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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
The Question Of Division.

Persons demonstrating against
division says Umatillla county is
not ready for division because one
set Of county officers is all that can
be supported says the Milton eagle
without making the burden too
heavy. Yes, when those officers
working for the county OH salaries
paid by taxpayers use their Office
to go to Salem to work against div
ision when they should be at home
attending to their official duties.
East Oregonian.
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THE NICARAGUA BILL.
Passed the Senate by a Decisive Vote
of 81 to 2l.

of 81 to II.
The bill pledging the faith of the
United States to do the construct
ion work of the Nicaragua canal
passed the senate Friday night by
the deceive vote of 81 to 81. It
was the termination of a debate
which has lasted since the present
session of congress began. 1t was
moreover, the first realization in
either branch Of congress of the
vast project so long and vigorously
urged for canal joining the Allan
tic and Pacific, with the United
States government standing spon-
sor for the execution of the work.
The final vote was not secured un-
til $50 Friday night, but notwith-
standing the lateness of the hour,
there was an exceptionally full se-
nate owing to the interest felt in
the elimination Of the long discus
sion. The Nicaragua minister and
many other diplomats interested
in the project had seats in the dip
lomatic galleries throughout the
voting on the many amendments
and the final question.
The bill, in brief, directs the is
sue Of $70,0O0,000 Nicaragua canal
bonds. Each of these is to bear
the following guarantees: -.
"The United States of America
guarantees to the lawful holder Of
this bond the payment by the Ma
ritime Canal Company Of Nicara-
qua Of the principal Of said bonds
and the accruing interest thereon,
and as it accrues."
An additional $30,000,0O0 Of
bonds is to be issued without the
United States guarantee. The total
of $100,000,000 thus issued is to be
used in constructing the inter oce-
anic canal, The secretary of Che
treasury is to have general super
vision Of the project. A board Of
Is directors is to have immediate
charge of the work. The United
States is to receive $70,000,000 Of
the canal company's stock, in re-
turn for guaranteeing the bonds,
and is to hold a mortgage lien on
all the property Of the canal comp
any.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01

be designated by the party of the
second part; that said well shall be
planked or curbed with three-inch
fir planking and cemented from
such a depth as the party Of the
second part may elect to a point at
least one foot above the water line,
it being hereby guaranteed by the
party of the first part that no wat
er shall pass through said cement
ing into the well, and said cement
ing and curbing shall be covered
with coat of asphaltum.
That said we'll shall be connect
ed with the pump by six-inch sue
ton pipe furnished with the neces-
sary gate valves, foot valves,
strainers, etc., from distance not
to require more than 200 feet OF
the said six-inch pipe.
1t is further agreed by the party
of the first part that he will employ
all the labor required for putting
in said system, with the exception
of two or three skilled workmen,
from among the citizens of Athena,
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The party of the second part fur
ther agrees to furnish the right of
way for pipe lines and well and
tank sites.
In witness whereof, the parties to
this agreement have hereunto and
to a duplicate hereof set their
hands and seals. The party of the
first part afiixing his private seal,
and the party of the second part
affixing the Municipal Corporation
seal Of the City of Athena, UNA
tilla County, Oregon, by its duly
authorized officer, w. T. Gilman,
the Recorder of said City Of Ath-
ena, this 23rd day ofJanuary, 1896.
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Did Ha1Uey "s1cipe it2 Mayor P,rBbstel thinks so

the party of the first part, bonds
equal to 80 per cent. Of said esti-
mate, the bonds however being of
the denomination of 100000 each,
the amount to be delivered shall
be that of the next lowest amount
in even thousands below the 90
per cent, and that upon the com.
pletion and acceptance Of said wa
Ter works system, according to the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
Of the second part.

OF the second part.
The party of the first part agrees
to do all the necessary surveying
required in putting in said system
and to furnish a pump and make
thorough test of the drilled we'll on
the city lot without extra cost to
the party Of the second part, ex-
cept for steam power in making
said test.
And the party of the second part,
for and in consideration Of the con-
struction of the hereinbefore speci-
fed water works system, and in
payment therefor, and for the $751;
COCO and accrued interest Of the
bonds agreed to be paid by the
party Of the first part, does hereby
promise and agree to pay to the
party of the first part, water bonds
of the City of Athena, Umatilla
county state of Oregon, for the sum
of $4,000 to be issued in accord
ance with the requirements Of Or
dinance No. 65, Of the said City of
Athena, and deliver the same to
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01

ne Ofuer, anu uV Vfic ciost5 MISS
Kirk served delightful lunch AT
/ seasonable hour the young people
withdrew to their homes highly
pleased with tho evenings enter
Bainment. This is the first of a
series Of fortnightly receptions to
be given by the Epworth League
md congratulations are not want
ing for the most successful inaugu-
sation.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
NO community slightedw

provided said labor can be obtained
at rate not to exceed S1.75 per
day for ordinary labor and the cnr-
rent rates for skilled labor.
That the said water works sys-
tenn shall be completed and in op-
Grating order ON Or before 90 days
after signing this agreement, pro-
viding no unexceptional weather
or unavoidable accident should oc-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
For PeriurY.

crued interest Of the $12,000.O0 Of
bonds herein specified, at the date
Of delivery Of said bonds TO the par
ty Of the first part. and viii III ad.
dition thereto furnish the party of
the second part with the unsigned
bonds, free Of expense to the party
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
the party Of the first part as fol,

the party Of the first part as fol-
lows:
An estimate shall be made Of
the work done and material furn-
ished at the end of each month,
said estimate to be made by the
fire and water committee Of the
Common Council of the party oR
the second part; and the party Of
the second part agrees to deliver to
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cur to prevent Or delay the same,
and provided further that this con-
tract with all of its provisions
shall be completed by June 1st,
1895.
That said party Of the first part,
in addition to completing said
water works system, shall pay to
the party Of the second part the
sum Of $1800.O0 and all the sc-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01
They Expect a Boom.

Beyond doubt in short time
be county of Umatilla viii be div
ded says the Walla Walla States
nan. There is strong desire on
the part of the Niltonites. Should
this division be made as is anti
cipated it is thought that Milton
will be the county seat Of the new
county though Athena is not going
to let her sister city get away with
the honor without a hard struggle,
The Miltonites expect quite a boom
in their town if they are fortunate
enough to secure the coveted prize.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01

DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-02-01

attached specifications, and upon
the payment of the $4,000 and
accrued interest, as before specified,
the party of the second part shall
deliver to the party Of the first
part the balance of the $12,000.00
Of bonds remaining undelivered.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-10
The Modern Election.

Just before election a warning that
seems odd to people in these parts ran
. through the newspapers in New York.
In all of them conspicuous display was
given to the words 'be sure to mark
your ballot with black lead pencil"
They have the refinement of ballot re-
form in New York-at least they think
they have. The system there was a
novelty this year and the count re-
vealed many marks that manifestly
were plumbers. One advantage in New
York's plan is that, If a man wants to
vote his straight party ticket, one cross
does the work.
In the early days-in the very early
days-the people of this country went
10 the polls and were content with a
viva voce record of their choice Of can
didates. Later years brought the bal
lot. The Australian system is a device
OF modern times; three-fourths of the
states have adopted 1t. Probably the
voting machine which Pennsylvania
and other states are testing. or some
thing of the sort. will ultimately come
into general use.
Not many of this country's fourteen
million voters have an idea OF the trou-
BILE and expense involved in conducting
a modern-day election. A batch Of in
teresting figures just printed in New
York city show that the state of New
York requires thirty million ballots,
which are printed at a cost OF $3.50, O00
Twenty tons of ballots were prepared
for New York city alone. at an expense
of $4,000; the cost OF printing ballots
for the state and local elections in the
state is estimated at round million.
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a jury of ordinarily intelligent men
thing to do is to commit the Rev. Hoef-
fer to a penitentiary or a lunatic asy-
lum.
" Boston Traveller: A Roman Catholic
priest devotes nearly two columns of the
Herald to proving that good Catholic
may also be a good Americana patriot.
in the best sense. He might have spared
his mental powder. Nobody but a narrow
minded bigot believes otherwise. Every
battlefield of the revolution and of the
civil war proved the truth of what he
contends for. And there is no higher
proof than this.
Indianapolis Journal: II is becoming in
creasingly difficult to know where we are
at In religion. Here, for instance. is
Methodist brother down in Pennsylvania
advocating the doctrine of a second pro-
baton for sinners. He hedges a little by
denying any intention to advocate uni
versal probation after death but express
es a belief in a limited post norton OPP
portunity. 1t is to be noticed that there
is n great reluctance, even in the most
liberal theologians. to open the doors of
hope too wide. but with the present very
evident tendency to give some sinners
another chance, there is no telling where
the matter will end. There is some rea-
son to suspect that the opening now
made will be enlarged until II is wide
enough to admit the greater number of
us, even II a general amnesty is not de-
clared.
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SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1895.
Latin and Greek

In a delightful little yarn printed this
month, Bret Harte makes a heroine OF
Miss Virginia Mannersly. She was a
Boston girl. the niece of Congrega-
tional minister. She was correct and
critical She could quote Browning and
Tennyson-probably she had read
them. She could wither flowers by ad-
dressing them with their botanical
name. She could spell correctly; and
and Greek"
This knowledge of the classics, on
the part Of Bret Harte's latest heroine,
comes in pleasant parallel with what
has lately been written about a woman
in real life. Just now the columns of
graphical sketches of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton. This happens because that
venerable new woman is to celebrate
her eightieth birthday anniversary
next Tuesday, and much is to be made
of the occasion. There Is to be a grand
demonstration at which the pioneers in
the female-suffrage movement will be
brought together. We have read a
dozen sketches of Mrs. Stanton within
a week; without exception. they refer
to her thirst for a knowledge OF Latin
and Greek, when she was a miss just
out of a fashionable boarding school,
For the purpose of studying the
classics, the young woman tried to en-
ter Union college. at Schenectady. but
the faculty wouldn't have IT.; co-educa-
ton had few advocates in those days.
She sought admission to other WELL
known schools of collegiate grade, but
she couldn't get in. Finally she took
up her Latin with her father. who was
a lawyer and a scholarly man-after-
wards her tutor was a quaint Scotch
clergyman.
There are. in our day, plenty of
bright women who are up" in Latin
and Greek-some of the best of them
are not new women in any sense.
What part the knowledge of the clas-
sizes may have contributed toward
making Elizabeth Cady Stanton's
career distinguished. will never be
known. She has been fighting for fe-
male suffrage these many years. We
wager that, when she and her associ-
ates meet, day after tomorrow, no new
woman in the company will be asked
to translate into Greek or Latin an
associated-press telegram of last Tues
day night which. under Boston date,
said: THE hopes of the female suf-
fragists in Massachusetts were buried
to-day under an avalanche of ballots"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-10
RELIGIOUS GOSSIP.

An iron church, weighing 50 tons, seat
ing GOO people and costing $4,000, is being
put up for the Bulgarian congregation in
Constantinopie.
1t is said that of the $1,000 Indians be-
longing TO the Sioux tribe 1000 belong to
the Episcopal, Presbyterian and Congre-
gational churches.
There is one Christian minister for ev-
cry 900 of the population of Great Brit
ain, and there Is but one in every ia, 900
in Japan, one in 165,0s0 in India, one in
e22, 600 in Africa and one in $4,000 in
China.
1t is said that the only hymn ever writ
ten by an American Indian is that be-
ginning "Awaked by Sinafs Awful
Sound" It's author was Samson Occum,
an Indian preacher of ability, who lived
in the seventeenth century.
Dr. Richard Durnford. bishop of Chi
chester, who has just died. was born in
1902. educated at Elton and Oxford, took
orders in 1884, and after holding several
important livings was appointed bishop
of Chichester in 1870. He was an earnest
advocate of temperance. middle class ed
ucation and the organized work OF wo-
men.
Walter Morchoff. the converted dive
keeper in New York. who is now running
a rescue mission, is being annoyed by
burglars, who visit the mission almost
nightly and carry away anything they
can lay their hands on Morchoff be-
lieves the burglars are some OF his old
cronies. He hopes to convert them before
the police catch them.
The dean of Canterbury (Dean Farrar),
in addressing a temperance gathering in
England recently, deplored the fact that
after all their appeals and their work
the temperance party had as yet hardly
touched the fringe Of the conscience of
the English people on the subject of
drunkenness. 1t was sad reflection that
while the purifying OF prisons was ac-
complished in one lifetime and the aboli-
ton of the slave trade in a single gener-
alton, yet the temperance party had been
working so long without result.
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NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Sun is the only New York paper
that does not use typesetting machines.
Nearly 10000 tons of tea were landed in
Tacoma from China in one day not long
ago.
The Berlin Academy of Sciences is pre-
pairing to issue a complete edition of the
works of Kant.
In Michigamme, Marquette county.
Mich, there has been sleighing for two
days. the earliest on record
A fisherman near Seattle says that he
hauled in 1900 salmon with one cast of
his seine the other day.
II is estimated that some 1000 dozen
eggs were smashed ia a railroad wreck
that occurred at Canterbury. N. H., last
week.
The seasons apple crop is set at &C.,
256, 900 barrels, which is pretty close to
barrel for every man, woman and child
in the country.
The demand for coon cats in Belfast,
Me-, has become so brisk that cat steal
ing has become decidedly annoying to
the residents there.
London has imported from Africa dur
ing the last fortnight 10000 tubs of but
ter. 1t fetched from "a to rs cents
pound over there.
A Malay opera troupe is on it's way
from Polynesia to London. where it will
perform "Rishi Sha Hirzan," described
as a national opera.
On account of local opposition the mon
ument to John Brown. which it was pro-
posed to erect at Harper's Ferry. will
not be built at present.
Prospectors are very much elated over
a find of unfading green and purple slate
just north of Castleton, VT, which they
say is very valuable.
Thirty years ago, 1t is said. England
had 10000 miles of toll roads and 1,047
turnpike roads. There are now no tolls
nd he de han hau
then.
Bears are becoming quite numerous in
the region of Gardner's lake. Vermont.
One farmer met one on the road recently
and another resident has had several
sheep killed by them.
Pension Agent Millisen OF Maine has
received 2,026 applications for state PEN
sions, an increase of about 500 over the
number received last year.
Beerbohm's estimate of the worlds
wheat crop indicates a total of 1885,, zoo. 900
bushels for 1895. compared with 2,55s, 0O0.-
900 in 1894, and 2,45S, 900 in 1898.
One of the meanest white men on re-
cent record is a fellow in New York who.
after playing poker some half dozen
times with four friends had them arrest
ed for gambling.
Bicycling has risen to such favor at
Vassar this fall that the halls of the en-
tire lower floor of the main building are
fianked with bicycle racks. Most of the
faculty, as well as the students, ride.
A Vermont trapper has just received an
order from a Montreal party for 1000 live
skunks Just what the party wants them
alive for the trapper cannot understand,
but he says that he shall fill the order.
A Minnesota paper asserts that a ton
of corn will yield rs per cent. more heat
than a ton of coal, and says the feeling
against using a food product for fuel
when the price permits is nothing more
than an empty sentiment.
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1t Is Worth Reaiina.

To those who take an interest in
the Armenian question and Europe's
relation thereto. we commend the read
ing OF an article written by James
Bryce and published in the November
number of the Century Magazine. Not
many people understand the bearings
Of this austion-the relations OF the
government at Constantinople. or how
IL happens that the powers have any
thing whatever to say about the policy
which Turkey shall pursue.
The article to which we refer gives
in brief summary the early expert
ences OF this ancient Christian people,
1t shows how. during sixteen centuries.
they have remained faithful 20 the
Christian faith and doctrine. Il gives
a clear idea OF the desperation OF the
long-sustained fight they have been
compelled to make. One is amazed 10
read OF the sufferings they have en-
dured. under Turkeys permission. at
the hands of the merciless Kurds-how
villages have been destroyed. crops
wantonly wasted herds slaughtered.
churches desecrated. women outraged
and men murdered.
Russia manages to keep relatively In
good behavior the nomad Kurdish
tribes living within Russian territory;
that has not been the policy OF the
porte. Matters were in such wretched
shape. seventeen years ago. that when
Russia compelled the vanquished
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-10
DOWN THE STREAM.

Love! 1t began with a glance,
Grew with the growing of flowers,
Smiled in a dreamful trance,
Rocked not the passage of hours.
Our passions flood rose ever,
Flowing for her and me,
Till the brook became a river
And the river became a sea.
Grief II began with a word,
Grew with the winds that raved:
A prayer for pardon unheard,
Pardon in turn uncraved;
The bridge so easy to sever,
The stream so swift to be free!
Till the brook became a river
And the river became a sea.
Life, II began with a sigh.
Grew with the leaves that are dead;
Its pleasures with wings to fly.
Its sorrows with limbs of lead;
And rest remaineth never
For the wearier years to be,
Till the brook shall become a river
And the river become a sea.
BY Lord Houghton.
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Where the Differences Is.

We often hear II said that Americans
wear out before their time. that their
life is too intense and that their aver
age Of active years is far below what
1t ought to be. This is the criticism
especially of the English: our atten-
fion is often directed to men of prom
inence in English public life who have
managed to wear out a generate or
two of Americans.
The fact is that as far as public men
In this country are concerned, they
are the victims Of shifting public opin-
ion rather than OF nervousness; new
issues have more TO do than ply
steal exhaustion has with putting
them out OF public view. Allen G.
Humans case is in illustration. He
was in the house Of representatives
back in 1874. He could have remained
In congress had he preferred to; 1t
suited him better TO win distinction in
the practice OF law. Ultimately he
took a seat in the federal senate, and
he was a recognized leader there. At
the end of his third term. when he
was sixty-seven years old. he was re-
tired from the senate. not because of
age but because he got on what proved
TO be the wrong side Of the greenback
question: as the result. Garfield got
the senate seat but never sat in it
ne was elected president before the
senate convened. Eight years later. as
second man on the Cleveland presi-
Dental ticket. Thurman was sprightly
enough 10 run for vice president; 1t
wasn't his age that defeated him.
New York switched Roscoe Conkling
right I'm his prime-rather Conkling
switched himself by resigning. conk-
ling was elected to the senate when he
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was thirty-eight years old. He re-
tired at the age of ffty-two; there are
plenty of people who believe that he
would be alive and well to-day but for
his untoward adventure with Garfield
in 1881.
Suppose German Is retired at the end
Of his present term as the penalty of
this years lost cause in Maryland
that will not be the consequence Of
undue physical wear and tear. Mr..
German Is fifty-six years old and he is
as hearty as anybody. spite Of rather
serious illness a year ago. When he
was a boy he was page in the senate.
Afterward he packed an ordinary life
time of work into a brief and success
full business career II he retires, It
will not be the result Of physical dis
ability.
Brice. who entered the senate at the
age of forty-fve must retire after
one term-his health has nothing
to do with 1t. Senator Hill, at
the age of fifty-two. is as sound
of health as any man in mid
die life could ask to be. He must quit;
lature rather than with his stomach
or his brain or his nerves-he can out
wear to-day two or three men like
Lord Rosebery. He has been through
as much political racket as Randolph
Churchill ever had to endure-it broke
Churchill down.
The reason for the contrast between
relates to public men. is this: The
British rule. or. at least. the tendency
is-once in public station. always in
public station. That isn't the policy
in this country: and 1t would be hard
to prove that. all in all. this country's
plan is not preferable.