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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-11
A Country Boy
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Font was barefooted, and his clothes
were torn from head to foot, as he
stepped out of the swamp, but there
was picturesque appearance about
his figure that redeemed 1t from the
commonplace. Honesty, intelligence
and laughing face were mental and
physical characteristics that struck the
observer at once.
When he reached dry land, he held
up rough wooden box and peered be-
tween the Stats on one side. Something
wiggled, and the boy laughed.
"Say, what have you got In there?"
shouted voice from the bridge above
the stream.
Font looked up and stared at the two
boys. He had not seen them before,
and the voice, coming out OF the still
ness OF the swamp, startled him,
~ say, what have you got there?"
demanded the voice more lmperatively.
Font was not accustomed to such per.
emptory speech, and instead of reply
Ing, he walked of in the opposite di-
rectlon.
Hes mighty stuck up about It."
muttered the first speaker, Lets take
It away. and see what he's got"
"All right! Wen teach him les
son."
The two boys hurried down the slope
and In few minutes reached Fonts
side. They were both taller than he,
but Font had the advantage of breadth
and muscle. Without further prellm-
inary the two boys grabbed him by the
shoulders, and one said:
"Why didn't you answer me2 Haven't
you any tongue In your head2'
Font remained silent and this Irri-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-11
The Peanut Trade.

Peanuts have become an important
article Of American foreign commerce
In the last six years, especially on the
import side, in spite of the fact that we
produce about 100000 bushels year.
Peanut imports have grown in value
from $4,000 In 1900 to $500,0O0 this
year, while our exports thereof will ap-
proximate 100000. When this fiscal
year closes we shall have to list pea
nuts for nearly $1,0OO,OOO of our total
foreign commerce for the year, accord
Ing to the Bureau of Statistics of the.
Department of Commerce and Labor
The peanut acreage in this country
Increased 150 ner cant an] nrnduction
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WOULD HAVE sWEDEs RETURN.
Effort Made by King Oscar to Ge1
Emigrants Back Home.

Effort Made by King Oscar to Get
Emigrants Back Home.
An effort is under way by the Swed-
lsh government to effect the return to
their fatherland Of the hundreds of
thousands of Swedes who have emigrat-
ed to America and by discovering the
causes Of emigration in Individual cases
| 10 prevent it in future. Swedish edi-
tors and pastors have received a re-
| quest to cooperate in this work.
The request Is in the form of a cir
cular from an emigration committee"
of 100 prominent Swedes, with head
quarters at Stockholm, asking them to
ascertain from as many Swedish read.
ers and parishloners as possible:
The chief causes Of his emigration
from Sweden.
His present condition and earning
power.
Whether he Is employed in agricul-
tural, mechanical or other pursuits, or
as an unskilled laborer.
When and how often he has visited
Sweden, his family connections In Swe-
den and in the United States, and In
what trades he has been employed In
this country.
Editors Of Swedish newspapers are
asked by the royal Swedish statistical
department to publish this request for
information at intervals and to send
all data to the Royal Swedish consul
late, II State street, New York City,
before Oct. /.
The circular says in part:
"The committee believes the princi-
pal causes for emigration from Sweden
are the lack of sufficient opportunity
for work, and the difficulty of reaching
position of independence, and the
consequent difficulties placed in the way
of marriage and the establishment of a
home.
1T Is for the purpose of removing
these obstacles and of improving condi-
tions in Sweden that the emigration
Investigation committee has been or.
ganlZed."
Minister Lagerkrantz, the Swedish
representative, was charged to open a
bureau, In the United States through
which a Swedlsh-American desiring to
| return might secure information as to
the conditions in his trade in Sweden
and the probabilities of his prosper.
Ing there. Consul Ekman, who died re.
Gently in Sweden, left 100000 crowns
| ($116,00O) to the bureau which Mr..
Lagerkrantz Is to establish.
Sweden is said to desire particularly
the return of skilled mechanics, Of
which there Is great scarcity in Swe-
den, owing to the better opportunities
for high-grade workmen in the United
States Manufacturing towns which
fifteen years ago were prosperous COM
munities are said now to be almost de-
populated because of the heavy emigra-
tion to America.
The bureau which Is to be establish.
ed in the United States will, it is said,
be provided with enough funds to as
sist mechanics unable to pay their own
way back to Sweden.
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stole the box from me and let my snake
out before | could speak"
why didn't you tell him that it was
a rattler," said Bob.
Because he didn't ask me politely"
was the reply.
Then the pain OF the snake-blte
brought another spasln to the victims
face, and he shrieked aloud, holding
up his arm TO show where the swelling
was already Transforming the limb.
run for the doctor, Bob, or shall
diew he cried. Cant you help me?"
He turned to Font in his agony, and
the stolld face suddenly relaxed, as he
said:
II know a sure cure for snake-bite,
but you didn't ask me before. It's bet
ter than doctors medicine"
''Then get 1t quick! Hurry, or 1t
viii be too late" cried the stricken
boy.
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Nearly half century ago it was pro-
posed at Boston to break up the United
States frigate Constitution, popularly
known to history as "Old Ironsldes,"
the famous frigate of the war of 1872,
but to-day the grand old battleship may
be seen in all It's original glory in the
navy yard at Charleston.
When the proposition was made,
patriotic wave of feeling saved the
frigate from destruction, when oliver
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Ay, tear her tattered ensign downI
Long has 1t waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky.
Beneath 1t rung the battle shout
And burst the cannon's roar;
The meteor of the oceans air
Shall sweep the clouds no more.
o better that her shattered hulk
Should sink beneath the wave!
Her thunders shook the mighty deep,
And there should be her grave.
Nail to her mast her holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god Of storms
The lightning and the gale.
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GAN right. I'll get it soon, and then
cure you"
Font suddenly disappeared in the
swamp, and the two frightened boys
gazed mutely at his retreating figure.
They were miles away from the Flor
Ida hotel, where their parents were
passing the winter, and no doctor could
be found nearer. There seemed no 9th.
er way than to trust to Fonts knowl-
edge of rattlesnake-bite.
But the little fellow as gone so long
that the boys began to fear that he had
fooled them. They were on the point of
despair when he pushed through the
swamp thicket again, carrying some
leaves and roots in his hands.
"This will cure snake-bite," he said.
"It Is an old Indian cure. Rub the
leaves on the sore and chew the roots"
Font handed the frightened boy sew
eral pieces of root, which he began to
chew eagerly. Meanwhile Font rubbed
the wound vigorously with the leaves
A green slime seemed to exude from
the leaves as he rubbed, and when this
was smeared over the whole hand he
smiled with satisfaction.
The roots that the sufferer was
forced to chew were bitter, and he
made many wry face as he swallowed
the juice. Finally he asked: How
long must / chew then?"
IT'LL the swelling goes down" re-
piled Font, with a serious air.
For half an hour the trio stood
watching results. The two frightened
city boys hardly dared look at anything
except the swollen arm, which was now
actually growing smaller.
"See, the swelling is going down."
said Bob
Yes" gasped Harry, ''but can't
stand this much longer. It's making
me sick"
A deathly pallor spread over his face
and Font looked up with concern. Then
he said quietly:
Maybe that will do now. The swell
ing has gone down some"
With an expression Of intense relief
Harry took the roots out of his mouth
and tried to look happy. But he was
far from feeling exultant even though
he knew that his life had been saved.
do you think there is any danger
now?" he asked apprenensively.
mot II you go right home and stay
in bed two days" said Font "You
mustn't get up and go around. Two
days in bed, the Indians say, and then
the poison will go away"
With this advice carefully cherished
in their minds, Harry and Bob parted
from the little fellow; but not until
after they had inquired where he lived.
When the two boys were out OF sight.
Font threw himself on the grass and
rolled around in paroxysms of laugh
| ter.
Three days later three horsemen
drew rein before the loghouse of Fonts
father, Nesting snugly In beautiful
orange grove The boy, from his hiding
place in the grove, recognized Bob and
Harry, and the man accompanying
them he took to be their father.
Font came out when the riders shout
ed to attract somebody's attention. In
medtately the two boys shouted:
There he Is nowl That's the boy 7"
The gentleman rode up to Font and
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the timber division of farm could be
made in time to yield monetary
profit. Of course, it will take time to
start forest, but once started, it will
be an asset and will certainly add to
the market value of the farm.-St.
Joseph News-Press,
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A Modern Heart.

"Do you see that lady over therei
She broke my cousins hearth"
"Was she so cruelg"
"No, but the day before he broke
off his engagement to her she inherited
100000 marks" - Translated fol
Transatlantic Tales from F1iegends
Blaetter.
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pounds Milk containing Is per cent of
solids should contain about 4 per cent
of fat, 8h per cent Of albunen and
5h per cent of milk sugar, ash, etc.
The average amount of butter fat in
cream is about p per cent The sep
arator method of handling cream oc-
casions less waste than by the old
method. An ounce of salt is the allow
ance for l pound Of butter.
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Handy COmbInaifOn HayracK.
The combination hayrack shown In
the first illustration is a convenient
one. TT are bed pieces Of pine or other
straight grained light wood fourteen or
sixteen feet In length, eight inches
wide and three inches thick; If Of oak
T other hard wood, two and one-half
inches thick will give sufficient
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Wendell Holmes stirred the people with
the poem above. AS a result the histo-
ric warship was saved, and to-day,
with the extensive repairs, the frigate
appears as it did when it first entered
the cause of the United States in the
war Of 1912.
The boat has been remodeled along
the original lines, and photographs re
produced above show the frigate as she
Is to-day.
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About all that some women come
down town for Is that Il beats sitting
around at home.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-11

Every man gets mad when he sneaka
to the pantry just before bedtime, and
finds only cold potatoes.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-10-11
Teaching Botany in Public school.

Teaching Botany in Public Schools.
In country schools botany should be
taught by devoting an hour or two
each week, In the growing seasons, to
excursions to the fields and woods,
plants being selected, described and
classified. BY this mode of teaching.
an interest in botany will be created on.
the part Of the children. =
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weeviI Optimism I.

There are people who believe that
the advent Of the boil beevil will unit
mately prove a good thing for the
country and who regard the little In
sect as blessing in disguise. We
hope they are right. 1t is argued that
the boil weevil will bring about re-
adjustment Of labor conditions; viii
break up the cotton system and sub
stitute diversified farming. truck and
fruit growing. Homer (La.) Guar
dian-Journal.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-04-04
TWENTY SIX KILLED.

Cotton, Gala disastrous wreck on
the Southern Pacific railroad occurred
one and one-half miles east of this town
when west-bound train No. 9, from New
Orleans for San Francisco, ran into al
open switch going at the rate OF forty
miles an hour and ten of the fourteen
coaches were derailed.
Twenty six people are known to have
been killed and the list will total much
higher. The injured number about 100,
many of whom will die.
The wrecked coaches were hurled IN
every direction. -Four of them were
smashed into splinters. Most of the
dead were Italians from New York and
New Orleans. They occupied the smoker
and day coaches.
The dead were terribly mangled
Eighteen were taken to Cotton and eight
additional bodies could be seen under
meath one of the overturned and de-
molished cars. This car could not be
raised until a derrick was brought from
Los Angeles, sixty miles away.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-04-04
A. gau..--o Tel

Ts assured YOU when you buy DR., P1erce's
family medicines-for all the ingredl-
ents entering into them are printed on
the bottle wrappers and their formulas
are attested under oath as being complete
and correct. You know just what you are
having for and that the ingredients are
gathered from Natures laboratory, being
selected from the most valuable natlVe
medicinal roots found growing In our
American forests and while potent to cure
are perfeccsy harmless even to the most
delicate womeS atdchildFer:S Not drop
Of alcohol enters into their cQMposltion.
a much better agent s 9sea Retn Ios eS;
tEaGtIng and RreSfIx!ng lne msalGR14 ns 11HIs
refined glycerlne. This agent possesses
Intrinsic medicinal properties OF Its own.
being a most valuable antiseptic and anti
ferment, nutritive and soothing demul-
cent.
Glycerine plays an important part In
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery IN
the cure of indigestion, dyspepsia and
weak stomach, attended by sour rlslngs,
heartburn, foul breath, coated tongue,
poor appetite, gnawing feeling In stom-
ach. biliousness and kindred derange-
ments OF the stomach, liver and bowels.
Resides curing all the above distressing
ailments. the Golden Medical Discovery !"
is a specific for all diseases OF the mucous
membranes. as catarrh, whether of the
nasal passages or of the stomach, bowels
or pelvic organs. Even in it's lucrative
stages it will yield to this sovereign rem
edy if it's use be persevered in. In Chrome
Catarrh Of the Nasal passages, it's, It Is well, VEL,
while taking the cGolden Medical Dis
coyery" for the necessary constitutional
/ treatment, to cleanse the passages freely
two or three times q day with Dr. sage's
Of treatment generally cures the worst
cases.
/ In coughs and hoarseness caused by bron-
chial, throat and lung affections. except con-
! sumption in its advanced stages. the .Golden
1 Medical Discovery Is a most eh1cient rem
edy, especially in those obstinate hang-on
| coughs caused by irritation and congestion OF
1 the bronchial mucous membranes. The DIS
| coyery" is not SO good for acute coughs aris-
| ing from sudden colds. nor must it be ex,
| pected to cure consumption in its advanced
! stages medicine win do thatIbut for al
the obstinate. chronic coughs, which. II neg
lected. or badly treated. lead up to consump-
Uon. it is the best medicine that can be taken.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-04-04

mississippi is peculiarly well adapted
to the raising of hogs as has been 81
often repeated in these columns, but
the accumulation of actual experience
by those who are giving it trial, en-
tnasizes the statement more and more.
There are men who insist that meat
can be produced here at a cost of three
cents per pound, net, and should taair
theory fall short one cent when put to
the test and the cost be four cenFs,
1T IS one of the best paying adjuncts to
Xny farm or household. Mr.. John Gewin
OF DeKalb, Kcmper county, recently
killed hog that weighed 825 pounds
net at % months old and two others
that weighed 1891 pounds. While these
were rather old hogs and most economi-
cally raised, they show what csn hs
done when size is a consideration. In
addition to these he killed three shoats
ten months old that netted 825 pounds,
and which were no doubt the best hogs
he killed when the cost per pound Is
taken into consideration. These hogs
were given no especial attention and wore
raised under rather unfavorable circun-
stances. Mr.. Gewin is not a farmer but
has a small lot in which he kept the
animals. Had he the plats of forage
crops for grazing and other neeessarleS
he would no doubt have made a greater
record, although what he has done IS
worthy of serious consideration. We
should by all means raise our meat 1T
homo and bid adieu of the smoke-houses
that are at present located in Kansas
City and Chicago.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-04-04
THE POOR MANS FRIEND.

AS an evidence of the good heart car
ried in the bosom of the Hon. Charles
Scott. the distinguished gentleman from
Bolivar county, aspiring for the office
of Governor of Mississippi, we publish
the following letter:
Malvina, Bolivar County, Miss,
March IA, 1907.
To the Commercial Appeal.
Won't you please print this letter
1 like a square fight and think most
folks do, and I hear lot of things
in this race for governor that are not
square fighting, but just plain mud
singing. A friend showed me a letter
from out in the state reading that the
Hon. Chas. Scott's political enemies
were saying "that he was a rich man IS
man and against the i oor people, and
that when poor white man and a
negro called at his office he saw the
darkey first and made the white man
wait.' Now, that's what call mud
singing of the very meanest kind, and
besides it is not true. know i am
a small farmer. For years I made and
gathered my own crop. This year L
was lucky, and Western man who
bought place here got me to manage
for him; but before that all the time
1 cropped for myself. Now, I have
known Mr.. Scott for a long time.
When I first knew him he was as poor
as 1 am, and he is just the same now
as he was then, and is always kind
and polite and nice to everybody, and
is everybody's IS friend. He is my best
friend. I may say he has been .
brother to me all these years, and N
spite of the fact that he has made
money he is just the same as he was
when he was poor man. Money
makes no difference to Charlie Scott, as
everybody calls him, because everybody
loves him. When used to go to Rose
dale I sometimes went up to dinner
with him and his family, and it is The
same thing now, and he never fails
to invite me when I am in his office
at dinner time. This talk about Mr.
Scott being against the poor man is
nonsense. lie Is kluu W dill IHcu, Wllbc
and black. know, and I want to tsn
my brother farmers in Mississippi how
l know and some of the things Char
ley Scott did for me, and he has don'
lots of things just like it for others
too. When the Bank of Rosedale faile6
they had mortgage on my place fol
what it was worth, but I thought may
be I could work it out with few
years good crops. I asked Mr.. Scot
to get the Memphis or New York banl
that held the note to give me time
and though, as everybody knows, ne ant
his wife mortgaged their property te
get the money to pay the banks de
positors, though they were not respon
sible for same, he did so, and the banl
gave me time, and after two or thre
years Mr.. Scott paid the Memphis O
New York bank my note, and he thel
held it up for me. After while
found I could not pay, and went ant
told him to sell the place. I owed NOR
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-04-04
HON. cHAs. SCOTT

than it was worth, and if sold out
under the mortgage it would not have
brought half the debt Now, what did
Charley Scott dos He gave me moro
than the place was worth and gave me
to boot a little cash, saying he hated to
see me dead broke. Then he Offered
to sell me the place back for whole
lot less than he gave me for it, and
even now when land here in the delta Is
high, and after all these years, he Is
trying to sell it for less than he gave
me. Now, does that look like man
who is against the poor white mahY
But that is not all / rented land
from another man for few years, and
then went to Mr. Scott and asked him
to rent me rich little place of his
near his Malvina place. He did So,
and at some trouble to fix it, too;
and for four years, until this year, /
have been his tenant. The first year
with him I made good money; the
last three years our crops have been
bad. There was too much rain and I
have been sick, and had hard time
to support my family; and during all
this Mr.. Scott has been my best friend.
He furnished me from his store and
been kind to. There are a whole lot OF
others, and no one will ever know how
much good he has really done, for he
is not the kind of man to talk, bun
he Just goes ahead and does things.
His heart is as big as all outdoors,
and it's in the right place, too; and
1 want to say to the people of Missis-
sippi, and especially to my brother
farmers, that they will make no mis-
take and will be doing the right thing
to vote for my friend Charley Scott for
governor, and if they only knew him
as 1 do every one of them would do
it, too.
EUGENE WARREN.
sent. us his own doctor whenever we
needed one, and let me pay when 1
could, and never word or a dun. Be-
cause; of sickness and bad crops,- 1
could not pay him in full, and he told
the bookkeeper to square the account
and mark it paid, saying I had been
IN hard luck Now, now is tnat LOT
man that is against the poor man
Now, do you think that's all7 Well
ft's not Mr.. Scott always wanted me
to save enough money to buy US q
home, but some way I seem to have hard
luck, and couldn't. Now, just think
how surprised and glad my wife and
were when on Christmas Day, 1905, we
got deed from Mr.. and Mrs. Scott
giving us forty acres of fine timber
land right next to the land. we were
then renting from them. The land and
timber is worth over $500, and Mr.
Scott fixed the deed SO we can't sell o.
mortgage it, but when we die it goes
to our children. Now, this gives an ides
of the real character of the Hon.. Chas
Scott, who, because he has lots of sense
and has worked harder than anybody
I ever knew, has made lot of money
but who is kind and good to everybody
and who is the best and most generou
man ever knew.
But I am not the only one he ha
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-04-04
WILL FINISH IN FIVE YEARS.

Kansas City.-Representatiye Charles
F. Scott of. lola, Kan, one of the party
Of congressman recently returned from
trip to the Isthmus, said here:
"The people on the isthmus believe
that the Panama canal will be finished
in about five years. 1t is plausible.
don't say that the work will be. dont
within that length of time, but at the
rate the digging is being carried on now
it should be. 1t certainly will not take
a much longer time than five years"
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-04-04
Roost unnr IInion and

Boost your Union and the work il
is doing. Don't knock for there will
be plenty of fellows on the outside to
do that. Urge all good men to come il
and give their influence and fnancia
assistance. That is, all that are eligi
BILE. The Mississippi Union should mum
ber $4,000 men by August 1st and 125,
000 by the 1st of next January.