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1901, at the poatofflce at Atbeoa, Oregon,
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ATHENA, APRIL 6, 190G
There appears to be grave uecd of a
complete overhanliog of our national
laws covering the disposal of the lands
which belong to the whole people.
Setting altogether aside the criminal
and quasi-criminal laud operations
which under Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock's preslent investigations
and prosecutions have already resulted
disastrous to some of those implicated,
a glance at oonditious revealed in
publicly reported faots and figures in
dicates the necessity for aineuding the
laws. The people are all equally own
ers of these lauds and it is to their in
terest tbut when they pass out of pub
lic ownership it shall be, primarily,
for the purpose of being devoted to
the making of homes and adding to
the productive power of the nation.
It is a commonplace ' truth that we
have beeu too muoh in the habit of re
garding the pnblio stock of lands as
inexhaustible. It is beginning to ap
pear that the end is within sight.
The report submitted to oougress a
day or two ago by Mr. Pierce, assist
ant seorotary of state, in regard to the
wrongdoings of a number of proinin
out Amerioan consuls, presents a pio
ture of the consular service that is de
cidedly unpleasant to the citizens of
this country. It shows more than
any amount of verbal argument the
necessity of thoroughly reforming the
sorvioe aud of keeping a very watchful
eye npou it. " The United States
suffers in the entimation of foreigners
by the misdeeds of its representatives.
Mormons from Utah are establishing
a great oolouy in Chihuahua, Mexioo,
where they cau practioe their belief
without interference from the govern
went. As any sect may practice its
belief iu the United States without
governmental interference so long as
the laws of the land are not violated,
the inference is that these emigrat
ing Mormons cling to their idol of
polygamy.
The Russian government's assur
ance tbut ample protection is to bo
nfforded to the Jews in that disordered
country is apt to cause a sardonic
auiilo. That the Russian government
should be desirous of dealiug fairly
with the Jews, or able to do so if it
bad the intention, is so foreign to the
experience of the past that nobody
will look seriously upon the present
declaration.
Col. Wood will be the guest of
the Press mnu Saturday aud Sunday.
This may sou'iu to many to be out of
aicnaEK
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Trade With Us
Pay iu dollars and cents. Paj iu satisfaction with the goods them
selves. If you are not satisOed with auythiug yon have bought here after
you have taken it home, we want you to bring or send it back aud we
will make it satisfactory with you. We aim to please and our suocess
so fur shows that we are doing it. This year we have put forth special
effort to make it a pleasure for you to trade with us. This year our stocks
are largor and comprisod of better assortments thau were everv before
carriod by any merchant iu this vioinity. We buy in carload loats, get
quautity prioos, save freight by shipping iu onrload lots, our reut is low
compared with ront paid by smaller Arms carrying small socks and doing
a small busiucss, and mark our goods with a small profit so as to make it
pay you to trade here. We know you would rather buy where you have
the largest liue to ohooso from and get tho best possible prices, so we waut
you to give us a ohauoe to show you our ability to please. Whether it be
a niuobiue needle or a complete outfit, your orders will receive our prompt
and careful attention.
When goods ordered amount to 10 or more we pay the freight.
Use
THE DAVIS -
Everything to
Home.
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WALLA WALLA, :- WM5U.
the ordinary, but when yon reflect
due consideration prompts yon to re
alize that a certain amount of courte
sy is due even the lower species of the
human family, hence our con
decension to appear in pnblio with
Wood.
Nothing receives favorable com
ment from the stranger or visitor so
quickly as a clean town. Athena can
be made a clean town if every citizen
will do his part towards making it
so. Let everyone clean and . beautify
their own premises aud the general
appearance of things will even startle
the natives.
The hazers must go, and the sooner
they go the better it will be for every
body but the hazers. It will not make
much difference to the world what
happens to them after they are put
out.
If Mars has merely a network of
canals, and no railways, automobiles
or flying machines, it is absurd to
claim a superior civilization for the
people of that planet.
The Fish Commission is trying to
decide whether the German carp is a
curse or a benefit. Depends, we im
agine, whether you are oating them
or selling them.,
The clerk of the Chioago Juvenile
Court says girls are worse than boys.
He will probably admit, too, that if
there were no women crime would at
length die out
OUR SCHOOLS THEN AND NOW .
Portland Oregonian.
A novel but quite effective test of
the methods and results of teao'aing
in our common schools of today and
those of sixty years ago has recently
been made. In an old garret in
Springfield, Mass., a set of examina
tion papers used iu the ninth grade
of the schools of that city in October,
1861, were found. Upon these the
pnpils secured at that time an average
of 40.6 in spelling and 29.4 in arith
metic. The test consisted in giving
these identical papers to the pupils of
a similar grade in other schools.
The results showed a marked inoTease
in the profloiency of pupils. At Great
Falls, Montana, for example, an aver
age of 60.4 was scored on these
papers iu spelling, aud 79.5 in arith
metic Of the competing pupils, 41
scored 100 iu the latter branch.
The contrast between this result and
that obtained at Springfield sixty
year ago is striking. Still, whon wo
come to compare the methods of
teaching at that time with present
methods; to compare the text-books
used iu schools and to consider the
helpfulness of the publio libraries
that are adjunots of school work in
every town of a few thousand inhabit
ants iu thego days, the difference is by
no means surprising. It would, in
deed, be strange if the science of
pedgogios had not advanced with the
growth iu every other direotion in
three fifths of a century. The sohool
house of that era, as it lives iu de
scription aud still to some extent in
memory, bears little resemblanoe to
tho sohoolbouses of the present. It
had theu, as it has now, a roof, four
walls and a floor. Thero the simi
larity between the two ceases. Ameri
can school books of sixty years ago
wore written in the same language in
which thoso of the preseut are writ
ten; thou, as now, they iuclndod the
lessons of industry and patieuoe, but
here the similarity between them
ends. Teaohers ot the olden times
were fitly desoribed as "brisk wield
ersofthe biroh and rule;" now the
birch is a forbiddou element of teach
ing and the "rule" applies strictly
to technical matters.
Siuoe nothing in the world remains
stationary, thin movement iu publio
to
KASER CO.
Make
Your
Furnish the
appointments
Here
school equipment and methods is the
natural one. Growth describes a for
ward and not a retrograde movement,
and the advance iu our school meth
ods and results is the thiug logically
expected. There is no evidence that
the pupils in the Springfield schools
sixty years ago werenot as studious
and as bright as are those in the
schools of the present to whom this
test of relative proficiency was given.
The difference is in opportunity, in
equipment and in methods. If the
better showing had not been made by
the pupils of the public schools of the
present, then iudeed would we have
had cause to doubt the efficiency of
what is called our modern school
system.
EGYPT AND THE PHILIPPINES.
Baltimore News.
While the British administration in
Egypt cannot point to such costly
and elaborate efforts to spread popu
lar education as we are making in the
Philippines, it is creating a state of
affairs well calculated to make the
people content. Through the atten
tion given to the development of the
material resouroes of the country, the
average crop has beeu doubled in the
last 16 years, while at the same time
taxation has been reduced. These are
results that -the people can appreciate
without any instruction in civics or
inouloation of new political ideas.
They are confronted by the solid fact
that the value of all landed property
is now from five to seven fold what it
used to be before just and economical
government was established.
We are going quite the other way
iu the Philippines. We are doing
our best to educate the people and to
inspire them with political ambitions
and at the same time we are repre
senting the industrial development
of the couutry by our tariff policy.
We eduoate them into discontent with
old conditions aud at the same time
deny them the opportunities of edn
oational advancement. The intellect
of the country, instead of being at
tracted to its material advancement
by creating of new opportunities, is
turned to political agitation. What
can be expected from such a policy
bnt a chronio spirit of revolt against
Amerioan rule?
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Representative.
To the republicans of Umatilla
county: I hereby announce that I
will be a oandidate before the republi
can primaries for nomination as mem
ber of the legislature from Umatilla
oouoty, and I respectfully ask the
support of all members of the party.
Athena, Ore., March 14, 1906.
C. A. Barrett.
Candidate for Treasurer.
To the voters of Umatilla county : I
horeby announce myself as a republi
can candidate for the offioe of County
Treasurer, subject to decision of the
primary election. Respectfully,
d. W. Bradley,
Athena, Oregon.
F. H. Shoemaker for Eecorder.
I X0 lue vuioiB ui uumLiiia uuuuij x
1 . I'T J, At- .
nereuy announce my cancuaacy ior me
republican nomiuatiou for the offloe
ot reoorder, subject to the will of the
voters iu the direot primary election.
Fred H. Shoemaker.
Pendleton.
For Sheriff.
To the voters of Umatilla couuty :
I .hereby announce myself as a re
publican candidate for the office of
sheriff, subject to the wish of the
voters iu the direct primary eleotion.
E. J. Sommerville.
For Sheriff.
I ' hereby announce my caudidacy
for the democratic nomination for
sheriff of Umatilla county subject to
the will of the voters ta the direot
pr imary eleotion April 20.
T. D. Taylor.
For State Senator.
I hereby auuounce myself a candi
dal e for state senator from Umatilla
county; subject to the pleasuro of the
suffragists. Geo. W. Proebstel.
For State Senator
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the state senate, subject to tho
votes of republicans under tho direct
primary law. T. J. Kirk.
For Sale.
The desirable pieoe of real estate
on JJaiu stroet known as the Curdcri
property is now offored for sale. For
pricu, apply to Charles Norris, Ath
ena, Oregon. tf
The Skillful
of Jewelry
YOU have oftou heard it said
that really right repairing was
a lost art that the average
mending doue nowadays was a
bungle. Those who bring their
jewelry here to-be repaired will
find nnusual facilities and un
surpassed skill. Nor is that all.
Whou the work is finished we
subject it to a rigid inspection
to make sure that it is right.
Your search for faults will be
fruitless. Prices as low as the
work is good.
f. H. COOLIDGE, Jeweler
, Atheini, Oivgou.
READ AND YOU WILL LEARN
That ths leading medical writers and
teachers of all the utrvi'ral schools of
practice endorse and recommend, in the
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but for lingering, or chronic cases it Is
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Mandrake root and Queen's root all of
which are highly praised as remedies for
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eminent medical writers and teachers as
Prof. Itartliolow, of Jefferson Med. Col
lege; Prof. Hare, of tho Univ. of Pa.;
Prof. Finley Ellingwood, M. l., of Ben
nett Med. College, Chicago ; Prof. John
King, M. D.. late of Cincinnati ; Prof.
John M. Scudder, M. D.. late of Cincin
nati ; Prof. Edwin M. Hale. M. D., of
Hahnemann Med. College, Chicago, and
scores of others equally eminent in their
several schools of practice.
The "Golden Medical Discovery " Is the
only medicine put up for salo through
druggists for like purposes, that has any
such profenHUmal endorsement worth
more than any number of ordinary testi
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guaranty of its merits. A glance at this
published formula will show that "Golden
Medical Discovery" contains no poison
ous or harmful agents and no alcohol
chemically pure, triple-refined glycerine
being used instead. Glycerine Is entirely
unobjectionable and besides is a most
useful Ingredient in the cure of all stom
ach as well as bronchial, throat and lung
affections. There is the highest medical
authority for its use in all such cases.
The "Discovery "Is a concentrated glyc
eric extract or native, medicinal roots
and is safe and reliable.
A booklet of extracts from eminent,
medical authorities, endorsing its ingre
dients mailed free on request. Address
Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
L. M'LACIILAN
PLASTERING AND CEMENT
WORK, CISTERN BUILDER
Leave orders at Gillis' Lumber Yard.
Satisfaction. Guaranteed.
Boston Dental Parlors
DOES ALL KINDS
OF GOLD WORK
Walla Walla, Washington.
THE PA ACE
DRUGSTORE
W.M. 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 more, nothing less and
always exactly right.
THE WRIGHT LIVERY
AND FEED STABLE
COGD HORSES AND Ri ".3. READABLE PRICES
DRIVER MRNKriED WHEN DESIRED-
Horses boarded lv the day, week or mouth
MtuMfs on ''nd gtrii t. South of Main street
J. r. Wright, - - - Proprietor- )
- If You
WANT CASH
For Your
REAL ESTATE
YOU CAN GET IT.
t
No matter where your property is
located or what it is, I have the
ability and the facilities to Bell your
property. , That is why I have the
largest Real Estate business in Walla
Walla tday. Why not put your
property among the number that will
be listed and sold as a result of my
advertising? I will not only sell it,
sometime, but be able to sell it quick
ly. I am a specialist in quick sales.
If you want to buy any kindof afarmt
home or business in any part of the
country, tell me yonr requirements.
I guarantee to till them promptly and
satisfactorily.
Audy T. Cope, Walla Walla.
MM
Cut flowers
and Floral Decorations
RUSH ORDERS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT AT
TENTION James Wait,
Walla Walla Washington
No. 9 South 2nd St. Phone, 327.
BLACKSMITH AND
REPAIRING SHOP
A. II. LUNA, Proprietor.
Shop West of King's Barn, Athena.
COMMERCIAL
LIVERl, FEED
and SALE STABLE.
Best Turnouts
In Eastern Oregon
Stock Boarded
by the Day. Week
or Month
KING BROTHERS Pre p
Peebler & Chamberlain
Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co.
Agricultural Implements
WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES,
MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC.
ATHENA.
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' . -iter fi -y t
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
THE
1ST. NICHOLS HOTEL :
t J. E. KKOOME, prop.' X
I nr.
Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
m I
THE ST. NICHOLS J
Is the only one thai can accommootf p
commercial travelers.
Can betecomended lor IU clean and
well ventilated room.
Cob. Main and Third, Atiixna, or.
PETERSON & PETERSON,
Attorneys-at-Law
i
A1HENA,
OREGON
A. L. JONES
WANTS ALL KINDS OF HAULING
Goods taken best care or and carefully hand
led. Phone 13 for Express and Baggage.
HENRY KEEN'S
.Barber Shop.
; Shaving, Haircutting,
Shampooing, Massage
for Face and Scalp.
HOT BATHS.
Shop North Side Main
Street, Athena, Ore.
CITY MEAT MARKET
C. II. Sherman Prop.
Nothing too good for our pat
rons. We cut the best meat money
can buy. Fish and oysters in
season. Give us a trial.
OREGON.
PARKER
& LAKE'S
P
Kverythtng Flrt
Clax - Mo cl rn
and Up-to - il x I
SOUTH SIDE MAIN
STREET ATHENA.
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LIST YOUR TROPERTY WITH ME.