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GRAFT IN PERSIA, y Officials Fay For the Privilege of Fleecing the Public. A LAND WITHOUT LAWYERS. i And Yet That Extraordinary Exemp tion Does Not Holp tho Unfortunate Who Got Into Trouble Coaxing the Accused to Confess. It would be difficult for a Persian who has not traveled to understand American excitement over what the newspapers here call "graft." My, motherland, Persia, Is not yet quite awake to the possibility of a man's serving the public for a certain fixed salary and taking nothing more. In Persia they take It for granted that every officeholder will "gouge" people whenever he gets a chance. There are no lawyers In Persia, so there are no jokes about lawyers', ap petite for gold and silver. If you have ever had a costly lawsuit on your hands you may think that makes mat ters simpler, but getting into trouble menus being squeezed for money, wrung for money, as If you were a piece of wet cloth In a washerwomffh's etrong grip. This is how it is managed: First, you see, governor of a city or of a province never has a definite salary from the state not at all. On the con trary, he pays the state treasury sev eral thousand dollars more or less for the privilege of being governor and of making what he can out of the enter prise. He is not an elected officer; ho is more like a "concessionaire" at one . of your big expositions, who offers a " large sum for a chance to run a res taurant or to provide ice cream soda or candy. The governor (or mayor) of a large Torsian town may have perhaps 100 to 150 employees under him. Of these only a few house servants (cook, conehnian and the like) have fixed wages. The Incomes of tho others de pend upon the amount of money which they can help turn ipto the great man's hands in the form of fines and taxes. You can guess whether the neighbors are fond of theml Suppose now you live in Persia. Ton have leased a piece of ground or you , have sold some goods and the other man does not pay. You dun , him, Then you threaten him. Then you go to tho governor and make a complaint. An officer arrests your debtor and takes him before the governor's sec retary for examination. Possibly he can convince that important personage that it is not a just debt. If he can not do that he would better put all his wits to work to convince the secretary that poverty makes it quite impossl- , bio to pay up. This Is whero many of the 150 under employees get their chance. A large part of their occupation is hunting up f::cts about everybody's property, everybody s business, everybody's in come. They know an amazing num ber of things which your debtor sup posed were Bafoly secret. They pro duce information whenever informa tion la wanted. Your mini's pretense that business is bad and that he is all but bankrupt is brushed aside, and ho is mado to pro duce an amount of money consider nbly larger than tho original debt. ".Undo" to produce it? Yes. There ore shocking things that can be done tf) him if ho hesitates too long, and he knows U. So, like a child aware that tlitw i:i nn r-gly stick waiting in tho corner, he usually does not hesitate to; long. lie saves his skin and hands ( yor tin; money. You got maybe 80 t'i !'0 per cent to satisfy your claim thi't Is. the officer of justice praeti lly collects from you something for hi i own services. The rest goes to the r.ovprnor and such of the employees as imiy be considered in the case. IVrhniw you have a shop in the town h:Ktt or market place and Borae poor fiimrt-for-iiotlilng steals a chicken that V'hh hanging on the wall. If a woman was tho thief she Is most llkcl;; flned posHlbly whipped if she has n o money to pay a line. If tho culprit 5 Is a man they punch a hole through tho ear ning of the lower end of his nose, put a cord through the holo and lead him In this painful disgrace all around' tho hiwonr. Tho officer collects ai' i ho goes along n few cenls from till t. hopkeep or and a few cents from tha t ono as an in Unowletlginent f the' officer's service In publicly exposing fa thief. Naturally It often happens -that some outrasiMiisi robbery occurs or some body Is brutally murdere 1 and tho guilty one Is unknown. T! jen tho gov ernor's detective agents t to work. Anybody may be arrested .'on suspicion it ml examined either as , the probable offender or as n wltnes j.j if the sus pect has plenty of mo nty ho can al ways ri'ove Innoco-jcn or his igno iv'i -p by paying cash Vo tho examining :" crs, though, slue?, tbeve 1 1 no rcgu li:lo: tnr'.ir in Kiv.h matters.' tho pro-eee.-iij; ".v K nutte expensive. If tho pus'-i ta too poor to make tr,n" rtrx with the o xaiuln era or too sUibbo- fl t( ten what h, knows and t!nt'tUnt. 1 mil nfvaid, if he really Ve not know anything to tell they ...i v. pie "third degreo'V methods ' r'i;p .) wan say some- u . ) h " othod Is what they I tlu "Imstlimdo." It is whipping tho poles of the bare feet with slen der rods. Often live coals from a pipe a iv put on the shaven head of a pris oner to make him confess. Sometimes But no. Probably you .would not care to hear any more along this par tHiiar line. Persian Inventions in thl deTiiTtweiit of criminology are clever :i the'r way. but not things to -describe in full detail. Leon Modem in New York World. ' - . -' A German Title. In the matter of titles the Germans show more courage than we do. On a card which reached London the other day the sender describes herself as Frau , Rasiermesserhohlschleifeidl- rektorswitwe. Would any English wo man venture to describe herself as wid-owofthemanageroftberazorbladegrind-Ingworks? When this was shown to a German friend he produced a card on which the sender was entitled "Staats sehuldentllgunsbureauausgehe r s. w 1 1 we," a' description which she held to be her due as the widow of an official in the national debt office. London Chronicle. ' More Territory. "I envy you." says the very thin man. "I wish I had your weight. Hero I am, a skinny, dyspeptic crea ture, suffering half the time with stomach ache.' "Envy me!" chuckles the very fat man. "Why. what if you do have the stomach ache half the time? Think what a little bit of a stomach ache you can have. -Now, when I have the stomach ache it amounts to somethings-Life. Perfectly Natural. "The supposed young millionaire bought an airship just before he was declared bankrupt." "That was a perfectly natural pro ceeding." "How sor "Most people do buy airships before they go up."-New York Journal. Poetry. .. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence Its impor tance. Matthew Arnold, v There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.- -Hillard. NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT. In the County Oooit of the State of Oregon for Umatilla Connty. In the Matter of the Estate of Emery LaHne, deceased. Notice is hereby given to all per sons whom it may concern that Sarah LaHoe, administratrix of the estate of Emery LaHne, deoeased, has filed her final aooonnt and report in the admin istration of said estate; that the court has fixed Monday the 27th day of March, A. D., 1911, at the honr of 2 o'olook in the afternoon as the time, and the Oonnty Conit House at Fen dleton, Umatilla Connty, Oregon, as the plaoe where all objeotions and ex ceptions to the said final aooount and repoit will be heard and the set tlement thereof made. Dated this the 24th day of Febru ary, A. D., 1911. Sarah LaHne, Adminsitratrix. Peterson & Wilson, l( Attorneys. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In the Connty Conrt of the State of Oregon for Umatilla Connty. In the Matter of the Estate of James 8. Henry, deceased: , Notice is herety given to all persons whom it may concern that Elizabeth I Henry has been appointed exeontrix of the last will and testament of J S. Henry, deceased, Las qualified as snob and had 'ietteis testamentary isaoed to ber. AU persons having claims against the said estate are hereby required to present them, with proper vouchers, as required by law, to the said exeontrix at her home in Athena, Oregon, within six months of the date of the first pnblioation of this notice, wbioh said first pnblioation is made on this the 17th day of February, A. D., 1911, and will appear in the Ath ena Press newspaper for fonr coDseo ntive weeks, the last pnblioation ap pearing on the 17th day of March, A. D.. 1911. Dated this the 17th day of Fetru ary, A. 0., 1911. Elizabeth Henry. Peterson & Wilson, ; Exeontrix. Attys.Jfor Exeontrix. . Professional NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT. In the County Court of the State of ' Oregon for Umatilla County. In the matter of the estate of John G. Tbarp, Deoeased. Notice is hereby given to all'whom it may oonoern that B. D. Tbarp, ad ministrator of the estate of John G. Tharp, deoeased, has filed bis final aoooant and report in the adminis tration of said estate; that the conrt has ordered that Monday, the 6th day of March, A. D. 1911. at the bonr of ten o'clock in the forenoon, be appointed as the time and the oonn ty court house at Pendleton, Oregon, as the plaoe where any and all objec tion and exoeptions to the said final aooonnt and report will be heard and the settlement thereof made. , Dated this the 3rd day of February, A. D. 1911. B. D. Tbarp, Administrator. Peterson & Wilson, Attorneys. S. F. Sharp" PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to all calib, both night and day. Calls promptly answered. Office on Third Street, Athena Oregor G. S. NEWSOM, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ; Weston, Oregon. Calls answered promptly night or day. PETERSON & WILSON '." ;, Attorneys-at-Law :- ,'")'''.';, Athena, Oregon. - Pendleton, Oregon Hosier, I. Watts Attorney-at-Law Athena, Oregon. JOS. C. BADDELEY, D. V. S. , Proprietor of y City Veterinary Hospital 703 Chase Ave. ... :: Phone, Main 34 Walla Walla, Wash. Will make calls to tAthena and Vicinity THE ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, pbop. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE In the county court of the state of Orecon. for Umatilla county. In the matter of the estate of B. C. Kidder, deoeased: Notioe is hereby given that Geo. B. Kiddet, the undersigned, has been appointed administrator of the estate of B. 0. Eidder, deceased, and has duly qualified as snoh administrator and all petsons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to pre sent tho same to me properly verified at the offioe of Attorney Geo. W. Coutts, John Sohmidt block, Pendle ton, Oregon, within six months from the date hereof. 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