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Entered ai second-clans matter, March 1,
1904, at the poitoffice at Athena, Oregon,
under an Act ot Congress of March 3, 1879.
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ATHENA, DECEMBER 1, 1905
One of the greatest educational
campaigns ever undertaken in the
West is about to be inaugurated in
Seed Grain Specials which are to run
over both the Canadian Paciflo and
Canadian Northern railways. Cars
are to be fitted up with samples of
grains illustrating the advantages of
approved varieties, of selection of
seed, of different methods of cultiva
tion etc., samples, too, of noxious
weeds, eradication and control of
which will form one of the topics
for discussion. The effects of smut in
reducing yields and grades, with
methods of prevention, and many
other such praotical points will be
illustrated and discussed.
Women of the South are interesting
themselves in eduoation more deeply
each year. Not long ago they form
ed an interstate association for the
betterment of the publics schools. At
present the association is Composed of
one representative woman from each
of thirteen states under the presidency
of a North Carolina woman. Daring
the approaching winter the mem
bers of the committee intend to or
ganize the women of their states so
. that they all may work together for
the elevation of the standard of pub
lio school education.
Editorially expressed, this is the
opinion of the Union Republican:
"Eastern Oregon is rather inclined
to stand by Judge Ellis, of Pendleton,
for Congress, and attorney Johns of
Baker City, for Governor. In the dis
tribution of the official positions, it
would seem that Eastern Oregon
should be recognized. The country
east of the Casoades and south of the
forty-sixth parallel is entited to some
thing
Multi-millionaires have found a
great deal more pleasure in the pursuit
thau in the possession of their im
mense wealth. Plutocrats are suid to
be a very unhappy set of mortals.
They are beaiers of hoavy burdens,
much heavier than falls to tbo com
mon people. Magniflcont hotnes are
not always havous of happiness.
- The first sontenoe for illegal voting
in New York's recent electiou wus
passed upon Edward Mead who
plouded guilty to voting twice. He
was sentenced to Sing Sing for not
loss thau two years nor more than
three and a half.
Tbe emperor of Japan has offered
his thanks in due form to his ancestors
for the successful termination of the
SEWING MACHINE
BARGAINS
We have decided to close out our stock of the well known DOMESTIC
Sewing Maohiues. To those familiar with the Domestic, no words of
praise are needed. To othors we will say that the Domestic is one of the
old staudbys. It is made of the very best of materials aud finely fitted and
highly tested throughout. Unlike machines tinder expired patents, it con
tains most of the modern improvements of real value, among which are
the simplex tension release; the looper, which enables one to sew with
either one thread stitch or two thread lock stitch; also the live stitch
pleater. All parts are adjusted perfeotly aud run easily and noiselessly.
Every maohiue is fully guaranteed both by the factory and ourselves.
Agents usually sak $65 for thorn; sometimes $75. Our price has been $15,
but to close out our present stock, about 20 machines, we offer them at
t'J3.50 eaoh until sold no more at this price when thiis lot is sold.
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Everything to Furnish the
Home,
12 14-1(5.18 aO-22 Alder Street.
WALLA WALLA, -:- WASH.
war. This religions duty having been
performed, he can now express bis
thanks to the men behind the gnus,
who gave his ancestors very valuable
assistance on se7eral' occasions dar
ing the war.
There is no use to orate irately on
the rate question, "for it can be settled
without much oratorical bombast.
Bat fair discussion h necessary. Men
will make it a hobby and windjam
mers use it to exo .te people if pos
sible. A square deal will be satis
factory to the people.
No tariff should be high enough to
permit the manufacturers of any com
modity to sell that commodity thous
ands of miles away in a foreign coun
try cheaper than he will sell it at
home.to the citizens of the country in
which it is manufactured. '
A carefully taken census of the
state of Iowa shows a decrease of
fifteen thousand in its population as
compared with the last previous
census. This is probably about the
number of people Iowa sent to the
Northwest.
Prince Charles has a good job as
king of Norway. About all he has
to do is to sit on the throne, look wise,
dress well and draw his salary. He
is a fine young Dane and is as lucky
as he is handsome.
Reports from Sofia say that "a lady
bandit" is operating in the Caucasus.
She is foolish for operating where
money is so scarce when she might
come over here and have a bootb at a
charity fair.
The president of San Domingo has
ordered printed 5,000 copies of Wag
ner's "Simple Life" for distribution
among the people. It may encourage
the natives to wear a shirt.
Julian Hawthorn is authority for
the statement: "Very little that is
worth remembering is said or thought
after midnight.' And Mr. Hawthorn
is a married man, at that.
Fortunate barbers! They don't have
to compete with the mail order
houses; people can't send off for hair
cuts, shaves, shampoos or face mas
sages. The voters kill off one sot of politi
cal bosses and another takes their
places. Hero again eternal vigilance
is tbe price of liberty.
Sir Thomas Lipton is going after that
cap again. He realizes that advertis
ing is a waste of money unless you
stick to it persistently.
After all this would be a dull world
without Stead, Lawson and Labonch
ere. They are all artists iu their line.
The Japs, they tell us, bathed be
fore every battlo. The Russians bathe
after every war.
College girls at Cleveland were dis
covered playing pokor. This may have
been the class in applied society.
SUUKKKS ANI FISHKKMKN,
(San Francisco Call.)
Some years ago Teed founded in
San Francisco what he called "The
Koreshnu Urity. " As no ouo knew
what that meant, it had all the at
tractions of mystery nooessary to the
foundation of roligious folderol. He
found followers and professed to hijve
the power to have the human race look
at its toes long enough to become
unisexual and self-generative. He
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belongs to that class of profound
fakers1 who know that the more im
probable, unlikely and foolish tbe
teaching, the more apt it is to find
followers. Make mystery of nonsense,
bawl "abraoadrabra" and look solemn,
claim a supernatural power that ex
ists only iu the claim and is never ex
hibi'ed, aud out of the mass of human
ity will issue a stream of believers,
feathered geese, ready to be plucked.
Teed went from here to Chicago aud
gathered geese feathers enough to
make him rich and went to Florida,
where he has set up a templed estab
lishment and is still pushing his con
fidence game all over the country.
Attention is called to him now by a
home in this city broken up by his
arts exercised upon a woman. There
is talk of appeal to - the federal
authorities to suppress him. Bat for
what use? If he does not break out
in a new place another wilL As long
as there is grist of that kind. There
seems to be a fixed percentage of peo
ple who are ripe on both sides for that
sort of deception. It is useless to
try to understand them. It makes
them happy to be fooled. If their
eyes were ever open it is after they
have been robbed materially and
morally, and even then their fate does
not deter others.
As long as there are suckers there
will be fishermen. Tbe newspapers
expose these frauds and broadcast the
misery of their awakened victims in
vain. The procession of mystery and
wonder seekers will not lose a single
fooL They will march right on into
tbe traps set by the crafty, tbe sen
sual and the greedy. Intelligence and
education has no effect in diminishing
the number who go marvel hunting.
An appeal to the law is useless, ex
cept for tbe restoration of the goods
in case of actual robbery. Character
cannot be recovered in a lawsuit, and
perhaps is not worth it.
MERRIWETHER COURT MARTIAL.
(Maverick. )
We all know from hearsay that at
the Annapolis Naval academy there is
an unwritten "code" for the regula
tion of cadets, by the provisions of
which upper classmen lord it over
aud tyranize new men in many ridicu
lous ways. We have read that when
a young fellow enters that institution
he must be very humble and obsequi
ous to those who have come before;
that if he rebels against these long
established customs, becomes "too
ratty," as the embryonic sailors ex
press it, his life is made a burden.
An independent boy can but help feel
ing humiliated by being forced to
occupy so degrading a position, and
only iu tbe event that he prefers
popularity to retaining big selfrespect
does he submit
Refusal to submit, aocording to the
provisions of this code, subjects him
to a fist fight with one of the older,
presumably larger cadets, and, there
fore, usually a licking. The system is
a degrading one and should, be ab
olished. It probably will be after the
Merriwether court martial now in
session finishes its deliberations.
This trial has brought out these
facts. Midshipman Merriwether, of
Lafayette, Louisana, was "too ratty."
Midshipman Branch, the son of a
wealthy New Yorker, who was evi
dently aggressively chosty, assigned
to bim the duty of making life not
worth living to the former, resorting
to all sorts of exasperating tactics.
Forbearence ceasing to be manly
virtue, the Creole informed the New
Yorker bully what he really was, a
sneak and a coward such is and
always have been bullies. Then came
the inevitable fist fight, properly
refereed and hedged about with all
the requirements of the code. By
some misoue Branch got the licking
that was scheduled for Merriwether;
from the effects of which he died,
and the oadet who gave him what
was coming to him is now on trial,
charged with manslaughter.
MAKES WEAK WOMEN STRONG
AND SICK WOMEN WELL
Forty yours ago, Pr. Pioron searched
Nilure'a UtlHjrutory for a remedy with
which to supplant the Ignorant and vi
rions methods of treatment, with alco
holic stimulants, then in vogue, and still
too commonly prescribed and advised for
Woman's peculiar ailments.
Nature abounds with most efficient rem
edies, and In Lady's Slipper root, Mack
Cohosh root. Unicorn root, Bluo Cohosh
root and Golden Seal root, Dr. Pierce
found medicinal properties, which when
extracted and preserved by the use of
chemically pure glycerine, have proven
most potent In making weak women
strong and sick women well. Itcontains
no alcohol; is not a "patent medicine,"
nor a secret one either.
"I was suffering; ulth nervous headache,
pains In the hack and dltzlnoso, bo that at
times I had to lie down fur hour before I
could raise my hend," writes Mrs. Mary M.
Thomas, of 337 Winston Ptrpet, Los Angeles,
Col. "After taking the first bottle of 'Fa
viyrite Proscription," however, I was so pleased
with the results that 1 kept on taking it uutll
1 was restored to health and strength. I
shall never bo without this great mediulno,
and shall take a few doses when 1 do not
feel strong."
One of the principal uses of Dr. Pierce's
Favorite rrescrlptura Is the preparation
of prospective mothers for the time of
trial and danger that comes when a child
is born. The Prescription' is strength
ening and Invigorating and lessens pain
and danger. It Insures the perfect well
being and the perfect health of both
mother and child. Every woman should
know these things before she really needs
to know thorn. There are many things In
Dr. Pierce's Common Scnso Medical Ad
viser, that every woman ought to know.
This celebrated work reached a s&lo of
080,000 copies at f 1.50 each. Tho expense
of production having thus been covered.
U is now being given away. A copy will
be sent to any address on recolpt of 21
one-cent stamps to cover cost of mailing
only, or. In cloth binding for 31 stamp
Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y.
Don't Be Hoodwinked,
orover-persuarted Into accepting a utstttut
for th Original UUlo Liver Pill, first 1'iit
up by old Ir. It V. l'len-e. over 40 years ago.
and called Doctor Pierce's lleasant Pallets.
Thtw've btMt aHKh Imitated but never
equaled. One or two w laxative, three et
four crnhMUO. ,,
It is a Good Time to Buy
Diamonds!
. A stone bought of me now
for $75 will cost you 890 to
8100 in a year or so. Dia
monds are advancing in price
at least 10 per cent a year.
They are as good as real estate
Come in and Let Me
Show You Some
ROYAL Ml SAWTELL
Jeweler : Athena
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PETERSON & PETERSON,
; Attorneys-at-Law
AlHENA,
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
JOHN T. WOOD, M. D.
Graduate Detroit Col
lege of Medicine : : :
Office Opposite McBride's Drug Store.
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DRUGSTORE
WM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor.
South Side Main , Strtet, 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 more, nothing less and
always exactly right.
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Walla Walla, Wash.
Eltner Lane, Agent in Athena
Work Guaranteed
Washings are calif I for each Tues
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BLACKSMITH AND
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A. II. LUNA, Proprietor.
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FISHMAN & PETERS, Proprietors
CHARLES GAY,
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. -. - -
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