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This Edition con tains four Pages Athena Merchants Carry Big stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXIV. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 12. 1912. NUMBER 23 ilMLIIUIl ullllnlllf I II OFFICERS S. F. WILSON, President, H. KOEPKE Vice-President, F. S. Le GROW, Cashier, E. A. ZERBA. Ass't Cashier DIRECTORS S.F.WILSON. H. KOEPKE, W. S. FERGUSON M. L. WATTS, F. S. Le GROW. FIRST NATIONAL BANK i. 1 OF ATHENA . CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. $100,000.00 .We extend to our Depositors every oAccommdation consistent with sound Banking. Paint Protection The paints we proffer the public hereabouts have a bull dog grip on the situa 1 tion. That is, they hold fast hang on, endure, last long, worth , while considering, because some paints look pretty for awhile, then fade blister and fall off. BUNDY PAINT STOEE THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO. ' mHHMaaMiHHaMaHHH Lumber, Mill Work, and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL. PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnson Manager Athena, Oregon THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET We carry the best SUi EAT! That Money Buys' Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. D. II. MANSFIELD Main Street, Athena, Oregon Athena atier A. f.Crusey, Proprietor All Bakery Products are Fresh Daily. We carry a fine line of Confections,; and serve ligjht Lunches. Soft drinks and Ice Cream. Cream iced in quantities for customers. NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE CLUB LAUNCHED AT PORTLAND. The Organization is Commit ed TV R. for President-Name "Republican" Omitted. : Followers of Roosevelt completed the organization of the "National Pro gressive Clnb of Oregon" at Portland Tuesday night. The word "Republioan" was re jected as part of the name, aud the word "bandana" was eliminated for dignity's sake. The clab was com mitted to Roosevelt for president, and those who favored leaving the colonel ont of the by-laws were squelohed. Chairman . Dau Kelliher was ao onsed of nsiDg the "steam roller" by O. M. Hiokey and Harry Yankwioh in patting throngh the Roosevelt plank." Resolutions were adopted scoring members of the Oregon delegation at Gbioago who failed to vote for the Roosevelt "program" at the national oonvention. Besides all this, the olnb shouted its approval when Levi W. Myers, a grizzled veteran' of the party, declared that .both old parties are oorrupt be yond redemption. By-laws were adop- j ted, eleotion of permanent officers postponed until the nest meeting next Monday night, and a committee was authorized to report on the question of an eleotoral tioket for the third party in Oregon. V. W. Mulkey, prospective progres sive candidate for United 'States sen ator deolared for constitutional change to deprive oourts of power to deolare a law unconstitutional. Mulkey was oalled upon and said be is for Roosevelt because the colonel is in aooord with bis views. He paid his respeots to the "fraudulent" work at Cbioago. He said he bases the need for the new party chiefly to the "equivooal.'oolorless and wobbly plat form of the Republioan party and the very dangerous platform of the Dem ocratic party." He conceded that the Demoorats have nominated a "splendid man," but said the candi date is bound down to a platform that would tring the country "almost to destruction." "I believe in the prinoiple of pro tection," he said, "and am opposed to a tariff for revenue only. I want it also dearly understood that I am op posed to the state's rights doctrine of the Demooratio party. "Do you realize that the trouble is with our form of government and that it is neoessary to change the consti tution before we oan get the reforms that are neoessary? I want the new party to take up the form of govern ment, so as to enable the country to solve the sooial and eoonomio prob lems of the day. "It is doubtful if we could pass a minimum wage bill, and the same is true as to an eight hour law. except as it may relate to the work of women and obildreu. Some of you may favor these laws, and some oppose them but that is not the question. If the judgment of the civilized world favors these laws, we should have the power to pass them, and the courts should not have the power to deolare them unconstitutional." "I am an individual not an anarch ist or Sooialist," said Mulkey, "and study tells us we oannot avoid Social ism by a dootrine of state's rights, or shouting for a tariff for revenue, nor can we avoid Socialism by the posi tion the ' Republican party takes, pointing with pride to the past and arguing to let well enough alone." Car Topples Into River. -Ira MoDonald oan thank fortune that help was close at hand when bis Ford bar took a plunge into the Uma tilla river, carrying him and others with it. Otherwise, Mr. MoDonald Burely would have drowned, for the oar held bim pinned under the watjj er. The aooident happened while returning to Athena from the celebra tion at Bingham springs. Near the Thompson plaoe, the oar struok a rock and turned over the grade into the river. Mr. MoDonald and Mrs. Cms ey were caught under the car, while Mr. Crusey and his little son were thrown dear, only sustaining a severe ducking. The Barger car and one driven by Harry Alexander were di reotly behind McDonald's car when it made the plunge, and the ooonpBnta of both immediately rushed to the res cue. Mr. MoDonald was badly bruised about the shoulders. The others of the party esoaped without injury.- Aged Squaw Murdered, With her skull orusbed, lying face downward in the Umatilla river, A-te-me-at, an aged squaw, was found Sunday morning several hours after she had been - murdered. , Columbia George, a notorious Indian oharaoter, the last person seen with the Indian woman, has been taken into oustody on suspioion. Investigation of the ground near where the body was found revealed that a terrible strug gle ensued as the squaw endeavored to save herself from her assailant. An examination of the body revealed that the skull had been orusbed be hind the left ear, and that another blow had struok the cheekbone. Five or six wounds, evidently inflicted with a pocket knife wero found on her throat, while others showed that -she had been stabbed in the obeeks, the eyes, ears and other parts of the face. v Death of Mrs. Caplinger, Mrs. Lulu Gaplinger died at her home near this city this morning at 5:30, after a lingering illness of sev eral months' duration, She was sur rounded by the members of her fam ily when the end, wbiob has been ex pected for several days, came. The funeral is announued to take plaoe at the Christian ohuroh in this city Sunday afternoon. The obituary will appear in the Press next week. . Card of Thanks. We desire to express onr thanks to the manv friends who so kindly as sisted us during .our reoent bereave ment. Mrs. Lizzie Jones and family. FIRST PICTURE BOOK. & PROMPT deiIvery WHERE PRICES ARE RICHT P0Hma MAIN 83 The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in DELL BROTHERS, 9lTTffSl IH Athena, Oregon INI The Daring Idea That Wat Carried Out by Johann Comenius. Some 300 years ago a German savant had a wonderful vision. At that time children were taught to read by force of arms, so to speak, ; through hard ships and with bitter toil on the part of teacher and of child. .It seems cu rious that the first real step toward lightening the labor of children as they climb the ladder of learning was the product of the imagination not of some fond mother or gentlewoman teacher, but of a bewlggcd and betl tied university doctor. It was Johann Comenius, however, who-'-first' conceived the daring idea that children could be taught by the aid of the memory and the imagina tion working together, ."by means," as he quaintly expressed it, "of sensuous Impressions conveyed to the eye, so that visual objects may be made the medium of expressing moral lessons to the young mind and of impressing those lessons upon the memory." In other werds, the good herr doctor had the bright idea that picture books could be useful to children. Comenius made his first picture book and called It the "Orbls Pictus." It contains rude woodcuts representing objects in the natural world, as trees and animals, with little lessons about the pictures. It is a quaint volume and one that would cause the average modern child not a little astonishment were it placed before him. As truly, however, as that term may be applied to any other book that has since been written, the "Orbls Pictus" was an epoch making book. It is the precursor of all children's picture books, and modren childhood has great cause to bless the name of Comenius. Not the Sam Spelling. A stout man had recourse to a doc tor to see whether something could not be done to reduce his size. "It's a dis-" grace, doctor!" be cried. "Just look at this bay window of mine! Now, what would you advise?" "Well," replied the physician, eying his wnist line, "all I can suggest is to diet" , "All right, doctor, I'm willing. What color would you suggest?" St. Louis Republic. A Piout Wish. It was in a city hospital that a man refused to undergo an operation for appendicitis until his minister couid be present. "What do you want the minister here for?" asked the surgeon. "Because I want to bo opened with prayer," was the reply. New York Tribune. WOODBOW WILSON'S OLD BELIEFS. New Terlc Globe. Back In 1894, long before he became infected with personal political ambition, Woodrow Wilson wrote essays, published In the Atlantic Monthly, that his enemies do not apparently care to quote. For example, there is one on Walter Bagehot In which the following passage occurs: Moreover, there is a deeper lack in Bagehot. He has no sympathy with the voiceless body ot the people, with the "mass of unknown men." He conceives the work of government to be a work .which is possible only to the in structed few. He would have the masses served, and serv- ed with devotion, but he would not like to see them at tempt to serve themselves. He has not the Btout fiber and the unquestioning faith in the right and capacity of inor ganic majorities which make the democrat. He has none of the heroic boldness necessary for faith in wholesale . political aptitude and capacity. He takes democracy in detail in bis thought, and to take it in detail makes it look very awkward indeed. i Woodrow Wilson is accused of being a "Federalist" It is charged that Uls present sympathy with democrrtic ideas is a pretense. He is accused of the meanness of changing his convictions in the hope of getting office. It ! doubtful whether American politloal history, full as It le of rook lete elandor, furniehee an Instance of otnracter assassination more eon temptible than that of which Woodrow Wilson hae been the victim. and Effect "After, all, a man who marries takes a tils chance." "You're right. I have a friend who contracted a severe case of hoy fever lmmt!.it'lv nfter lie had married a grass widow." Mempbla Appeal. A Dialecture. "Mv wife Is foreign born. She al ways talks broken English when she i anirrv with me." "Gives you a dialectuxe, so to speak." Washington Herald. Fashion I only the rttte.npt to real ize nrt In llvlns forms end social intercourse. IIol men. GOV.WILSON'S THOROUGHNESS "In all my. experience of the men who have held the office of chief execu tive of the state of New Jersey and my recollection extends back to the time of Governor Joel Parker I have never known one who was such a tre mendous worker or who executed the duties of his office with such thorough ness as Governor Wilson." The speaker was an old time attache of the statehouse at Trenton, whose duties have brought him in constant and intimate relation with every gov ernor for a generation past "Nothing escapes his attention," he went on, "from the smallest routine de tail to the most Important question af fecting the state." . Governor Wilson is always one of the earliest arrivals in the executive de partment He enters with the brisk stride of a mnn twenty years his Junior and ot once plunges into the work of answering his mail. Unlike many men in his position, he reads a very large proportion of the letters ho receives, taking the position (lint if a man is sufficiently interested in a subject to write to him he is entitled to a personal reply. . Shoals of Callers. This task is not accomplished with out many interruptions, for no gover nor of the state ever had so mnny callers as Woodrow Wilson. Ills re markable gifts, the wonders ho has ac complished in legislation for the good of tlm people, the nation wldo interest in him daily bring to the executive of fice scores of visitors who want to meet him and whose business could just as well be done with some other official, but who feci that they must see their admired governor. And the "open door" policy which was inaugurated by Woodrow Wilson the first day he took office aids them In their ambition, although It adds much to the burdens of the executive. Believing that there is nothing in the business of the state which should be dono lu secret, nothing. In which every voter has not a personal Interest and therefore a perfect right to full knowl edge, Governor Wilson always keeps wldo open the door between his office and the big waiting room so that all may see what is going on within. When the governor took office ho could not be said to bo well known to the people of the state. True, they had heard of his fight for Democracy at Princeton university; they had rend his splendid ppoeches; they knew he was accounted one of the intellectual giants of the country, and consequently they had a great admiration for him. But it wos admiration in the abstract and it had no personal tinge. Not "Cloistered" Student A mind picturo of a person thus heard and read of, but not intimately known, is often faultily drawn. And so it was with regard to the popular conception of the human side of Wood row Wilson. lie was limned as one who held himself more or less aloof from bis fellows as a cloistered student whose heart had not been warmed by rontact with all sorts and conditions of men. He was understood to be cold of blood, on aristocrat by birth and en vironment . In the popular mind it was felt the governor would adorn the office and would probably give a good adminis tration, although there was little hope that the people of the state would de rive much benefit, but it was not felt that he would become a people's gov ernor, one who would enter whole soul edly Into the hopes and aspirations of the struggling masses. Old Time Theater Rowdies. Rowdyism In London theaters was a common occurrence in theold days, as is shown by the following from the London Post of Oct. 27, 17'J8: "Two men In the pit at Drury Lano theater last night wero ho turbulent and riotous during the last act of 'Ili-nry V.' that the performance was Interrupted upward of a quarter of an hour. The audience at last asserted their power and turned them disgrace fully out of the theater. This should always be done to crush the race of diKgusflng puppies that are a con stant nuisance at tho playhouse every night" . TO FIND FAULT. DIED HI AT SALEM FRIDAY REMAINS OF PIONEER OREGON- IAN INTERRED IN ATHENA. Born in New York State and Came to This County, In An Early Pioneer Day. People Are Sometimes Paid Fjt That Express Purpose. You have no idea how many things are wrong in a big business until you are paid to look for them, writes Ge lett Burgess in Collier's. There were the clocks, for one thing, when I first began. The girls wore too many rats in their hair, there was grease on tho elevator doors, expensive hats were dumped one on another, the ventila tion was bad, the boxes on the shelves showed from the street through the show windows and about a thousand other things. Then Splndclhelm sold teapots just like our eighteen cent ones for 14 cents,' and for a concern like Smith & Co. to be undersold Is fatal. There's really nothing that so enrages Mr. Smith; also Rubinstein's window dresser has beaten ours, too, at times. Down it goes in my little report. Wouldn't any woman love my tob. Yes, It's fun to be paid for being a misanthrope, but it's bard work too. At 9 o'clock I begin my, promenade through the store downstairs, up stairs, basement, attic and annex. If a girl at the counter has dirty finger nails or too wide a pompadour to suit mo I stop and talk pleasautly, buy 9 cents' worth of edging and so get her number from the sales slip. She Dev. er knows anything about it till her superintendent gives her a scolding the next day. I have eyes like a hawk and a nose like a hound and ears like a small boy under the sofa when a young man's calling on big sister. In ten minutes I have spotted the dust In tho corner of the aisle, a glri who wears brass bracelets, a porter who is not attending to his duty, a badly ar ranged counter, nn error in spelling on a placard, two store detectives loaf ing on their Job and a hideous com bination of colors in tho front window. I go to the ladies' room and make a noto of these things surreptitiously, 4 don't dare go there too often, though, for fear I'll be identified, so sometimes I run back to my office, two blocks away. So it goes till about 4 o'clock, hither and thither, nigh and yon, look ing for trouble. It doesn't do a clerk any good to be uncivil to me, I can tell you, or to make mo wait too long for my change, but 1 try to be fair, and if I find a particularly willing and considerate sales person down that name eoes in my report too. You might suppose that there'd be good graft in that; but, of course, I keep my position only so long as the head of the firm has absolute confidence in my integrity. The funny part of it is that the more I complain the better he likes it I'm like the opposition party in congress. I'm never satisfied. When I am I'll have to look for an other position. At 4 o'clock I go back to my little office and dictate my report from my notes to a stenographer, and when it's typewritten I send it to the head ol the firm. When "Pluck" Was Slang. Tho word "pluck" affords an in stance of tho woy in which slanfc words in the course of time becomO adopted Into current English. We now meet with "pluck" and "plucky" a the recognized equivalents of "cour age" and "courageous." An entry in Sit Walter Scott's "Journal" shows that in 1827 the word had not yet lost it low character. He says (volume 2, pace 30). "Want of that article black guardly called pluck." Its origin ! obvious. From early times the heart has been popularly regarded as the scat of courage. Now, when a butcher lays open a carcass he divides the great vessels of the heart, cuts through the windpipe and then plucks out together tho united heart and lung' Mights, be calls them-and be terny. the united mass "tue piuca Loudon Notes and Queries. A. L. Jones died at Salem Friday morning, after a continuous illness of several months in wbioh his body and mind tailed together. The femains were shipped to his home in this city, that they might find their last resting plaoe in the Athena cemetery. The funetal, wbioh was largely attended, was oonduoted Monday afternoon at theM. E. ohurob by Rev. 1 nomas Lawsou. Many old time friends of the deoeaced were present, and the floral offerings were many and beau tiful. Ihevaiions tusinesa plaoes of the oity were dosed daring the boar of the funeral. Several months ago after Mr. Jones' health bad gradually declined, it beoame evident that his mental fac ulties were becoming impaired, and it was deoided to send ,him -to the state institution for treatment. . He never improved, bat gradually de clined until he beoame bedfast and for many weeks before bis death be bad been unable to leave bis bed. Be leaves a widow, two sons and two daughters. Shelly the eldest son, resides at Boise, where Mrs. Jones was visiting when apprised of ber husband's death. Abe, the second son, is a resident of Portland; Mrs. Nettie Baling with her mother, resides in this oity and Mis. Florenoe Boynton lives in Pendleton. Abraham Livingston Jones was nam at Trout River, New York, Deoember 13, 1837. When a young man he came west and lived in Walla Walla in pioneer days, when there was no thing more there than a trading post. Later he oame to Umatilla county and took dp the home ranch west of Ath ena. In later years be has been a res ident of this city, being engaged up to within the last few years in the livery and transfer business. He bad a large aaquaintanoe with the pioneeis of the Northwest. MUSICAL RECITAL SATURDAY Pupils of Mrs. Plamondon and Mrs. Barrett at Home of Former. Lange Schmall Seleoted A reoital will be given by the pu pils in musio of Mrs. J. D. Plamondon on tomorrow afternoon, assisted by members of Mrs. C. A. Barrett's olass. The recital will be given at the home of Mrs. Plamondon, Fol lowing is the program: Le (iraoienx, Op. 81, No. 1, Hunter Romanoe, Op. 267 No. 1. - Liobner Zola Keen. New Spring - Lange The Butterflies, Op. 85 - Conoone - - - - . Eogleman Roth Steen. Pore as Snow" On. 81 - The Happy Gold-Fish Areta Rothrock. "Who Will Boy My Roses?" A Holiday Exoursion, A Song of Content Maggie Walker. "Sing Robin Sing" - Spaolding March of the Little Sages - Seleoted The Merry Bobolink, Op. 15 No 10 Krogman Hazel MoGubbins. "Robin's Return" Etude. Op. 139 No. 4, - 'Old Blaok Joe," Phyllis Piper. First Waltz, - Etude, . - . Lily Polka, Op. 60, - Velma Schubert. March ... Lela Schubert Sack Waltz - - Danoe of the Goldenrods, - Fitzpatrick laianteils, Op. 25 No. 11 ,- .Brandt Edmund Potts. Chariot Raoe, Paoll Pretty Butterfly, Op. 179 No. 1, Fink Etude, Op. 170, No. 9, Duveznay. Mamie Sbeard. "PJavfclness" Op. 292 No 1 Lange. Village Festival "Etude Character- esqne" - Laesobnoru Phyllis - Irish Zola Keen. Henry Ward Beecher'e Wit. On ono occasion as Mr. Bccchor waa A tho midst of an Impassioned speech some one attempted to interrupt him by suddenly crowing like a cock. Tho orator, however, was equal to tho oc ftiHinn. Ho stormed, listened till tho f-rowlnc ceased and then, with a look of surorlsc. pulled out his wntch "Momlnir . already!" be said. "My wntph la onl- at 10. But there can. be no mistake about it Tho instinct of tho inwpr nnlmala are infallible." . There was a roar of laughter. . The "lower animals" in the gallery collaps nml Mr. Beechcr was able to. re sume as if nothipg bad,occurred. Fisher . Blebl Lewis Sohmall " Seleoted Sohmall Seleoted Mdtoslf Saturday Night Fire. The cottage oooupied for some time by J. M. Smith and family on Third street, was totally destroyed by the Sataiday nlgbt. The alarm was turn ed in about 13 o'olook and when the department arrived the bouse was ablaze all over. The Smith family were away from home at the lime of tbe conflagration, having gone to tbe valley several dare before. How tbe fire started is all conjecture, and for tbe faot that a high wind was blowing, it i considered wonderful that the flames did not spread to ad joining property. Tbe same honaa caogbt tire some months ago, bat it was saved with bat little ddmugo resulting. 1 - s i i i :.jr