ATHENA PRESS
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Tuesday and Fridays
F. B.BOYD i Publisher
Some people pay as they go and oth
ers go without paying.
If a man can't make good at any
thing else he is apt to make good ex
cuses. Still, it will be some time before
everyone can spell Just as he Is "dls
poged." The Russian revolutionists may
need cash, but why raise it with dyn
amite? '
Instead of killing its spirt, calamity
acts merely as a sttmulus to most
American cities.
Dr. Parkhurst says "decency and
politics have been divorced." Desertion
or incompatibility?
Japan Intimates that she has passed
the point where she Is willing to sit
still and allow any nation to make
faces at hen
The protests against his spelling re
form scheme have probably convinced
Mr. Roosevelt that It is difficult to be
both right and President
"Money is dangerously plentiful in
summer," says Secretary Shaw. A be
lated warning. Scarcely any of us even
remotely suspected our peril.
There appears to have been some
thing sympathetic and large hearted
about the late Russell Sage after all.
We refer, of course, to Mrs. Sage.
" T' CITY HALL'S HIDDEN OVEN. I
week, he seemed to love me. But, af- I
terward, as his fortune increased, his It Wm vtd Lon Ao to Cook Hot
affection for me diminished. And b iie for w York Aldermen.
got so rich after a while that he said ' Back of one oak panel in the west
he wished I were dead." It is the em wall of the committee room adjoin
story told in a New York divorce court lng the Aldermen's chamber was found
by the wife of E. II. Tucker, a wealthy 1 yesterday a baker's oven of long ago.
ki if ia t onhntnnoe. Aldprman Frank Dowllng was chatting
the pitiful story 'told in a thousand dl- with some friends in the rooin when he
vorce courts all over the country. happened to notice that the upper part
is the pathetic tragedy which, In these of the panel was fitted with binges,
days of wonderful prosperity and, "There must be something behind
rapid fortune-making, has blighted ; there ; none of the other panels has a
homes unnumbered. Money, honestlj binge," Mr. Dow ling remarked after he
got and wisely used, is good to have , had gone on an exploring tour : around
But there Is not enough of it in all the room. It was suggeste d by one ol
" ... i ha imnn Mint it m teht be another se-
tne worm to recompeuse iw - .
the sweet Joys of the humblest home , cret stairway, one similar to that found
St 1st Ind warded by love. Pro.' when the f?"
perity Is a precious blessing to those years ago, leading from he old Council
worthy of It and able to stand It chamber down a winding way to
Bu all the wealth of the mines and small outlet on the north side o th
farms and factories cannot give such hall. adlt" f "
, .!.. tn onea wns used by Aldermen wno aiiei
S u, ?dT , w oi l voting against the Interests of their
nd ,al h Ld sacSce that makes the constituents escaped K" '
Lome the cornerstone of civilization.! Curious to learn 9
The real life Is not outs.de ourselves,
but within. The real possessions are ineuua urBaU
no! what the bands nfay grasp, but coats of paint had been put upon t tL
what the heart may hold. A lot of tools were necessary to force It, and
mefwlH not beiS these vital truths; when It was finally raised there was,
wS anhl hire they can know cs were mystJ
Sand'hC
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virtues and the honest loves-there YXLt fof flnd e dellvered
the real prosperity. I this lecture, which explained every-,
S. Y: Sharp
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Special attention given to all
calls, both night and day.
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That's what buying poor paint
means. Paint may be low
priced by the gallon and be
extravagant to use owing to
to it's poor covering power
and -wearing quality. After
the paint is applied it's too late
to save. Start right and use
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J well ventilated rooms.
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tKf MADE TO PAINT BUILDINGS
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i fma cnronrlcs easier, and lasts
longer than any other prepared paint, or hand-mixed
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Umatilla Lumber
Yard
General Plcquart, who defended
Dreyfus, is the new war minister of
France. Colonel du Paty de Jiam win
now lose all confidence In the French
army. v
An Enellshman says the American
face Is joyless. Terhaps he has been
making a study of the faces of Ameri
can girls who have married titled Englishmen.
Boys who were named after Grover
Cleveland are getting old enough to
marry. This will remind the middle
aged citizen that he is not as young
as he used to be.
Five davs before the great storm
struck Pensacola and Mobile In Septem
ber its existence and progress were an
nounced by the weather bureau in these
words : "A tropical disturbance wa
renorted Saturday afternoon as devel
oping south of the Grand Cayman,
probable direction northwest by way
thing : !
"The city hall dates back to 1803.
This room in which you are now stand
ing was In the early days of the history
of this building popularly known as the
Aldermen's tea room, although Its offi
cial designation was the members
room. In those times tne Aiuermen gui
Viewing a sleeping car as a hotel,
there should be a clerk Instead of a
porter to receive and take care of
whatever money the lodger may hap
pen to have about him.
Sometimes one thinks that perhaps
Anna Gould deserves her Bonl de Cas
tellane fate, and then again, upon sec
ond thought, one feels that he would
like to have a chance to kick Bonl.
A train robber was captured out
West a few days ago while he was
asleep. It probably surprised the de
tectives to find that a train robber
ever found it necessary to go to sleep.
of Yucatan channel.- The next day no salary, out me cnyan u u, w
.u.i, h latino ntn snentt Its money ror reiresuuieuiB. .lulj
the Gulf was noted, and Its presence were served with tea and cakes and
in the Gulf was reported the day after, pies, and In order that the cakes and
c.t ok fnth anv th fori nles miEht be served hot a cook was
cast said that it seemed probable that employed and the cooking was done in
the storm would be felt somewhere be- this oven, which must have been closed
tween the mouth of the Mississippi and up for about seventy years, because
the west coast of Florida within twen- the paneling on mese wana
ty-four or thirty-six hours. It reached A ew xors ouu
Pensacola the next day, and on tne
sixth day news of the great damage
done In Fensacola and Mobile was tel
pern nhed all over the country. Resl
dents In the Gulf ports gave little heed
to the warnings, and many lives ana
much property were consequently lost.
Similar conditions prevailed abthe time
of the inundation of Galveston. The
people were warned of the storm, but
wpnt about their business as usual.
ft Is not nosslble to beat back the sea
when it is lashed Into fury, but smp
nins can be anchored in a safe harbor,
and persons and property In exposed
positions can be removed to places of
greater safety
CtMNIERGUL
LIVERY STAELE
HARRY M'BSIOE, MAHACER
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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THE TUi-A-LUi LUMBER CO-
J&CK WEIR, MANAGER
Athena, Oregon
Building Material and
- Fuel
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Yards at Walla Walla, Touchet and Lowdon, Wash ,
and Athena, Adams and Freewater, Oregon.
GDFfiON
Shot Line
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ESTABLISHED 1865
DUNimK4ciFic I Preston-Partoh Milling Co.
Through Pullman standard and sleeping a I I VUWll i M I '"""W v
I cars daily to Omaha, UhicnKo; tourist sleephig
I trinviut fitointntr .ra. tlprsnnAllV Conducted.
weekly to Chicago, with free reclining
cha'.r cars, seats free, to the east daily irom
i reuuieiou-
Nebraska farmers asked the Gov
ernor to parole convicts In the prisons,
that they might help In the corn husk
ing. But what's the use of going to
Jail If a man has to go out and work
Just the same?
A Pottsvllle (Pa.) man fell 400 feet
down the shaft of an abandoned mine
and was rescued without a broken
bone. If he carries an accident Insur
ance policy he must feel now that he Is
wasting his money.
Fifteen boys whose ages ranged from
12 to 15 years formed a Jesse James
Club at Strcuidsburg, Pa., recently and
created some excitement by starting
out for the purpose of robbing and
shooting people. It was fortunate that
each of the boys had a vigorous father
who, didn't believe in the Jesse James
business, but had a good old-fashioneJ
faith In the efficacy of a hickory switch.
Stroudsburg's Jesse James Club has
disbanded and the sale of yellow-backed
novels is reported to have almost
ceased In that town.
Throuch unwarrantable fear of catch
rrv, afw h,,rao me cold from every breath of air, many
was not established to give employ- people house themselves, both day and
ment to various persons who liked to nigm, m ruuwa ayamu. .
amuse themselves by making guesses are little better than air-tight cham
nimnt th annroach of storms. It Is bers. They force themselves to breathe
v, anil ovnorionnod an atmosDhere that Is deficient in oxy
uunuuicvi i'j L.vi.. -. . - , ,
men trained In the science or meteor- gen aim cuiiuuiiuaicu .
. rri..,i .MTiotinna oi-a hatuwi nn add and other oolsonous gases. And,
Uingj-. iron - . il I n
ii .hllnluil nr nn nloa vtnfl PfltBrt AS a TUie. lUe.V BUVO lueir luuuin
v, oovioa nf ovnprimpnts. An er- cessivelv warm. A good fire in an open
uj n --r -
fironnsir a thn propntlnn. nd nreDiace may curry pari vi tuo tuuiom-
lunwun i"1 v-v,.. w j I - -
. I . - . lit. it. Vli1
is due to the appearance of unexpected matea air away wnu tne biuu,
forces to deflect air currents and steam radiators and other heating de-
change barometric pressure. Nearly, if vices which require neither air ducts
not quite, all great storms are foretold nor flues In no way diminish the im-
linnr.9 nnn snmptimes manv aavs. 1 niirltv.
ii i n " ' - " - 1 1
i t- la mnnh snfpT to hppd The effects of breathlne vitiated air
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the warnings of the weather bureau are especlaly pernicious to the health
than to laugn at inem. xne tarmer or cnnaren. j.uey ore smciaiy "i""
who cuts his nay wnen pleasant aays rested nrst in tne nervous oyoicm u,
.,..iiwi ta mnro likelv to ffpt it I fiio rnrinntinn nf drowsiness and men-
nlC JflCUillVU to " ' " -- -rf C5-- I W1V 1 V. ... V -
cured and safely under cover than his tal dullness. Poisonous matters that
neighbor who Ignores tne aaiiy Dune- ure normally exnaiea Dy me iuub
, ARRIVE TIME SCHEDULES IHPAKT
Dally. ATHENA, ORE. Daily-
" Walla Walla, Day
ton, Pomeroy, Lew
Iston, Colfax, Pull- ,,-, m
.. m man, Moscow, the
trict, Spokane and
all points north.
Walla Wal.a - Pen- r
12:30 p m dieton Mixed
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Fast Mail for Pen
dieton, LaOrande.
Baker City, and all
potntseist via Hun
tington, Ore., Also
for Umatilla, Hepp
4:53 p m ner, The Dalles, 4:53 p. m
Portland, Astoria.
Willamette Vallej
Points, lalifornla.
Tanoma, Seatt le, all
Bound Points.
Pendleton - Walla 6:30 p m
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Flour is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest
and best equipped mill in the west, of the best selected .
Bluestem wheat grown any where. Patronize home
industry. Your grocer sells American Beauty for
Athena
Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers
Waitsburg, Wash. - - Athena, Oregon 5
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tins from Washington.
The quiet, honest citizen who lives
well within his Income, having what he
needs in the way of comfortable living,
adequate feeding, tasteful dressing,
with some relaxations and pleasures,
all In such proportion as his means jus
tify, stands agape at his neighbor who
earns no more but who makes a deal
of show with what he has and what ue
does and doubts his own ability to niau-
age. But the difference Is not so much
apparently in ability to make a given
sum of money go Its fullest length as of
willingness to incur debt and forget it.
AS!
A successful buslnes man who died
In Buffalo, N. Y., leaving a wife and
twelve children a fortune of several
mllllonse of dollars, also left a provis
ion In his will reducing the share of
his estate to be given to his widow iu
the event of her remarriage. The fear
. that the mother of his twelve children
might become the wife of some other
man was manifested m more than one
paragraph of this man's will. In con
trast with the Buffalo millionaire's so
licitude lest the wife of his bosom
should take another husband Is the
conduct of Joseph AVldrewitz, a He
brew citizen of New York, who dial not
long ago, leaving an estate of $20,000.
He willed a good share of his wealth
to his widow, with a stipulation that If
she shall remarry she shall get an addi
tional $2,000 as a wedding present
"When my husband was 21 and I
was 17, and ho was getting $11 a
skin are retained In Increasing quanti
ties In the blood. They render It ma
nure, and a form of anemia Is, soon
IT 1 M I
produced. This becomes apparent m
nallnr of countenance; languor, wenn-
ness. degression and loss of appetite.
The power of resisting disease Is di
minished and a condition of chronic in
validism Is ultimately developed.
The dread of drafts now becomes jus
tifiable, for, In the debilitated state of
the svstem. even the currents of cold
air that descend from the windows and
iin K-eo th uime walls increase the susceptibility to In
attention to his advertising as he does Jection to such an extent that the form
i . I,.., ,iMn unA wmlnplue of disease acquired depends only upon
stock will never argue tnat advertising the kind of infectious agents that gain
doesn't pay. access to tne oouy. , i iii
I oiHioriuniiy inu uc uuuiucu ivi
o.Haii,0 Avnen. I cnviwth of the eerins of tuberculosis, ln-
ditures of the New York department fluenza, pneumonia or cerebrospinal
stores were less than one-half of that meningitis. And even when germs do
of to-day. Twenty years ago It was not enter the body, there may be a
less thau one-tenth. Thirty years It pnysicai aecimo ium. t
was a minute fraction. Note how these
stores have prospered and broadened,
Does advertising pay?
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syrups containing opiates constipate the bowels. Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar move the bowels
and contains no opiates. Prepared by PINE-ULE MEDICINE COMPANY. CHICAGO. V. S. A.
SOLD IN ATHENA AT HAWK'S PIONEER DRUG STORE
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Some aggressive country merchants
fatal disease of some of the vital or
gans.
The exclusion of fresh air is a radical
mistake that should be corrected before ,
nermanent damage has been done. The
advertise to have on hand all of the practice of ventilation can be learned
catalogues of the different mail order best during the summer season, when
houses and offer to duplicate any price1 drafts are least noticeable After one
fouml lu them and to save their cus- has become accustomed to the breathing
tomers the freight charges in addition.; or pu"j 'r' i w'e
Thev find this method very effective in of an unventilated room Is Intolerable.
holding their old customers and gain-; While this habit is being acquired how-
init new ones. The mall order house ever, uj
. 8 ....I. . i irainst sensitiveness to drafts by sys-
IlUS COllie lO oiay, n no uuoiucm jo -
built up through advertising. Talking tematic bathing in cold water. The
uuiif i c . - m -.,lf.-v than YTV1K-wia an nrrtuux.
aealnst the mall order house win not com u .ui
able stimulation of the nervous sys-
h. do more and better advertising and tern, and a moderate draft need not be
must meet competition as tie finds it, "-
not as he might wish it were. There prodnct ot Texas.
is an evolution under way in the bust- Less than one-tenth of the area of
Hess of Belling merchandise, and the Texas is onder cultivation, and yet in
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matt Wno fUlJS iu iu game uiubl ue jyuo IU CUlio inuuuu-u osuiuhuici
ncsresslve and face the music Boll- nroducts valued at $300,000,000. ;
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My son Rex was taken down a year ago 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 up for a few weeks and now my son is perfectly
well and works every day. MRS. SAMP. RIPPEE, Ava, Mo.
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