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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1907)
Use strong, fibrous wrapping paper and stout twine; wrap closely tie tightly; address, plainly with black ink and put on the full address, town, county and state; aud if In a city, tbe street and ' number, or in care of someone! Have a paokage weighed at the postoffice and pay full .postage or it will not be sent Do all these things and Unole Sam will do tbe rest AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Twicb-a-Week Tcisdat ahdFeidat F. B. Boyd, "Publisher. Entered as second-class natter, March 1, 1901, at the postoffice at Athena, Oregon Under an Actot Oonnress of March 8, 1879 the -Largest and Best Assotred Collection of Men's ( , Subscription Hatat : p r war, In advanct - " Single copies In wrappers, 5c, A fashion item says the new instep skirt reveals the fact that the majority of women are pigeon-toed or bow legged. We have never noticed it 12.00 and Children's High Grade bearing To Be Found In Eastern Oregon ( Apparel ' ,.c4i reading notices, firitlnsertlon.lOcper tti't.j EAeh subsequent Insertion. 6c. MAKING . USE OF NOTORIETY. rrririi Women s -0 r c ATHENA, ORE;, JAN. 1.;... 1907 In every newspaper we piok op we aie sore to And a lot of gnsb about tbe man behind tbe buzz saw and the mau behind the sou; tbe man behind tbe times and' the man behind his rents; tbe mau behind the plowshare ' and the man behind the fence; the man behind the whistle and the man behind tbe pars; the man .behind tbe kodaok and tbe man behind the 'bars; the man behind bis whiskers and tbe man behind bia fist; and everything behind is entered on tbe list. Bat they have skipped another fellow of whom nothing baa been said tbe fel low who is ever a little ahead; who pays for what be gets, whose bills are always signedhe's a blamed sight more important ' than the man who is behind.' ' All we ' editors and mer chants and the . whole, commercial clan are indebted for existence to this I honest fellowmao. He keeps us all in business and tbe town is never doad, so we take off our bats to tbe , man that is ahead. -Exchange. There should' be no "faction" iu any city. The property of one individual and every improvement made en hances tbe value of all property in tbe corporation. Our city is simply one big family.' When this is discordant there is little progress.''!-When "there, is a united pull for anything, its ao ootnplisbnient is made easy. Envy, jealousy and hatred are things to bo despised.' Envy is a oanker that gnaws at the heart aud makes folks spur, disgruntled' and unhappy; jealousy wrapi tbe intellect and makes us unfair in passing judgment ' Hatred doesn't pay even from a sordid point of view Let us "pull to gether." ., ; ' ' Society has tried to proteot itself iu Spokane by tryiug to have the young murderer, Sidney Sloane, incarcerated for life, but has failed. The jury , having found bim "not guilty, it is not likely be can be imprisoned very long. Of course plenty of. expert alieulsls can be found wbo in a few months will declare bim sane. Per haps after he bas been liberated and kills bis mother or nome one else, a jury may conclude bo is guilty of murder. ' -; 7;r .".. '.;',. The Btitish papers are giving them selves considerable trouble figuring out the'ohauoes tbut Unole Sam would have of keepiug : himself from beiug annihilated by the Japs in case of war,: Aud we are perfectly williug to have them do the flguriug as well as us bume the trouble. ,, ... V Many packages sent, through the mails go to pieces and sometimes the oouteuts, or tho address,' aro' lost be cause not soourely wrapped and tied. . The gratification which . was felt over the rescue of 8. B. . Hioks, a California miner,, is followed by feel ings of a different nature upon tbe announcement of the mercenary use to which be , will put bis notoriety; Hicks was entombed for over two weeks in a tunnel which had oaved in. His escape from tbe immediate death which befell his five compan ions, bis enduranoe in bearing up day after day under conditions calculated to oause tbe average man's mind, or life to give way, the strenuous and uuremittiog efforts of rescuers to get him out, after establishing common! cation with bim through a water pipe which ran from the surface to that part of tbe tunnel where he was im prisoned, and nis final resoue attract ed widespread interest to the case. Everybody rejoiced that a life had been saved from a terrible fate under such adverse conditions, but there was really nothing in Hicks', part in the affair that now entitles him to ask tbe pnblio to pay for tbe privilege of see' ing him act or bearing him talk. He, or tbe theatrical manager, who is said to have engaged bim, is merely taking advantage of tbe well known willing ness of many persons to dispose of money that . should be spent to better purpose. Hundreds of people may pay to see bim and it will be said that if they are satisfied that's all there is to it And in a certain sense it is. Never theless, there is a lowering of a strong human intere t inoident to an un worthy level ot dollars and cents. Hicks is doing' what scores' of ' others have done when.' from some peculiar circumstances they have gained ' no toriety. Instead of going about his regular business as a man, he Is put ting himself on tbe plane of the freaks in a circus sideshow. Arid those two or three other miners' wbo are to travel with bim are willing to lay aside the manhood of honest toil that tbey may profit from what; can be made off a curious public. Spokea-xnau-Beview. ' , 1 . I c "t t r t r t r r r r r r " ft if !t f ft if THE DEATH PENALTY. Two recent executions at the Oregon peuitentiary have revived disoussions as to tbe justifiatility or expediency of the death penalty. - There are fire states in which capital punishment bas been abolished. In, these, the ratio of murder is no higher than in other states a fact that furnishes argument that the death peualty ' does not disooorage murder. It serves, in deed, to strengthen the opinion soms hold that in a mind raised to that pitoh of frenzy wherein it is ready to ke humau life, the question of what the penalty is to ke is largely lost eight of. ' Tbe death peualty is the punish incut for eight offenses in Virginia, seven in Louisiana, six in Delaware and Missouri, aud but one, murder in, tbe first degree,' in the majority of the other states. ' In the southern states it is prescribed by law for assaults upon women. ' ' .. , Tbe certainty of punishment is undoubtedly of , more importance in preventing crime than the nature of tbe peualty. Whether the penalty for murdor is death or life . imprison tneut, is one of the ' lesser faotor iu deterreut effect More than all other influences as a deterrent agent is the regularity, promptness ana precis ion with "whioh laws are enforced. Men's and Boy's Clothing The very best makes of Clothing only arc found 1 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 C o thing. In Men's Suits see our Banner i line of new Suits at $15.00 ; In Boy's, our : $5.00 ' Suits are unequaled for style, fit and wear 's and Children's Clothing . . The best of material and work manship guaranteed. We have our own alteration rooms where none but the best tailors are em ployed. Every piece of work turned , out must be up to our standard of efficiency. When you ' come here you are assured of none but the latest styles, and you have a much wider range of selection. Late Fall Millinery Our Millinery Rooms are show ing the swellest of Fall Hats at greatly, reduced prices, which makes your selection of Fall Hats one of profit as well as pleasure. Neck furs Over 1200 pieces of depehdable Neck Furs are now being shown in our Suit Rooms. Every piece new and the very best of Reliable Furs. - ' , , Santa , Claus will make, his headquarters at Pendleton's Biggest and Best Store. ". In a few day our Toy Land will be opened where you may see over 1000 new Mechanical Toys in operation. a & Our Qualities, Our Styles and Our Prices yiii Admit of No Competition Whatever I. THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE pendleton, oren. WHERE IT PAYS TO TRADE The community where' laws are im partially and rigidly enforced,' the criminal avoids as inseoure and in ; hospitable. " The speotaole of penalty following swiftly on the crime and with little or none of the law's tradi tional delay, necessarily weakens the heart that were otherwise steeled for a capital orime. In .the swiftness of aveugiug justice there is terror enough to uunerve the strongest of men whenever his thoughts wander toward murder. Portland Journal. january Clearance Sale . Begins at 9 a. m. Wednesday, Jan; 2 . . Everything'iu our store, with tbe exoeptiou of a few coutraofc goods, . has been roduoed regard Wea of cost. Our desire is to turn all of our stock possible iutoeasl before inventory, Feb. 1, and with this in mind we have made great reductions. ' Write for descriptive circular, if you cau uot come. '- " : - 1 ( LREtolBKR WE PAY THE FREIGHT WnEN BILL AMOUNTS TO $10.00. . Use .. Our. . Rest j ' Rooms THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12-14-16-18 SO-22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, -:- WASH Make Your 53 fWW p Here REALISTIC MILITARY TRAINING. . Great Brlitan has reserved a tract of land several hundred square miles in extent on which her soldiers play at war. The Russian-Japanese war served to emphasize tbe radical revo lution which bas taken plaoe in war fare due to the ' remarkable improve-? ments whioh have been wrought in the devising of long-range and quick-firing weapons, combined' with improve ments in explosives. , ' ...;! The role of this . revolution in war fare is that 'a "battle front may range over as mnoh as 60 or 70 miles. Con sequently a grave difficulty presents itself in the training of an army, to comply with and to understand these new conditions, since if "is esseutial that an army iii . pace should be brought to a high standard . of efficiency whioh . will enable it ' to cope with auy peculiar difficulty that may present itself in actual combat But to train an army upon this basis necessitates a vast tract of land Lav ing a conformation of tbe moat diffi cult nature, and far remoyed from the influences of habitations,' to enable tbe men to have tbe fullest scope in which to practice tbe new conditions of their science. . ' " . , la practicing on , Salisbury field,' as the British call their' large mock bat tle ground, the attacking party uses bullets and live shells, while tbe de fense uses blanks. Technical' World Magazine." . t - " ' , Famous Strike Breakers. 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