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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-19
FLIGHT OF sEA-FowL.

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The flight of birds is adapted to their
manner of seeking food or protection.
As most sea-fow have to remain a
long time on the wing, they manage to
lar exertlon. The observations of the
author of "Three Years of a Wander
er's Life" will be Of interest to those
who study birds but do not have a
chance to watch them from the deck of
a ship in mid-ocean.
All the great ocean sea-blrds, from
the little petrol to the giant wander
Ing albatross, are soaring birds, never,
or but rarely, tapping their wings in
flight, but always sailing, air-borne,
with their wings rigidly outstretched,
varying the direction of their move
ment by presenting changed feather
surface to the wind at a changed an
gle. This keeps them more or less
heading toward the wind all the time
they are in the air; that Is, they never
head directly from the wind except by
rare accident. as haste to allght or
when struck by shot.
When 1t does happen that for mo-
ment the bird Is tail to the wind, 1t
presents a most ridiculous figure; It's
feathers are blown forward and re-
versed, down go its web feet, and 1t
paddles the air to right itself.
Should there be very little wind II
will fall head foremost into the water
but in a strong breeze 1t can always
bring the wind little on one side In
moment or two, and sail away again
with Its feathers turned the right way.
These pecullarlties Of flight belong
only to the great petrol group, to which
all the many hundreds of varieties met
with Off the Cape of Good Hope belong.
None of these birds takes its prey on
the wing, as has falsely been repre-
sented over and over again. They must
allght on the water before they can
feed.
In rising from the water a petrel
must launch into the air Off the ton of
a sea; or In very light weather, when
there Is no swell to take off from. II
must paddle along the surface at in
creaslng speed with wings outspread.
until 1t creates resistance enough in the
air to raise itself. l have seen an old
gray wandering albatross with twelve
feet spread of wing, In a clock-calm.
rush quarter of mile over the water,
and have at last to subside exhausted.
unable to rise.
The same bird In hurricane would
merely expand his wings as he crested
wave, and rise calmly and majesti-
vcally straight for the zenith, then at
about hundred feet pause and float
as still and stationary as If hung by a
wire for minutes. eying the man at the
wheel first with one eye and then with
the other, and turning its head In a
critical, old-fashloned way. He will
then preen himself thoughtfully as he
scars, scratch his ear with his foot.
head on to the full fury of the blast,
In another moment to sweep away and
bt out Of sight in nine or ten sec
ondA
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-19
Itching Palm Oil.

palm OIL" a synonym for graft" Is
not at all novelty in this sense. In
1927 Middleton wrote that palm oil
will make pursulvant relent." The
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries rev.
eled in varieties of the metaphor.
Greene speaks of rubbing palms with
"the ollie of angels" a humorous allu.
sion to the coin named after the an.
gellc figure stamped upon it, and "oil
of angels" seems to have been quite a
common joke In England. Another
writer has a reference to "anointing"
an ecclesiastic In the fist with Indian
oyle." Both amounting" and "greas.
Ing" were frequently used to mean brib.
ing, even without special mention of
the hand as the part creased. Dryden
has ''the greaz'd advocate"
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ever pared cheese with razor. They
tell me he won't have his shoes pol
ished because the friction might wear
them out and that he's had the barber
save the hair he cuts off him for the
last thirty years to stuff a Mattress
That's nonsense, he says. The
poor old gentleman has been bald for
the last thirty years He's frugal, /
know, but don't consider that a vice.
"Well, then l mentioned the old rats
love Of money and he excused that by
saying that most old men were more or
less avariclous.
Not to the extent of dishonesty I
says. I've heard of things he's done
that ought to have landed him in the
penitentiary.'
"'Well, says Skilliven, we're all hu-
man and we've got our little faults II
1t isn't one thing It's another, and we
don't want to be too hard on people,
especially old people. l don't suppose
Mr.. Brackenbury has a great many
more years to live, and I'm sorry for
that, because he really Is, when you get
to know him, a very nice old gentle
man. He has some excellent qualities
and my family thinks the world Of
him. Now, don't care what you say,
when a man can talk that way about
hoary old scoundrel like w. D. Brack
enbury, he's mighty charitable"
p calculated the man with the
Katherine suitcase contemptuously. "T
don't suppose he told you that his wife
Is Brack's next of kin and that thew
expect to come In for the bulk of his
money when he dies. Oh, he's a charit-
able duck, all right, and when It comes
to wheelbarrows with broken ham
dies"
We'll, that wasn't the only thing"
said the man with the fur-lined over
coat. "We talked about other people
too-you among them-and he spoke
pretty well of you"
II don't see any particular reason
why he shouldn't" said the man with
the leatherlne suitcase. II never bilked
him out of 25 cents."- Chicago Daily
News.
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riage engagements are invariably made public
Hasty marriages are frequent and even when en-
gagements of some length they not always ac-
knowledged This Of course makes deception easy and
crime. may marry forty wives, as Hoch
did and unless unusual circumstance arises he
may escape detection
law compelling the publication of marriage engage
ments would undoubtedly lessen the evils attending mat
rimony in this country Marriage is very important
event in human life and the state should take every
means to make 1t safe.-Des Mones News
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LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

| Oxen Used as Beasts of Burden by
| Kansas Farmer.
The use of oxen for pulling plows to
break up the prairie sod appears like
getting back to first principles, but this
is what is being done by one Finney
County farmer, George Estes, who lives
some miles north of Garden City. Al
most any fair day the traveller along
the road can see from one to half
dozen yoke of oxen on this farm hitch
ed to as many plows, plodding patient
ly across a field, half sod, half fur
rowed says the Kansas City Star cor
respondent at Garden City, Kan. A
quarter of century ago 1t was no
unusual thing to see yoke of oxen
pulling a load or hitched to a plow,
but the sight is so unusual now that
it attracts a great deal of attention.
Last fall Mr. Estes decided to break
up large tract of sod and the ques-
tion of the cheapest means to be en-
ployed in doing the work came up.
Steam and gasoline engines were used
by some farmers for drawing plows,
but these were expensive and require
considerable attention. Horses were
bringing big prices on the market and
mules were not among the samples
on the bargain counter.
Enough mules to run the number Of
plows Mr. Estes wished to use would
buy a large farm in the unirrigated
part of the county and he considered
the investment too heavy. Then the
idea of working oxen came to him and
the more he thought of the plan the
more feasible it seemed. Oxen had
been used in breaking the prairie in
the early days and he determined to
try it again.
| He had a local blacksmith make the
yokes and a local hardware man Sc
cured the bows for them. He has
broken some cattle of his herd for the
work and the experiment promises to
be a success. When he completes the
| breaking of his sod land he is plan
ming to use the oxen for other work,
in which he believes he will find them
fully as valuable. One of the uses to
which he will put them will be the
drawing of the heavy beet wagons in
the fall and winter during the beet
sllcing season at the sugar factory.
Oldtimers in the county say that it
has been twenty-three years since oxen
have been used as draft animals and
the sight of the OK yokes in the black
smith shop brought forth number of
interesting "reminiscences of early-day
farming.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-19

path to Jerusalem Is the one that takes
you to the Samaritan.
Selfishness is moral dry ror.
A good purpose is great power.
The divine heart despises no love.
Seediness is not the sign of a saint.
Helpfulness is the Gospel of Christ.
Loves losses are often llfe's gains.
Nothing is holy unless all things are.
The Christian man, as such, must
enter politics, or the world will die.
Moral power affects the world. far
less by what it does, than by what 1t is.
The boys follow not the drunkard
but the moderate drinker into the sa-
loon.
He who sends affliction, sends always
the way of escape; not from it, but
through it.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-19
LYNcH1Na NOT INCREASING.

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fR ROM the 235 mob murders of 1892 to the q
~ of last year, is certainly an encouraging adj
I vance, This means that the mob wreaked
its fury upon less than one-third as many
ES8Se$#AN victims last year it did fourteen years
k&EA1#@#E ago. Even late the first year of this
century, 1901, there 135 mob murders,
or nearly twice as many there In 1906 In 1903
we find the last record Of than 100 Of these mob
murders and we almost confidently feel that 1t was
the last time that the record will rise to that height OF
crimnality.
There Is another encouraging feature In the lynchng
record for last year There were no burnngs at the
stake. The mob has, perhaps grown at least little
less nhuman. One two Of the victims were put into
fire after having been murdered, but none 1t seems
burned alive.
Dscredtabe the record s there is yet, as we have
said signs of encouragement and hope in it. Our mobs
not quite bloodthirsty not quite so inhuman.
strong effort for law and order stern facing and crash
ing Of the mob spirit, public condemnation Of all men
who like Senator Tlman, keep afame the passions of
the mob and prompter and action the part of
the courtsand lynchings will be stamped out in the
South and people be ceansed Of the muderous she'd
ding of bood.-Columbia State.
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frain from wondering after all just who 1t is that
making this splendid gift to the of education.
Every time you light the parlor lamp, it seems to us,
you have right to pat yourself the back and call
yourself a phanthropist, for you not helping to
make up that $32 1000 OO0?-Utca Globe.
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MAKE MARRIAGE ENGAGEMENTS PUBLIC.

BOUT the only practicable improvement in
marriage Is that suggested by Kansas leg
islator. who is going to introduce bill com.
pelling the publication of marriage engage
ments for thirty days preceding the cere-
mony. This, of course, iS already the GUS
tom In some circles of society where mar.
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What great political boss a man
would be II he could make people
yield to his wishes as easily as they
yield to temptation.
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Encouraging a wnner

Ma-But perhaps the young man
wants a little encouragement.
Daughter-Yes, ma how would Il be
If you kept out of sight when he's here
Ally Sloper.
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on PAINTING Of Anctent Dav.

Oil painting was an art thoroughly
understood BY the ancients but was,
lost sight of and only revived about tia,
end OF the thirteenth century. AID
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TRUMPET CALLS.
Rams Horn sounds a Warning Note
TO the Unredeemed.

YOU can always
take his word who
fully takes God at
His word.
Your pride may
keep you warm.
but 1t has a chilli
ing effect on the
world.
The straightest
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-19

The first Masonic lodge established In
Kansas was organized In the west side
more than fifty years ago, says the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-19
WHO PAYsp

HE announcement was recently made that
John d. Rockefeller had presented to the
General Education Board the enormous sum
of $32 00O0-the largest amount ever CIV
en- at one time to q charitable or philan-
thropc purpose In the history Of the world
The sum is so stupendous that the average
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-19

mind fails to grasp it,
Had the twelve disciples gone to work at 81 a day,
abored until the present time and saved every cent they
earned barring interest they could not have accumulated
32O00000 And yet this sum Is less than Mr.. Rookie
fellers income for a year. 1t prncey gift but
its donation will not mpoverish the glver; 1t will not
necessate any economies any change In the life of
himself or his family. And there is another chapter to
the story.
Almost the next days telegraphc dispatches to the
newspapers say "The heaviest single advance in oil
ever made by the Standard Oil Company announced
to-day" etc
Now it has always been considered discourteous to
look gift horse in the mouth, but scarcely re-
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work. it hoped they would do and tried to restore
prosperity but still engaged principally in agatng
for another revolution.
The Cubans have had an opportunity to make the
attempt at selfgovernment and they failed utterly
Though their finances in good order and the
try If given half chance would have prospered greatly
the Cubans unable to restrain their natural In
stnct for mischief and intrigue They fought continually
among themselves and at last reached point where the
United States had to interfere to prevent reign of
archy. Their conduct since the American occupation
has not improved and is longer doubtful what the
duty of the United States is In the future
This country must annex Cuba and make it depen-
dency like Porto Rico and the Philippines. Thus only
peace be made permanent and Cuba go forward to
fulfill its magnificent destny-Chicago Journal
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Insurance against the visitations of
mothers-in-law would be popular with
some men.
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CUBA MUST BE ANNEXED.

EWS from Cuba shows continually that the
United States will sooner or later be COM
PEELED to take possession of that island and
establish firm government there. Cubans
have apparently learned nothing from the
present benefcent occupation of their coun-
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The Frankfort roundabout., 1907-12-07
SPLENDID MAN GOES TO HIS RE-
WARD.

We were greatly saddened, on
Monday, when we read a dispatch
announcing the death of Judge Jo-
seph I. Landes, of Hopkinsville.
Judge Landes was seventy-one
years of age, and had been in poor
health for some time, but his death
was a great shock to his host of warm
ly admiring friends.
He was a devout Christian gentle
man, an elder in the Presbyterian
Church. He leaves a devoted wife,
but no children. The whole commun-
ity in which he lived will unite in
mourning a tender and devoted hus-
band, an upright citizen and fearless
and uncompromising friend of truth,
morality and religion.
Judge Landes served as a State
Senator from Christian and Hopkins
counties in the memorable session of
1856, and upon the death of Judge
j. r. Grtce, of the Appellate Bench,
about the close of that session, Gov.
Bradley appointed him to the vacant
position, which he filled with honor
to himself and profit to the Common
wealth. His opinions ranking with
the best men who served with him on
the bench at that time.
Judge Ltndes was the kind of
Christian that makes the world purer
and better for his having lived in it.
He tried to get all the joy, happiness
and good out of life, and to avert as
much of sin and sorrow as lay in his
power.
Kentucky has too few of such men,
who never permitted his public duties
to interfere with those he owed his
church and his God. Earth will be
poorer by his passing, but heaven will
be. the richer.
To his lonely widow and loving
friends we tender our sincerest SYM
pathy.
The Frankfort roundabout., 1907-12-07
CENTRAL KENTUCKY TRACTION
COM PANY.

=. OOMFANrs .....
Schedule effective on and after
December 8, 1907
Cars will leave Lexington for Yer
sailles and Frtpkfort every hour from
600 a. M, to 600 D. m inclusive.
Cars will leave Lexington for Ver-
sailles at 7 p. m, p. M. and IL p. m.
Cars will leave Versailles for Frank
fort every hour from Gas a. M, until
6:45 p. m, inclusive.
Cars win leave Frankfort for Yer
sailles ind. Lexington at 600 a. M,
and every hour from 1880 a. M, until
1880 p. m, inclusive.
Cars will leave Versailles for Lex
ington every hour from 6:15 a. m. un-
til S:15 p. m, inclusive and at 1915
p. m.
Running time Lexington to Versail-
les As minutes, Versailles to Frank
fort, As minutes.
The Frankfort roundabout., 1907-12-07
W
alton are the fundamental

. conditions sounder than in
drs at this very moment and it is
foolish, when such is the case, for
people to hoard money instead OF
keeping it in sound banks; for it il
such boarding that is the immediate
OCCASION of the money stringency.
There may be honest differences
of opinion as to many governmental
policies; but surely there can be nc
such differences as to the need of un-
fiinching perseverance in the wal
against successful dishonesty.
Necessity is urged for greater Fed
eral avtivity rather than an extension
of Federal authority.
Additional legislation needed look.
ing to proper control of great con
Germs engaged in interstate business
and delay in enforcement of the laws
against combinations formed in re
straint of trade necessary. ~
Punishment of individuals who dc
wrong recommended rather than fore
ing the company which they repre-
sent to suffer.
Greater elasticity needed in cur
rency, but there must be no lack OF
safety and security.
Emergency issue of currency urged
Careful scrutiny of tariff schedules
and revision when necessary, but
country is committed to policy OF
protection.
Public opinion must be back of all
laws in order to enforce them prop.
erly, but no man stands above the
law and no corporation is so
wealthy that it can not be held to ac-
count. Vs
Law should be changed to prevent
abuse of injunctions.
Attention called to alarming in.
crease in railroad accidents
Changes in employers liability law
urged to give employees definite com
pensation for injuries.
Eight-hour law in government ser
vice compulsory, investigation of in
dustrial disputes and legislation to
control employment of women and
children favored.
Plea for deep water way from lakes
to gulf and conservation of country's
resources urged.
Calls attention to work done on
Panama Canal and progress made.
Comment on unsatisfactory con
dition of ocean mail service and rem
edy suggested.
Reorganization of certain depart
ments of army necessary and higher
wages for officers and men recon-
mended.
More fighting ships necessary to
The Frankfort roundabout., 1907-12-07

keep our navy up to high standard of
efficiency and reorganization of some
departments needed.
Our foreign relations in splendid
condition.
Pure food law and its effect.
The Frankfort roundabout., 1907-12-07

The speaker reviewed at length the
present status of the gigantic strug-
gle between the American Tobacco
Co., on the one hand and the tobacco
planters of the State of Kentucky on
the other. He dwelt effectively and
al hgth upon the fact that the domi-
nation of the farmers of Kentucky by
the tobacco trust for the past several
years, was dwarfing the lives and
running the future prospects of the
boys and girls of the country districts,
who were forced, instead of attending
the schools, to go out in the patch
and labor increasingly that the great
company that controls the price of
this important staple might declare
annually dividends running up into
many millions.
He pointed out that the growers
had the battle almost won, and quoted
from authentic statements to prove
that the octapus, notwithstanding the
assertions of its agents and buyers. to
the contrary, was badly I'm want of
all grades of tobacco, as the supply
on hand was well nigh exhausted, and
must be replenished at whatever
cost. The high price paid for $4,000
pounds of loose leaf hurley sold at
Lexington warehouse, last week,
was alluded to as an illustration of
the needs of the company, and other
matters which went to show the
trend of events held up to lis hearers.
In closing his masterful talk, the
gifted speaker made an earnest ap-
peal to the growers of this section
not to raise any tobacco during the
season of 1908, and proved, by logical
arguments, that such course, if uni
versally adopted and adhered to
throughout the hurley belt, would win
the fight for the farmers, and end a
/ struggle that has been a long drawn
out and bitter ont. His, illusions to
the wives, sons and daughters of the
growers, who he claimed were being
neglected because of the hardships of
the growers, brought about by the
trust, were telling and made a
marked impression on the farmers
present Altogether the speech and
arguments of Senator Cantrill were
the best ever heard on the subject in
Franklin county, and the earnest and
respectful attention given him by the
immense crowd present could not
help but prove very fattering to the
The Frankfort roundabout., 1907-12-07
learned gentleman from the neighbor-
ing county of Scott.
LETTER FROM RD. W. c. TAYLOR.

Editor Roundabout:
Dear Sir-I note with pleasure, in
your issue of November 23d, mention
of the fact that the saloon license in
Frankfort may be raised to $500 or
$1,000. My judgment is that just
now the abolition of the saloon in
|, your beloved little city is impractica-
biz so the next best thing should be
hit.
- pastor in Frankfort. in
iXteen years ago, and have
huous reader of the
ing that time, and
that period, twenty
been shot to death
.eath within the cor
he city. Those killed
ne city limits and MUIR
the colored population
e counted Evidence
VS. most of them were
.led II near some saloon
tuQ IudI ..||.ttOl oo uSUhAJ oS ShO
bottom of The trouble. When we re-
call the small population of Frank
fore and that it is not over two miles
across it is a question if that sad
record can be out-matched by any
other city on this continent, certainly
not in the United States. These are
facts that the city council ought to
consider. The fewer saloons, GER
tainly the fewer places and occasions
for the awful record to be continued.
l shall never cease to love Frank
fort, and can not help feeling deep
interest in all that pertains to its
highest well being and good name.
Gratefully yours,
w. C. TAYLOR,
Petersburg, Va.
The Frankfort roundabout., 1907-12-07

he SPOKE, his emort was '
ly a splendid one, and I
bursts of applause which
remarks and the tellini
made, amply testified to t
he was pleasing the vaS
hardy tillegs of the soil
every word he uttered
interest and pleasure. Z