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' i PRESS Athena, Oregon
ATHENA, JANUARY 30, 1906
The citizens of Atbeua, assembled
in mass meeting Saturday evening,
placed in nomination men for muni
cipal offices who, when elected, will
safe 7gaard the interests of tbe city
to tbe best of their ability, individu
ally and collectively. The ticket as
nominated is especially strong. The
Piess believes that Dr. Planiondon
will make a good mayor, and that he
will give tbe city a good, thorough
business administration. He is fortu
nate in having an able board of alder
men associated with him in the city
government men who thoro ugbly'
understand the needs of tbe city, and
who have bad and are benefitted by
tbe services of one or more terms in
office City Recorder Chamberlain
bas been there before, and again, like
the proverbial "greased eel," slipped
in by tbe unanimous consent of the
convention. Our friend Kemp is an
untried neophyte, but everybody
knows that he will make an excellent
city treasurer.
Among tbe democrats "mentioned"
in the list of candidates for office is
the namo of Joseph N. Scott, for rep
resentative. Should Mr. Scott con
sent to enter the race for tbe office, be
would undoubtedly add strength to
legislative portion of tbe ticket. He
is a young man of much capability,
and if elected, would go to tbo legisla
ture well equipped to do things, know
ing how to do them, from the fact
that he has attended several sessions
in the capacity of clerk and is on to
tbe ropes. "Joe's" popularity and
qualifications are known and appreci
ated outside of the democratic baili
wick and if he would consent to be
come a candidate there are many re
publicans who would "get the habit"
and vote for him.
Marsbul Field was tbe greatest mer
chant of all times the most fair dealer
among the millionaire business men,
just to bis employees, an ideal man
in his domestio relations, a model
citizen in his morals, strictly honest,
always honorable, never a speculator,
full of enterprise, the pride of Chica
go, true to all his highest iuterests,
never a pessimist, brave in the strug
gle with the Destroyer, Deutb. Thus
is his life an inspiration and mi ex
ample to all urn u kind
Several cadets have been dismiWed
from the naval 'aciidoniy for hazing.
Tbo fool caduls carried the haz
ing brutal barbarism too fur fot com
fort or health. A reform has been
inaugurated at Harvard college by
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shutting out football. "The world
do move," and colleges must learn
something, too. They can't afford to
be mossbacks, pullbacks or quarter
backs. . - -
Of all the artful dodgers and cute
old codgers that oil man Sogers surely
takes tbe cake. Such contumacy is
unheard of; sue b gall unknown. He
is the personification of that spirit of
lawlessness so discernible among tbe
ultra wealthy folk. Wealth is all
right, but its possessors must not
think tbey are above the law. The
laws must be obeyed alike by rich and
poor.
Senator Falliecrs bas been elected
president of Franoe, to succeed Presi
dent Loubet The French people do
not vote for tbe president The mem
bers of the senate and house of depu
ties meet in joint session and choose
tbe president, who holds office for
seven years. France may ere long
adopt the Ameiioan plan. Just now
tbe leaders distrust the people's fidel
ity to the republic.
Ponltney Bigelovv is another one of
tbe many cranky literary chaps seek
ing cheap notoriety by false and .ex
aggerated statements and reckless
criticism of public men and measures.
Poult, ran up against trouble when
be assailed the management of the
Panama canal construction. Some
means of punishing such liars should
be devised.
And one ot our exchanges says:
"When men like Jonathan Bourne,
jr., flood this state with postal cards
for tbe purpose of getting voters to
pledge themselves 'on their sacred
honor' that they will do so and so, tbe
natural inquiry is, what interest has
this blackleg got in seeing a square
deal, anyway?"
No business can fail to be benefit
ted by advertising, is a proposition
that admits of absolutely no argue
ruont. Take the public into your
confidence, tell them what you have
and make no statement that you can
not carry out. Advertise along these
lines and you will reap a benefit.
Fifty-four murders have been com
mitted in Chicago within six months,
and no doubt there's more to follow.
Tbey need vigilance committees in tbe
Windy city, such as renovated Cali
fornia half a century ago.
Each day brings forth a caudidate
or two, so it is safe to say that by tbe
time nominating election takes place
there will be a nice assortment from
which to choose.
Oyama has got bis old job back as 1
president of tbe general staff. He
cannot complain that after fighting
for his country bis employ eis did not
reinstate him.
Sixteen snowbound passengers and
a train crow in South Dakota lived
two days on a pail of oysters. Bet
there was a oburch social cook in that
bunch.
It may be a coal miners' strike next
April, or it may be a voluntary in
crease in wages from the penlorr.
Tbe public will get it in the same old
way.
Football slugging mutches are ended
for tbe year with a total of 10 killed,
135 badly injured and many other
cases uot reported.
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PEACE IN OLD KENTUCKY.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Breatbitt is tbe most famed of Ken
tucky counties, and Judge Hargis
stands forth in the fierce light that
beats upon that quarter, tbe most
toweling and dominant personality
of the county. It is cheering, then,
to read that Judge Hargis has clasped
bands with Judge Toulbee and that
tbe twain have sworn eternal friend
ship. This is no idle oath in Breath
itt It means that neither will shoot
tbe other in tbe back, and that such
an act hereafter would violate the
obligations of a gentleman. To shoot
in the back is a Breathitt county
peculiarity; the tendenoy to do it
seems bred in the bone. To break
away from the trammels of honored
custom requires rare courage.
No disposition exists here to do in
justice to the qualities of Hargis, tbe
pleasure of whose acquaintance has
been denied, save as his strong points
have filtered into and permeated the
press of his section. Hargis was
county judge. He ruled tbe court
witn the firmness that might have
been expected from a juiist expert in
the niceties of feud etiquette and
handy with tbe gun. All his follow
ers had at least a gun apiece. Occas
ionally tbey would kill somebody, and
under circumstances suggesting that
the individual removed had by tbe
court been deemed superfluous. If
a prisoner was placed on trial and
convicted no annoyance was occasion
ed, for the sheriff could not get him
to the penitetianry so quickly that a
pardon did not arrive-first. There
was no easier or more popular way of
getting an outing at public expense
than to be sent up for murder.
Times began to change. The jurist
found his power waning. There was
even bold talk of indicting him for
some of tbe killing. It was felt that
population was not increasing at a
rate that could justify the decimat
ing process be was believed to favor.
There was set up an innovation of con
victing assassins and not having a
pardon waiting at the prison gate.
Hargis was not pleased. Then the
affront put upon him was accentu
ated by tbe election of a successor in
Toulbee. At first Hargis proposed to
contest, but he has bowed gracefully.
His weapons are laid aside. The feud
system has received a blow. Judge
Toulbee may travel now without
glancing fearfully over bis shoulder.
Hargis has accepted civilization.
Kentucky is soon to be "dark and
bloody ground" only in tradition.
When the gospel of peace can invade
Breathitt and get a foothold no com
munity can be regarded as soil in
whioh tbe seeds of goodness cannot
take root.
"WITH HIS WIFE'S MONElf."
Atchison Globe.
Once upon a time a man mairied a
woman who had inherited $500 from a
grandfather. This was all she ever
received, but the man never got cred
it for his efforts tbe rest of his life
He built a new store. "Did it with
his wife's money," the neighbors
said. The home was made over and
enlarged. "His wife's money did it,"
was the only comment. The little
measly $500 she inherited was given
the credit for every thing he did dur
ing life, and when he died and his
widow put up a monument with his
life insurance, "her money paid for
that, " was said again. But this is
what her mouey really went lor:
During her engagement she bought
herself a $350 piano and a $150 dia
mond ring, and in a few weeks lost
the ling and there was always some
regret that she didn't also lose the
piano.
A CURIOUS FACT. j
It la Vary Strange Yet True That
Radiantly Beaattfal Wob
Lot Homely Mn,
"The older I get," said a writer in the
New Orleans Times-Democrat, "the
more certain I become that personal
beauty has nothing to do with roman
tic love 1 mean on the part of women.
I saw an example on the street car just
n0w a creature as exquisite as a morn
ing in May openly mooning over a fel
low ugly enough to scare a coyote out
of the Bad Lands. There was no sort
of doubt about it, either, and the rapt
way she gazed up into his misfit mug
would have boiled ix gallons of liquid
air. He took it nonchalantly, the ras
cal, and didu't seem to appreciate his
luck. But that's the way of it the world
over. Your i adiantly beautiful women
generally lose their hearts to men who
could give u gargoyle points on plain
ness, and I'll bet if the truth was known
Taris was homely-enough to break a
camera. If le had been a handsome
chappie Helen would have stuck to her
hubby and Troy wouldn't have fallen.
But what I started out to say was this:
There is a total lack of reciprocity in
the game; and it's the rnrest thing in
the world for a good-looking man to
become enamored of a homely woman.
When he does you can generally bet
that his vision ha been inspired by
her cold cash. But if it wasn't for the
Inexplicable penchant of Beauty for
the Beast tho race of ugly folk would
be perpetuated exclusively by the types
of Venus and Apollo. Perhaps it's bet
ter, however, the way it is."
Pnbllo Notice.
Notice Is hereby given that I will apply to
the Mayor and common council of Hie city ot
Athena, Oregon, at a meeting tnervof to be
held on the 17th day or Kelt. ISOU, fur a
license to sell spirituous, limit and vinous
liquors in less qniuitie then one quart, said
liquors to lie sold only in a building situated
on the west one-halt of lot No. 8, In block a, of
said city. Bert Cartnno,
Dated Jan. St, 190H. Applicant.
"To Cvra Cou'tlpatui Fore,
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THE DANGER TO THE CHILD
May be real or the snake may be a harm
less one, but there Is danger that menaces
every child's life if tho mother Is defi
cient In womanly health and functional
vitality.
Thousands of women have borne their
sufferings and kept their troubles to
themselves from motives of delicacy and
feeble childhood has paid for it.
Dr. Pierce, forty years ago, consulted
Nitfure, and found that she had provided
remedies in abundance for the cure of
woman's peculiar ailments and weak
nesses. He found that non-alcoholic,
glyceric extracts of Oolden Seal root,
Blue Cohosh root, Unicorn root, Black
Cohosh root and Lady's Slipper root,
combined in just tho right proportions,
gave such surprising results that this
compound soon became a standard fa
vorite of his in the treatment of such
cases. In a little time the demand for It
became so great that he determined to
put It tip and provide for its general sale
so that the multitudes needing it could
readily supply themselves.
This is now known all over the civil
ized world as Dr. Pierce' Favorite Pre
crl)tUm, and Its unparalleled record of
hundreds of thousands of cures, in the
last forty years, justifies all that can be
said of It.
It i mm-nlcoholln, non-narcotic. It i
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age and In any condition, to use.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets only one
or two a day will regulate and cleanse
and Invigorate a fonl, had .Stomach, tor
pid Liver, or sluggish Bowels.
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser will be sent free, papcr-bo;.nd, for
21 one-cent stamps, or cloth-bound for 31
stamps. Over 1000 pages and illustrated.
Address Dr. B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
$1000 SgPniS $30.00
We pay three per cent interest ou
certificates of Deposits for amounts of
$5 and upwards, and the money may
be withdrawn any time. This is a
state bank, incorporated under the
laws of the State of Washington,
with a capital of $100,000. Tbe stock
holders are also liable for $100,000
additonal, making $200,000 standing
between our depositors and any pos
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Our, Prescriptions
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nothing more, nothing less and
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Special inducements ou orders for carload lots.
Fence posts in quantities to suit. : : : : :
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Troy Laundry
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Washings are called for each Tues
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