The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, June 04, 1907, Image 2

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    ATHENA PRESS
. Twdwi and fridsyi
T. B. BOYD Publisher
Some men are unable to save money
because: they haven't any to practice
on.
A New York woman caught a burg
lar and bugged him until be surren
dered. What a chump he wai to sur-
renderl
' Berlin la to hare a world's fair In
1913. We get notice In plenty of time
so that we can begin saving our
money.
How many of U8, If our Income
amounted to 68 cents a second, like
Rockefeller's, would ever forget to
wind the clock?
Mr. Carneele wants to know why
millionaires don't laugh. Probably It
Is because they can't see where there
Is any money In It
There Is some satisfaction to the
countrv In bavin a man like Mr. Oar
negle who can tell Wall street what he
thinks of It without swearing.
To the question where the milk came
from In the milky way, it mignt ne od
served that it probably came from the
cow that Jumped over the moon.
It Is said that the new portrait of
the President is not like him. Notn
lng but a moving picture of the Presi
dent will look natural to most peopie.
Hereafter when some long-winded
ire.', ber of the Douma gets the floor
bis .-olleuKues will no doubt cast am
lous glances at the celling from time
to time.
Montreal's birth rate is higher than
that of any other American city. If
tbo President finds It out be is likely
to become an advocate of Canadian an
Delation.
Scientists claim that when the tem
perature Is down to lero there la still
considerable heat present But, of
course, there Is no law compelling you
to believe It
A Baltimore physician says people
may live to be 100 years old by doing
away with bats. But so many people,
Including Baltimore physicians, find
hats convenient to talk through.
"When you feel a brainstorm com
ing on," advises an exchange, "slip the
cartridges out of your gun." That ad
rice Is all right for the man who can
not conhne himself to shooting off his
mouth.
In a Vandergrlft (Pa.) skating rink
ft 200-pound woman fell on a man and
crushed him to death. Even a man
who Is so foolish as to spend his time
at a skating rink ought to know
enough to steer clear of a 200-pound
woman.
In America the button and In Scot
land the "bawbee" have long furnish
ed to parsimonious hypocrites a means
of defrauding the contribution plate.
Now a rival has risen In Edinburgh, In
the form of Imitation coins made from
pasteboard, and silvered or gilded.
They were put out as souvenirs In
packages of candy toy money for the
children to play store with. Two or
more clergymen have written to the
newspapers to complain that the prac
tice of false giving by means of the
toy coins Is becoming common. In this
country It Is a legal offense to manu
facture Imitations of coins. '
The spreading of disease by Insects
Is now proving to be much more com
mon than was believed to be the case
but a year or two ago or even a few
months ago. The greatest attention
has hitherto been given to those dis
eases wherein the insect acts the part
of a secondary host In which the para
site undergoes some kind of change
not possible In man malaria, yellow
fever, fllarla, Texas fever, etc. It Is
Interesting to find increasing attention
being given to the possibility of the me
chanical transmission of infective or
ganisms from man to man by means
of the commoner Insects, files, bedbugs,
roaches and fleas. There Is no reason
able doubt that In recent wars flies
were responsible for the transfer of ty
phoid bacilli to foods which were not
screened.
There Is a "tainted money" of the
church and it Is the kind that Is whee
dled out of people through their appe
tites and their vanities. Men are the
worst offenders In this respect Women
will make the little sacrifices that are
really great It was a woman, be It
remembered, who gave the symbolical
mite. But a man who has to have his
stomach and his purse appealed to by
the thoughts of a "chicken pie dinner
In the parlor of the church" at a bar
gain, who has to be cajoled Into lay
ing bis offering on the altar by a pret
ty girl whose finishing coquetry Is a
stage soubrette's apron, has little re
ligion In bis soul. It Is the women of
a church who devise wondrous schemes
for making money In which they do
many things which are personally re
pugnant to their gentle and refined
natures. And these schemes are all to
"work" man when he will not do his
straightforward duty In the matter of
religious contributions.
Id few respects do Americana seem
bore extravagant to the average Eu-
ropean than In the large use of tee for
cooling purposes in summer, and in the
elaborate measures to warm their
houses In winter. The Englishman
complains that .the buildings In this
country are overheated. An American
passing a winter In England finds the
houses, both In city and In country, un
comfortably cold. Habits of long
growth, founded on economic condi
tions there and here, account for this
difference of view. Many of the na
tives of Uruguay, In South America,
suffer untold discomfort from living up
to their belief that the artificial heat
ing of houses is Injurious to health. In
damp, chilly weather they get along
without the relief that a little fire
might give. Among the desperately
poor In the Northern States of this
country cases have been known where
a family would remain In bed during
an extraordinary cold day, If they had
no fuel, or wished to economize the lit
tle they had. Good food helps man
as well as domestic animals to resist
the cold. Substantial clothing and well
built houses, carefully protected against
the high winds, greatly lessen one's de
pendence on fuel. Brisk bodily activ
ity also contributes to the same end.
Ventilation often becomes a serious
matter. Although cold air Is not nec
essarily pure, nor warm air necessarily
foul, It Is in the main true that fresh,
outside air Is cold. Its Introduction
under any plan that can be devised
lowers the temperature, and to raise
It again Involves the use of more fuel.
Ventilation is a luxury, but it Is one
that adds so mightily to bodily health
and mental vigor as to be well worth
Its cost
We have assigned different offices to
the two hands rgreetlnsr. hand-shak
ing, writing, drawing, painting etc., to
the right; eating, horse-curbing, card
playing, gun-holding and certain strict
ly "sporting" uses to the left while
only piano-playine has offered eaual ex
ercise for both hands. The necessity
for a new order of thlnes has been
emphasized chiefly In the development
of art Instruction In the schools. In
writing, drawing, painting and model
Ing In the German schools the pupils
are said to employ the right and left
hand alternately. The training la be
lieved to be a great boon to all. espe
cially to the left-handed child, who Is
no longer to be regarded as an ab
normal being, forced to do everything
clumsily with the left hand. Even
with right-handed children the move
ment is toward well-rounded, symmet
rical development and In the direction
of increased control and usefulness of
the body. It Is a fact that every part
of the body which is not exercised for
many generations becomes, through
disuse, first Inactive, then useless and
finally superfluous. It atrophies and
decays. In time, If we persist In the
general disuse of the left hand, we
must becomes a one-armed race, at
least scientists say so. Though we
have all the necessary muscles for
moving the ears no one who has not
acquired this charming faculty In early
childhood is able to wiggle them. In
the same manner we have become so
accustomed to using the right hand and
neglecting the left that unless modern
pedagogy Interferes, humanity Is in
danger of losing Its left hand. Peo
ple who have made a close study Into
this curious subject declare that the
atrophy of the left arm has already
made itself clearly manifest In In
fants. Right-handedness or left-hand-edness
can be detected Immediately af
ter birth, proving the tendency to be
the result of physiological conditions
and hereditary. Ambidexterity is. of
course, the Ideal attainment, for many
more reasons than one. The keenest
mental activity Is as necessary to the
skillful use of both hands as the most
exact knowledge of the smallest de
tails of writing, or drawing, and the
moral of the whole matter is that in
everything that one does, whether with
tue rigut or left hand, mental exercise,
the observing eye and the tenacious
purposes are ever the most Important
things.
No old maid ever lived long enough
to admit she was.
Noise Is very useful for grand opera
and political debates.
Calomel and spanking are both good
for early love affairs.
A girl can think she Is In love when
It Is nothing but the stomach ache!
from cucumbers.
The man that puts a 40 h. p. empha
sis Into his voice has a vacuum where
his Ideas ought to come from.
A very good way not to be proud of
your dressing Is to have a son who
keeps showing you that you are out of
style.
When a man fteps Into the bathtub
full of scalding water and doesnt
swear, It's not because he Is a Chris
tian, but because he Is speechless.
Table t'ork Aared 600 Years. j
The six hundredth anniversary of
the Invention of the table fork, which
was used by King John IV., Duke of
Bretagne, to eat fruit with In 1307,
will be celebrated In sundry parts of
the world. In Farls several banquets
will be given In commemoration of th
event
f OODSTUPTS tS HsXtCO.
WUt tk Hui of tae People Have
te Eat.
In answer to Inquiries from the
United States relative to Mexico's meat
and dairy product supplies. Consul
James A. Le Boy of Durango furnishes
the following report, says the Washing
ton Star.
While the mass of the people of Mex
ico subsist primarily on tortillas (corn
cake) and beans, It Is significant that
In the larger centers of population,
wherever the workmen are getting
higher wages, as a result of the estab
lishment of new industries, they buy
fresh meat and flock to the bakeries of
wbeaten bread. Indeed, the increased
consumption of wheat is one of the
signs of the times In Mexico. It has
become an article of necessity with
families in moderate circumstances, as
It always has been with the people of
wealth ; and these two classes are also
great consumers of meat It may be
put down as a rule that while Mexico
Is still a country dependent primarily
upon corn and beans, all Mexicans who
can afford to do so dally eat a large
amount of meat
It cannot be expected that there will
be any market for fresh meats from the
United States, as cattle raising Is a
pursuit that is followed In nearly all
parts of Mexico. There Is also a duty
of 10 cents Mexican the net kilo (about
24 cents In United States currency
per pound avoirdupois) on fresh meat
In the capital and In some of the other
cities there are small butcher shops,
first started to cater to the trade of
American residents, which have facili
ties for keeping meat several days on
Ice. The Industry of refrigerating beef,
as It Is known in the United States, Is
practically unknown In Mexico. Lately
It has been said that one firm would
attempt it in Mexico city; but there
will be no shipping of refrigerated beef
Into Mexico while freight rates remain
as high as they are, or until the taste
of nearly all the meat eaters Is edu
cated not to demand meat Just killed.
There cannot under present condi
tions, be a great maiket for canned
meats In Mexico. Their price puts
them wholly out of the reach of the
masses of the people, even If they ever
considered their purchase. Fresh meat
Is still a luxury with them, and they
live In a grazing country. Pork, far
more than beef or mutton, Is the poor
man's meat In Mexico, though this Is
more conspicuously the case In certain
regions than in others. Lard Is a lo
cal product everywhere, on a small or
large scale, and forms one of the items
most actively bartered In the town
markets. It Is used by all classes In
every-day cooking and In the prepara
tion of a very large proportion of their
dishes, yet lard is Imported from the
United States In considerable quantity.
Mexico cannot be called a butter-consuming
country, as bread Is commonly
eaten without butter. Lard Is Its sub
stitute to a great extent, where It has
a substitute. Nevertheless the use of
butter is Increasing among Mexicans
themselves, and the foreign population,
especially the Americans, constitute a
growing demand for butter that does
not seem to be met by the starting of
small dairy farms near cities, mining
camps, etc. More than three-fourths of
the butter Imported comes from tho
United States, Spain and Denmark sup
plying nearly all the remainder. It Is
Imported mainly In cans, but the impor
tation of fresh butter In rolls from the
dairies in the lower Mississippi valley
region has been steadily Increasing.
The Imports of American cheese and
milk show constant gains, but In the
nature of things the market for these
products cannot greatly increase.
False Messiahs.
The defense of different persons
claiming to be the Messiah has cost the
Jews a great expense, both In treasure
and human life. One of these, Cozlba,
who lived In the second century of our
era, put himself at the head of the
Jewish nation as their Messiah, and
many of that people adhered to and
defended him. The Romans made war
upon CoElba and his followers, and,
according to admissions made by emi
nent Jewish authority, they lost some
where between 600,000 and 600,000 men
in his defense. The last of these Im
postors was Mordecal, a German, who
first claimed to be of divine origin In
the year 1C82. When the authorities
threatened to punish him as an Im
postor he fled, and his end Is not
known.
Tombstone Refnare for Cat.
One day this week, when the snow
was rapidly turning to slush, and when
St Paul's churchyard was bereft of its
wonted groups of luncheon-hour stroll
ers, one of the churchyard cats, an un
usually soiled and wild-looking speci
men, was seen perched upon the nar
row top of a weather-worn headstone.
The space was uncomfortably narrow,
and, to keep from falling, the animal
was forced to clutch unceasingly. But
the stone was dry, the churchyard
walks were flooded, so the cat stayed,
a soiled bit of white and black fur,
suspicious but apparently resigned.
New York Post
English M apoqne.
A young woman desired a toque, -But
her husband responded, "It's no
Joque,
It costs so much dough,
I'll have to say nough ;
If I paid for that thing I'd be broque."
Philadelphia Ledger.
Poor Papa.
Miss Nearslte Isn't that a new bon
net on your mother?
Miss Wise Well, I really think If s
on papa. Philadelphia Ledger.
. tf. Sharp
PHYSICIAN AND SURGfcON
Special attention given to all
calls, both eight and day.
Call promptly answered. Office on Third
Street. Athena. Oregor
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eommerclal traveler!.
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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
Shoip Line
ism Union Pacific
Through Pullman standard and sleeping
cars dally to Omaha, Chicago; tourist sleeping
car daily to Kansas City; through Pullman
tourist sleeping cars, personally conducted,
weekly to Chicago, with free reclining
chair cars, seats free, to the east daily irom
Pendleton.
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TIME SCHEDULES
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man, Moscow, the
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points east via Hun
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Portland, Astoria,
Willamette Valley
Points. California.
TaconiH. Seatt le, all
ounu roims.
Pendleton - Walla
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Athena
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I had the most debilitating cough a mortal was ever afflicted with, and my friends expected that
when I left my bed it would surely be for my grave. Our doctor pronounced my case incurable,
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Wasting at the Bung"
It covers more surface, spreads easier, and lasts
longer than any other prepared paint, or hand-mixed
lead and oil.
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Building Material and
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and Athena, Adams and Free water, Oregon.
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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
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syrups containing opiates constipate the bowels. Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar moves the bowels
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