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Six and Eight Pages Every Friday.
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Application for entrance as 2nd class matter
maaeon july;&,
1007 at the poatoffloe at Athena. Oregon
Under an Actot ongres of March 8, 1879
tATHENA. ORE.. FEB. 3
.1911
In fairness to Mr. A. P. Armstrong,
a member of the Oregon State Text
Book commission,, the JPre68 desires to
offer correction to an editorial pub
lished in tLe issue of January 9, rel
ative to bis appointment by Acting
Governor Bowerman. The editorial
was written under a misapprehension
of faots, the tenor of the artiole being
in the nature of an in jnstioe to Mr.
Armstrong, wbo has been engaged in
educational work in the state for a
period of thirty years, and was twioe
elected school superintendent of Mult
nomah oounty. Kelativa to bis high
standing as an educator, the Portland
Oregon ian of September 3, says:
"A. P. Armstrong, of Portland, has
been appointed by Aoting Governor
Bowerman to membership on the Ore
goo Text Book Commission, to fill the
vuoanuy oaosed by the death of H. W.
Scott. Professor Armstrong is a na
tive of Oiegon, was born and brought
up on a farm in Jackson oounty, edu
oaed in looal schools and colleges, and
is a graduate from the law department
of the University of Oregon. His life
has been devoted to ednoational work
and be is still 'in the harness as prin
cipal of the Portland Business College.
He was twice elected Superintendent
of Publio Instruction for Multnomah
oounty. is familiar with sohools and
their needs and is well qualified to aid
in the selection of text-books to be
used in the state."
dollars ' rewwd.The Appeal to Rea
son will pay $1000 in gold to the per
son or peraons who will, kidnap ex
Uovernor Taylor and return him to
the state offloiale of Kentucky, where
be is wanted on the charge of , mur
dering Qoebel." In an editorial ex
planatory of this offer, Warren said:
"Tbe supreme court cf the United
States baa held that kidnapping is a
perfectly legal method of taking an
aooused man from one state to an
other. This decision was rendered
in the now famous Moyer-Haywood
oaife, in whioh the defendants were
both Socialists and working men.
Will the Supreme Court of the United
States bold to tbs same opinion if tbe
defendant is a Republican and a cap
italist? Tbe Appeal to Reason has
absolutely no interest in the Taylor-
Goebel feud of Kentucky, but I want
to put it up to the Supreme Court of
tbe United States to deoide a case of
kidnaping where the victim is a re
publican politician and a personal
friend of tbe president of tbe United
States." Well, anyway, Warren is
sobeduled for jail and Taylor bas
been relieved of the pressure of an
in diotment in Kentucky, after being
a fugitive from there for a number of
years with $100,000 reward banging
over his bead.
(Since tbe above was in type, War
ren has been pardoned by President
Taf t. )
What is the matter with Nevada?
She seems to be suffering with
legislative mania. Now tbat elie bas
' attained considerable (undesirable no
totiety as a refuge for prospective di
vorcees sbo proceeds to forbid by law
the selling or giving away of cigar
ettes or cigarette papers. A prcper
provision perhaps, but noU a rational
one. This is a blue law; the other
laws of tbe state range from pink to
purple. Tbe legislature should go
slower. After repealing tbe easy di
vorce laws and the prize fight law
tbey should have taokled something.
mild a dog tax, for instance.
It is often, said tbat tbe day of
Greeley and Dana bas passed and tbo
newspaper . editorial hasn't tbe in
fluenoe it onoe bad. To a oertain ex
tent, says tbe Spokesman-Review, this
may be true, principally because there
are no more Dan as and Greeleysin tbe
editorial writing business. They go
into insurance or soap making now
adays. But tbat editorials are not
entirely valueless is shown by tbe an
nonnoement that tbe New York Jour
nai of ( ommeroo was reoently offered
3G,000 for its editorial snppott of
ship Bubsidy and the De Lesseps canal
One 1b not surprised to bear tbat tbe
oiler was deolined, inasmuch as the
announcement was made by the paper
itsolf.
Fied D. Warren, editor of tbe Ap
.peul to Reason, a sooialifitio paper,
bas been convicted by a federal jury
for circulating envelopes with this
printed on tbem: "Cne thousand
The bill designed at Oiympia to ex
empt women from jury duty was de
feated, while tbe measure making it
a gross demeanor for a jnstioe or po
lioe judge to addresss insulting or im
proper language to a prisoner, was
passed. The aotion on tbe latter law
was particularly desirable. Insulting
a prisoner at tbe bar is like slapping a
man's faoe when his hands are tied, '
The postal department has worked
out a paroels post agreement with
Brazil. A resident of Seattle can
send a package 3 feet 6 inches long,
weighing 11 pounds, through tbe
mails to Rio for 12 cents a pound,
and tbe government will carry it. But
it oosts a New Yorker 16 oents a
pound to send a 4 pound express
paokage across tbe river to Jersey.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given to all whom
it may oonoern, tbat on Saturday,
Febuary 25, 1011, at 2:30 p. m. at
my livery stable, I will sell to tbe
highest bidder tor cash in hand, one
roan bnrse, weight about 900 pounds,
7 years old, together with two saddles
and one bridle, prooeeds to be applied
on a feed bill owing rue by one Dr.
J. R. Sponogle, tbe above named per
sonal property being in my possession,
and ownership of same being claimed
by said Dr. J. R. Sponogle.
Harry MoBride.
Dated, Athena, Oregon Feb. 2, 1911,
Hit Bad Dream.
Truly oriental was tbe defense put
forward by a prisoner at Allpore.
Charged with stealing a Hindu idol
with its ornaments, he stated that the
goddess told him in a dream the night
before that, as she was not properly
worshiped by the Hindu priest, she
would be better taken care of by him.
a Mohammedan, and that unless be
took charge of her worship she would
In her wrath destroy his whole family.
The magistrate, however, was not sat
isfied with the story and sentenced tbe
accused to two months' rigorous im
prisonment and to pay a fine. Bom
bay Gazette.
KILLING THE UMPIRE
It la an Essential Part of the Great
Game of Baseball.
According to bleacher law, there are
three particularly Justifiable motives
for doing away with umpires, An
umpire may be killed first. If be sees
fit to adhere to the rules and make a
decifJon iijralnst the home team at a
close point In tbe game; second, an
umpire iimy be killed if he sends a
member t tbe home team to the bench
when the player in question has done
absolutely nothing but call the umpire
names and attempt to bite bis ear off
(an umpire has no . business to be
touchy); third (and this is a perfect
defense against the charge of murder),
an umpire may be killed if be calls
any batter on tbe home team out on
strikes when the player has not even
struck nt the balls pitched. That the
balls go straight over the plate has
nothing to do with the case.
There is ample proof at hand to
show tbat killing the umpire Is a dis
tinctively American sport. Other coun
tries hare tried baseball, but they hare
not tried killing the umpire. That is
probably the reason why they bare
not waxed enthusiastic over baseball,
for baseball without umpire killing la
like football without girls in the grand
stand. It simply can't be done. That
foreign countries know nothing about
our king of outdoor sports was indi
cated forcibly when in the fall of 1900
tbe Detroit team made a trip to Cuba
under the,. management of Outfielder
Mclntyre. In the entire series of
twelve games with the Havana and
Almendares nines not one single ob
jection was made by either the Cuban
players or the ullent Cuban spectators
to, a decision of the umpires. The
Americans did not know what to think
of it until they counted up the gate
receipts at the end of the series. Then
they realized that In their own country
it 13 the delight in killing the umpire
rather than the pleasure in watching
the game that draws the tremendous
crowds through the turnstiles. George
Jean Nathan In Harper's Weekly.
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i MEASURES, OF, LENGTH.
Light Waves and the Wonderfully Ao
currte Interferometer,
At the bureau of weights and meas
ures at Sevres, France, the standard
meter of metal, which .s the standard
length of the world, Is kept carefully
In an .underground vault and is in
spected only at long intervals. In
Great Britain similar care Is exercised
lu guarding tbe standard yard meas
urement. As It was possible for these
metal standards to be destroyed or
damaged In the course of time, it was
decided u number of years ago to de
termine the exact length of tbe stand
ards In wave lengths of light, which
would be a basis of value unalterable
and indestructible. For this purpose
the Instrument known as tbe inter
ferometer was Invented. This instru
ment represented the highest order of
workmanship nnd the greatest skill of
the best opticians of the world. A
series of refracting plates were made,
the surfaces of which were flat with
in one-twentieth of a wave length of
light, with sides parallel within one
second, representing the utmost refine
ment of optical surfaces ever at
tempted. With the interferometer perfected,
tbe attempt was made to make tbe
wave length of some definite light an
actual and practical standard of length.
For over a year scientists worked to
secure this result, and experiments
finally showed that there were 1,553,
104 wave lengths of. red cadmium
light in the French standard meter at
15 degrees centigrade. So great Is the
accuracy of tbese experiments that
they can be repeated within one part
in two millions. So Inconceivably
small is such a possibility of error tbat
should the material standard of length
be dumajred or destroyed tbe standard
wave length of light would remain un
altered ns a basis from which an ex
act duplicate of tbe original standard
could be made. Chicago Record-Herald.
Buttons. .
The Elizabethan era gave vogue to
the button and buttonhole, two inven
tions which may fairly be regarded as
important, since they did much to
revolutionize dress. Tbe original but
ton was wholly a product of needle
work, which was soon improved by the
use of a wooden mold. Tbe brass but
ton is said to have been Introduced by
a Birmingham merchant in 1G80. It
took 200 years to Improve on the meth
od of sewing the cloth upon the cover
ed buttou. Then an ingenious Dane
hit upon the idea of making tbe but
ton iu two pnrts and clamping them
together with the cloth between.
Dissatisfied.
The haughty looking woman upon
whose features the dermatologist had
beeu working for more than two hours
sneered when she glanced in the mir
ror. "1 eertaiuly thought you knew
your business." she snapped, "but you
have not even given me fair treat
ment." The man shrugged his shoulders. "If
you had wanted fair treatment you
should have been more explicit," he
retorted. "1 thought from what you
told me that you wanted brunette."
Chicago News.
Brave as a Boy,
Welgler I see that Gauslcr has been
given n medal for bravery. Match
leyette Well, be probably deserved it
He always was brave. 1 remember
when be was a boy tbat he was the
only one In tbe neighborhood who
would go to his mother when she
beckoned with one hand and held the
other behind her back. Chicago New.
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