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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1907)
ATHENA PRESS Tuesday and Fridays F.B.BOYD Publisher A negro In Manitoba Is turning wblte. terhaps be bas been feeling a little off color. It makes a young man crazy mad to be called a boy and an old man not to be. SUGAR IMPORTS FALL OFF. consultation of that high organ than of their carpetbags as to what they I shall pack into them for a Journey on Jr Trad Diverted from the steam cars. And, singular as If. Coontrr to Japan. may appear, these misguided men con- Japan and China have taken tribute about as little to the support of doctors and undertakers as others. Every time the clock ticks Rockefel ler gets $1.90. lie can afford to watch the clock." Goldwln Smith says there Is money in literature. . There is. But the trou ble Is to get It out Only a mother can distinguish be tween the miscblevousness of her boy end the badness of the boy next door- Bret Ilarte's Yuba dam has been de stroyed by Are. It might be mentioned that Yuba dam Isn't reformed spell ing. Any samples of simplified spelling that slip Into Uncle Joe Cannon's cor respondence he credits to his stenog rapher. Lieutenant Feary says seeking the North Pole compels hunger and hard ship. And that's why those who keep on trying to find It are heroes. A turtle 4,000 years old was recently eaptured oft" the Galapagos Islands. The name of the man who cut his In itials on Its back is not revealed. Chicago is still sending Milwaukee Avenue Bank ollicials to the peniten tiary, notwithstanding the bankers' ward at Joliet Is already crowded. Prsldent Eliot, of Harvard, recently said that rowing and tennis are the only honorable college sports. He must have overlooked mumblepeg and pinochle. Mark Twain is 71, and announces that he expects to live "many more years to enjoy the beauty and hospital ity of this world." There's the optim ism of youth for you. When a fellow gets mixed up In a scandal he is always "a well-known club man," even If the only club he be longs to Is a back-alley society for the promotion of crap-shooting. William Dean Ilowells Insists that genius is merely another name for hard work. Somehow this does not har monize with the theory that 'genius always wears patches on the seat of Its trousers. There Is a shadow of romance ovei the past that leads many peopie to speak of the "good times of long ago." It is wise of beneficent nature to let the man of 70 years forget the cares and anxieties that beset the earlier years of his life, and permit him to live happily In the memory of "good old times." He forgets the monotony of the nightly meal and only remembers "the delicious cornmeal mush that mnfhpT liQArl f-n nifllfo" fill tha hrtfiaa- kpenpr of to-dav wonders If she knows on'y bulk of Java'a sugar crop the United States this year, says New York Post Up to Nov. 1 a little less than 100,000 tons had been re- l S. . Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Thla Special attention given to all i calls, both night and day. the CalU promptly answered. Office on Tbtrd tit Ul AhAa away .from the THE celved at all Atlantic ports, as against fty If 1 0 f I ft I O DATE I over 300,000 tons last year. tule lllUilULu HU I tL 2 At tms time last year a big fleet of steamships, sugar laden, was lying un der the lea of Delaware breakwater awaiting orders to come to New York or go to Boston to discharge. But the Indura, which made the breakwater yesterday, and the Caudelhoe, which arrived there on the 5th and is now docked at Long Island city, are the I Only sugar ships that have arrived anything at all about cornmeal mush. The fact is, the laborer of to-day has luxuries that Queen Elizabeth never dreamed of daily mail, telephone, street cars, electricity for domestic purposes, homes well lighted, well plumbed, and well heated, to say noth ing of the thousand and one articles that -we dally use, and d regard as luxuries matches, for example. Nowadays contagious diseases do not devastate our cities, because State and municipal laws unite to enforce pro tective sanitation, and never were homes so clean and well cared for as by the housekeepers of to-day. The so ciety or business woman Is tired has no time to go home and rest, so she goes to the parlors of a professional masseuse, and In an hour emerges a new woman, rested and happy and ready for a strenuous evening. Are your feet tired? In ten minutes the chiropodist will fix you up so you can dance till 1 a. m. The manicurist will attend to your hands, and the hah" spe cialist will dress your hair and adjust your complexion for you, and men are Just as well cared for as are the worn en. How Inconvenient It must lave been to have been alive even fifty years ago! The good old times? Think of a trip to Europe then and now, and each coming year brings us new lux uries. Just as much as automobiles are ahead of ox-carts, Just so much will airships excel automobiles, and through new devices, the luxuries of to morrow will exceed those of to-day. A few years will find stoves and furnaces but cumbersome nuisances of the past, and the ash gentleman will be forgot ten. Good old times? To-day Is the best day the world ever saw, and to morrow will be better. A Lancaster (Pa.) hotelkeeper is troubled with a strange affliction, that deprives him of the power of speech for months at a time. As It is not con tagious, the women In the neighborhood are not unduly excited over it A Cumberland, Md., woman has mar ried a man because he paid her fare when she got on a street car without her pocketbook. There are men who will be likely to hesitate a long time, after this, before daring to help ladles In such distress. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand. the British nmbasador to this country, has resigned, and Intends to retire from the diplomatic service, lie has repre sented his country In Washington for three years, and has ably assisted in the preservation of the friendly rela tions between the two great English speaking nations. Occasionally there Is a strong move ment among Christians throughout the world against any further degradation of the guileless Hindu by selling him factory made gods. The present agi tation followed the discovery that man ufacturers In America were selling a superior god for less money than the British god factories could turn out. The excitement is peculiarly Intense among the orthodox In England. We are educating our young men for Idle gentlemen, trying to make lawyers, preachers, doctors and clerks out of material that is needed for blacksmiths, carpenters, merchants and other honest "hewers of wood and drawers of wat er." It is a mistake and a big one to teach boys and girls to believe that labor Is disgraceful and to' do nothing for a living Is more becoming to society. There are sous and daughters who are now being educated to play the "lead ing lady" and "walking gentleman" In the great drama of life who will l'ght out for the poor house or the ppnlten tlary before the curtain drops ou the last sad act of tue play to whlea they have been educated by their Indulgent parents. Inflated Book Price. Hall Calne Is bringing out a 50-cent book in London In order to prove that it would pay the publishers better to issue new books at that price instead of at the usual $1.12. "Mr. Hall Caiue," said a New York editor the other day, "has felt for some time that books should come down. On his last visit here he Insisted that the present price, In view of the cheapness of modern publishing methods, was too high. He said that the publishers were like the druggists. "And he illustrated his meaning with a story. "There was a druggist In a certain town who was famous for an ointment of his own manufacture. He sold this ointment nt $1.05 a box. A customer came to him one day, took a box of the ointment and asked If he wouldn't throw off the odd money for a poor man. "'Well,' said the druggist, 'you look like a deserving case, so I will.' "The customer grabbed up the oint ment, threw down a nickel and bolted. " 'The dollar's the odd money I meant,' ' he explained hastily, as he shot out of the door. "The druggist rushed out Just In time to see him turning the corner. "'Go on, you beggar!' he shouted. 'I've made three cents out of you as it Is.'" ' from Java since the first of the month, and they brought less than 10.000 tons between them. Since the beginning of the new crop sugar shipments from Java In June, between twenty and twenty-flye vessels have arrived at all Atlantic ports, as against sixty or more for the same period last year. Ordinarily this would be Just about the height of the season, but maritime agents and sugar importers agree that no more than a dozen or fifteen more cargoes are expected ' here before the i season closes. "Of all lonesome trips I ever made In the Java trade this was the worst," said Captain Nisbet of the Candelhoe, on the floor of the maritime exchange, this morning. "I had plenty of com pany all around the Java Islands col lecting my cargo, but when it came to clearing, I was left to go alone, the oth ers all beading for Japan or China. At the Delaware breakwater when I arrived there wasn't another sugar ship to greet me, and I was looked on . as a sort of curiosity when it was learned what my cargo was, and that I had come from Java." j At the offices of the American Sugar Refining Company and of Lueder & Co., the principal New York importers of Java sugar, it was said that the un usually small shipments were not due to a shortage of crops, but to the j largely Increased demand in China and Japan, growing out of the Im proved Industrial conditions following the settlement of the Japanese-Russian war. J. E. FROOME, peop. First-class Hotel in the City. THE ST. NICHOLS is the only one that can accommodate . commercial travelers. Can beieoomended (or its clean and well ventilated rooms. Cor. Maih and Third, Athxha, Or. The index expurgatorlus of food, so to speak, has so vastly enlarged Itself with the advance of science that there is little left we can eat It has come to pass that If we are properly careful of our health we will starve to death. Science has lent Itself to the adultera tion of food so generously and has In vented cheap substitutes with such Skill that nothing Is what It seems to bo. The marvel of it all Is that any human life remains. And still more marvelous la it that the man who eats what Is set before hhn, asking no ques tions, is the one who generally enjoys the most robust health. Some men con vey food to their stomachs with no (uore questioning and with no more Counsel's Keqneat Honored. Gov. Folk once told of a lawyer In Arkansas who was defending a young man of malodorous record. Ignoring the record, however, the counsel pro ceeded to draw a harrowing picture of the white-haired, aged father In St Louis, awaiting anxiously the return of the prodigal son to spend the Christ mas holidays with him. "Have you the hearts," declaimed the lawyer to the Jury, "to deprive the poor old man of this happiness?" The Jury, however, found the pris oner guilty. Before passing sentence, the Judge called for the prisoner's Jail record, and after a careful examina tion of the same, he blandly observed : "I find that this prisoner has some five previous convictions against him. Nevertheless, I am happy to state that the learned counsel's eloquent appeal will not remain unanswered, for I shall commit the prlsouer to the Little Rock Jail, where, nt the present moment, his aged parent is serving a term of ten years, so that father and son will be enabled to pass the ensuing Christmas- i tide under oue roof." New 1'ork Times. The Elocutionist's Curfew. England's sun was slowly setting (Raise your right hand to your brow), Filling ail the land with beauty (Wear a gaze of rapture now) : And the last rays kissed the forehead of a man and maiden fair (With a movement slow and graceful you may now push back your hair) ; ne with sad, bowed head (A drooping of your head will be all right, Till you hoarsely, sadly whisper) "Cur few must not ring to-night." "Sexton," Bessie's white lips faltered (Try here to resemble Bess, Though, of course, you know she'd never worn quite such a charming dress), "I've a lover in that prison (Don't for get to roll your r's And to shiver as though gazing through the iron prison bars). "Cromwell will not come till sunstt" ( Speak each word as though you'd bite Every syllable to pieces) "Curfew must not ring to-night." Out she swung, far out (Now here Is where you've got to do your best ; Let your head be twisted backward, let great sobs heave up your chest; Swing your right foot through an arc of ninety lineal degrees, come down and swing your left foot, and be sure don't bend your knees ; his up for 15 minutes till your face is worn and white, gaze at your mangled fingers) "Curfew shall not ring to-night!" ' the distant hills came Cromwell . (Right hand to the brow once more ; Let your eyes look down the distance, say above the entrance door) At his foot she told her story (Lift your hands as though they hurt) -And her sweet young face so haggard (Now your pathos you assert Then you straighten up as Cromwell, and Be sure you get it right; Don't say "Go, your liver loves!") well, "Curfew shall not ring to-night t" Harper's Magazine. Then Keep Then, O'er COMMERCIAL LIVERY STABLE 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, . ATM, ORE "Saving at the Spigot Wasting at the Bung" That's what buying poor paint means. Paint may be low 1 priced by the gallon and be (extravagant to use owing to to it s poor covering power and wearing- aualitv. After the paint is applied it's too late to save. Start right and use The Shermi-IViluams Paint r MADE TO PAINT BUiiuinua Jr WITH. OUTSIDE AND INSIDE. It covers 'more surface, spreads easier, and lasts longer than any other prepared paint, or hand-mixed lead and oil. ; is. CALL FOR I COLOR CARDS I Umatilla Lumber Yard (Us Oregon hot line Through fullnmii Btundard cars dully to Omaha, Chicago; tourist sleeping car dally to Kansas City; through Pullman tourist sleeping cars, personally conducted, weekly to C'hicairo. with fre cha'.r cars, seats free, to the east daily irom ARRIVE TIMB SCHEDULES DEPART Daily. ATHENA, OEE. Pally. Walla Walla, Day ton, Poraeroy, Lew iston, Colfax, Pull- ,, 11:55 a. m. man, Moscow, the ":66 s. m. Couer d'Alene dis- . trict, Hpokane and all points north. Wa,,a Walia pen- " 12:30 p no dieton Mixed Fast Mall for Pen- ! dletou, LaUrande, Baker City, and all polntseixtviaHuu tington, Ore., Also . for Umatilla, Hepp- 4:53 p m Iler The Daiefs 4:53 1 m . Portland, Astoria! V' Willamette Valley Points, tttliforuia, TaooniH.Seatlle.aU Mound Points. Penriletou - Walla 6:80 p m Walla Mixed J. S. 1'Oble Agent, Athena THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO. JA.CKWEIE, MANAGER Athena, Oregon Building Material and Fuel Yards at Walla Walla, Touchet and Lowdon, Wash., arid Athena Adams and Free water, Oregon. BBlllBlaeilBBIlBll S ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Parton Milling Co. AMERICAN 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 Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Waitsburg, Wash. - ; - - Athena, Oregon BBB9BBBBBBOBBflB0fl 84 BOBBBBBBBBtBB jilOyiYfiSDTii! CON. m u u u u Laa NO POISONS. CONFORMS TO NATIONAL PURE FOOD AND DRUQ LAW. Tho Ordinal L"v CoutfK Syrup containing; Honey and Tar. An Improvement over all CoutfH. Lung and Bronchial Remedies. Pleasant to the taste and good alike for young and old! All coJgK syrups containing opiates constipate the bowels. Bee s Laxative Honey and Tar moves the bowll and contains no opiates. Prepared by PINE-VLB MEDICINE COMPANY. CHICAGO. U. S A SOLD IN ATHENA AT HAWK'S PIONEER DRUG STORE II Quaker Relict-Hoax. A warm friend Is the kind to freeze on to. Nest to cold cash a valuable asset scorns to be hot air. A fellow can't do two things well if being In love is one of them. The things that are lied about are not always too good to be true. Electric Cooking at Sea. On one of the largest and most mod. ern of the trans-Atlantic steamers cook ing Is done entirely by electricity, so that there are none of the fumes and odors or wood, coal and petroleum i clinging to the food when It Is served j a fact sure to be appreciated by i travelers Inclined to seasickness. I In the kitchen of this boat the little j electric stoves are arranged in rows In a manner somewhat resembling the : keyboard of a typewriter. Each stove I cooks a certain meat, fish, vegetable, 1 soup, dessert, etc. The most curious I device Is the arrangement for boiling jeggs. An. ingenious mechanism auto matically pusties tne eggs out of the i water as soon as they are boiled. The- success of this application of electric-' lty to culinary convenience and facility, 1 to say nothing of its cleanliness, should be a hint to restaurant and hotel nro- prletors. Mild Approbation. -i smuiuse juu eujoy classical rtiU slc?' said the artistic person. I No," answered Mr. Cumrox, "I don't exactly enjoy it. But as a social diver- w . sio it's juore Interesting than tryln-. Some people seem to give the Impres-1 tn .wn m a " w' slon that It Is too much trouble to . t"" V,: ' "aau have fuu. 1 g ' You can't always tell how much a If a woman wants to make a suc mnu thinks of himself from the size cess or handling men, her first care of his head the uest mornius. rhila- should be to see that he feels at houm j delphia Press. lu bis own house. BaABdkBtiB V',r ' " -K - T OF THROAT AfiD n n hex 'fttin- FT, m amzsa him F0R QGiJillS ArjD GOLDS" ATuLUHB DISEASES SAVED HER SON'S UFE My son Rex was taken down k year ago with lung trouble. We doctored nw months without improvement. Then I began giring Dr. King a NewDiscovery, 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 ana works every day. MRS- SAMP. RIPPEE, Ava, Mo. SOLD AND GUARANTEED BY 50c AND SI.CO W. M. McB AIDE 4