The body of
the dead millionaire was bbipped to
Troy, JNew York, where it was buriod
in Oak wood cemetery, boside that of
his first wife. Evidently ho died with
out wartiiug, otherwise ho would have
walked to Troy in order to save rail
road fare."
Tree peddlers are entitled to take
high rank among tbe champion liars.
Oue of them is telling guileless Keu
tuckiaus tbat bis nursery buds au Octo
ber pcaob seedling, which onuses them
to bloom late, escaping cold saps and
lato frosts. Tbe story would work
bettor if it were not to well kuowu
that tho bloomiug of trees is regulated
.Bucks Steel
Thole's u constantly increasing demand for somothiug oheuper thau a
steel .range which will ptosorve its good qualities. Tbe Buck's people
have therefore, coustiuctcd a lino of Cooks with steel bodies aud oust top,
doors, and bane. It is a novelty which is making mauy friends. It heats
up quickly aud will do tbe work of a flue stool range in a satisfactory
niuuuei.
Tbe Steel Cook grows popular as it becomes more familiar. What
Hoetnod to bo a radical departure at first glauce becomes a sorvicable and
natural couipiualiuu of runge aud stove, aud has many good points. It is
made of the same material which is used iu making Buck's Steel Ranges,
which are conoodod to be the loading ranges of the world. .Nothing is
slighted. , The same careful fitting aud mounting is employed and every
twieiitiUo tost has boon made to prove that tho dimensions of flues aud
fire-box are iu proper proportion, tbat tbe requisite strength is put where
ever doniauded. We are very much pleased with its operation in baking.
The combination is perfect the oven beats quickly aud a surprisingly small
quantity of fuel is used. Tbe grate is a combination duplex, coal or wood
grate, whioL can be takeu out without disturbing the linings orjwater
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from tbe bottom and not the "top.
Wood should make note of this. 1 It
will be of value to him when tbe
time comes for him to transplant bis
sage brush shoots.
After all, it was perhaps better tbat
Foster Dwight Coburn decided not to
waste himself on tbe United States
Senate. He can do more good writing
instructive books for tbe farmers,
telling them how to raise alfalfa and
do other useful things. Bis talents
and energies will best be displayed by
continuing to advertise tbe resources
of his own great state of Kausas and
tbe vast possibilities of the southwest
along agricultural lines.
The Press is in receipt of an interest
ing communication which deals with
race suicide, but inasmuch as tbe
writer neglected tbe common, though
necoessary practice of placing his or
her signature to it, we exrecise tbe
privilege of not publishing it If the
writer prizes.his or her literary effort
sufficiently to come forward and sign
the manuscript in the presence of the
editor the article will be given space
otherwise nit
Several Indian reservations arc to
be opened for sottlemeut this year,
notabl among tbem being the Sho
shone reservation in western Wyoming
along Wind river. The extension of
irrigation is 'adding greatly to the
farming resources of the Rooky
Mountaiu States, and thousands of
new homes are being established every
year.
"An Oregon apple recently sold for
f 5. At this rate the Apple Consumers'
League will have to go a little slow,"
is the way the American Farmer tells
it . Skookum price for tbe apple, but
a good investment from an advertis
ing standpoint.
Tbe President is something of a
muck-raker himself. May the forks
of bis rake, as well as its handle,
hold ont in strength until he has
turned up tbe whole foul mess to tbe
sunlight and tbe public gaze.
Perhaps tho drastic investigation of
tho sansage faotories will shed light
on the mystery long botheiing Chicago
women as to what becomes of tbeir
pet poodles.
Tbe Chicago cow that swallowed a
stick of dynamite probably had de
signs to bull the milk market.
FAIRY TALKS IS SCHOOL.
Spokesman-Review.
A novel course of instruction has
been adopted in the vacation schools
in Chicago and one wbioh is not
likely to meet with the approval of
mauy thoughtful persons. A young
woman has been engaged by the board
of educutiou to tell tbe little children
stories abont furies, giants, dragons,
witohes and mythical pri licenses. It
is announced that tbe object is to
"turu the miud of tho children ftom
tho street and divert them into
realms where tbe flat buildings are
built of pink iuiugs aud gingerbread,
aud whore tun fuiry prince kills the
dragon aud bears tho fairy princess
away."
The young woman who has been
engaged for this delightful task is
naturally an enthusiast It is related
that she made the members of tbe
board firmly believe in fairies when
they heard her tell fairy stories to a
room full of ohildrou. "I never mora
lize," she says, "and sometimes I tell
tho creepy kind of stories which some
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people disapprove of, but I believe tbey
are good for children."
, There is a grave reason in doubt
whether tbe"oreepy kind"or any other
kind of mythical stories are good for
children. Many parents of the present
day object strongly to having their
children taught in this kind of lore.
They feel that it gives tbe little ones
fanciful ideas not beneficial to a prop
er development of tbeir minds. Ad
vocates of fairy tales argue tbat the
imaginative faoultiea are encouraged
and there is no doubt tbey are, but
there is generally quite enough of im
agination in the average youthful
mind, and whatever help is given
to its development might better be in
channels where faot and truth were
not entirely disregarded. The child
is seldom taught at the same time
tbat the fairy story is simply matte
believe. The knowledge comes later
and a distrust is created in regard
to tales based on facts.
The imagination has been distorted
rather than developed. False impres
sions have been implanted in the
mind and tbe germs sown which are
likely to breed a foundness for light
and frivoeons literature instead of
tbat wbioh will improve tbe intellect
8UKE ENOUGH SUA SKRPENT.
Chicago Tribune.
English scientists are discussing
with lively interest a sea serpent seen
and sketched off Para, Brazil, by E.
B. Meade aod M. J. Nicoll, well
known English naturalists, who de
scribed the creature at. a recent meet
ing of the Zoological Society in
London. Tbe naturalists were stand
ing on the deck of the yacht Valhalla
at 10 A. M., when they were attract
ed by a soil-like object some four feet
long and two feet high, waving from
side to side iu tbe water. Wbon they
turned their glasses on the object there
appeared a huge eel-like neck, some
six feet long and as thick as a man's
theigh. This neck was surmounted by
a great turtle-like head, with large
eyes. After a few minutes the head,
which had stood out of tbe water, as
if its owner was inspecting tbe ship,
was lowered to the level of the sea
and violently lashed from side to side,
churning the sea into a great sheet of
foam.
During tbe following night the ob
ject was seen again, this time by the
lookout and the officers of tbe deck.
It was then traveling in tbe same
direction as tbe ship, but going faster,
tbe ship being under a speed of only
8 1-3 knots. ,
Tbe description of the cretaure tal
lies with the sea serpent seen by the
officers of tbe British warship Deadalns
in 1848. That serpent exposed its
whole length of 60 feet on the surface.
The meeting of the Zoological Society
which heard Messrs Meade and
Niooll's account is described as "lis
tening with breathless excitement,"
and tbe member who writes an ac
count of the meeting for a London
paper concludes with the statement:
"Seriously, we can no longer regard
tbe sea serpent as a myth."
THE DALI.K8 MILITARY 1IOAU.
Baker City Herald.
It U said of tbe United States Gov
ernment that it is most particular.
This may be true in cmull things aud
w here sertaiu individuals are con
cerned, but when it comes to a big
steal tbe United States Government
is a howling infant One of the most
glaring examples of 'his kind is tbo
pseudo military read constructed from
Tbe Dalles to Bosie City. Tbe com
pany constructing tbe blazed trail re
oeived from the Government tbe moct
valuable timber aud grazing land iu
tbat section of the State of Oregon.
And tbey gave absolutely nothing in
retnru. Not eveu a road. There is
no Dalles military road. It was nev
er built and never will be, but tbe
oompany has tbe deed to tbe lands.
The road is one of tbo most humor
ous things of these Government con
tracts. It runs from the summit of the
John Day pass direotly across the
mountains, along a route that a
paokhorse cannot travel. There is no
semblance of a road. The trees are
not eveu cut, ' beiug merely blazed.
The road used by the company "build
ing" this military road is a county
road aud is today tbe' only road
through tbat section of the country.
Tbe Dalles military rond is marked
by bliizrd troos aid that is till.
Bat tUf eompauy pot every odd sec
tiou for a distanoe of three iriles on
either id' of tlii-i loud, and wtiere
there was I tud already settled upon
the eompauy got liou-laud script and
took up all the good land in the Logau
Valley, Summit Valley., Crane Valley
aud iunumerablo othot rich sections.
And now this eompauy owns this
laud absolutely aud even charges
sheep aud cattle men for crossing it to
get to the pasture land iu the forest
reserves. There are two absolute
idiots iu the United States Govern
ment Adniiuis'ration. Oue is the mau
who accepted the Dalles military road,
aud the other is tho man who is re
sponsible for the forest reserve policy.
Tbe first belongs to the penitentiary
and the otbor should be in an insaue
asylum.
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