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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
DANGEROUS POSTAGE STAMPS.


The English postoffice authorities
have recently ordered the withdrawal
from circulation Of the three-penoe
stamp colored yellow and brown, for
the reason that investigation has
shown that the coloring matter en-
ployed on these stamps contains suf-
ficient cromate of lead to produce in
furious effects. 1t was shown during
the investigation on which the order
of withdrawal was based that IL mill
ligrams of this substance were suffi-
cient to cause poisoning, and a single
one of the Objectionable stamps car
ries a miligram of it. Thus the re-
peated application of these stamps to
the lips in the act of moistening
might result in the accumulation Of
a dangerous quantity of the poison in
the mouth.-Youths' Companion.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
THE CHINESE BRIDE.

While a Chinese bride is putting
on her wedding garments she stands
invariably in a round, shallow basket.
This signifies that her future life will
be well rounded and continuous in
happiness as a circle. When she par
takes of the last meal in her fathers
house she must eat only part of the
bowl of rice placed before her.
Otherwise scarcity would be likely to
visit the house on her departure.
On the back of the sedan chair in
which the bride goes away are hung
d bag Of sugar and piece of bacon
by her brothers as propitiators to the
demons which might otherwise molest
her on the journey. 1t would be most
unfortunate were she to break the
heel of her shoe while going from
her fathers house to that of her hHs-
band, as the interpretation would be
that she had entered upon relations
which were fated to prove unhappy.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
IN GOD WE TRUST"

This is the motto which is stamped
on all our silver and gold coins. Yet
it was not until 1854 that it became a
custom, and the first coin which bore
the motto was copper two-cent piece
which was coined on April 90, 1864,
especially to have this motto stamped
upon 1t.
The idea was originally suggested
by a man from Maryland, who said
that as we were a Christian people 1t
was only meet that we should make
proper ecognition of the fact in our
coinage. The motto itself was taken
fran the national hymn, '"The Star
Spangled Banner"
About 1886 the London Tit-Bits Of
fered a prize for the best definition of
money. The following definition by
Henry Beggs, was awarded the de-
cision: Money is an article which
may be used as universal passport
to everywhere except heaven, and as
"a universal provider of everything ex-
cept happiness. Chicago Record
Herald.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
THE COMING SOCIAL oENrERs.


The first 'sncial centers' of Ameri-
ca will one day be found, not in its
densely peopled cities, but in com
munities like that of Redlands, Gala
where every family occupies a few
cultivated acres or a "Homecroft" and
where yet all the social. educational
and religious advantages of the city
are TO be enjoyed.
This combination of ample ''elbow-
room" and country life with urban
facilities of contact and cooperation
is made possible by modern means of
communication and transportation
which make 1t really easier to main
tain multitudinous relations of neigh-
borhood in place like Redlands,
than it was in New York or London
before the era of the tefepnone, the
trolley, the mail carrier, the bicycle
and the automobile. And the quality
of those relations is infinitely more
whoiesome.-Maxwell's Talisman.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
THE EXPRESS CRAFT
sEAITLEs HIGH RATES
AND POOR SERVICE.
Seattle Office This Year Enjoyed an
Income Of Over $4,000, While the
Total Stock OF the Company Is But
$4,000 = Express Company Has
Not Extended Its Free Delivery
Boundaries for 20 Years-Govern-
ment Ownership the Only Cure.

An example of the enormous in
comes enjoyed by express companies
and also the lack of appreciation on
part of those companies. is given by
the Seattle News.
On total capitalization of but
$343,000 one express company this
year enjoyed an income of over $780,
900 from its Seattle office alone. The
people of Seattle and other places
feeling the burden of the express
graft are agitating for government
ownership as the only cure. The Se-
attic News says:
No better illustration of the injus-
tice practiced upon this city by the
express companies could be presented
than is afforded by the annual report
of the Northern Pacific Express CON-
pany, just made public at Olympia.
The report shows that the net earn
ings of the company were largely In
excess of The amount of capital stock
outstanding and that the earnings in
this state amounted to $36N,640.42, q
sum nearly $4,000 greater than the
capital stock of the company.
The city of Seattle alone paid into
the Golfers of the company $76,149.2a,
or considerably more than $4,000 per
month. The net earnings of the en-
tire system was more than 22 per cent
Of the gross income.
Every one knows that the earnings
In a city like Seattle are much larger
than for the entire system, so that it
would he reasonableeto say that of the
$4,000 paid to the express company
in Seattle, more than one-fourth of It,
or fully 100000 represents net earn-
ings. The total capital stock issued ia
but $3tS,0Q0, so 1t can readily be seen
that this city alone paid 1t almost 9
per cent on its entire outstanding cap
ital stock.
Despite this wonderful showing, the
Northern Pacific Express company,
in company with all other express
companies doing business in. this city,
has refused to extend its delivery sys-
tenn beyond the limits established 20
years ago when Seattle was but a
small town, without paved streets.
All of the millions of dollars spent
by the people of Seattle in the last
eight years in grading and regarding
streets, widening them and in paving
has counted for nothing in the eyes
of this avariciqus corporation.
"All the traffic will bear should
be made SO odipus in the state Of
Washington that even express compa-
MES win have to abandon that corpor-
alton shihholeth.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
THE TRUSTS TO BLAME.

Denver uses ], 100000 tons of coal a
year. The smallest consumption is
about 1000 tons day, on some sum-
mer days, and 1000 tons in "a hours in
cold weather. About one-third of it
is slack, or steam coal, used in big
plants under forced draught. Say
that 5000 tons are coal that costs
$3.50 and upwards a ton.
All that coal is sold at price as
unnatural as the fact is unnatural
that Colorado beet sugar costs more
per pound next door to the factory
than il ISan City and st. Louis and
Chicago think that refined su-
gar, cosun bmparatively nothing for
railway haul and handling, would be
cheap. But isn't It's dearer than
the same SUGAR after 1t has been ship
ped and handled hundreds of miles
away. Denver Post.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
SECURE WATER RIGHTS.
Corporations Hurry to "Cfnch" Claims
While They May.

The scramble of the corporations
to secure the priceless water power
privileges OF Oregon before a new law
declares them to be the property of
the state, is shown by the following
from the Eugene Guard:
S. w. Curtis, who has made several
filings on the upper Mckenzie river,
both In Lane and Linn counties and
on the santiam for alleged purposes
OF developing electric power. has now
filed on the waters of Waldo lake, in
the extreme eastern END Of Lane
county, for the same purpose, the pa
pers being filed with the county clerk
Saturday afternoon.
Three filings were made, one for
10000 miners inches of water flow
ing out OF the lake and down the
north fork Of the Willamette river,
another for the same amount down
the same stream, and the thirds for
1900 inches down Salt creek. The
first canal, known as Waldo canal, is
to be six miles long and the others,
known as salmon canal and Diamond
canal respectively. eIglaa miles each.
Little Is SHOWN Of cartis' plans. OF
who he r. esants. BIT Il Is certain
that ne is securing some very waiua.
BILE power sfteas< whs Ter anvtlIinf
comes OFT Of tlase 20 1ssaaa nllnei
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
COUNTRY FULL OF PRuNEs.

Prior to 1880 the .prunes consumed
in this country came almost entirely
from France and the Danubian prov
inces The consumption was small
and the fruit was considered deli
cacy. Now more than 100, 600, 900
pounds of dried prunes are eaten
yearly in the United States, and,
needless to say, the product is no
longer considered luxury.
In the year above mentioned Amer
lean prunes first appeared on the
market, and each succeeding year the
supply has increased until the import
alton of foreign prunes has been re-
duced to very small proportions. Most
of the enormous supply that finds its
way to boarding house tables is grown
in California. The large output Of the
prune orchards there may be Judged
from the fact that In Santa Clara
county alone there are S,790,Q00 trees
growing on $1,000 acres, 100 trees to
the acre. The quantity Of prunes
cured there this year viii exceed 110,-
100000 pounds, more than enough to
meet the requirements of home con.
sumption for the entire country. But
there is a large export trade to take
care of, and this ahsorbs the surplus.
Portland oregonian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
sEEDLEss APPLE COMING.
Washington Orchart1ist Predicts New
Variety Soon.

"The seedless apple will at no dis
tant day entirely supplant the pres
ent apple the same as the seedless
orange has taken the place of the
seeded orange, and in five years time
the people OF the Wenatchee valley
will be planting this kind to the exciu-
sion of Others" says Walla Walla
dispatch.
This is the statement made by Jas.
w. Moody. until recently secretary Of
the Everett chamber of commerce and
present secretary of the Everett Fair
association, who has been in the city
the past week in attendance at the
Harvest festival.
Mr.. Moody says: 1.-THE seedless apple
is no longer an experiment. We have
now had for many years the seedless
orange and the seedless raisin, and
quite recently Mr.. Burbank has de-
veloped the pitless plum. Upon their
introduction each OF these fruits has
met with a certain amount of adverse
criticism but each has firmly estab-
lished Itself In fruit culture. The
seedless orange has driven the other
varieties from the market and the
seedless apple and pitless plum have
a similar future before them"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
THE PREAcHER IN PoLrTTcs.

% I d
If President Luther of Trinity e0i-
lege Is elected to the senate. there
will be at least one clergyman In the
legislature. The democrats OF Wa
tertown have nominated Rev. RI. N,
Cunningham for representative. The
republicans OF Middletown nominated
Rev. p. G. Acheson for representative,
but he has decided that his duties IN
Middletown are too engrossipa to
permit him to assume duties In Hart
ford. Rev. A. II. Goodenough would
have been nominated for representa-
tive by the republicans OF Bristol II
he had not finally decided to veto the
proposition. II anybody is disposed
to draw a moral from all this. now -
the time to draw it.-Hartford Times.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
STUB ENDS OF NEW THOUGHT.

Truth stands immovable and ever
present, awaiting our individual per-
ceptien.
Man has been Hike a king seeking
aims st his own palace gates under the
delusion that he Is a hegsar.
The world is filled with systems.
cults, creeds and methods of reform.
enough surely to bring peace upon
earth II 1t could be done that way.
The person who has awakened to
Individuality knows that he need not
beg or cringe or whine like whipped
cur at the feet of the Infinite.
Universal Individuality means that
we must each of us attend strictly to
our own affairs so you may see how
far away we are from universal indi-
vidla,lty.
One Of the prolific causes OF All the
trouble today is the mistaken idea
that we must attend to some one else's
business, some one else's salvation,
and Conduct"
If human beings could be Jumped
together and driven like sheep wher-
ever the herder wished to drive them,
any of the methods employed In the
past would have won out AAcRv6.
TyndalL
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
CEMENT TRUST
A STRONG infant
GOVERNMENT NOW MAKES
ITS CEMENT SUPPLY.
Trust Took Advantage OF Government
Irrigation Movement to Advance
the Price of Its Product-Cost OF
Production Remained the Same,
But the Market Price Increased
Over so Per Cent in Year.

When the United States government
engaged in the construction of the
immense irrigation projects now un-
der way, the cement manufacturers
seeing that the government would
use millions of tons of cement in the
construction of dams, headgates,
spillways, weirs, concrete rip-rapping
and other necessary features of the
irrigation works, at once began to
combine to force up the price of ce-
ment.
Within year after the reclamation
department began work on the gov-
ernment projects, the price of cement
was advanced over SO per cent, with
the supply unlimited and the cost of
production the same as before.
The cement trust is now one of the
most formidable in the United States,
and since its product Is used extens-
lively by builders, contractors, car
penters and other trades in direct
touch with the common people, its
extortions are felt in every town in
the country.
The government has been forced
to manufacture most of the cement
used in the irrigation projects.
The geographical survey, in a bulletin
states that there is a noticeable "con-
centration of interests in the cement
industry, and that this probably will
become marked year by year. The
SS plants in existence in 1905 were
owned by IS companies and several
of these nominally independent com
panies are closely connected by own.
ership.
But it is stated that good raw ma.
terials are SO widely distributed ir
the United States that there is hardly
Portland cement If prices were forced
high enough. The only limitation
now on the erection of cement plants
is the fact that the great cost makes
the venture prohibitive for the in.
dividual or for the small firm.
The cement industry is at present
in more concentrated condition thar
was the iron and steel industry at the
| date of the formation of the United
States Steel corporation.
The total authorized capital of al
| the American Portland cement com
panies now in operation will fall be-
tween the limits of $110,000,000 ant
$125,000,0Q0. The bulletin states tha
this capitalization can not be consid-
cred excessive in view Of the fact thai
it would probably cost from $75,.
900, 900 to sS5.0O0,000 to replace ths
| nlants now in existence.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
THE HALL OF FAME.

It is maintained Of Senator Bacon
of Georgia, that he can use more lan-
guage to conceal his thought than any
man In public life.
General Funston used to collect
botanical specimens for the depart
'ment of agriculture. He is an expert
on the grasses of the northwest.
Representative Mckinley of Illinois,
is not related to the dead president.
His pricipal claim to fame is that he
is one of the richest men in congress.
The members of the great theatri-
cal firm Of Klaw & Erlanger are phys=
ical npposites. Klaw is little. bearded
and nervous, and Erlanger IL big, fat
smooth-shayen and placid.
The recrudescence of William Jen-
nings Bryan, since his trip around the
world, was great thing for him III
nancially. He can now get $3.50 for
magazine articles where he got but
$500 before.
Herr Conreid, impressario OF the
Metropolitan Opera company, forgets
his English when excited, and splut-
ters German so rapidly that even Herr
Meltzer, his personal representative.
has difficulty in understanding him.
Evening Post.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
THE 4sBEFAN BIBkE.

The Kahayur. or Effbetan Bible,
consists Of l0S volumes If 1000 pages
each, containing 1858 separate books
Zach Of the volumes weighs 10 pounds
and forms a package 90 inches long,
eight inches bread and eight inches
deep, This Bible requires dozen
yaks for its transport. and the carved
wooden blocks from which It is
printed need rowa OF houses, like q
city, for their storage,
A tribe of Mongols tpaid 1000 oxen
for a copy Of this Bible. In addition
to the bible there are 2s5 volumes Of
commentaries, which are necessary for
its understanding. There Is also a
large collection of revelations which
supplement the Bible.-The Ghaurki.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
Magnolia Mime Caye-in.

A bad cave at the Magnolia mine
occurred Thursday forenoon. 1t was
in the slopes of the Ajax vein and
started from the surface carrying
timbers and everything before the
debris. The shoots and manways are
stopped up and il is expected that it
will be several years before the
ground can be caught UP. In the
meantime the stamp mill will be idle.
1t was very fortunate that none of
the miners were caught under the
caying dirt, though Miles Wander
ling, who was working near where
the cave started, is said to have had a
very narrow escape Granite Gem.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
Lazy OLD MEXICO.

+, Old Mexico is one Of these places,
land Of Spanish speech and Spanish
costumes and lazy life, of antiquarian
charm ana historic interest, lying on
our very borders, yet until recently
oddly neglected by tourists. Interest
is awakening now, however. The ex-
pertinent Of running through train
from st. Louis to Mexico City daily
tried last winter. 1t met with so much
success that it will be resumed this
winter. One can also go to New Or
leanse by boat from New York, If
you care for sea trip, and connect
with trains for Mexico.--The Travel
Magazine.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
over s1s.oOo. .Ooo for Relief.

Philadelphia, Nov. THE monthly
report of the Employees Relief fund
for the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
paHys lines east of Pittsburg and Erie
shows that the payments for the
month of September, 1906, amounted
to $115,151.92. OF this amount $40,-.
902.03 were on account Of death, and
represents the payment of death BEN
efits to the families of members and
the further payment of s74,S49.90 in.
benefits for the relief Of members
disabled and incapacitated for work
in the company's service. Since the
organization of the relief department,
February 15, 1886, there have been
paid in death benefits $6,331, 1884,
and on account of disablement $9,-
13O,752.04, or a total Of $15,461.68.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
AREA OF UNIFIED STATES.

4 geographical survey bulletin
prepared by Henry Gennett has just
been issued, representing the com-
bined work of the land office, census
bureau and survey, in determining
what constitutes the sarea OF the
United States" The result Is S,O26,-
7sS square miles. The area Of Alas
ka Is given as B90,sS4; the Phillip
pines. t16.028; Hawaii. 0449: Porto
Rico, S4ab; Guam, 21O; Samoa, n,
and the Panama canal strip. 474
square miles. All the detached terri
tory is subject to change as the linz
ita become more closely defined.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
Good Rain at yakima.

A soaking rain fell in Yakima Sat-
urday night and laid the dust. It
was the first rain since June that has
amounted to anything. the rain was
badly needed all over central and
eastern Washington, not only to lay
the dust but to start the fall sown
wheat to growing. A strong wind
blew here Sunday after the rain and
soon dried up the mud.-Yakima Re-
public.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16

The Hood River Glacier says that
since apple growers have commenced
to ship apples and are finding out
that their crops are much larger than
at first estimated, those who ought to
know say that the number Of boxes Of
apples this year will be in excess Of
the figures first given out for this
years crop.
Altogether the number of boxes
that have or will be made for Hood
Rivers big crop of fruit will foot up
in the neighborhood Of 100000. This
is between $4,000 and $4,000 more
than 1t was at first thought would be
the figures. A 100000 box crop will
be almost double the amount of apples
ever shipped from Hood River before.
one of the obstacles that has had
to be overcome this year and that will
become more important each year as
more orchards come into bearing is
to provide a means OF transportation
from the orchard to the railroad. At
present every available team and
wagon that can be secured is engaged
in hauling apples and even with all
the facilities that the valley now pos
sesses the fruit is not coming In as
fast as 1t should. In order'to haul the
crop this year 1t is thought that 1t will
require at least 1000 teamfoads. The
ranchers have found that they are un-
able to cope with the situation and
have engaged transfer companies to
haul their apples for them. One man
who has $4,000 boxes of apples figures
that II will cost him something like
5000 to have them brought in. The
ordinary rancher's apple wagon will
not hold more than 40 or 80 boxes Of
apples, but the big wagons used by
the transfer companies which have
four-horse teams can haul about 1Ol
boxes.
1t is pointed out that before mex
year something will have to be done
to render it possible to bring the ap'
pies in more rapidly. Some growers
Who have but 5000 or 1000 boxes this
ar expect next year to have twice
at many and even more. With d..
10 wagon loads this year It is posi-
e that the number will be double
xt year and means that 1t will fur
5sh work for many teams and mer
several weeks.
The shipment of apples during thu
st week has averaged from four t
ge cars day. A NUMBER of carr
ave been shipped from the east sid'
,er Mount Hood railroad to thu
,rehouses here, where they have
,en repacked and shipped to theil
stination. The union has received
order for between 20 and 80 carr
of Newtons from large commission
firm In New York I'm addition to thu
large consignment to Loomis & Co.
but as yet 1t is not known whether
they can be supplied.
While many growers have enor
nous yields Of Newtons, the banner
tcrop,a so far, has been reported by L
Struck, who will average $1400 al
acre from three acres of these pro
life and high-priced apples. Proba
e bly, the largest yield of apples on an!
s one tree In the valley is one reported
by J. L. Carter, who took 43 boxes o
: apples from a three Of Rhode Islant
Greetings. u
The banner wagon load of apples 81
far this season was brought in Sat
urday by Lou Morse from the Chri
Dethman orchard, consisting of 49,
boxes Of Spitzenbergs. which brough
1894.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
Hobo Jack to Hang.

A letter received In this city re-
Gently, anpounced that the character
known locally as Hobo Jack, who was
mixed up In several unsayory affairs.
had been found guilty Of numbering
q man - a northern Idaho camp and
sentenced to hang. There are niaIly
8 SUM ter pl'ao believe he kflIed the
man wHc W. found aeaa near the
dafke hal about kwo years ago.
2slsae Azs5h q Aasxicaa.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-11-16
SNAP JUDGEMENTS.

Alimony; Taxation without repre-
sentation.
A sure cure for kissing-the fever
blister.
Walls have no ears, but be careful
of the telephone.
The stockyards' motto: The more
haste the less feed.
A bird in the hat Is worth $50
and sometimes more,
'Ail the worlds a atage"-but most
of as are only supers.
IT is never the unmarried who ask:
"Is marriage failure 2" Saturday
Evening Post.