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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1911)
... - " ' AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F.B. Boyd, Publishes. , Application for entrance as 2nd class matter iuaaeon July;&, 1907 at the pontofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actol DongreBg of-March 8. 1879 cATHENA. ORE.. JAN. 20. ,1911 Uppermost io tbe minds of the wage earners for tbe mouths past lias been tbe solution of tbe prublem cf bigb coat of living. If appearances are to be taken into aooount it would seem that tbe thousands of tons of produce - and provisions that have been held in " oold storage by Chicago 'commission merobants some of it for as long a period as five years to be thrown upon tbe market will go a long way toward obeapening tbe necessaries of life especially in the oongested dis tricts of tbe middle west and tbe east. Dispatohes state that tbe commission men have been foroed to let go their bold on tbe corner of high prioes for living commodities the result being that in one day the price of batter per pound deoreased 10 cents and eggs followed with a like shrinkage per dozen. Three firms tailed last week In the windy oity as a result of tbe proliflo production of the soil for the year 1910 and tbe mildness of tbe win ter conspired greatly in tbe assistance of eoonomy praotioed by the consum er. Everything is on the decline ex cept meat and the paokers look for no slump in prioes with them, tbe ca pacity of their oold storage ware houses Laving as yet not been over taxed. The mills of tbe gods grind sowly. bnt they may yet engulf the meat baron, and when they do. he will follow in the wake of the greedy commission merohant. mind that vast sums of money are spent ty tbe nation and the' states for projects that make for peaoe and tbo prosperity and progress of the people. We bear a great deal of talk about guns and ships bnt little heed is paid, except by those -directly interested, in tbe great irrigation works .that con vert lifeless deserts Into fertile traots where thousands of families make their happy homes. Much is said abont a large increase in tbe army, bat too many overlook the agricultur al oonrse of study and farmers' insti tutes that benefit direotly tbe immense and ever increasing army of farmers. and indirectly tbe whole country. James J. Hill oondemns Americans for their extravagant way of living, "History," he said, in an interview in Minneapolis, "shows that tbe high prioe of living is the beginning of every national , decline. Extravagant living and tbe desire for luxury, "con ununa tee railroad magnate, ' cause much troutle and pain, They also cause, unfortunately, mercenary mar riagos. I am reminded of the story of a St. Paul heiress. The girl's ex perlenoe with fortune hunters was very unpleasant and her answer to the burglar is most illuminating. One night, awakening to find a masked man in her bedroom, who ooveied her with a pistol, she heard a stern voioe say: 'I do not want your life, tut your money,, lady.' The St. Paul heiress sighed wearily, ' 'Oh, go away,' she answered. You are just like the rest of them.' " ' The best weekly newspaper that comes to tbe Press exohaoge table, is the Eagle, . published at Milton by Bruoe Sbangle and Otto Didion. Week in and week out, the Eagle outclasses papers published in towns many times tbe size of Milton. Carefully edited, newsy and with an editorial page booming its home town to the front, typographically excellent, here is a paper that holds tbe attention of tbe reader from tbe front page to tbe last, and there are eight of thorn seven col umns wide. But there is one feature abont tbe Milton Eagle that we don't understand. A paper of its class, so it seems to us, should have more ad vertising patronage . from tbe mer chants and business men in its borne town. In inohes tbe Eagle's home putrouage but little exoels that of the Press, and there are many more firms doing business in Milton than there are in Athena. In order to make tbe Eagle a financial suooess its owners seem to oe foroed to sohoit business of Walla Walla merohanta, with the result that tbere are almost as many ads. from that place as is represented by looal firms all of which leads us to believe that the Eagle is not appre ciated in Milton as it deserves to be. In these days when people talk loudly of warlike preparations and the need of spending many millions of dollars for new battleships and forti fications it may be well to keep in Tbe editor of the Stanfleld Standard was until reoenty a resident of North Dakota. He loosens up and says: "Just to think that we spent so many years in the oold and tbe blizzards of winters in the Dakotas when this oountry was here all tbe time with its balmy climate that permits out of-doors work every month of tbe year. Plowing has been in progress in this vicinity every day of the win ter as well as other work. When tbe tbeimometer gets down to forty above freezing, it is remarked as being obilly." According to tbe oity attorney of Tacoma, a woman does not need to tell her age when she registers. Tbis will doubtless be received with plea sure by many of the fair sex, for most women object to telling their age, even though it may be apparent. Cbehalis" Bee Nugget. Salem shows up rather better, near er expectations, in the census returns than most other towus. Well, the census supervisor for tbe first con gressional district lives at Salem. No bad insinuations intended, says tbe Journal. Though tbe great Harriman is dead, bis name is yet io oommon use In mentioning a great railroad system, and may long continue to be so. We shall not soon, if ever, see bis like again. Tbe Saturday Review says that it heard a man say the other day, that be "could give bis automobile away, and make money." Has it really come to tbis? An ounce of Pr e -venlion is worth a pound of Cure. I LB. is worth more to onos health than anv other medicine known. ?lt 11 your stomach with arsenic, calomel, quinine and debilitate the BVntem. leavinc ermninma Hint. it. takAfl voars to obliterate. Herbine is purely vegetable cantainiwr nothing Aujiuioua, mm is genue Harmless purgative. flippc CONSTIPATION, CHILLS AND VUKCO FEVER, DYSPEPSIA, MALA RIA AND ALL LIVER COMPLAINTS. Does More Than We Claim. DonC. Morrison, Klsslmmee, Fla. writes: "I hate used several bottles of ilerbino myself and hare advised eovoral of my friends to use same. I havo found it to bo the beet medicine for the liver J ever used. It acts genti ly at the earn time thoroughly." f PLEASING PRICE 5oc. HARMLESS Ballard Snow Liniment Co. sm-502 North Second Street. ST. LOUIS, MO. jlMWiih-Wwiitt Sold and Recommended by BYRON N. HAWKS. ii r- Crpands Wholly on the Fric'.ion of tha MUrila In GcnUct. ; ' The niv.'le ,.t- H'l'osp Ik n, vvli k-iuwt term lu file ariditf of ii!erl)iii;ifs, l;iit. besides Jieht!: u?m in imivlj-. tlii'mvt-li-fil problems., I i;ii:'ii lniii iii'cimisl Ity' rillll'u.-id Hinl oilier tMi..'iliif;'. Slip;iiiSi. thiit 'we t;itve n iii'ii-k ami in.v it mi n ixi.ini ii:ii i.-icii j.'i-.-intliiil.v r:i:se mi Mid of tliivlniiird. There .will lie a cer- tain finale rc;i. iel In time where tin' brick will in-t i-emnlii m rest on lb board.' Inn wlM-Minrt to slide down. This Is termed (he anle of repose of the brick on the bonrd. It is at that point where the component of force due to KMvlty overcomes tbe resist ance due io friction between tbe two surfiices Therefore the iiugle de- pends entirely on the friction. Fric tion rnrles with the materials in con tact. So the anj;le of repose of a brick on a pine lionrd would be different than its nnj;Ie of repose on an Iron board, say. " i Now for the application of this in ordinary life. When railroad cut has to be made the sides have to be suffi ciently slanting to keep the earth or clay from caving In. Tbo same ap plies when n ditch la dug or when for tifications nre built in time of war. The angle necessary for this is of jcourse tbe angle of repose of tbe par ticular kind of material through which tbe cut Is made as measured by itself on itself, ns it contains millions of in dividual particles in contact The an gle In this instance is determined with utmost ease and simplicity. A pile of the material is put Into an open cylin der, packed down slightly, and the cyl inder is then removed. Of course the pile Immediately slumps down into a mound with slanting sides, tbe angle of which Is the one wanted. This an gle is somewhat smaller than the one that would be taken by compact earth and therefore allows a good margin of safety. ' ' Tbere are tables got out for the en gineer to refer to. but It is always wiser to make a trial for every par ticular condition of the soil, for there are hardly two cuts made through ex actly the same kinds of material in exactly the same condition. Chicago Uecord-Herald. BAIT FOR SARDINES. ' Bretons Coax the Tiny Fish With Salted Eggs of the Cod. ' Sardine fishing forms the chief in dustry of Brittany. In au average season tbe Brittany sardine fisher men catch 100.000,000 to 150,000,000 pounds of sardines, .for which they receive anything from . 300,000 to 000.000, while the shore Industries de pendent upon this fishery give em ployment to iO.OOO other persons, most ly women and girls. So important is the sardine that in many communities In Brittany every person is directly or Indirectly supported by It. and the fail ure of the tish to come means ruin, starvation mid death to many people in the more isolated places. Sardines are found on tbe coast of Brittany throughout the year, but flourish in greater abundance In sum mer and autumn. As many as 100,- 000 have been taken at one time In oue net from one school. One remark able feature of sardine fisbinsr in Brit tany Is t lie enormous amount of bait which is used. The bait in general use Is the salted eggs of the codush. and it Is estimated that the Breton fishermen pay 70.000 every year to Norway for cod roe for use as bait. iThe casting of the bait, on the prop er use of which a great deal of the suc cess of the fishing depends. Is always done by the captain of the boat, who stands on a little platform tn the stern and while directing" the movements of the boat and tbe manipulation of the net throws i lie bait to attract the fish the surface and around the boat When the tish are on one side of the net or on the other his next move Is to enst the bait In such a way as to cause them to rush ugninst the net and thus become gtlled.-London Tit-Bits. ; Deaf aa an Adder. The expression "deaf ns an adder'' is from the Psalms of David, where it appears In the following form: "Their poison is like the poison of serpents. They aie like the deaf adder that stop peth her ear, which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely." East Indian travelers tell us that there Is a widely prevailing su perstition In the east to the effect that both the vtper and the asp stop their ears when tbe charmer is uttering his Incantations or playing his music by turning one ear to the ground and twisting the point of the tail Into the other. His Favorite. "Which is your favorite Wagnerian operai" asked the musician. "I.emuie see," said Mr Cumrox, ap pealing to his wife. "There are sev eral that 1 never heard yet, arent there?" "Yes." "Well. I reckon it's one of them." Washington Star. Poor Little Goosal "Seems as if I can never find a de cent quill 'n the house." growled the eighteenth ecu fury author. "1 think it would pay you to keep a goose," sharply retorted his wife. "You mean one that would be of some help to me. don't your vhortted the brute Peti-nli I'ree Press. Vulgar Ostentation. Little Willie Say, pa. what is vul gar ostfimilou Pa-Vulgar ostena tton, my sou. 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