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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.
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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. Is tin display made by
people whu have more money to make
It witli than ae have. Chicago News.
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