The Athena press., March 05, 1909, Image 4

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ATHENA. ORE.. MARCH 5 1909
Mr. E. A. Dudley, one of our
heaviest taxpayers, favors a high
sohool iu Athena. "If yon cannot
obtain a competent man to head the
school for $125 per mouth, get one
lor $150 per month. Why, I pay $05
a month for a man to work on my
farm, and think it is money well
spent, for be is worth the price."
This is the proposition, exactly. Ath
ena school distriot, free from debt,
with an assesied property valuation of
$683,000, has been putting a crimp
in its public sohool by offering low
wages and trusting to luck and the
forebearanoe of sohool patrons, in
the matter of securing a priuoipal and
instructors in the high school depart
ment. The result is that this depart
meut has dwarfed and dwindled until
it has been totally extinguished. With
the passing of this department, pa
tience has ceased to be a virtue, and
surely very limited returns from the
element of obance can be noted. The
experiment has been characterized
with utter failure; this too, in face of
the fact that the under grades for
the most part have been under the
supervision of capable and practical
instructors. What is needed in
Athena is the resurreotion of the high
sohool department, at the head of
which should be a man who is strong
enough and who is endowed with ca
pabilities sufficient to give the sohool
the moral, progressive uplift that is
required to insure satisfactory results.
Snob a man would take the kinks
out of present conditions. Pay the
price and get him. Already other
localities are scouring teachers for the
oomiug year. Last week Milton re
newed bor ooutraot with Mr. Young,
her priuoipal, and raised his salary.
Let us be ud and doing. Pay the price I
According to many good soldiers the
meanest thing about beiug in aotiou is
the noise oue has to endure. It doesn't
take the man with the gun very long
to learn -that there are not many
ohaucoB of beiug killed by a bullet from
tbo other sido, but that eur-torture is
a sure thing. It rattles a man until
ho cun'r shoot struight, thiuk straight
or evou swear straight. A devioe reaout
ly exibitod by a noted iuvoutor prom
ises to put an end to this sort of nuis
ance and, "on the side," so to speak,
allow a sharpshooter to pepper au
enemy at short range witbont having
his gun talk loud onough to lot the
other follow know whore to return the
oomplimeut to. Tbo "mlouoer," as
the deviao is oalled, is a tube of about
the leugth aud diameter of a phono
graph cylinder; it is attached to the
muzzle of a rifle and prevents noise by
dissipatiug the rub caused by the burn
ing powder. Men who snw and heard
tbo demonstration declare that a full
charged Winchester, SpriugQold or
other military rifle made no more noise
tbau a bottle of beer blowing out its
oork. It might havo boon heard a few
yards away, but not at even the short
est distance at whioh soldiers ever use
men as targets. If this devioe will
work proportionately well when appli
ed to artillerythere will be fewer deaf
men among gun crews afloat and
ashore, for despite of all time-honored
precautions, such as cotton in ears,
standing on tiptoe and keeping the
mouth open, the noise of a big cannon
attending to business is something
that is most enjoyable when the hearer
is several miles away.
Monday was an extremely important
day iu the growth aud advancement of
tbe state of Oregon. It was the opening
day of the lowest-prioed one-way tick
ets to the state sold for years, and cal
culated on tbe basis of rate per mile,
Oregon has the advantage of every
other state in the Union. Tickets for
Oregon points will te on sale until
Aptil 30th, at every ticket office in the
United States and Canada, and if tbe
buyer of tbe ticket is posted in ad vanoe
he can get a ride from Winnipeg,
Cauada, to the farthest rail point in
Oregon for $25. This same fare applies
from St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas
City, while from St. Louis it is $30.50,
Chioago $33, New York City $50, and
proportionate rates from every other
place. To spread the knowledge of
these rates the people of Portland are
doing every thing in their-power, and
leaflets are going out in almost every
letter that leaves tbe city, advising
that people can buy their tickets to any
Oregon point just as obeap as to Port
land. Every city, town and village' in
tbe stare should get busy in its own
benalf to tell E&htern people of this
fact. There is every indication now
that tbe travel will be very heavy it
should be enormous. Every reader of
this paper should take this artiole us a
personal appeal and do bis full share
toward adding to the population of
the state.
In order that his wonderful discov
eries may be more generally distribut
ed and incidentally that his work of
discovery may not te hampered by
business worries, tbe brains and gen
ius of Luther Burbank, tbe plant wiz
ard, have been capitalized for several
million dollars. The men who have
secured tbe sole right to distribute to
tbe world tbe marvelous plant dis
coveries of tbe Santa Kosa naturalist
are millionares of bis borne oity. There
is no limit to tbe rights whioh these
men have secured exoept one or two
small contracts which Burbank is now
fulfilling. Working alone, Burbank
has not bad time to give the results of
all bis experiments to the world, but
now a systematic effort will be made
to distribute both his past and future
produots to tbe world.
Importations of potatoes from Ire
land is neoesary booauao of tbe short
age in domestic stocks. Tbe latest
cargo was from Neater, cousisted of
45,000 bushels and was sbiped by train
from Baltimore to points west. Last
years potato crop iu the United States,
including tbe Puoifio Coast states, was
short. Even tbe mountain farms east
of town produoed a light yield of spuds.
The Christian Churoh (Disoiples of
Christ) celebrate what is known as
their one hundredth anniversary at
Pittsburg, Pa., October 11-19, next.
It was near there, at Washington, Pa.,
that Thomas Campbell published a
dooumeut known as tbe "Declaration
aud Address" in tbe antumn of 1809,
which has become historic. The prin
ciples embraced iu this dooumeut led
to a movement that has resulted in the
existence of the "Christian Chnrob,"
whioh now numbers about one million
and a quarter members, with six thou
sand ministers, and forty schools an d
colleges, etc. It is a growing church
and is one of tbe most aggressive rol
igious todies in the world.
Iu face of the aotion of the Oregon
senate in killing all appropriations for
maintaining tbe Normal sohools,
Weston's patriotio and loyal citizens
have rallied to tbe rescue, and by gen
erous donations of money have made it
possible for the sohool there to finish "
the present year's work. This is not
the first time that Weston's vein of
generosity has been bled that life might
be instilled in Eastern Oregon's only
state institution. In fact, for Weston,
it has been one continual round of
saoriQce since tbe Normal school was
established there.
It took just twenty minutes for the
oitizensof Milton to raise $2,000, tbe
sum for her share of the Walla Walla
valley publicity fund. This money will
be used to advertise that section of the
valley tributary to Milton, though in
a way tbe plan will La oonneoted with
the movement originated in Walla
Walla, by Tom Riobardson, tbe Port
land booster. Milton certainly has I be
goods to deliver to the home seeker,
and she oan spend $2,000 on no better
advantage than in buying oil for her
publicity lamp.
Correct Spring
Styles
She who desires to bo well dressed, aud who at the same time is
wistful of exercising due regard tor economy, will be pleased to know
that this store has always had distinction of showing first, and at the light
time the new, most exclusive, most original styles eaoh season odors, in
superior assortment, aud always at a modest ptioe.
Style is something you oan readily see here, but quality is somothing
that you have to take the stores word for, until you have proven yourself.
Therefore it's op to you to deal with the store that has a preutation for
dependable, trout-worthy merobaudise, aud open, honest methods.
Iu piece goods as iu ready-to wear goods, this store is now shovviug
thn largest aud most metropolitan stocks of spriug fabrics iu approved
styles.
A visit to the store at this season of the year is very con
vincing of the stors's superiority in Assortments,
Styles. Qualities, and Lowness of Prices.
THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE
Where it pays to trade.
About the rankest . breaob of news
paper ethics that ever came nnder the
observation of tbe Press, was the ao
tion of the Pendleton Tribune manage
ment, in permitting tbe vile attack on
C. A. Barrett in the paper, over a
pseudonymous signature. Such prac
tice may be tbe proper caper back in
Injiana, but in tbe west there is an
attempt made among newspaper ' men
to maintain a code of honor.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
It doesn't pay to bully-rag a bull.
A tbin purse makes a person feel flat.
Common sense always brings fancy
prioes.
Of what trade are all of our Presi
dents? Cabinetmakers.
There are some folks too oowardly
to lick a postage stamp.
Tbe jelly gets in a tremble without
betas the least bic soared.
He who pursues two rabbits will
succeed in oatohing neither.
Men who spend all they make often
don't make all they spend.
"I am down in tbe month," said the
panoake, as Johnny took a big bite.
Tbe horse is tbe most contrary crea
ture alive. He says neigh to every
thing.
Adam had a right to think bis wife
the prettiest woman in tbe wbole
world.
The foolish man can ask twice as
many questions as tbe wise one oan
auswer.
There are some folks so liberal that
every time they speak they give them
selves away.
Another fact totakenoteof a borse
may pull with all his migbt but never
with his mane.
Thf last tbing a woman does befoie
leaving a house is to gaze into a mirror
to reflect.
Odd as it may seem, three tongues
are required in bitching a span of
horses to a wagon.
Johnny, looking at tbe speoks on
tbe Dotatoes asked: '"Mamma, are
those speos for the potatoes' eyes?"
Eieht drams make an ounoe, but
often half that number will make a
man a foolish and disreputable speo-
taole.
Many a man has paid a lawyer $5
and $10 for poorer advice than his
wife would willingly have uiveu him
for nothing.
A farm journal olub bears no xela
tion whatever to the president's big
stick, further than that those who join
it are mettv sure to stick to it ever
after.
Talk about woman's vanity 1 Note
now few tbe number of men who can
pass a mirror set up in any publio
place without a smirk and a curling
of the mustaobe and an adjustment of
the necktie. Farm Journal
Soldier Balks Death Plot.
It seemed to A. J. Jackson a civil war
veteran of Kemp Tex., that a plot exis
ted between a desperate lnng trouble
and the crave to cause bis death.
I contracted a stubborn oold, be writes
that developed a cough that stuck to
me, in spite of all remedies, for years.
My weight ran down to 130 pounds.
then I began to use Dr. Kings New Dis
covery, wbiob restored my health com
pletely. I now weigh 178 pounds. For
severe Cold, obstinate Cousbs Hemor
rhages, Asthma, and to prevent Pneu
monia it's nniivaied. 500. ana l.uu.
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by Pal-
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It contains no opium or other narcotic, and maybe given as confidently to a
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I "The Old Standb
Washington Once Gave Up
to three doctors; was kept in bed for
Ave weeks. Blood poison from a spideis
bite oaused large, deep 6ores tooover
bis leg. Tbe Dr. failed then Bucklens
Arnica Salve completely cured me,
writes J. Washington, of Bosqueville,
Tex.' For eczema, boils, burns, piles
its supreme. 25o. at Palaoe Drag (Jo's.
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Capital, Surplus and . Profits,;If(
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Interest
Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent
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W. L. THOMPSON, Cashier, T. G. MONTGOMERY, Assrt; Cashier,
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BACK-ACHE
Near Death In Big Pond.
It was a thrilling experience to Mrs.
Ida Soper to faoe death. "For years a
severe lnng trouble gave me intense
suffering, "she writes, "and several
times nearly oansed my death. All
remedies failed and doctors said I was
incurable. Then Dr. King's New
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cure so permanout that I have not
been troubled in twelve years." Mrs.
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wonders in Coughs and Colds, Sore
lungs, Hemorrhages, La Grippe, Asth
ma, Croup, Whooping Cough, and all
Bronohial affeotion. 50o and fl.00.
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed ty
Palaoe Drug Co.
REPAIRING
We repair all kinds of flue aud com
plicated watohes, Repeaters, Chrono
graphs, Chiming and Cuckoo Clocks.
Try us. II. B. HILL Jeweler Palace
Dreg Store.
Foley's Honey and Tar
tor childre0,S2fe,surc So opiates.
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During the months of March and
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April we will give away one fine
Domestic
Sewing Machine
to the person paying us the largest
account during these two cVlonths
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