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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1911)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER v; Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F.B.Boyd, Publisher. Application for entrance as 2nd class matter made on July 6, 11)07 at the poMofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actol ConeresR of March 3. 1879 tTHENA. ORE.. JUNE 16 1911 Tbe annual eobool meeting, at wbiob a member of tbe board of directors and olerk of tbe diatriot will be elect ed, takes plaoe next Monday, Jane 19. L. K. Alderman, state superintendent of pablio instruction, is taking much interest in tbe annual sobool meetings of tbe state tbh year, with tbe object of increasing tbe attendance and in fusing interest 'n sobool matters gen erally. In tbe past, attendanoe bas been small and interest in tbe selec tion of qualified persons on tbe board bas been laoking. To overcome tbis, tbe state superintendent suggests tbat you give a part of one day in eaob year to tbe consideration of the public sobool Question. Be is planning tbis year to make tba annual sobool meet ing day a great day by having tbe pa trons of the sohools attend tbe meet ing and not only eleot sobool ofh'oials, but learn conditions of the sohool plant. In many of the distiiots throughout tbe state people will con gregate at tbe sobool bouse and hold a pionio, and it is proposed to make these picnics an annual affair. BASEBALL SIGNS. i Their Importance Is Much Greater Than Their Number. Among the players we do not use tbe word "signal." With us it Isn "sign." There are not as many signs" used on a ball club as the public would believe. Of course the catcher must "sign" tbe pitcher for every bull 1 ! :t t lie throws. That Is to prevent confusion or. as we say. to keep from "crossing each other." The catcher has a sign for a curve ball, n fast ball and u slow one. To ball players all curve balls, such as tbe drop and tbe outcurve. are cull ed "a curve." The catcher gives the same sign for any one of them. We do not call a ball that jumps "in" a curve. Hall players do not recognize the incurve. Tbat is called u fast ball. Any bull thrown by a right handed pitcher with sullicient speed will jump inward to a slight degree. Tbe out curve and drop are unnatural curves and the ball must be spun In an un natural manner to get that peculiar "break." The only other "sign" of, importance Is the one the batter gives to the run ner when be intends to bit the ball. If he wants tbe runner to start as bo swings (the lilt and run play) he gives him a certain sign. There are any number of signs used for this play. Sometimes the batter gives it by rub bing bis hand over the small end of the bat. Again, he may give It by knocking tbe dust from bis shoes with the big end of the bat-John J. Mc Graw In Metropolitan Magazine. Washington and its taxation system was severely scored in an article re cently published in the American Magazine, but the state tax commis sion takes exception to the statement in that article that tbe prosperity of Washington is on the wane. The com mission says that Washington in the past ten years bas made tbe biggest gain of any state in tbe union so far population is considered, and tbat while its gain in population is great its commercial development is even greater, and tbat a state wbiob in five years bas praotioally doubled the amount of land under cultivation and bas trebled its bank aooouut, is not going baokward. . It will be a good day wben a com pulsory sentence of imprisonment awaits every individual member of a trust found guilty of violating tbe law. At the present time most of suob criminals esoapov through the convenience of an immunity bath or fjy the payment of a fine, which though iu itself may be large, menus uo moro to them than tbe payment of a dollar would mean to a poor man. As for a sense of shame in being oou vioted of breaking the law, tbey have none. Nothing but the fact that pris on sontouces and stripes await them will make them oboy the law and work the desired end. EAST INDIAN RUNNERS. Kahars Who Can Regularly Make a Hundred Miles a Day. Ordinary Marathon races seem rath er insignificant compared with the regular performances of a certain east Indian caste. These Kahars, also known as JhlnwaVb, live In the. Pun Jab, where for centuries they have acted as runners, fishermen and water fowl catchers. The men are trained runners and are said to bo able to go a hundred miles a day without resting. According to Daily's Magazine, there is a well au thenticated instance that Tika Ram, the son of Lalu Ram, carried dis patches 300 miles in three days from Mcan-Mir to Meerut. The point discussed, however, Is whether the normal exertions of the Kaliar post runners and the similar ex ertions of jinrlkisha men shortened their lives, and it appears that the Ka hars, trained from childhood to bo dis tance runners, live to be old men. They are not only able to withstand the strain of miming great distances un der a heavy load, but thrive under it. The Jinrlkisha man, too, notwith standing his irregular diet, excessive use of liquor and exposure to the ele ments, lives to a reasonable age. In Tokyo when a census was taken of the Jinrlkisha men a few years ago there were found to be more than 1,300 who were over fifty-five years of age. Spokane now bas 5 per cent money, sent iu from the east, wbiob is sup posed to be a harbinger of easier mouey and more prosperous times. Reports from all over the east during the past few weeks iudiualo tbat con ditions are improving and that the stringency which bas existed for some mouths, apparently without causo, is a thing of the past, Mood times are ussured iu the west just as soou as the f aimers begin to turn the 11)11 crop into mouey and the coming fall prom ises to be cue of the most piosperous over expurienued iu the Inland Empire. The Athena part ot the new road was completed yesterday. With its completion to Weston, later iu the sea son, this seotiou will have the longest stretch of maoademized toad iu East ern Oregon. This oharaoler of high way ooustruotion costs money, but it is mouey well spout. Piumauout lin proveuieut iu road work bouts the old system ot road ooustruotiou so far that there is praotioally uo comparison. The old system of earth tills to la washed out the followiug spriug, cor rectly ouiuputed, would doubtless be fouud as expensive us tbe uew system., Sailing Is So Interesting. The lady was reading a nautical novel. She struggled along bravely for a few minutes, but finally had to ap peal to her husband. "Gerald," she said, "the author says that the boat was sailing 'wing and wing.' What does that mean? I've been on a yacht, but I never heard that before." "That means," answered Gerald, re joicing in the fact that lie, too, had spent several hours on a sailing ves sel "that means that the schooner had her malns'l out to port and her fores'l out to starboard, or vice versa." "Ob, I see!" cried the lady. It's just like a chicken a wing on each side. And now I understand why they call those little sails in the middle 'jibs.' It's short for 'giblets, of course. Isn't sailing interesting?" Cleveland Tlaln Dealer. Uotb bouses of the city councils in Pittsburg and Sorautou, Pennsylvania, bavo been abolished, and in their place will be city commissions of uiuo mem Leis each. The ohaugo can scarcely fail to bo for tbe butter, uotwitb stauding tbat the appointment of tbe commissioners is vested in Peuusyl vauia's maohiue governor, Ancient Architecture. Herr Knauth, the architect in charge of tho Cathedral of Strassburg, has shown that tbe principles of construc tion followed by the great cathedral builders of former times are ldehtlcal with those used by tho builders of the Egyptian pyramids and are based on trtungulatlon. The same simple geo metrical figure underlies all these con structions. More than this, Ilerr Knauth traces the architectural prin ciple in the formation of crystals nud lays down this formula: "Tho laws of proportion In mediaeval architecture are the geometrical laws of crystallization." Cause of the Delay. "Why Is your friend staying so long in Now York?" "I don't know haven't heard which of tho two reasons is keeping lilni." "Which of the two?' "Yes, whether he is having too good a tlmo to come awny or has spent all his money and can't get away." Buf falo Express. All roads lead to Athena, aud from pteseut iudioutious, tbey are to be good cues. To Press Subscribers: Please note the dato of your subsoriptiou on the margin or wrapper of your rjaper. Are you iu arreurs? If so, come for ward and remit, and greatly oblige. Chronic "Ono thing about Jinx, he never Jjmes into one's office without knock ing." "Another thing about Jinx is that he never goes anywhere without knock ing." Houston Tost Self. A perfect understanding of self is a perfect understanding of all things, for man Is the condeused whole. From such a man no power is with held. All things are obedient to hfm. Freedom. T.tf. upon the whohv is far mor? p!e:!suml!o than painful: otherwise would not fW ;.iln so Impatiently wheu it comes !.U Hunt THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER. An Incident That Marked His Spirit and Independence. In his "Glimpses of the Confederate Army" in the American Review of Re views Randolph II. .McKim writes: "It seems to me as 1 look back that one of the things which stood out strongly in the Confederate army was the independence and the Initiative of the individual soldier. It would have been a better army in the field if it bad been welded together by a stricter dis cipline, but this defect was largely atoned for by the strong. Individuality of the units In the column. It was not easy to demoralize a body composed of men who thought and acted In a spirit of independence in battle. "As an illustration of the spirit of the private soldier I recall an incident to tbis effect. Major General Gordon bad organized a strong column to make a night attack on Grant's lines at Pe tersburg. When he was ready to move and the order to advance was given a Big Texan stepped out of the ranks and said : " 'General Gordon, this column can't move before 1 n. m. The men have a truce with the Yanks, end it ain't up till 1 o'clock.' "The column did not move till that hour. Tbe private in the ranks had taken command, and the major general recognized his authority." PONGEES HARD TO MATCH. Because Each Piece Is Made From Ono Lot of Raw Silk. Pongee silk is the undjrd silk of silkworms fed on the leaves of scrub oak chiefly, though other trees are used In some portions of the pongee district. The silk is produced almost exclusively In Shantung province and portions of north China immediately adjacent. The real pongee cloth, made of this uncolored specially produced silk, is distinct from tbe pongees of com merce made in all colors from other silk. Each piece of cloth Is made from a particular lot of silk, and therefore each piece varies from all oilier pieces iu exact quality, weight and fineness and In a slight degree in color and other qualities!. There are certain general grades of cloth, certain varieties of weave, cer tain popular weights, etc.. but women shopping in Chinese pongees find It very dillicult to mutch pieces, and on the face of things it is practically Im possible to furnish any great number of pieces of a certain weight, grade and quality such as a modern clothing manufacturing establishment would require to standardize a certain line of garments from that particular cloth. New York Sun. LocEted His Station. There was an nbsentminded bishop In western Ontario, who was constant ly finding himself In awkward situa tions, on account of bis extreme ab straction. On a certain occasion he was traveling from London In a north erly direction and found when tho conductor approached him that he had forgotten where be was to go. The conductor suggested that be telegraph from the next station and find out bis destination, it was before the days of long distance telephones, and the bishop telegraphed to his wife from the first station. "Where was I go ing?" to lie answered at the following station. Tbe answer came. "Exe(,cr; be sure to get off there." The bishop then beamed at tbe anxious conductor and remarked placidly: "Tli;sp little difficulties c! ways turn out satisfac torily." Argonaut. Gir-r.rn Pedljrea Esok. There Is in Germany what Is known as t lie '(iorman ivuirreo Hook," or "Dentscbes Gesehleclri huch." The purpose or in? pedigree ii'mk. accord ing to a Berlin eorresp nidcnt. Is to record the ancestry not of nobles, but of bourgeois persons who can prove that t'ley are of genuine middle class or working class micestrv and have no i:n!ile blood in their veins. The editor explains in his preface that. while many German nobles "out of court and material considerations have not kept their blood pure, there are many good business class families which have tnan:ig"d to do so." By thus encouraging the proper pride of such families the pedigree book Is do ing much to eradicate the traditional envy of the unities. Two before I'm "My aud It Depends on the Do. Broadway business men met i bar. They were good friends, worried a little." said one. chauffeur ran over a dog today Hilled it." Oh. 1 wouldn't worry about a little tht'Vg like that, said the other. "The dog probably, got in the way. These dogs are a pest." "But it was your do'.;." "What!" canto from tho second. My dog? I'm sorry, but that will cost you SliMt. lh.it clmtitreur or yours Is too careless. J Insist on the hundred, understand. "-New vYork Tel egrapb Cross Purposes. "Can you tell me something obout, the game laws around here?" asked file stranger in Crimson Gulch. "Well." replied Three Fingered Bam. I could, but my advice to you would be If you don't know the rules of a game, don't try to play it.-Washington Star Character. Shon'd one tell you that r mountain had cb iu-e l Its place yon are at lib erty to d 'ii:!it it. but If any one tells you that n man has changed his char acter il not be!e it. Mohammed. ff5 CONSTIPATION Indigestion, Bad Breath, Dizzi ness, Vertigo (blind staggers), Headache, Sallow Complexion, a Tired, Discouraged Feeling are all symptoms of a Torpid Liver. HERBINE Is an Effective Liver Tonic and Dowel Regulator. ence In the torpid liver brings on an Immediate improvement. iou levi uiti u... ------ bowels move freely so that tne Impurities which navo b-bb up the digestive organs find an outlet. When the system has been thus purified, the bilious, half sick feeling1 disappears, the complexion clears, the breath becomes sweet, tho mind alert and cheerful end th6r3 Is a fino feclinff of exhilaration aw through tho body. 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