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THESLAYERflFMARAT Charlotte Corday and the Act That Made Her Famous. HER PLANS FOR THE MURDER The Way They Were Worked Out and How They Were Put Into Execution. Her Own Tragio End and the Final Act of the Brutal Headsman. Among the instances of fanatic zeal or country and people the act of Charlotte Corday, who was bora at St Saturnln, France, July 27, 17C8, and who was beheaded at Paris July 17, 1703, stands out In tragic force. Ilcr childhood and early youth were ' full of privation, although she was of a noble family. She was educated at a convent in Caen and then went to live with an aunt in the same old town of Normandy. She had a serene and lofty beauty, was tall and graceful, and her manner was full of dignity. She spent all her leisure In reading, and her books were always those that related to heroism and devotion to country. When the revolution broke upon France, Charlotte eagerly took up the reading of politics and public questions. When the Girondists were obliged to fly from Tarls they went to Caen and began to hold meetings and form plans for future operations in Paris. The Girondists were the true repub licans and got their name from Gl ronde, as it was the deputies from this district that had formed the Re publican party in the national assem bly. The massacres had terrified them, and they had tried to stop the violent measures in the relgu of terror. Charlotte felt a very madness of en thusiasm as she listened to the fiery eloquence of these men who de nounced Marat. Danton and Kobe splerro escaped much of the censure due for their share in the frightful work of cruelty and death. It was upon Marat that the Girondists poured their eloquence, for it was he who had pursued and ordered the death of their leaders in Paris. In the depths of her heart a purpose was formed to save her pooplo from this monster and at any cost to herself. Into Charlotte's life a tender and re spectful love had come to add its in fluence in these days of strange tumult and calm purpose. She and a young man named Franquelln had been writ ing each other, and sho had given him her portrait and told him that he might " at least love that. When this lover marched away to Paris with the Giron dists and the neighboring volunteers, she bado him a calm farewell, for she knew she was going to save him. After her execution Franquelln went homo to his natlvo village in Nor mandy. In the tender care of his moth er ho gradually failed, for his heart was broken tho day his love perished. When he came to dlo he requested that Charlotte's portrait and letters bo burled with him, and his grave holds them sacredly. ' Charlotto began to preparo for her Journey to Tarls and tho tragedy she had planned. Every effort was mado to hldo tho appearance of a concealed purpose When she arrived at Paris sho at once set about her plans to find Marat. As a preparation sho went to ono of tho shops of tho Palais Royal and bought a dagger shaped knife, pay ing for it CO cents. This sho hid in the folds of her dress. Uor plan had been to kill Marat in tho very convention, where sho thought tho deed would bo avenged by killing her on the spot. Cut Marat no longer went to the con vention. IIo was ill with a dlseaso that was slowly killing him, and lib body was in a state of disorder and irrup tion that gave him an agony of suf fering. IIo was only comfortablo when in the warm water of his bath. IIo lived on tho first floor of a houso in tho Ruo des Cordeliers, and connected with his homo were all tho affairs of his journalistic work and from here all his pamphlets and joumals wero sent out. After writing two letters asking for an Interview, in which sho would giro Mm eomo Important news about sus pected persons, sho got no reply. Then Bho took her way to the house, Insisted that sho must see him, and when for bidden entrance by Marafs wlfo sho still urged tho importance of her er rand. Marat heard tho sound of their voices and shouted out for n reason of the nolso that bothered him. When told that it was tho woman who had twice written him ho bado her coin in. Tho wife, ngalnst her will, let her pass. Marat was in his bath, wrapped in an ink stained sheet, and was writing on a board laid across tho bath. Ask ing her errand, ho took down all tho details she gave lilm. When ho had the name of each Girondist who was at work In Caen ho told her that In a week they would bo brought to tho guillotine. Then as sho stood beside tho bath sho plunged tho knife into his heart, nnd ho died with n cry to his wlfo to como to him.' Just before her execution sho wroto to tho Girondists at Caen that sho an ticipated happiness "with Brutus In the Elyslau fields" after her death, and Bho also wrote tender nnd loving faro well letters to her relatives nnd friends. When Bho had suffered death tho ex ecutioner lifted up her head ly tho hnlr and Btraclc it a brutal Mow with his -fist. Just at that moment a gleam of tlto sun so fell upon it that there was tho effect of a blush' upon tho dead face. Boston Globe. AUSTRALIAN OING0S. Property has its duties ns well as its rlghts.-Dnittimocd. Treacherous and Destructive Animals That Can Feign Death. There are some who believe, though tho evidence seems against them, that certain of the wild dogs, like the Aus tralian dingo "yellow dog dingo, al ways hungry, dusty in the sun" are reversions to the wild state of a race once tame, Just as the pariah dogs of various countries have traveled half the road toward becoming wild ani mals again. As oue sees the dingo here In the gardens it looks not merely like a do mesticated dog, but like a dog of a distinctly engaging and amicable kind. The dingo's character belies its gentle looks. "Quarrelsome, sly and treach erous," an Australian naturalist has called it. So sly is it that, according to Mr. Beddard in "The Cambridge Natural History," it feigns death "with such pqrslstcnce that an individual has been known to be partly flayed before moving" and so treacherous that in tho days when dlngos were more com monly kept as pets by the colonists than, as a result of bitter experience, is the case today it was no unusual thing for the dog which had been brought up with every tenderness from puppyhood to turn suddenly on its master or mistress, or, what was more frequent, when left in temporary charge of an empty house to seize the opportunity to raid the sheepfold or the poultry runs. On such occasions It "ravens" even as tbe wolf, killing not to satisfy its hunger, but lu the unrestrainable fury of a brute instinct, so that, given time enough, It will not leave one fowl or one sheep alive. That it does not need much time, moreover, Is shown by tho statement of Thomas Ward that "one dingo In the course of a few hours has been known to destroy several score of sheep." For Its fighting abil ity tho same authority declares it to be a match for most domestic dogs of double its size. When wild it hunts in packs, which are said sometimes to include as many as a hundred individuals, though from six to a dozen Is the common number, and the only Australian animal which it is uncertain if tho pack can ever pull down is (lu splto of Mr. Kipling) tho "old man" kangaroo. London Times. WOMEN IN TROUSERS. Some Whose Work Compels Them to Dispense With Draperies. The iden of a woman in trousers seems to be tho most horrible that tho modern civilized mind can conjure up, but there are part3 of tho world where women wear these garments as a mat ter of course, and the heavens have not yet fallen. They even contrive to look charming in them, too, as in ono of tho cantons of Switzerland, where the bifurcated garment Is worn on dress occasions as well as for work. Not even at the altar aro the trousers discarded. The brldo wears white ones, with a white bodice and white flowers in her hair, and many a brldo In a court train is less shy and sweet In spite of their trousers, which are ne cessitated by the work they do in tho fields, these women do not ride astride, but uso a sidesaddle Just like the woman who is trammeled by skirts. Tho trousers of Switzerland are loose, baggy affairs, sometimes almost as cumbersome as skirts, but the peas ant maids of tho Austrian Tyrol wear short, close fitting small clothes, which cannot impede their movements in any way and which nro not particularly becoming. Tho socks do not meet tho trousers and the knee is left bare, like a hlghlander's. Tho upper part of the costumo has some feminine touches, and over tho trousers is a short dra pery, which may be the remains of a skirt. These women work in the fields and stables and are compelled by their lifo to dispense with superfluous dra peries. French and Belgian flsherwomen wear trousers. They wad through the water, pushing their nets before them, and tho heavy waves would soon sweep them off their feet It they wore skirts. Even without them they are obliged to go out In little parties for mutual protection. In China, where they do most things differently from tho rest of the world, the women wear trousers and the men do not fllsiliiln skirts. " "" " Baptist Church Notes. Tbe interest is getting keen on the trip to Palestine ia tbe Baptist Sunday school. The passengers on the Lusi tania are making strenuous efforts to oatoh up with tbe other boat. Come and help it Sunday at 10 a. m. and also be benefitted by tbe Bible study. Preaohing at 11 and 7:30 by the pas tor. Young Peoples meeting at 6:30. The business meeting of the ohuroh ad journed from last Sunday will be tak en cp again after tbe morning preaoh ing sarvioe Prayer meeting on Wed nesday 7:30 p. m. A oordial invita tion to all of these services. Christian Church Announcements. Next Sunday is tbe beginning of our Bible sohool revival. Have you heard of it. Most unique method yet devised. You will be inteiested, so come. Be sure to ce on time, and have your bible and a good leeson, for this all oounts. Pleaching services at 11 and 7:30. At tbe morning ser vice tbe subject will be, "A Stuffed Ox." At night, "Why I believe the Bible to be the Word of God, and Christ to be Bis Son." Methodist Episcopal Church. Bev. A. O. Hammond, Pastor. Sunday services: Sunday sohool at 10 a. m. ; preaching service 11, Ep wortb League devotional service 6:30, pieaohing servioe 7:30. Ladies Aid Sooiety every Wednes day afternoon at 1 p. m. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7:30 p. m. Forced Into Exile. Wm. Upohurob of Glen Oak, Okla, was an exile from home. Mountain air, he thought would cure a frightful lungraoking cough that bad defied all remedies for two years. After six months he returned, deatn dogging bis steps. "Then I began to use Dr. King's New Disoovery," he writes, "and after taking fix bottles I am as well as ever." It saves thousands yearly from desperate lung diseases. Infallible for Coughs and Colds, it dispels Hoarseness and sore Throat. Cures Grip, Whooping Cough. 50o and $1, trial bottles free, guaranteed by all druggists. Lost. Bay mule with long tail and mane, branded a with bar under, on stifle. Lost near Athena sometime in Septem ber. Any one knowing of the same will be rewarded on notifying the owner, B. F. Swaggart, Lexington, Oregon. Lost In Athena. Ladies Gold wa.toh with initials F. I. P. engraved on oase. Finder leave at Press office and receive reward. SUMMONS lu tho Justice's Court for the Dietriot of Pendlctot:, County of Umatilla, SUte of Oregon. t Thomas W. Murrell, Plaintiff, vs. Simon Sharp, Defendant. To Simon Sharp, the above named Defendant, in tbe name of the State of Oregon : You are hereby notified and required to appear and answer the complaint of the plaintiff filed against you in the above entitled court and cause, on or before f.he 26th day of November, A.D., 1909, whioh said date is the last day of tbe time presoribed io the order for publioation of this summons; and you will take notice that if you fail to so appear and answer tbe said complaiat, or otherwise plead thereto, within said time, judgment will be taken against vou for thn sum of sixty-two (62.25) dollars and twenty-five cents, according to tbe prayer of plain tiff's complaint; for tbe costs and dis bursements of this action and for an order of sale of any personal property attaobed in this aotion. This summons is published pursuant to an order of the above entitled court duly made on the 11th day of October A. D., 1909, and will be published in tbe Atbena Press pursuant to said or der, the first publioation to be made on Friday the 15th day of October, A. D., 1909. Joe H. Farkes, Justice of the Peaoe, Peterson & Wilson, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Kills Her Foe of 20 Years. "The most meroiless enemy I had for 20 years," deolares Mrs. James Dnnoan, of Haynesville, Me., "was Dyspepsia. I suffered intensely after eating or drinking and could soaroely sleep. After many remedies had fail ed and several doctors gave me up. I tried Electrio Bitters, whioh cured me completely. Now I can eat any thing. I am 70 years old and am overjoyed to get my health and strength back again." For Indiges tion, Loss of Appetite Kidney Trouble, Lame Baok, Female Complaints, it is unequaled. Only EOo at all druggists. SHERIFF'S SALE. Notioe is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Exeoution issued out of the Circuit Court for the State of Oregon in and for Umatilla County, and to me dirooted and delivered upon a judgment and decree rendered and entered in said Court on tbe 20th day of Ootober, 1909; in favor of JohD F. Temple, plaintiff, and against Walter Cameron and John Borgevin, defend ant, for tbe sum of $500.00 with in terest thereon at the rate of 10 per cent per annum from tbe 8th day of February. 1908, and for the farther sum of $75.00 attorneys fees, and for the further sum of $32.00 costs, and whereas by said judgment it was fur ther adjudged and deoreed that the hereinafter desoribed real property, to-wit: Lot 10 of Seotion 15, Township 3 North RauRe 35, E. W. M., be sold to satisfy said judgmeut and all ousts, I will on the 20th day of November, 1909; at tbe hour of two o'olook in the afternoon of said day, in front of the Court House door, in the City of Pen dleton, Umatilla County, Oregon, sell the right, title and interest the said Walter Cameion and John Bor gevin had in and to the above desoiib ed real property on tbe 8th day of February, 1908, or sinoo then have acquired, at publio auction to the highest bidder tor oash in hand, the proceeds to be applied in satisfaction of said exeoution and all oosts. Dated this 20th day of Ootober, 1909. T. D. Taylor, Sheriff, by B. C. Wilson, Deputy. CHAMBERLAIN'S Cough Remedy Cures Coughs, -Colds, Croup, Grip and Whooping Cough. We are pleased to inform our readers that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy does not contain narcotics of any kind. This makes it the safest and best for children. . It makes no difference when you caught that cold, you have it and want to get rid of it quickly. Take Chamberlain's Cough Eemedy. It won't do to fool with a bad cold. No one can tell what the end will be. Pneumonia, catarrh, chronic bronchitis and consumption invariably result from a neglected cold. As a cure for coughs and colds nothing can compare with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Sold everywhere at 25c, 50c and $1.00. KEENFS .Barber Shop. Shaving, Haircutting, Shampooing, Massage for Face and Scalp. HOT BATHS. Shop North Side Main Street, Athena, Ore, We have a Complete Line of the Best WES & HEATERS at Legitimate Prices Also Superior Drills, Stubble Discs, Fanning Mills and Smutters C. A. BARRETT & CO. Athena, Oregon Motter-Wheeler's adies' Tailored Suits At 23 to $35 Many models in numerous shades and combinations of distinguish looking cloths; in the severe styles so good this fall the severity softened from ultra-mannishness to delightfully feminine styles by shapely lines & curiously contrived pleatings. Fabrics are series, broadcloth, homespuns, chevoits C& wide wales; running the gamut from grave to gay; j striking every note of newness CQ fabric charm. Coats are long near long models for every type of figure; sizes both odd and even-a very practical aa- u CM A B vantage, as many a woman nas Discovered. dkitcs are the pleated models $23 to $55 And Remember; a new Fail Hat-Latest Style-Absolutely FREE with every Ladies' or Misses Tailor Made suit. Motter-Wheeler Co.) Ualla Unlln Uich I UUIIU VVUIIU ITOJII, J OFFICERS T. J. KIRK, President, D. H. PRESTON. Vice President, F. S. Le GROW, Cashier, EDW. E. KOONTZ, Ass't. Cashier. DIRECTORS T. J. KIRK F. S. Le GROW, D. H. PRESTON, P. E. COLBERN, EDW. E. KOONTZ. ...N AGONAL OF ATHENA CAPITAL STOCK. $50,000 ...... SURPLUS, $30,000 , A General Banking Business conducted on Conservative Principles Lax Tilt QUELLE RESTAURANT GOOD THINGS TO EAT WELL SERVED GUS LAFONTAINE. PROP Pendleton, Or. 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