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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-12-01
NOT ALL PLEASURE.
Even the Sport Of Yachting Has
It's Drawbacks.
There n No Place SO Hot as ships
Deck and Nothing So Exasper-
atlng as an Inexpe-
rienced Crew.


One commonly thinks of yachting as
the most delightful of summer pas
times, says the Boston Transcript, and
the very word calls up visions of a
''wet sheet, and flowing sea, and a
wind that follows FAST" smells of salt
things, and whistlings through the
rigging, blue sky, white caps, driving
clouds and all that sort of thing, to say
nothing of the possibilities of delight
full companionship and the delicious
unconventionality of meeting ones
fellow men and women with all the
formality and restraints of on-shore
life thrown off; no making talk or any
thing of that kind, but knocking about
carelessly and easily in flannel suits
and having "a real good time" Or,
again, racing, with all its excitements,
and cruising, with all of its possibili-
ties of adventure, to Bar Harbor Such
is the popular and accepted view of
yachting, but there is another and
gloomy side to the picture which the
writer, WHO is sometimes inclined to
growl, can set forth clearly in three
distinct statements, with an open chal-
lenge to contradiction-frst, that to
''go and take sail" in small boat
belonging to some one else and to,sail
aimlessly about on the open sea is san
awful bore;" secondly, that to go as
amateur crew" on q rowing yacht
under sixty feet long is not only a
bore, but hardship, and on yachts
over sixty feet in length it is not Gus
tomary to have an amateur crew."
unless an occasional and almost always
useless passenger can be considered
such; and, lastly, that cruising is a
lottery absolutely dependent on the
weather. Fogs, calms, storms and
head winds are quite as usual as free
winds and sunshine.
Observe that nothing has been said
about seasickness, which makes yacht
ing impossible to so many.
There is no place on earth where the
sun can strike down out of the sky and
bleach and blister and sizzle as it can
upon a yachts. deck. There is no place
that can be hotter or more stuffy or
more uncomfortable than yachts
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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-12-01
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The King Of Liver Medicines.
I" l have used yourSimmons Liver RegIi-
lator and can conscienciously say 1t is the
ising OF all liver medicines, / consider it
medicine chest in itself.-GEo. W. JACK
son, Tacoma, Washington.
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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-12-01

When Princess Anne. afterward
queen Of England, was married she,
wore headdress two yards high and
three Yards IN circumfere nee.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-12-01

Pas enger elevators were IN use in
zsfas q the seventeenth century under
4ae name Of "fyinR chairs
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-12-01

+" AS old as
thehills" and
never excell-
ed. "Tried
and proven
is the verdict
of millions.
S mmons S :
Liver Regu-
lator is the
only Liver
and Kidney
medicine to
which you
can pin your
faith for a
c u re. A
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tive, a n d
purely veg
etable, act
ing directly
on the Liver
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neys. Try it.
Sold by all
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-12-01

DYTHIAN, NO. 20, MEETS EVERY
L Thursday Night.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-12-01
The Mails.

Mail closes for Pendleton, Portland, and all
points east, except the Dakotas, Minnesota
and Wisconsin, at $50 p. m.
For Walla Walla, Spokane and North PacI-
fic points att
Mail arrives from Pendleton, Portland and
the east at 7:45 q. m.
From Walla Walla Spokane and North Pa
cific points at Q Is p. m.
Office hours--G General delivery open from s
D. m. to p. m. Sundays, to IL a. m. money
order window open from Ga M. to p. m.
GEO. HANsELL, Postmaster.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18

What would our people eay to
the removal of tho 81. Martinviile
tap railroad from Cadc Station to
New Iberia? 1t would be to the
advantage Of the people Of st.
Mar;invilia u assist in this enter
prise, for the reason tEat il would
save to them distance of II miles
every time they 60 the city. Fur
Their, the fact that St. Martin am
Iberia being in and composing the
same judicial District, should be
an incentive 70 the citizens of both
I places to work for the consumma-
ton OF this mach desired end.
We hope the Board OF Trade will
take this matter up, and push it tc
completion. Both 81. Martinville
and New Iberia will be benefited
by the change.-The Daily Iberian
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18
Bayou Plaqueminc.

From a gentleman who has re-
Gently been at Plaquemine the
REVIEW learns that the govern
ment is now exproprlatlng proper
ty in order ID soon commence the
work of constructing locks at the
mouth at Bayou Plaqueminc.
Willow mattresses are being laid
to prevent the banks at its mouth
from caying, loaded with rocks, 10
extend quite Il distance into the
Mississippi river. The Wilbcrt
saw mill that is in the way Is be-
ing removed elsewhere.
\ dredge boat IS now at work
clearing the Grand river of stumps
and snags, coming this way. The
route froln the Piaqueminc is
through Grand river, Bay Nat
chez, LI.le Godel. Big Godel,
Belle River, Bayou Long. Flat
Lake. 1t is expected that chan
mel will he nade across Fiat Lake
from bayou Long. I is said that
the work on he .Jcfs viii employ
1909 mon and continue until com
murication is opened from The
Teche t. New Orleans by way OF
Plaquemire. This will be good
news to the people throughout
this section of The country.-Mor-
gan City Review.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18

Ripans TabuleS cure iaundicc.
RipanS Ta5ulcs have come TO stay.
Ripans Tabules parity the blood.
Rirans TabYles cure dizziness.
Ripans Tabulcs cure hives.
HipanS TabulCs are always ready.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18

Jim Corbctt the new and i'm
proved reversible duplex selfad-
justing, had-actor-swift- gilist,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF the
world. as the Times-Democrat
dubs him. has iecn shooting off
his mouth for some time lately in
derogatory way of the great
John l.. Sullivan, the never-re-
fuse-to-fght-pugilist. John has
borne Mr.. Corbett's hadgering I'M
til forbearance has cease | 10 he
virtue, and in a Chicago paper,
day before Yesterday, he published
an article in which he expressed
his feelings in relation to Corbett
and his bombastic talk very freely.
He called him liar and coward
and said il Mr. Corbett consider
ed himself the better man OF the
two, he was willing to lock him
self up in a room with Mr.. Cor
bett. and if he didn't make him
veil murder" he would never
talk fight again. He said also
that he intended to lick Mr.. Cor
bett wherever they met. The
next thing in order is a contest
between Jim and John and John
should insist on a 12-foot ring.
In that event Mr.. Corbett will
certainly lie knocked off of his
high perch. Our Home Journal,
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18
TOR SALE.

4 small farm. two miles from st. Mar
tinville. measuring about SO arpents
Arabic land, aud = arpents OF timbered
land. The prairie land is all fenced in,
and is well improved, all buildings be-
ing new. II is not subject to overflow,
and is we'll drained. Conditions.
$500 cash, and the balance on easy
terms to suit the purchaser, for further
particular apply at this Office.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18
For Sale.

The Dittmann farm-as nice a loca-
ton rs there is on the Teche. not SUBJ
ject to any overfow-good roads situat-
ed one quarter mile from st. Martinville
and close to St. John refnery-contain-
ing 100 arpeD:s in area besides the wood
land. For price and terms.
Address ROBERT MARTIN,
st. Martinville. La.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18
\ Scaling Sugar Tariff.

The following extract from an IL
tcryicw with "a leading Louisiana
poli,ician,' in the TimcR-Domo-
crat Yesterday, io confirmation di-
rect of the information on tAoI
same subject repeatedly given in
TIE Item stree the middle Of No
vembcr last:
Il had tslk with prominent
member Of Mr.. Ctev,lmds Cabi-
net who is an ayowcd tariff rcfor-
mer of the extreme type. Ne said
TO me frankly and unrescrvedly
that the s1gar bounty mus go and
that tie next session OF Congress
would wipe il out. He had some
hope that moderate duty on ar-
gar would be restored. but as he
declared. You know it Is very
different thing to PIT Il duty on
sugar and take OF ( bounty a. one
and the same time.
Ex-Ccngressman. Lagan, OF the
Second District, has taken The
positior Tor several years that he
would vote for any fair PROPOSE
ton to take money out OF the fe-
deral treasury Sc as 10 make Its
depleted condition strong argu-
mcnt for the restoration OF tlae du-
ty on sugar. There is 10 doubt
that the bounty system IS extreme
~ obnoxious 70 nine Democrats
out of every ten ia Congress, ano
it takes a prophet of very SINAI
dimension to predict that Tho
bounty paid on the present crol
will be the last.
The former editor OF The ITEM
while in New York during Janu
ury, suggested to prominent ad
yisers Of Mr.. Cleveland Il rrojec
for a graduated or scaling tariff
and this plan was presented to tn
PresiIent-elect. The idea is {
secure a tariff duty to replace tn
bounty and to Iun for the tern
during which the bounty was pro
missed.
For the first years, and Will
the needs OF the government ar
great, the tariff to be placed at a
high rate as it would be posi-
bic to secure il, with the under
standing that it should be decrea'
ed as time advanced, until actut
free sugar would be reached q
the date when bounty would hav
ceased under the Mckinley act.
Of course, it is understood ths
one Congress can not bind its SUI
ccssor to such a plan; but NJ
Fairfax found that high Democr;
tic authority deemed this comprc
mise suggestion so fair and equl
able that ii the government wer
once committed to it there woul
probably be little difficulty III ca
rying the understanding throus
to completion. -- City tom.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18
Land For Sale.

We are requested to offer for sale. 10
acres of first class land, adjoining the
limits of this corporation.
Also, one fine property, with good bull
ding, out houses, stables etc For fur
Their particulars, terms etc.
Address this Office.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18
FOR SALE.

Improved town lots. with good resi-
dencps. and Il we'll located lot and store
thereon with good patronage. at st
Martinville, La, also lot and store AT
Cade station, La. RObt. Martin,
ST. Nartinville, La.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18
As AN ADVERTISING f:.EE.gM

The New Orleans Picayune ~ on" or the
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Special Contributions of Pearl Rivers.
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tion and are "f = high order Of literary
merit. The ricayune is printed i'll clear.
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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18

YF T>bTR nae q liCHEN
Or Won are an 80 u 0,,,. Tea "uDi Tor rothinS
il is -..tgul .!i tx. 1ly
BRo, ~ ;PCI TtItRS.
n will clIIe .oy md '..v' y God 'rp.tl'c sold
LY'.l. Il GI.'S - l..-,lclnG-
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18

Well, when "hugging societies
are organized here we shall resign
our position as editor We must
have first hug or none, and We do
not care to hug the old maids at
all-they have been III the bust
ness so long, we fear that we would
be squeezed to death.-IBERvILLE
South. That's right, confrere.
If you cannot got the best do not
take anything. We editors are
willing TO take most anything in
payment for subscription. but
when It comes 20 kissing girls we
cannot and will not, be conteIted
with old crops that ere entirely
unmarketablc. -Lafourche Comet.
Now Bro. Taylor, an old mar
ried man like yourself has no
business discussing the question
of hugging. The bachelors on
the Louisiana press should have a
monopoly of that branch CT bust
ness. -Ihervillc South.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18

r.xS- FOR TIE. Blood.
SSF Wcukress. Malaria, Indigestion and
E:liousucSS take -
BEoXN'S IRON BgTTERS.
n cures quickly Tor sale 10y e.! dealers 40
medicine Get the genuine.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1893-03-18
\ Snake Story.

Tho following is a snake story
indeed. Mrs. Gustave Danzat who
lives near town, WAS suffering
from a pain i'll her stomach; she
employed DR.. Ludeau to treat her
and after 1 few days treatment,
she came 70 his Office and told
him that she WAS still suffering
from the same pain, whereupon
the Doctor gave her another me-
dicine. She went home. took the
medicine, and Il few hours later,
to her great surprise, she threw
up a snake about I or 8 inches
long. DR.. Ludoau, we are IN
formed. has the snake at his Office
-MqrksviIle Review.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-10
Not If She Knew 1t.

A few weeks ago railway collision
killed, among others, a passenger liv-
ing in a country town. His remains
were sent home, and few days after
the funeral the solicitor to the COM
pany called upon the widow to effect
a settlement. She placed her DANA
ges at $4,000.
ooh, that sum is unreasonable"
replied the solicitor "Your husband
was nearly fifty years old?"
Eyes, SIR"
Sand lame?"
eyes"
"And his general health was poor?"
"Very."
"And he, probably. would not have
livei more than five years."
"Probably not SIR"
'Then 1t seems to me that four or
Ave hundred pounds would be a fair
compensation"
"FOur or tive hundreds" she echoed.
'Why, sir, 1 courted that man for
ten years, ran after him for ten more,
and then had to chase him down with
shotgun to get him to marry me.
Do you suppose that Pm going to
settle for bare cost of shoe leather
and ammunition?"
The man of law concluded that she
deserved all she could get-Spare
Moments
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-10
Masses for Victor Hugo.

A few weeks ago an old negreSs
came from Bridgetown on the sland
of Barbados, to missionary and
Victor Hugo. The missionary was
astonished, and at first believed that
he misunderstood the visitor. But
the negress replied to his questions
that years ago she had given aid tc
Hugo's daughter, who had married ar
English officer against the will of her
father, and fed with him to Barbados.
The officer deserted his wife, who con-
seQuently became almost insane, and
was cared for in that condition by the
negress The negress wrote to the
poet of the sad condition of his child.
Hugo sent her 2, 900 francs and had
her go to Paris with his daughter.
After remaining time in the house
of the author the negress decided to
return to Barbados. One reason for
this was the fact that the poor
daughter had become incurably in
sane and been consigned to an
asylum. The p1et, who respected
the negress because of the love she
had borne his daughter, said to her
before her departure from Paris:
"When you hear of my death in
your native country have three mas.
ses read for me-"
The old woman, who first heard of
the death of Victor Hugo a few
months ago has now fulfilled the
wishes of the poet.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-10
A Royal Benef,actOr.

In his "'Life and Times of King
William w." Mr.. Percy Fitzgerald
tells the following story of the good
natured sailOr-prince then Duke OF
Clarence. One morning when the
Prince. having received his commits
sion and his ship, was on his way OF
his tailor's in Plymouth, to get the
new uniform, at street corner he
saw a boy crying. and stopped to in
quire the cause. The lad looked up
through his tears, revealing a hand
some, winning. and intelligent face,
and replied that his mother had died
only few days before. and that he
had been cast homeless upon the
street. "Where is your father?"
asked the Prince. "He was lost in
the Sussex, on the Cornwall coast two
years ago."
GLOW would you like to go to sea
In f1rst-rate man-of-war?" The
boys face frightened as he answered
that he should like it very we'll. The
Prince took out his pocket book and
wrote something upon slip OF pa
per, which he gave to the boy with a
shilling. go down to the docks, I"
he said, "and with this shilling you
will hire boatman to carry you of
to the Pegasus When you get on
board the ship you will give this pa
per to the officer whom you find in
charge OF the deck, and he will take
care of you Cheer up, my lad!
Show me that you have true heart,
and you shall surely find a true
friend" Arrived on board the Pc
gasus, the officer of the deck received
him kindly, and sent him to sit
upon gun-carriage under the break
of the poop. In less than an hour
the Prince came of in his new uni
form; and the boy was strangely
moved upon discovering that the man
who had promised to be his friend
was none other than William, Duke
Of Clarence, and Captain of the frig.
ate. The boy, whose name was AL.
bert Doyer, was taken into the cabin,
where the Prince questioned him, and
forthwith he ordered him to be rated
as a midshipman, and from his own
purse he procured him an outfit.
During the voyage to the American
coast the Prince became strongly
attached to his youthful protege,
keeping him about hisiperson contin.
ually and instructing him in general
branches of education, as well as hi,
profession. Time passed on, and the
boy grew to man, serving King and
country faithfully. In time William
became King, and signed the com
mission which made ALBERT Doyer &
Rear Admiral. He exclaimed as ht
put his signature to the document
''There-if have ever done a goot
deed for England. it was when saved
to her service that true and worth,
man"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-10
A Burglar Who Kept a Diary.

Writing of the extraordinary series
of burglaries, the author of which, a
clerk, has just been captured by the
police of Vienna our correspondent
in that city says: '.At present
thirteen burSlaries have been traced
to the prisoner, and yesterday all the
persons from whom goods have been
stolen during the last five years were
invited by the police to view the mis-.
cellaneous collection of articles which
has been found in his lodgings and
which fills large room, though every
thing that he considered really valua-
BILE has been pawned by him. These
things are being redeemed so that
they also may be offered for inspectirr
to the public. Among the burg!
property was found, u notebook, -.
which he kept a diary, writing the
date of each burglary, and even how
often he returned to the house upon
which he was engaged to carry away
his booty. The diary gives a COM
plete clew to his character, for it con-
tAins his views upon all that has hap
pened during the last five years and
the details of about twenty love az
fairs he carried on. He never in all
his burglars career trusted either
man or woman with his secret. -
London Daily News.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-10
Cucumber Snakes.

Down in Miles River Neck, Talbot
County, there Is a spot where the
average Chinese would delight to
dwell. 1t Is place where Chinese
cucumbers grow to an enormous size.
This vegetable, however, assumes
sometimes shape which !rightens
the natives OF the neighborhood, in
spite of the fact that Talbot IS a
local option county. The cucumb her
grows long and slim, and at times
twists itself into coils resembling a
snake. A man going from Easton
the other day to Miles River Ferry. in
passing little clearin. in the woods.
noticed a green-looking object in a
patch of vegetables. ana he got over
the fence to make closer examina-
tion. He almost tainted. Another
citizen came along soon afterward.
The first man had revived and was
leaving the patch at a Nancy Hanks
gait. When accosted he said to his
friend, ''Been bit by snake; woods
full of 'em." Citizen No 2persuaded
the frightened man to go back, and
upon examination the snake proved
to be Chinese cucumber about
twenty-seven inches long, which in
the course of growth had twisted it
self up in the form OF a snake. The
cucumber was sent to the American
Office by express yesterday. It was
on the farm of L. w. Trail of Miles
River Neck, and its shape is perfectly
snakelike. Mr.. Trail, it is said, has
quarter Of an acre of them. The
Chinese cucumber is not eaten to any
extent in this country except by
Chinese and few foolish cows. The
former, however, import them in a
dried condition from their native
land. as they do stale eggs and other
OdorOus luxuries. The Chinese like
to see cucumbers grow and they often
cultivate them in their yards in the
cities over here. The snakelike ap-
pearance OF the vegetable does not
brighten the slant-eyed foreigner, as
he would eat with relish green garter
snake If he didn't happen to have
ANYTHING else handy. -Baltimore
American. 1