The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, July 21, 1911, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextAN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F.B.Boyd, Publisher. Application for entrance as 2nd class matter madeoa July S, -l!)07at the poiiiofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actot Congress of March 3, 1879 cATHENA. ORE.. JULY 21. .1911 L. D. Eaton, writing to the East Oregoniao, takes exceptions to the re potts made by "crop experts" and places them in the category of pests. Serioasly speaking, be says ranohers don't want their crops exported, not by ootnmeroial experts anyway, for the very good reason that following the glory reports of the experts, there results notioable depression in grain prices. All of whioh is true. But how eliminate the "expert" and bis report? Ue gathers his data from the farmer himself, and together with bis personal observation, ia woven the story of the crop propeots. To put the kibosh on the expert, the farmer himself should lead the orueade by withholding information. In troth, glowing crop prospects are takeu ad vantage of by the grain gambleis who in a measure have the making and un making of grain prices in the same proportion that reports of poor oiop conditions are manipulated by them. However. Mr. Eaton's expert is by no means tbt only source of information available to the manipulators of grain prioesi 'the United States govern ment maintains an information bu reau whioh renders statistical reports on crop prospects and production, whioh would make it appear that the secret will out, anyway. PHYSICAL ENDURANCE. Athletes, at a Rule, Reach the Zenith of Their Powere larly. In athletic sports pnyslcal endurance plays the most important part. This Is particularly noticeable in the Mara thon races. In boxing, wrestling and rowing ability to stand the tremen dous strain on the pliyir:il powers is essential. But every athlete has his physical limitations. Ue reaches the zenith of his powers early and then gradually declines. A victorious Marathon run ner seldom repeats his success, for he has impaired his endurance by his ex ertions, although he does uot think so until he meets with defeat the second time he irli-s for tirst prize. A boxer, ns a rule, cannot long re main n champion in any class, al though a twelve year record has been made by exceptional men. A promi nent wrestler said recently that he hoped to remain in the game five years, but could not exceed that limit and still be a topnotchcr. Oarsmen win their greatest victories In the first few years of their career. The baseball player holds out well be cause the strain on him Is less violent than on most athletes and he gets needful rest. Pitchers, however, are an exception, and some hold out for many years, but most of them do not Boston. Globe. RADIUM SAFES. LAUGH AND GET FINED. Did President Taft and his secre tary of the Interior, Bellinger, give to a Morgan oombine in whioh his brother is interested a monopoly of exit to the sea or a railroad connec tion with rich ooal mines in south western Alaska? This is reported as the vital question of the "Controller Bay inoident," now under investiga tion by Congress, upon the basis of nows disclosures last week. One ex collent Washington correspondent thinks that "after the dust has cleared away" the inoident will go "down to history as an attempt to make a moun tain out of a molehill." But that is about what many excellent Washing ton correspondents thought of the Ulavis disclosures when Mr. Taft and bis dof t Attorney General were bot tling them up. Many mole bills grow as they "go down in history," Pendleton papers are wrangling over the problem of putting eleotrio light and telephone wires underground ou the business streets. Que paper is ao coned by the other of trying to railroad the proposition through the Commer cial Association, and it retaliatesvith the aoousatlou of the othor sheet being the organ of the eleotrio and telephone trusts. The city ocuncil, u council man uud the , ladies of the CJivio Olnb have been brought into the newspaper embroglio, and the end is not yet. There will to three big laud shows iu the East this fall. New York, Chi oago aud Omaha are planuiug to bold exhibits that will let prospective borne suekeis know what the entire oountry has to offer. All transcontinental rail ways are aiding iu these projects.leud iug them gonerous tluauoial assistauoe. '1 ho agents of the various shows have teen active La he Northwest for some tie, lining up the vaiious dintricta. It is safe to say that Washington and Oregon will be well represented. Portland has won the 1 0 1 J reuniou of the Elks, whioh means that it will be host to one of the largest gather ings in the country next year. The Portluud lodge soul a large delegation to Atlftutio City several weeks ago, won a lot of piizos iu the parade aud copped oil the anunal gathering for HU2. This in the big event aud one that will do much to attract attention to the entire Paoitio Northwest. That Seems to Be a Common Occur rence In Germany. English law is occasionally subject to criticism, but for real comedy we are a long way behind Germany. In Berlin recently an Ironworker was sent to prison for a week because he laughed. Going along the street be saw a merrymaker being chased by a particularly stout policeman, and the sight tickled him. lie was promptly baled before the court for scandal. Another man attempted to get into a moving train and fractured his leg After six months in the hospital he was discharged, cured, when the state railway department at once prosecuted him for breaking their regulations. The law and leg breaker was fined $1.25. stepping into an omnibus a man trod on the foot of a lady, who was so annoyed that she said be walked like a hen. She was fined $5 for using this term of reproach. Claire Waldoff, the Berlin singer, out wltted the police, however. She was warned that if she sang any of her songs on Easter Sunday there would be trouble. But the announcement was made that Claire Waldoff would posl tlvely appear. She did. So did the po lice. And she sang the German nn tlonal anthem! The promised prosecution did not take place. London Answers. Curbing the Kickers. One of the St Louis country clubs has an unwritten rule that whenever a member kicks for something he thinks the club ought to have it is at once put In ut his expense. Not long ago a . member complained of the cream. "The club ought to have a I couple of tine cows of Its own," he growled. J nat ended tne incident ror the time being, but the first of the month he found the following item on his bill: Two Jersey Cows , 1150 The result of this policy Is one of the most complete country clubs in the Mississippi valley, but the members are growing more and more cautious about kicking, and acquisitions are nothing like so common ns they for merly were. St Louis Post-Dispatch. The New York Shave. I think that the New Yorker's shave is symptomatic of the whole rate of life in New York. !t Is. if you will. luxurious, but you have to allow twen ty minutes out of your day for It In London I never allow more than five minutes. Here I He down in a chair and say: "I'm in a hurry. Be as quick as you can. please." My barber sur veys me with no look of interest and goes to talk for Ave minutes to the lady manicurist. When ho returns I say from my recumbent posltlou, "I'm in a great hurry." He says, "Yep?" ln terrogatorily as If I had given him a piece of quite uninteresting and dispas sionate Information. Ue goes to a mir ror and for some moments examines a wart upon his cheek. Eventually he shaves me. Atlantic. ColouiBt rates to Oregon will again be iu elfeot this Fall, from September IS to October 15, ou n basis of f'35 from St. Paul aud the Missouri rivet to any point iu thin state, or :)5 from Chicago. Kailroad trafflo officials ex pect there will be a heavy mov onieut to the Paoitio Slope this fall, for there ia a heavy inquiry already about the rates. True Eloquence. True eloquence, indeed, does not con sist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toll for it, but they will toil In vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled In every way. but they cannot com pass it. it must couslst in the man. In the subject and in the occasion. Af fected passion, lutenso expression, the pomp of declamation, nil may inspire to it They cannot reach it It comes, If It comes at all, like the outbreak ing of a fountaiu from the earth or the bursting forth of volcanic fires with pontaneons. original, native force. Webster. The doranged woman of Philadel phia who thought she bad bem eeut by the Lord to flud lost sheep, aud be gan her mission iu the center aisle of a fashionable oburoh, was not bo badly deraugod that she didn't know where to look. Just Once. "But Grlgga thinks yon are his best friend. If you luro him Into making this hopeless investment ho surely will never have anything more to do with yon." "That's all right I've never expect ed to use him more than once." Cleve land Plain Dealer. Relief. C;tbber-Ton ought to meet Smith. Awfully clever Imitator! lie can take otT anybody Totiie (war.!!y)--l wish Ue tverv u.tv tow - Variety t Jte. Lead Cases Used to Protect the Rays of the Strange Substance. Radium Is such :i tr:iii'.'i- suI',,ih,,i that but few persons in all thr w.ri;l are perfectly familiar with ir nnd in peculiar properties. It throws off n pcctilijir rny of ll!n. and if not protected It will In time ex haut Itself, going no one knows . actly where. Its emanations are such that there Is but one known substance t lii-ou-h which It cannot pass, and that is pun lead. For some time the problem of com plete protection against Its own loss through emanations and Hie possible loss by burglars was a puzzle to scien tists and mechanics, but finally a safe was constructed In London with au Inner cell of lead about three inches In thickness, surrounded by a specially prepared oqter safe, which Is said to be a perfect safe for radium. The strange stuff is stored In those safes and guarded with extreme care, as It is of great value. The safe door is round and so ad Justed ns to make it possible to dis close any slight defect that might be caused by the use of the opening, and in the Inner portion of the door are openings through which tubes con taining mercury can be placed to col lect any emanations resulting on the Interior during the confinement of the curious substance. Mercury collects the emanations nnd prevents loss in that direction. Los Angeles Times. PROGRESS AND MISERY. The the Progress Must Go on, and Misery May Be Modified. Many of the Inventions of civiliza tion have their unhygienic side. The Invention of houses has enabled man kind to dwell in all parts of the world, but it Is responsible for tuberculosis, especially after glass was devised, which, while letting in the light, keeps out the air. The invention of the al phabet and printing has made possible the accumulation of knowledge, but It has produced eye strain, with all its attendant evils. The Invention of chairs has added to human convenience, but it has led to spinal curvature and irbdominal con gestion. The device of a division of labor has added to wealth, but has destroyed the normal balance of men tal nnd physical work, recreation and rest. Similar fault may be found with clothing, especially corsets, shoes and hats, aud with numerous other con trivances. Yet it would be foolish, even if It wove possible, to attempt to "return to nnfu re" in the sense of abolishing civilization We must not go back ward, but forward. I'lie cure for eye strain Is not in disregarding the inven tlon ot reading, but introducing the invention of glasses The cure of tu berculosis is not In the destruction ot houses, but In devices for veiitilallon. Dr Irvine fisher In New Vork Chris tlau Advocate. Scottish Pearls. A number of people In Scotland make a livelihood by searching for the precious stones which are occasionally to be found ensconced In the Interior of fresh water mussels. To a lesser extent it Is also carried out on some English and Welsh streams, but none of these Is so prolific iu pearl bearing as the northern rivers. There are au thentic records of Scottish pearls be ing found which rivaled auv the orient has produced so far as transit) eency and tla wlessness are concerned. A writer ot the eighteenth century states that tl'O.OIK) was a moderate es timate ot the value of pearls then fish ed annually from Scottish rivers. while It Is a matter of history that a German who formed a syndicate of Ushers In INfKi acquired stones to the value of 12.11110 in thai year alone. But the Industry is not so remunera tive nowadays. London Standard. Feared Burial Alive. The dread ot premature burial haunted Harriet Mart menu, who would certainly not te classed as u fanciful person, and she bequeathed 10 to her doctor to see that tier body was decapitated before burial. Kd- iuund Vines In Ills will stipulated that his Jugular vein should be severed nnd left to pny for the operation. Lady Hurton took even stronger pre cautions. She enjoined that her heart should be pierced with n needle before any steps were taken to certify her death and that her body should after ward be submitted to a postmortem examination - London Chronicle. Lucky or Not. "Eve was really a very lucky worn an." remarked Mr llenpeqite. "She didn't have any woman to criticise her clothes" Mrs Henpeque's eyes snapped "On the other hand.' she retorted, "she didn't have any woman around to envy the first gowns a womnu ever hart." Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Life. Life Is the finest of the tine arts. It has to be learned with lifelong pa tloncp, mid the years of our pilgrim ages a iv all too short to waster U trt- mpha n tly . - Oru in mond But Her Sacred Word. "Not going to AlliVs luncheon ? you gave your sacred word'" "So I did. and I'd go Iu n minute If my dress nnd come home "- Harper's Bazar We must laiifch before we are happy or else we may die befi i wa ever buy;!! at 8U.-L.1 Hruyere. When you " feel lAtv, Stretchy. Half Blcg, Blue and Out of Sorts, look to tie Liver; It Is Torpid HERBINE Ia the Remedr You Need. It Is an Invigorating tonfe for a torpid liver. The first dose brings Improvement, a few days use puts the liver in fine vigor ous condition. Herbino also ex tends its restorative lnl'.jience to tho stomach and bowels. It helps digestion and food assimi lation, purifies tho bowels and brings back the habit of regu lar daily bowel movements. When the stomach, liver and bowels aro active, bilious im purities no longer obstruct functional processes, the result mental activity and cheerful spirits. Price 50c per Dottle. JamesF.Ballard.Prop. St.Louis.Mo. Use Stephens Eye Salve for Sore Eyes. It Cures. oloAwd Rceowagw deo By iL Byron N. Hawks. m A Good line of Hosiery 0 M i JbU III U 1 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. " " mil KHNQ OF THROAT AND 91 iaWHIttttlMtfi&' OR. KONG'S nan FOR COUGHS AN0 GOLDS CURES 'THROAT 'LUNG DISEASES SAVED HER SON'S LIFE My son Rex was taken down a year ago with lung trouble. We doctored some months without" improvement. Then I began giving Dr. King's New Discovery, and I soon noticed a change for the better. I kept this treatment up for a few weeks and now my son is perfectly well and works every day. MRS. SAMP. RIPPEE, Ava, Mo. J 50c AND $1.00 as coming soon Only a few Weeks more, and You'll be looking about for a new Costume And our new Fall Goods are arriving We are showing chic new costumes specials not to be found elsewhere in this city. We create Styles. Buy your outfit here and know that "everyone" will not be wearing the same thing as you. If you wish to make your clothes, is it not time you were planning and selecting the materials? We have all the newest fabrics and invite you to let us shorn them. Trading coupons are given with all cash purchases. They mean an actual sav ing of exactly 5 per cent of your purchase to you. Can you save money in an easier or surer way? Our Mail Order Department Gives prompt attention to all cTVIail Orders. Samples and prices will be sent on request to any address. We are giving Clearance Prices on almost all Summer Goods. It will pay you to come here and buy now. Our Pure Food Grocery Dpart ment in our model basement, offers you values not to be elsewhere in Eastern Oregon. THE PEOPLES WAREHOUSE Save Your Coupons. Where it pays tO trade. Save Your Coupons.