The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, October 20, 1905, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextWitt tfom tm. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. TwICK-A-WkK TOMDAT AMD FRIDAY r. B. BOTD, PUBLISHER. Entered as second. claw matter, March 1, mi, at the poetomce at Athena, Oregon, u utter an Actol Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription ftates t far year, In advanot $2.00 Blngleooplea In wrappo'Mc Advertising 'Rate: Local reading notices, first Insertion, 10c per iiti4iiDneqaent Insertion, 6c. x II communications sbonld be addressed to he PRK88 Athena, Oregon ATHENA, OCTOBER 20, 1905 Ad exchange gives the following re ceipt for stocking up tbe penitentiary : When your boy doesn't want to go to school, let him loaf, when be gets into niisohief and yonr neighbor re ports him, curse him, in the preseuce of yonr boy;do not reprimand the boy. When be gets a little larger and pur loins something of value and you find it out, just laugh at it and let it go; when he gets into anytbiug that calls him to the justice court and he is found guilty, pay the fine, curse tbe court and jury and everyone connect ed with the matter, pity tbe boy, and you will soon have a splendid ' candidate for the pen. Never growl because a newspaper fails to give every scrap of news, so long as you take no pains to give the editor information. We have seen readors who are awfully put out at times because we make no note of the arrival or departure of a friend visit ing them, or of a local affair, of tbe heaven sout babies that visit tbeir homes over night. The average news paperjpersou isn't a medium nor a mind reader, but he gets most of his news the same way the milkman gets his milk by pumping. An unexpected result of the war just ended is the marriage at Tokio .of tbe assooiatedjPress oorrespondentthere to a woman war correspondent of Leslie's Weekly. Cupid follows tbe flag. , Tbe ideal wife never attempts to boss her husband, according to au easteru'preaoher. That is why she is called tbe ideal wife because she has no real existence. A womau, the thirteenth child, and born ou the thirteenth day of the month, recently died in Arkausas, at tbe age of 105. Might have known something would have happened to her. A young man who weighs about 200 pounds and has muscles iu proportion is apt to bo joyously surprised this year at the ease of tbe college entrance examinations. (ion. Cor bin insists that young army officers shall lead the simple life. As for the old stagers, like himself, that is a cliff orout mutter. Even the most bitter foes of tbo Auu'iivan millionaires will be likely to pity bim if it is true that be is to be put into a book by Hull Caiue. A Kansas preacher refuses to take Fortunate By buying au extra large stock of Clothes Baskets this fall we were able to get them at an exceedingly low price. But as we were obliged to buy more than was required for our fall trade, we will have to reduce our surplus by having a Clothes Basket Sale for Two Weeks, Beginning October 9th. These Baskets are alt made of clean round willow (not split willow) and are all very well made and a good bargain at regular prices. No. 1 BaBket, site 19x28, 12 in. high, regular $1.00, sale price ...9 67 No. 2 " 20x29,13" " , $1.10, " " 78 No.8 M " tlx3i,13" " " "$1.25, " .......... 83 No. 4 " 22x32, 14 $1.60, " " 1.00 Remember we pay the freight where bill of goods amounts to $10.00 Mail Orders a Specialty THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12 14-16-18 20-22 Alder Street. WALLA WALLA, -; WASH. wedding fees, as be does not think it is right to profit by the mistakes of others. : There ought to be a national censor ship over sentimental slobber. "Sob bed out her story" is tbe first candi date proposed for the black list THAT NOBLE ANIMAL, THE IIOBSB. (Portland Journal.) Oregon among other good qualities is an excellent horse country, and as fine specimens of the equine species as are produced anywhere can be raised in this state. Good horses now bring a good price, and horse breeding has again become profitable that is, if one raises good horses. Recently scientific explorers dug up the fossil remains of some gigantio animals in this state, and among them were found samples of the horse when he was much smaller than now, and bad tbree toes on each foot This animal bad bis habitat here a long time ago. Though the aboriginal horse roamed over this region or that portion of it not yet a sea-bed be became extinct and disappeared long before man, so far as any evi dence shows, appeared on this con tinent. Not until the Spaniards came in tbe sixteenth century was tbe horse reintroduced into what is now the Unitod States. From them the In dians prooumd horses, ancestors of those which the Shoshones and Nez Perces supplied 100 years ago to Lewis and Clark, except for which they would never have reached the mouth of the Columbia. So long ago the horse was a good friend of Oregon. A few years ago, when bicycles were fast coming into use, and elec tricity was being utilized for trans portation purposes, it was predioted that there would thenceforth be but little demand for horses, and some went so far as to foretell bis practioal extinction. The demand for horses did decliue, and prices went down to figures that rendered horse-raising un profitable, but not altogether on ac count of bicycles and eleotrio cars, for now freight as well as passenger auto mobiles have come into common use, taking the place of a great many hors es, and yet horses are in demand, too, and there seems to be about as many of them in proportion to people as ever. Durng the past five years the price of good horses has increased an nualy from $5 to $10 per head, and horse-breeding was never more profit able than now. It may be overdone in the future, but at present the de mand exceeds the supply. However much horseless vehicles may multiply, the horse will still be found in very general use, both for business and pleasure, and he can be raised in Oregon as cheaply and suc cessfully as iu any state in the union. TIIK M INSTER AMONG MONAHCM9. (Journal.) Mark Twain's latest publication is not humorous. It is terribly earnest and truthful, being a soathing arraign ment of that most iniquitious of mou arohs, Leopold of Belgium. This old royal reprobate, Mark Twain asserts in his blistering brochure, has coined millions out of the very blood and tears of the region called, as if iu bit ter irony, tbe Congo Free State. Leopold is tbe absolute ruler of tbe millions of people of that state, or colony, few if any of whom probably are less fit morally to. be a ruler. Twenty years ago wheu his rule there began, there were 25,000,000 people in that country, while now there are only 15,000,000. Mark Twain calls Leopold "the king with 10,000.000 people on his soul," surely a heavy burden, even for a king. Ac cording to Mr. Clemens it is an organ ized system of plunder aud outrage which this king has fmaintained in Africa for 23 years. "The natives are told to colleot rubber for the kiug's commercial agents. If the full tale is not brought in, tbe kiug's troops wipe out a villuge with sword and tire as an example to otber villages. If a villngo gets behindhand with its sup plies, uieu, women and children are ruthlessly maimed and butchered. Aud tbe agents demaud so much that Purchase Mail Orders a . Specialty the villages are usually behindhand." The writer goes on to give particu lars and to show bow facta have been suppressed or misrepresented . One correspondent, for instance, speaks of tbe devastation of the region, but "docs not take tbe trouble to say bow it happened. He is fertile in conceal ments. He hopes his readers and his Congo reformers, of the Lord Aber deen, Norbury. John Morley, Sir Gilbert Parker stripe, will think these people were all killed. They were not They fled to tbe bush with tbeir families because of tbe rubber raids, and it was there they died of hunger. Could we help that?" Leopold is rated as one of tbe very rich men of tbe world, second perhaps to only two or three others, and it is partly through this system of whole sale robbery and murder that he' has aoquired his vast wealth. There is "tainted money" for you! The won der is that tbe civilized and to some extent Christianized world will look on calmly even after snob horrible atrocities are pointed out to them, and that tbe people of Belgium will allow such a monster to rnle over them. KXCU8ING 1NSUBANCK COMPANIES. (Spokesman-Review.) It is somewhat interesting to lead, in connection with the investigation of life insurance companies, that the legislators were the original offenders, and the insurance companies in tbe majority of instances "more sinned against than sinning." Yet such is the tone adopted by the New York Commercial iu what looks very much like an attempt to divert severe but deserved criticism from tbe officials of insurance companies. To attempt a denial of the fact that some lawmakers are in tbe "holdup" business would be useless, but the con nection of the insurance companies with tbe legislatures is only one of tbe evils that has been exposed during the pending investigation. And even if it were tbe main one, the insurance officials would be chiefly to blame. They are handling funds entrusted to them by policy holders for the benefit of tbe latter, and cannot escape cen sure for using this money for bribery by saying that the legislators are more guilty Decanse of their acceptance of the money. - Nobody in these days looks for absolute purity or incorrup tibility in all of the men who are sent to the legislature or to congress, but the publio does expect honest handling of trust funds by insurance .company officials. ' It is true the web of this investiga tion is closing in on the legislatures that have sat in Albany in reoent years and that it is reaching out for offend ers in Washington, and before it ends it may inolude aldermen and various officers in more than one city of the United States, but however dark the disclosures on that phase of the ques tion may be it will not palliate tbe offending of the companies. Officials of tbe companies have complained that they were subjected to a process of blackmail by law makers. Why did they submit to it if the measures which they wished en acted into laws were such as could properly be passed? If they found that they could not have meritorious laws passed without paying for them, the fact should have been made publio at tbe time and the censure now fall ing upon tbe insurance companies in respect of this particular wrongdoing would have been applied altogether to tbe derelict legislator. A HARD LUCK 8TOKY. (Maverick.) There is a woman over in Athena, Umatilla county, with a hard luck story that would make the man from Georgia think his had been a primrose path, embellished with pelf, peace and plenty. Not long ago she came over to Baker and went out to Eagle valley to visit sick and sorrowing rel atives. She did what she could in the course of a few weeks to alleviate the sufferings of her unfortunate kin and then with a meagrely filled wallet whioh her miserly hubby had forward ed, started for home. Stage fare and a meal or two consumed most of this and she had less than enough to pay hotel bill aud secure a railroad paste board. To Landlord MoCarty, of the Columbia, and his wife, she explaiued hor plight They generously provided food aud shelter and made up the shortage in transportation require ments. That was some weeks back in the calender aud the incident of the poor woman in hard luck was all but forgotten, when they received epistolio evidence of ber continued ex istence. Her chirography and orthog raphy were jointly and separately difficult of discernment, but there was no mistaking the plaintive qualities of her text and that tbe psyohio crea ture following in her wake, popularly known as a Hoodoo, had been indus trious. After reaching ber Athena home, the frost had killed all tbe strawberries, the potato .patch had not panned out, the winter wood had not been procured, the interest on tbe mortgage was past due, somebody had poisoned her oat, a neighbor had shot her dog, her cow had quit giving milk, a larcenist had looted the eggs under four setting hens and to top it all off the old man had gone on a spree and came home and licked her. She could stand for it all tap to the last point, but there she balked and she was desirous of again getting back to Baker, where if "her man" bothered her he might get wbat was coming to him at the whipping post Aa MoCarty la opposed to the whipping post, he declined to forward tbe requested transportation fee. (Oh, Maverick, Maverick I Wbat an egregious economizer of the truth art thou, eke, wbat a prodigal prevaricator!) My Staple Liaes of Jewelry are BROOCHES SCARF PINS CUFF LINKS NECK CHAINS GUARD CHAINS VEST CHAINS LOCKETS RINGS FOBS , I have many pretty things arriv ing to make up my fall stock. Watch my window displays. - ROYAL M. SAWTELL Jeweler Athena PETERSON & PETERSON, Attorneys-at-Law A1HENA, - OREGON. J. D. PLAMONDON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office id Barrett Building, - Athena, Oregon Dr. A. B. Stone, PIIYS1CIAN& SURGEON Calls answered promptly day or night Office in Post Building, Athens, Oregon S. F. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Female Diseases. . Calls promptly answered. Office oo Third Street, Athena. Oregor - JOHN T. WOOD, M. D, Graduate Detroit Col lege of Medicine : : : Office Opposite McBride'a Drug Store. THE PALACE DRUGSTORE WM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor. South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. You know your doctor is all right, but how about the tilling of prescriptions? Our Prescriptions are precisely as the doctor ordered nothing mere, nothing less and always exactly right. Walla Walla, ash. Elmer Lane, Agent in Athena Work Guaranteed Washings are cali-l for each Tues day and are return d Friday morning BLACKSMITH AND REPAIRING SHOP A. H. LUNA, Proprietor. Shop West of King's Barn,' Athena. i r the : ST. NICHOLS HOTEL f J. E. FROOME, prop. If? Only First-class Hotel in j the.uty. THE ST. NICHOLS the only one that eaa aoeommodaM eommerclal traveler.'. ' Caa betecomended tor Hi clean and . well TentlUtxd room. Com. Maim av Thid, athma, or. Troy laundry ! Each TJeOrniny i When yon dress think about the Pendleton Steam Laundry. Ask your self if your linen work is as it should be. A man who wears good clothes cannot afford to wear "fairly good" laundry work. If you find your collars are poorly turned, if you find they have saw edges, if you find them specked, remember that these faults have been overcome at the PENDLETON STEAM LAUNDYR, and that only high grade work is allowed to leave our laundry. Every day brings new custome rs who are highly pleased with our work. May we expect a trial pack age from you? " 1 - , Pendleton Steam Laundry The Up-to-Date LAUNDRY FISHMAN & PETERS, Proprietors ' CHARLES GAT, I 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 tbe best workmen money can secure, and before you let your contract it will pay you to get my figures.' - - - g A. M. CILLIS, PROPRIETOR, i THE GILLIS LUIV1BER YARD I Peebler & Chamberlain Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co. Agricultural Implements j WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES, MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC. ATHENA. - - nirr I i t i i ii in nr i if CHARLES GAY ...Dealer in... Candies, Nuts, Fruits, Tobaccos, Cigars K RESH BREAD, PIES, CAKES, ETC. Umatilla Lumber Yard Ed Barrett, Manager Building Material Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Paper, Building Paper, Brick, etc. Special inducements ou 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 ATHENA AGENT AND BUILDING i OREGON. PARKER & LANE'S BARBER SHOP Everything Flrnt ClAftH - Modern nd Up-to-date SOUTH SID MAIN STREET- ATHENA.