The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, June 11, 1907, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextATHENA PRESS tuesdaya ami Tridayt KB. BOYD Publisher Thomas Bailey Aldrlch, tbe poet, Wtt fortune. He inherited It "Why ire so many women InvalldsT" IK Good Health. Presumably because the doctors need the money. Mark Twain might be excused for becoming prolix if he receives 30 cents word for everything he writes. An old-fashioned Kansas editor would like to see a picture of Evelyn Nesblt in the act of washing dishes. "Thaw is a millionaire." Exchange. When he pays bis lawyer's bills It can be changed to read: Thaw was a mill ionaire. Mr. Rockefeller says he thinks be talks too much. Perhaps you may have noticed what a chatterbox he has always been. A Cleveland woman complains that be finds It difficult to run her house on $15,000 a year. It might pay her to search tbe cook's trunk. Tbe nations of the world are willing enough to discuss disarmament, pro Tided it doesn't Interfere in any way with the building of enormous navies. Mark Twain's white dress suit may distinguish him from tbe head waiter, but people who do not know him may wonder which minstrel troupe be is a member of. Have you noticed anybody In the act of shedding tears because of the man ner in which New York's "smart set" was recently trimmed by the Wall street contingent A Cleveland couple became the par ents of fire children In one year. There Is nothing to show, however, that they were striving to win the President's mile of approval. John D. Rockefeller hints that he Is in favor of government ownership of railroads. Does Mr. Rockefeller believe tbe government is bigger and abler than Mr. Ilarrlman? Gen. Funston Is to be kept back In his promotion on account of his youth. The punishment is not severe enough. He ought to be reprimanded besides. What right has a soldier to be young? Unfortunately the laws of California do not provide for the hanging of graft ers who used for their own benefit money that was sent for the relief of the people who were rendered homeless by the Sanp Francisco earthquake and fire. , Fashionable people who follow the fad of driving docked horses should It up and take notice of a fact that has developed in the debates over the New York anti-docking bill. Opposition to the bill, it appears, comes largely from up-State farmers who see that an ntl-docklng law would deprive them of a handy device for working off on the metropolitan market a $50 nag as a $600 blooded hunter or carriage horso. All they have to do is to chop off the tall of the ordinary "plug," and, presto, he Is changed Into a thoroughbred animal. Prof. Bailey of Yale has revealed the relative expenditures of students work ing their way through college and those who pay their way. He makes curious showing. For example, that wealthy students spend more on intoxi cants than on tobacco. Evidently he does not rank tobacco as a "dissipa tion" in tbe popular sense. lie adds that they spend eighteen times as much on pleasures and eighty-two times as much on tobacco and drinks as the poor working students. There's noth ing very surprising In that They prob ably spend relatively as much more on everything. The really interesting thing would be to follow these boys Into life and compare the results at the end of their generation. In testifying in the Thaw trial In New York City experts on Insanity fre Quentlyused tbe term "bruin storm." As defined by them, the term means a sud den, uncontrollable, mental coudltlon depriving one of reason. This defini tion has appeared to give license for the use of the term almost Indiscrim inately. It Is no longer applied to de scribe the conditions of insanity, but to define aud denote extreme excitement. The terra may yet be meaningless. For Instance, a man recently couiniltted murder under circumstances of extreme provocation. The newspaper In describ ing the man's mental condition said that he suffered from "brain storm." A woman In New York City driven to desperation by stories circulated re garding her committed suicide. The reporters In giving an account of the tragedy said that she was seized with "brann storm." A school teacher In New Jersey administered excessive punish ment to a pupil. Ills friends pleaded "brain storm." A school teacher in New aome one to steal an umbrella to be represented as being the victim of "brain storm." It Is remarkable how press and people will seize upon a new word or term and practically annihilate It ' The son of a wealthy New Yorker, having been scolded by his mother be cause he read so much and u leu about his personal appearance, hanged himself after writing the follow ing note, which he pinned up In his room: "I love you all truly, but It seema we must part There was a bur den; there is none now." Of course, tbe morbid youth read this stuff in some story and Improved the first occa sion to put it in practice in imitation of the hero or heroine of pernicious fiction. The outcome of his silly life shows that the mother was right In her protest against his reading, though prob ably it would have been more effective bad it been made at an earlier period and with, old-fashioned parental firm ness. There was a tlme when parents dictated the kind of books their chil dren should read. In those days child suicides were unknown. If children subsequently read morbid stuff It was at an age when they were Immune from It Another boy recently entered the bouse without wiping his feet His mother's sense of neatness was out raged and she reprimanded the boy, as was her duty. Thereupon the sensitive creature took carbolic acid and got rid of his "burden." A third boy was so humiliated because his father asked him In the presence of a young girl, the object of his vealy affection, to go upon an errand, that he went out to the barn and hanged himself. A boy and girl hardly yet In their teens, In despair over the long time they must wait before they could be married, agreed to asphyxiate themselves and succeeded. Numerous other Instances of this kind which have occurred during the present year might be cited. A slight from a playmate, a rebuke at home, a reprimand from a teacher, jealousy of a companion's success, pique over a fancied insult, and dis appointment over love affairs are suffi cient causes nowadays for Juvenile suicide. This class of suicides la rap Idly increasing, which seems to show that our high civilization Is promoting delicacy of nervous organization and emotional sensibility, and Is breeding young Werthers. It may be that as tbe social order grows more complex human wants multiply so fast that they cannot be satisfied, and rather than live unsatisfied, persons prefer death, This is a view taken by one authority discussing this subject But this ap piles only to adults. Children, al though they are much older at the same age than children used to be, have not yet reached that period when mere material desires ungratlfled can Induce suicide. It is more likely that the larger number of these, both boys and girls, have grown sensitive and morbid and more or less mentally un sound for lack of discipline, paternal restraint and moral example In the home. In the absence of these It is natural the child should be more or less abnormal and become a criminal or a suicide. It can hardly be doubted that wholesome correctives reasonably administered in the home and a closer scrutiny of what boys and girls are reading and doing would put an end to Juvenile suicide, which was unknown in an older and more disciplinary day. ABOUT THE HEART. Model in a New York Museum Show Action of LoTer'i Blood Pomp. An excellent opportunity to study the working of the human heart Is afforded by a model put on exhibition by Dr. Carroll Henderson at the scien tific exposition In the American Mu seum of Natural History. The model Is made of rubber and glass tubing. By means of pressure attachments a blood-colored liquid is sent pulsing through the various close ly related chambers, and all the nor mal movements of the organ are re produced as In life; and not only this, but the sounds of the valves. More over, It Is capable of producing move ments and sounds caused by various kinds of heart disease On applying the ear to the cardiac region two suc cessive sounds are heard, called the first and second sounds, and which may be expressed by the syllables lubb dup. When the valves are affected by dis ease the normal sounds may be Intensi fied or weakened, or they may disap pear entirely and be replaced by mur murs, or abnormal sounds, may be u uiiuuikuitwuaij n uu ui 111 I. lit; Intervals between the normal ones. The swain, who In the presence of his lady love, feels his tongue and lips grow so dry that he Is scarcely able to speak, and whose power of speech Is further paralyzed by the thumping of his heart, can see In the model what ' actually happened by the Increase of! the normal beats of that muscle from ' 75 or 80 a minute to 150 or more. The 1 effects of fear and excitement are also ' manifested by various degrees of ac celerated movement Overwhelming news or sorrow or joy or excessive fright may cause stoppage of the heart's action and then fainting ensues. AS ETDIAJJ CHESTERFIELD. Tlrmt Eale's Poetia Greeting- to Ketaralas Missionary. "Poetry can still be found In the language of the Indiana," said Miss Caroline Oourteney, a teacher In the Presbyterian Indian Industrial School at Wolf Point, Mont, according to the New York Press, ,"ln spite of the level ing Influences .of reservation life. When I went away on my last vaca Hon I was gone two months. When I returned I found several of my friends from the reservation at the depot to meet me. Among them were old ex- Chief First Eagle and hlB three wives. After the chief had shaken hands ho laid bis hand on his heart and said: 'First Eagle all time sick here you go; squawB all time sick here you go. First Eagle all time laugh here you come; squaws all time laugh here you come." "No white man," said Miss Oourte ney, "could have given so poetic a wel come, even If he had felt It It would have stuck in his throat The nearest he could have gotten to It In figurative language would have been : 'You're a good sight for sore eyes.' "Some of the Indian children fresh from the tepee are most Interesting, For one thing, twenty degrees below zero 1b a temperature which they don't mind In the least Cora Moore we renamed her because her Indian name was unpronounceable and very unat tractive when translated is only 7 years old, but she will climb a tree on the coldest day of winter and calmly sit up there and read her second read er. Cora Is Irrepressible. She is an Indefatigable tree climber and comes In with dresses of the stoutest mate rial torn nearly off her body. She can climb anything that ever grew or was ever made. My motner used to say that a tomboy' is sure to make a smart wom an, because the fact that she is a 'tom boy' shows that she Is full of vitality and energy. If that Is the case, I am sure Cora will be a genius later on. She is ready for anything active, work or play; except washing dishes. There is an Indian mutiny every time it Is her turn to help with the dishes. Scout ing parties are sent out, which pull her out from under some bed or table. One day they found her at a distant point of the grounds gazing steadfast ly off over the prairie. She turned and said with Immense dignity : 'Why you trouble me? I look, maybe my mother come.' "These Indian children, In true In dian fashion, study all the teachers and try to read them through and through, so as to find out and utilize their weak points. One very little boy In my class is William Black Thunder, tbe son of Bad Knife. He Is lovable, but full of tricks. When I start to correct him he will look up at me with a most bewitching smile and say, 'Co zee zee.' That means, 'My dear, dear friend,' and the little scamp has found out that I am totally disarmed when he says that" Sweet Time, Topi" "Yes, my boy." "Are bee industrious?" "Yes, very industrious, my son." "They make honey, don't they?" "Yes." "I suppose they have a 'sweet time' making it, don't they?" Yonkers ' Statesman. MAPS HELP A MAN SLEEP. Mental Geography the Best Soporifle According; to a Drug Clerk. A haggard-looking man strolled Into a downtown drug store the other day and asked the druggist for help. He said he had trouble In getting sleep when he retired. No matter how sleepy he might be during the day or bow much sleep he might have lost the mo ment his head touched the pillow he was wide awake and lay thus for sev eral hours. Once asleep, he was hard to waken, but he had to be up at a certain -hour, and In consequence of his peculiar affliction he was losing more sleep than he could stand. The drug, clerk regarded him quiz zically a few moments and then re plied: "My dear man, you don't wait medicine. What you want Is some thing to change the trend of your thoughts. Do as a friend of mine did. He was troubled the same way and found that the old folks' plan of imag ing sheep passing a barrier and count ing them was out of date. So he began trying to name all the States in the Union. He soon got them so he could classify them alphabetically. Then when they no longer interested him he started on the counties of this State. He now has them at his tongue's end, classified up to the fourth letter. Now he is starting on state capitals and their locations; then he will take up county seats.' A moment's glance at an atlas during the day shows him when he is wrong, and the beauty of the plan is that he rarely has to think along these Hues longer than ten min utes before he Is sound asleep. To make It short the study of geography k a good narcotic." Philadelphia Rec ord. How Soldiers Reduce. Soldiers have an easy way of keep ing their figures supple and trim. The officer who finds his Waist growing greater than his chest thus destroying the symmetry of his uniform, eats for a little while nothing but lean meat, and drinks nothing but hot water. Thu he lpses two pounds or so a day. H keeps this diet up till he haa sufficiently diminished himself a matter, aa a rule, of but three or four days' absti nence and then he returns to his usual food again. Apparent to All, before midnight I' don't like to misa 1 my beauty sleep. Miss Peppery You really should trr harder. You certainly don't set enoneh of it Philadelphia Ledger. What has become of the old-fashion ed boy who dldnt like to put on his Sunday clothes? No Lona-er Cheap. Tklxt all supplies then teems a race To reach the top notch first; The cost of living grow apace And now w have the worst. It almost makes the nation weep. This rise of one sad day, For even talk's no longer cheap iThe Senate's raised its pay. Harper's Wteklr. S. P. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to all calls, both Dight and day. Calls promptly answered. Office on Third Street, Athena. Oregor THE I ST. NICHOLS HOTEL X J. E. FROOME, peop. t Only First-class Hotel in the City. THE ST. NICHOLS e Is the only one that can accommodate oommerolal travelers. Can beieoomended for its clean and J , ' wel ventilated rooms. t t a Com. Maiji and Thibd, Atbina.Ot. o f. 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, ATHEAN, ORE OREGON ShOIT LINE Union Pacific Through Pullman standard and gleenlnn cars dally to Omaha, Chicago; tourist sleeping oar dally to Kansas City; through Pullman HmriKi sleeping cars, personally conducted. Weekly to Chicago, with free reclmino chair cars, seats free, to the east dally irom reuuieton. ARRIVE TIME SCHEDULES DEPAKT Dally. ATHENA, ORE. pa"y- Walla Walla, Day ton, Pomeroy, Lew iston, Colfax, Pull 11:55 a. m. raan Moscow, the "" hi. Jouer d'Alene dis trict, Spokane and all points north. Walla Walia-Pen- 12:30 p to dieton Mixed Fast Mail for Pen- dieton, Laarande, Baker City, and all polntgeistviaHiln tington, Ore., AIbo . , forUmatilla.Hepp 4:58 p m ner, The Dalles, 4:63 p m Portland, Astoria, Willamette Valley Points, California, . Taooma, Seattle, all BouDd fo'ma. Pendleton - Walla 0:30 pm Walla Mixed . . J. 8, Doble Agent, Aibena "Saving at the Spigot Wasting at the Bung" 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 The Sherwin-Wiluams Paint MADE TO PAINT BUILDINGS WITH, OUTSIDE AND INSIDE. It rrwers mnr siirfarfv snreads easier, and lasts longer than any other prepared paint, or hand-mixed lead and oil. CALL FOR I COLOR CARDS I Umatilla Lumber Yard THE TIM-LUM LUMBER CO. JA.CK WEIR, MANAGER Athena, Oregon Building Material and Fuel Yards at Walla Walla, Touchet and Lowdon, Wash., and Athena, Adams and Freewater, 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 Bluestem wheat grown any where. Patronize home industry Your grocer Bella American Beauty for per Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers . Waitsbiirg, Wash. Athena, Oregon SUM? ft? CON-TAIN- ING DKEW-TAR IB NO POISONS.. CONFORMS TO NATIONAL PURE FOOD AND DRUG LAW. The Origins! Laxative Cough Syrup containing Honey and Tar. An Improvement over all Cough, Lung and Bronchial Remedies. Pleasant to the taste and good alike for young and old. All cough syrups containing oplatea constipate the bowels. Bee'a Laxative Honey and Tar moves the bowels and oontclna no oplatea. Prepared by PINE-VLE MEDICINE COMPANY. CHICAGO. V. S. A. SOLD IN ATHENA AT HAWK'S PIONEER DRUG STORE THE nn f 4" ""X M San. 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