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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Twici-a-Week Tuesday and Fridat f. f. poyd, 1'iblisiier. Entered as second-class matter, March 1 tool, at the poitofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actol Congress of March 3, 1879 Subscription Ratst i p year, In advance Single copies In wrappers, 6c, 12.00 Local reading notices, nratlnierUon.lOcper Int. Each subsequent Insertion, 6c. ATHENA, ORE., NOV. .23, 1906 We have reform schools for way ward obildreu, which doubtless do the best they can. But if there could te reform schools for parents there would be little or do ueed of reform schools for obildreu. Delinquent parents are to blame for delinquent obildren in nine ' oases out of ten. If parents would ao their duty, if they could be foroed by state, ohnrob, society, press, pablio opinion or the whips and scorn of the time, to realize their responsi bility for the children they bave brought into the world then there would be no need of the state reform school. The parents wonld keep that eohool. Its course of instruction wonld be admonitory and preventive. It is seldom that a child trought up in the right way by the parents will afterward take the wrong way. Judge Beu B. Liudsey of Denver,1 who has bad notable success In dealing witb juvenile delinquents aud who has mastered the art of getting in close touoh witb boy life, declares that "one million children in this oountry are annually drifting into crime." This certainly is an important state ruent, if true. But is it true? Any hndv won has eves to son and earn tn bear knows that there are a great maoy juveuiles wbo are developing tendencies in that direction. But to tay that a million boys aud girls are drifting into crime every year in the United States strikes ns as absurd. We think that the judge is too pro digal in the use of ciphers iu bis sta tistical ntteranoes. Count Bool's lawyeis are pathetic ally, telling the world that if the countess' suit for divorce is granted be will bave to give up bis ancestral estate, et cetera. It's all terribly sad. but we wonder just how long the count's "anoestral estate" would bave lasted at his gait, bad be never seen an American heiress. Aud now tbey have gone and organ ized a rhinoceros trust and cornered toe market What chance has a poor man to own a menagerie while snob goings on are permitted to the rioh and powerful? Washington Chat Special Correspondence. The chief of police of Seattle bas ordered all prize fighters to leave that town oi go to work. Cruel man Perhaps tbe poor 'fighters are too strong to work. Steps are being taken to interest Australians in Washington fruit with a view toward finding a new and un limited market for products of the state. . Maxim Gorky still continues to rail at the American people, and tbe American people still continue to keep Oorky at arms length with a pair of tongs. s, , That box of Hood River apples bad tbe desired effect. Bryan is coming to Oregon in January. ABSURDITY OP PRECEDENT. Tbe Oregon Tradesman lists tbe months of November aud December as being good months for trade. There are months in tbe year when business is not so good. Why not spend a little thought and exeifiou toward making the November aud December business . i t - , . i , . i jarge enougu to uuiunoe xor uu tub slow months which may oome here after? There are infinite possibilities in these mouths use some of them. Bemember the , advertising aud the windows. Atbena merchants bave. given par ticular attention iu the selection of, goods this year for the holiday trade. Persons ooming to Athena to make holiday purchases will find large and varied stocks to seleot from and prices as lew, quality of goods considered, as quoted anyvvbore iu the Inland Em pire. ' Presideut Hill attributes the short age in cars, not to the scarcity, but to a shortage in terminal and truckage facilities. It is interesting to leuru that fuct, but hardly satisfying. The man who is today borrowing coal from his neighbor doesn't care much whether tbe shortage is due to lack of oars or lack of tracks. From tbe Spokane papers it is learn ed that there is a food inspector iu the state wbo is really enforcing the law against adulterated foods. Spok ene grocery men have been ordered to remove from their shelves certain cauned strawberries alleged to be colored with coal tar dyes. It is a mighty good thing to follow precedent, that is, wbeu it is a good precedent. Otherwise, not. There is no greater humbug than tbe position taken by many people that a certain thing should not be done because it violates a preoedeut that some old codger established a bnndred years ago, when tbe aforesaid old cod pio neer, was no more nearly infallible than any other man wbo might have been in bis position. Every progressive movement that bas ever been mode violated some precedent. If nothing was ever done excepting something that bad beeu done before, mankiud wonld still be arrayed iu the skins of wild animals as in tbe days of Abraham. One of the most absurd and inde fensible precedents that has thrown arouud it the hoary mantle of musty tradition is the oue that when a man takes bis position in tho United States senate us a new member be shall not open his mouth in debate until he bas sat dumbly there and learned what he should say from listening to those who have already earned their right to speak through two years of stupid silence. Tbe greatest statesman 'be country affords might take his place in tbe United States senate late in bis life, but after bis reputation was earned, aud he would be expected to sit still for a couple of years while some other senator who had been there for twenty years and aotually knew less about tbe needs of the oountry than when be began bis service aud there are such, tbe mnre's tbe pity would be permit ted to jabber away iu endless twaddle because ho bad won tbe right, though not the ability, to talk. It is with a positive feeling of pleas ure that the country beholds the ad vent of a few new senators who pro pose to oxeroiae their constitutional light to speak whenever tbey feel so disposed. Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, is one of these. He is a man of ability, fully understands tbe subject upon which be speaks, and while be is radioal iu some ways, not nearly so much so as tbe corporations be is conscientiously after. Tbe man just entering tbe senate may have a message the oountry aud senate should hear, though he must not deliver it lest he displease some mau like Piatt or Dopew 1 Great is prece dent! Aud there are fully as many bad precedents as good ones. Pendleton Tribune. Had a Close Call "A dangerous surgical oporatiou, involving the removiug of a malign ant ulcer as large as my band from my daughter's hip, was prevented by the application of Buckleu's Arnioa Salve," says A. O. Stickel, ot Mile tus, W. Va. "Porsistout use of the salve completely oured it." Cures cuts, bums and injuries. 25o at Mo Bride's. Officials in many bureaus of tbe government servioe coming under tbe bead of the interior department, are wondering if they will be affeoted by tbe sweeping obanges planned by Jamas E. jUarfleld, now commissioner of corporations, and which be proposes to make when be assumes tbe offioe of secretary of tbe iuterior next March. Secretary Hitchcock sometime ago, contemplated a complete reorganiza tion suob as is talked of now, bnt kuowing that be would soon retire, deoided to leave tbe matter to bis suc cessor. It is understood that tbe general land office Hill be tho first branch to hear from the new secretary, for, ac cording to a report recently rendered by tbe President, that offioe is now and bas been for years tbe worst mis managed department in tbe govern ment service. Its system of conduct ing business is many years behind tbe times and each suooeeding com mis sioner bas done little or nothiug to bring it up to modern standards. The belief is expressed that a more alert administration of its affairs wonld bave made impossible tbe gigantio frauds perpetrated by tbe land graft era. oecrptary uarneia, wneu be as sumes bis new duties, will bave bis hands full in "making over" tbe in terior department, as it is one of the most ponderous branches of tbe feder al government. Through it millions of dollars are distributed yearly ; it bas an army of employes and bas jurisdiction over the patent offioe, the pension office, the Indian offioe, the geological survey and tbe bureau of eduoation. In carrying ont the new polioies the new secretary will bave tbe complete support of tbe president wbo bas long beeu anxious to,have the working methods of several depart menta changed to conform (b the recommendations of the keep invest! gating oommittee. -' Compared to tbe slow work usually done on public buildings when con structed by tbe government, it is wonderful to note tbe rapid progress being made on tbe immense new bnilding of tbe department of agrioul tnre, now being erected on tbe south ern half of the Mall near tbe Wash ington monument. Tbe two wings of the building, each 256 feet long, are well under way, and by this date next year will be finished and ready for ooenpanoy. An appropriation for tbe central part, whiob is to be 238 feet loug, will probably be made at the ooming ses sion of congress. The entire build ing will be 750 feet in length, just a foot less than tbe greatest dimension of tbe capitol. When tbe present wings are completed tbe department will be relieved of the necessity of housing a number ot its branches in rented buildings, but uutil tbe main portion is finished, the executive offioers will continue as at present iu the old Agricultural department building. That to the many publio buildings of tbe nation's capitol will soon be added a structure of such magnitude is not generally realized by visitors to tbe city or by those who reside here. Tbe new department of agriculture, the capitol, the new national museum and the new nnion station complete the four largest ot tbe public build ings in Washington. youk MM From the Largest and Best Assorted Collection of Men's Women's and Children's High Grade Wearing Apparel To Be Found In Eastern Oregon egance in House furnishing In selecting furniture and carpets for your borne let quality be the' first cousideratiou select pieces of distinctive gruoe, beauty aud sterling worth, that will be a pleasure to look upon and that will serve their pur pose, not for a month or yoar, but nil through life. Such styles and qualities are now ehowu at our store, iu larger varieties than yon cau flud within many hundred miles ot Walla Walla. Come iu tbe next time you are iu the city aud give us an opportunity to show you through our store. , WE PAY the Freight wheu bill amounts to $10 oi ovei. ; . Use Our Rest ; . , Rooms TIIEDAVIS-KASERCO. Everything to Furnish the , f Home. 12 14-10 18 20 22 Alder Strt. WALLA WALLA, :- WASH Make Your appointments Here The big government printing office played aa important part in the receut political campaign, supplying, it is said, more than 5,000,000 copies of congressional speeches for members of both branches of congress. Tbe ex pense for snob work is paid by tho person ordering it aud members of both political parties have equal privi leges, the amount being limited only by the wish of the member. Not only are congressmen permitted to nave Uncle Sam's big printsbop do work for them at a nominal cost, but any in dividual may, upon presentation of a certified check for the amount of the cost, bave priuted for his individual use 250 or more copies of any govern ment publication, provided tbe order is given before tbe completion of the nrnaa wnrlr ' Tha dtiaanhaa fhaft warn in f ho mnaf demand just before election were those on tho meat iuspcotion bill and railway rate legislation. Pure food ugitu'ion and the Philippine tariff came iu for considerable atteution, while speeches on labor were popular iu manufaotnriug districts. One ex senator is reported to bave ordered 50,000 copies of bis speech in relation to labor. Tbe largest single order for auy speech was 150,000 copies. President Roosevelt's lion is dead. It was chloroformed three days atter tbe president left Wasbiugton on his trip to Panama. This was one of the animals presented to the president by King Menelik of Abyssinia in 1901 aud whiob was injured while being i transported to tbe United States. The injury, slight at first, iustead of im proving from the constant care and treatment given it at the National Zoo Park, gradually beoame worse finally reaching suoh an acute stage that it was found necessary to use obloroform to rid the great beast of its misery. When tbe lion first arrived at the White House it was not muoh more thau a cub aud iti playful ways soon made it a prime favorite among the pets of tbe Roosevelt obildren as well as an attraction to friends of the family aud to visitors at tbe mansion. It grew rapidly and was removed to tbe Zoo park but was never placed in one of tbe exhibition cages on account of its injury, although it received ire queut visits from tbe children of tbe White Honse wbo were always con cerned iu its welfare. . Settle Up. Those knowing themselves to be in debted to Win. ftloBride, the druggist, are expeoted to call aud settle by Oc tober 15. Otherwise cost of oolleo tiou may bo added. Men's and Boy's Clothing . The very best makes of Clothiug only arc found here. They are , guaranteed the best in quality, the best made and the best fitting Clothes Manufactured. We show a particularly strong line of De pendable Boy's G othing. 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