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The Washington times., 1907-09-22

"YoU my have these beautiful s'l'''d ''''''''
her," said the butcher.
Jack thought the beans were very pretty. and
said, IAN right, thu Gov is yours" Jack fastened
home with the beans to bis mother. But when bis mother
what he had brought home in return fothe cow she
kicked the old bat in which be held the beans and away
they rolled in ell directions
In the morning Jack went out into the garden, and
what was ais surprise that of the beans had
taken root and that the stalk was so thick that made
akind of ladder. which reached 70 the sky.
He at once climbed up TIE beanstaIk. and there at
the top strange country spread out before him Jack
taken aback by all
The Washington times., 1907-09-22

sSCrTOP theft Stop GhefF' The giant awoke-and
started after Jack. who was running fast
toward the beanstak but he was sleepy and heavy
that jack easily oatrm him. and was down to the
bottom with the harp in his arms just the giant bis
loud voice crying out Ike thunder. reached the top
When Jack landed at the bottom of the beGnssaEk
he picked up hatchet and began chOpplg at theean-
stalk close to the roots and soon dove tfsD with the
giant wbo wasSiiIed.
Jack begged his mothers pardon for all the pain
and want he had caused her. aad said he would be 4
good and dutfuI son always and 30 they we've rh and
asppY ever after
The Washington times., 1907-09-22

TN village. far far away, there once lived a poor
n woman with her son. Jack. While Jack at henrs
IVES nice boy, he was needless and naughty.
One morning his mother said. with tears in her eye
Jack you are a very bad boy. You have brought to
ruin by your bad tricks. We have money, and moth
ing is left but the old cow We must starve fOr
want of food" 4
This made Jack very sad. and started him to think
how he could mend matters At last he thought of the
cow and his mother agreeing, he started off to market
to sell her.
He had not driven the COW very far. when ne met
butcher who asked him how much he would take for her,
What will you give me?' said easy-tempered Jack
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10
cADDIsHNEss OF MR.. STEAD.

William Z. Stead, the English editor
and adjuster in chief of International
complications, has crowded into his
present visit to this country so many
insults and nasty flings at the Ameri-
can people whom he holds in contempt
that small regret will be felt when he
steps aboard his ship and sails again.
Stead isa wonderfully energetic busy
body, and has poked his nose into every
world happening of any Importance
within the past two decades. He is of
the same school as Henry James, only
that he is even more anti-American
and sensational.
Fifteen years ago Mr.. Stead visited
Chicago in search of material for self
exploitation and the result of his
cursory glance at the Windy city was
book that was never much of sue
cess. for the good and sufficient reason
that it was not worth reading. This
time he came across the Atlantic to
regulate the affairs of our peace con-
ference, and because he was not per-
mitted to draft the resolutions, or for
some other equally trivial reason he
played the baby act and turned the
vials of his wrath against the Ameri-
can people.
One of the first things Mr.. Stead did
on his present visit was to assure a
company of women that "the Ameri-
can men do not respecct women. They
treat them like children. He added :
Surface courtesy is not true ChivalTy.
And that is what the American man
offers to American women. Suppose q
pretty woman approaches group OF
men and announces that by adding
two and two sidewise she has demon
strated that the sum is five. Do they
call her an idiot? No. But person
who had real respect for her would tel
her that she was making fool of her
self SO that she would discontinue ths
exhibition. Beautiful reasoning this
OF course under similar circumstances
the chivalrous Mr.. Stead would cal
the woman an idiot and chuck heade'
fool.
Although Mr.. Stead has been ac
corded the courtesy due an honore
guest in this country he has demon
strated that he is an ignorant and mar
row minded boor. and America will b
we'll rid of superoilious cad when b
leaves. --Walla Walla Union.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10
COMING EVENTS

Montana interscholastic meet, Mis-
soula, ssMay 1917.
Oregon State grange, Hood River,
May "a.
Umatilla County Caledonian Society
District convention of the Church
of Christ, at Athena May IA, Is and
16.
annual picnic, Athena May 24-25.
: State Federation of Women's clubs,
Spokane, May $3.50.
Grand encampment and grand lodge
of the l. o. o. f. and Rebekah assem-
bly,, Spokane, June S-6.
Washington State grange, Lynden
June 7-8.
Pioneers reunion, Weston, June 49,
Oregon Pioneers' association, Port
land. June 19.
Summer school of agriculture, Nos
COW, Idaho, June 15-July ~.
Teachers summer school Coeul
d'Alene, Idaho, July 15-August N.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10
Listen

lasting damage can be done. Listen
to his remedy:
II am not in favor of government
ownership Of the railroads. / do not
believe that under our existing political
system it is practicable; but ! do be-
lieve in the ownership of the railroads
by the people. If every man who held
property along line of railroad held
an interest. however small, in that
line, and its control was in the hands
of the men whom it was built to serve,
instead Of in the hands of clique Of
manipulators. the railroads would be
run for benefit of new kind. Owner
ship by the people would couple, as /
have said. with strict federal supervi-
sion of rates. No railroad honestly
operated need fear any federal control
that may be imposed"
Here is doctrine, says the Atlanta
Constitution. which few years age
would have been denominated the very
essence of populism, and yet it comes
today from one OF the foremost rail
road managers in the United States.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10

Athena was represented at the Pen
dleton horse show with only few
head of horses, but the stock ranks
among the best in the Inland Empire.
Flattering notices appear in the Pen
dleton press calling special attention
to Athena stock, one saying: "Though
one of Mr.. Barrett's horses is but a
colt and has only been driven few
times. the team was very generally
voted to be the handsomest span of
double drivers in the parade. Athena
was we'll represented at the show and
carried off her share of the laurels."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10

The Cooperative Commission Com
pany has been stirring up things go
lively in Kansas City that the old COM
panies have inaugurated boycott on
the Cooperative Company and refuse
to sell cattle to any packing house that
patronizes the Cooperative Company.
II will be recalled that the Co-opera-
tive Company was started up by the
stookmen who protested against paying
the increased charges made by the old
commission houses. The Cooperative
Company is owned by the stock grow
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10
AMAZING FRANKNESS.

B. F. Yoakum, president of the
board of directors of the Chica so,
Rock Island g Pacific Railway Com
pany is one of the few broad minded
men at the head of transportation
affairs in this county. Mr.. Yoakum
deals with the presentday conditions
of railroading in a way quite different
from Hartman, Hill ct. al. and his pre-
pared remedy for existing conditions
will make the Great Northern and
Union Pacific magnates sit up and take
notice. He says:
"I will be frank. The people are
not without justification in their Eelief
that the railroads have been system
atically robbing them. 1t is not alto
gether fair to put it just that way, but
nevertheless the putlio has for years
been paying out great deal of money
for something it did not always get. -
Those outside of railroad circles
who have given utterance to similar
expressions have been characterized as
demagogues, radicals, extremists and
even socialists and anarchists. But
Mr.. Yoakum goes even further in his
"demagogy." "No one." be says sis
to blame for the present anti-railroad
sentiment, but the railroad managers
themselves. I"
Mr.. Yoakum says. frankly, that in
his belief, the day Of reckoning which
has come will prove blessing, not
Only to the nation, but also to the rail
roads; nor does he consider that any
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10

ers and it is to them that the packers
must look for their supply. 1t is not
thought that the boycott will in any
way affect the new company but will
serve only to make it stronger. Stock
men have realized that they have been
paying most of their profits of the
middlemen and they have decided to
discontinue this method of being held
nm
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10

Athena will entertain visitors on at
least two occasions this year. The
seventh annual picnic of the Umatilla
County Oaledonian Society will be
held here May "a and %; and the an
nual colt show some time in June.
No mention of Fourth of July cele-
bration has yet been made.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10
A Mountain of Gold

could not bring as much happiness to
Mrs. Lucia Wilke. of Caroline, Wis,
as did one 25c box of Bucklen' g Arnica
Salve, when it completely cured run
ming sore on her leg, which had tor
tured her 23 long years. Greatest an
tiseptio healer of Piles, Wounds, and
Sores. 25c at Palace Drug store.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10
Deaths from Appendicitis

decrease in the Same ratio that the use
of DR.. Kings New Life Pills increases.
They save You from danger and bring
quick and painless release from constl-
patton and the ills growing out OF It,
Strength and Wig OF always follow their
use. Guaranteed by VIM. Mcbride
Druggist. 25c- Try them.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10

Piles are dangerous but do not sub
NIT to an operation until you have first
tried Man Zan the Great Pile Remedy
it is put up in collapsible tubes with a
nozzle that allows it to be applied ex-
actly where it is needed. II you have
itching. bleeding or protruding piles
and Man Zan does not relieve. money
refunded. Soothes and cools. Relieves
at once. Pioneer Drug Store.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-05-10
Carrie Nation

certainly smashed a hole in the bar
rooms of Kansas. but Ballard's Hore-
hound Syrup has smashed all records
as cure for coughs, Bronchitis, In
fiuenza and all Pulmonary diseases.
7. @. H, Horton, Kansas, writes
''I have never found medicine that
would cure a cough SO quickly as
Ballard's Horehound Syrup. ! have
used it for years. =
Sold by w. Mcbride.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-25
NO LOSS OF DISCOUNTS.
Banks accommodate Merchants
Freelu for Christmas TRADE.

There has been table talk about loss OF oiscou
in the payment of bills among all classes VI ~
nesses and all grades, owing to the sea- iO.s
money. A reporter for The Tribune saw the pi.s.
dent of bank near Broadway downtown yes'oiu1 y.
who well able TO comment on the
from general point of view. He said;
There may have been some loss 10 oe, - 'I
houses. but not due to scarcity of money eas
a large number of depositors among shoe ,
drygoods dealers, wholesale and retail anu ~,
in foodstuffs / know that We nave ioiio"eo
general plan of extending credit just @' - -.
tions were normal. whenever we were at GIL IN'
fed in giving the accommodation 1t was o'
necessary TO adle out the money W"
surnlus So have other banks in gooo s'aiiuiie-
ITO have withheld accommodation from business
borses +bis last autumn and early winter "oulu
have meant the loss of many millions Oh uoiai ~ =.
them and a great loss to also. We get from 70
6 ner cent on the money lend to customers Ii
is ono oe our sources of profit. 1t is one way we
have of using our surplus to advantage
The general public have no idea what IL
means in business to discount bills 10 many
bouses doing a business of million dollars year
or more the discounts not alone take care OF tle
discounts they compelled TO grant 10 proIip
ayers but also often mean an addition to prom
and loss on the right side Of from $500 TO s-4e'o
A wear | have known times when In one OF the
greatest businesses a single discount has amounted
to So e.o and that on money borrowed from bank
at 5 per cent This Will give some idea Of what
it would mean shut down or even curtafl loans
solvent customers
MANY OF our correspondents. rural banks have
surpIuses as high 75 per cent when % per cent
would meet all requirements But they are afraid
10 let the money go. But that fear will pass and
then there will be phenomenal flood of money In
this city. The result? Why. ii will cheaper
money of course and will make the panic seem
ridiculous. The money is in the country, enough TO
make business easy There is still little of the
unreasoning fear, however, which causes persons
TO cling TO The actual medium of exchange But
the ills they know not Of will soon pass away and
then conditions will be normal in every way
New-York tribune., 1907-12-25
CHRISTMAS ON THE EXCHANGES.
Panic Dampens Brokers Spirits, but En-
ployes Do Not Suffer.

The holiday spirit was not so much IN evidence
on the various exchanges yesterday as IN FORMER
years. but the Christmas funds raised for the en-
times.
Owing to the recent tragic death of James III.
OIiphant head of the Stock Exchange house Oh
James H. Oliphant & Co. and also because Oh tho
depression caused by the late panic, the DAY
passed quietly on the Stock Exchange and the
usual games music and skylarking that nave
marked the occasion in former years were missing
1899 that there had been celebration. But
Christmas fund of 1900, which compares favor
ably with the collected last year, was dls-
tributed among the 375 employees of the Exchange
The principal jolification was on the Cotton EH-
change. After the hour large rubber pan
put into play by some one. and II was not
long before baseball game was started ana
every one took part. The ball was finally put out
of commission by a stout brokers' accidentally sit
ting it.
On the Consolidated Stock Exchange the custom
ary Christmas Eve celebration was abandoned out
after Il o'clock the rules were suspended, ana the
more strenuous members indu1ged in horseplay
Christmas fund of s3.oO0-fulIy TO the sum
raised last year-was distributed among the en-.
poyes.
The Produce Exchange will hold its celebration
on December 81, when fifteen hundred poor chill
dren will be entertained and will receive presents
of fruits and toys. A fund has also been raised
for the employees.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-25
APPLE DEALERS IN ARMS.
Viii 4sk Jerome to Wage Var on
Short Capdcity Barrels.

Among District Attorney Jerome's visitors soon
will be a committee from the International Apple
Shippers Association. which will ask him to STOP
the sending of undersized apple barrels into this city
T. F. Park of 7. F. Park & Co. of Washington
street is chairman OF the committee. and the
members will point out to the District Attorney
that the law is being violated and that there is a
state law requiring the District Attorney to prose-
cute such violations
One of the members Of the committee said yes
terday that it might be necessary to prosecute
several New York dealers barrel makers or ship
pers, in order TO obtain an enforcement of the law
TO which little attention apparently has been paid
in the last few years. The law gives these as the
dimensions of apple barrel: Head diameter, 17is
inches, length of slaves, 28Ia inches. bulge, not
less than 81 incnes in the outside measurement
and adds that when straight or without bulge the
barrel must contain many cubic inches as it
otherwise would. Such barrel is expected to be
equal hundred quarts of dry measure. To
knowingly stamp short of this capacity a
full barrel, sell offer sell such barrel is a
misdemeanor.
Most of the apples coming into New York are
shpped in barrels, II was said yesterday that are
made IN Albany County and in the Hudson Valley,
and large percentage is below the legal measure
The short selling, it was explained, is mostly in
the New York market, and to remedy this the In
ternational Association appointed the committee
headed by Mr.. Park and called it the committee
for the enforcement of the law on the standard
apple barrel"
1t was explained that the fault is mostly that Of
the barrel makers. and through them the members
of the committee expect to correct the evil They
say that the farmers generally desire to the
legal size. barrel, but If the coopers make the
shorter ones and the farmers cannot obtain the
standard kind without sending a long distance for
them they take the chance and thus the consumer
loses. W. II. Bahrenburg. a dealer at No IO3
Murray street, and a member of the committee
said
We shall District Attorney Jerome as soon
possible and call his attention to the violations
Of the law that being practised every hand
We blame the barrel makers more than the farm
ers, and ii is fact that many New York dealers
are offenders We are prepared. if necessary to
prosecute them to obtain enforcement Of this
law
New-York tribune., 1907-12-25
WOULDN'T RECOVER BODY.
Flushing Bay Residents Decide That Legal
Requirements Are Too Severe.

Residents Of the second ward Of the Ror-
ough of Queens. who occupy cottages along the
shore front which skirts Flushing Bay have de-
cided to disregard floating bodies in that reach
of water Owing 10 the set Of the tides and
currents from the East River, Hell Gate and
Long Island Sound many bodies OF drowned
persons are carried into that bay. and until re-
Gently residents and workmen along the shore
made ii point Of getting them and informing
the police and coroners of Queens.
The annoyance of subpoenas from the office of
the coroner in Jamaica has caused the residents
to cease their body recovering activities Every
time any Of the shore residents are connected
with the picking up body in the bay subpaa-
ma from thee coroners Office follows which
means not only loss Of time, but also the ex-
peuse Of travelling to and from Jamaica Busi-
ness men and others say they have lost three
days attending TO some coroners case and that
the residents in that vicinity have determined
that hereafter bodies floating into tina. bay will
have to be reported by others. This was demon
strated yesterday when the body of a drowned
fioated into the bay A turn Of the tide
carried the body out into the river again. 1t is
thought to have been that of Elias Shahdandar
a Sjcilian of College Point, who committed sui
eide by jumping from the 34th street ferryboat
Hampstead last Sunday.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-25
END OF RICE TERRACE.
Court Holds That $50 900 Orna-
menf Mast BE Remoued

Justice Bischof. in the Supreme Court yesterday
signed judgment decreeing that the sl5oeo ter
wall in front of the former home of Isaac l.
Rice. Riverside Drive and seth street encroaches
upon the pavement and must be removed The
defendants in the action have thirty days either
10 begin the work of demolition or appeal 1t is
expected that appeal viii be taken, but as the
Court of Appeals has sustained the city in its
other similar actions Corporation Counsel Pendle-
ton and his assistant George OReiily. who has
had charge of the Rice case. expressed themselves
yesterday more than satisfied that ultimate and
complete victory will reward their efforts
The Rice has attracted considerable a.ten-
tion. both from the picturesque details and the
1ong-drawn-out fight that has been made in behalf
OF the artistic wall Mr.. Rice recently sold the
property TO s. Schnas but il is understood in
the Corporation Counsels office that the title has
not yet passed The sale, however will have no
effect upon the case, for. IL the decision rendered
yesterday is appealed and sustained the wall mus,
CONS down matter who is the owner of the
property. in view Of the fact that the hattie In
defence CT the wall being waged at the time
the sale was made. it is believed the contingency
Of its possible removal had been arranged ur,on
trial of the action il stated that II xvouis
cost between N5.ooo and s2o,0eo to remove the ar
tistic ornament
When Mr.. Rice built the house. in sol, he Oh
tanned permit to construct the terrace wall III
conteneed in the trial of the case that II ex-
tended more than seven feet upon the pavement
the Riverside Drive side and five and a half
feet the 3Sth street side, though the extension
runs more than SIX feet from the house.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-25
CONTEST OVER SUICIDES WILL.
Husband Seeks to Set Aside Instrument
Made DaY Before He- Death.

Surrogate Belford, of Riverhead. Long Island
heard testimony yesterday in the will case OF
Mrs. Mary Simpson, whose husband, George
Simpson, of Brooklyn, instituted contest upon
the ground that his wife was hopeless para
noiac at the time Of her death by suicide In
September Mrs Simpson owned considerable
property but had hallucination, it said
that her husband and a sister. Mrs. White
were plotting to put her out of the way SO that
they might enjoy her money and Simpson might
marry another woman.
DR.. William II. Ross, of Brentwood, testified
that Mrs. Simpson was hopeless paranoiac for
some time prior to her death. She executed the
will the day before she swallowed oxalic acid
In her brothers home. in Brooklyn. The will
devised 500 to Nellie Sadington, jewelry to
Mrs James J. Oliver her brothers wife. who
lives at No. 22S Sixth avenue. brooklyn; her
real estate to her husband, and the residue to
her brother, James J. Oliver
New-York tribune., 1907-12-25
MERRY CHRISTMAS IN THE SWAMP. "
Santa Claus Makes Usual Visit to District
Under Brooklyn Bridge.

,-here was a Merry Christmas down in the
swamp that district under the brooklyn briose'
Yesterday in spite OF the fact that there has been
a financial panic No panic can make the Christ
mas any different down there, for the inhabitants
and those who responsible for the good things
are not those who mingle with the 'panicky
crowd.
y72 Pearl street for many years has seen TO 1t
that the children in his neighborhood have cause
10 remember that there is Santa Claus. and
Yesterday exception TO the rule. 1t may
be that Mr.. Huth cannot build libraries and endow
universities with large sums. but he can make
several hundreds of children happy, and this he
has never failed to do and there is nobody who
New-York tribune., 1907-12-25

can get more enjoyment out Of his own goodness
than Mr. Huth. He received permission from tho
Board Of Education several days ago to put up his
Christmas tree in Public School $50. In Van
dewater street, and with the able assistance Of
J. E. Brown. the principal. he succeeded.
Several merchants Including George S. Bell Of
the W. H. 8. Lloyd Company, and r. J. Dunhan
Of the Dunham Manufacturing Company, furnished
candy and lot Of other good things were sent
in by other merchants. When 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon the crowd OF children of the
Swamp" outside the building 30 great II wa,
necessary to get several patromen from the Oak
street station to curb their spirits When the
doors OF the schoolhouse opened there was a mad
rush to get in and make that there was
something for each
Mr.. Huth Santa Claus was awaiting them. and
then there gladness for every one Assisting
him Miss c. Kerr, Miss p Oldinz Mis-. r
Pfortner. Miss M. Steers Miss A. Curley F. T
Dunham. p. F. Steil and F. K. Keogh. As fast
as the children came IN they were given a bag Of
goodies and some toys and were then asked to
so out into the street to give some Of tina others
q chance.
''Hully Gee! said one youngster not mora than
ten years old. as he hustled for home with his
presents. won't the old lady be glad to ,ee th,,
stuff" and his sentiments were echoed bv NAVY
others At o'clock last night the children v.rs
still coming and Santa Claus and the wonnerf,,I
tree had shown no signs OF fatigue.