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Thirty-six people were killed as a re sult of Fourth of July celebrations. An appropriate number tbe unlucky 13 ou top of the 23 to tbe noisy celebration. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER fmm Mm Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F. B. Boyd, Publisher. The prevailing weather in Athena these days reminds oue that there are places back east where they found it necessary to take them off months ago. The Japs don't seem to realize how small a part of the United States San Franoisoo takes up. Application for entrance as 2nd class matter made on July 5, W07 at the postofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actol Congress of March 3, 1879 My $3,000 Stock of Groceries Will be Sold Regardless of Cost Subscription ftatei t p r year. In advanct Single copies In wrappers, 5c, 12.00 ATHENA. ORE.. AUGUST 2 1907 MARSE HENRY ON MR. BOURNE. Mortal President Roosevelt and the other republican leadors who agree with hid), that the states have been derelict in their duty of protectiug themselves against trusts and other corporations, should keep their eye on Ohio. Judge Morris of the commou pleas court of that state has sentenced thirty trust magnates to jail, for be deolares fines are uo check against violations of the antitrust law. So far President Roosevelt has not srjeceded in securing one such conviction by bis administra tion under the national anti-trust Jaw. On the theory that the money-order business is not a f unotion of a common carrier, tbe American Bankers' asso ciation has Hied a protest with the interstate commerce commission to prevent the express companies from eugaging in that business, and it is re ported that tbe bankers will work for a parcels post law in tbe next congress if such a step is necessary to briug the express companies to time. In order to encourage farmers to name their farms, tbe Missouri legis lature last winter enacted a law under which they may register tbe names with tbe clerk of tbe county and thus prevent duplication of the name in the county. If the farmer, for instance, cboosas Mountain View and registers the name before anybody else he is en titled to use it exclusively. The nam ing of farms, especially those well improved and well-kept, is a pleasing custom. Tocoma Ledger. Tho proposed oruiso of our battleship fleet has beeu generally accepted tbe world over as a, threat to tbe Japanese, hardly to l9 justified by existing con ditions. "We could hardly have a better example," says the New York Evening Post, "of the way a navy, so far from being a safs-guaid, can be come u great menace to tbe peace of tbe nation." "Shall we look for tbe doctors to have less to do in tbe future as tbe re sult of this pure food movement?" in quires the Cedar Rapids Republican. "Or will the health of tbe people show uo material improvement? That will be one of tbe tests. If there is any thing in tbe pure food movement at all it ought to show iu tbe dcoreased earn ings of tbe medical profession." An exobeauge says that oue ot the best curfew bells that exists is a home made ullair composed of a piece ot weather board or barrel stave a tout two feet loug. Bend the urchin over your knee and apply hot. Good tor a boy or girl up to tbe age of 16. and tbreo applications are guaranteed co cure the most piononuced ease of street loafing that exists. Tbe womau who had a warraut issu ed for ber husband and tbeu refused to lot tbe oflioers take hi in, evidontly thought tho law a good club to scare hubby into respect. A currout magazine ooutuins tbe in formation that the publishers have been ritmrohiug for a long time for u ruiui "who could wiile funny stories with a lino tooth comb." HauraLnrv Tnfti. it in Rnnnmiond. in going to spend his summer vacation iu Cuuada. Thero will, at lotwt, be uo presidential construction placed upon bis outing. It seems that a new light has arisen in the far, far West, It is of the ris ing, not of the setting sun. Oregon claims exclusive ownership of this luminary, which rejoices iu tbe name of Bourne Jonathan Bourne and claims as its crowning distinction that it is "tbe first United States Sena tor elected by popular vote," dear Old Fifty-Four-Forty-or-Fight having abolished the antique form of Legisla tive selection and adopted tbe initia tive and referendum with respect to Salmon, Crawfish and Statesmen. Being nothing if not exceptional, Senator Jonathan Bourne informs a wondering world of his advent by a soul-stirring yawp. Whether this is a happy burst of wild and wolly inspir ation or a strategic bit of occidental recrudescence like the nigger's "Big Casino," consisting of five aces, that beat a straight flush and only come onoe in a hundred years or whether it is pure thrift setting its ingenious trap for pie before tbe pie-counter closes the gentleman up-a-tree does not inform us. The yawp part of it, however, is unmistakable. The Sena tor from the headwaters of Bitter Creek and of the Columbia reservation, swelling nobly in bis milk-white dickey and rising effulgent above bis tinted collar of brand-new celluloid, demands a third term for Theodore Roosevelt 1 Nay, not so, tnough also; not a "third" but a "second elective term" for the oue and the only first-class statosman among eighty millions of second-class statesmen, who oan save tbe country from impeudiug chaos, perdition, cholera morbus, iufantoide and "ole man Octopus;" the peerless He of Oyster Bay ; no less than the Gentleman with tbe Big Stick. Teddy Bear, himself I Our Jonathan has uo doubt about it If he bad he might go and hang him self. The people, be informs us, have Teddy where "he's bleeged to sign." According to Jouatbau, it is a case of "must." There is no escape. We quote from au interview with The Pride of Oregon : "He cannot decline. He can no more decline than can a soldier who enlists in tbe army deoilne to fight in the faoe of the enemy. It is a duty which tbe people put up to Roosevelt, and a man with bis ideas of duty a man who has uttered the sentiments which he has uttered on the subjeot of tbe duty of a public servant to the people cannot escape tbe responsibil ity. There is more than the mere honor going with this high offioe of the President. When the people choose a man to serve them iu this high office, it is for tbem to say when bis service shall end. It is not for him." Jess sol Jess so! Wheu a man wants to let it be kuown that he has arrived, what else? When he wants pie, how otber. The folks down in Rogue River Val ley know n thing or two, you bet I "I oan understand," Jouatbau deolares, "how Mr. Roosevelt feels. He is anx ious to lay down the work. He would like a rest. But, as I said, it is not for him to say. The individual oauuot dictate to tbe people ideal oitizouship necessitates strict obedience to tbe sovereign will of the people" Thus our hero, with tbe striped waistooat and the taubark, Senatorial slippers insinuates tbat be knows what ideal citizenship meane and tbat be, too, is au ideal citizen. He is a tender-hearted man. Ho feels for Teddy. But, before all else, be is a potriot a stern patriot and suoh tiumpory fellows as Washington and Jefferson and Jackson even as Grant must pule their ineffectual fires and go down iu everlasting darkness before tbe Moi uing-Star of a Teddy I What bo, there! "By my balidom, there be perils at baud," and Jouatbau sees them. Nay he smells them. Little boys get from un der whilst grown men listen to this: "In my opinion a great crisis now confronts this country." The reaction aries are determined, if possible, to obtaiu control of the Government, House Cleaning Time the back-breaking time for the cle nly house-wife, is mad easier by the use of The Sherwin-Williams PAINTS. Paint saves half the labor of house cleaning. Painted wood-work is easier to clean than unpainted wood-work. It doesn't collect as much dirt, and what dirt it does collect comes off easier. Paint this ) ear and you'll have less work next year. Th Sherwin-Williams Family Paint in small cans meets the hundred and one demands for a little paint about the house. Dries quickly. The girls cau apply it. Can be scrubbed. Color cards for the asking. SOI D BY Umatilla Lumber Yard M. A. JOHNSON, Manager This is not a Clearance Sale, nor a Mid-summer Sale; I am positively going out sf Business and my prices will convince you of the fact that I am going to quit. So now is your opportunity to get Harvest Sup plies cheaper than you ever did before. Stock is complete now. CASH WILL SAVE YOU CASH WORTHINGTON SPOT CASH GROCERY Oregon Shoip line b Union Pacific Iran Through Pullman standard and sleeping cars dally to Omaha, Chicago; tourist sleeping car dally to Kansas City; through Pullman tourist sleeping cars, personally conducted, weekly to Chicago, with free reclining chair cars, seats free, to the east daily irom Pendleton. AREIVB Dally. TIMS SCHEDULES ATHENA, ORE. 12:25 p. in. Walla Walla. Day. ton, Pomeroy, Lew- ision. coiiax. run- man. Moscow, the Couer d'Alene dis trict. Spokane and all points north. 12:23 p to 3:10 p m 6:15 p- m. Walla Walia- Pen dleton Mixed Fast Mall for Pen- Baker City, and all DolutseistviaHun tington, Ore., Also forUmatillaJHepp- ner, The Dalles, Portland, Astoria, Willamette Valley Points, California, Tacoma.Beattle, all oouna roinis. Pendleton - Walla Walla Mixed DKPABT Pally. 12:23 p. in. 12:23 p. in, H: 10 p. m 6:15 p m M. Smith Agent, Athena, The people believe iu the ability and sincerity of Roosevelt. The. fight of the people has not tieeu finished. When tbe noxt Republican National Couveutiou comes around the people' policies the principal reforms which Roosevelt has undertaken will be far from established, and to turn them over at suoh a critical time to an un tried champion would be to invite dis aster. This is uo time for the consul tation of personal desires or feelings. " Yes, there is a crisis. Ihere is always a crisis down about Cottage Grove and just baok of The Dalles. ' Once there was a five-foot wildcat caught in Skuuk Hollow. But where are the "reactionaries" to whom Jouatbau would not turn over tbe Government! Can he refer to Tuft? Or, Hughes? Maybe Cortelyou? He can't "shorely" mean William Jennings? Maybe he means Hearst? Lord, Lord, Harvey Soottl Where did you get him aud why did you send him? Can ShakeBpeare have bad him iu mind when he wrote ot that " Undisoovered country from whose Bourne no traveler returns." and which we take it to be somewhere not far from tbe crossing of tbe Oregou Short liue and the Great Divide. Louisville Courier-Journal. A Happy Man la Amos F. King, of Port Byron, N. Y., (85 years of age); since a sore on his leg, wbiob had troubled him tbe greater part of his life, has been en tirely healed by Buckleu's Arnica Salve; the world's great bealer of Sores, Burns, Cuts, Wouuds aud Piles. Guaranteed by Wm. MoBride Drug gist Price 25o. NOTICE. All merchants, business men, aud otbeis whom it may ooucem, are here by notified tbat Victoria Gagnon, my wife, has instituted suit against me for divorce, and you are forbidden to extend any credit whatever to her on my account Any obligations she may iuour after this date will be at her own instance and I shall not be liable for any part of them. Take notice about this matter. Dated at Athena, Oregon, this tbe 19th day of July; 1907. Frank Gagnon. AU the World id a stage, aud Ballard's Suow Lini ment plays a most prouiiueut part. It has uo superior lor 'Rheumatism, stiff joints, cuts, epiaius, aud all paius. Buy it, try it aud you, will always use it Anybody who baa used Ballard's Suow Liniment is a living pioof of what it does. Buy a trial boUla. 2 jo. SOo aud $1.00. Sold ty W. MoBride. CM J A few doses of this remedy will in variably cure an ordinary attack of diarrhoea. It can always be depended upon, even in the more severe attacks of cramp colic and cholera morbus. It is equally successful for summer diarrhoea and cholera infantum in children, and is the means of saving the lives of many children each year. When reduced with water and sweetened it is pleasant to take. Every man of a family should keep this remedy in his home. Buy it now. Price, 25c. Large Size, 60c. Fa a irst National Bank of Athena CAPITAL STOCK .$50,000 SURPLUS,. 20,000 "1 PER CENT INTEREST PI ON TIME DEPOSITS . X MODERN BANKING FACILITIES f! OFFICERS H. C. ADAMS, President, T. J. KIRK, Vice President, F. S. Le GROW. Cashier. L M. KEMP, Ass't Cashier. DIRECTORS H. C. ADAMS, T. J. KIRK, F. S. Le GROW, D. H. PRESTON, P. E. COLBERN. Sold in Athena by McBride. The Crackers with a ..... flavor INLAND CRACKERS Are not made by the Trust AU Grocers Sell Them THE WRIGHT LIVERY AND FEED STABLE C000 HORSES AND RIES. REASONABLE PftlSEk D RIVER FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED- Horses boarded by the day, week or month sublet on 2nd street, South of Main street J. F. Wright, ... Proprietor THE i Eagle Bar ii BERT CARTANO, Prop. GOOD LIQUORS A SPECIALTY Hourhound Rock and Rye Holly Tom Gin Three Star Cognao Blue Stem Whisky Famous Pilsner Beer Best Brands of Cigars. "BEST'S 18 THl PLAGE" AT THE ELECTRIC SIGN To Curs Constipation Tonrvt, Take Cuuarets Cady Cat(jruc lOo or S& C. C. 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