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f. B. BOYD, PPBLIBHBK.
Entered Becond.cla matter, March 1,
Iikh, at the poetofflce at Athena, Oregon,
uniluran Actot Congres of March 8, 1879.
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ATHENA, AUGUST 8,1905
MISSOURI'S KXPKRIMKNT.
The legislature that met in January,
1903, appropriated 135,000 for a bind
ing twine plant to be maintained in
the penitentiary. In accordance with
that law the legislature just adjourn
ed appropriated $125,000 more to be
known as a "revolving fuud," to be
' used only to purchase raw material
required in the manufacture, handl
ing and marketing of twine. All
moneys derived from the sale of twine
are to be collected and paid into the
state treasury by " the penitentiary
warden, and kept in a separate ac
count. The warden is empowered to
soil the twine to the farmers of the
state for cash, free on board the cars
at Jefferson City "and at a price per
pound sufficient only to indemnify the
state against loss. " State twine in
bulk may also be sold for cash by the
warden to persons in each county who
shall be required to sign an agreement
to sell the twine to actual consumers
at a price not greater than 1 cent per
pound over its cost, with transporta
tion from the state capital added.
Manufacturing of the twine has be
gun, and the price has been fixed at
10 cents a pound. The trusts, it is
fluid, soil the same article for from 12
1-2 cents to 14 cents a pound. It will
be somo time before the working re
sults of this special branch of state
' industry can be ascertained. So far
tho appropriations have amounted to
$160,000. The farmers who got the
twine at a roducod price also pay tax
es, aud the money that has established
the jilant, und is set apart for the
"revolving fund," all comes from
goneral taxatiou. Public ownership
rests on . public taxation. What it
may return in publio revenue is an
open question. It remains for actual
practical experience to strike the
balunce St. Louis Globe-Democrat.'
HANDS OFF!"
(Weston Leader. )
Peudleton and Athena are iu the
throes of a Sunday-closing movement.
At Athena last Sunday every business
house was closed all day, as well as
the saloons, which would not stand
for making fish of one and fowl of
auother. At Peudleton every saloon
was closed at front aud rear.
The Atboua Press, in discussing the
situation, deplores the business injury
doue to Athena. It also relates with
some gusto the case of one of the Sunday-closing
petitioners who tried last
Sunday without avail to get some re
pairs for his pump at the hardware
stores, and failing, had to draw water
for his stock by hand.
The Press avers that some consola
tion would be found if othor towns
wore treutod tho sume as Athomi by
the C'ivio Leaguo, but as it is Athena
must bear the stigma of being the
only town iu the county which de
clines to accommodate oustomors on
Sunday.
All this trouble may not last long
for Athena. Sunday-cloning reforms
Meet Me at
You can always safely say this when you come to town,
ond wish to make shopping uppointmeuta with a friend.
We've got u sort of comfort rooom for your convenience,
and you huve a standing invitation to use it whenever you
like. It's a good place to clean up, if you have had a long
ride. It's a good place to rest, if you feel like resting. It's
a good place to wait, if you are waiting. There is general
ly mimothing to read, if you feel like readiug. Good place
to leave you bundles, too, if you don't feci like carrying
them around with you. Our store has been enlarged and
our stocks are larger aud better thau ever before and we
want you to come and look around whether buying or not
Sort of make the store your headquarters, for you are
surely welcome when you come.
Mail
Orders
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THE DAVIS-KASER CO.
Everything to Furnish the
Home.
12-U-lfi 18 20-22 Alder Street,
WALLA WALLA, -: WASH.
are usually short-lived. But let it be
said right here that Weston wants no
reform wave to break over the hill,
short-lived or otherwise. We want
no Sunday-closing agitation. ; We
have troubles enough just now. Let
the Civio League which is at present
experimenting with Athena leave us
entirely alone. Its interference with
our affairs is not invited -or desired.
We can care for the situation our
selves. The Leader does not desire just now
to enter into discussion of the ethics
of Sunday-closing. It merely serves
notice on the Civio League, which is
reported to be casting its eagle eye in
this direction, that Weston is well
satisfied to shove along in the same
old rut that it occupies at present
The front doors of saloons are closed
here Sunday, and business houses kept
open until noon. A law is broken
thereby, but we do not want it en
forced here unless it is simultaneously
enforced in every other town and city
iu the state of Oregon. It's not good
law for us and a poor one for the rest
of the commonwealth.
We believe that most of Weston's
people are satisfied with the present
arrangement. Customers are accom
modated Sunday forenoon, and in the
afternoon business men enjoy the rest
that every man should have. Nobody
has been heard to complain in this
community, and outside of it we
think nobody has a right to com
plain. SWEDEN AND NORWAY.
Some facts regarding Sweden aud
Norway, condensed from a recent
statistical bulletin are of interest
just now. The area of the peninsula
is nearly 300,000 square miles and
that of Sweden 172,000 square miles
about the size of Oregon and Wash
ington combined. Norway contains
121,000 square miles and is a little
larger than New Mexico. The popula
tion of Sweden in 1903 was 5,221,291,
as compared with 4,828,150 in 1893,
a gain of 8.2 per cent in ten years, al
though during that period 259,711
Swedes emigrated, 176,857 of them to
the United States. Sweden has about
the same population as the state of
Uinois, though three times as large in
area.
Norway's population increased from
2,032,100 iu 1893 to 2,228,635 in 1903,
or at the rate of 1.8 per cent, while
124,336 Norwegians emigrated during
this period, 120,311 of them coming to
the United States. Norway has
about the same population as Michi
gan or Iowa, in a territory twice as
large as either.
Sweden is chiefly an agricultural
country, only 22.3 per cent of its pop
ulation dwelling iu towns, while in
Norway fisheries hold about an equal
place with agriculture, each furnish
ing an annual income of about $15,
000,000. The average value of
Sweden's agricultural products for
the years 1898-1902 was $65,338,000,
while Norway's was scarcely one fifth
this amount. There being no miner
als of industrial or commercial im
portance, Norway is obliged to impor
considerable breadstuffs and it needs
or desires a different tariff law from
Sweden and in faot, has it, there
being custom houses along the boun
dary line of the uuited conntise.
During 1903 Sweden imported bread
stuffs amounting to $16,331,000, and
Norway to $15,229,000.
Forests abouud in both countries,
and the lumber industry is the prin
cipal one of importance common to
both. The timber is largely spruce
and pine, valuable in British and con
tenintal markets. Of the total exports
those of timber, lumber and nianu
factues thereof , such as wood pulp and
matches, constituted in 1903 617. per
cent iu the case of Sweden and 40.4
per cent in the case of Norway. The
mining industry is also important iu
Sweden, 30,731 persons being employ
ed -in it
Norway's advantage, aside from its
fisheries, lies only in its merchant
marine, which is fourth iu size among
the marine nations of the world, be
ing exceeded only by the United King
(lorn, the United States and Germany.
Its total tonnage is 1,500,000, as
Davis-Kascrs
Mail
Orders
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Specialty
against Sweden's 625,000; its earnings
$29,700,000, as against $13,400,000
for Swedish merchantmen.
NO PANIC IN SIGHT.
(Portland Journal. ) -
Tb9 time for the usual ten-year
panio or period of depression, count
ing from the beginning of the - last
such periods, has now gone by two
years, and the country remians pros
perous. Crops will generally be great,
prices are generally good, industries
are all active, the people have an im
mense amount of money in savings
and other banks, and the pessimist
perforce sings low iu the land.
The last period of depression, how
ever, was much more prolonged than
previous ones, lasting approximately
four years, so that a longer period of
prosperity was due aud reasonably ex
pected. The panio makers cannot
afford on their own account to have a
prolonged panio too often.
It may be that there will be a reac
tion and a subsidence of abounding
prosperity in about two years, 10 years
from the time the panio makers
climbed off the lid in 1897 because
they got men in office who suited
them ; but it may be impossible to
bring about a panic even then. With
a continuance of great crops and a
geatly incrreased consumption, with
the people well fixed for a long rainy
day, and with the country so rapidly
developing in so many ways, it may
be that the panio period will not re
cur at all, or at least for many years.
The country is . bigger and stouter
and wiser and more independent of
the panio breeders than it has ever
been before. Ever so many big fail
ures, and ever so great a break in
Wall street, will not affect the coun
try so much as like incidents of half
the magnitude would have done a few
years ago. The country is getting too
big to be scared by Wall street bulls
and bears, or by the antics of frenzied
financiers, perhaps acting in collusion
with political bosses. There may be,
doubtless will be, periods of compara
tive depression, but perhaps never
again such a panic as that of 1903-7.
Present prosperity is due chiefly to
the great cornucopia of nature. The
west is harvesting a record-breaking
wheat crop. The corn crop promises
to be 800,000,000 bushels larger than
ever before. Iu most sections of the
country there are bumper crops of
oats, barley, rye, rice, flax and pota
toes. The south 'has a tremenduous
cotton crop coming on, and the to
bacco crop was never better.
Not only so throughout the coun
try manufacturing industries are
rushed with work. The steel industry
is many mouths behind its orders.
Every ship-building plant is working
to its full capacity. The railroads
have all the business they can possibly
do. The wholesale houses never did
so large a business. Retailers are reg
istering their best records. Cities
everywhere are building up rapidly.
The country is filling up, too. People
are working as never before, and
spending more money in play than
ever before. '
Under such circumstances no period
of depression is in sight and it is not
worth while to strain one's visiion
peering into the future to disern one.
PHARAOH'S CORN A FAKB.
loHMi iMttata aad Joaraallata
ria4 That Tktr Bar Bta
Hoaxed.
Some time ago thr was a wonderful
story In the European Journals about
certain grain of ancient Egyptian corn
which bad been planted In Germany and
had come to life.
The grains, thy said, had been found
In an Egyptian sarcophagus and had
been planted by a Dresden florist. Some
days j,tter the corn appeared above
ground, much to the surprise of scien
tists, who did- not suppose that there
was any life In grains which were from
4,000 to 5,000 years old. The corn, how
ever, was certainly growing, and even
the most rncredulous among them soon
became convinced that grains have a
lease of life to which there Is practical
ly no limit
Alas! A boy employed by the Dres
den florist has now confessed that he
planted some other grains In the same
place where his master had planted the
Egyptian onts, and only a few hour
after the florist completed hla work.
This was sad news for the scientists and
for the numerous journalists who bad
, written enthuslastlally about the mirac
ulous qualities of the ancient grains of
corn.
BURIED BEAUTY IN PARIS.
Haana !! Stonework la tka Fom
atloaa ( tae Vtvmrw la
tke Old CUr.
It has been known for some time that
the roadway In front of the cathedral of
Notre Dame, in Paris, Is much higher
that It originally waa, and that the view
of the entrance suffers In consequence.
The architectural expert of the Louvre
museum, M. Redon, has discovered that
the Louvre la also burled beneath the
ground to a far greater depth than the
original plans warranted. WTltea a Paris
correspondent of the London Te'egraph.
M. Redon concludes from his first laves
tlgatlona that as planned at first the
Louvre waa to hare been encompassed
by a moat, the excavation of which was
prevented by the noises that surrounded
It at the time. Afterward, when the
houses were got rid of. the Idea of the
moat was forgotten, and the land rose
naturally to Its present height, hiding
over 24;4 feet of the building. The com
mittee for the preservation of old Parts
Intends, under M. Redon's supervisoln.
to clear away the tarth and dtsclon the
magnificent stonework of which the
base is construct!.
Watch--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
elry, novelties and silverware.
ROYAL M. S TELL
Jeweler :: Athena
PETERSON & PETERSON,
. Attorneys-at-Law '
A1HENA,
OREGON.
J. D. PLAMONDON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office in
Barrett Building, - Athena, Oregon
Dr. A. B. Stone,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Calls answered promptly day or night
Office in Post Building,' Athena, Oregon
' S. F. Sharp
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Special attention given to Female
Diseases.
Calls promptly answered. Office on Third
Street, Athena. Oregor
WM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor.
South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore.
Dealer in Paints, Oils,
Drugs and Toilet articles
Lubricating and Compoun
OILS
Drugs and Drug Sundries.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
jeasoii&ble
reasonable
R. J. BODDY'S
MEAT MARKET
Fresh Meats. Only
the Beat is Good.
As delicious as
"TTx ' -"! -aA '
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Supersedes old-fashioned Cod Liver Oil and Emulsions
Guaranteed to contain all the medicinal elements, actually taken
from genuine fresh cods liver, with organic iron and other
body-building ingredients, but no oil or grease, making tho
greatest atrength and flesh creator known to medicine. For
old people, puny children, weak, pale" women, nursing
mothers, chronic cold, hacking coughs, throat and lung
troubles, incipient consumption nothing equals Viaol. .
Try l if you doot tike
PIONEER
First
National
ft
of
CAPITAL STOCK,. . $50,000
SURPLUS, . 12,500
Propei attention given to collections. Deals in foreign and domestic cx
- change. Fire and burglar-proof vaults and safes no charge
for keeping your valuable papers.
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P
H.C Adams, President.
T.J Klrk, Vice-President.
K. H. Lb Qkow, Uaihlor.
L.
! CONTRACTING
Hereafter I will engage in Contracting and building in.
all its branches." I am in a position to carry on this line
of business in a thorough and satisfactory manner, in
connection with my Lumber Yard. I will employ the
best workmen money can secure, and before you let your
contract it will pay you to get my figures. - -
: A. M. CILUS, PROPRIETOR, :
I THE CILLIS LUMBER YARD I
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Peebler &
Successors to the
Agricultural
WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES,
MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC.
ATHENA.
Umatilla Lumber Yard
Ed Barrett, Manager
Building Material
Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Paints, Oils,
' Glass, Wall Paper, Building Paper, Brick, etc.
Special inducements on orders for carload lots.
Fence posts in quantities to suit. : : : : :
Roslyn Coal, Puget Sound Wood
CONTRACTING. ESTIMATES FURNISED ON ALL
KINDS OF BUILDING ON SHORT NOTIFICATION
it . '
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The flew
Body Builder
a Fresh Orange
It m return money.
DRUG STORE
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Bank
Athena
C. A carrett,
r. K. Uolburn,
f. B. LeOrow,
DlrccMHs
I. M. Kemp, Aselstaul Cashier
AND BUILDING i
Chamberlain
Umatilla Implement Co.
nts
OREGON.
PARKER
& LANE'S
BARBER SHOP
Everything First
Class Hod rn
and Up-to-date
SOOTH SID MAIN
STREET : ATHEXA.
Every hing
For
House Keeping
Purposes
See our stock before you buy.
Bakers folsom
The Complete House Furriaherg, Main
St., next tq Postofflce. Pendleton.
Foley's Honey imd Tsr
cures cqMs, prevent pneumonia.
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