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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. TwIOB-A-WbEK TUESDAY AMD FBIDAY r. B. Boys, Publibbbb. Holered as oecon d-clau matter, March 1, 11)01, al the postofflce at Athena, Oregon, under an Aetol Oongre.of March 8, 1879. Subscription ftataa: I'er year, ta advance 12.00 Single ooplei in wrappers.So. Advertising Katast Local reading notlcei, Orat Insertion, 10c per ii'. Kinhsaosequent insertion, 5c. All commanloatloni shoald be addroased to tiii PHK88 Athena, Oregon " - 1 ATHENA, AUGUST ... 29, 1905 "Tho Athena Press and the Weston Leader also 'knocked' the Tribnne on tho shortage. We do not ask them to apologize, bat we will accept their greater respeot us we kuow it will be forthcoming." The above is to be found in Satur day's Pendleton Tribune and relates to the shortage of $9,051.88, in the sheriff's office, the portion for Taylor's term being $3,479.76 and for Blak ley's $5,572.12. Apologize! What for? For calling the callow and im mature editor of the Tribune down to the level of fairness and fact, when he made tho untruthful state ment that tho sheriff's office was short over $20,000 when $12,406.75 tax money was in the custody of the office, instead of in the hands of . the county treasurer, only for the reason thnt the rolls had not been balanced? Apologize I For standing by an honest official, whose only fault (and he paid for it by personal check to the county in the sum of $3,479.76) is that l)e placed too much trust in a subordinate? If Mr. Dodd ever gets an apology from Clark Wood or Fred Boyd it will not be in the "good old Bummor time;" for the apologies will be congealed in ioecioles of such magnitude that tho employes of the Peudieton cold storage plant will be shoveling smoke in Hades and every locomotive on the Harriman system will be coughing hail and frost in place of sparks and steam. Greater respecW For ability in mix ing a ' news . story that reeks with tho ulterior motive of blemish ing .the! charaoter of an honest niau whose implioit confidence in another was misplaced ; or for the political capital the Tribune editor endeavors to muke out of the matterwhich ? The Portland Oregoniau is conduct ing a war on the Portland Journal in a way that is peculiarly its own. Here is one of its upperouts. What a straight poke would be can be imagin ed: . Littlo Billy Land, who inherited his father's property and therefore is a great man, moves his so-called news paper, subsidized with money got from franchise grabs, to vilify the Oregoniau. He does it through subs and scrubs aud jours whom he can hire; but it deceives nobody. Little Billy Ladd is great in his ancestors. Through his nameless hirelings he takes particular delight in attacks on the Oregoniau. But it doesn't signify; it doosn't matter. Never be fore was the business of the Ore- Our Crockery Is now carrying the Lost stock that has evor beeu cariied by any store in this part of the conutry. Every detail is lwked into with caro, and everything is now found here that can be found in auy crockery store. Besides carrying numerous diunorjjaots which are all in stock patterns, and may be bad in any piece set yon wish, we carry all kinds of novelties, fancy plates, odd cups and saucers, Hue cut glass and band painted China ware set?, lamps aud all kiuds of glasses. All our goods are bought iu such large quantities that we sell them at prices that are all bargains compared with prioes asked at other stores. Our trade is now so large that it necessitates our buying often, aud iu this way we always have only the newest a.nd most up to date goods. If you kuow of anything now in the Crockery line, you are sure to find it here. Write us for description and prices on anything in our line, and we will be pleased to send you same by return mail. ' If order amounts to $10.00 we will prepay freight to your station, and then, too, we guaran tee staisfaction or lefnnd your money. Let us hear from you, for we are Sure tp Save You Money Mail Orders a '. Specialty THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12 H 16 18 20-22 Alder Street. WALLA WALLA, t-j- WASH. gooian Publishing company compar able with the business of .today. Little Billy Ladd would better operate his little tin cup bank, and let the Oregoniau alone. He and his group will work, up no more . $6,000,000 franchise grabs in Portland. They print their monopolistic plutocratic, holier-than thou organ in vain. The Oregonian is not making this year any $6,000,000, as franchisers do; but it is making fcnougb to buy beef and bread and potatoes, and to pay taxes. That will do. Contracting for the domestic wool clip of 1906 is reported to have be gun. One Boston firm is said to have secured 1,000,000 pounds in Wyoming within the last two weeks at from seventeen to nineteen cents, as against sixteen to seventeen cents paid last fall for this -year's clip. Boston bouses are reported to be also operat ing in Idaho and to be willing to con tract extensitely. Growers, however, are hard to deal with, and there is too much risk involved for dealers to pay a great advance over the prices that ruled on this year's crop. . In the course of a column 'acoount of a wedding a correspondent of the Coquille Call says of the bride: Miss May M. Boyrle, formerly, is one of Coquille's fairest daughters, and one of the best of the "bunch," being born aud raised in the Coquille val ley, the only valley on earth noted for pretty girls and ugly men, is well and favorably known in this part of the country. Laird may well congratulate himself in being able , to tool this young lady in consenting to link her futures with his. , If a traveling peddler comes along and tries to sell goods, ask him if he will take your butter, eggs, hides and other farm produce. New York is threatened with a seo ond insurance scandal. Skeletons seem to take up most of the closet room in that town. j ' All in vain will be Burbank's effort to protect the potato until the average cook learns how to boil it right, and then get the water out. , The war is costing the mikado a million dollars a day, or enough to enable him to live at a fashionable New York hotel. Italy's Dowager (jueeu is coming over here next autumn for a visit She is fond of autoing, and will keep the elite awake. A few mote Lord Milner verses from Budyard Kipling and Alfred Austin will hare to look to his laurels. POLITICIANS WORK GHAFT. (Chicago Tribune.) ' Milwaukee bau a municipal garbage cremation plant which is not working satisfactorily. It was built in the wrong place to begin .with, and $12, 000 was paid for valueless patents. As the city ruus the plant, there are about eight times ,'as many men em ployed as are needed. Places had to be made for friends of ward bosses. This experiment in municipal opera tion of publio utility is admitted to be a dismal failure.. It is proposed that the plaut be torn down and a better oue erected, although a new one under political management will be uo more economically managed than its predecessors. A few years ago the city of Escana- Department Kg Mail Orders ;. a Specialty ba went into the lighting business. The citizens were assured that it would be a profitable venture, but it has turned out to be a losing one. The city council recommends that the people vote bonds to the amennt of $60,000, five-sixths of the proceeds to be u.sed for the enlargement and im provement of the plant, and the re mainder to free it from debt. .. Many taxpayers admit that the experiment of municipal lighting has been a fail ure so far, but the voters may insist on throwing away more money. ' Last spring the Elgin council dis posed of the city's electric light plant It did so because it had been a plaything for the politicians, had been allowed to run down, and was losing instead of making money. As there was no prospect of a , reform in conditions and of the plant being run in accordance with business . princi ples, the council acted wisely., Yet there was a popular protest against the sale from unthinking people, who did not understand that if a city did not operate a pnbilo utility so economically and efficiently as private enterprise can it ougbt to let that utility alone. , One of the many objections of mun icipal ownership and operation - of publio utilities is the difficulty of let ting go after the experiment has been proven to be a costly mistake. There are always a number of people, usual ly not taxpayers, who insist on going ahead and spending more money. They are not , troubled , because the business is not self-supporting. The politicians who stuff the pay rolls of the city plants with their friends dis like to lose patronage, and say that it would be shameful for the municipal ity to confess to a failure. It is diffi cult for a community to shake off a publio utility "old man of the sea" which has got astride its shoulders. For that reason, every community which permits its municipal , govern ment to be run by politicians who car ry political methods and mismanage ment in everything, ought to stay clear of municipal ownership and operation of the public utilities which the professional municipal ownerites are most anxious to lay bands on. It is easy to enter on the downward road, and hard to retrace one's steps. TIlK AMERICAN BIRTH-BATE. (Oregoniau,) : y s We have bad it, over and over, that in our country, the birth-rate from mothers of American nativity is small and growing smaller, in comparison with the birth-rate of mothers of for eign nativity. It scarcely needed the details furnished by the census re ports to show Qs that It is a fact, apparent to every observer. Children are born, in greatest numbers, of par ents who are poor, who have no pros pects or expectations, , who . i accept humblest ways of living, and who do not expect to better them.' Foreign immigrants are largely, but by no means wholly, of this class. Onr own people, in pioneer days, belong ed to it Many do .- yet As a rule, large families belong to those who are content with a low grade of living, and who do not expect to improve it It is an enigma, a paradox. For if the human race could raise all its members above the conditions and re quirements of lowly life, its own de cline would begin at once. The whole basis of progress is in those who work on the lower levels. These continually 'supply the materials for new advancement "High culture" continually "runs out" From one or two children in the family, it will descend to none. Thus, the race must be recruited continually from tbe low er classes. The human race, then, in trying to improve itself, Bteadily exhausts it self, aud is forced to ' begin anew. This process is going on through all times, and has been going on since the beginning of history and civilization. France is the highest present exemplar of the prudential or small family sys tem ; and France, great as she baa been in history, great part as she has borne in spreading tbe ideas and arts of modern civilization, now stands still. Under ber present 'sociological system France can proceed no farther. She has reached the limit. We shall reach ours, so soon as the idea shall become general among us that fami lies must be restricted in .order that the standard of living, may be main tained. For such au idea will surely defeat its own object The "best families," devoted to this idea, steadily commit suicide. They have few descendants, or noue, aud leave the world to a rude yet vigorous proletariate huugry yet ambitious. Yet this is the way the world goes on, aud the way democ racy steadily makes its gains over privilege, jplntocracy and ojigarcy. ; The "better classes," then, through the very methods they employ for their preservation, tend continually toward extinction, or contribute to their own supereednre by the proleta riate. Increasing luxury, late mar riage, or few or none, the notion that it is imprudent or vulgar to have children, take the future oat of the hands of the "first families" and pass, it on to the "common herd." Tbe selfishness that refuses to ba "troub led with children" and sends young married couples to boarding nooses, will be revenged through the extinc tion of those families who think themselves above the "common rab ble." Aud it is welL It is the way, and the ouly waythrough operation of nature to reduce calculated selfish ness and iusufferable insolence to the extinction they deserve. It is the way bc.tuan society geU on. - - Repairing I want to call your attention to the fact that I do all kinds - of Watch, Clock and Jewelry . . repairing. I do accurate work, get it out quick and guaran tee every job sent out. - Watches and Jewelry I carry a line of cheap and medium price watches that . will stand rough use and are ' dust proof ; also a line of jew 1 elry, novelties aud silverware, i. ROYAL M. SAWTELL i Jeweler : Athena PETERSON & PETERSON, Attorneys-at-Law A1HENA, - OREGON. J. D. PLAMONDON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ' Office in Barrett Building, Athena, Oregon Dr. A. B. 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