The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, August 28, 1906, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextAN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Twiob-a-Wkek Tuesday ahd Friday F.B.Boyd, Publihiifb. Entered m second-class matter, March 1, IIH)I, at the poatofflce at Athena, Oregon Uuderao Aetot Congress of March 8, 1879 Subscription Hates x ' ft ar, In advance ISJ.UO Single coplei In wrappers, 5c, Advertising Kstssi '.'indi reading notloes, Orstlnsertion.lOcper ii i t ion iubiequentlnsertlon.Sc. VII communications should be addressed to t e PBKBH AthenaOregon ATHENA, ORE., AUGUST.... 28, 1906 (Joole Sam thrilled through and "thro" when the president announced tbo spoiling reform recommended by tbe Carnegie committee would here after be accepted in all tbe depart mental correspondence and official doonmeuts. Printers, stenographers, olotks und cabinet, officials were ordered to ,:learn English as she is writ" The pnblio printer was ordered to prepare a list of tbe most frequently used one huudred words with tbe .new mode of apelliug and distribute them to all departments. The president thinks it will give the Ameiioau language an individuality and result in saving time and trouble for the natives and foreigners trying to learn it.' However, in Hengland where the custom is to 'old on to things from century to century, tbe hidea of an attempt at halteration of tbe Honglish langunge by tbe bloody, bloomiu', blawsted Yankee is being criticised from throne to hovel. Wats the bloody use of 'aving a change, anyway, doncheiknow? It looks like the army will have a Sumpsou-Sohloy controversy growing out of Ueueral Qreely's oritioism of the army system. Qreely's report is regarded as a veiled oritioism of General Fuuston's work at San Fran cisco. No iuforamtion was had of any personal feeling between the men but it is known Ureely was muoh dis appointed at tbe play of tate that put him far from San Francisco when tbe disaster ocourrod. General Greely was iu Chioago euroute to attend his daughter's wedding in Washington, lie heard the news, hastened back and fonnd that Fuustou had admirably grasped the opportunity. Another iustanco of hero knocking hero. Peudlotou has been successful in raising $!)000, including tbe 1500 from the state, with which to hold 1 ho first auuunl fair of the Third EiihIoiu Orcpou District Agricultural Society which includes Umatilla and Morrow counties. The date of hold ing tbe fair is set for September 21 to 3D iuolusive, and extensive prepara tions are being made to make tbe fair a Buuooss iu every particular. There will be no speed program this your but the otlfuets of tbe soaiety hope to be able to add this interesting feature to the attraction that will be offered next year. The next monthly bulletin of tbe California state board of health will uoutuiu a warning by Seurotaiy F. K. Foster uguiust tbo cramming method Our stock offumiture is now without doubt the best shewing in the Iulaud Enipiie. It is also tho largest, aud our claim is provou by the oouuty records which show our stock to be twice as large as any house furnishing stock iu Walla Walla. When our Mr. Kaser wag east to Chicago and other maunfuoturiug centers iu July be selected our fall stack from the real goods, and not from drummeis' "picture samples" as most wreohauts do. Iu this way he was able to choose ouly tbe very best and also livt the fcatoriea' lowest prices. Tbeu, too, all goods pur chased were assembled iu Chicago aud shipped from there by tbe car load thereby obtaiuing the lowest freight rates. The next time you are iu Walla Walla we want you to conio iu aud lot ua show you through our store, whether you intend to buy or not, aud should you need auythiug be fore you cnu come, mail us your order aud it will have the same careful atteutiou as though you came iu persou. Use Our Rest Room TIIEDAVIS-KASERCO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12-H-16-I8 20 22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, -: WASH of education now in vogue in pnblio schools. 1 Secretary Foster asserts that tbe health . of the children is being ruined and that in many instances they have been made hopeless idiots because their minds have been too greatly taxed by the coarse of study foroed upon them. He also alleges that every child in the pnblio schools should be carefully examined as to its physical condition before assigned to its course of study. Athena is surely of enough import ance to tbe Paoiflo States Telephone & Telegraph Co. from a business standpoint to justify giving a service such as Milton and other towns of like population are receiving. Promises of improvement have been made from time to time, and while it is true tbe service has been bettered to some ex tent, there is yet room for further ad vancement Insulated tree wires and more hours of service at the operating office would assist materially in giving better satisfaction to tbe company's patrons. ' 'A southern Oregon man who has been visiting in middle-western states says be met several families who wanted to come to Oregon but would not because tbe Iregbt ou household goods is too high. While it may be suspected that people who would let that binder them would not make very enterprising citizens, the Port land Journal says, it might be well for a chamber of commerce committee to look into the matter and see if a reduotion on such freight could be obtained, along with the home seekers' rates for passengers. The tax roll of Grant county will be largely increased this year by tbe addition of over 16,000 acres of timber land and the personal property heretofore exempted, that must now go ou the roll under tbe recent ruling of the supreme court. With tbe tax roll so muoh inoreased the county court will no doubt greatly reduce the levy. This will be a proper pro cedure as for many years taxes have been so high in that county that prop erty values have suffered ou aocouut of it It is creditable to Oregon that tbe wages of its teachers have advanced by a large' per centage during tbe past few years, and iu some counties are as liberal as teaohers could reasonably ask. But some counties in the Wil lamette valley,1 and Linooln oouuty, do not make a good showiug in this respect yet. And there is still too great a dispioportion between the wages of men and women teaohers. It oosts a womau as muoh to live as a man, remarks an exchange. Judge Dourquin of Butte, Mont, holds that jumping cemeteries iu order to establish gold mines is not a re spectable business. He also holds that suoh conduct is an intolerable uui sanoo'and outrage upou- dmiisucy, a sacrilege aud a desecration of holy ground and au irreparable iujury to the sensibilities of the liviig, for which au action at law t uruisiios au adequate remedy. Indications go to show that those who sold wheat for 60 cents oaught the tide of market at the flood. From that price there has been a continuous decline until now the price has de scended tbe soale to 66 cents. From tho raanuer in whioh a rich mau's wealth melts away on Make Your appointments! Here tbe approach of tbe assessor, it stands to reason that if he should call twice in one year there wouldn't be rich man left in the county. SOME SONGS THAT ARE SAD People Who Sing When they Have . Sorrow or Regret. Yon're heard the flippant phrase, "I'm saddest when I sing," says au exchange. Well, it is true that cer tain persons feel the strongest inclina tion to sing when they are sad. . You may remind them of the example of tbe birds, which, there are many per sons to believe, sing only when they are glad. Nevertheless, these persons must mingle tears with their song or sing not at alL Some of tbe best and noblest songs ever written have been tear-compelling. For example; the one in which tbe incomparable Jean Ingelow cries : "When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries." The same poet found inspiration for a song iu a shipwreck with lament able loss of life, and soon every body was singing "Oh, Fair Dovel Ob, Fond Dove I" Factory employes and street boys preferSbakespeare's tragedies and the most lurid of melo dramas to tbe liveliest of farces and comedies. All women are more in terested in pathetio scenes in books and in plays which bring tears to their eyes than iu situations which cause them to shriek with laughter. Perhaps there is even more reason why songs that are sad achieve so muoh popularity. Music' may be dramatic, melancboly.tender, passion ate, sweetly mournful, but never comic. So called comic songs are never comio except iu their words. Titillard by the humor of the verse, yon may imagine that tbe melody is funny, but it is not A celebrated oburob organist is fond of weaving Imposing voluntaries out of suoh tbemes as "Johnny Get Your Gun" and "Mr. Dooley." With the right kind of comio words tbe doxology music would produce side splitting effects in vaudeville. When you have a really tearful poem set to musio that musio instantly inoreoses the tearful trickle into a torrent Even if the poem, standing alone, fails to reach tbe tear ducts, the musio will produce tbe business. It is therefore a deal simpler to write an effective sad song than an effec tive glad one. There is an illustration of this in "On the Blue Hills of New England, Far Away." This is a song of sad memories. The sweetheart who dwelt ou those blue bills long ago had to be left behind. Whenever be thinks of his native blue bills be thinks of her. This makes him sad, and when be is sad he sings. This sentiment is re flected in tbe heart of every one else who sings such songs and there ap pear to be many who prefer them to all others. DRIFTING INTO BANKRUPTCY largest City in Kansas Losing Money By $3,000 a Day. Drifting toward brakruptcy at tbe rate of ;!, 000 a day, $2 1,000 a week, or l,OUf,000 a year, is tbe fate of Kausas City, Kan., a commonwealth of 55,000 people and tbe largest city of tha sunflower state. This condit ion was brought about by the enforce ment of tbe prohibition law, after tbe appointment of Assistant Attorney General Trickett three months ago. Previous to Triokett's appointment, no city in Kansas enjoyed suoh pros perity as Kansas City. The police, Are, street aud other departments compared favorably with a city. of twice its size. Now the police force has been cut iu two, the fire depart ment reduced and the street depart ment practicably abolished. And that is not the worst, for present em ployes of the city And themselves unable to cash their pay checks. Until three months ago no effort was made to enforoe the prohibition law. Saloons were not licensed, but each saloonkeeper paid regularly into tbe city treasury a fine ranging from f 20 to $50 a month, according to the loca tion of bis business. From 200 "joints" as they were termed, the city received enough income to put it on "easy street" With tbe abolishment of the joints and the strict enforce ment of the prohibitiou law, the "ity is in such straits that retrenchment in every department has become neoes sary, but even with the present re dactions a huge deficit is accumulat ing daily. The city at present is iu debt to tbe amount of iH,5T5,000. - Deadly Surpent Bites, are S3 common in India as are stom ach and liver disorders with us. For the latter however, there is a sure rem edy: Electrio Bitters; the great restor ative medicine, of whioh S.A. Brown, of Bennettsville, S. G., says: "They restored my wife to perfect health, after years of suffering with deapepsia and chronioally torpid liver." Elec trio Bitters cure chills and fever, ma laria, biliousness, lame back, kiduey troubles and bladder disorders. Sold on guarantee by Waw McBride, drug gist Price 50c. I have a piece of desirable pioperty S5 foot fmot, center of Main street, Atbeua, which I will ti ade for cattle. K. J. Buddy, Atbeua, A Trite Saying. 1 It is a trite saying that no man la stronger than his stomach. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical . Discovery strengthens the stomach puts it in vfi&pe to make pure, rich blood helps the liver and kidneys to expel the poisons from the body and thus cures both liver and kid ney troubles. If you take this natural blood purifier and tonic, you will assist your system in manufacturing each day a pint of rich, red blood, that is invigo rating to the brain and nerves. Tbe weak, nervous, run-down, debilitated condition which so -many people suffer from, is usually the effect of poisons In the blood; it Is often indicated by pimples or Ixiils appearing on the skin, the face becomes thin and the feelings "blue." Dr. Pierce's "Discovery" cure all blood humors as well as being a tonic that makes one vigorous, strong and forceful. It is the only medicine put up for sale through druggists for like purposes that contains neither alcohol nor harmful habit-forming drugs, and the only one, every ingredient of which has the profes sional endorsement of the lending medical writers of this country. Some of these endorsements are published in a little book of extracts from standard medical works and will be sent to any address free, on receipt of request therefor by letter or postal card, addressed to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. It tells just what Dr. Pierce's medicines are made of. The "Words of Praise" for the several ingredients of which Dr. Pierce's medi cines are composed, by leaders in all the several schools of medical practice, and recommending them for the cure of the diseases for which the "?olden Medical Discovery " is advised, should have far more weight with the sick and afflicted than any amount of tho so-called "testi monials" so conspicuously flaunted before the public by those who are afraid to let the ingredients of which their medicines are composed be known. Bear in mind that the "Golden Medical Discovery " has the badge of HONESTY on every bottle wrapper, in a full list of its ingredients. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con stipation, Invigorate the liver and regu late stomach and bowels. Dr. Pierce's great thousand-page Illus trated Common Sense Medical Adviser will be sent free, paper-bound, for 21 one cent stamps, or cloth-bound for 31 stamps. Address Dr. Pierce as above. 11. Done Right AtThe Pendleton Steam Laundry. wWMBpwgan CHARLES GAY - AGENT THE PALACE DRUG STORE WM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor. South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. You know your doctor is all right, but how about the rilling of prescriptions? Our Prescriptions are precisely ae the doctor ordered nothing more, nothing lessand always exactly right. Foley's Money and Tar torchUdren.sate.sun. No opiates. THE WRIGHT LIVERY AND FEED STABLE ' COCO HORSES AND RIGS. REASONABLE PRICES DRIVES FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED Horses boarded by the day, week or month (Stable on 2nd street, South of Main street J. F. Wright, - - Proprietor- Try The TROY LAUNDRY For G OOD WORK HENRY KEENE, Agent, ATHENA, OREGON Yashin HENRY KEEN'S .Barber Shop. Shaving, Haircutting, I Shampooing, Massage for Face and Scalp. .HOT BATHSi MMIftMttlfttl Shop North Side Main ; Street, Athena, Ore. ? BLACKSMITH AND REPAIRING SHOP A. II. LUNA, Proprietor. Shop West of King's Barn, Athena. YOUR MONEY BACK If you are not satisaed with FURNITURE AND CARPETS . WE SELL. Largest stockineasternOregon. Make our store yonr headquarters when in Pendleton I 1 Yours M. A. RADEP, - - - Undertaking Pallors in Connection Peebler & Chamberlain Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co, WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES, MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC. ATHENA, Saving at the Spigot Wasting at the Bung" 'fS' MADS TO PAINT BUILDINGS WITH. OUTSIDE AND INSIDE. It covers more surface, spreads easier, and lasts longer than any other prepared paint, or band-mixed lead ana on. CALL I COLOR TPnn n 4-t 1 1 TtityiKa-w UJLUcLUIllCl JLJUlUUul X&IU r ! THE , I ST. NICHOLS HOTEL : J. E. FR00ME, prop. uniy rirsi-ciass xioici in the City. W - - ! THE ST. NICHOLS 1 lu the only on. that can accommodate 4 commercial traveler!. ' Can beiecomended for IU clean nd well ventilated room. Cob. Maih andThibd, ATBaitA.Or. PETERSON & PETERSON, Attorn eys-at-La w A1HENA, i - .4 " OREGON to please PENDLETON. OREGON. CITY MEAT MARKET -WW -!. . T ii. sn.riiiun jrrup. Nothing too good for our pat rons. We cut the best meat money can buy. Fish and oysters in Season. Give us a trial. - PARKER . Everything Firhl Vl 1W" d rn and 1j-Im - (1 n SOUTH SIDE I MAIN il A THEN OREGON That's what buying poor paint means. Paint may be low priced by the gallon and be extravagant to use owing to to it's poor covering power and wearing quality. After the paint is applied it's too late to save. Start right and use The SHERwtM-llfiLLiMS Paint FOR CARDS H r-.