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ATHENA, ORE.. JAN. 24 1908
The late Mr. Barnum tad an ele
phant plowing on a Conneoticnt field,
iu view of passing railroad trains. To
a farmer who asked if the elephant
was a profitable beast of labor for this
country, the'showman replied that it
was not unless one had a oircns to ad
vertise. Contractors in a New York
town, engaged in extensive bnildiug,
have imported two work elephants to
pull dirt oars. It may be, however,
that tbe contractors have caught
Barnnm's spirit, and have sent the
story to the newspapers for purposes of
advertisement
The efforts being made by Whitman
College for cleaner athletics are to be
oommended, and it is to be hoped that
at the conference to be held there in
February, steps will be taken that will
stop tbe mud-slinging that is yearly
being indulged in under tbe present
system. Rigid rules defining profes
sionalism should be adopted and en
forced. Whitman is rapidly coming
to the front in scholastio as well as
atbletio lines and it is proper that she
should take the initiative for cleaner
sports.
The proposed amendment by means
of the initiative to the tax law of .the
state is finding but few supporters.
The assessors in convention at Port
land went on reoord against the prop
osition and nearly every newspaper in
the state opposes it. The exemption
of certain chattels and improvements,
leaving land to bear the burden of
taxation smacks of the single tax the
ory and tbe people will have none of
it.
The Press is iu reoeipt of bulletins
Nos. 05 and 06, from the Oregon Ag
ricultural College experiment stations,
which treat on the "Disease of Tur
keys" and "The Poultry Industry
i.. "a i ft" i. i n i : n L.n
obtained by writing to the college at
Corvallis and as tbey contain much
valuable information, those engaged
in poultry raising should avail them
selves of tbe opportunity.
These are the times when loyalty
along the line counts. Patronize
home institutions of every description.
Every dollar that remaius at home
does eervioe over and over. Every
dollar Bont away will be a long time
in getting baok. Think this over and
warm up to our home industries. It
pays under any and all conditions, but
especially at present.
There are plenty of people who open
ly deolare that local option is more
tban likely to oarry in Union county iu
June, and it seonis quite probable that
it may. Tbero is a local option wave
sweeping over the country that it will
be diffioult to stay, and many leading
publioation of the United States are
freely predicting tbe result.
Says Tbe Dalles Optimist: The
Optimist hai been in tbe wrong. We
apologize, recaut, retract, abjure, dis
own, disavow and back up ou our
statement with refereuoe to the fact
that there is no republican party in
tbe state of Oregou, for there is such a
party, aud bis name is Jonathan
Bourne.
Speaking of Sonator Tillman's criti
cism of financial methods, the Charles
ton News and Courier intimates that
tbis is no time to throw rooks. May
be not But it's a good time to be
saving tbem up.
Sou Franoisoo builders report tbeie
are great possibilities in concrete as a
substitute for lumber. Between con
crete aud scientific forestry a few trees
may be saved to satisfy tbe curiosity
of posterity as to what live trees look
like.
A Michigan mau wrote a message
ou u toadstool stating that ho was
about to oominit suicide. But as he
did not eat the toadstool his friends
think be has eaten his words. Queer
world.
Kentucky is reminded tbat if the
prioe of tobacco is too low tbe grow
ers can raise other crops. What tbey
are raising now is worse for the state
than Canada thistles or grasshoppers.
Secretary Taft has bought a saddle
horse tbat weighs 1,250 pounds. When
it comes to unenviable positions, tbat
horse seems to have about tbe worst
of tbem alL
China is to be a constitutional mon
archy from now on, but it is likely
that it will be quite a long time before
many of tbe Chinese people find it out
Sinoe tbe financial stringency we
do not bear so much as we did about
tainted money. It seems to be in bid
ing along with tbe balance.
CONSERVATION OF NATURAL
RESOURCES.
Writers are still trying to tlx the
reason for tbe financial failure of the
Jamestown exposition. That ought to
be easy euougb. Jamestown is too
far from Oregou, where expositions are
a flnuuoial success. Exchange.
Tbe United States has astounded tbe
world by its speotaoular rapidity of
development We came into tbe sister
hood of nations an evangel of liberty
aud a berald of better days to tbe na
tions. Bat we are tbe Spendthrift,
tne Waster, the Ne'er do-Well of na
tions. Beginning in modern times
with incomparably rich natural re
sources, we have ravaged a continent
of its wood, coal and iron, and we emil
inlgly face the exhaustion of our bank
aooount in these things like a boy in
the midst of his sowing of wild oats.
Our forests are gone. The scattered
fragments left will disappear in
twenty years. Tbe pinoh of exhaust
ing coal fields has begun ; and the best
authorities are computing tbe time of
the end of our supply, trying to de
termine whethei it will be our child
ren or our grandchildren who will
have to face a future without coal.
We have vast reserves of water-power,
coal, iron, and lands capable of re
clamation and reforestation, but we
seem to have no adequate conception
of our duties toward tbem, to our
selves,our country or prosterity. Our
soil is being washed away into the
rivers, and by them carried to the sea,
and our boasted fertility of soil is
thereby being lessened year by year;
but the irreparable drain is ignored.
Our neglect is almost equal to our
active waste. The vast potentialities
of our waterways in bearing commerce
and in furnishing power have been
neglected. But a new era seems
dawning. President Roosevelt is
bringing these matters into tbe field
of praotioal statesmanship. The In
land Waterwavs Commission has been
constituted by him as a great agency
for pointing out these national dangers
and coordinating the Governmental
plans for conserving our national re
sources. In constructive statesman
ship, tbe work outlined rises to tbe
most exalted plane. It demands tbe
attention of every American. Oa its
success depends tbe future. We must
make the most of what is left of .our
once great estate; we must stop waste;
we must keep our natural resources
from the giasp of monopoly, or we
may sink to a status of commercial
and national inferiority and subordi
nation. Tbe Header Magazine.
GROWTH OF IRRIGATION.
Tbe annual report of the director of
the reclamation service, portions of
which wore printed in The Sunday
Oregouiao, oontains some very inter
esting figures regarding the results in
tbe Klamath distriot, where tbe Gov
ernment has devoted more of its ener
gies tban at any otber portion of tbis
State. Aooording to this report, there
was irrigated in tbe Klamath and
Merrill districts tbis year 0600 acres
of land, with an additional 11,000
acres under ditch but not yet irrigated.
This traot of 20,000 aores, is of course,
only a small portion of the area that
wia eventually come under tbe irriga
tion project in tbat part of tbe State,
but when it is considered tbat the
amount already under irrigation in
that distriot is ample to produce "a
good living for more than a thousand
families, the importance of tbe work
can be understood.
More tban 60 years have passed
siuoe Brigham Young, tbe original ir
rigation of tbe West, first made the
desert bloom with his primitive irriga
tion projeots. Since tbat time more
than 12,000,000 aores of desert land
have been brought to a high degree of
oultivatiou by means of irrigation,
estimates placing tbe amount brought
into use by the Government and pri
vate enterprise within tbe past five
years, at more than 1,000,000 aores
per year. Some of the projeots now
uuder way or recently completed will
bring under oultivatiou greater areas
of productive land tban are found in
entire States in New England. Around
Phoenix, Arizona, 200,000 aores have
been rendered fertile by tbe building
of the Roosevelt dam and 600,000 acres
will be benefited by tbe Minidoka pro
ject in Idaho.
J Oregon has been so well favored by
nature iu the way of moisture tbat ir
rigation has received lees attention
here tban iu some of the States where
nature was less kind, but tbe results
secured by irrigation are so remunera
tive tbat there will be a rapidly in
creasing exploitation of our arid land
resources from tbis time forward. The
euooees that has followed irrigation
enterprises along Snake River, in the
Yakima aud Wenatohee districts, as
well as at a number of otber localities
throughout the Paoiflo Northwest has
given us an idea of what the future
holds for Oregon in tbis line of en
deavor, and an enormous development
on lines similar to those followed in
tbe distriots mentioned will take place
in tbe irrigation districts of this State.
Orcgouian.
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ROBERT fORSTER, PENDLETON, ORE
1H OTHER TOWNS
WESTON.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warren have
left Weston with the intention of
making their future home elsewhere.
Mr. Warren rejoins his brother, Dave,
nearLind, Wash., where both have
taken farms, while Mrs. Warren ac
companied her mother, Mrs. Kate
Palmer, to Baker City, where she will
remain until spring.
Tbe danoe at the opera house drew
a large crowd of tireless danoers.
The splendid music of the Walla Walla
orchestra brought many who did not
danoe, while tbe beautiful "moonlight
danoe," wbioh created such a furore
some weeks ago, was repeated to the
delight of participants and spectators.
Mrs. Stinton has arrived and tbe
Fountain Square Inn is iu regular
working order under the new regime.
Robert Wheeler left today to take up
bis work at the railway office in
Wallace, Idaho. He came home to
attend tbe funeral of his father.
Mr. William Benney has started
from Chioago to join his wife here.
Mrs. Benney is a teaober in the mnsio
department of tbe Normal. Mr. Ben
ney may deoide to looate here and fol
low his profession of lawyer in this
vioinity.
FREEWATER.
Young Mr. Compley of Grangeville,
Idaho, is in tbe city looking over fruit
land, with tbe intention of baying and
settling here.
Postoffioe Inspector William Troen
segegart of New York city is in the
city performing bis duties at tbe Free
water postoffice as is the yearly
custom.
H. D. Stanley rural mail man for
route No. 2, is ott duty, owing to the
oritioal illness of bis mother, Who is
not expected to live.
The Shields Fruit company is load
ing a Northern Paoiflo refrigerator car
today on tbe Traction line, with apples
for Crawford, Nebraska.
V. O. Kelley has bought tbe O. R.
& N. billiard ball and stor from A.
L. Granstead and is improving tbe in
terior of tbe building.
Rank Foolishness.
"When attacked by a cougb, or a
cold or when your tbroat is sore, it is
rank foolishness to take any other
medicine tbau Dr. King's New Discov
ery," says C. O. Eldridge, of Empire,
Ga. "I have used New Disoovery
seveu years and I know it is tbe best
remedy on earth for coughs and colds,
croup, and all throat and lung trou
bles.- My children are subject to
oroup, but .New .Discovery quiosiy
cures every attack." Known the
world over as the King ot throat and
lung remedies. Sold under guarantee
by the Palace Drn company. 50c.
aud $1.00. Trial bottle free.
HMMRUH
B-iiiii;u
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OTTBBS
Coughs,Colds,
Vmoopin
Coip
This remedy can always be depended apoa and
Is pleasant to take. It contains nt opium or
other harmful drag and may oe given as confi
dently to a eaby as to an adult.
Price 25 cents, large size 58 cents.
Sold in Athena by McBride.
mnu i Aiiunny
IflUI LHUIlUm
For
GOOD WORK L
HENRY KEENE, Asent,
Pineules
30 days' treatment for $1.00. Satisfaction
guaranteed or money refunded.
SOLD IN ATHENA AT HAWK'S PIONEER DRUG STORE.
A rl r at hprl t1m niinl.
case before mornintf.
BACK-ACHE
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Oregon
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IMQa Pacific
rhrough Pullman standard and sleeping
ears dal ly to Omaha, Chicago; tourist sleeping
car dally to Kansas City; through Pullman
tourist sleeping cars, personally conducted,
weekly to Chicago, with free reclining
chair cars, seats free, to the east dally irom
Pendleton.
ABB1VB
Dally.
1:10 p. m.
Walla Walla, Day-
ion, foraeroy, iw
lston. Colfax. Pall-
man, Moscow, the
Couer d'Alene dis
trict. SDokane and
all points north.
12:25 p n
8:45 p m
6:25 p m.
TIMB SCHEDULES
ATHENA, ORE.
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Fast Mall for Pen
dleton, LaGrande,
Baker City, and all
points eist via H un
iington, Ore., Also
for Umatilla, Hepp-
ner, The Dalles,
Portland, Astoria,
wmameue vanej
Points, t'aliforoia.
Taooma, Seattle, all
Hound Points.
Pendleton - Walla
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12:25 p. m.
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Athena
OFFICEBS
H. C, ADAMS, President.
T. J. KIRK, Vice President,
F. S. Le GROW, Cashier,
ED W. E. KOONTZ.'Ass't. Cashier.
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DIRECTORS
H. C. ADAMS, T. J. KIRK, F. S.
Le GROW, D. II. PRESTON, P. E.
COLBERN.
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3 per cent Interest
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They eooUin moi tnd better rubber th any other makt, hare cold
gilt non-rrotmf metal prt and ftnmf eord audi tbat cannot wear
throtifh. Tha Bw back frea action parmiti aua and comiort no
matter whit Million tne bod mar name.
They ootwemr three ordinary kinds, which meens
three llmea the earvlce of usual SO cent aorta
The Moat Comfortable Saspendur Made for Man, Youth or Boy , .
Id Ltrbt, Heavy or Extra Heavy Weifhtf , Extra Look (No Extra Coit) '
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Calli promptly answered. Offloeou Third
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President, Founder.
Drs. HEISLEY a HEISLEY
OSTEOPTHIC PHYSICIANS
Office and Residence Cor. 5th and Ad
ams St. opposite Chrtstian church. Days
in Athena: Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
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BERT C ARTANO, Prop.
GOOD LIQUORSA SPECIALTY
Clark'a Pare Eye in bottle
and bond; Velvet whiskey
in bottle and bond ; Mont
rose whiskey and Olympia
beer for family nse
Holly Tom Gin
Three Star Cognac
Bine Stem Whisky
Famous Pilsner Beer
Beet Brands of Cigars.
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Everything First
Claftn Mod e r n
and Vp-to -date
IDE MAIN
STREET ATHENA
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An ounce of Pre
vention is worth a
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pound of Cure.
TRAOC MARK
Is worth more to ones health than any other medicine known.
Do not fill your stomach with arsenic, calomel, quinine and
debilitate the system, leaving symptoms that it takes years to
obliterate. Herbine is purely vegetable containing nothing
injurious, and is a gentle harmless purgative.
riTPPQ CONSTIPATION, CHILLS AND
vUlvLvO FEVER, DYSPEPSIA MALA
RIA AND ALL LIVER COMPLAINTS.
Does More Than We Claim.
Don C. Morrison, Kissimmee, Fla. writes: "I have
used several bottles of Herbine myself and have advised
several of my friends to use samo. I have found it to be
the best medicine for the liver I ever used. It acts gent
ly at the same time thoroughly."
PLEASING PRICE 5oc. HARMLESS
Baiiard Snow Liniment Co.
500-502 North Second Street.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Sold and Recommended by
THE PALACE DRUG COMPANY, ATHENA, OR.
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