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ATHENA PRESS Tvesdays and Fridays f. B. BOYD Publisher A man can't help having affection Tor a woman who can make a good apple pie. . Strange thing about earthquakes is that they miss o many places where they are needed. Sympathy is sweet, but when a man has pounded his finger It doesn't help him materially for a while. People who never could spell correct ly will foe glad of the presidential li cense to spell some other way. Some of the best friends of the ad ministration think that in the matter of the spelling reform it went off haf kokt Society men who enlist In the navy Ihould bear in mind that the duties per formed there are not known as func tions. A Russian Grand Duke when drilling his loyal and loving soldiers, should al ways take pains to stand well out of range. It is scarcely necessary to add that the Sago who failed in New York a day or two ago is an entirely different kind of Sage. Even should the scientists agree as to the cause of earthquakes, it would not be any great satisfaction to the sufferers. Chicago hag a World Betterment League, but so far it hasn't found it necessary to go away from home to find something to do. A Pittsburg man has made a break fast food testing plant of his wife's stomach. This is simply reversing the rule of the ages past. A professor has discovered a calendar of the year 4241 B. C. If they had cal endars then why they must have had Insurance companies, too. The Czar's policy Is said to be one of Btrong-handed reform. In the case of the aouma It looked more like the non resilient toe of the royal boot. Two hundred and forty thousand spe cies of Insects exist on the earth. If you don't believe it count 'em the next time you eat your picnic lunch In the woods. We don't think there will ever be much of an argument on the proposi tion that Russell Sage hud more sense than all his nephews and nieces com bined. This country spent $81,000,000 for coffee last year. The figures would be still more interesting If we were In formed how much genuine coffee this sum paid for. It may be very true that the Czar Is getting over $0,000,000 for spending money, but It is pretty certain that he Is not squandering any of it on moon light excursion tickets. "The American woman of the upper class," says Professor Thomas, "has su perior rights and no duties, and yet sho Is worrying herself to death because she has lost her connection with reality." Think It over, ladles. Newsboys In Boston are establishing a fund to send one of their number to college. They have already raised about two thousand dollars. This fuct tells more about America than a vol ume of comment by a Russian lecturer or a German philosophic critic of our Institutions. The proposition to tunnel the English Channel has again been revived, and an English engineer has been Invited to make plans for It. The channel Is twenty miles wide at the narrowest place, consequently the tunnel would be a long one. It Is likely that the channel will be tunneled before rail road trains are run under Bering Strait, but neither will happen very oon. Nearly all the secretaries and sten ographers attached to the late Russian Douma were women, and women are numerous in the ranks of the Russian revolutionists. The arbitrary arrest and banishment of a husband or father baa turned many a Russian woman Into an enemy of the government that has been guilty of such outrages. Free Rus sia, when It conies, will owe much to the Russian women. No psychologist ever has arisen to explain why it Is that a man who would not trust his own brother with a 5-cent piece will amiably turn over several hundreds of his dollars to some glaring rascal who advertises to pay prodigious dividends from a sugar mine In the mountains of the moon. The suc cess of these schemes of finance la enough to make "Hungry Joe" and all the other old-time bunko men turn in their graves. It is so simple that no tascal can afford to be "broke." No higher tribute can be paid to a foreigner by a Japaueso than his belief In his power to keep silence ; that pow r Is one of the most tremendous sources of the nation's strength. Much marvel has been elicited by the invio late safety during the war of strategic lecroU, the common possession of thou sands of people at once. There were a few rrartors here and there In the be ginning of the war; there were none when it was ended. They were discov ered and convicted by their own com rades and swift and terrible was the execution of justice upon them. Only In the service to which they belonged were these painful Incidents known ; they were described when the war was over. v Now and again one of the hundreds of thousands of capable men in com paratively humble positions rises Into prominence because of public interest In something with which he may be con nected. There is the ease of A. Pappa, the head pilot of the Suez canal, who has taken many ships through the nar row strait without attracting public at tention. But he steered the dry dock Dewey through the canal, a bulk so large that it practically filled the whole width of the waterway at the depth re quired to float it, and did not let it touch bottom once. Now the naval of ficer In command has mentioned the old Greek In his report, praising him In un measured terms. There is many a "mute, inglorious Milton" doing his singing or hers with a shovel or a plane, a needle or a broom, who de serve all that can be said of heroes or heroines. They are doing that which their hands find to do as well as possi ble to do It. No one can do more. Ethnologists say, as the res .lit of their observations, that the racial dif ferences which exist among mankind are very slight once we get below the surface. Taking humanity as a whole, It Is said that one man will fight as bravely as another up to a certain point, that courage Is a common attribute of all mankind and that fundamental ethi cal considerations are respected to the same extent by all the tribes of men. It is found, In short, that the difference uetween the man of one nation and the man of another nation Is not essential but temperamental. This conclusion re ceives frequent confirmation. In the steamship disaster off the Spanish coast a few weeks ago the obvious deficiency was not lack of courage upon the part of the officers and crew but a lack of discipline and self-control. .The Latin temperament Is not the temperament for sudden and menacing emergencies. It is the temperament of Impulse, of en thuslasm, of ebullient bravery. It lacks the self-poise and Imperturbability of the northern character. Take them man for man and it Is probable that the crew of the Slrlo would have charged a for lorn hope with greater intrepidity than an equal number of Scandinavians or Englishmen or Americans or Germans would have done. That is because the Latin temperament lacks the calculat ing quality which estimates danger. But confronted with a peril In which the spectacular and emotional elements were wanting the Italian sailors lost their heads. They "went to pieces," to use a colloquialism, not from lack of courage but from temperamental inabil ity to confront the unexpected. We may say, In other words, that the Latin temperament is not the seafaring tem perament. When matched against the Teutonic races on the ocean the Latins have gone down to defeat. The invin cible armada strewed Its shattered tim bers on the shores of the British Isl ands. The navies of Napoleon were forever undoing at sea the victories of that matchless commander ashore. The galleys of the Romans were more trans ports than war vessels. The Latin fights and fights valiantly, but he pre fers to fight men Instead of wind and wave, and he prefers to fight men on land Instead of on the sea. But this, as we have pointed out, Is no Impugnment of his courage ; It Is merely a phase of his temperament. The temperate zone breeds men of slower Imagination but of consequently greater sang froid than are bred In warmer climes. The north excels In steady achievement and daunt less will; the south Is pre-eminent In esprit, In art and Imagination. At the bottom, however, the Latin and the Teuton are equals. Their superficial differences can be laid to climate and environment Sentimental Surgery. A party of college students, celebrat ing a football victory in New York, ran into an unexpected difficulty in the shape of some policemen, and after the smoke of the battle had cleared away, as the political orators say, It was necessary to cart one of the young men to a hospital and fix up his head. The young surgeon In charge of such cases put the collegian on the table and looked him over. He had a long gash in his forehead. The surgeon cleansed the wound and began to sew it up. He labored for half an hour and then burst into the office of the doctor In charge. "I can't do anything with that young clwp In there," he said. "What's the matter?" asked his su perlor. "Why, every time I put In a stitch he pulls It out and says: 'She loves me,' and when I put In the next one he pulls that out and says : 'She loves me not' " Saturday Evening Post Foaalble Explanation. "I wonder why the editor prints the marriage notices directly under the death notices queried the typewriter boarder, as she glanced over the local paper. "I don't know." rejoined the fussv bachelor, "unless It Is to remind us that the fools are not an dead yet" A woman taking on a, second mar rlage must feel the same as a man who has always worn tailor-made suits and then changes to hand-me-downs. What has become of the girl who crocheted trimming tor her wedding clothes! -" Snake-Blten. Notwithstanding the fact that there are many poisonous snakes in this country, cases of snakebite are not common. They occur frequently enough, however, to make It worth ev ery farmer's or'country roaiuer's white to familiarize himself with the poison out effects upon the body of snake ven om, and the best means to overcome those effects. The most common of the poisonous snakes. In this country are the coral snakes, the copperhead, the water-moccasin, and many varieties of rattle snakes. The symptoms of poisoning vary somewhat according to the variety of snake, and also to the state of the weather and the condition which the snake is In at the time. The poisonous effects are more marked, the hotter the weather at the time ; and the bite of a well-fed snake Is more harmful than that of one which Is fasting. The symptoms of snake-bite are both ; local and general. In the case of rat tlesnake-bite, the local symptoms con sist In severe pain and very great dis- j coloration about the wound, due to the f suffusion of blood under the skin. Ihe part becomes greatly swollen, and may even mortify. The general symptoms come on quite j rapidly. Sometimes within ten or twen ty minutes of the bite there is a rapid and weak pulse, the victim is nauseat ed, often vomits, staggers as he walks, nd suffers from marked and increas ing prostration. Death may occur di rectly from the action of the venom, or it may follow later, and be due to. pros tration resulting from the gangrene oe currlng at the site of the bite. Recovery, which occurs In about three-quarters of the cases of rattlesnake-poisoning, even when untreated, Is very prompt, the symptoms of de pression disappearing as rapidly as they came on. When one has been bitten by a poi sonous snake, the first thing to do is to prevent the entrance of the poison tnto the general circulation, which Is to be done by tying a cord or a strip of cloth as tightly as possible about the limb above the bite; then the part bitten should be cut freely with a sharp knife, with two or three cross-cuts, so that It will bleed freely. Sucking the wound Is good for the victim, but dangerous for ,the person who does It, for the poison may be ab sorbed through any small abrasion near the mouth. The elimination of the poison that may have been obsorbed should be pro moted by the use of purgatives, and wrapping the victim In blankets with hot bottles to promote perspiration. Al cohol Is of service In moderate quanti ties, but it should never be taken in amount sufficient to produce Intoxica tion. Youth's Companion. WEALTH FROM JUNK. Thieve Are Reaping a Rich Har vest from San Francisco Rulni. . Conner wire to the value of $500 was stolen from the Postal Telegraph Com pany's'' former office about 12 o'clock Wednesday night A gang of five men carried fifteen colls of wire to a wag on, which was driven by a member of the gang, and before the arrival of a patrol wagon loaded with policemen, under Detective Sergeant Ed Gibson, the thieves escaped with their booty. Not onlv the telegraph companies but the United Railroads and Telephone Company have been heavy losers from the depredations, of a well-organized band of Junk thieves, who determine in favor of the more valuable junk, sucn as copper wire and brass findings. A ready market is found for this loot, some Junk dealers making no scruples about purchasing all that Is brought to them.. The wire is melted Into crude Ingots and sent to the Eastern smelt ers. The methods of the thieves in loot Inn the ruins In the burned district are extremely simple. Several members of the gang search the ruins, and, after selecting such pieces of Junk as will command Uie highest price, cast It Into the street It Is an easy matter for others to gather the Junk without at tracting atteuion. Boys have been engaged by Junk dealers to pick up bits of copper, and in this way have contributed- largely to making the business of the junk men lucrative. Great nlles of Junk of all descriptions are piled In the courtyard In the rear of the police headquarters at the Low- j ell High School. In the days lmrne-' dlately following the tire the police confiscated quantities of junk and made a great number of arrests. The men arraigned In the police courts are fined a nomlual sum, which Is quickly paid. San Francisco Chronicle. fn Hxplanatlon. "You hear so many people quoting about 'the way of the transgressor. What does It mean, anyway?" "My dear sir, the 'weigh of the trans-, gressor' Is usually about 1,800 pounds of coal to the ton." Philadelphia Ledger. A man looks in a parlor for a wife, and when he finds her demands ttat Jsbo be more at come In the kitchen. I S. F. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to all calls, both night and day. Calls promptly aoNwered. office ouTblrd Htreel. Albena. Oregor t THE t 1ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, pkop. i Only First-class notel in the City. I llf I THE ST. NICHOLS Is the only one that can accommodate commercial travelers. 1 : lit : in Can beiecomended for Us clean and well ventilated rooms. 4 Cor. Maiw and Third, Athena, Or. 4 COMMERCIAL LIVERY STAELE 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 . Oregon Shopj Line dUnlom Pacific Through Pullman standard and sleeping cars daily to Omaha, Chicago; tourist sleeping car dally to Kansas City; through Pullman tourist gleepliiK cars, personally conducted, weekly to Chicaeo. with free reclinlne cha'.r cars, seats free, to the east daily (roin rcuuieiou. ARRIVE TIME SCHEDULES HBPART Dally. ATHENA, ORE. Daily. Walla Walla, Day ton, Pomeroy, I,ew iston, Colfax, Pull-11-55 a m. an, Moscow, the ll;a.m. Couer d'Alene dis trict, Spokane and all points north. Walla Walia- Pen- 12:30 p n dteton Mixed Fast Mall for Pen- dleton, LaOrande, Baker City, and all . pointseastvlaHun tington, Ore., Also for Umatilla, Hepp 4:53 p m ner, The Dalles, 4:53 p. m Portland, Astoria, Willamette Valley Points, California. Taooma. Reatl le, all Sound Points. Pendleton - 'Walla 6:30 pm Walla Mixed , J. 8. ioblo Agent, Ai.hena 3 M OF AUD 2 Saving at the Spigot Wasting at the Bung" &-y .''J? am W. 4 2ffe the r'-'rcfVJk to SrtA"-5"-. f . J lISm JI MADE TO PAINT BUILDINGS j? WITH, OUTSIDE AND INSIDE. It covers more surface, spreads easier, and lasts longer than any other prepared paint, or hand-mixed lead and oil. CALL gKMHg COLOR Umatilla Lumber Yard THE TUi-A-LUFl LUMBER CO. JkCK WEIR, MANAGER v Athena, Oregon Building Material and Fuel Yards at Walla Walla, Touchet and Lowdon, Wash., and Athena, Adams and Freewatery Oregon. ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Parton Milling Co Flour is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest and best; equipped mill in the west, ot the best selected v Bluestem wheat grown any where. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sells American Beauty for Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Waitsburg, Wash. - llB9HEIa8E f NO POISONS. CONFORMS TO NATIONAL PURE FOOD AND DRUG LAW. The Original Laxative Cough Syrup containing Honey and Tar. Art Improvement over all Cough, Lung and Bronchial Remedies. Pleasant to the taste and good alike for young and old. All cough syrups containing opiates constipate the bowels. Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar moves the bowels and contains no opiates. Prepared by PINE-VLE MEDICINE COMPANY. CHICAGO, V. S. A. SOLD IN ATHENA AT HAWK'S PIONEER DRUG STORE p- h F- I 0. 'rAf- Ivi-Su'A- '-' j "fcj bfajsW sf 11 g j DISEASES .. . SAVED UEHl SQN'S'UFE i i ; My son Rex as taken down a year 6go with lung trouble. We doctored some months without improvement. Then I began giving Dr. King's New Discovery, and I soon noticed a change for the better. I kept this treatment op for a few weeks and now my son is perfectly well and works every day. Iims. SAMP. pp Ava Mo SOLD AND GUARANTEED That's what buying poor paint means. Paint may be low-- fc priced by the gallon and be M extravagant to use owing to wearing quality. After . paint is applied it's too late save. -Start right and use Itl.. . f)f ric limit Mil iWJnmw a FOR CARDS ! per acK - - , Athena, Oregon 5 50c AND $1.00 BY C
