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Ut HEN A. ORE.. cTVlAY 21 ....... 1909
Tba aotiou ot" the Athena sobool
board in securing the services of Pro
lessor Klem me, for three years prin
cipal of the Walla Walla high sohool,
is commendable and shows that the
board has barkened to the universal
demand for a Rood sobool. Professor
Klemme is one of the leading ednoat
ors of tbe Northwest, and prior to
coming to Walla Walla three years
ago, was at the bead of one of the best
high sohools in the state of Illinois
for ten oonseontive years. The piioe
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range paid by oities of Athena's popu
lation, bnt tbe sobool board took tbe
ft.WUUH..
consideration and, the Press believes,
exorcised good judgment in "paying
the prioe and getting tbe man." With
a man of Professor Klemme's ability
at tbe bead of tbe sobool, and given
tbe able assistance of Professor Mnl
! key and the present corp of grade
'teaobers, tbere is practically nothing
to biuder tbe Atbena High sohool
from taking rank witb tbe leading
schools of the 'state. Prof. Klemme
is a splendid organizer, and every pa
tron of tbe school should aot as a com
mittee of one to see that he bas all
assistance availaole in reorganizing
tbe school and putting it on as sound
a basis as possible nnder tbe circum
stances. Atbena now comes to the
front with every assurance of having
a high sobool worthy of the town, and
it is up to tbe patrons of tbe sohool
to support it by zealously laboring for
the best interests oft be institution.
Tbe difference between tbe farmei
of today and of thirty years ago is tbe
difference between the old A drag and
the four horse hanow; betweon tbe
old handrake and reaper aud tbo mod
ern harvester; between tne stable
made of a tew poles and a straw pile
and the red barn that takes in all out
doors; between a hazel splitter and the
four-square bulk of a thoiongbbred
porker; between, Oh that's difference
enough isn't it? Perhaps we might
add tbe difference between a mortgage
at 10 per cent and a time deposit at 4
per cent interest and that's only 14
per cent of tbe differenoe.
It will be fun to run for tbe legisla
ture in Iowa two years from now, aud
tbe man who tries it will have tbe
time of his life. Tbe suffragettes have
announced that they will defeat every
candidate who will not commit him
self in their favor. The prohibition
ists iuteud to defeat all ooudidates
who will not commit themselves to
state wide prohibition aud tbe liquor
men aud their friends are loudly an
nouncing tbut uo "crauka" need ex
pect to be eleoted.
The process of lifting tbe Athena
sobool out of its present rut up to a
higher plane of eduoatioual efllolency,
necessarily called for higher salaries
to secure efficient instructors. Any
other process of brioging the Atbena
sohool to tbe front is out of the ques
tion, for tbe simple reason that high
class talent demands as iu any vooation
or profession, high wages. Therefore
in view . of the faol that to attract
people to the sobool you must first
have tbe sohool, and further, that tbe
taxpayers of tbe community recognize
this fact, any difference of opinion
that may have transpired among tbe
members of tbe board tbe other even
ing, merely resolved into a question of
opinion. Athe'ia now bas what she
bas long been iu need of, and is bet
tered thereby.
THE ONLY VICTIMS.
Some interesting news is being ca
bled to tbe American press these days.
On Cbewsday Mr. Roosevelt shot at a
bartebeste and clipped some of the f ui
from bis tail and Hermit killed apbil
aboo bird witb his Winchester. Mr.
Roosevelt's body servant fell over an
ant heap and sprained bis neck and a
trained elephant that bad been drilled
to walk up and be shot at escaped in
tbe jungles. Kermit seoured several
portraits of native monks hanging
by their tails in tbe basswood trees
and tne cook got to playing cinch witb
a chief and bnrned tbe soup. Several
papers got out extra editions we understand.
The management of the Walla
Walla Bulletin, tbe Garden city's
leading evening paper, will hence
forth issue a Sunday morning edition.
The first issue of tbe new Sunday paper
is at band. It is brim full of journal
istic features, typographically artistio
and ably edited.
Those tariff speeches in congress add
variety to tbe news of the day. We
wonder of some of tbe senators are
really iu earnest to give the people
what is demanded in tariff reductions.
Who Is the Wise Giver?
Tbere is a growing tendency among
riob men to give tbeir money to insti
tutions, rather than to leave it to tbeir
sous and grandsons. In America,
money is seldom banded down from
generation to generation in large es
tates. Tbe highest type of individ
ual is he who can see farthest into tbe
future and direct bis actions so that
they will be operative for good fifty
or one hundred years hence. For this
reason wise givers, wise and loving
parents, are learning not to leave all
of tbeir fortunes to tbeir children.
Why? Because there Is a surer way of
investing it, so that it will yield in
terest to their children and grand
children, than by banding -down to
them swollen fortunes with tbe accom
panying evils.
The best inheritance any man can
have is an environment that promises
health, that gives opportunity to be
self-supporting aud to make his own
fortune, in whatever way seems to him
most worth while. Not tbe man who
leaves money for bis graudohildren's
education, but be who gives money to
make the sobool system provide goud
eduoation for all children, is the wise
giver. Not the man who builds a
modern tenement, but he wbo enables
his town to enforoe the tenemont
bouselaw that protects all tenements
for ail time; uot tbe man wbo gives a
home to convalescent mothers and
babies, but he wbo gives a fund to
teach the pnblio to educate all mo
thers to save tbeir babies.
Onr Juterest is no louger in tbe
maintenance of a particular family,
but in a better race of Americans i,
e., In a better environment.
Tbe money of Americans h their
conscience, the use of it, if not tbe
getting of it, expresses au idoal -now
a health ideal, now beauty, now gov
ernment, now social welfare. May it
be known today as philanthropist or
beuefactor, but who uses bis money,
his thought, his time and energy to
put his ideal into permanent form on
a commercial busis, will be lauded as
tbe Charitable Man. The Delineator.
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LADIES HIGH CLASS SUITS ALL
BEST TAILORED SUITS FOR A
$17.50 Tailored Suits reduce to $11.50
84 of the very best 117.60 in pauama Sorges aud Faucy Suiting 30 aud 83
iu. coats fluished plain or witb braid, go ou sale at this
phouomeual low prioe. Alternations free.
$30 Tailored Suits, reduced to $21,50
7tt of our very best $30 suits strictly all wool mau-tailored garments of
tbe highest class, go ou sale at the extreme low prioe
$21.50
All suits up to $45 reduced to $37.60. There are 70 of tbesa legaot
suitsiu tbe moat popular spring styles and all
go on sale at the reduced prioe of
$27.50
Mens new spring suit at half pr;ea r'"
THE PEOPLES WARFHOUSE
Where it pays to trade;.
An Adventure In the 8urf on the West
Coast of Africa.
' West Africa Is known to all naviga
tors for its few harbors and Its heavy
eurf, which at certain seasons rages
like a battle, defying the white man
who would approach its shores. The
author of "The Jungle Folk of Africa,"
Mr. R. H. Milligan, tells of a success
ful, nnd to the observers an amusing,
effort to reach shore at a point where
tbe surf did not seem to be impossible.
One day when the beach seemed
much better than usual tbe captain
and the ship's surgeon ventured ashore.
The captain afterward narrated the
adventure of their landing to a small
but enthusiastic audience. He said
that after waiting outside the surf half
an hour the headman suddenly gave
the order, and in a moment they were
in the breakers,' riding on the top of
one of them and speeding toward the
shore at the rate of "seventy miles an
hour."
The captain was in the bow of the
boat, well braced and cushioned. But
when the boat struck the beach with
the force of a railway collision the
doctor was thrown violently over two
thwarts into the captain's bosom,
whom he clasped about the neck with
a steel-like grip.
The next moment another breaker
picked the boat up and hurled it upon
the beach, throwing both captain and
doctor to a perfectly safe distance,
where they sprawled upon the sand.
The doctor, still hugging tbe captain's
neck and very much frightened, ex
claimed: "Oh, captain, dear captain, is there
anybody killed but you and me?"
BRAVE SOLDIERS.
Sacrificed Their Lives In an Attempt
to Save the Colors.
In days gone by the Zulus were
the boldest fighters among all the na
tives of South Africa, and It was not
until they had been defeated in sev
eral battles that they would live in
peace with white people.
In 1878 15,000 of the Zulus attacked
and killed a regiment of British sol
diers, and a most heroic deed was the
attempt made by three British sol
diers to save tbe two flags, or colors,
belonging to the regiment.
When it was seen that the Zulus
were so many that there was no hope
of keeping them at bay the colonel of
the British regiment called to a young
officer whose name was Lieutenant
MelvllI and said, "You will take
charge of the colors, MelvllI, and try
to get away from here."
The lieutenant saluted and took into
his hands the two colors of his regi
ment. Then, .with another officer and
a', soldier, ' air mounted on horses, he
Buddenly dashed away with bis pre
cious burden. v
They were at once seen by the keen
sighted Zulus, however, and after a
long chase the three gallant English
men, fighting to the last, were killed
by the enemy,
Some time afterward one of the flags
was found near a rocky stream, -where
the heroes had fought and died, and
it -was taken to England nnd presented
to Queen Victoria.
And in memory of the three brave
soldiers who had died while defending
it the queeen placed a wreath of im
mortelles on the staff which held the
flag. London Mail.
Paganini's Cab.
On awakening one morning at his
hotel in Vienna, Taganlnl, the celebrat
ed violinist, was informed that the
cabman whom the previous evening he
had employed to drive him to the con
cert hall where he was playing was
waiting to see him. On being admit
ted to his presence the man, after hav
ing advanced poverty and a large fam
ily as an excuse for the request that
he was about to make, prayed the
great musician to make his fortune.
"What do you mean?" demanded Pa-
ganlni. "Authorize me to write in large
letters on the back of my vehicle these
two words, 'Paganini's Cab, " was the
answer. Consent was given, with al
together satisfactory results.
Annual Spring
Sale
It Will Do You Good
Matrimonial Repartee.
She (in stern and rockbound accents)
You married me for better or worse,
didn't you, Edgar?
He Er um yes, I suppose so, my
.love.
She Then what are you complaining
about? I'm no worse than the aver
age married woman, I can assure you!
He (meckly)-Well, if that Is the
case, all I've got to say la I'm mighty
glad
She (breaking in) Glad?
He-Yes. Glad I'm not a polygamist
Er um looks a trifle Bqually over to
the northeast, doesn't Jt. Miranda?-
Kew York Times.
Lincoln on Money.
"Lincoln," said a senator at a ban'
uct in Washington, "had no great ad
miration for mere financial success.
'"Financial success.' Lincoln once
eald, 'Is purely metallic. The man who
attains it has four metallic attributes-
gold In bis palm, silver on his tongue.
brass in his face and iron In bis
heart' "
Diplomacy.
"Why do you Insist on underrating
the kind of golf you rlay?"
"Because." answered the wise offl
ciaL "there is no use f making
whole lot of people Jealous, and antago
nistic over a little thing like golf."
Exchange.
The Decisive Battles.
Some married men will contend that
"The Fifteen Decisive Patties of the
Word" trill never be complete nntil
a few domestic scraps are added to the
volume. London Telegraph.
It will Interest You, for It Touches Your
Pocketbook and Contributes to your Savings
Now is the time to take advantage of the greatest
bargain opportunity of a lifetime. It is conceeded
that we are the leaders in low prices, that our
newly assorted stock is the best line of goods we
have heretofore offered and that our regular price
is much lower than the same styles and qualities
can be obtained elsewhere, yet we are not satisfied
and propose to set apart a special time when the
people of this vicinity can buy these choice goods
at a still lower competition-defying price. &
Sale Open Saturday Morning, May 15
Upon this occasion the goods will be plainly mark
ed giving the former and the sale price which will
enable you to see just how much you are saving
by purchasing the same. When this 10 day sale
is finished the prices will go back to their regu
lar low price. ... & &
Taggart ;& Co.. Mhena.
Groceries and Men's furnishings. Men's and Ladies'
Shoes and Notions.
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.Barber Shop.
Shaving, Haircutting, ;
Shampooing, Massage
for Face and Scalp. ;
.HOT BATHS.
Shop South Side Main
Street. Athena. Ore.
Foley's Honey and Tar
(orchildrea.safe.sare. No opiates.
THE
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I ST. NICHOLS HOTEL
J. E. FROOME, prop.
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Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
It?
THE ST. NICHOLS
It Ibe only one that can aecoinittodat.
oomm.Tcial trelert.
"The Old
Standby
THE AMERICAN NATIONAL: BAM
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Formerly the Pendleton Savings Bank
With which has been Consolidated The Commercial National .
Bank of Pendleton; Total Resourses a Million and a Half.
Capital, Surplus and Profits, Nearly
$300,000.00
4 per cent Interest
Paid on Time Deposits, Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent
T, J. MORRIS, President,
W. L. THOMPSON, Cashier,
A. D. SLOAN, Vice-President,
T. G. MONTGOMERY, Ass't. Cashier,
W. S. BADLEY, Ass't. Cashier.
Canb.icom.nded for tU clean and
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