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ATHENA. ORE.. OCT. 16.
.1908
Critioism, should be of a construc
tive nature to have any rigbtfurplaoe J
in ' be building of life today. Most of
us draw our beat strength for use "in
the environment in which we are
placed from that iuspiriog source of
hearing "the nioo things" not the
flattering things, mark yon said about
ourselves. There are few of us who
do not reoogDize d'ther definitely or
Bub-couseiously at least, oar own short
comings, and it is part of that struggle
of self perservation inherent within us
which induces us to bide them or for
got them and put our best self forward
for the benefit of others in order to be
able to get somewhere unhampered by
their oritioisms. And, somehow, it
doesn't seem just light to thwart that
purpose. The law of suggestion is a
mighty foroe working for good or ill
upon this plane of our existence, and
used judiciously and with the high
moral purpose to aid in the develop
ment of humanity it cannot fail to
bring the greatest happiness and
strength into the life of the individual.
"I know that you can do this or that
and do it well. Only try it." This
is one of the foundation stones of suo
oesa. Fed from this sustaining source,
hope whiob is a lurge part of our
"working capital" in whatever we
may undertake, grows strong to do and
dare and briugs us into the full (lower
of achievement.
I'll tell you about this thing of luck
says an exchange. It comes to the
person who keeps the weeds out down
so that it can find him. Luck some
times walks up and collars an idler,
but it is more opt to nab tbo man who
is busy doing the best be can ull the
time. Luok isn't lying around on the
street allowing loafers tooover it with
whittling!. Neithorisit in a stream
waiting for some lazy fisherman to
book it. Luck generally goes band in
bend with iudustry. If you sit around
and wait for luok to hand you a bug
of gold and make you a rich man you
are pretty apt to end ycur days in the
poor house. A four leaf clover will
biiug more luok to the busy fellow
tban it will tu tbo- loafer. It may
seem a little tough for a man to work
bard for a long time aud then have
his earniugg all swept from bim at a
A rich man in Cincinnati ordered
bis coffin in advance years ago. Paid
$500 for it. When be died last week
he bad grown too big to go in . it
Lots of men and women order their
coffins in advance. They worry and
weaken their wills by worry over dis
asters that never come, difficulties tbey
never meet and rivers of trouble they
never have to cross. Many lives have
been and are made miserable, hopeless
and profitless necause people refused to
move, or marry, or take u place, or
enter a business for fear of contin
gencies and risks that never came aud
duties and obligations that were mere
shams. Every borne is cluttered and
littered with things tbat are kept
waiting for use on this chance or that,
and then never used coffins, all, that
have been ordered in advance. TLese
things are dusted, and moved, and
kept from the moths, and paoked and
repacked, and in the end all is waste,
worry and empty effort
Scienoo is doing wonders these days
in various directions. Nothing quite
so notioeably great, perhaps, as the
telegraph, tbo telephone and the eleo
trio motor, yet developments and
knowledge of many kinds tbat a gen
eration ago would have seemed mira
culous, incredible. For example, we
scarcely more tban momentarily notioe
tbe inoident tbat the other day a man
talked ty wireless telephone with his
wife EO miles distant, as tbey were
passing, that far apart, iu warships
plowing the Atlantio ocean. If any
body 80 or 20 years ago bad predioted
that this would happen, he would
Have been considered a lunatic Trans
continental trains, running at full
speed, are tolking with one another by
tbe iuduotive system of telephoning.
Tbe conviotion of tbe proprietor of
a Grants Pass hotel bar will no doubt
result in stopping the sale of near beer
and all alooholio "temperance" drinks
in Josephi'ie county, as the analysis of
tbe chemist, admitted in court, proved
conclusively tbat such drinks oontain
alcohol. Judge Hanna's instructions
to tbe jury, which are precedent in
tbat jurisdiction, were tbat any ap
preciable percentage of alcohol makes
a drink lutoxioating, tborefore it is
prohibitive under the law. Soft drink
cstablishoinents occupying plaoes for
merly saloons must therefore close
their doors, as their business has con
sisted mainly of selling near beer.
waters. Sue is 610 feet in length, ban
a beam of nearly 80 feet, a displace
ment of 20,000 tons, and is to have a
speed of 20 knots. Tbe Deleware, ber
sister ship, whiob is being constructed
by tbe Newport News Shipbuilding
oompany, will be launched la tbe early
spring.
PROHIBITION NOW, WHAT NEXT?
All time records for American bat
tleship building have been broken by
the NortQ Dakota, tbe keel for wbiab
was laid December 18 last. Tbe
North Dakota will be the largest ship
of any kiud ever launched in American
Troubles for tbe Amerioan saloon
are multiplying. For a year tbe mor
tality among them bas been as great
as though a war of extermination
were ou. Tbe swelling tide of looal
option aid probititicn bas swept tbem
out of existence a tbe rate of 80 a day
for tbe country, and it promises to
keep up tbe rate till tbe end of tbe
year. At 30 feet frontage for each
doomed saloon, tbe destruction bas
been at tbe rate of a mile of frontage a
week, or 52 miles for tbe year. It is
a career of bavoo more extraordinary
tban tbe most nopeful day dream of
tbe wildest prohibitionist Tbe year
began with three states wholly prohi
bition, and now there are eight, Ar
kansas by a majority of 13,000 pass
ing into tbe fold reoently. Where
bnt 6,000,000 people of tbe oonntry
lived in dry territory, there are now
88,000,000. Almost one balf the peo
ple of the nation are residents of tbe
and zones with oonnties everywhere
almost tumbling over each other in the
scamper to get in ont of tbe wet. Tbe
tide is so pronounced and so apparently
irresistible, that observers every
where are predicting tbat it is bnt a
matter of a few years until saloons will
be swept entirely from the rural dis
tricts, and be confined wholly to tbe
large cities. The big liquor men of
tbe country are almost ready to con
fess as muoh, and are strenuous in
their appeals to retail liqnor dealers to
elevate tbe tone of their plaoes and re
form their business methods in tbe
hope of arresting tbe lelentlese and
expanding crusade. The retailers are
oalled upon to cease violating the
laws, to stop selling liqnor to minors
and to men already intoxicated, and
to chasten their establishments into
places of the best possible respecta
bility. Tbey are warned that the re
form of their business may be too late,
but that in and through it lies tbe
only hope of stemming tbe tide of pro
hibitive inundation tbat, at this mo
ment, seems to foreshadow eventual
extermination.
Tbe movement is without parallel
or preoedent, in Amerioan life, and in
its contemplation, the observer can
look into tbe future and seem to see
there similar momentous movemeots
in which tbe oountry may pass through
social and economio change equally
remarkable. May it not be tbat, if
tbe Amerioan trust persists ia its
headlong career of greed, , arrogance
and ounning, an aroused people, in
such a movement, may sweep it out of
the nation? Oregon Journal.
For Sale.
Mrs. May Jorgenson offers 80 acres
of fine reservation land for sale at $90
.per acre. The land description is N
of N W sec. 17, tp. 8, 35 E W M.
Iuquire of F. S. Le Grow, Athena.
For Rent
For a year or term of yearp, a body
of land near town, comprising 99 and
a fraotiou aores. Inquire of Mrs.
Jaokson Nelson, Athena.
Eastern Oregon's Largest and Best Store
The
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at Pendleton,
eager or yourf trade, offers you the largest varieties of Dependable cTVlerchandise at
the lowest price known for years. A The most comprehensive showing ff Fall and
Winter styles in Ladies' and Misses Suits, Hats and Coats, Skirts, Furs, and all other
Wearables. A For Quality, variety sf Styles and Workmanship our lines surpass
any ever shown in this section. A Remember we are the largest dealers in Mens
and Boys Clothing, Men, Women and Children Shoes, Silks and Dress Goods. A A
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are offered you in Blankets and Comforts. A Good, clean Groceries at lowest prices.
In our Grocery Department you will find none but pure, clean wholesome eatables,
and we are the acknowledged leaders in low prices. A rJTVlail orders promptly filled.
Your patronage solicited on the score of better goods for less money--let us prove it.
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PENDLETON, OREGON Always Save Yost Coopoas
Where it Pays to Trade
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There is no need of anyone suffering long with this disease, for to
effect a quick cure it is only necessary to take a few doses of
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remody
In fact, in most cases one dose is sufficient It never fails and can be
relied upon in the most severe and dangerous cases.- It is equally
valuable for children and is the means of saving the lives of many
children each year. In the world's history no medicine has ever met
with greater success. Price 25 cents. Largo size 60 cents.
THE PALACE DRUG COMPANY.
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THE
ST. NICHOLS HOTEL
J. E. FROOME, pkop.
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Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
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THE ST. NICHOLS i
It the only one that can accommodate
oommei-cial traveler. .
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Can beteoomended for lta clean and
well ventilated room.
Coa. MAIS AKDTHIBD, ATBCRA.Or.
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T'.irt abovt. i'l'ist-V-n Is often asked con
iTii'iif Hi-rer's two leading medicine-.
"G')i i.i !' Discovery" and
"Kavorito i'lvsiiii'i j 1."
Tlio answer Is uat "Golden Medical
Discovery " Is a most, intent alterative or
blood-puriliur. and tonic or invigorator
and acts especially favorally In a cura
tive way upon all the mucous lining sur
faces, as ot the nasul passages, throat,
bronchial tubes, stomach, bowels and
bla :dcE;-uriug a large percent of catar
rhal cuAfii whether the disease affects the
nasal paNsnj the flrsoat, larynx, bron
chia, stomaclNtas catarHtftl dyspepsia),
bowels (as muoiu4ftrciv. bladder,
uterus or other pelvic organ Even In
thR Chronic n nlnnrntlvn staypij of H.ocq
nfiWtirmqTlt. U nfton enrnessfiil In affect-
fti
inrr r 1 rrtii
f ne r avome rrpcnmiun ig
for thcium'"
101 a
iseases 1
weajiUiiTang(nnCTts an
itio iivtdeiit to women oniv.i
Is a rxwcrTul yet contTy actliiK Invitfofal'
Ing tonic and nervine. For weak worn
out, over-worked women no matter what
has caused the break-down, "Favorite
Prescription "will be found most effective
In building up the strength, regulating
the womanly functions, subduing pain
and bringing about a healthy, vigorous
condition of the wholo system.
A book of particulars wraps each bottle
giving the formultDof both medicines and
quoting what scores of eminent med
ical authors, whoso works are consulted
by physicians of all tlio schools of practice
as guides In proscribing, say of each in
gredient entering Into these medicines.
The words of praiso bestowed .on tho
several ingredients entering into Doctor
Pierce's medicines by such writers should
have more weight than any amount of
Don - professional testimonials, because
such men are writing for the guidance of
their medical brethren and know whereof
they speak.
Both medicines are non-alcoholic, non
aecret, and contain no harmful habit
forming drugs, being composed of glyceric
extracts of tho roots of native, American
medicinal forest plants They are both
sold by dealers in medicine. Yon can't
afford to accept as a substitute for one of
these medicines of known composition,
any secret nostrum.
Dr. Pierce's Pellet small, sngar-coated,
easy to take as caiviy, regulate and In
vigorate stomach, liver and bowels.
To Care Constipation Torero.
rake Cascareta CunUy Cathartic. lOo or So,
C3.C.C foil to cure. Of uciiKtb rtfuml itmiw"
TROY LAUNDRY
For
GOOD WORK
HENRY KEENE, Acent,
. "The Old Standby"
THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
OF PENDLETON
formerly the Pendleton S wings Bank
Commercial Banking- V
Capital, Surplus and Profits,
$250,000.00
We Give Savings Bank Facilities
the National Bank Security
m
4 per cent Interest
Paid on Tink Deposits. Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent
The Old Savings Bank, the friend of the Farmer, Stockman and
Merchant, now a National Bank, continuing business under the super
vision of the U. S. Government.
Foley's Honey and Tar
forehuarea.saie.sure. io opiates.
Dr. O. F. Heisley Dr. S. Etta Heisley
Graduates Am. School yf Osteopathy, jf
KirksviUe, Mo., Dr A. T. Still,
President, Founder.
Drs. HEISLEY HEISLEY
OSTEOPTHIC PHYSICIANS
Office and Residence Cor. 5th and Ad
ams St. opposite Christian church. Days
in Athena: MorfHay, Wednesday, Fridajr.
S. V. Sharp
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Special attention given to all
calls, both night and day.
calls promptly answered. OfBee on Third
Street. Athene, Oregor
jllders
n
Are you doing what you can to populate your State?
Oregon Needs People Settlers, honest farmers, mechanics, merchants,
clerks, people with brains, strong hauds and a willing heart capital or
no capital. ;
"Qie Oregon Railroad Navigation Co
Southern Pacific Co.-Lines in Oregon
is sending tons of Oregon literature to the East for distribution through
every available agenoy. Will yon not help the good work of building
Oregon by sending us the names aud addresses of your friends who are
likely to be interested in this state? We will be glad to tear tbe expense
of sending them complete information about Oregon and its opportunities.
COLONIST TICKETS-will be on sale during September and October
from the East to all points in Oregon. The fares from a few principal
cities are
From Denver - - $30.00
" Omaha .- - 80.00
" Kansas City 80.00
" St. Louis - - 85.50 .
" Chicago - 88.00
From Louisville $41.70
" Cincinnati 42.20
" Cleveland 44.75
New York 55.00
Tickets Can Be. Prepaid
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If yon want to bring a friend or relative to Oregon, deposit the proper
amount with any of our agents. The ticket will then be furnished by
telegraph.
Looal Agent, ATHENA. OREGON.
Win McMwrray,
General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon.
E. M. SMITH
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Th Orttflrt! Laxtttv Cough Syru containing Honey and Tar. An improramont all Ceoan.
Lung and Bronchial Remedies. Pleasant to the taste and food alike for young and eld. AO eoutfni
syrup containing opiates conrtfpate the bowels. Bee'it 1.tiHvo Honey and Tar moves tbe bowels
and contain oe opiate. Prated by flfTE-VUS HEDICISE COMPANY. CHICAGO. V. 8. A.