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ATHENA, JANUARY 19, 1906
Appertaining to the man's tempera
meat and the wberewhichness of bis
general construction, we would like to
know what the editor of the Baker
City Maverick "feeds " on. Lsten to
what be says:
"Merry Christmas I Happy New
Year I That's the greeting of the sea
son, though we all know that it is a
transparent fraud; that only children,
idiots and drunken fools or either hap
py or merry. There now, Maverick
will tell the troth, though the heavens
fall."
We'll waste our fortune on the
wager that the Maverick man is a
dead one; that he is a grouchy old
"baa been ;" that he never rubbed tip
against the bright side of anything in
his life; that he is a sour, old chronio
dyspeptio ; a stranger to the band-clasp
of good-fellowship; that God's sun
shine has never played hide and seek
in the cookies of bis heart, and that in
the stream of life he is one of the
punctured bubbles that will never rise
to tbe surface.
The Milton Eagle's Freewater cor
respondent "wired" in a special news
item the other day. We suppose a
"wire" wag- used; anyway the item
was credited to a Freewater date line.
It concerned a fight between two
women at a publio dance. However,
as the Freewater Times does not veri
fy the news item in question, we
may suppose that tbe Eagle has
displayed a streak of "yellow." Can
it be possible that it is thusly, and
that we are to look forward to a genu
iue comic section and all that? But
gee, it may have been a clean cut
"scoop I"
The statement that the O. B. & N.
will abandon Union station, and that
Hot Lake will become tbe junction,
is going tbe rounds of tbe state press.
The Uuiou Republican makes a de
nial and says the statement has fiz
zled out iuto "hot air." All of whioh
leads us to say there was something
"hot" iu the rumor after all.
LegiouB of "Jim" Maloney's friends
in Athena are pleased to hear of bis
promotion to cashier of the Pendleton
Savings Bank. "Jim" is of the kind
that does things, and while he is
olimbiug up, there are instances that
may be cited where he has taken a
friend or two along with him.
Mr. Tufts, a Montana millionaire,
has just beeu found guilty of perjury,
which he seemed to regard as neces
sary iu swearing away tbe wife whom
ho had married when he was a poor
oow puncher. The case wus tried iu
The Greatest of all
Clearance Sales
The reductions in all departments this year is self evident that we have
made this sale tbe banner sale and it has beeu takeu by the publio in the
spirit iu which we intended it. Tbe extraordinary out in prices on our
stock has uever before been equaled in this part of the couutry and our
many customers are saving money by buying this mouth for future needs.
With very few exceptions everything in our immense store has been re
duced from 10 to 50 per omit. On all sbipuieuts amounting to $10 we
prepay tbe freight. Write for prices and reductions on any thing you
might need.
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Chicago, and when his wife beard of
it she came onttnd secured the indict
ment and conviction. Mr. Tufts will
now spend a term of from one to four
years in tbe pen. Otherwise there
might have been senatorial possibili
ties for him in Montana.
So popular are Moorhouse pictures,
and so great bag been the demand for
tbe collection recently issued in book
form from the press of the East Ore
gonian, that a second and larger edi
tion will soon be under way. The
Athena Press is the recipient of a
volume of these celebrated Indian
pictures and views. Mr. Moorhouse's
fame as a photographer long ago
became national, and his Indian
pictures have added life and color to
tbe illustrations of all the high class
as well as art publications. The
volume is worthy a niche in every
library in the land. In addition to
tbe splendid Indian pictures, many
beautiful poems and sketches lend in
terest and enchantment to the pages.
Typographically, the edition is excel
lent and tbe press work superb the
sort that stamps the "E. O." print
shop as being in the front rank of ,the
good ones.
Tbe coal famine continues, and
Baker City seems to be in a worse pre
dicament from fuel shortage than any
other point in the Inland Empire.
Baker has all kinds of mines except
coal mines, hence in this respect the
coal famine may be felt more by tbe
people there than elsewhere. It is said
Baker City residents are resurrecting
wood stoves. It is good to hear that
some kind of a resurrection has struck
the "new Denver," though it be a
cast-iron proposition.
Tbe women who smote Smoot were
smitten in return when he remarked
that he'd vote to reestablish tbe army
canteen. He is a tit-for-tat senator, it
is evident.
Of oourse those gallant 71 in the
house who "stood pat" and voted
against the Philippine tariff bill, are
waiting for their reward.
YOUTH 13 WANTED-
Foul teen -Year-Old Corbett Griggs Dis
appears From Walla Walla.
Local officers have been notified to
be on the lookout for young Corbett
Griggs, who is missing from Walla
Walla, having left bis borne there
January 8.
The boy, who is about 14 years of
age, was sent up town by his mother
to purchase some goods. Several hours
passed, and when he did not return
the parents notified tbe officers, who
made a search of the city for the
missing boy, but were unable to looate
him. Why he should ohoose to run
away from big home is not known, as
it is claimed he has had no trouble
with bis parents and the last time seen
was in a oheerful mood. It is thought
he will be heard from soon, in some
place where he has gone.
He wore, at tbe time of his disap
pearance, a black hat, dark trousers,
light colored coat, heavy light color
ed overcoat and alligator shoes. He
is described as having black hair and
brown eyes.
Taylor's, Petition.
During the past few days a petition
to Governor Chamberlain has been
in circulation here asking a pardon
for Moses Taylor, convioted of attemp
ted arson. The petition recites thut
it was the evideuce of Monroe Palmer,
one of the men ho was alleged to have
hired, and that be does not deem it
just that be should be punished on
the testiuouy of au ex-convict. He
also asks for another trial.
A JUST HKIU'KK.
(Oregonlan.)
One of tbe sonsible things left to the
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credit of tbe Oregon Development
League and the Oregon Press Associa
tion is tbe forceful protest against tbe
term "Webfoot," as applied in facet
ious vein to the state of Oregon and
that of "mossbacks" as applied in tbe
spirit of alleged "fun" to Oregon
ians. Tbe people of Oregon are them
selves to blame for these designations,
though perhaps in tbe outset tbey did
not intend to cast a slur upon their
state, its climate or its people by ac
cepting them. These terms have, in
tbe light of trntb and civilization, be
come a reproach, and, instead of re
buking their ntteranoes and tbe slur
that tbe words imply, too many of
our people have echoed them, or joined
in the laugh to which they have too
often given rise. It is high time that
these terms were discontinued, and
the misrepresentation of Oregon cli
mate and energy for' which they stand
be rebuked by loyal Oregonians. In
Western Washington, where the
rain fall is at least as great as in the
Willamette Valley, the people speak
proudly of their state as the "ever
green state, "and they have no sobri
quet of scorn to bestow upon its citiz
ens. Oregon has been singularly lacking
in what may be termed family pride
in this respect, and in the stupid re
iteration of stale jokes about tbe cli
mate. It is silly enough when a
Californian bumptious and self-satisfied
declares that it rains . thirteen
months of the year in Oregon; but
we can accredit this exaggerated
speech to bis ignorance and bis intense
desire to be funny at onr expense,
and let it pass. But when Oregonians
accost each other on the unusually
stormy, disagreeable morning with the
words, "This is Oregon weather," or
"Oregon is herself again," and simi
lar remarks reflecting unjustly upon
the climate of Oregon, they betray a
disloyalty which deserves rebuke and
of which tbey should be ashamed.
State pride should forbid such ex
pressions, even if truth were not dis
regarded, as it is, in making them.
Let Oregonians refrain from these be
littling expressions. State pride is
closely allied to family pride, and they
who disregard the promptings of tbe
one or tbe other make a blunder of
which decency and selfrespect are
ashamed.
GIRLS AND CHAPERONS.
Spokesman-Review.
A social contrast between Canada
and the United States was brought
ont at a meeting of a mothers' club in
Chicago the other day when Mrs.
Oldwright of Toronto expressed sur
prise that young women in Chicago
and other American cities are per
mitted to go to dances without chap
erons. : Several women present who
have grown np sons deepened the
shock by declaring that not only was
this condition tolerated, but that
young women often invited their es
corts over tbe telephone to take them
to dances. This lack of regard for
the conventions was deplored by tbe
clnb, and it was declared that it could
not be conductive to good results.
The subject is an excellent one for
discussion by mothers' clubs every
where and for the members of those
clubs to endeavor to bring home to
other mothers who are not in club cir
cles. That the condition so deplored
by these women do exist can not be
denied, but while American girls
pride themselves on the faot that they
are independent and selfreliant enough
to take care of themselves without the
aid of a chaperon it must be admitted
that in the larger cities particularly
there are numerous ocoasions when it
would be muoh better for them if the
chaperon system was adopted.
There are, of oourse, many dances,
at private houses or in halls under
private auspices, and at whioh there
will be a number of married women
and the mothers of many girls, at
which it would seem superfluous to
require the attendance of a obaperon
simply for the journey to and from the
house where tbe dance was being held,
but there are many occasions during
a season of festivities when a closer
adherence to the old rule would be
desirable.
Tbe remedy lies with the mothers,
but there are large numbers of
mothers who are as careless in regard
to the subject as their daughters and
who feel that the girls are wise enough
and strong enough to dispense with
any species of chaperonage.
FAMK'S PATHWAY.
Professor C. H. Judd of Yale uni
versity has been appointed direotor of
the Yale summer school, to succeed
Professor E. H. Sueatb, who resigned
on account of poor health.
Dr. Iguats Jastrow, professor of
political economy in the University
of Berlin, has been elected president
of the Commercial university, which
the Senior Mechanics' corporation
will open in the fall of 1906.
Senator McLaurin of Mississippi
had very limited opportunities for an
early education, having been raised ou
a farm aud attended the neighboring
schools occasionally until 16 years of
age, when he joined the confederate
army as a private. ;
The father of Campbell-Bannerman,
the new prime minister of England,
laid the foundation of his fortune in
Glasgowjby abolishing in his placejof
business the system then knowu as
"prigging." To "prig" was to bar
gain aud beat down the price of goods.
Mr.. Campbell started making the
price of goods in plain figures, from
which his salesmen were allowed to
make no reduction. His success was
immediate aud great He rose to be
lord provost of Glasgow aud was
kuighted by Victoria.
Persitahe ax obstisatk tare rather
than lasli it into action if von want to see
gixxl progress mado. This is as true
when it is a faulty human system as
whon It Is a baulky mnlol
Alcoholic stimulants and alcoholic med
icines whip the digestive functions iuto
quick action but do not prevent the weak
ening reaction which follows so closely.
In cases of impaired appetite and dlges-'
tkm mid-nutrition and wasting away, a
safe and reliable tonic is noedod and Is
the onlv thing that can bo relied upon.
Dr. Pierce discovered, forty years ago,
that Nature had provided freely for these
needs of her children and that in her la-bornlin-y
wero the remedies. Glyceric
extracts of Golden Seal root, Queen's root
Stone root, Illack Cherrybark, Bloodroot
and Mandrake root, as prepared, com
bined and preserved without alcohol, in
Dr. Pierce's Gulden Medical Discovery,
constitute the most effective and certain
tonic, alterative and tlssuo rebuilding
remedy ever offered to the public.
A prominent merchant, Mr. J. Alfred
Arc-nnd. of 69 Saint Lawrence Street, Mon
treal, Canada, writes; "I have used Doctor
Pierce's (iolden Medlral Discovery off and
on for nine years. When I have it in the
house -I need no doctor or other medicine.
Nine years afro I was troubled with rheu
matism. Your 'Golden Medical Discovery'
eliminated the uric acid from the system.
Since vhat time I have never been wltliaut
It In the house. There Is no other medicine
I think so much of, nor none I think Its
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It is pleased with the results, and all thank
rue for advising its use. It is a splendid
remedy for stomach trouble; cures colds in
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of for 'La Grippe.'"
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