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ATHENA. ORE.. JULY 5.
.1907
Seven hnndred persons have been
converted in a series of revival meet
, ings in Spokane by Methodist Evange
libts. The Spokesman Review says of
the success of the meetings: "Even
if the conversions were only half that
number the churches wonld still have
reason to congratnlate themselves on
the good that had been done. Every
man and woman professing a change
of heart adds to the moral sentiment
of the city and, directly or indirectly,
will exert an influence on others for
the general good. It is a somewhat
common remark that the conversions
made in emotional revival exeroisea
are not lasting and that in the course
of a few mouths the effect passes
away. This is true in some cases, but
as a role it is found that the good im
pressions created by the services are not
entirely lost l here are lots of people
who do not approve the methods of
the evangelists and yet who are honest
enough to admit they reach many
who might not otherwise be brought
under religious influence, just as the
Savlation Army gets hold of many
whom the churches can not reach,
'1 he revival servioes has long been a
feature of the Methodist church, and
to it that body owes much of the great
numetioal strength which it has in
this country. To scoff at or belittle
the revival does nobody any good. It
may seem to some too sensational, yet
for the good that it unquestionably
does it should be admired."
Reading between the lines of the
statement issued by the Japanese
Chambers of Commeroe assembled at
Tokio, directed to President Roosevelt
and also to the American Chumbers of
Commerce, the officials in Washington
see dearly the implied threat of a boy
cott against American goods eutering
Japan. The boycott delivered by
Chinese merobants against American
products two yeais ago in resentment
of (be treatment accorded Chinese of
the better class entering America in
the course of their travels around the
world was productive of better condi
tions, for the Administration exerted
all of its power to ameliorate the rig
ors of the exclusion laws and to facil
itate the entry of Chinese merchants
and students. Therefore, it is assum
ed tbe Japanese merobants have decid
ed to have recourse to tbe same method
of showing tbeir resentment against
tho treatment accorded to their people
in Sau Francisco. Unlike the Chinese
merchants, however, they have first
served notice of their intention upon
the American commercial interests so
as to afford tbein an . opportunity to
avert tbe boyoott by bringing pressure
to bear upon the morohants of tbe
f aoiflo Coast, now supposedly in need
of Eastern assistance.
Three thousand men have been
thrown out of work by the closing
docu of Poget Sound and Uray's Har
bor logging camps, and half as many
more have been released from tbe Co
lumbia River camps., -There has boen
times in tbe past whon tbe throwing
out of work of 5000 mon would be re
gatded as a hardship, says the Ore
gonian, but with such an enormous
demand for all kinds of labor in other
puramtaumay prove highly benetloial
to have a supply made available.
Proseu't prospects indicate a reoord
breakiug wheat crop in tbe Northwest
tbis season and thousands of men will
Tbe Press sincerely believes that
in eleotiug Homer I. Waits iotbepriu
cipalsbip of the sobool, the board has
made no mistake, and it is also pleased
to note tbe selection of Miss Sharp and
Miss Gibbons to serve tbe district
again tbis year. Tbe new principal is a
young and capable man, and is knowu
personally to a majority of tbe readers
of the Press. Into bis work be takes
with him limited experience in teach
ing, but any lack in tbis respect wonld
appear to be supplied by tbe splendid
laurels he has garnered in bis excep
tionally successful sobool and college
work. Surely a graduate from a
Normal school; a two-year course in a
preparatory college; a graduate of a
state university and also of Harvard,
coupled with indomitable push, com
mon sense, energy, jndgment diplo
macy and mnsole to enforce discipline
should be sufficient .credentials that
the man possessing them is able to suc
cessfully conduct a graded school.
Mr. Watts has all these, and the Press
believes tbe Atbena school will be
heard from.
People generally have been waiting
to see what the "reform element" in
Spokane would do, since the new offi
cers had boen elected by the direct
primary system, and consequently the
offioials come nearer representing tbe
people's choice than any other set
It would seem that tbe power in con
trol means business, as one of the first
steps was to cut out box rustling, en
force the barmaid act, and order all
boxes out This order went into effect
May 31, the owners of the places being
given a "square deal," in that tbey
might have time for tbe change. For
that one reason the new administration
starts off well, for it has set the mark
over which tbe vicious element must
not cross, and has also given ample
warniug. From the tenor of Spokane
dispatches the new power means busi
ness from the start and futnre develop
ments will be watohed with interest
The first number of the Inland Em
pire Magazine is at baud. The Inland
Empire is to be the official organ of
tbe Third District Development Lea
gue and is published by the Promoter
Printing Co., of Pendleton, II. C.
Willis of "booster" fame beiug the
fonnder. H. S. Swenson, for some
time past, editor of tbe Milton Eaglo,
has been assigned tbe editorial man
agement of the new magazine.
The question of "can a man die and
still live" seems to have boen settled
in Texas. There a negro was hanged
and legally pronounced dead. Then
after be was cut down and delivered
to bis family for burial he came to. It
is said that tbe state can do nothing
as tbe man has been legally pronounc
ed dead, and that suits tbe recent
hangee.
Tbe latest candidate for presidential
houors from tho south is Governor
Beckham of Kentucky, who bis friends
declare is one of the greatest demo
cratic leaders. He is now by tbe votes
of the people nominated for United
States senator, but tbe Watterson
"dark horse" may be an obstacle in
bis path to higher houors.
SENATE IN NEED OF A POET.
The country will hardly approve of
tbe attitude of Oregon editors in piling
contempt and ridicule upon Joaquin
Miller, poet, because he wants to come
to the United States Senate from that
state. Is a poet a monstrosity, that he
caunot share in the thrill of office
seeking? What is there iustrinsioally
wroug with Joaquin Miller, that he is
to be laughed and sooSed away from
tho Senate? Report has it that Joa
quin has made a lot of money out of
his mines, and is ready to spend apart
of it in aohieviug an honorable ambi-
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tion to figure among tbe treatymakers
and President-baiters. What is there
wrong about'this? Surely the members
of the Oregon Legislature can have
no objection to the judicious distribu
tion of tbe fruit of the mines.
One of the Oregon papers suggests
that if Joaquin is really anxious to
part with bis easily gotten wealth, be
could not have ohosen a more efficaci
ous and expeditious method than to
run for Senator from Oregon. It ap
pears that since Oregon adopted the
primary election law, thereby practi
cally providing that Senators should
be chosen by the people, only rioh
men have a ghost of a show. A min
ing magnate or a timber barou can
spend his tens of thousands in election
eering while tbe poor but honest states
man is left in tbe lurob. But this is
no reason why Joaquin, tbe bold
champion of tbe glorious climate of
Oregon, should not get in tbe race if
be likes. He is rioh. This, in itself,
is an anomalous position for any poet,
and serves to simplify the situation.
Necessarily Joaquin must lose his dol
lars or tbe gift of song, for no rioh
poet has lived and sung since the
world began. If he is fated to lose bis
money, it might as well be distributed
among the toiling voters of Oregon as
in any other kind of dissipation.
Then, when it is gone, the goldeu
voioe of the poet will be restored, and
tbe glories of webfoot climate will be
chanted in sempiternal lays. Or, if
the golden voioe of Joaquin's pocket
book is more potent, be will laud in
the Senate, and the world will gain a
statesman where it has lost a bard.
There is really no reason, therefore,
why tbe newspapers of Oregon should
be flippant with Joaquin Miller and
bis ambition. Let him run the race,
and if he wins it there will be joy in
Washington. Washington Post.
THE GREATEST OF FOOLS.
Tbe person who kills auother whom
he hates is a fool, eveu from his own
viewpoint of the desirability and satis
faction of revenge. For he cannot i
thus wreak tevenge. He makes others,
innocent persons, against whom he
probably has no grudge, to suffer, and
not the person he suddenly kills. Sud
den death is no punishment, for Ibe
victim's suffering is instantly over. If
a person wauls to execute vengeauoe
upon another, be should plan not to
kill bim, but rather to make him mis
erable in life. Life is dear to the per
son killed, but we oanuot contemplate
him suffering after death, for the loss
of life. Suffering must be conscious.
For all we may know death may have
been a benefit, a cause of joy to bim.
The soul cannot be killed or tortured
by killing the body. Many a person
thinks he has levenged himself upon
another by killing him instantly, but
he is entirely mistaken ; in such a case
the intended victim did not have even
a minute of suffering. Tbe surer tbe
murderer's physical aim, tbe greater
his miss of his mental aim.
Not ouly so, but tbe person who
kills another because of hatred of him
punishes himself along with innooent
people. Almost invariably, as soon as
the heat of his passiou has passed away,
he is filled with regret, he is tortured
by remorse, he would fain chauge
places and conditions with the dead,
whose faoe haunts and horrifies him.
Perhaps he is tried and banged., or im
prisoned for the act, and if so doesn't
he sutler iurinitely more than his vic
tim could have done in the brief spaoe
between the shot and dissolution?
And even if tbe law excuses the act,
conscience will not, and must there
not be lifelong regret for the suffering
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children of the dead man's people who
had never done the avenger any wrong,
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