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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eieht Paces Every Friday. F. B. Boyd, Publisher. Application for entrance as 2nd class matter maaeon juiy a, 1007 at the postofllce at Athena. Oregon Under an Actot Congress of March 8, 1879 Subscrl tlon ftt : pjr year, in advance 12.00 Single copies In wrappers, 5c, cATHENA. ORE.. SEPT. 17... .1909 The Athena putlio eoboola opened Mnnrlov mninno ant.h n onnA nfr.nn dance. Universal interest centers in the high sobool department, whioh this year is being reorganized and plaoed on a basis compatible with the standing Athena is entitled to, educa tionally. Tbat the sobool, as a whole will be a suooess is vouched for by the enthusiasm prevailing with teaohers, scholars, and patrons. The board and faculty are a unit in encouraging and fostering every element of advance ment in modernizing the facilities of the sobool, and with this united pur pose there can possibly be nothing to retard progress. The Press is pleas ed to note the attendance of scholars in the looal sobool, who heretofore have found it neoessary to attend schools elsewhere, and it is Arm in its belief tbat the board of direotors will find in Prinoipal Case an educator of ability and a man thoroughly capable of surmounting, with the faithful co operation of his assistants, all obstac les oeoessarily to be enoountered in resurrecting the sobool and plaoing it on the plane where it rightly belongs. Here's to tbe Athena High School! Athena people, ono and all, "boost" for it. It will make tbe town grow. Already it is filling up tbe empty houses. The Cook-Peary controversy can be easily settled, and Oregon, as an arbitrator has a chance to wrest new laurels from the galaxy of states. Let Governor Benson fit out an ex pedition and give Wood the honor of a one night siesta in tbe igloos ereot ed by the explorers at tbe pole. His findings would put an end to the strife. A diot of Walrus meat and canned blubber would be an incentive to valorous deeds, and olimatio changes and soolal life with the Eh qnimoi would perhaps "Chestorilold" the colonel to some dogroo, at least. We would suggest that after be has secured tbe neoessary proof that Cook and Peary have a right to their claims that b) be buoased in a cake of polar ioe and exhibited, together with all records pertaining to polar expeditions in some suitable place whore tbe "freeze won't come off. " The new tariff law is working, as to wood pulp and print papor, just as Representative Mann said it would, in his remarks just before cougrosB adjourned, quoted at the time in tbe Portland Journal. Ontario maintains its prohibition of export of wood uud pulp, tjuebeo maintains its export tax and promises prohibition of exports, countervailing duties on tbeso pro duota already apply as against these provinces, and early next yoar it is expected tbat retaliatory dnties will be put into effect; so tbat tbe outoome is that tbe wood pulp and print papor trust is protootod even ruoro than it was undor tbe Diugley law, whioh is, of course, just what Aldrioh, Cannon and their followers designed. ThoBO statesmen figure to rob a million peo ple to make half a dozen men inordin ately rioh. The vacaut wheat lands of Central Oregon are being filled up at an un precedented rate, the coming of rail- sin Aa n w triA Tnanrinraa I mi nrt f ) a cause of a big boom iu wheat growing in that great undeveloped country. During the past week a record trip , was made into the vaoant lauds about Beud by a party of settlers who went overland from Corvallis by auto. The trip was made from Corvallis to Bend, ISO miles, in one day and the next ' vvning memhers of the party filed eousi homesteads near Beud and ugaga iu wheat growiug. A tract of land of 250,000 aores iu tbat ' diatriot has just been imduded in tbe new 330 aore homestead law and is proviug very attractive to settlers. The utterances gf one or two govern tnont officials anent the oousorvation of uatioual resources creates a foeliug ot uncertainty and even anxiety. It is due, says the Waitsburg Times, to the publio, especially all who live in the ao-called irrigation states, thot suspense be relieved. For years it has boon a constant strugglo I'etweeu tbe poople and the great corporations whioh Lave gtowu enormously rich beoanBe ofjtbe praotioal monopoly they have enjoyed, and the present publio mood is not tolerant of further monopolistio usurpations of ' publio rights. The progross of the states in whioh irrigation is largely followed will be checked and their prosperity crippled if a few men manage to get possession and control of the water supply. What is said to be tbe highest price ever paid for an apple crop has just been closed for tbe Hood River and Mosier valley yields. J. A. Stein hardt, of tbe fruit-buying firm of Steinbardt & Kelly, New York City, visited both districts tbe past week and oontraoted for tbe entire yield of the Mosier and Hood River valleys at better than $2.50 per box. As the total crop will run up to about 150 carloads, the contract just made will put more than $200,000 into tbe pock ets of apple growers in these two districts. English political economists assert that tbe tax on unearned increment is really not a tax on land but a tax on "windfalls," whioh is tbe name given to tbe increased value of land that has taken place not through any im provements made on tbe land but by reason of tbe growth and prosperity of the community. Calling tbe tax one on windfalls and not on land will not make the owners of such land pay tbe tax with any better grace, but there is reason iu it and it is tbe right thing tbat those who amass wealth not by their own labor but by tbat of others should be taxed accordingly. A Russian -day laborer working on tbe streets of Omaha for $1.75 a day is said to have come into possession of a large estate in Russia worth millions of dollars, and whiob tbe government has now restored after having confis cated it one hundred years ago. If the story is true we venture to say tbat the man has bad more real con tentment as a laborer han be is ever likely to have as a millionaire land lord in a oouutry so full of unrest and disturbance as Russia. Tbe oraze for sudden wealth leads many a man iu a responsible position to beoome a viotim of some get-rioh-quiok swindle, and the result usually spells disaster. Money is "borrowed" from the firm's aooount and the first time the theft is discovered the man's friends call it "shortage in aooounts" and tbe affair is hushed up. Tbe next time it is "defalcation" and there is consequent disgraoe and a prison term. Prunes soem to be tbe banner crop for tbe Yakima country this year. Tbe Olson-Royoe company has just mar keted the prune crop from its 40-aore ranoh for 63 cents a box, and a single carload brought in $650. Besides the prunes sold, thousands were thrown to the stock. Prunes brought a record prioe of 10 per ton. An editor evidently intended to do tho square thing who got off tbe following: "If any subscriber finds a line in this paper whiob he does not like mid oanuot agree with, if be will biiug tbe papor to this offloe and point out the offending line, tho editor will out' it out for him," Friends of Congressman Poindexter are grooming bin) for tbe senate to suooeed Senator Piles. Probably "UnoleJoe" Canuon would be glad to help tho boom along. A GEM OF PRQSE. The Cemetery of the Dead, by Rob ert U. Ingersoll, from his leoture on the "Gods:" -In that vast cemetery oalled the past are most of . the relig ious of men, and there, too, are nearly all their, gods. The saored temples of India wero ruins long ago. Over column aud cornice, over the painted aud piotured walls, cling the trailing vinos. Brahma, the golden, with four heads and four arms; Vishnu, tbe somber, tbe puuisberof the wioked, with his three eyes, his orescent, and his nsoklaoe of skulls; Siva, the des troyer, red with seas of blood ; Kali, the goddess; Draupadi, the white armed, the Chrishna, tbe Christ, all passed away aud left tbe thrones of heaven desolate. Along the banks of the saored Nile Isis no longer wander ing weeps, searohing for the dead Osiiis. The shadow of Typhon'a scowl falls no more upon the waves. The sun rises as of Tore, and his golden beams still smite the lips of Memuou, but Memuon is as voiceless as the sphinx. The saored fanes are lost in desert sands; the dusty mummies are still waiting for the resurrection promised by their priests, and tbe old beliefs wrought iu ouriously sculptured stone, asleep in tbe mystery of a language lost aud dead. Odin, the author of life and soul, Vili and Vo, and tbe mighty giant Ymir, strode long ago from tbe ioy halls of the north ; and Thor, with iron glove and glittering hammer, dasbes mountains to tbe earth no more. Broken are the cir cles 'and cromlechs cf tbe aooient Druids; fallen upon tbe summits of the bills, and covered with the oon turies' moss, are the saored cairns. Tbe divine fires of Persia and of tbe Aztecs have died out in the ashes of the past and there is none to rekindle, and none to feed tbe holy flames. Tbe harp of Orpheus is still; tbe drained cup of Baoobus has beeu thrown aside; Venus lies dead in stone, and her white bosom heaves no mora with love. The streams still murmur, but no naiads bathe; tbe trees still wave but in tbe forest aisles no dryads dance. Tbe gods have flown from high Olympus. Not even tbe beautiful women can lure them back, aud Danae lies unnotioed, naked to the stars. Hushed forever are tbe thunders of Sinai; lost are tbe voices of the prophets, and the land onoe flowing with milk and honey is but a desert waste. The Crime of Idleness. Idleness means trouble for any one. Its the same with a lazy liver. It oauses constipation, headache, jaun dice, sallow complexion, pimples and blotobes, loss of appetite, nausea, but Dr. King's New Life Pills soon banish liver troubles and builds up your health. 25o at all druggist. 'Twas a Glorious Victory. There's rejoioing in Fedora, Tenn. A man's life has been saved, and now Dr. King's New Discovery is the talk of the town for curing C. V. Pepper ot deadly lung hemorrhages. "I could, not work nor get about." he writes, "and the dootors did me no good, but, after using Dr. King's New Discovery three weeks, I feel like a new man, and can do good work again." For weak, sore or diseased lungs, coughs and colds, hemorrhages, bay fever, lagrippe, asthma or any Bronohial affeotion it stands unrival ed. Prioe 50o and $1. Trial Bottle free. Sold and guaranteed by all druggists. REPORT OP THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA No. 4516. AT Athena, in the State of Oregon, AT the Close of Business Sept. 1 '09 RESOURCES. $277 258 94 .291)94 2,5 12 500 00 1 610 7i 10 000 00 704 11 24 600 03 22 00 5 00 7815 010175 625 00 3366 409 C3 Loans and discounts Overdrafts secured and unsecured U H bonds to secure circulation Itoncls. securities, etc. Banktnir-liouse furniture fixtures Due from State and Private Banks and Bankers, Trust Companies and BavlnKS Banks. Duo from apr'v'd reserve audits. Checks and other Cash items Notes of other National Banks Fractional paper currency, nickels ana cents, Specie Kecl'm'n runa with u Treasurer (5 per cent of circulation) Total LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In $50 00000 Surplus fund " 30 000 00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 1 8(!7 66 National bank notes outstanding 12 500 00 Due to otner National Banns t isi 03 Due to State and Private Banks and Bankers 1884 32 Individual deposits subject to check 172 256 88 Demand certificates of deposit 73 612 70 Cashier's checks outstanding 100 uius payauie, iHciuumg ecru nca ies oi ucposit ior moDey oorrowea, uuu w Total $ 366 409 03 State of Oregon, la County of Umatilla J 88 1, F. 8. Le Grow, Cashier of above-named bank, do solemnly swear t hat the above state ment is true to the nest oi my Knowledge ana belief. F. S. Le Grow, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this loin day of Sept., 1909. S. F. Wilson, notary ruuuu. Cokkect Attest: T. J. Kirk, Edw.E. Koontz, Directors. Hiio 21 Mo OREGON SHOfpLlNE job Union Pacific Through Pullman standard and sleeping oars dally to Omaha, Chicago; tourist sleeping car daily to Kansas City; through Pullman tourist sleeping cars, persoually conducted, weekly to Chicago, with free reclining Pendleton. ARRIVE TIM B SCHEDULES PKPART Daily. ATHENA. ORB. Da"r- Walla Walla, Day ton, Pomeroy, Lew istou, Colfax, Pull- . l-ftin m man, Moscow, the -wp lM1 p" coeur d'Atene dis trict, Spokane and all points north. Walla Walla - Pen 10:08 a ro dietou Special 10:08 . m. Fast Mall for Pen dleton, LaUrande, Baker City, and all potntseMtviaHun tingtOQ.Ore., Also for Umatilla, Hepp 4:15 p m ner. The Dalles, 4:15 p. m Portland, Astoria, Willamette Valley Points, California. T&roma. Seat le, all rtouuil Pol dm. 6:50 p- m. Pendleton - Walla J:5p p ia Walla Special JJ. , Smith Agent, Allien lew General Merchandise Store' i T. M. Taggart is now located in his new store and ex tends to you an invitation to call and see him. It is better to look at his fine stock, than to Wish You Had HARDEMAI Mens Hats We carry the latest in mens hats. Newest pattern in Soft Hats and Derbies. You'll see 'em if you're pru dent, you'll buy 'em if you're smart. We are quiet people, but have noisy bargains We keep things moving by keeping things that move. A general line is soon to be added and we will have everything to be found in an up-to-date store. Come and see us and we will hitGh your dollars to big ger loads than they ever drew before. Mens Furnishings We set the pace and we head the race in this line. Orders taken for the Marks Tailoring Co. of Chicago. A fit guaranteed. Anew line of mens extra pants soon to arrive. T. M. TAGGART Athena Or. Phone 77 limi m III" i mill' ' 'Hi n" l I CON. NO POISONS. CONFORMS TO NATIONAL PURE FOOD AND DRUG. LAW. Th Original Laxative Cough Syrup containing Honey and Tar. Art Improvement over all Cough, Lung and Bronchial Remedies. Pleasant to the taste and good Alike for young and old. All cough syrups containing opiates constipate the bowels. Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar moves the bowels and contains no opiates. Prepared by PINE-VLE MEDICINE COMPANY. CHICAGO. V. S. A. r TO) HODEy-TAB KEENE'S .Barber Shop. Shaving, Haircutting, Shampooing, Massage for Face and Scalp. .HOT BATHS. Shop North Side Main Street, Athena. Ore. THE I ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, prop. Only First-class Hotel in I the City. Iff THE ST. NICHOLS : It the only one tbat can accommodate commercial travelers. I .Iff Canbeieoomended for IU clean and a well ventilated rooms. Co. Maim asd Third, Atbsha, Or. Foley's Honey and Tar I (orchUdren.ssfe,sure. 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 I Paid on Time Deposits. Safe Deposit Boxes for Bent 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. ? " rt .iff TTT--: liip Everything First Class - Modero and TJp-to-d SOUTH' SIDE MANlfe STREET ATHENA s