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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08
AIfalfa a Swine Tonic.

Raising 1000 hogs year without
ever having any sign Of cholera in the
herd Is the claim put forth by M. Bar
Der of Bloomington, Neb. He makes a
speciality of this industry and has 800
acres of alfalfa, where the hogs are
raised.
MY hogs are raised in the field from
the time they are pigs till they are
about 8 months old, when l put them
on a feed of corn" said Mr. Barber to
a representative Of the Kansas City
Drovers' Telegram. IF fed in summer
time l soak the corn. But the alfalfa
Is the most important feed they get,
and is the one great thing that keeps
them healthy all the year around. In
all the years that have been raising
and handling hogs in this way, | never
had case of hog cholera ON my farm
This Is due to the alfalfa, which keeps
the hogs healthy"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08

The old-fashioned hand butter churn,
so long associated with fresh air and
country life, seems destined to be
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08
water and Salt for Cows.

Eight gallons of water day Is the
average quantity required for COW,
and the milk given Is about 81 per cent
water. In some pastures there Is no
water, the cows being supplied night
and morning, which forces such COW to
drink four gallons at time in order
to be supplied. AS the cow does not
know that she must drink four gallons
she may use less, and she will reduce
her milk supply accordingly.
Extensive tests and investigations
have been made by the experiment sta
tions to determine the advisability Of
adding salt to the ration of dairy
cows. AS a result Of these trials, 1t Is
recommended that dairy cows be given
at least one ounce of salt per day. Ex-
ceptlonally heavy mixers will require
more than this. The uniform results
obtained with all cows employed In
these trials indicate that salt In addl-
tion to that obtained In their food is
absolutely essential to the continued
health of dairy COW, while producing
milk. 1t Is evident, moreover that
the amount Of salt which must be SUP
piled directly will greatly vary In diff
ferent localities, 1t being more at bigh
elevations and at places remote from
the sea. Agricultural Epltomist.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08
~N~N~O

The upper house of the Austrian, or
Cisleithan, reichsrath has accepted with
out amendment the bill establishing uni
rcrsal suffrage, which previously had been
passed by the House of Representatives.
London papers reported that James
Bryce had refused a peerage and would
go to the United States as ambassador
without changing his name, and thus be
the first plain citizen to represent his
country at Washington.
just as it came from the French Cham
ber of Deputies, the new church and state
separation act was finally passed by the
Senate, 100 to 100 This was directed
against those churchmen who had re-
fused to accept the original separation
law of 1908, and all clergy who refused
under orders from the Pope to give over
possession of their residences and church
properties to the state do so on penalty
OF losing pensions. While the priests have
disregarded the law providing for re-
ligious associations, the laity have made
the necessary declarations to protect the
churches and other places of worship.
1t is presumed that the other ecclesi-
astical buildings will be rented to the
bishops and priests at nominal figure.
just as the clergy who have said most
without making a legal declaration to
hold public meeting have had only
nominal fines imposed upon them.
The French minister of finance has
ordered the mints to substitute on all
coin the words liberty, equality and fra
ternity" for the old device God protect
France" Minister Of Education BRAND
announced that the church buildings taken
possession of by the state would be de-
voted to educational and museum pur-
poses, the seminary of St. Sulpice at
Paris becoming part of the Luxembourg
museum. The expelled sisters of the AS
sumptionists order left Paris for Bel
gium, in the midst of throng of SYM
pathisers, who shouted Down with the
Free Masons."
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08

We have but little more definite
knowledge OF the soil and the principles
involved In Its treatment than we had
sixty years ago. says the Scientific
American. Fertility is not nitrogen
phosphorus, and potassium alone
though the potential value OF any Held
or State, or country, from the agricul-
tural standpoint, is measured by these
constituent elements In Its soil; yet 1t
has been demonstrated that soils which
contain an abundance of these elements,
and which are potentially capable or
producing crops for centuries perhaps,
are not capable of producing profitable
crops without the addition of further
amounts of these constituents. The
chemical investigator is, therefore. COM
PEELED to take into consideration other
facts than this. He must, II he would
cover the whole field, know something
of geology, of botany, of physics. OF
biology, of bacteriology, and of the
other natural sciences. because chem
istry alone is not capable of fully COM
passing the problem; thus, the oppor-
tunlty for specializing in any branch
has been very great, and 1t Is because
of the broadness of the subject, and
the opportunity, as already pointeS out
and the necessity, also, for giving irnme-
diate help from the knowledge that we
have that has prevented In a degree
broad study of the fundamentals essen
tlal for enabling genuine progress to be
made.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08

156o-First English lottery took place.
1610-Galileo discovered Jupiter's satel
lites.
1044-Archbishop Laud beheaded.
1So8-Cape of Good Hope surrendered by
the Dutch to the British. Vienna
evacuated by the French.
William Jones of Pennsylvania be.
came Secretary of the Navy.
1S15-Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated
British at Battle of New Orleans.
1S40-Penny Post introduced in England
by Rowland Hill. Chartist rising
at Sheffield, England.
1S41-Samuel Scott, daring American
diver, accidentally hanged himself on
Waterloo bridge, London, while Civ
ing exhibition.
42-Francois Coppee, French poet,
born.
1S44-Sir Hudson Lowe, governor of st.
Helena during Napoleon's captivity,
died.
1S54-Astor library, New York, opened.
1S61-Steamer Star of the West fired
upon at Charleston. Jacob Thomp-
son of Mississippi resigned as Sec
retary of the Interior. !. Philip f.
Thomas of Maryland resigned as
Secretary of the Treasury.
1868 Metropolitan Underground Rail-
way, in London, tremendously open
ed.
1S66-Steamer London, from England To
Australia, foundered in Bay of Bis
cay; 900 lost.
lS6S-Chinese government appointed
Burlingame its special envoy to all
the treaty powers.
1S71--Paris bombarded. ;. Prince Fred.
erick Charles gained victory over
Chanzy at LIE Mans.
1889 Upper. suspension bridge at Nj
agara Falls destroyed by wind storm
80. Thirty-three persons killed and
scores injured in whirlwind at Read
ing, Pa.
1S93-Princess Marie of Edinburgh mar
ried to Grown Prince of Roumania.
1895 -RoyaIist outbreak at Honolulu
suppressed by Dole government.
Great street railway strike in Brook
lyn.
1897-Count Muravief appointed Rus
sian minister of foreign affairs
Anglo-American arbitration treaty
signed at Washington. 5. National
monetary conference met at Indian
apolis.
lS99-Railroad wreck at West Dunellen,
N. j.; seventeen lives lost.
1900 Chicago drainage canal opened.
lives lost in orphan
asylum fire at>Rochester, N. Y.
l902-Seventeen lives lost in Park ave-
nue. tunnel wreck in New York City
49,. Lewis Nixon chosen nominal
leader of Tammany Hall.
l904-Chinese Emperor ratified CONNER
cial treaty with the United States
l905-Fivc killed in railroad collision
near Ripon, N. M.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08

long is used for the bottom. For
stanchions in front use one board 2
inches by 10 inches, 5 feet 8 inches
long; one beard inches by 10 inches,
feet 2 Inches long. For back gate
use two pieces 2 inches by II inches,
feet 4 inches long, cut sloping to tit the
frame. 1t Is put on with hinges. The
stanchions in front are bolted at the
bottom between 2 inches by inch
piece, and the sill, leaving space up
and down in front inches wide. Two
and half feet from the bottom of the
et6nchion slope, cut a place for the
animals neck. The 2 inches by 2 inch
oak piece Is bolted to the side of the
cap with blocks to allow the top of
the stanchions to open and close and
work with lever. The lever, which
car be made of wagon tire. is feet 6
Inches long. A ss-Inch hole is punched
In the top of the lever second hole
131a Inches from top hole. and the
third hole IL inches from second hole.
The upper hole is for attachment of two
lion straps, one on each side, which
are fastened to the left hand stanchion.
From the lower hole two pieces Of iron
ii inches long go to the right hand
Btanchlon When the stanchions are
closed bore one or two half-inch holes
in post back of lever, in which to use
a iron min to hold the stanchionS In
place.--Montreal Star.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08
Young Farmer. Going to Citie..


A recent news telegram from York,
Pa, says: with the return to the
county commissioners to-day of the last
registry assessors book 1t was shown
by the totals that the population of
voters In the county has decreased In
six months nearly 400. The shrinkage
in the male population is attributed by
the commissioners to the desertion of
the farms by young men, most of whom
have been lured to Philadelphia and
other cities under the impression that
they can speedily make fortunes.
SIN the borough of Red Lion sixty
voters have gone to the city within six
months. The decrease in population is
greater than in the boroughs. The total
registration In the boroughs and town
ships of the county last spring was 22.-
S02, The present registration shows
3SS less"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08
Rack for DehorninR.

The illustration shows rack to be
used either for dehorning cattle or
ringing hogs. For sills use three pieces
4 feet long and inches by inches
nortised for bottom of posts 3 inches
each side of center to allow the sides
and bottom boards to drop into place.
-Four posts inches by inches and
feet inches long and two posts 4
inches by inches, and feet 3 inches
long are tenoned to the sills Three
cap pieces 2 inches by 4 inches and 4
feet 2 inches long are mortised at the
ends to receive tops of posts. The caps
are of oak. One oak piece in front OF
the cap, which holds the stanchion, Is
2 inches by 2 inches. and feet 2 inches
long. The lower oak piece in front Of
the stanchlon Is inches by inches
and 2 feet long. The lumber is 2 inches
thick and feet long for sides. One
board 2 inches by II inches and feet
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08
Renovatinr Worn soils.

Prof. w. ], Spillman, in bulletin No.
245 on the renovation of wornout soils,
says:
ITO build up and maintain fertility
in the soil, feed large part Of the
crops, and return the manure to the
land. If manure Is not available, plow
under crops grown for the purpose.
Plow deep, but do not subsoil. Grow
legumlnous crops for the nitrogen they
add to the soil.
Commercial fertilizers and lime may
be important means of improving the
soil but the fertilizer requirements of
different soils and different crops In
different seasons are so little under
stood that we are not yet In position
to make positive recommendation that
are of general application"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08

overtaken by other
up to date churns
and which require
less labor to oper-
ate. The old-fash-
ioned churn was a
clumsy affair, and
not a little "elbow
grease" was re-
quired to manipu-
late 1t. In the IL
Iustratlon is shown
one OF newer hand
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08

churns, which nevertheless contains
most of the principles of the older
churns. The only change Is In the
application Of the power mechanism.
In this machine the power Is so placed
that little effort is required to operate
1t. A foot pedal is added, and the
hand power Is entirely different from
the old method. Instead of forcing the
paddle up from the churn after every
descent with the hands, springs are
placed beneath the hand grips which
do the forcing automatically. 1t would
be possible to operate this churn und
at the same time read book or news
paper.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08
The Decllne OF the Peach.

The Introduction OF new varieties,
budding, and the attacks of insects, as
well as diseases formerly unknown,
have curtailed the usefulness OF the
peach tree and confined it to certain
localities. Budding or grating the
trees, whether apple, peach or pear, Is
now but reproduction of the original
variety, and may introduce all the Inn
perfections as well as the advantages
o. the variety, to every portion OF the
country.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08
Kamr Corn in Nrericn.

Kaffir corn is being cultivated sue
cessfully in the State of Oaxaca. Mex
leo, and its cultivation Is to be extend
ed. This corn, which is native OF
Egypt, requires only the moisture OF
tho dew for Its wants, and appeals to
the farmer for planting during the dry
season
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08

A simple hoop
with three or four
legs welded on,
saves the time and
trouble. Any black
smith will make 1t
for a few cents II
you furnish an old
cart tire for hoons
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08

and legs Order the legs the right
length to hold the kettle just high
enough. 1t ls easily moved then from
house to barn, or to a neighbor's.-
Farm and Home.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-03-08
A Kettle support.

At butcherlng time and whenever
water is to be heated It is a bother to
set the kettle or to hang 1t with chains.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-26

For once at least the much-abused phrase. He looked the part" could
 be used in all truthfulness. As Rob- ert Brownley threw back his head and shoulders and faced that crowd of men, some of whom he had hurt, many of whom he had beggared, and all of whom he had tortured, he pre- sented a picture such as royal lion recently from the jungles and just freed from his cage might have made. Defiance, deference, contempt, and pity all blended in his mien, but over all was an I-am.theone-you-are-the- many atmosphere of confidence that turned my spinal column into a mer- cury tube He began to speak:
 Men of Wall street:
 You have just witnessed a record breaking slaughter I have asked permission to talk to you for the pur- pose of showing you how any mem Der of a great stock exchange may at any time do what I have done to- day. Weigh well what I am about to say to you. During the last quarter of a century there has grown up in this free and fair land of ours a sys- tenn by which the few take from the many the results of their labors. The men who take have no more license. from God or man. to take. than have those from whom they fileh- They are not endowed by God with su- perior wisdom, nor have they per formed for their fellov-men any labor or given to them anything of value that entities them to what they take. Their only license to plunder is their knowledge of the system of trickery and fraud that they themselves have created. No man can gainsay this. for on every side is the evidence. Men come into Wall street at sunrise without dollars: before that same sun sets they depart with millions So slI-porerful has grown the system of that single men take in a single lifetime all the savings of . million of their fellows To-day the people. saooo.eoa strong. are slsving
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-26

turned. I had sold him 100. .000 shares say at z20. He had sold them back to me say at 12s. and he stood where he had stood at the beginning. He had none of the 100. 900 shares. Both of us stood, so far as stock was con- cerned. where we had stood at the be- ginning. but as to profits and losses there was this difference: I had ten millions of dollars profits. while Barry Conant's clients, the System were ten millions losers-and all by . trick. The trick did not differ in principle from the one in constant practice by the System When the System after manufacturing Sugar stock. sell
 100000 shares to the people for s10.- 00o. .ooo. they 50 manipulate the market by the use of the slo.000. 900 that they have taken from the people as to scare them into selling the 100000 shares back to them for ss.o0o. GOO After they have bought they again manipu- late the market until the people buy back for s1e. .0oo. .0oo what they sold for ss.o0o.0 .0oo- The System commits DO legal crime committed no legal crime had not even infrinE.d any rule of the erchsnre, any more than had the System. when they performed their trick Since my experimental psnic I have repeatedly put the trick in operation. and each time ! have taken millions. untII today have h ny co1troi. ss sbsolsteiy ss thoash I had honestly ezrnet fhen. ss the Is- borer earns kis rseka vz<s4 or De
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-26

rule absolutely necessary for the ex- istence of stock-gambling is: Any member of the stock exchange can buy. or sell. between the opening and closing of the exchange as many shares of stock as he cares to. With this rule in force his buying and sell ing cannot be restricted 10 the amount he can take and pay for. or deliver and receive pay for, because there is not money enough in the world to pay for what under this same rule can be bought and sold in a single session. This is because there have been ar bitrarily created by these few trick sters many times more stocks than there is money in existence. The amount of stock that any man can sell in one session of the exchange is limited only by the amount that he can offer for sale. and he can offer any amount his tongue can utter;
 and he is not compelled sad cannot be compelled to show his ability to deliver what he has offered for sale until after he has finished selling. which Is the folloring day You will ask as I did. Can this be possible; you win find the answer I found It Is 50. and must continue to be SO. or there will be no stockgzmbling- Mark me. for this statement Is weighted with the greatest import to yo1 all A member of this erehsnee can sell as many shares of stock at one session ss he cares to offer II any attempt Is made st the session hs sells st to
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-26

for the few, and their pay is their board and keep. I saw this robbery. felt the robbers scourge. I sought the secret. I found 1t here, here in this gambling-hell. found that the stocks we bought and sold were mere gambling chips; that the man who had the biggest stack could beat his opponent of the board; that his op- ponent was the world, because all men directly or indirectly played the stock gambling game. To win, it was but necessary to have unlimited chips. If chips were bought and sold, on equal terms. by all, no one could buy more than he could pay for, and the game, although still gambling one, would be fair. A few master tricksters, dollar magicians, long ago seeing this condition, invented the system by which the people are ruth lessly plundered. The system they invented was simple. so simple that for quarter of century it has re- mained undiscovered by the world at large-and even by you. who profess to be experts. No man thought that a free people who had intended to al- low all the equal use of every avenue for the attainment of wealth, and who intended to provide for the safe guarding of wealth after 1t was e. cured, could be such dolts as to al. low themselves to be robbed of all their accumulated wealth by device as simple as that by which children play at blindman' 's-buff. The process was no more complex than that em- ployed by the robber of old, who took the pebbles from the beach. marked them money, and with the money bought the labor of his fellows, and by the manipulation of that labor and by turning pebbles into money he took away from the laborer the money which he had paid them for the labor until all in the land were slaves of the moneymaker. These few tricksters said: We will arbitrarily manufacture these chips-stocks Af- ter we have manufactured them, we will sell the world what the world can pay for, and then by the use of the unlimited supply we still have we will win away from the world what 1t has bought, and repeat the operation. until we have all the wealth, and the people are enslaved To do this there was one thing besides the manufac- turing of the chips-stocks-t was absolutely necessary-a gambling he'll the working of whose machinery would place selling value upon such chips; hell where, after selling the chips, they could be won back I saw that if these tricksters were to be routed and their System was to be destroyed, it must be through the ma chinery of this stock exchange. I studied the machinery, and presently marvelled that men could for so long have been asses.
 From the very nature of stock gambling 1t is necessary. absolutely necessary, that 1t be conducted under certain rules, unchangeable, unbreak- able rules. to attempt to change or break which would destroy stock gambling. The foundation rule. the
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-26

farmer the price of his crops, over s1,000 100000. or sufficient to keep en- slaved the rest of their lives million people.
 What do you intelligent men think of this situation? You know, because you know the stock-gambllng game. that the American people. with their boasted brains and courage, come year after year with their bags of gold, the result of their prosperous labors, and dump them. hundreds of millions. into this gambling inferno of yours. You know that they are fools. these silly millions of people whom you term lambs and suckers. You chuckle as, year after year. having been sent away shorn, they return for new shearing. You marvel that the merchants, manu- lecturers, miners. lawyers. farmers, who have sufficient intelligence to gather such surplus iegitimately, would bring 1t to our gambling hell. where upon all sides Is plain proof that we who conduct the gambling, and who produce nothing. are obliged to take from those who do produce. hundreds of millions each year for expenses. and hundreds of millions each year for proflts-for you know that we have nothing to give them in return for what they bring to us. You know that every dollar of the billions lost in Wall street means higher prices for steel rails. for lumber and cars. and that this means higher passenger and freight rates to the people. You know that when the manufacturer brings bis wealth to Wall street and is robbed of it. he will add something to the price of boots and shoes. cotton and woolen clothes. and other necessities that he makes and that he sells to the people. You know that when the copper, lead, tin. and iron miners part with their surplus to the system 1t means higher prices to the people for their copper pots and gutters. for the water that comes through lead pipes. for their tin dippers and wash boilers. and for their rents. and all those peces sities into which machinery. lumber. and other raw and finished material enters You know that every hundred millions dropped by real producers to the brigands of our world means lower wages or less of the necessities and lururies for all the people. and espe- cislly for the farmer You know that 1t Is habit with us of Wan street to gIoat over the doctrine Of the System. which the people parrot among them selves. the doctrine that the people e large are no< sHectet by our gan bling becsuse they. the people. having 10 surplus to gamble vffh. never cone into Van street And yet. moving sIl this. yoa rsTer fho1rht wifh sn x1Zr Eizto1 szt cxr,<;<u tAa< riftt