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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1911)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. t F.B. Boyd, Pcblihbeb. Application for entrance us 2nd class matter niadeon July 6, 1907 at the pomofflce at Athena, Oregon llixlnran Ant. nt llnntrreM of Mlircll 8, 1870 cATHENA, ORE- MAR.. 17.. .1911 The Piesa is in receipt of a oironlar letter from D. Clem Deaver.'of Oma ba, Nebraska, in which he seta forth at length his oommendalion of the bill before the recent congress which pro Tides that capital and labor may join in the bomesteading of poblio lands Mr. Beaver sets forth that tinder this law it would be possible for the cap Unlink to furnish the money and the homesteader to furnish the labor in acquiring title to the land. Just so, Mr. Doavor. But wa of the West know all of the ins and outs of that game. All we have to do is to cite you to the Wyoming and Utah ooal land frauds thousands of acres of wbioh were acquired by corporations by the dummy prouess, wherein the corporation seoured possession of the lands by pungling up a few dollars for the homestead rights of the mers. In Oregon, too, we hate had exper ience with capital and unscrupulous homestead entrymen, the result Being that oapital gobbled up everything in sight, the only interest the entryman having in the dear being the trou ble to wbioh he was put' in finding the shaok wherein he could spend a night or two and then collect bis hun dred dollars wben he proved up. Just keep your capital out of bomesteading business, Mr. Denver. Tommy Bilyeu and Rex Barnett, two former Athena boys, have made good in tbe World of mechanical arts. Rex ia at the bead of a company in St Louis, which' is manufacturing an ad justable bed, invented by bim, and wbioh is designed for use in hospitals. That be is meeting with success is evidenced by the faot that one Pott land capitalist too 120,000 worth of stock in tbe company. In a recent issue of tbe Portland Oregonlan ap peared a page advertisement setting forth the virtues of the Bilyeu Cashier, a devioe for counting change auto matically. The maohine is manufac tured in Portland and has the recom mendation of leading banks and de partment stores. Here is tbe suooess of two young men that might be emulated by others of our acquain tance. Both attended the Oregon Ag ricultural College, young Bilyeu work ing bis way 'through school by indi vidual effort.' Rex was tbe more for tunate in this tespeot, that be bad funds for finishing bis oourso. Uoth boy oame out even in knowledge, and at onoe put their learning into prac tical use. The result is suooess. Both command tbe rospeot and confidence of tbe business world to that degree whore oapital reoognizes the merit of endeavor, and stretches forth its hand to assist in plaoing tbe produot on tbe market.. And there is always room at the top of tho ladder for one more. The Walla Walla correspondent of the Assooiated Press evidently Believes Milton and Athena to be the only towns in the Blue Mountain league worthy of mention. In a dispatch to a Portland paper relative to Walla Walla joining the proposed Inland League, be states that bad the league been ptoposed earlier in the season, the garden city would doubtless have been in, as that city is most too big for towns the size of Milton and Ath ena. Ibis is a revelation totally un looked for, inasmuob as fWeston, Pen dleton and Eoho are also turgs in cluded in the league. But always did the two Wallas go some in base ball, and Milton will prove to be a worthy foe this year. However, tbe Press feels keenly the slight flung by the Walla Walla soribe at Weston, Pen dleton and Eoho. Wood, the mascot of the Weston Champions, tray be de pended upon to defend his town from all suoh premeditated and malioious slurs as this emanating from the Wal la Walla soribe. We read with interest of a man down at Albany, where land is valued at prices ranging from $500 to $1,000 aa aore, wno gives to tuai uh; aores for park purposes. Gee! we'd like to see bim. To shake bands with a man of that calibre would be the next thing to falling beir to a fortune. In Athena, to have a ball ground, it is found to be necessary to pull out of the park and away from inviting en vironments and shady nooks and map a new diamond in an alfalfa field. After a careful and exhaustive study of market conditions in the Paoiflo Northwest during the past eight years, President Harvey Beckwith of tbe Portland Commercial olub, makes tbe startling statement that prioes paid to farmers for eleven different articles of food, all necessities, advanced 214 per cent between April, 1902 and October 1910, and be backs up his statement by quotations from market reports published in Portland during that period. If, as tbe stories in the newspapers say, Morgan is gathering in all the muokrakicg magazines, why not charge bim 10 cents a pound postage instead of 4? What's the use of sav ing Mr. Morgan's money for bim? In the glint of sunshine comes the desire to olean up and make garden Athena will doubtless have a general cleanup day in tbe near future. Gar dening is already in progress. Russia has decided to pick on some nation she can probably lick, and an nounces that she is setting ready to make a military demonstration against China. The Walla Walla Bulletin claims that the penitentiary needs a chapel. It has a ohaplain, but no place in whiob to do business. In the year 1910 the Ilarriman lines operated 17,0(50 miles of railroads in the United States and Mexioo without a fatal aooideut to a single passenger. This roooid is unpreoedeuted in tbe railroad annals of this country. The liues relermd to are tbe Union Paoiflo and the Southern Paoiflo. This show ing is the result of tbe general iuBtall ation of block signals and safety de vices. Tbe Ilarriman railroads op erate more miles of automatio block signals tuau any otbor road in tbe world. This is a record of whioh to be proud. A Ready Se&lsr. , For traveling carry a candle with you, and when about to make a jump, ns the theatrical people say, seal your bottles with it. It takeo only a minute to light the candle, turn it upside down and let the tallow drip around the cork of a bottle, but it insures per fect carriage of the fluid content Good Housekeeping. Seaing Trouble Ahead. "My wife is always borrowing trou ble." "What kind la she borrowing nowT" "She is afraid whiskers will be in style when our little boy grows up, so that he will not have n chance to show tho cunning dimple in bin chin." Chi ongo Record-Herald. In the Blood. Willis Are those Kentucky horses you bought son ml of atitos? Gillis No. Indeed. They never notice a train, either, but ! on n't ;;et them used to a sprinkling oart to snve my life! Puck. f 1 A 6ood Line of llosie 31 The Mother's Friend Is a good hose, which go out with the boy, stay with him through the day's play, and come back home whole at night. Look for the trade mark shown below. 1 vimIo iM., w WHISTLER ' IN" A RAGET t Lady Meux Mad Him Fairly 8pl utter With Anger. ' Whistler painted three .portraits of Lady Meux, one of which, the "Sable Picture of Lady Meux," la missing. That one was the third for which ( Lady Meux sat to the eccentric artist t The other two are described in the. Pennell's life of the artist as among his rrost distinguished portraits. Lady Meux "was handsome, of a more luxu-' riant type than the women who usual- '. ly sat to him." and he "found for her ' harmonies appropriate to her beauty. ' rbe first was an "Arrangement in White and Black,' which few people, have seen. There is a sumptuousness in the black of the shadowy back-' ground and the velvet gown, in the; white of the fur of the long cloak,'; ;hat AVhistler never surpassed. Whis- tier was pleased with it and spoke of it as his 'beautiful Black Lady.' Lady Meux was so well satisfied that she at jnce sat for a second portrait, This time the harmony' was in 'Flesh Col-. jr and Pink.' afterward changed to 'Pink and Gray.' " ; The missing portrait was smaller. ; So far as the artist's . biographers ; 'ould find oat. it was never finished. ! The explaifattdn is probably to be found in this story, quoted in the "Life" from Mr. Harper Pennington: "The only time I sa.w Jimmy 'stump- 2d' for a reply was at a sitting of Lady Meux (for the portrait in sables) For some reason Jimmy became nerv jus exasperated and impertinent Pouched by something he bad Baid, her ladyship turned softly toward him and . remarked quite softly, 'See here, Jimmy Whistler, you keep a civil tongue in that bead of yours or I will have in some one to finish those portraits yon have made of me!' with the faintest emphasis on- 'finish.' Jimmy fairly danced with rage. He came up to Lady Meux, his long brush tightly' irrnsped and. actually quivering in hi hand, held tight against his side. He stammered, spluttered and finally: gasped out: 'How dare you? How dare you?' But that, after all, was' not an answer, was it? Lady Meux did not sit ngaln. Jimmy never spoke of the incident afterward, and I was sorry to have witnessed it" BLITZ WAS MODEST. Yet Webster Wouldn't Give the Ma gician a Treasury Job. During the' presidency of Mr. Tyler I bad occasion to call on Daniel Web ster, then secretary of state. Glancing ut my card, he turned and readily extended his hand with. "Wei-, come, signer! No hocus pocus among my papers." covering them with his arms. After explaining to him my object I received the required information. We laughed and chatted a few minutes, and I was about to retire when I men tioned that 1 was an applicant for; office and hoped I could rely upon hh Influence in the matter. "You, a magician, an office seeker, slgnor?" i "There is only one. sir, I aspire to; all others I should refuse without re gard to their emoluments." "Well, what one is that?" questioned the great statesman in his deep and powerful voice. "Counting the treasury notes, Mr. Webster." "The treasury notes, slgnor?" "Yes, sir. You might give me 100, 000 to count and watch me closely, but you would find only 7i3.000 when I re turned them." "Signor." he exclaimed, with lively animation, "there is no chance for you; there are better magicians here than you. 'For there would not be 50,000 left after their counting!" From "Life and Adventures of Signor Blitz." In tho Wrong Church. A Cleveland man recently told this story of the Rev. Stepheu II. Tyng, fa mous New York divine of n generation ago: A wealthy man came to bim and said ho wanted to rent one of the most expensive pews in the church. "But,". he added. "I'll only take it on one con dition you mustn't expect me to do any church work." The eminent rector smiled. "My friend," he replied, "you have come to. tho wrong church. You belong four blocks down the street, in the Church of the Henvouly nest" Cleveland Lender. A Changed Man. Admiral Capps, addressing a temper ance society, told n xtory of one of the best men hi? had ever known, who quickly wont from had to worse be cause of excessive drinking until he became a total wreck. "One evening." said tbe admiral, "this prematurely old, thin, worn out man with red rimmed eyes, said, 'You are n good, true, noble woman Jenny, nnd Rhould have married a better man than 1 am.' "Looking at hhn aud thinking of what he once had been she quickly answered, '1 did. James." New York tribune. . A Religious Innovation. A certain well brought up little girl who lives In the near vicinity of Kit tenhouse square yawned at the break fast table last Sunday morning and ventured a polite proposition to her mother. ; " "I really don't feci at all like going to churcb this morning." she remark ed. "Can't we Just send cards?" Phil adelphia Times. . The Easiest. Friend (sarcastically) Which one of your tuauy bad habits do you think you could manage to give up? Easy One (nottlcd)-That of lending my friends money. Itnltlraore American. AT TliE K of P -1 0 O F ML Mare n EZZ7 Benefit of Athena High School A good program commences at 7:30 . p. m. 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' Miller's Big Furniture Store if "Vi'S' r 1 South Side Main St. Athena Given Away .-Free I have 200 fine Pictures, framed and worth $2.00 each. I am going to give one free with every $25.00 cash purchase made at my store. I have the largest stock of goods I have ever carried Come; in and -see what I have picture offer is good for 30 days, only.