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" Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXVf ATHENA. UBIAmtA UT OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1913. NUMBER 49 5 Eoss ' Winship Hardware s; Gompany & I : Beaters The World's Leader In Satisfaction B Barrett Building Athena, Or THE TUM-A-LUM LUP1BER CO. (Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATE ; i paints; oils and varnishes Posts and Blacksmith coal A- 5 A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon "2 1 5.1 THE ATHENA litflEAT MARKET ... We carry the best That Money Buys 1 F" v 1 Our Market is - J I W13 '" Clean and Cool .. J., ., II jj L W rii) Insuring ..Wholesome Meats. 4?OL'4, ..BRYAN & MEYER, r va Main Street; Athena, Oregon 1 jjiy to Home of QUALIFY Oi'oterics 'Good Groceries 4goa to the Right j - Spot Every Time This is thelRiflht Spot To go to Every Time for Groceries 3 r TRY TIIESE--TIIEVLL PLEASE ! -4 . ONE BEST THE MONOPOLE Monopole Vegetables ; Monopole Fruits ." ;" Monopole Salmon ; Monopole Oysters DELL BROTHERS, Athena, Oregon CATERER3 TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THJNG3 TO EAT BDUPEI5I COMMISSIONER REVIEWS EFFORT TO KEEP. ORIENTALS OUT. Caminetti Tells of Determi nation of Cheap 'Laberers To v ' Flock1 To This Coast Warning against the developenient of a Hindu peril unless Hindus are barred from entry to this country was emphasized by Anthony ' Caminetti, United States Commissioner General of Immigration, the other da; in Port land, in the course of an of floial tour of the West to inspect the. stations of this department ,. ,:' .... ; ; , Air. Caminetti sees in nnresirioted immigration of Hindus a danger great er even than that of the "yellow per il. 'Hindus in gtast numbers, he says are making h determined effort to enter this country; " where their low standard of living enables them to oompete with white labor at wages the white man cannot hope to meet. The Paoiflo coast, he says, from Cal ifornia to British Columbia, is a most favorable ground for Hindu' immigra tion.! The moderate blimate and the high scale of wages are conditions, he said, - especially desired by the Hindu immigrants. "The Bindo movement," Mr. Cam inetti asserted, Vis - toward .the West coast of the United States and Canada. They land in the Philippines, legally or surreptitously, and from there seek to gain admission to the United Slates. "It is an open seoret that Ave Hin dus who sought to land in Seattle last June were sent here to make a test case. A tansoontinental railroad bad made arrangements to convey them to points soattered all the way from Washington to Minnesota, .and had even sent cots to Manilla to provide sleeping quarters ' for them on the decks of the steamers. Thousands of them were in Manila waiting to hear that the five cases had been admitted to this country before starting for this coast. -1 "Ninety two cases deoided again st the Bindus on the Paoiflo coast have been carried to the immigration Bu reau at Washington, and afterwards fonght out in the courts, with the re sult that the contestants were denied admission into the United States. There are one hundred more oases pending at San Franoiseo. I under stand that all these oasee will be car ried to the supreme court of the Unit ed States. "The Hindus, denied admission to British Columbia, ': appealed to the oonrts, where their suits were 'fought with varying snooess, some deported and others admitted to the Dominion. Notwithstanding the fact that these men aie British subjects, the Domin ion oflioials are almost unanimously in aocord with the action of the Unit ed States. As the Toronto Globe ex presses it, 'the Canadians think that the Bindus make good British sub joet. but poor settlers.' Two bills ex cluding Hindu labor are now before Congress. . : "Aside from eaonomio reasons for the exolnsion of the Oriental races, an other objeotion exists in the faot that all of India, in the southern two thirds of China, and in large portions of Japan approximately 80 per oent of the agrionltnral classes are affiiuted with hookworm. The wet anil of Oregon and Washington Is particu larly adapted to the transmission and to preservation of the hookworm germ. "i'hia disease is far more prevalent and dangerous than most people be lieve. It is found in Enrope, where It Is believed to have been carried by the Moors from Africa, in their in vasion of Spain at the close of the 11th century. It is prevalent among both negroea and whites in the Sooth, and is especially oontagiona in mines. It is estimated that bookworm is the indirect cause of more deaths than any other disease. It sapa the vitality and renders the laborer nnflt for work, and develops a tendency toward tuber culosis." : ; - Elk Sen Near Milton. v- Several head of elk are along tba Walla Walla river just east of Milton. according to the mall carrier on tha route extending up the liver from Milton. Be saya he aaw cow and a calf feeding at a haystack near a taach bouse, not mora than two miles from town, and that a boll, cow and calf were aeen at what ia known aa "The Elbow" en the river 13 miles fromMdton. This is the Brit time any of these animals have been seen in that eeotioa for many years, thoogh they were numerous is early days. xne matter aaa been reported to the district game warden, who gay a if the report ia eoneot. the animals mast be a part of a herd brought over from Yellowstone Park laat winter by Walla Walla eonety sportsmen. Tea theory haa been advanced that tha aoimaJs might fee e part of tha Oregon herd brought over from Jack sona Bole and now being held in tba etate'a big game refoge ia Wallowa county. WEIGHT LIMIT RISE FOR PARCEL PBS1 50 POUNDS CAN BE SENT OVER FIRST AND SECOND ZONES. Books Will Be Admitted-- Rater, Are Also Materially Lowered In Order... Postmaster "General Burleson's pol- ioy to inoreuse tba weight limits of parcel post packgesiu the Gist and sec ond zones ftora 20 to 50 pounds, to admit books to the paioela post and to reduce rates in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth zones, is approved by the in terstate commerce commission, 'il The maximum weight ot paroels to all zones bey on 3 the seoond was in creased from 10 to 20 pounds. The commission's ''consent" to the pro posed changes weie transmitted in three letters from Chairman Clark to Postmaster General " Burleson. The approved obaogee Sn rates and weights to fee in effeot' January 3 1,''" 1914; fol low: : ' yi : - To reduce the rates from the third zone from 7 cents for the first pound and 5 cents for each additional pound to 6 cents for the first pound and two cents for "eaoh additional pound. To reduce the rates for the fourth zone from: 8 oents for the - first pound and 6 oents for eaoh additlantla pound to ? oenta for the Mist pound and four oents for eaoh additional pound. To rednoe the rates for the fifth zone from nine cents for the first pound and ? cents for eaoh additional pound to 8 cents for the first pound and 6 oenta for each additional pound. To rednoe the rates for the sixth zone from 10 oents for the first pound and 9 oents for eaoh additional pound to 9 oents for the first pound and 8 oents for eaoh additional pound. It is provided by the postmaster general with the consent of the com mission, that the rate of postage on paroels " containing books weighing eight ounces or less shall be one oent for eaoh two onnoes or fractional parts thereof, and on those weighing in .ex cess of eight onnoes, the zone parcel rates shall apply. This is to be effec tive Maroh 16, 1914. QUEER -GREETINGS. Tribea That Spit Upon or Weep Over - Their Visiters. - Among the Masai and Ukerewe it is a mark of respect to greet an acquaint ance or a stranger by spitting at him. Almost ns strange is the custom ascrib ed to the Tibetans of sticking out the tongue by way of salutation. Rubbing noses Is quite common; the Burmese and'many tribes of Eskimos, Lapland ers uhd Malays do so." s ? Stranger than any of these customs Is the weeping salutation that has been observed nnionK central South Ameri Mi'fi Indians. This form of greeting oc cuw. too. in the Andaman islands. New Zealand and Polynesia. A Portuguese explorer describes the custom as he saw It used among a tribe of South American Indians: V. Whenever a guest enters a hut he la immediately honored and made wel come by being wept over. Without a word being spoken he is led to the hammock. As soon as he Is seated the hostess and her daughters and any of their girl friends who happen to be in the house at the time come and ait about the guest, touch him lightly with their fingers and commence to weep loudly and to shed many tears. During this ceremony,, in a sort of copnected discourse, they recite everything that has happened to them recently and talk of the hardships of the road that the visitor baa suffered and of anything and .everything that can arouse com passion and tears. The guest, bis hand before his face, pretends to weep and does not apeak until the crying has gone on for some time. Then they all wipe away their tears and become as lively and merry as if they had never cried in all their lives.' Exchange. . : ; Views of the Burning Volturno And One of Rescue Lifeboats ;-9 - 21! V "A r-s DREW tins riF CRFniT PRIZES CO TO GROWERS WHO : ENTER FINE SPECIMENS. : "Either' and "ruaitner.- There are two or three things about these two words that one should re member. In the first place, they should never be used In connection with more than two things aa: "It was either Tuesday or Wednesday," not "either Tuesday. Wednesday or Thursday;" It was neither Tuesday nor Wednesday,' not "neither Tuesday, Wednesday nor Thursday." Then, either hould not be nsed in the sense of each, as "they walked on, one on either aide of the road." . It should be one on "each' aide of the road. The third caution is about the pronunciation. Some per- sons insist that they ahould be pro nounced "irther and "ni-ther." with the 1" tons. , But this la more an af fectation perhaps than anything else. The best authorities agree that tha rlcht n renunciation is "ether" and "ne-ther. New Tor World. Wet feet or clothes" "give ns cold" because the evaporation absorbs the beat ao rapidly from the surface of the body that its temperature Is lowered beneath the normal, thereby straining the organs of the botfy and resulting Is what we sll a cold. : - 1 ,. - r. "r " . v Oregon's Average JficIJ Fex Acre Greater Than That of miy . vuici Oiaic . Photos by American Press Association. T kHE Volturno Are disaster at sea was fully recorded by the camera. From the decks of the Grosser Kurfuerst of the North German Lloyd line the official photographer of that ship took man; snapshots of the burning vessel and 'of the lifeboats rescuing the frantic passengers. The first picture taken of the burning ship is here shown. This is how the Volturno looked when the rescuing fleet arrived in answer to the "S O S" wireless calls.' The other picture shows, one of the Grosser Kurfuerst's life boats returning, to that liner with thirty-one passengers from the burning vessel The Volturno was left a burnlcg derelict , . Rabbit Drive Planned. Five hundred men and toys are ex pected. to participate in the rabbit drive to be oondnoted today bv the Pendleton Commercial Association aad a number cf ranobers in the north western part of the county. A oorral with wings extending out three-quarters of a mile has been constructed and the 'rabbits on I wo sections of land will be driven into this and slaugbteied with clots. No goes of any kind will te permitted on the drive. This is to be the first of a series of drives oondnoted eaoh week until the entire infested distiiot is covered. Two sections of land will be covered by eaoh drive and an effort will be made to make the drives the most effective of any ever undertaken in Eastern Uregr n. i' - ' Auto Racine Train Ditched. In an attempt to beat a train into town, Beury and Byron Baker, sons of D. F. Baker, of Toucher, had a nar row escape Monday morning, sajs a Walla Walla dispatob. ThMr auto mobile became unmanageable on the College Plaoe maoadam road and went Into the ditob. Though the maoblne was damaged, the boys were unbnrt. , Peddling Salmon Is Costly. Fifty dollars and costs is the prioe S. H. Cbristensen of Milton paid for peddling salmon without' a licence. He was arrested fay Deputy Game Warden Badley. . When arraigned be fore the jnstioe of too peace he en tered a plea of gnilty and received the minimum penalty allowed by law. 'More than anticipated interest was taken in the Corn Show, wbioh came to a close Saturday night in Pendle ton. Many entries were made for the prizes given by the O-W. R. & N. company, which promoted the show. The oonoecsns of opinion is that corn as a prominent produot of the Oregon farm is recognized and increased acre age will lesolt next year , Oregon produces 25 per cent more oorn per acre than the average pro dnoed in ' the 1 United States. ; Also, Oregon prodnoea 10 per cent tetter oorn than the average United States crop. . Yet Oregon prodnoea less than one-tenth of one per cent ot all the oorn grown in the United States. 1 - The average yield per acre in Ore gon is 28.5 bushels, and the : average yield for the whole country is 23 bu shels, per aore. Tbo average quality of the Oiegon corn crop la 93 per oent end the average quality for the whole OQontry is 82 par oent The amount of the Oregon oorn orop for the year 1913 is 61)8,000 bushels. The entire yield of the United States, is 2,463,017,000 bushels.. The above figures are taken from the November crop leport issued by the United States bureau of statistics and the weather, bureau. That oorn may, be successfully and profitably grown in Oregon has been demonstrated by growers in every sec tion of the state. ' The reports of the federal government sbow Itat oot only can more and better corn be grown in Oregon than in the average state in the Union, but that oorn prioes are also bigber in Oregon. For tbe year 1913 tbe average prioe throughout tbe I United States Is 70.7 oents per bnshel, while tbe prioe In Oiegon is 72 oents per bnshel. . ; i A mnoh greater difference in prices prevailed for the year 1912, Oregon oorn bringing 76 cents per bnshel, while tbe average price in tbe United States was but 68.4 cents per bushel. Haa a Good Apple Crop. ' Barry Sayer had a splendid crop of apples to market this season; Rome Beauties is bis principal variety, be ing remarkably free from -insect in feotion. The frnit comes from Lis ranob, south of Athena. , SBHBBSSBSPSBSSBSBMMMBHBWBrBBBBrsai Elite'" - ......... . Toyland, the wondrous citjr of "make-believe" is open. Its mythical gates are ajar, disclosing a scene such as only seen in the most pleasant dreams of childhood. zA veritable land of marvels that will make little eyes grow brighter and hearts beat quicker, as their little owners crowd along the aisles, lined on either side with almost every conceivable sort of contrivance to amuse and instruct , We invite you to come and bring the children. They will enjoy it and so will you. Fill rv THE "MONEY-BACK STORE' ATHENA, OREGON I