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ATHENA, ORE., AUGUST. ...24, 1906
Land oflloe officials toll tis that the
young farmers of Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska, Missouri and Illinois are doiug
most of tbe homeseekiog these days.
Many of them have gone through tbe
apprenticeship as "hired men" and
they are tired ot working for wages.
They want to get laud of their own,
and, what is mote, they can tell good
land when they see it. They know
tbe value of land that will raise three
crops of alfalfa and that will tarn
out enormous crops of almost any
thing tinder tbe magio touch of tbe
water. In many cases the man who
has lived for years in the far west
doesn't realize sharply enough tbe
remarkable capability of the land.
He is looking for a "suap" some
thing that oau be watered with little
expeuse. Bat tbe eastern farmer is
quick to see that almost any of snob
productive laud is a "snap," even if
the question of water is going to be
trou blesome for a year or two. Bo
it is tbe man from the middle west
who is settling up the Rooky Moun
tain states. In a few years, the care
less oowpunobers and sheep herders,
who missed their opportunities, will
be working for the man from the
middle west and wondering why op
portunity passed them by for some
one else.
(Jroat comfort is to be derived from
tbe census figures relative to tbe mor
tality rate for tbe last few years. It
appears from these statistics that tu
boroulosis is oausiug a markedly
smaller porooutago of deaths at preB
eut than formally, indicating a cor
taiu degree of success in the fight
against the "great white plugue"
which is being waged in all parts of
this oountry. The latest calculable
rate of mortality from cousumptiou
was 172.0 per 100,000 of population
In 1800 tbe rate was 2454. This di
minution is likely to ptogre. more
rapidly in ibo future, for moil of the
work of public eduoutiou iu com bat
ting ibe riiaeHHo una beeu do up duiiug
the lust decade, and is largely funda
mental. The good result of the local
piopugmida iu bohalf of clean living,
fresh air, thorough sanitation, aud, to
u oortuiu extout, sogrogutiou of oon
suaiptivos, is just begiuuiug to be
folt. The warfare aguiust consump
tion is proooodiug along two broad
Huoh, prevoutiou uud euro. The for
mer is being waged by both physi
cians nud luymeu, and is tin educa
tional work. The lattur is strictly
Hoieutitlo aud the results are less dis
tinct, booause they are obsorvablo
cbieily by members of the medioal
profession. The real pioblem of
today lies in teaohiug the people
two prime facts that consumption
is ooiumuuioablo and that its com
munication oau bo prevented by the
otworvauco ot oertuiu simple rules of
bygiune and clenuliuess.
Tbe State fish and game laws ate
largoly fatciual, iu that they do uot
preveut to auy considerable degree
uulawful acts, says the Union Repub
lican. The sportsmau who is lacking
iu respect for the laws of his oountry
will be found often doiug things
which tbe law says shall uot be doue,
while the man who is honest with
himself aud seeks to bo a law-abiding
eitiaeu, doos not think of doiug an
uulawful act while bunting. Tbe
iish mid game laws place our spoils
men largely upon their own bouor
while iu the field, and iu cases whore
honor is laokiug, the flsh aud game
, law will be correspondingly violated.
About 40,000 young meu aud
women just graduated from the uni
versities and colleges of the couutry
are uow tonf touted with the question,
"Wlmt are wo to do in life?" Quite
ajait from Ibx the old time "learned
professions" are new fields constantly
being opened by science and indus
trial developments. It will one day
be fouid that scientifio farming baa
attractions for tbe educated man and
country boys who bave received a col
lege eduoation will not all rush to the
cities as they do now. Homely advice
to the beginner, but advice approved
by the test of time, says the New
York Herald, is: Choose the occu
pation for which you bave a natural
bent, or if yon cannot discover this,
an occupation that at any rate is not
distasteful, and be prepared to win
yout way by probity and hard work.
There is no other road to genuine
success.
The republicans of the west are
quietly resolved to renominate Presi
dent Roosevelt, according to Repre
sentative Campbell, of Kansas, who
has been speaking in various western
states, including Illinois, Minnesota
and Nebraska. Mr. Campbell is the
author of the Standard Oil investiga
tion resolution aud is a seuatorial
candidate.
An English periodical, tbe By
stander, says New York's "Four
Hundred" is made up of people who
lack refinement and adds that there is
no such thing as culture iu America.
How our English cousins do love us
when they can use us for their own
profit.
Oue "Curley," said to be more or
less of a desperado, has been warned
by a Durkee vigilance committee to
leave the place, but he declines the
trip aud has asked the v. c. what they
a ro going to do about it. Tbe com
mittee has the floor.
At a oonferenoe of government offi
cials at Chicago it was decided that
John D. Rockefeller would not be
asked to testify before the grand jury
granting immunity to the head of tbe
Standard Oil company.
New Brunswick will make all fire
accident insurance oompanies deposit
with provincial government a sum
guaranteeing the protection of policy
holders' money.
Iu Western Canada there are 800
flour mills, with a total daily capaci
ty of 20,000 barrels, and 1,000 eleva
tors, with a storage oapaoity of 60,
000,000 bushels of grain.
GIVES TILLMAN UETTKlt NAME.
Spokesman Review.
So common is the opinion of Sen
ator Benjamin Tillman as a man of
ferocious mind, a hater of tbe negro,
savage in bis vindiotive utterances
and one whoe name is still used by
some of the people in his own state to
frighten children into obedience, Unit
auy othor view of him must possess
more than ordinary interest. That
there is another and more agreeable
side to bis nature is claimed by Mr.
Thompson, the Washington cot res
poudentof the New York Times, who
asserts that Mr.' TiUuiun "is roally
a good follow, as sensible uud decent
a citizen and as wise a man as one
could wish to meet with; absolutely
sober, temperate, iu every way dooout
aud respectable."
It is probably , Senator Tillman's
misfortune that bo shows bis worst
side to the public From Mr. Thomp
sons showing be is worthy of a much
greater amouut of respect than is gen
erally given him. It is said tbat
be is better loved by tbe negroes in
Washiugtou than any other man. This
must appear strauge to people all over
tbe country who are familiar with his
"shotgun" speeches. "There is uot
a negro who bas ever met him," says
ouo writer, "whose faoe will not light
up wbeu you meutiou Tillman's
name."
As additional evideuoe of the bettor
side of bis uatnre quotutiou is made
from a speech of othor wise fierce in
vective in which be said that Lincoln
was tho greatest figure of the civil
war, aud added: "I, from South
Curoliua, tell you so and feel honored
in doiug it."
That Tillman possesses ability has
beeu demonstrated by bis record iu tbe
senate. If injustice has beeu doue
bim in the popular estimate of hispor
sonal character the Amerioau people
will be williug to rectify the error.
But it will take a good deal of argu
ment by his friends to modify any
material extent the impressions cre
ated by his own publio words aud
actions.
t'OKDS WON'T MAKKV.
New York Suu.
Statistics just issued by Secretary
Arthur E. Hester of tbe Alumni aaso
citttiou of tho Uuiversity of Chicago
show that ot the 1,000 women gtad
uates of the universtiy siuoe its te
establishmeut iu 1893 only 171, or
about 16 per cent nave married.
It is conceded that tbe 214 girls
graduated iu the classes of the last
two years should bave more time, but
the same consideration cannot be giv
eu to those who were graduated be
fore, aud the ofticiala have no satisfac
tory explanation to give for their lack
of iuterest iu matrimony.
This failure of tbe coeds to wed is
not confined to any oue class. In
fact, of the nine women graduates in
1904, the year following the -world's
fair, not one has married.
Tbe officers of tbe university deny
that there is anything in tbe sugges
tion that tbe restrictions at tbe uni
versity against college courting and
engagements between students bas any
thing to do with this showing, nor
do tbey believe that tbe average age
of tbe women graduates bas any effect,
although the statistics show that tbe
average age of tbe women who bave
graduated has been very close to 28,
while the men bave been younger.
Tbe students figure out tbat the fao
ulty regulations bave done more than
anything else to turn the girls' heads
to other matters than matrimony.
Tbey are almost unanimous in declar
ing tbat tbe university authorities
bave plaoed such restrictions on col
lege courting tbat younger girl stu
dents go elsewhere to college.
Tney cite the large number of 'en
gagements at Northwestern university
as proof of this claim.
PRAISE HITCHCOCK'S FLAN.
New York Sun.
Another "wealthy and influential"
citizen of Oregon has been sentenced
to jail for conspiracy to defraud tbe
Government in timber and land deals.
He is a victim of the Hon. Ethan
Allen Hitohoock'a babit of enforcing
the law, a babit that bas caused tbe
utmost uneasiness among tbe high
placed rascals who for years have been
robbing tbe Government without
giving a thought to tbe possibility that
they might be punisLed for their
crimes.
In prosecuting the the timber, and
land thieves tbe Secretary of tbe In
terior bas not boen willing to catch
the little fellows and let tbe principals
escape. He has struck at tbe men
best equipped to defend themselves,
tho meu whose money and plaoe made
them powerful in the oommnnity.
When he began his investigation the
Secretary was smiled at indulgently.
It was predicted ' that be would ac
complish nothing, except perhaps to
jail a few employes and clerks. Mr.
Hitchoock did not talk about bis
plane. He went ahead in the most
oommonplaoe manner, promising noth
ing, threatening nothing. The greater
part of tbe United States knew very
little of what be was about Many of
the men under suspicion were equally
ignorant of what was going foiward.
When tbe time came for criminal
prosecution the completeness and
strength of the evidence that bad been
gathered surprised - tbe aooused as
much as it did the public.
Secretary Hitchcook's method of en
foroing tbe law lacks noise aud seusa
tion, but it produces results. It puts
lawbreakers iu jail. It teaches men
who have considered the statutes a
joke tbat tbey are mistaken. Mr.
Hitchcock continues to be a valuable
publio official.
The Summer Season.
The O. R. & N. will sell round trip
tickets to North Beaoh points, Ilwaoo
to Nahcatla. inolusive and to Seaside
and Clatsop Beaoh, from Athena for
$13.90. Dates of sale June 15, to
August 25, inolusive. Final return
limit Septempber 80.
Church of Christ.
Services every Lord's day.' Bible
school at 10 a. m. j preaobiug at 11;
Y. P. S. C. E. at 7 p. in. j preaobiug
at 8. p. m. Prayer uioetiug on Wed
nesday eveuiug at 8. Tbe publio is
invited to u I tend al! of these services.
V. E. Hoveu, Minister.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, there has been submitted
to the electors of the State ut tbe last
geuetal electiou as required by law au
initiative petition for a proposod ameud
ment to Seotion 1 of article XII of the
Constitution of the State of Oregon,
to allow tho state printing, binding
and printer's compensation to be -reg
ulated by law at any time, and
Wbereas, on the 25th day of June,
1900, tbo Secretary of State in my
presenoe as Governor of tbe State of
Oregon did canvass tbe voters given
for and against said proposed ameud
mont, aud
Whereas, it was ascertained and
determined upon such canvass tbat
there were 63,749 votes oast for said
proposed amendment to the Constitu
tion, aud 0,571 votes oast against tbe
same, aud that said proposed amend
ment received an affirmative majotity
of the. total number of effective votes
oast thereon aud eutitled to be counted
under the provision of law,
Now, Therefore, I, George E. Cham
berlain, as Governor of tbe State of
Oregon, in obedience to and by virtue
of the power and authority vested in
me by law, do hereby make and issne
this proclamation to tbe people ot tbe
State of Oregon and do announce and
declare tbat the whole number of
votes oast in the State of Oregon at
said election for and against said pro
posod amendment was as hereinbefore
stated, and that said proposed amend
ment received an affirmative majori
ty of the total number of votes cast
thereon aud entitled to be counted uu
der provisions of law, aud that said
amendment hereinbefore mnntioued
shall and is in full force and effect as
a part of tbe Constitution of the State
of Oregon from the date of this proa
lamation.
Doue at tbe Capitol this 25th day of
June, A. D. 1906.
Geo. E. Chamberlain,
. Governor of Oregon
By tbe Governor:
P. I. Dunbar,
Secretary of State.
(Seal) 'S
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