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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1910)
She Altera Jl'icm AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F. B. Boyd, Publisher. Application for entrance rh 2nd class matter made on July;5, 1907 at the pontofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actot Congress of March 3. 1879 Subscription ftatet t par vear. in advance 12.00 Single copies in wrappers, 6c, " ORE,. AUG. Z6 1910 Vill in i- in tbe Federal service, in an interview at Washington, declares that snob dis asters are entirely preventable" when Congress makes sufficient appropria tion and tbe states look., after private holdings. ' Ilia plan is thorough pa trol, complete telephone connections, and tbe putting of men at work upon every blaze discovered in its inoipien cy. As a result of this year's appall ing losses, there is sore to be a deter mined effort to proteot and conserve tbe timber supply in tbe future. C O. Chapman, promotion manager of tbe Commercial Club, has been tonring Western Oregon nrging the landowners to out up their traots into such holdings as will permit tbe man of average means to acquire a home when he comes to tbe state. His ar gument shows that in many regions tracts are entirely too large now for tbe bumble homeseeser to purobase. As tbe great f uturo of tbe fruit busi ness, dairy industry and other agri cultural lines is with tbe small tract on wbiob the owner does most of his work, Mr. Chapman voices tbe gen eral hope of tbe state tbat land will be so segregated tbat every man com ing will have no difficulty in secur ing snob aoreage as he can work to advantage. At tbe regular meeting of tbe Good Roads association held at Portland ast Tuesday, a number of prominent peakers urged with all their power he adoption of the amendment next November which will permit counties 3 Lond themselves for heavy wagon nad 'construction. Until snob provi :on is enacted, the good roads people iel that progress is handicapped, but ' snob a measure iB eoaoted by the aople, they are confident many Ore ju counties will at once begin heavy ork. VESSELS OF WRATH. 3ays William Allen White in tbe nporia Gazette: The automobile is Qne biid, but it sucks blood. It s a song tbat Jures men to destruo m and women to vain pride that rrodes their happiness. Look not on tbe buzz-onrt when it is red and 'eth stinkum to the evening breeze; 1 it obawetb soads and duoats like a r baler; also mazuma anil sesteraes 1 rooks and dongb it lappetb up ) a house a Ore. When tbe devil jou obampetb and snorteth, flee to mountains of tbe Hepsidam and wl in a hole or the old boy will get to the poor house. Mao goetb b in tbe morning chugging and tiug with pride; a balo of blue ke enoiroleth him as a wreath; Le eth his belly with pride and saitb, )ld, I am u six-oy Under brute; i a lalipaloolu am I in my pride. m lo," the sheriff comoth in at ' tbe t door of tbe shop and swipeth ip ubstanoe in a night and a M is lamic hauleth off the available s to tbeauotion. Tbe auto, is a ;er and tbe touting oar is raging .vhoso is deceived thereby should his noodle in lye. Vessels of h lit ted unto destruction are the cutts tbat eat men's time and is securities and in tbe end turn iu a ditob and make his family bamturgei steaks. Woe is his who dallies with them; even is he called iu tbe market plaoe wists tbe brass wheel and wink le other eye at fate. ANIMALS THAT WEEP. Dugong Tears Preserved by the Ma lay as a Love Charm. While the uct of laughing may be peculiar to man, tbe saute Ih not true of weeping, which. If we are to accept tbe testimony of a French naturalist. Is a manifestation of emotion tbat Is met wltb In divers animals, ' It Is said tbat the creatures tbat lveej most easily are the ruminants, with whom the act is so well known that it has given rise to trivial but ac curate expression, "to weep like a calf." All hunters kuow tbat tbe stag weeps, and we ore also told tbut the bear sbeds tears when It comes to a consciousness of its last hour. Tbe giraffe Is not less sensitive and regards with tearful eyes the hunter who has wounded It.'.. .Thin animal also weeps through downright nostalgia Dogs also are held to be lachrymose, and the same holds In the case of certain monkeys. Spnrrmnn slates the ele phant sheds tears when wounded or when It perceives that it cauuot es cape. - Aquatic animals, too. It appears, are able to weep. Thus, many authorities agree, dolphins at the moment of death draw deep sighs and shed tears abundantly. A young female seal was observed to weep when teased by n sailor. St. Ililalre and Cuvler re count, on tbe authority of the Malays, that when a young dugong Is captured the mother Is sure to be taken also. The little ones then cry out and shed tears. These tears are collected with great enre by the Malays and are pre served as a charm that Is certain to render a lover's affection lasting. New York Press. A PROPHETIC JEWEL. Peculiar Ring That Was Owned by ' Marquise du Barry. Marquise du Barry, whose lovely head fell Into the basket beneath the guillotine in expiation of her levity, extravagance and folly, had In her pos session a stone of which the Paris jew elers were unable to tell the precise nature. There appeared upon it below the surface and as If under water an out line of a picture containing human fig ures. Strange to relate, when first the gem was given to its afterward unfor tunate possessor this outline was not clear, but after It bad been some months in her possession It grew more vivid. One day the negro servant boy, La mor, who was afterward instrumental from revenge in the downfall of the Du Barry, declared, looking at the Jew el, that he could decipher the figure of a woman with disheveled bair leaning before a scaffold and surrounded by a crowd, while beside ber stood the executioner. A strange but authenticated circum stance is that the negro servant boy precisely described tbe guillotine. Dr. Guillotine had not then invented his celebrated Instrument of death, nor bad. thd horrors of the revolution begun. Spatcbing the jewel from the hand of the servant, Mme. du Barry exam ined it, saw the kneeling woman, the angry crowd, the death knife falling tandi with a cry of agony, fell sense less ito the floor. fly t villa Flv Tract of Spiders' Nests. Spiders' nests are used In Mexico as ans. During the rainy season tbe ces are invaded by numbers of fli'esland other Insects. To rid a house of these pests tbe natives bang tbe branch of a tree bearing a spider's nest to a nail in the celling. The surface of the nest enlarges concentrically after each capture of nn Insect, and it exercises an Irresistible attraction on files. When a spider's nest is opened it la found to bo filled with insects. Experiments made with paper nests so manufactured as to be exact copies of the real nests show that flies win not lenter them. Though very small and apparently insignificant, the in habitant of the mosquero attacks in sects far more important in size than the largest housefly. The wasp is one of its favorite victims, and the wasp always gets the worst of the struggle. Harper's Weekly. i . A Silk Producing Caterpillar. In Assam, where the natives call It "eri," a silk producing caterpillar has been used for silk spinning for cen turies, but, strange to say, Its employ ment for the purpose has been restrict ed almost exclusively to that region. Ono of Its advantages is that its co coons are not sealed like those of the common silkworm. One end of the co coon is closed only with converging loops of silk. This renders it unneces sary to kill the Insect when its silk is used. Rubbing It In. "What made the boss glare so at that man who Just went out?" said one waiter to another. "When he paid his bill for a fifty .cent dinner he asked if there was any place la the neighborhood, anyhow, where a fellow could go and get a decent meal for fifty cents." New tork Tress. The Remedy. The Mistress Bridget, I must object to your having a new beau every tight. The Cook Thin buy betther food! One'Il nlver come again wane ! he's tackled what I have t serve himl Cleveland Leader. In the Sunken Submarine. "It's too annoying that we should be stuck down here. I bought myself the most splendid tomb ouly last week." Lustlge Blatter. AH phllosoi'hr 'n ,w0 words, sustain aud isiaiu.-Kpietetus. 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