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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15

alfalfa, vetob. clover or rape. Pigs
grazed on clover during the summer
have given a return in growth of over
$40 Per acre and from alfalfa even
higher than this. Estimating that it
costs four cents per pound to grow the
hog and when ready to Ee fattened he
weighs 150 pounds, makas total cost
of So. After consuming 450 pounds
of wheat or barley he should weigh
$50 pounds and worth at seven cents
per pound $3.50, or giving return
for 450 pounds of wheat or barley of
$11.50. This gives a gross return to
the farmer for his wheat of $1.53 per
bushel. and for his barley 81 28 per
bushel.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15

In the Isle Of Man the wedding ring
was formerly used as an instrument
of torture. Mr.. Cyril Davenport in
his book on jewelry remarks that
there once existed custom in that
island according to which an un-
married girl who had been offended
by man could bring him to trial, and
If he We're found guilty she would be
presented with sword, a rope and a
ring. With the sword she might cut
off his head, with the rope she might
hang him. or with the ring she might
marry him. 1t is said that the latter
punishment was that invariably in
fiicted." ."-London Standard.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15


Oregon is pre-eminently hog
country. No section can excel this
state for quality of production when
properly finished on home grown feed.
Barley or wheat are the ideal fatten-
ing feeds for hogs. At tho Oregon
Experiment Station in feeding expert
ments conducted for the past ten years
the average amount of wheat or bailey
required to produce one POUND gain
was four and one-half pounds 1t was
also asoertained that 1t cost approx
mately from three and one half to
four cents per pound to grow pig to
fattening age. This must bo done,
however, largely in the open field on
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15

A Utica boy died while laughing at
the comic supplement of Sunday
paper. OF course, this will be taken
as terrific retribution by the acid
'ulous portion of the population op-
posed to the comic supplement and
the Sunday paper. But with SO much
cause for sighing in the world, the
majority will still take chances Of
laughing themselves to death.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15

One of the tig wheat farms of the
state was sold the past week when the
lands Of the J. A. Woolery estate, in
Morrow County passed to a syndicate
of North Dakota bankers. The sale
includes 10000 acres and the price
paid was $15O,000. 1t will be cut up
into small farms.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15
Humorinu Him.

"oh, forgot to tell you to bring
down my scissors, too" said the spoil
ed wife. They're on the table in the
bedroom, Won't you get them for
me?"
'See here" complained the indul-
gent husband, "l'm tired of waiting on
you in this way"
Are you, dear? Well, just be pa
tlent. aud I'll let you wait on me in
some other way."-Catholic Standard
and Times
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15

A joint committee of students and
faculty members will investigate the
problem of the high cost Of living for
the students at the Oregon Agrioul'
tural College with the purpose Of
making recommendation tending to
the improvement of conditions.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15

A man 70 years old has made ap-
plication for admission to the Univer-
sity of Missouri as q student. He must
be one of those who subscribe to the
theory that a man is never too old to
learn.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15

A New York actress has been ar
rested on charge of stealing diam
onds. But possibly her press agent
can prove an alibi.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15
Contradictory.

Mfrs. McManuS, you're lady and
your husband is Il gentleman, but thot
son Moike of yours, be hivins, he comes
from family of robbers, so he does"
Boston Transcript.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15

Next month three important events
will be held in Athena--Athletic meet
Caledonian picnic and Ministerial con-
vention.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15

The story that girl contracted lep-
rosy from hair imported from Europe
may lie false. The hair certainly was.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1910-04-15

Defer moi till tomorrow to be wise
C0Sgrove.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
Still a Aousekeepsr at 1o4.

Living far up in the Allegheny
mountains is a remarkable woman
who is more than 104 years old. She
has the proofs of her age, and the in
habitants for miles around gather on
Aug. 2 each year to make merry on
her birthday and TO express hope that
she may live many more years. She
is Mother Shoemaker, and ber home
is near Dubois, Pa. She was born in
1906. Bent with her years, but happy
and contented, she sits In a tiny house
built in the mountains. She does not
have a housekeeper or servant. She
says she is strong enough to do her
own work and to attend to her own
wants. 1t would not bother her IL
she did not have an income for her
support She says she could earn her
own living without any trouble. She
has lived the simple life She has
worked in the fields, and she has been
a mother. tt~ wv IN
The national forum., 1910-09-17
Passing of
The Hermit
Kingdom
M JiU JlTSU hold is hard thing

an JtU JITSU hold is hard thing
EW to break We may squirtn and
AK M protest, but down we 60 If
you don't believe. it ask the
Koreans. Japan got jiu jitsu grip on
Korea. and what has been the result2
That country has been laid on its
back, so to speak--in fact, wiped off
the map. Korea is no longer Korea,
the Hermit Kingdom, but She-Sun, the
Land Of the Morning Calm. 1t is part
of Japan. having just been annexed by
that country. The emperor becomes
Prince Gi and will rank lower than
the Japanese crown prince. The civil
list will not be curtailed, and there
will be more money for the court to
spend, as there will be fewer retain
ers. Morning calm will be succeeded
by evening calm where once Korea
was. and another ancient nation has
been smothered out of existence.
Japan by the formal annexation Of
the Hermit Kingdom has at last real
ly grasped the rich prize toward which
all her efforts have been directed for
twenty years. to gain which she fought
China and dared to measure arms with
the mighty empire of the czar. ex-
pending in the long struggle hundreds
of millions of dollars and the lives Of
countless thousands Of her subjects.
Slowly, but with grim relentlessness,
the acts Of the drama have been evolv.
ed, succeeding one another with the
inevitableness of the scenes in Greek
tragedy. The minds at Tokyo which
conceived the plot two decades ago
knew what the denouement was TO be,
When Japan first cast covetous eyes
on Korea-valuable on account of its
intrinsic mineral wealth. but still more
on account of its strategical position
on the mainland of Asia--China was
regarded as possessing suzerainty over
that kingdom. Japan soon found a
pretext for alleging that China was
causing an unfriendly feeling In Ko-
rea against the mikado's government.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
1t Pays to Advertise.

The season is open, and we must
get up and hustle. No more vaca-
tions or sitting around taking
things easy. We are offering the
business folk a live, energetic,
carefully edited paper, with ads.
classified and selected. Our ads.
are all alive, We carry no dead
ones to hide or smother those who
pay. Our circulation is growing.
We hope to add another thousand
subscribers, which will mean about
five thousand more readers, before
Christmas.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
COMING SPORT EVENTS

st. Louis will hold the annual Amer
lean bowling congress in the Coils
scum, Jan. 81 to Feb. 6.
The amateur track championships
under the auspices of the Amateur
Athletic union will be held in New Or
leans Oct. 13.
Richard Dwyer, the California horse
man, has leased the Ogden (Utah) half
mile race track and will open twenty
day meeting there on Sept. 20.
"Texas7 RamsdeIl. the University Of
Pennsylvania sprinter and football
player. who has contested at big meets
in Great Britain this summer. will soon
return. He is expected to enter the
Amateur Athletic union championships
mt New Orleans In October.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
VANITY FAIR.
Continued from Page IL

Mr.. Taft is the peoples Presi.
dent, and as Presidents 60, is about
as good as they come, since there is
no good and perfect thing in this
world of sin and sorrow. His
policy regarding the Negro in the
South is a matter of pure politics
rather than sympathy, and L do
not think he meant colored office
holders only when he decides not
to appoint them in communities
that objected. With education, or
ganization, watchful care and
great labor we will finally answer
all these vexing questions.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
Howard University Notes

The scholastic year in the School
of Liberal Arts and Academic De
partments of Howard University
opens on September q, the profes-
sional departments on October /.
The formal opening address will be
given by DR.. Elmer L. Brown, the
United States Commissioner of
Education.
The formal applications to the
Deans of the College of Arts and
Sciences and the Teachers College
promise an entering Freshman Col
lege Glass of over 150-over twice
the entire enrolment of the Col
lege Department four years ago.
A gratifying surprise awaits old
students in the transformation in
the appearance of the main and
minor halls within and without,
gained at the expense of several
thousand dollars. A large force
during the entire summer has been
earnestly at work under the direc-
tion of Secretary and Business
Manager G. w. Cook.
The new $4,000 steam-heating,
electric and power plant will be
pushed to as early completion as
possible. The enlargement of How
ard is indicated by the fact that
the steam equipment erected two
years ago has been so soon out
grown.
The tragic death of Prof. g. G.
Cook is an irreparable loss Presi-
dent Thirkield and DIR. Tunnel
spoke at the funeral. His work
will be taken up by Prof. B. G.
BrawIey, formerly of Atlanta Bap-
The national forum., 1910-09-17

Photo by American Press Association,
EDDIE PLANK, ONE OF PHILADELPHIA
STAR BOX MEN.
Coombs is undoubtedly one of the
greatest boxmen in the country.
"Chief" Bender hasn't shown any
signs of retrograding In his work,
Minstrel Man Morgan Is an able eX.
ponent of the spitbal delivery, and
Eddie Plank is as clever a left handler
and as steady as any club possesses.
Chances probable gunners In the
worlds series will be Mordecai Brown,
Jack Ptiester, King Cole and Ed Reul-
bach. The peerless leader hardly
would dare intrust the curving assign
ment in any of these important games
to Lew Richie or Harry Mcintyre, rs
the White Elephants have had lots of
practice hitting against spitball pitch
ers. 0rvie Overall Is not likely to be
Of much use to the Cubs for the rest
Of the season and hardly would get n
chance to perform in the worlds Sc
ries. Brown and P6ester will be
Chances mainstays. Mordecai isn't
as good as he once was and has been
hammered freely several times this
year.
In the catching department the Cubs
thoroughly outclass the Mack men.
There Is no doubt about Johnnie Killing
being the best backstop In the coun-
try. and he aud Jimmy Archer un-
doubtedly would thwart great ma
jority Of the White Elephants to filch
hassocks. The Philadelphia wind pad
dists--lra Thomas, Jack Lapp ane
Paddy Livlngstone-are all hard work
ers. but that about let's them out
They have pegged to bases fairly well
this year, but not one OF the trio Is In
Archers class. The nfelds Of the two
teams are evenly matched. While the
Cubs outgardeners eclipse that Of the
Athletics. the consensus Of opinion
seems 70 be that the two teams are
most evenly matched. and rhe worlds
series of 1910 will be the most stub
bornly fought of any set OF contests
ever played for the greatest honors OF
the baseball universe.
The national forum., 1910-09-17

1errlpie culunlty.
Girls, it's something awful!
Laura Jean Libbey has written her
k,st book.
Positively her last!
Her press agent says so.
Georgiana, the beautiful silk spin
1er, will never again clasp Alexander
Algernon Du Bois We're de We're in her
strong young arms while the liquid
starlight flames in the burning depths
of her lapis lazuli orbs. Alas. how perA
fectly horrible If true! No more mar
rfages of gartered dukes to the sweet
singing little canary in the chambre de
cuisine. Never no more will the proud
earl discard his son and heir and cut
him off with shoe button for marry
ing the lodgekeeper's magnificently
pulchritudinous adopted daughter who
eventually turns out to be lost duch-
ess and heiress to all the coffee lands
in Brazil.
L. ]. Llbbey's threat must carry con-
sternation to every kitchen in the land.
and 100000 factory girls will tear
their hair with pitlful walls when they
get the stupendous news.
And what will the distinguished au-
horess-vaudevillian turn her pen to
now?
Hist! She e'en will become play
wright. The playwright banker grips
her soul and mayhap she will strip the
brows of Theodore Kremer and Owen
Davis, vaudeville playwrights, of theit
toilfully won laurels. .,-s..s,sas
The national forum., 1910-09-17

PRINCE aI AND SON, FORMERLY EMPEROR
AND CROWN PRINCE OF KOREA.
The usual negotiations were but pre-
lude to war, the first act in the modern
drama of the far east.
China as result of the war lost all
right of interference In the affairs of
Korea. But the exit of China proved
to be merely the entry of Russia on
the stage. Japan saw clearly that
Russias line of expansion would lie
toward the Pacific through Manchuria.
She saw that Russias eyes were bent
on Korea. and she resolved to be first
in the field and place herself as guard.
ian at the Pacific gateway of Manchu.
ria.
Japan's plan seemed to hare sue
ceeded when the intervention of the
powers in 1895 barred her progress
and installed Russia in Liaotung.
Thenceforward Japan had but one
idea-Russia must be dislodged from
Korea.
Matters came to a head toward the
close of the year 1908. Japan demand
ed that Russia withdraw her troops
from Manchuria. Russia declined, and
long negotiations followed. in the
course of which Japan offered to efface
herself entirely In Manchuria If Rus
sia would do the same in Korea. An
ultmatum from Tokyo having failed
to bring reply from the st. Peters
burg government. the mikado's naval
forces entered the harbor of Chemulpo
and fired or and disabled two of the
czar's warships. The war was on, and
the result is history
On Nov. II, 1905, the emperor Of
Korea was practically forced by
Prince (then Marquisl Ito, the mika-
dos special envoy at Seoul, to agree
to new pact. Koreas independence
then became practically noneXistent.
Nothing but shadow of her national
sovereignty remained. The emperor
became practically a vassal of the mi
kado. Marquis Ito was installed as
resident general at Seoul. and his sub
ordinates ruled the destinles of the old
kingdom. The following year, by
new agreement, the emperor recog-
nized the residency general. Within
year he abdicated in favor Of his
son, who was sent to Tokyo to be edu-
Gated in japanese surroundings. BY
an agreement signed July 81. 1907, all
administrative measures and the ap
pointment of all high officials became
subject TO the resident general FL
nally in July. 1909, Japan seized CON
troll Of the administration Of justice
and prisons, The national government
Of Korea was no more.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
CONNIE MACk'S
HEIGHT HELPS HIM.

4 Connie Mack's great height
! may be the means of the Ath-
!. letics winning the pennant this
: year. Connie admits this him
I self.
I All American league managers
/ agree that the dugouts In the
. new ball parks worked a hard.
! ship on them. They were accus-
1 toned to sitting on a bench
! about three feet above the
ground, from which point of
! vantage they could watch the
l signs of the opposition.
With the new ball parks came
/ dugouts, which dropped the
!. manager and player about three
! feet lower than the ground level
Their heads no longer lowered
, high and dry above the plays
pulled Off on the diamond. The
generals just had TO about learn
the game over again.
The Athletics leader was not
handicapped as much as the
other team bosses, as he is some
tall. and he managed to get wise
to the doings long before the
others. Comics players say his
keen vision helped him mate
! rally.
The national forum., 1910-09-17

tist College, who is a brilliant Eng
lish scholar and experienced
teacher,
Plans have been completed for
Offering to the students special
work in the-new Carnegie Library.
Courses in library training will
also be offered.
A series of beautifully illumi-
mated post cards giving attractive
views of University Campus and
buildings have been ordered.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
The Pure-Milk Products.

The health departments of all
the large cities, as we'll as the doc
tors and the learned highbrows,
are trying to solve the milk prob
lem. Milk, it seems, is quite an
important article of food, and is
used very largely as a food for
babies, and however much the op-
ponents and advocates of vegetable
animal food may argue, disagree
and quarrel about which kind of
food is best for grown-up human
ity, they all agree that milk is the
best food for babies. 1t only re.
mains, then, to decide what kind
OF milk is best. Cow milk is in
the lead for favor, goat milk has
quite number of advocates among
infant epicures, and now and then
we hear of an old-fashi0ned baby
who prefers human milk. The rea-
son | speak of this class of young.
persons as sold fashioned" is be-
cause the idea seems to prevail
among those who make any pre-
tension to education and culture"
that any old food is better for
babies than human milk. Now and
then an "ign0rant" immigrant, or
mayhap some "uncultured" col
ored woman may believe human
milk the best food for her baby, but
those women who are esthetic, cul-
tured, beautiful, fashionable, scien-
tific or stylish, consider that the
feeding of babies on human milk
to be harmful to the baby, or the
mother, or both or dfashioned;
or destructive of charms every
woman is proud of, and are of more
Importance to society than prop
erly-fed babies; or too much
trouble.
Now, everyone knows that
cows milk is intended for a calf,
and as calf food it is the proper
thing, but for babies, real human
babies, it is not a success. 1t is
not sweet enough, does not contain
the proper amount and quality of
fat and sugar, cannot be tempera-
tured to normal human heat, can
rarely be had fresh, and the results
of it's use are nervousness, fevers,
constipation and nearly all the ills
the infant flesh is heir to. If one
may form opinions from a casual
glance at the external evidences
presented to the passing eye by
that delicate art whose purpose
seems to be to reveal what it CON
ceals, | can form no reason why
every baby should not be plenti-
fully, indeed bountifully supplied
with that food which God in His
infinite mercy and glory has
for his tender years.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
FOUR FIGHTS FOR PAPKE.

Crack MiddIeweisht to Visit Australia
to Meet Best In Antipodes.
At conference between Promoter
Hugh Mcintosh of Australia and Billy
Papke, claimant Of the worlds middle
weight title, recently an agreement
was drawn up whereby Papke will
meet four middleweights in Australia
during period covering not more than
twenty weeks.
The four men named are Dave
Smith. Arthur Cripps, Edward VIII,
liams and Les O'Donnell, all Of whom
are practically unknown to Americans
1t also was agreed that none of these
fighters should weigh more than lG5
pounds ringside.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
PASSING of Youna Ten Eyck,

Wisconsin is to be congratulated
upon the passing of the younger Ten
Eyck as crew coach. Young Ten Eyck
was fine single sculler, but as coach
he was an unqualified failure. The
art of sweep rowing was closed
book to him apparently, and he sent
poor crews to the east, despite the
wealth of material from which to build
them. 1t will be difficult matter to
find successor. for coaches Of eight
cared crews are scarce.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
BASEBALL Teams
. IN home STRETCH
Fans Figuring Chances Of The
Teams In World Series.
CUBS WILL HAVE NO CINCR.
Frank Chances Team Win Not Have
as. Easy Time With Philadelphia as
II Did With Detroit .T,sers--Mack
Has Strong Pitching Staff.

Now that teams In the National and
American league pennant race have
hit the home stretch fans already are
beginning to think about the worlds
series. The enthusiasts have award
ed the banpers to the Athletics In the
American league and to the Chicagos
in the National league and now are
speculating as to whether the White
Elephants will make a better showing
In the big series against the Cubs than
the Tigers made.
The Mack men of 1910 are better
set of athletes than the team of five
years ago which made such sorry
showing against the Giants In Sc
ries for the honors of the universe.
Philadelphians are certain that the
White Elephants will make far bet
ter showing against the Cubs than the
Tigers made.
The rout of the Athletics In the
worlds series of 1905 was a terrible
blow to Quaker fans, who imagined
Harry Davis, Ralph Orlando SeyboId
and the other hard hitting Mack men
would knock the curves of Christy
Mathewson and Joe McGinnity galley
west What happened is matter Of
history.
Many critics on the major league
circuits consider the Chicago National
league club the grandest baseball ma
chine In the country, and the Cubs
will be the favorites over the White
Elephants when the two teams get
into the worlds series. Eminent
pastimers who have been spoken to
on the subject aver that the Chicago
ans will have much harder time to
beat the Philadelphians than they had
to beat the Detroits and say it is no
moral certainty that the Teddy Bears
will win the series
Ball players consider that the Phila
delphia American league clubs pitch
ing staff is superior to Chicago's. Jack
The national forum., 1910-09-17
If You Mant 10 BE | iknd

Don't, when people say nicetfsngs, to
you, think that they must necessarily
be insncere. 1t is quite as natural for
some persons to put their nice thoughts
about you into words as it Is for them
to breathe. III &]1
The national forum., 1910-09-17

pard's star is rapidly dimming in the
athletic constellation, while Bonhag's
star is gradually growing In luster
The mild hammered champion who Is
the proud holder Of thirty-one Ameri.
can distance records, eleven of which
are worlds indoor marks, is now de-
voting great deal Of his spare time
in conditioning himself for the winter
campaign.
Unassuming George has enjoyed Il
perfect rest during the past few
months. He engaged in several base
ball games to keep his limbs from stiff
ening, bat from now on he will bp T.
very busy athlete.
Bonhag is looked upon as the m"d"l
athlete. He has never touche,, nr,H
icants In any form and has never h. e.:
known to smoke.
The national forum., 1910-09-17

Although Miss Clara Barton. the
founder of the Red Cross society In
the United States, is ninety.one, she
still takes personal charge of one of
the branches of the society. Miss Bar
toms relief work dates back to the
civil war, when she became a nurse
on the battlefields and organized
searching parties for missing soldiers.
The national forum., 1910-09-17
Uhlan. 1884. Well Bred.

Bingen and Blonde. the sire and
dam Of Uhlan, are owned at Ardmaer
farm, Raritan, N. j. Uhlan's mile.
trotted in 1;5S% at Cleveland. may not
be his limit.