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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03
snay,e. on the Isles a. sboals.

The Isles of Shoals, mere rocks stand
ing 10 miles from the New Hampshire
coast in cold sea, are ahveSwith snakes.
On hot day one will see dozens of them
running in and out of the boggy places
or summing themselves on the bare ridges.
They are nothing to be afraid of, how
ever, for they are Of only one variety
the common little green snake that sell
dom grows TO length of Q feet.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03
rho sultnn.a Nam l,oat.

The sultan Of Morocco has bought a
new torpedo boat, and the name he
has given It, in Moorish, means: "The
bearer of good tidings from Islam to
the four quarters of the globe An
English weekly suggests that If the
sultan goes In for a really big irons
clad he will probably cali it (n
Moorish, of course) Something to
knock the globe into four quarters If
it deserves It; otherwise to. drive a.
hole into any other expensive ironciad
IliAve and sink her.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03
80. FORD. EvaneeIist.

Of Des Moines, Iowa, writes under date of
March q, 1898;
S. b. MED. MFG. Co.,
y Dufur, Oregon.
Gentlemen:
On airing home last week, | found
Rll we'll and anxiously awaiting.
Our little girl, eight and one-half
years old, who had wasted away to
50 pounds, is now well, strong and
vigorous, and we'll tleshed up, s.
Ri Cough Cure has done its work
we'll Both of the children like
it, Your s. B. Cough Cure has
cuted and kept away all hoarsness
from me. SO give it to every one.
with greetings for all all. Wish
ing you prosperity, we are
4 Yours, MR.& Mrs. ] r. Ford.
III you wish TO feel fresh and cheerful and
eady for the Springs work. cleanse your
System with the Headache and Liver Cure,
hy taking two or three doses each week.
30 centsper bottle by all druggists.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03
i nfaEyelous Memory.

A memory Is good thing to Guilt
vate. Most people have passably good
memories, many, have extraordinary
ones, and some have none at all. One.
Of the causes Of the popularity of the
late James G.. Blaine was his remarkas
bic memory for names and faces. h 1t is
said that Mr.. Blaine could recall the
faces and names of persons he had met
only casually 10 years and more after
the first meeting, not having encounter
ed them in the interval. -Harper's
Young People,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03
A spot of oilIn the Sea.

Ten miles south Of the Sabine river
and mile off shore is natural phe-
nomenon known to sailors as "The Oil
Spot" visible boundary divides it
from the open sea around, but even dur
ing q storm, eveG though the waters be-
come red and turbid, they remain COM
paratively calm. ST. Louis Republic.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03

McSwine's gun is prodigious cavity
in the cliffs on theooastof County Done
gal, Ireland, into which the tide rushes
with such force as to produce asound
like the booming of a cannon, which can
be heard 20 or 30 miles away.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03

Were the superhuities Of nation
valued and made perpetual tax or be-
nevolence, there would be more aims
houses than poor, more schools than
scholars and enough to spare for govern
ment besides. Penn.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03

''Van Wither made an unfortunate re-
mark at Sumner wedding yesterday
ssWhat did he sayGp
Congratulated him on the treasure he
had won, and every one but Van knows
sumner married her for her money, ! ~
Truth.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03
A Rumor as to Mems Evening Dres.

1t is once more current in society that
the Prince of Wales is endeavoring to
modify mems evening dress and that the
usual swallowtails are to be replaced
by a black or dark colored short coat
all also that knee breeches are to be
worn.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03

Mr.. Cuinso You should never ask o
railroad man if the train is on time.
Mrs. Cumso-But suppose want to
know?
Mr.. Cumso-In that case ask him how
much late it is.-Truth.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03

A singular accident occurred to Cobb
Harris near Oneonta, Ala, lately. He
was riding mule, when the animal sud-
denly threw his head up. striking Harris
on the chin and breaking his jawbone.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03

]. Bloch & Co, have just re-
ceived a large stock Of ladies and
Misses cloaks and jackets, of the
latest designs, and are selling them
kery cheap. See them before purf
9basing for the fall and winter,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03

The closed season on deer beginf
ihe first of November.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-03
Steamers Portland to San
Francisco every Y Days.
TICKETS nrDT r Taaaon EUROPE

For rates and general information
call on A. &. Bradley. Depot Ticket
Agent, Athena. Oregon.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13
Liabilities over resources .........

Liabilities over resources ............. S}963 50
bill was presented by Peter Timony
amounting to Sli2OO, for the loss of horse
through falling into ditch on the road leading
from treeland to Sandy Run. The bill was ap-
proved by the auditors.
The auditors, after Il long delay occasioned
by the Irregularities in the accounts of the for
ner officials, as well as oversights in former
audits, submit, after searching the records for
several years past, the foregoing report. The
amount of orders issued by the supervisors in
excess of the amount allowed by the auditors
is charged in the murshulled debt of 1892 as
compiled by G. l.. Halsey, Esq.
We, the undersigned, auditors of Foster
township, do hereby certify that the foregoing
statement is just and true to the best OF our
knowledge and belief
Alfred Widdick,
Frank Dever, Auditors.
p B. Ferry,
Foster Township, January 81, 1893.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13

ceive and very difficult to formulate That
the era OF woman as a power has COM
menced the shortest vision must discern.
Her advancement has been as solid and as
irresistible as that of the danes des halle
upon the royalties of Versailles, and the
spectator holds his breath, muttering, And
them"
speak impersonally being one of those
women whose hands have always been too
full to allow her to grasp at any more rights
than they held, but as l glance across the
field of the Twentieth century hold my
breath in awe at the possibilities of the
reign of woman then displayed.
The servant problem" is an imminent
one, for no one is found to dispute that an
archy in domestic matters is the near result
of the present attitude of the domestic of
ficial. am inclined to prophesy that a
species of civil service" will be the result.
Capitalization is the law of the future, and
paternal government must establish do
nestle depots where every class of servants
shall be trained and placed under stringent
regulations.
In fact, both employers and employed will
be subject to laws which both classes will
be instrumental in framing. 1t is possi-
bility, but l do not undertake just here to
formulate it, leaving that to the wise heads
of 1850. MRS. FRANK LESLIE.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13
The Possibilities of Railway Speed.

ltrom Our Plttsburg Correspondent.
Mr. George Westinghouse, whose career
as an inventor has been one of the ro-
mances of the Nineteenth century, in speak
ing of the possibilities of railway speed in
the Twentieth century, said:
There is no question about the develop
ment of a much higher rate of speed than
that which even the fastest service on the
railroads of today maintain. | presume
that speed of from 80 to 100 miles an hour
could be secured with modern locomotives
and with the improvements which are'sure
to come.
But | am inclined to think that other in
fuences may operate to prevent in the next
century the running of railway trains at
such speed as | have seen mentioned in
some of the newspapers 1t is not ques
tion of attaining speed, but a question of
the control of the train after great speed
has been secured. Suppose, for instance
that railway train is going at the rate of
ninety miles an hour The engineer sees a
danger signal or an obstruction on the track
1000 feet away.
Now, experiments have shown that with
perfect brake acting under the most per
feet conditions it is impossible to procure
greater retarding effect than would be
equivalent to stopping train going at the
rate of three miles an hour in second of
time. 1t is therefore easy to make com
putation of the effect of such brake upon
G train running ninety miles an hour within
1000 feet. When the engineer had reached
the danger signal or the obstruction his
train would still be going at the rate of
sixty miles an hour, and if he was running
his engine at the rate of sixty miles he
could only check it to rate of something
like forty miles an hour within that dis.
tance.
For this reason | am inclined to think
that the development of railway travel in
the next century along the present lines
will be not so much great speed as uniform
speed. The ideal speed, | think, will be
about forty miles an hour and steadily
maintained from the time of leaving one
terminal to the time of the arrival at desti-
nation. That will give most satisfactory
results. a steady speed of forty miles an
hour would enable n train to run from New
York to Chicago in little over twenty
hours and with greater economy and far
less danger 1t is my impression, therefore,
that railway travel in the next century will
| take on this development rather than high
rates of speed.
am also satisfied that the immense cost
of furnishing power for electric railways,
which some persons seem to think can
secure and maintain a speed of 100 miles an
hour or more, will make such develop
ment commercially Improbable, although
there is no doubt that electricity as a
motive power for passenger traffic will be
extensively used in the next century
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13

To my mind the world. and more espe-
cially the New World, is fastening rapidly
toward iconoclasm. Monarchs who used
to be worshiped as gods and later on were
so feared and misapprehended that the peo-
Pile slew them to save themselves from
some terrible determination are now only
laughed at and their natural disappearance
from the scene foretold with as little awe
as is felt in speaking of the destruction of
the bison or tho ''poble savage"
Religion, anothA grand conservator of
the distinction of classes, is unfortunately
ceasing to be power in the world, but
rather the recreation Of a small portion of
the people.
Dress, formerly species of trademark
placed by the nations upon their popula-
tion, is rapidly losing its individuality all
over the world. The Turk has exchanged
his turban for the silk hat, and the Tyro-
lean maiden wears very faroff imitation
Of an old Partisan fashion.
Language Is struggling toward univer-
salty, and almost any one can now make
himself understood almost anywhere,
In politics the people as a controlling
power are coming to the front more or less
rapidly in even the oldest empires of
earth, and it needs no prophet to foretell
that in 1893 the world will have become
equalized In every respect, even to dire
monotony.
The position of woman at the end of an
other century Is matter very easy to per
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13

the divorce laws of the country, for in
stance, much more harmonious than they
are at the present time. But believe our
divorce laws will continue to be the enact
ments of states and not of the federal con-
gress. i am as much of a believer as any
one in what is called Capitalization of
power for all national purposes, but l can
not believe that divorce or regulation of
divorce can be made to appear in any proper
sense a national question. What is not
truly national should be left to the states.
1T is true that the lack of uniformity
in the divorce laws of the states is at the
present time a crying evil. 1t tempts to
corruption and at best produces confusion
in the courts and sometimes CONSERVATION
in the marriage relations of individuals.
Remedy for this will be found, think,
during the coming 100 years in perfec-
ton of the divorce laws of the states
after what shall appear. to be the best
models. Instinctively and for the good of
the people of their own state, legislators
will adopt the statutes of those common
wealths which have secured best results, or
at best initiate them.
1T is possible, though l am not willing
to say probable, that congress may promote
the much desired homogeneity Of divorce
laws by some act designed TO give greater
force to that section of the constitution
which provides that full faith and credit
shall be given in each state to the public
acts, records and judicial proceedings of
every other state 1t is from lack of such
credit in some state courts to the acts of
other state courts that much of the con-
fusion in divorce matter proceeds. The
constitution expressly authorizes congress
to apply a remedy in such cases, adding,
And the congress may by general laws pre-
scribe the manner in which such acts,
records and proceedings shall be proved,
and the effect thereof Under this au-
thority congress might and probably
should enact some law that will make obli-
gatory the giving in each state of full faith
and credit in divorce proceedings and legis-
lation in other states"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13

From Our Washington Correspondence
81 think can see hundred years hence"
said First Comptroller Matthews, of the
United States treasury 'an ocean bound
republic over every part of which the stars
and stripes will proudly wave. Looking to
the future, my eye detects in the dim hori
zon an American republic which shall en-
brace not only the present United States
and Alaska, but all the remainder of the
North American continent now under
British, Mexican or minor domination. 1t
seems to me that this is the destiny of
America-to come under one government,
TO have but one flag, to be one people.
such consolidation of power and unfit
cation OF interest will of course make the
greatest empire the sun ever shone upon.
1t VIII be an empire unrivaled in ancient
or modern times in population, in climat-
ical favor, in physical resources and in the
intelligence and patriotism of its people.
Isolated to some extent from the remain
der of the world, we shall have little dan
ger of entangling alliances or of trouble,
some contact There will be no disputes
about boundary lines, about seal or fish or
bait. There will be no international rail
way question to harass our statesmen or
unsettle trade. This great ocean bound
American republic will maintain navy
superior to anything else ahoat simply as
matter of precaution.
There will be free trade throughout the
North American continent and possibly free
trade with all the world. As to this can
not say, nor even hazard an opinion, though
am satisfied that if free trade or freer
trade shall come it will not be for many
years, and not till every important indus
try existing or possible throughout the
length and breadth of the new and larger
republic has been planted firmly upon a
basis of enduring prosperity.
such a government will be strong
| enough to protect even the humblest of its
citizens and to develop every resource. 1t
will be a government of perhaps sixty
states of the Union, and in the form of gov
ernment l do not expect to see much
change from the present. Human mind
has not yet devised Improvements upon
our present foIril which are likely to com
mend themselves to any considerable part
of the people, and yet it is comfort to
know that Vy have the elasticity which
will enable us easily and peacefully TO
adapt ourselves to any new conditions that
may arise. For 100 years or more to come,
however, | expect to see our present form
of government substantially preserved and
extended gradually over Mexico Canada
and British America and the states of Cen
tral America
1T will be an empire with the greatest
railways-steam or electrical-canals and
waterways, cities, farms, homes, colleges,
factories, telegraphs, telephones and all
the new and wondrous things which cen
tury of invention may bring us, the most
perfect civilization and most prosperous
and happy people that the world ever
knew"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13
Financial Statement
Of tie
AUDITORS OF FOSTER
TWP. ON ROADS.
For the Year 1912.

account with Foster Township.
DIR.
To amount of regular taX.,.............SB SB3G3 81
Amount of supplemental taX............ 237 IS
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13
SGOl 40

Amount due collector. or.................S 152 5S
Thomas Lewis, treasurer, in account with
Foster township
DIR.
To amount received from county treas
urcr, liquor license money. ......,...... 8 1925 90
From Collector Bechtloff. ................ 3708 81
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13
Expenditure on Roads.
Expended by Thos. Farley,

Total amount expended. d...........,.....S7 S7325 81
Acting under the Interpretation of the law
relating to supervisors, their horse hire and the
pay of their minor children, as given by Hon
Judge Woodward, we have withheld payment
to the supervisors as follows:
Thos. Farley for 3l3 days ut 50 cents
per day, excess charged. ..............S 1856 90
Thos. Farley, horse hire, li2 days, at
S@UU per uay........... ........,....... 2Si W
John Farley, minor son, l274 days at
SlOO per day ay....................,. 127 so
Withheld from Thos. Farley. 56S co
Joseph Serricks, 302l days at 80 cents
per day, excess charged. 151 %
Joseph Serricks, horse hire, l72 days at
Sl,25 per day, ............ l24 81
Charles SerTicks, minor son, lG2 days at
Sl.OO per day y........,.......... 1G2 90
Withheld from Joseph Serrick ........S 7sl 62
Withheld from Thos. Farley .......... 56S 90
Total amount withheld. Sl349 G2
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13
Attorney General Miller on Future Di-
vorCe Laws.

[From Our Washington Correspondent
"The next 100 years" said Attorney
General Miller, will bring few changes in
our federal government. He would be a
rash man who should positively predict
that conditions will not arise which might
make u change of some radical nature i'm
perative, but can see no signs of such q
necessity. In minor respects there will be
changes and notifications, no doubt, such
as are suggested by experience In fact,
some changes are already known to be de
grable.
"a century hence should expect to see
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-13

In the following list of liabilities will be
found number of orders issued by the former
supervisors, as well as the marshal indebted
ness of 1883, together with interest on the same.
The numbers of the orders have all been taken
and are kept for the guidance of the treasurer.
Outstanding marshal debt of 1888. ...... Sl49l "a
Interest ON the same to date............. 42i 0i
Unpaid orders of Joseph Iles............ ~ %
Unpaid orders of Robert Bonner. 329 10
Unpaid orders of Hugh BrOgan. ....,... IA Al
Unpaid orders of ThOS, Farley y.......... 1905 So
Unpaid orders of Joseph Serricks. ...... 1883 ~
Due Collector Bechtlol ,................. l52 5S
VotoI liabilities ssqps .
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-08
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

There is in:connection with the Phila-
delphian DIVERSITY palatial dog hospital
where high-priced CANNES can have their
various ailments treated with the latest
scientific quirks and at pleasing prices
That is, price that suggests luxuries
for the dogs. This is the only institution
of the kind in the country, and excels
in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for clinics and
operations, baths, medicines and cooking
the dog hospitals of Berlin, Paris and
London.
Professor Karl Ludwig Peter. vino died
in Jena, Germany, few days ago, was
one of the best authorities in the Father
land on Roman history, which he made
his speciality. He wrote q number of
works and enjoyed widespread fame for
the thoroughness Of his scholarship and
the trustworthiness of his statements.
For many years Professor Peter was
rector, or president, of the Schul-pforta,
one of the famous colleges in Germany
which recently celebrated it's Booth ami
versary.
Ex-senator Thomas W. Palmer has
presented to the city of Detroit, for park
purposes, farm of 100 acres, which was
entered by his grandfather in 1920, and
has been owned by the family ever since.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-08


There is a log cabin upon it, which the
ex-senator said, with the woods and the
lake, had cost him s27, 900, and that he
and his wife wished to retain the lake
and the home while they live. Twenty
acres more are to be added to the park
by and by, when boulevard is COM
pleted.
The corner stone of the Jay Gould me
mortal church at Roxbury, Delaware
county. NY, was laid Saturday noon
by George Gould. The services We're
conduced by ltev. N. H. Demores, assisted
by Rev. j.. S. Brown of the Roxbury
church Besides the entire family, there
were present Russell Sage, J. j. Slocum,
W. S. Mallett and DR.. j. p. Mum of New
York. Miss Helen Gould has been the
moving spirit in the construction OF the
church The church will be built of St.
Lawrence marble, at a cost of about $780,
000 and will be in the form of cross.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-08
CURRENT COMMENT.
ENCOURAGING SIGNS.

The present signs of American journal
ism are very encouraging. The force of
mere humbug and senseless shouting APP
pears to be dying out, and an era Of in
telligence and reason is coming in. The
tricks of lotteries, sham charities, coupons
to determine whether one police captain
is handsomer than another, and al! the
rest of the long array of mountebank
Advertising devices, which have nothing
whatever to do with making a news
paper, are. bound to go out of fashion
The theory that the masses of the people
are fools, and that newspapers should
be made accordingly, is gradually weak
ening; and before long the public will
chiefly regard the intellectual qualities
and faculties and the uprightness of
every public journal. This will be a val
liable change.