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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
LEPERs IN THE CANAL ZONE.
Site Selected for the Colony Is
Worthy Fashionable Snnitarium.

Site Selected for the Colony Is
Worthy IA Fashionable Snnitarium.
Near the beautiful little suburb of
PHlo Seco, six miles from the city of
Panama, is n group of eight new build
ings erected by American officials for
the segregation of lepers in the canal
zone-there are seventeen of them
and they are under the care of an Amer
lean physician aided by severa! attend
ants, says the New York Times.
Nothing illustrates the change that
has been wrought in the zone by the
introduction Of American methods bet
ter than the American way of treating
these outcasts of society. When the
zone first came under American control
there were a number of makeshift pest
houses in out-of-the-way stations along
the line of the Panama railroad, Some
were in the city Of Colon, while on the
outskirts of Panama eleven patients,
nominally In the care OF the govern
ment OF Panama, We're huddled togeth.
er In small building.
The site selected for the colony is
worthy fashionable sanitarium. On
rising ground the broad yerandas which
surround three sides of every building
look across the bay, with its eyer-in-
creasing shipping, to the city OF Pan
anna In the middle distance Farther
on the winding coast line stretches till
1t is lost in the tropic haze. To the
rear, beyond the little suburb, the low
country stretches indefinitely toward
the hills, its slow winding rivers and
scattered clearings showing like lines
ON map,
The colony is utterly isolated-the
chief reason for the selection of the
spot. The whole width OF the bay pro
tects Panama from infection, while to
the rear the Rio Grande and the little
| Farfan river separate it from Pale
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
Not Too Soon.

When a tactful host entertains tact
ful guest, there is sure to be rewarding
conversation for the onlooker and list
errer, What do you think OF our place,
on the whole?' asked Mr. Brown, as he
stood with his old school friend on the
piazza waiting for the station carriage
which was to bear the twenty-four
hours guest away.
Rather a good little place." said Mr..
Ray, impartially. Perhaps bit bare
now, but no doubt time will change all
that"
"Yes, indeed said his host, with
great heartiness and no hint of offense.
Il hope before you come again the
trees and shrubs will have made a good
growth-then you'll see a change"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
The BannOch.

One Of the hardest, bravest, ano
most difficult to handle among all the
western tribes was the small but val
orous band known as the Bannock,
Banak, or Panaiti This little tribe,
never numbering more than 700, has
for many years Inhabited the country
between the Snake river and the noun
tains which mark the boundary between
Montana and southern Idaho.
OF Shoshone race, but braver ant
more turbulent than any other Sho-
shone tribe, the Bannock fought the
Blaclkfeet and drove them back when
they came over the mountains, domin-
ated tanner tribes Of Idaho and Ore
gon, and made themselves general null
sances when the white man took the
country.
The Bannock troubles eliminated III
1873, when they broke out in open war,
drawing many of the Piute and Sho-
shone along with them. After consid-
cradle fighting their young chief, Buff
falo Horn, was killed by friendly In
dian scouts and the Bannock warrlors
surrendered.
All of tae Bannock tribe, except /
fragment at Lemhl, now make their
home on the Fort Hall reservation
Some 500 Of them still survive, but are
slowly decreasing In numbers. They
do not take kindly to civilization, but
seem to have accepted the inevitable
and behave fairly well Of recent years
The Bannock are very dark of face, an6
Of medium stature, while their physique
ls wiry and sinewy, as might be ex
pected with a fighting race, equally ex
pert In horsemanshlp and mountain
| climbing
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28

more. They have restrictions Of all
kinds placed on the order of their daily
lives, but they are used to 1t. Indeed,
they have arrived at sort of mental
state in which they look to the author
tiles to tell them what to do, and how
to do it, in every contingency. "Ver-
boten !" is the German word that has
the greatest vogue, so far as / was able
to see. "Forbiddenw stares them In
the face everywhere. They are regu-
lated In all sorts Of ways, down to the
manner they shall conduct themselves
in their houses. There is a certain
time for beating rugs, certain time
for playing the piano, a certain time
for everything else. You can move
your household goods only in certain
way. You cannot shake a dust rag
out of the window. You cannot do this
and you cannot do that, and, they told
me, after once you get accustomed to
it, it Is a comfortable way to live. 1t
absolves you from thought If you know
work and how you must do 1t. If a
cab knocks you down in the street,
you are arrested for obstructing the
traffic. Your place is on the side
| walk.
Every Berllner does exactly what he
is expected to do, and you must do the
same. AS an example Of how well
trained they are, they are not obliged
to have guards on the underground
| trains in Berlin The Berlin folks
know they are expected to shut the
doors, and they shut them. If you
observe their regulations you are not
disturbed, but If you violate one of
them you instantly get into more kinds
Of trouble than you had imagined could
exist. All you are expected to do is
to walk a chalk-line, and you can be
happy, If the regulations allow the kind
of happiness that agrees with YOU
Samuel G. Blythe in Everybodys.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
Tbe Retort Courteous.

An official of the Department of the
Interior tells of an incident at one OF
the Government schools for the In,
dians.
A patronizing young woman of CHI
cinnati was being shown through the
institution, when she came upon q
fine looking Indian girl of perhaps six
teen years of age. The Indian girl was
hemming napkins, which the girl from
Cincinnati watched for some moments
In silence. Then said she to the Indian
Are you civilizedy
The Sioux raised her head SLOWLY
from her work and glanced eoldly a
her interrogation NO." she replied, a;
her eyes again sank to her napkins
"are you?"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
WHERE THE FLEET CAN DOCK.
United States Has Only Two Big
DrydOclxs on the Pacific Coast.

United States Has Only Two Big
Drydocl<s on the Pacific Coast.
1t needs only a glance at the govern
ment drydock facilities on the Pacific
coast to convince one of their utter
inadequacy to the demands which will
be made by our navy during the com
ing two or three years, says Cassier's
Magazine.
The United States government pos
sesses upon the entire Pacific coast only
two completed drydocks; one at the
Mare Island navy yard, in San Fran
cisco bay, and one at Bremerton, Wash.
on Puget Sound.
The dock at Mare Island is 513 fee,
long over all, so feet Z inches wide at
its entrance and 27 feet 6 inches deep
over the sill. 1t is available only for
the accommodation Of the smaller ships.
The drydock at Bremerton Is more
commodious, being $50 feet long over
all, 90 feet 8 inches wide at the en-
trance and 30 feet deep over sill. This
will permit the entrance of the larger
battleships, but it is distant from the
main naval base.
At Mare Island the government has
under construction a third Pacific coas
drydock, but 1t is estimated that 1t vii
take three years Of hard work to finisl
it.
This dock was begun In 1900 and thu
contract called for its completion Nov
! 90 1907; but unforeseen emergencies
delayed matters and the dock will hard
ly be available for use during the pres
ent visit Of the fleet.
Outside of the government docks OF
the Pacific there is just one private
plant on that coast which has facilities
for handling the big battleship. This i
situated at Hunters Point, on the ives
side of San Francisco bay, about fiv
miles south of the city, and Is ownet
by the San Francisco Drydock Com
pany. 1t has only one drydock capabl
Of admitting the large battleships, be
ing $50 feet long, 100 feet wide and 8
feet inches deep.
There are thus only two docks on tn
entire Pacific coast of the United State
capable of handling the larger of tn,
navy's battleships, and one of these il
private one and will need to be LEASED
by the year by the government in orde
that it may be at the navy's disposa
at any and all times.
Some time before the announcement
of the proposed mobilization of tn
fleet on the Pacific was made the Sal
Francisco Drydock Company had per
fected plans for the construction of /
drydock which when completed will b.
UNIQUE in this class Of marine engineer
ing in that it will be the largest dry
dock in the world.
At the present time the largest dry
dock in the world is at Belfast, Ire
land: but the proposed San Francisc
drydock will materially exceed it il
dimensions. In exact figures the ney
dock will be 1850 feet long, 144 fee
wide AID "a feet 8 inches deep.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME

Gray-HaIred Man Remembers Boy
who Tried 1t Forty Years Ago.
"Whenever | read in the newspapers
that boy has run away from home to
fight Indians or seek some other sort Of
adventure, 1t takes me back forty
years" said the gray-haired man In
the club smoking room, For l ran
away from home once, just as / sup
pose every other youngster does, once
at least, only in my case | wasn't seek
ing adventure, | was escaping tyranny,
"It seems foolish now, but II was
all very real to me then. The tyranny
consisted Of the one fact that | got
my first licking, and l guess there's
no doubt that | deserved 1t. But /
couldn't zee 1t that way then; ! was
very bitter, and the one idea l had
was to get away where life was free
and tyrants were not.
"The impulse to depart on my trav-
els was carried out so suddenly that
I found myself wandering far away
from the house before 1t dawned on
me that l was III provided for a jour
ney. In fact had gone just as
was, with the smart of my physical
as well as my mental wrongs still
acute,
"As went pondered over the mat
ter of provisions, and the idea came
TO me that | would make my first
stand In a cranberry bog right Oh
the farm. With this as a headquar
ters would make raids on neighbor
ing orchards, and II the worst came tc
the worst supposed the cranberrles
would support life.
.Well, | reached the cranberry bol
presently and blvouacked. Here
should spend the first night under the
friendly stars. picked out a soft
place for bed and sat down to wait
the coming of night,
"Now, crsnberries are not very fill
ing, especially In the raw, green state
but I managed to eat some Of them
And then It began to get dark.
"Well, sir, the shadows fell quickly
on the hills about me and the air grew
chill. Fantastic monsters reared theil
horrid heads ON every hand, The FIRE,
life began to pail
$50 1t won't surprise you to learl
that a very little boy ran home crying
before the supper things had been clear
Cd away, and that he never ran ava.
again"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28

Collie: The only thing that win
tackle baby without first considering
the consequences.
Chimeras: The food of indolent the
orists.
Humor; An anvil upon which to
crack a smile.
Matrimony: The sea that swamps
many a courtship.
Sympathy: A convenient thing for
a silent partner.
Miser: One of the things that viii
keep In any climate.
Dude: The excrescence Of insufrer-
able conceit.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
Incompleta Signals.

The ingenious Charleston News and
Courier suggests that the new spring
hats would gain In distinction IL they
sported neat two-foot flagstaff.
And right away somebody viii wani
60 suggest sign language for the flag
In the hat.
OF course the flag at half masa
might indicate that its owner was
widow, and reversed flag would
mean that the lady was In distress
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
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0~NoN~ONN~

Messrs. palermo and Cinngoloni, the
inventors of "tachyor' (fiuoride of sill
ver), an antispetic employed in surgery,
have found that solution Of part IN
100000 of water will destroy all germs,
including bacillus subtilis, Its germici-
dial effect being much greater than that
OF chlorine, bromine or ozone.
To lessen risk of loss of submarines,
torpedoes used in naval practice and
other objects liable to sink in the sea,
French oceanographer attaches a YES
sci Of oil having long and short time
tube one-tenth of an inch in diameter.
When submergence softens the gum
seals Of the tube oil rises from the
long one drop by drop, locating the
sunken object by the film on the wa
ter's surface.
The German government more than
year ago imposed what seemed to be
moderate tax on railroad tickets.
The result of it has been a diversion OF
travel from the higher to the lower
classes, to such an extent that de-
crease of about $2,5OO,OOO in the pas
senger earnings of the Prusslan state
railroads alone is attributed to it.
Nearly at the same time new schedule
Of charges for passengers and baggage
was introduced, which on the same
railroads reduced earnings about
s1,50OOOO. But this was expected.
DR.. H. c. Stevens, of Seattle, reports
recent experiments which show that
objects seen by Indirect vision ordin-
arily appear larger in the right half
of the field of vision than in the left.
With a smaller number of persons this
Is reversed. From these facts he de-
duces possible origin Of right and left
handedness. Right-handedness or Its
reverse, develops at about the age OF
seven months. Dr. Stevens suggests
that they may be due to the phenomena
Of vision just described. BY reflex
effect the infant reaches after the OBJ
jects best seen with the arm nearest to
them.
In his book on the great weld Of
German East Africa, Herr G. G. Schil-
lings gives a vivid description Of the
shimmeri1g, undulating sea of light
which bathes that country, causing
light-colored objects often to appear
black, and making distances so decep-
tive that when but few hundred
PAGES away 1t is sometimes impossible
to distinguish rhinoceros from an
ostrich or a termites' nest. Water on
this weld is often the greatest Of lux
uries, "as precious as life itself, ever
when obtained from small mud POOLS
Yet the country, when viewed from hill
tops or from tall trees, exhibits a won
derful panorama Of wild life. Elephant
there are not dependent upon grass
but will strip trees of their bark OF
branches when hard pressed, and they
are sometimes found in company will
giraffes. II some Of the small lake.
of the Kilimanjaro region hippopotam
may be watched by concealed OBJ
server at as close quarters as In Z
geological park.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
Costly Target.

Probably the most elaborate and
costly target in the world has recently
been launched by the New York navy
yard. The target is almost an exact
duplicate of section from the huh Of
a battleship and is estimated to hav<
cost $4,000.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28

Seco. On the side toward the bay a
short stretch of beach offers landing
place to small boats. A part of the
island has been cleared and each leper
will receive a small lot to take care
of and TILL So far as vegetables and
poultry are concerned, the colony is
expected soon to be self-supporting.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
nf some YnIne stiIl.

Il am worthless thing!" exclaimed
the rejected and detected young man
despairingly.
"Oh, no." replied the fair girl cheer
fully. mot worthless. Your skeleton
alone would sell for S2o."-Somervllle
Mass, Journal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28

You are always hearing of the beau
ty of women. Women are not so beau
tlul. after all; it is the gentleness,
patience and kindness Of women that is
most attractive.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
DISCIPLINE IN BERLIN.

Germans Not Only Obey Rules, Bat
Are Unhappy without Them.
The Berliners, and the rest OF the
Germans, are the most governed people
an earth. They like 1t and howl FOR
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
A Fittinx Tenn,

"How would you designate a tallor's
jagf"
II doa't know of any particular name
unless you would call 1t tight IT.
Baltimore American,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
Not PleaKnnt.

Bacon--I see German scientist as
serts that thoughts can be photograph.
ed
Egbert--It wouldn't be possible,
however. to make some of 'em look
pleasant.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28

When you see boy with curls and
a sash. It is very good sign that the
father doesn't have his way In the
house.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28

A woman looks for something that is
pretty when buying for a girl, and
something that will wear when buying
for u boy.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28

And the honesty of a poor man Is
seldom questioned.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28

One quiet cooking lesson heats tive
noisy music lessons.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
Hurrah for Polk and annexation,
Down with Clay and high taxation.

When John Hanks, cousin of Abraham
Lincoln, carried two weather-beaten rails
Into the Wigwam-the structure especially
built for the Republican convention held
In Chicago, In May, 1SG0--Lincoln be-
came the "railspltter" candidate as Har-
rison had been the log cabin and Jackson
the hickory candidate years before.
In the convention Of 1860 began the
modern custom Of cheering and counter
cheering. The Seward contingent gave a
parade the day Of the convention. While
they were marching Lincoln supporters
filed the Wigwam. With the naming oi
the candidates began the cheering. When
Seward was nominated and seconded the
shouting was absolutely frantic, shril
and wild. But when Lncoln's nomina
tion was seconded the West was heart
from, and gave scream that was posi-
lively awful, and accompanied 1t with
stamping that made every plank and pill
lar in the building quver. On the third
ballot Lincoln was nominated The shout
ing was 30 deafening that the cannon
which was discharged on the roof of the
building could not be heard inside.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-08-28
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A formal declaration of party princi-
Piles specified as the party platform was
as unknoN Nn in the early days as was
convention. The noisiest, the jolliest, the
most exciting and perhaps least logical
presidential campaign was that OF lS4O.
William Henry Harrison, hero OF an In
dian victory at Tippecanoe, plain old
man, who had lived, his opponents sneer-
ingly said, in log cabin decorated with
coon skins and had drunk hard cider, was
selected by Thurlow Weed as a better
candidate than Henry Clay To defeat
Clay In the Republican convention, the
unit rule was adopted. The issues between
Van Buren, the Democratic candidate
and Harrison were not clearly drawn, but
the adyentitious circumstances OF Harri-
sons early life were skillfully utilized for
theatrical effects. "Old Tippecanoe" was
the slogan. Professions, miles long, with
log cabins, cider barrels and coon skin
caps on poles, stretched from State to
State. Glee clubs were feature OF the
campaign and the Indian fighter was fair
ly sung into Office.
So vigorously did the Wings sing their
favorite refrains that echoes of the songs
still linger.
What has caused this great commotlon-
-motion-motlon,
Our country through
1t is the ball a rolling on
For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,
And with them we will beat little Van,
Van, Van, is a used up man.
Farewell, dear Van,
You're not our man
To guard the ship.
Wen try old Tip.
In the campaign which resulted In the
election Of Benjamin Harrison the fact
that he was a grandson of old Tip was
not forgotten by his adherents. Many
slangy, even irreverent references fixed
on grandpa's hat as a fit subject for
campaign quips. In 1914, the year when
the Democratic convention brought the
first dark horse into the running, the
songs Of the majority we're:
0, poor Henry Clay, poor Henry Clay,
You cannot be our President for Polk is in
the way.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-14
DEATH CLAIMS
MRS TOMPKINS

Mrs. Richard J. TOmpkins died this
morning at the Walla Walla hospital
following a long illness from typhoid
fever. Mr.. Tompkins is also patient
from the same disease and was a short
time ago forced to withdraw from the
democratic legislative ticket on that
account. He will recover.
Mrs. Matte Hayden TompkinS, was
born in Frankfort, Mo, in March. 1873.
She was married on June 10, 1898 to
Richard J. Tompkins. From this union
there have been two sons, Verle, aged
seven and Richard, aged two.
Mrs. TOmpkins united with the Salt
River, Mo, Christian church, at the age
of Is years and was faithful worker
in that organization up to the time
of her last illness. She had many
friends in the city and her death will be
sincerely mourned by all who knew her.
Besides her husband and sons, she is
survived by two brothers, w. I. Hayden
and Marshall Hayden; and two sisters
Mrs Jennie Matson and Mrs. Maggie
Jackson, all residing near Frankfort,
Mo.
Funeral services will be neld from
the Central Christian church tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-14
STIFF GALE BLEW.
Frisky Windstorm Visited the Garden
City Last Niqht.


One of the SavereSt WindStOrmS OF
the fall blew in this morning about
o'clock and changed the atmosphere
in this city for that of Seattle, Butte
and Boise Something was stirring
every minute for awhile and it looked
as if there might be more. According
to the weather man. the wind hiked
through the city for a short time at
the rate of 35 miles an hour
People who were sleeping with win
dows and doors open awOke to find
their covers had been rudely snatched
away and many stuck broOmsticks and
other like weapons out their windows
to catch the bed clothing of like unfor-
Inmates.
No damage has been reported, be-
You'd the breaking of a few limbs from
trees and blowing around of things
left loose out doors. Some were kept
awake by the ringing of their tele-
phone bells on account of the ground
ing of the current through trees which
blew against the wires. Rain followed
the wind and fell in copiOus quanti-
ties for some time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-14
HIRAM AND HIS PIG
These Were Attr5 ctions At the Fair
Grounds Last Night.

SPECTATORS who We're in the pavilion
last night to enjoy the band concert
were afforded no end of amusement by
Uncle Hiram and his pet pig, Betsy
During the numbers Uncle Hi par
AIDED through the pavilion, followed
b. his rounded pet, and every now and
then the pOrker was given a drink
from bottle of soda pop. Uncle Hi
took occasion. whenever Bets desired
10 Quench her thirst. to give her the
following information:
Now. remember, Bets, this is not
Betz' beer
The small bOy-and some not so
small-fOlloWed Hiram around, and
the old hay-seed was given all kinds
Of trouble by having others attempt
to gain the affections of his fair COM
EnOn.