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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.
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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
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the latter however, there is a sure rem
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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
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Dr. Pierce's "Discovery" cure all blood
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