The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, October 30, 1896, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTHE PRESS has the circulation, its advertising rates are within the reach of all, THE PRESS "touches the spot." $1.50 per year SHADOW Utf A TIlOUGIlx. DV IIARBY. LANUXB. Fred Selfton was melancholy, appar ently without any just cause. He had ,' riat a rnry pleasant day in the exe cution of his duties in the shelving de triment of the home office, where he ii read the morning' paper, wasueu '.i hands three times, chaffed Bertie ; ipes-and heard the latest frossip from jLoinmy Townic. Then Tommy had taken him to the Junior Gathenum to recuperate, and bis journey down to "Ealinff had been most comfortable. - It was a pleasant afternoon in the early ' summer, his little villa looked particu larly bright and comfortable, and he still had an hour to lounge away before dinner, which was the most cherished aim of his daily life. Yet he sighed as no openeu w uw home. t- unA f-.trn ihtu Vjfinv to see her mother, but would be back to dinner. Thjs was not unusual, but upon this occasion it struck him as being very inconsiderate of her. Having performed hi toilet he wandered mournfully about the garden. Then retiring to his study a misnomer, for he was guiltless of such folly he lit a cigar ette and flung himself into an easy chair with the air of a man weary of existence Had his wife been present she would have wondered anxiously what calamity Lad overtaken them, but the fact was nothing more alarm ing than that her lord ana master wan suffering' from what is technically termed "the hump." The other men in his room had been , discussing holidays. Gapes was saving , himself for a month's salmon fishing in Sundcrlandshire, Townio contemplated billeting himself upon his cousin, who was attached to the embassy at Vien- na. Williamson was engaged for a yachting cruise to Norway, and Elliot . had raved of the green golf links at Eastbourne. He had yawned dismally and mentioned Heme bay, with the wife and family, in tones which quite justi- ' flod Townio in holding him up as an awful example of premature mam- ' .Now, in ins neart iib uuoo a fool, for in these days a man of thir ty is too young for such responsibili ties and well, privations. Of course, he had been quite infatuated with citv n warn several better men. .11 x i 1 1 klmnnl I The first year of their married life had tieen as charming as the last chapter of a thrco-volume novel, and he had 1 nnvthinir so much as ! that delightful scamper about the con tinent they had together. Now, there was the baby, a jolly little chap, but n, responsibility, and a somewhat costly one. After all, there was sound wis dom in Townie's cynicism. There are two aspects of the marriage question, 1 usually considered before and after, lie was just realizing the unpleasant one. He had never seen the club look more cozy than it did that afternoon. Ho hud been welcomed by a crowd of men, : tbo pleasant associates 01 a past me, . who seemed genuinely happy to meet iitm pfi"in. He had been a very popu lar Uiuu, ami souio ox mem otui i euiciu bered his little evenings in Gray's inn. What pleasant rooms they were, to be Mire. At one time he used to think that Kitty had sacrificed a great deal when she married him, but perhnps the renunciation was not so one-sided as he had imagined. Tor instance, there was the club. Ho could no long er afford to go. there, and with it he had renounced all intellectual society, iiitty's people and their neighbors ,vero rich and respectable. Host ad 'rairable of thoir kind, they ate, drank, : iept, and made moneys withal, most worthy creatures, but particularly un ontertaining. Mr. Turner, her father, ' was u typo a kindly, honorable man, but without the slightest artistic or literary culture; he could talk;. for. hours of his business, and knew more about tallow than any other man in England. Fortunately, his pride of " 4 ion was slightly mitigated very dark. .So swift and sudden had . the trouble come upon him that it still f seemed like the haunting memories of . a terrible dream. But a fewsmonths ago he was happy in. the sweet com- , panionship of his 'wife; now he was-j alone. " -. " " f - I Happiness In this world depends largely upon ability to forget; It was not without a feeling of pleasure that he had accepted De Vaux's invitation to rejoin him in Gray's Ian. The rooms seemed more comfortable than before, and the freedom was delight ful. As the band upon his hat became ; narrower, the restraint, prompted by , sympathy, with which men regarded i him. died away. He drifted back to the old life with a feeling of pleasant expectancy, but to find the world had changed. It surprised him to discover how selfish De Vaux had become, while tbe manners of their "set" pained him. Their brilliancy seemed to have given place to flash 'gaseousness, originality to carping contentiousness; wit was now insolent abuse, and humor posi tive vulgarity. Yet they were the same actors without a "shop," authors without a publisher, and less extraor dinary imbeciles without an object in life. With indolent interest he used to expect great things from some of them, but they were still squatting in the mire. The Junior Gatherium had been refurnished, and the cooking was excellent, but the same decline was noticeable among the members. The tales old Iiadboy narrated in his cor ner of the smoking-room were, to say the least, unfit for publication, yet the old fellow was his most cherished ac quaintance in the bygone days. The place abounded in loud-voiced boys of a new and, to him, mcst objectionable species. The past belongs to the past; a man cannot live his life again. "Poor old fellow, I don't care to say disagreeable things about him, but, really, he had become a most selfish beggar," said De Vaux, leaning against the mantel-piece. , "Marriage spoils a man utterly," said his friend as he knocked the ashes from his pipe on to the carpet. "You ought to get married again, he's no good for anything else." "lie used to be such a jolly, easy-going fellow, now he growls at every thing. The way he bullies our un fortunate laundres is shocking. When he wakes up, he'll make you sweep those ashes from the floor." "The side the man puts on, his as sumption of virtue, and the way he sneers at us really annoys me. Ho is a skeleton at every feast, looks as shocked as a curate if a man tells a racy tale, and actually called old Soaker a cad because he could not walk downstairs. ' I remember bring him home in a cab two or three yj.u o ana ne yelled comic sou go all the way." ' "It's awful," said De Vaux, with a laugh; "last Sunday he came in while I was having afternoon tea with some ladies, and simply turned upon his heel, and slammed the door as he went out." '' "Well, I'm afraid you can't poison him and put him out of his misery." "He is not our old' Self ton, theaters bore him, the halls are disgusting. He won't dance, does not drink enough to enlivou a healthy child, smokes in a corner and growls. At the club no one can understand him. He has tried the river, galf, the Solent, the card room, and Paris, all in vain. I don't know what to do with him. You remember our last little supper party here. Well, he got it up, and waB perfectly dlhgusted with everything and every body, yet all the boys were oid friends." "Yes, I'm afraid he is incurable" ''Yes, I am," cried Selfton, springing from the sofa upon which he had been sleeping. "Pin a nuisance to myself and all of you. I can't forget the two happy years of iny life, and I can never live .them again. I'll go into some cor nor and wait patiently for the future, since I cannot go back to the past." "Isn't he a lazy dadda. ""' - 'Ue country had nothing in the shape of a coin between the huge copper cents' and half cents and the silver half dime. The small coin was hailed 'as a blessing, and became popular at once.' There was an excellent reason for its issue also. "' ' "Strange as it may seem, it was not -provided for by a coinage act, but by an act revising the postal rates." This ' law lowered the cost for, transmitting the unit of weight for letters from five to three cents. It was deemed advisable by congress thereupon to issue a coin of corresponding denomination. The coin was of great Utility, and circulated freely until the advent of the nickel." The Oriental Watering Place Where the Recent Treaty Waa Signed. Chee-Foo, where the treaty of peace was signed between China and Japan, and which also goes by the name of Yen-Tai, is one of the best known ports in the northeastern part of China. It is situated at the head of one of the bays of the Gulf of Petchili and is in the neighborhood of two of the most prom inent places in the recent Chino-Japan-ese war. It was here that the peace of 1876 between England and China was signed; by which three new ports of entry were opened to foreign commerce. The signing of the treaty on the 8th of last May between the two inimical brothers of the far orient "has given Chee-Foo a new historical importance. From June 8, 1850, until the Chino European war, France had occupied Chee-Foo without any interference from foreign powers. ' It is thickly populated, having one' hundred and twenty thousand inhabi tants, according to the consular re ports of 1891. In summer it is a fash ionable watering place like Trouville and Brighton. It is very attractive, with its villas with vine-enshrouded verandas clustering on the hillsides which overlook Semaphore Point or dotting the plain. Beside the signal tower a pretty pagoda rears its head, crowned by its cap with upturned wings. America and Russia send pe troleum oil to Chee-Foo, England cot tons and metals. The great article of export is raw silk. ' In the quarter facing the sea, in a small hotel, bearing the European name of Beach hotel, the peace treaty between the Chinese and Japanese plenipotentiaries was sismed. Two Eloquent Hunteri. Maj. Champion, in his book "On the Frontier," describes a deer hunt, in the course of which he found his dog astride the dead body of the deer, while an Indian stood a little way off, bow and arrow in hand. By signs he made the white man understand that he had wounded the deer and the dog pulled it down. Then he cut up the deer, tied tho forehalf of it up in the skin and placed it on one side. The other half he laid at Maj. Champion's feet, delivering himself of a speech in the Ute language. The white man un derstood his meaning, but not a word of his address. The Indian and the dog had killed the deer together, and the dog's owner was entitled to half tho game. The major was equal to the emergency. Ho rose and delivered in full the classical declamation: "My name is Norval," with appropriate ges tures, just as he had many times given it at school. Nothing could have been better. The Indian and the white man shook hands with effusion, and each with his Bhare ' of the venison' rode away. . , , ' Bicycle Affeoti Summer Retort. A new phase of the bicycle fad has come to light, says the New York cor respondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, and it bodes no good to the hotel men at the shore or at the mountains. Thousands of New York wage-earners, as well as more favored ones, who have heretofore spent from two weeks to two months in the country each sum' mer, have this year invested their savings in the alluring wheel and will stay at home, speeding on the boule' vards and. through the parks of New York, -Brooklyn and New Jersey. When papa says to the ruler of the household ,,,. inn " -WA '4 0 tid lti he iff (If to t: I 1. j.t ro Hi al m y jel ar ild dl ble f HO lie rs. 10 s V V7 : O "j OI severest trial sod test prove y .. : , In regard to Hood's BarssparlU ' , 1st, Greatest Filerit I Secured by a peculiar Comblna-' -; , tlon, Proportion and Prooess unknown to others whlca . naturally and actually produces 2d, Greatest Cures Sbown by thousands of honest, . voluntary testimonials which ' , naturally and actually produce 3d, Greatest Sales ' According to the statements of druggists all over the country. In these three points Hood's . Sarsaparllla Is peculiar to itself. ", n n -n Sarsaparilla Is the best It Is the One True Blood Purifier. i j r: 1 1 are the only pills to take tiOOd & rl US with Hood's Sarsaparilla. j HflKKKT KOKSTKH iff ' Pendleton, Oregon DEALER IN LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES AND - MOULDINGS. ' m Doors , and Sash, Cedar Posts, etc. w ! Cm supply t Lumber in car-leiid J lot at low figures. , i THE PIONEER HARNESS SHOP Is the place to get the best of Harness. '"Good : Workmanship and best of material," our motto. W. E. YOUNG, Proprietor, lave You An... TO BUSINESS? Then ADVERTISE in the ATHENA PRESS.... And Get Business. The ATHENA PRESS guarantees a larger circulation than that of any other paper in Eastern Umatilla County. : : : : : ' 7 ' . . . :. WE DO JOB WORK A.. J. ZP-AJRJEOEie., SHAVING, IIAIRCUTTING SHAMPOOING, HAIRSINGING, In Latest Styles. THE tfr HOT OR COLD WATER BATHS, 25 CENTS. '3 : THE C. A. BARRETT COMPANY : t WIH Tn nriAr t.n ninlfA rnftm fur new ffrtfwla. we offer Rnpp.ial prices on Seeders, Sulkey and Walking plows, Harrows, Wagous, Wagon boxes, Wood Racks. Now on the way, and just received ' new Plows, new Drills, new Harrows. New Prices to suit all. , Call and Examine. i , , ,i Get our Prices before Buying. ! I THE Q A. BARRETT C03IPANY. : . Athena Orezon THE PRESS FOR THE NEWS LODCK DIKF.CTOKT AF. k A. M. NO. 80 MKETS THE . First and Third .Saturday RvrniDgf A each month. VUitinK bre therm . cor lially invited to visit the lodge 10. 0. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVEKV , Friday iiiidit. VUitiug Odd Fellow n good standing always welcome. O. U. W. NO. 104, MEETS TH f Second and Fourth Saturday i month. Fred Rozeunwieg. Records A THENA OA I', NO. 171, Woodmen of tin World, meets lot and 3rd Wednediiy ol sach month. Visiting Choppers nlway wel come. G. C. Obbckk, Clerk. PYTHIAN, NO. 29i MEETS EVEKV Thursday, Night. ' : . , jj1 H. SHARP. ' T 7, : t '-I ' Physician and Surgeon i Calls promptly answered. Office on Third Street, Athena, Oregon. D1 R. I. N. RlCHARuSON, , UrKBITIVK PHT1IKTK IKM1ST VTKENA, - OREGON. J, B. Huntington, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Athena, Ore. RI-P-A-N-S The modern stand ard Family Medi cine: Cures the common every-day ills' of humanity. Athena, Oregon. . DPio-px'iotoa? of ELECTRIC BARBER SHOP. KVV. V" 4 -ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR Eye.... The Indestructible 4Maywood" BICYCLE. Tbe post podem, pod Rll.bl. poet Darible AND STRONGEST ' Wheel oo EFth. t.t.m, IFeb.S. 1801 VAXKNTS lAlay 17.'1891 . A Bicycle constructed ot material that ia solid, tough and wiry; that U simple in construction, easily taken apart and put together again has few parts, is of such wiry material that its parts will hold together even in an accident, no hollow material to be crushed in by every con tact; a frame that cannot possibly be broken; a frame so simple that its adjusting parts serve as its connecting parts; a one-piece crank in place of a dozen parts; always rea.Jy to give reliable and rapid transportation. SPECIFICATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS. FR AME. ImnroVed Double Diamond. What is a Double Diamond Frame? Simply a true truss in every direction for strains that occur in Cycles the outline of two diamonds in its makeup. The frames are constructed of f-inch cold rolled Bteel rods, the toughest and strongest metal for its weight known, and the parts are joined together with steel and aluminum bronze fittings in sucH a manner that it is impossible to brake or any part to work loose.- A marvel of novelty,' simplicity and durability, the greatest combination of ingenuity in bi cycle mechanism, to build a frame without brazen joints and tubing, as you know that frames continually break and fracture at brazen joints and tubes when they are buckled in cannot be repaired. We guaran tee our Double Diamond Frame for three years. You cannot break it. Standard size steering head and wheel base, ball bearings at both ends of head. " ; WHEELS. 28-inch front and rear, warranted one-piece wood rims, best quality piano wire spokes and brass nipples, large barrel hubs fitted with "Arlington" hose pipe, Morgan & Wright; "quick repair," or some other first-clasa pneumatic tire. " ' AXLE AND BEARINGS. Indest ructible ball bearings through out, with 148 hardened steel balls. Crank shaft bearings are fitted with our patent ball cases, which are interlocked and support each other and qannot possibly come apart while jn. use.. Are neat and coyer the bear ings completely. It has been an acknowledged fact that crank axle hearings are Busoeptible of improvement, as threaded cones or crank ax les are continually crowding or working loose. We save this entire nuis ance by having no threaded parts whatever, but a clever device in frame for adjustment, Our invention is most perfect in simplicity and must be seen to be appreciated. The sprocket and chain are on the inside of the frame and ball bearings. Great value is gained by this arrange ment; ease of running, double wear eaved, positive never loose bearings, freedom from contact with chain and sprocket, smooth outward , globu lar ball bearings, less friction and lost motion, hence greater speed. Then with tne jointless "one-piece crank," feet, ankles and trousers are' free from injurv. , ONE-PIECE CRANK. Our great achievement; by its appli cation we put two cranks, two pedal axles, two keys, six screws, six nut and fpur washers all in one piece. From 50 to 100 per cent, of all the trouble la bicycles is from cranks working loose and pedal axles that break from clamping connections.! They get loose r.o matter horv much pains U taken to key and tighten them. This, is caused by too many pails, and it i entirely saved by our device, which is but. one; piece, and made frm tough rolled sleel rods, impossible to break. It has-been proven that wtieu other cmnks break from accident, our One-piece crank will hard I v bend. - , i , ' ' i CHAIN. Hnmber block pattern, best quality, hardened. , - ' SPROCKET WHEELS. Best drop forged steel. " ! REACH. Shortest, 28 inches; longest, 37 inches. - ) GEAR. 64 or 72, as specified. - - FRONT FORKS. Indestructible. Our fork, crowns are simply a section of gun barrel steel turned up to size," , then bored and bent, forming a perfect fork crown that cannot be surpassed for strength and beauty, also giving a support to our solid cold rolled fork rods that just limit the necesoary amount of springiness required in a front fork and which can only be obtained by use- of our forks and crown. " HANDLEBARS. Reversible and adjustable, a marvel of sim plicity, readily adjusted to any position desired, with best cork or com position handles. In buying a bicycle it is always a vexed question as to whether you want dropped or elevated handle bars'. If you wanted one kind you could not have theotbec Our handle bar enables you to have either at will. Will furnish Ram's Horn handle bars if preferred. SADDLES. Gilliam, P. & F., Read in?, or other first-class make. PEDALS. Rat trap or rubber; full ball bearing. FINISH. All parts are enameled with our own special enamel, rubbed down and baksd, giving it a handsome black, glossy appearance. All bright, parts are heavily nickle plated; these, with the jet black gloss parts, give a handsome appearance which cannot be excelled. i ACCESSORIES. Each "May wood" Bicycle is furnished with a leather tool bag, containing pump, wrench and patent oiler. ; : WEIGHT. According to tires, pedals, saddles, -from 27 to 30 lbs. A PRICE THAT WILL REACH YOU. Do not imagine because it is not high priced it is not high grade We do not use expensive hollow tubing, besides, we belong to no Com bination or Trust. We own every patent, pay no royalties, manufacture the entire wheel ourselves and are satis6cd with a reasonable profit, em ploy no expensive racers, but depend upon the good common sense ot the American people to appreciate a good thing when the see it. We afford to make the price we do, for we expect to sell ten "Maywoods'f to ona of any individual make sold. " We simply say that the "May- wood" is a perfect Bicycle, containing more originality and f genuine points of excellence than can be found in all other machines together, i The rtIaywood" has successfully passed through the experimen tal stage. During the past three years we have put out over 5,000 "Maywoods," placed in the hands of riders of all classes and widely distnhuted through the country: Expert, riders and clumsy riders, heavy men and light men, on smooth roads and on. rough roads, have given this wheel every conceivable test, proving it to be the best wheel on earth for every day ueet a wheel that can be constantly used over the roughest roads without showing weakness and the constant necessity of repairs. Its construction is so pimple, its vital parts so strong, that the possibility of breakage is reduced to a minimum. , . PRICES AND TERMS. $40.00 is our Special Wholesale Price. Never before sold for less. To quickly introduce the "May wood" Wcjcle, we have de cided to make a special coupon otler, giving ail readers of this paper a chance to get a first-class wheel at the lowest price ever ; offered. On re ijtipw ut i uj.j-' a Liu tula wuuuu anywhere, to anyone, the above safe delivery. Money refunded if sented after arrival and examination ship G. O. D. with privilege of examination, for $36.00 and coupon, provided $5.00 is sent with the order as a guarantee of good faith. s We send a written," binding warranty with each Bicycle. This is a, chance of a lifetime and you cannot afford to let the opportunity passi - Manufactured by : ;: i - Y . W;tk .Yv Address The Athena THIS $75.00 COM PLETE BICYCLE S35 I Oet.8, 1803 Jan. SI. 1S06 i Ja 1. 1895 Otliorn lVmllnsr Coupon No. 21 57 eooo ran nc mil MJip fumM " -n- l described Bi- i'TOiM not as repre ll 8BNT WITH j ORDER FOR - We will No. s ' Maywcod ...Bicycle... . all orders to . ! U WITH. COUPON.