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A NINDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Twicf.-a-Wif.k Tuesday and Friday F.B. BOYD, PlIBLIHHFB. Entered its second-clou natter, March 1, 1001, at (be poitofflce at Athena, Oregon Uuderan Actot Congress of March 3, 1871 Subscription Tlatot ar year, In advanot' 12.00 Single copies In wrappers, 5c, Advertising Hataal lonsi reading notices, n reinsertion, 10c per ns. BtRbsabseqaentlQsertlon.ee.' . i 1 oommantoatlons should be addressed t ip P ft BBS AtbenaOregon ATHENA, ORE., NOV 13, 1906 Unprecedented iu the history of the United States army is the aotion ot President Boosveelt, jost annoanced, in dismlsaing iu disgrace from -the army an entire battalion of negro troops, because of tboir failure to dis close the identity of some ot their number who had been guilty of violence and murder. As an evidence of big intention to be lair with the troops, the president bas accompanied bis action by an order wbiob may amount to the oourtmartial of a white army officer of high grade, who was charged with baviug caet slurs upon the troops. The report by Brigadier Generul Cardinton, inspector geueral of the army, relative to the riotous disturbance at Browusville, Texas, on Angust 1, 1906, that resulted in the death of one citizen and the wounding of another is the basis of the president's aotion. Japan is taking probably her first lesson in the principles of the consti tution of the United States. The older treaty powers of Europe have received many lessons on the same complex subject, but it is doubtful if they have learned much. Just now the government of Wusbiugtou is doing its best to explain to tbo indignant government at Tokio that the presi dent and congress could bave bad nothing to do with the exclusion of Japanese children from white schools and the establishment ot a separate sobool for the Japanese iu the state of California. The administration bas to confess that if California should refuse these little brown people ad mission to any school at all the national authorities could not stop it. Our home merchants take the farm er's produoe. With them be fluds a ready market for his butter and eggs, for bis potatoos, upplos and other pro duee. Tbo department stores take only bis mouoy. Our home mer chants, uot for profit but for aooom modation and to assist the farmer, buy his produce. T hoy fell it iu a ma jority of cases for less than they pay for it and handle it at a loss, yet some farmers do not appreciate this and take this very same money and seud it to a department store when they could get bettor bargains right hero at home. After several days' bunting a cele bratod old grizzly of tho Desohutes region was killod by two Beud men and their dogs. Tho bear bas crossed the river tvvioe each year for 18 years, and muuy a hunter has tried iu vuiu lo get him. His tracks measured Elegance in House Furnishing In selecting furuituro aud carpets for your borne let quality be tho first consideration select pieces of distiuctivo grace, beauty and sterling worth, that will be a pleasure to look upon and tbat will serve their pur pose, uot for a mouth or year, but all through life. Such styles and qualities are now sbowu at our store, iu larger varieties than you can find within uiauy huudied miles ot Walla Walla. Come iu tbe uoxt time you are iu tbo city aud give ns au opportunity to show you through our store. WE PAY the Freight whou bill amounts to f 10 or over. Use Our Rest Room THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12 14-10-18 20-22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, :- WASH HxS inches, his forelegs were 24 in obes around and be weighed over 1000 pounds. Tbe dogs that worried him have trailed 81 bears that have been killed. It is announced that tbe proper material bas been discovered near Durkeefor making Portland cement and a large plant will soon be con structed. Such an industry means much for Eastern Oregon. Tbe de mand for cement is growing. Etting too much sauerkraut nearly caustd tbe death of J. F. Nowliu of Klamath Fall. He was formerly school superintendent of Umatilla county. Tbe Grand Konde valley bas its first corn crib, near Cove, where a farmer bas raised 85 bushels of corn per aore on 15 acres. JAPAN TOO EASILY OFFENDED It is just possible that an unneces sary amount of consideration ia being given to tbo Japanese susceptibilities regarding tbe exclusion of their child ren from tbe public schools of San Francisoo wbiob are attended by tbe white cblidren there, and tbe estab lishment of separate schools for them. It is undoubtedly true tbat the Ameri can people generally disapprove of the discrimination, and would be glad to see it discontinued. But that is not tbe point. If tbe children excluded are. citizens of tbe United States, the Japanese nation and government have nothing to do with the subject, even though tbe pareuts of these children may once have been subjects of tbe mikado. They are absolutely subject to Ameri- nan -intarl1tf Inn arA tnnat ilnrtnn d nn. on American law for tbe protection ! of their ngbts. If, on the other band, tbe parents and children in question are still aliens, they have no rights iu (be schools except such as tbe sovereign state of California may graciously afford them. The federal government bas nothing to do with tbe matter, and though treaties become part of tbe law of tbe country, no treaty can amend the constitution of the anion, under whioh each state is in supreme and sole control of its own schools. It is, therefore, something tbat may be regretted tbat California, or San Francisco, bas discriminated in tbe treatment of Japanese children iu the schools, and it may be proper for Washington to express such regret to tbe Tokio government, on a similar ocoasiou, tbut tbe whole matter is ab solutely witbin tbe jurisdiction of tbe sovereign state of California. Japan may not bo able to understand this, as Italy was not, but it is a vital element in our system of government, and it canuot be changed to please all Asia, as it never was changed to please all Europe. Dotroit News. LOWER FARES PAY When tbe New Haven Railroad company reduoed its passenger rate to 2 cents a mile the officials estimated tbat there would be a loss of about If 700,000 a year in gross receipts. The reduced rate, which affects nine tenths of the system, bas been in oper ation several months, and instead of tho predicted reduotiou there is au in crease iu gross earnings. Lower fares bave given tbe company enough new busiuoss to more than make good tbe lessoned profit on each fare. When tbe Michigan Central charter was re pealed and a 2-ceut rate was fixed by the legislature tbe compauy brought suit agaiiiHt the state of Miohigau lor $5,000,000. By the time the case got before tbe courts tbe receipts already showed a large increase in passenger earnings. Instead of losing by tbe repeal of a obarter which gave it tbe right to charge 3 cents a mile tbe Miohigau Ceutral bad actually beue fitted. Tbe recent reductions in fare on the Pennsylvania were made iu a con fident business belief tbat there would Make Your appointments Here be more profit for the company in oat ryiog people for less money. Other companies are planning similar reduc tions. The next five years will witness unprecedented reductions ia passenger fares. Railroad managers are coming to nuderstaod tbe simple scientific principle that there is more money in doing a large business with a small margin of profit on each transaction than in doing a small business with a large margiu ot profit on eacb tran saction. New York World. JOHN COYLE'S VALIANT SOUL. Do you regard your lot in life as a hard one? Do you thiuk you have uot had a square deal? Do you rail at your fate? Listen! John Coyle of Des Moines has only one arm. He lost oue it was tbe right one by accident. Tbe surgeons did not leave even a stump. But Coyle works every day in a sewer ditch, does as much work as any man on the job more than some and gets the same wages of $1.7 per day. He knows nothing about tbe law of tbe survival of tbe fittest, or if he does, made no moau about it. As soon as he got over tbe amputation he learned how pathetio laborers ! to use his shoulders and left arm, aud be makes the dirt fly with the best of them. More about John Coyle: He not only makes a living for him self by hard work aud deceut living. He supports with his left arm, shoul ders, pick aud shovel an aged father and mother. Most of men in his place would bave waited for an easy job to turn up, or haunted the street corners, hat in hand, or asked society for help. But John Coyle bad nerve and cour age and grim endeavor under his vest. Like the soldier with broken sword, he fought on. Iu tbe light of this man's high pur pose and achievement in rough, ought riot you, with two good, strong arms, be ashamed of your complainings? Unfortunately Mr. Carnegie s med als do not come to snob noble souls as John CoyJe. But, just the same- warp and woof of his valiant soul, he is made of hero stuff. St. Paul News. GOULDS OF ROYAL BLOOD That her son, Kingdon Gould, might be able to trace relationship to tbe rulers of England and that she might show that the blood in ber own veins is of tbe purplest, Mrs. George Gould bas em ployed a firm of genealogists to prove it. Workiug with a dozen agents iu England and Franoe, these genealog ists have now succeeded. They show tbat Kingdon and Mrs. Gould have in them blood of British Kings, aud re veal ancestry back to tbe twelfth cen tury. The result of tbe probers' labors Mrs. Gould hae made up iu pamphlet form. Every entry iu the record is backed by letters from tbe English College of Arms or from churches and old reoords in England. It cost Mrs. Gould $50,000 upward for the work of preparation. Tbe reoords shew that tbe Kingdons have tbe right to quarter their arms with those of tbe Hockins of England, as a Miss Hocliius, known iu heraldry as an 'heiress," married a Kingdon. By an heiress, it is explained by tbe com pilers of the book, is meaot a maideu who is the last of her race, and in this oonueotiou it is stated tbat Mrs. Gould is an heiress, being the last cf tbe di rect descent of tbe Kingdons. DON'T Don't ask tbe editor to publish a list of wedding gifts. Don't add to tbe terrors of death by taoking several stanzas of doggeral to a death notice. Don't crowd tne mourners. Don't lug old clippings into a news paper office and tell the editor that you have brought him "something to fill up with." Take him a cabbage; he can fill up with that Silting in the end of a oburoh pew, dou't get up to admit others. Move on. Don't Kick a man when he is down uulesa you are sure tbat he will never get up again. Don't put lard ou a man's shoes wheu you see a man going down hill. They are already greased lor tbe occa sion. Don't pray with a hungry man until you have giveu him something to eat Prayer without pork availeth uot. Exchange. A Year of Blood The year 1903 will long be remem bered in the home of F. N. Tacket, of Alliance, Ky., as a year of blood; wbioh flowed so copiously from Mr. Tacket's lungs tbat death seemed very near. He writes: "Severe bleeding from tbe lungs aud a frightful cough had brought me at death's door, when I began takng Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption, with the astonishing result that after taking four bottles I was completely restored aud as time has proven permanently cured. Guaranteed for sore lungs, oougbs and colds at tbe Palaoe drug store. Prioe 60 . and trial bottle free. Had a Close Call "A dangerous surgical operation, involving the removiug of a malign ant ulcer as large as my baud from my daughter's bip, was prevented by the application ot Buekleu's Arnica Salve," says A. C. Stiekol, ot Mile tus, W. Va. "Persisteut use of the salve completely cured it." Cures outs, bums and iu juries. 25o at Mo-Bride's. Treating Wrong Disease. Many times women call on their family physicians, suffering, as thev imagine, ono from dyspepsia, another 'from heart disease, another from liver or kidney disease, another from nervous exhaustion or prostration, another with pain here and then-, and in this way they all present alike to themselves and their easy-going and indifferent, or over-busy doctor, sep arate and distinct diseases, for which ho, assuming them to bo such, prescribes his pills and potions. In reality, they are all only tymuUnu caused hv some uterine disease. The physician, ignorant of the antsc of suiferinff. encourages this prac tice until large bills are made. The suf fering patient gets no better, but probably worse, by reason of the deiay, wrong treatment and consequent complications. A proer medicine like Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescription, directed to Vie cause would have entirely removed the disease, thereby dispell. ng all those distressing symptoms, and instituting comfort in stead of prolonged misery. It has been well said, that "a disease known is half cured." , Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a sciontliic medicine, carefully devised by an experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to woman's delicate system. It is made of native medicinal roots and Is perfectly harmless in its effects in any condition of the nyHtcm. As a powerful invigorating tonic "Fa vorite Prescription " imparts strength to the wholo system and to the organs dis tinctly feminine In particular. For over worked, "worn-out," "run-down," debili tated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, "shop girls," house-keepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women gen erally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being un equaled as an appetizing cordial and re storative tonic. As a soothing and strengthening nerv ine "Favorite Prescription " is unequaled and is invaluable in allaying and sub duing nervous excitability, irritability, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, chorea, St. Vitua's dance, and other distressing, nerv ous symptoms commonly attendant upon functional and organic diseaso of tho uterus. It induces refreshing sleep- and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Invigorate tbe stomach, liver and bowels. Ono to three o dose. Easy to take as candy. VVVVWVA HENRY KEEN'S Barber Shop . Shaving, Haircutting, Shampooing, Massage for Face and Scalp. 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