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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 19, 1909)
j it AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Paces Every Friday. F. B. Boyd, Pubuhheb. Application for entrance as 2nd clans matter made on July 6, 1907 at the postoftlce at Athena. Oregon Under an Actot Congress of March 8, 1879 Subaorl tton ttatai t p " year, In advance 12.00 Single copies In wrappers, 5c, ATHENA. ORE.. MARCH 19 1909 As an eobo from a far-off shore oomes the announcement of the death of Admiral Gervera. A valiant toe man and gallant fighter, the Spanish admiral made a heroio attempt to pnt to sea with the fleet comprising the flower of the navy of Spain. Being overwhelmed by the America') fleet and driven to desperate straits for his petsonal safety, he plunged iuto the sea, clad only in his nndergarmeuts. bnt was rescued and taken aboard the flagship of the Amerinan Eqnadron, treated with the consideration due bis tank, and finally in tbe oourseof nego 'tatious was released. Severely cen sured by his government for the loss of tbe fleet, be bus siuoe lived in re tirement at Puerto Real, where be faced hie last enemy. 'I bo incidents thus briefly reoalled, though but little more than ten years old, seem as an cient histoiy, so rapidly do events crowd eaoh other in tbe presentment of tbe great drama of life. In view of what is happening in the great west the attitude of some of tbe earlier statesmen toward that part of the United States is not without in terest. On January 28, 1814, Daniel Webster, in a letter to Edward Ever ett, wbo beoame Filmore's seoretary of state in 1852, said in reference to tbe Oregon country: "I believe Ore gon is a poor countiy, no way impor tant to England except tbat she hap pens to have a few settlements in tbat region, and of little oousequeuoe to tbe United States." Mr. Webster and who will question his Americanism would have been willing to have made the Columbia river the northwest boundary, surrendering praotically the whole of what is now tbe great state of Washington, to England, and be lieved be was bauding Great Britain a "lemon." It was this lack of know ledge of tbe character and possibilities of tbe great went whiob largely failed to bring forth a free land settlement policy in the early days, snob as was subsequently developed. , The special session is over and no Bid given the Normal sobools. The knife was again nnsbeatbed by Bower man and his cohorts, and tbe bill for the miserable, pitiful pittanoe of $8000 tbat was so miserly squeezed out to each school was promptly left dead in tbe bonse when tbat body ad journed. Tbe loyal friends of tbe Normals would bave none of the put try crumbs, aud did the right and proper thing in rejecting tbo overture whiob is undoubtedly tbo most fla grant insult yet heaped upon a merit orious branch of state eduor'ioa. is the party. The prohibitionists have several dry counties that are enoourag ing them immensely, while the liquor interests bave a numerous litter of blind pigs, .through and by wbioh they prospei, so they assert, more than if the localities where blind pigs root were wet. In view of tbe above de lightful conditions in Oregon we oan afford to drop politics for a few months and get some flour, calico and hard ware for borne consumption, letting tbe politicians absorb the laoteal fluid called publio pap undisturbed except for their own nudging and sobeming." Tbe Northern Paoiflo seems never to bave appreciated tbe volume of freight business it receives at tbis poiut, to tbe extent of giving daily service and bidding for passenger traffic Tbe every-otber-day-maybe-will-oouie-in-and-maybe-we-won't ser vice is a pestiferous sore tbat long ago should bave been healed by demands of Athena shippers. A railroad com pany that does not appear to care a flip for a town further than to bleed it for its tonuase, merits little consid eration from the publio. Are we to presume tbat "special" trains made up of box cars will tranport passen gers between Atbena aud Pasoo during the Seattle exposition? It is understood that Francis J. Heney who bas pooketed 165,000 of Uncle Sam's ooiu, will be dropped from tbe pay-roll after March i. Mr. Heney has made an enviable reoord in prose outing, grafts and land frauds, al though in earning a world wide rep utation for himself he brought meager returns to the government. Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California said recently to a Boston audience, "The old New England obaraoteristio of gumption is dying out. If you don't know what gumption is you are no New Eng ender. " But New Englanders, East and west, still know what it is, for they still have it. That all is serene in Oregon is the belief of tbe Eobo Register. Hear it prattle: "With a U. S. Senator tbe democrats are happy, with a governor, the republicans are tickled. With a State railroad the socialists should be pleased: as while it is a little one so Obauncy Depew puid 1300 for a room from wbioh he oould view tbe inaug ural parade and it must bave bnrt him like sin to think of the days when be bad a obanoe to beoome tbe leading figure in a similar pageant. An Ohio politician remarks tbat "corporations bave no souls, nor do tbey wear olotbes." Well, anyhow, they don't try to advertise their busi ness by doing the' Salome danoe in publio. An Italian historian claims to bave unearthed evidence wbioh shows tbat Mark Antony married Cleopatra for her money. We feel sure, however, tbat she didn't marry bim for his title. Tbe statement is made that Mrs. William Howard Taft is a splendid cook. Her distinguished husband cer tainly makes a convincing after-taking piotnre. Chancellor Buelow says Get many favors reform in Turkey. England will therefore, begin to regard Turkish reform as a distiuotive blow to civilization. While some babies have nothing more serious than au old maid aunt to get along with, the uew Emperor of China will bave thirty nurses to look after bim. Tbe Chioago professor's defense of the dog as an article of diet looks sus piciously as if be bad been retained by tbe sausage trust. Correct Spring Styles She wbo dosires to be well dressed, and who at the same time is wistful of exercisiug due regard for eoouomy, will be pleased to kuow that this store bas always had distinotiou of showing first, and at the light time the uew, most exolnsive, most original styles eaoh season offers, in superior assortment, and always at a modest ptioe. Style is something you can readily see here, but quality is something that you have to take the stores word for, until you have proven yourself. Thorefore it's up to you to deal with the store tbat has a preutation for depoudable, trust-worthy merchandise, and open, houest methods. In piece goods as in ready-to wear goods, this Btore is now showing thn largest and moat metropolitan stookg of spring fabrios la approved styles. A visit to the store at this season of the year is very con vincing of the store's superiority in Assortments, Styles. Qualities, and Lowness of Prices. THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE Where it pays to trade. Now Emperor William is in a posi tion to agree with those pessimists wbo say tbat conversation is beooming a lost art. . The house denied Speaker Cannon an increase of salary but it has not yet denied tbat he is boss around tbe bonce. "''' Tbe trial of the Coopers in NasDville is going to raise havoo with their bar rel all right. WHY IS IT? Can you tell me reader why it is tbat tbe people of Athena bad rather go to something with a obeap laugh in it, than to something thought produoing? I bave heard it said "People wont pat ronize a lecture course." The same people will go to all the obeap shows tbat come along. Tbey will laogb their lungs ont at a minstrel joke. But when tbey bave a ohanoe to get some thing tbat "sticks to tbe ribs," they prefer loafing or sleeping. Why is it? Because it is too bard to think. Costs an effort Laugh is obeap. Anybody oan laugb. Not everyone oan tbink. I know of people wbo oan laugb at nothing. Wby not learn the art of thinking? Laughing is all right if you learn to laugh at the right thing. It is just as wrong to beoome mentally intoxioated as physically, so far as your mind is couoerned. Tbe literature of the average borne is mind intoxicating stuff. A good lecture course, and a good library with a patronizing publio is tbe surest source of culture. People must learn to think before tbey car claim oulture and tbink independent ly. Concentration of mind is very es sential. Try this experiment. ; Take ont your watch and try to tbink for one minute sixty seconds on one subjeot. See if your mind wanders. If it does you are diseased. Something is wrong with your mind. Let me diagnose your case. We will call tbe disease "inooncentritis." The cause may be traoed direotly to what yon read, and what you allow yourself to hear and see. Cure: read something that makes you tbink. Listen to. some thing tbat makes you think. Avoid trashy literature and anything else that makes youi mind wander. U. Gesagen. THE JEWS TAKE UP FARMING. An event of importauoe was the formation of tbe federation of Jewish Farmers of America at a convention in New York a short time ago. Most people did not suppose that there were enough Jewish farmers in tbis country to hold a convention. But there are at least 25,000 Jews in tbe United States who are engaged iu agrioulture pursuits. The late Baron Maurioe de Hirsob, recognizing the importance of adapting tbe Jewish immigrant in every way to bis new environment, plaoed fnnds in trust to enoourage farming settlements and to found an agricultural school. Several colonies are in existence and new sooieties to promote the move menl bave been' formed. Loans have been made to Jewish farmers in 24 states, an itinerant leoturer is support ed, and there is a Yiddish paper known as tbe Jewish Farmer. The most recent, efforts bare been iu line with the advioe of tbe oountry life commission, and many looal as sociations have been organized, with a thoroughness tbat should be a good example to all farmers. At the reoent convention resolutions were adopted' in favor of cooperaton in buying supplies and selling pro duots, tbe establishment of canning and piokling factories by tbo f armors, protection against fraud support of the state colleges aud experiment stations higher standards in tbe rural eohools, and the oreation of a paroel post. Spokesman-Review. ' Near Death In Big Pond. It was a thrilling experienoe to Mrs. Ida Soper to face death. "For years a severe lung trouble gave me intense suffering, "she writes, "and several times nearly oansed my death. All remedies failed and doctors said I was inourable. Then Dr. King's New Disoovery brought quick relief and a cure so permanent that I have not been troubled in twelve years." Mrs. Soper lives in Big Pond, Pa. 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For eozema, boils, burns, piles its supreme. 25o. at Palaoe Drug Co's. r THE .. I ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, prop. Iff Only First-class Hotel in the City. aaa THE ST. NICHOLS : A. 9 an tuvuuij UUO bUHb CttU HCCUIUIUUUHlt am v commercial travelers. Can beieoomended for Ha clean and well ventilated roomi. i Cob. Maim and Third, atbsna, Or. a -The Old Standby" THE AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK OF PENDLETON Formerly the Pendleton Savings Bank With which has been Consolidated The Commercial National Bank of Pendleton; Total Resourses a Million and a Half. Capita, Surplus and Profits, Nearly $300,000.00 4 per cent Interest Safe DeDOsit Boxes for Rent Paid on Time Deposits. T, J. MORRIS, President, A. D. SLOAN, Vice-President, W. L. THOMPSON, Cashier, T. G. MONTGOMERY, Ass't. Cashier, W. S. BADLEY, Ass't. Cashier. m .BlW.l. -.MWI liii 'i ::: mmms-i p mm, mm tt sj .1 iiiuuuuHiinw. -i- mil f f iiis.fr s 3 ..! . . 1, HHPH-J a.' i'ili illl . 1 1 i - lit' i13!SrS-. -,: " 'M ARKER-STONE Everything- First Clan - Modern and H;-o -dale SOUTH SIDE MAIN. jm STREET ATHENA jstomeirs During the months of March and April we will give away one fine Domestic Sewing Machine to the person paying us the largest account during these two Months C. Aa BARRETT & COMPANY, ATHENA, OR.