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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05
Assassination never vet won a victory

Assassination never yet won victory
for an individual, a party or a cause
--and It never will. The murder of
Lieutenant General Pavloff adds an
other to a shamefully long list of sim
liar crimes In Russia, but like all
those that have gone before this one
will bring no fruits to the assassin
and his friends. A class of people,
whether under Gar of a president,
who resort to the torch and the bomb
are not entitled 10 liberty. The man
who slays in the dark or who shoots
down In cold blood and the party which
supports such a man are unfit for self
government The yoke of national op-
preston can't be broken by numbering
individuals.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

With view to facilitate the trans
action Of business, the London Times
Company has been converted into a
limited liability corporation. The
shares Of the private company which
publishes the Times have become so
subdivided in the course Of descent
through four generations that there
are now about one hundred and fifty
proprietors, some of whom hold as lit
tie as one-fiftieth part of the one-hun-
dred and f1fty-second part of an orig
inal one-fifth.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

The Czar has written a poem In
which he expresses the belief that sad
ness will pursue him through life. If
sadness is the only thing that ever
gets after him Nicholas will be luckier
than most of the other prominent Rus
Rians
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05
Whr He Doe.n,t Buy.

"He's regular jack-of-all-trades.
Why, he built his own garage"
did he? wasn't aware that he
owned car"
"He doesn't. The only car that he'd
care to buy is just foot too long for
the garage he bullt"-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

Diamonds are reported to be going
down in price. This Is probably due to
the fact that general prosperity has
made 1t possible for SO many people to
have diamonds that they have become
common.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05
n Hazy.

"But." said Brlghtley, "if you were
sure the fellow who beat you in the
saloon was policeman, why didn't
you take his numberg"
"Well," replied Luschman, "I-el-
had had number too many already" I"
Philadelphia Press.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

ings toward lawyers In the mass Is not
one of respect and affection. The
badgering of witnesses under cross ex-
animation which small lawyers delight
In and which judges permit when they
should not is an old evil which creates
for the badgering lawyers the cordial
dislike not only of the badgered victims
but of most Of the laymen who witness
the performance.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

A corporation recently paid more
than a hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars In fines imposed by the court for
breaking the laws relating to rebates.
This was an important episode In the
moral housecleaning to which Ameri-
can business is being subjected. But
It is not so important as another pay
ment that was made within the same
week. A prominent citizen of New
York voluntarily paid the city twenty
seven thousand dollars back taxes
which he had had deducted because
he misunderstood the law relating to
the exemption Of mortgages. How
many Americans pay the taxes which
they know they owe, even IL the amount
Is more than the assessor determines? !?
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

The Howard Goulds are again being
sued. Mr.. and Mrs Gould have for
some years past been enabling the New
York lawyers to keep from being over
taken by anything like ennui.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

The Standard Oil crowd may be fined
$b8,000,000 by the Ohio courts. Don't,
however, make any big wagers that
the maximum penalties will be Inn
posed.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

The new pure food law does not, as
we understand, prevent the manufac-
turers putting pictures on the cans that
will make our mouths water to look at
them.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

Joseph II, Choate tells lawyers that
they should be courteous in the cross
examination OF witnesses. He also ex-
presses the judgment that rudeness
and discourtesy hurt the lawyers who
employ them Lawyers as class are
not loved. Most men at some time or
other have had disagreeahle expert
ence with them and while they may
respect individual lawyers their feel
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

1t is explained that the robber who
held up a train In Virginia recently
got nothing. That is unfortunate. He
should have got five years at least.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

Now that several Frenchmen have
been accidentally injured In duels, we
may soon expect a clamor for the de-
brutallzing Of the sport.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

Nobody Is now talking about annex
ing Cuba. 1t seems much more satis-
factory to have the United States mill
tary down there, with Cuba paying the
expenses. s
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

The world is certainly growing bet
ter. Fewer public officials are riding
on free passes this year than in any
former year for a generation.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

Ali Merzi, the new Shah of Persia,
Is described as man who possesses
an iron will. Also he has more step
mothers than any other ruler now ex-
tant.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

Professor Lowell says there are ca
mails on Mars that are thirty-ive miles
wide. This may be accepted as rath-
er broad statement.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

Can you think of anything that is
easier or that pays better returns on
the investment than pleasing a little
child?
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

Indications are that the interurban
is going to make itself a Characters
tic of 1907.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

A postage stamp Irritation never has
any effect on anyone but the mail
clerks; they swear little II the stamp
is on the wrong corner.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

When a girl is pretty she doesn't
have to learn housekeeping to get mar
ried.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

There always seems more excuse for
a man to beat mule than to whip a
horse.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

ANY woman who stoops to marry sell
dom gets time to stralghten up again.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05
Tuesdays and Fridays

1t will be hard to put a permanent
coat OF whItewash on the licorlce trust.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-04-05

The man who doesn't want anything
from the public has way of helping
himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30

panic of 1857 was precipitated by the failure of a trust, and London still calls it the American panic" The panic of 1873 was started by the fail ure of Jay Cooke & Co.,, while that of 1884 is known as the "Grant-Ward panic.' In 1893 the silver panic oe- cured, and in 1903 there was mild one based on undigested securities.
 The Wall Street Journal suggests that the panic of this year should be known as the Hartman panic, be- cause it quickly followed Harrimans story on the stand of the Alton deal, which certainly shocked the people, because what had been whispered was made known by his testimony to all. It was a confession of a deal without parallel in stock watering. Confidence in American securities oozed out at once, especially in for eign markets. Those markets at tempted to unload, and a panic fol- lowed in Wall street, but not outside of it. It was a Hartman panic, and it will go into history no doubt with his name attached to it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
CAUGHT COLD WHILE FALLING

From the New York Sun.
 The only complaint Simon Dresher had to make when he landed at the bottom of an elevator shaft in the building at II West Tenth street yesterday, after haviag fallen from the tenth floor, was that he had caught coul coming down. Although he escaped with slight internal injuries which seemed to give him little concern, he worried because he started to cough.
 Here I've gone all winter without catching cold" he said, as workmen who had expected to find him a corpse, car ried him out of the elevator shaft, and just because l go through the air just a little too fast I have to get cough. Now wouldn't that jar your slats?"
 Dresher, who is 21 years old, and lives at 800 Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, Is an elevator builder A plank had been stretched across the shaft at the tenth floor and Dresher was at work leveling one of the walls when the plank tipped and he went shooting down through the shaft. He struck the walls of the shaft several times which broke the force of his fall, and when he landed on pile of debris he had only few scratches on his face and hands and internal in juries which. an ambulance surgeons said, won't inconvenience him much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
SELLS TIPS ON MARKET

he New York Sun
 Marian B. Clark, handsome
 ,n of about %, who wds four years
 a teacher in the public schools of
 city has gone into the business of
 ing tips on the stock market. She
 2s at the Ansonia.
 tight was thrown on Mrs Clarks oc- patton by her own testimony in sup ementary proceedings before Justice Iewburger yesterday. These were held ipon the Judgment rendered in favor of Paul Sorocco modistc of East Thir- tieth street, for SI6t75 for a bill of gowns. waists, and other, women's cloth ing which it is alleged has been owing since 1905. Mrs. Clark could not pay the judgment.
 According to Mrs CfarK's testimony the income from her business of selling stock tips amounts to about s15o0 a year. This approximately bala nees the outlay on the apartment in thb Ansonia which Mrs. Clark testified consists of two rooms and a bath" The tips, it appears. she got from sources sine believed to be perfectly trustworthy. NlIer method of operating the business is to tell the tips to some one of her friehds, who would play it. When the profitl had been made there was divVy with Mrs. Clark ''bo- nuses, commissions, or whatever you please to call 1t, as she said offhand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
Western Railroad Troubles

In 1898 the Erdmann act was passed by Congress. It provides for the ar filtration of labor difficulties where interstate commerce is involved by the interstate commerce commission and the commissioner of labor. Com missioner of Labor Neill and Chair man Knapp of the interstate com merce commission are in Chicago prepared to act under the terms of the Erdmann act.
 The threatened strike consists Of the conductors and trainmen of forty railroad systems in the west. The wage scale is complained of. The employees want more wages, and the railroad managers refuse to grant their requests. The men want twelve per cent more money, and the railroad managers offer an increase of seven per cent to the conductors and of ten UtI C0llL lD iilC tih1illtlls III Niii6Ai' baggagemen and allied workers. The difference is. not great, and the hope is that a compromise can be effected.
 It is very desirable that the threat ened strike should be averted, for it concerns 50,O00 employees, who have a defense fund of $650000. These men cover a trackage of 95,000 miles, and if they strike business in the middle west will be at standstll.
 The railroads have asked the au- thorities to seek settlement under the Erdman act and Chairman Knapp says 'it therefore becomes our duty under the law 10 put ourselves in communication with the parties and
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
EVER A SONG.

By James Whitcomb Riley. There is ever a song somewhere, my
 dear,
 There is ever a something that sings
 a1way; There's the song of the lark when the
 skies are clear, And the song of the thrush when the
 skies are gray: The sunshine showers across the grain, And the bluebird trills in the orchard
 tree; And in and out, when the caves drip rain, The swallows are twittering carelessly. There is ever a song somewhere, my
 dear, Be the skies above dark or fair; There is ever a song that our hearts may
 hear There is ever a song somewhere, my
 dear
 There is ever a song somewherel There is ever song somewhere my
 dear,
 In the midnight black or the midday blue; The robin pipes when the sun is here. And the cricket chirrups the whole
 night through. The buds may blow and the fruit may
 grow
 And the autumn leaves drop crisp and sere; But whether the sun or the rain or the There is ever a song somewhere, my
 dear. N
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
Easter Music.

Tt used to be that only the Catholic and Episcopal churches paid especial at tention to Easter music, but now all de- nominations observe the great Christian festival by presenting musical pro- grammes of a joyous and brilliant char acter.'' said member of the Y. M. c. X. "A great many regular attendants Of non-liturgical churches stray away on Easter Sunday to those churches that lay much stress on music. But in these recent years Baptist. Methodist and Pres- byterian churches rival, in their Easter music, the Episcopal and Catholic
 T am glad to see this general obsery- anee of the day on which Christ rose from the tomb. The Lutheran church never gave up the Easter celebration and l am glad to see other Protestant bodies restor- ins at least Easter music
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
Bad Effect of Threats.

My attention was attracted this eVen- ing to the pitiful cries of youth about years of age in one of the suburbs, , said a man last night
 'Upon hearing the cries and to satisfy my curiosity, I stopped to see what the excitement was all about. There were about dozen and half amused women gathered around the tot.
 "He was lost and was bowling as loud as his healthy lungs would permit. He was not crying because he was lost, but because he was overcome by fear Of the black man.
 Some ignorant, oyer-grown person had evidently been threatening when he was bad and naughty to give him to the black man.
 "Vhile | was standing there listening to the little fellows pitiful vail a large and husky negro approached from the oppo- site side of the street to observe the eX- eitement and as he came closer the boy with brief glance spied him through the crowd, and his shrieks began afresh. It all ended by a good natured woman offering to take the child home.
 The habit of parents frightening ehil- dren by threats of bears, dogs and black men is an extremely bad one, and the parents who use such threats deserve eensure themselves.
 Young children are nervous little pieces of mechanism, and their own imaginations will suggest enough horrors without as- sistance from the older oneS.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
BOOKS AND DIGESTION.
thur Svomnds in London Saturday Re.

Arthur Syomnds in London Saturday Re-
 view.
 It seems to me that with the multiplica- ton of books we are losing all sense of literature. Leisure and three books, a Bible, a Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, might make a man truly wise if the seeds of wisdom were in him. I do not know even a wise man whose instinct for wis dom would not be deadened by the ire quentaton of the Encyclopaedia Britan- nica. Books should be taken in doses no bigger than music or pictures they are even harder to digest. There Is more drunkenness in a book than In all the vineyards of France. A book may re- make mans soul. Books should be treated with reverence or cast out as dirt. They are in danger of passing out of the service of the temple into the parcel de- livery of the grocer.
 Nothing Is gained by reading book unless you give to that book more than 1t brings to you. All these people who read with their eyes only are fatally wasting their time. A book read superficially makes the reader more superficial, and to read for information is to gnaw at the bones of meat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
WILL CONQUER DISEASE

cured antitoXin serum that may be used as specific in other diseases than diph- theria. An antitoxin has been developed for the treatment of lockjaw. Whether or
 not it can be regarded with as much con fidence as the diphtheria anttoxin is d question upon which medical authorities differ. But none of them is prepared to deny that further development, luther culture of this serum, may not result in the preparation of a tetanus antitoxin
 that will be as surely effcacious as is that now used in cases of diphtheria.
 So, also, laboratory workers, and espe- cially some in this city, have been for some time proceeding along experimental lines which seem to give promise that an anti-pneumococus serum may be obtained which may be used with confidence of recovery in the treatment of pneumonia. That would. indeed, be consummatlon which not only physicians, but the dwell
 CTS in great cities especially, where pneu
 monia seems more likely to prevail than in the rural districts would welcome. Pneumonia has been in the past winter one of the deadly diseases which have prevailed in New York, and there seems to be no doubt that it is communicable,
 having in that respect the nature of contagious disease, and if it be com municable, is due to a germ which may preish when an anti-pneumonia serum is brought in contact with 1t.
 So, also, especially the laboratory work CTS have been dilligent within the past two or three years, in experiments hav
 ing for their object the development of an antitoxin which will prove to be specific in typhoid fever cases. Already the eXperimentetrs in laboratories have secured antitoxin called by the technical name of 'anti-sceptocoecus,' which seems
 to have specific tendency for the cure of various forms of erysipelas, blood poison ing, and especially that much poison of the blood to which physicians
 who are performing posr-mortem opera tions constantly expose themselves, even when observing the utmost care.
 The biologists and the other exper- mentors in the laboratories and the phy-
 sieians who employ antitoxin have long been aware that there is inevitably certain amount of detrimental action due to the injection of any serum which is of heterogeneous origin, that is to say any serum which has been procured from an
 animal Therefore, the idea has at one
 time or another occurred to all who are in authority that if it could be possible to procure an antitoxin from an other
 wise healthy human system that might mark a new epoch in medical history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
Sembrich's Voice.

Madame sembrich is in exceptionally fine singing form this season, said David A. Montagnon at the Hotel Hillman. T heard her in several of the Florida cities early in March and although had lis- tened to her in grand opera in New York l greatly enjoyed her concert singing Indeed she has affected her southern au- diences as no other artist ever did. Van lIoose, the tenor. who is assisting Sem- brich, is also making a wonderful hit.
 Madame Sembrich's company rests dur ing holy week and when it reaches Bir- mingham will nave appeared only once since March 23. Sembrieh will make no touring contract that requires her to sing oftener than three times @ week. Her engagements for Easter week are as fol- lows; Montgomery. Tuesday; Birming- ham. Thursday, and Atlanta, Friday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
New York Special to the Philadelphia

New York Special to the Philadelphia
 Press
 N R. LOUIS FISHER, who intro- PV duced the antitoxin serum in
 New York. spoke last evening in a somewhat informal and yet seni-profes- sional way to a considerable group of hearers of the use of that remedy in the case of Archie Roosevelt. pr. Fisher, after having spent the better part of q year in investigation and practice at Ber- lin, Germany, and having there observed that the diphtheria antitoxin, if properly prepared and wisely administered, with discretion as to quality and haste in the administration in as early stage of the disease as possible, was almost certainly followed by recovery, deemed 1t his duty to bring the antitoxin to New York. He spoke last evening of the use of it in this city saying that diphtheria mortality had been greatly reduced through the use of antitoxin. The administration to Archie Roosevelt of an unusually large quantity of the antitoxin indicated to medical men in this city the malignity and grave dan ger consequent upon 1t with which the disease had afflicted the Presidents son. Judging without complete or any more than very partial knowledge of the record of this case nevertheless the physicians in this city are of the opinion that the lad was saved by reason of the adminis- tration of this remedy.
 The informal talk, which was not ex- actly lecture, and yet was of the nature of a Ieot11ra to lavn1nn gave Dr. Fisher opportunity to speak of what he regarded as one of the most important of recent medical suggestions, one which after good test may open up a new epoch in medical history.
 Always heretofore, and at this time as well, animals have been employed to de- velop antitoxin for the treatment of diph- theria. The guinea pig, the dog, and, in the end, the horse, have been treated with the disease germs, treated as nature does through the inoculation of mlch cattle with the germs which produce smallpox when introduced into the human system, but which becomes a gentle and unmalig nant type of that disease, namely, kine- BOX, when introduced into the system of cattle, whereby the hint was obtained which made it possible for medical sci ence to master and practically stamp out smallpox.
 The public has little knowledge and in fact many members of the medical pro fession has as yet only vague under- standing. of the extent to which investi- gaton is now being carried for the pur- pose of discovering if there can be pro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
sEaw Hats.

One marked difference between the customs of the north and the south Is that southern men wear clothes for com fort regardless of the almanac, while in the northern cities men are governed by conVention,' said @ New York commer- eial traveller "A case in point relates to the straw hat Here in Birmingham I find prominent citizens wearing straw head gear in March, because of the summer heat. In New York 1t might be as hot as blazes in the spring, but To man would dare put on straw before the last of May. The southerner in respect of wearing ap- parel shows better sense.