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t e PREB8 AthenaOregon
ATHENA, JUNE 5 1906
There is a class of educators today,
says Wilbelm's Magazine, "The
Coast," who are advancing and
teaching the theory that in the raising
and training of children they sbonld
not be required and made to obey
that they should grow op and mature
as they are inclined by nature and
the making of children miud, or obey,
destroys their independence of thought
and action, thereby destroying their
free moral agency, and making them
the oreatious of another. Snoh teach
ings are the essence of anarchy and
chaos and very dangerous to tbo exis
tence of true freedom and liberty ;
they are the whims of depraved mind
and the mutteringa of a wicked heart
which convicted of etror and sin seeks
to elude and evade the righteous result
of its own thoughts and actions. The
first law of the universe is obedience,
strict and complete compliance to the
will of a ruling power. The success of
a ohild's career in life is lain upon
the sure foundation of obedienoe.
A parent's real character is reflected
on the child. No ohild outgrows its
natural instincts they must if bad,
be trained out of him and, if good, be
cultivated through obedience, if the
ohild would be a complete suooess
and beoome a power in the world. A
ohild is the creature of another. For
a ohild's existenoe another is respon
sible; to auother a child must depend
for all it can be and will be. A most
dangerous and fatal error is free-will
which is the parent of disobedience,
the result of which is rnin and chaos.
A bud teacher is like rotten fruit on
ly good to be thrown out
It has recently been discovered that
a wrong application is boing made of
the term "muck rako." A New York
lnaguziue publisher has looked upon
"Pilgrims' Progress," where the ex
pression bad it origin, and tie finds
t Lint the muck raker was tbe one that
was olwiiys drawing to him tbe rauck
money and other worldly things iti
prefureiuie to tbe oeltMtial orowu.
llouoe, it is argued, tbe magazine
writers wbo have been exposing com
meroial nud politioul dishonesty are
slaudered wheu spoken of as muck
rakers. How many persons knew that
"Pilgrims' Progress" gave birth to
tbe now common expression? How
many of the present generation have
read Buuyan's famous olassio?
Whon Russell exposed the beef
trust's methods of peddling out dis
Furniture Buying
Now that we have had our big rain and a good crop is assured, every
body is happy. Tbe season of improvement and betterment of the home
is npou us aud with one accord diligent housewives are looking to tbo
needs along tbe lino, perhaps a portion of whioh oau be gratified. If not
to refurnish the home as you would desire, we believe that we cau direct
tbe way, with the aid of our unlimited stock of furniture aud geueral
house foruishiugs, to make tbe more important imporvemeuts well within
the means at band. Complete, or iu part we can furnish what you desire
at prices that oau not be other than entirely satisfactory.
This yoar our stocks are larger thau ever before nud we kuow we cau
tit you out with whatever you may ueed. If you are unable to comeiu aud
look over our stook, writo us aud your letter will have the same careful
attoution as though you called in persou.
We pay the freight wheu th? bill amounts to 10.00.
Use
Our
Rest
Rooms
Till! DAVIS-KASER CO.
Everything to Furnish the
Home.
12 14-16.18 20 22 Alder Street,
WALLA WALLA, :- WASH
eased meat in a popular magazine he
was called a slanderer and the maga
zine was "yellow." The agents of the
government have at length discovered
these same facts, which everybody
knew already, and they are to be made
publio unless the trust mends its ways.
The reformatory efficacy of a threat
to publish a secret which is known to
the whole nation is open to some
doubt The beef trust will be good
when it is afraid to be bad, and not
before.
Eleven amendments as proposed by
the Initiative and Referendum were
voted on yesterday, and it is doubtful
if more than one-half of the voters
knew exactly what they were voting
on. Referendum petitions have their
drawbacks as well as their advan
tages. As a rule these petitions are
understood only by tbe small per
centage of people who are given the
opportunity of signing them. The
great majority have no knowledge of
the intent and purpose of the petition
except what they may glean from the
vague inoription printed in the ballots
on eleotion day.
It is conservatively estimated that
the property loss in this county re
sulting from the flood, will amount to
a half million dollars. However, "its
an ill wind that blows no good" to
some one. . In thisinstance tbe farm
er will reap more in benefit from the
good the soaking rains accomplished
for the crops than the loss to others
will amount to.
Friends of the denatured alcohol
bill do not seem yet to be quite sure
that tbe senate amendments, though
liberal on their face, may not contain
some "joker" that will defeat tbe
purpose of tbe measure. It went
through so easily, after its long so
journ in committee, that suspicions
will crop out
The mayor of New Richmond, Wis.
might rest assured of a long tenure
of office if tbe women had votes. He
not only listens sympathetically to
their suggestions, but has Invited
them to petition for any reform which
they deem desirable.
Good old Umatilla county, mend
ing ber fences and rebuilding ber
levees, says she needs no ontside aid,
and that tbe benefits derived from the
generous rain more than offset the
damage from tbe floods. This is the
Oregon spirit, remarks the Portland
Journal.
: The resolutions introduced in the
State Grange favoring the division of I
couuties into it epresentauve ana sen
atorial distriots is based npon sound
reasoning. Such a plan of making
apportionment of membership in the
State Legislature is iu harmouy with
tbe principles of a truly representative
government.
The fissy man is quite uubearable
to the ordiuary individual and very
distasteful to the average woman;
' however, tbo woman who knows she
is a woman and. yet tries to do the
work of a man and fill tbe position of
a man, is if possible more distasteful
to a man, than she is disgusting to
another womau.
The work of railroad building in
Oregon and Washington is becoming
Btreuuous. The people don't care
Make
Your
, appointments!
(Here
how muoh orchard tbe rival magnates
fight, so long as they go right ahead
bnilding tbe roads. The more the
merrier.
It is said that young Mr. Rocke
feller is about to give up tbe Bible
class of wbioh he has been teacher
for a number of years because of lack
of interest of tbe members in a club
house scheme started by him. Strange
as it may seem to the Standard Oil
magnate's son, the members appear
to think that the primary object of
the Bible class is to study the bible.
The New York State Bar associa
tion, after a long investigation, finds
that David B. Hill's connection with
the insurance companies was quite
proper. The same body is preparing
the whitewash for Chauncey M. De
pew. A Michigan paper states that "Mrs.
G. M. Brown is at home looking after
the grip." It might be well to inves
tigate and see who is taking care .of
Mr. Brown's suitcase in tbe mean
time. It is to be hoped that the Umatilla
County Pioneer Association will see
its way clear to give the annual re
union. ' Weston can be assured of a
large attendance sbonld she decide
to give the picnic
It takes considerable time to connt
the ballots and get in the complete
election returns, but tomorrow the
"other fellow" will know how it hap
pened. THE WOMAN'S CLUB. .
Athena, May 80. To the Editor:
I have been asked to correot a state
ment in a recent copy of the Press.
To tbe members of the Friday After
noon Club: To say that we were sur
prised in reading in the Press that the
Friday club had changed its name to
"Thursday Club," would be putting
it mild. We have been asked to cor
rect it, as there were only five mem
bers present at the meeting, and our
constitution says it shall be for the
eleotion of officers, and no o 1 u b
throughout tbe state ever transaots
any other business on that day. Then
again, a federated club could not do so
secretly, if it so desired. Should the
club decide so to do, which it does not
to make this cbange.it would have
to notify every member by oard of the
measure that was to come up, that it
might be voted upon, and it should be
unanimous. Then after all this the
federation board might . think it
unnecessary and refuse to call a meet
ing of the board. Then again, "Fri
day Club" is good enough for the old
members, and why should five women
and two of these new members wish
do this, is past comprehending, while'
we older members who have tried
so hard to make the club a success
and a credit to the town in which we
live, are perfectly satisfied with the
name. Of course if these five members
wish to call themselves the "Thursday
Club," let tbem do so; but tbey will
find out that the federation has do
record of it. Therefore tbey will have
no representation in the convention.
As past president of tnis club, aua at
tbo present time one of tbe slate offic
ers, it is my amy to correct mis mut
ter, as I have made clubs end club
work a study for the past seven years.
Sincerely and frateruolly yours,
Mrs. Alice K. Cox, Past President.
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wi fnr nnMrlnntlnrl FnmVfty.
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Through Pullman standard anil sleeping
ears daily to Omaha, Chicago; tourist sleeping
car dully to Kaunas City; through Pullman
tourist sleeping cars, personally conducted,
weekly to Chicago, with free reclining
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reuaieion.
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A Heavy Load to Carry.
Along with dyspepsia comes nervous
ness and coneral Ill-health. Why? Be
cause a di.-ordered stomach does not per
mit the food to be properly digested, and
its products assimilated by the system.
The blood is charged with poisons which
como from this disordered digestion, and
In turn the nerves are not red on good,
red Hood, and we see symptoms of nerv
ousness, sleeplessness and general break
down. It Is not head work, nor over phy
sical exertion that does it, but poor stom
ach work. With poor, thin wood the
body is not protected against the attack
of germs of grip, bronchitis and consump
tion. Fortify the body at once with Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery a
rare combination of native medicinal
roots without a particle of alcohol or
dangerous habit-forming drugs,
A little book of extracts, from promi
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Ingredient contained in Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery will be mailed
free to any address on request by postal
card or letter. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Many years of active practice convinced
Dr. Pierce of the value of many native
roots as medicinal agents and ho went to
great expense, both in time and in money,
to perfect his own peculiar processes for
rendering them both efficient and safe for
tonic, alterative and rebuilding agents.
The enormous popularity of "Golden
Medical Discovery" is due both to its
scientific compounding and to the actual
medicinal value of its ingredients. The
publication of the names of the ingredi
ents on the wrapper of every bottle sold,
gives full assurance of its non-alcoholic
character and removes all objection to
the use of an unknown or secret remedy.
It is not a patent medicine nor a secret
one either, This fact puts it in a class
allby itself, bearing as it does upon every
bottle wrapper The Badge of Honesty, in
the full list of its Ingredients.
The "Golden Medical Discovery cures,
weak stomach, indigestion, or dyspepsia,
torpid liver and biliousness, ulceration of
stomach and bowleg and all catarrhal af
fections no matter what parts or organs
may be affected with it. Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are the original littlo
liver pills, first put up 40 years ago. They
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and bowels. Much imitated but never
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as candy. Quo to three a dose.
-The
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In Eastern Oregon
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or Month
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ma'
THE PALACE
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South Side Main Str. ct, .thenR. Ore.
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nothing more, nothing less and
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No. 0 South 2nd St. Phone, 327.
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hi
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Nothing too good for our pat
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can buy. Fish and oysters in
season. Give us a trial.
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