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j a - AN I NDENT NEWSPAPER F.B, Boyd, Pcblisueb. Published Every Friday. Office, Corner Third and Jefferson Streets. Entered In the Postofflce at Athena, Oregon, as Second Class Mall Matter. Subscription Rates. One copy, one year. . $1.50 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months .50 When paid in Advance, (otherwise, $2.00) Advertising Rates. Display, transient, running less than one month, first insertion, per inch 25c Subsequent insertions A2 Display regular, per inch 12 Local readers, first insertion, per line, 10c Subsequent insertions, per line 5c Lodge resolutions, per line 5c Church notices, admission, per line. . 5c cATHENA. ORE.. AUGUST 11 ....1911 1 .SMILE WHEN YOU LOSE. Then Brae Up and Start Right In to Become a Winner. Be os good a loser as you are a win ner a hard task to set a man, but not nn Impossible one. Many have met it- Those who have are those who win more than they lose, for nothing Inspires success or victory like calm ness In defeat or coolness under stress. It Is true In business, In politics, In sports, in any sphere of competitive endeavor. Not only that, but nothing la quite as disconcerting to one's opponent In one of life's contests as the ability to lose with a smile and well directed ef fort to regain the lost. Any man who has run a foot raco or boxed or wres tled or played ball knows that But nobody has any time for the man who Is forever lamenting his own loss or defeat The world simply cred its him with being what it terms a "grouch," which means a poor loser, and passes him by for a more agree ablo man. Any ono can be a good win ner, but it takes a man to be a good loser. The philosophy of life itself teaches that In nil of its precepts. Some one has to lose. It may as well be you, perhaps, so far as the good of the world goes, as your neighbor. It makes for unselfishness ta keep that in mlnd.Omaba Bee. FREEDOM OF THE CITY. An Honor Which Had Itt Birth In the Middle Ages. The ceremony of presenting the free dom of the city as nn honor arose in tbo middle ages, wben Buch right was not acquired by mere domicile. No stranger could move Into a medieval town and go into business, his own gainful occupation or the civic activi ties. First he must become enrolled In the guild of his trade, then he had to undergo an apprenticeship of full seven years before be could be admit ted to Its livery. Then only and thus only could he arrive at the freedom . of his city. ' As a reward for high deeds these medieval city republics sometimes conferred on such strangers as had Bcrved them well the freedom of tbo city by solemn act of tbo burgesses and liveries without the apprentice ship of servitude Every such re cipient of a city's freedom became at once a burgess, free to dwell, free to engage In trade, free to vote for the civic rulers and to aspire to the civic chair. The key was the visible sign of this freedom the city gates, closed nt sunset against tho stranger and the foe, opened to the burgess' key at nil hours, as tbo door of his own borne. Argonaut Wit "In Extremis." Of the men of letters who lost their lives on the scaffold two at least died debonairly. There was Montrose, poet and king's man in Scotland's king versus kirk business. On the morning of his execution Warristown. the covenanter, went to his cell, doubtless to make himself unpleasant Montroso was combing out his curls. "Why Is James Gralinm so careful of his locks?" Montrose smiled and made answer: . "So long as my bead Is my own I xneon to seo to it When Warristown pets It he may deal with It as ho likes." At tho scaffold Sir Thomas More asked tho lieutenant of the tower to see him safe up tbo steps. Til Bhlft for myself coming down, the poet promised. Youth's Compan ion, ' - . y Ceoll Rhodes' Qrav. Cecil RhodOT, the "diamond king" nnil famous South African statesman, Is burled in Africa, In obedience to his, Own wish, ns expressed In the follow ing words left lu his will: "I admire tho grandeur and loneliness of the Mil toppas, in Rhodesia, and therefore 1 desire to be burled In the Mntoppns, on tho hill which 1 used to cn!i the 'View of th 'World in n square to bo cut In tho rock on the top of tho hill, covered with n plain brass pinto with these words thereon: 'Here He the re mains of Cecil John Rhodes.' " Rhodes flled March 20. 1002, nt tho age of forty-seven. Windows of the Soul. Eyes nro bold as lions, roving, run ning, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no Introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but Intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What Inundation of llfo and thought Is discharged from ono soul Into another through them! Emerson. Remarkable Case. "How much your little boy resembles jour husband!" kjiU) ih cunning poli tician. "I've nlwuy hcnril.' slit? replied, "Hint peoplf niow to iimu like (hose Jhe.v are iiincii wlih. but tin Is quite u rcinarkiil;c case. We only adopted the llllle fellow liixt weeU." SPANISH LAW. The 6nub It Gave a British Consul In Cuba Some Years Ago." Tho haphazard character, of Spanish law fa well illustrated by the following case: Some years ago a young English sailor, accompanied by. an American and an Irish sailor, went on shore at Havana. When returning to their ships they were attacked by China men. Tho American struck one of the Chinamen 'on the hend with a stick, and the man died.. The Spanish au thorities did not trouble to discrimi nate, but sentenced tho three men to two years' Imprisonment ;Tho British consul, being unaccus tomed to Spanish ways, took up the ense of the Englishman very strongly. The authorities thereupon, possibly to tench him a lesson, tried the men over again and gave them twenty years each, The Englishman after three years In a Cuban prison, during which time his companions died of yellow fever, was transferred to Ceuta to serve the re mainder of bfe time. After some years he anda fellow prisoner, a Spaniard, escaped, but they were recaptured. The food provided In the convict prison of Ceuta consists of two meals n day of garbauzos chick peas occasionally flavored with a tiny bit of salt pork, a remarkably healthy If not appetizing diet, and the Englishman came out of prison In particularly good health. Aft er bis twenty years' unjust Imprison ment he married a Spanish woman. London Family Herald. HE SAW THE POINT. And For That Very Reason He Didn't Join In the Laugh. "They" were chatting in the smok ing room of a little Konlnklljke Pnket vaart Maatscbappij coaster, on a two months' run among the Islands below the equator, wben some one speaking of the Malay peninsula some one else said, "My Impression of the Straits Settlements can be summed up In a slnglo picture a strong black man, standing in the center of a muddy stream, trying to split a rock with a shirt" Now this always provokes a laugh; It Is venerable and infallible. Out to my surprise, said Frederick S. Isbam, the novelist, one of the smoking room contingent on this occasion It partial ly failed. What was the trooble7 The delinquent, the one man out of seven who didn't laugh, was sallow, saturnine and English. "What's the matter, old chap?" ask ed the novelist "Don't you see the pome or are you waiting until tomor row to wake up to It?" The other man turned bis bend wearily. "See the point?" he snld sad ly. "I should think 1 did. I ought to. I," tragically, "nm the man who own ed tho shirt" Then we, knowing ho had lived twenty-flre years In the orient, became silent; our laughter censed. A sym pathetic melancholy descended upon us. Englishman or not, we took him to our henrt of ucnrt3 and made a brother of hlm.-Baltlmore Amcrlcnn. Jokable Relatives. One of thoscurlous social customs practiced by tho Crow ns well as by many other Indian tribes Is the "mother-in-law taboo" -'that Is to say, a man Is under no circumstances per mitted to hold conversation with bis wife's mother. Another strange reg ulation Is that relating to the playing of practical Jokes. A man Is not per mitted to Jest with any one he pleases, but ls llmlted to the individuals whoso fathers belonged to the same clan as his own father. Within this group, however, practically any liberty is al lowable. If a man discovers that a "Jokablo relative" has committed some foollnh or disgraceful act he can publicly twit him with It, and the per son derided must not get angry, but bldo his time for somo favorable op portunity to retaliate. American Mu seum Journal. Fissure In the Rookies. In some of tho high plateaus or mesas of the Rocky mountains there nro to bo found a short dlstanco from tho edge cracks or Ossures not moro than four feet wtdo and often nsmuch as eighty feet deep. During the ter lillc blizzards that rngo in tbo winter theso crevices are Oiled to tho level, and cattle and horses which are not acquainted with the country frequent ly drop luto thorn, their struggles only causing them to sink deeper and deep er. Tbo cracks, Into which tho sun novor penetrates, ore like refrigera tors, and tho hapless brutes, wben death has como to tholr relief, becomo to nil intents and purposes mummies. A Close Student. Tho late Gold win Smith, writing for tho Nineteenth Century, recalls that Robert Lowo, afterward Lord Slier brooke, was so nearsighted that when ho was rending his uoso literally touch ed his book. lie took high honors nt Oxford, but a wit snld of him: "Lowe would have taken higher lion ni's nt Oxford If ho had not rubbed out with his noso what ho had written vltu his pen." Dodged His Duty. Cholly Whllo I was calling on your daughter last even big, Mr. Butts, your dog growled at me. Old Dutts Did ho bite you? Cholly Oh, no only growl ed. Old Dutts I'll have to get rid of lilm and get another. Chicago News. , Social Lemonade.. "She Is noted for her social lemon ade." "What's that?" "Saying sour things la a sweet way." -Toledo Blade. In tin interest. Jack-You know when Mabel reject ed me last week I told you my trou bios, and you promised to holp me Well, she poccptcd me last night Am 1 to thank you for Interceding for met Cousin Dclle-Not exactly, dear boy. I simply lntlmnted to Mabel that I was after you myself. How shall 1 bo hWo to rulo over others that have not full power and Command over myself? Rnbelels. f Strict 8choo1 Rules. John Wesley held that school chil dren should do without holidays alto gether. ' When be opened Klngswood school In 1748 he announced that "the children of tender parents, so called, have no business here, for (he rules will not be broken In . favor of any person whatsoever. Nor Is any child received unless his parents agree that he shall observe nil the rules of the bouse and that tbey will not take him from school, no, uof for a day, till they take blm for good and all." Fur ther, no play days were permitted, and no time was ever allowed for play ou the ground that he who plays when be Is a child will play wben be be comes a man. Every Friday the chil dren had to work till 3 In the after' noon without breaking their fast London Chronicle. He LikedPe Lie. William was said to be the ugli est thoug'j the most lovable man In Louisiana. On returning to the plan tntlon after a shaft absence his broth er said: "Willie. I met In New Orleans a Mrs, Forrester, who Is a great admirer of yours. She said, though, that It wasn't so much (be brilliancy of your mental attainments as your marvelous phys ical and facial beauty which charmed and delighted her." "Kdmund," cried William earnestly, "that is a wlctwd lie. but tell It to me again I" Everybody's. W' . "V"" .;"''"Y." A Faith Cure. Dr. Josloh Oldfleld relates a story of his student days at St Bartholomew's hospital A man came to blm with an injury to bis hand. The doctor did not know what the ailment was, but he prescribed an ointment which was practically lard. The man returned to the hospital the following week. "Ah, sir," he said. "I begin to recog nize why It is that St. Bartholomew's hospital has such a great reputation! I come from Leicester and have been to all the doctors In Leicester Your oint ment has done me more good In one week than all the ointment of the doc tors of Leicester In ninny months." That result, added the doctor, was owing to the fact t hat t he man enmo to St. Bartholomew's believing that he could be cured there -London Crnphic. "I have crossed the' Atlantic twenty times," boasted the man from New York. "Havo you?" replied the man from Chicago. "My record bents that" "Oh, really? How many times have you been over?" "I've never been over at all, but I've set foot In every state of the Union." "Quite remarkable. By the way, old chap, how many Btntes are there now?" Chicago Record-Herald. Good Scheme. Hicks-You keep duplicates of all your old love letters? What an Ideal Wicks Yes; when I havo done some thing particularly foolish I Just read over one of those letters. It is quite encouraging to know that I'm not near ly so much of a fool ns I used to be. Exchance. . Not Easily Caught. Wife I see you're putting ofl your new cont It makes my old hat look awfully shabby. Husband Is that so? Well, that's soon mended. I'll put on fay old coat Fllegcndo Blatter. Willing to Tune It "John, that man next door came over here' today and offered to tuno little Lucy's piano." "Great! Did you let him do it?" "No, dear, ne wanted to tune it with an ax!" Baltimore Sun. - What do we live for if It Is not to make life less difficult to eaqVi other? George Eliot Administratrix Notice. In the County Court of the State of Oregon, in and for the Connty of Umatilla. In the matter of the Estate of Charles Wilson, Deoeased: Notioe is hereby given that Maggie Wihon of Athena, Oregon, was on the 1st day of Jnne, 1911, appointed ad ministratrix of the estate of Charles Wilson, deoeased, by, the above en titled eonrt, and that all persons hav ing claims against said estate are hereby notified to present said claims with proper vonohers. thereto, to Bald administratrix or to her attorney, Homer I. Watts, at his-offioe in Ath ena Oregon. Maggie Wilson, Administratrix of the Kstate of Charles ; Wilson, deoeased. Professional S. F. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to all calhj, both night and day. Calls promptly answered. Office on Third eireei. Ainena uregor Worry poisons the mind Just as much as a deadly drug poisons the body and just as surely. NORTH BEACH is the pleasure haunt in tbis part of the country tbis summer. Its devo tees rejoice to learn that they can now go and oome on a regnlar sobednle, independent cf tides. The popular exoursion steamer, " T. J. POTTER " leaveB Portland, Ash Street dock, Daily, Except Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 a.m. Saturdays Only, 1:00 p. m. Also the steamer, "IIASSALO" leav ing Portland daily, exoept Sunday, at 8:00 P.M. Saturday at 10:00 P. M. Eeduced Fares Prevail From all Toints in Northwest via the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. Ideal cottage and camp life, a innguifl oent beaoh that is not surpassed any where, gonial and beuellcial climate, and all the comforts of home without oosliug any more than it you remaiued at homo. Call ou or write to auy O-W. R. & N. BReut for complete information; alao for cop? of our summer book, "Out ings in Oregon." WM. McfyURRAY, Gouetal Passougor Agont, O-W. R. & N. Co., Portland, Ore. G. S. NEWSOM, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Athena, Oregon. Calls answered promptly night or day. DR. W. G. 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