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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13

HEAD OFFICE, YOKOHAMA.
BRANCHES.
Bombay, Hongkong, Honolulu,
Kobe, London, Lyons, Nagasak,
Newchwang, New York, Picking,
San Francisco, Shanghai, Tientsin,
Toxic.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13

HONOLULU BRANCH, 81 KING ST.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-13
The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd.

Capital Subscribed. Yen 24,OO0,00O
Capital Paid Up.....Yen 100000
Reserved Fund ........Yen 100000
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-08-21
Athena, Oregon.

Constable James w. Dykes of Milton
took Del McGinnis of that city to the
county Jail Tuesday where he will await
the action of the circuit court on the
charge of burglary.
G. A, Sias returned home yesterday
after four days drive from his Crook
county homestead. Mr.. Sias will occu-
py his pulpit in the Christian church
next Sunday morning and evening.
Rev. G. H. II. Moore and members OF
his congregation drove to Adams
Wednesday evening, where the ordi-
nance of baptism was administered to
candidates from this city in the Baptist
church there.
Mr.. Ellscamp and family have arrived
from Portland with intention of making
Athena their home. The family is now
domiciled in one Of the Kilgore cottages
and Mr.. Ellscamp has opened harness
shop in the building east of Miller's
| new brick.
Mrs. Lizzie Jones will have her fall
stock of ready to wear hats on exhibi-
ton at her residence about September
1. These hats will be strictly up-to-date
in style and the trimmings an individual
specially. Ladies are invited to call and
see the stock. A
+Central City Qa.) News Letter: r. T..
Brown is now playing third base with
the Cedar Rapids team. Willard, of
Springyille, pitched for Animosa Tues
day against Olin, and let them down
with one hit, winning the game by a
score OF 2 to /.
In Athena and adjacent country the
advance of the scourge Of the soil, the
Russian thistle, is being held in check
by the use of the sharp bladed hoe. s..
@. Stanton has been engaged for some
time in locating the pest and seeing that
it is properly exterminated.
Adams Advance: Tuesday night some
one found the time so long "between
drinks" that they raised window on
the north side Of the Exchange saloon
and obtaining entrance, got three quart
bottles Of whiskey, one quart bottle Of
Vermouth and some few boxes Of cigar
cites.
DR.. j. A. Best was over from Westor
Tuesday evening and before leaving fol
home left an order for set Of bugg,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-08-21


selling his herd Of ine swine, inten ding
to go out of the hog business. This SOW
is one of the finest in the state and is
from one of the Swaggart stock.
IN City Marshal Gholson is in the noun
tains recupe2ting. j. w. Adams is
wearing the star during Mr.. Gholson's IS
absence.
kMrs. w. P. Willaby and daughter,
Mrs Fred Kershaw visited Mrs. o. M.
, Castleman, at her home in La Grande
last week.
Sam Dunlap, the popular fruit ped
dler, was over from Milton Wednesday.
He had some choice apples, peaches and
tomatoes.
Mrs. David Dickson, a cousin of John
and W. j. King died Wednesday at her
home in lone. She leaves three little
children.
CIV. Gates will take the place of the
agent at Boles junction temporarily.
Mr.. Gates will again give his entire at
tentIon to railroading.
"Abe" Jones, since selling his dray
business to g. O. Henry walks about as
though he were lost. He was in the
business too long not to miss it.
A harvest weather is the order Of
tie day and should it continue for an
oihe week, little grain except in the
featl-ills will remain standing.
NJ IS Lula Ray, who was formerly a
teacl er in the Athena schools, was in
tile city yesterday. Miss Ray is now
teacl ing in the Seattle schools
TX Re oert Stanfeld and j., B. Saylor, Of
Butt creek, have contracted for 1000
head Of feeders The price paid will
range close to cents per pound.
The potato crop of this section will be
in demand this fall and winter. The
general crop is reported short and Una
tilla tubers will bring good pSice.
lN Mr.. Rulison, veteran Of the civil
war, left Friday for San Francisco,
where he will attend the 37th annual
national encampment Of the g. a. r.
The families Of Fl. o. Worthington
and L. j. Robinson, Miss BERTHE Miller
and Angus Mcdonald left Tuesday fol
the mountains to spend several days.
Miss Elsa Rosenzweig win visit friends
| in Spokane next week. While there
Miss Rosenzweig win investigate pri-
mary methods as used in the city
schools.
Pendleton Tribune: Swaggart & Ri.
horn have sold to j. M. Swaggart O
Athena lot 10, block 273, reservation ad
dition to Pendleton, the consideration
being sl25.
| Z Miss Cauthorn, the young lady WHIT
visited her sister, Mrs. Archie McIntyr'
and who was also the guest Of Mrs. VIII
McCollum, has returned to her home il
Corvallis.
Mrs. w. s. Perry and daughters
Bertha and Minnie, of Pendleton, are
visiting friends in this city. Mr.. AMI
Mrs. Perry have recently returned from
a trip East.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
II. G. Manela, formerly Of this city bu
row Of walla Walla, has been danger
susly sick in Portland, where Mrs. Ma
ela was visiting.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-08-21

harness with Chas. Norris. The trim
mings will be OF solid rubber, the
leather Of the best and so far as con-
Germs the mechanical part Of the job,
Charlie viii attend 10 that.
Shortly after noon yesterday two
warehouses burned at Thorn Hollow
station. Little if any wheat was burned
as hauling from the foothill ranches has
not begun. The cause of the confiagra-
ton is not learned at time of going to
press.
The Baptist church Of Athena is to
have a permanent pastor in future. Rev.
@. H. II. Moore has been retained for
the coming year and will enter upon his
years work Sunday next. Mr.. and Mrs.
Moore are well pleased with Athena and
surrounding country and this week pur-
chased the @. A. Fischer cottage, with
the intention Of residing here perma-
nently. R
Thomas G. HALEY was up from PEN
dleton Tuesday. Mr.. Haley, in addition
to lucrative law practice, his duties as
district attorney, has taken upon HIM
self the burden of farming. He has
recently purchased an alfalfa ranch on
the Wildhorse, which he intends to
stock with hogs. He went out to see
Link Swsggart's herd Of thoroughbreds
before returning to Pendleton.
The report reached this city Tuesday
of the death Of Lester, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Beale, but upon investlga-
tion it was happily found to be false.
Lester is now at Woodward's tollgate
with his parents. and willie In critical
condition with typhoid fever, hopes are
still entertained for his recovery. The
young man has been in delicate health
for several years, having been operated
upon at one time for appendicitis.
DR.. McLane, the state veterinary sur
geon from Portland, has returned home
after flying trip to Weston. He was
called by County Stock Inspector H. j..
Bean to pass judgment on a horse at
Weston, the property Of Iven O'Harra.
The horse was supposed to have the
glanders, and the state officer was called
to settle the matter. After examination
he was unable to tell, and took with him
some OF the discharge from the throat Of
the animal, which he will have exam
ined at the experiment station.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-08-21

Interesting News Items Concerning
Well Known Neighbarhood.


Interesting News Items Concerning 8
Well Known Neighborhood.
Mrs. j. j. Gross paid the Flat bust
ness visit one day last week.
Mr.. Still was on the Flat lately look
ing out for harvesting to do with his
big outfit.
The Rigby- Glove combine proved to
be failure for this season. At any rate
that was the case with the one the Ger
king boys tried. It's thought however,
that with few slight changes, another
year it will work all right. 1t is to be
hoped that it may, as it is just the ma
chine the farmer wants when once il is
perfected.
The Jones outfit from Pendleton
passed up the Flat Saturday. One Of
the men who was driving header wagon
with trail evidently got too much booze
on the way, as he seemed to be trying to
drive in circle. He succeeded in run
ming the team in fence corner and was
unable to get any farther, when the
cookhouse driver took PITY on the poor
fellow and slowed him away in the cook
house and got another man to drive the
team.
Mr.. Shick was out to his farm Thurs
day where his grain is being thresLed.
J. j. Gross finished up this seasons
run Thursday.
Messrs. Will Rigby, Arthur Rigby
and Mr.. Balzadore were business visit
ors on the Flat Friday.
Mr.. t. NJ. Barger and family returned
Saturday from several days outing in
the mountains where they had been
rustling huckleberries.
The Walter combine finished work on
w, H. H. Scott's spring wheat Monday.
The variety Sonora yielded about IL
bushels. G8.
Stone & Potts finished the seasons
run and laid up their outfit Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Keen went to the
mountains huckieberrying Monday.
UNo.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-08-21
Press Paragraphs

l~Nn~r~~>N.~~~~~->~N~N~1
G. w. Bradley was in Pendleton Mon
day.
1t is said Athena is to have another
barber shop.
Miss Grace Ray of Weston was in the
city yesterday.
Nesmith Aukeny was over from Walla
Walla Friday.
@. II. Sherman, the butcher, was in
Pendleton Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. o. Reed were up
from Adams Tuesday.
John Gross has a threshing outfit,
complete, for sale at 5000.
Campbell Bros. show bill posters we're
in town again Wednesday.
%.Born, this morning, August n, to Mr..
and Mrs. Fl. w. Learn, q daughter.
Wheat is rolling in in vast quantities
at the different warehouses in Athena.
Mrs. S. F. Sharp and daughter, Miss
Kittie, visited in Pendleton this, week.
I, Mrs. Robert Coppock was quite sick
last week but at present is improving.
Mrs. a. L. Armstrong was the guest
Of Athena relatives for several days this
week.
Miss Bethene Swaggart has recovered
after quite severe illness, which lasted
week.
Robert Jameson, one of Weston's
progressive citizens, was in town
Wednesday.
Mrs. E. A. Boyd arrived in the city
Monday from Milton and will make her
home here.
Mrs. w. @. Miller has first class
bedroom suite which she offers for sale
at a bargain.
james Sharp is now half owner of one
q the largest and best equipped barber
shops in Pendleton.
Monday and Tuesday were days sc
hot as to make it uncomfortable for the
average East Oregonian.
- Chas. Keen will soon engage in the
piano business. Charlie is hustler
and will do a good business.
Postmaster Citizens and A. ]. Parker
were seeking the festive prairie chicken
in the wheat fields yesterday.
Ed G. Allen, formerly q Pendletor
business man, has been offered the man
agement OF the Black Butte mines.
Mrs. Rosenzweig and Mrs. McCol-
Tough drove out in the country yesterday
to see Grandma Keller, who is i'll.
,sA-Mrs W. j. King will return tomorrow
evening from McDuffy springs. Mrs
King has greatly improved in health.
Mrs. c. A. Fischer accompanied he
daughter, Mrs. Armstrong, to Spokane
where she win remain for short time
A. j. Parker, the barber, has beei
unable to work portion of this week
Claud Estes is assisting Len Simpson il
ting shop.
East Oregonian: Dave ingram ha
bought the blooded Poland China sos
rAthena. from Walter Adams, who
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-08-21
Took Her Daughter, with Her.

Took Her Daughter with Her.
The Leader reports that Mrs. Nancy
Case, who left her husband and family
at Weston some months ago and went to
Spokane, came back last week and re-
turned to that city Monday morning,
accompanied by one Of her daughters, a
girl OF thirteen.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-08-21

Oi hear, Misther McNu, ho Col Wood has bin gyin hunch'
he An Rockyfele Jim Hill i'm tn
spirits mond Whn Colonel
wouldn't hold wdou first manun tn so John an jim takes
i'm side an gye tn hunch let Afer payin out 1922 an
c for provisions improvements this fee tho dip his
tn governmint do
simply for h privilege ownn of rale estate an thin sits his
sucker hdeo along an Wood 100 an tin dollars
tn he tn
oder TIL wild m soft feet commits sueside tn Colonel has be-
M heirs h fnce
country be oppressed Mther Flynn
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-08-21

For Sale.
A good span Of horses, harness and
buggy. Enquire at PREss Office.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-07

We need not inquire as to the corruption of the
Senate; but we know that it is corrupting. It is
corrupting even if it only stimulates the cynical
belief in it's lack of virtue which is embodied in
a doubtless untruthful story not long ago current
effect that a Senator, on hearing that an aspi-
rant for election to the Chamber had refused to
respond to the last demand made upon him for
money, said:
GLOW foolish! Doesn't he know that a sena-
torship is worth sixty thousand dollars a yearw
The sad thing is that, absurd as the fiction is
upon it's face, it's narration was never known to
be received with any expression of surprise, with
any expression whatever except that smile which
indicates that such a tale told of such a sub
ject is to be expected. When men are known
to secure seats in the Senate because they are
rich, and, being in the Senate, thereby boone
the dominant powers in the government and in
party politics; and when the legislation which
secures most attention from Congress affects pri-
vate commercial and financial interests, suspicious
of corruption are, to say the least, not astonish-
ing. The Senate is not only powerful: it is exact
ing and arbitrary, while the character of it's con-
stituent elements makes it self-assertive, tyran-
nical, and prone to prefer the material to the
moral advantage of the republic. It's overshadow-
ing influence, and the manner in which it is ex-
erted, inevitably recall the saying of our ancient
enemy, Lord Butte:
"The forms of a free and the ends of an arbi-
trary government are things not altogether in
compatible. From "The Overshadowing SEN
ate," by Henry LOOMS Nelson, in the February
Century.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-07

~ as given by President Vardell, of Red Springs
seminary, who was present at the banquet:
aTbe Unitarian Club, numbering with it's
orests. two hundred or more, met for a discus
s.on. the dinner was incidental, no negroes we're
invited to the dinner; but two came in when the
dinner was supposed to be over to hear the dis
cnssion. just as they might have gone to a hall
where there had been no dinner. In no sense
did DIR. Page dine with a negro"
# is to be hoped that the papers whose desire
70 discredit the work of the Southern Education
BOARD caused them to roll this rumor as a sweet
morsel under their tongues, will publish DR.. Var
dcTs correction. 1t is not likely, however, that
the truth Will ever completely overtake the false
hood. But the people of the South can learn that
our sensational journals are too prone to magnify
reports of this kind, and the. leaders who would
help the South can learn that they can easily
impair their influence and injure their cause by
violating any of the inexorable social customs of
our Southern people.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-07
Plutocracy in the Senate.

One result of the immense growth of a Sena-
tors power and influence is the temptation
thereby offered to masterful men of wealth. To
such men there is no pleasure comparable to that
of exercising power. The joy of the ruler is dear
to them, and there is no position in this country
like a senatorship for breeding that ecstasy. An
Indictment against wealth in politics, per Sc, is
folly; but wealth in public life, u~nguided and
uniformed, untempered by a patriotic and states
manIike regard for the general welfare, is hostile
to the country's best interests. It is not true that
rich public men invariably disregard or overlook
the general welfare; they are often our wlsest
counselors. It is true, however, that their first
tendency is to consider the effect of proposed leg
islation on special interests. It is also unques-
ticnablv an evil that men who have no talent for
public life should attain to its highest honors
merely because they are rich. In the present Sen
ate there are more than a score of men who would
not be there but for their possession OF wealth.
It is not true that these men, being In the Sen
ate, are necessarily unworthy members OF the
body, but, in itself, the fact that wealth can Sc
cure senatorships does not make for the health
of the body. When to this we add the domination
which the Senate has gained over the President
ond the nopular branch of Congress-, and over the
marty organizations, we readily understand that
Il is a menace to the health of the body polite.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-07
The Danger of one-sided Development.

Charles Darwin, the eminent scientist, said in
his old age:
Cup to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry
of many kinds gave me great pleasure. I have
also said that formerly pictures gave me consid-
cradle, and music very great, delight. But now
for many years I canont endure to read a line of
poetry. ] have also almost lost my taste for pic
lures or music. If [ had to live my life again, I
would have made a rule to read some poetry and
listen to some music at least once every week;
for perhaps the parts of my brain now a~trophied
would thus have, been kept active through use.
The loss of these tastes is a loss Of happiness, and
may possible be injurious to the intellect, and
more probably to the moral character, by enfeeb-
ling the emotional part of our nature"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-07

10 improve a waterway confined exclusively to
one State! This has been often done. Where
does the authority come from to establish elee-
mosynary institutions for taking care of old sol
dlers or for special objects of charity? This is
done by the government. Draw the line as
closely as these doctrinaires would have us do,
and the Military Academy at West Point, the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, would find no war
rant IN the Constitution so positive and pro-
noUnced as the one for the building of postroads
and postofhces. The latter is expressly granted,
If not commanded, because they are necessary to
carry out the purposes of the government. The
former comes within the implied powers. The
actual exercise of the power to build great pub
lie highways has been used. The exercise of this
power has the sanction of precedent it has the
sanction of usefulness and necessity, as we'll as
the sanction of public approval. There is, there
tore, as much reason why the people should de-
mand an appropriation for the building of post
roads as for any other purpose for which appro-
%prlations are granted, such as the improvement
of rivers and harbors, the laying and collection of
taxes, duties, imports and excuses, the borrowing
of money, the regulation of commerce with for
eign nations and among the several States, and
the establishment of postofices.
us it not as much the duty of the government
to supply the means by building roads for pro-
tecting their prosperity and property as it is to
build great war vessels to do the same thing?
Is it any more paternalistic to carry the mail to
the country than to distribute it in the cities?
Is it paternalism to improve the roads in the
country for the purpose of facilitating the deliv-
cry of the mails, and not paternalism to erect
boxes and build postoffces and employ carriers in
the city for the same ~purpose? Why object to
the good offices of the general government in do
ing that which States and counties and local gov
ernments have failed to do for a century? The
people have control of the general government as
much as they have of the State and county gov
If the improved highways are neces-
sary to the welfare of the people, what difference
does it make, except for good, whether the work
OF improving them is done by the people acting
through the governmental agencies or through
agencies created by the State or county@"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-07
NATIONAL AID TO ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

NA44ONhL AZ ~ CNhO luz CNON VuE L.
A number of articles explaining and discussing
the Brownlow Good Roads Bill now pending in
Congress, have recently appeared in The Progress
siye Farmer, and have doubtless interested our
readers. The measure provides, in brief, that the
National Government shall at once appropriate
the sum of $2O,OOO,OOO to be used in aiding road
Improvement in the various States-the State,
county, or township to pay one-half of the cost of
the road building and the National Government
the other half. 1t is an application of the princi-
pie of cooperation and self-help so successfully
tested in our rural library scheme in this State.
This is the gist of the Brownlow Bill, and we
must confess that the more we study the plan the
greater seems its merit. At first we were disposed
to regard it as visionary, but the plan of co-opera.
ton it proposes is practicable and even admirable.
Then We thought perhaps it was "unconstitoo-
shUnal," but we have been unable to discover
wherein it does greater violence to the Constitu-
ton than ten thousand other schemes now
~engrafted into our system of government that
would have been regarded with disfavor by the
original "%strict constructionists." IF it is consti-
tutional to expend millions annually for the i'm
provement of rivers and harbors-liquid avenues
Of transportation-why should it be thought I'M
" d1u JuC Improvement " u "a
solid avenues of transportation? Moreover,
Congress has already appropriated 100000 or
more for road improvements in Porto Rico and
We Philippines; must we argue that it is not con-
Shturlonal to do for ourselves what we are already
uoIng for savages and aliens?
these arguments and others that have ben ad-
'ahced IN behalf of the bill-those on page 10 of
mS number of The Progressive Farmer, for ex-
"mple-have almost persuaded us that the Brown.
%| Bill ought to have the support of all our peo-
pic Who need better roads. And we serve notice
VII those whom it may concern that unless some
VIE rises up to disprove the arguments made by
"e b~rownIowites, the measure is going to be al
MUS. TOO popular to defeat when it comes up for
.0S"ge IN the House of Representatives. Many
.~"'en'IaI papers are endorsing the movement,
wv as a specimen of the arguments that are made
n 4 It's favor, we give this from the Baltimore
'onu1acturers' Record:
IL Iheory once was that the general govern
l. Z. was to do nothing that the States could
Wv ir themselves. Had this theory been studi-
h @' observed it would be a valid objection to
81. passage of a road law by Congress. But in
hoS' every function of the government this
oDo has been overridden in practice. Where,
1"' inquire, does the authority come from
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-07
The Most Vulgar Error About P, etry.

The most vulgar error of the vulgar mind with
respect to Poetry is that which somehow con-
POUNDS it with verse, and even with rhyme; sup
posing that a measured distich or ~quatrain, end
ing with words of similar but not Identical sound,
is necessarily poetic. Proud mothers will often
draw forth from the deepest recess of closet or
bureau some metrical effusion of budding son or
daughter, which is supposed to be instinct with
poetry, because measured into feet and tagged
with rhyme; when in fact there is no more poetry
in it than in the request, "Pass me the baked pota-
toes" Rhymed couplets of regularly measured
and accented lines are a fashion of our poetry,
but no more essential to it than a silk or fur hat
is to the character of a gentleman.-From an adj
dress, "Poets and Poetry" by Horace Greeley.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-07

Holy souls love retirement; it will do US good to
be often left alone; and if we have the-art of i'm
proving solitude we shall find that we are never
less alone than when alone-Matthew Henry.