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ATHENA, ORE., OCTOBER.. 19, 1906
The vitals of tbe United States'
crack war vessels are declaied (o be
filled with boiler tabes that wore re
jeotod by tbe government inspectois,
acoordiug to charges against Pittsburg
concerns. Tbe United States govern
ment, through tbe department of
justice, is investigating charges that
defective boiler fines were supplied by
tbe Shelby Steel Tube company for
the new warships Maine, Colorado,
Georgia and Pennsylvania; that gov
ernment stamps were stolen and nsed
to get defective fines past the inspect
ors, and that cars, after being sealed
by tbe government, were broken open
and defective tabes added to complete
shipments. Tbe warships directly in
volved in the charges, and which
cost 14,5O5,000 are the new battle
ships Maine and Georgia, and tbe
armored cruisers Colorado and Penn
sylvania. Not tbe man who owns the largest
number of acres, and who, thereby
keeps tbe largest number of bis fellow
beings from owniug any land at all,
but tbe man who puts whatever land
he owns to the best possible use, is
worthy of the homage of his fellows.
Tbe farmer who by tbe use of intense
cultivation, irrigation and "brains,"
draws an iuoome of $5000 a year from
teu cares of giound and there are
suoh farmers is worth twenty times
us much to a community as be who
gets a bure living off of one hundred
acres. Tbe country will, by and by,
it is hoped, abandon tbe false stand
ard which makes the mere possession
of muuy acres a token ot superiority,
and award the pulm to tho man who
gets tbe most out of an aero. Baker
Democrat.
Tho dispatches' tell us that Homer
rfaveuport bud u porsouul interview
with tbe sultan of Turkey. Ho was
forbidden to make any piotares ot tbe
sultau, but Davonport memorized the
flaltiiii's features and muds sketches.
Afterword Turkish spies discovoied iu
some wuy that tbo cartoonist bad
made skotohes and searched his bug
gago, but they were disappointed for
the wise artist hud bidden tbe draw
ings iu a bale of hay. Tbe 'news
bureaus do uot tell whether it was
Weston mountain baled or Kansas red
top, aud it is the first we ever knew of
hay in Turkey. We hud supposed
that Turkish stook was fed on beaus
arid bread otusts from tbe royal tables
of the sultau but then we uever was
up iu - agricultural statistics litre
Wood is.
Sam Ouplinger was over from
Wood's town yesterday, and with
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bummer one ot tbe liveliest sules ot its kind
we have ever held. Every department will be
represented iu tbe Sale aud the offerings will
bo greater than ever before. Watch our ad.
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pardonable pride displayed what was
perhaps tbe largest cabbage head ever
seen here. This bead of cabbage
weighed actually 34 pounds, and
while no measurement were taken,
we feel safe in saying that it was con
siderably larger than tbe bead of a
certain individual wbicb was graphic
ally described by an old lady at the
county fair recently held in Pendle
ton.. Tbe cabbage head differs ma
terially in many respects from the
other bead mentioned, and one re
spect in particular, in that tbe cab
bage bead has a core and tbe other
head has not
Tbe Pendleton Tribune calls atten
tion to the unusual lack of talk about
tbe election of a United States senator
at tbe meeting of tbe legislature next
winter. Come to think about it, the
people are not talkiug about who will
be tbe next senators, but tbeu, why
should they, says tbe Heppner Gazette.
Tbe matter was settled last Jane.
Mr. Bourne and Mr. Mulkey will be
elected on the first ballot. Tbe Ore
gon lawmakers will be out of a job
before the forty days limit.
There are five miners who are can
didates for congress under the Ameri
can Federation of Labor plan for the
entrance of trades onions into politics.
Tdey are: W. B. Wilson national
secretary-treasurer, of Blossburg, Pa. ;
JobtS Walker, vice president of the
Illinois district; T. D. Nichols, Scran
ton, Pa., president of tbe first anthra
cite district ; W. II. Dettry, Hazleton,
Pa., president of tbe seventh anthra
cite district, and Jobo Fabey, presi
dent of tbe nioth anthracite district.
Yellow fever has appeared in Ci
enfuegos, and tbe U. S. forces were
sent to other sections of tbe island.
It never rains but it pours in tbe trop
ics. Yellow Jack and rebellion will
make tbe situation like unto what
Sherman said war was.
That South American threat to
boycott tbe United States is a bit of
Latin buncombe. The pig-tails of
Chiua tried the game of boycott and
failed. It is a trick of cowards, is a
boycott.
Word comes from Hawaii that tbere
is a well defined scheme ou foot by
tbe plantation owners to get laborers
from Europe. Already a thousand
Portuguese families are being imported
by the sugar plauters' association.
A judge has deoided that a woman
need not tell her agn on a witness
stand. This will be sadly disap
pointing to tbe women who are not
subpoenaed.
Rojestvensky has resigned from the
Russian navy. At least, he has re
signed from the spot where .the navy
would be if Russia had one.
Howard Gould aud his wire are up
to their eyes in domestic infelicity
over connubial incompatibility, if
you kuow what that is.
They say rouoh of Senator Piatt's
trouble with his yonug wife arises
from her fondness for a pet dog.
Shoot the dog.
For Sale
Good five room house and three lots
on Hunt avenue, two blocks from
mill. Has eleotrio lisrhta and
water works, good cellar, good wood
shed, picket fence aud shade trees.
Prico 800. Will be sold on easy
terms. For particulars iuuuire of
Matt Johnson, Athena, Ore.
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Washington Chat
Special Correspondence.
Tbe president is looking forward to
tbe changes that will soou take plaoe
iu Lis official family. Before the
close of congress there will be two
vacanoies in tbe cabinet Secretary
Shaw will retire on February 1st, at
wbioh time be will have rounded out
five years at tbe bead of tbe treasury
department, and Attorney General
Moody will retire a month earlier, it
being bis desire to resume the praotice
of law. Rumor has it that Moody is
slated for the supreme court bench,
but this is hardly likely, as much op
position would probably arise from
having two Massachusetts men serv
ing as associate justices at the same
time, Jnstioe Holmes of that state,
being a member of tbe court Mr.
Moody's retirement is entirely volun
tary. The president has frequently
asked him to reconsider his purpose
and greatly regrets to see him go.
It is almost certain that Ambassador
to Russia Meyer will be appointed to
one of tbe vacanoies, but just which
be will secure appears to be unde
termined. The second vaoanoy affords
abundant opportunity for speculation,
as yet no name has been mentioned
that seems to stand the test
From tbe plans of tbe- administra
tion, tbe people of this country will
not be required to pay a single' penny
for tbe cost of intervention by the
United States in tbe affairs of Cuba.
Just as China paid tbe expenses of
the American troops and ships iu
quelling the Boxer uprisings in 1900,
so will Cuba be compelled to pay out
of her treasury an enormous sum for
the folly wbioh made American inter
vention necessary. The war depart
ment has now given out the figures of
tbe present cost as $25,000 per day
and this figure will be materially ad
vanced when Governor Magoon takes
charge and relieves Secretary Taft
The governor's salary has been fixed
at $35,000 yearly, tbe same amount
that the Cuban people paid to Presi
dent Palma. Tbe new governor has
power to snrreund himself with all
kinds of high-priced officials or he
may limit tbe number and the amount
of salaries as he sees fit and Cuba will
have no say whatever in fixing tbe
prioe she must pay.
On tbe basis of present plans for
complete intervention, and following
tbe precedent ot tbe Boxer uprising,
it is now computed that Cuba will be
required to pay $1,000,000 a month
for the services being rendered by the
United States.
Ihe Jamestown Exposition will have
a unique exhibition from the navy de
partment A small sized basin,
twenty feet long and ten feet wide,
tilled with blue sea water and floating
thirty eight warships in line of re
view, is one of tbe surprises awaiting
exposition visitors. The ships will
be exact reproductions of those wbicb
took part in tbe great naval parade at
Oyster Bay and were reviewed by tbe
president From each smoke stack
will pour columns of black smoke,
from tbe masts will fly tbe flags
wbioh attire tbe navy's ships when
tbey have on a holiday dress and from
eaob gun will belch tiny shot s fired
by smokeless powder.
Every type of United States war
snip will be seen, iron) tbe coiner to
tbe battleship. Tbe work has already
been started so tbere will be no pos
sibility cf tbe heavy detail work pre
venting its completion by tbe time tbe
exposition opens. Tbe cost does not
enter into tbe scheme at all. As much
money will be spent as is necessary to
complete the wonderful display in
every detail.
Secretary Wilson of tbe department
of agriculture is highly gratified over
the taot that 50,000,000 bushels ot
Durum wheat will be threshed in this
oonntry this year. He is pleased that
this department took tbe step five
years ago of introducing Durum wheat
into the United States as the results
have been beneficial to a great many
farmers. This wheat is known as
maoaroui wheat, because of its value
iu the manufacture of macaroni. It
is n bard spring wheat and cannot be
raised in tbe winter but it is now pro
posed to hybridize the wheat with tbe
best winter wheat of this country. If
this is successful, more farmers will
take up the raising of Durum wheat
Tbe macaroni business in tbe United
States is on tbe increase and tbe de
mand is for clean, American made
goods of this nature in place of that
imported from Italy. Several interest
ing bulletins have beeu prepared on
the subject by the department of agri
culture, aud anyone desiring tbem
should address a letter to the congress
mau of their district.wbo will in turn
write to tbe secretaiy of agriculture.
Kow comes tbe announcement that
the Panama oanal is to be built by
contract. In a few days tbe commis
sion appointed to investigate tbe sub
ject will make public a statement set
ting forth its reasous for favoring tbe
contract system, and at that time a
form of contract will be published
showing exactly the sort, of document
believed by the commissioners to be
necessary for safe-guarding tbe work.
It is kuowu tbat tbe president be
lieves that the work can be doue more
satisfactorily by contractors than by
tbe government, aud in a leugtby con
fereuoe vith Chairmau Shouts, tbe
matter was discussed fully.
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If C C. C fail to cure, druwi&u refund mone
Is Disease a Crime?
Not very long tiro, a popular magazine
published an editorial article In which
ths writer asserted, In substance, that all
cli sense should he regarded as criminal.
Certain It Is, tbat much of the sickness
and sufTr-rinrj of mankind lit due to the
violation of certain of Nature's laws.
But to suy that all sickness should be
regarded as criminal, must appeal to
every reasonable individual as radically
wrong.
It would he harsh, unsympathetic,
cruel, yes criminal, to condemn the poor,
wa:ik, over-worked housewife who sinks
under the heavy load of household cares
and burdens, and suffers from weak
nesses, various, displacements of pelvic
organs and other derangements peculiar
to her sex.
Frequent bearing of children, with its ex
acting demand!) upon the system, coupled
with the rare, woiiy and labor of rearing a
large family, is often the cause of weak
nesses, derangements and debility which are
aggravated by. the many household cares,
and the hard, and nerer-end lng work which
the mother is called upon to perform. Dr.
Pierce, the maker of that world-famed rem
edy for woman's peculiar weaknesses and
Ills Dr. Pierre's Favorite Prescription says
that one of the greatest obstacles to the cure
of this class of maladies Is the fact that the
poor, over-worked housewife can not get the
needed rest from her many household cares
and lalwr to enable her to secure from the
use of his "Prescription" Its full benefits. It
Is a matter of frequent experience, be says,
In his extensive practice in these cases, to
meet with those In which his treatment falls
by reason of the patient's Inability to abstain
from hard work long enough to be cured.
With those suffering from prolapsus, ante
version and retroversion of the uterus or
other displacement of the womanly organs,
it is very necessary that, in addition to tak
ing his "Favorite Prescription "they abstain
from being very much, or for long periods, on
their feet. All heavy lifting or straining of
any kind should also be avoided. As much
out-door air as possible, with moderate, light
exercise Is also very important Let the
patient oliserve these rules and the"Favor-
.. Prescription" will do the rest.
Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser Is sent free
jn receipt of stamps to pav expense of
mailing onlu. Send to Dr. R. V. Pierco,
liulTalo, N. Y., 21 one-cent stamps for paper-covered,
or 31 stamps for cloth-bound.
If sick consult tho Doctor, free of cliarco
by letter. All such communications aro
held sacredly confidential.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Inviioratn
and regulate stomach, liver and bowel.
HENRY KEEN'S
.Barber Shop.
Shaving, Haircutting,
Shampooing, Massage
for Face and Scalp.
HOT BATHS.
Shop North Side Main
Street, Athena, Ore.
If there ia no Piano in tbe house,
one should be purchased or at least
hired, And it should be one or toe
BEST PIANOS
shown iu our rooms. These instru
ments are the perfection of mechan
ical workmanship and are unexcelled
sor sweetness and richness of tone.
STANLEY PIANO HOUSE,
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To Cure Constipation FureTe.
fake Cuscarets Cam'.y Cathartic. 10c or 25a
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Foley's Kidney Cure
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sicians, who treated ma for La Grippe without giving me any relief. I afterward
bought a $1.00 bottle of DR. KING'S NEW DISCOVERY, and after taking contents
of this one bottle I was entirely cured."
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W. McBRIDE, THE PALACE DRUG STORE, SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET -ATHENA.
J. D. PLAMONDON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office in
Barrett Building, - Athena, Oregon
Foley's Honey and Tar
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HARRY M BRIDE, MANAGER
Best Stock and Rigs in the City.
Competent Drivers.
Stock Boarded by the Day, Week
or Month at Reasonable Rate.
NORTH SIDE STREET, ATHEAN, ORE
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CAPITAL STOCK. - - - - $50,000
SURPLUS,.. 17,500
We do Strictly a Commercial Business. We Solicit
the Accounts ot Individuals, Firms
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OFFICERS
H. C. ADAMS, President,
, T. J. KIRK, Vice President,
F. S. Le GROW, Cashier,
I. M. KEMP, Asa't. Cashier.
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Shop West of King's Barn, AthrnM
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DRIVER FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED-
Horses boarded by the day, week or uion I b
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J. F. Wright, - - - Proprietor-
DIRECTORS
H. O. ADAMS. T. J. KIRK, F. S.
Le GROW, D. H. PRESTON, P. E.
COLBERN.
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C. H. Sherman Prop.
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rons. We cut the best meat money
can buy. Fwh find oysters in
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