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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-09-11
A PRICE THAT WILL REACH YOU.

Do not imagine because not high priced high grade
We do not expensive hollow tubing besd belong
bnation Trust We every patent a
the entire wheel ourselves and satisfied with profit en-
oy expensive but depend the good
the American people appreciate good thing when they
afford to make the price do sell "MayWoOds
to ons Of any individual make sold We simply that the MAY
wood perfect Bicycle containing originality genuine
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The haywood has successfully passed through the experiment
tai stage During the three years put over 5000
MaywOOd placed in the hands of riders all widely
distributed through the country Expert riders riders
heavy and light smooth roads and have
given this wheel conceivable test proving wheel
earth for day wheel that be constantly the
toughest roads without showing weakness and the
repairs Its construction SO simple its vital srong
possibility of breakage is reduced to minimum.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-09-11
SPECIFICATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS.

FRAME.-Improved Double Diamond. What isa Double
cyeshe outline Of two diamonds in its makeup
frames constructed cold rolled steel rods the toughest and
strongest metal for it's weight KNOWN and the parts together
with steel and aluminium bronze fittings in such that it is
and durability the ingenuity in b.
cycle mechansmo build frame without brazen joints and tubing
and tubes when they bucked be repaired We
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break it. Standard steering head and wheel bas ball bearings
WHEELS-28nch front and rear warranted one-pece wood
rims best quality piano wire spok and brass nipples barrel hubs
fitted with Arlington hose pipe Morgan Wright quck repair
AXLE AND ball bearings through
out with 4 hardened steel balls Crank shaft bearings fitted with
cannot possibly apart while in Are neat and the bear
bearings susceptible Improvement threaded crank
les continually owdng working loose We this entire nu
for adjustment Our invention perfect simplicity and
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men running double positive loose bearings
lar ball bearings less friction and lost notion hence speed
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ONE-PIECE CRANK.-Our great achievement; by its appl
cation we put two eranks two pedal 5es two keys six six nut
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REACH Shortest % inches; longest, 81 inches
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FRONT FORKS-Indeructbe Our fork simply
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beauty also giving support solid cold rolled fork rods that just
limit the amount springnes required in front fork and
which only be obtained by forks and
HANDLE BARS-Revesbe and adjustable, marvel Of sim
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PEDAIS.-Rat trap or rubber; full ball bearing.
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All bright parts heavily nick plated these with jet black gloss
pars give handsome appearance which be exced
ACCESSORIES-Eac haywood" Bicycle furnished with
leather tool bag containing pump, wrench and patent oi
tires pedals saddles from 2 to 30 lbs
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-09-11

Bicycle constructed material that solid tough and wiry;
that simple construction easily taken and together again
has few parts of such wry material that its parts will hold together
accident hollow material to be crushed by
TACT frame that possibly be bken frame simple that its
adjusting parts its connecting parts oneece crank place
of dozen parts always ready reliable and rapid transportation
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-09-11

@. A. Smetherman, the former livery
man, has made q nice home and / am
told is doing we'll freighting to come Of
the mining camps.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-09-11
LODGE DIRECTORY

T o. o. F. NO. 70, MEETS EVERY
l.. Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellows
good standing always welcome.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17

We are not sure that the Hon. THOMAS
COLLIER PLATT does not shine even brighter
as an advocate than rs a diplomatist. To
know as well as he knows how to keep
silent, or almost silent, Is diplomatic wis
Ion. To be able to speak rs effectively as
Mr.. PLAT spoke in his interview on the
Raines Liquor Tax bill, in THE Sun of yes
terday, is n gift that only a born advocate,
or a born statesman possesses.
The Raines bill has been handled In a
gingerly way even In the house OF its
friends, as II it were n thing that might go
off and hurt somebody. But there is no
sign of timidity or of uncertainty in Mr..
PLATT's dealing with the measure. Mani
testify, he is not hampered by n suspicion
that he may be monkeying with n thing
that he does not fully understand. He be-
lieves in the Raines bill, and with great
skill he has set forth the grounds for his
belief, so that others may believe also.
Mr.. PLAT does not have much to say
about the "probable effects Of the Raines
bill becoming a law; instead, he speaks of
what he is sure must be the inevitable
effects. With the shrewdness Of a long
headed political philosopher, he presents
his figures to the taxpayers early
and conspicuously, prefaced by n few
words on the reduction Of poverty
and crime, in which the taxpayers
are directly interested. There is the wis
dom of the intelligent party boss in his
observation that the bill docs as much to
TAX the liquor business out of politics as
it is possible for legislation to do" He
shows that under the new law the charities
will not suffer. He says that the enact
ment of the bill would enable every keeper
of a liquor store to be q free man, in the
same sense that any other ~law-abiding
tradesman is free.
If anybody thinks he believes in the
Raines bill, but isn't quite sure, let him
read what Mr.. PLATT says, and he will be
relieved of much, il not all, Of his uncer-
tainty. If there is anybody who doesn't
know anything about the bill, let him turn
to Mr.. PLAT for information, and he will
probably get conviction along with it.
Those who are cocksure that the Raines bill
is an iniquitous device, certainly can afford
to risk reading Mr.. PLATT's talk for the
entertainment that is in it.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17

Far hence amid an isle OF wondrous beauty,
Crouching over u grave, an ancient sorrow full
mother,
Once a queen, row lean and tattered. seated on
the ground,
Her old white hair dropping disheyelled round
her shoulders,
At her feet fallen an unused royal harp.
Long silent, she, too, long silent, mourning her
shrouded hope and neir,
OF all the earth her heart most full OF sorrow
because most fun or love,
Yet a wcTi. ancient mother.
You need crouch there no longer on the cold
ground with forehead between your knees,
o, you need not sit there yelled In your old white
hair so disheyelled,
For know you the ono you mourn is not In that
grave.
II was an Illusion, the son you love was not
really dead,
The Lord is not dead, he Is risen again, young
and strong, In another country.
Even while you wept there BY your fallen harp
by the.grave,
What you wept for was translated, passed from
the grave,
The winds favored and the sea sailed it.
And now with rosy and ne blood.
Moves to-day In a new country.
WALT wmTMAS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17

WAY, curator for the Georgetown Museum.
These statistics arc based on the latest CEN
sus, that OF 1891. II appears that Mt that
date the whites OF all kinds In British
Guiana numbered only 4,55s. To assume
that OF these 5000 are British subjects Is
pronounced an overestimate. There are
some 5000 Chinese, and 100, 1000 imported
coolie laborers; but all of these go home
when they have completed the terms
OF their indentures, and have accumu-
lated some money. There are also
10000 negroes, and these are Brit
ish subjects. But IL England is going to
fight Northern and Southern America on
their behalf, Mr.. COMYN suggests that the
fact should be proclaimed. OF the total
population Of British Guiana, including In
dams and " Bovianders" or half castles, In
dams In all but name, 235 900 were appor-
toned by Mr.. ROADWAY to the provinces OF
Demerara and Berbice. No fraction OF the
population was allotted by him to the trans
Essequibo region, the dcbatable land.
whether as Northwest district, or under any
other fancy name. Herein Mr.. CoMYN, who
has travelled all over that region, AYERS that
Mr.. ROADWAY was right, for, save Indians
ullu DONluIlueTS, WHO 10 HOJ COlHlJHS DTlJlSH
subjects, there is no resident population.
The ~convicts at the penal settlement of Ma
%zaruni, tire officials, their families and ser
wants, cannot be so considered nor can the
gold washers or prospectors, nor the negroes
they employ AZ workmen, whose term OF
service never exceeds four months, Mt the
end of which all hands, both employers and
workmen, return to Georgetown. Mr..
CoMYN vouches for the fact that in the en-
tire ambit of the disputed territory there
are no cities, no towns, nor even wayside
permanent villages, save Morawhanna, n
small place, peopled mostly with OFF,
cials, standing on the Barima, where that
river by the Mora passage finds it's way to
the sea. This is a new place, and presume
bly, a strategic post. The other names of
alleged inhabited places which figure on
some maps, are either those of Indian vii
lagos which are shifted when the fertility of
the provision ground is exhausted, or of
police stations; or they are simply carto-
graphical freaks. Warina and Simnita, for
instance, which are said to be situated on
the Barima, simply do not exist. Mr.. CoMYN
in 1898, going up and down the river,
passed the sites where they are supposed to
stand, but there was no trace of them.
The conclusion to be drawn from this re-
port of an eyewitness is that the talk about
large districts of the disputed territory be
ing settled by British colonists, is as dishon-
est and unfounded rs was the tall about
the Schomburgk line. Now that this fact
has been made known in England, it will
perhaps in the present relatively candid
state OF the public mind be generally rec
ognized that there is no vestige Of excuse for
refusing to submit the whole of the land in
dispute to arbitration.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17
8 USB EAMS.

A cougar, six feet long, and two we'll grown
cubs were killed near The Dail"s, Or, last week.
The family had carried OF many calves and sheeD
from neichboring ranches.
An oysterman OF South NorwaIk, Conn, came to
New York last week with a boat load OF oysters. He
couldn't find profitable sale for them, 30 took them
back and planted them again. .
The nrst he'd OF marble discovered In Indiana
was revealed a week ago In the he'd Of Treaty Greek.
O mile south Of Wabash. II Ia blue and mottlsd
blue and white and Il said 10 DO Of high quality.
There is promise Of an unusually large tobacco
crop In Connecticut this year. The Cape Cod cram
berry growers, too, are happy. The plants In their
region have got through the winter better than In
many years.
a device for freeing n runaway horse from the
vehicle has been invented by u New England man.
Ry moving a lever the shafts are released from the
vehicle, and the vehicle can he guided by the same
lever until II stops.
San Francisco is putting on city airs. The strees
M decided last week not To permit the
laying NJ plank sidewalks In the suburbs OF the
city hereafter. The walks must hencefOrth be Of
concrete or hitumcn aud at least three feet wide,
orange growing IL being abandoned on the
peninsula NJ Lower California. and the orchardists
are cutting down their trees and planting the land
with coffee, cotton, and sugar cane. The low prices
obtained lately for oranges grown on the peninsula
have discouraged the growers, aud they believe
more pront Will he derived from the other crops,
especially from cotton, which grows well.
Tho i've year old son Of a doctor In Monte Vista
Col, played doctor with his two year old sister one
day last week. He Initiated the things he had seen
his father do, aud proposed to give his patient Q
dose ~ medicine. lie took n phial from a shelf
and forced his sister tn swallow It's contents. The
bottle contained morphine, and the little patient
dirl from It's ,rorts.
Three ~ the largest olive groves In the world
are planting in southern California. one grove, OF
400 acres, IN orange county, will contain "a, 900
trees. Another, near Cotton. viii have "a, 900
trees, and mo thirl, near Pomona, will have "a, 600
trrr,. Their" IL more olive planting In California
this grarun than At any previous time. the boom
being ia" Ia the Increased popularity NJ California
olives In American markets, The olive crop VI
southern California last season was worth $40, 900.
aud the grower. say that three times the amount
Of fruit could have been soil.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17

officers something like this; I'm making
appointments you must obey the Civil
Service law, and the rules and regula-
tions established under It. II they require
a competitive examination, You must exact
1t. If they permit a pass examination, you
may permit 1t. II they ALLOW some places
to be filled without any examination (such
as confidential clerkships and posts of like
character), you may appoint to those
posts without having the appointee TX
amined. In other words, you are to take the
Judgment of the Legislature rs expressed
in the Civil Service law, or that OF the
Civil Service Commissioners as expressed
in the rules and regulations under that law,
as to those cases in which you must insist
upon competitive examinations, those cases
in which you can be content with non
competitive. examinations, and those In
which you may dispense with examinations
altogether. For the present at least you
are to regard the Legislature and the Civil
Service Commissioners as the judges Of
what is practicable in this respect under the
new Constitution"
There is nothing very alarming in these
directions, nor are they difficult to follow.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17

The Hon. JOHN RAINEs, the JUsTINIAN Of
Canandaigua, was n happy man yesterday. lie
barred his head, quivering with the stress OF
thought and motion OF his mind-propeller. to
the refrigeratinR heaven. The SHOWS poured
down upon him and turned to hot water as soon
as they struck that reservoir of intellect: yet
their first touch was grateful. The halls smote
him and exploded; the rains dried up,
an allegory for him. Tho lightning jumped
out two or three times. but retreated
in Disgrace, blinded by the brighter fierce
ness Of his eye. Tho villagers built scat
foldings and raised ladders. and succeeded In
communicating with the great man as he was
trying to cool Off In the clouds. do not dis
turb me-" he cried. II would mediate on a
great theme" And he stayed up all night and
thought of himself, and this morning all the
snow In Canandaigua had skunk away before
the warmth of his cogitations. What a man.
to be sure! II he had not been a supereminent
statesman he might have shovelled snow with
equally prodigious results.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17

The mail yawning at the Waldorf for the
opening hand OF the Hon. MARC ANTOINE
HANNA of the Western Preserves was piled up
higher than ever yesterday. The collection
now reaches from Thirty-third street to Two
Hundred and Tenth, and from the Fifth avenue
to Stamford on the east and to Lancaster on the
west There is no way Of getting rid OF it. but
ifMr. HANNA doesn't arrive soon the authorities
will have to take some measure for clearing
New York and tho adjacent States. The beauty
OF 1t Is that while about four bags of the stuff
contain letters from the Hon. Moses EATuLUs
HANDY. giving an impassioned account OF the
progress OF the MCKINLEY boom In Oklahoma.
ell the rest OF 1t Is said TO contain typewritten
invitations to Join the MCKINLEY procession.
As soon as Mr.. HANNA comes l33,4lS type
writer's, who have been engaged by Major
HANDY, will be set TO work addressing these
cards. For the present Mr.. HANNA is in Cleve-
land. He and Major JAY DICK, Chairman OF
the Republican State Central mi have
sat up all day and night In the vain attempt to
wade through the mile OF mail at headquarters.
This matter Is composed mainly Of requests
from various Ohio patriots for jobs as door
keepers and what not, ard OF warnings to be-
ware of FORAKER, Mr.. HANNA and Mr.. DICK
are thoroughly conscientious men, but their
present course OF reading is a little bit dry for
two such eager spirits.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17

its accomplishment will be due to the abil-
icy aud the energy with which he has formu-
lated 1t and pushed it forward. As he Is a
Democrat. and 1t has both Democratic and
Republican support at Albany, it is in no
wise n merely partisan measure. Undoubted-
ly Mr.. PLAT regards its passage by n Repub-
lican Legislature rs n good Republican card,
but IL can he such only because 1t Is a meas
ure which appeals to the popular imagina-
ton and stimulates II powerfully. Mr..
GREEN, its author, is himself n large owner
OF property in this city, and evidently, there
fore, he Is not afraid OF the increased taxa
ton which so many others expect, and even
deem inevitable. However that may be,
the Greater New York Is bound to come.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17
The Greater New York.

It may now be assumed that the Greater
New York bill will become law within a short
time. The opposition which proved no in
effective in the Senate, Is not likely to be
n more a~vailing in the Assembly, n
there Is every reason for believing that
Governor MORTON will sign the bill.
Undoubtedly, too, the Legislature will re-
feet public sentiment in providing for the
consolidation; and it may be, nay. it is al
together probable, that this feeling of ap-
probation will increase rather than dimin-
ish after the creation of the Greater New
York has been decided upon finally. The
popular imagination will be stirred by the
thought that the enlarged city will be sec
ond In population to London only among the
great capitals of the world, and in that state
of mind the public are not likely to be i'm
pressed by the counsels OF critical Judgment
concerning the practical consequences Of
the step, in so far as relates to taxation and
methods Of municipal government.
Tn opposition to the consolidation, as ex-
pressed to the Legislature, has been based,
first, on factious Republican enmity to Mr..
PLAT. That, OF course, does not affect the
merits of the scheme itself. If Mr.. PLATT
mad been against the Greater New York, his
Republican rivals would have been for it.
They are simply trying to circumvent him ;
and hence their quarrel is of Importance
only to themselves. Another objection
Is due to the reasonable fear that
the greater tax rate of Brooklyn will he
to the disadvantage OF New York property
in consolidation. Still another comes from
Brooklyn Oficeholders who are afraid of
losing their places and being kept out in the
cold permanently. Lastly, the Rev. DIR.
STORRs Is the exponent of some Brooklyn
people, who dread consolidation with New
York lest they be contaminated morally and
politically by the union. They are con,
WINGED that, in order to preserve the goodness
of Brooklyn, the town must be kept provin,
cial. They are afraid hat the cosmopolitan,
ism Of New York may corrupt its rural
simplicity. That may be SO. Possibly
Brooklyn needs TO remain under village ira,
ditions, and Is not yet ready for the
more civilized government 1t would get by
the consolidation, but must grow up by
slow degrees to requiring clean streets,
modern pavements, and the many improve
DIents 70 which we have become accustomed
ksre.
Whether New York would make any
practical gain by consolidation is at least
doubtful. There is no doubt whatever that
, Brooklyn would profit by 1t greatly, in a
Ia material way at least; n because OF that
n ~yelAtive disadvantage for New York, the
nmfheme is looked upon very skeptically
ana 10 By many Of those who have property
9 taxed. They are afraid that the bigger
will mean bigger taxes for them; but
.-OAsideration does not affect directly
mass OF the population.
pAtsr New York protest was de
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17

P~lattdeutsch, will bring with them, con-
sp%icuously labelled, their interpreters, in
order that the Democrats may clearly un-
derstand that these newcomers are in fact
allies, enlisted for the war against the Re
publicans and not political guerrillas seek
ing, with Republican aid, to secure against
the nominees OF the regular Democracy
lucrative offices which they could not secure
as Democrats.
An assemblage of individuals conducting
n campaign In a foreign tongue, or tongues,
in an American commonwealth would be n
novel spectacle, replete with possibilities OF
fun and suggestions Of ridicule, provided
the Democratic party Of New York State
would assent to It. But IL WON'T
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17

A Appeal FOR Rrains and Nerve In chs
MannRemeut

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN--Sir: There
should be a radical change in bridge manage
ment, and as the present powers that be viii
not give the change the people demand, why
should there not be an appeal to those who can
aid. Let every reader of THE u write the
Mayor OF either city demanding that the bridge
cars shall run all night for the convenience OF
patrons who have 10 use them at night. That
part OF the bridge traffic Is as important as the
day travel, and those travellers feel that their
rights should be considered. despite the man
head OF the Board of Management by virtue of
apol!ittcal deal, In which the people had no part,
aud his pumpous and equally incompetent SUB
ordinates, who have the same opinions.
We need broader men IT. charge men who
KNOW something not merely clerks or men OF
like callbre. Some OF the men now in position
really think they own the bridge that ITS sue
cess Is owing to them. instead of tho lntc la.
mented Roebling and the men who conceived
the idea and carried II to success, aided by the
people who wanted II and who needed u. Now,
an important part OF the parties to the agree
tnent-the people are disregardcd.
The officers should be made to know that the
bridge Is an Rll-day and an all-night affair not
q mere public office that can be closed ut certain
hours without Inconvenience to the general pun
lie. About half OF the present management
should be bounced. and more enterprlsing and
vigorous men. put in place and authority. Oct
rid or the plodding, methodical. bookkeeping
element. Let us have men Of action, with some
nerve. grit, and brains. COMPOSITION,
BlOOKLYN, March IL.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17

TTOm The Ur'T0W ire IfcsA
Thirty years ago the late Major rhomn, J.. barry Of
this city. IN paying a hil, gave out SEQ too much. the
bll ~ tnat denomination stacking to the back OF an.
other. IRE rec liver noticed the mistake some tip,c
latcr and made a memorandum of the fact, intending
To ray Il. The memorandum was lost and the incllent
passed out Of his nina A few DAYS ago I'm rum NO
through q desk ne found a. lie lost no time IN srsE
ing out The widow nt Slh!Or Barry, aud after xuIain.
ing me Incident, lhluc'l her 4" accept not uniy me
NEu, bul tle As' l!rA interest: ronppunded at I pT
public.