The Athena press., July 12, 1907, Image 4

of Washington. Its visits after this
must be reported or tbe law will step
in and do horrid things.
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
One reason why commencement es
Six and Eight Pages Every Friday.
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in popular literature is that tbe pro
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feasors who supervise them are seldom
1907 at the postofflce at Athena. Oregon
experts in the art of epigram.
Under an Actol Congress of March 8, 1879
My $3,000 Stock of Groceries
Will be Sold Regardless of Cost
The Governor of New Jersey was not
a success as tbe umpire of a base ball
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ATHENA. ORE.. JULY 12 1907
stand a similar ordeaL
from
There is a great future in store for
the Eoho-Hermiston. district in this
country, bat there is an element of
dissension manifested, particularly
among the people of Hermistou, that
if not quelled, and that at once, will
retard tbe growth and prosperity of
the place. The vast resources which
tbe reclamation project will make pos
sible for development do not in the
least biuge on tbe question whether or
not Hermiston exists in Iact or other
wise, and the sooner the jarring pro-
petty owners down there come to this
realization, tbe better it will be foi
them. The territory embraoed under
tbe reclamation project is of sufficient
productive worth that when developed,
it is capable ot supporting seveial good
tow us, and to him who looks at tbe
matter from a disinterested viewpoint,
comes tbe oonviotion that tbe Hermis
tou scrap bas to do with Hermiston
alone, and the flame of dissension, if
allowed to burn, will be tbe means of
inducement for a new aud more pro
gressive town in that vicinity.
Weston, in sight of mouutain for
ests; Weston, where every breeze wafts
the odor of pine, fir and tamarack is
cryiug its dismay at tbe prospects of
tbe fuel famiue. Tbe Leader states
that four-foot mountain wood retails
in Weston tor $6.75 per cord; slab
wood 6.00 per cord, and coal not to
be bad at auy prioe. A mountaineer
wood trust is binted at, and the Wes
ton paper cites its readers to a solu
tion of tbe f del problem by advising
tbeni to burn Standard Oil in a new
faugled stove breaking tbe back of
one trust with tbe product of another,
as it were.
That state line farmer who sold
1500 worth of strawberries from a
one-half aore tract of laud, is eligible
to engage in tbe industry at North
Yakima, where land sells as high as
$5000 per acre. But it may be that
the state line man does not consider
tnat he is in a class by himself, and
that his Walla Walla Valley land with
another reoord-breakiug crop or two
of berries to adevrtise it, will outshine
tbe Yakima prioe.
Over seven hundred dollars have
teeu subscribed to tbe fair fund to
date. A united effort on tbe part of
Athena business men and citizens a
steady, long push will insure sucooss
of the enterprise. Farmers are contri
buting liberally to tbe fund and are
anxious to see tbe fair made a per
niaueut yearly attraction.
John D. Rockefeller says existing
stocks cannot be watered, aud Andrew
Carnegie doulares that Wall street is
tho gambling headquarters of Amer
ica. These two gentlemen are likely
to lose tbe oonBdeuco ot some of our
moHt prominent financiers.
A fair crop of fruit is iu evideuoe
iu the viciuity of Atbeua. Like other
sections of tbe state, late visitations of
frost is responsible for total failures
iu some localities aud a paitail failure
iu others.
Now that tbe weather has become
more or less settled, lovers ot uncer
tainty are agaiu turuiug to Henry
Water-son's presidential piediotiouB.
Under tbe uew law the stork must
register with health oflioers iu each of
the cities aud communities of tbe state
Warm weather brings the electrio
fan and the ice man in competition,
and tbe ice man usually wins out.
Some time ago somebody said that
tbe fruit crop would be a failure. Has
anybody seen bim lately?
CATHOLIC VIEW OF DIVORCE.
Tbe Church regards marriage as tbe
most inviolable and irrevocable of all
contracts that were ever formed.
Every human compact may be law
fully dissolved but this. Nations may
be justified in abrogating treaties with
each other; merchants may dissolve
partnerships; brothers will eventually
leave tbe paternal roof, and, like Jacob
and Esau, separate from one another;
friends, like Abraham and Lot, may be
obliged to part company, but ty tbe
law of God tbe boud uniting busband
and wife can be dissolved only by
death. No earthly eword can sever
tbe nuptial knot which tbe Lord baa
tied, for "what God bath joined to
gether let no man put asunder."
Tbe reckless faoihtv with which
divoroe is procured in tnis country is
an evil scarcely less deplorable than
Mormouistn indeed, it is in some re
spects more dangerous than tbe latter,
for divorce bas tbe sanction of the
civil law, whioh Mormonism has not.
Is not tbe law of divorce a virtual
toleration of Mormonism in a modified
form? Mormonism consists in a sim
ultaneous polygamy, while tbe law of
divoroe practically leads to successive
polygamy.
It is plainly manifest tbat tbe cancer
of divorce is rapidly spreading over
tbe community and poisoning tbe
fountains of the Nation. Unless tbe
evil is cheoked by some speedy and
heroio - remedy tbe existence of family
life is imperiled. How can we call
ourselves a Cnristian people if we vio
late a fundamental law of Christian
ity? And if tbe sanctity and indissol
ubility of marriage do not constitute
a cardinal principle of tbe Christian
religion I am at a loss to know what
does.
Picture to yourself the fearful
wrecks daily caused by this rook of
scandal, and the number of families
that are oast adrift on the ocean of
life. Gnat stress is justly laid by
moralists on the observance of the
Sunday. But what a mockery is the
external repose of the Christian Sab
bath to borne from which domestio
peaoe is banished, where the mother's
heart is broken, and tbe father's spirit
crushed, and where the children can
not cling to oue of their parents without
exciting toe jealousy and hatred of the
other 1 And these melancholy scenes
are followed by tbe final aot of tbe
drama when tbe family ties are dis
solved and hearts tbat have vowed
eternal love aud uuion are separated
to meot no more. The faoility with
which marriage is annulled is most
injurious to the morals of individuals,
of tbe family, and of society. It leads
to ill-assorted and hasty marriages,
beoanse persons are less circumspect
in making a contract which may after
wards be dissolved almost at will. It
stimulates a discontented and unprin
cipled busband or wife to lawlessness,
quarrels, and adultery, well Knowing
that tbe very crime will afford a pre
text and legal grounds for separation.
It engenders between busband and
wife fierce litigations about tbe custody
ot their offspring. It deprives the
ohildreu of the protecting arm of a
father or the gentle care of a mother,
and too frequently consigns them to
the cold charity of the world; for the
married oonple who are wanting in
coujugal love for one another are too
often destitute also of parental affec
tion. Iu a word, it brings into the
household a blight and desolation
which neither wealth nor luxury can
repair.
This social plague calls for a radioal
cure, aud tbe remedy can be fonnd
only iu the abolition of our mischiev
ous legislation regarding divorce and
aud honest application of the teachings
of the Gospel. Cardial Gibbons in
the Delineator.
If you stop to figure out
where the true economy
in paint buying conies,
you'll soon see that the
best paint is cheapest.
Two-thirds the cost of paint
ing is the labor. It costs just as much to put on
poor paint as it does good paint- -race in fact
because the poor paint doesn't work so easily.
But the poor paint won't last as long ; it makes
you repaint sooner. t
Even the apparent saving in cost per gallon
is eaten up by the fact that it takes more gallons
of the low priced paint.
The truest economy is good prepared paint.
The truest prepared paint is THE SHBRWIM-WILL I A MS PAIMT.
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Umatilla Lumber Yard " ViaJSSON'
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This is not a Clearance Sale, nor a Mid-summer Sale; I am positively
going out gf Business and my prices will convince you of the fact that
I am going to quit. So now is your opportunity to get Harvest Sup
plies cheaper than you ever did before. Stock is complete now.
CASH WILL SAVE YOU CASH
WORTHINGTON SPOT CASH GROCERY
WASTE OF SLABWOOD.
We do not. know that there is any
help for the slabwood situation in this
city ; we do not see that any existing
law can change it; yet needs no argu
ment to prove that it is a bad situation,
wbiob somehow ought to be changed.
When people were few and timber
all too plentiful in and right aronnd
Portland it was all right, it was nec
essary, to destroy great quantities of
timber suitable for fuel, but conditions
have so changed that to do so now is
morally criminal wastefulness. Fuel
is scarce aud high, and is constantly
beooming scarcer aud higner. Popu
lation is rapidly increasing, and the
supply of wood fuel decreasing. For
poor people tbe annual fuel bill is con
stantly beooming larger and more of a
burden. Yet thousands upon thou
sands of cords or loads of fuel iu tbe
shape of slabwood is thrown away
where it is inaccessible or is burnt as
waste.
Why should the principal mills of
tbe city agree to sell only to one or two
dealers, thus giving them a monopoly
and euabliug them to put up tbe price
to whatever figure they please? Why
should the mills haul slabwood off and
dump it by thousands of loads in
sloughs when people need it for fuel
and are willing and anxious to pay a
raesouable prioe for it a price tbat
wonld bring tbe millmen more than
the trust pays them and yet afford a
good large perceutage of profit to
dealers?
It is easy to uudrestaud tbat Banfield
& Veysey will cbaige monopoly prices
if that firm controls tbe supply, will
exact all tbe traffic will bear; as Mr.
Baufiold says, almost anybody would
do that; but bow can this firm control
tbe market unless with the concurrence
of tbe mill owners, and why do they
wish this firm, or any firm or combi
nation of firms, to have a monopoly?
Why should tbe millmen wish consum
ers to pay 50 or 100 per cent more for
slabwood than it ought to be worth,
unless they get a division of tbe pro
fits? And if exorbitant profits are
thus made and divided, isn't this "pil
ing it on" to consumers pretty heavily,
considering the prices of lumber aud
other huildiug materials?
No, we suppose tbat, this being a
local business, not subject to the fed
eral law, there is no belp for it, and
that the poor people thus held up can
do nothing. But at least an effort
should be made to stop the waste by
dumping slabwood in gulches within
tbe city limits. With f nel beooming
soaroe and bigb, that seems like
"adding insult to injury." Portland
Journal.
AN ILLUMINATED AMBITION.
I'd like to be the lightning bug,
For wouldu't it be flue
With nothing in tbe world to do
But float around aud shine?
I'd be my own electrio light,.
I'd laugh at Standard Oil,
And when the gas man came around
His little plot I'd foiL
When calliug on tbe ladybug
To spend an hour or so.
Of course I'd take along my lamps,
But I would turn them low;
And when we went out for a stroll,
All on a starlight nicht.
I'd be as brilliant, yon oau bet,
As any bug in sight.
At evening when tbe katydid
Got musical aud gay,
I'd bang around as audience
To hear her cheerful lay;
And if perchance she lost ber plaoe,
Or somehow missed tbe key.
I'd (brow a light upon ber book
So she the notes might see.
And every other bug would say,
"My, but that chap is bright."
For I oonld always find my way
Upon the darkest night;
If I could be tbe lightning bug,
I certainly would te
Tbe warmest member in the land.
As all tbe world could see.
Pendleton Tribune.
Dades Little Liver Pills keep tbe
system clean, tbe stomach sweet.
Prompt relief for beadacho and bil
liousuoss. Good fur all tbe family.
1'ioueer Drug Store.
'HAMBERLAIN'R
A few doses of this remedy will in
variably cure an ordinary attack of
diarrhoea.
It can always be depended upon,
even in the wore severe attacks of
cramp colic and cholera morbus.
It is equally successful for summer
diarrhoea and cholera infantum in
children, and is the means of saving
the lives of many children each year.
When reduced with water and
sweetened it is pleasant to take.
Every man of a family should keep
this remedy in his home. Buy it now.
Price, 25c. Large Size, 50c.
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DRIVER FURNISHEO WHEN DESIRED. .
Horses boarded by the day, week or month
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Athena, Oregon
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wishes to save her children from serious sick fpells. It con
tains absolutely nothing injurious, does not constipate. Good
for children as well as adults.
A cough often leads to consumption and Bhould be checked
immediately.
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Ballard's Horehound Syrup in my family for the past
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