The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, April 24, 1908, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text( - V " i utiiO VALLEY FLOOD CAUSES BIB DIM Rise of Several River Is Reported to Be the Highest in Many Years. SUFFERERS FLEE TO THE HILLS. Boat Invades Flooded Cornfield to Save Farmers and Stock Sick ness Follows Privation. The flood throughout the Ohio val iey, caused by heavy rains and melting snows, Is reported to be the highest since 1870. Lives have been loBt, homes, bridges and fences swept away, and crops und roads ruined. Hun dreds of families hnve been flood bound In the overflowed nrens. The Monongnheln, Allegheny, Ohio, Wubanh nnd smaller streams have all contributed to the destruction which has moved down the Mississippi to ward the Guif of Mexico. Pittsburg, perhaps, has been the greatest sufferer from the flood which has been sweeping down the Ohio val ley. Any one ncqualnted with the lo cation of the Smoky City knows why Pittsburg Is nnnually, and sometimes several times n yroir, a victim of high water. The Monongahela and Alle gheny rivers, uniting to form the Ohio, each flows through a narrow ravine and when the waters of the moun tains and highlands come down In un usual quantities, owing to prolonged thaws or persistent ruins, the flood of necepslty must overflow the narrow lolrit between the ravines, thus Inun dating more or less of the city. In the vicinity of the Junction of the Ohio and Wabash rivers flood suffer ers abandoned their homes to the rag ing waters and fled to the hills. Here they have been quartered In huts, sheds and deserted buildings and as a result of the exposure and privation pneumonia has become prevalent. People along the lower Ohio River have prepared for the siege In store for thorn, pearly a hundred families on the Indiana-side, opposite Union town, Ohio, were removed. The big Ohio River steamer City- e-ftjgpottavliie cut across a cornfield pid brought out several families, with L'OO hogs, eighty mules and fifty cattia The rescued flood victims had spent two nights In terror nnd fought Incessantly to keep their stock from drowning., Residents at Shawneetown, 111., are apprehensive, us the levee has been weakened by the excessive rain nnd the three floods of last year. A constant watch Is being kept of weak places. The Evansvllle and Terre Haute Railway Company has been anxious about the safety of Its embankment which pnrallcls White Itlver, nnd thou enixls of bags filled with sand hnve been placed to strengthen It This place Is 4 I This picture of the February flood, which threw 20,000 people the scene at the river's worst stage. On the right is the North Side down the middle of the stream. A wreoked houseboat Is shown in now know a as the "Itlack Hole" be muse of the dlsnpiMMirnnce of a train tvme years ago. All efforts to till this hole have .been futile. AUpii. Took f 110,000,000. According to figures compiled by the North Herman Lloyd line. $110,000,000 was taken out of the United States Inst year by. aliens returning to their former homo in Europe. This computation is based ou figures furnished by steamship sgonts, inonuy changers ami others in a position tn be informed, and Is made on the assumption that the average amount cai-riiMl by returning foreigners is $200, and that 5W,045 immigrants returned to their native land. It is estimated that this $200 will maintain him In absolute Idleness for a year or more, and when the money is gone he will return. A pe culiar fact is tlmt the returning alien will not accept anything fur his American navings except the gold of his own coun try. America tteta HUlorlo Flair. The flag captured on the American frig ate Chesapeake at the time of her famous fight with the British ship Shannon Id 1813 has been purchased for American buyers at an auction sale in London, the price paid being $4,2."iO. It is said the flag Is for J. P. Morgan. At the same ale parties said to represent American buyers purchased for $l,r00 the bugle upon which was sounded the order for the famous charge of the Light Brigade In the tattle of Dalaklava. Poor quarters Almshouses, THE WEATHER Fair and Mild. Rain and Warmer. VICTIMS OF IGNORANCE. Doukhobors of Canada Preparing for Another Outburst. Reports received at Ottawa, Ont., In dicate that the coming spring will see the 7,000 Doukhobors leave their Nortn west communities and go on another wild pilgrimage. All accounts agree that the fanaticism of the sect has no parallel In modern times. Doukhobor leaders have been partic ularly busy Issuing decrees since the be ginning of winter, and, ?"' new pro mulgation (teems to have been drafted with a desire to outdo the preceding ones In Inflicting hardship and suffer ing on "the faithful." Children are said to be dying for want of proper food. The people are paupers. They have obeyed an order to sell all their cattle and sheep. All products of the land go to the sect leaders. All chickens have been sold In obedience to a decree. Tea, coffee, sugar and pancakes have been tabooed and the general diet has been narrowed to raw potatoes, onions, car rots, turnips nnd a few other vege tables. Among the latest decrees have been those abolishing timepieces nnd looking glasses. Agents of the leaders ' L, nnMannnnnnnn mmhmMMMMMM FLOOD RAVAGES PITTSBURG AND HUNDREDS have taken away from tho people about $7,000 worth of clocks and watches. The women, who are noted for their deftness with their needles, have been forbidden to make any more embroid ery. The Doukhobor wheat Is handled by a committee, which docs what it pleases with it. This committee con trols pretty nearly everything In the way of labor. The gangs which work on the railway and in the community brickyard pay over their wages to the committee without receipt. But when It comes to be laborers getting their meager food allowances from the coin lulttee they are compelled to give a receipt for every ounce. Iu one district 500 persons are living In two houses. Each adult is allowed a sleeping space of four feet wide. All have to climb into their beds over the footboards. The younger men ore stowed away lu the garrets of the houses after the fashion of canned sar dlues. rians are being made by the Structural Building Trades Alliance and the Central Labor Union of Spokane, Wash., to erect a labor temple In that city to cost $75 000. There are 7,000 union men in Spo kane, and by 40 per cent of them taking $25 worth of stock the amount can be raised. The demand for aluminium still ex ceeds the Buiply. : : : THAT'S PROMISED AND THE WEATHER WE GET. Cold Wave. Snow and Colder. Cabinetmakers' Union, ' of St. Paul, and Minneapolis, Minn., have formed a district council. Minneapolis, Minn., Trades Assembly K-presec,, phn'i:. IJj.fWi mmhers 9f labor unions in Minneapolis. For the first time In Its history, Mex ico is to have a great'central labor body similar to the American Federation of Labor, and exercising all its functions. In Germany the strongest trade union affiliated with the general f iteration is that of the metal workers, which at the close of 1006 had a membership -o-afA-075. Detroit (Mich.) Lodge of Shipmasters' Association has adopted a resolution, urg ing Washington as a permanent mjetinj place for the annual winter sessions. All lodges along the lakes will be asked to support this plan. Efforts, are being made to organize a branch of the independent labor party in Toronlo, Canada. Fees aad applications ARE MADE HOMELESS BY SWELLING WATERS. i liWi'fV '.-TihVrta-rt i i. aauxx - v - N'T'.w'-wTwmw .y. rerr out of work end rendered thousands B. & 0. station. On the left Is a coal the ice floe. from several hundred lab3" men have al ready been received, and It 's expected tj have at least 3,000 names before the end of the year. The union barbers of Washington. 1. O , are waking up. They have appointed a business agent and organise- to .push the organization and strengthen its ranks. The Central Labor Union and American Federation of Labor will aid the local In its work. The new Alabama child labor law re cently went Into effect. It forbids the employment of children, under twelve years of age in cotton mills and other in dustries, and children between the ages of twelve and fourteen are not allowed to work full time. In the Clyde shipyards the shadow of the threatened strike has been removed, the men having accepted a reduction of 5 per cent on piece rates, the masters having on their side agreed to forego the proposed reduction of one farthing per hour on time rates. The eleventh annual convention of the Tennessee Federation of Labor, held re cently, took practical steps looking toward obtaining favorable legislation for tabor In Tennessee, and a campaign will be In stituted to obtain more thorough organ isation of the laboring people. Industrial conditions are greatly im proved in Bridgeport, Conn. Every fac tory has resumed operations, some in full force and others to perhaps 75 per cent of their capacity, and some which were running on short time will Increase the ttnmber ot working hours each week. Warmer Weather. Hot and Sultry. TRY IT ON THE DOG. Food Expert Wiley Deems Refrig erated Meat Unsafe. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Uncle Sam's wiz ard in chemistry, believes that refrigerat ed meat is unsafe. Meat and other foods, if appearances are to be accepted, may be kept in cold storage for long periods with out any apparent degradation in their nutritive value or quality. But between the time they are removed form the re frigerator and the time that they are prepared for eating, ptomaine or alkaloid al bodies may develop that would make them fatal if taken into the human stom ach. The meat, poultry, gan - i other articles that have been In Dr. Wiley's ice house for the last two years will not therefore be fed to the poison squad. Their condition will be tested by the chief chemist and his assistants in other ways. When put in the refrigerator plant in the first instance he tissues of the meat were carefully measured and have slnte been remeasured at frequent Interval' ! Every change in texture has beeen care fully noted from time to time. In the final examination of the refrigerated foods they will be tested by Dr. Wiley and his assistants and their odor will serve as a guide in determining whether or not they are sound, nutritious and wholesome af ter being for a long time behind closed doors in an Ice cold atmosphere. In ox - :.: si a: .4- homeless in Pittsburg alone, shows tipple wrecked by Ice and carried taste and odor the refrigerator meat will be compared with fresh beef. Then the beef will be fed to the department dog, who has waxed fat these many days on foods generally regarded by the world at large as hurtful to health'. While Dr. Wiley absolutely declined to comment on the lessons taught by the experiments about to be conducted, there is reason to believe that he will report to Congress that it Is in all probability unsafe and doubtless dangerous for one to eat foods that are kept In cold storage for periods exceeding three months. This applies particularly to meat, game asd poultry. What Dr. Wiley himself thinks of eggs that have been on Ice from sum mer until late In the winter he refused to say. When the subject was mention ed he merely held his nose. The Board of Education of the United Kingdom, sitting at London, has decided to pay more atrention to pnysical needs of the public school pupils this year than ever before. In all schools medical In spection Is to be established, and an ef fort is to be made to supply pure milk. This movement has been hastened br the discovery of deterioration In the British jprlginalT New elaborations are Invent youth og army service. Jed daily each one mon expensive than t T77! TTT . tbe last but nobody la deceived. It la The third great athletic stadium to be stm tne old p,nafore, ouly a little mad built by American universities has lust ...I. ; . , . been completed at Syracuse. It to 670 der' Uttl -London feet long, covers six and one-third acres Graphic, and will seat 20,000 spectators comfort- i When a man falls to attract atten- ab'y- "J8 instructed of concrete and Uan to any otner way he can be ex. Greek arenas. SWASTIKA. raahlonabl Ornament Wa Objeea j of Weraktp Maar Ceatarlea Ago. I What Is the swastika? This little article of adornment Is just now hav ing remarkable rogue as an ornament for woman's dress. As brooch, belt buckle, stick pin, collar fastener, or hat pin, this up right cross, with each of Its four arms bent to a swastika. right angle at the end, meets the eye everywhere. Nearly every woman who buys on knows that it is In some sense a "good luck pin," but how It came to be con sidered such and where the peculiar and curiously attractive symbol origi nated is known to comparatively few persona - The swastika is one of the great re ligious symbols of the world. It has been recognized as a religious emblem by more people, very likely, than has the cross Itself. As such symbol It is very many hundreds of years older than the Christian era, In fact, it is perhaps, the very earliest of religious signs or characters. It has been re vered all over Europe and Asia, and long before the dawn of Christianity Dur pagan ancestors looked up to It, as the emblem of what they worship ed. It is one of the oldest things In history, and there Is scarcely a land In whose ruined temples It is not found "Swastika," the name given It by Che Brahmins and Buddhists of India, Is a Sanscrit word signifying "of good fortune." In the Pall tongue It Is "sutl," which means "It is well," or "so be it," which is much the same meaning as the Sanscrit word. The Japanese call It "manjl" and the Chi nese call It "manjl" and the Chinese know it as "ouan" or "wan." The French call It "le crolx pattee," the footed cross, while the ancient Eng lish name is "fly-fot," meaning either four-footed or many-footed. The most puzzling and most inter estlng thing about the swastika is that it Is found In nearly all parts of the world, In this country as well as In Europe and Asia, wherever archaeolo gists dig up the burled cities of the remote past Drawn, painted, cut, woven, scratched or otherwise design ed, not only upon burial urn and sacri ficial stone, but also upon utensils and objects of everyday use, the curious symbol appears. It has been found among relics that mark the bronze age In Europe and some antiquarians believe they have discovered the fact of its existence In the so-called polished stone age of man. Prof. Schlleman found It at Hissar 11k In the burled cities that underlay the ancient Troy, of which Homer sang, which Indicates Its existence at a period from 3,000 to 8,500 years ago. Those who look upon the region to he northwest of India as the primal home of the blonde races of the world also consider that ancient land as be ing the birthplace of the swastika. R. P. Greg, an eminent English authority, argues that "It was a much-used and favorite religious symbol among the earlier Aryan races, and was intended by them, in the first Instance, to rep resent In a cruciform shape an Ideo graph or symbol suggested by the fork ed lightning." Our primal white for bears worshiped Dyausoltar (Jupiter), the sky father, and the Jagged light ning was the natural emblem of this awful power. With the successive emigrations of the Aryans from northern India all over Europe, the swastika spread and, adopted as a symbol of Buddha In the seventh century before Christ, It was later carried into China and Japan. The Arabs and Jews knew It not, nor did the ancient Egyptians, but they were not of Aryan blood. Thus the hammer of Thor, the Scan dinavian deity for whom Thursday Is named, was this very same swastika which the maiden of to-day is using to ornament a summer shirt waist It was with his mighty hammer, MIoll ner, that Thor Is fabled to have crush ed the head of the Midgard serpent, destroyed the giants, restored to life the dead goats which drew his car and consecrated the pyre of Bladur, the beautiful. Old Tlm Plocarlnara. An act of the time of Queen Eliza beth ordained that vagrants were to be "stripped from the middle upward and whipped till the body Is bloody." Four pence.each was the recognized charge made by the "whipman" for every male and female vagrant who passed through his bands, but on special occa sions this sum was exceeded. Says the constable's account of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire: "May, 1691 Paid in charges taking up a distracted woman, watching her 'and whipping her next day, 8 shillings 6 pence." After whip ping people according to the statute the authorities sometimes gave them a letter recommending constables and others "to be as charitable as the law 1 oermlts." , Coatly Monotony ta Dreaa. Our clothes are al alike, and this monotony has led to unlimited extrava gances. What has not been done to make the eternal ninafore frock look act THEV7EE.U.Y MHSTORlAr 1631 Soger Williams arrived in Boston from England. ' 1665 First number of London Gazette appeared. 1682 La Salle began his descent of the Mississippi. s. 1600 Schenectady, N. Y., attacked and . burned by the French and Indians. 1603 Nearly 2,000 persons killed by earthquake In Sicily. 1738 Severe earthquake feR In New England. 1762 Martinique taken by the English. 1778 Americans took possession ot New York City. 1778 The United States and France con cluded a treaty of alliance.... Dan iel Boone taken prisoner by French and Indians. 1783 Final cessation of hostilities be tween the United States and Great Britain. . . .Sweden acknowledged the Independence of the United States. 1701 Bank of the United States incoi ported. 1794 Boston's first theater opened. 1790 American ship Sedgley rescued 169 men from the sinking British ship Aurora. .1807 Napoleon defeated the Bussians at battle of Eylau. 1813 American troops raided Brockville, Ontario.... British Admiral Warren declared Chesapeake Bay to be In state of blockade. 1814 tMassachusetts ' prohibited impris onment for debt. 1831 Baron Aylraer entered upon his term of office as Governor of Can ada.' -v. 1847 Col. Fremont proclaimed the an nexation of California and assumed the office of Governor. 1849 Republican proclaimed at Rome, 1850 Henry Clay introduced In the Sen-' ate a bill to compromise the slavery question. 1852 Over 500 lives lost in wreck ot British troop ship Birkenhead neaf the Cape of Good Hope. 1859 Senator S Udell of Louisiana pre sented a bill proposing to place $30, 000,000 in the hands of the Presi dent for the purchase of Cuba. 1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi withdrew from Congress. 1867 Evacuation French. of Mexico ; by the 1870 Prince Arthur, third son of Queen Victoria, received by President Granf at the White House. 1873 Congress abolished naval ranks of admiral and vice admiral. 1876 Manitoba abolished the legislative, council. 1881 British defeated at battle of In gogo river, Transvaal. 1885 Italians occupied Massowah. 1883 Amos J. Snell, Chicago banker, as sassinated. 1803 Long-distance telephone communi cation established between Boston and New York. 1805 Abdication of Queen. Lilluokalani of Hawaii. 1808 Letter of Spanish Minister De Lome, reflecting on President McKh ley, published. 1809 Insurrection against the United States government in the Philippine Islands began. 1900 Hay-Pauncefote treaty signed at Washington. 1001 Wilhelmlna, Queen of Holland, married to Prince Henry of Meek lenburg-Schwerin. - Tho Prolongation of Life The centuries-long search for the means af securing perpetual, or at least extend ed youth, is still being prosecuted by the scientists. Dr. Moutier of Paris, studying the rigidity of the arteries, which is a characteristic of advanced life, has by a specially constructed electrical apparatus been able to reduce the Increased pres sure of the blood which accompanies the arterial changes and thus restore normal conditions, which continue permanently. The same treatment has also been suc cessfully used in the treatment of patients affected with neurasthenia Elie Metchinkoff, Pasteur's successor In the famous Pasteur Institute at Paris, in a book entitled, "The Prolongation ot Life," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, argues that much of the shortening of life and the pain of old age is due to a poisoning of the tissues through putre faction of the Intestinal tract which may be counteracted by certain acids, chiefly that existing in sour milk, in confirmation of which he instances the long life ot some races which live mainly on such iet . Prohibition Convention Called. The national convention of the Prohi bition party has been called to meet at ' Columbus on July 15. There will be a total of 1,512 delegates, the apportion ment to the various States being based qpon the vote cast for President in 1004 j American Caa Pro&ts. j The American Can Company reports earnings of I3.24CS27 for the fiscal jeaifc I v naJa of over $700,000. -: