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ATHENA, ORE., AUGUST.... 14, 1906
Ttie editor of this paper bus been
named a delegate to tbe National Ir
rigation Cougresa at Boise City. He
smothers bis modosty in making the
announcement tbe aforesaid an
nouncement being made for a purpose.
This high pinnacle of distinction has
been reached by him without any
intrigue whatever. To attain it, be
wasn't oallod on to serve sentence as
a bogas fruit fair direotor as was a
certain Weston editor an office not
carrying eveu tbe emoluments of a
free pass, and whose only reward is to
be kicked ont after paying to get in.
Neither is be weighted down with
badges for bravery, won on a Franklin
couuty battle field, in putting to rout
a gang of Chinese section hands for
possession of a tattered blanket and a
bottle of sarsaparilla, but the Press
man will ride to Boise in a Pullman,
and at every station the train may
stop, will pass to tbe rear, and glee
fully peering into a cattle car trailing
bohiud the train, will irrigate a cer
tain individual with a buoket of ice
water. We'll teach him a few things
about irrigation be is not aware of,
and if be survives the tutelage, be
may amount to something besides fail
ure with a hole in it.
This one is from Knasas, too: "In
ovety newspaper we pick np we're sore
to find a lot of gush about tbe man
behind the counter and the, man be
hind the gnu; the man behind the
buzz saw and the man behind tbe sou;
tbe man bohiud the times and the man
bobind his reuts; tbe uiau behind tbe
whistle and tbe man behind tbe oars;
tbe man behind tbe kodak and the
man behind tbe burs; tbe man behind
bis whiskers and tbe man hehiud bis
lists; aud everything bobind has en
tered ou the list. But they've skipped
another fellow of whom nothing is
said, tbe fellow who is eveu or a little
way ahead; who pays for what he
gets, whose bills are always signed.
He's a blamed sight more iinportuut
I bun the man who is behind. All we
cdilois and merchants, and tbe whole
commercial oluu ate indebted for our
existence to this bouost fellow ninu.
He keeps us all in business and his
town is never doud;aud so we take
our huts off to tbe man who is abend.
Oregon farmers, who resort to
irrigation, will be deeply interested
iu a 80-puge circular just issued by
tbe Department of Agriculture, enti
tled "Investigations of Irrigation
Practice in Oregon." The booklet is
written by A. P. Stover, irrigation
eugiueor, who spent lust seusou iu
Oregon, muking a study of irrigation
us it is practiced, so us to And ont
tbe errors that have been made aud
gather data which would bo helpful
iu instructing tho irrigators how to
avoid the mistakes of the past. The
report is not as comnroheusive as
might bo desired, but contains a great
many valuable suggestions and is
worth tbe perusal of every farmer who
is obliged to artihoially water bis
lauds.
Canada oan not be noeused of il
liberality iu doaliug with its Indians.
A now treaty with the Indians of Al
boit aud Saskatchewan grants thorn
oue tenure mile of territory for each
family of live .while those who pre
for to live saporate from the band will
be granted 160 acres each.
With 4000 or oven 1000 Iluniman
freight cars tied up at Sau Frauoisco
tbe annual lull oar shortuge will be
felt more severely thau ever on Oregon
lines. There will be a cry from every
quarter, south and north, for oars
for tnoviug tbe crops, aud tbe opera
ting department of the Southern Pa
cific aud Union Paoiflo systems will
bo in hot water tor the next three
months, unable to satisfy their pa
trons. Every empty car that is sent to
one point will be demanded at 100
others. Should early rains set in this
fall, troubles will be much augment
ed. Erection of more private ware
bouses at all shipping points in tbe
Paciflo northwest is said to be tbe
only immediate resource of tbe pro
ducers and shippers.
Tbe Walla Walla servant girl who
left a Captain's family to work for a
Lieutenant's wife was plainly unfitted
for a military life. She upset the
whole scheme of Army post ethics,
wbiob are that a Captain's wife is a
little better socially than a Lieuten
ant's, a Major's than a Captain's,
and so on; in other words, the older
ladies are tbe better, which is as it
should be. Tbe war Department
might avoid further trouble of a sim
ilar kind by excluding domestic ser
vants altogether from military reser
vations. Portland Oregonian.
Tbe merchants who are running tip
against catalogue bouse competition
should adopt the same system with
customers who divide their allegiance.
Tbe man who buys part of bis goods
from big mail-order bouses who
handle retail goods should be com
pelled to pay cash betore delivery,
freight and other things which he
does in order to'seouro things from the
big city. If tbe catalogue bouse is
your competitor, then enter ou tbe
campaign with it on equal terms.
A Kentucky paper says tbut nearly
all tho young men down there who
will come of age this year are demo
orats. In the case of Mr. Bennett,
republican, who is a candidate for
reelection to congress, this is impor
tant, if true.
Now is about the time to scan tbe
Eastern papers for the picture of the
winsome young man who basset out to
convince Mrs. Sage that $100,000,000
is really too much for a lone widow to
look after. .
INVITING COMMERCIAL ISOLATION.
. Portland Oregouiao.
Oue of tbe largest wheat-exporting
firms iu tbe Paciflo Northwest has
just received notioe that a reciprocal
treaty is about to be conoluded be
tween tbe Australian and Sontb Afri
can governments by which wheat will
be udmitted from British territory to
South Africa at 4 cents per 100 pounds
less thau from the American Paoiflo
Coast. This firm as well as other
firms in tbe same line of business has,
in tbe past, shipped a great many
cargoes of Oregon and Washington
wheat to South Africa, at times wheu
the European market was unsatis
factory. The proposed discriminating
duty will bo sufficient to close the
doors of the South African importers
against us and our wheat will natural
ly be forced to other a nd, not infre
quently, less profitable market?. The
incident, by itself, may not be of Na
tional importauoe, but as it illustrates
tbe steadily growing feeling of re
seutment against the commercial
polioy of the United States, it is in
teresting. Tbe trade aud good wishes of South
Africa uiuy not be of sufficient
value to cause any particular uneasi
ness over its loss, but it is the general
application of the Amerioau etaudput
polioy that is piling up trouble for us.
Germany, after repeated efforts to se
cure a satisfactory reciprocal trade
arruugemeut with this country, has
finally refused to graut us as advan
tageous duty rates on our products as
it extends to tbe "favored nations"
with which reciprocal tariff relations
were established last winter.
Amerioa is rapidly progressing to a
poiut where it cannot sell anything
to a foreign country so long as it is
possible to seoure the purchasable
commodity elsewhere. By adhering
to this piincipal it is only a question
of time uutil the United States will be
commercially isolated.
It a foreign customer of American
goods is desirous ofselling something,
tbe disposal of whioh will increase
his purchasing power, weprooeed to
bumper the oporatiou with obstructive
laws whioh tend to doorcase tbe profits
and increase to the American con
sumer the cost of commodity whioh
the foreigner offers. Under suoh
cirouuistauoes, it is, of course, foolish
to expect uuytbiug like pleasant busi
ness relations with foreign buyers and
sellers, aud foreigners quite naturally
turn to some other country where they
oau rooeive the same treatment they
are disposed to exteud to the others.
The United States is now harvesting
an euormous wheat crop, said to be
the largest on record. There is, of
course, uo market in this country for
all of this wheat, and approximately
300,000,000 bushels must find market
abroad. South Africa, which iu the
past has been a good purobasor, has
put up a bar whioh places that mar
ket out of our reach, aud Germany,
which also has frequently imported
quantities of Ameiioau wheat, is en
forcing some of tbe same kind of
protective tariff of which we have
been making a specialty.
The worst feature of the polioy of
trade reptessiou lies iu tbe fact that
it is ono of our own creation. We can
make uo valid pi o test aguiust the
aotiou of the foreign countries in giv-
,
ingour, trade competitors an advantage
over us, for we have by our own laws
alienated our prospective purchasers
and incurred an ill will whioh it will
require years of fair treatment to
remedy. Unless we correct this evil,
and, at least partially, apply tbe
golden rule to our business transac
tions with foreign countries, we will
shortly find our foreign trade confined
striotly to lines in which we have
an invincible advantage.
KEEPING THEIR MONEY AT HOMK
Spokesman Review
Tbe Pullman boosters, officially
know as tbe "Pull for Pullman" club,
are taking up a unique proposition,
tbe development of whioh will be
watched with interest. It appears
that about 60 per cent of the building
occupied by for business purposes in
that city are owned by nonresidents
to whom a large amount of money
in rentals is annually going out. Tbe
scheme under consideration is to keep
this money at home by organizing
a stock company to purchase tbe
buildings.
As a business proposition it bas
much to commend it, irrespective of
tbe motive back of it If tbe owner
ship of the buildings is a profitable
investment for the present owners it
ought to be equally so for tbe com
pany. The profits now made by the
individual outside owners would go to
the shareholders in tbe shape of divi
dends on their stock. If a sufficient
number of shares can be subscribed
to put the deal through there seems
to be no good reason why it should not
be an advantageous one.
Tbe main idea, however, is to keep
the money at home and to give tbe
citizens a more direct and financial
interest in tbe welfare and develop
ment of tbe city. Pullman is now no
different from hundreds of other
cities in wbioh ontside capital is in
vested. Iu some respects it bas been
argued there is a distinct advantage
in these foreign investments, in that
they create a wider interest in the
commercial development of the place.
Yet the tendency everywhere is to
encomage looal investment and there
can be no question that the resul's
are beneficial.
The "Pull for Pullman" club is
one of the most alert and energetio
of tbe various organizations of tbe
kind in tbe Inland Empire. It may be
assumed that if tbe plan now under
consideration is proved feasible it will
reach a speedy consummation.
The olub is also showing its readi
ness to seize upon any opportunity to
profitably advertise Pullman in its
decision to send to tbe G. A. B.
national euoampment at Minneapolis
pamphlets and samples of "grain to
make more widely known tbe resources
of tbe city and surrounding country.
The idea is a good one and will doubt
less produce good results.
Deadly Surpent Bites.
are as common in India as are stom
ach and liver disorders with us For
the latter however.thore is a sure rem
edy : Elootrio Bitters; the great restor
ative medicine, of whioh S.A. Brown,
of Beunettsville, S. C, says: "They
restored my wife to perfect health,
after years of suffering with despepsia
and ohronioally torpid liver." Elec
trio Bitters cure chills and fever, ma
laria, biliousness, lame back, kidney
troubles and bladder disorders. Sold
on guarantee by Wru. McBride, drug
gist Prcei BOo.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, tbere bas been submitted
to tbe electors of tbe State at tbe last
genoral election as required by law an
initiative petition for a proposed amend
ment to Section 1 of artiole XII of tbe
Constitution of the State of Oregon,
to allow the state printing, binding
aud printer's compensation to be -regulated
by law at any time, and
Whereas, on the 25th day of June,
1906, the Secretary of State in my
presonoe as Governor of the State of
Oregon did oanvass the voters given
for and against said proposed amend
ment, and
Whereas, it was ascertained and
determined upon such oanvass that
there were 63,719 votes cast for said
proposed amendmout to tbe Constitu
tion, and 9,571 votes oast against tbe
same, and that said proposed amend
ment reoeived an affirmative majoiity
of the total number of effective votes
oast thereon and entitled to be counted
under the provision of law,
Now, Therefore, I, George E. Cham
berlain, as Governor of the State of
Oregon, in obedience to and by virtue
of the power aud authority vested in
me bylaw, do hereby make and issue
this proclamation to the people of tbe
State of Oregon and do announce aud
doolare that the whole number of
votes oast in tbe State of Oregon at
said election for and agaiust said pro
posed amendment was as hereinbefore
stated, and that said proposed amend
ment reoeived au affirmative major!
ty of tbe total number of votes cast
thereon and entitled to be counted un
der provisions of law, and that said
ameudment bereiu before mentioned
shall and is in full force and effect as
a part of the Constitution of the State
of Oregou from the date of this proc
lamation. Done at the Capitol this S5th day of
Juue, A. D. 1906.
Geo. E. Chamberlain,
Governor of Oregon.
By the Governor: .
F. I. Dunbar,
Secretary of State.
(Seal)
Foley's Honey and Tar
cures colds, prevents pneumonia.
READ AND YOU WILL LEARN
That ths loading medical writers and
teacher of all the several Ki-liools of
practice endorse and recommend, fn tho
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of Dr. Pierce's Golden .Mrcliral Discovery
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lege; Prof. Jlare, of tho Univ. of Pa.;
Prof. Kinley Ellingwood, M. 1)., of Ben
nett Med. College, Chicago ; Prof. John
King, M. 1)., lute of Cincinnati ; Prof.
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The "Golden Medical Discovery" Is the
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chemically pure, triple-retined glycerine
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Tho "Discovery "is a concentrated glyc
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.HOT BATHS.
Shoo North Side Main
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ATHENA.
"Saving at the Spigot
Wasting at the Bung"
It covers more surface,
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