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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20
The Parrot a Talker.

A man Of New Bedford, whose
niece had eoaxed him to buy her 6
parrot, succeeded in getting a bird
that was warranted a good talker
He brought it home, and after put
ting it in a cage, stood before it and
said: Say uncle, PollyT The hi I'd
did not respond, and after repeating
the sentence dozen times or more
with no better success, the uncle
put his hand into the cage, and
grabbed the bird by the neck, shook
him until his head wobbled around
all the time Yelling at him: Say
uncle, gol darn yer, say uuclew The
bird looked limp and lifeless, and
Disguised with bic purchase, the old
fellow took the parrot into the yard
where he had coop Of 80 chickens.
Thsus,ing the half dead bird in with
the chickens he exclaimed: There,
by gosh! Yon'il say uncle before
you get outw Next morning the
uncle went out to see how the par
rot was getting on Looking into
the coop he counted 20 dead chick
ems, and in the corner of the coop
stood the parrot on one foot, holding
the Both chicken ny the neck aud
shaking it till it's head wobbled, and
screaming: Say uncle, COLL darn
yer, say unclew - Boston Herald.
In looking over the new Fashion
Magazines at hand we find the ''Paris
Album of Fashion, " "La Mode de Par
is, "The French Dressmaker" and
La Mode" published by A. Mellow
ell & Co., West 18th Street, New
York City, unusually attractive this
month.
La Mode de Paris" and paris AL
bum Of Fashion cost SO. so each for
years subscription, or 35 cents a copy.
1.-THE French Dressmaker" is 49, 90
per annum, or thirty cents a copy; and
''La Mode" S1.50 year. or 10 cents
copy. If you are unable to procure
either of these journals from your
don't take any substitute,
but apply by mail to Messrs. A. Nc
Dowell & Co., 4 West 18th Street, New
York City.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20

PosTEN's Cash Store is the place
to buy your goods.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20
Wants Supplied

Wants Supplied.
If you want tags,
If you want dodgers,
If you want sale bills,
If you want envelopes,
If you want bill heads,
If you want note heads,
If you want statements,
If you want show cards,
If you want letter heads,
If you want programmes,
If you want large posters,
If you want shipping tags,
If you want wedding cards,
If you want deeds of trust,
If you want business cards,
If you want negotiable notes,
If you want promissory notes,
If you want deeds for sale of land
II you want job printing of any de
scription done in the best style and
at crock bottom prices, call at the
Office of the New DOMINION.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20

Practical Farmer speaks of variety
of "v1neless" sweet potato suitable for
growth in the eastern, northern and
northwestern states, with short, chunky
vines that, planted at about the usual
distance apart for ordinary potatoes, 3 ID
feet of rows and = feet in the row,
yield $50 to 200 bushels per acre and
would bear putting much closer and
seem to be hardy enough for the north
ern states. A few years ago it was
thought that a sweet potato grown
north of the Carolinas was not good.
Yet now, according to the authority
quoted, the Jersey sweet potato takes
higher rank than those grown farther
south.
80, will he paint me the way | want, >
AS bonny as grille,
Or will he paint me an ugly tyke,
And be ID to Mr.. Nerli,"
But still and on which ever it is.
He is a canty Kerlie.
The Lord protect the back and neck
Of honest Mr.. Nerli."
This, one of the last verses ever
written by Robert Louis Stevenson, is
in reference to the portrait of himself
which is given to the public with his
verse for the first time in the July
COSMOPOLITAN. The lines might
have come from the pen of Burns, and
are inimitable in their way The por-
trait was declared by Stevenson him
self to be the best ever painted of
him. In this same number of The
COSMOPOLITAN Rudyard Kipling tells
an Indian story, to which Remington
adds charming illustrations; Mrs.
Burton Harrison makes a serious
study of New York, society in ''The
Myth of the Four Hundred" and
Kate Douglass Wiggin contributes
story of one of the most delightful of
Welsh retreats. THE COSMOPOLITAN
was with this number reduced to ten
cents per copy, and as consequence,
Notwithstanding its large edition, it
was tout of print" on the third day
of DlIhlication
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20
Nothing Succeeds Like Success.

There is no truer saying than the
above, but TO name the causes of all
success is impossible. Many fail at
the same occupation another will take
up and succeed. Who can explain?
A case in point is the very great
success and increasing sale of Light
ming Hot Drops. Is it the manage
ment of the business, the advertising
of Lightning Hot Drops or the great
merit Of Lightning Hot Drops that
makes it the only household and all
around remedy in thousands of
American homes?
1t is an acknowledged fact that
Lightning Hot Drops is the best rem
edy known for all the summer ills due
to bad or change Of water and diet
and diarrhOea. 1t is a necessity in
the travellers grip and trunk. Not
only does it act as above stated, but
il cures all kinds of pains, flesh wounds,
bruises, bites of insects, scratches, etc,
and il is so very pleasant to take, and
has such a delicate odor that one does
not realize he is taking a medicine.
Ifyou never used Lightning Hot Drops
ask your druggist about its merits
and the many friends it has. To use
it is to praise it.
Now, what i'm your opinion is the
cause Of the success and large sale Of
Lightning Hot Drops?
Your answer Will be appreciated by
Herb Medicine Company, Springfield,
Ohio.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When shebecame Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20
G. D, ALLEBAUGH

House painter, grainer, glazier
and paper hanger. Estimates furn-
ished on old and new work.
| guarantee the best workman
ship in everything.
Residence Walnut street.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20
Wheeling Weekly News.

Wheeling Weekly News.
With the issue of April the
Wheeling Weekly News will been
larged into a large twelve-page seven.
column paper. The Weekly News will,
during the coming year be the largest
and newsiest paper in West Virginia.
Independent in politics, it handles all
state and national issues freely and
fairly. Subscription price only rs
cents per year.
WEEKLY NEWS,
Wheeling, w. Va.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-07-20
THE PESIrENTIARY.
Something Of the Motley Crowd Who
Inhabit Ii.

A writer ia the Kqnawha Gazette.
speaking of the West Virginia Peni.
Tertiary, says:
There are twenty-one guards, six
teen on day duty and five on night.
These keep watch over five hundred
aud ninety eonyicts, thirty seven OF
whom are in for life. or the latter
twenty three are white. and fourteen
are black. The oldest male inmate
is John Marley, the Richie county
murderer. He has been in for TWEEN
~ years, and is right at home. The
youngest male convict is Geo. Rice,
a Taylor CO. forger. He was IA years
old when admitted The young
est woman is Mary Martin,
from Ohio county, in for grand lar.
eeny at the age Of l6 years, and the
oldest female resident" is Jane OIL
daker, recently sent up from Putnam
county as an accessory to the muir
der of her husband
Seventy nine men are at work "
the broom factory, eighty in the net
shops, a hundred and thirty in the
whip shops, and twenty five in the
tailor shops The women are nearly
all employed in the knitting de Jart
ment
To feed these $50 prisoners it
takes per day y barrels of flour, 270
pounds Of meal, 275 pounds of bacon,
500 pounds of beef, three times a
week, dinner and supper, 40 pounds
of rice and hominy every day, u
pounds ef coffee, II gallons Orleans
molasses, II bushels potatoes, twice
a week, and 2l0 pounds Of beans
which are served every meal The
conviets march in regular order and
are seated by the zap Of 4 gong at
three long tables Another tap starts
them to eating, which operation is
allowed TO continue Is minutes If
any one finishes before the time is
up, he is required t. turn away from
the table, still keeping his seat, how.
ever, until the | ) minutes are passed
then they are marched away again.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
CALLS TIA DISGRACE.
The Baker City Epigram Exposes the
Sturgill Bar Fraud,

The Baker City Epigram is in
receipt of communication asking
for the facts concerning the report
ed Sturgill bar strike on the Snake
river. Inasmuch as the Press
copied the reported find. it will al
so give the other version of the af-
fair as published in the Epigram;
at will be seen at a glance what
effect such a false report has when
sent broadcast through the press
About ten days ago the Democrat
published what it claimed as q
truthful report from reliable per-
son of a rich strike at Sturgill bar.
It was claimed that $4,000 was
picked up off the bedrock, in mug
gets of all sizes, and that thousands
of dollars were still in sight. 1t
gave inference that there was plen-
ty of the same kind of ground, etc.
Of course the publication did little
injury and created little comment
in this community where the pa
per is known as utterly unreliable
and the editors, at times, hardly re-
sponsible for what they write. But
when it got out of a small circle,
through the medium of other pa
pers, the harm is at once apparent.
During these hard times men are
deceived and lured from their
homes and families by such artic-
les in the hope Of bettering their
condition. They argue that where
such rich strikes are being made
they surely could find something or
at least secure employment of some
kind. The Epjgram is informed
by parties in from that section that
the story was a falsehood and that
while the mines in that neighbor-
hood were being worked successful
ly not even an unusual cleanup
has been made this season. Such
a course is disgrace to journalism.
1t would have shown little differ
ent spirit had the Democrat prompt
ly denied the report when it had
ample opportunity to oascertain that
it was false"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION.
A Decision Affecting Settlers on Lands
in Congressional Grants.

IN Congressional Grants.
A decision Of Secretary Hoke
Smith that is Of considerable Inn
portance to settlers onlands within
the limits of congressional grants
has been received at the Oregon
City land office. This decision was
given in case appealed from the
commissioner of the general land
Office by the Willamette Valley &
Cascade Mountain Wagon Road
Company, in the case against Geo.
w. Hager, homesteader. The
secretary says that he is satisfied
that the previous decision of the
department, holding that the fail
ure Of the company to respond to
the settlers publication Of notice to
submit final proofs precludes the
company from making objection
thereafter to the allowance of such
entry, is clearly contrary to the de-
cision of the supreme court and to
the established rules of practice,
and, therefore, such decision is
everruled.
In the opinion filed the secretary
says the right Of the company did
not attach to any particular sec
tion until after selection; that the
filing of the map of definite loca-
tion and the construction Of the
road did not operate to Withdraw
the lands from settlement and en-
try. The withdrawal become eff
fective when filed in the local land
Office and it then operated to re-
serve for the benefit Of the company
the odd numbered sections within
the six-miIe limit Of the grant, and
thereafter such would not be sub
ject to settlement and entry under
homestead and pre-emption laws.
He says:
aIf the land withdrawn was not
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17

subject to settlement and entry,
and if no legal or equitable right
could thereafter be acquired by
settlement and occupation so as to
defeat the company's right of sell
ectlon, / cannot see how the COM
pany's right could be defeated by
failure to appear at the local land
office and object to the final proof
in response to the general notice of
publication. The withdrawal by
the secretary was intended to with
hold these lands from settlement
and entry, for the benefit of the
company. Furthermore, the with
drawal Of these lands for the bene-
fit of the company was a matter of
record and the company sho ould
have been especially cited to APP
pear. The publication of notice of
intention to make final proofs not
sufficient notice to a claimant of
record, but simply to such claim
ants as cannot be discovered by an
examination of records of the local
land office.
while | recognize the propriety
of the withdrawal made by the ex-
ecutiye to protect the company in
the exercise Of its rights to make
selections in satisfaction of its
grant, | am also impressed with
the Importance of requiring the
company to make the selections
necessary to satisfy its grant as
speedily as possible in order that
the surplus remaining in the linn
its Of this withdrawal may be re-
stored to settlement and entry.
The reason alleged by tho company
for failure to make selections to
satisfy the grant is that the govern
ment has failed to have the lands
surveyed. This reason no longer
exists, The act of August 20, 1894,
authorized the deposit ola sufficient
sum by the owners of grants Of
public lands, for the purpose of
having a survey of the townships
within the limits of their grants.
If this company refuses to accept
.the benefit Of this act, it will be re-
quired to make its selections from
the surveyed portions of the lands
along the line of its road, and the
Withholding of the unsurveyed
lands, along the line of the road
will be revoked. 1t will therefore
be notified that survey must be
made of such lands as it desires to
survey on or before November 1,
next, and to make all selections
necessary to satisfy its grant with
in ninety days thereafter, and
I-therefpre-the withheld lands will
be revoked"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
THE sMARTEsT MAN ON EARTH.
A Few of the Traits and Powers Which
Are Rooted in His Brains.

A Few of the Traits and Powers Which
Are Rooted in His Brains.
There is man who can write q
song and sing it or play the music
Of it.
He is yatchman and an eques-
train.
He can talk rapidly in five mod
ern languages and read both Greek
and Latin.
He can play chess and poker.
He can paint pictures and criti-
else those of other artists.
He understands engineering, and
is an experimentorin in electricity.
He is theologian and has COM
posed prayer.
He can command a ship or q
regiment, feet or an army.
He can scare people.
He can make speeches that strike
hard.
He is horse breeder and keeps
stud.
He can talk about the art of
cookery.
He possesses literary taste, and
has read piles Of books.
He is friend Of peasants and
monarches.
He is orthodox in religion.
He quaffs both beer and cham
paigne.
He can teach editors how to run
their papers, daily or weekly.
He thumps the guitar.
He is rich, and the father Of a,
growing family, and terror to his
foes.
Yet he is only SO years old.
One would think that he was
Chicago man or a Bostonian.
Yet he is not.
There may be other interesting
people in the world, but they pale
their Intellectual fires in his pres-
ence or at the mention of his name.
He is scion to the house of
Hohenzollern. He is the German
Kaiser, William H., who, since he
was crowned between six or seven
years ago, has kept all his traits,
talents, and power in full display
before the world and Bismarck.
1t would be impossible to indi-
cate more than few OF the accom-
plishments of this foreign contem-
porary in small space. The book
ought to be written by himself.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
The Way Il Turns Out.

The fresh newspaper man is thus
dwelt upon by Walt Mason in a
recent issue Of the Nebraska editor.
In Nebraska town there dwels q
man who has long held that he
could edit an ordinary paper sue
cessfully and not devote more than
one hour a day to the work. 1T is
nothing" he has been accustomed
to say, ITO write column or two
Of comments on the events of the
day" Not long ago the editor Of
one of the papers in that town was
called away for a week, and the
man who knew it all was presuad-
ed to take charge of the editorial
columns in his absence. The first
day he did very we'll dashing off a
column and half without trouble.
On the second be prespired freely,
although the room was cold, before
he got to work; on the third day
he walked the floor and pulled his
whiskers out By the handful, and
on the next he wrote about half q
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
PIONEER ASSOCIATION.
Annual Meeting Appointed for June 9
and 7 Of Viasfou

Annual Meeting Appointed for Dune 9
and at Weston.
E The annual session of the Uma-
tilla County Pioneer, Association
will be held this year at Weston.
Senator Price is presidentand Rev.
w. III. Pruett secretary. Mr.. Pru-
EFT being sick and unable to attend
to his duties, T. J. Gallaher has
been appointed as secretary pro
tempore. Mr.. Gallaher hands the
Press the following official notice
of the meeting;
WESTON, Or. May II.
The fourth annual reunion of the
Umatilla County Pioneer Aasocia.
tion will be held at Weston, Ore,
June 6 and Z. There will be an
interesting program. Everybody
is invited to come and bring their
baskets we'll filled and have a real
old fashioned hand shake. Any
one having relics of pioneer days
please bring them along and notify
J. j. Gallaher of Helix, the society
historian. If any member of the
society have died the secretary, w.
III. Pruett, should be apprised of
the fact. 7. J. GALLAHER,
Secretary.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
ExpIalnlng How L Happened.

The Telegraph Age tells how a
telegraph editor in Boston news
paper office wrote note Of remon-
STRANGE to the telegraph operator,
because the setter Of his copy had
entirely omitted the letters "f'' and
''k," where they should have ap-
peared. The operator applied to
this note as follows:
''Mr. Editor:-Mistaques are liza
BILE to happen in the best regulated
phamilies and to typewriters as
we'll. It is, indeed, very nm
phortunate aphair but the 'eph'
and cay phell out and are lost.
This morning / called at the oph-
ice ov the gentleman phrom whom
/ rent this output, but phailed to
phind him in; in phact, the 'oph-
ice cid says he will not return phor
phive days. / do not lique the look
ov this variety ov spelling myselph,
but will get the specials aphter a
phashion. /, myselph, consider
this 10 joque, but a serious aphair.
Phaithphully yours, ]. Logan
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
Highest of all in Leavening Power-Laes Us.Govt Report
@!A!!!! g! Rs&assz RBsklRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

column and nearly broke blood
vessel in the effort. On the re-
naming days he used the scissors
exclusively, and said that he would
not be an editor for all the wealth
of the Indies. There are lots of
men who think they could edit
papers while dozingin hammocks.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
INFECTED NURSERY STOCK.
Fruit Commissioner Dosch Finds Bad
State af Affairs at Canhv.

State of Affairs at Candy.
Since the discovery of SO much
diseased fruit trees il Eastern Ore
gon by Fruit Commissioner Hobbs,
which it was stated had been ship
ped from Candy, Commissioner
Dosch, in order to ascertain
the facts in the matter, visited
Candy and made thorough ex-
animation Of the nurseries in that
vicinity, says the Oregonian. He
found the stock in these nurseries
pretty badly diseased. Quite a
number of trees were "heeled in"
preparatory to shipment, of which
about 80 per cent were dead, and
of a large lot in nursery, rows, 70
per cent. were diseased. The nur-
serymen were honest in their be-
lief that the trees were healthy un-
til they were shown to the contrary
by cutting the bark IN the nursery
stock. Adjoining nurseries were
visited and found to be in about
the same condition, except one or
two large blocks of prune trees.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
Persons who sympathise with the

Persons who sympathise with the
afflicted will rejoice with D, e.
Carr Of 1885 Harrison street, Kan
sas City. He Is an old sufferer
from infiammatory rheumatism,
but not heretofore been troubled in
this climate. Last winter he went
up into Wisconsin, and in conse-
quence has had another attack.
"It came upon me again very acute
and severe" he said. "My joints
swelled and became inhamed; sore
to touch or almost to look at. Up
on the urgent request Of my moth
er-in.law I tried Chamberlain's
Pain Balm to reduce the swelling
and ease the pain, and to my ag-
reeable surprise, it did both. I
have used three fifty-cent bottles
and believe it to be the finest thing
for rheumatism, pains and swell
lings extant. For sale by Os-
burn.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17

Buy Cooks dead Shot" squir-
rel poison-35 cents per can, three
cans for $1--sold on a positive
guarantee by P. M. Kirkland and
G. G. osburn.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
VOLUME s.
LODGE DrKECronr

A. F.&A. M. NO. so MEETS THE
n. First and Third Saturday Evenings
Of each month. Visiting bretheren cor
iially invited to visit the lodge.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17

r o. OF. NO. 70, MEETS EVERY
il. Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellows
n good standing always welcome.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17

A o. U. w. NO. lO4. MEETS THE
n Second and Fourth. Saturdays OF
mouth. Fred Rozenswieg,
Recorder.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17

ATHENA CAMP, NO. III, woodmen of the
~ World, meets lst and 3rd Wednesdays of
each month, Visiting Choppers always vel
come. g. G. OsBURN, Clerk.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17

Hoods pills are purely vegetable,
harmless, effective, do not pain or
gripe.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17

Pure Rich Blood is essential to
good health, because the blood is
Che vital fluid which supplies all
the organs with life. Hoods Sar-
saparilla is the great blood purifier.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17

nYTHIAN, NO. 20, MEETS EVERY
Thursday Night.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
SID1nIONS LIVER
nEdULaT0B

Il - rs work we'll, and tones up the
wr.; teDi. Ills" Better than Pills."
az. - : had i. lvid or powder.