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ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY J. 1909.
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NUMBER 1
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THE TUM-A-LUIYl LUMBER GO,
Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDirsTG MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnson, Manager
Athena,
ESTABLISHED 18G5 g
ri-Parton Milling Company
iu Damage -'Painting
'Ki reader, Me Arthur Building .
J. W BODDY'S MEAT MARKET
SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET
The Best Meat to be found in Town. Come and see
me. I will treat you right. My prices:
Boihog Beef 6 & Tots, per lb.
Roast Beef 8 & 10 " ", "
Stakes 9, 10 & 12 " M V
Pork Steak 12, ; " "
J. yv. BODDY, ATHENA, OREGON f
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DELIVERY -if fi
m prompt
TiiefFresliest and
e Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here
1 DELL BROTHERS,
Oregon
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Laid 5 lb. 70ote.
Lard 10 " $1.40.
Baoon 18ots per lb.
Hams 17 " " "
fUETDE DDIDCO ADC- DIP UTv FOHNt 1 - :L
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most Choice the Market affords in fj'
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CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN
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GOOD THINGS TO EA
"GREAT GBAPM" HE CEIES.
t5he
JSfebv ear of
the Hoboes.
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he Grotto of Modern Miracles.
TOWUKlTvfa-i York city at
J midnight on New gear's eve is
them a busier thror f,f Wry.
hnnmi fly Umn thc imjC"
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'".tbf thi-oiig aT ',uerrJr j
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in the
. lire hurry-.-i'
square, there
j.iidlcants and Joy
., nh the money beg
.. ..ew'Year shoppers.
.one may witness nightly trans
lations more wonderful than In
the famous "Court of Miracles" in old
Paris which Victor Hugo describes in
"Notre Dame." The blind see. the
dumb talk, the hunchback loses all
traces of his deformity, the deaf hear,
missing limbs are grown in a twin
kling, and the lame discard their
crutches and dance in glee.
Of all the nights in the year the
gladdest in this dive in the Bowery is
New Year's eve. Not until long after
the late dawn does the drunken rev
elry cease, and then only when the
merrymakers bare spent all of their
111 gotten gains and are unconscious
to their surroundings.
The grotto of modern miracles Is In
the rear of a saloon, a room 40 by 25
feet. Around are scattered tables and
chairs of the cheapest kind. Thick
fumes of smoke from bad pipe tobac
co, the cheapest cigars made and nau
seating cigarettes permeate the at
mosphere. :
The stranger cau hardly breathe.
Through the sickening atmosphere can
be detected the odor of , vile heferlind
still worse whisky that here is 'sold
for 5 cents a goblet - . ' -y
From behind the partition a bar
tender, with half a nose and but a
small nortloa of his right ear to" tell
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the (are of bis tattles, dispenses liq
uor through an opening to a hurrying
waiter. -
At the tables sit the motley group
of hoboes, panhandlers and jailbirds.
Fortunate beggars who have had a
prosperous day are spending money
freely, small change for the most part
Whisky and beer flow as they have
never flowed before in the year.
Nearly all' the mendicants have ar
rived. The last tw.o, known as "Pedes
trian Tntrick" and "Silent James." are
greeted witli an uproar. --Hanging
from the neck ol Silent
James Is tho sign that re.i'ls:
rKAtf 'AND lUJiu.
C-
o
Tjio sign he casts aside, and, with a
yell,: he dances and laughs and calls
upon "present to drink at bis ex
pense. Above his head he waves a
five dollar bill. -
"Great graf !" he cries. "I touch
er bloke for de long green dead easy!' V
Pedestrian Patrick discards a pair
of well worn crutches and stands up
straight on what before appeared to be
helpless limbs. "I told his nobs dat
wo'd pray fer "lm!" he yells.
At this point Blind Phil throws down
his sign and peers Intently at the five
dollar bill to make sure It is genuine.
"I didn't make that much all day,"
he says ruefully.
Asleep near by, with his, head bowed
on the table, is Bill, the humpback.
No one ever had a more pronounced
deformity of the spine.
"Bill," cries Blind Phil "Bill, look
at de long green Pedestrian and Si
lent copped! Bill" And then as Bill
docs not awake from the slumber of
five cent whisky the "blind beggar"
hits the hump, and, lo, it goes with the
motion of his hand, sliding down from
the shoulders to the middle of the
back.
Bill awakes with a yawn and slowly
adjusts his stock in trade to its proper
resting place between his shoulders
while giving his order to the waiter.
As the waiter sets out the drinks the
boboes pass around the bill. The blind
examine it closely, the lame dance
with It in their hands, and the armless
feel of the paper with the air of one
who 13 used to it. The bill is passed
around the merry crowd and greeted
with enthusiasm until taken by Green
Goods Ike.
"It's a fake," he cries "a bad imita
tion!" . And the drinks are on Pedes
trian Tatrlck and Silent James, for it
is a .counterfeit New York World.
! , How Time Travels.
When St. Paul's strikes noon on
Jan. 1, 1909, the new year will coine
into being somewhere In the Pacific
ocean, on a line following longitude
180 east, which is exactly opposite
Greenwich meridian on the other side
of the globe. Geographers draw the
line to avoid passing through any of
the Pacific (Islands, for if it did the
times and? days of the inhabitants
would be hopelessly muddled. .Vanua,
one ef the FIJI islands, for Instance,
would be otherwise divided by the
line where tjie days and years begin
and end,, so that while it would be
Jan. lypn' the western r;de ft would
be Doc. 38 few paces away on the
east of th line; One could thus walk
Into yesf,erd??j'and a moment later re
turn tomorrow I
How the new year travels is curi
ously HHiitrflted by Its passage across
Great Britain: It reaches Greenwich,
as the Jlme enter, at midnight, exact
ly twelve hours after it started. Sev
enteen minutes later it gets to Glas
gow, acd another six minutes pass be
fore the new year has captured Pen- J
raii'.-e.' These are the true times for j
thet'e uluccs.. though Greenwich time. '
is the one accepted, uut ireiana is
proud in possession of her own chro
nology, and it will be 12:25 at night
In London before 1009 reaches Dub
lin. London Chronicle.
New Year Superstition.
It is considered a sure sign of death
to see one's own shadow in the moon
light on New Year's evo.
You court misfortune by leaving the
house on Now Year before some one
has entered it. You must hope for the
luck, moreover, of having the first to
enter a dark haired man.
Seeking to know what good or evil
the New Year would bring, superstitious
people. la the long ngo girt themselves
v !Vi ir.voVds and sat on the- roof of
Ih.Tr houses on New Year's eve. They
tilso knelt at the crossroads (on a cow
hide) for the same purpose. The first
thing brought, one might think, would
be pneumonia.
It Is bad luck to carry anything out
of the house on the New Year before
something has been brought in.
But the best luck of all, which even
those most scornful of portents may
not despise, Is to beglu the New Year
owing no man a cent. Philadelphia
Press.
A NEW LEAF.
He came to my desk with a quivering
lip-
The lesson wps done.
"Dear teacher, I
want a new
leaf," he said.
"I have spoiled
this one."
In place of the
leaf so stained
1 and blotted .
I gave him a new
one all unspot
ted Knd Into his sad
eyes smiled,
"Do better now,
my child." 1
1 went to the
throne with n
quivering soul
The old year was
done.
"Dear Father, hast'
thou a new leaf
- .for me?
'.-I' have spollod
' thin one.",
fie took the oM
lenf, stained
' and blotted.
And gave mo n
'1)0 BETTER NOW."
V new one all unspotted . , -
And Into my sad heart smiled, ' '
"Doibctter nw, my child." ; :
f- "V 'Forward.
THE CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY.'
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In China New . Year's Is the Little
Ones' Great Festival. .
Except at the Chinese - New Year,
which comes In February, it Is very
hard to catch a glimpse of children in
China. Little beggars will run beside
you for miles to earn 1 cash, a
copper coin with a square hole in the
middle of it, worth the twentieth of a
cent, but children who have parents
to care for them seem to be kept In
doors all the time or only allowed to
play In walled yards and gardens. 'We
used to say to each other: "Why, where
are the children? Haven't they got
any?" But at New Year's we found
out that they had. This Is the great
holiday of all the year In China, when
everybody hangs out flags and colored
lanterns and sets off firecrackers. (We
borrowed our custom of firecrackers'
for the Fourth of July from China's
New Year's.) All the people put on
their best clothes and the children the
best of all, Jackets and trousers of
bright blue or green or yellow or pur
ple, the boys and the girls so much
alike that you can only tell them apart
by their hnlr. The boy's of course Is
braided in a pigtail, and the girl's is
done up on her head with silver pins
or, If she's a very grand little girl, with
gold or Jade. Thus decked out, the
children go walking, with their proud
papas and' mammas and often go to
the theater, which Is a rare treat for
them.
Perhaps Chinese children have romp
ing plays together, but they always
look as if they were born grown up.
St. Nicholas.
Where New Year's Lasts a Month.
The celebration of New Year's is
carried on more extensively in Japan
than In any other country. The reason
for this can only be accounted for by
the fact that the custom has been
handed down to succeeding genera
tions for centuries. The time the oc
casion Involves Is quite lengthy, last
ing from the l;?th of December (Koto
Ilajime viz, beginning of things) to
the 10t!i of January (Hokonin no yabu
lri), which Is apprentices' holiday. On
both of the occasions a sort of stew
Is eaten, composed of red beans, rice,
sliced fish and konnyaka root.
Every Little Bit Helps.
"You say you encouraged our friend
to make another New Year's resolu
tion?" "I did," answered the man whose
heart Is all right.
"But don't you know he'll break it
at the end of six weeks at tho least
calculation?"
"I hopo not. Aud,even If he does
he'll be six weeks ahead of the game."
Revised Version.
I remember, I remember.
The house where I was born
And also the Janitor, bellboy, butcher boy
baker boy, bootblack, elevator man,
grocer's boy
And newKoy Christmas morn.
New lork Sun.
Cut it Out r
A New Year's poem.
THE old year's shades were quit
pulled down
When through each village, city,
town,
There passed a sandwich man with sign
Whose legend filled a single line:
"Cut it out!"
wBe more specific!" said the man
Who plainly rushed too much the can.
The sandwich man ne'er turned aside)
Only the legend writ replied:
"Cut it out!"
"Please state ex
actly what you'd
sayl"
Desired the man
who smoked all'
day.
But all the an
swer that he
got
Was this laconic,
center shot:
"Cut it out!"
,
The man whose
face so haggard
white ' .
Meant poker play
ing night and
night
Required to know
what thing was
meant
And got this answer eloquent:
"Cut it out!".
So every one who looked on it.
Felt his especial fault was hit.
Their souls with new resolves did fill,
And all exclaimed aloud: "We will
.. Cut it out!"
So all braced up and for three days
Frequented narrow, proper ways
And followed fully up the plan
Suggested by the sandwich man:
. , "Cut it out!" ; '
But ere the sandwich man did trace
A four days' journey from the place
All things were as they were before
And no on ever hinted more: : t
"Cut It out!" .'.
New Orleans Times-Democrat. "
AZTECS' HORRIBLE HOLIDAY.
They Celebrated the New Year With 1
Human Sacrifices. ,
Tho bloody and complicated ritual of
the Aztecs commemorated the return of
their masterful war fe'od, tho sun, from
tho south, and the ceremonies carried
on in his honor occupied n period of
several days. The Initiatory rites be
gan before daylight of tho first morn-
ing, when the chief priest and his $uS"
dignitaries wended their way In sol
emn procession to the top of their
greatest pyramidal sanctuary,' Hero
the high priest retired nlono to-a small
temple, whose doorway opened toward- .
the cast, aud as the rising su'n tflfts'on-- -ed
and purpled the serrated mountains ji
be knelt and sprinkled thickly, upon .
the marble Boor tho sacred menl.' '
Ah the first rays of , the newborn sun
strike slantingly across the floor of the
tiny temple tho beaded., priest beholds
a miracle. Intiy at first thlmTstrW
er and stronger, grows an imprints
tbsmcal or the naked foot of their war"?:'
god. Upon, this, miraculous manlfesta- ,
ilon the high prlcat announces to tha
assembled couriers 'that their god has
returned -to them and that the grand ;
festal occasion Is Inaugurated. . ; . ,
Unhappily the first feast rites were
of a grewsome and horrible nature .
consisting mainly In sacrificing youths
to the gods. It Is snld that they were
feasted for days prcvlousjto the cere
mony that tbey might bo In a whole
some and pleasing condition upon their
last and the war god's first great day.
In other womenies human beings
were killed and flayed, and the partici
pants in the sacrifice, enveloped them
selves In tho bloody skins-of the vic
tims, while they took part in a wild
and uncanny dance.
While the observance of the new
year among the Aztecs seemingly pre
dominated In bloody rites, they were
most likely confined to the religious or-
der of the priests, and the great mass
of the people, with no taint of blood on
their hands, might bo happy and revel
In the feast of the uew year. New
York Herald.
The Jewish New Year.
In striking opposition to the spirit of
Joy and happiness which pervades
Christendom generally is the New
Yettr of the Jews. With the Jews,
who also observe the New Year for
two days, the days are not days of ,
feasting and enjoyment, but days of
Judgment. According to the belief of
every orthodox Jew. every member of
tho Jewish race Is tried on tho New
Year. The books kept In heaveri are
opened on that day. The record of each
man for tho year Just ending Is looked
through and taken under advisement
for ten days. On the tenth day, the
day of atonement, the fate of each
man for the coming year la drawn up,
whether he should live or die, prosper
or be poor. On the day of atonetnemt
the fate Is sealed and nothing can .-'
change it any more. Chicago Tribune, j
Their New Year Wishes.
Weary Wrnggles- if Iwuzonly back
at me old houw, what a spread T"
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