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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17
TaiIors' Dummies.

Wax figures are slowly disappearing
as advertising agencies The cheap
tailors use figures of wire with heads
of plaster and papier mache, and the
cheap dentists have taken in some of
their horrible heads with staring eyes
and teeth that were gnashed by ma
clinery. The effect of summer sun on
few of the wax figures that are still
used in shop windows is ghastly.
There is one figure Of a woman whose
arm is dropping into half-circle, and
there is tailor's dummy whose fore
head Is falling into his eyes, giving
him q very malign expression In a
certain farce comedy a loud laugh is
raised at an incident in tailor's shop.
A comedian undertakes to sing White
Wings when one Of the dummies that
has been standing stifiiy against the
wall moves forward with clasped
hands, makes gesture of agonized en-
treaty, and walks off like an autorn-
aton. The singer stops.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17
Mourning Etlquette In EngIans.

In England the period Of mourning
for a father ,in-law is twelve months-A
ten months black, two months half
mourning. Grape is seldom worn, al
though the Grape period yiEss .faefaefly
six months, For parent the period
is the same as above The langess
period for brother is six months
five months black, one month half
mourning. The Grape period was for
merly three months. 1t is now almost
discarded. The shortest period is four
months black, no half mourning. The
period of mourning for father-in-law
is often shortened to six months when
relatives reside at considerable dis
tance from each other.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17
NUMBER |

in the downtown precincts have been
trying to find something to take
the place of the club when it was
found necessary to recall sleeping
'.drunks" from the land of dreams to
the stern realities of existence.
Formerly, says the Evening World, a
free application ofthe club to the soles
of a sleeper's feet had the desired ef-
feet. Denied that method of arousing
the dormant powers of locomotion in
the sodden gentry it was often neces-
sary to spend the greater part of an
hour persuading an individual to HE
himself away. But it was not long be-
fore the inventive genius of an Oak
street station patrolman made the way
all smooth and beautiful once more.
Now five-cent rubber ball has
taken the place of the eighteen-inch
stick. Apparently harmless as this
little toy looks to the uninitiated, its
efficacy as "bum" aecelerator far
exceeds whole bundle of night
sticks. 1t isn't the rubber ball, but its
contents that does the business. Every
patrolman in the fourth ward now fills
rubber ball with household ammonia
when he starts out in the morning. A
gentle pressure of the thumb and fin
ger projects fine stream of. fluid
lightning from the small hole in the
hollow sphere distance of several
feet, This tiny stream brought to bear
upon ''sleeper's" mustache has never
yet failed to bring about an immediate
revivifying of the subject, no matter
how inert the bundle of "bum" APP
peared to be moment previous
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17
FAST YOUNG INDIA.
He Loves English Society Because of the
leaves and Fishes.


The Hindoo of Calcutta does not rep
resent an ancient tradition, for he is
but a thing of yesterday, called into
being by the foreigner, and he repre-
sents an altogether novel phase of
thought, which is gradually making it
self felt, and is the chief characteristic
of whaBh has been dubbed Young India.
Young India is the more or less Eu-
ropeanized Hindoo, says Harper's
Weekly The supple mind of the
Bengalese could not long remain inn
pervious to the influence of daily con-
tact with the European cast of thought,
and all Hindoos are more or less af-
fected by that contact. A European
education, the study of the classics and
of contemporaneous literature, of an
cient and modern history and OF the
natural sciences, could not fail to have
results on every stratum of society,
and culture has filtered down from the
university to every class, awaling as
pirations and ambitions previously un-
known.
A new society has sprung up, of
what may be, termed Anglicized In
dians, which society, alasi is not al
ways recruited from the elite of the
native population; the higher castles,
who cling to their traditions and re-
tain their pride of race, are generally
faithful to the culture of the past. The
masses who make up Young India are
not attached to European civilization
by any sense of it's superiority or by
intellectual curiosity, but in search
of remunerative appointments. To get
one of the inferior situations under the
government which are open to native
baboos it is necessary to be able to
speak and write English, and everyone
anxious to secure thirty rupees month
in some Office rushes to the universities
and public schools.
Three hundred candidates for place
worth some three pounds ten month";
And what becomes of the two hun
dred and ninety-nine who fail and can
no longer live the simple natural life
of their forefathers? They must die Of
hunger or swell the ranks of poll
ticians, and they choose the latter al
tentative. Proud of the superficial
knowledge they have acquired and
primed with European catehwords, the
meaning of which have long since faded
away, they form huge unclassed
mass uncommonly like the lower
middle classes of Europe-as noisy, as
unreasonable, as narrow-minded, and
in some rare instances, as disinterest
ed as those with whom we are all ia
miliar, with the difference that the
formulas they are so proud of are Dor
rowed from the traditions Of an exotic
civilization, and that for them there il
| wider gulf than ever between the
letter and the spirit What they ain
at is, in truth, neither national indie
pendence nor local autonomy under
the English protectorate; it is simply
access to the higher administrative
functions and political domination
over other castles, with the Englisl
army at their backs.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17
Al ReformatOry Example.

There is story of benevolent gem
tleman who visited certain reforma-
tory institution near Boston, and while
going over the place engaged one and
another of the inmates in converse
tion. The good man was quite un-
mindful Of the fact, known to all who
have seen much OF that phase of life,
that people in snch places do not enjoy
being questioned as TO their personal
history. At last he came to very de-
mure-looking youngster, and his heart
went out toward the unfortunate waif.
"Well, my little man. he said, ''and
what are you in here for2''
Please, sir, said the little fellow,
instantly, I'm here to set the other
boys good example,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17

Every well-regulated family" said
Mrs. Billtops, fought to have a saw.
We've had a hammer as long as can
remember, aud why we haven't had a
saw don't know. They are so handy
to have in the house; to saw off curtain
poles with; to saw off the legs of chairs
if you want to shorten them; to make
things out of boxes, window seats and
things like that; to saw old boxes into
kindling wood, if one is economical,
and for lots of other things, l must
get Mr.. Billtops to buy saw to-Inor-
roxy'
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17
A LIye Toad in a IralIstone.

A hailstorm visited Pawtuclset, r. l.,
the other evening, such as has notNvis-
tied this vicinity for years, If within
the memory of man. One woman
pickedup large hailstone and allowed
it to melt in her hand. She thought
something was inside the little piece
of frozen rain, but was surprised to
find when all had melted little live
toad or frog in her hand. There is a
quite general belief that great many
pebbles came down with the hail.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17

The princess OF Wales is very kind
to hcr poor zeigbors at Sandringham.
4 writer in the Idler says that often
she may be seen picking rp the dusty
little dots of children from the roads,
placing them in her own carriage until
it is completely packed, and then duly
delivering each at it's own home to
boast Of having enjoyed a ride with
hox
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17
BETTER THAN A CLUE.

New York Policemen Have Adopted u
Novel Plan for Arousing Druuks.
Ever since the New York police COM
missioners issued the edict against
members of 1.-THE finest" carrying their
locusts during the day the patrolmen
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17

infTIngIng tnIs order ne VIII be pun
ished by transportation for life--a PEN
atty which will be extended also to the
seller and to the buyer, as well as to
all others who have taken any part in
the placing of adulterated tea upon
the market.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17

Customer lin book store el-'I would
like to get some good book on faith ;"
Clerk. Sorry. sir, but our rule is to sell
nothing to strangers except for cash. :
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17
The slaIls.

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 Pacl-
fic points at 7 5
Mail arrives from Pendleton, Portland and
the east at 7:45 a. m.
From Walla Walla, Spokane and North Pa
cific points at 6 IS p. m.
Office hours General delivery open from s
am. to p. m. Sundays, 5 to II q. m Money
order window open from 0a m. TO p. m.
GEO. HANsELL. Postmaster.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17

When Queen Elizabeth, Of Austria,
entered Paris in 1751 she dragged after
her train seventy feet in length It
was borne by ffirty-five pages.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17

A O. u. w. NO. lO4, MEETS THE
n Second and Fourth Saturdays of
month. L. A. Citizens,
Recorder.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17

DYTHIAN, NO. 20, MEETS EVERY
Thursday Night.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17
LODGE DIRECTORY

A Fra. M, NO. so MEETS THE
N. First and Third Saturday Evenings
Of each month. Visiting bretheren cor.
daily invited to visit the lodge.
r o. o. f. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY
Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellows
in good standing always welcome.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-11-17
The Chinese rsa Trade.

Alarmed by the rapid extension "t
the ,1ea ~ T-,9;o--
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-14
Hastings Court.

The following cases were tried I'm the
Hastings Court, before Judge S. b. Witt,
yesterday:
Edward Daily, charged with the theft
OF a sum Of money from Major Williams,
was convicted and sent 10 jail for thirty
days.
Frank Venable. colored, charged with
stealing seven chickens and four dozen
eggs from 5. A. Phillips. was found
guilty and sent to jail for fifteen days.
John 4. Coots and John Kennon, color
ed. charged with breaking into a freight
car OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
way Company were acquitted
George Chapman, colored. charged with
breaking into and entering the factory
OF j. A. Vaughan. was convicted and
sent to jail for six months and fined
one cent.
u. J. Klein alias r. J. Burns. charged
with felonious assault upon w. D. Shep-
pard. was found guilty and sent to jail
for thirty days and fined one cent.
William Jones, cOlored. charged with
an assault upon Samuel Smith. was con-
victed and sent TO Jail for thirty days
and fined one cent.
In the case of Charles Bogen, charged
with highway robbery, the jury has not
yet agreed on a verdict. They returned
into the courtroom last evening. stating
that they had not yet been able TO agree.
They were again locked up for the night
and will report in court this morning
at II o'clock.
Thomas Harris, colored, was fined $25
and sent to jail for twelve months In
one case for malicious assault, and fined
s. and sent TO Jail for three months In
another
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-14

The National Building and Investment
Association Of Virginia, located at 500
east Bank street. NJ. +. Bradley. secretary.
has had its name changed TO the Building
and Investment Company Of Virginia A
meeting Of the board Of directors was
neld -or that purpose Saturday. The
change was made in response to a letter
from the Department Of State at Wash
hgton, calling their attention 10 section
j243 Revised Statutes Of the United States
prohibiting associations, firms and other
business institutions from using the
word national in tn sir business, under a
heavy penalty
There are 107 concerns in the United
States having the word national in their
names, and all were notified of the viola
ton They speak OF holding a convcn-
ton I'm New York for the purpose Of re
questing Secretary Gresham TO defer nc
ton until they can appeal to the Supreme
Court The Richmond association re-
ferrcd TO, however, are satisfied with their
new name, and readily eliminated the
word national from it as soon as their
attention was called 10 the statute.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-14
POLK MILLkK TIC.
He Entertains Large Audience in Cor
coran Hall.

Mr.. Polk Miller last night delivered his
famous lecture, "Old Times in the South"
in Corcoran Hall for the benefit Of the
Ladies' Aid Society Of the Third Presby-
terrain church Although the weather was
threatening. the hall was packed 10 its
utmost capacity with the culture and
elite of Church Hill, who showed by the
numbers IN which they attended and by
their close attention to the speaker their
appreciation OF Richmopds genial lee
turer.
The Old Dominion Symphony Club. I'M
der the able leadership Of Mr.. w. T.
Shelton, prefaced the evenings exercise
with music.
The Rev J. T. Cannon. pastor OF the
Third Presbyterian church. introduced
Mr. Miller, who for nearly an hour, held
the attention Of the audience.
Mr. Miller last night, in his usual happy.
easy manner. told how different was the
negro before the war from the yellow
faced, gingerbread countenanced lord OF
creation whom we have with us to-day.
He illustrated his lecture with those
Jokes peculiar to the Southern plantation
negro. which completely captiyated the
visibility Of his listeners.
His rendering OF the negro dialect was
excellent.
Mr. Miller has the happy faculty OF
being perfectly easy in his manner or adj
dress. He wins the attention and sympa-
thy Of his audience, a trait so much 10
be desired in a public speaker.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-14
the G. & o. BOATS.
! hey are Increasing the Freight Trafic on
That Road.

The Chicahomny, another Of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Steamship Company $
sriendld freight steamers, arrived at New
port News yesterday On her initial trip,
and will at once load with tobacco and
grain for Liverpool.
The AppOmattoX and Rappahannock
will arrive again on the 10Th. The advent
OF this line of boats has already increased
the export freight traffic on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio, and full cargoes VIII
be ready for the sister ships as fast as
they arrive.
our English cousins are said 10 have
cotton the pretty indian names OF these
boats, now 50 familiar 70 us, badly
mixed and their pronunciation OF them
would hardly be recognized on this side
OF the ocean.
First Vice-P President Bliss. Of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio was in the city two
days last week, and spent most OF the
time in the Offices OF the company. lie
returned TO New York Friday
The report that Chauncey Nj. Depew, or
some other man prominent In the Van
derbilt system, will take the place OF
c. =. Huntington. on the Chesapeake and
Ohio board OF directors, Is commonly ad-
mitted. but just who the man will be is
not known. The board Of directors VIII
leave Cincinnati on Friday the Ath,
for their annual trip over the road. They
will spend Sunday at Old Point and hold
a business meeting here on Monday, the
9th
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-14
Personal AND GENERAL.
interesting Facts About Richmond's Gill
zens. and Other Matters.

A1hfs anu plner Entters.
The United States Circuit and District
Courts will be in session to-day.
Dr. j. F. Crane has been added to the
list OF Royal Arcanum medical examiners
for this city
private fire alarm box, No us. was
located in CullingwOrth & Ellyson's fac
tory yesterday.
Allie Dillard, Esq, Of Old Church. and
Master Guy b. billiard were at the Cap
itol yesterday.
Hon. George ID. Wise. who has been sick
for several weeks is reported to be
slightly better to-day.
Mr. T. Parkin Scott and wife. Of Wash
ington, were in Richmond yesterday.
visiting relatives and viewing the many
points Of interest in the city.
Mr. John z. Quarles. Of the Virginia
Safe Deposit and Fidelity Company, is
taking a short vacation at his country
residence near Forest Hill Park.
A regular meeting Of the Richmond
Academy OF Medicine and Surgery Will
be held tonight at $50 o'clock. in the
hall Of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation.
Mr.. Lee Henry. an account Of whose
disappearance from the city, was publish
ed in The Times, has not yet returned,
so far as could be ascertained. His
whereabouts is not known.
At a meeting of the Union Democratic
Club. held on last Friday night, the club
almost unanimously endorsed the Epps
resolution. Several members spoke en-
Enthusiastically in favor Of the resolution.
The clerk Of the Hastings Court issued a
marriage license TO the following couples
yesterday. Fred II. Islam and Istella O.
Patterson, Leon Ruskell and T.. Lena No
ble Harvey VI. Clements and Jennie 5.
Otey
Mr.. c. Koss, the aged father-in-law OF
Mr.. Chris Ever sen, was taken suddenly
IN yesterday morning with a severe at
tack of Indigestion. At one time it was
feared he would die, but he rallied and
at 3 o'clock was thought TO be better.
Warrants were issued by Squire Vim
cent yesterday morning for the arrest OF
a number Of negro railroad hands from
Boston, on charges Of ri0tous behavior
on the Williamsburg road, and shooting
their revolvers on the public highway.
The names OF the rioters are as yet un-
known to the magistrate.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-14
HenrIco County Court.

The November term OF the County
Court OF Henrico. Judge r. G. Minor
began yesterday morning The grand
Jury. William b. Frayser 0oreman), T..
q. Redd. II. II. Christian. Conrad Fie-
tig. John T. Maynard, Thomas James
and Frederick Moss. were sworn and sent
to their room. There are not more than
a dozen cases for their consideration.
The following cases were called:
Commonwealth against Dabney Smith.
indicted for misdemeanor. Continued
until the nth
Commonwealth against Richard Gaines,
Alexander Johnson. and James Sims, in
dIcted for felony Continued until the
ed.
Commonwealth against overly Craw-
ford; felony. Continued until the 18th.
Commonwealth against Harry Smith;
felony. Continued to December term.
Commonwealth against Thomas Read:
felony. Continued 20 December term.
Commonwealth against Caroline Peter
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-14
vIRGISIA HISIOKlC4L SOCIETY.
Meeting of the Executive Commlttee-Nsw
Members Enrolled.


The regular monthly meeting Of the ex-
ecutive committee Of the Virginia Histor-
ical Society was held on Saturday even
ing last, in the Lee residence. The MEM
bers present were Messrs. Palmer, Rich
ardson Brooke, Green, Meredith, Gaines
and Bruce.
The following new members were elect
ed: S. V. Fuikerson, Bristol, Va; Uni
versity Of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Mlch;
Mrs. Virginia NJ. II. Van Noast, Cincin-
natl, Ohio; II. c. Thompkns, Montgomery
Ala; b. Z. Waggener. Atchiscn, Kan;
Lenox Library. New York city; Edward
Colston, Cincinnati Ohio: Judge j. Upshur
Dennis. Baltimore. Md; j. a. Garland
New York city: Albert d. Marks. Nash
vile, Tenn; Library Of Parliament, OF
tawa, Canada; Charles J. Hughes, Jr'
Denver, Col; Astor Library, New YORK
city.
A communication was read from the
Old Dominion Chapter OF the Daughters
Of the American Revolution. asking per-
mission 10 use one OF the rooms IN the
socety's building as a place OF meeting
and a reading room. IL was decided 10
extend the ladies the privilege OF holding
their meetings in the house, but, on ac-
count Of lack OF space, II was deemed
inadvisable to allow them TO furnish any
room for permanent occupancy as a read
ing room.
The corresponding secretary reported
that in accord with instructions received
from the committee at its last meeting,
he had visited Washington and made
careful examir alton Of the Randolph Man
uscript. now in the library of Congress,
from which volumes seven and eight, IN
the collections OF the Virginia Historical
Society known as the History OF the
London Company" had been printed. He
stated that he had found that only about
two-tairds OF this manuscript had been
fully published, the History OF the Com
pany," as published by the society, being
made up OF a series Of extracts, more or
less fCl.
On motion Of Mr.. c. V. Meredith, the
president Of the society was instructed 70
take the necessary steps TO Induce Con- |
gress 10 publish the Randolph Manu- |
scripts in extenso.
A committee. consisting Of Messrs. Nc |
CURE Green and Bruce, was appointed |
TO report TO the next meeting OF the eN-
scutive committee amendments 20 the |
which will be submitted 10
the annual meeting OF the society to be
held in December.
A circular letter address TO the judges
II the county courts, looking TO the more
careful preservation OF the colonial rec
)rj books and papers under their super
Vision, was read and approved. and or
Tered 10 be sent out. The librarian was
instructed TO purchase register and re-
luest all visitors to the society rooms 10
'egfster their ram<s.