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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24
What shn Wanted.

DR. Buzzer the Dentlst-Im sorry, but
I'll have to extract that tooth. Mrs.
Tungtwist-l don't like to lose 1t un.
less you can dt me with a substitooth.
Chicago News.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24

The Inier Ocean contains "Notes
from Hades. But nothing is said
atout what part of Chicago Hades
ia located in.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24

Teddy welded bis big stick to make
Congress come through. Wilson is
using twig OF logic with greater
success.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24
Paint Nc. wsll Taken.

Mrs. 'rimkins Ito small daughter say
ing prayersl "A little louder. dear.
can't hear Daughter Yes, but I'm
not speaking to you, New York Post
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24

Perhaps Thaw says Now is the
winter of my discomfort made glor.
iously worse by this son.of a, gun from
New Yoriok.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24

Somebody has discovered another
country up 10 tho polar regions where
nothing grows but icicles aud icebergs.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24
pnrrlinn preiinamant.

"Why is iiggers always In hot water
with his wifeY"
Because they can't keep the pot
boiling" Baltimore American
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24

Many men owe the grandeur of their
lives to their tremendous difficulties
Snuruaon
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24

KnlckcrI Is he deeply in love? Book
er Yes; he thinks all the girls on the
magazine covers look like her New
York sun
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24
Quite So,

"There ls nothing like the loneliness
of great city
''EspeciaIly to the man who doesn't
advertise - Louisville CourierJournaL
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-10-24

Moderation is the pleasure of those
who are wise
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
A SYMPOSIUM OF CANDIDATES.

g. THE APPEARANCE of candidates for nomination
for platform making their confessions OF
faith unique Jersey politics and in fact in national
politics. believe the spectacle in the auditorium OF the
cleveland public night without precedent 1t
is regretted which almost be described
epochmakng should been staged in small hall and
audience The Kruger Auditorium would nave
been too purpose is true that all the
that stage Stokes
was Kazenbach Socialist Candidate
Reilly been ten, but probably their
for the of Mason the
prohbtons which afforded many their first opportunity to
orthodox discourse the demon rum The many
presented Kaleidoscope They took the
whole range of politics and public policies 1t was feast OF
reason SOUL abundant highly concentrated
within the limit of couple of hours it severely tried the
powers mental digestion No doubt of the spebound
with confusion of thought and misplaced
reeoeeton which candidate certain views belonged But
innovations always the beginning We must con-
what its effect the audience last night
as general effect in the future May not
grouping of State candidates all the
platform for the voters to and
of faith and to size them compare
lively? this sensible way, too than for cand
dates scatter sgy the State firing hot shot at each
other?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
UGLY LOOKS REQUISITE
FOR OLD LIVERPOOL CLUB

A century and half ago Liverpool,
England, boosted an ugly Club"
whose motto was "Tetrum ante
omnia voltum"--an ugly face before
all things. The club minute book
covers a period of eleven years. A
member had to be a bachelor with
something odd, remarkable, droll or
out of the way in his phiz; as in the
length, breadth or narrowness thereof,
or in the complexion, cast of his eyes,
or make of his mouth, lips, chin, etc.
of which the majority of the society
are to judge, the president to have
casting VOTE Fines seem to have
been the chief source of the clubs
revenue, which was spent in food
and drink at the Exchange coffee
house, where they met.
On his admittance to the ugly
Club" a short descriptive sketch of
the new member was entered in the
minute book, and among them we
find another claimant to the title OF
the ugliest man on earth in Jos.
Farmer, merchant" whose descrip-
ton reads as follows: Little eyes.
one bigger than we other; long noses
thin lanthorn jaws, large upper lip;
mouth from ear to ear, resembling a
shark's; a rotten set of irregular
teeth which are set off at great adj
vantage by frequent laughing; his
yisage long and narrow; his looks
upon the whole extraordinary, bag
gard, odd, comic and out-of- ye-way.
In short, possessed of every extraor-
binary qualification to render him the
phoenix of we society, as the like
won't appear again this 1000 years"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
MORE THAN HERCULES OR MOSES.

nominated" said exJudge Carey at meeting in
Wednesday night my first will be to
unite the Republican party and let bygones be bygones Her
eues abors dminutive beside the Hudson
champion The Greek hero merely physical things
children Israel the Wilderness but they
all of mind politically Carey prepared to conquer
and temperamenal He is going to give
minds of twist in direction He will make the
Republican Progressive and the Progressive Republican by
progress reaction The David Baird and
George Record be brothers in the faith. And Carey
will help He says 81 have letters from four mayors and
other big in the State Hercules aided from Olympus
his mighty abors what the Oympian gods
pared with the -four and other big menu To accom-
ps the task of uniting the Republican party and making
Republicans and Pogresses forget bygones in grand love
presided by Carey is first to nominate
Carey in the Republican primaries And yet this
would be incomplete preliminary Something should
be the Progressive side prepare the for
Probably the four mayors and other big
relied .on to look out for that end of the program.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
FINDS GOLD IN
GOSPELS FIELD
Missionary Strikes Luck in
Alaska Where He Was Sent
to Preach.

A story of fabulously rich gold
mines and o4fnance worthy of n
Wallingford will be unfolded by the
when N. o. Hultburg. of Turlock
Cal. on behalf of the Swedish Mis-
sion Covenant of America, a corpora
ton having offices in Chicago, at
tempts to enforce the collection of a
s264.00O Judgment against Peter H.
Anderson. granted in the Dickinson
County Court in 1907.
Anderson went to Alaska in 1897,
from North Park College, Chicago, in
to spread knowledge and Christianity
among the benighted Eskimos at the
mission of Chinik, near Nome, the
capital of the terfitory, Hultburg, the
defendant in the suit now in the
courts was in charge. He left for
Sweden.
In 1898, while he was absent, gold
was discovered in the valley of a
creek near Nome. Anderson was in
charge of the mission. A party staked
out a number of claims, one in the
name of Anderson, and two in the
names of Constantine and Gabriel,
Eskimos in care of the mission, who
had piloted the party to the spot
where the gold was hidden.
Here is where the Wallingford
finance comes in. A man by the name
of Price, claiming twenty-five years
experience as a placer miner in Cali
fornia, advised the party that had
staked out the claims that those in
the names of Constantine and Gabriel
We're not valid, because the Eskimos
We're not citizens of the United States.
Then the men suggested changing.
the titles to the church, since it was
IN the missions interest that the Es-
kimo claims had been staked. This
too, according to the placer miner
from California, was not legal So
Claim NO. 8, belonging to Constantine
was given to Price for his advice. The
other was taken by Anderson for tbe
mission. Price took out a million dol
lars worth of gold and his advice wa c
all wrong. " GO
From the claim taken out by Ander-
son fer the mission has grown the lii
cation. Controversy commenced i,
l40l, and the suit was filed in 1904
Since that time the case has been IN
the courts, State and Federal Andar
son organized mining comnanv a.
Whlte Star of Illinois. These com
panles worked the claim and the
Judgment given in the Kansas court
at Abilene six years ago is slInnosad
10 represent the amount of gold ey-
tracted. Federal courts have sus-
/ tanned the judgment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05

CAN railroad company operate its road with obsolete
crushed like eggshels and kill and mangle
patrons with mpunity? All the evidence goes
that Haven Railroad Companys equipment
entirely of fra wooden All the fatalities that
happened the road due to these 1t wasn't
poverty that made the company retain Them for the New Haven
the richly capitalized railroads the
until President Meen undertook control
transportation situation in New England highest
dividends paid The Pennsylvania railroad is wholly
equipped its fast trains because
subodnates everything to the safety of the
be the first obligation of transportation
The wreck and loss of life the New Haven would not
happened the railroad had been managed the
the Pennsylvania railroad and the criminal responsibility there
fore, lies with the company and not with its employees
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05

Knob. It was supposed that he had
lost his way in the storm and froze
to death. He was buried on the
mountain at the spot where his body
was found.
Tradition says that in the following
summer a member of the Decker
family was looking up signs of deer
south of the Knob and happened to
pass by Layton's grave. Stopping at
the mound, he saw a thrifty huckel-
berry bush growing out of it and
was greatly surprised, for it was the
only huckleberry bush growing any,
where about that part of the noun
tain. He stepped up closer to the
bush and then he stopped, in the
words of the tradition, "as ifshe had
taken root himself, for he saw that
the bush was loaded with berries and
they were as white as snow" in
stantly the circumstance of the berry
bush growing out of a dead mans
grave suggested the uncanny thought
to Decker that they were "spook'
huckleberries, and he FASTENED away
from the spot.
He had gone but short distance,
however, when suddenly occurred to
him the other circumstance of Lay
ton and his package of white buck
LIBERTIES. He reasoned that, although
Layton had doubtless eaten of his
white ,huckleberries as he wandered
about on his lost way before he sue
cumbed, some of them were left and
were buried with him. The seed
sprouted and grew and had come to
the thrifty bush with it's yield of
white huckleberries. Decker started
back, intending to gather the berries,
but when he came in sight of the
mound he saw another startling
sight. A big bear had come to the
spot from the woods and was eager
ly stripping the bush of the berries.
Decker's approach alarmed the bear
but the berries had seemingly suited
its taste so well that it grabbed the
bush, pulled it up by the roots and
darted off up the mountain, disap-
pearing in the direction of the
swampy area that lay thereabout
The incident was soon forgotten, but
, two years later that same Decker
was scouting about in the same To-
cality on the search for signs of a
bear that had been proving around
his clearing when he came upon a
big patch of huckleberry bushes
growing in the swampy place filled
with berries, all of them white. The
| tradition explains the presence of
that white huckleberry patch simply
and confidently. The bear that
snatched the bush had in it's flight
scattered some of the berries in the
swampy place and from them the
bushes had sprung up.
Whether that was the origin of the
white huckleberry patch in the Pike
county backwoods or not the white
| huckleberry patch is there and its
counterpart is in the Sussex county
mountains. forty miles to the east
ward, neither of them trespassing on
the areas of the ordinary huckle-
berries. of the markets, black and
blue, high bush and low, which
abound all around them.-New York
| Sun.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
NEGRO ADVANCEMENT IN
so YEARS OF FREEDOM

This year the negroes celebrate a.,
hftieth anniversary of the Ema nc;noN
ton Proclamation. The Worlds WI,
prints the following striking facts
about their progress during that time.
In 1885, there were only Ill .442 MI
pills, and 2,0S7 teachers, only 500 were
colored. Last year, /, 700, 900 negro M
pills were taught by 81 900 negro
teachers. In 1867, only 4,661 negroes
were studying in higher institutions
OF learning; last year more than 100. :
O00 students were enrolled in normal
schools and colleges for eolored folk
In 1855 there were only four institn-
lions in the United States for sIlcb
advanced study Now there are in the
South along so colleges, 10 institutions
for the education of negro women. 26
theological schools, schools of law.
or medicine, of pharmacy, II State
AGRICULTURAL and mechanical colleges.
and more than 400 normal and
industrial schools.
Today, more than 10000 negroes are
in business for themselves as store
keepers or in other mercantile pur-
suits; negroes own 100 insurance com
panies and 300 drug stores; more than
$4,000 negroes are in the professions.
More than 5000 negroes are working
in the skilled trades. Sixty-four negro
banks do about 500, O0O0 900 worth of
business every year.
Negro farmers control about 10000.
goo acres of land. OF these farmers
2i9,641 own their farms, about 10000,
600 acres in all. The total value of
farm property owned by negroes is
more than s490,000,O00 In fifty years
of freedom the Russian serfs have ac.
cumulated, on an average, property
worth $36 per capita, The negroes, In
the same time have acquired sc
worth of property per capita.
This year is the fiftieth anniyersar,
of negro freedom. The progress OF
the race in that half century is, in the
aggregate. a remarkable achievement
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
AUTOMOBILE is BOON
TO THE AGRICULTURALIST

In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside Thomas Greiner, editor of
the gardening department, tells how
the automobile is benefiting the truck
gardener. Mr.. Greiner is one of the
best practical gardening experts in
the United States. He says:
up to few years ago we used to
think growing vegetables for direct
sale to consumers was impraeticable
and out of the question where more
than five or six miles were between
grower and buyer. But distance now
cuts much less of a figure than for
merly. Carrying your produce on a
modern autotruck, you can reach
your customer twenty miles from
your place in little over an hours
time. You can do your peddling in
less time than when you drove
horse and wagon, do not have to
stop for feeding and resting your
horses and will get home in a little
over an hour after you have disposed
of your load"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
WHITE HUCKLEBERR|ES
ARE FOUND IN JERSEY

Near the summit of one of the
highest ridges in the wilds of Pike
county, Pa, is a growth of buckle
berry bushes covering an acre or so.
the fruit of which is white. So far
as is known there is but one other
place anywhere that produces white
huckleberries-a similar area of
ground on the lofty ridge overlooking
the Delaware Valley, in Sussex
county, N. j. The two white buckle
berry patches are forty miles apart.
The one in New Jersey was flourish
ing when the first white settlers en-
tered that part of the State, nearly
$50 years ago, and although it has
never increased its own immediate
area the Pike county backwoods ira
dition is that the white huckleberry
patch in the far wilds of that county
sprang from the one on the New Jer-
sey hills.
Anyone who has hunted deer in
that part of Pike county and is
familiar with the landmarks knows
the spot called Layton's grave, al
though there has been SO sign of
grave there for fifty years or more.
Layton's grave, in the days of deer
hunting with hounds, was a famous
run away for deer, and many hun
ter has brought his game down from
that vantage point. Even today
hunters refer to Layton's grave as
a favorite landmark in the hunt. But
if it were not for the Pike county
tradition of the origin of the white
huckleberry patch on that mountain,
as preserved and narrated ON occa-
sion by natives few of them would
know who Layton was, nor how he
s,n1y
there in the High KNOB wilderness.
Layton, as the tradition goes, was
a school teacher in the early days of
the settlement six miles from the
Knob. His home was in settlement
twenty miles away, among the Della
ware valley hills. During his term of
school he "boarded round" in the
backwoods district, according to the
custom of the time. One season,
along in late huckleberry pick
ing time. Baltus Brink,
resident of Sussex county New
Jersey, came with his wife on n
visit to relatives named Decker, at
whose house Layton was CHARTERED
at the time. The Drinks lived in the
neighborhood of the white buckle
berry patch in New Jersey, and Mrs.
Brink brought with her Few quarts
of the rare fruit. The berries ap-
pealed so to the school teacher
palate and he praised them SO that
Mrs. Brink told him she would send
him all that she could spare.
Layton received the gift of berries
on Christmas eve as he was about to
start for his home down the river,
his school being dismissed for the
holiday week. He started for home
with his berries in a paper parcel 1t
was showing hard with a drifting
wind and Layton was travelling on
foot. He never arrived home Nothing
was heard of him until the following
spring. when a bark peeler found him
living dead in wild spot along the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
Opinions and Views
from the Exchanges

Mayor Gaynor's Nomination.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Mayor Gaynor's second nomination
has been rendered to him, not on a
silver salver, but on a shovel, which
he seized and waved through the air
by way of emphasizing the determi-
nation of 1.-The people of this city"
ito shovel all these miserable little
political grafters into one common
dump heap"
Mayor Gaynor, reciting the names
of Charles r. Murphy and his asso-
ciates in the entrance of the City
Hall, and promising to shovel all
these miserable little political graft
ers into one common dump heap, Will
remain onesof the grandest figures in
the panorama of political history.
still. would it be impertinent for
nonresident to ask who the miser-
able little political grafters are, and
how they come to be in place
where the mayor can shower them
out. and why they are there when
he has had nearly four years IN
which to shovel them out?
If these miserable little political
grafters are the Tammany politicians
II is impossible not to remember that
four years ago Judge Gaynor was the
Tammany candidate. He accepted a
nomination from the miserable little
political grafters, and IL they are now
where they need to be shoveled out 1t
is because the Tammariy mayor OF
New York left them untouched FOR
four years.
It is no secret that Mr.. Gaynor
would have accepted a denomination
from Tarnmany Hall. In that case
pnI tn 10
a "mjserable little political grafters,"
and would he have promised to
shovel them out? Is all this wrath
at the miserable little political graft
ers mere resentment because he was
not renominated. and are the same
persons exemplary citizens while
Tammany supports the mayor and
miserable little political grafters
when Tammany deserts him?
Nevertheless, the denomination or
the mayor is one of the most inter
esting incidents in the politics of sew
eral years. 1t Is vindication of free
government and the power of the
citizens to take care of themselves.
Tammany Hall, the most powerful
political organization in the country.
has named its candidate. Democrats
who are hostile to Tammany and the
Republicans have united on another
candidate No organization has
nominated the mayor, but he indi-
Gates his wish for another term, and
5000 of his fellow citizens assemble
around the City Hall and renominate
him without a convention or even u
direct primary. They just exercise
their constitutional rights as Ameri-
can citizens. not to choose between
two candidates of organizations but
to select their own candidates. 1t is
a sign of extreme political health and
vigor where political conditions are
generally represented as more I'M
wholesome than anywhere else in the
country.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
Gun-runners in Mexico.
rom the Springfield Republican.


A point which has not been made
fully clear is the extent to which the
Mexican belligerents are dependent
upon the United States for munitions
of war. That the rebels have been
supplied chiefly from across the Dor
der has been generally assumed, while
Huerta's government was recently re-
ported to have purchased $1,000 mus
kets in Japan. How much gun-run-
ming has been done by boat is
naturally unknown; the rebels hold
considerable coast, and clever SNUG
glers have a chance, as in Cuba dur
ing the instruction there. The as
sumption that to suppress the i'm
portation of military supplies for
either side from the United States
would bring hostilities to an end over
looks the fact that armies do not need
to be well armed, provided they meet
on equal terms; machetes will do
perfectly. But, of course, if one side
is armed and the other not resistance
cannot long be maintained. To keep
arms out of so big a country as
Mexico would need a formidable
blockade; gun-r running has been made
a fine art
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05

ONE hot afternoon in June. thirty
" eight years ago, a young man
was standing in a grimy workshop
bv the side of a crude little machine
composed of a clock spring reed,
magnet, and wire. He was bend
ing over this queer machine listening
intently Suddenly he bent nearer, a
startled look of excitement upon his
face. From the clock spring had
come a faint, almost inaudible sound.
The young man Strengthened up and
ran into an adjoining room, where
another man stood near a second in
strument similar to the first.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05

FAILURE TO keep the public baths open during the win
months should not be thought Of Bathing necessary
the for personal cleanliness has
particular The people who patronie the public baths
those who bathing accommodations home There
thousands of working and who live in rented
without any facilities of the kind it is bounden
the city provide such facilities of
ing the public health Newark make better boast than
% its inhabitants need uncean bathing
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
To Stop Cranp in the Leg.

To those who suffer from cramp in
the leg at night, the following may
be useful; When the cramp comes on
take a good long string-a long gar
ter will do-wind it round the leg over
the place that is affected, and take
the end in each hand and give it
sharp pull-one that will cause a lit
tie pain. Instantly the cramp will de-
part, and the sufferer can return to
bed assured it will not come on again
that night-Health.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
Loves Blindness,

The bride to- be" was gazing criti-
cally at the solitaire which had just
been presented to her.
1T is very small and not at all
brilliant" she said.
Her fiance replied: But, dear, love
is blind.
Whereupon she retorted: Yes, but
not stone blind. Public Ledger.