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e. This Edition con tains Four Pages ' -Slyly',' Athena Merchants Carry Big stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXIII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1911. NUMBER 41 OFFICERS S. F. WILSON, President, H. KOEPKE Vice-President. F. a 1 GROW, Cashier, E. A. ZERBA. Ata't Cashier. DIRECTORS ! S. F. WILSON, H. KOEPKE, A. B. M'EWEN, M. U WAITS, F. 8. Le GROW. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $90,000.00 We extend to our Depositors every cAccommdation consistent with sound Banking. YIELD INCREASED BY HYBRID WHEAT TWO MILLION BUSHELS ADDED TO OUTPUT. in- Palouse Country Reports crease of an Average of Five Bushels on 400,000 Acres. BAKSAYHER DUST PAN OLD WAY NEW WAY With your next purchase amounting to 92.50 or over, we will give vou one of these Dust Pans ree Something entirely new. It will save your temper and last a lifetime. BUNDY & CHRISTIAN THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon f Have You Bought Your Winter Clothes? If yon haven't yet bought your winter clothes, visit as and we will show yon under and outer garments that will no only keep yon warm, bnt be beantifnl, too. You'll get style as well as oomfort. Eleganoe is Joy. Come let as show you the new shades for the season. We have a very long line of materials. We shall please your eye ana your purse. Buy Your Fall and Winter Underwear Now. The oold nights and mornings make us feel the need of warm under- ... . A 1L. 1 J wear, we owe It to ourselves to prepare lor me com. Dont wait till you've caught a cold that will star with von all Winter. We show the greatest line of underwear for Men, Women and Chil dren ever brought to Pendleton, Wool, Cotton, Cotton and Wool Mixtures, Maoo, Silk, eto. Men's Underwear fiom 50 cents to $5.00. Women's Underwear from 35 oenta to $5.00. Children's Underwear fjom 35 oenta to $1.50. I PEOPLES WAREHOUSE Save your coupons Where it Pays to Trade. A Spokane despatob to the Walla Walla Union savs: Hybrid No. 113, oiiginated by Professor W. J. Spill- man, now oonneoted with the United States department of agrionltuie, while direotor of the experiment sta tion at the Washington State oollege, Pullman, added about 3,000.000 bush els to the wheat pioduotion in Eastern Washington, this year. The yield on 400,000 aores sown to hybrids of a total aoreage of 1,700,000 in the state devoted, to spring and winter wheats, was Increased by five bushels on an average. The hybrid acreage la 1910 was 800,000 and 89,000 in 1908. The principal aoreage is in the Palouse and Big Bend districts, south and east of Spokane. The hybrids, it is offic ially announoed, are not more ausoep tible to smut than any of the club va rieties grown as winter wheat;. The work was started in 1896, after the farmers reported that either the crop was lost or was not worth the cost of piodaotion. Where the tain fall was about 18 inobes the raoobers grew red chaff, because it stood up better than blueatem and yielded bet ter than little olob. Iu regions of lighter rainfall tbev grew bluestem. Where the rainfall was in excess of 30 inohes they grew little olub because it stood up higher than red chaff and held the grain better. The farmers wanted a winter wheat. In the little olub region they want ed a winter wheat as good as little olnb, while in the blueatem and red chaff distriots they desired a winter wheat as good as those varieties. These three varieties had been found the best. They were all spring wheats but were usually sown in the fall, be-1 , oanse they made a better yield. Tests of winter wheats, oolleote&in various distriots, disolosed two sefvons drawbaoks: The atraw was weak and after the beads had formed the wind would blow it over, also the ripe ohaft i was vartly onen and shattered. The problem presented was to bred I wheat that would not winter kill; that ' had a stiff straw and a closed chaff Wheat breeding began under the dlreotion of Professor Spillman.'Eitti er little olob or red chaff was used in verv cross made, as these varieties seemed well fitted for the territory. Ont of 1000 seeds treated, 149 hy brid plants matured seed. The work was carried on by experts at the sta tion and sufficient wheat was raised from hybrids daring the seasons of 1903, 1903 and 1904 to permit the dis tribution of seed among farmers in eastern Washington. The regular field tests began in 1905. Close check was kept and the data oolleoted to date satisfies the authorities that the ex periment has been a snooess. Modern Cave Dweller. Pendleton papers are exoited over the discovery that within three miles of the oounty seat, a man has been discovered, making his home in a oave and subsisting upon the prooeeds of his prowess as a marksman.. He is said to have appeared in that oity re cently with a large number of ooyote hides, wbiob be sold. Whether he was olad In skins, deponent sayetb not. Bnt presumably he is thorough ly civilised, for it is reported that the strange keing has fixed up the oave with a few modern improve ments and has a good gun and a re volver. Apparently be is averse to human companionship, for he never comes near the oity exoept to sell his bides and purobase a few meager sup plies. Settle Large Estate. The final aooonnt and report of At torney Will M. Peterson as adminis trator of the estate of Henry C. Adams who died a little over a year ago, leav ins a large estate, has been filed with the oounty judge. FOOD OF THE MEXICANS. Frijetes and Tortillas the Main Diet of the Poor. People at home In the "states" may think the food of the Mexicans mea ger. It Is comprised chiefly of frijoles and tortillas, supplemented by the fruit of the cactus when In season. Tortillas are thin little cakes made of corn boiled with lime, and these serve as the chief food. Every house has a metate, a sort of stone trough, which rests on (he ground, and on this the corn Is crushed to a paste and then patted into thin round cakes and tossed on a clay griddle to cook. Don't think as you ride down the street that in every house a child la being spanked it is only the patting sound made by the women as they deftly shape the tortillas In their hands. The lime in which the corn is sof tened is sold to account for the very strong white teeth of the natives. Frijoles are, of course, beans ond after being boiled a long time with onions, chill and other savory bits are put into boiling lard for their final flavor. Knives and forks are not need ed where a tortilla can be folded In the middle and used as a scoop for the beans. These two articles of food form almost the entire diet of the poor. All food is very hot, from the chill put in It, and one doesn't realize the peculiar flavor that cinnamon will give to many dishes until he has eaten it in everything, from coffee to ico cream. While pulque, the fermented Juice of the maguey, our century plant, is the national drink, if a peon is very drunk it is probably due to mescal or tequila, two stronger drinks made from the same maguey. Cooking is generally done over a few pieces of charcoal on the ground. Often have X seen women cook an en tire meal over as littlo charcoal as one hand can grasp. Los Angeles Times. LURE OF DANGER. Traglo Recklessness of Trio of Fire Fighting Heroes. Former Chief Croker of New York In the World's Work says that, al though the whole fire service Is found ed on the principle of obedience, it is almost Impossible to drag a man from danger when his battle blood is up. "In 1905," he says, "I lost three good men In a big warehouse fire in Thir tieth street through recklessness In spired by this "spirit The building had been pretty well gutted, nnd ono of the walls was getting shaky. Di rectly under this wall were three men from an engine company bugging a lead' of hose, their helmets down over their eyes nnd playing their water on the flames, which almost singed their, faces; I saw their danger it would have been obvious to any one but these three light maddened heroes and shouted: "Get back there, men! Get back from that wall!' "They paid as much attention to mo as If they had been stone deaf. I ran over and shoved one after the other back into the street out of danger. " 'When you're told to get back, get back,' I said. 'You obey orders.' . "Then I turned my back nnd hurried to another point of the fire. The wall fell before I had gone ten yards. I looked around for the three men. They were nowhere in sight! The moment my back was turned they had rushed back to play their stream in that place of peril, and when the wall fell it bur ied them beneath the bricks-dead." ORIGIN OF "MARK TWAIN." , Samuel L. Clemens Quoted Saying Ho InhsrlUd the Name. The familiar story of the origin of Samuel L. Clemens' use of the name Mark Twain Is now declared to be Incorrect It pictures Clemens, Missis sippi river pilot listening to tho men heaving the lead at the bow of a river boat and singing out, "By tho mark, three; by the mark,; twain." Tableanl Clemens smites bis brow and solilo quizes, "There is my nom de plume." It is true that the name originated with the picturesque cry of the man with the lead, but a man other than Mr. Clemens first discovered the plc turesqueness. That man was Captain Isaiah Sellers, who furnished river news for the New Orleans Tlcayuue. To Professor William Lyon Thelps of Tale Mr. Clemens confessed that it was from Sellers he got the name. Professor Phelps' story is quoted in Professor Henderson's "Mark Twain." According to this book, Mr. Clemens said to rrofessor Phelps: "Captain Sel lers used to sign his articles in the Picayune 'Mark Twain.' He died in 18C3. I liked the name nnd stole it I think I have done him no wrong, for I seem to have made this name some what generally known." Professor Henderson records a num ber of Interesting incidents connected with the use of this naae. For awhile, when he was a miner in Nevada, Mr. Clemens sent to the Virginia City Enterprise humorous letters signed not "Mark Twain," but "Josh." When he became a regular reporter on that paper aud reported the legisla ture he signed his reports "Mark Twain." When questioned as to his uso of this name Mr. Clemens declar ed: "I chose my pseudonym because to most persons it bad no meaning nnd also because it was short. 1 was a reporter in the legislature nnd wished to save the legislature time. It was much shorter to say In their debates Mark Twain' than to say 'The un principled and lying parliamentary re porter of the Territorial Enterpriser Mr. Clemens made the name known on tho Pacific coast but the world at large did not bear it for years after the "Jumping Frog," reprinted in hun dreds of exchanges without credit had Jumped into such notoriety as is rarely accorded well mannered frogs, in met, its first use in any eastern magazine was a fiasco. Mr. Clemens made a great scoop on the Hornet disaster when he was writ ing up the nawallan Islands in 18G0, says Trofessor Henderson. Ills ac count of the disaster Mark sent to Harper's Magazine, where it appeared in December, 18C0. But, alas, it was not as "Mark Twain," not as a drawl ing, lovnble river pilot sort of person that the world beheld the new author, for he bad not written his pseudonym plainly on bis copy, and Harper's cheerfully introduced him to fame as "Mike Swain." COL JOHN SOBIESKI III 1 OPENS LECTURE COURSE M E. CHURCH. IN First of a Series of Splendid Entertainments to Extend Through the Winter. areiaoluded among the revolutionists. I saw 35 boys, all of whom looked to be tinder 20 years of age, led ont to be exeouted after the Canton riots. These young men and others besides died fearlessly. When the riots ocoured the gates of the oity were looked and the rioters were sought high and low. Those who were found unhesitatingly admitted that they were revolutionists and said they would willingly die for the cause. . This attitude on the part of the young Chinese has greatly im pressed their elders and has won many of them over." I m mmu i tnkiuue.ii a i $3 3 c3 mm PR0Sery WHERE PRICES ARE RICHT poh& 83 & The Freshest' and most Choice the Market affords in VEGETABLE: Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERS, CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THINGS TO EAT Athena, Oregon ps Lost Time. The late Sylvanus Miller, civil en gineer, who wns engaged in n railroad enterprise in Central America, was seeking local support for a road ana attempted to give the matter point. He asked a native: "now long doe It take you to carry your goods to mark'et by muleback?" "Three days," was the reply. "There's the point," said Miller. "With our road In operation you could take your goods to market and be back home in one day." "Very good, senor," answered the native. "But what would wo do with the other two days?" Boston Record. The Last Luxury. Ten-year-old Arthur had boon telling impressively of the number of servants employed in his home. He continued, "And our house is fixed so that If you want a drink or a window raised or to sro unstairs or nnythimr all you have to do is to pull a chnin." "But what do you want with so many servants in mat son or a house?" asked one of his bearers. "Oh." replied Arthur, "we have the servants to pull the chains." Judge. Drops and Minims. Drops vary In size according to the conditions under which they are pro duced. Some are large nnd some are small, some long and some short. The drop of the druggist Is called a minim, of which 480 go to make a fluid ounce and 70,800 to make a gal lon. An actual experiment in filling one ounce measure will probably show that 400 drops make a fluid ounce. The average drop Is 20 per cent larger than the minim. Too Big a Pill. The man in bed had never been sick before. The doctor, wishing to ascer tain his temperature, pointed tho ther mometer at him and commanded "Open your mouth, Jim." "Walt a minute doc," objected the patient "I don't bUeve I can swaller that." Judge. J' HI habits gather by unseen degrees as brooks make rivers, riven run to aeos. Dryden. Not Purely Curiosity. Among the passengers in one of the cars of a train running between Springfield nnd Boston was a nervous little old man who evinced a keen In terest in a sinister looking person who took a seat beside him. "How do you do?" said tho nervous littlo old man to the sinister looking person. "Now, what might your name be? Do you live In Boston or beyond?" "What business is it of yours where I live or who I am?" growled the other. "Strictly spcnklng, It nin't none of my business," ndmltted the old gentle man mildly, "but It's Jest like this: I've got a cousin In this part of the state that I've never seen, and I've al ways thought I might come upon him some time Jest by asking roils tneir name and so on." Harper's. The oomiug of Connt Col. John Sobieski, the noted Polish lecturer, on Tuesday evening, November 2, marks tbe beginning' of a series of lectures and entertainments that will extend tbronghont the winter. These attractions are to be given under tbe uspioes of tbe Athena Commercial Association, and will prove of great valne from a literary, musioal and luoational standpoint, to tbe people of Athena. Col. John Sotieski, tbe fiist on the program, is a most interesting and dis tinguished cbaraoter. He Is a des cendant of tbe great wartior king, John Sobieski of Poland. He is tbe only son of Connt John Sobieski, who oommanded tbe last Polish nprising in 1840, aud who was executed by the Russians, with bis kinsmen. His mother was banished, aud made her way to Italy, then to Englaud, where she died. Yonng John, then soaioe- ly 13 years old, stole on board a United States man-of-war at Liver pool, and unnottoed, embarked for Ameiioa. He saw service in the Iudiau wars and in the war of tbe rebellion, and afterward enlisted in Mexico, against Maximilian. Dnring the last 25 years he has lec tured in every state in the Union, in Canada and in Great Britain. His pi ess notioe are voluminous aud en thusiastic He is spoken of as a whole book of wonders, a walking and talk ing enoyolopedia. Sparkling with wis dom, wit and good humor, he holds bis audience spellbound. The seoond entertainment of the series is announced lor cnaay, ue- ceraber 15, when the famous Rioketts Couoeit Company will appear bore. This is composed of five people, and inolndes Chester L. Rioketts, tbe im personator and reader. Tbe other entertainments compris ing the course, which is all under tbe management of the Meneley Lyoeum Bureau of Chioago. will be dispersed tbronghont the winter and embiaoe soon attractions as tbe Meneley Con oert Company; Miss Belle Kearney, the noted leotnrer, writer and traveler and James 11. Berkley cartoonist, chalk-talker, orayou artist and clay modeler. The first .leoture will be given in tbe Methodist Episopai church, on November 7. A large number of sea son tickets have already been sold and t is certain that the leotnrer will be greeted'by a large audience. M. A. KEES DISCUSSES W County Press Association. With newspapermen and other boosters present from every seotion of the oounty and with a thorough oonoord and harmony of desire and intention manifest, a movement des tined to unite tbe different communi ties into a oo-ordioated and'eSeotively aotive unit, says tbe East Oregonian, was given its initial impetus Tuesday night, by tbe organization of a county press association and a oonnty de velopment league. At a banquet in tbe Quelle restaurant at wbioh tbe managers of the local commercial as sociation were hosts, the views of rep resentative men from the various sec tions of the county were aired, their ideas expressed and their pledges made to aotively aid in tbe exploita tion, development and upbuilding of Umatilla oounty. PENDLET0N1SJIRE FIEND County Seat Aroused Over Attempt to Burn Home of Minister. That a pyromaniao is operating in Pendlelou, says tbe East Oreseonian. has been the belief of many people for some time and an inoendiary at tempt made upon the house ocoupied by Rev. Frank J. Milnes pastor of tbe Presbyterian obnrob, early Sunday morning, strengthens this belief. Only by tbe merest obanoe was a disastrous conflagration prevented and as it was, a large hole was burned iu tbe corner of the pastor's woodshed, whioh ad joins the house. After the quenching of tbe flames an investigation revealed the burnt ends of kindling whioh had undoubted ly been used in starting th fire. This is tbe third time within a year that supposedly inoendiary attempts have been made in tbe blook in whioh the house is sitnated. Moreover, a nam ber of other fires and near-Drea in the last few weeks have been attended with very snsploions ciroumstanoes. Thursday night the barn of E. F. Av erill was discovered afire and the re cent conflagration wbioh destroyed the feed yard and the skating rink has - never been explained. - , mi i - i . . i xooru is no ciew wnatevet K tbe identity of th malioious person or per sons responsible for this chain of fires and the situation id growing so bad that many residents are growing uneasy. The Hourglass. Instead of being obsolete nnd Blm- ply on interesting relic tho hourglass In various forms Is a twentieth cen tury necessity. For such purposes as timing, hardening and tempering heats in twist drill manufacture, where sec onds or minutes must be gauged ac curately, nothing serves like the hour glass with tbe right amount of sand. Accuracy to fractions of a second can be obtained much more easily by nn hourglass than by watching tho hands of a watch. London Graphic. Just 8uited. "There's only one objection to these, flnnrtmenta." said, tho ncent Of the bulldlnff. "From these two windows you can t neip seeing everyunng in tho dining rooms of the neighbors on both sides of you." "What's tho rental?" smilingly askea the portly darao who was looking for a flat Chicago Tribune. The Mandrako Legend. There Is nn old legend connected with tho mandrake which states that when the plant is uprooted It utters a plerc ing cry. Tho forked tubers bear t fantastic resemblance to the body nnd legs of a man, and from this fancied likeness there grew tho belief which was widespread during tbe middle ages. Helno and Hugo. neine had a preconceived Idea that Victor Hnao. called by bim "the French poet in whom all Is false," had a bump on his back. He wns delighted when be was told that one of Hugo's hips protruded owing to malformation, Former Athena Man, Returned From China, Quoted by Oregonian. Cauttio. Delighted Mamma - Oo - professor, what do yon think of littlo Arthur as a violinist? Professor-I like tho way be puts the fiddle back into tbe cose Chicago News. napplness is the natural flower of duty.-I'blllips Brooks. j The Portland Oregonian of last Thursday gives tbe following inter view with Maiion A. Kens, well known iu Athena: Mr. Keos U sec retary of the Cautou, China, Young Men's Christian Association, and arrived in Portland last week, having left Hongkong September 20. He came homo on aooonnt of his wife's health: In my opinion, the French revolu tion was only a melodramatio inoidont compared with tbe slangbter that is iu store for China. The revolution in China is far from surprising to those of us wbo are familiar with affairs in that country. Our only surprise is that it came so soou; most of us thought tbe uprising would not ooui6 for two years yet but that it was sure to oo- our." x Mr.Kees believes that the revolution- ists will be successful, but be realizes that they have a mighty straggle be fore tbem. 'The revolutionary feeling is voiy strong among the young Chinese," be said. "It is impossible to estimate jnst what their Btreugth is, but dlssat isfaotion with tbe ruling dynasty is in deed widespread. If the revolution ists ate atle to capture several lurge cites, so that their finances may be strengthened, there is little doubt oh to (be ultimate outcome. "But it must bo a most bloody straggle. There are few plaoes ou earth Ewbere bnman life is held so lightly as in China. The hatred of the ManjjbuH Is intense, and lr tliev are overcome they will be shown little mercy. Ou tbe othur hand, there is no doubting the fate of tbe revolutionary leaders if their oanse is lost. "I do not think tbore is any great danger for foreigners in China. Their greatest danger would come in event tbe revolutionists overthrew the exist ing government and then should prove unable to sot op a strong government of tluir own. Iu faot, tbe establish ing of a strong government, In case the revolutionists win, is tho great protlein that Cbina fuoes. If tbe new government should be weak, there is danger that tbe mob spirit would run riot. Tbe mob spirit is strong in tbe Chinese. "Great numbers of young students Attend Family Reunion. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Dudley return ed homo Sunday from Walla Walla, where they attended the family re union at the home of the parents of Mrs. Dudley, Mr. and Mis. Donald McDonald, All of tbe ohildren of the aged couple were present to enjoy the pleasures of the family oirole. The daughters are: Mrs. Captain Seeley, cf Seattle. Mrs. E. A. Dudley of this oity, Mrs. Anson Wood and Miss Mabel McDonald of Walla Walla, and Mrs. Will. M. Peterson of Pendleton ; and Victor. MoDonald, of Walla Walla, the son. Several of the grandohildren were present, among them Mrs. Sam D. Peterson of Milton. Tbe daughter-in-law and sons in-law, excepting Captain Seeley, weie also of the party. Mr. MoDon ald baa passed bis 80th birthday, and bis wife U a few years youngor. The oooasion was the 55th anniversary of their wedding day. " - f ' t f t 4 f 1 w. r '- v n h . i 1 , - r '' ' Helix Property Burns. Through a fire that troke out Sat urday morniug about 5 o'look in He lix, the grocery store of C. A. Herman was onmpletely destroyed as was also the building in wbioh it was looated. Tho stock that was burned was estim ated as worth U000, and it was insur ed for the sum of 13000. Tbe building was the property of C. A. Bott. Aside from the Herman store the barber shop adjoining and whioh Lulnnged to Murray Ferguson, wan destroyed ttm barber shop fixtures firing suvod. Tbr origin of the fire was unkuuwu. WfilTSBUWBflrTKERTs KILLED Machine Refuses to Work and Backs Down Hill to Death. While attempting to drive bis large Pope Hartford touring oar up Sky rocket bill, two miles west of Pres oott, Saturday afternoon, on tbe bigb speed gear, says the Walla Walla Un ion, J. D. Laidlaw, banker and pio neer resident of Waitsbnrg, lost con trol of the machine and was oarried to the bottom of tbe hill with it, where it ran into a bank and pinned bim helpless nnder it, while his adopted son, Ellis was tbiown clear of the oar, suffering only slight injnrles. A passerby soon called assistance aud succeeded in getting Mr, Laidlaw from nnder tbe maobine, when be was taken to Presoott and examination ty'"8 " dootors showed several broken rib','!?8 aud other intornal injuries. After V din wounds were hurriedly dres8edd'sing" Presoott au attempt was made tjsiM. bim to bia home in WaitsbuL. i ' S : : j a' . t . r .fit-- j';.- -t ( No. 35-lt be died ou the way. Mr. Laidlaw was manag- Preston estate, at Wait8burQ7,eie - v " " I , x V 7 y . v rr ' V A-' "V