The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-10-30

country had nothing in the shape of
coin between the huge copper cents
and half cents and the silver half
dime. The small coin was hailed as
blessing, and became popular at once.
There was an excellent reason for its
issue also.
Strange as it may seem, II was not
provided for by coinage act, but by
an act revising the postal rates. This
law lowered the cost for transmitting
the unit of weight for letters from five
to othree cents. 1t was deemed advisable
by congress thereupon to issue coin
of corresponding denomination. The
coin was of great utility, and circulated
freely until the advent of the nickel"
The Oriental Watering Place Where the
Recent Treaty Was Signed.
Chee-Foo, where the treaty Of peace
was signed between China and Japan,
and which also goes by the name of
Yen-Tai, is one of the best known ports
in the northeastern part of China. 1t is
situated at the head of one of the bays
of the Gulf of Petchili and is in the
neighborhood of two of the most prom
inent places in the recent Chino-Japan-
ese war. 1t was here that the peace of
1876 between England and China was
signed; by which three new ports of
entry were opened to foreign commerce.
The signing of the treaty on the Sth
of last May between the two inimical
brothers of the far orient has given
Chee-Foo new historical Importance.
From June 8, 1850, until the Chino
European war, France had occupied
Chee-Foo without any interference
from foreign powers.
1t is thickly populated, having one
hundred and twenty thousand inhabi-
tants, according to the consular re-
ports of 1891. In summer it is fash
ionable watering place like Trouville
and Brighton. 1t is very attractive,
with its villas with vine-enshrouded
verandas clustering on the hillsides
which overlook Semaphore Point or
dotting the plain. Beside the signal
tower pretty pagoda rears its head
crowned by it's cap with upturned
wings. America and Russia send pc
troleum oil to Chee-Foo, England cot
tons and metals. The great article of
export is raw silk.
In the quarter facing the sea, in q
small hotel, bearing the European
name of Beach hotel, the peace treaty
between the Chinese and Japanese
| plenipotentiaries was signed.
Two Eloquent Hunters.
Mai. Champion, in his book "0n the
Frontier" describes deer hunt, in the
course of which he found his dog
astride the dead body of the deer,
while an Indian stood little way off,
bow and arrow in hand. BY signs he
made the white man understand that
he had wounded the deer and the dog
| pulled it down. Then he cut up the
| deer, tied the forehalf of it up in the
skin and placed it on one SIDE The
other half he laid at Maj. Champions
feet, delivering himself of speech in
the Ute language. The white man un-
derstood his meaning, but not word
of his address. The Indian and the
dog had killed the deer together, and
the dogs owner was entitled to half
the game. The major was equal to the
emergency. He rose and delivered in
full the classical defamation: "My
name is Norval," with appropriate ges-
lures, just as he had many times given
it at school. Nothing could have been
better. The Indian and the white man
shook hands with effusion, and each
with his share of the venison rode
away.
Bicycle Affects Summer Resorts.
A new phase of the bicycle fad ha'
come to light, says the New York cor
respondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch
and it bodies no good to the hotel me1
at the shore or at the mountains
Thousands of New York wage-earners
as well as more favored ones, who have
heretofore spent from two weeks t.
two months in the country each sum
mer, have this year invested thei
savings in the alluring wheel and vii
stay at home, speeding on the boule
wards and through the parks of New
York, Brooklyn and New Jersey. Wher
papa says to the ruler of the household
now, t'su ata1ua crn F>>''.