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-U4iXa. ,,MMlft6xi IWMMIMillWilinillt.lWWftA. t. A .,.-,M n .. . . ". . . . i miff ' ' . J ."...,.- '. . . , . 4 ATHENA PRESS tacsdart and Friday K B. IBOYD .Pubfeher It will be hard to put a permanent coat of whitewash on the licorice trust When a girl Is pretty she doesn't have to learn housekeeping to get mar ried. The man who doesn't want anything from the public has a way of helping himself. Indications are that the Interurban Is going to make itself a characteris tic of-1907. Can you think of anything that is easier or that pays better returns on the investment than pleasing a little child? Professor Lowell says there are ca nals on Mars that are thirty-five miles wide. This may be accepted as a rath er broad statement Now that several Frenchmen have been accidentally Injured In duels, we may soon expect a clamor for the de- brutallzlng of the sport The world Is certainly growing bet ter. Fewer public officials are riding on free passes this year than In any former year for a generation. It Is explained that the robber who held up a train In Virginia recently got nothing. That is unfortunate. He should have got five years at least All Merzl, the new Shah of Persia, Is described as a man who possesses an Iron will. Also he has more step mothers than any other ruler now extant The new pure food law does not as we understand, prevent the manufac turers putting pictures on the cans that will make our mouths water to look at them. The Standard Oil crowd may be fined $68,000,000 by the Ohio courts. Don't, however, make any big wagers that the maximum penalties will be Imposed. Nobody Is now talking about annex ing Cuba. It seems much more satis factory to have the United States mili tary down there, with Cuba paying the expenses, f 't;'. The Howard Goulds are again being sued. Mr. and Mrs. Gould have for some years past been enabling the New York lawyers to keep from being over taken by anything like ennui. Diamonds are reported to be going down in price. This is probably due to the fact that general prosperity has made It possible for so many people to have diamonds that they have become common. A HELP TO OTHERS. lngs toward lawyers In the mass Is not one of respect and affection. The badgering of witnesses under cross ex- animation which small lawyers delight In and which judges permit when they should not Is an old evil which creates - "That was a beautful thought the for the badgering lawyers the cordial minister gave ns about being on the dislike not only of the badgered victims lookout for little unobtrusive ways we but of most of the laymen whq witness can help others, wasn't It?" said Miss the performance. Spears, fervently, to Mrs. walley, as I the two women walked slowly home Tnere Is. a homing Instinct among from church together, men as there Is among birds. It Is "Um-m, yes, It's a beautiful thought" a pretty fact in what may be termed said Mrs. Walley, In a guarded man Innate psychology that men as they ! ner, "but the last time parson preached grow old and see the end approaching that sermon 'twas Ave years ago, Just r . if. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to all I palla Knfh niolif mrA Aa . , Call! promptly answered. Offloe on Third Street. Athena. Oregor The Czar has written a ' poem In which he expresses the belief that sad ness will pursue him through life. If sadness Is the only thing that ever gets after him Nicholas will be luckier than most of the other prominent Russians. With a view to facilitate the trans action of business, the London Times Company has been converted into a limited liability corporation. The hares of the private company which publishes the Times have become so subdivided In the course of descent through four generations that then) are now about one hundred and fifty proprietors, some of whom hold as lit tle as one-flftleth part of the one-hundred and fifty-second part of an orig inal one-fifth. Assassination never yet won a victory for an individual, a party oj a cause and It never will. The murder of Lleutentant General Pavloff adds an other to a shamefully long list of sim ilar crimes In Russia, but like all those that have gone before this one will bring no fruits to the assassin and his friends. A class of people, whether under a Cznr of a president, who resort to the torch and the bomb are not entitled to liberty. The man who slays In the dark or who shoots down In cold blood and the party which supports such a man are unfit for self government The yoke of national op pression can't be broken by murdering Individuals. A corporation recently paid more than a hundred and fifty thousand dol lars In fines Imposed by the court for breaking the laws relating to rebates. This was an Important episode tu the moral housecleanlng to, which Ameri can business Is being subjected. Hut It Is not so Important as another pay ment that was made within the same week. A prominent citizen of New York voluntarily paid the city twenty seven thousand dollars back taxes which he had had deducted btfcause he misunderstood the law relating to the exemption of mortgages. How many Americans pay the taxes which they knew they owe, even If the amount la more than the assessor determines? Joseph II. Chonte tells lawyers that they should be courteous In the cross examination of witnesses. He also ex presses the Judgment that rudeness and discourtesy hurt the lawyers who employ them. Lawyers as a class are not loved. Most men at some time or Cther have had disagreeable experi ence with them and while they may respect Individual lawyers their feel- have a disposition to return to the places where they were born to await the summons. They do not always o.bey this prompting; Indeed, It Is dis regarded in more cases than It Is heed ed. But the instinct Is there. It is declared by students of biology that the love of one's birthplace Is congenl tal and that a man who was born near the sea, for Instance, will always have a yearning to return to the ocean, even though he dwells far Inland from In fancy to old age. Another phase of this homing instinct Is the desire that men experience to be burled among their kindred. It Is this Instinct which accounts for the transportation of dead bodies over thousands of miles of land and sea that they may lie in some coun try graveyard, perhaps, within sight of a farmhc.use deserted half a century ago. The author of "Waverly" com pared the course of a man through the world to that of a hare, which is start ed from her form and after a long chase and making a large circle ends by returning to the nest from which she started. Like the wounded deer, man yearns to reach home to die. Any eastbo.und overland train contains evidence of it in the poor consumptive who, having vainly sought the climate of Arizona or California in the hope of prolonging life, turns his face home ward when all hope is at an end. "Go ing home to die" is o.ne of the saddest sights in life. Collateral to this in stinct and akin to It In origin is the desire which city men of country birth experience for rural life as they grow older. This yearning for the country Is, Indeed, not confined to the country bred. Nearly all men experience it and this Is the result of atavism In herited love for the soil persisting through many generations of city dwel lers. As man grows old he desires to get back to nature. So that in these things, as In many others, we are really not rree agents, but the creatures of heredity, governed literally by the in stincts and tendencies of ancestors dead for centuries. Our forefathers live In us and It is a picturesque thought It promises an Immortality that we can all understand and ap preciate. WHERE IDEALS QUICKLY DIE. Commercial Atmosphere of New York City Acta aa Cramp on Genlne, What ability or skill the great man of the provinces brought with him to the metropolis may be only the foun dation for real work. There will sure ly be extensive revising of Ideals and methods. A story Is told of a poet who arrived in town with a complete epic. This found no acceptance, so after cursing the stupidity of the public and the publishers he took to writing "Sun day stuff." Soon the matter-of-fact at titude of the workers around him, with the practical view of the market he acquired, led him to doubt the literary value of the work he had done In the sentimental atmosphere of his native place. Presently a commission to write a column of humor a week came to him and he cut his epic In short lengths, tacked a squib on each fragment and eventually succeeded In printing it all as humor at a price many times larger than the historic one brought by "Par adise Lost." Another newcomer brought unsal able plays and high notions of the aus terity of the artistic vocation. Three months after his arrival he was de lighted to get a commission to write the handbook which a utilitarian pub lisher proposed to sell to visitors seek ing the metropolis. This commission brought not only a fair payment for the manuscript on delivery but Involv ed a vital secondary consideration. The title of the work was "Where to Eat in New York," and Its preparation made It necessary for the author to dine each evening for a month In a different cafe at the proprietor's ex pense. Atlantic. before you came here It made con siderable trouble in my family. "Yea," continued Mrs. Walley, with an unseeing gaze on the changing fol iage of the village trees, "Hiram saw a letter directed to his Aunt Letitia lying on the sitting room table, and he thought be wouldn't wait for me, to ask him to post It same as I always had to do two or three times before be remembered. "That sermon was right fresh In his mind, and he picked up that letter, sealed It stamped It and posted It all without saying a word to me till next day. Then he spoke' of it real modest and yet pleased with himself. " 'I'm going to try to live up nearer to that sermon than I've been doing. Handy,' he said to me, 'and maks things easier for you j lift some o' the little burdens o' life ofTn your shoul ders.' "'Well, Hiram,' I said, as soon as I could speak without taking his head right off, for you know I'm high-tempered, excepting for what grace I've got 'I know you meant well but that wasn't a letter to your Aunt Letitia you've sent off. M That envelope had her old address on of course you didn't no.tlce that She'll get it but It'll make her mad as a hornet when she sees it and thinks I've been careless and forgotten the new place; and Inside were three ele gant crochet patterns I was calculat ing to take over to the minister's wife to-morrow. I put 'em In that old en velope for safe-keeping they've been there more'n six months. I was In tending tq let the minister's wife copy them. I laid the envelope out soon as we got back from meeting, so I'd re member. " 'Your Aunt Letitia despises fancy work, so she'll throw them in the fire and then sit down and write me.' "So she did," added Mrs. Walley, grimly, "and it took a good deal of work tq get her straightened out "On the whole, there wasn't any lasting harm done, but I was only thinking as I sat there this morning, I was sort of relieved to think Hlram'a cold kep' him home from church to day, all things considered." MARK TWAIN'S "INSIDE PRICE." Hard on a Drowning; Man. Vleuxtemps, the famous violinist used to tell the following story : When crossing London bridge one day he was suddenly brushed aside by a wretched tatterdemalion, who climbed the par apet aud plunged out into the river. The foot passengers crowded around Im mediately to watch the unfortunate man as he rose to the surface, and In a trice some one shouted, "I'll bet he drowns J" "Two to one he'll swim ashore," was tho answer. The rest of the pedes trians Joined In the betting. Meantime Vleuxtemps rushed down How the Poor Bookseller Felt Over "Discounts." Mark Twain some time ago told this story at a dinner given to Tax Commis sioner Charles Putzel at the Freund schaft Society Clubhouse In New York : "1 saw Mr. Putzel twenty-five years ago In Putnam's book store. I went In there and asked for George II. Putnam, and handed In my card. A young man took it in, but came back and said that Mr. Putnam was busy and could not see me. I bad merely gone there on a social call and started to leave. . As I was going out my eye was attracted to a big, fat, Interesting-looking book. It was entitled The Invasion of En gland la the Fourteenth Century by the Friars.' I asked the price of It "'Four dollars,' was the answer. "What discount do you allow pub lishers?' " 'Forty per cent off." "'Well,' I said, 'I am a publisher,' "He put down the figures '40 per cent on the card. "I said ; 'What discount do you al low authors?' "He said: 'Forty per cent "'Well,' I said, 'I am the author. You can put that down. What discount do you allow the clergy?' "He said, '20 per cent' 'Well,' I said, 'I am on the road. So I took 20 per cent for that "He put down the figures and never smiled once. Here I was working off all these scintillating brilliancies on him, and not even a spark of recog nition. I wag almost in despair. I thought I would try him once more, so I said : " 'You know I am also a member of the Human Race. Would you allow me 10 per cent off for that?' "He set that down never smiled so I said: " There Is my card with my address on It I have no money with me. Send the bill to my home at Hartford. "I picked up the book and was going away when he said: 'Walt a minute; there Is 40 cents coming to you.'"! Publisher's Weekly. Why He Doesn't Boy. "He's a regular Jack-of-all-trades. Why, he built his own garage." "Did he? I wasn't aware that ha owned a car." "He doesn't The only car that he'd care to buy Is just a foot too long for to the river bank, secured a waterman the garage he built" Cleveland Plain aud rowed out to the rescue. Just aa Dealer. the boatman was about to reach forth to grasp the poor fellow, who by this time was floundering about In the wa- Haay. "But," said Brlghtley, "If you were sure the fellow who beat you In the ter, having lost his desire for death, saloon was a policeman, why didn't tho spectators above cried out : "Leave you take his number?" him alone! There's a bet on It !" "Well," replied Luschman, "I e The oarsman drew back Into the had had a number too many already." boat, and the unfortunate wretch sank Philadelphia Press. before their eyes. There always seems more excuse for A postage stamp flirtation never has man to beat a mu,e than to whIP any effect on anyone but the mail horse. clerks ; they swear a little If the stamp ' Any woman who stoops to marry sel ls ou the wrong corner. dam gets time to straighten up agula. THE ST. NICHOLS HOTEL $ J. E. FROOME, pbop. 1 1?? J iOnly First-class Hotel in t the City. Iff THE ST. 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