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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1909)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER 'Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F. B. Boyd, Publisher. Application for entrance as 2nd class matter made on July 5, r,l07at the pOHtornce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actot Congress of March 3, 1879 Subaerl Hon Rate : p r year, in advance Single copies in wrappers, 5c, 12.00 cATHENA. ORE.. JUNE 4 1909 Tboie is developing tbronghonr tbia state a great deal of interest in tbo taking of tbe next census. Tbe fed eral government makes a count of tbe people, the houses, the horses tbe farms, tbe sohools, and some hundred of other things, snob as assets and liabilities, every ten years. This is re quired because it is written in tbe oou titution with supposed reference to apportioning tbo congressmen among tbe states according to population. But the fathers of tbe republic never dreamed tbat tbe innocent and simple enumeration they called a census would grow into snob a complicated statis tical machine as the world has not elsewhere seen. This deoennial count costs millions of dollars and gives work at good wages to tens of thous ands of tbe favorites of senators and oonrgessmen. The oensus of 1910 will be tbe 18th. There is a fair chance tbat it will be mostly tabulated by 1920, or just in time for tbe 14th oensus. Tbis lapping over was not known during tbe earlier years of tbo country, on aooouut of tbe simplicity of those lines. Tbe reoeut sesuion of tbe Grant county grand jury and tbe oirouit oourt have in a measure brought to light tbe faot tbat tbe justice oourt is a fifth wheel. This expensive piece of judioial maohinery is rapidly becom ing a superfluous tbing, says tbe Kafile. Trivial matters wbiob should be tried out and settled in tbe justice court are carried over to tbe grand jury or tbe oirouit oourt and the tax payers are called upon to settle the added cost iuourred. The justioe court was established for a purpose aud it has a concurrent jurisdiction over a designated class of misdemean ors and civil actions aud it is its Lusi nees to settle these matters without tbe interveution of grand juries aud tbe oirouit oourt. If every neighbor hood row in the country is to be brought to tbe attention of tbe grand jury aud pushed into oirouit court it would be just as well to abolish tbe justioe Oourt aud thus avoid an ex pense wbiob is certainly uncalled for unless tbese courts exeroiso tbo func tions which tbe law has grantod-to them. Government laud, wbioh it is alleg ed is held by William II mi lev, a ranober and manager of the Iluruey Couuty Development Co., amounts to botweeu 83,000 and 83,000 notes. Land legally owned by the company makes the total amount involved more than 147,000 aores. Tbe story of tbe land deals wbiob briug Ilauley beforo the federal court us defendant in a criminal ptoseoutioo, begau 15 yoars ago, whon Peter Frenob and Dr. Glenn ot California bought thousands of aores iu Harnoy couuty with ho ob ject of oouvortiug the whole vast area into a stook range. " One-fifth of our remaining timber is in pubho forests, and to tbese forests tbe cation and tbe States are practic ing forestry. Four-fifths of our tim ber is privately owned, and it is being out almost exclusively for present profit without regard to tbe future.' Tbe problem of providing a timber supply can not be folvcd Ly tbe Nat' ional Government alone, by tbe State alone, nor by individuals alone; all most work together. Since tbe rail roads are among the largei t consum ers ot wood, they will suffer heavily from the much higher prioes and tbe actual scarcity of timber wbiob will ocour if our forests are cot con served. Railroad companies can most advantageously undertake both the growing of timber and tbe economical utilization of tbe product. Tbe construction of railroads by bonded districts is only an idea carried a little further than the construction of irrigation canals by tbe same pro cess. California and Idaho have suc cessfully done tbe latter and Oregon oan go a little further. THAT PUBLIC MONEY. A good high school for next year assured! That sounds good to my ears. I am just a little hard of hear ing. Just a little pessimietio about most things, and so tbis bigb sobool proposition soaked iu a little slow, but I am of the opinion now that it is a go. Of course it could amount to nothing without the opinion of U. Gesagen, so I hasten to venture it. Still there must be some knookers. It must needs be tbat knocking be done, but woe unto him who doeth the knocking. I suppose some will think tbe board have gotten a little extrav agant in the expenditure of funds, es pecially those who have no children to educate. Athena children are not worth as much as children in other plaoes. They are a sort of cheap lot, and most any kind of edcoation will do them, "fteadio' and writin' and 'ritbmetio, tangbt to the tune of a hickory stick." Tbat is about it I guess, and in tbe minde of some that is sufficient. Not Let me say it with all emphasis. Our boys and our girls are just as deserving of competent teaohing as auy lot of boys and girls iu tbe northwest, or anywhere. One thingis certain, if a cheap lot of teach ers do tbe teaching a cheap lot of pupils will be turned out. We must Have teachers who are alive, who have ideals, who have ambition, and who will impart tbo inspiration of these things to tbeir pupils. Then above everything else we need teachers of character. Teachers who are not afraid to stand for right, and be citizens of worth. Let us spend our money, the publio money, for tbe pub lio good. Do you know a better way than to spend it in the uplift of those institutions tbat turn out the future publio? Some of us get awfully stingy when it comes to doing some thing for some one else other than ourselves. Lec us look to the future. Let us make a class of men and wo men who will not fill our penitentiar ies, but a cIhbs of men and women who will make respeotable oitizens aud effioient mothers, loved and hon ored of all. Tbe school is one mighty factor iu the making of character. U. Gesagen. REPAIRING We repair all kiuds of Que and com plicated watohes, Repeaters, Chrono graphs, Chiming aud Cuckoo Clocks. Try us. H. H. HILL, Jeweler Palaoe Drug Store. Strayed from my plaoe north of Atheua, oue brown Ally. 3 years old ; one black yoarliog filly with one white hind foot. Will pay reward of f 10 eaob for information leading to tbeir recovery. Oliver Dioneuson, Atheua, Oregon. LADIES Hi GLASS SUITS ALL REDUG ED BEST TAILORED SUITS FOR A SONG $17.50 Tailored Suits reduce to $11.50 84 of the vory host 17.50 in pauama Serges aud Fauoy Suiting 30 aud 33 iu. coats fluished plain or with braid, go ou sale at this phenomenal low price. Alternations free. $30 Tailored Suits, reduced to $21.50 76 of out very best $a0 suits atiiotly all wool muu-tailored garments of tbo highest class, go on sale ut the extreme low piloe $21.50 All suits up to 45 reducedto 137.60. There are 70 of these elegaut suitsiu the most popular spring styles aud all go ou sale at the reduced price of $27.50 Aleua new spriug suits at half piioe " THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE Where it pays to trade. , JUDGING A . CIGAR. The Only Real Way to Find IU Quality 'la U Smoke It. On no point Is the average smoker so 111 Informed as that of judging a cigar. Nine times out of ten, upon being banded a cigar, he will hold It to his nose, unllghted, sniff at the wrapper with a critical air and deliver his ver dict in a self satisfied manner. This charncterlstlc maneuver Is always a source of amusement' to any tobacco man who happens to observe It There is only one way to ascertain the qual ity of a cigar, and that Is to smoke It No expert will pass judgment on . a cigar until ; be ha lighted It and smoked it well down toward the mid dle. The first and ' most 'Important point upon which' he bases his opinion is the "burn." Tobacco may have ev ery other virtue, but If it does not hold the Are and burn evenly It Is 'poor to bacco. Next in order of importance comes the aroma the .'smoke .. must have a pleasing "smell;" next comes tbe flavor the smoke must be smooth and not "scratchy" or bitter. Then there is the color rich brown, indicat ing a ripe leaf, well cured and last is workmanship good if the wrapper is put on smoothly and the ,"bunch" Is made so that the cigar "draws" freely and is neither too hard nor too spongy, bad if the reverse. Bohemian Magazine. ROMANCE OF HISTORY. Tho Things Read Like Legends, but Are Matters of Fact A peasant girl called half wltted did promise to defeat the victors of Agin court and did it; It ought to be a legend, but it happens to be a fact. A. poet and a poetess did fall in love, and eloped Becretly to a sunny clime ( it is obviously a three volume novel. but It happened. Nelson did die in the act of wincing the one battle that could change the world; It Is a gross ly Improbable coincidence, but it is too late to alter it now. . Napoleon did win the battle of Austerlltz; it is unnatu ral, but it Is not my fault. When the general who had surrendered a repub lican town, returned, irnylng, easily, "I have done , everything,"- Robespierre. did ask, with on air of inquiry, "Are you dead?" When . Robespierre coughed in his cold harangue. Gamier did say, "The blood of panton chokes you." Strafford did say of his own de sertion of parliament, "If I do it may my life and death.be set on a hill for all men to wonder at" Disraeli did say, "The time will come when you shall hear me." The heroic Is a fact, even when it is a fact of coincidence or of miracle, and a fact is a thing which can be ad mitted without being explained. G. K. Chesterton in London News.' r- No Drums In the Middle Ages. As we come to the middle ages, when the nations of modern Europe were struggling into existence, we find that at first the drum was not used at all. So, although melody had been known and practiced for many cen turies, rhythm had been quite forgot ten, for what the' re is left, to us of the music of the middle ges contains no bars, and we know tbat it was slowly and monotonously chanted, without the least accent. In the eleventh century, however; things began to improve, more partic ularly as the crusaders brought Into Europe all sorts of percussion instru ments from the east. Various kinds of drums, tambourines and cymbals were then seen la Europe for the first time since the days of savages, and they have been used, with very little change, ever since. St. Nicholas. An Epistolary Hint. In the letter from Boston was a special delivery stamp. "What did she send that for?" the woman wondered. "The information she wants can be sent in an ordinary letter. It won't need to be sent spe cial." "That stamp," said the man, "is a delicate hint to be quick about answer ing. It is a hurry up device used by many men. It is very effective. A two cent stamp does not always spur one on to any special effort, but a spe cial delivery stamp means that the writer wants what he wants when he wants It, and the most dilatory cor respondent alive is not going to let any grass grow between the scratches of his pen when answering." New York Press. Mantle Rays. "There are X rays and X rays, and there are also rays from those mantle things that you put on gas burners to Improve the light" The speaker, a photographer, pointed to a batch of fogged plates. "I know to my cost that there ore mantle rays," said he. "For a month I stored new plates in a closet along with a mantle, and all of them got fogged. The mantle, you see, contained thorium, a radio-active substance that penetrates a cardboard plate box as easily as it penetrates glass. I didn't know that till my doc tor told me so last week. My igno rance cost me over a hundred plates." New York Press. Shunted. Editor Is this your first effort? Budding Toet Yes, sir. Is It wortB anything to you? Editor (with emotion) It's worth a guinea If you will promise not to write anythlug more for publication until after this has been printed. I want your entire output, you understand. Budding Toet-I promise that, all right. When will it be printed? Editor Never whSle I'm olive. Lon don Telegraph. A kindness done to tte good la nerer lost-riautus. , Special Display All This Week Easy Club Payments on any McDougall $1,000 Prize Kitchens Free Call this week These prize kitchen designs are the result of $1,000 in cash prizes offered by McDougall to the architects of America for the best design of an ideal kitchen. The prize" designs have been reproduced in colors, will be presented to every housewife who will oall at this store for them this week. Ibey will give you many ideas that you oan utilize in your own kitohen and will show you how to make your kitoheu more convenient and more attractive. cTVIcDougall Kitchen Cabinets contain many features that cannot be had in other cabinets at any prioe. Before you buy a cabinet you should examine the complete line of McDougall oa binets now on display at this store. See for your self the many advantages tbey possess, and do not let anyone tell you tbat auy other cabinet is as good as the McDougalL Special Sale Easy McDougall Club Terms We are now formiug a McDougall Kitohen Cabinet Club, whioh will make it easy for every house wife to own a McDougall Cabinet. By joining you uan seleot any cabinet you desire and seoure it upon a small payment down the balance of the purchase price to be paid in easy weekly payments. DO . We will also present each housewife, who calls, a CREDIT Call Mnf CERTIFICATE GOOD FOR $1.00 on the purchase price of a . vNv o Mr.nnucTn11 Snpfinl CInh flahinet. Ynu will not he tireed Ho buy, but come and see the McDougall displa Once An expert demonstrator at my Furniture Store, cTHonday, June 7. MILLER "The Rustler" Athena, Ore PARKER'S . Barber Shop . Shaving, Ilaircutting, ' Shampooing, Massage for . Face and Scalp. 11 .HOT, BATHS. Shop South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. THE ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, pbop. 1 ti! t Only First-class Hotel in t the City. THE ST. NICHOLS I It the only one thai can aeoomniodate oommrctal traveler, f Mi Canbeteoomended for ll clean and J veil ventilated room. 2 I X Co. ftUm akdThiko, ATMsA.or. e) Foley's Honey f Tar for chUdrousai ensure. No opiates. "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- Capital, Surplus and Profits, Nearly $300,000.00 4 per cent Interest Paid on Tim8 Deposits. Safe Deposit Boxe"s for Rent 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. ,T . - - PARKER-STONE BARBER SHOP Everything First Ctam Mo.d e rn and Up-to-date SOUTH SIDE MAIN STBEET ATHENA